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These Grounds will be opened to the Public for the first tittle this Season on Saturday the 26th instant, at the particu lar desire of many distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen, for rthe express occasion of affording an opportunity to His Im- Pori al Highness the Grand Duke of Russia of witnessing these pec t sliarly National Amusements. 13 y the express commands of his Imperial Highness, the day's t sPrict will commence at 4 P. w., when the following Stakes will Do run for ; viz.. The Birth-day Stakes of 5 sovereigns each, 25 sovereigns added free for any horse carrying 12 stone. 4 rD iles over the Steeple Chase Course. A, winner of a Steeple Chase of 50 Sovereigns or upwards at 111 :f time (the Steeple Chase having been regularly adver 4"z e d or noticed in " Bell's Life") to carry saves lbs. extra, tWiJ ce 14 lbs. extra, and Horses having started twice in a Bace as i Bove and not won allowed seven lbs. To name and close . 4 ,t 1 he Hippodrome Saddling Paddock by Two o'Closk_on Fri day. , the 24th. 'he Olympic Stakes of 3 Sovereigns each, with 25 Seve teig ns added. Over the Steeple Chase Course. Free for any : 1 ,04 e carrying list. "albs. Two mile Heats. Extra weights ' winning, and allowance the same as for Birth Day Stakes. Tot lame and close as above. he sides of the fences on the Steeple Chase Course have °eel a deeply laid with tan, so as to prevent jar to the horse or 'eel dents to the riders, and every precaution will be taken to 111 5 der the running ground safe and unobjectionable. „ I lorses must be placed and Jockeys dressed according to the ttti les of the Hippodrome. All disputes to be settled by the t3t e wards, and their decision to be final. ,„! ['his Establishment has been entirely remodelled — the ounds extended, the Race Course lengthened, and ml ch improved, and without interfering with the rights ci r ,' the Public, the footpath which intercepted the Old `i,t7 ound now runs at the outside of the Park : th us corn- P'qt tely removing the cause of the contentions and onveniences that have hitherto existed. The new Grounds 41 entirely surrounded by a high close paling; so that none 41 1 enter but respectable and well-conducted persons who pay ' Ol their admission. All Gambling Booths and Tables will be !it eluded. rhe prices of Admission will be as follows: Four-wheeled Carriage Two-wheeled ditto 3s. Od. Person on horseback Person on foot.. Carriages and Horsemen will pay at the Outer Gate, at Por kit, bello-lane and Pedestrians will pay at the Gate on the The ' Hill which is enclosed for Pedestrians alone will e nable fifty thousand persons to see the sport in safety, without .41. 3 i r being interrupted by Horsemen or Carriages. Public Cabs, Omnibuses, Carts, and Waggons will not be saitted. None but holders of Proprietors' Tickets, and Gentlemen vfacmging the Public Press will be admitted free. The terms of obtaining Proprietors' Tickets, &c., may be a 'icertained en inquiry at the Hippodrome Rooms, No. 57, 1)&11 -mall. TIS Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED eral . DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY, which (though are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possibilities of oh taming LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, t e NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS t RIBUTIONS of MONEY. Persons desirous te purchase tity receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS .7..„,eTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH - u'r lIELAy, a line te „„ HEIN BROTHERS at H AAIBURGH. next Dis E tribution contains portions of The dis 3,5001., 7,0001., and 2400/. t r ii. T O B E Lc r s t4,ll day being VERY NEAR, NO TIME IS T HIS N EST DISTR I BUTION. for thse desirous to become shareholders fir THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; I he following Programme is therefore given of its final ar il Agemonts : The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will lch be performed once more, viz.:— THE TWO FOSCARI, and WERNER. THIS EVENING, MAT 21, Will he repeated THE TEMPEST. Alonzo, Mr. Warde; Prospero, Mr. Maersady ; Miranda, Mies Helen Faucit ; Arid, Miss P. Horton. After which, THE MARIIIAGE OF FIGARO. T °-nlorrow, Richelieu, with Agnes Bernauer, and Chaos is ° me Again. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Jrand Holiday Att rac tions—Miss Romer. Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Rolfe, in the New Opera of " The Maid of Ar tois," and an entirely New Domestic Drama. THIS EVENING, MAY 21, And Three following Nights, Mr. Balfe's Grand Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ARTOIS. isoline, Miss Romer ; Jules, Mr. Templeton ; The Marquis, Mr. Balfe. A Double Chorus and Increased Band. To conclude with (first time) a Domestic Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. New Scenery, and powerful interest. - Wfw LONDON : TUESDAY, MAY 21, 123 t The enthusiasm which prevails throughout the count r y is very great. We are, in fact, prevented making use of the proofs of it by their over whelming nature. The one theme which occupies the Journals of England, Ireland, and Scotland is her MAJESTY'S firmness. Universally almost is she Praised and admired, and almost universally is the Tory demand to dismiss her Household, and submit to be the slave of that insolent faction, indig nantly reprobated. We regret that we cannot copy the multiplied evidence which the Provincial Journals contain of the public feeling, being in preference obliged to fill our columns with the evidence, by inserting reports of proceedings in the metropolis of the state of public feeling here. We cannot overlook the meetings of the working classes, who are beginning to play a most important part in our political drama, and we record their sayings and doings at Kennington yesterday. We give also a full report of the meeting held in the Bo rough yesterday, at which a loyal address to her Majesty was adopted by a very great ma jority, in spite of the efforts made to divert th e meeting from its purpose. Whatever may be the opinions of persons as to the Ministers, ther e is but one sentiment regarding her MAJESTY, whose engaging virtues—whose attachment to her friends—and whose love of sincerity and truth, are equally appreciated by the men with fustian jackets and by those with silken waistcoat and broad cloth coats. We wish we could say something similar of the Ministers, but it would be idle to deny that amongst all classes, and amongst their own friends, words of reproach and mistrust are frequently heard ; and though there is now much returning hope, the least backward movement on their part would be fatal to their popularity, and their power. We, however, cannot believe that they will not go strenuously forward. In their hands her MAJESTY has placed her honour and her safety. Between them and the Tories her MAJESTY has no choice, and for them not now to take measures to carry the constituencies with them, would be to sacrifice her MAJESTY to her enemies. Should Lord MELBOURNE now fail, the Tories must return to office, all their de mands must be conceded, and her MAJESTY will be ten times worse off than if she had never resisted the arrogant demands of Sir RO BERT PEEL. Every motive of honour and pride must operate to make the Ministers exert themselves in the Liberal cause. Not to gain sup- ~:~~s~ ~~ ~~ L ~~~~ rust , men )ric, Bich abet )rni • \ - :.opY I port from the people is for them to sink beneath Sir ROBERT PEEL, whom they have just mortified past all hope of peace. Between honestly and sin cerely placing themselves at the head of the Liberal party, forming of the people " a wall of strength around their much loved Queen," and sinking into utter contempt and political insignificance, we see no alternative ; and we cannot for one moment doubt which line their pride, their honour, and their respect for her MAJESTY will com mand them to take. Mr. Alderman Hum- PHERY at the Borough meeting, announced almost as much in their name, and again to disap point hopes will utterly destroy the public confi dence. We must, however, again remind the people that the Ministers can only proceed in the path of reform by their aid, and as it were by their commands, ex pressed through their representatives. In general, we approve of the policy of which Mr. HARVEY sketched an outline ; but above, and before all, we are anxious to see the middle and the working clas ses reconciled and united. They are the real sinews of the nation ; together they compose the whole body of the industrious community—the creators of all property, for whose especial use and protection all the laws are made, all the other classes exist, and are, some of them, magnificently paid. They obtained the Reform Bill by union— their unhappy differences and dissensions made the aristocracy laugh with scorn at their demands for the repeal of the tax on bread. By union they may command the aristocracy ; industry may give the laws to idleness, and honesty may triumph over fraud ; by continued disunion they only ensure the success of their common enemy. Let them then unite, and prepare to send Liberal Members to Parliament, whenever a dissolution shall occur, so as to ensure in the House of Commons the triumph of Liberal opinions, and make it the interest as well as the duty of the Whigs to embrace a large and Liberal policy. The Tories are playing so desperate a game that, like gamblers drunk with excitement, they cannot help now and then betraying their cards. The tac tics they are resorting to for bringing together their scattered forces exhibit as palpable a cheat on the surface as the child's juggle of " shut your eyes and open your mouth." If they can only get a ma jority of the House of Commons to " shut their eyes and open their mouths" in the approaching election of a Speaker, there is more simplicity in the world than we had calculated upon. One of their manoeuvres is to put out of view altogether the question of qualification, as if it went for nothing ; and to make the election a mere trial of strength between the QUEEN and the fac tions. This is dishonest, as well as mean ; for not withstanding the elements of contention that are paramount in the struggle, the qualifications of the candidates present a consideration of the utmost importance in a Reformed Parliament ; and we must take leave to say that of all men living a Tory is the last man who ought to be permitted to occupy a situ ation ofso much grave responsibility as the Chair of the House of Commons; and of all Tories Mr. HENRY GOULEURN is the worst who could be selected to fill it. The Tories are always safe in the hands of a Liberal Speaker, because justice is the highest virtue in the creed of a Reformer; but we should like to know what sort of justice the Reformers are to expect from a Tory Speaker, especially under the circumstances of the recent overwhelming discom fiture of that arrogant faction ? Would not such a man avail himself of all the numerous opportuni ties which arise in the progress o f P ar li amentary _ . usiness to favour his friends and embarrass their opponents ? Does any person with the smallest amount of practical experience doubt that results of this description would flow out of such an election as naturally as poison is distilled by snakes, or stings are inflicted by reptiles ? The public cha racters of the present candidates only help to strengthen into certainty this anticipation of the probabilities of the future. The whole of Mr. GOULIURN'S political life has been a series of pettifogging services at the tail of a faction. Take away his Toryism, his blind, bi gotted, and subservient Toryism, and you strip him bare of the only claim he over possessed upon the patronage of his party. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE stands clear of that " low ambition"— has preserved an independent and upright course— is intimately acquainted with the details of public kusiness—and brings to their discharge indefati gable habits, sound judgment, and moral courage. Noisy men, men of prejudices, and partisans, who are necessarily committed to a thousand registered pledges, make bad Speakers. Now, Mr. GouL BURN, unfortunately, is noisy and troublesome ; his mind, small as it is, is a monstrous composition of prejudices ; and as a partisan there are few indi viduals, in or out of the House, who have commit- ted themselves so irrecoverably. Besides all this, Mr. GO eLßUßN—apart from politics—is an indi vidual of an extremely contracted understanding ; his views are only distinguished by their narrow ness and obliquity ; he has the vision of a mole, and the obstinacy that usually accompanies con tracted views ; and all these disqualifications are rendered the more salient by a temper that would mar the utility even of an expanded intellect. It is essential that the Speaker should possess the confidence and respect of the House. Mr. GOULBUR N is personally unpopular—he labours under a variety of disadvantages, which we confess we are not very willing to expose. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, on the contrary, is universally esteemed for the urbanity of his bearing, the tone and con- stitution of his mind, and that extensive knowledge of Parliamentary usages in which Mr. GOULBURN is notoriously deficient. No wonder the Tories should exhibit a nervous and fidgetty anxiety to keep the question of qualification out of sight I No wonder they should be so reluctant to enter upon so awkward an investigation ! But the best of it is, that they are actua lly can- vassing the votes of the Radicals on the occasion, ‘, We cannot think of such men," says the Stan dard, " as Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Mr. GROTE, Mr. LEADER, and the Messrs. JERVIS," voting for Mr. LEFEVRE. Such men, who, a few weeks ago, were branded by the Standard with the most opprobious epithets, but who, now that they are wanted to back the Tory candi date, instead of being all that they were then de scribed—base, revolutionary, and unprincipled— have suddenly become such men I Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, the advocate of the Canadians,— Mr. GROTE, the advocate of the Ballot,—Mr. LEADER, for whom no language was too foul in the columns of the same Standard when he opposed •Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in Westminster—such men ! Oh ! this mean, crawling, servile spirit of Toryism, how it debases and demoralizes human nature ; and to what a depth, of degradation the Tories are dragged down, when they are forced to solicit, as their last hope, the votes of that party upon which they have exhausted all the flowers of Billingsgate I " If," continues the Standard, a very few of the more respectable Radicals vote for Mr. GOULBURN, or even abstain from voting, a full attendance of Conservatives will ensure that gentleman's election, and read a lesson in quarters where it is unhappily apparent such a l esson i s needed." So, they want the Radicals to join them in a conspiracy against the QUEEN ! They have no objection to get up a little revolution on their own account when it suits their purposes, and convulse the kingdom from one end to the other to get back into office, although there is nothing they abhor so much as a revolution which is not originated by themselves. But there illt; SUN. LON D; )N, TELESDAY, MAY 21, 9 is great virtue in an " if." If a very few of the Radi cals would only be so obliging as to vote for Mr. GouLBURN I-why they might as well ask them to vote for the Six Acts at once. The Standard, however, in the recreant fear that reduces it to the at five o'clock in the morning of the 13th instant. The Cardinal was the maternal uncle of NAPOLEON, and was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, on the 3d of January, 1763, so that he died in the 76th year of his age. When his nephew was at the zenith of his power in France, he ap pointed him Archbishop of Lyons, and Pope Pius VII., in 1803, decorated him with the Purple. During the first Revolution he was accused of many excesses dis graceful to the sacerdotal character, but since his re conciliation with the Church his life and conversation were most exemplary. He died immensely rich, leav ing behind him, besides his great wealth, the finest col lection of pictures in Europe. The trial of the prisoners accused of abetting the late insurrectionary movement in Paris by the Chamber of Peers is condemned by all the Opposition Journals. The report of the prisoners having sums of money i n their pock e t s , as if th e y were paid for disturbing the public peace is likewise contradicted. The Moniteur states that fears are entertained of a renewal of the war in Africa. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY). DIAL, MAY 20.—Wind B.—Arrived the Edward, Bar nett, from Cadiz. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20. Wind W. N. W. FALMOUTH, MAT 19.—Wind S. to S. E.—Arrived the Iberia steamer, Cooper, from Gibraltar, sailed the 10th inst., Cadiz the 11th, Lisbon the 13th, Oporto the 14th, and Vigo the 16th. Sailed the Lady of the Lake, Banks, for St. Petersburgh. LIVERPOOL, MAY 20.—Wind N.—Arrived the Neptune, Nagle, from Valparaiso; Gulielmo, Godfrey, Smyrna; N. S. De Laura, Caffiera, Naples; Adelaide, Manger, Palermo ; Romulus, Grayson, Leghorn ; Lady Basset, Carthew, Lisbon • and Snowden, Henningway, Borny. Sailed the Cambridge, Bursley, for New York; Principe, Portia; Luker, Malta; and Adelaide, Swaffin, Cadiz. Off port the Margaret Bogle, from Odessa. DOVER, MAY 10.—Off port the Jonge Jan, Van Delf, from Passarocting; West, Rolafeen, St. Übe's ; Andre, ditto; Anna Margaretha, Holme, Trieste; and Agnes, Forrester, Port-au-Prince. humiliating necessity of begging votes from the sec tion upon which it has heaped so much revolting contumely, cannot conceal its apprehensions that the Conservatives will hardly venture to make the demonstration requisite to secure their object. " Should the attendance of Conservatives appear weak," says this NEWCASTLE trumpet, "the very worst consequences to the Monarch and the Mo narchy may be apprehended from the impression that would naturally be produced upon an inexpe rienced mind—THE IMPRESSION THAT ITS ER RORS WILL BE ALWAYS SUBMITTED TO." Here is the whole plot plainly avowed. The election of Mr. GouLBURN is designed as a movement to intimidate the QUEEN ; to open a war upon our young So vereign, and force her to capitulate with that fac tion which is hateful to the people, and which would bring the Throne itself into peril to gain its ends. Let the Commons stifle this rebellion, as as suredly they will ; but let the Press not fail to make it manifest to Europe. Above all things, it is ne cessary to unite on this question in the name of the QUEEN, and for the honour and security of the nation. But we reserve these considerations for another day. The subject is fruitful of suggestions which must not be lost. The public is, we believe, tired of the discussions about the Ladies of the Palace, whose presence there made the Tories hastily drop the hastily-snatched reins of Government. Nevertheless, we must beg to rectify a mistake made by the Tories. The differ ence between her MAJESTY and Sir ROBERT PEEL did not, as they assert, relate to entrusting him with a constitutional power to form her House hold, but to his very unconstitutional demand to dismiss it now that it is formed. Her MAJESTY did not say that she would not listen to her Ministers in making any new appoint ment in the Household, but she could not allow him to make vacancies by dismissing her present Ladies. Now in this distinction there is an im mense difference, and Sir ROBERT PEEL would have been ungenerously and unworthily treated had he been refused the power possessed and exercised by Lord MELBOURNE of nominating members of the Household when vacancies occur. That power, however, no person ever thought of deny- ing him. Iris highly probable, had he proceeded to form his Ministry, that the Ladies connected with his poli tical opponents would have resigned, but why was he to have the power of dismissing them ? It is customary for a great many persons to resign office in a change of Ministry ; but it is not customary for the Ministers to dismiss any. Sir ROBERT did not wait for a resignation ; he took up the Red Book, and proceeded to dismiss the Ladies. Some writers, whose disappointed Radicalism makes them more Tory than the Tories themselves, have asserted that Sir ROBERT ought to have had the power of dismissing these Ladies (not of appoint ing persons to fill the offices they hold when vacancies occur), because their appointments are given for State occasions. Why, so is every office under the Crown. All the Custom-house, Excise, and Stamp Commissioners are all crea ted for State and public occasions—every one of those Commissionerships is given away by the Prime Minister for the time being, but no Prime Minister, not even the grasping Tory, ever thought that it was necessary and proper to dis miss them all on his accession to office, in order to display to the world his own regal power. There is no more reason why Sir ROBERT PEEL should have asked her MAJESTY for power to dismiss her Ladies than for power to dismiss from her ser vice every man who holds her MAJESTY'S COM- ansslon. Was there any reason why these Ladies should be dismissed ? Have they behaved ill ? Sir ROBERT PEEL did not dare to insinuate or assert it, though the calumniating scribes of his party have not been ashamed to make the most odious accusations. If he believe those insinuations, why not place his demand on that ground ? Why not say to her MAJESTY—" I find your MAJESTY sur rounded by Ladies of doubtful prudence and ques tionable morality ; their presence at Court scanda lizes the moral feelings of your MAJESTY'S most dutiful and most moral Tory Aris tocracy ; and I must humbly crave your MAJESTY to purify your Court, by dismissing your Ladies ?" But Sir ROBERT PEEL put his request on no such ground. He wished to dis miss the Ladies because they were connected with his political enemies ; and he might just as well have turned out of office every person the Whigs have ever appointed. The Tories assert that it is customary for the Household to retire—they claimed, however, the power to dismiss it. But how can they assert that, when there has been no Queen Regnant since Queen ANNB, and her Ladies did not change with her Ministers. We believe there are no cases ex actly in point, though such precedents as bear on the case are against Sir ROBERT, for the Ladies of the Queen Consort have not been changed with a change in the Ministry. The question, there fore has to be decided by analogy, and by usage in other cases ; and all analogy, all usage, is against dismissing any servant of the Crown, unless for im proper behaviour. In truth, the power claimed by Sir B. PEEL of dismissing persons from office for their political opinions is altogether new, and had her MAJESTY conceded it, as to her Ladies, we see no reason why it should not have been extended to the lowest porter of every public office:, A great constitutional, and, which is of higher value, a great moral principle was asserted by her MAJESTY'S resistance to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S demand, and the Goverment was saved from being made even more than at present the instrument of a faction by her refusal to allow Sir ROBERT PEEL to dismiss her Ladies. For the grasping ambition of the Tories, amounting almost to madness, and for her MA JESTY'S discernment and firmness, we profess our selves very grateful. They have rescued us from Tory misrule, if we now know how to profit by the folly of our opponents. The Tories panted for possession of the Government— they declared that the empire would be ruined unless they were placed in office; they obtained their de sires ; they had an opportunity of establishing their power, and they gave up all, because they could not dismiss three or four Bedchamber Ladies. They are equally grasping and weak. They have fallen into political dotage ; and it will be the fault of the people if they ever recover their power. The Times of this day does full justice to our remarks. It says— " It may have been a great object of personal gratifica tion to retain the services of a companion so agreeable and so highly endowed as the lady of the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. We mention her alone, because, as to the other Ladies of the Household, it is well understood that their resignations were intended by their Lords to follow instantly the completion of the new arrangements, and that therefore, in substance, the whole question turned upon the removal of one favourite individual." Sir ROBERT PEEL, then, broke up his Ministry because he could not instantly dismiss a Lady who at the same time had tendered her resignation. His Administration was wrecked. on nothing ex ternal, for no obstacle whatever really existed. The wild, lawless, unaccustomed, and insulting demand of his party to dismiss a Lady who had re signed broke it up. For some purpose not avowed, he made his own insult to her MAJESTY a pretext I for not forming an Administration. We call attention to the short speech of the Hon. Mr. COWPER, at Hertford, yesterday. The great fear of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir RO BERT PEEL was, that the QITEEN would be in fluenced by the political conversations of certain Ladies of her Household—and until they were re moved the Tories] could not consent to accept office. What does Mr. COWPER say (and he should know as much about what goes on in the Palace, as the Tories) ? —that the QUEEN makes it a rule never to converse on politics with her Household ; and, further, that the two Ladies, whom Sir ROBERT PEEL dreaded so much, have left the Palace—the one tendered her resignation on Friday, and the other is at present on the Continent. We always thought that Sir ROBERT PEEL attached too much importance to the conversation of the Ladies of the Bedchamber, and we have little doubt that he is now of the same opinion, and that if the same offer were to be made again to the Tories, they would avoid even the most distant allusion to female political conversations. They are always wise too late. We learn that the Ministers are making inqui ries as to the cost of the envelopes which will be required by Mr. HILL'S plan of a uniform penny postage. Its success, as a question of revenue, will in some measure depend on the cost at which the envelopes may be furnished. We hope, therefore, that those who have to answer the inquiries will go to the cheapest shop. The instant it is known the Ministers are willing to adopt the plan, the paper makers will no doubt task their inveiltion t• supply envelopes at as cheap a rate as possible, and will be willing to contract for them at the lowest pos3i ble figure. That Ministers are diligently investi gating all the points of the case is for us a proof that they mean to concede, as Mr. COWPER an nounced at Hertford, the uniform Penny Postage. By a return recently published by the House of Commons, it appears that, since 1828, when the present execrable Corn-law was passed, 2,330 qrs. of wheat, 63 qrs. of barley, 783 qrs. of oats, 4 qrs. of rye, 23 qrs. of peas, 33 qrs. of beans, 42 qrs. of Indian corn, and 26 cwt. of flour have been aban doned in bond and destroyed. The hogs, sup posing it:vvere damaged, were not allowed to eat it : supposing it sound and wholesome, it was not permitted to reach the mouths of the poor. It was destroyed in the presence of the proper officers. The return is very particular, and fiscal laws made by landlords very precise. To make sure that not a grain of these more than 3,000 quarters of corn should be used, it was " all destroyed," so says the " all destroyed under the inspection of the proper officers," appointed, of course, to destroy the abandoned corn. What an outrage against the goodness of GOD I and this was solemnly perpe trated under the sanction of the laws of the most enlightened (Qy.) nation on' the face of the the earth. A century and a half ago the Dutch were execrated by all Europe for burning a few nutmegs and a little mace and cinnamon in order to keep up the price of the stock in their hands. But their conduct is angelic compared to that of our landowning Parliament, which deliberately orders human food to be carefully destroyed under the inspection of the " pro per officers," rather than allow the hungry people to eat it, whom its measures have reduced to poverty and want. They take the precaution deliberately, and of forethought, to order it to be destroyed ; making it doubtful whether a more conspicuous example of resolved and avowed wickedness is to be found in the annals of legislation. return, We have inserted elsewhere a letter from Mr. VINCENT, one of the Delegates to the Conven tion, who has been arrested and committed to pri son. He is now in Monmouth gaol, and is sub jected, we understand, to the same rigorous treat ment as if he had been condemned to death by sen tence of the law. This mode of proceeding, we take leave to say, is but ill calculated to calm the excitement which is at present so prevalent among the working classes. It does not vindicate the majesty of the law ; it merely sets forth its injustice —proclaims its barbarity. Of what use is it to din into our ears - the humanity of the maxim, that the laW considers 'every man innocent until he has been found guilty by.a.jury of his fellow-citizen',_ when we have before our eyes daily proofs that this is nothing but an empty boast, and that in practice the rule is the very reverse. Fact is here directly opposed to theory, for there is not a gaol in the kingdom that does not bear testimony to the monstrous truth that the law presumes every man guilty until he has proved his innocence. In the case of Mr. VINCENT, as in that of Mr. POTTS, the conduct of the Magistrates has been highly imprudent. It cannot fail to lead the work ing classes to the conclusion that the bounds of law, as well as of justice, have been over stepped, in order to put them down. We honestly confess that that is our own opinion. 'Who can look at the excessive bail demanded of these men, and not be convinced that there are other motives besides those of justice at work in the breasts of the Magistrates? Mr. VIN CENT is a compositor, we believe—and yet, though moving in this humble station of life, the enormous sum of one thousand pounds is required as the amount of his bail ; and to this exorbitant demand on the part of the Magistrates is superadded the condition that he must keep the peace for twelve months—that peace, be it observed, which he is not even charged with breaking ! Where is such a man as Mr. VINCENT to find such bail as this ? The thing is impossible. The committing Magistrates know it to be impossible ; and therefore the demand resolves itself into a sentence of perpetual imprisonment—impri sonment at least until the accused is brought to trial. If a thousand pounds be a fair and lawful demand from a man in Mr. VIN CENT'S circumstances, what, we should like to know, would have been required of a rich squire, such, for instance, as OLD GLORY, had he been caught, as he might have been hundreds of times, using language infinitely more seditious than any ever uttered by a Chartist ? Would their Worships have meted out equal justice in such a case? We fear not. We fear the Aristocrat would have been let off on comparatively easier terms. It is fortunate, however, that there is an appeal from this unmitigated severity of ante-judicial pu nishment. Both Mr. TINCENT and M. POTTS will be brought up before the Judges on a writ of habeas corpus, and we shall then see whether per sonal liberty is a privilege derived from the British Constitution, or a gracious boon held at the will of Worshipful Justices of the Peace. 'e are glad to think that ther e i s now a fair prospect that the d i fferences which have unhappily subsisted a mong the Reformers o f M arylebone will be accommoda ted. Two of the three se c ti ons i understaudia nto which the Reformers are split ha ve come to an gand have submitted t o th e t hi r d a , plan of operations for general adoption, which it is hoped will be accepted by them. A meeting of the Reform Association takes place to-night, to receive and discuss the a nswer of the Warren -street Asso ciation to this proposal. lye trust that a ll part i es will se e the necessity o f y iel ding for the general good, such points as m a y be conceded with ou t in ',giving a dereliction of principle. This is the bounden duty of all true Reformers, for there never I was a time when success depended so much upon union as it does at the present moment. Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 12th inst., have been received, but they merely confirm the ac counts published yester da y , of the capture of Ramales and Guardamino by EsrArvrEito. It was reported that M. AGUILAR, the present Spanish Minister at this Court, would be the new President of the Council. General DIEGO LEON was repulsed in an attack upon the Estella lines on the 12th inst. There is no political news of any moment in the French Journals just received. The lhl oniteu, of Sun day announces the death of Cardinal PESCH at Rome, By the arrival of the overland mail this morning from India, via Marseilles, we have received a file of the ont bay Times to 23d of March inclusive. On the 9th a letter had been received in Bombay in thirty-seven days from Candabar, which stated that the Chief of Herat, Prince KAMRASI, had g iv en up that city to the management of the British authorities, who bad granted him in return a large monthly pension. Four Englishmen, one of whom was the gallant and patriotic Lieut. POTTINGEA, were invested with the chief authority in the city. The Herattees had retaken Furrah, from whence the Candaharees retreated at their approach. DOST MOHAM MED sent a Vakeel to the Ameers at Hydrabad, accusing them of betraying their country to the English, and challenging the latter to meet him in the field ; but on his army approaching Herat, under the command of his brother, he deemed a retreat to Caadahar his best policy, on learning that KAMAAM bad thrown himself into the arms of the British. We are sorry to announce the death of the French General ALLARD, the gallant organizer of the Army of RUNJEET SINGH. That General has left a wife of Indian extraction, and five children in France. He was a brave and intelligent soldier, and enjoyed the entire confidence of the " Old Lion of Punjaub." The following extracts from the Bombay Times con tain the news from the East up to the departure of the mails for Suez. They are very interesting : MAkCU 13.—We have received, since our last, the North Western Journals of the 27th and 28th ult. The Governor-General set out for Delhi on the 21st for Simla, via Kurnaul. It is stated by a Correspondent of the North West Englishman, that the opinion now prevalent in the camp is that the British force is to entrench' itself at Candahar, while the Seik army will advance from Pestle - war upon Cabool. The British Minister, we perceive, had arrived at the Shah's camp. There are many grati fying statements relative to the disposition of the Affghaun leaders ; the Chief of Kelat is reported to have declared in our favour, and those of Candahar are now willing to receive Shah Shoojah. News has been received from Umritser that Runjeet's health had greatly improved, and that, in consequence, he had distributed much money to the poor. MARCH 16.—Since our last we have received the North Western journals of the 2d instant. Rumours are current in the Bengal army, beyond the Indus, that Dost Maho. mcd had evacuated Cabool and fled to the mountains ; that our troops will pass the summer at Ghizni, and that no opposition will be offered to their advance until they shall have entered the territory of Cabool Proper. We have just seen a letter from Lieutenant Pottinger, dated Herat, January 17. All doubt is, we are happy to say, removed, relative to the friendly intercourse which at present exists between Prince Kamram and the gallant officer. The Herattees have retaken Furrah ; the Canda harees have retreated from that place. MARCH 22.—Our letters from the Scinde army are to the 2d instant. It was then fifty miles south of Larkahna, upon the banks of a river, which, not having boats to cross, will, it is supposed, occasion considerable delay. Sir John Keane was still with the Bombay force. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK„ The arrivals this morning aro the French mail, and a mail from Lisbon and Malta, by the Iberia—sailed from Malta May 2, Gibraltar 10, Cadiz 11, Lisbon 13, Oporto 14, and Vigo 16. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The demand for Cotton continues to be limited. The sales scarcely 1,000 bags, without material change in prices. We have received Calcutta Papers to March 10: STATE OF THE MARKET. The Indigo Market has been very inactive during the week. No public sales have taken place. Silk Piece Goods—We have no change to notice in the Market. Cotton—We have beard of no transactions in this article; the new crop has not yet begun to arrive. Sales none. Opium dull. Exchange—A small sum in Agency Bills have, we understand,; been negotiated at 2s. lid., but for large remittances nothing less than 2s. 2d. will be submitted to by buyers. We have received a Singapore paper of 7th February, which states of the sth from Batavia that a great scarcity of rice prevails at Samba, and that a famine was antici pated, unless supplies were soon received from Java. Com mercial affairs were general dull at Batavia. From Bombay Gazettes received to the 26th March : Commercial Remarks—A pretty general complaint pre vails in the Bazaars of a dull state of trade, and of the difficulty the dealers have in realising their stock, which they Attribute greatly to the largo lock up of capital and the present a gloomy and precarious prospect of the Opium trade, the ramifications of which are very extensive. Country Produce—Cotton—The demand continues good, and is mainly directed towards the'Engliah market. The operations for China being still limited, prices have been but slightly affected by the intelligence received by the steamer which arrived on the 20th inst. On the previous evening 1,100 bales of new Brooch were purchased, at 145} per candy, which is the highest price recently given. Since the vessel arrived, 300 to 400 candies of new have been purchased at 124 to 129 rupees. It is generally agreed that the bulk of crop this year from Surat,Brouch, and Jumbooseer, will have arrived by the end of April. Opium.—The market remains suspended, and is barren of transactions, a rigid system of surveillance being still exercised at the principal outlets in China, by advices up to the end of last January. Oa the 20th inst. the passes sold amounted to 20,189 chests, of which 19,105 had arrived, and 8,318 have been exported. Yarn Mule.—The present stock is large, particularly of 30 or 40 rupees, and the dealers complain of recent pur chases moving slowly off their hands. Numbers from 10 to 16 are scarce, and in some demand for the Red Sea market. Water Twist—h in fair demand and the supplies are short. Piece Goods.—Prices have not improved, but on the contrary, have declined for almost every description. The sales (luting the week arc to a limited extent. We learn that the Vakeels or Anbassadors of his High ness the Raja of Sattara, took their departure a few days ago for the Red Sea and to England. The party, we hear, consists of eleven persons. THE FUNDS. We have no arrivals of much importance this morning. By the Malta mail, we have received papers from India, but not of a later date than the late despatches received at the India House, but they are interesting in point of com mercial affairs, which will be seen by the extracts we have made. Consols opened this morning, at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 93i 1 for Money, and 931 1,1 for tho Account. No business of any consequence doing us yet. Exchequer Bills, 34 36; India Bonds, 35 37; Bank Stock, 115 198; India Stock, 2651 256 i.: Spanish Active,' 19 Y ; Portuguese 35ii ; Three per Cents. 211 I; Colombian, 31i ; Brazilian 78i Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 561 ; Five per Cents. 102.1 In; Belgian, 1011 1021. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 193%1 India Stock 3 per Cent. Ned. l'27,‘" 1.4 !4, ; Ditto Bonds 36 35 pro. 3 per Cent. Coos. 93 !ti li N, South Sea Stock 1(.14% 3 , ,, per Cent — 0141 Annuities -- Ditto Red .#9 , li % New Ditto New 3% per Cent lOl lt“, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto... 500 ... 34 36 pm. Jan. 5, IWO l4 7-16% Ditto Small 34 36 pin. Oct. IC, 1859 — Ditto Commercial — pm. Jaa. 5, 1560 14% Ditto Advertised — pm. Jan. 5, 1880. — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5, 1870. — ConpoLs for Account — PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Acc•utit Fortuguen Bonus Ditto New Mends .25V, Ditto Account 35 N 5.% Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1525 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic. Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1834 Ditto Account. French, 5 per Bent. 4 per cent —f. —O. 3 peg cent. Exchange. —f. Dutch, 2 per ocnt. s s' Ditto Account 5 6 3i Ditto, 5 per coot Ali tr,li 3 Ditto Aceount DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per :share. Rasters Counties Railway l5 fl lareat Wertcrn railway Corsrany savor, and. Rirnsingkara Railway Company CO 159 British North American Bank London Joint Stock Bank lO lE HALF-PANT ONE. Accounts from Constantinople to the 27th April, state that the market there has a very favourable appearance since the last treaty of commerce, and that considerable business has been transacted, and there was every appear ance of a further improvement. The English and the French were the only nations that profited by the new pri vileges, to the detriment of others. The holidays, accompanied by the fine weather, and no news either domestic or foreign afloat, entices the spe culators in the Stock Exchange to take their departure for their country residences earlier than usual. During the whole of the morning very little bnsiness has been doing in the British Market. Up to the hour of one o'clock, not a bargain has been done in Consols for the Account, and Wiley may be quoted at 93i. Exchequer Bills, .34 36 ; India Bonds 35 ; Bank Stock, 195 - ; India Stock, 2b6i. Money appears to be more easy at present. In the Foreign Market, the chief business has been doing in Portuguese, which has receded to 35i. ; Three per Cents. nothing done ; Spanish Active also lower, 19i ; B ra zilian, 784 ; Colombian, 31 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 56i ; Five per Cents., 1024 103. Ditto Account Euenos Arcs Bonds Ditto Account ......... Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account —l Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account IIN 1, Danish Bonds Ditto Account —l —1 Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 11,15 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent .— Ditto Account —l Ditto, i per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI! THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) H UNGEAFORD MARKET. Good Supplies and brisk trade. Beef, 7d. to $Ad. ; Mut ton, 7id. to 83cl; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 70. to 81d. Prices of Vegetables on th• decline. Turbot, ss. to 20s. Salmon, Is. to la. 6d. per pound; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. ; sd. to 10d. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. per pair ; Whitings, sd. to Is. each. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and demand brisk ; prices rather higher ; Turbot, 55. to 21s. , Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Is. to 4s. ; Cod scarce and ♦ery dear ; Whitings 4d. to Bd.; Haddocks Bd. to Is. 2d. : Salmon, 10d. to Is. 6d. per pound; Red Mullet, 2s. to •2s. 6d.; Mackarel, sd. to 10d. WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS. This popular place of summer resort opened for the season last evening. Advantage has been taken of the recess to lay out the gardens most tastefully, and various new cosmoramas and shrubberies, together with several transparencies and some well-executed pieces of statuary, add to the attraction of this pleasant Vauxhall is minia ture. Many thousand lamps formed various devices, or were elegantly disposed in festoons round the gardens. The proprietor has catered well for his visitors, and he must be indeed fastidious who cannot find amuse ment here. For the lover of music there is the orchestra of 50 performers, who perform overtures and some of the waltzes of Strauss and Musard, in a manner that would do credit to a band of much higher pretensions. Miss Fords, from Drury-lane, affords the concert the be nefit of her talents, and if shouts of laughter are any test of the merits of a comic singer, then may Mr. Manclark be considered first rate. Then there is an Arab who per forms wonders on the slack-rope, while Madame Rossini makes what the bills, without exaggeration in this instance, call a terrific ascent and descent on the tight-rope, surrounded by fire. Since Madame Saqui's appear ance, we have seen nothing to be compared to the performance of this lady. The fire-works were magnifi cent, and did great credit to the pyrotechnic skill of Mr. Darby. The whole of the performances were concluded by half-past eleven o'clock—a great advantage, in our opinion, especially when young people constitute part of the audience ; and we left the Gardens highly gratified with our evening's entertainments. The Gardens, we were happy to see during the greater part of the evening, were thronged. LATEST TROM PORTUGAL—LISBON, MAY 13.—Her Majesty's ship Hastings, with the Queen Dow ager on board, left the Tagus on the 7th instant, receiving the customary Royal salutes from the shipping and forts. The monthly election for President and Vice-President of the Cortes took place on the Bth, when Messrs. J. C. de Campos and Viera de Castro were re-appointed. The accounts we have received from the Algarves are anything but favourable to the tranquillity of this country. A large guerila of them, under the command of the leaders Cabrita, Mira, and Rachado, surprised a detachment of the Queen's Lancers on the 4th instant, at the Ribera de Vasco, killed one of them, and took ten others prisoners, together with their horses, and young Remechido, at the head of another guerilla, was blockading the town of Odeneira on the sth instant. It further appears that the whole of these guerillas act now under the directions of a Miguelite officer, who calls himself Baron de Almodovar, The Duke of Palmella's palace was in great danger of being burnt on the Bth instant. A house not six yards distant caught fire and was totally destroyed, notwithstand ing the great efforts which were made in order to extin guish the flames, and there is every reason to fear th..t it was not a casualty, but the work of some incendiaries, who hoped by those means to destroy the Duke's palace. Two iron steamers, the Don Pedro and the Infante Don Hen rique, arrived on the 9th in ninedays from Glasgow. They belong to the Tagus Steam Company, and are intended to ply, the one between Lisbon and St. Übe's and Aleacer do Sal, and the other down to the mouth of the Tagus. Ex change on London, 56. The heat at the Duke of 'Wellington's ball on Friday night was intense, and the crowd greater than was ever remembered. While the arrangements of the ball. room saloon, &c. are perfect, the staircase, considering the size of the mansion, is one of the narrowest and most in convenient in London. Ti t le Derby and Birmingham Railway will be opened to the public at the end of June, or early in July ; and by the spring of next year the railroad to York, by this and the North Midland line, will be opened, giving an entire line from London to that city.—Derby Mercury. APPREHENSION OF Two OF THE LLANID LOES CHARTISTS. —On Tuesday last, two of the lawless gang who lately committed such dreadful outrages at Llanidloes, passed through this town (Newport) in cus tody of police officers, on their way to Montgomery gaol. They were apprehended at Merthyr, where, it is supposed, some more of the party are secreted. A proclamation, offering a reward of 2501. for the apprehension of others of them named, has been issued, and widely circulated through the country. We doubt not it wall lead to their speedy apppchension.—Merlin. MALTA, MAY, s.—The Rodney, the Belle rophon, and the Talavera, as well as the frigate ; Castor,' which left this port nine days ago, have arrived at . Corfu, having been sent to that island with the view of exercising their crews, 'vim had for some time been in idleness. The. Talavera is to cruise in the Archipelago ; the other ves sels will return about the 15th, after touching at Patras. The Rodney and Bellerophon will shortly return to Eng land. As soon as the repairs to the Princess Charlotte are completed, the Admiral will sail for the Levant with that vessel, the Vanguard, the Minden, the Asia, the steam vessel Rhadamanthus, and the Jaseur. To these will shortly be added, the Ganges and the Pow erful, which are expected from England. Prince George of Cambridge arrived here yesterday on board the Acheron. His Royal Higness was re ceived by the Governor, accompanied by the officers of his staff, and a guard of honour of the 59th. Another guard of the 47th accompanied the Prince to the gates of the Palace. His Royal Highness proceeds to Constanti nople. He will probably embark on board Admiral Stop. ford's vessel to proceed to the Archipelago. The Prince visited the Governor's Palace and the Library, and also the Theatre. The brig of war Zebra is to be placed at the disposal of the Duke of Devonshire, who will shortly sail for Naples. The Tunisian brig Morali, has arrived in the Roads, having on board Sidi Mustapha, son-in-law of the Bey of that Regency, with his suite, and the Chevalier Ruffo, interpreter to the Pacha. Sidi Mustapha is going to Paris, to make a complaint of the conduct of M. Lazan, the French Consul at Tunis. AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A visitation of Di vine Providence, awfully verifying the words of the royal Palmist, " In the midst of life we are in death," oecurred at South Shore, Blackpool, on Sunday last, in the person of Mr. Lees, formerly a banker in Oldham. The family all went to the church, leaving that gentleman seated on on the sofa in good health ; after an absence of not two hours they returned, and, shocking to relate, he was a lifeless corpse, and sat in the same position they had left him. His remains are to be interred at South Shore Church. The deceased was 65 years of age.—Liverpool Chronicle. THE HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA —On Saturday the Grand Duke Alexander, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of the Netherlands, attended by Lord Torrington, Lord in Waiting on her Majesty, Prince Dolgorouky, Prince Bariatinsky, Count Tolstoy, M. de Patkul, M. d'Adlerberg, &c., left Mivart's Hotel at twelve o'clock to visit the British Museum. His Imperial Highness was received by Sir Henry Ellis, and conducted over that institution, Their Highnesses stayed an hour and a-half. The party then proceeded to Chis wick, to visit the horticultural fete. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 195%; India Stack 258% 3 per Cent. Bed toll Ditto Bonds .7 35 3 per Cent. Cens. 9N, 1 Ditto Old Annuities — Tyi per Cent. Red 9 9 3 /4 Ditto New Annuities ...... ... New 3 per Cent 101 Ex. Bills, 1,00111 23 ....... 33 pm. New 5 per Cent — - Ditto 5031 Id pus. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 36 pm, Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan, 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Asturian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto .... 35 Brazilian Bonds 7234 i Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ....... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colomb.an, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent. IN Ditto, 1824 3l Ditto, Consolidated — Danish, 3 per cent ...... .....—. IFrench, 5 per cent.... e c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct. I Exchange — l • —c Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, :3 per cent l. —l - 6 per cent., lBea — Dutch 2}.i per cent. , ''''ti Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..." Ditto, 5 per cent. l O3 81-IARDS Eastern Counties Railway.... Great Western Railway ..... London and Birmingham It London and CI oydon Railw. •• kilway 159 iy (Trun',;) 12% HERTFORD ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) The polling commenced this morning at eight o'clock. The following are the numbers up to half-past twelve : NINE O'CLOCK, Sir Minto Farquhar - - - - 54 Hon. Mr. Cowper TEN O'CLOCK. Sir Minto Farqohae - - - - 86 Hon. Mr. Cowper ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Sir Minto Farquhar 136 Hon. Mr. Cowper - TWELVE O'CLOCK. Sir Minto Farquhar - - - - 161 lion. Mr. Cowper HALF-PAST TWELVE O ' CLOCK. Sir Minto Farquhar - - 173 Hon. Mr. Cowper The above numbers are from Sir M. Farquhar's Committee-room. Mr. Cowper's Committee make the numbers nearly the same. BANKRUPTS. JOHN TAYLOR, stone-merchant, Albio a... Wharf, King's cross, Middlesex, to surrender May 28, and J Tilly 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official-a ;signec ; Batho, America-square. SMITH WRIGHT, grocer, Watton, Notion', June 10, and July 5, at twelve, at the Anchor Inn, Thetford. Bell, Broth*. rick. ana Bell, Bow Church-yard, Cheapside, Lot .tion ; Pillans, Swatfliam, Norfolk. WILLI:AM APGILL, draper, Liverpool, Jane` 4 and July 2, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Robinson, Post-office-place, Liverpool ; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London. WILLIAM MARTIN, currier, Southwark, May 28, at one, and July 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankrupt, y. Cannan, Finsbury-square, official assignee; Parker, St. Paul's • churchyard. COURSE OF EXCHi A listerdar, rim°, .ggitt C.F. 12 4% 12 1 2 U. 12 5 Aurerp.... .............ALB iatnbur t r l3 11 1 ,4 AI tont: Paris, 3 days' sight...... 25 35 ..................3 Ms 25 05 M trscillci Bot.:rdcaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 Petersbutfth,rublc...3 Us. 10% . 7 0 V;enna, effective. 11...3 51 lO 5 10 6 Madrid 37 17% B,lbort . B Itwlot-r 4 Y "IG; I.IVGE.—( THIS DAY.) (libratt4r ....... ..... 48 ....... 55 'Genoa.. 31 Venice 47 Naples Pa!enno oz. 120 Lisbon Grcrto Rio Janeiro 2B Bahl- 27 Buenos New York, 21 days' sight 461 i Philadelphia 45 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Portugal Gold, c0in....40 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 18 0 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars ......... 0 0 Silver in Bars 0 0 0 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Cstrrent of May 20.) 1 SUGAR.—The demand for West India Museovaeloes Sugar last week considerably abated, both grocers And, refiners purchased very cautiously,, and the sales atnounted ~ to only 600 hhds and tierces, but importers remained firm, and having supplied the market sparingly, Were,Oneblefl to obtain termer rates for all descriptions. There beets.: no public sale of Barbadoes, but one of 35511 e lasthlils, s ss ti pie e r rc c es s, and 12 barrels is declared for Friday. paid were 64s 6d to:6ss for mid yellow Jamaica, - Berbice, and Demerara ; 67s for good grey Jamaica and 'St: :WTI - . cent's; Demerara, with a good deal of coloni'TOi the scale, has fetched the same price, and other sorts up to 70 1 . The weekly delivery has increased, but still if is not equal to that of last years. The Gazette average price is nearly 8s higher than in 1833 at this period. REFINED.—In the Refined market standard lumps fetch 82s to 82s 6d, brown lumps 79s to 80s, and common patent goods 81s ; a few small parcels of crushed manufactured from Foreign Sugar at 36a. Pieces and Bastards at far mer quotations. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 34s 6d per C.wt. MAURITIUS.—There has been only a limited demand by private contract from grocers as well as refiners, and none has been offered at auction, but the prices previously established have been supported. EAST INDIA.—In Bengal former prices have been sup. ported. Manilla at 245. Siam and Java have commanded late rates. FOREIGN.—In yellow Havannah no iuclination mani fested on the part of holders to submit to lower prices. Ha , vannah : 38s to 42s has been paidjor 300 boxes; brown Brazil last weelt was in demand by our refiners, and the late advanced rates fully supported, 200 chests having been sold at 24s to 24s 6d fur good and fine. A cargo of white Pernambuco has been sold afloat for Trieste at 345. Motesses.—West India have mair,taired former rates, but the purchases have been only to a limited extent. COFFEE.—For clean descriptions, which are wanted by the grocers 1193 to 120 s has been paid; Ceylon has se cured a fair sale by private contract at 2s profit on the late auctions, for goon ord 98s to 100 s has been paid, and 107 s for fine green. Java has been inquired for, and the re mainder of the late arrivals from the Cape, about 1,300 bags, have been sold, fine pale yellow at 793, and common green and yellow at 755. Mocha has been in good request at the rates pre , iously established : fair green clean gar bled has been sold at 95s to 96s 6d. Rum, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—Leewarcls have been sought after, principally for Liverpool, bat the demand has been checked by the short supply at market, and importers obtained prices fully up to those of.last week, excepting for strong sorts, which are rather higher ; 100 puns of the former have been sold at 5s tad for 33 per cent over proof ; of the latter 250 puns have been sold, 30 to 38 over proof at 5s 2d to is lid, proofs to 8 over 3s 4d to 3s Bd. For Brandy prices have slightly improved. Geneva. at late rated. British Corn Spirits unaltered. ~ TALLOW.—The prices demanded for Petersburgh yel low Candle on the spot still being high, viz., 52s to 12s 6d for first quality, prevent business of moment. For new Tallow prices are unaltered, 46s to 46s 6d, being the price paid for the last three months. On.s.—Cernmon Fish Oils' have been taken only in mall quz:ntities for home use; Cud and Southern Lave ni.lintamed previous rates, but for Seal rather lower prices have been accepted ; Sperm for small parcels of first qua lity 95/ is still paid. Linseed Oil at 26s 6d. In Rep.: prices have declined to 38i 6d for Pale, `and 378 6d for brown. In Olive little passhig. . , TEA.-..-The operations hai , c been very limited since the sale, but in p r ices there is no change; the deliverleS ' from the warehouses last week were 430;000lbs: . - • - METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last night comments as follows on Mr. Goulbui ti's claims to the Speakership of the House of Commons :—" 'The proposal of the Tories to thrust Ales Gouthurn into the Speaker's chair is one of those tical vagaries into which faction is at all times liable to wander, but which excite not the less i . when they do happen, the gaping wonder of an admiring world. A man loss fitted to do credit to the presidential chair, it would have been difficult to select from among tl:e pcllui of either side of the House. At all times i& fierce partisan, he •has never been kept by a feeling o f personal modesty from occupying a more prominent position among his party, }et, even by his friends, he has sekom be.en more than tolerated, and by the House at large he has never been more than endured." The Globe says, with reference to Sir R. Peel's late Parliamentary explanation We repeat—the party has made itself ridiculous, or its leader has made it so. it' such obstacles can keep it out of office—out of office it must stay. But we would not be supposed for a moment to believe seriously any such thing. It is something else, and something more than the tremendous presence of Lady Normanby that dooms the Tories to successive dis appointments in their ambitious prospects. It is simply that the principle of mere negation—repression of new growths—hostility to new influences-reennot govern the country. The Active and positive principles of Toryism are feared and disliked as much by the cool and enlighted men of their own party as by those of ours. They are afraid of their own adherents; and with even more reason than they sometimes taunt Liberal politicians with being afraid of theirs." The Standard, remarking on an article that appeared in the Chronicle of yesterday morning, takes the opportunity of renewing its coarse attacks on Lord Melbourne : " Every one will say that to exhibit the Queen in this light is foully and seditiously to libel her Majesty, and some will impute malicious, and perhaps treasonable motives to the author cf the passage cited above. It is, indeed, a foul and seditious libel to represent the Queen as the implaca ble enemy of her subjects, but it were unjust to charge that upon the hand which held the pen in writing the drama got up by others. Lord Melbourne is the lib eller— he is the author of the drama, in which t he Queen i s made to play a part so unbecoming of her Majesty's family and office, and we arc sure so alien from her just and generous nature. Lord Melbourne has, we trust, failed in his en deavours to poison the Queen's mind against neither the least respectable, the least numerous, nor the least loyal class of her Majesty's subjects, but he has certainly em ployed those endeavours with that purpose, and be has employed them in a manner to create an impression (wa are sure a false impression) that they have been successful.' RIOTS IN THE POTTERIES.---There have been I some serious riots at Lane-end, in the Potteries, arising out of the arrest of some dru nken fellows at a beer-shop , by the police. The men were locked up, and next day a mob of five or six hundred commenced throwing stones, and threatening rescue. A car was sent from Newcast'e for the Fir:oners, who were conveyed thither under an es cort of ten foot soldiers and some of the police. After repeated ineffectual attempts to restore order, the Riot Act was read, and the mob were desired to disperse, but they refused to do so , a nd continued to throw stones, &o. at the police and military, until about nine o'clock, when things beginning to wear a serious aspect, the cavalry were ordered to clear the streets. 1 Blank cartridge was fired at first, but that not having any ' effect in dispersing the mob, the cavalry fired ball cart ridge, and also used their swords. Several persons were wounded—one very dangerously, a ball having entered his abdomen. Another was wounded in t he thig with a ball —another is very seriously cut in the head, and is not ex rented to recover. Others were wounded less seriously, Eighteen were taken into custody. and conveyed to' a meeting of the Magistrates on Thursday morning at Trontham, from whence they were committed to Stafford gaol. The troops remained on du t y , but p eace has bee n restored, although a very riotous disposition still prevails. MURDER.—An inquest was held at Warkwerth on the 29th ult. and th e 3d inst. on Thomas Mordue, aged fifty, who belonged to Addington, and had been employedin the woods at Acklington Park, belonging to his Grace the Duke of Nort humberland. Mordue died Ver y s d denly on the 21st ult. and, in consequestea of the zudduen nees'nf hie death , the unusual appearances whic h he as. turned, and a re p ort having become prevalent that his daughter, Jan e Mordue, a girl only fifteen ears' r of returned a verdict of v judicial inquiry. bad purch ased some arsenic at a shop a t . \Varkworth, his age, body was exhumed for the p ur p ose.. .....Aft ‘ e Nil raful i patient id u Murder n a gan investigation istj thean eii\ jury i e, ord ue, and against a woman named Susanna Stephenson, as accessory, and they wer e committed under the Caroller' s warrant for trial at the next assizes for Northumberland.. Newcastle Chronicle. wY w N E EN' SECOND Ear..rioN SUN OFFICE, &vigor: o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAr :17. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Whitehead, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul ;at Archangel. The Queen has also been graciously pleasted to appoint John Rendall, Esq. to be her Majesty's Consul at the Cape Verde Islands, to reside at St. Jago. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The Hon. J. C. Dundas to be Deputy Lieutenant; W. L. Witham, Esq. to be ditto ; H. C. Blacked, Es,q• to be ditto; J. S. Crompton, Esq. to be ditto, May 1. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—En& go C. H. Maunde to be Lieutenant, vice G. W. Harris, resipied ; Ensign C. Hughes to be ditto, vice J. Palmer, resigned, May 20. ~, her and and eel, of V. Tao