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If 11, ... 7 30 a. ra ... 5 p.m 7 10 a.m.l „ • • 5 1). m. » FARES. To or from Aylesbury and Lon,lon, lit Class 1 ls. Od 2d ditto ... 7s. 6d Juno 3, 1839. TIMES OF GEORGE IV. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; The following Programme is therefore given of its final ar rAngements The Historical Play of KING HENRY V., from the Text Shakspeare, will be produced early in June. TO-MORROW EVENING, Juivtt 5. THIS EVENING, JUNI 5, Will be performed, THE LADY OF LYONS, or Lore and Pride. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Macready ; Colonel llamas, Mr. Bartley; Paulin. Deschappelles, Miss Helen Faucit. After which, FRA DIA VOLO. Marquis Son Ca r l os , Mr. Frazer ; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. To-Morrow there will be no performance. RREY T. 'The New GrandROYAL SURREY Opera of " The Love Spell, RE " has been tri umphant in the extreme. The rich, flowing Melodies— beautiful Scenery —and the acting and singing of Misa Ro mer, Mr. Te m pl e t on , and Mr. Balfe, meet with undivided approbation of elegant and crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 5, Will be performed a New One Act Drama, called THE MAIDS OF HONOUR. After which the Grand Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Donitetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amore," Adine, Mils Romer; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara, Mr. Balfe. To concl u d e with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAN PETRES ! !! TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 6, And Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, Next Week, 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. The magnificent Day-light View of MOUNT lIECL A, and the unequalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. Bills. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1839. le Lords the Royal Assent was given to several After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM concerning the Ordinance for the press in Malta, and the Maltese agent in London, and after a few words relative to the , union of the two Canadas, the LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the Church Discipline Bill be committed. A considerable debate ensued, which ended in the Bill being committed pro forma. The Bishops of EXETER and GLOUCESTER opposed the Bill ; and, from the speech of the former, we beg leave to transcribe a passage, which sets in a clear light the extraordinary power claimed by this class of men. Ghee a priest, always a priest, is his doctrine. He said, " All the Kings, all the Queens, and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with all the Commons that ever lived, could not give that power to the Court of Arches which this Bill presumptuously proposed to give —namely, to strip the Clergy of their Ministerial character is the Lord Jesus Christ. No Lay tribunal whatever could be found capable of the power to de grade the Clergy to 'the state of Laymen. Ile chal lenged the whole or any of his Right Reverend Friends, t• say that such a proposition could be sustained." We admire his consistency. The priests all derive their power from the Apostles, to whom our Bishops are the direct peers. They only insist, therefore on a clear, consistent right, when they deny the power of any secular tribunal to deprive, degrade, or depose a priest. They are the absolute masters of our faith, and of all the income which is annually levied from the nation for their benefit. The Bishops are an excellent illustration of the advantages of impudence. Modesty is always slighted, and they take care to impose on mankind by the pro digious extent of their demands. Fortunately for the world the worthy Prelates cannot quite agree amongst themselves, otherwise there would be no hope for the sanity of the people. ♦s it is, the dispute of , CHARLIS LONDON with HENRY EXETER, may help to restore the community to its senses. In the House of Commons the Cheltenham Improve ment Bill had a narrow escape, the Report on it having been received by a majority of only two. Sir HMETH FLEETWOOD moved for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the franchise, in the counties of England and Wales, to 101. householders. The Hon. Baronet, in a short neat speech, explained the utility of acceding to his plan. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to the regret of all Reformers, sot only opposed it on account of the lateness of the Session, but declared that the Government could not lend any countenance to it. Mr. WitnauaTos supplicated Lord JOHN, in a man ner, to give the Liberals some vague hope of Reform, hut Lord JOHN was silent ; and Sir ROBERT PEEL pre cluded the Noble Lord from any escape, by declaring that he had accurately defined how far he would go. Sir Remo., as Mr. WAKLEY said, was delighted with Lord JOHN'S definitions. Mr. HARVEY sarcastically recommended the Mode rates on both sides of the House to weed the extremes oat from amongst them, unite, and form a strong Go vernment, a suggestion which they appear inclined to follow, though it will add to the discredit into which public men have fallen. Mr. HUME, Mr. WOOD, and Mr. W AKLEY spo k e successively and strongly against Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech ; Mr. SLANE; and Mr. P. HowAttu praised it. Sir I-I. FLEETWOOD wished to withdraw his motion, but the House objected ; and on a division, it was supported by 81, and opposed by 207. He was ac cordingly refused leave. The minority was larger than we expected, and should encourage the Radicals to persevere in their own plans. Sir HESKETH FLEETWOOD obtained leave to bring in a Bill to limit taking the poll for Coroners to one day. On Lord JOHN RUSSELL seconding the motion fo r a °till of the H ouse on F r id ay , h e took the opportunity of stating that Government would not pursue its plan for improving education ; that it gave up the idea of now founding a normal school, and meant to propose the grant, as usual, for the National and British `and Foreign School Societies. We must at once . protest a ga i ns t t hi s . Th e f un d s g i ven to these —Jcieties are administered by priests or sectaries, and serve to strengthen their power against the Secular Government. Not one farthing should be voted for education, except it be under the control of Govern ment ; and we do hope this grant, which goes to en courage bigotry, will be resisted. Mr. Wyss, we are happy to see, took this view, and will no doubt be supported in resisting the grant. A smart conversation ensued, in which Mr. GoctsuaN and other Tories complained of the lilude of proeeeding adopted by Lord JOHN Rus- SELL ; and Lord MORPETH, and others pointed cut the necessity of exposing, as soon as possi ble, the mendacious attempts which had been made to prejudice the public against Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S plan. The motion for the call of the House was agreed to. The House sat till Eleven o'Clock. Sir TIESKETH FLEETWOOD, in bringing for ward last night his motion for leave to bring in a Bill to give the right of voting in the counties of England and \Vales to the 10/. householders, properly and correctly said, that all the enthusiastic Re formers in the kingdom were on the tie -toe of ex pectation. The late attempt of the Tories to seize office ; the resumption of it by the Whigs, chas tened, it is presumed, by a temporary adversity ; the enthusiasa t w hi c h was exc i te d by her MAJESTY'S Conduct, had cast its rays over her Ministers, and there appeared a general disposition to hop e an d believe the very best of them. -‘e h a d some reason to suppose that Lord JOHN 1 . '!‘ lUSSELL would take the opportunity of Sir HES- I X ETH FLEETWOOD'S motion, to which, from his late pamphlet, and the reports of his friends, he I was conceived to be favourable, to make some con cessions to Reformers, and so cement the alliance which had again been recently formed between them and the Ministers. As we read Lord JOHN Rus• SELLS speech, therefore, we presumed that our Reporter had misunderstood his Lordship, and it was not till we had read the speeches of the Radi- AYLESBURY RAILWAY. The Public are respectfully informed that this Line of RAILWAY will be OPENED on MONDAY, the 10th of June, 16, 1 9, for the conveyance of Pessengers and Parcels (in cenjunction with the London and Birmingham Railway) to and from Aylesbury and London. Until further notice the follow. will be the time of departure of the Trains:— UP. DOWN. Leaves Aylesbury Leaves London Pot London 7 10 a.m. For Aylesbury ... 7 30 a.m. ... 10 30 „ •.. 6 10 p.m. ... 8 ~ ON SUNDAYS. Now ready, with a Portrait of Queen Caroline, THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIARY OF THE Being VO4s. 111. and IV. Comprising numerous Curious and Interesting LETTERS of QUEEN CAROLINE, the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, And other Distinguished Persons. tier To ensure the completion of their Sets, the Purchasers to Vols. I and 11. of this 'Work should give immediate Orders to their respective Booksellers tot these Concluding Volumes. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. In addition to forsaking the people, we doubt whether the Ministers will not, by this course, be tray the QUEEN. They will not be able to carry on the Government, and her MAJESTY will be given, unless her people rally around her and res cue her from both the aristocratic factions, a pri soner into the hands of the Tory aristocracy. The Ministerial plan for the permanent settle ment of Canada is certainly not, as the matter at present stands, to come into operation till 1842. We are quite justified, therefore, in having taken a few hours to consider of it before pronouncing cx cathedra, like our Tory Contemporaries, endowed with a superhuman sagacity, a hasty opinion on what has yet neither form nor substance. The Tories, however, are very wise men. They have seen their most favourite schemes come to nought ; they are living witnesses, year after year, that their own policy is impracticable, for year after year they occupy to defend the deserted positions of their an tagonists, and year after year are obliged to abandon them ; but they abound still in overweening conceit, and can decide off' hand, however important and extensive the subject, that whatever a Whig pro poses, must be mischievous. We claim not their prodigious capacity, and begin our few observations on Lord JOHN B. ussELL's motion concerning Canada with the advantage of a few hours' deli beration. His Lordship submitted to the House of Com mons two resolutions, the latter of which says " that it is expedient to continue till 1842 the powers vested in the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada by an Act of last Session, with such alteration of those powers as may be advisable." We are completely ignorant what alterations are to be recommended, but the main point is that the Ministry deems the despotism which was established by the Act of last Session the best form of Government for Lower Canada till 1842. That the inhabitants may not despair altogether, however, the Noble Lord, by his first resolution declares, " that it is in the opinion of the House, expedient to form a legislative union of the Pro vinces of Upper and Lower Canada, on Me prin ciples of a free and Representative Government, in such a manner as may most conduce to the pros perity and contentment of the people of the United Provinces." The inhabitants of Lower Canada are to be governed by military authority, as at pre sent, till 1842, and then they are to be united, on the principles of a free Representative Government, to the inhabitants of Upper Canada. This, and this only, is the proposition of Ministers. It places before us, however, two perfectly distinct questions for consideration, namely, whether the present Government of Canada be suitable to the people and condition of that province, and whether, in the year 1842, the whole Colony will be bene fited by the proposed legislative union. Let us remark, before touching either of th ese questions, th a t th e G overnmen t has wholly dis carded, principally by the advice of Sir J. KEMPT, the magnificent project of uniting all the North American Provinces in one Federal Government. _ _ ..... The political contrivance, therefore, of forming a balance to the United States, and a check on them by constituting a new grand confederacy in North America is, for the present, blown to the winds, which is, probably, not much to be lamented ; for such balance and checks have, in all past times, failed to attain the end proposed, while, as a means, they have been costly and ruinous. The first question must be decided both by the present circumstances of the Lower Canadians, and what in future the Legislature proposes to do with respect to Canada. If at the end of the period Lower Canada was to be re• constituted an almost exclusively French province, and the popular branch of the Government were again to be placed in the hands of La Nation Cana7lienne, or in the hands of the few Advocates and Priests who rule with despotism over the simple people, it would be an absurdity to continue the present despotism. It would only irritate without subduing those who, in 1842, were to be restored to power. But the avowed design of all parties here and there, except the French party, is to destroy the separate and ex clusive existence of the French Canadians, and amalgamate them with the British population. To attain that end, the continuance of the present military Government seems no unreasonable prepa ration. All persons who have visited Canada agree as to the existing hostility between the two races, while the discrepancy of the laws and customs to our own is striking and well-known. Mr. BULLER, in arguing the night before last against the plan, described in forcible terms the savage animosity with Iwhich the volunteers or militia from Upper Canada I had devastated the province of Beauharnois, burn ing the houses of the French to the ground, and driv ing the poor people to the woods, to perish under the snow, first to be found again about this time, when the snow melts away. The Honourable Member also described in strong terms the border warfare, the savage, personal, revengeful attacks, which are mutually and continually made by individuals living ' cal Members, all expressing their total dissent from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and declaring the alliarice between them and the Ministers at an end, that we were thoroughly and completely convinced that there was no mistake, and that Lord JOHN RUS SELL and the Government decline giving Sir FL FLEETWOOD, or any other person, the least reason for supposing that they will concur in any measure for altering the Reform Act. True, Lord JOHN will consent to lessen the vexations caused by the Registration part of the Reform Act, which he admitted was, to a considerable extent, a failure. He will also permit of an alteration in the time of paying the rates, so as to give the franchise to those who are now entitled to it, and yet do not receive it ; but he will not go further, and he is against any abandonment of the Reform Act. There is an end, therefore, to all the hope which we and others had placed on the present Ministers—there is an end to the superiority of the Liberals in the House of Commons, the Government and the country being now placed at the mercy, if not betrayed into the hands, of the Tories. The Whigs, apparently, prefer being the lacqueys and servants of those who have buffeted, and scorned, and flouted them, who have ridiculed, vexed, and harassed them, to being the leaders of a noble and generous people. Well, be it so, there is no answering for the class-grovelling of some persons ; and whereas, we lifted up the cry, little more than a week ago, of " Hurrah for the QUEEN and the Whigs !" now we must say " Hurrah for the People !" They must help themselves, in spite both of Whigs and Tories. We regret this—deeply and bitterly do we regret it. We are thoroughly convinced that the internal tranquillity of this country cannot be long preserved, except by admitting a considerable portion of the lower classes to share the franchise. It is impossible that the bulk of the working classes can be kept beyond the pale of the Constitu tion. Not admitted to any share of making the laws, they declare they owe the laws no allegiance. To govern them by force like slaves will be impos sible, and if it were possible would only be ruinous. As long as there was a hope that the Parliament with a Liberal Ministry, might, at a future time, extend the franchise, there was some reason to believe that the working classes would wait patiently for redress. Now, hope must be at an end, and they must proceed on the principle of overthrowine. the Parliament, or submit ►n despair to slavery. We foresee, therefore, great and indelible mischief from the Liberal Ministry uniting with the Tories to put an end to all the just hopes of the people. We are inclined to suppose, as Mr. HARVEY said, that the electors are very generally Tories ; but in that case how will Mr. O'CONNELL per suade the unenfranchised working classes that the middle classes are not their political enemies ? If the middle classes bo against the extension of the suffrage, and if the Ministers have taken their pre sent course because it will have the sanction and support of the bulk of the electors, then must we conclude that the disease of the society is too deep-seated to admit of any cure. The mighty limbs of its strength are war ring against each other ; the head and the heart arc no longer influenced by the same organic laws, or moved by the same mysterious influence of a common interest ; and a dissolution of the body is not far off. 'We checked the Chartists at the height of their imprudence, the effects of which are now visible in the daily, but temporary triumph of the principles to which they are most opposed. But, dealing equal justice to all, we are bound now to warn the middle classes and the aristocracy, and the Government, which represents them both, that they cannot rule this land in safety and in peace without a very large extension of the suffrage. , 4 :jam ttly "j'. l t* :47 1.11, Efu EVENING EDITION. in Canada; and in fork: such a state of society, which is to be prevented by a foreign force from fermenting and working ' itself into peace and clearness, and is to be controlled I by the united rigour of the Home Government and the British settlers, in the two Provinces, a. mili tary Government, as it will nO doubt be Vigilantly but mercifully administered by British officers, seems to Us, we will readily own, the most suitable contrivance for now governing Lower Canada. We say so principally from a view to that future amal gamation of the races, and the extinction of the pre dominancy of the French, which all parties:here ad vocate. If that Government be at once firm, con• trolling, and mild—if it be little meddling, and much economical, it may effect, before 1842, a great improvement in the disposition of the people, and make that amalgamation of the two Provinces under one legislature, consti tuted on the principles of a free Representative Government, practicable, peaceful, and beneficial. In the present circumstances, then, of Lower Ca nada, and in conformity to the ultimate object proposed by our Legislature, we approve, however much the Tories may:rail at, Lord JOHN R us• sELL's second resolution, and should not object to continuing Lower Canada under a military Go vernment, if, as seems inevitable, the French Nation Canadienne must, as an exclusive, political, and separate people be extinguished, till 1842. We do not mean to discuss the second question ; it is generally, we may almost say universally, adopted as a sort of axiom ; but out of it grows a subject, on which the Times and the Post have di lated with all their usual, unmeaning, senseless gabble of vituperation—the conduct of Ministers with regard to legislating for Canada. Lord J. RussELL,in his speech,scarcely did more than allude to the basis of the representative system, combining population with territory, but above all things giving a British cha racter to the whole Province. He refused to enter into details. Thereupon the Times scolds about a " dilatory and discreditable expedient ;" and there upon the chamber-maid Post raves thus—" Of all the insults that ever were offered to any deli berative Assembly, that which the British House of Commons received last night, is beyond all comparison the most audacious and of fensive." It is far worse than OLD Nom. walking into the House, turning out the Members, and putting the keys in his pocket. Such language is the sign only of the angry sentiments which over flow in the writers' minds, and signifies no other created thing—nothing external to them—nothing relative either to Canada or England. If the Act of Incorporation is not to come into operation till 1842, and these writers have not said a word to justify its coming sooner into effect, would it not be grossly absurd now to frame it ? The Parlia ment would in that case reject the experience which 1840 and 1841 will supply. It is quite enough at present to affirm the principle, so to put an end to the despair of the Lower Canadians, and prepare all parties for their new political condition ; but leave time, as well as legislative presumption, to bring its own counsel. We are never in any haste to make new and complicated laws, and should have nothing but approbation to bestow, had doubt and delay and postponement, in many other cases of legislation, been allowed to supersede the strong convictions and the haste with which both Houses of Parlia ment have proceeded to inflict new laws on the community. We cannot, however, conclude this expression of our approbation of not now proceed ing to legislate for Canada, without observing that as Lord JOHN RUSSELL opened his intentions, so disappeared the last, and certainly the most magnifi cent, of tile several projects, the hope of accom plishing which shed sunlight over the approach of the present session, and made the community look to it as one of unusual importance. see such a Mari as Dr. CifA.t.mliA declaring " in regard to the authorised dild Douay versions, the difference between them is not so great as to make it a thing of practical importance tvhich of them should be used ; though that, in point of decortim anl good tastc,lt were better that the school ible should be our authorised version, grid that thtt Catholic priest would evince his wisdom and libe rality by making no objection to it." Thus the horrible iniquity of using the Douay version of the Bible, which makes the hair of the Godly stand on end whenever a political purpose is to be served by such an erection, is estimated by a double-distilled evangelical Professor of Divinity in the principal University of Scotland, at the very trifling amount of a sin against decorum—a transgression of the laws taste I We are still without any interesting intelligence from the French capital. Marshal SOULT and his colleagues are hardly noticed, save in the columns of the opposi tion journals : a listless inertness prevails in the Cham ber of Deputies ; the Court is calmly enjoying its triumph, and covertly extending its corrupt influence ; while the people disgusted with the political apostacy of nearly all in whom they once placed unbounded confi dence, turn away in disgust to await the terrible retri bution of another Revolution. Louis PittLirPE has triumphed, but his triumph has been purchased at the expense of the public character of almost every man of popular influence in France. He has now no breakwater between him and the popular tide, when it once sets in against him. For the momentary gratification of a single bad passion, he has recklessly sacrificed the defensive birthright of a Constitutional Sovereign—the popular influence of nearly every man capable of serving him in the ca pacity of a Minister ! And the dolts who surround him, and the Tory organs in this country, represent this suicidal policy, this regal trickery and duplicity— worthy of the genius of GEORGE the perfection of statesmanship ! To add to the political stagnation in Paris, AIM. TRIERS and Gutzwr are about to set out for the coun try during the summer months. GUIZOT retires to his seat at Valricher, and Thum to the Waters of Cotterets. The Prince DE JOINVILLE left Toulon on the is' instant, on board the Jupiter, to join the French squa. dron in the Levant as secon d in command. The letters from Bayonne are of the 31st ult. Es- PARTERO was fortifying Orduna ; General LEON had established his head-quarters at Lodosa ; and MAROTO occupied the lines from Amurrio to Llodio. In Cata lonia the Carlists surrounded a Christino division near Segarra, and killed or wounded 450 of them. The articles of a treaty between ESPARTEEO and MAnoTo, for con ducting the war in the Basques according to the usages of civilized nations, have at least been ratified. One of them stipulates that the wounded shall be healed and restored to the enemy without ransom. The Madrid Papers received arc of the 27th ult. The new Finance Minister, XIMENES, was actively engaging in endeavouring to res t ore p u bli c cre dit. H e h a d con trived to procure from the Madrid Banks four millions of reals, which he was about to remit for the use of the army of the North. The dissolution of the Cortes was under the consideration of the Government. The Ministry has j;t - gi;en - rt proof of independence and justice for which the public ought to give it credit. It has just deprived of his office, as Governor of our posses sions in India, the Marquis do St. Simon, whose tyran nical conduct has frequently given the inhabitants of Pon dicherry ground for complaint. The Press had published the most serious inculpations respecting the facts imputed to the Marquis de St. Simon by the Ministry of the 15th of April, who did not condescend to pay any attention to the matter. The accused Governor was, in fact, in favour at the Palace, where he even had the highest protection. We repeat it, the equitable and highly necessary measure of appointing M. Ducamper to succeed the Governor, does honour to the Ministry in general, and particularly to Admiral Duperre.—Le Commerce. BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, JUNE 3. HALF -PAST THREE. —There has been a good deal of business for time in the French stocks. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 81f. 40c,, rose to 81f. 40e., and closed at 81f. 55c„ being Sc. lower than on Saturday. The Five per Cents. from 111 f. 50c., declined to 111 f. 45c., a fall of sc. For Money the Three per Cents. are unaltered, and the Five per Cents. are 10c. higher. Thelßank of France Shares arc sf. lower. The Laffitte Bank Shares are unaltered. The Belgian Fire per Cents. are 1 lower. The Bank Shares have declined 2f. 10c. The Spanish Active is lower, it opened at 19k, and closed at 194. The St. Germain Railway Shares are sf. and the Versailles Right Bank 151. lower. The Versailles Left Bank, it will be seen, opened at 51. below Saturday's last quotation ; they rallied 10f. It is under stood, however, that Government will propose to the Chamber to assist the Company with a loan. Peace, Law, and Order are the Shibboleth of Mr. O ' CONNELL and some other Reformers. We are cordial friends of peace and order, but cannot con scientiously add law. Peace, if we may judge of the wrangling in Courts, the wailings in prisons, and the terrific spectacles of distress and punish ment exhibited by the law, seems totally different from law. Order, if we may judge by the statute-book and by the common law, is equally at variance with it. If law be not the enemy of peace and order, it is so palpably different from both, being alike nei ther in substance nor in form, that the three to gether can never make a political trinity. Mr. O'CoNxELL, in recommending the three to the Chartists, condemned one law in strong terms, the Reform law. Ths bulk of the intelligent people condemn, in still stronger terms, the Corn-law. All the Dissenters reprobate the Church-rate law, and all the Peers, as well as the publicans, are convinced that the Sale of Beer Act is a most mischievous law. Few people at present, except the Bishops, approve of the Church as made by law. People wish to have laws for the recovery of debts, but they say that gross injustice is worked by the pre. sent law. Ou r b rea d, our t ea , our sugar , our wines, our clothes, are all taxed by a hated law. Without going through the catalogue, it is palpable that great masses of the community condemn every one of the present laws. Nevertheless Mr. O'CON NELL would have the nation regard peace, law, and order, as of exactly the same value. We dif fer in tot° from him, and we would inscribe the first and the last on our banner, but if the other were written we would expunge law. . - first Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price 1:1 11... 111 1(1 ... 111 10 ... 111 10 French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents lOl 70 101 70 101 70 ... 101 70 3 per Cents Bl 20 ... 81 20 ... 81 20 ... 81 20 Bank of ' , ranee Laflitte sank I.ooof_ 1075 ...10:5 _lOl5 ...i075 5,000 f. 5250 ...5250 ...5250 Belgian 5 per Cents lO2 102 ... 101% lel% Bank kioo ... SOO 757 50 ... 797 50 Coupons Spanish Active 19% ... 19% ... 19% ... 19% New Deferred Portuguese 3 per Cents tics: olitnn Roman RAILWAY SHAREs. 675 ... 675 ... 675 ... 675 717 50 ... 717 50 ... 705 705 083 ... 295 ... 285 205 950 ... 950 950 95'; 465 465 ... 465 465 335 ... 335 ... 335 ... 335 St, Germain Versailles, R. I; Havre Orleans Strasburg to Bale MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We continue to have an improved demand for Cotton. The sales to-day reach 4,000 bags at an advance generally of id per lb., and in some instances of -id on the quotations of Friday last. Arrivals this morning —French Mail, and ship letters from Rio Janeiro and the Cape of Hope, March 13, old date. We have had the 16th March. The operations in Foreign Bills yesterday do not fur nish any material remark upon the whole; they were much the same as on the former post day. It is generally anticipated that Money will become more plentiful as the heavy commercial payments are now ter minated. We publish in another column a letter from a Correspondent on the Douay version of the Scrip tures, the use of which in schools has been made the groundwork, real or pretended, for so violent an ebullition of bigotry on the part of the Church of Englandists and Wesleyan Methodists. Let it be borne in mind, above all things, that the Govern ment has never harboured the most remote inten tion of mixing together—as we contend it was its duty to do—children belonging to different sects in the same school. The only single and solitary instance in which this is to be done, is the school to be established here in London for the purpose of affording teachers of different persuasions an opportunity of learning the practical part of their bu siness, the mode of communicating instruction most effectually to the young. In all other cases throughout the kingdom, the different sects are to have their own schools, and each school will, as it is now, be under its own peculiar sectarian discipline, and will exhibit the same entire uniformity of religious faith as at present. Yet clearly as this was stated by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, when he first introduced the subject in the House of Commons, anti often as it has been repeated since, the Established Clergy and the Wesleyan Ministry have raised a hue and cry against the Government plan, on the sole ground that it proposes to enforce the teaching of different religious systems in every school. The Bishop of LONDON was the first to start this gross misrepre sentation in the House of Lords ; and though corrected there and compelled to confess his mis take, he has, with his innate Jesuitism, ever since persisted in giving it currency out of doors. The question is then brought to this plain and simple state—that each separate class of religion ists, having their separate schools, may use in them those versions of the Scripture which they most approve. Will any one dare to object to this ? Will any bigot venture to say that the Catholics shall not be allowed to use the Catholic trans lation of the Scriptures in their own schools ? This, we apprehend, would be more than any man, wishing not to be thought a fit and proper inmate for Bedlam, would choose to in sinuate, inasmuch as it would imply not only the most grievous intolerance that can be imagined, but would be a direct and positive confession that ignorance in Catholics is better than knowledge, and that it is the duty of the State to refuse them all means of instructi on — a ll o pp or t un ity o f culti vating their rational nature, and raising themselves in the scale of human existence. But touching this Douay version of the Scrip tures, which is viewed by the Church and the Me thodists with so pious a horror, we doubt whether one in a hundred of those who object to it ever saw it, or knows anything at all about it. Such per sons will read the letter of our Correspondent with advantage, and, we are sure, will be delighted be yond measure to find how much they have been mistaken. Their joy will be equal to their sur prise, when they find Dr. CHALMERS, the Cory plueus of orthodoxy in the northern part of the king dom, saying of this calumniated translation of the Scriptures—and that, too, not in a corner—not in any secret conclave of brother priests, and with a knowing familiar wink of the eye, as much as to say, " .1 am sure you won't tell of me ;" but before a Committee of the House of Commons, by which his words, he knew, were to be sent forth to the world as carry ing with them an authority of great weight—they will be flung into extacics, we repeat, when they According to information from Vera Crus of the 7th of April, it appears that the fortress of San Juan d'Ulloa has been restored to the Mexicans, and the national flag again waves on its walls, therefore we may conclude that everything is settled between the French and Mexican Government. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY,_JUNE 5, 1839, EkiILOWON ON BOARD THE AitCHIMEDES STEAM-MJAT, A.I3.IOURNED INQUEST.—(THIS DAY). The inquest on the body of the unfortunate man James M'Millan, second engineer of the Ard,:masles, who was killed by the bursting of the boiler on Thursday afteriiciaaas was re sumed this morning at the Unicorn Inn, Greenwich, before Mr., Car far, Coroner. Mr. Ns Cita; of the firm of Teesdale, Symes, and Weston, appeared in behalf of the Coanpany, And Mr. Espin, of the firm of Few and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, in behalf of Mr. Smith, the patentee. At half-past ten, the Jury having assembled, The CORONER said it appeared that the men lying on board the Dreadnought, who had been injured by the explosion, were not in a fit state to be removed on shore, but they could be ex amined on board, He proposed, therefore, that the Jury should go On beard and hear what these men had to say, which he un derstood was not much they could then return and hear the remainder of the etideriiid. The Coroner and Jury then proceeded to the Dreadnought, where the two men were lying. Their faces and arms appeared to have been badly burned, but they were able to converse freely, and suffered no pain. James Crow being sworn, said—l am an engineer, and was employed to work the Archimedes engine. I was in the engine-room, standing by the handle next the boiler when the accident occurred. James M'Millan and another man, I be lieve, were in the engine-room at the time. I saw M'Millan, but I did not see the other man. M'Millan was standing by the other handle, which was farthest from the boiler on my left hand. Had you noticed anything particular before the explosion ? —Nothing. How were the fires?—They were rather dull. I saw the other man, Frazer, doing something to them a short time pre viously, but I don't know what it was. Most of the fire-doors were shut, but some of them'were open. Was it your business or that of M'Alillan to ascertain the quantity of water in the boiler 2-51‘111illan. What quantity was there in the boilers ?—Less to the second of the three cocks. At the time I tried it it was running from the third cock. Then there was enough of water in the boiler ?—Quite enough. When had you been on the deck ?—A very short time before, about five minutes. I did not ascertain whether the safety valve was acting or not. Did you hear the steam blowing off at any strength?— When the handle was drawn out in one of the valves it. would blow off a little. So as to relieve the valve that was closed ?—Yes, that occa sioned the steam to blow off. What was the first notice you had of anything occurring ? Nothing till the boiler burst. What was the effect upon you and the other men in the en gine-room ?a-The room was filled with steam. I ran after un derneath the cabin. It was not the regular way, but the door was fastened, and I got out that way between the wheels and up into the after cabin. 111`Millan was in before me; lie did not go through the wheels, but across the shafts. Did he get over the engine ?—I don't know. I could not see. The steam prevented my seeing, and I endeavoured to keep my eyes shut. M'Millan, I believe, went over:the shafts; he did not go round by the boiler. There were two frames to hold the wheels, and he went in between them. I heard him when I was going under the wheels—he was crying out very much. I don't know what became of the other man. Were you waiting at the handle ?—I got orders to " stand by" the engine about two minutes before. That was prepara tory to getting under weigh. It requires two men to work the engine, one at each handle. The wheels were three feet apart. Do you know the cause of the accident?—No, I don't. Is there anything you can attribute it to ?—I cannot say. What is your own idea on the subject ?—I cannot give any opinion. Did you ever anticipate any mischief arising ?—No ; I saw too much weight put upon the valve. Which valve ?—The one the spindle stands on. Who put that weight on ?—I lent a hand to put it on myself. It was when we were coming from Margate to London. It was done by Mr. Smith's orders. The extra weight put on was a spanner, a piece of pipe and a small piece of lead. I cannot tell what was the exact weight of the piece of pipe. It might be about 16 or 181 b. weight ; it was under 201 b. The valves all worked properly. I never saw any defect in them. By a Juror—The engine worked up from Margate with that extra weight; but it was taken off when we came up the river, I think. Was the extra weight on, on this particular day ?—Oh no, I don't think it was. Did you imagine the placing of these extra weights on the valve had strained the boiler ?—No, I could not think it would strain them. Was there any discussion as to the propriety of putting on these weights ?—None at all. Was Mr. Rennie aware of it ?—No, he was net on board. The boilers and engine were under Mr. Rennie's care, Mr. Smith had nothing to do with them. It was not my duty to load or unload the valves except by order. Mr. Rennie was the party to give the orders. The extra weight of 161 b. or 181 b. was not on on the day of the explosion, but the ordinary weight of 281 b. was on. Mr. Rennie was not on board on the voyage from London to Mar gate, and could have had no knowledge of the extra weight. The 281 b. weight was put on originally and remained on always. It was the weight put on the spindle, and Mr. Rennie was aware of its being on. In coming up from Margate the extra weight of 161 b. or 181 b. was taken off, but the 281 b. weight remained on. Was there any steam-guage, any quicksilver-guage to tell the pressure of the steam in the boiler ?—No. We could as centain the pressure of the steam in the boiler when the valves were working well. But if the valve got thick ?—We had no way but by think ing there was too much steam. By a Juror—Would not the steam-cock tell? The CORONER—No ; that would not tell the pressure of the steam. It would be a bad criterion to go by. By a Juror—Previous to the explosion was the safety-valve fixed, or did it refuse to act ?—I never tried. Juror—l understand there were two valves. Corso/salts—Yes, but one of them is always locked up, so that it may not be tampered with. _ Mr. Espin begged the Coroner to ask if the witness knew at what power the engines were working. Witness—At near about 6lbs., between Mbs. and 61bs. The valve was loaded to better than 51bs. before the extra weight was put on. CORONER—Then there was 281b5., and say 61bs., making 341bs. Mr. Espin— That would make it about 61bs. to the inch. In answer to the Coroner the witness said he had no further information to give them. Alexander Frazer, who was lying in the next berth, was also badly scalded, but apparently not so much as Crow, was then examined. He said—l live at Wapping, and lam a stoker. I was stoker on board the Archimedes. I was in the engine room when the accident occurred, standing in front of the boiler before the fire on the starboard side. I had just done stoking the fire, and most of the doors were closed. The only other persons in the engine-room were Crow and the deceased. They were on the handles ready to start when the word was given. I was only newlylcorne on board, and did not know how the safety-valve or anything else was going on. It was the first time I had had fire that morning. Went with the vessel to Portsmouth, but Ido not recollect anything about loading the valve coming home. I believe there was a piece of lead or a spanner put on. Ido not know by whose orders it was done. When the explosion took place I ran up the ladder near which I was. The quantity of steam was very great, and very hot. I cannot account for the explosion. I had nothing to do with it till I got better acquainted with the engine. The safety-valve worked very well all the previous morning. I know nothing of how they worked the morning of the explo sion, having been very busy with the fire. I have nothing further to state. Upon the return of the Coroner and the Jury to the Inn, the examination of Mr. Field was proceeded with.—He stated that he resided at Lambeth, and was an engineer. Was not connected with the Company to which the Archimedes belonged, but had been re quested to make an inspection of the boiler of that vessel. He found the boiler was of the ordinary low pressure kind, gene sally used by steam-vessels upon the river. Its power and strength of plate was quite sufficient. The boiler was rather large. The great objection to it was, that it was less tied to gether than smaller boilers would be, and therefore subject to be sooner damaged. If he had had to make a simlar boiler, he should have put more stays in it. The top of the boiler had been lifted by the pressure of the steam, the crown of it had been distorted, and by that means the safety valve had been stopped from acting, and the spindle jammed, which prevented them acting, to which cause he attributed the accident. He did not see any steam guages when he made the inspection ; unless, therefore, the safety valves acted, the pressure of the steam could not be known. A good engineer might have known from the opening of the cocks, but every man could not. The top of the boiler had been lifted, but the chimney had not been moved from the place where it stood, in consequence of being attached to the flues. The engineers, in consequence of the jamming, were not able to know the strength of the steam, and that was the reason of the accident. When he made the examination he tested the valves, and found one of them loaded to the extent of 5 1-3, and the other to 6 1-3; that was rather higher than he should load them, but many would load them in that way. The pressure ought not to be increased, as it would be attended with danger to the safety of the boiler. There was nothing but the ordinary weight on the valves at the time he saw them. The tightest of the valves could be got at from the deck, and the other from below. A preventive to this occurrence would have been stronger staying or less pressure, but that would not have prevented it if the safety valve had been jammed which could not have taken place, unless the boiler had been thrown out of shape. The boiler, if it had been sufficiently tied so as to prevent its altering its shape, would have been of sufficient strength to work up to 5 one-third. The thickness of the plates was quite sufficient. There were a great number of fires for so small a boiler, but they did not increase the danger at all. He should not have chosen to work a steam vessel from London to Portsmouth without a steam guage. If there had been a steam guage in the present instance it would have indicated danger—that there was something more than the ordinary pressnre : the difference from an extra weight of 441bs. in one valve would increase the pressure lilb. or lilb. upon the square inch. He would have been extremely timid in loading the boiler to that extent. He thought the boilers were not sufficiently strong to bear the pressure he found upon them. If the boiler had been well tied and bound, however, it would have been of sufficient strength. By the CORONER—In circumstances of the description that have taken place here, what would have been your conduct and opinions prior to the vessel starting. When you f6und the steam pretty much up, and the safety valve fixed, so that you were obliged to use a crow-bar to move it, would you not have supposed that there was something wrong?—Certainly. Would you not have watched the safety-valve after you had eased and floated it ?-Ishould have felt it to be my duty to have kept an eye upon it, to see that it was acting properly. By Mr. Weston—lt was considered desirable in making boilers to have as few stays as possible, because more holes would have to be made, and the result might be leakage. Steam gauges were often not used in the north. The valves in the engine were of a proper size. By the CORONER—If there was no steam guage to tell the precise amount of the pressure you would not have considered it proper to put any extra weight upon the valve ?—Certainly not, because, as I said before, lam very timid. Without a guage I should not think it prudent to let any person put a weight upon the valve—decidedly not. With a guage I might be dis posed to load the valve, but certainly not without it. By Mr. Espin—He thought it was dangerous to work upon a boiler like the one in the present. instance, to an extent of pressure of Gibs. on the square inch. If the boiler was suffici ently tied and bound together it might be worked up to that extent. By the Coitorrra—lf the boiler was sufficient for a pressure of slbs. and a third, 61bs. ought not to have been put upon it. By a Juryman—The more stays there were on the boiler, th• greater would be its strength ; but there would also be the greater chance of leakage. Mr. Rennie was then examined, and stated that the boiler was intended to bear 61b. to the inch, No extra weight was intended to he put on them in this voyage. Steam guages were made, and it was intended to have put them on. They were making experimsuts previous to handing the vessel over to the owner. By the CoßoNin—You had not time to put.on these ;pages ?—No. But it was your intention to have done so ?—Yes. Do you Consider it sZe;ind - i;uat JrCit , r any cir- THE FUNDS. Consols opened at the leaving off quotations of yesterday, 94i for the Account. The Transfer Books being closed for Consols as well as for other descriptions of Stock, no thing has been done in them for Money. Three-and-a Half per Cent. Reduced, 92-4- 93 ; Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 28 30; Bank Stock, 194 195 ; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign Market Spanish A c ti ve i s a s h a d e l ower 201 211 ; Col om bi an 301 3 11 ; Mexi can 251 261 ; Brazilian 79 1 1 ; Dutch Two-and• a-H a lf than the per closing price, 19 Portuguese also 34 ii ; Cents.i i per Cents. 561; Five per Cents. 102 li 103. PRICES OI STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 194 India Sto c k 3 per Cent. Red. 93 2% . Ditto Bonds 3O pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. — , South Sea Stock 3% per Cent _l Old Annuities V'.74 Ditto Red. lO, r, 3 % IUOI New Ditto New 3% per Cent —_ New 5 per Cent. Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 28 26 29 pm . Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 500.. .. ern. Jan. 5, 1961) l4 ,s 27 29 pm ' Ditto Commercial — on Oct. 10, 1859 14 9-16 Ditto Advertised 5-16 i Ditto Small 25 t:9 pm. Jan. 5, 1860. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock tbr Account ... 195 ;, April 5, 1880. India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 91!4 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds lOB 1,4% Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account 34 % 54 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... ..... Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D.tto Account i Ditto A ccount Columbian Bonds— — Ditto Met a lli c Ditto Account_ Ditto Ace/aunt. .......... .19%15' Danish Bonds Ditto Account Passive Columbian Bonds, 1824. .. 31 Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account Defcrred Greek Bends French, 5 per cent lllf. , Ditto Bonds, 1825 -- 4 per cenL ...... —f. — c . Mexican Bonds, 5 per C ent Ditto Account - 3 per cent. -f. —c. Exchange 2sf. 40c. Ditto Account ...... ... ..... —1 Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent 26 5% 6! Ditto Account... ....... ....._ — Ditto Account -- Ditto, 5 per cent...... 1021 % % Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt.............. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share. 1014 4 1 4 16 10 ' 65 73N 4 r Company com p a ny 29 8% Company - . 3 5 0 25%!4 NGE YESTERDAY. AO Hibernian Mining Company Eastern Counties Rai1way,,,,,,.,,,, Great Western Railway Company. 1 Garton and Birmingham Railway Northern and Eastern Railway C( York and North Midland Railway British North American Bank COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam. .............. C.F. 12 5 ditto, at sight ......... 21 , ,, Rotterdam .. U. 12 5 Antwerp... Hamburg. Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 Ditto... .. ........... 3 Dia 25 75 Marseille:. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex,M. 15114 Petcrabuigh, ruble... 3 Us lO% Berlin Vienna, effective M lO ti Trieste ditto .............. 10 7 Madrid 37 Cathy 3734 Bilboa Blrcelona Seville 361,, 10ibraitar ................... ......... 4,5 Leghorn ...................... .30 45 iGenoa ....................... '25 75 Milan...—. .......................... 31 Venice .............................. 47 Naples ........... .................. 40 Pa:errno ~........»..... per oz. 120 Lisbon ....... ...................... 54 Opor'o ....... . ........... . ........... 541 Rio Janeiro ........ ............ 28 Bahia ................................. 27 Buenos New York, 21 days sight 4634 I Philadelphia 4b PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Portugal Gold, c0in....X0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars... Q 0 0 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in Bars HALF PAST ONE. We are without any further arrivals, in consequence of which great dullness prevails both in speculation and com mercial affairs. Consols, which were firm in the early part of the morn ing, have since receded, owing to the pressure of the money market. There are now five packet ships due from New York, viz. Ist, 7th, London, and th e i n f ormat i on t h a t they will bring has been 13th, 19th ult. to Liverpool , and the 10 th to anticipated by the Liverpool steamer. Consols shut. Thr ee - an d- a . Half per Cent; Reduced from 93 to 92 a Consols for the 17th July receded per cent., 94 ; Exchequer Bills 28 26 29, higher ; India Bonds 30 ; Bank Stock 194; India Stock shut. In the For e i gn M ar k et S pan i s h Active, 19i a shade lower ; Portuguese, lower, 34i • Three-and-a- Half per Cents. , 20 ,1-; Colombian, 31 ; Mexican, 26 ; Dutch Two and-a-half per Cents. 36; Five per Cents. 1024, cumstances to g,i; Withciut rtiVe either on an experimental trip, or ally otiier ,journeythink it not prudent to dispense with steam gtiagt 4 t. A great many vessels Kee) without guages—they do so in Scotland, but then they don t put on extra weights. You have had a further exatnination,with Mr. Field, of the Vojer I believe ; and do you concur in opinion with him as to the cause of the boiler bursting?—Yes ; it is passible, the vessel having been In et gale of wind, that the ctiilliney may have given the boiler a list. Did you see the valves opefiel the other day for the purpose of weigh ing?—Yes, I did. Were there any extra weights on them ? —None. Then if there had been any extra weights put on them they had been taken off prior to that time ?—Yes. When were they weighed?—The day befo: e yesterday ; I weighed them myself. There was a pressure of five , and one-third on one of the valves, and six and one-third on the inner valve, which could not be touched. Then you think that in all probability that was the first place that went ?—I think it very possible, that being the weakest part, that gave way first. fliere also only a rent where there was no stay. There was no stay there?—No, because it is the end of the boiler, which is the strong part. Then the boiler gave way in two of the strongest places you could ffnd ?—I think so—one over the fire, and the other near the stay. The CORONER—Is that so, Mr. Field? Mr. Field—Yes, Sir, it is: iCir. Rennie in answer to further questions from the Coroner stated, that he believed the weights were laid on by some of his men, but that it was not by his orders, or with his consent. Co Rol , rEß---Did you object to it? I objected to it twice to several of our people ; and twice I took the weights off myself. A Juror—Was the 281bs. weight on the whole of the time you went to Ramsgate?—l don't know whether it woe on the whole time; I took it off twice myself; but I had not the com mand of the vessel. _ Co KoNF:a-- It is impossible, I suppose, to tell when the bulge in the boiler took place—whether it was on the journey to Ramsgate or back, on the journey to Postsmouth or back, or in the morning of the explosion ?—I think it most have been in the journey to Portsmouth. A Juror—Nearly a fortnight elapsed between the journey to Portsmouth and the explosion. It is possible the steam had not been up between that time. Captain Minton was then examined—Was Master of the Ar chimedes. Was on board the morning of the explosion. The engineers and crew were perfectly sober—knew nothing of the explosion. Mr. Smith proved that the registered owners of the vessel were an Admiral Charles Wollaston of the Albany, Piccadilly ; Mr. Henry Robinson, of the firm of Wright, Robin son, and Co., Banlors ; and Mr. Charles Andrew Caldwell, of Alderney-square. The witness observed that he had heard the evidence of one of the poor men given that morning in the Dreadnought, who stated that he was of opinion that 281bs. was on the valve at the time of the accident, and he wished to state it was not on, and never had been on, excepting when the vessel was under weigh. The weight was put on for the first time on the 2d of May, and had always been used ever since when the vessel was under weigh. CORONER—By whose orders ? Witness—The first time I saw it put on was by Mr. Cameron, en the 2d of May. We were then in Rugby's Hole, going down to Barton Creek. That gave me a sort of authority. I considered that it having once been put on it might be put on again, and that it was safe. The extra weighting took place on our return from Portsmouth, be tween Margate and the Nore lights. We had no steam at all. The steam had not been going for an hour and a half. They could not get up the steam, and the engine fell off from 25 to 23 strokes a minute. CORONER—Then what was the-use of putting on the extra pressure ? Witness—We thought the steam might get up. CORONER—Was that by your order? Witness—lt was, Sir, and I have always been informed the external valve was weighted from 41b. to blb. the inch ; and I always understood the internal vatic was weighted a little heavier. So that with he exttra weight then put on it was not equal to the weight of the internal valve. COROXEn.-But you are not an engineer? Witness—No, Sir. John Cameron, the foreman of the engineers, on being exa mined, said that he never in his life put on the 281 b. weight. It was put on by a number of people, but who they were he could not say. It was not with his sanction or by his order. It ought not to have been put on. This being the conclusion of the evidence The CORONER summed up. From the evidence given on a former occasion, and also from that given by Mr. Field to-day, he thought there was little doubt as to the true cause of the accident. Whether any body could be blamed for it was quite another question, and one of very great importance. He was afraid, however, from the particular circumstances of the explo sion, and the time at which it took place, that they would never be able to arrive at the truth of the cause of it. Whether it tooZ place from the over-weighting on the occasion of going down or coming ter from Margate, or whether it was from the getting up of the steam that morning, and the safety valve then becoming out of order and ofiossioning the explosion, must be left in doubt. It was quite clear the safety valve was out of order—the explosion took place, and the life Of the poor man was lost. It was to be hoped from the state in which the other unfortunate men appeared, that no further bad results would follow. The Jury, however, must come to such a ver dict as would ensure the ends of justice, and tend to prevent oc currences of this sort in future. But he would observe, it was quite clear that the valveshad been improperly weighted. It was most improper for any party who was not an engineer to tamper or meddle with these valves. The engines had been made by Mr. Rennie, a person of high standing and re putation in the profession, and, in his opinion, they had been overweighted in coming rom Margate to London. What the immediate cause of the explosion was—whether it arose from overstraining, or from any other cause, it was impossible now to say. Then the question arose, was the accident owing to the valves being overweighted on the voyage up from Margate. There was No evidence to show that such was the case; but if there was, it might have some influence on the verdict they were to give. He apprehended, under all the cir cumstances, that there could be no verdict of manslaughter against any party; but there was a mode of returning a ver dict with a deodand upon the boiler, by which the death of the unfortunate man had been occasioned. Whether the present case should be marked by any heavy deodand rested with the Jury to determine. But if they thought there was any improper tampering with the boiler then it would be their duty to mark their sense of that by a heavy deodand, which would act as a lesson to the owners of these vessels, and other parties concerned, not to overload the safety valve impro perly so as to endangre the lives of parties employed about the eng nes. The Jury haVing' consulted together for about three quarters of an hour, strangers were re.-admitted into the room. Mr, Espin, as there was a contradiction in the evidence of Mr. Smith and Mr. Cameron, wished to observe that there were parties in the room who could prove that Cameron did put put on the 281 b. weight in the first instance. Tarbot also did the same. The CORONER said it was too late now to produce any further evidence. The Jury then returned a verdict of Accidental Death, with a deodand of 2501. on the boilers. The Foreman said the Jury did not attribute the accident to any wrong construction of the boiler, and that, if it had not been improperly interfered with, the accident would not have occurred. The CORONER concurred in the view of the Jury. the valves had not been improperly interfered with by some person or other, the unfortunate results might not have ensued. Mr. Smith was sure that no man could feel more hurt than himself at the accident that had occurred. His invention was to save life, and it was his having noticed the many accidents that occurred from the great swell of the river, caused by the ordi nary paddle-wheels, that first led him to consider whether some other mode of propelling vessels could not be adopted by which these occurrences might be obviated. Mr. Rennie felt it was his duty to state that he considered no blame whatever could be attached to Mr. Smith. It was stated that a liberal subscription had been entered into on behalf of the widow of the deceasod, and to which the pro prietors had contributed 35/, AN " INGENIOUS" PARSON.—At the close of his sermon, in a beautiful seaside village, a minister of the Gospel of Truth, last Sunday produced a petition against the Government plan of National Education. " The Ministers, my dear hearers (said he), propose to introduce the Roman Catholic Bible into the new schools I ( A shudder of horror ran through the congregation.) Now, I've got here a Catholic Bible, and I will read you a few passages. ( Here the preacher read one or two verses differing from the translation of the received version, though not more widely, perhaps, than the translations of Dr. Adam Clarke, Archbishop Newcome, and others.) Would you like your children (he continued) to be taught from so corrupted and perverted a copy of the Sacred Scriptures ?" Of course, the bamboozled congregation signed the petition with all imaginable alacrity—and the preacher would con sider himself to be a very " ingenious" fellow—superior even to M'Ghee. We will say nothing of his honesty, in cheating the people into the belief that the Catholic Bible was to be a lesson-book for all the scholars. That is a point which the reader can decide for himself.—Gateshead Observer. A GRAVE-DIGGER BURIED ALIVE.--A melancholy and fatal accident occurred at Kintore on Tuesday. The church officer, George Scott, was digging a grave, in which were to be interred the remains of a widow, whose husband had died six years ago. The new grave, which was close by the other one, had been dug about ten or twelve feet deep, and Scott was working in it wheu the large tombstone from the first grave slipped off, and, with a quantity of earth, fell upon Scott. In twenty minutes he was got out, but by that time was dead. The poor man bore an excellent character, and has left a family, but badly provided for. Truly, "in the midst of life we are in death."—Aberdeen Constitutional. MR. O'BRIEN AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.— In a report of the proceedings of a meeting of the County of Norwich Club, published in the Pilot, we see that the members on Saturday, after taking into consideration the address of Mr. William Smith O'Brien, M. P., in reply to the resolution of that body, expressive of a loss of confi dence in him as a public man, and passed at a late meeting of the members of the Club adopted the following resolu tion :—" Resolved—That Mr. William S. O'Brien, M. P., having, in consequence of the resolutions of the club at its last meeting, intimated his intention to resign, and our having consequently asserted the independence of the great majority of the electors of this county, whose con fidence we enjoy, we do now adjourn to Wednesday in the assizes week, and that our chairman do write to Mr. O'Brien to request him to retain his seat in the interim." ABSENCE OF MlND—(Neat, but not imported.) —Brother Jonathan is a cute lad in forgetting things, but the talent is not wholly monopolized by him. We know several friends who are proverbial for forgetting they ever borrow gilt-edged books and silk umbrellas. Last week a defendant pleaded in one of our Courts of Law, that he forgot having drunk two gallons of brandy,—and about a fortnight ago, Mr. John Newman, corn-dealer, of Rayne, having quietly trotted over to Braintree market, put up his horse at the Bell, handled a few samples, drew a few cheques, and then leisurely walked home again, quite un conscious that he ought to have been an equestrian, till he entered his own yard, and was accosted by his man with— " Lawk, master, have you sold your horse ?" What an opportunity for some way-worn traveller to mount old bobbin and forget he never bought him.—Essex Herald. The Naval and Military Gazette says that the following measures have been arranged at the Horse Guards :—The Ceylon Rifle Corps is to be largely aug mented, so as to render two regiments available for service in India. A Colonial Corps is to be formed immediately for service at the Mauritius, which will afford the means of sending one of the regiments now there tolndia. arrangements will cause the recall home of the 16th, 6th, and 55th Regiments in the cou rse of 1840. Arrange ments for corps not proceeding from Australia to Indi a , not having been finally settled, the 50th Regiment is to relieve the 49th in Beng al. We have not heard what regiments are to proceed from Ceylon and the Mauritius to India, but we suppose the 18th and 90th from the former, and the 35th from the latter station. Such is the outline of the proposed measure for the relief of regiments from India, and we hasten to lay it before our readers even in this imperfect form. 14: VENIN G EDITION. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning, in the course of a lengthy summary of last night's debate in the House of Commons, on the subject of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's motion for ex tending the county franchise to the occupiers of ten-pound, yearly value, houses, says :—" Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's short reply did not rally the Radicals from the general rout which they, and through them, the Ministers had sustained in this short but damaging debate; and the division which followed, will indicate to the country with tolerable dis tinctness what opinion the more inNential among the re presentatives of the people, entertain upon the subject of organic change." The Morning Chronicle, after analyzing Lord John Russell's speech in the Commons last night, and observ ing that too harsh a construction was put upon it, g oes on to say, " It is certain, however, that thef.e io hesitation in the Cabinet where there ought to be noirte ; and it is equally certain that the Cabinet which hesitates, or leaves the public in a state of uncertainty with regard ti; its in tentions, cannot long hold together. The first que:cti" which will suggest itself to every consistent Liberal is- -- what end did Lord Melbourne propose to himself by re suming the Government? Is he satisfied with the Duke of Wellington seeing no reason why he ever resigned ? The Queen has evidently been most un fairly used, if, by resuming the Government without adopting the only means by which it can be successfully conducted, her Majesty have been thrown unconditionally into the hands of the Tories. Every person in the empire possessed of proper feelings, and of just and liberal senti ments, must perceive and lament the hardship of her Ma jesty's situation, and ask whether this is the fit return for her magnanimous conduct? Was it proper to advise her Majesty as she was recently advised, and now to abandon her cause in the way it seems now to be abandoned, by at least part of the Cabinet ?" The Morning Post remarks, in allusion to Messrs. Hume's, Warburton's, Ward's, and Wakley's corn mea ts upon Lord John Russell's speech last night in the Com mons :—" The Radicals of the House of Commons are evidently tired of the Ministerial jesuitism. They has e been cajoled by it, or which is in effect the same, they have affected to be so, until they were in danger of being deserted by every partisan of their cause throughout the country who wishes to maintain the character of an honest and sin cere man. The Radical leaders got up one after another, to the number of half a dozen or so, to announce to the forlorn and dejected Ministers that their confidence is gone and their support withdrawn. This would have fixed the doom of the Administration had it not been in effect de termined already by the feeble absurdities of their resolu tions upon the subject of Canada, and their unprincipled and latitudinarian project in relation to the still more im portant subject of national education." The Morning Advertiser observes as follows, on Sir R. Peel's late speech in reply to Mr. Labouchere's announce ment of the Government scheme respecting Canada .-- " We will not at this moment stop to point out the incon sistency of Sir Robert Peel, who pleads for a locus pent tentice in favour of Jamaica, and denies the same accommo dation to the loyal Assembly of Upper Canada. Sir Robert, Sir Robert, this political harlequinade may serve your turn in the House of Commons, with a party whose case need to be put daily in the best aspect which your con summate craft can furnish; but the good people of England will not be so easily. deluded. It grieves us to see you!: powers and accomplishments so degraded and prostituted: The Morning Herald comments in the following strata on the debate that took place in the House of Corn:non last night, on the subj ec t o f Si r H es k et h Fl e etwood's motion :—" Last night witnessed a fierce quarrel betwe en the official Whigs and the leaders of the Whig-Radica ls, , who have, hitherto, with so few deviati o ns i n t o a course t?' independence, obsequiously "paged the heels" of Min i " sters. Last night Lord John Russell tendered his form adhesion adhesion to all the main principles of the Reform Bi ll ' , Last night the leading Whig-Radical Members declare f a , their alliance with the Whigs-proper to be dissolved. any reliance could be placed on the declarations either of the official Whigs, or of the Whig-Radicals, the game °f fraud and hypocrisy which these parties have so s uccess; fully played for four years past, might be assumed to be a t an end. But, unfortunately, no reliance may be place d on the professions and declarations either of the wn l b Ministers or of their Whig-Radical supporters." PERSECUTION IN MADAGASCAR A special General Meeting of the London Missions*? Society was held yesterday at Exeter Hall, Thomas Wril' son, gsq., Treasurer, in the chair. The object of the meeting was to receive six of th(ei Christian natives of Madagascar, who had been compel le to fly from their native land to avoid the cruel persece tie" of their sovereign. The large room was at an early hour densely crowds, with a highly respectable audience, a large proportion of ladies ; the platform was filled with Dissenting ministers and other influential persons, among we observed the Rev' Dr. Vaughan, the Rev. J. Burnet, Rev. R. Young , Rev ' A. Tidman, Sir Culling Eardly Smith, George Bennett, Esq., &c. The proceedings were commenced by singing and prayer from the Rev. Dr. Campbell. The Rev. Mr. FREEMAN, missionary, returned from Madagascar, then then introduced to the meeting the six m an d the Christians, two of them being young women , the remaining four young men. Their appearance cited great interest. They seemed of a fine robust con o f tution, their figures rather below the average heig ht Europeans, the complexion of a deep copper colour? and their hair jet black, as well also their ey es. They were arrayed in flowing white drappery, cording to their national costume. Such of our readers as are curiously inclined may try if they like to spell the names of these christianized Madagascans, which are as follows :—Rafaravavy, Razafy, Rasoamaka, An drianomanana, Ratsarahomba, and Andrianisa. Mr. FREEMAN stated that these persons had been con verted to Christianity by the Missionaries sent from this country to Madagascar. But the Queen of that island having issued a proclamation prohibiting, on pain of death, the speaking, or even thinking of Christ, and many of the native Christians having been accordingly executed, these individuals had been compelled to fly from their native land, and had taken refuge in the Mauritius ' • fora thence they had been sent to the Cape of Good Hof*, and subsequently to England, by benevolent subscription s. Their intention was to qualify themselves as soon 0 possible for the Missionary work, and to return at the first opening to their own country, there to diffuse Cll' tianity. Several impressive speeches were made, to which tb" audience cordially responded. The address of the Rel beforeJ.Bn the meeting Burnet was particularly rti s c e u p la a r r l a y te a d. pplauded. It was four o'elo' THE MARKETS.-(THIS pAY•) EXC. The reports of a COßN rrivals this week re a ANGE small of Pear all t i ot 4 sorts of Corn. The Wheat trade v er y d u ll at ci•ather tions. The quantity of O a t s f or sa l e b e i ng s mall, ot her more money has been obt a i ne d f or thi s ar ti c le. In - Grain no variation. Flour as last reported. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKET° A e . These markets were well supplied, and the demand was "-- rably good ; prices remain precisely as last quoted. CITY FISH MARKET. . 5 , v aried' Supplies good, and so w as th e d eman d : pr i ces little Turbot, 4s. to 15s. ; Cod, ls. 6d. t o B s . ; S o l es , 9d. to per 0 4 ~A; per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3 s . 6d. ; Mackerel, sd. to h' Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 2d. Extract of a letter from Vera Cruz, dated t he e 7th of April, 1839 :—" Th e f or t ress o f S a n Julio e Ulloa was yesterday res t ore d by Ad m i ra l B a udin to the Mexican authorities, and the n a ti ona l fl ag i s a gain hois' thereon." DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-About half-past three o n Tuesday morning a most alarmin g fi re b ro k e out at No. 26, Chapel. street, Grosvenor-place. Police constable Laskci' 65 B, who was on duty in the st ree t, i mme di a tely gave a s elarm, and all the inmates escaped unhurt, with the ex ception of Mr. Macgregor, the landlord of the house, whose hands were severely scorched. Owing to the tions of the police the greatest part of the furniture We 9 saved. The premises, we are happy to say, were iasureus The penny postage, which for years past 118 „, been added to letters and papers to all places without t" - , fortifications of Portsmouth and Portsea, was on Saturday, abolished, and ship letters in future arc not to be subject° to this tax. We have great pleasure in perceiving from ar thee Yorkshire papers that Miss Cooper, the young lady t); vocal acquireotec.ts we have often h a d o ccasion to notice 1 favourable terms, is fulfilling a very successful series of engagements at York, Lecds, &c., where she has app eared in Fra Diavolo and Cinderella with great eclat. 21st p. Died, in Meadow Entry, Dundee, on the d May, John Robertson, a ge d one h u ndred and four t o e w e He was born in England, but, his parents having re in wa s to Morayshire, when he was nine months old , b e arch brought up there ; h e saw P r i nce Ch ar les, CO b' s young to the battle of Culloden, a n d d escr ib e d him a s a as - ed re man of very prepossessing appear a n c e. The decethread a tained his faculties to the last ; he could see t ° needle, and hear the slightest whisper ,ccH s. E THE NEW FLAT GOLD WA I x 7 0 The price in gold cases, with vertical mo v ement ...... Ditto, with well-finished horizontal m o vement, in double-bottomed engine-turned cases, jewelled in 9 9 0 four holes, with silver dial T. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith and Jeweller, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B. fhs Horizontal. Construction is particularly recent" mended for its superior accuracy. B IRTHS. On the °d inst., at Cambridg e-terrace, Hyde-park, Mrs- Charles Wood, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Peckham, the wife of George Tovrgoo d P Esq., of twin sons. On the 4th inst., the lady of William Metcalfe, Esq., ° f Guilford-street, Russell-square, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., in New Cavendish -street, Portland-pla ce ' Mrs. Propert, of a daughter. On the 16th ult., at New York, the lady of George Wilde', Esq., R e gent's-park, of a daughter. MARRJED. On the 2d ult., at Christ Church, Montreal, Edward Jarn e j• now Alaitland, Esq., son of William Maitland, Esq.; ;,,r Exeter, Devon, t o M ary Anne Addison, daughter of IS'ar George Bell, Ist or Royal Regiment. On the 4th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Mr. Edwin Starl.l_elt Hinchliff, North-terrace, Brompton, to Melvinia, eldest daughter o f N athaniel Robarta, Esq., of . On the 27th ult., Charles, youngest son of Henry 1 " °(1 thorpe, Esq., town-clerk of London, aged 23. On the 3d inst., at Brighton, Sir Edmund Knowles Loco/ Bart., of Ormesby, Norfolk, aged 50. ces On the 4th i ns t., a t King's - Parade, Chelsea, Mrs. Fran Osmond, aged 66. On the 4th inst., Mary Anne, the wife of Ur. J. W. Casse ll ' of High-street, Camden-town, aged 23 London: Printed and Published by MURDO 7.11( of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Sirand , '" the county of Middlesex.—Wednesday, June 5, 1 !'