The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

INDIA " COOLIES "-PLANTERS-FREE COLOURED MEN OF JAMAICA! In reply to " Free Black Deputation," say:—At the meeting of the Jamaica Select Vestry of Aristocratic Planters, held yesterday, Captain Ackerley stood ALONE against the sinister 6th and 7th Reso lutions, &c., " for bringing over to Jamaica (West India Islands) the dragooned, rice-fed Black of India, from the stepping-stone island on the coast of Africa ;(Mauritius)," in order to create division in the price of " Planters' " wages (now three shillings per day) for a lower scale of labour to the coloured " Free Blacks" of the Windward and Leeward Islands, &c. ; also tending, at no distant perio:, to bring into collision the two races in warfare, should ex patriation of either coloured population happen. The Captain, as agent (though foiled on behalf) of his coloured 1" friends," had the satisfaction (by dint of reason "on a point of order") of removing Lord Combermere from his "seat" as their select Chairman ; the which "his Lordship" wisely evacuated—to another (Sir A. Grant), under tacit acknowledgment of error, thereby showing, " on princi ple," a screw loose. 5 , Swallow-street, Quadrant, May 22, 1844. GREENWICH PENSIONERS' NELSON DINNER. Notice is hereby given that, in consequence of her Majesty's Com missioners of Woods and Forests having for the present withdrawn their permission to make use of Trafalgar-square for the above pur po.e, the COMMITTEE are reluctantly compelled to POSTPONE TILE DINNER until FURTHER NOTICE. S. LATI3IER, Hon. Secretary. Trafalgar Hotel, Spring-gardens, May 22, 1844. In 3 vols., post Bvo., D'ISRAELI'S " C ONINGS BY ; OR, THE NEW GENERATION," IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. On Thursday, the 30th inst., will be published, 2 vols. Bvo., with Original Portrait, THE LIFE and TIMES of RICHARD the THIRD, as Duke of Gloucester and King of England; in which all the Charges against him aro carefully investigated and Compared with the Statements of the Contemporary Authorities. By CAROLINE A. HALSTEAD, Author of " The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of King Henry VII." London Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signer LABLACHE has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub s3iliers to the Opera, hii Friends, and the Public, that lIIS BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING, May 23, when will be performed Cimarosa's Comic Opera, entitled IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO. Elisetta, Madame Grisi ; Fidalma, Mdlle. Favanti ; Carolina, Madame Persiani ; Paolino, Sig. Mario ; Count Robinson, Sig. 14. Lablache ; and Geronimo, Sig. Lablache. After which, a New Divertissement, entitled LA VIV AN DIERE, introducing the Redowa; or, Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cents and M. st. Leon. To conc;ude with the Grand Ballet of ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will continence at Half.past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF M. SILVAIN. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY 23, Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borraut; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison Devlishoof, Mr. Horncastle ; Arline. Miss Ralnforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Mi , s Betts. After which, other Entertainments. To conclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REVOLT' OF THE HARENI. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, M. Silvain Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlls. Lucile Grahu ; Ze fika, Mdlle. Clara Webster; The Genius of the Harem, Madame Giubilei. Dress Boxes 75., Second Frice Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.. Second Price 3e.; l'it 3s Second Price Qs.; Middle Gallery 2a., Second Price Is. ; Upper dallery Is., Second Price THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE THIS EVENING, MAY t=2, Will be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Vortex, Mr. Strickland; Frank Oatland, Mr. Webster ; Ellen Vortex, Mrs Edwin Yarnold; Miss Vortex, Mrs. W. Cliffordi .lessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, Mr. Planche's Successftd Comcdyof THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. To be followed by a Now, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra vapanza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton and Miss Lee. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE A BSENTEE. Sir Patrick Delany, Mr. Tilbury ; Edward Macarthy (the Absentee), Mr. H Holt; Larty Lurgan, Mr. Leonard; Norah, Miss Julia Bennett ; Katy, Miss Carre. Orchestra Stalls, 58. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, is. Half-price—Boxes 3s. ; Pit, es.; Gallery ,, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commexce at Seyen 'rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 22, Will be performed the DEVIL'S IN IT, in which Mr. Wright and Miss E. Stanley will perform. To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS. To be followed by a Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man I n Search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Wright ; Grosfer, Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper; Madame Pipon, Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with THE SOMNAMBULIST; or, The Village Phantom ; Elvino, Mr. bilbert ; Amina, Miss Bailin. THEAPRE ROY ~. L LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Ferty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audinces THIS EVENING, MAY 22, _ . .... Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled THE WHITE FE A THER. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Collier, Craven, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, MY WIFE'S OUT. Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley. Mr Wigan, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Keeley. To which will be added a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. incipal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, lounge, Mrs. Woollige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin, NiAs Grove, and Miss Fortufeue. To be followed by an Apropos Bzgatelle, called POLK A M ANIA Characters by Mr. F. Mar-hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a G-aal Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha. racteis by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, Alessrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is (id.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit 'Pier (holding six persons), One Guinea. ASTLEY'S ROY A I. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Grand Attraction. Last week of M. Plege, the great French Rope.dancer. lltiS EVENING. MAY 22, Will be repeated the H.stotical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR; or, the Battle of Hastings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change .1 the Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with tl.e Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the ll.ndeo.i of the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been recor.structed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stagean wager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENTING, MAY 22, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. Supported by Messrs. E. F. Saville, and ges, R. Honner, Neville, Va e, Mrs H. Vining, Miss Terrey, Mrs. Lewis. After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conclude with THE THREE THIEVES OF BUCKLESBURY. Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box °thee, from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL OPEN EVERY EVENING. The WIZARD OF IHE NORTH'S New Wonders of Experi mental Philosophy and Natural Magic are the great source of attrac tion As his season advances hew ill prove that he has "no rival ;" in his peculiar art he will support the honour and dignity of the nation which gave bin-. birth. Remember that he performs wonders every evening, which, if only heard of, would never be bel•oved. In addition to his own Extraordinary Performance,, which can have nn parallel in the world, he has other Novelties which wouldfill his Theatre, independent of his Mystic Entertainment. The WIZ A RD is proud to announce that he has engaged (for this week only) The HIGHLAND DANCERS with their PIPERS who had the honour of dancing before the Queen at Taymouth and Dunkeld Castles, during her Majssty's recent visit to the " land o' cakes " hey will nightly appear in full Highland costume and dance their grand National Dances. This will be a Great Treat, as it will convey to the mind a style quite unknown to England. The THREE ARAB BROTHER , will repeat their classical perform ances, which arc nightly received with most rapturous applause. In consequence of the addition to the usual er.tertainments, the Thx )r. open at Half-past Six, and the Performance commence at Eight. lioies, 34.; Pit. ls. 6d.; Galley Ed. Ed. Reserved Scats, and Private Boxes can b e Eecure d a t the lheatre, and of all the Agents. Second Price at Nine o'clock. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEASON, ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, GRAND WHITSUN FETES. ON WHIT.MONDAY,_:ryESDAY. WEDNESDAY, AND - THURSDAY. Strong as have been the claims of this favoured place of public resort at the beginning of each season, the Proprietor feels justified in asserting, that never before did it offer a tithe of the attractions it DOW presents. The Gardens have been completely renovated, Statues and Fountains introduced, new and extensive Promenades formed, and the most lavish expenditure in every department, will evince the l'roprietor's anxiety to insure a continuance of public Patronage. THE NEW GRAND PICTORIAL MODEL OF LONDON IN THE OLDEN TIME Painted by Denson and Telbin, Is the most gigantic achievement ever yet produced, and for grandeur of composition, fidelity of design, and beauty of execution, it far exceeds any previous production. It accurately represents ancient London—Old St. Paul's—Old London Bridge—Baynard's Castle, and all the principal Churches and Buildings of the locality, and may with truth be designated the most wonderful production of mo dern times. THE MENAGERIE, ALWAYS UNRIVALLED, HAS RECEIVED MANY VALUABLE ADDITIONS. To defy all competition, the Proprietor has engaged the celebrated AMERICAN DWARF T,.)31 THUMB! now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The PROMENADE CONCERTS—the splendid Band of Fifty Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey—will perform a selection of the newest and most popular music. The far-famed HIGHLAND DANCERS AND PIPERS are also engaged, and will go through two acts of their National Dances, which procured for them the distinguished approbation of her Majesty and Prince Albert at Taymouth Castle. And at Dusk will take place the most astounding exhibition ever attempted, viz., a Representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Mr. Southby (to whom in justice belongs the appellation of " Fire King") has exhausted the resources of his art, to give effect to this exhibition. London Bridge, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, anti other Buildings will appear devoured by the devastating element, and present a heap of blackened ruins, in accordance with the best delineations taken at the period, and coup d'ceil will give a vivid rel!rewntation of a Great City destroyed by fire. Doors opea at Twelve. Admission, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam ...... CF. 12 6 Ditto, at 5ight......... 12 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Boardeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine Petersburgh, 3Us 361 Berlin 7 Vienna, effet. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste , ditto NE AN - S I'AE P *ct 364 3611 's a z o -- elona •' - ' le - i' '`,-F . s• ••—•' -~::~ IMPTA. • ONE SHILLING Adm Oß ission N T NOTICE to TILE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CIiMILES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOINS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year,. by the Royal nuttily, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost i ncredible number and variety of Nrs".3., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other entio3ities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ou g ht to he, a National Museum. 1113 thousand have insp ec t e d i t, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL. EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admix_ lUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian glen is re , du r ce o d L t E o o o;l 3 , ; SHILLING. The NAPOLEON Hall," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. NGE.—(YESTERDAY. Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa 25 90 Milan Venice 47 Naples • 39 Palsrmo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 534 Oporto 534 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold, bars E 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9; Silver in Bars 0 4 11 he model ship, intended for the practice of the i n front of the Royal Ilovital Schools, at Greenwich, is completed, and painted ag as to become a real ornament. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, MAY 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 63; Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 30.26.—Wnw, N. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 40 minutes after 4 I Evening ... 7 minutes after 4. anarchy. He makes no reference to the stringent necessity that exists for a more extended system of public education ; he says nothing about that which should be uppermost in the mind of an expounder of the gospel of charity—namely, the amelioration of the condition of the poor and destitute by increasing their means of comfort and happiness, and diminishing the number and pressure of their physical wants ; but confines his episcopal attention exclusively to the question of " more Church." This is the sole burden—the alpha and omega of his song. More Church is associated in his mind with everything that is important—nay, indispensable to the welfare of the masses. Give them this, and you give them all that is necessary for their temporal happiness here,:and their spiritual happiness hereafter ; deprive them of it, and leave matters in stain quo, and you run the imminent hazard of engendering a state of things whose in evitable result must be, at no distant period, general anarchy. Now, more Church is no doubt a very good thing in its way, and we are far from wish ing to underrate its importance; but, .with the Bishop's permission, we shall take leave to say that it is by no means so in fallible or comprehensive a specific as he would have us suppose it. is. It is a portion—and a small portion only—of a national remedy. It may come in - aid of other remedial measures, and be a very useful auxiliary to them; but of itself, it is but a scant, inefficient specific. Cheap, homely, practical education is the first great want of the untutored and benighted masses ; and to give more Church the pre cedence of this, is literally to put the cart before the horse, and to begin at the wrong end of a remedial system. But Churchmen either will not—or cannot be brought to see this. Like the currier who was constantly crying out that there was " nothing like leather," priests, whether high in autho rity or not, are incessantly exclaiming that there is nothing like " more Church." This is grievous, though no doubt well-intentioned, pedantry, and is ill calculated to make an impression on any but the thoughtless, weak-minded, superficial portion of the community. As regards the Bishop of LONDON'S particular supplications for more Church, it is, we suspect, by no means prompted by such disinterested motives as might be imagined; for the more numerous the churches that are built within his diocese, the greater of course will be the extent of his patronage, which to an ambitious nature is a matter of paramount interest. If, for instance, fifty mere religious structures are erected within the metro polis and its suburbs, the ghostly prelate will of course have the presentation to fifty additional appointments; hence in assisting to swell the popular cry for " more Church," he is—possibly quite unconsciously—assist ing those views of patronage which are always so agreeable to the nature of an active and aspiring Churchman. On Monday evening Sir ROBERT PEEL obtained the concurrence of the House of Commons in those resolutions and principles, to be affirmed in connexion with the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of Eng land, which he opened in his speech of the 6th instant. That these " resolutions " were unanimously passed —that is, without any division being called for upon one of them—is to be taken (many will presume) as an indication of the conviction entertained by the House that they were sound in principle, well digested, logically demonstrated, and proper to be immediately adopted. However natural such an inference would be, from the facts of the case, we must deny that it would itself be justified. by those facts. All questions connected with the examination of our monetary sys tem, the machinery of banking, in connexion with the condition of the currency, the standard of value, the merits of a metallic, paper, and mixed and paper me tallic circulation, &c., are distasteful to the majority of the House. The lamentably defective extent of that education (so far as the practical business of the public is concerned) with which young men of family or fortune usually quit our Universities, just before entering upon their Parliamentary career, leaves them almost utterly disqualified for the discussion of great economic questions and the general operations of our fiscal policy. The older Members, especially those who are accustomed to look up with a species of deferential respect for all that is uttered upon official authority, seem to consider it bad taste to in tervene, in the way of objection or opposition, to any propositions that are regularly brought forward and enunciated by the head of a department. The fright• ful heresy of bearding with a doubt the acknow ledged lucubrations of a Prime Minister is a heresy they have never even contemplated. The best judges upon such questions—practical men, well versed and extensively experienced in all the bearings of them, are generally too diffident of the value of their opi nions—too wanting in the confidence they might justly entertain of their power to give expression to theory— to enlighten the mind of Parliament on a Premier's deficiencies and mistakes. There are few, indeed, who can handle such topics like Mr. CHARLES WOOD, for example, of whose speech, notwithstanding we dissent from much of its doctrine, it is impossible not to speak with the respect due to its general research, and well digested statistics. The exception supplied by. this gentleman, however, will not affect the general application of the reasons we are endeavour ing to assign for that almost unbroken acquiescence and response with which the speech of the Premier was received. Yet the speech of Sir ROBERT, on Monday, was about the most pedantic and egotistical effort that the Right Hon. Baronet has yet made, in his most ex cathedra lecturing on the Currency. It was, as we shall presently show, full of the feeblest wavering in its statement of purposes, and the most blank contra dictions which were, perhaps, ever collected to gether in so many consecutive sentences of a set speech, visibly prepared and arranged with unusual care. It was so illogically reasoned, moreover (a defect, of -which, if we may judge from certain phrases that escaped him, he was him self very conscious), that the application of his able argument, from derangement of issues, was infinitely stronger and more immediate to show the dangerous and unmanageable character of a metallic, than that of a paper circulation ; and to prove that the powers which he would take from the joint-stock and private banks of issue, in order to transfer them to the Bank of England, would work now more safely and beneficially in the hands of the former than they have been found by experience, or can be calcu lated from analogy, to operate under the administra tion of the latter. The speech divided itself into two branches.; the one relative to the Bank of England, the other relative to the joint-stock banks and private banks of issue. We shall confine ourselves, on the present occasion, to the former. lie re-stated his plan, as detailed on the 6th : " The House would recollect, when he proposed this plan, that ho suggested to the House that it might be desirable that the Bank of England should make its issues upon securities and upon bullion • that the issues upon securities should be limited to 14,000,000 L, and the remainder of the issues of the Bank taking place on bullion alone, the amount of that additional circulation being beyond the 14,000,0001. being subject to the influence upon the exchanges and the action of the Government." He avowed that upon subsequent reflection and inquiry he had found nothing to change these views. But this difficulty had been propounded to him, and he had been asked how he would deal with it : " Supposing, for instance, the country circulation to amount to 8,000,0001., and in consequence of failures or volun tary agreements with the Bank, that circulation should be diminished to 4,000,0001. In that case it would be quite necessary that the Bank, in order to supply the void which would be thus created, should issue Bank of England notes ; and that issue should, in point of fact, take place on securities." Well ; this Minister, who has declared that he has nothing to alter or retract in what he had said on the 6th instant, proceeds, without further pause, in these words : "He proposed originally that the Bach should not be per mitted to increase its issues upon securities, excepting after communication made to the Government, and with the con sent of three members of the Government." Here is a pretty distinct contradiction. It can only not be such, on one assumption ; namely, that in the first instance he had never thought of such a contin gency as that on which he is now about to legislate, in the very teeth of his address of the 6th instant. But he goes on to explain that this contingency was then in his mind : " lie did not reserve that power of increasing the issues upon securities from any distrust of the great principle which he had laid down ; or in order to meat any imaginary con tingencies, but he proposed it in order bona fide to meet that particular case—namely, the cessation of certain banks of issue, other than the Bank of England, to supply the country with their own notes." We have heard of young ladies coying with their lovers ; and young poets coying with their muses. But, for a genuine example of the " I would and I would not" flirtation of a Prime Minister with a " resolution" commend us to Sir ROBERT'S airy in consistency! It is at the same time a little scan dalous, we rotest, in a man of his years and gravity, to indulge in the license of such unrestrained " Macheatlism," as this—in his inglorious con fession of " iow happy could I. be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." He has just been cajoling his Polly—we mean his "great principle"—of " NOT permitting the Bank to increase its issues Ton securities, except on communication with the Gwernment, and the consent of three of its members." In an instant the faithless Baronet is toying witl his. Lucy—we mean, the other " great principle" chat the Bank should not be required to invoke the interference or authority of the Govern ment at all. Thus, he begins with an insinuating qualificatioK— "At the same time, on reconsideration of that part of the plan, he thdrght it would be advisable, if possible, to pre vent all interference with this matter on the part of the Exe cutive Government, or the representatives of the Executive Government." .. Very god. And now, perhaps, the reader sup poses that the Proteus meaning of this man's mind is settled. Nat a-bit of it! "And yet tlt the same time he did not think it would be ad visable to give the Bank the absolute power by law to in crease its circulation upon securities in certain cases; for he was not quite clear, even were there to be a void on account of the withdrawal of other circulation. that it would follow, as a matter of course, that there ought to be an increase of issue on further securities." Then he goes on to a little more philandering, bewildering creatures of his own mind; and finally pulls up with this homage to his first love—the "Polly" of his little operetta—for whom he once more hands back the Bank of England to the controlling powers of the Government : " The recital of these causes in the'preamble would show the intention And opinion of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He proposed that the Bank, in case it should desire to make an ►ncrease of ism on securities, should not be permitted to do so except on application to the executive Government, and permission should be given by her Majesty in Council ; such consent of her Majesty in Council, authorising an additional issue, to be published immediately in the London Gazette." - - Having unburdened our minds by thus forewarn ing our readers of the very contradictory and waver ing character of the Right Hon. Baronet's announce ment of his propositions, we shall discuss the bearing and tendencies of the letter on another occasion. Madrid journals of the 14th have been received, but they bring no intelligence of the slightest interest. The Three per Cents. somewhat improved on the 14th. They closed at 27 1 for cash, and 28 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 194 for casb, and 20i at 60 days. The principal topic of discussion in the Paris papers of Monday is the relative strength of the English and French navies; and, thanks to the Prince DE JOIN VILLE, the writers in these journals begin at last to take something like a rational view of the subject. The Con stitutionnel, the organ of M. TRIERS, who during his brief Ministry had brought England and France to the very brink of war, makes remarks in which every friend of peace and humanity will concur. " GOD forbid," it says, " that we should desire a war with England„ In our opinion, of all the sanguinary conflicts which are possible in Europe, none would be more contrary to the great interest of civilisation than a war between England and France. But even in peace force is the guarantee of freedom, and our free dom is at the same time that of all nations." The same sentiment pervades the mind of every reasonable man in this country. We have no wish for war with France, and instead of looking with jealousy or envy on her exertions to place her navy in a proper condition, and maintain her just rank in the scale of nations, Eng lishmen only regard such policy as her bounden duty, and as a guarantee- for the peace of the world. That journal thus concludes its remarks on the pam phlet published by the Prince :—" May the warn ing of the Prince DE JOINVILLE be heard and under stood by all France. But, be this as it may, the sincere friends of the country will retain a profound gratitude towards the young Prince for the courage with which he speaks severe but useful truths. We hope our navy will profit by it. On seeing what passes, and how all things are managed, is it not to be desired, for the public welfare, that every Minis terial department should have its Prince DE Join- VILLE ?" The Siecle also pays the Prince a high compliment " The pamphlet," it states, " has produced all the effect which the author might have anticipated, and will exercise a serious influence on the approaching debate on the budget. It must be admitted that the principal ideas.. developed in this work two not quite new, nor coned they be so, for several years since some eminent men devoted themselves to the study of the changes to be effected in our maritime armaments, and the application of naval tactics to steam-ships. It must be acknowledged, however, that nowhere have they been explained with so much precision, clearness, and force, nor supported by so many proofs. Some of those ideas may be contested, but it is cer tain that, in the.note attributed to the Prince DE JOIN-. VILLE, they are brought forward with a persuasive con viction, and they have assumed, for the first time in this note, the character of a scientific demonstration. It is possible that the Prince may have committed some errors of fact, but there will always remain in our eyes considerable merit, a vast fund of truth and candour which is never unmeasured, but which pro ceeds direct to its object, and which respects no pre judice—in fine, a sentiment of nationality which is exalted at the name of France, which is wounded by what wounds the nation, and which without affecting either hostility or disdain for foreigners, fears not, at least, to show itself." The rabid remarks which appear from time to time in the National on the subject we adverted to yesterday, and shall not recur to them. The Government papers have given short extracts from the work, but without any comment. One thing is clear. The statements made by the Prince will give an exciting interest to the debate on the navy estimates, which commences this day, and make the Chamber vote every sum, however large, demanded by the Government. The death of Admiral LALANDE was announced in the Chamber on Tuesday. He commanded the Mediterranean fleet in 1840. The Augsburgh Gazette contains the following extract of a letter from Naples, relative to Royal marriages : "The Duke de Montebello has opened negotiations with the Court of the Two Sicilies, and has lately taken repeated excursions to Casserta. The object is believed to be a mar riage between the Duke d'Aurnale and the Princess Maria Carolina, sister to the King of Naples, whose hand has been also demanded for the Duke de Bordeaux, a projected union which would be thus defeated, and for the promotion of which, a letter from Friuli says, the elder branch of the house of Bourbon has actually sent off an ambassador. Then 'comes the proposed alliance between Queen.lsabella of Spain and the buke de Trapani, which is not yet re nounced." The French Funds still continue firm. On Mon day the Three. per Cents. closed at 84f. 60c., and the Fives at 122 f. 15c. THE BOURSE-MONDAY, MAY 20. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five por Cents ...... i 22 05 • • 122 05 .• 121 • . 122 Four-and-a-Half ... • 112 . • 112 • • 112 .. 112 Three per Cents... • . 84 45 . • 84 55 • • 84 45 .. 84 55 Bank of France ..... .......3100 •• 3100 ••3100 •• • 3100 Latlitte Bank, 5,000 f. 6haressl62 50 —5162 50 .. 5162 50 • •5162 50 Belgian Fives, 1810 ........ 106 • • 106 •• 106 . • 106 1842 •...•... 108} • 1081 • • 1081 1081 Spanish Threes 354 354 351 • • 354 Passive 6, • • 6 • • 6 • • 6 Dutch Fives 100 100 100 100 Neapolitan •. • • • .. 102 35 .• 102 45 .• 102 35 • • 102 45 Roman, ex div.... .. .. 1041 .. 1041 .• 1041 . • 104/ RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ••• 815 820 815 • • 820 Versailles, R.B. L. 8..• .......... 250 •• 250 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 Ronan . lOOO ..1000 • • 995 .. 995 Rouen to Havre. •• • • °r l eans •• • • • •• •• •• •• •• —.1005 —lOlO ..1000 ..1005 Strasburg to Bale.. 266 25 • • 266 25 .• 260 • • 261 25 krignoli "to .. 765 .. 767 50 • 767 50 .. 767 50 RAILWAY SHARES. FOR Till ACCOUNT. St. Germain Ver.allles, R. 8... :L.B 250 .. 251 25 •• 245 .. 245 Rouen .. . Rouen to Havre 762 50 .. 766 25 • • 757 50 .. 766 25 Orleans • lOO2 50 —lOlO • •1000 .0006 25 Strasburg to Bale 265 •-• 266 25 .. 258 75 .• 260 Avignon to Marseilles.— 766 25 .. 766 25 .. 762 50 .• 765 DEATH FROM LOCK JAW.—Mr. Joseph Payne, Deputy Coroner for London, held an inquest last evening . at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of John. Maguire, aged thirty years, whose death occurred under the following circumstances :—lt appeared in evidence that the deceased was a horsekeeper, in the service of Mr. Turner, a cab pro prietor, of Mount-pleasant, Gray's Inn-lane. On the 7th in ' stant he Sold algal. of manure to a countryman, who filled his cart so full that his horse could not draw it out of the yard, when deceased and another man attempted to assist by pushing the wheels. While thus engaged the horse made a sudden plunge, and the back of deceased's hand was caught on a hook fixed on one side of the cart. The flesh was lace rated a good deal, and deceased got the wound dressed by Mr. Brydges, a surgeon, of Euston-street, under whose care he continued for several days. On the 15th instant he first complained of pains in the jaw, and said he had a difficulty in closing his mouth.. By the advice of his wife he then ap plied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was admitted on Thursday last. Eveiy attention was shown to the de ceased, notwithstanding which the unfavourable symptoms increased, and he died on Sunday morning, about three o'clock, from Me - effects or tetanus, or lock jaw.--verdict accordingly. 4_,T 4 i,_,,,.„.: , _J Nti6,7 41 11 *‘ . •` * (6.,17,..• ' V:Igr,WP. . I .A. ‘i,"'',•, ~ , 4 .00°: , ":7111t.,:, dr M° S ',,...,.. "I''' ~DROIT ik . INna. .I,,`,: s ' DIE V 41 I 01 , ..'" 4P,-, .J.T.,4744' I, SECOND EDITION.. entn iun; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1814. Lord BROUGHAM brought a Bill into the House of Lords, to amend the laws relating to imprisonment for debt. Lord BEAUMONT moved for copies of the corre spondence which had taken place between the British Government and the British Consul at Tunis, relative to the trial of a Maltese for murder. He considered that a most unwarrantable interference had been shown by the French Consul at Tunis. If such interference was tolerated by this country, the trade of England along the Barbary coast would soon be at an end. Lord ABERDEEN said he had no objection to lay the correspondence before the House. The offence to which those papers referred was a cold-blooded mur ler ; and the course which her MAJESTY'S Govern nent had pursued was in accordance with existing reaties; but he thought the question ought to be left to the respective Governments interested in the ' - matter. No business of . the slightest interest took place in the House of Commons. Mr. PETER. BORTIIWICK moved for a Committee of Inquiry into the operation of the Anatomy Act; and while he was speaking, some Member moved that the House be counted, and there being only thirty-one Members present, the House adjourned at Half-past Five. The accounts of the canvass for the free trade can didate in South Lancashire are cheering, but it would be premature to prouounce upon the chances of success. Whatever may be the result, the free traders are certain of gaining one important advan tage—accurate knowledge of their friends and their enemies. If any who have hitherto professed them selves zealous advocates of the Liberal cause are found paltering with monopoly—and we know not whether there are any—it will be advantageous to the future progress of the League to have their masks taken off, their false pretences exposed, and their avowed enmity substituted for the mockery of friend ship. On the other hand, those who have hitherto stood aloof, or who, from party connexions, have op posed the popular cause, but who are now found ready to join in the efforts made for the emancipation of industry and the abolition of restrictions on food, deserve to be received and regarded as friends, and the gratitude which is their due may be safely looked upon as extending beyond the present election. The day of retribution to deserters, and of reward to ad herents, cannot, in the course of things, be very distant. Free trade belongs to no party, it is neither Tory nor Whig ; and may therefore be exposed to the avowed hostility of the one party, and the secret en mity of the other ; but no consideration of temporary support, no hopes of victory by an alliance based on compromise, should induce the free traders to swerve for a moment from the course which they have hi therto pursued. The League must put forth all its strength—every member of that body should feel that he has a personal interest in the struggle; and every free trader of South Lancashire should look upon himself as individually pledged to the country for the assertion of sound principle. There must be no waverers—there must be no regard paid to the omi nous shaking of heads on the part of men hackneyed in electioneering, who fear that their craft is in dan ger. There must be no heed paid to the whispers of disappointed placemen, or of aspirants to office who may wish to regain power by the people, without the slightest intention of using it for the people. This election is peculiar in its character; like that at the time of the Reform Bill, it places in issue one fixed and definite principle, and must be kept free from all other associations. It is gratifying to find that free traders have a candidate of such eminent personal claims as those of Mr. BROWN—the first merchant in the greatest mart of the civilised world. But the principle which he represents is so infinitely more important than the individual, that the man is alto gether lost in the cause. We shall not imitate some of our Contemporaries, and enter into a comparison of the respective merits of the rival candidates; we shall not weigh Mr. ENTWISTLE and Mr. BROWN in our balance ; we see nobody and nothing in the con test but monopoly on one side and free trade on the other. South Lancashire has to decide whether it will re tain restrictions on its own industry, shackles on its own energies and a corroding canker on its own prosperity ; or whether it will have free scope for the skill, enter prise, and intelligence by which alone it can retain the proud position to which it has been elevated by the continued exertion of these noble qualities. South Lancashire has to decide between the markets of the world open to its productions, or those markets closed to starve its operatives, for the pleasure of Buckingham squires and West Indian proprietors of sugar. South Lancashire has to decide between itself and those by whom its name has been studiously maligned, its interests ostentatiously sacrificed, and its wealth haughtily threatened with annihilation. The electors have to choose between everything which men ought to hold dear, and every thing which men ought to hold in detestation. It was said by our Divine Master, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to the dogs;". but every elector of South Lancashire who votes for a monopolist virtually takes the bread from his own children to feed the hounds of titled monopolists ; he starves the cottage in one county to supply the kennel in another. Never was there a contest in any electoral district where "life and death, blessing and cursing," were so clearly set before the voters ; great will be their honour if they choose aright, but still greater their disgrace if they abandon their duty to themselves and to their country. We direct the attention of our readers to a peti tion from Manchester, printed in another column, on the subject of reform of the Universities of Ox ford and Cambridge. Mr. CHRISTIE'S motion on this important subject, which was deferred the other even ing, is to be brought on to-morrow. 'We are informed that the Manchester petition has been drawn up by Professor NEwmari, of Manchester College, (the learned translator of " HunEa's English Universi ties"), Dr. VAUGHAN, and Mr. JAMES HEYWOOD ; and among the signatures, which we have not space to print, are those of Mr. HYDE GREG, the late Member for Manchester, Professor KENRICK, and the 11ev. Dr. BEARD. The Church Extension Society held its annual meeting yesterday in St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square. As might have been expected, there was a pretty numerous gathering of Churchmen present on the occasion, and among them was the Bishop of LONDON, who, in allusion to the necessity of new churches, which he said existed in the metropolis and elsewhere, remarked—" In the metropolis alone there was an annual increase in the population of about thirty thousand persons, and unless something were done to afford spiritual instruction, there would spread throughout the land a spirit of anarchy which would shake the whole framework of s c o o c n i t e r L i y. butioTnshey ,f r w w e r h e i c entitled m t o rrecei veurgent appeal r increased pea must be made than that which has yet gone forth from that Society ; and if they should fail, they must look forward to the decay and downfal of everything they held sacred. It was the duty of every minister of a church to impress this truth on his hearers, and to urge the importance of attending to the spiritual welfare of the poorer classes." The true professional instinct betrays itself in every sen tence of the above passage. More Church aap pears, in the estimation of the Bishop, to b e land avpanacheea p fo r r omp e t v l e y ryeoenvivi.ed liandwiuth, he antici pates unless this de : pates nothing confloion short of gen er al THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1844. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tiublit Optitton, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Saturday the King and the Queen of the French enter tained a select party at the Palace of Neuilly. The Spanish Ambassador, the Marquis de Viluma, was among the com pany. The Toulonnais publishes a letter from Constantina, May 5, containing details of the affair with the Kabyles, of which we have already given an account. It appears that the com bat lasted for more than two hours, and that the Duke d'Aumale, who behaved with extraordinary courage and sangfroid, had his horse wounded under him. The weather at Paris had become exceedingly cold, and much rain had fallen. On Friday afternoon, about four o'clock, a violent gale of wind suddenly came on from the north-east, and excited great alarm at Dieppe for the pleasure and fishing-boats that were out at the time. One of the fishing-boats made an at tempt. to enter the harbour, but the tide being at low ebb, it struck the ground, and was upset. Immediate assistance was sent out, and three out of the four men who manned her were taken out of the water. Of these the master of the boat only could be restored to life. The body of the fourth could not be found. On the Bth inst. twelve persons were killed at Saragossaby the explosion of a powder-mill near one of the gates of the town. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a discussion took place on the Nismes and. Montpelier Railway Bill, and there was no doubt the Bill would be passed. On Friday the journeymen bakers of Paris, after a solemn mass, celebrated at the church of Notre Dame des Victoires, in honour of St. Honors, their patron saint, went in procession through a great part of the capital, preceded by a band of music, and escorting a canopy, carried by four of their body, on which lay an enormous cake. A carriage bore the Queen of the Feast. The public will regret to learn that Tamburini is a sufferer, to the large amount of 250,000 francs, by the failure of Caccia, the banker. The tribunal of Correctional Police, on Friday, gave judg ment in an action of libel, brought by M. Hortensius St. Albin, Judge of the Tribunal of the Seine, and Deputy for the Sarthe, against M. Fleurist, responsible editor of the Union, a Sarthe journal. The Court decided that the charges were proved, and condemned the defendant to eight months' imprisonment, and 1,000 francs fine, making him also liable to the payment of the costs. The Barcelona journals of the 15th are filled with details of the preparations making for the reception of the Queen. " The Consuls of France, England, and the Two Sicilies," says the Imparcial, " are keeping lodgings ready for the Ambassadors of their respective Courts. Mr. Bulwer, it ap • pears, is to take up his residence at Gracia." The Correctional Police on Friday condemned M. Can tagrel, the responsible editor of the Democratic Pacifique, to 25f line, and 100 f. damages, for a libel against M. Granier 'de Cassanac, principal editor of the Globe. In a cross suit, also for libel, the Court declared M. Cautagrel's complaint to be ill-founded. MAW AND POLICE. A curious account of a Chinese lottery appears in the Man sion-House report. In referring to it, Sir Peter Laurie said, " I am actually tired of cautioning the public against the various plans by which money is wheedled out of their pockets. Every day produces new dupes, who venture with their eyes open into all sorts of snares. In this case the com plainant has certainly put a period to the existence of this Chinese lottery by the exposure he has given it here." At Guildhall, Michael Doring, a lad apparently under 20 years of age, was charged with having stolen an immense quantity of papers relating to the Spanish and Portuguese Active and Passive Stock, the property of Messrs. Ricardo, in Angel-court, 'Throgmorton-street. After the evidence had been heard, Mr. Alderman T. Wood said the case was clear; but one of the Messrs. Ricardo must identify the property, and for this purpose the prisoner was remanded to Saturday. Benjamin Edwards, a youth of about 18 years of age, in the service of W. 11. Marley, cheesemonger, &c., Great Tichfield-street, was, together with Mary Ann Harris, placed at the bar, the first charged with having robbed his muster of various articles, and the latter with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. The prisoners were committed for trial. - At the Hammersmith Police-court, John Whitaker was charged with having violently assaulted and beat his own mother. The prisoner, who formerly filled a responsible situation in one of the public offices, had by his bad habits lost his situation about three years since, and had subsequently been supported by his aged mother, who keeps a lodging house for respectable ladies, at Notting-hill. This was his fourth appearance at this Court, for violent conduct towards and assaulting his mother. On Monday night he went to the house, and created such a disturbance that some of the ladies quitted the house, and his mother trying to prevent him, he knocked her down. Mr. Paynter ordered him to find bail, himself in 401., and two sureties in 20/. each, to be of good behaviour for six months. COUIZT—rasnxoNAELE. The Duke of 'Wellington is expected to leave Apsley House on Saturday for Strathfieldsaye, where his Grace will enter tain a few select friends, during the Whitsun recess. The Duke of Portland, who has been indisposed at Wel beck Abbey, is considerably better. The Dowager Countess of Essex will open her mansion in Belgrave-square, on Thursday evening, with a series of amateur theatrical performances. The newly-appointed Secretary at War, Sir T. F. Fre mantle, is a Baron of the Austrian Empire, the late Baronet, who particularly distinguished himself at Copenhagen and Trafalgar, having been so created by the Emperor Francis I. in 1816, which title Sir Thomas received permission to inherit by sign manual, in 1822. Lord Cowley will give a grand dinner on Friday at the Embassy in Paris, on the occasion of the Queen's birth-day. Lord Garvagh has entered the army as Cornet, in the Tenth Hussars. IWISCELLA.NEOIIB. The Apothecaries Hall has just issued a report of its pro ceedings since 1815, when penal enactments were passed against any unlicensed person practising. From the report, it app..ra, that from August, 1815, to January, 1844, there were 18,564 applicants for admission, of whom 1,531 were re jected, and 10,033 admitted. In the years 1836-7, the appli cations were 622, which in 1842-3 were reduced to 396. The report stated that the Hall had succeeded in almost every prosecution against unqualified practitioners, and that each prosecution cost 3201. The first anniversary meeting of the West London Church Missionary Society was held on Tuesday at the Hanover square Rooms. The Chair was taken by Lord Howard, M.l'., and among the company present were the lion. William Cowper, M. P., and the Hon. Captain IValdegrave, R.N. It appeared from the report that the Society had 95 stations in different parts of the globe; of that number seven were in North and West America ; eight in the West Indies ; 24 in India; 13 in Western Africa, and 20 in New Zealand. There are 104 ordained missionaries ; nine native and country-born missionaries, also ordained ; 55 catechists and lay agents, and 1,075 teachers, natives who were country born ; making a total of 1,243 persons entirely supported by the Society. A meeting of the planters, merchants, and others inter ested in the British West India colonies, was held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, for the purpose of petition ing the Legislature against any reduction being made is the duties upon sugar, coffee, and cocoa, which shall "not embrace similar reductions in the British West India productions. Several speeches were made on the occasion, and resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting adopted. The Eton Montem is fixed to take place on Tuesday next, the 28th inst., and not on Wednesday, the 29th, as has been stated. GREAT FOOT RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The long talked-of and anxiously looked-for great pedes trian match between George Bradshaw, of Hammersmith, and B. Butler, of, Hanwell, came off yesterday at Smitham Bottom. Both men are great favourites with the public, and may be assuredly looked upon as the two greatest pedestrians of this or of any antecedent period. Bradshaw signalised himself a few months ago in a match of twenty-five miles with the celebrated Robert Fuller, whom he defeated, after a struggle never surpassed, and in which his speed; style, and unflinching game were so fully established, that his friends selected a customer for him in the person of Butler, who had within three years beaten all before him. Butler's party were nothing loth, and a deposit was made which was forfeited by the sudden illness of Bradshaw. He, however, soon mended, and after some short time spent in arranging the amount of stake and distance, the race of yesterday for 50/. aside to walk twenty:five miles was agreed upon. Both men went into active training, and at the various deposits made from time to time considerable sums were laid out at even. Butler had never before been engaged in a twenty five mile race, and therefore his time at that distance was unknown to the public, while Bradshaw had on the other hand accomplished it, in his race with Fuller under four hours (a short mile we admit), otherwise, consider ing the enormous disproportion in the men, the odds might have been considerably in favour of Butler, whose time at twelve miles was known or generally presumed to be less than his opponent's. The assemblage of spec tators on the ground was immense, and included many good sporting men. Shortly after two o'clock the pedestrians made their appearance, and a greater disparity between rival walkers we never remember to have seen. Butler is about six feet two, and a very powerful man with it, while his op ponent does not appear to exceed five feet eight, and is very thin and spare; it was what in sporting phraeseology might be termed " a horse to a hen." The men did not get away until half-past two, when they effected a very beautiful start, and although the race inflicted a very severe disappointment upon the multitude who had travelled so far to witness it, the early part was evenly and beautifully contested. For the first eight and a half miles the men were shoulder and shoul der, with the exception of a trifling spurt or so, of which the first two miles were done in seventeen minutes, and the six miles in fifty -three minutes. The greatest excitement prevailed on all hands. It was considered to be anybody's victory, and money was being laid out from the seventh to• the eighth mile very freely. After turning the eighth mile, it was evident to those acquainted with such matters that Bradshaw was giving Ivy, and before their arrival at the ninth mile-stone he relaxed his speed, and Butler went a-head. From this moment it looked, and was, a dead cer tainty. Butler increased his advantage in every step, and in the fifteenth mile Bradshaw, having struggled on until then with a violent pain in the side, as it was declared, re signed. Butler took it very comfortably the remainder of the distance, and completed the twenty-five miles in four hours and a half. He had been trained by the great and highly respectable pedestrian, Temperance, who officiated upon him during the race. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. . 13atanToN, MAY 21.—The Government Commissioners ap pointed to select a site for the erection of a harbour, or a harbour of refuge, on the coast, arrived in Brighton on Saturday, from Newhaven, and after passing one night at the Albion Hotel, proceeded to London the next day. The de putation, which consisted of Admiral Sir Howard Douglas, Admiral Sir Byam Martin, Admiral Dean Dundas, Lieut.- Colonel Alderson, R.E., Sir J. H. Pelly, Mr. Robert Raikes, Captain Sir W. Symonds, Lieut. Colquhoun, Lieut. Westma cott (Secretary), Captain Fisher, and Captain Washington, were landed at Eastbourne on Friday from the Blazer steam packet. The deputation left Eastbourne in carriages early on Saturday morning, and proceeded along the coast as far as Mr. Catt's Tide Mill, near Seaford, when they alighted, and walked along the beach to Newhaven Pier, from which they embarked on board the Blazer, which lay to in the har bour. After taking a survey on the bay they landed on the pier, and proceeded to the Bridge Inn. Evidence as to the propriety of erecting breakwaters from Woolnore, to the westward of Newhaven Piers, and from Seaford Head to the eastward, was taken from Sir Henry Shiffner, Captain Cole, Mr. William Stevens, Lieut. Franklyn, and the Commander of the Lively cutter. The examination occupied between four and five hours, and was strictly private ; but we under stand that the deputation were much struck with the natural advantages of the bay, of which they had ocular demonstra tion during their stay ; for owing to the prevalence of a ( strong north-easterly wind, 25 vessels, wind bound, had taken refuge in the bay. From all that has transpired, there is strong reason to believe that Seaford Bay will be one of the spots selected by Government for a harbour of refuge. The deputation is expected to return to Brighton, to embark on board the Blazer, and proceed to Portland Roads and Plymouth. THIS DAY'S NEWS. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). This being the first day of term, the Courts sat as usual in Westminster-hall. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.) His Lordship took his seat on the bench at eleven o'clock. FEARERSIDE V. DERHA3I—THOMPSON V. DERHAM.---EX PARTE THObIPSON, These causes came on to be spoken to, and occupied a con siderable part of the morning. his LORDSHIP said, he thought there should be a decree in each suit, referring each to the Master, but only as one general suit. A long discussion took place at the bar as to the form of the decree, at the termination of which his Lordship said he would take time to consider it. He did not feel justified in ordering a sale before the accounts had been taken. TILE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ELY V. BLISS. This case was set down in the paper to be spoken to ; but Counsel on both sides not being present, it was not pro ceeded with. NEEDIIAM V. NEEDIIAM. In this case Colonel Needham appeared before his Lord ship, stating that he had a petition to discharge an order of the Court. Mr. Coors rt said be had received late last night a heavy brief in support of the motion, but he was not_then in a situ ation to proceed with it. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that under those circum stances, the case had better stand over. Mr. CALVERT objected to the postponement of the motion. It had been standing in the paper ever since January, and it was in substance the same as - three others which had been refused with costs. Col. Needham said all the costs up to that time had been paid, and the order which had been obtained was not of the slightest use, except to keep him in prison, Mr. CALVERT said the use which had been made of the or der was to discharge the defendant out of prison. The case was at length postponed, on an understanding that it should be taken out of the paper. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). (Before the VicE-CuANctmoit of ENGLAND.) His Hosoun commenced sitting at ten o'clock, and pro ceeded to hear motions, none of which presented any peculiar feature of interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) CHAMBERLAIN V. THE CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAT COMPANY. In this case, which was heard before the commencement of the vacation, his Honour, this morning, by consent, ordered the motion to stand over, with liberty to the plaintiff to bring an action against the defendants. - QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY). Their Lordships took their seats at ten o'clock. Nothing of importance came before the Court up to the time of our going to press. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) d of some Their Lordships sat at ten o'clock, and dispose motions. STEW V. JONES. Mr. PASHLEY showed cause against a rule nisi, which had been obtained to set aside the verdict had in this case, or to enter a nonsuit. It was an action for use and occupation of a certain house by the defendant, Walt& Jones, who was one of two devizees, under a certain will, and had under that will conveyed a moiety of five houses to the plaintiff. Jones, it appeared, had still remained in possession of one of the houses, after the conveyance, and the action for use and occupation was then brought against him by the plaintiff. The case was tried before the under-sheriff of the county of Chester, who had some doubts as to whether the relation of landlord and tenant was proved to exist between the parties, and ac cordingly reserved this point. The ground on which the rule nisi had been moved for was this doubt set forth on the under-sheriff's notes. The COURT was of opinion that there was no occasion to raise the question of the relation of landlord and tenant be tween the parties, and that the rule could not be made abso lute. The Court then proceeded with the cases set down in the peremptory paper. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Coltman, and Mr. Justice Cresswell, took their seats on the Bench shortly after ten o'clock. The Court was occupied with hearing a motion for a new trial, upon payment of costs; in the case of " Pariente v. Pennell," which possessed no public interest. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.) Two young men named Yates and Taylor, were charged with throwing stones at the police and obstructing them in the execution of their duty. It appeared that about seven o'clock last evening a drunken man named Luke was creating a disturbande and fighting in St. Ann's-street. 147 B, whilst assisting in conveying Luke to the station house, was struck on the back with a stone ; on turning round to ascertain by whom it was thrown, he saw Yates in the act of throwing some missile at another constable, and he immediately took him into custody. Taylor endea voured to set him at liberty. The defendants denied that they threw stones or obstructed the police. Yates was fined 20s. or 14 days. Taylor ss. or a week's imprisonment. A middle-aged man, named Thomas Smith, whose clothes were a mere bundle of loathsome rags, and who wore a beard of about six months' growth, was charged with begging. Hescote, 175 B, a constable in private clothes, deposed that about seven o'clock last night he saw defendant in New road, Chelsea, soliciting alms of every respectably dressed person that passed. Witness followed him for about three quarters of an hour, and saw him stand opposite several kitchen windows in Sloane-street. Ile was in such a filthy state, that many persons said he ought to be removed from the streets. His mode of begging was very singu lar. When endeavouring to excite the commisseration of benevolent persons, he would stoop down and pretend to pick something out of the gutter, which he would either eat or pretend to do so, and this artifice frequently induced people to relieve him, who no doubt thought that he was in an abject state of distress. He had been in custody before on a similar charge, when he was committed for a month. Defendant—No, it was for fourteen days. The defendant denied that he was a beggar, stated that he obtained his living by selling fruit in the summer, and by employment, when he could obtain it, in. the winter. Mr. 13oND, however, disbelieved his statement, and told him that as fourteen days' had not had the effect of driving him from his old courses, he would send him this time for twenty-one days. • MARYLEBONE.-(THISDAY.) The cases brought before the magistrate this morning . were of the most trivial character, and contained not one feature to interest the general reader. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) There was no charge brought before the magistrate of least interest. One case of violent assault was postponed as the complainant was unable to attend, having received a fracture of the collar bone. She was in consequence removed to the London University Hospital, but it is not apprehended that any dangerous consequences will ensue. The name of the injured person is Bridget Allen, and all the parties con nected with the affair live in Church-street, St. Giles's. UNION HALL.--(THIS DAY.) Mary Bowles, the daughter of a - person holding a situation in the Bank of England, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. On the preceding night a gentleman, on proceeding along the Kent-road, had his attention attracted on observing the defendant walking along, and crying very much, in the di.: rection of the Surrey Canal. When she arrived at the bridge she turned down to the left, leading to the Canal, and was about divesting herself of her cloak and bonnet, when he went up and prevented her from precipitating herself into the water. On questioning her she talked in a very incohe rent manner, and as she seemed bent on self-destruction he took her to the station-house and gave her into custody: In answer to the Magistrate, the unfortunate woman said that her father had been in the Bank of England for thirty years, and allowed her 10s. a week. On further questioning her, it appeared, from her answers, that she was labouring under the delusion that her son had committed some offence for which he was transported. And this idea was so strongly impressed on her mind, that she was induced to lay violent hands on herself. Mr. COTTINGHA3I felt averse to discharge the poor woman until further inquiries were made respecting her, and she was accordingly directed to remain in custody. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. - - LONDON, MAY 22.—Light N.E. breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MAY 21. r.ie.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Sophia Elizabeth, Torna, Valparaiso for Hamburgh ; War rior; Jamaica. Sld. Protector, St. Kitts ; Ealing, Grove, Dominica; Themes Hoult, Boston. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind N. to E..—Sld. Seringapa tam, Madras.; Prince Albert, New York. COWES, MAY 21.—Arrd. Sir Charles Forbes, Sundwell, and Apollo, New York ; the latter is bound to Stettin, and has her cargo shifted, &c. OFF SALCOMBE, MAY 20.—Otto, Barber, Texas for Bremen. PLYMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind, N.N.E.—Arrd. Eliza Bell, Bell, Bahia, and proceeded for London. Off, Westminster, Harvey, New York. FALMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind, N. to E.—And. Rapide, Bhockermann, Batavia for Hamburgh, sailed from Cape of Good Hope, March 15. PENZANCE, MAY 20.—S1d. Marquis Chandos, Miramichi. Wind bound vessels are hourly increasing the number of ves sels in the roads. BRISTOL, MAY 21.—Sld. Maria Jane, Ichoboe. DUNGENESS, MAY 20.—Off, Mary Eliza, Calcutta; James, MauritiuS ; William Lee, Hull for Calcutta. WATERFORD, MAY 17.-014 Eliza Large, Jamaica for Liverpool. DONAGHADEE, MAY 18.—The Dulcinea, of Carrickfergus, from Maryport, was stranded in Bangor Bay 16th inst. The Ranger, of this port, for Maryport, is wrecked on the Foreland Point. _ _ _ _ FEASERBURG, MAT 18.—The Balcombie, Thone, from Aber derdeen to Banff, was run ashore last night on the sands, to the south of the harbour. LtvEnron', MAY2l.—Wind N.E. to E., fresh.—Arrd. the Princess Royal, Newby, Valparaiso ; Falcon, Africa ; Admiral Nelson, Queripol, Pampram, Palmyra, and Luconia, New Orleans ; Arab and Severn, New York. Sld. Euphrates, China ; Adam Lodge, Bombay ; Ambassador, Ichoboe ; Andes, Brazil ; Adnondack and Independence, New York. CLYDE.—Arrd. Essequibo, Canus, Ichoboe. CORK, MAY 19.—Arrived Belmont, Walker, Trinidad, for Clyde (57 days), short of provisions. Sld. Bache M'Evers, St. Andrew's. Off, Albion, Murray, Savannah. SHIELDS, MAY 20.—Arrd. Cordova, Mason, Cape of Good Hope. A VETERAN SURGEON.—In the list of present members of the Royal College of Surgeons is that of John Bolger, who passed his examination September 16, 1756. At that time he mist have been, by the rules of the college, 22 years of age, so that he now numbers at the least 110 years. Next on the list, Thomas Bolger, his son, who passed in 1784, and who is now, therefore, at least 82 years of age. Neither of these gentlemen has been elected a Fellow under the recent charter. The poor man Sumner, who was so dreadfully mutilated by the explosion of a cannon at Blenheim-park last week, is getting better, under the skilful treatment he is receiving at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He will, how ever, it is feared, sustain the loss of one of his eyes , as well as both his bands, should he in other respects ultimately recover. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS pAY7) CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESD A L We had rather an extensive time-of-year euPP 4 ,1 113 ,40 Wheat, while the sale for it was heavy at bare ly quotations. In Foreign Wheat very few sales were i e t s yet the rates were about stationary. Barley and !at m - 0 ( slow inquiry, yet late rates were supported; All Spring Corn sold steadily, at very full prices. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. - -1„' Woos 1,350 qrs. 240 qrs. 1,530 q~ boZ., - - ,450 t a1t,1,710 qrs. ....... 1,300 3,740 •••- 16 1 111 - 11ITECEAPIIS. bile tbe We had only a moderate supply doll' general demand was steady at, in some instances , 2 g . 1001; rates—Beef, from 2s 4d to 35 6d • Mutton, 2s 6d to '''„. 4(1 of Meat on sale, w 4 Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s ; Veal, 38 4d ' to 43 6d; and Pork, 41 . to 4s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. Vigo r English. 1ri5h....... ..... Foreign. _ _ M MONEY AND COMMERCIAL-.N E CITY, QUARTER TO TE R _,, 'the The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were 2,500 bales, 51,', trade. • There was no change in prices. Only 11 not ness was done in Shares, and the market generally •0,`,!: so strong. Birmingham and Gloucester, 9 0 i ; pubilio"go,f, ' Cashel, 5i Eastern Counties, 12 ; Edinburgh and G ,,, r snd 66 ; Great Western, 119 ; Ditto Half, 77i ; blanchoswicoras Birmingham, 56i to 56 ; Manchester and Leeds , 1 ; 12 . • A i. Midland, 90i ; South Eastern, 38 4 ; Ditto New, In the Foreign Stocks but little has been done to""_„,4 boo the quotations will show. The Railway Share 1n0y" .. ,: i te r been rather active, but the prices have had a downwx dency. The "Derby " day is, of course, the leading City folks, and we have, consequently, but a thin atten,tocx here, either of merchants or of those connected with the A re Exchange. The produce markets, in Mincing-1311e' closed, as usual, on this occasion. • dve r4 . The West India Mail is still kept out by the ; 0 0 3,5 weather ; but as there now seems to be a chang e respect, its arrival is hourly looked for. wes t As stated under this head some days ago, the tit merchants and planters held a meeting yesterday ttrictit 4 Parliament against the proposed reductions in 6 7,000 . ; upon foreign sugar, coffee, and cocoa, unless a oco"„ o wi , ' neous diminution be made in the imports uncia attracti do ctoe ioe tlDg produce. The resolutions passed at the ; 3 0 0 yesterday savour strongly of the old school °`, oier polies, and in the City was ridiculed by all well-thinklforiof chants ; the clique of West India Property holders, 0' excepted. St d The of The most important feature •in the Eng .- 19.. - market to-day is an improvement in the value. n ow Stock of not less than 2 per cent. on the clostVllo of yesterday afternoon, and of 6 per coot' 01 lowest quotations of last week. Console for Mont& to count are heavy at 994 Exchequer bills area 0 - et' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o * C - TAOP (From the Official List.) ,5 191 . , Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 3)4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..».......».•.• lOl it New 3)6 per Cent. . . ........ I N .1 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. ,S 5.16 Ditto 31 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 ........ India 80nd5,1,000.... ....... ....... - Ditto under 1,000 1 96 1 ' Bank Stock for Account ov Consols for Account ....... 265. India.Stoek Exchequer Bills, 130. 134d -1,001. • **** ••••••••••••••••••• - CM.. 00000 7 4 P 11 3• Ditto 5ma11....... .„....„ ........... 76 pnu Ditto Advertis ed - 72 9 01 . K , CIP C ''. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 ' ~,di Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ..... .. ....... .......... iv""' Mexican Bonds, l 83'7, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... ..... ; 5 %* Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 .jr . s ,i Ditto for the Account .....„.„.„.„.„.„.-•-•• 5 Ditto Passive Bonds. .. .....dir , Ditto Three per Cent. .. ............. ......... Ditto for !the Account ............. Dutch 2% per Cents ...... ........... ... ....... .....••••• 1 00 fin Dutch 5 per Cents.- ................ ................••• 95 ;/ New Loan 1837. 6 per Cents. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT GI*. K . RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SO A ' .- to ' Birmingham and Derby lOO 601 ...... to 0 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 ......... eif S .to Dublin and Cashel. - Eastern Counties ...... ............. „ 23 .. Ditto Perpetual . 5 per eent l3s. .4d... 1 ••....." to ".• Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 . ... .....6 6 fi .1 0 014 Ditto 14 Share. 125,; ...... 16 • • .... • to Great Western to _.. - Ditto Shares 5O lll UW .to - Ditto Fifths ..... ...........••••—• 12 Hull and Selby ~• Ditto 14 Shares 6 ......... 6% .:,"'". to ,c 4 .. London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds ... .... ; ... Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 56 •••• . Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct .. 18 ... 4O .. .... to ".., North British 2g gs% - 0 5 /S North Midland South Eastern and Dover R2% 3B ... to Ditto New York and North,Midland Paris and Orleans ..............«..... 21) 39 • .. to *" 04 Paris and Rouen 2O •••••.... ......... _ 3)p21.--Du MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT - ..., ; continues limited, and prices generally are low, er ro . , , 5 , 1.1 0 chaster and Birmingham, 56 55 ; South-Ells° bi l e ''', Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6i 3-16 i..,, 1 10, /I ' ' Cashel, 6 1 1; Lyons and Avignon, 21 ; Trent v ' Barnsley Junction, 3. lef t We are requested to correct an error wHl' ee c dirF into most of the reports of last night's p ros in the House of Commons : — Mr. Christie: e 1 is represented to have postponed his olcCor lative 'to the Universities of Oxford all' d e ttio l brige (which, on the contrary, the Hon. Gell,‘cei will bring on to-morrow), merely g ave s i e which will be found on the Notice Paper, reil6s the Danish Claims. EPSOM RACJ (THIS DAY—BY EXPRESS.) —.,............. t i .1) THE DERBY STAI n it, , d c- , of 50 sovs. each, h ft , for three yrs °' ' 1/ 0 Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. The owner of the sect .e3 tak es ' ' horse' o receive 100 sovs. out of the 6 re n olie B i the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the r pi' gulation3 of the Course. Last mile sod $ I (155 , 2 „ 0 1‘10 Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein....... - (F. . , ( o f 0 411C . I .'WO° DUBLIN GARRISON.—The extra guar -s th g": 4 ,il° some time past have been placed througho ut " e rcdu‘" are discontinued, and the troops on duty ten a p e. the ordinary number. h f4 6 The Rev. Thomas Dale having fulfilled the o toc tl of lecturer of the parish of St. Sepulchre for 3, 011 Post el l years, will take his leave of the congregation ° 1 of ' on the evening of Sunday next. ( 1(0 -t1 40' Lord Robert Grosvenor has given a ,• e s 0 cir ten guineas to the Metropolitan Benefit Socie.`j at ts, 3 4 0 .and consented to become one of the Vice-Pros 0' cumstance at once gratifying and beneficial t° " pie classes. I,o° P or THE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE 111 _,„ w ere 00, BRlDGE.—Yesterday morning as some lighter" 5 ° ging the river just below London -bridge, forrtey a l ,A i7 A ., cable, which had accidentally fallen overboard, papa_:itiOg up the body of one of the unfortunate childre t t l i o arr dt el,!: Newton, who was drowned off Fresh wharf, 1 1:. w ere Pip" .of a wherry , cm Sunday evening. The renal", bou' ge ke ~ 'cliately placed in a shell and removed to the 1)0 0 ' 0 0 ' OO , Mary-at-Hill, and information having beell., f ,°,l„ ol d sin,, il e tio ° Payne, the City Coroner, that gentleman w_ n i , a - had , l, on the body this day.. None of the other bout e " hie' late hour last evening, been recovered. V/ i , I.lr, ~i O 3 , 1 1: ST. JAMES'S PARK.—St. James s-r - , y , 01; 00 0.1 , hitherto had been closed until eight o'clock in ' A ce° del ° will in future be opened at six o'clock, for the els e 0 40 tion of those who may not be able to avail fort LI O r 'advantages of the park after that hour. Mr• 'Von: 0 1 4 represented to the Chief Commissioner ° l. nflo eil bi as , l' i Forests, that many persons were at present co ~ Sac o - tO daily occupations, during the present hours , °' 00 yite Lordship has promptly given orders for their e ...,A . j the above period. ~. gifi a iii,, 0 1 ,0 • THE LATE RIOTS IN THE ISLE O. t , 3. 56 '' filif 0 , house property of Douglas has been valued A at to d i ' etc h on each 1001. a levy of ls. 3d. has been nittotooei3i i. damages done to property by the copper w ha t r bar o t• tli t : BURIALS IN THE METROPOLIS. -- ,1 v ar ls ., r itt„ the churches in some of the densely populatTd ; L od - s er , li f metropolis should, after all that has been sa h a t ePi li ci ,', upon the subject, be so numerous, is some'‘ hu rch '. 1) 5 , 14 :5 nary. The vaults underneath the small c n or al., , Trinity, situated at the end of Church-street, ntrtbeiSisfe found to be so full, that last week, Ken a bout . 11 0, a y clerk ? with some persons to assist biro, se' i . burl e `a ' clearing them, so as to make room for further Det w: o fe t ; accomplish this he dug a hole in a small°•• Y' oteli sif , f r o back of the church and the west wall of the „, 00 ,00)_ e ',. t,t houses formerly occupied by the East Indla_u aiiis of °,01 1 ,,, which were indiscriminately thrown the rcli o __ se ein i t fro', persons, and in order to prevent the public f ,u 'r lg a.. :: g ric was going forward, a large tarpaulin was OfD t his Pt peli 0 of the yard. On Saturday last the writer _ g i lt., " ec tir in going that way, pulled the tarpaulin on 01 , :' reir of . ten d observed two coffins, which had evidently non o tfiertte A , the vaults in the yard, one on the top ° f We ' t e l iv et 'were also two skulls and a number of human 00 ter tm t be s o about the place. He requested perinissihounrg, w ln , fro tis and a female who had the keys of the e ha d s w o t Tio t of unlocking ' the gate, when Kennett, wh° exe d 10 0 0 a the vaults, caught hold of the key, and t h a t he s l 'Ae li - , e authority, telling him at the same ' time , ore lin e 'Pi o th e e nne u tt e t t i r e ot to let him enter .without an order from the Rev. Mr. Blunt, the incumbent. 1, - the aPr t eirs , , c e time seemed much agitated, but knowing be a reporter, said he had no objectioni_o frreorrain.triltte;sll4o.4 enter the vaults. This he did, and judg i r l i 6 io , is 9! ri pet' o 4 which he found closed, the reporter 's op! ve d. 1 1 .' Air ecto number of coffins must have been Ter n°, 0 , the " t he r ef of the Rev. Mr. Blunt in clearing the va "' wa y cg' o f reply to questions put to him, said he acut; od th_ d o, t ot satll t of not aware the parishioners were m an/ the act. ~„,s ... On t e ieg i l ti c• STRANGE SUICIDE IN FRA-Lw :_o o3 o oer ea t' afternoon, at about two o'clock, a youll,gr olis a nd rarest is dressed, entered the church of SaintGe p _ in i in g 0 co pe , 0 ing knelt for some time before the, 1 ih, b f el lo which it hangs, and appeared to wa s hell' „ g o 0..4 ing St. Juliette, Rent into the confessionals; eprar ardo lt , to t i, fel l At the end of a short time an exrdosn' t !.7o'ith ,li — era I . iio y ba o c u k n w g ' and ma n o , 1 who the had flooringblown oouft the c b iv r i a t la i r ' s ; ii b. u ts.it!o Pr ...00sse 0 this found upon him to indicate who he ,d e resiti 6 , l e g c ote pockets was a letter addressed to a le.; 11 i t sisv' sse s 03 to Lange-sur-Yonne, and who is styleectbad not P°, oa vei ce ir letter he speaks of a secret which h is H bodY l i * n ' s s - bentici dis ' rage enough to reveal to her. A marriage ', ; l this , 0 01 0 the Morgue to be identified. The church was immediately after 7 brated in •an adjoining ation Soo de li until the usual ceremony of purnic • inte itoil It is a rlioblr performed. To ouMANCE• o d 1 7 • t i 9 i , GREAT RAILWAY ...EBY ,on 3 io n 1t c ot' to have a splendid opening of the , on t hat oai e leer e - 5 Railway, on the'lBth of June; u chapel at tharedsticnio2e seuidtobtioloppeo L o in the t ' l l° e tle in tine 0011-f° n te e n e d te e d d l t , h it a h t ilk.alirlivGa3lrsnsh and a 1 leave other a 1 1 London - - Mo ri ' i 3 a special train, and reach Nev!cas .. i th a jl e sl ev e e ot. this town; indincneleerbwraitftiobneopfrotvhisideund inpl.