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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY 14, Will be performed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre, ZAMPA. Camilla, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Bellini ; Zampa, Sig nor le, q naaari ; Alfonso, Signor Corelli ; Daniel Capuzzi, Signor t. L a bl a che ; and Dandola, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the Grand Ballet,: in Six Tableaux, by M. ee r rot, eiit it led ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADE. 'The Scenery In Mr. W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor PfiaCipal el.aractc re by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mollie. Fer dinand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Barville, and Mdlle. Adelaide Frassi; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. L eon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Coicnnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Half-wig Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re— spectfully informed that there will be an extra Night (n ot inc lud e d is the Subser,ption) on THURSDAY NEXT, May 16, when will performed Mozart's che H f dceuvre IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favanti ; Zerlina. Madame Persiani; Don Giovanni, Sig. Fomasari ; Le- L umen°, Sig. Lablache ; Masetto , Sig. F. Lablacbe ; 11 Commau laatore, Sig. Felice; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario. To conc;ude with ALMA. Alma, Madame Ceri to. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Attice, Opera-colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS CLARA WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, MAY 12, Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Axaheirn, Mr. Borrant Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Dilhoof, Mr. Horncastle ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the ev Gi s psies, Miss Betts. After the Opera, the Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER WOOR. Edgardo, Signor Salvi ; Raimondo, Mr. Boranni. To conclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdile. Lucile Grain), • Zelika, Aldlle. Clara Webster ; The G enius of the Harem, Madame Giubilei. ore,. Boxes 75., Second [rice 3s. 6 d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 9s. Pit ;is .second Price 25.; Middle Gallery 25., S e cond Price Is. ;' Upper dallery Is., Second Fries 6d. 7 -- THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LE3SE3. THIS EVENING, MAY 13, WI: be revived the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Strict. ; Dazzle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webater ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett; Brace Harkey's v, Miss Julia Bennett; Pert, Mrs. Humby. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.. waganza, 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 kiss Lee. To conclude with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Orchestra Stalls, 51. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, its. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes,_3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper H Gallery, lid. Doors opened at alf-past ix, and the Performances icurnmeace at Seven rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box eVce, from Ten till Five. PAINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 13, will be performed LA SO NN A MBULA. Amine, Miss Grant; I,kaa, Miss E. Honnar ; Elvitio, Mr. Allen. To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS. To be (allowed by a New Farce, called CUT FOR PARTNERS. After which, BOAII3ASTES FURIOSO. THEArRE ROY LYCEUM, SEATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOU Under the Ilanagement of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audinces THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE 'THREE WIVES OF .d A D RID. Principal Characters by Messrs. :Keeley, Diddear, F matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner, `Yarnold, Miss Wonlgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner, IMrs. Wigan, and Ms Keeley. Atter which, will be produced a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. I', LOVE Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, lounge, Mrs. Woollige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin, _Miss Grove, and Miss kostoscue. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKAMANIA ch.iracters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woo. , gar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Gran I Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha sextets by Miss Wooirs, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James , M iss Fairbrother, ' and Mrs. Keeley Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chslilin. PRICES OF ,A ISSI ON.—Balcony Foxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery. 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 25.; tipper Boxes, Is fid. ; Pit, fa. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier 'holding eight persons), 'Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second i,ler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Halt Private /duxes on the Pit Her (holding six persons), One Guinea. ASTLEY'S ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. - Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Grand Attraction. I'HIS EVENING, MAY 18, 'Will be repeated the Hotovical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR Conquest, the Battle uf Hustings. With all the effects of the Norman Death of Harold, &c. „Entire Change (4 th:?. Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with tlAt Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the H.ndeoa of the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box..ottice opened daily frem ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstruoted ami decorated with care and ;splendour. Acting and stagesn {,lager. Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. et, On Monday, May 20, M. Plege will reappear, for the last week of his Engagement, and will take his Benefit on Friday, May 2s. DATIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING MAY 19, Wilt be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. supported by Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes, It. Honner, Neville, Vale, Mrs IL Vining, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. Lewis. After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conciliate with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, i❑ which the entire Company will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box- Flee, from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL,ADELPHI. OPEN EVERY EVENING. wits: the astounding Wonders of the Extraordieary Being the GREAT' WIZARD OF 'IHE NORTH, anu the ARAB AIIioTHEKS, aged seven, nine, end twelve years of age, whose t'las.ic GrounOgs, and Surprising Feats of Strength, are the theme of general a d m i,-ktion I A Trick worth Knowing! How to fill a Theatre by Magic! This is the Fourth Season of the Great Delusionist in London ! He has corspfetnd the Thirtieth Night of his presert Season His Miracles have been witnessed by upwards of Five Hundred Thou. sand Spectators! Still his Maglc Temple is nightly henonred with most brilliant and crowded audiences ; thus proving to the world the ecli 'sing superiority of his unparalleled Entertainm , ?nts. He rightly ,excites the astonishment of Hundreds, by his Scientific itxperi steents ; the peculiar of bct of which beggars description. :His new tksiusi..ns, THE FLYING RING S . and THE ENCHANTED luvr, are wonders which have no equal ! 1 : And. Novelty being at present the rage, the GREAT WIZARD intends WAKING A WITCH ! Therefore, any Lady, desirous of appearing as the threat Witch, in conjunction with the Great Wizard. is informed, that the latter will be happy to initiate her in the Mysteries sf his Art.—A French, German, or Italian Lady would praerr,d. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, Is. 6(1.; Gallery, 6d. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Agents. Seconft Price at Nine o'clock. • DJors open at Half-pact Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU sEum; the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical curk,sitles and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by O ne p em m, daring Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost 01,60,00Crcuineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and in:erestin manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz,—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the ,deatlis 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 Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Pih,, , es, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the 2:phility and Public ; and the Pro . prietor iras recently been able tO increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost inere,Ande number and variety of XS:., Works of Art, and a multitude of 3.luable Relics, and other eroloAties, in this most instructive and, as trandreds have sti:d it Dught , to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it. and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS }nave stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The prise of admis pion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian, Bail," Piccadilly, daily from Tell till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 11. :I.IIE.R.MOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 62! ITooia, 60. 11A11.0MXTER, 30.—WLND, Irorre.--The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the p e ,,, u og point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is win al I v ;laced opposite 30, and rain at 29. - E TIES DAY. HlOll IVA TEN. AT LONDON-BRIDG , -- moiling IS ivinutea after 111 Evening ... 48 minutes after li. - ..,' • ~ ,.,, , IN , ~,,•)-: , 1 , le, ' Nk . , , , . - ~, Ar—h" ,cr 4 \ J.; ,k• _. s coT C0J1 . A 4, 44. ..,.. ',W. , ' A *,i,(•,-- ~':',' f -.-, ~ . 00-4111,?. • ,---. ~, - -..' -- , cx . -; sc . • - -.',/ ~.16-,,,,z,il r •- . ..- ). ' - - . t,.. ,- ..- ~, . ~ 44 4 1 - i o, Thwi, - , -.',-:'• —.1).-„,:,•,--f:-.'• 4 41, 3 ~,,,,,,...,....-,,10,.... ',tor, ‘.-• r"r„,___ • ,„. _ .....- . • ~,,...... ' ..,..- COMPLBTR HISTORY OF THB CHINESE WAR, he. New ready, in 2 vols . tin., with Mape and Plates, 225. b o und, NARRATIVE of the VOYAGE S and AERVICES of " Tel NEMESI3," From 1840 to 1843; And of the combined Naval and Military OPERATIONS IN CHINA; Comprising & Complete Account of the Colony of HONG-KONG, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of THE CHINESE, &c. Front the Notes of Commander W. H. HALL, R.N., with Personal Observations by W. D. BERNARD, Esq., A.M., Oxon. " This is probably the most important publication that has ap peared respecting oar late contest with China. In all that relates to the Nemesis especially, and to the naval operation., of the expedition, It is replete with the most lively and stirring interest. The author grasps a subject which many others have only been able to play with."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 4int. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1844. No man holds a more enviable position in society at the- present day, than Lord ASHLEY. He has sacrificed office, and pensions, and political power for the good of those who had none to help them. He is called a visionary and enthusiast, but these are mere -words, and have been applied to all reformers. The greatest of reformers and the best friend, too, of the poor had to submit to the same obloquy. Lord ,ASIILEY, when his party came into power, might have had almost any situation that he could have name d, but when he found the Government hostile to the great object he had in view, he rejected any offer, he stood firm in his integrity, he followed the path which conscience dictated, and to his honour he now stands forward as the protector and advocate of ~the poor. And who are these poorP—The labo ur i ng cLisses, the operati ves, the men thatperform ev ery woe .k of drudgery , the sailors and the soldiers wlco _have defended ou r country, and rendered her name i:Justrious in every quarter of the globe. NEL SON and WELLINGTON are entitled to every praise, but what fame would they have acquired without d the br a very of that class for wh ich Lord AsELE , r now pleads ? When NELSON gave h is lastsignal, Eng land expects every man try do his duty," was there any aristocrat, any Lord, or Baronet, or Knight, or any man whose promotion awaited the result, who fought . more manfully for his country than the com mon sailor ? When NAPOLEON, for eight hours, at the battle of Waterloo, made the mast furious and vigoroui'attacks ever made against any afmy, who crowned the heights between Huguemont and La Haye Sainte ?—who stood immoveable against the showers of bullets, and the attacks of the finest .cavalry ,and:..artillery in the world ?—who formed Mat impenetrable line. which General FOY, an e !xielny, .cbscribed as fixed in the earth, till at thvp°Per time they moved forward as one man, and achieved the greatest victory of this or any other age ? The men who belonged to that class whom Lord ASHLEY wishes to protect. It is needless to advert to the tens of thousands engaged in our manufactories, or to their skill and perseverance, and patient endurance, because these are known to the world, and to them the country owes much of its wealth and power. That class has never been treated as rational beings. The Legislature has taxed them and oppressed them, and has laid all the heavy burdens on their shoulders; it has made them pay a duty of 100 per cent. on tea and sugar, and many other necessaries of life; it has taxed the very sta.ffoflife for the benefit of the legislators only, and when they assemble to complain or pray for re lief, they are put down by guns and bayonets. There is no sympathy between the high and low classes. Those who have power use that power with a high hand, and instead of consulting for the good of men, and women, and children, who contribute to their wealth, their only object seems to be to keep them under ; to pass laws for protecting the rich, and to oppose those which are intended for the relief of that class who have no voice in the Legislature. Lord ASHLEY, to his honour, has taken up this cause, and we trust he will live to reap the reward. If some of his plans are not the best that can be devised, he has one great and lasting merit—he has awakened public attention to the subject—he has secured one half of the House of Commons in his favour— he is getting up meetings every week on the subject, and he may rest assured he will soon find many followers. In another part of the paper will be found an account of an interesting meeting held on Saturday, at which he presided. Several noblemen, one bishop, many clergymen, and Members of Parliament were present, and lent their aid in a forming a plan for the benefit of the lower classes. A committee was appointed, and to the honour of the higher classes, at least fifteen noblemen were appointed members. The sub scriptions, too, were large. Lord EL.Dois, sprung from the lower classes, subscribed 2001., Sir THOMAS BARING, 1001., Mr. R. B. SHE SUDAN, a name celebrated in the annals of the county, 1001., and a large number besides subscribed accord ing to their means. This is a good beginning, and holds out bright prospects. This is a triumph for Lord ASHLEY, greater than the most splendid vic tories ; and we fervently pray that he may have firm ness and health to persevere in his Roble purpose till he earns the greatest and most consolatory of all re wards, the blessings of those " who are ready to perish." On Sir James GRAHAM moving the Order of the Day in the House of Commons on Friday, for the third reading of the Factories Bill, Lord ASHLEY brought forward his clause respecting the limitation of the hours of labour for women and children, which led to an interesting debate, in which his Lordship and the Home Secretary were the chief speakers. The former, after a brief but impressive exordium, wherein he insisted that " what was morally wrong, could not be politically right "—a noble sentiment, which we recommend to the Premier's special con sideration—went on to adduce a variety of docu mentary evidence, with a view to show that the proposed reduction in the hours of factory la bour would not be attended with the slightest injury to trade ; but on the contrary—and here the Noble Lord quoted the authority of one of the most exten sive mill-owners in Europe—" that the workers would be so improved in their physical condition, that they would do very nearly as much work in ten and t half, as in twelve hours." On the subject of the antici pated fall in wages, on which the opponents of the mea sure lay such stress, his Lordshipobserved—"the opera tives, in contemplation of the great advantages which would otherwise accrue, were ready to accept this reduc tion of wages. They say that by working fewer hours they would enjoy greater health and vigour of body; they would obtain increased social enjoyment, for they would have first to learn, and afterwards to practise, lomestic thrift and home economy. But the greatest advantage they would obtain, and the one which,they wanted to press more particularly on the country was, that they would have conferred on them two or three, or, may be, four or five years' prolongation of their working lives, which they could devote to the support of their families." These forcible reasons made, as might have been anticipated, not the slightest impression on Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who opposed the measure with more pertinacity than ever; and hinted, in no very ambiguous terms, that if it should he carried against him, he should feel it his duty to r. , tire from public life, and cultivate a modest privacy among the classic shades of Netherby. This threat, which, to our thinking, is anything but an ilarming one, was nevertheless not without its effect en the minds of some of the more sensitive Members, and so excited the apprehensions of Mr. LIDDELL, that he announced his intention of voting with Go vernment, though he declared that his " feelings were with Lord ASHLEY." And he made this announce ment, notwithstanding—according to his own state ment—" Ministers had not acted on this question with their usual ability, consideration, and foresight!" Who, after this naive confession, will ever again dream of placing confidence in a man who, for mere party purposes, votes against his own feelings; and the impulses of his better nature, in favour of a Government which has shown itself deficient in " ability, consideration, and Foresight," and which, as such, is unworthy of the support of a considerate and conscientious Member ? But Mr. LIDDELL'S was riot the only instance of apostacy exhibited last night. Mr. GALLY KNIGHT, too, evinced a strong desire to recant the heresy of his iate vote on the factory question. When he gave that rote, he was drunk, as he told the House—metapho rically speaking, of course—but since then he had had time to grow sober, and the consequence of his Irestoration to unclouded sense was, that he was re solved to throw the poor factory operatives overboard, and stick to the Government ! Truly a most cre ditable and benevolent determination, and one that will be pretty sure to be followed by many other Members, who will, no doubt, plead the same " un toward" state of mental ec lip se as an apo l ogy f or t h e i r tormer vote, and urge, like Mr. KNIGHT, their restored sobriety as a reason for their now siding with Ministers! What a humiliating confession for public men to make—that they were wholly in the wrong when they advocated the cause of humanity, and are in the right only when they declare against it ! Mr. ROEBUCK, who, with his usual success, at tempted to reply to an admirable speech of Lord do \vie le, quoted, in allusion to what he was pleased to call his Lordship's " rash and meddling legislation," POPE'S well-known line, that " fools rush in where angels fear to tread." The point—the delicacy—the gentlemanlike propriety of the word " fools," applied to an indivi lual with whom the pert, pragmatical Member for Bath cannot bear an instant's comparison in point ,f intellect, is worthy of all praise ; and not lees commendable is the spirit of modesty which induced Mr. ROEBUCK to omit that portion l of the line which refers to " angels, " for is he himself is one of the non-interference gentle men, who " fear" to touch the factory question, the House, had he quoted the whole line, could not have failed to apply the word " angel" to himself, notwith standing that he has as little of the angelic character about him as any man we ever remember to have seen, not excepting even Mr. MUNTZ. At a late hour the debate was adjourned, but we fear that there is little doubt that Ministers will carry the day, and that the cause of the oppressed factory women and chil dren will, for this session at least, sustain a humili ating defeat. Before entering upon an examination of the resolu tions submitted to the House of Commons, by Sir ROBERT PEEL, in connexion with the terms on which he will propose the renewal of the Bank Charter, and of the sp eec h with which desirous he atgaei introduced ntoa cnadll thetheamt significantt atten tion t ß i l o o n n d of ay ou l r as r t e , ad w e e rs ar to some are e important facts in the present aspect o f h the Right Hon. Baronet ob serve douantry, on which very guarded ciumarrne, s ilence. It did not consist, we can readily imagine, w ith his purpose of exalting the merits of a y measured by a gold standard of value, to notice the facts to which we are about to recur. They were too palpably indications of its immediate and disas trous effects, under and with the aid of the enact ments of a statute like the Currency Act of 1819, to have been introduced upon the canvas which he spread before the eyes of the House, and tricked out with such showy but unsubstantial tints. Nevertheless, to enable the public at large more accurately to ap preciate the fixed and baleful shadows which the existence of these facts throws over the actual face of affairs, we shall briefly recapitulate these phenomena. The first and most important of them is—the anomalous state of a vast majority of our industrial population. This community, as we lately remarked, is composed of two great sections; the one, in em ploy, at wages generally inadequate to the demands of mere physical subsistence for the toiling artisan or labourer and his family ; the other, out of present employ, and with little or no prospect of soon ob taining any in the districts wherein they have been reared, or the factories and mills in which they have worked. The second fact is the confirmation of this deplorable aggregate of pauperism, coupled with that of its progressive aggravation, which is afforded by an inspection of the Returns of Poor-rate Assess ments levied in England and Wales in the successive years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. The third part consists in the result of a comparison between the accumulating amount of those assessments, and that of our manufacturing production within the same interval. The fourth is suggested by the evidence which this pauperism and disorganisation afford that there is no principle of corresponding distribution at work to diffuse this enlarged amount of manufacturing production among those classes of the community who are suffering so grievously from the want of them. The fifth is the fact, undisputed by the bul lionists themselves, that between thirty and forty mil lions of taxes are paid by the producing and indus trial labourers of this country, which should, on every principle of common sense and common fairness, and according to the contemplation and meaning of the Legislature itself in imposing that taxation, be borne by the consumer. It may seem sufficient apology for our re-stating these points, that they were wholly omitted by Sir ROBERT PEEL in his laborious but very ineffective statement the other evening. No man knows better than he, that the facts in question are all explicable solely, upon grounds which are conclusive against the folly, the dishonesty, and the mischief inherent in his monster blunder of 1819. That blunder either he has not the manliness to acknowledge, or he lacks the spirit to retrieve. He is either the self-complacent, egotistical dupe of his own mistakes, which are now patent and palpable to half the world ; or he is the political slave of that Ministerial embarrassment which compels him to wear the trammels of Bank assistance —conceded on exorbitant terms, but perhaps neces sary to keep fast in his seat the man who drives the " strong Government" of May, 1844. Now, this vast proportion of industrial labour, thus under-paid or unemployed, is one of the most signal consequences of a monetary system which has been so tampered with by the empirical nostrum of a fixed gold standard, as to leave to the manufacturers no prices but gold or natural prices for his goods, and no wages, therefore, to the operative but those which can, be afforded out of such reduced prices. Then the progressive aggravation of this pauperism is shown by the Parliamentary Return (No. 63, RC., of the pre sent session), which gives the following summaries of the " Total Amount of Money levied for Poor-rate for the Year ending Lady-day" in each of the follow ing series : viz., for all England and Wales— In 1839 1840 1841.. 1842.. £5,613,939 6,014,605 6,351,828 6,552,890 Such has been the increase of poor-rate in a period in the last term of which the first product of the new income-tax was received ; in the whole course of which manufacturing production was so largely increased as compared with the preceding years ; and which introduced at its close a progressive improvement of the public revenue, which has, in the year ended sth April last, resulted in a surplus of income over expen diture of more than 4,000,0001. This increased burden of pauper charge, then, has been coincident, with an increase in the capital of the country, so far as that is measured by the amount and yield of its taxation. The charge of pauperism has advanced after the following rate in the pound of money levied on annual value of real property in 1841, for each of the following years, ending Lady-day, viz. (for England and Wales) :—ln 1839, one shilling and tenpence in the pound ; in 1840, one shilling and elevenpence ; in 1841, two shillings ; in 1842, two shillings and a penny. This difference of threepence in the pound between 1839 and 1842, calculated on the total annual value of real property assessed to the poor-rate at Lady-day, 1841 (namely, 62,540,0001.), exhibits an aggregate increase of charge of no less than 781,750/. ; and this infers an enormous increase of industrial distress, both in the agricultural and manufacturing classes. But how much is the in tensity of that distress aggravated by the reflection that if there had existed a currency equal in amount and facility to represent the exchangeable value of floating and fixed property, the increased production of manufactures, instead of lumbering up our home warehouses, or stopping our home factories, or glut ting foreign markets, would have been distributed to an enormous and a meritorious body of agricultural and manufacturing producers, whose wages would, under the same better system of currency, have enabled them to become the purchasers of such necessaries and conveniencies of life, in the shape of manufac tured goods, &c., and at prices remunerating to the manufacturing employer. If, with a paper currency, it is evident that the manufacturer would have been thus benefited, it is equally certain that the thirty or forty millions of taxes now paid by the poor producers in various forms, and especially on the Custom and Excise duties charged on various articles indispensable to their subsistence, would not have been, as now, NOT reimbursed or replaced to them on the starving minimum wages of their maximum labour, but added to these, and included in the charge of the manufacturer as an element of the cost of production to the consumer, the party in right and equity liable to its payment. These points were adverse to the Premier's theories of a " standard of value," " convertibility," " sound currency," and the twenty other crotchetty necessities flowing from his rash and ill-digested scheme of 1819, and therefore, ,we presume, were omitted out of his speech of Monday last. We are desirous that they should not be forgotten, and have thus disposed of them before we approach the con sideration of that splch and the resolutions it in troduced. The Madrid Gazette of the 4th publishes a list of the new Ministry, and it will be seen from a tele graphic dispatch received at Paris on Thursday, that the state of siege was raised on the same day. On the 3d the Three per Cents, were done at 29 for cash, and 31 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 21. The Journal des Debuts states that the Committee, appointed to examine the proposed line of railway from Paris to Belgium and the English Channel, had resolved, by a small majority, that it was their opinion the line Eould be completed by the State, and that it should also conduct the working and traffic, as well as the formation of the railroad. This announcement has caused some sensation in Paris, as it was feared other Committees would follow the example, and either compel the Government to call out the two remaining instalments of the loan, or put a stop to the construction of railroads for many years. The Government journal, therefore, expresses great alarm as to the consequences of this resolution, and says, " If it be persevered in to its full ex tent, and formally carried to the Chambers, it is of a gravity which we shall not attempt to con ceal. In the present state of affairs, it amounts, in fact, to a proposition for the adjournment of all the railroads, without exception ; and at the end of a few years France would find herself behind all the rest of Europe. It is not at all pro bable, however, that the Chamber will accede to the recommendation of the Committee. The discussion on the Education Bill was proceeding in the Chamber of Peers, when, on the introduction of a clause evidently directed against the Jesuits, the Count DE MONTALEMBERT and the Duke D'HARCOURT de fended that body, and opposed the clause. M. PASSY and M. DUPIN supported it, and the debate was ad journed. The state of affairs in Italy and Sicily appears to be very unsettled. The Augsburgh Gazette of the sth publishes a letter from Palermo, announcing that serious disturbances had taken place in Catania, and that the country was also suffering from the effects of destructive fever, which had carried off many of the inhabitants. The following letter from Leghorn is also very unfavourable : " LEGHORN, MAY 4.—The news which we have just re ceived from the legations is very serious. On the evening of the 2d, several: persons were arrested at Bologna, among whom are M. Galleti (doctor of laws, and one of the most dis tinguished lawyers of Italy), and his first clerk, MM. Orsina, father and son, who are furnishers of military stores to the Government, a student of medicine, and two or three others. These arrests make the greatest impression, as it was expected that after the numerous condemnations by the military commission, the Government would have reixecl in its rigour. With regard to the condemned prisoners, it is expected that they will be shot within the soldiers' barracks, and not publicly. At Ancona, M. Giannini and two others had been committed to prison, and at Rimini, M. Lerpiri and several others have been arrested, and are to be tried before the military commission. The . Maria Christina, which has just arrived from Naples, says that at Rome also, several per sons were arrested, and in Calabria a great number have been shot." The French Funds continued firm. On Thursday the Three per Cents, closed at 84f. 40c., and the Fives at 122 f. 60c. The following telegraphic dispatch was received by the French Government on Thursday : "MADRID, MAY 4, " The state of siege was this day ordered to be raised. By two decrees of the same date M. Mazaredo was appointed Captain-General of Madrid, and General Shelley, Captain- General of Seville." THE BOURSE—TuuxsDAY, MAY 9. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents ••• • • • 122 35 .. 122 35 .. 121 30 .. 122 35 Fear per Cents. • • • • 106 90 .. 106 90 •• 106 90 .. 106 90 Three per Cents.• •• • 84 40 .. 84 40 .. 84 25 84 25 Bank of France...• • • • •• .• .3105 .. 3105 . 3105 .. 3105 Lallitte Bank. I,ooof. Sharesll7o —ll7O .. 1170 .. 1170 Belgian Bank..• • • ..... • 687 50 .. 687 50 . • 687 50 •• 687 50 Belgian Fives, 1831.• ••.• • • • 1031 • • 103 k .. 10S .. 1031 1840 .. 1842 ..•••••• 1081 • • 1081 .. 1081 ~ 1081 Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 321 • . 321 .. 321 .. 321 Threes 35 • • 351 .. 35f .. 351 Passive .• •.•••• • • • • 6 • • 61 .. 6 .. 61 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 464 .. .. 461 .. 461 Neapolitan.••••••.••••• •• 102 20 .. 102 30 .. 102 20 102 30 Roman, ex div• ••••••• • • • • • 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8.• . ...... • 380 .. 380 .. 380 .. 380 258 75 .. 258 75 .. 255 50 .. 257 50 Rouen •• .............• 970 • • 970 .. 970 .. 970 Rotten to Havre• • • • • • • • • • • • 732 5 0 •• 732 50 .. 732 50 .. 732 50 Orleans •• • • • ..... . . • .. 977 50 . • 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 977 SO Strasburg to Bale•••.•••••• 272 50 .. 271 Aviooa to • • RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TILE ACCOUNT. St. Germain ............ • . 825 .. 825 .. 812 .. 615 257 50 .. 258 75 .. 257 50 .. 258 75 Rouen •••• 973 75 .. 975 975 . 975 Rouen to Hayro•. Orleans ..................• 978 75 .. 97S 75 .. 977 50 .• 977 50 Strasburg to 8a1e... Iviguost to Marseilles...... 767 50 .. 767 50 . 767 50 .. 767 50 FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 9.—The Gordon, an English schooner, which had got aground on the Zuidergat, and respecting which some apprehension was felt, having been suffi ciently lightened, arrived at Antwerp yesterday after noon, thanks to the assistance given by Dutch seamen. AMSTERDAM, MAY 3.—A sudden fire, the origin of which is not yet known, broke out this morning between five and six o'clock in the Royal dockyard at Amster dam. It was first discovered in the carpenters' shops ; the whole of the building containing them was entirely destroyed, and also part of the forge. The fire spread so rapidly, that the whole of the buildings would have been destroyed, but by great exertions the fire was got under without extending beyond the buildings first mentioned. MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES. Extract of a letter dated, Monte Video, Feb. 19,1844 Tho 16th inst. completed the first year of the siege of this city by the Buenos Ayrean army; and we do not sea the slightest prospect of its being brought to a close ere the expiration of another, unless it be by foreign in terference. Notwithstanding this, our minister still per sists in holding out to our Government at home the cer tainty of ultimate success to the partisans of Rosas,whose interest he has so much at heart, and whose obstinacy is hourly tending to extirpate commerce, and to involve all connected with it in universal difficulty—for the ruinous consequences of the prolongation of the war which is now ravaging these fine countries must be obvious to all re flecting men. Stocks lying dead to the amount of eight millions of dollars, deteriorating in value, and upon which the loss of interest alone will be a very heavy item, without taking into consideration the out standing debts; these cannot be estimated at less than three millions of dollars, and upon them we can hare no possible security. It is generally admitted that half the amount is irrecoverably lost, in consequence of the dealers having been so severely pillaged by the bellige gerent parties. In this estimate of universal ruin we have not included the great loss sustained by shipowners, which has been equally severe in pro portion. Any person who has been engaged in the River Plate trade during the last two years will bear out our statement. Not only in Monte Video, but in Buenos Ayres also, has commerce received a severe check. Our last advises thence are to the 16 inst., and our correspondents write, that business there • con tinues paralyzed, confidence being eompletly shaken in consequence of recent failures; the average amount of collections do not exceed one per cent. on the outstand ing debts, freights, 30s. ; salt, 13$ ; with a downward tendency ; exchange 3i, and money scarce. Such is a true picture of the present state of the countries where, but for the heartless and grasping ambition of one man, commerce would rapidly flourish and extend—countries where the emigrant would reap abundant harvest for his toil, and which would afford a ready market for our manufactures; but these prospects, easily attainable as they are, can never be realised, so long as Roses is per mitted to carry out his projected American system—a system which can only tend to force these fine countries back to a state of semi-barbarism. " Rosas continues to give assurances that foreign pro perty shall be respected ; but in what manner does he carry out these promises ? Why, by doing all in his power to ruin that property, and we know his predis position against foreigners too well to be deceived by mere words; that they are so we do not want in• stances to prove, they occur but too frequently. No later than the 15th instant, a shepherd and attend ants of a British subject were peremptorily ordered to leave the estate in three days' notice, an order which amounts to nothing less than the total destruction of his fine sheep Estancia. What should we think, in England, of such flagrant outrages being committed with impunity, and without the remotest prospect of the sufferer obtain ing redress ? The populace would spurn such tremendous tyranny of power with just indignation. That such oppressive measures should be passed over unnoticed and unrequited by ministers especially appointed to see that the property of subjects is held sacred, is a matter of such vital import as surely demands the serious and immediate attention of ,the governments which they re spectively represent. Our Minister has done us irrepa rable injury ; he has deceived those whom he ought to have advised, and has involved us in difficulties we should never have known but fur him. He has also caused the name of Britain, hitherto respected, to become almost a bye-word in these waters, for which kindness we shall have eternal cause to remember the name of Mandeville—which will stand forward, with that Of White lock, for manifest ignorance and total want of principle. As foreigners, we are united to trade in these countries; we bring with us talent, money, energy, and civilisation, and we have every right to claim that protection which the national treaty of commerce fully entitled us to expect. So long as we remain in passive obedience to the existing laws, we know the respect we owe to a Government, we practice what we know ; were We equally respected in return, we should not have to com plain of the atrocities committed against all, indiscri minately, at the will and fancy of the Dictator." Lord Brougham, who has not presided at any public meeting in Exeter Hall since 1838, is to take the chair at the anniversary meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, on Friday the 17th instant. Many well-known and old fiiends of the cause are likely to be pre sent, and among the rest Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., has signified his intention to attend. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Miss Clara 'Webster, who is one of the most popoular danseuses of the day, takes her benefit at this theatre to-night, and offers to her pa trons the never-tiring opera of the Bohemian Girl, the grand scena from Lucia di Lammermoor, by Signor Salvi, the finale of La Sonnambula, by Madame Castel lan, who made a great impression in it last Thursday , evening, and the Revolt of the Harem, with Meddle. Lu cile Grahn. The private boxes and dress circle are al ready most fashionably taken. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A POLICE COURT.— - On Friday a female named Sheptow was summoned at Union-hall by another female named Evans, for assaulting her in the public streets. The defendant, who was far ad vanced in pregnancy, exhibited during the examination symptoms of approaching labour, and her groans led Mr. Traill to believe she was about giving birth to a child. He ordered Kent, the officer, to convey her home in a cab to No. 10, Park-street, in the vicinity of the Court, and send her husband to become bound for her future conduct. On her arrival home the officer assisted her up stairs, where she was put to bed, and having seen that everything was pro vided for her comfort, he left her. About an hour after wards the complainant came into the Court and informed the magistrate that on her arrival home she was assailed by the defendant, who was laughing at the deception she had played upon the magistrate. Mr. Traill thereupon or dered a warrant to be issued for her apprehension. CRIMINAL LUNATICS.—The Hon. and Gallant Member for the city of Lincoln has moved for, and obtained, a return of the number of criminal lunatics now under con finement, specifying the name, age, and sex of each person, the place of confinement, the nature of the offence committed, and the period at which such confinement commenced. The following appear to be the results :—The number of criminal lunatics at present immured within the various gaols of Great Britain amounts altogether to 118, the crimes committed by whom, whilst labouring, we suppose, under "morbid delu sions," comprise all sorts of offences, both against the per son and against property, including murder, arson, burglary, rape, cutting and maiming, assaults, &e. One man, named David Davis, is confined in consequence of having fired at Viscount Palmerston, M.P., in the year 1818. The number of criminal lunatics now confined in lunatic asylums in the different counties of England and Wales, amounts—in Bed ford to 3, in Chester to 11, in Cornwall to 8, in Devon to 6, in Dorset to 2, in Durham to 6, in Gloucester to 10, in Hants to 4, in Hells to 1, in Kent to 7, in Lancaster to 17, in Leicester to 4, in the licensed asylums of this metropolis to 22, in Norfolk to 1, in Norwich to 2, in Notts to 4, in Oxford to 2, in Salop to 3, in Somerset to 4, in Stafford to 2, in Suffolk to 6, in Sussex to 1, in Warwick to 2 , in Wilts to 8, in Worcester to 3, in York (west riding) to 3, and in York (east riding) to 2. The return does not give any particulars respecting \Vales. TEMPERANCE SIIIPS.—The Board of Customs has just issued a general order, by which masters of vessels, who have adopted temperance principles, are allowed, upon their waving all right to any allowance of spirits, to ship brandy for medicinal purposes, duty free, iu the proportion of one tenth of the total quantity of brandy and other spirits to which they would be entitled as stores, according to the com plement of the crew, and the duration of the voyage; and also to ship such brandy in stone jars, provided the whole quantity required be contained in one package. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) A moderate business was done yesterday in the Liverpool Cotton,Market, at previous rates; sales 4,000 bales.—Shares remained firm, without much activity : Birmingham and Gloucester, 92 ; Caledonian, 4-1 ; Birmingham, 231; Brighton, 441 ; South-Western, Eighths, 4 ; Midland Counties, 90i ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; Ditto and Orleans, 38k ; Ditto and Rouen, 37a ; South-Eastern, Scrip, 114. Accounts from Port Phillip of the 21st and 26th of De cember have been received to-day, by separate arrivals. The colony was rather more thriving, and the new system of melting down tallow and salting meats for exportation to Europe, had been of sensible advantage to the flock masters. There had also been arrivals of a few parties from England possessed of moderate capital, and which were very oppor tune, after so long a cessation of beneficial immigration. There are accounts in the Port Phillip papers of the 15th De • cember from Van Diemen's Land, and these, from their general tenor can scarcely be looked upon as much more favourable than those previously come to hand. The Directors of the local bank (the Colonial) had convened a meeting of the proprietors to consider the propriety of winding up. The Western Australian papers to Jan 10, show that the colony is rising. The Toronto, from New York, furnishes advices to the 11th ultimo. After some flatness, stocks had become in better re quest, and were held for higher rates; while, on the other hand the symptoms of returning speculation in cotton had not become more developed. In the Consol Market not much business was transacted to-day. The prices remain at about the same as they were yesterday, viz., at 99a for Money and for the Account. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 775. 795. India Bonds have been done at 945. premium ; and Bank Stock for the Account at 1951. A slight improvement has taken place in the Spanish Bonds this morning, the Three per Cents. having touched 36 ; and the Active Bonds, 244 to 25i. The variations in the other foreign stocks have been trifling. A good deal of business has been done in the Railway Shares, but the prices have not changed much. The Com mercial Bank of London Shares have been bought at 160, or 40 discount. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 10.—The market to-day has been rather inanimate, and stock has been more freely offered.—Hull and Selby, Quarters, 11i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 60 ; South-Eastern, 38 ; Preston and Wyre, 204 ; Blackburn and Preston, 51 ; Manchester and Liyerpool District Bank, 10i : Union Bank of Man chester, 9 1-10. _ _ CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red.... ....... .3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Bei ...... New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 75 pm. Jan. 1860 123 'Bank Stock for Acct.... 195% Oct. 1859 Consols for Acct ...... ... 99 Jan. 1860 12% ;India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent .... ..... Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent 102% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent 117% Chllian, El per Cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 14% Spanish, 5 per Cent 2l A Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 36 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent.... Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent ............ IFtench, 5 per Cent....... —f —c. Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ............... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ... Ditto. 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 61 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 29% Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)... ........ .... 903 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7B Caledonian, 5 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)... ..... .. ......... .... 7 Eastern Counties ( paid) Ditto Registered (816 s Sri paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s. 4d. paid Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths, 12 paid 2l Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid 2% Hull and Selby, 50 paid (0 Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid rig Leeds and Bradford, 5 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (16/. 13s. 4dl) 74 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (IQ/. 15s. 4d. paid) 6 Ditto, Preference or Privilege, £lB 17s 2d paid 17 Londe, and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 17% Midland Counties (100 paid) 9O Newcastle and Darlington Jnnctiou, 18 paid 4l Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland (100 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 40 paid Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 94 South Eastern and Dover (3312 a 4d paid) Ditto View Shares ( 4 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Rouen and Havre, S paid SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY, EIGIIT O'CLOCK.—Expectation is on the tiptoe here as to who are to be the candidates, neither party up to this hour having launched their man. So much anxiety and excitement on a question of the kind was never known to exist here before. A great many names on both sides have been mentioned, but rumour is but little to be depended on. The Tories at their county meeting held yesterday, at Newton, are said to have seriously named but three men—Mr. Pemberton Leigh, of Wigan, a retired bar. Hater, holding the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and at one time a Member for Ripon ; Colonel Wilbraham (brother of the deceased Member) ; and Mr. Egerton, third son of Mr. Egerton, of Tatton. Of these gentlemen, all belonging to well known aristocratic families, it is said that Mr. Pemberton Leigh was decidedly the favourite, but it is now currently reported that all of them have been waited upon, and declined the contest. On the Liberal side equal uncertainty prevails. At a meeting last night, it is said, a deputation was appointed to wait upon Mr. Charles Townley, Mr. S. J. Lloyd, and Mr. Pascoe Grenfell, which left town by a late train on its mission ; but that letters from Loadon this morning had brought in formation to the effect of a proposition having been made to the gentlemen mentioned, anticipating the deputation, and all of them had positively declined to come forward. In the meantime the League, who, it is expected, will no minate a candidate in the event of a free trader not being started 11 either of the political parties, is looked to with something like impatience ; and Mr. Cobden's name is on almost every tongue, not only in M i anchester, but in Liver pool, Ashton, Bury, and other large towns ; and he is spoken of both by Tories and Liberals in a manner that implies the confident belief that he would carry everything before him if put forward, and that such an opportunity of showing the progress of free-trade principles in this great county, ought not to be lost. The only explanation we can give on this point at present is, that the time for the League to step for ward with a candidate is not yet arrived. TEN O'CLOCK.—Since writing the above, a report has been generally prevalent in Manchester, that the. Tories having failed in all other quarters, have waited upon Mr. W. En twistle, a retired manufacturer, and have prevailed on him to stand. In the face of this a placard has appeared on the walls, calling a meeting of the Conservative electors for four o'clock to-morrow evening, " when a candidate will be announced," and it does not seem probable that if they had already fixed upon a man they would wait till to-morrow evening before they announced him. The greater probability is, that the are " yet at sea" for a man, but expect by that time, through some of their deputations now sent out, to have been more successful. (FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.) M♦NCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.—The free-traders have fairly got the start of the monopolists in bringing out a can didate for the suffrages of the electors of this division of Lan cashire, and this evening the address of the candidate will be circulated throughout the country. The gentleman who has thus manfully come forward to fight the battle of free trade is William Brown, Esq., of Liverpool, the head of the extensive house of William and James Brown and Co., who are well known for their immense mercantile transactions. The Tories, it is expected, will not settle upon their can didate until Monday next, when they hold another meeting at Newton-in-the-Willows. Sir George Murray and William Garnett, Esq., are spoken of. Sir George Gerrard has been unceremoniously thrown over board, because he is a Roman Catholic, rather too much of a dose for some of the Liverpool and Manchester Tories to swallow. This morning George Wilson, Esq., Chairman of the League, with Alderman Brooks and John Whittaker, Esq., of the council of the League, went to Liverpool as a deputation to assist Mr. Brown. It is expected that he will be in Man chester, and will publish his address, this evening. The most sanguine expectations exist that the monopo lists will be defeated. During the last three years the Free Traders and Liberals have paid great attention to the state of the register, and they are in the highest spirits as to the result. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.—About twelve o'clock to-day, William Brown, Esq., of Richmond -hill, of the eminent house of Brown, Shipley, and Co., American merchants, of this town, acceded to the solicitation of a most influential free-trade deputation from Man chester and Liverpool, to be put in _ nomination as a candidate for the representation of the southern division of the county. Mr. Brown is in every respect an unex ceptionable representative of the principles and party he advocates. He is considerably advanced in life; pos sesses a most intimate knowledge of commercial legisla tion in all its bearings ; is a gentleman of unobtrusive deportment, and by no means of violent political feel ing ; an extensive landed proprietor, and, in short, one in every way calculated to justify the choice of a great commercial community. On recent occasions, when lie departed from the usual privacy of his life, to attend the meetings of the Anti-Monopoly Association, he evinced ability in his mode of treating public subjects, turning the results of his long experience to account, in the elucidation of the topics under notice. He has not, however, any pretensions to oratory.: The name of the Conservative candidate is expected to be made known to-night or to-morrow morning. This afternoon, o meeting of influential free-traders was held at Eastwood's Royal Hotel, Dale-street, Mr. R. E. Harvey in the chair, at which committees were ap pointed and Various arrangements made. A public meeting of the electors was appointed to be_ held in Liverpool on Wednesday next, at Eastwood's, at twelve o'clock at noon ; a meeting at Prescot - on Tuesday; and a meeting at Ormskirk on Thursday. Great enthusiasm prevailed at the meeting to-day; and it was stated by the chairman that the deputation from Manchester were unanimously of opinion that Mr. Brown was one of the most excellent candidates that could be put forward. IRISH SOCIETY.—The supporters of the above As sociation, established for promoting the edticatiOn of the Irish peasantry through the mediuni of the vernacular language of the country, held their twenty-second annual meeting yester day afternoon, at Hanover-square. George Finch, Esq., presided, and called upon the Rev. Secretary for the report of the Society's operations during the past year. The report famished a detailed account of the proceedings of the Society in the sister country, and stated that in the King's County district, notwithstanding the hostility of the priests, the pro gress of the Society, and consequently of Scriptural instruc tion, had much advanced during the past year. In that dis trict alone were no fewer than 8,000 scholars, not one of whom had been found in possession of a repeal card, to attend a repeal meeting, or to be in any way favourable to the move mant. A favourable report was also made of the state of affairs in Donegal, where against threats of violence and punishment the teachers were resolved to proceed. The Society's schools in Drumclair, Cork, Kerry, and other parts of the country, were also in a satisfactory condition. The schools in Ireland numbered altogether 797, containing 17,301 scholars, of whom 1,235 were adults. The total in come of the Society during the past year amounted to 4,107/. 13s. 6d., a sum exceediv the expe n dit ure b y 121/. 6s. lid. On the motion of isommt Bernard, the report was adopted, and the meeting, after he ar i ng . spekhes from several reverend gentlemen, and easing reso lutions favourable to the cause in which the Society was en- ; gaged, separated, ' • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1844. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutatt Optitton. " Who mots may read." FOR.EIGN. The King and Queen of the French, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Lemingen, and the Royal Family, arrived at Fontainebleau on Tuesday evening, at six o'clock. The Pre fect of the department, the Sub-Prefect, General d'Astorg, and the civil and military authorities of Fontainebleau, were in waiting to receive the Royal party. In the evening the King gave a grand dinner, to which 40 guests were invited. The Count de Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples, has arrived in Paris. This is the second visit paid by his Royal Highness to this capital. The National lays :—" It is announced that the Commit of the Northern Railroad decided on Tuesday on the principle that the Paris and Lille line, already almost terminated by the State, should be finished and worked by it." The Courtier Francais has the following :—" It is asserted in political circles, which are generally well informed, that the Count de Reuss (General Prim), who has had frequent conferences with Queen Christina in Madrid, will shortly ar rive in France, with instructions to treat on a very important affair. The negotiation with which he is charged is said to be connected with the renunciation of the claim of Den Car los to the throne of Spain, and a marriage between the young Queen Isabella and the Prince of Asturias." The postscript of a letter from Constantina of April 24, in the Toulonnais. says :—"lt is reported that our soldiers have experienced a pretty serious check. The column, divided in three, was about to attack the Ouled-Sultan, when the ad vanced guard, having gone a little too much forward, was attacked with loss." The Vienna journals announce that the exhibition of Na tional Industry in that city will open on the 15th instant, and close at the end of June. The exhibitions in future are to be quinquennial, as in France. A fire took place at Bremen on the 30th ult.., in which eight persons were burnt to death. We learn from Munich, May 3, that some attempt had been made to renew the disturbance caused by the rise in the price of beer, but that tranquillity was maintained, without the necessity of having recourse to violence. On Thursday last two French artillery soldiers blew out their brains at Valence. They were intimate friends, and one of them having in vain endeavoured to induce the other to abandon the idea of suicide, resolved at length to die with h►m. Their lifeless bodies were found side by side on the staircase of their barracks. "On the day of the King's f ete," says the Coutitutionnel, " whilst the crowd on the Pont des Invalides was at its height, a young man dressed in a blouse climbed over the balustrade, and threw hirtiself into the Seine. He was drowned before assistance could reach him." The Stockholm journals publish an account of the funeral of the late King of Sweden and Norway, which took place on the 26th ult. The coffin was borne by Noblemen, and fol lowed to the church by the King and Queen. It was de posited in the Royal vault, and two Bishops, in presence of the Archbishop, performed the Jordfastning, a ceremony used in Sweden at all burials—the priest casting three clods of earth on the coffin, and pronouncing the following words : From earth thou tamest, to earth thou returnest—through Christ thou shalt rise again." At this moment the batteries of artillery at the Kungsholmen and the Kornhamer fired 256 shots, and the infantry two volleys. The procession then returned to the Palace, where it enteredat half-past five o'clock. The whole of the diplomatic corps were present at the ceremony. LAW AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court on Friday, Henry Harding was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for highway robbery; and James Lemens, a black man, for cutting and wounding Jane Smith, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the jury having found him guilty of assault only. At Bow-street, Edward Youngman Cotton was charged with having committed a serious robbery in the house of his master, Mr. Edward Driver, of No. 8, Parliament-street, near to Whitehall, and then setting fire to the mansion, with in tent to burn it down, and thus destroy all proofs of his guilt. A young woman of prepossessing features, named Henrietta Smith, was charged as accessary. After a lengthened inves tigation, the prisoners were both remanded. — At Lambeth-street Francisco Llancheris, a Spanish sol dier, was brought before Mr. Norton for further examina tion, on a charge of stabbing a young man named Benjamin Rogers. He was again remanded for a fortnight. Richard Redwood, Alexander Cecil, James Carter, Joseph Clarke, and John Walker, were charged at Woolwich Police court with stealing six loaves from the cart of Mr. Tame, baker, of Hare-street. The baker declined to prosecute them, as they were in a starving state. Mr. Grove said they must not ge about stealing bread; they ought to keep at home, for their parish must support them. However, as the baker himself humanely declined to prosecute, he should discharge them. COURT-PASZIONABLZ. The Master of the Horse (the Earl of Jersey) has lately made a reduction in the number of her Majesty's stud at the Royal mews, in consequence of so many of the Royal journeys being made by railway. The Marquis of Bute, the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly, is expected to arrive at Holyrood Palace early this week. We understand that the arrangements for the company who will dine with his Lordship during the sitting of the assembly are to be on a scale of magnificence beyond that of former years. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and family left Gros venor-square, on Thursday, for Arundel-terrace, Brighton, where his Lordship has taken a mansion for a month. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan are not expected to return to Portman-square from Stephen's-green, Dublin, where the Noble Earl has taken the spacious mansion of the late Lord Chancellor Manners, for a limited term. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle returned to Berke ley-square, on Thursday, from Newmarket, for the seas on . Mr. and Mrs. Standish Standish entertained his Excel lency the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, and the Coun tess Bjornstjerna, Lord and Lady Aylmer, Count Louis de Noailles, Count Esterhazy, Barons de Talleyrand, Brenner, and Taylor, &c., at dinner last eveni ng , a ft er w hi c h M rs. Standish had a soirée. On Thursday last was married, at the Catholic Church, Chelsea, by the Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Catholic Bishop of the London District, Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart., of Talacre, to the Hon. Frances Georgiana Fraser, second daughter of Lord and Lady Levitt. THE BANK CHARTER.,--Last week produced the Ministerial Budget; this week has witnessed a far more im portant Parliamentary ea-posh—that relating to a renewal of the Bank of England Charter, and the plan of a f future na tional currency. These two public questions areintimately connected, and we wish it were in our power to speak in terms of commendation of one or the other; but we cannot. When we reflect on the rapid diminution of the Public Debt, which took place previous to the " fatal measure" of 1819, a decrease of twenty millions per annum, and consider the constant struggle we have had ever since to keep our heads above water, and that we are now, after twenty nine yea rs of peace, in the predicament of the drowning man catching at a straw in the shape of a surplus revenue of less than 400,000/., for which we are indebted to the return of an ob noxious income-tax, we can scarcely restrain owt indigna tion at the financial folly that has produced s uc h re sults. Unfortunately for himself Ana his country, Sir Robert Peel, in the beginning of his career, fell into very bad. iimpany-that of scheme rs , b u lli on i s t s, an d self-styled political economists, wh o succee d e d i n polluting his mind with foolish dogmas as to free trade In everything except the most important of all commodities—gold. It was never our misfortune to hear more ignorance displayed on the subject of the currency than was exhibited by the Premier on Monday night ; indeed, we doubt much if he knows what money is—of course we mean in a philosophical sense; for in his eagerness to get the command of it, on the part of Government, he evidently confounded it with the mercantile currency of the country, so that, not content with exercising the prerogative of the Crown as the issuer of the money of the realm, he would, forsooth, usurp the privilege of banker in general for the nation, as if the Government had not quite enough to do to mind its own affairs, but it must needs look after those of other people. Let the Government issue its receipts (we do not want gold ones) for all the, sup plies, services, salaries, &c. &c., which it raises from the people, and let these receipts pass current as money, and be receivable at the Treasury in payment of taxes, and a basis will be thus formed of legal tender, on which the superstruc ture of mercantile currency mey be safely reared ; we shall then be guided by the wants of our own community as re gards the circulating medium, instead of being obliged, as now, to fix our gaze on Amsterdam and Paris, watching all the changes of the bullion market, for the purpose of regu lating our circulation on some fanciful theory of the ex changes. Gold, as an article of commerce, would come and go according to our wants, and it is likely we could always command our fair share of it, seeing that we can afford to pay the best price for it. We all got rich during the war, when the foreign exchanges were against us ; we are now all impoverished with the foreign exchanges in our favour. So much for the wisdom of the Bullion Committee and its disciples !—Pictorial Times. ABINGDON ELICTION.—We have received com munications from several correspondents for which we are obliged, announcing the return of Mr. Thesiger on Saturday for this close-borough. The return is a matter of no consequence, and about which there could be no doubt, though there may be some doubt ()bout the con sideration. This is one of the rotten boroughs that some how or other escaped destruction in the general sweep made by the Reform Bill. THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—The Commissioners of Cus toms, with the approval of the Treasury, have at length brought out their scheme for the landing-waiters' and searchers' department in the port of London. Two offices of a new denomination will be created, with the style and title of Inspectors-General of the Waterside and Warehousing Departments. An addition of three new officers will be made to the number of landing. surveyors. The six classes of landing-waiters remain as heretofore. Another rank of officers has been estab lished, subordinate to, and under the orders of the land ing -waiters, but superior to the lockers and weighers. This class consists of sixty persons, to be chosen by the Board of Customs, from the most experienced men among the lockers and weighers, and to be called Superintendents of Locks and Warehouses. The num ber of lockers now employed will by this arrangement be reduced from 183 to 120, and the number of weighers from 220 to 180. Messrs. Howe and. Kendall, who have been for some time acting as superintendents of the landing department, have been appointed the inspectors general, with salaries of 7001. per annum each. The selection of officers for promotion to the additional land ing surveyorships is not yet decided. This arrangement will, no doubt, prove beneficial to the servi6e, as far as it goes ; but the frauds which have been perpetrated in the Customs arose principally from the want of a suf ficient controlling power; and the addition of five I:irsons, viz., two inspectors -general, and three landing surveyors, is completely inadequate to effect any material and saht tary alteration in the old. and ineffective system.— Observer. COURT•MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.--On Friday the Court-martial for the trial of Serjeant-Major William Neel ance, of the 12th Lancers, for attempting to bribe Major Meyer, of the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone, to make a favour able report of his qualifications for the post of riding-master to his regiment, and for writing a letter to the Duke of Wel lington calculated to injure Major Meyer in the estimation of the Commander-in-Chief, assembled for the fourth time, when the case for the prosecution was closed. The President then called on the prisoner to make his defence, when he re quested time to prepare his answer to the charges. The Court gave the prisoner until Saturday next to make his defence. The apple blossom now present s a ver y beautiful appearance in our neighbourhood, and there is every pro spect of a bountiful supply of fruit, as we have now little to fear from frosts or rough winds.- Somerset County Herald. - COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Marqus c 1 V , l , :ma, Envny Extraordin4ry pni Minister Plenipotentiary trom her Majesty the Queen of Spain, had an audience of her Majesty. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The Queen was attended by Viscount Hawarclen, Lord in Waiting, and Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen tlemen, of the Royal suite' and the Household, attended Divine service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, went on Saturday morning in the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House• Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in. she - royal gardens on Saturday. The Royal Family were taken their accustomed daily airing on Saturday in the royal gardens of Bucking- ham Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager returned to Marl borough House, attended by her suite, at half-past seven o'clock, on Friday evening, from her residencct, Bushy" House, Bushy Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chs South Audley-street. _ _ The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness. the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Governor of the Bank of England and the De' • puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence 1 Downing-street. The Duke of Wellington, Duke of Rutland, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday m orn i ng . Th e Rev. r 4 Wesley read the prayers, and the Rev. T. Mills preached the sermon. The 'Duchess of Beau?ort, the Marquises of Salle.. , bury and Northampton, Lords Devon, Wilton, Howe; Colville, Ingestre, Alford, Palmerston, and De Mauley , Ladies Wilton, Palmerston, and C. Sanford, attended the daily service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yester day. Prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, and , the lessons by the Rev. C. Packman. The sermon we ll preached by the Rev. T. Mills. The anthem was "I have set God " (Goldwin). Or e musical service was Nares, in F, and the Sancti** Hawes, in F. - r. The agent for Jamaica, accompanied by Mr. M'GrC gor, and a Deputation on the subject of Sugar had.e., interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Se': turday. The Governor of the Bank of England had an inter' view with Sir Rober Peel on Saturday. . The Lord Chancellor has left town for Turville Park; Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, steu also from South Australia, were received on Saturdayte l the Colonial-office. Sir Robert Peel had a dinner party on Saturday even' ing at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel has issued invitations for assemblies on Saturday, the 18th, and on Wednesday, the 22d instant; in Whitehall-gardens. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an rate view, on Saturday, with the Chancellor of the Exehequer The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat az Saturday, and resumed the appeal " William Medd ol s croft v. Harriet Huguenin," from the Prerogative Cour' of Canterbury. Dr. Addams was heard for the . _ ....v re' • spodent, and D r . Philli more was heard in reply.__ Brougham gave judgment on the part of their LET!: ships, af fi rming the deci s i on o f t h e C ourt b e l ow Nit ' costs. The Court then rose. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 11.—Wind, light North-easterly braes . ' and fine. DEAL, MAY 10.—Wild, light and variable.--Arrd. Lydia, Batavia ; Judith Allan, Bombay ; Panock ton, Manilla; London, Gunton, Cape of G oo d Hope; N°l' St. Croix for Copenhagen ; Ada, Jamaica ; Perthshire, Dra lo 2. St. John's, New Brunswi c k. Sld. J o h n T omk i nson, Town ; Orion, Ichoboe ; Amity, Tagura ; Pulen, Rio ; Tobago ; Hendrik Hudson, New York ; Trent, lefiraral.: Java, China ; Glenalvon, A ux C ayes ; Napier, New 'fo r and the whole of the outward-bound. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind, N.N.W.—Arrd. Tor° ll Griswold, New York, s a il e d 11th ult. ; transport Nalltill i t Gibraltar. Off, Agi ncour t, Ni s b et, C a l cutta, sailed Jail. St. Helena March 22. COWES, MAY 10.—Arrd. :Montreal, New York, 24 dul' and sailed for Portsmouth. PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind, N.N.W.—Arrd, A lic* Scott, Port Phillip, Dec. 27. FALMOUTH, MAvlo.—Wind W. to N. moderate. Sld. Pet erel packet, Madeira, &c. Off, Neptunus, Havannah, for Ater dam ; Napoleon, Scott, Swan River (Jan. 14) ; Jon . • Post, Rio, for ~ Amsterdam; James, Williams, Port e EP-u P (Dec. 25) ; Pandorus, Le 3daistre, Buenos Ayres. BRISTOL. MAY 10.—Acrd. Lord Redesdale, Ayres. LIVER! OOL,MAY 10.—Wind N.W. Arrd. Clydesdale, Fur: and Pearl, Valpy, Ichoboe ; Workington, Doyle, Rio; Jain Stewart, Pernambuco ; Friendship, Potts, Sierra Leone; Mary Marsden, Savanilla. Off, Malcolm, Calcutta. WHITEHAVEX, MAY 9.—Arrd. Lady Shaw Stewart, Witt e r Antigua. H 2 TLEPOOL, MAX 10.—S1d. Dart, Quebec. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—Agincourt, Nesbitt, front Bengal, off th 9 Wight, sailed Jan. 25, St. Helena March 22 • Alicia, Scott, from Port Philip, off the Wight, sailed Dec. 27 ; Judith Allan, Hayes, from China, in the East India / Docks, sailed Nov. 19, St. H e l ena M arc h 1 ; Parrefei,j Hall, Wharton, from Manilla, in the Down's, j Sept, 9, Cape Feb. 1 ; London, Gunton, from the Cap,. / in the Downs, s ail e d J an . 1 9 ; R a j asthan, Stewart, 6'6°l' Bombay, off Falmo u th, sa il e d J an. 2 0 , St. Helot March 16 ; Napol eon , S co t t , f rom S wan Ri ver , off mouth, sailed Jan. 14, Cape Feb. 28, St. Helena Mar c , 14 ; Boadicea, With ers , f rom B enga l , o ff Falun=,, sailed Oct. 13, M aur iti us F e b. 7 , C ape Marc h 2 ; color, Sim, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Dec. .„r, St. Helena March 6 ; James, Williams, from Port Ph i lip, off Falmouth, sailed Dec. 25 ; Clydesdale, Par! from Ichoboe, at Liverpool ; Cincinnati, Wilson, 21 "2, — : China, off Plymouth, sailed Dec. 31, bound to AlusTa dam ; Regina, Stace, from Bengal, off Falmoutb• a ; ' Nov. 27, Cape Feb. Arrivals at St. Helena.—Eliza, Willis, March 15, fr °lll Zanzibar to Salem ; Reginald Heber, MTarlane, Bengal, and sailed 18th to Liverpool; Magnet, A lc; liams, from coast of Africa, and Failed 16th to Cor e d Gazelle, Roberts on , 16th, f rom M auritius, and sh i :; . 18th to Leith ; Mary Stoddart, M'Neill, from Be n g to Madonna, Miller, from Bombay, and sa il e d 17e3 Clyde ; her Ma jesty's ship Rattlesnake, 17th, o ' r° China and Cape, t o E ng l an d ; A nn, Treen, 17th, "'— Mauritius, and sailed 18th to Liverpool ; James Cae; boll, Pitcairn, f rom Chi na , an d sailed 18th to Loen?ed Golden Spring, Poole, from coast of Africa, and si"i 19th to Cork ; Ann;Pryce, from Bengal and CaP e i ke c, sailed 18th to London; Renewal, Trotter, from Boor and sailed 18th to London ; John Christian, WI/ combe, 18th, fro m China, and sailed 19th t o Livere ° o 4, Johannes, Mauritius ; Van Deefr, 19th, from Ba ts ot il,' and sailed 19th to Amsterdam; Woodlark, Hardie, ist . from Timor and Cape, and sailed 20th to London; ,„ t s mony, Elder, from China; Frederick Huth, Toby, 1 ,; ( 1 coast of Africa ; J avaan , D e kk er , f rom Passaroesu g tr sailed 21st to Amsterdam; Christina and Erasmus, Jroto o, Batavia • Mayflower, Hutchinson, from coast of A - 0 10 and sailed 21st to Cork ; R o y a l A rc h er, S co tt, to f coast of Africa ; H.M.S. Conway, Fair, from CO Africa ; Reward, Salmon, f rom P or t Phili p; P o rt „ to , wood, Vidler, from Breeds Ri ver; Camillus, kta,' from Bombay, and sailed 21st to Liverpool; I ,f[ b ot Strickland, and Emu, Jones, from China ; Sir Peel, Edwards, from Bengal; H.M.S. Winchester , ""' tain Eden, 22d, from West Coast of Africa. Departures from St. Helena.—Chieftain,Birnie,u" - tt . 14, to London ; Bleng, Stewart, to Liverpool ; 6 /, ; f tude, Morrison, a n d Clif ton, L ockyer, 16th, to Cor Palatine, Gardner, to London. 2 0 * • Arrivals at Melbourne.—Regulus, Hunter, _,De c i, from Hobart T own ; T yne, R o b ertson, from We' ton • 4lary, IVfitcheson, 22d, from London. ' eti Arrival at the Falkland Islands.—Columbian Sampson, Nov. 24, from St. Helena. ro t • A FACT FOR THE LEAGUERS.—At a recent fit _ lO , ing of the charity t rus t ees o f t h e b oroug h o f level er , situate in the midst of an agr i cu l tura l di s t r ict; 0 1 were no less than 154 a ppli ca ti ons f or assists/dee,' on although the f un d s a t th e di sposa l o f these gee_n,!p% are very ample, yet suc h i s th e constant and Pr'7„ ieg demand on them, th e y h a d on l y t h e means of Out, three very di s t ress i ng cases. S e much for the be•tf, of protection to the agricultural part of the con:l o '7 —.Dover Chronicle. REDUCTION IN THE 'HOURS OF fLABoUII. -- t ?,,f 0 . v duction in the ho urs o f l a b our has commenced st, ° „s of the principal Cotton mills in the town of P r eston, ro u o ; o l Mr. Robert Gardner, Th e m ill s commence d s e . only el even h ours a -d ay for five days in the ive7of nine on th e S a t ur d ay , t h e un d erstand i ng beiek7oo' there was a reduction in the amount of werl' o aiof clued, the hand s wou ld su b m i t to a corresrt bits ' reduction of wages. For the short time tfi l o elapsed no correct opinion of the result of ,wtnee - periment can be formed, but we are in. tot del that for the first week—that is, up to bet evening—the wages of th e weavers were only t ttats. penny per head b e l ow t h e average o f t he j oin* mouths, daring which th e y h a d wor k e d tweloiow and that of the spi nners one s hilli ng per head- I :: r ruFW same average. The arrangemen t h as been in.. 0.014 during the present week in consequence of a br e ak bo di by which the engine was twi ce stopped, and the his be • have to work twelve hours, till the lost time fetched op.—Blackburn Standurd. gr. • "„ L l ai r _ SUICIDE 01' A YOUNG FzmALß.—On 1 • Baker held an inquest at the Crown and Atreb e ld s rtbs t street, Mile-end New-town, on the body _ ° _ben.' 49 ; Miles, aged 18, a fringe-maker. Arthur Du' ed hsa -20, Luke-street, trimming-maker, said dece ased wira. worked for him for the last twelve inontn esso i sometimes very gay, and at others much d P Latte ri f stif k spirits, and would cry for hours together. , 48 woe I_, used to have severe fits, during whic h hold hold 01 . scream violently, and exclaim, " Oh, mas t er' 11° 0110 eyes, keep him from me," but she n amedto rafset For the last fortnight she was not aWtse to fr i g,dZ her work, and she attributed her - Susan Crewe, a fellow work-girl, said w, deed t, caused by having seen a woman tdhrsohwne ping-rope about three weeks since, and e:T iead i n .i_ manythree ro be Thursday, witness saw deceased at work in A . $ wasimd she missed,wa s a e n r d yi w eg itn a e t s t s h t e hi t n i k el in e. g s S l l7 w ri n s . by t he in search of her, and at length found her t na! , lt . i s gate_ neck from a rafter in the water-closet , bY,m,,Z . l3yrnitl, heouutghotftsuerp t e h h e ip l p a i n n d g io r r e d Pe of the house Mr. Burchett, the parish surgeon, having eu rai se s , ed ea a m n e a a l n ar d in :a insanity , r pronounced her quite dead. Verdict `•!" Alii,°"l"-nj