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COMPLETE HISTORY OF = CHINESE WAR, &c. Now ready, In 2 vols. Svo., with Maps and Mates, 325. bound, NARRA.TIVE of the. VOYAGE S and SERVICES of " THE NEMESIS," From 1840 to 1843, And of the combined Naval and Military OPERATIONS IN CHINA; Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of HONG-KONG, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of THE CHINESE, &C. From the Notes of Commander Ir. 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 our late contest with China. In all that relates to the Nemesis espeoially, and to the naval operations 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. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY 14, Will be performed Herold's Chef d'ceuvre, ZAMPA. Camlil t , Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Benin' ; Zampa, Sig nor ke , rnaiori ; Alfonso, Signor Corclli; Daniel Capuzzi, Signor I*. Lablache; and Dandola; Signor Lablache. To conelu le Kith the Grand Ballet,, in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, ent it lad ONDINE, ou, LA N'AI ADE. The Fectery I); Mr. W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor Pugn'. Principal ct arlcit rs by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheirer, Mille Fer dinand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Barville, and Mlle. Adelaide Frani ; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and Si. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Celcnnade. Do ors open at seven. The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nebility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re— !pectfury infermerl that there will be an extra Night (not included in the Sub-criptinn) on THURSDAY NEXT, May 16, when will be performed Mozart's chef eceuvre IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anaa, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favanti ; Zevlina. Madame Persiani ; Don Giovanni Lig. Fornasari ; Lc melt°, Sig Lablache; Masetto, Sig. F Lablache ; II Comman datore, Sig. Felice ; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario. To conc:ude with ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box effice, Oi era-colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LAN& FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS CLARA WEBSTER. TIIAS EVENING, MAY lv, Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrain: Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Horncastle ; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Mi.s Betts. After the Opera, tl:c Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER. MOOR. Edgardo Signer Salvi ; Raimondo, Mr. Boranni. To conclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled TIIE REVOLT' OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, M. Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn ; Zelika, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, Madame Giubilei. Dress Boxes Is., Second Frice Va. 6d.; Upper Circles of Boxes 504. Second Price 3s. ; Pit 311 , r•ecorxl Price N.; Middle Gallery 2a., &wand Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER LESSER. THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be revived the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. I.'arren ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Strick. hind; Dazzle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone; Lady Gay Sdatiker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Grace Hat k iwav, Miss Julia Bennett; Pert, Mrs. Humby. 10 be followed by a New, Oi iginal, Occasional, and Local Extra. enganza, fountcd on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff Princip_al Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, airs. Glover, Miss I'. Horton, and bliss Lee. To conclude with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, !s. • Pit, sa. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Cal. Doors opened at h all past Six, and the l'erformances eorarriexce at Seven _ _ 'Pickets and !laces to Da had of Mr 1. T. Archer, at the Boa office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STB.E.V.I. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be performed LA SO NN A BULA. Andna, Miss Grant; Liza, Miss E. Honnor ; Elvin,, Mr. Allen. To which wlll be added GONE TO TEXAS. To be followed by a New Farce, called CUT FOR PARTNERS. After which, BO MB ASTES FURIOSO. THEATRE ROY A L LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOU'SE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and flishionable audinces THIS EVENING, MAY IS, Will be repeated as Original Comic Drama, entit'ed THE THREE WIVES OF .1 A DRID. Princi rat Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Diddear, F oiatthews, Emery, Wigan. Craven, Turner, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and After which, will be produced a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. Fontipal Characters by . Messrs. F. Mathews, lounge, Mrs. W ookl.ge, Mrs. Usher, Miss Pairbrother, Miss Chaplin, Miss Grove, and Miss i•ottt.seue. To be followed by us Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK AMANIA Characters by Mr. f, Mathews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a than t Burla - que Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha racteis by Miss Woolgrr, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Mils Turner, Mi;s Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICES OF A MUM!' lON.—Balcony Foxes, 45.; Upper Poxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Callcry, fici. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the Balcony 1 ier (holding eight persons). Iwo Guineas Private Boxes on the hecond Tier (ho ring eight persons), One Guinea and a..llalf. Private Boxes on the Pit lice (holding six persons), One Guinea. - - ASTLEY'S ROYAL ASIPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. (irand A t'raction. 1/11S eVENING. MAY 13, Will be remated the Hotos%cal Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIA M THE CONQUEROR; or, the Battle of Hastings. With alt the sects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change 14 th? Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with tI.• Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the H the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open n.ellty at six o'clock, and the performances temmence at fr ven. Box office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been recot.structed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage an :alter, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. F On Monday, May 20, M. Floge will re-appear, for the last week of his Engagement, and will take his Benefit on Fiiday, May 21. , IJAV ROYAL SURREY 'CHEAT RE. THIS EVENING MAY 13, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. Supported by Messrs. E. P. Saville, H. Hughes, R. Honner, Neville, Va e, Mrs H. Vining, Miss errey, and Mrs. Lewis. Atter winch, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conch' 'e with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIABS, in whtoh the entire Company will perform. ?aces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. IterSChner, at the Box. o tire from Eleven to Four. IHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL OPEN EVERY EVENING. %Tali the asto nding Wonders of the Extraordinary Eeing the GREAT WIZ %RD OF IHE NORTH, and the ARAB BROTHERS, aged seven, nine, and twelve years of age, whose Clas is Orcupings, and Surprising Feats of Strength, are the theme of generel aumir.lien A Trick north Knowing! How to 611 a Theatre by Magic! This is the Fourth .eason of the Great Delusionist In London! fie baa co hp et,d the 'thirtieth Night of his present Season ! His Miracles have b.en witnessed l'y iipwa:ds of rive Hundred Thou sand Sdectato si :Cll his Magic Temple is nighly hononred with sly st brilli int and crowded audience:; thus proving to the world the cell sing superiority of his u paralleled Entertainments He nightly excites; the astoni hment of Hundreds, by his Scientific Eat eii. tnents ; the peculiar street of which beggars description. His new tfrbisi ,, ns, 'l'llF. FLYING RINGS, and THE F:INCII ANTED HAT, are wanders which have no equal ! ! : And, Novelty being at present the rage the GREAT WIZARD intends MAKING A tviTou Then fore, any lady, desirous of appearing as the Great Wi.ch, in conjunction with the Great Wizard, is informed, that the Letter will be happy to initiate her in the Mysteries of his Art. —A Fr. nch, German, or Italia, Lady would be preferred. Boxes, 35.; Pit. Is. eat.; Gallery, Cd. Reserved Seats, and Private Saxes can be secured at the Ibeatre, and of all the Agents. Second Price a:, Nine o'clock. ll.yors open at flalLpastSeven—the Wizard appears at Eight EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most mafmificent and extensive Collection of ilisto -leal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed • oy One Person ; daring Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a coot of 60,000 guineas, and to completely Illustrate, in the most in, struCtive and Interesting manner, the most Important part Of Euro pean histbrv, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER. CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, 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 aMe to Increase, by several very fine pictures, &e., his previous almost Incredible number and variety of Ist., Works of Art, sod a multitude of valuable Relics, and other eurloodtles, In this most instructive and, as hundreds have said It . ought to he, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, and TIIIRTY. PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen lay every me. The price df admis• sion Is reduced to.ONE MULLING. • . The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be Seen only at the " Egyptian MR," Piccadilly, dilly from Ten till Dusk. TIIE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 13. TheitatomerF.it, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 68; Noon, 68. BIIIO:itETER E N.Y.% NoTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and .55 temperate. In Barometers fair is wmally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. fi'o.ll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 18 minutes after 11 j Evening .„, 41 minutes after 11. 4 . 5( 04 • .0•44 4 . ••••• , .• - ky„. . .4.7.• m 0 XKOIT • .". 1016, _ p•nt";::•••,'' SECOND EDITION. iflt LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1844. No man holds a more enviable position in society at the present day, than Lord ASIILEY. 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 ASHLEY, when his party came into office, might have had almost any situation that he could have Limed, but when he found the Government hostile t o th e great object he had i n view, he rej ec t e d any . offer, he stood firm in his integrity, ho 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 poor?—The labouring classes, the operatives, the men that perform every work of drudgery, the sailors and the soldiers who have defended our country, and rendered her name illustrious in every quarter of the globe. NEL sos and WELLINGTON are entitled to every praise, but what fame would they have acquired without the bravery of that class for which Lord ASIILEY now pleads? When NELSON gave his last signal, " Eng land expects every man to 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 corn mowsailor ? When NAPOLEON, for eight hours, at the battle of 'Waterloo, made the most furious and vigorous attacks ever made against any army, who crowned the heights between Hougomont and La Haye Sainte f—who stood immoveable against the showers of bullets, and the attacks of the finest cavalry and artillery in the world I ) —who formed thAt imPenetrable line which . General FOY, an enemy, described as fixed in the earth, till at the proper 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 staffoflife 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 strong 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 ELDON, sprung from the lower classes, subscribed 2001, Sir THOMAS BARING, 1001., Mr. R. B. SIIE RIDAN, a name celebrated in the annals of the country, 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 noble purpose till he earns the greatest and most consolatory of all re wards, the blessings of those " who are ready to perish." "No one, we suppose," says the Herald of this morning, in reference to Friday night's debate in the House of Commons, on the Factories Bill, "No one, even of the warmest adherents of the long-hour sys tem, will attempt to deny that the adherence of Government to that system, however conscientious, has inflicted the most serious injury on the Conser vative cause that it has sustained since the last grand mistake in 1829. That injury, too, is wide-spread, and consists of many parts. One of these, and by no means a slight one, is the deterioration of the cha racter of the House of Commons. This is too often the forerunner of some hazardous organic change." Our Contemporary then proceeds to comment on the late speeches of that consistent couple, Messrs. LIDDELL and GALLY KNIGHT, and adds :—" No two speeches of such brevity were ever before fraught with so much loss and damage to the party to which the speakers belonged." There is a world of truth in these remarks, and what adds to their significance is the singular fact that they are put forth by a journal which is a staunch supporter of that very " Conservative cause" which it now frankly and boldly insists has been seriously injured by the ob stinate tenacity of the Government on the factory question. The mischief inflicted by that Government on Toryism, «nd more particularly on " the cha racter of the house of Commons"—which House, however, so far as we can see, has not of late years had much character to lose—must, indeed, have been great and undeniable, ere the Herald would have dreamed of alluding to it in such strong, emphatic terms. We respect our Contemporary for his manly candour, and we cor • dially subscribe to every one of his observations. His allusion, in particular, to the deteriorated charac ter of the House, is true to the letter; for not a man of any reflection but must acknowledge that by its vacillating conduct on the factory question, the Im- Ferial Senate has greatly lowered itself in public esti mation. But three short weeks since it was carried away by a sudden paroxysm of humanity; so great was its benevolence—so ardent its sympathy with the sufferings of the factory women and children, that the awe in which it habitually holds the. Premier was laid aside ; and, despite his frowns, protestations, and even menaces, it had the boldness to decide against him, and even leave him in a minority. Such was the bold, independent demeanour which the House of Commons maintained not quite three weeks ago. But since then a complete change has come over it. It has had time for reflection; it was " drunk"--to use Mr. GALLY KNIGHT'S appropriate phrase—when it decided in favour of the overtasked factory opera tives; but it is now " sober," and being so, it feels it its bounden duty to repudiate the claims of the poor and the helples!=, and to stand by the interests of the rich and the influential. Its humanity, like 808 ACRES' valour, has fairly oozed out at its finger-ends, and it is once again the obsequious slave of the Aladdin Lamp—in other words, the ready, submissive tool of that conjuror, Sir ROBERT PEEL. True, its final de • cision is not yet made, but every one, endowed with the slightest observation, can foresee which way the debate on Lord ASHLEY'S clause will terminate; every one can foresee that the House will most egre giously stultify itself; and that the Conservatives, more especially, will rush, in breathless haste, to follow the consistent—the enlightened—the high minded example set them by those twin political luminaries, Messrs. GALLY KNIGHT and LIDDELL. And all this wholesale tergiversation is to take place, because, forsooth, the Premier will have it so! and because—more and more humiliating still—if the House persists in being consistent, the Home Secre tary will feel it his duty to retire from office, and cultivate, like another CINCINNATUS, his garden at Netherby ! To think that the threat of a GRAHAM quitting public life should be sufficient to scare a British House of Commons from the broad, straight, obvious path of duty—of consistency—of common sense—of humanity! We look upon this as one of the most inglorious and humiliating " signs of the times" that has been manifested for many years. 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 speech with which he introduced them on Monday last, we are desirous again to call the atten tion of our readers to some important and significant facts in the present aspect of the country, on which the Right llon. Baronet observed a very guarded silence. It did not consist, we can readily imagine, with his purpose of exalting the merits of a currency 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 h ave b een 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 Englatid and Wales in the successive years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. The third fact 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 manufacturer 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, TLC., 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 Gf 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, K hose 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 crotchgtty 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 speech and the resolutions it in troduced. Madrid journals of the sth have been received. If we are to credit the statements in them, put forth by the Government, the decree abolishing mar tial law is only the beginning of a new system, which is to be in accordance with the Constitution. The present Cortes is to be dissolved forthwith, and a new assembly is to be convoked, to meet in the month of August, for the dispatch of business. Most of the State prisoners have been released, now that NARVAEZ has obtained the object of his wishes. LOPEZ and MADOZ who were committed to prison at the breaking out of the insurrection at Alicant, had presented themselves before the Political Chief, and there being no charge against them, they were set at liberty. BRAVO had also been rewarded for his services by a valuable appoint ment. "fire know," says the Heraldo," that the ex- President of the Council is animated with the best sentiments for the triumph of the order of things to which he so powerfully contributed, and we are aware of the ardent desire which animates him to give to the QUEEN and the country new proofs of fidelity and devotion." The ex-editor of a scurrilous journal has been ap. pointed Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon. The Three per Cents. were done at 34 cash, and 31 5-16, 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 211,60 days. The French Chamber of Deputies are still engaged, to the exclusion of all other business, in discussing the clauses of the Prison Bill, and on Friday the Government submitted to a material alteration in one of them proposed by M. VATOUT. The original clause declared that all prisoners should be shut up in separate cells day and night, with one hour for recreation ; whereas the amendment restricted that terrible punishment to criminals condemned to the galleys or imprisonment with hard labour. Several Members were opposed to the clause even in its amended shape, and contended that with the cellular system nothing but absolute torture could maintain discipline. The clause as amended, however, was ultimately adopted. The domestic news in the Paris papers is without interest. It was the general belief at Paris that Louis PHILIPPE seriously intended ,to pay a visit to the Queen of ENGLAND this summer, either at Windsor Castle or London. "The report of the KING'S journey to England," says the Courrier Francais, "begins again to obtain credit. The Mari time Prefect of Cherbourg has commanded at Havre several silk flags, on which are to be embossed the arms of England and France. The KING, after having crossed the Channel to London, where it is said he is shortly expected, will proceed to Brest with the squadron which is being prepared to accompany him on his voyage. His MAJESTY is said to have given orders to prepare for his reception at Brest, where he proposes to pass two or three days." The beer riot at Munich seems to have been rather of a serious character. The following account of the affair, probably derived from official sources, appears in the Journal des Debats : " Up to this moment no other cause has been discovered for the riots which have been now continuing for four or five days than the rise in the price of beer. This beverage is one of the first necessity among the inhabitants of Bavaria, par ticularly of the working classes ; the price has therefore con siderably increased of late years. It has been the general custom to advance the price during the summer months, and that change has usually taken place on the lit of May. This year, unfortunately, it occurred just at the period of the cele bration of the marrirge of the Princess Hildegarde with the Archduke Albert. the people made grievous complaints that on this occasion there had been no public rejoicing ordered by the Government, no illuminations, nor fireworks, nor theatres opened gratis. These causes united provoked, during the Ist of May, some disorderly proceedings, which went on increasing on the following days. About five o'clock the garriion beat to arms, the mob had attacked all the breweries, breaking the windows, and destroying everything that fell in their way. Barricades were begun to be thrown up in one of the principal streets. The cavalry on reaching the spot were obliged to charge on the mob, when two or three persons were killed. " On the following days the city was pretty quiet ; the people assembled in considerable numbers before the houses which had been destroyed, but without making any hostile demonstrationS. Numerous detachments of troops patroled and kept the streets clear. But in the evening the disturb ances recommenced in the same quarter as on the previous day, and it was necessary to have again recourse to the cavalry. These tumultuous scenes took place whilst the King and Royal Family were at the theatre. A nume rous mob bent their steps in that direction, exclaiming that they would not allow the rich to divert themselves whilst the necessaries of the poor were advanced in price ; but the guard at the door presenting their arms on the approach of the people, made them draw back. The people within the theatre were in great alarm, fearing the building might be set fire to, and several retired as fast as they could. The King and Royal Family, however, stopped out the first act, and then retired. In the course of the evening numerous arrests took place, and it was hoped the discord had ceased ; but on the following day some disturbances again took place, and several bakers' shops were entered and pillaged. His Majesty went out each day in his carriage. The director of police issued a proclamation prohibiting more than ten persons assembling together at the same time. On the following day, the troops of the garrison, who were very much fatigued, were relieved by the garde bourgeoise, and this display of force was the means of preserv ing order. In the meantime the Government deemed it pru dent to make some concession, and the burgomasters circu lated placards, announcing that beer would be sold at the old price. This news was soon spread through, the city, and tended so much to restore quiet, that the sth passed without disturbance, and the King was preparing to set out for Rome on the Bth. " There is every . reason to hope that there will be no re currence of those violent scenes, tranquillity having been se cured by the timely concession made to the roused passions of the multitude." THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, MAY 9. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents...• •• 122 55 • • 122 55 • • 122 45 .. 122 45 Four per Cents. Three per Cents B4 40 .. 84 45 .. 84 40 .. 84 45 Bank of France 3120 ••3120 . 3120 ..3120 Belgian Bank.. .. Belgian Fives, 1831 ••.• • • • 1031 .. 103 f • . 103 f • • 1031 1840 •••• • • • 106 106 .. 106 .. 106 1842.• •• •• • • 1081 .. 108} .. 108 i .• 108} Spanish Active Threes •••• • • • ..... 36 • • 36 .. 36 .. 36 Passive • • 61 .. fif .. 61 Neapolitan.. •••• •••• • .. 102 50 .. 102 50 .• 102 35 .. 102 35 Roman, ex div.... RAILWAY SUARES. St. Germain .• • . 830 .. 830 .. 830 .. 830 Versailles, R.B.— L.B. Rouen Rouen to Havre. 737 50 .. 737 50 .. 736 25 736 25 Orleans ••• • • • • •• •• •• • • •• • . 983 75 .. 983 75 .. 982 50 .. 983 75 Strasburg to Bale 275 .. 275 272 50 .. 273 75 Avignon to Marseilles— • 766 25 766 2.5 • • 766 25 .. 766 25 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Vcr - allies,R.B..• •• ..••••• 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 .• 377 50 ••• Rouen •••• •• •••••• •••• •• •• 976 25 .. 978 75 .. 97G 25 . 978 75 Rotten to 1iavr0...•..•.. • -. 737 50 737 50 .. 737 30 737 50 Orleans •.•• Strasbtug to 8a1e......-- 271 25 .• 275 .. 271 25 .• 275 Avignon to Marseilles...... 766 25 .. 76G 25 . 766 25 .. 766 25 A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers as sembled at two o'clock. All the members of the Cabinet were present. THIS DAY'S NEWS QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY) (Before Chief Justice DENMAN, and a Common Jury. TACKIER v. PATERSON. Mr. Platt, with whom was Mr. Gunning, appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Jervis and Mr. 13rainwell for the defendant. This action was brought by Mary Lockier, executrix of her late husband, to recover compensation in damages of Mr. John Paterson, a baker, carrying on business at 10, Green street, and 72, Princes-street, Leicester-square, for an alleged illegal distress. The facts, as detailed in evidence and by the Learned Counsel, are briefly these :—ln the month of August last the defendant entered into possession of the premises at No. 10, Green-street, which were formerly occu pied by a baker of the name of Miller, who became a bankrupt; and of whose assignees he purchased the premises and business. The shop is situated at the corner of Green-street, Leicester-square, and adjoining thereto is a small shop, in which the plaintiff carried on the business of a tobacconist and newsvender. In January last the defen dant, after repeated endeavours to obtain the rent then owing, put in a distress, which was withdrawn on the following day on the payment of the rent. The distress was stated to be illegal, on the ground that the plaintiff was a quarterly tenant. It appeared in evidence that an agreement was entered into between Miller the bankrupt and the husband of the plaintiff to pay 15s. a week for the shop and adjoining premises ; but as the plaintiff's late husband received a sum ofmoney in quarterly payments, Miller consented to take ,the rent quarterly, but the agreement did not appear to have been altered. On the part of the defendant, it was contended that he'acted on the belief that the plaintiff was a weekly tenant, and that, whe ther that were so or not, he was entitled to make a distress if only a shilling were owing at the time. Lord DE MAN having summed up the evidence, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 91. 14s. COMMON PLEAS._(TIIIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL. ELIOT V. ALLEN AND ANOTHER. This eve, which has already occupied the Court two days, was resumed this morning, when Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied on the part of the plaintiff. Lord Chief Justice Tim)Ar. summed up the evidence and left it to the jury to say which of the defendants was liable, if they thought either of them was—whether they had esta blished their plea that the plaintiff was a pauper, or that the state of his mind was such as would justify them in confin ing him in the workhouse, and if they had not established their plea, what amount of damages they considered the plain tiff entitled to. The jury retired to consider their verdict, but had not re turned into Court when we went to press. INSOLVENT COURT.-(THIS DAY.) IN RE DANIEL FRYER. The insolvent in this case had carried on business as a piano l:y;En said, that although very forte maker, and was opposed in pmeras(oienablyvatywytoicariedpirtoopres,rtoyn. yet the facts, as proved able him to remand the si t nt h rl e e; rilligedoeg evidence, nn o ,, f (ei,d i se l r a ce : x - 1 i : i n isoe g tfte fraudulently oruafffito3l listeilunse:ntpititcoi suspicion, insolvent. The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged. drunk, fi —(THIS DAY.) woman, singular appearance, was was as remarkable as her charged having and using abusive and AC n le l E dwei ß rti ( li E ttle N ) b i r eoemi E ladn i , r, a L no Police-sergeant Peck, of the E division, deposed that the in sultingperson, .Janelaug t s m e g y e m . ou l r l . er name prisoner, who sweeps a crossing, was drunk, and used lan guage of an insulting description to a lady who gave her only a farthing, saying "What a pretty lady you are, to hand me a farthing. Sergeant Lester said the prisoner was in the habit of getting drunk, and there were many complaints of her using insulting language towards persons at her crossing. Mr. LoNG—What have you to say to this charge? Pri soner—l am very sorry for it your Worship, and I promise you it shall never occur again. Mr. LONG sentenced her to pay a fine of ten shillings, or seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The woman had not the money, and she was locked up. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Ann TVright, a tall powerfully grown young woman, about 27 or 23 years of age, dressed in extremely gaudy and vulgar style, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a purse, containing gold and silver, to the amount of 101., from the person of a gentleman of very high respectability, resid ing at the West-end, but whose 'name, for what reason or cause, we could not learn, was not allowed to transpire. The following are briefly the circumstan ces o f th e case . B e t ween twelve and one o'clock this morning, the complainant was stopped by the prisoner and another female in her company, in Cleveland-row, and while stopping for a few seconds in conversation with them, they succeeded in extracting from one of- his trouser's pockets the purse and contents in ques tion with which there is no doubt the prisoner's companion instantly made her escape. The complainant, however, after some resistance, succeeded in detaining the prisoner until the police took her in charge. On being searched by a female at the station-house; neither purse er any money was found in her possession. On the prisoner being placed at the bar, Inspector Frowd, of the E division informed Mr. Maltby that the complainant had not made his appearance, although he had been ex pressly directed to be in attendance by half-past ten o'clock. Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoner was known. Inspector Frowd said—As a very disorderly and drunken character as a prostitute, but not, as he believed, a thief. She was ordered to be detained until a later hour. Ann Wilson, a nymph of the pave, well known to the po• lice, was charged with robbing a gentlefnan in Burlington gardens, at twelve o'clock last night, of a purse containing 103. or 12s. in silver, under precisely similar circumstances. The complainant not being in attendance, she was also put back. UNION HALL.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Jackson was charged with stealing a quantity of plate from the house of Mr. Westley, Dencipsey'a-ter race, Camberwell. Harriet Jewel, the servant, stated that sho Was cleaning the steps of her master's house on the preceding morning, and had occasion to leave the door for a moment; when she returned she saw the prisoner coming up the area [steps, putting something in his pocket. She knew he had been in the kitchen, and followed him about a Mile, and meeting with a policeman, gave him into custody. The witness here identified the two silver forks and the two spoons as her mas ter's property. Mr. George Taylor, of South-place, Camberwell, stated, that on the morning in question he saw the prisoner walk quickly along, and when he came in front of witness's house ho threw something into the front garden amongst the flowers, which lie (witness) found to be the silver forks and spoons produced. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded, as the other articles of plate have not yet been found. George Hyatt, a smartly-dressed young fellow, was charged with stealing a purse containing 21. Bs. 6d. from. the person of Mrs. Ann Wade. The complainant stated that as she was walking along the Borough she caught the prisoner's band in her pocket, and held him until a policeman came along. She then gave him into custody on missing her purse containing the above sum. The prisoner, however, contrived to "cling" the purse and its contents to a companion who is expected to be taken into custody.—He was remanded. John Downs, an extraordinary looking old man, was , charged with pilfering various articles from different shops in the New-cut. A large bag, which the prisoner carried was produced, in which was found a variety of articles, consisting of pieces of beef, mutton, veal, kidney, mutton chops, red herrings, salmon. &c. It was stated that the prisoner was in the habit of sneering along by the Aides of show, And outdating tip THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1844 whatever came within his reach. He was observed to take some meat off a stall, and when stopped, the bag containing the articles above described, were found upon him, all of which, there was no doubt, he had stolen from tradesmen's shops. The pris(iner made a curious defence : he said that he was on the road to Manchester, and that the " grub " found in his bag was giVen to him by different people to help on the way. Evidence, however, being adduced that the prisoner was in the habit of pilfering, he was accordingly committed for a month. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • BETTING AT THE WEST END. GORHAMBURY STAKE. 2 to 1 agat Devil-to-pay. THE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot—taken 1,000 to' 25 agst Ford's lot—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Dawson's lot—taken 9to '4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—(t sto 2) 18 to 4 agst Mr. Crockford's Ratan—(take 7 to 2) 17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando 25 to 1 agat Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar 40 to I agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campanero. OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Merope—taken. 12 to 1 agst Crenoline. On Saturday Ugly Buck was backed at 5 to 2 and Ratan at 7 to 2 and 4 to 1 for nearly 1,0001. each ; Col. Peel's lot at 9 to 1 and Orlando at 16 to 1 for large sums; Running Rein at 1,000 to 60, Bay Momus and T'Auld Squire at 1,000 to 50 each, Campanero at 1,250 to 50, King of the Gipsies at 1,000 to 20, and Scott's lot at 9 to 1 to 2001. or 3001. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) EGLINTON PARK STEEPLE-CHA.SES--FmnAr. The Heavy-weight Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13st 71b each. (10 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Blueskin, aged. (Owner) 1 Lord Glenlyon's Mountain, aged 0 Mr. Harrington nd Ragweed, aged 0 Sir W. Scott nd Bourdeaux, 6 yrs Mr. Robertson's Tinder-box ••• ...... 0 Lord Maidstone's Emperor, aged Blueskin took the lead, kept it throughout, and won by nearly half a mile. The judge did not place a second. A protest was then made, that Blueskin had gone on the wrong side of a flag, on ascertaining which the stewards decided that the whole race was void. The Light-weight Sweepstakes, 15 sous. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 12st each. (10 Subs.) Mr. Ramsay's Binks the Bagman, aged Lord Maidstone's Caesar, aged 2 Lord Waterford's Brutus (late Viscount), aged Lord Glenlyon's The Mountain, aged 4 The following also ran :—Mr. Moore nd Goblin, Mr. W.F. Hamilton's Grace, aged, and Mr. Willington's Grace Dar ling, aged. A good race, won cleverly at last by two lengths. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 50 added. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Blueskin, 13st 71b (Owner) 1 Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Binks the Bagman, 13st 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Eglinton's Scraper, 9st 51b—Lord Glenlyon's Hotspur, llst llb —Lord Maidstone's Emperor, 12st 71b—Mr. Robertson's Tin der-box, 12st 1 lb--Capt. Boyd's, the Pony, 9st 91b—Lord Maidstone's Caesar, 13st 41b—Mr. Johnstone's Red Ribbon, lOst 111 b, and Mr. Willington's The Veteran, Ost 51b. A fine race. Won by half a length. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Business in Wheat fresh up, owing to the factors demand ing from Is to 2s per quarter more money than last week, progressed slowly; eventually, however, the demand became steady, but not the slightest improvement was, noticed on last week's rates. The show of fine foreign Wheat was mo derately good. Fine Dantzic qualities moved off steadily; other kinds slowly, at last week's currencies. Bonded Grain almost nominal in value. Fine malting parcels of Barley sold at full currencies; in other kinds very little was doing. Malt at unaltered currencies. Full prices were obtained for Oats. Beans and Peas at an advance of from is to 2s per quarter. For Flour prices remained about stationary. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Witzwr—Essex & Kent, Matm—Chevalier....... • 11.33 to red.. ...... .., 40; to 58. Oars—Yorkshire an d Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe 2ss to , coin, red ..... ....... 40. to 43. Youghall and Cork, Ditto white 426 to 476 black ........ ....... 17$ to IP6 Irish, red ..... Ditto white RYE—Ol d %a to 33. BEANS—Tick 293 to 52. New 36$ to 38s Pigeons .ilsittkv—Grinding 246 to 27s Peas, Grey Ms to 33s Malting 13. to 36s Maple Chevalier 32s to 35s White 33s to 37. Mats—Suflblk and Nor- 80i1er5........... 326 to 386 folk Ms to 62s FLouit—Town mad e ... 486 to 53s Brown 50s to 51s Suffrik 34. to 38s . Kingston and Ware 568 to 62s Stockton & Norfolk 34s to 3' s FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. WHEAT—Dantzlc ...... 48s to 02siBEANs .:.... ........ - ..... ... 20s to 2136 Hamburgh 36s to 40s Pam; 238 to BARLEY 3os t0.33s nova—American OATS—New 'lss to 178 Baltic Feed l4s to 16. SMITHFIELD. The Beef trade was unusually - dull ; indeed, we scarcely ever recollect a worse market for Beef. Notwithstanding the salesmen gave way in prices from 2d to 4d per 81bs, scarcely any progress was made in sales, and the very highest figure obtained for the best Scots did not exceed 3s 8d per M.% The numbers of Sheep were again - extensive, yet the primest old Downs sold at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. The middling and inferior kinds, however, were a shade lower. For Lambs last week's prices were sup ported. Calves at previous currencies. For Pork no altera tion to notice. Per 81to. to oink the eitaL 8 d. to a. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second qualityditte... 3 0 3 2 Second quality ditto 2 8 210 Coarse-woolled ditto... 3 4 a 6 Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 4 Southdown Wethers 8 6 3 8 Prime Scots, &c. 3 6 3 8 Ditto out- of the wool 1 arge coarse Calves 3 4 4 2 Large Hogs 3 0 310 Prime small ditto 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers. 4 0 4 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 28 C Quarter oldPigs,oachl6 0 21 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 3,10 i 30,430 121 380 riIiNVILA.T2I AND LEADENICALL. The general demand has ruled heavy, and prices, in most instances have had a downward tendency.l In addition to the arrivals noticed in our tabular statement, nearly 700 carcasses of Lamb have come to hand from various p ar t s o f England, in good condition. - At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. to s. rid s. d. to s. d. Reef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, Inferior ...... 2 6 210 middling ..... - middling 3 0 3 2 -- prime large ...... 210 3 0 prime- 3 4 3 6 prime small ..„...3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge...... 2 4 3 4 Veal •••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 4 4 6! --small 3 6 4 9 Lamb. 4s 10d to 5s 10d ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts; Sheep. _Calves. Pigs. Scotland ................... ........ . ..... 7 - 450 _ 400 Yorkshire - :12 COO Norfolk - 70 30 Suflblk - 160 • 81 Cambridgeshire .. 3 - 70 - 40 Essex - 160 - 90 SOD Surrey l7 240 - 100 300 Devonshire ... .. .. ........... - 16 - 49 140 Wiltshire - 100 - 139 19) Other parts - 100 200 Total Previous week's arrival I,ns 1,412 4r9 2,120 480 1,4( 2 Diettrence since our last 2B 476 WOOL MARKET. Since this day se'nnight the imports a foreign and colonia Wool have not exceeded 1,200 packages: Privately, the de. mand is in a sluggish state, yet the factorsjremain firm al late rates. TALLOW. This market is steady and prices, both on the spot and for forward delivery, the same. There is very little specu lative business doing. Town. Tallow is -abundant, at 393 to 39s 6d per cwt. net cash. BOROUGH AND SPITAXIPIELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes at the water side, since our last import, have not exceeded 900 tons- ; yet, as large supplies are in warehouses, the demand is very heavy, - and prices are with difficulty supported. BOROUGH HOP DIATLICET. The accounts which have reached us from Kent and Sussex state that an increase of fly is apparent amongst the growing Hop bines ; yet they appear to have had _but -little influence upon the demand here; which, however, is certainly firm, at very full prices. •AI yet no betting has taken-place upon the duty. .- LLOYD'S SIIII , PING. - --(T HIS DAY. LONDON, MAY 13.—Moderate Northerly breeze, .and hazy. DEAL, MAY 11.—Wind, N. by W. - to N.E. 7, r.m., fresh. —And. Rajathan, Stewart, Bombay. Std. &Anton, Valpa raiso ; ARnes, Jamaica ; Trent, Miramichi. OFF HASTINGS, MAY 12.—Calcutta,- Hawkes, Hobart Town ; Caroline, Porto Rico, for Lubeck. - PORTSMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind, N.N.E. to S.S.W. ; 12th, N.N.E.—Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake; Hong-Kong, left the Cape of Good Hope March 5, Ascension, 25. Sid. the transport Nautilus, Eastward; Hendrik Hudson, New York. Off, Gloriana, Webb, Calcutta. OFF WORTHING, MAY 11.—Regina, Stace, Calcutta. COWES, MAY I.—Arrd. Mary Dick, Bahia. OFF TEIGNMOU'TH, MAY 11.—Trafeller, Trinidad. OFF SALCOMBE, MAT 10.—Chieftain, Brown, China ; Vests, Stubbeman, Matanzas for Bremen ;- Pocahontas, Higgins, Baltimore. 11th, Varuna, Mauritius.- OFF ARUNDEL, MAY 12.-WilsCal,'Houston, Sydney, New South Wales, Jan. 4. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 12.—Arrd. Lady Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar, sailed 3d inst. _ _ HULL, MAY 10.—S1d. Regent, Quebec. - MAY 9.—Sld. Lady Lilford, - Prince 'Edward's Island. 11th; Xarifa; for Barbadoes. • _ _ CORK, MAY 10.—Acrd. Templar, London, for Sydney, New South Wales. Off, Maid of Athens, and schooner Ann, lohoboe. Sld. Cornelia, Ascension; Albion, St. John's, N.B. DUNDEE, MAY 10.--Sld. Mountaineer, Cape of Good Hope. The Whitby, Perlis, of this port, with lime, from Shields, took fire in this harbour, and subsequently - sank, and appears to have become a total wreck. SHIELDS, MAY 9.—Sld. Commerce, West Coast of Africa; Caroline, Cape of Good Hope. YARMOUTH ROADS, MAY 12.—Arrd. Meese Packet, Grange mouth, with damage, having been in contact with a brig last night, off Cromer. ABERDEEN, MAY 9.—Sld. Red Rover, Ichoboe. LIVERPOOL, MAY 12.—Wind N., light.—And. Malcolm, Lemon, Calcutta; Blackness, Murray, New York; Shaks peare, Miner : Samuel Hicks, Bunker, New York ; Cropper (17th ult.), New York. Off, John o'Gaunt t China; Wilsons, Demerara. Sld. Helme, Calcutta; Union, Bombay; Lord Stanley, Cuba; Olive and Eliza, Boston; Woodstock, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Stirling, Wiscasset ; Broad Oak, Calcutta ; Llama, La Guavra ; Fear Not, Nassau ; Princess and Roscius, New York ; Abercrombie, Quebec. FALMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind N., moderate.—Off, Invoice, Rio ; James Tureen, Tureen, Batavia. JERSEY, MAY 7.—Sld. Tiphys, Labrador. BRISTOL, MAT 12.—Arrd. Fling, Tucker, Trinidad. Sld. Clydesdale, Ichoboe ; Lucy Anne, Africa. - DEAL, MAY 12.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Diadem, Fox, Galveston. Sid. Alexander, Cape of Good Hope; Lord Goderich and Euxine, America; St. George, ditto. OFF TIIE START, MAY 11.—Margaret Thomson, Harvey, Demerara. OFF PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Seawitch, Baker, Gambia ; Wedora, Havannali for Hamhurgh ; Andres, Bozeson, Bahia for Stockholm. Porn-mourn, MAY 12.—The Sterling (apparently a brig), water-logged, with a white masthead, was passed,' a few days previous to the 4th instant, by the Leontine, from New Orleans to Bremen, which was spoken on that day by the Gloriana, off this port. COWES,- MAY 12.—The schooner Tom Wsod, of Baltimore, was fallen in with, water-logged and abandoned, lat. 38, lon. 53, by the Neptunus, off the Wight. A large American barque, with sails unbent and lower masts standing, was seen ashore on the 25th ult. near Cape San Anton». • MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS., CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool Market, on Saturday, were 4,500 bales, at steady prices.—The Share Market was without any new feature : Eastern Counties Registered, 141; Great Western Fifths, 211 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 114 ; South Western, 85/ ; Paris and Orleans, 384 ; South-Eastern, New, 11/. Much interest is taken in the discussions which are now in progress at the Bank of England, relative to the renewal of the charter, and the future mode by which the banking and currency of this country is to be conducted. No strenu ous opposition will, however, be offered to the Bank Pro prietors to the terms proposed. The managers and proprie tors of the joint-stock banks are, upon the whole, well satis fied; and at a meeting held of the private , banks, resolutions have been passed approving of the general policy of Sir R. Peel as far as they are concerned; but, having asked for another interview, for the purpose of suggesting improve ments in the plan about which their long experience as bankers gives them the opportunity of tendering information to the Premier, therefore it is confidently expected that, with some modifications as to details, the immense interest connected with banking and currency, including the renewal of the charter of the Bank of England, will be based upon the scheme that has been already propounded to Parliament. The commercial advices from New York continua favour able, but it seems that political agitation was still kept up, Texas and the Presidential election engrossing chief attention. The trade of New York seems to have been particularly active this year. From Van Diemen's Land we have accounts to Jan. 19. The revenue continued deficient, but the new Governor had already effected some material reductions in the expenditure. The Bushrangers had not been entirely rooted out. The Funds are not quite so buoyant, a broker of some standing having made sales of Consols sufficient to occasion a decline of about per cent., viz , to 991 to 1. There have also been some parcels of Exchequer Bills thrown upon the market, and the premium has dropped in consequence to 725. and 745. East India Bonds are 925. to 945. premium. Bank Stock has been quoted 194 to 1941, a decline again of 1 to 1/ per cent., which indicates that some of the holders do not exactly like the new terms. East India Stock has been at 288, being steady. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have obtained 1024 to 1 ; the Reduced, 101 A to / ; and the Three per Cents., 98/ to 4. The Commissioners for the Savings' Banks, &c., have taken Consols at 99g. The Foreign Market is rather dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have not been higher than 24/, and the Three per Cents. have realised 35A to 36. Mexican Active Stock has been 351 to ; and the Deferred, 151 to 1; being not quite so good, owing to the intelligence of the pro posed annexation of Texas to the United States. Colom bian Bonds have been 144 to A. Belgian Stock has realised 1034 to 1024 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 60/ to 611, which is rather firmer. There is not much doing in the Railway Shares, and prices generally are about the same. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock.... 194% )91 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 4 99 4 ii3i 114 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3% per Cent. Annuities t02% % 1,4 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 7-161 f India Stock India Bonds,-1,000 92 Ditto under 1,000 94 Consols for Account ......... ... ..... ........ .'.... Exchequer Bills, ' lid. I%d 1,0004 5001 ............ 73 pm. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 10 3 14 102% Columbian Bonds. 14%% Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. • ••• - Ditto for the Account. 354% Ditto Deferred Stock 15%a% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24y Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. • Ditto for the Account Dutch 2% per Cents 6 1 14 60% 61% Dutch 5 per Cents. 4.... 100% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto New 17% ...... 2<j 4 Bristol and Exeter 7O 765 Caledonian Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 47i to ' Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 8/. 6s. Pd. Grand Junction lOO 231 Great Western Ditto 34 Shares Ditto Fifths l2 ..... .... 21 . ..... to Leeds and Bradford 5 ......... 24 1 4% ... to 24 London and Brighton 5O 44% to London and Greenwich ..... ....... 12% London and South Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds '7o lO9 to Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18 North Midland South Eastern and Dover 32 56 — to Ditto New York and North. Midland Ditto % Shares 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch Paris and Orleans ........... .......... 'X JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of London - • MANCHESTER STOCK F 4 XCIIANGE, MAY 11.—Our market to-day is heavy, and several stocks are lower :—Chester and Birkenhead, 30}; South-Eastern, 38 374; Trent Valley, 1 1 / 4 10; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6 1-16 h. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS MAY 10.—To-day, at noon, the King received the great deputation of the manufacturers of the province of Liege, which it was said at first would not be received till Sunday. The Journal de Liege says, "We have received this morn ing the following particulars relative to the proceedings of the great deputation of our manufacturers and merchants at Brussels. On Wednesday evening the deputation waited on the Minister of }mance and the Interior, and some of the members stated the great objections of our pro Vince to the system of differential duties, but they got only evasive answers. In the interval that will elapse beforC they have an audience of the King, they will wait on some of the representatives, and endeavour to convince them of the immense injury which the differential duties would do to the country." A correspondent at Madrid informs us that Senor Bermudez de Castro, formerly Secretary to the Council of Ministers, has just been appointed Minister for the Queen of Spain at Brussels. The Theodorea will leave Ghent to- morrow for St. Thomas, with one hundred and thirty settlers. It is calculated, that when they are landed, the European population of the colony will amount to eight hundred souls. As from this time a vessel will be dispatched every month, the European popula tion may amount, at the end of the year, to nearly two thou sand. Its subsequent increase will certainly be rapid. BANK MEETING.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, at twelve o'clock, pursuant to adjourn ment, a Cotirt of Proprietors of the Bank of England was held, for the purpose of considering the proposition which the Government had made for the renewal of the Bank charter. At twelve o'clock precisely the Governor and .Directors en tered the Court Room. The GOVERNOR said that this was an adjourned Court, of Proprietors, and, consequently, there were no minutes to be read, but it might be as well for him to state how the case stood. At the prior meeting, of which the present was an adjournment, the correspondence which had passed between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Court of Directors on the subject of the renewaLof the charter, had been read ; it had been printed jmmediately afterwards and distributed among the Court of Proprietors. At - that meeting he had read a resolution of the Court of Directors, recom mending "the Court of Proprietors to accede to the pro positions of the Government for the renewal of the char ter of the Bank, if the regulations referred to in the letters of the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be proposed to Parliament and adopted. His duty would be, when the proper time came, and when the subject had been sufficiently discussed to enable the Court of Prop r i e t ors t o came t o a decision, to ask them to accede to the proposition of the Court of Directors. He would not then further detain .the Court by making any ob servations. Mr. HAM MOND wished to impress upon the Court the pro priety of acceding to the propositions which had been made by the Government. He was surprised at the reasons which had been urged to induce them dot to consent to the proposition. Something had been said about their having - raised 1,000 men thirty years ago—why their charter had been twice renewed since that period._ There was one observation • which had been mad; by Mr. Levy which ought to have a great effect upon the Court, and that was that it was almost impossible at the present moment to get profitable employ ment for capital. lie thought the Government offer of three per cent. was a great boon to the corporation. There was nothing but danger if they rejected the proposition. If it were rejected by the Court there would be no difficulty in picking out 100 gentlemen in the City who would at once accept the propositions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and give him a premium. Sir Itobert Peel had taken a very enlightened view of the state of our monetary system. The Bank would now stand upon more secure grounds than ever. The division between the issue and the banking departments would enable the Directors to turn their attention to the banking department, and make it much more profitable to the Proprietors than it was at present. They would pursue their avocations as bankers as extensively as others, now they were freed from the trammels of the Go vernment. This would be a great advantage. He would ask one question before he concluded, and that was, if the depo sits were to be considered as part of the circulation? The GOVLINOR replied, that their deposits were no more part of the circulation than Coutts's. He offered no opinion on the matter under discussion, but he was anxious to pre vent misunderstanding. The worthy Proprietor had alluded to their capital of 11 millions, for which the Government allowed them 3 per cent. That was a part of the foundation of their circulation. If the interest on that had been reduced, the 180,000/. a year which they paid to the Government must have been reduced also. It should be recollected that out of that 3 per cent. they paid 60,000/. a-year stamp duty, and 120,000/. a-year to the Government. Mr. HAMMOND believed that, in point of fact, the position of the Bank of England would be nearly the same as it had been before the discussion. He implored the Proprietors not to reject this excellent measure. Mr. COOK thought they should well consider the circum stances in , whith they were placed. They had recently re elected the Governor for another year. The motto on his diadem ought to have been Justice to the Bank Proprietors. The Governor and the Directors were by their position un fitted for defending - the rights of the Proprietors. They were tied down by the Government. They could not serve two mas ters, and the Proprietors and the public had conflicting interests. Their duty was to support the Institution, but they were tied down by their position and their connection with the Govern ment; so that the interests of the Proprietors were not taken care of sufficiently. Twice had their rights been taken from them, in the opinion of some of the most eminent lawyers. Such, also, was his opinion.—(A laugh) lie was not a lawyer by profession, hut he understood something of law. The Duke of Cambridge was an excellent performer on the violin, and surely it would not be said that his Royal Highness was not a master of music because he had not made it his pro fession, and was not paid for his services. The Directors had not defended their interests. Two years ago he had sent a petition to Parliament, expecting the question to come for ward, and he had sent another stringent petition to Sir R. Peel, which had been kept, by some means or other, from the public eye. He had, within the last fortnight, a reprint of the letters that he had sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir R. Peel, the truth of which he would defy them to deny. A copy of those letters lie had sent free to every Proprietor. The petition contained nothing but relevant matter to the subject at issue, and it remained with the Proprietors to say whether or not they would hear it read. He had done all a man could do on the subject, and it was more than probable that he should, ere long, institute a suit in equity against those who had done so much against his interests, and those of the Proprietors at large. Would the Proprietors hear his petition or not ?—(Cries of "No, no.") Well, all he could say was, he had done his duty ; and there was no clause in the Bank Charter Act that autorised the Directors to put an end to the rights and interests of the Proprietors. The measures proposed by Sir Robert Peel were no doubt of great im • portance, and would probably aid in the welfare of the country ; but they ought to have been ac- companied by compensation to the Bank Proprietors for the injury done to them. There was no doubt that this wee the battle between the rabbit and the boa-constrictor, but for his own part he felt bound to say the measure of the Government ought not to be accepted without compensation, and he, for one, would not hold up his'hand for the taints offered.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FIELDER believed that the: present was the first time, that he had felt himself bound to hold up his hand agai n° measures approved of by the Court of Directors. Let the Proprietors look to the letters that had passed between the Government and the Directors ; did they not' to man disagree with them, except on one point, and that we! that no obstacle should- be presented to the course proposed to be pursued by the Government to put .the currency on proper footing. He did not admit the question of curreno7 in this ease at all. The question was, what was fa ir and what unfair between the Government an d the Mink of England.—(Hear, hear.) It was important for the Court of Directors to show to the nation at large what the Bank of England is, and what it was. Now, if he remera" bered rightly, the Government now paid 248,0001. to the I3ae , for managing the public debt ; and it was now proposed tha t they should have only 120,0001.,- and pay, in addition 11,0001. in lieu of stamps ; with respect to the latter item he had no objection, but he thought, considering how much th e Bank had done for the Government, it was entitled to recell i . the 248,0001. Now whatwas the capital of the Bank in 16 94? He believed about 1,200,0001., but that had increased, for the accommodation of the Government but to the loss of the Bank' to 14,000,000/. ; added to this, the Bank had been most beer ficial to the Government; it had lent them money at 3 Pt r cent. when the current rate of interest was 5 per eeel• - k (Hear, hear.) In 1801, when Consols were at 55, the BO lent the Government three millions sterling for six Yeal at 3 per cent., and that too at a time when money was f o , 7 per cent. In fact, when all the springs of private ball f were dry the Bank of England alone supplied the means ° f carrying on the government and business of the coal"; They had also enabled the Goverment to pay the divide!' on the public debt ; nay, he believed at one time the Bank 115 7 actually lent money to the Government without any inter est at all, and at other periods when Consols were at 100 L, they had lent large sums to the Government. By this CO there was a large loss to the Proprietors, not only of thw" interest but their capital. The Hon. Proprietor tb e ! proceeded at some length to show that every action of 0 0 1 ; Bank had been for the good of the Government, TA every act of the Government had been detrimental toll° Bank. Now, if such was the case—and such, he thought , be had clearly shown it to be—it would be better to send tbe charter to the winds of heaven than submit to such injusti ce —(Hear, hear)—and then the Old Lady of Threadneedle:. street would act for herself in spite of the inhabitan t of Downing-street and all their officer s . —(A lauga Why, ho would ask, was not that establishment to be 115 r„ as well by the Government as the East India Compaq, the had never lent them any money ?—(Hear, hear.) Taking to whole of the subject into consideration, he felt compeer to move the following amendment to th e motion submitted the Court for its adoption by the Directors : " That this Court of Bank Proprietors, taking into Oar sideration the risk and charges attending the banking bole: ness, as relating to the issuing and management departoll; cannot accede to the payment of 120,000/. for which t Bank Proprietors will not receive an adequate remuneratio n ' Mr. YOUNGE seconded the amendment. He did not th! ! ' the amount offered by the Government was worthy their 116• ceptance. d. e o Mr.WEEDING could not assent to the amendment propos e The proposition had proceeded from a master mind. Ile d id not consider it any disadvantage that their issues shoo be restricted to fourteen millions, for they had freqat,,, v incurred losses from issuing beyond that amount. He Isaa, :ti tended proposing a resolution, but an amendment had m' ie already proposed, and therefore he did not know how far " should be in order. A short discussion here ensued on the point of order, at the termination of which 0 Mr. WEEDING said he would read his resolution at r part of his speech. (Tfie Hen. Proprietor here read hig tb solution, which was an expression of acquiescence in v s Government propositions, accompanied by an exprerl;lio of approbation of the sense, intelligence, and Pe te d spirit with which the negotiations had been condeo by the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Diree r f n d which entitled them to the approbation of the public of the Court.) He would not wish to encumber the pror oc i o sitions now before the Court with any motion as to the in,hs of conducting elections, but he would recommend to r t , Directors to endeavour to introduce a c l ause i n t o the °°) authorising absent Proprietors to vote by proxy.—(Chr o Mr. SALTER ,thought that it was introdu cing gerous principle to permit the Government to have the p ofall issues above fourteen millions. It bad always been do policy to keep the Government from having anything w h w fa l with the issue of bank notes. They ought to h a ys a ca over the issues, but no profits from them.—(Hear, hear.) ,a Sir PETER ',ilium thought the gratitude of the Court 7 0 due to the Directors and the Government. Never halo charter before been renewed upon such favourable ten: o °' • hoped they would come to a vote unanimously exprer. their approval of the proposition which had been mad them. Mr. LEVY considered that the Directors approved of Pa terms, because they had urged a renewal of the chatt i e f es . ten years instead oi‘ twenty. No one liked to take a bac , ' for a long term. Mr. Jonns LOYD, in obedience to repeated calls fro s a e s ae parts of the Court, rose and said, he had not intende", ,„ 0 0 dressing any observations to them, but as he him . "„,;ho called for he would at once state his opinion. Those:;(0, now opposed the original resolution had at the last o o nary meeting moved a vote of confidence in the Dire c t 0 He had at that time thought such a vote unnecessarP o i, no advantage could be derived from it--but e te when an adequat,s cause had arisen for such a l' o te. when it would be most valuable, they seemed to he s or It appeared to him that those who conducted this . e , position should recollect, that it was free to them to: it cept or to reject the Government propositions, he!,) was not free to them to modify them.—(Loud cher''oo That consideration would get rid of many of the argunl e ., which had been used by the other side. Irthey were not r- it pared altogether to reject the Government proposition s 4, would be better to accept them by a unanimous vote. questions had all been, no doubt, most anxiously disc between the negotiating parties, and they had come 0,7 4 agreement which was submitted to the Proprietors " acceptance or rejection. If they rejected it, the t 5 silt would be to re-open the w h o l e que stion, ,1 1 1 , 0 the consequences might be most disastrous e e question of our monetary system would assume at one 9n , the feature. The question divided itself into two Pa rts 'cowfirst, first, the arrangement of the monetary system 01 •i /Aegis try—a question with which the Government and the second, lature were more immediately concerned ; and the k 0 the consideration of the pecuniary condition of the Bai n oo l question which more immediately concerned the Bank co d, The two questions, however, were i n ti m ately Conn ia s The negotiations had been conducted o n both sides bt to manly, honourable spirit of fair dealing. They e.eg,, t hel feel grateful to the Directors for the manner in whicy' ro of had met the difficulties which had occurred in the e eil 'oeir the negotiations.—(Hear, hear.) He approved of no t conduct—(Loud cheers)—and believed that the ogr e '? v ial which they had entered into with the Governmen t der calculated to place the currency of the country upon A s o o ' f t he footing, and to conduce to the success and prosperity banks of the country.-- 7 (Cheers.) 1 411 Mr. G. W. ROBINSON did. not consider the terms so of advantageous. He did not disapprove of the ene ce be tea made to the joint• stock banks ; but it should be roue!' ~„d, they had been made at the expense of the Bank of En feat = ( . llear, hear.) He • objected to the Govan:woo, participating in the profits of the issues above 1, 0 00 teen millione, and he did not think it was advaotseevet to be tied down to 3 per 'cent. for ten years. In th e , Go' of a war, money would be worth 8 per cent. ''.',„ o hlic4 vernment had acted with great ability for the Ile but they had - been hardly fair to the Ban"' o f the believed, that if they looked back to the transactions, b ee last forty years, they would find that the public ha d co to quite as much indebted to the Bank as the Bank had be the public.—(Hear, hear.) . Mr. SALA:non urged the necessity of the Court conlirYoottl, a unanimous vote, approving of the proposition of t"' vernment. After a few words from Mr. BARRY, har e° Mr. FIELDER, with the consent of Mr. You GE his amendment. ~ •Que°' Mr. Tnompsos, amidst loud calls of « Question,o.o tion," and other manifestations of impatience, moved, v og amendment that the Bank should have the power ° I to the amount of 20,000,000/., instead of 14,000,00 0 L A PROPRIETOR seconded the amendment. Mr. BLACKBURN drew attention to the leg al tender cl over He objected to the money of the country being hand ed the to any corporation or individual ; it 'ought to be I _, yr hands of the Sovereign. acting under the advice vithe sponsible advisers. Ho objected to the quashing 49 ,, Q tr 5 notes of the banks of issue, and substituting t, ll :„g . th ei t of the Bank of England for them, and to the dilw l- 00 5 ." Bank itself into two departments. He should vote ¢ g '' 'n proposal. in ' re s- The GovErmon then put the atrtendment for in 0000* , 00 0f * the amount of the circulatio n o f tii4 r Tfazik to 20, instead of 14,000,000 L, which was lost .by a. Ol 6 majority. 1 0 ( /', The original resolution for accepting the prol)9 6B ' Government was then carried:unanimously:: *3 4, The minutes having been read, the meeting:W..lor" • THE FUNDS-(CLOSING P1 e5.1 t - BRITISH FUNDS. 29 8 0. e -._ Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9S Ditto Bonds . .... . ........ ... 3 per Cent. Cons . 334 per Cent. Itel New 33 per Cent. lO 2, Ex. Bills, 1,000/. PM*" /3 New 5 per Cent...„.— - ..... Ii P Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small.. .. . .......... i o Jan. 1860 lt 7-16 Bank Stock for A.cct.... g 916 Oct. 1859 ..... .... Jan. 1860 --- India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. ..... Austrian, 5 per Cent ... — 'Portuguese, sper Cent•••'' -** „...... Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto, New Ditt0....... . . Brazilian Bonds Bl% Prussian, 5 per Cent ••«••• . lia Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian, i 5 per Cent .... ....• ..--, .... ... Vs t hllian e 8 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... ...• „.. „a Vllombian, 6 per Cent .. i . Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per Cent . . . _— !DittoDitto e p e f e r r C r e e d n . t . .............................. 1 .. ~, . Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent -l Exchange •............. ... ...../. --"' Mexican, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 18377 —i Dutch, 2% per Cent... 004 Perqvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, S per Cent ...."" SHARES. 93 ` Birmingham and Gloucester (100 ........... 6 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) ....................... . 14 Eastern Counties (23 paid) ........... ................. 14 Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid) ..................... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s. 4d. paid ...... ( 64 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 59 paid ............ ....... Great Western (75 paid) ................................. Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid ............ ....... " 930 London and Birmingham (Stock) ..................... 27 Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ..................... London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4cli) .................. London and Brighton (541 paid) ................. 6s London and Greenwich (191. s. 4d. paid) ........ . London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid)... `i's Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid) ............................. London and Croydon (Trunit)...... ........ ........ 51311, Manchester and Birmingham . .......................... 41 Newcastle and Darlington Jnnctiou, 18 paid ...... 574 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ................. 58 South Eastern and Dover ( 3312 s Id paid) ....••••• 2 5 Yarmouth and Norwich ( 18 paid) ... ........... 1 2 York and Scarborough Branch (2) , s paid) ......... 57% Paris and Orleans ( 0 0 paid) ..... ....................... -------- --_—_ P lll.. ME. DUNCOMBE.—In consequence of Mr' net . combe's manly conduct, in respect to the defeat of the c - 05 , cive Masters and Servants Bill in the House of Cnr,tats the working men of Nottingham have passed a c ote 0 1 W to the Hon. Member. „Inei fa THE WILLS FORGERIES.--It is HOW &Mill u-- -cl o f that the convicts Barber and Fletcher, under Ee°t4ntroMher transportation for life, shall be immediately rem and r d the Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, and tl - ere put on ° 9 f o r Government transport Barossa. which is expected 0 lea ° ' New South Wales in the course of a few days --S`• . 0 1 ) ong 014 W AKEF IELD WOOL MARKET , MAY 1..# wool trade continues in a state of almost total inact and prices are nominal. In short vools f o r b 11111 :6„ purposes a few sales bare been effected at former 4 tations.