The Sun. — London, England, 1850-06-17 00:00:00

EVITGATE AND LEILDENEALL. Singe our last rt port the a op,rkots have bet , n but mo derately supplied evi[li each kind of meat. Prime Beef t 4 Mutton have moved off q?adily, at full rates of eur etleY. In the mirldline: and inferior kinds, as w , 11 as d. stab, Veal, and Pork, only a limited bu , iness is About 400 e. cases of foreign fault, chiefly of li tton, hare found buyers. At per stone by the Carcase. a. d. to a. d. s. d. to s. d 2 2 2 4 'Mutton, interior .. 2 8 210 2 6 2 8 i middling.. 3 0 3 6 210 3 0 • 3 0 3 2 P0ri:,1arge........ 210 3 4 2 8 3 4 - 5ma11........ 3 6 4 0 Lamb. 3s; 10d is 4s 10d. ZIOROUGH AND SPITAIGrIELDS. 4 4 " 81 . WP.-k's imports of l'otawei ,:wouutvd to 22 bai kbi 3 ,961 bags 133 tons from Rotterdam, 55 sacks from tr e s° gne, 1,294 sacks 844 bags 13 baskets from Ant hill, 10 tons from Ghent, 136 sacks from Boulogne, and t ° l lB from Dunki lAb o ut Ito tons of the above _{. o it fo f the present 3 ear's growth, and which have sold hr to r l 3 2s to 5s rd, z n lbs. From our own coasts i e jfew arrivals have taken place, and the markets are kot n ; t l lY supplied. The demand, however, is tel l, Aie,und it is very difficult to quote prices I.ccury. .ew parcels have, however, changed hands on the Rlog termi:— ~..,....41tireirliftitarilionr; • FPriMelarge prime small . • - ` 1 • • too,. Per Ton. Per Ton. A- Regents loos to 160 s Common Whites —s to —5 t- Shaws for Kent Shaws ttPolatltillg —to —s Essex Regents bi t t ch Rege n t s —ato —s Ititto Shaws Ditto 131 in. Cu ps 70s to 80s Ditto Kidneys —sto —s hi u Whites—. 50s to 65s Chats. sound sto s —s to a Ditto damaged —s to —s Regents. —sto —s French Whites b:ueach dittoßelgian 14 4) Iciditevs —s to —s' Dutch Whites Whites —s to —5 tit iclateits -ato —s Rhenish ditto he BOROUGH HOP IVX.a.R.KET l er slapply of tine Hops of last year's growth on tillit T es v a e t ry u , i na l all, and we 'are ;irinqui l ry for such kai n „ . t prices. In all other kinds on ) a limited t. 4l ,.'ss is doing, at late rates. The plantation accounts ; I nue satisfactory. New Mid and East Kent pockets, to 101 10s; New Weald of Kent ditto, 6/ to 8/: 1,7 Susse x .d itto . 5/ 5 s t o 6/ 12s; New Fatnhams, 121 Val; Yearling K,,ntF, 3/ 3s to 41 8s; yearling Sussex, LOS to 3155; Old Hops, 1/ is to 31. WOOL. i tt l' nblie sales of 26 000 packages of Colonial Wool have 11 1. commenced. Up to the present time the attendance Olen has been tolerably good, and most of the t i „els offered have sold—Fine qualities at prices quite loge to those obtained in May, but low parcels have ki rather easier. Prior to the commencement of the 1 / 4 4° , it was understood that no additional qualities will ) t .• r ought forward during their progress, and that a . 4 4 : 4 Of six weeks will elapse before other catalogues t, l l /Istted. By private contract very little is doing, and h a lcotations are almost nominal. The imports last l' o r : were 9 hales from Hamburgb, 5,665 ditto from Philip, 228 from Charleston, 1,800 from Hobart and 25 bags from Ireland. Sin -ee our last t of business TALLOW. cur last report a fair average amount been transacted in Tallow, for the time of year, at j pered quot a tio n s. T o -d a y P.Y.C. on the spot is h t ln g at 36s 9d to 375, and for forward delivery 38s 3d If i ti vt. Town Tallow, 35s Gd per cwt net cash; Rough \s_ per Blbs. 1_1846. 1850. 1847. 1848. 1849. 7,857 8,500 23,190 I 24,870 50s 9d 45s 6d 38s 6d to 366 9d to Os Od to 45s Od 38 sOd ;to 378 Od 953 i 1,897 1,0'5 1,583 2,292 3,951 2,338 2, 5 3$ 1,5,5 • 1,421 497 2,050 4,962 155 1,784 . 4 ls day .... •• I 9,873 et yC. i!to42sosOgd titt t lrr last week 360 bo" 1 " 1 1 June 1.... 1,314 ats last week . 131 In June 1 ... 574 er Town •• " 42s Od L 35 Od 475 Od 1395 6d 385 Od • RA.ORDINA Y DISCLOSURES • (From the Weekly Dispatch.) 1 10, ' 4O year 1830 an insurrection took place in Bruns ' the - reigning Dnke with difficulty escaped with arid came to reside in England. The outbreak, asserted, was occasioned by the overbearing and et ‘ i t l ln ieal'conduct of the Duke towards his subjects, and bi t 8 September of that year an article appeared in the i ) 1)Q „ ,ich strongly impeaching the conduct of the Duke, qtrliulg gross acts of oppression exercised by him to k,B his subjects, and justifying them in rebellion and l'riating him. Of this article no notice was taken e t ;" Duke. Had he then commenced legal proceed 44fSteinst the proprietors they mi g ht probably have let h able to procure evidence to j us tif y the allegations A article, and thus detested dhis action. In 1847 :iispatch contained some remarks respecting the dif -14".;.e5. between the Duke and his subjects, whereupon Oddy, the Duke's secretary, wrote a letter to kit'litor complaining of these remarks, and asserting t he k outrage did not originate with the people, but kf„ t c"retitlit of a conspiracy, prepared since the Duke's Okf t 3', by his uncle, George IV., and executed by the Ikta! ) ,_ 4 OWn brother, at the head of the nobility; and 1 6 1 „`° 6 attempt was to a ssass inate the Duke, and set V 4l itee on fire. Mr. Oddy, in this letter, required 410 0 of the proprietors' attorney, in order to serve kti, ol , which was accordingly given to him, and the ha," 1 , 4 was forthwith commenced, seeking compensation i!a o m.article in the Dispatch of the 19th of September, IN' and for the remarks inserted in 1847. The proprie 14'if the Dispatch considered that the remarks which l a4redat the latt e r period,—viz., 1847, were legitimate ho ti ‘'etits on a public event, and consequently the ac -I,6t_e°,lld not be ma i n t a i ne d u p o n th em; an d as r ega rd e d IN ar ticle of Sep., 1830, the time had long gone past when 1 41,03 could be recovered upon it, however strong lit t 4 belloui it might be deemed. The Statute of Li 114:ions was, therefore, pleaded to that part of the de tioa, and the general issue as to the others. ~lep,4 the trial of the cause, a Dispatch of the 19th ''lther, .1830, was produced by the plaintiff, and one da l es Ite ' eseymore Reinhold, who represented himself kto, Qtt iitain, swore that by the desire of the Duke , he V"ated that paper in the month of March, 1848, at hai r : i ikly Dispatch cffice, in Fleet•strt et. Lord Den kbi.`cird' the jury teat be considered this to be a new lft,!4tien of the libel, and was an answer to the plea t e Statute of Limitations, and thus the jury gave a fur the plaintiff, with 500/. damages. Ik , n e'evidence of Reinhold was a complete surprise tlia defendant and his legal adviser. The pub irk;l in- whose care and custody all the back papers S t i'"ltig on hand are placed, had not had in his pos 19thf4formany years past a Weekly Dispatch of the doe e t ifP ' 'Se timber 1830, consequently the one pro- Old do the trial could not have been bought by Rein !/10,141the Diatch office, as sworn to by him; but soon 41 6 s ome facts Came out which pretty clearly I t lh hti how that paper was obtained. teed akiears that a Mr. George Plummer, a news !etht)t living in Spitalfields, is in the habit of dealing back numb e rs of- London newspapers, and that It ho -11 ;1 6 anY pact of the year 1848, one William Eason, t o ,7'in..the employ of a Mr. Bronheim, of Pater• epplied to Plummer to procure him a pis • pf the 19th o f Sept e mb e r, 1830, offering to give m. ki lt. for the paper if be could succeed in obtaining if he could get him a second copy. Plummer Ni• l'lleent inquiries in the trade, and in about six 'se t a ;afterwarcis viz., in July or August following, a thned that a ' Mr. Mote, then living in the Adelphi , 11 4 : 14 le of th e Di s p a t c h f o r the year 1830 far sa l e , and ke t , .ir agreed to purchase it at the price of 3/. Plum h4 formed Eason of his success, and the latter pro „the bring the person by whom he was employed to `ht l 7 • 0 Lion Inn, in the Strand, to complete the ~▪ pt.the time appokted, Eason came, in Can- NTith J. ,W. Oddy, the Duke of Brunswick's se kte; and, in his presence; Eason said, " This is the 1; 4 2,an. who wants the paper." Plummer and 74'Inen• *rent to Mr. Mote, by whom the file was h lepl'ids And Oddy gave Plummer the 5/. as agreed i „Nt"liad took away the file of newspapers; but, before W v t tParated, Oddy t o ld Plummer he would give him Ihe t a u : l 6 etei/d procure him another copy of the paper in icaj d 'u o , and Eason subsequently told Plummer he IIaLT gibe him 241. for four more papers of the 19th V l ber, 1830. ti ta 'ichaeliztas Term an application was made for a h ' h ot ` 141 ; 'on the affidavits of Mr. Plummer and Mr. dG to the purchase by Oddy of the file of the ai t h for the year 1830, and stating, at greater tlQ ii , the pa rt i cu l a rs attending the negotiation. The ci 0 1 5 of Mr. Wood, the publisher of the Dispatch , A shle,and Mr. Tibbey, went to show that . 1 111; 1 : 15 184-1 - there was not, nor had there since be en, Lao Dispatc h office any paper of the 19th September, ,Ni t ' ;94„ t,,t " la in that y ear; 1841, an entry was made in a` il papers then on hand in the office, and ere orteV of the 19th - September, 1830, which there book h tli t 4 it"exed to Mr. Wood's affidavit, whereupon a rule " .43- granted. On Saturday, the B . h instant, the 1 6 i . 4 Person, showed cause against the rule, when 'al: L 'lrt expressed its unanimous opinion that a new , ti l`l, - "ould be °rantetpttd. t muse writ probably come on at the Sittings after „ tr iter., whensome curious disclosures may . • mted. P ' to Aa R . INT RS AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY ti,qt r ;:' -P. , :auß[TioN OF 1851.- On Saturday a meeting of Cevsaras held -at the White Hart Tavern, Catherine.: trNun !Id a , for . the s purpose .t.,, of establishing the Printers kKeu Tam ocie hi y a , ty thP object of which is to afford, aid from the funds raised . by musical performances to the benel,o -r 1 institutions connected with the printing f g it o a uti e nebusiness having been disposed of and Otro:eri .of the society elected, it was resolved . t a 11should i6i,TCade'bye Mr. Talknt, viz., that the society ti o ° 4 lilitgurated by a performance, the proceeds of which ofn contributed to the funds of the Industrial Exhibi- V ° ai;° 4l .thoald be carried into effect, and the committee Tracted to take the necessary steps for getting up I lltr 'tlaatice in the course of the ensuing month. 1 4t 4 (1 1 Z ° V . RMENT IN ST. JAMES'S . PARK.—Accord b,ktt ; ;Qturn to Parliament (printed on Saturday), an es n--:21..v.Fn of . the expense of making an ornamental en- Ail garden in front of Buckingham i mto e r x ming eru , p a is u stated at 26,0371., of which 14,U00 4 .14 t re quired to be voted in the present session. 1 0 ap k ,, l " , AT THE WELSH COLLIERIES.—We regret that a very general strike has taken place ttitt,44tl,44,klititietrhi j e s a m o o f m N e - n tu t nmouthshire and ty Glamorganshire; no less than twen-tive coal work-, 4 14 -:4 aud requiring a vast number of bands are '"11, 1 1 74 - still; as the lamentable resalt.—.3lonmouth ' shire h ,„ 14 4 A, ''NDEE, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By A. p r °1 11 ( 1 — The simple narrative of the Vendean war st ben romance of itself. The devoted gallantry P„t'e-i,."•qalist leaders, m their hair-breadth escapes, their ttl. 4 .ti t er v e xPedients, ad their . melancholy end, form the th a narrative in comparison with which the boldest tht'`cr,,,,i4uld seem tame. Prominent among the leaders of tf, 4 aZ"eall revolt, Henri Larochejaquelin is exactly the 'out of ‘ h* h the novelist can construct a hero. te3itt 1 1 ;1_ 1 ' w ful le pen has given us in the present book "‘e historical sketch and a delightful novel, at one OliraL aa nle time. La Vendee is both in plot and style 6 . 7 e qiITY written. Mr. Trollope's most interesting narra- Alo.t I;l4titl2l both a useful and agreeable addit49ll to our ",eure...Standard. ts last 7,144 ditto i ditto essed Seeds; rats of thoa• rriago exhi white• enerol tinue" on the Wheat prices In tb ° isines ° rior priCeb b r eigri rantv rere „ ag s oul a siorls• l antiti g pr . on a e /We m oved that c nosq otbe t t . Which rate' :Flang e 105 P er wre 110 a flog' oe to bil , c . 8$ '" • 41 16 7: 4P71 • 41 900 t 95 15i 3b.‘ ;356$ t 45 t 35 $l, :58 3 70 3 20 7$ 3,, 175 PP .$ ory, r lowa' 4 30 1 95 341 6; 3 50 25 by 4$ 431 0$ 4 0 $0 0$ 91 °I 01 411 36 1 " gbir ° per' 4- b e L. Ye''' w orth Elo et el— t , ti t the dir Utility 0: ro ot e g t 0 , 10 of _f o lic, °` A DD an sco t.. 2 d . ay 4 , 1 ote " hi PO: 01 , .1 3 her— ,O 1 0 1 larg e ; but W" I. l d o 3 1 0 a 0 0 4 0 • 21 0 its. • :4, 4 THE LITERATURE. BIOGRAPHY OF LORD JEFFREY. - _ Au admirable biography of this illustrious critic has recently appeared as the sixteenth number of the new and popular periodical now in course of publica tion by the Messrs. Chambers, of Edinburgh. Until the necessary re,earch shall have been made among the papers of the deceased, and materials have been thereby acquired for the composition of some more voluminous and elaborate memoir of his career in the legal profession and in literature, this brilliant and s . felicitous epitome of the life of Francis Jeffrey must inevitably maintain a wide and genuine popularity. Its style is healthy, and, when occasion requires, elo quent. Its selection of facts has about it an air strikingly judicious. Its arrangement of those facts is remarkable for lucidity and for its constituting altogether a symmetrical outline of a personal history, uneventful but conspicuous. Beyond all this, the judgment pronounced by the bi• ographer upon those manifold subjects which are brought anew under discussion in the course of the narrative, evinces a manly and eclectic appreciation of matters diametrically opposed to each other in their demands upon our sympathy and admiration. The scope of the whole narrative, though brief in actual extent, is bold and ample, embracing as it does not merely an account of the personal vicissitudes expe rienced by Francis Jeffrey, together with episodical de3criptions of some amongst his more remarkable contemporaries, and opinions upon the range and ripeness of his own intellect, but includes, moreover, a novel and enthralling history of the establishment, the rise and progress of that extraordi nary quarterly publication in the editing of which Lord Jeffrey obtained his very splendid and permanent reputation. The particulars which have been accumulated upon this head by the writer are altogether so new—never having been previously, we believe, given to the public in any form whatever —that that circumstance alone could not fail to secure to the performance a large amount of public observa tion. Those who turn to the perusal of this sixteenth number of Chambers's Papers for the People, con sisting of merely thirty-two pages, and costing only three half-pennies, will be surprised at the rich and valuable fund of information condensed together within the compass by the adroit and virile hand of the biographer. In reference to the actual memoirs of Lord Jeffrey, as here given, we find little cause for observation, seeing that we ourselves, immediately upon the demise of that distinguished cotchuaan de lineated the principal features of an existence Whose whole range had been honourable to the intel lectual repute of the children of Caledonia. In allu sion, however, to that portion of the masterly narra tive before us, which we have already specified as possessing in itself a peculiar attraction, we mean the portion relating to the rise and development of the Edinburgh Review, we may be permitted to make some few illustrative remarks, accompanied, for the benefit of our readers with certain suggestive quota tions. On the Ist of November, 18G2, No. I. of the Edinburyh Review appeared. Its publisher was the " Scotch hixcenas," Archibald Constable. Its first suggestor or originator was Sydney Smith. Its first editor was Francis Jeffrey. Its contributors were (besides the two remarkable writers just mentioned) Thomas Brown, Francis Horner, Henry Brougham, John Thomson, Thomson, and Allen. The youth of all these men of genius and ambition, it will be remembered, provoked from old Richard Cumber land, the playwright, an attack upon them as " the young gentlemen of the Edinburgh Review." The present biographer of the editor of that famous pub- lication enables us to contrast in a single sentence the relative precocity of the powers and the scholarship of the whole corps of those reviewers. He says, "In 1802 Sydney Smith was in his 34th year, Jeffrey was 29, Dr. Thomas Brown 24, Horner 24, Brougham 23, Allen 32, Dr. John Thomson 38, and Thomas Thomson 32 :" and of these remarkable men there are now alone surviving Mr. Thomas Thomson and, the youngest of the eight, Lord Brougham. From the account given by Sydney , Smith of the first notion of the new quarterly perio dical we learn that the motto originally proposed by him for the Review— " 7 enui musam meditamur avena meaning, " We culivate literature upon a little oat meal," was rejected for that more serious motto from Publius Syrus which has since then adorned every subsequent number of the blue-and-buff periodical— " Judea damnatur cum nocens absolvitur r signifying literally " The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved." But we must turn from our own epitome of an epitome to the pages under consi deration, from which we make the following brilliant excerpt relating to the foundation of the Edinburgh:— " IV e are happy at being able to produce a still inure interesting and detailed statement ot the Circumstances attending the commencement of the Review—a docu ment hitherto unpublished, and written by Lord Jeffrey, at the request ot Mr. Robert Chambers, in November 1846. It is as follows:—' I cannot say exactly where the project t f the Edinburgh Review was first talked of among the projectors. But the first serious consulta tions about it—and which led to our application to a publisher—were held in a small house, where I then lived, in Buccleuch Place (I forget the number). They were attei,ded by S. Smith, F. Horner, Dr. Thomas Brown, Lord Murray, and some of them also by Lord Webb Seymour, Dr. John Thomson, and Thomas Thomson. The first three numbers were given to the publisher—he taking the risk, and defraying the charges. There was then no individual editor, but as many of us as could be got to attend used to meet in a dingy room of Widison's printing-office in Craig's Close, where the proofs of our own articles were read over and remarked u[on, and attempts made also to aft in judgment on the few manuscripts which were then offered by strangers. But we had seldom patience to go through with this; and it was sound found necessary to have a responsible editor, and the office was pressed upon me. About the same time Constable was told that he must allow ten guineas a sheet to the contributors, to which he at once assented; and not long after the minimum was raised to sixteen guineas, at which it remained during my reign. Two thirds of the articles were paid much higher—averaging, I should think, from twenty to twenty-five guineas a sheet on the whole number. I had, I might say, an un limited discretion in this respect, and must do the pub lishers the justice to say that they never made the slightest objection. Indeed, as we all knew that they had (fur a long time at least) a very great profit, they probably felt they were at our mercy. " ' Smith was by far the most timid of the confe3eracy, and believed that, unless our incognito was strictly maintained, we could not go on a day; and this was his object for making us hold our dark divans at Willison's office, to which he insisted on our repairing singly, and by back approaches or different lanes! 1218 also had so strong an impression of Brougham's indiscretion and rashness, that he would not let him be a member of our association, though wished for by all the rest. He was admitted. however, after the third number, and did more work for us than anybody. Brown took offence at some alterations Smith had made in a trifling article of his in the second number, and lett us thus early; publishing at the same time in a magazine the fact of his secession—a step which we all deeply regretted, and thought scarcely justified by the provocation. Nothing of the kind oc curred ever after.' Later on the writer to whom we are indebted for this interesting transcript from a previously unpublished manuscript by Lord Jeffrey affords us some notion of the munificence of Mr. Constable, as a publisher, by the subjoined mention of the emoluments received by Francis Jeffrey as editor of the Edinburgh Review, during a period of a quarter of a century :- 1 " Constable," he says, "remunerated the editor of the Edinburgh Review on a scale of what must then have ap peared princely liberality. From 1803 to 1809 a sum of 200 guineas was given for editing each number. The ac count-books are missing for three years after 1809, but from 1813 on to 1826 Mr. Jefftey is credited ' for edit ing' 700/. a number, so that his salary appears to have beGn more than trebled." Speaking of the amount of tho circulation of the Edinburgh, the biographer of its editor here ob serves : " The first number of the Edinburgh Review appeared on the Ist of November, 1802. The greater part had been written, and even printed, some months previous, but it was suggested by Constable that the publication should be deferred until the commencement of the win ter season. The number of copies printed was 750. The demand, however, exceeded this limited supply: 750 more w ere thrown off, and successive editions still inure numerous were called for. In 1808 the quarterly circulation of the Review had risen to about 9,000; and it is believed to have reached its maximum about 1813, when 12,000 or 13,000 copies were printed. Before the poems ut Byron and the novels of Scott had taken the public, as it were, by storm, this success was unpre cecknted." And, remarking upon the splendid harvest which sprouted up season after season, to be reaped down by that one famous generation of critics, it is thus specified : " There was the poetry of Crabbe, of Campbell, Moore, Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth—types of different schools; there was the gorgeous chivalry of Scott, with his long file of novels and romances, like an endless procession of the representatives of all ages, con ditions, and countries; there was the Oriental splendour and grace of Byron, altern a ti ng w i t h hi s fi erce ene r g y and gloomy philosophy—the still more erring and extrava gant genius of Shelley—and the youthful bloom of lieates; there were the tales of Maria Edgeworth, of Miss Austin, Galt, Wilson, and oth er no t unwort hy as sociates; the histories of Hallam, and the historical pic tures of .aacaulay; innumerable biographies of west contemporaries who had gone before—the Sheridans, Curraes, Wilberfurces, and Hebers; innumerable books of travels, that threw open the world to our curious gaze; the gossipping treasures of Strawberry-hill and other family repositories, that revived the wits, and poets, and beauties of a past age; the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; the inimitable letters of Cowper drawn from their sacred privacy; the policy and intrigues of courts laid tare; the whole world of literature and the living world of Europe stirred to their inmost depths. What rich materials in the wars and politics of the times—in the rise and fall of Napoleon—in the overthrow of kings and dynasties—in the perturbations even of the mighty heart of England throbbing to be free! What disco veries in science and the arts—steam, gas, railways, and intercourse! all that facilitates and sweetens social Over such vast and interesting fields had the Edinburgh Re view to travel, moving firmly under the guidance of its editor, with elate and confident step, and attended by thousands who caught its enthusiasm, and echoed its sen timents and opinions." Even from the brief and disjointed quotations here given, it will be easily recogni , ,ed by the discerning readers that the memoir of Francis Jeffrey, to which we have directed their attention, although published in a miniature form, and on that scale of extraor dinary cheapness for which the periodicals of the Messrs. Chambers have long been remarkable, is a biography of no ordinary pretentions for its beauty and elegance of composition, its visible authenticity, and its singular completeness. The authorship of this same admirable and condensed epitome of the life of an illustrious Scotchman we believe we may with all correctness attribute to a fellow-countryman of Francis Jeffrey—a gentleman of ripe scholarship and known intelligence, we mean Mr. Robert Car ruthers of Inverness, Proprietor and Editor of the Inverness Courier. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, in the Small Tene ments Rating Bill, after the third reading an imprtant clause was brought up by the Member for Southampton, decidedly the leader on legal subjects on the Liberal side, for securing to the occupier of the small tene ments in question, all the privileges and franchises which he would have possessed before the proposed Act, upon his paying up the rates himself, with liberty to deduct the amount from his rent. Iu substance the contest appears to be, whether a dig franchising of the occupiers is to take place, through the mere contrivance of receiving the rates from the owner, which it is agreed on all hands must be laid by the owner upon the rent. The question is not unknown to those interested on the subject ot the franchise, on either side. A few years ago it would have roused attention from one end of the country to the other. And our ob ligation is not the less now, to the defender of popular rights who gives the aid of his talent to the case. The debate was finally adjourned till Monday. On Thursday, on the County Courts Extension Bill, a clause was brought up, and supported by the Lite, al lawyers, for allowing an appeal in cases beyond twenty pounds. The strong argument they advanced—and it seems to come under the maxim In sad cuique arte— was that judges decide much better when there is an appeal hanging over them. And in the actual case there appears no reason, why the appeal which lies from judges in more formal and important courts, should be refused in these which are less. The argument urged in reply, was that litigants had rather have no appeal and have done with it; a very doubttul conclusion, inasmuch as every litigant would seem to have the option at all times, of securing to himself this species of tranquillity, by de termining not to appeal. But this kind ot argument has made its appearance several times in Parliament of late. For example, one Member represented, that he wanted the post to be stopped, because he did not like to open his letters on a Sunday; and he could discover no way of doing this, but by praying that the post might be stopped to everybody else. We do not want Cadi's law; though it might do very well for a man who could secure everybody's being bastinadoed but himself. Gentlemen look at cheap and slovenly justice, and cry " How nice!"; but the man who thinks himself injured by it is of a different opinion. The whole depends on thinking yourself the lucky man who is not to be hurt. The effort however for introducing an appeal, made finally very little way, being rejected by 108 votes against 25. On the Public Libraries and Museums Bill a curious scene took place. An attempt to oppose the Speaker's leaving the Chair was put down by 87 votes against 21, svhich is something more than four to one. Tne Bill in short was progressing to the full content of all who wished it well, and a not very lively orator was drag ging out a sort of Alexandrine opposition as usual, when the House was thrown into amaze by a prominent Member on the Liberal side rising and moving to report progress or deter the proceedings to another time,— being exactly what au enemy does if he can, with the hope of turning over a discussion to a leas favourable House. Whereon the mover of the Bill immediately took up the strain, and declared that in consequence of the oppo sition made to the Bill—there being manifestly to the eyes of everybody but himself no opposition at all—he would take time to consider whether he would not withdraw the Bill. The Anti-Librarian party of course were thrown into ecstasies of hilarity; which were heightened by a Liberal Member rising and declaring, that as an impartial witness he was bound to say that all the opposi tion to the Bill was from his side of the House. _ _ The Liberal side of the House having thus made itself a laughing-stock, the considerations afterwards are rather serious. Who, with a common care for self-pre servation, is to act with a party from whom such opera tions are to be looked for? The average of men are not prepared to go on under such circumstances. No body can stand being made ridiculous, if he can see a way to hinder it. The explanation of this most inglorious proceeding, so far as it has been arrived at, is that the wealthy boroughs are getting tired of the notion of being rated for public libraries, and so this method was taken to get rld of the Bill. But there is no reason why unsuspicious innocents should have been led to commit themselves; and they will not be again. In the Marriages Bill some progress was made. The confidence of the louse in what is called the unanimity of Scotland and Ireland against the Bill, was much shaken by the considerations that in Edinburgh there was fighting in a public meeting, and iu Ireland seven eighths of the population are devoted believers in a Church which grants dispensations on easy terms for the mar riages in question, and of course do not believe their Church compounds for incest. Under ordinary circum stances, the Bill might be considered settled in the Com mons. But the opponents declare their determination to try their luck again. The O'Gorman Mahon, in an effective speec h, gas e example of the confidence with which an Irish Homan Catholic gentleman may be looked to for sound views on the question of religious liberty. In the actual position of the world, such a politician is entitled to take a lead. ... On Friday the motion for inserting the words " and children" in the Factory Bill was lost by a majority of one, the numbers being 160 to 159. The other motion for reducing the hours of labour was opposed by 181 against 142. The Metropolitan Interments Bill was carried through Committee. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, June 17, 1850. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JUNE 15. The Queen and Prince walked early this morning in Osborne Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family, walked and rode in the grounds. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and the Princess Clementine, crossed from Portsmouth in the Fairy yacht, and reached Osborne about twelve o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert, and returned to St. Leonard's in the afternoon. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen left Osborne early this morning_ and returned to London. There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner party. JUNE 16. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the younger members of the Royal Family, walked early this morning in Osborne park and grounds. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness, the Princess Royal, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household in waiting, attended Divine service this forenoon at Whippingham Church. The Rev. J. Protheroe officiated. - There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner party. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Lei ningen, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lord James Murray, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge (attended by Baro ness Ahlefeldt), and his Royal Highness Prince George, also honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence. His Royal Highness the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Friday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Satur day, at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucestsr attended Divine service yester day morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended Divine service yesterday morning in St. Michael's Church. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Priace George attended Divine service yesterday morn ing in the chapel of the Female Orphan Asylum. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Fo reign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Mato, and the Right Hon. Fox Mettle. The Council sat three hours. His Excellency Mehemed Pacha, the Turkish Am bassador, , has returned to ,Bryanston-square from the Continent, after having fulfilled his special mission to his Majesty the King of Holland. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Currie, Morgan, Rownum, and Venables, bad an interview with the Commissioners of Railways on Saturday, at their office in the Board of Trade. .•a •••••• A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, Dublin, consisting of Mr. Thomas Wilson. Mr. Thomas Hutton, Mr. Charles Haliday, and Mr. Francis Codd, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home office. Sir Thomas Freemantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met on Saturday at the Board of Trade. There were present Earl Granville, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Alexander Spearman, and Mr. T. F. Gibson. Colonel Reid, R.E., Chairman of the Executive Committee, at tended. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo• SUN, LONDON, MOND A Y EVEN ING, JUNE 17, 1850. nial-offiee from the Governors of Labuan, Ceylon, the Mauritius. and the Falkland Islands, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The Duke of Wellington attendgd an early Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, -- St. James's. The Prayers were read by the Reverend Dr. Wesley, and the Sermon was preached by the Reverend J. S. An derson. At the Daily Service the Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, tke Lessons by the Rev. G. Repton, and the Communion Servive by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. J. S. Anderson. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SIINDAY.—The fine steam-ship Europa, after the quickest passage ever made across the Atlantic, arrived in the Mersey this morning at nine o'clock, having been telegraphed off Voel Naut at half past six, A.M. The Europa left New York on the sth inst., and called at Halifax on the Bth to land and re ceive the mails and passengers to and from the British American provinces. The entire time occupied between her departure from New York and arrival here (in cluding detention at Halifax) was only 10 days and 20 hourp. The Europa brings the large number of 150 passen gers.. She reports the arrival at Halifax on the 3d of June of the steam-ship America, which left this port on the 25th ult. The Europa on the 13th inst. met the steam-ship Cambria, which left this on the Bth inst. for New York. The files brought by the Europa extend to the sth inst., but the news is brought down to the 7th inst. via telegraph to Halifax. We subjoin some of the more interesting items of importance. 'That portion of the intelligence regarding the Cuban invasion is confirmatory of former accounts, though the details are somewhat contradictory. One report states that a portion of the invaders bad landed on the south side of Cuba, and had taken posses sion of Cienfuegos and Trinidad. Great excitement had taken place at Havannah on the receipt of this news, and a large number of troops had left for the supposed scene of action. In fact, scarcely a soldier remained in Havannah. The brig Zenobia, lately arrival at Savan nah from Cuba, reports that all the troops had again left for Cardenas. On the other hand it is stated that intel•• ligence had reached the Spanish legation in Washing ton that no less than 1,500 prisoners had been taken - - _ in two large vessels on the south coast of Cuba, most of whom were Americans, who were allowed to re turn, those of other countries being tried by court martial. Dispatches had been received at Washington from the American consul at Havannab, stating that he had demanded the 105 persons taken by a Spanish ship-of war on the Island of Contoy, that being a neutral terri tory. The men who had been taken on that island had not engaged in open hostilities, and were engaged con sidering the propriety of abandoning the island and re turning home when they were seized upon. The Go vernor of Cuba not having replied to the consul's demand, that functionary had sent for additional power to enforce it. Accordingly, dispatches had been for warded from Washington to such portions of the squadron as could be immediately collected at Uavannah to assist the consul in pressing the demand. Should the Spanish Government refuse the consul is to report to Washington, when orders will be at once given to obstruct communication of all vessels with the port of Havannab. _ _ A Washington letter states that a council of the United States Cabinet had been held in that city, when it was determined upon to bold the authorities of the island of Cuba rigidly accountable fer their treatment of all American subjects; and to carry out that determina tion a special agent was to be at once dispatched with the necessary instructions to Havannah. A correspondence is said to have passed between Mr. Clayton and the Spanish Minister relative to the impri sonment of certain Americans at Havannah, upon un founded suspicions of connivance with the invaders, and also with respect to the forced enlistment of Americans into the Cuban " volunteer" band'. The Spanish Mi- nister assured Mr. Clayton that the course Which would be pursued by the authorities at Cuba would be such as could give no cause of complaint to the Cabinet of the United States, and that no American citizen should be imprisoned or put to death unless on ample proof being given of the violation of the laws of Spain, Cuba, and also of the United States. _ _ _ A letter from Washington, dated June 3, says, that official information had just reached of the execution of four Americans, and the imprisonment of nearly 200 others. The four who had been shot bad been amongst those left behind at Cardenas. The Spanish authorities had refused the commander of the United States squad ron permission to see the prisoners, or permit them to be sent home for trial. The United States frigate Congress had sailed for Cuba, to intercept a Spanish vessel, containing a number of Americans, taken prisoners in an island near Yucatan. The Congress was followed also by a Spanish man-of war. Captain Randolph, of the Congress, is deter mined to rescue the American prisoners at all hazards. Dispatches have been forwarded from the United States Government to the Cuban authorities, that the arrest of Americans on any other island, save Cuba, will rot be permitted. The Spanish Minister at Washington had remonstrated against the refusal of the American authorities at Key West to deliver up the money which the invaders had taken. The Spanish commander had demanded the surrender of the Creole and the money. The reply made him was " We have no force, and the invaders will not give up the money." • The Spanish commander then offers d to put himself and his entire force under the command of the civil authorities at Key West, for the purpose of taking the Creole and the money. This was declined, a promise being made that the money would be returned by order of the United States Government to the Cuban authorities. It is generally believed that the invaders have in their pay many members of the Ame rican pi ess. Two vessels, with reinforcements for General Lopez, and which were commissioned to land at different points of the island, were still at sea, their fate and destination unknown. In the event of these vessels being captured by the Spaniards, the United States squadron bad been instructed to demand them of the Spanish commander, and in the event of refusal to seize them by force. The steam-ship Southerner had arrived at New York with several of the returned " patriots." The British steam-ship Thames. arrived at Mobile on the 3d June with late dates from Havannah. Mr. Campbell, the American Consul, stated that the Spaniards at Havannah were much embittered at the American authorities, and refused all information as to the number, names, and probable fate of the prisoners, who were very closely confined. Lopez was in New Orleans on the 4th instant. The grand jury at New York, charged with investiga tions relative to the connexion of persons with the Cuban invasion, bad reported that no evidence had been pre sented to them sufficient for the indictment of any per son in that city. Advices from New Orleans report the arrival there of the steam-ship Alabama from Sau Francisco with dates to the dust.le t o h May,este B aship P anama b a d reac hed Pa nama gold on the 21st ult. with over 1,000,000 dollars in gold dust from San Francisco. Business was prosperous when she left. Great activity prevailed at San Francisco, and prices of produce and merchandise were advancing. The emigration to the mines was said to be very greatly en the increase. The Indians (Pawnees) were still attacking the Cali fornian emigrants. The latter had found a desirable ally in a great Pottowatamier chief, named Wanasab, who had, in a skirmish, killed a Pawnee chief on whose person were found 4 white and 9 Indian scalps lately taken. 800 Mormons had left St. Louis for California. Caravans of emigrants extended between 200 and 300 miles. Grass and water were abundant, but small-pox and cholera were reported as very prevalent. Fires had occurred at Baltimore on the 4th, and Cin cinnati on the same day. Violent storms had been ex perienced in Georgia and Florida, The Nashville Convention met at Nashville (Tenes see) on the 4th inst., Judge Sharkey presiding. No thing important has been transacted. Nashville was greatly crowded. • The prospects of the new southern pro-slaverp organ has appeared in the Washington journals, signed by senators Butler a nd Morton, an d Messrs. hompson and Toombs. It will be published weekly and atri weekly. at s present in peaker of notedCon greTshs.eanßdishotohperofJainaia character,' Mr. Cobb, Bal timore. The proceedings of the American Congress possess c b r no new feature of interest. The slavery discussion still occupied the attention of the Senate. The committee of thirteen had presented a report restricting the terri torial governments of Utah and New Mexico from pass ing any law respecting slavery. The report has vir tually no meaning. Mr. Soule bad offered his counter project for the di vision of California by the parallel of 36.30, the coun try north being admitted as a state; a territory south of that line to be established and called South Califor nia, to be admitted at a suitable time as a state, with or without slavery, as the people may decide when they form a State government. A long discussion had taken place in the Senate on a motion by a Mr. Bradbury, censuring the President for removing parties from office merely because they were not partisans. Later news from Mexico state that the election for a president was approaching, and causing great excite ment. Senor de la Roa, Mexican Minister at Washing ton, was a candidate. No day for an extra congress had been named by the Government. The cholera was still prevalent, and approaching the capital. We have additional intelligence from Canada. Colonel Prince had been arrested for accepting a challenge from the Solicitor-General. In the Canadian Parliament, the Inspector-General intimated that the Government did not intend to permit American vessels to navigate the St. Lawrence, until commercial reciprocity bad been sanctioned by the American Congress. The Inspector- General had laid on the table the public accounts, and announced the intention of Government to take the duty off salt. Bills to abolish the usury laws, to regulate general assessment, to alter the rate of silver as a legal tender, and to facilitate free trade with the Britsh Ame rican possessions, are to be introduced. The Queen's birthday has been celebrated at Toronto with much en thusiasm. All the shops were closed. Lord Elgin and his daughter mingled freely with the crowd in the Col lege-avenue. The intelli g ence the steamship :I nce Eß ta el e A n America had the effect of considerably checking transactions. The banks win.° abundantly supplied with specie, and accommodation was liberally afforded. The transactions in exchanges fur the present steamer were not very ex tensive. In the .business on the day receding her de ljo u i t N b rr y Picture nohow I 0 landOU °POW • little inch isles being made at 9} to q, but closed firmer, say 9} to 10 per cent.; Paris, short sight, sf. 232 c.; for 60 days' bills, sf. 264 c. to sf. 27ie. ; Amsterdam, 40k to 404; Ham burgh, 35k, little doing ; and Bremen, 79 to 791. Is freights the business done is small and unworthy of notice. No change in rates to Havre, Glasgow, Liver pool, or London. A number of vessels had been taken up to load deals, &c., at St. John, N. 8., for English ports, from 31. to 41. 55., according to the eligibility of the ports. Holders of Cotton, after the departure of the steamer Pacific, continued to offer stocks freely, prices at the close of the week receding 4- to } of a cent., chiefly on mid dling and lower grades. 'The market still continued dull at a further decline. The receipts of cotton at all the shippieg ports are 1,922,709 bales against 2,590,186 to same dates last year, the decrease being 667,477 bales. The total foreign exports this year are 774,121 bales less than last, of which the decrease to Great Britain alone was 590,702 bales. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 23,179 bales less this season than last; there is an increase in stock of 96,812 bales. The latest quotations at New York were, low to good ordi. nary, 111 c. to 114 c.; low to good middling, 1 lie. to 124-c. ; middling fair to fair, 121 c. to 13c.; fully fair to good fair 13 4 c. to 13ic. The report of the New Orleans market at last advices states that cotton was then active under the Asia's news. On the 3d instant 4,000 bales had been sold-of middling 11}c. to 114 c. ; fair, 13c. sales per week 19,000 bales. Receipts at that port and Mobile, 473,000 bales behind last year. Weather warm but healthy. Provisions were firmer, and prices had advanced slightly, but receded again. Ohio pork, 8 dole., 684 c. to 8 duls. 75c. for prime, 10 dole. 68,1 c. to 10 dole. 874 c. for mess. Beef in good demand, at well supported prices, say, 8 dols. 87ic. to 9 dols. for country mess; prime mess, 17 dols. Lard is without demand for ex port. Butter and cheese steady. The Molasses and Tobacco markets are firm, with ad vancing prices. The market fur Ashes has remained steady and uniform. Pots bring 5 dols. 62c. to 5 dols. 681 c. A large speculative demand has arisen for Flour, in a great measure the result of anticipated short supplies of Flour and Wheat at the great receiving points of the west. The receipts at Buffalo from the Upper Lakei to the Ist of June had fallen short of last year 161,716 bbls. Flour, and 886,960 - bushels Wheat. Estimated present stock in New York is 250,000 to 400,000 bbls. of all kinds, and 50,000 bushels of Wheat. Quotations are, Mixed Ohio and Indiana, 5 dol. 62ic. to 5 dol. 75c.; pure Gennessee, 6 dol. 121 r. to 6 dul. 184 e.; extra Gennessee, 6 dol. 56c. to 57c. Corn meal continues in fair request, and higher, owing to advance in corn. The Drug and Dye markets were much depressed. CUBAN GRIEVANCES. Although we received by express last night later in telligence from the United States, we can only conjecture the results of an expedition, whose performance has hitherto been so inadequate in its promise as to leave in the minds even of those most sanguine as to its failure an unpleasant doubt whether they have yet heard the last of the affair. The fate of Mr. Cobden deters us from indulging in political prophecy. We shall not un dertake to say whether the conduct of General Lopes has been that of a skilful leader or a consummate coward. Whatever may be our private suspicions, we shall not charge the American Cabinet with an open participation in an an act of piracy until their vindication shall have appeared, if, indeed, after the humiliating compliance of Lord Palmerston in the case of the imprisoned negro at Charleston, they should think it worth while to offer any to a Government whose policy has exemplified the exact converse of the Roman rule—who spare the strong to trample on the weak. But we believe that at a crisis like the present, when even Spanish ob stinacy has been so far conquered as to lead the Court of Madrid to acknowledge the justice of the colonial complaints, by sending out Count Mirasol on a mission analogous to that of Lord Durham in Ca nada twelve years ago, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to know something both of the nature of the Cuban grievances, and c f the general state of opinion among the planters and proprietors of the island. First, as to the rate of taxation imposed by the mother-coun try. On examining the Cuban tariff, we find 2,860 articles enumerated as imports. Of these just 25 are allowed to enter free of duty. On 13 more the ad valo rem charges range from 2 per cent. to per cent. These 38, therefore, may be considered as comparatively un taxed. Of the remaining 2,822, more than two-thirds, or 1,908 articles, are rated at 27} per cent.; while the remaining 824 pay 33A- per cent., or one-third of their actual market value. Among the latter, or most highly-taxed class, we find a large proportion of those articles most necessary for the wants or comforts of the colonists. Horses, flour, soap, salt provisions (of which enormous quantities are introduced as food for negroes working on estates), nearly all articles of clothing, the machinery used for the sugar-mills, carts, and other requisites for agricul tural improvement, are all subjected to this enor mous impost. Not to trouble our readers with details, we may say, generally, that out of a population of about 1,200,000 inhabitants, of whom one-half, being held in a state of bondage, cannot be considered as consumers ou their own account, 3,000,000 of dollars are annually screwed, in the shape of import duties alone, while even here, as every resident in Cuba soon learns to his cost, the total loss of the planter is very inadequately repre sented by the total gain of the exchequer ; for, in the first place, it is only as a special favour —or, in other words, by means of a bribe—that the imported goods are allowed to be passed and brought into the market at once; the appraiser, moreover, is a Government officer, and being very badly paid, or sometimes not paid at all, takes care to make good the deficiency by a few private negotiations of his own ; then the tonnage duties have to he added ; and lastly, there is a tax on all articles sold by retail, of uncertain and variable amount, but which serves to enrich the local tax-gatherers, every one of whom is sent out, as Englishmen received East India appointments in the last century, to accumulate his for tune as soon as he can, and then make room for a successor. But these form a small fraction only of the financial grievances of the colony. Who in any country except Cuba ever heard of a tax directly dis couraging cultivation, because levied on the amount and value of the crops raised at home by the farmer? The Creole planter cannot cut an acre of cane on his own land without previously paying 2} per cent. on the al leged value of the produce. It' he raises Indian corn, or any other grain crop, he pays 10 per cent. The monopolies in the hands of the Captain-General furnish an equally fertile source of plunder. To take a single instance, an arroba of meat, weighing 251bs. English, costs the purchaser five dollars and a half. Upon this the Government charge is three dollars, or more than one•half of the whole value. We have not time, nor would our readers have patience, to go through a long list of similar enormities, from which the only difficulty is to select. A tax of 6 per cent. on the transfer of real estate—a similar charge (independent of the price of a licence) on all goods sold in shops—an impost on law expenses, on deaths, on registry of births, on free gifts of whatever kind, no matter how small the amount, on 'he wearing of a uniform, on the erection of any public build ing—these, and a hundred more, deserve aardly to be mentioned in themselves, because only forming part of the regular system of the country. But there are other impositions, which, though illegal, can hardly be called unavowed, and being enforced by the supreme authority, armed with absolute power, are just as regu larly submitted to as though they had originated with the Government of Spain. To begin—all offices are b . ought from the Captain-General, who, as may well be imagined from the preceding details, knows their value too well to part with them cheaply. Again, a nominal law against gambling-houses serves as a means of ex torting from particular individuals privileged to keep them a round sum for their secret licence. The fact of the Captain-General's receiving so much per head on every slave imported, and of his consequent unwilling ness to discourage the slave-trade, is too notorious to re quire farther mention. We are afraid of being supposed to allude to certain transactions, well known to the in habitants of the great commercial towns of England, in reference to the Exposition of next year, if a e add that in Cuba one of the heaviest extortions complained of by the residents comes in the shape of voluntary subscrip tions for the repair and maintenance of public buildings, and for other such purposes, which the delicacy of the authorities will not suffer them to put down to the account of the island treasury, And lastly, from every court of justice throughout the colony there is an appeal, immediate and irreversible, to the Captain-General in person; who, of course, only to prevent his time being unduly taken up with trifles, con descends to receive, by way of acknowledgment of his services as a judge, a sum which, to save trouble, he fixes in each case himself. In conclusion, we will only add that the total amount, avowed and unavowed, which the Government and the officials between them contrive to squeeze out of the pockets of the Creoles, is gene rally estimated at not much less than 5,000,0001. ster ling per annum. From this brief and imperfect out line of the financial administratio n o f Cuba —combining all four of the qualities which Adam Smith has noted as most likely to produce discontent i n the mind of the people—namely, great expense in coll e cting, in equality as regards different classes, fluctuation from time to time, and encouragement to the smuggleri we shall turn to the police of the isla nd and persona liberty of the subject. During eighteen consecutive months of the government of General Tacon, 200 per sons, many of high rank and respectability, were ten trans to ported to penal settlements , and a b o ve 700 perpetual banishment. When 0 Donnel t had en s held office t at or five revolt a little more than a year (in 1844) took place on the part of the negraonesatoef four estates. The actual mischi ef d o ne was not much greater than in the case of Smith O'Brien's memorable attempt in Ireland, but it was q uite enough for the authorities to act upon. Martial law could not, indeed, be proclaimed, artial law is the habi for the best possible reason, t d a I, tri , been so ever since tual government of Cuba, an 1825; but a military tribunal was " forth forthwith established, before which , by the ex p ress orders of I the Captain-Gre: neral, suspected par ties mi g ht be examined by torture or ' o therwise. Into a detail of the proceedings of this lay inquisition we have not space to enter; but some idea may be ice med of the kind of Justice . administered when it is stated that of Cubans, .unconvicted, untried, but put to the question by flogging and half-hanging, ninety-six were returned as leaving died under the hands of a single agent of police, seventy-two were butchered by another, and seventy by a third. Many of these victims were free coloured men, holding property to a large amount, and in some instances their guilt was well known to have consisted solely in their wealth. The exact number of officials employed in this laudable work we are unable to gite, but . believe it . to have exceeded twenty-five. The reader will draw his own conclusion as to the total amount of bloodshed, and we may add that it was never satisfactorily ascertained that any general or wide-spread conspiracy existed, the outbreaks which gave rise to the suspicions of the governor having been purely local, and a very . general belief existing throughout the island that their simultaneous occurrence at two or three different points was a purely casual coin cidence. We shall return to the subject of Cuban des potism. But meantime we are content to appeal to such facts as those which we have stated already; and it is without hesitation as to the answer which will be given by Englishmen, that we ask—" Ought the nations of Europe, in the nineteenth century, to sanction the con tinuance of such,a Government as this?"—Herald. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CHINA SQUADRON. HONG-KoNG, APRIL 24.—The Braganza, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, arrived here with the mail on the 18th inst., bringing with her the new Flag- Captain (F. W. Austen) to join the Hastings, 72, who received the command of her from Captain Morgan the same day. Captain Morgan goes home overland by this mail, and his departure from China is universally re gretted. The admirable state of order and discipline in which he handed over the flag-ship to his successor was only in accordance with his well known abilities as an officer, while his urbanity of manner and obliging de portment rendered him generally popular, and will cause him to be much missed in the naval and social circ!es of this station. The Commander-in-Chief (Rear-Admiral C. J. Austen, C. 8.), remains at Singapore with his family to recruit after the fatigue of the overland passage, and has ordered the Hastings to join him there as soon as she is relieved by the arrival of some other ship at Hong-Kong. She has remained at anchor in Hong-Kong roads nearly seven months without once moving (I), and both officers and crew begin to wish fur a change of scene. The Arab, 12, Commander Morris, is lying at Whampoa. The Royalist, 8, Commander Bate, left this place on the 2d for Manilla and Palawan, where she arrived on the 4th. The Reynard, 11, Commander Cracroft, left for Shanghai, en route to Pei-ho, on the 10th inst. She had reached Amoy on the 18th, where the Mariner, 12, Commander Matheson, is still stationed. The Pilot, 12, Commander Ince, is at Shanghai. The Amazon, 24, Captain Troubridge, is in the Straits of Malacca. The Cambrian, 40, Captain Morris, and the Fury steam-sloop, Commander Wilcox, are on their way to Singapore from Colombo, with detachments of the Ceylon Rifles on board to reinforce the garrison of Hong-Kong. Although the Mariner is ordered home, it is not the Governor's intention to part with her yet. The pirates captured by Commander Cracroft in the Reynard have been tried—three are to be hanged, nine transported for life, and two were acquitted. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 16.—The westerly gale moderated on Saturday, and drew round to N.N.E. At noon the Victory telegraphed to the Ajax, at Spithead, to get up steam and proceed to Plymouth and Cork, and she soon went away with a fair wind. On the arrival of the Vengeance, 34, at this port from the Mediterranean station, she will be paid off all standing, and recommissioned by Captain Sir Henry Blackwood, with a complement of 330 men, for home service. The Fairy Royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence, G.C.IL. will embark her Majesty and the Court at Osborne on Tuesday, at a quarter-past two r.m., for Gosport, en route to London. The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander Dumaresq, and her tender, the Seaflower, are ordered to be paid off here. The former is also ordered to be recommissioned for sea service with a complement of sixty men. The mainmast of the new steam-frigate Termagant, 24, is ordered to be shifted seven feet further forward. I'EMBROICE, JUNE 15.—Moorings for a line-of-battle ship and a frigate are immediately to be laid down off this yard. It is expected that this step is preparatory to a man-of-war being permanently placed on the station, as this important arsenal is the only naval establish ment which is left without the defence of a single vessel of war. The Triumph, 74, on* of the lazarettoes at the port of Milford, is being taken to pieces in the dockyard, being much too defective to be repaired. She is an ex tremely old ship, having been launched at Woolwich in the year 1764, and wa►s built on the lines of the Invin cible, captured from the French. She is of 1,825 tons burden. Her copper materials and the sale of the old timber will realise a considerable sum above the expanse of breaking up. It has been decided that a hospital shall forthwith be erected for the benefit of the troops in the garrison. This measure, though involving an outlay at first, will ulti mately prove a saving to the country. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JUNE 13.—Lieutenant George W. Towsey (184) to the Sealark, at Portsmouth. - Second-Master Samuel Braddon (1844) to the Illustri ous, 72, depot ship of ordinary, Portsmouth. Midshipmen—Edward W. Dillion and Edward Tongue to the Sealark. _ . Clerk—Timothy Clinch to the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich. Naval Cadet—Edward Adeane to the Phaeton, 50, Lisbon squadron. JUNE 15.—Lieutenant John Cartright (1846) to the Sea lark. Second-Master William Stanton to the Illustrious. Midshipmen—Hastings S. De Roebeck to the Impreg nable, 104, flag-ship, at Devonport ; C. T. Williamson to the Wolverine, 82, sloop, on the coast of Africa. Naval Cadet—Joseph Crispin to the Victory flag ship at Portsmouth. Gunner:—Charles Hicks to the Retribution steam frigate at Woolwich; William Lesby to the Inflexible steam-frigate at W oolwich. Boatswain John Smock to the Inflexible. Carpenters—James Cannaway to the Retribution; Thomas Conwing to the Inflexible. Rear-Admiral M. F. Berkley, C. 8., or o of the Lords of the Admiralty, and Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, visited Woolwich dock ard on Friday afternoon and inspected the Retribution and Inflexible steam-frigates. The gunner and car penter have been appointed to the Retribution to-day; and the gunt,er, boatswain, and carpenter to the In flexible. The shipwrights have been taken off the Agamemnon, 80, steam-ship, to assist in finishing the other steamers, the framework of the former being nearly completed except a small portion at the stern. The keel of the San Fiorenzo, 50, has commenced being laid, and five lengths are already.down, on the same slip from which the Nankin, 50 was launched. The Nile, hired convict ship, is to leave her moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, with convicts who will obtain tickets of leave on her arriving at Van Diemen's Land. 35 ha►e been put on board from the Warrior convict ship at Woolwich. THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Amongst the last papers received from America there is one of much interest from Mr. Meriam, of Bricklyn Heights, a gentleman well known in the scientific world across the great waste of waters which separate us. It is entitled " The Franklin Life-saving and Arctic Exploring Expedition," and has reference more particu larly to Mr. Grinnell's expedition, and to the passing of the Act of Congress authorising the engagement of volunteers among the nee, as well as officers, of the United States' navy for both the vessels fitted out—they received from the Government their usual pay. Would that such an Act had been passed in our Parliament to relieve Lady Franklin of the heavy expenses she has incurred. There was no want of volunteers for her expedition. Never was a finer crew got together than that embarked in the Prince Albert; and an officer of merit of the British navy commands them, Captain Forsyth, whose services are gratuitous, relying upon the justice of his country to reward him on his return. In Mr. Meriam's interesting paper, to which we have alluded, he remarks that " Mr. Grinnell, in his memorial to Congress, says, ' There are some grounds for believ ing this to be a propitious season for exploring the Arctic seas.' It is my present purpose to state, in as brief a =liner as possible, some facts and reasons why the present is thought to be a propitious time. Be then proceeds to show that within a given period of the year 1842 one hundred and four vessels reported Polar ice in great abundance making south, while in 1843, during the same period, there were but three vessels re ported ice. A tabular statement is g vessels which have met w past—viz., from 1840 to iven showing the number of ith Polar ice for ten years L 850; a copy of which we annex:-- ..0 Years. 4 L 72 : o to t Z 1 0 w .„, O. .. c .l 0 w ~ 4.4 o 4 -4 A ,-., 0- D "4 rn E-. ________ 1841 i-- __ -- 9 11 1 -- -- -- 21 1842 - -- 731 11 16 22 16 1 104 1843 __ __ __ 3-- 3 1,.- -- --1 5 12 3 2 -- __ 22 844. 1845. -.--- -- - -1 4 10 9 1 5 5 -- 41 4 1846 - -- - 2-- __ 21 77 4 3 1847 -_. -- -- -_ __ 1848 - 0 1849 ——— 1 1 1 2-- -_ 5 18i0 1 1 6 5 :____-------__ ..It will be seen by this statement," observes Mr. Meriam, " that there was no Polar ice reported as Rowing sou th during the year 1848 , and but five ves sel s r eported as having seen any iu 1849 ; but as earl y as Januar y of the present year immense islands of Polar ice have been reported as having reached lat. 44 N, lon g. 45 W • thus m ost clearly showing that the Polar regions have ' been acted upon by some unusual phenomena. All this is very cheering, and gives token of a goodly day that may yet dawn upon us, and restore our long lost countrymen to their homes. It is a noble, generous, and humane act on the part of the Americans to send forth this expedition, and there is something very manly in Mr. Grinnell's memorial to th e Congress, wherein he stated, " That the paramouonstibnl in e, the discovery, and inducement to this enter prise, is to aid, as tar a s psi , of John Franklin and his compa nions;the rescue he trusts, but that he shall think it due to tho cause of science to instruct the officers in command of the oxpedition to use all diligence and zeal in the explo ration of the frozen regions to w hich they are bou nd. There are strong "grounds" he continues, "for be lieving this to be a propitious season for such an explo ration, and he will not easily relinquish the hope of being, in some degree, instrumental in solving the long disputed question of the existence of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific?' Happy, indeed, should we be if the American expedi tion succeeded in rescuing too great magnanimity on our part to wish them to Franklin ; but it would be make the north-west passage, which, year after year, we have endeavoured, for 300 years and upwards, to ef fect, but hitherto without offeet—unless, ineed, Franklin et comes out through Behring Straits, as swe till think y [ he may .—Herakl. COMMODORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON. The following is an extract from the letter of a Lis bon correspondent, dated June 9 : The whole of the British squadron , meld the R og ue, valich hes benleft in the Ti.gup, miloct from this port on the 31st ult. The complimentary remarks, of which the following is a portion, appeared in the columns of the Patriota of the Ist inst.:— " ' English ships are always patterns of discipline, and of everything else appertaining to the naval service, whether acting singly or in squadrons; but anything to equal those under the command of Commodore Martin we never yet saw. Scarcely a day passed without their crews being exercised with the great guns, the sails, or the masts. Often have we seen from the windows of our house, which overlook the Tagus, at a signal from the Commodore, one of the noble 50-gun frigates bring down her topmasts, and, in not many minutes after, have them up again and all sail set. In signalising. too, that mute language, to their proficiency in which the English"owe a part of their successes by sea, they wero fry quently exercised. In raying this tribute of praise to Comm o d ore M art i n , i t i s d ue at t h e same time to the captains of the other ships to say that nothing could exceed the discipline of their crews and the skill and promptitude with which they obeyed the Commodore's orders.'" HALE'S ROCKET-FIRING AT OSBORNE. JUNE 15.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert having expressed a desire, through Colonel Wylde, who was present at the recent experiments at Shoeburyness, to witness the firing of some of Mr. Hale's rockets, Mr. Hale proceeded to Osborne on Friday morning, and received notice that the Prince would be present at the jetty, or landing-place on the grounds of Osborne House, at half past three o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Hale was in attendance at three o'clock, and in a few minutes com pleted his arrangements for firing twenty 10-pounder rockets, the Hon. Colonel Grey pointing out the best position, in the centre of the open ground, betwixt the residence of her Majesty and the water, the direction of the rocket-tube being to the north-west. On the arri val of his Royal Highness, shortly before four o'clock, Mr. Hale exhibited one o f his rockets, and explained the principle on which it was constructed, to be fired without the stick always used with the service rocket. Mr. Hale then explained the new plan he had introduced in connexion with the firing tube to resist the starting of the rocket until it had ac quired a considerable force, which is effected by a ba lance weight, regulated to the desired resisting power, and the Prince seemed much pleased with the simplicity of the plan adopted. The tube having been placed at an elevation of 12 degrees, a resisting pressure (-f 51b. was given to the balance weight, the rocket, which his Royal Highness had minutely inspected in his own hands, was placed in the trough-end, the port-fire applied to the quick-match by Mr. llale, and it instantly started in a straightforward direction, making a beautiful flight to the distance of nearly a mile, and after striking the water was seen to ricochet to a considerable distance further. The boatswain in charge of the landing place then took the portfire and fired all the others. When the eighth or ninth rocket was firing the Fairy royal steam-yacht came rapidly round the point from East Cowes, having Colonel Bouverie on board, and ran very nearly into the line of the rockets, and the Prince was extremely anxious to know if any danger was to be apprehended, as he had heard and wit nessed that they could not bo depended upon for taking a straight direction, but Mr. Hale assured his Royal Highness that ho could now depend upon his, and the firing was continued very satisfac torily, while Colonel Bouverie was landing at a short distance south of the station of the rocket tube. Two of the rockets were fired without the resistance balance weight being applied, and the difference was remarkable, the range being not nearly so great, and the flight not so quick, although the direction was good, as were all the others without exception. Two of the shell headed rockets burst in the air at their extreme range, and several a second or two after they had struck and were under the water, and the reports of the latter were distinctly heard on shore. The Prince was much gratified with the celerity with which the rockets could be fired, the whole cccupying but a short time. His Royal Highness, when the rockets were all fired, asked if they were more expensive than the usual service rocket. Mr. Hale explained that his rockets could be made at fully one-third less expense than the common service rockets can be made at the Royal Arsenal. Mr. Hale subsequently submitted a carcase head for a 10-pounder rocket, and filled with a compo sition which cannot be extinguished by water, calculated to burn two minutes on being ignited, when the last part of the rocket composition is burnt out, and used for setting fire to buildings. The boatswain afterwards sit it on fire, and it burnt with great intensity on the damp ground. Mr. Hale then submitted a piece of the com position with which his rockets are charged, and ex plained to his Royal Highness the nature of the ingre dients and by which he fills his rockets by hydraulic pressure, which renders the composition more solid than when driven home by a monkey or mallet with the hand. His Royal Highness, after thanking Mr. Hale, returned to Osborne-house, accompanied by the Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel Bouverie. PAIRS ON LORD ASHLEY'S AMENDMENT IN THE FACTORY BILL. Bernard, Lord Molesworth, Sir W. Buck, L. W. Mangles, R. D. Bentinck, Lord H. M'Taggart Brooke, Lord Adair, H. Dickson, Samuel Scrope, G. P. Walsh, Sir John Cobden, R. Burghley, Lord Denison, J. E. Manners, Lord C. Abdy, Sir T. Noel, Hon. G. J. Hutchine, E. J. Gore, W. 0. Hastie, A. Verner, Sir W. Philips, Sir G. Lord Lansdale is to be the Speaker of the House of Lords on the resignation of Lord Cottenham. Being a Peer, as well as one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, the appointment of Lord Langdale to the Speakership of the House of Lords is the most obvious and natural arrange ment pending the time that must intervene in the new set tlement of the several duties of Lord Chancellor. Lords Langdale, Denman, and Campbell, were Deputy Speakers of the Lords, and either of the other Noble and Learned Lords is still competent to sit as Speaker in the absence of Lord Langdale. ERECTION OF A BEACON ON THE TONGUE SANDS. —During the last few weeks the Board of Admiralty have caused an accurate survey of the Tongue Sands to be made, in furtherance of rendering the channels more safe to ma riners beating up and down. The result has been the erec tion of a conspicuous buoy at the north end of the Tongue of the Prince's Channel, the spot where the Royal Adelaide was wrecked. The new buoy is of gigantic dimensions: it is painted black, and is surmounted by a staff and ball, and is discernible at a considerable distance. The subscriptions for the relief of the widows and orphans of the unfortunate creatures who perished in the ill , fated vessel have, we are sorry to hear, Been exceedingly small, and inadequate for the purposes intended. CONCERT AT - WILLIS'S Rooms.--M. Godefroid's concert took place on Saturday morning. The ability of M. Godefroid as a performer on the harp has long been acknow ledged, and he enjoys a considerable reputation in Belgium, where he has of late years been a resident. His concert on Saturday contained some pleasing exemplifications of his talents--also of the superior character of his invention in writing for the instrument with a view to display its true genius and availability. The pianoforte playing of Madame Warfel, described in the programme as " celebrated," did not produce much effect. The execution was neat, but be yond this it was not remarkable. Sainton and Piatti were among the instrumentalists. The principal vocalist was Mdfie. Schloss. who gave the great scene from the Frcischutz, with her usual faultlesness, both as to style and mechanism ; and Miss Catherine Browne, a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, and the owner of a fine though apparently over forced voice, may be commended for the tasteful and un affected e r h en e d ,, e ,o re re d .,.t A T lo h o e r r e e 's ma p i r n e i t n t g y b singersallad were Mdlle. de Rupplin, Signor Brigno li, M. Jules Lefort, d r in Nrth gem s h e ti eh a n aay r e v e whiche &c. The pianoforte accompany isis were NM. Alar y , Vera, and Frslom. The concert w as not too liberall y attended. EXUIBITION OF 18.51.—We are glad to hear that the directors of the British Institution at their last meeting voted the sum of 1001. to the funds now raising towards carrying into effect the great exhibition of industry. The corporation of Plymouth have also voted the sum of 50/, to which the Chamber of Commerce of that town have added a further sum of 10/. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN A LADT.—EXE TER, JUNE 15.—Information has just been given to the po lice of this city by Sir George Adam, Bart., of one of the most diabolical attempts to take away the life of a most amiable lady, and at the same time burn down her house, which we have ever had occasion to record. It appears from the statement of Sir George Adam that Lady Kirkcudbright, who has for some time past been residing in the vicinity of this city, was awakened out of her sleep the night before last in consequence of experiencing a suffocating smell of tobacco, mnornaviningg, v. c , a h l l e e n d t o h u t et servantso- know e a x ga p i l l o l s v. io .e n n s, t r t e o se s m lee b p li . n a g n c d ra in ck t e h rs e . and almost immediately afterwards she h ear d sundry small if any person was in the room, and receiving no answer, she came to call her Ladyship, they found that the door had been screwed to the side posts, and that all ingress or egress Was thereby cut off. As soon as the doors had been unscrewed, and the rooms examined, it was discovered that Borne mis creant had placed some hey under Lady Kirkcudbright's door, and had afterwards forced under a lighted cigar, having previously fastened down the door, so that in the event of the house taking fire, her Ladyship must most inevitably have been burned to death. The police are making the moat active inquiries with a view to discover the perpetrators of so barbarous a design, but up to the present time they have not been successful. The affair has cast a gloom over the nleigh bourhood, as Lady Kirkcudbrig ht is a lady universal yr spected on account of her li beral and affable ha bits toward= the poor. shi ri p H M E ed li ef li C may be daily looked for. h It has been confided by the ' -arpiNainooNn..l:-. LTohcekyaerr,riwviatlhotfhishevralMuasbjleesgteym's h i t s o a g t e n e t charge ,B,ith t h e o f c 0 L i m e i n u taenndaenrt:i Colonel Commander-in-Chief hia( Governor-Gener al to Lord Dalhousie. The selection of during the late campaign, with whom is associated Captain Lieutehneaennt;(e:royloanpepl r tl r a ,r e i k s e te s , on in f a o s r m t u h n a h t a m s i t s h si a o t n ofhapepeera,sradisto. have tinguished services have all been performed in the countries Mackeson, Ramsay, B . with which the history of this valuable diamond is specially connected; Colonel Mackeson having been more or less pro minently engaged in every campaign on the north-western frontier from our occupation of Caubul in 1838 to the:subjuga tion of the I'unjaub in 1.19, when this diamond was captured by the British army. GOOD WATER V. BEER. Besides the immense benefits of soft water in processes of cleansing and of manu facture, the encouragement to temperance in the supply of so pleasant and wholesome a beverage is not to be despised. and is what the Londoners have little conception of. Strangers who come to the metropolis from localities where so salubrious a draught as pure and even moderately soft water is customary, are horrified in drinking the metropolitan water, with a feeling as if the draught were a mere solution of lime, giving as little gratification, or quencliment of thirst, as the parched .throat of the dreamer of draughts of water feels atter swallouing imaginary bucketfuls. Hence it is that the metropolitans, knowing nothing of the delights of water drinking, have a settled but mistaken idea that it ia water in the abstract that is unfit for human drinking. Hence it is that brewers make hundreds of thousands for their heirs to throw away.—Builder. STEAM FROM GLASGOW TO NEw YOBX.—The new screw steam-ship City of Glasgow sailed from Glasgow on Friday, on her second trip to New York. The City car ries a full cargo of light valuable goods, and all her bath 1 ale alio taken UP. an on, Ty, fiat Mil' Ad' petbf ard• here t. 43r erll4 V.llb wan' on to trong rock; 'land, P l 4' 12 . .0,- ' ,•• 96 ~~