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NEV,FGATE x.naarzazazas. Since our last report the .e mtakt:ts have been but mo :rately supplied wi t h eac h ki n d o f mea t. Prime Pwef da d Mutton have moved off st.adily, at foil rates of cur -let'eY• In the middlin4 and inferior kinds, as well es Lamb, Veal, and Fork, only a limited business is do n , • AboUt 400 carcases of foreign meat, chiefly of 4autteti, have found buyers. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I • Beer s. 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inierfor •• • Middling .... 2 fi 28 I middling.. Prtme large .. 210 3 0 prime v.., Prime :mall 3 0 3 2 i Perk, large • • .• • •• ... •• • 2 8 3 4 - small •• •• •• •• Lamb. 3s 10d to 4s 10d. 1iD2.07.1GH AND SPXTILIMZELIDS_ Last week's imports of Potatoes amounted to 22 ha— het4 3,961 bags 133 tons froth RotterdaM, 55 sacks from tzingne, 1,294 sacks 844 bags 13 baskets from Ant erP, 10 tons from Ghent, 136 sacks f rom Boulogne, and *1 tons from Dunkirk. About NO tons of the above . 40 of th e p resent year ' s growt h , - an d w hi c h h are co ld at f rom 28 to 5s per cl6z.n lbs. From our own coos's ~_( l3 ' fbw arrivals have taken piece, and the markets are wiitily supplied. The demand, however, is very in toA yr e t, lll o, and it is very difficult to quote prices accurately. T parcels have, however, changed hands on the ' "Itlng 8. d. to N. 2 8 2 10 30 3 6 3 8 3 10 2 10 3 4 36 4 0 ork Per Ton. Regents 100 s to 160 s " 14 0 Shavvs for Olantin g i',c.oteti Regents —s to —s Vtto rnin.Cups 70i to 80s utitto Whites LOs to 65s ° lttes to —a i t . lc oln.ltegents. s to —s /I,l s heach ditto —s to -itta Per Ton. Common Whites —s to s Kent Shaws Essex Regents Ditto Shaws —s to —s Ditto Kidneys Chatt sound ss to s Ditto damaged French Whites Belgian Whites COs to 70s ° twick Refits .., sto— s I Dutch Whi!es —ato —s —a to —a Rhenish ditto ... 75s to 85s T he BOROUGH EOP P/LiSMILET. off, ue supply of tine Hops of 1.1. it year's growth on ris very bmall, and we have a fair inquiry for such i t i l l la l ities at full prices. In a ll o th er ki n d s on ly a limited i tiess is doing , t late res. The plantation accounts Ntiunts; a iv Ei 2 -Due satizfactory. New Mid and East Kent pockets, I t 3 to 101 10 s; N ew W ea ld o f K ent di tto , 6/ t o 81; e * Su ssex di tto , 5 / 5s ti 6 1 12s; N ew Farnham, 12/ to 1/, 131 ; Yearling Kent.l , , 3/ 33 to 41 8s; "Yearling Subst.x, Qs to 3155; Old Hops, 1/ Is to 31 TO OZ. e nblie sales of 26.000 packages of Colonial Wool have commenced. Up to the present time the attendance ks _ittyc ra has been tolerably good, and most of the r re elrefFered have sold—Fine qualities at prices quite ;NI to those obtained in May, but low parcels have Op e rob , r easier. P r ior t o th e commencemen t o f t he vr, it was u n d ers t oo d th at no a ddi t i ona l qua li t i es w il l 4aught forward during their p rogress , an d t h at a ,! )(1 of six weeks will el a pse b e f ore o th er ca t a l ogues th l s s ned. By private contract very little is doing, and k e E ,Votations are almost nominal. The imports last 1) 0 : 4 '.=.re 9 bales from Hamburgh , 5,665 ditto from 1 , 0 4 Philip; 228 from Challeston, 1,800 /rem Hobart and 25 bags from Ireland. Si TALLOW. • tk been otir last report a fair average amount c.f business k s een traosaeted in Tallow, for the time of year, at i eu t!tered quotations. To-day P.Y.C. on the Fpot is at 361 9d to 375, and for forward delivery 383 3d ,ilitoeit. T own Tallow, 352 6.1 per cwt net cash; Rough per 31hF. 1846. I 1847. 1848, I 1849. I 1840 t t , clt • )ti,: ' bi g day •••• • • I 9,873 k - ' Of r rt f 42s Od 1 1.11 p.„ 'C. '' —L to Os Od itt o ` f `Ylast week ' 360 1 trn„'ronl June 1.... 1,314 (rota week . l3l I tie rota June 1 ... 574 e °f . Town ...... 42s Od 7,857 8,5^.0 23,190 24,870 503 9d 45s Gd 384 6d to; 363 9d to - Os Od to 45s 0d 38 bOd to37s Od 953 . 1,897 1,0"5 1,583 2,292 3,951. 2,338 2,538 1,5 ,5 1,821 497 2,050 4,962 155 1,784 63s Od I 47s Od 1 39s 6d I as Od TRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES (From the Weekly Dispatch.) L Itkir jn Lue year 1830 an insurrt odon - took place in Bruns i4iaand the reignin g Duke with di ffi culty escaped with Il w i Le, and came to reside in England. The outbreak, asserted, was occasioned by the overbearing and condubt of the Duke towards his subjects, and e SPptcricher of that year an article appeared in the a I Patch strongly impeaching the conduct of the Duke, i et se tug gross acts of oppression exercised by him to d,lB las ,subjects, and justifying t h em , i n re b e lli on an d a r i l tr iating him.. Of this article no notice was taken igt" Duke. Had he then commenced legal proceed gtunst the proprietors they might probably hare k t i B ble to procure evidence to justity the allegations article, and thus defeated his action. In 1847 „' i tsisatch contained some remarks respecting the dif os betweea the Duke and his subjects, whereupon e, • W . Oddy, the Duke's sec r et ar y, wrote a l e tt er to k4tadr coesplaining of these .remarks, and asserting 1 4 .1 1 10 eutrage did not originat e with the pe o ple, but it result of a conspiracy, prepared since the Duke's 1 )4 1 °,31 by his uncle, George IV., and executed by the tie l ', B own brother, a t th e h ea d o f th e no bility ; and k t , s 'ae attempt was to assass i na t e th e Duke, and set so lBl ttee on fire. Mr. Oddy, in this letter, required )tte nt rne of the proprietors' attorney, in order to serve k t i o Ns, which was accordingly given to him, and the bt i n was forthwith commenced, seeking conseensation e article in the Dispatch of the 19th of September, Ef t and for the remarks inserted in 1847. The proprie- V4f th e Di spatc h cons id ere d t h at t h e remar k s w hi c h a 4 r ed at the latter period,—viz., 1847, rvete - legitimate I',Csents on.a public event, and . consequently the ac .hlit'oald not ire maintained upon them; arid as regarded ' l iole ef SP 1830 the time had ion past when P"g Bono 1 „ could be receverei upon it, however strong liittosllous it might be deemed.. The Statute-a Li ltr,‘,4etis was, therefore., pdeaded to that other of the de e) 'lan, anti the eenerel issue as to the . the trial of the cause, a Dispatch of the 19th t 4i'lltber 1830, was produced by the plaintifl; and one Oti s ' ierseymore Ile nhuld, who represented himself ' l a t i s 'Ataie, swore that by the desire of the Duke, he that paper in the month of March, 1848, at' 11141",eealy Dispatch (fficc, in Fleet-street. Lord Den jj lt 01,, jure that he considered this to be a new 'tteatiott of. the libel, and was an answer to the pica k.tt t i. Statute of Limitations, and thus the jury gave a Vt fur the plaintiff, with,soo/. daterges. Sh e videtee of Reinhold was a co m plete surprise . defendant and _his legal adviser. The pub. whose care and custody all the back papers N o ' ll " . g en hand are placed, bad not had in his pos -11.4 for many sears past a Weekly Dispatch of the i'laer Septmber, 1830, coniequently the one pre 'tllk,°ta the trial could not have been bought by Rein t';_tbe Dispatch office, as sworn to by him; but soon t di eit ge trill same facts came out which pretty clearly e a bow that.paper was obtaiaed. N o !PPears that a Mr. George Plummer, a• news .,l',llving in *Spitalfields, is in the habit of dealing N ci UAck numbers .of London newspapers, and that L yle i early pa . . t of the year 1848 - , one. William Eason, in the, employ of a Mr. 'Bronheim, of Pater. ticl:6w, 4plied to Plummer to procure him a Dis t 41 t e 19th of September, 1830, offering to . g . ive td _.. if r thehe co paper if he could succeed in obtaining eculd get him a second eopy : Plummet 'lleent inquiries in the trade, and in about six !ta t '" l iltsrwares, viz., -in July ' or August following, k 4 , ll i.('d that a Mr. Mete, then living in the Adelphi, L ie r ,, 4l e the. Dispatch for the year 1830 for sale, and .'" agree to Ip urchase it at the price of 3/. Plum- : cu lted Eason of his success, and the latter pro .A 0 bri ng the person by whom he was employed to te . c i Lion. Inn, in.the Su it ed, to complete the put.- kt the time appoieted. Eason came, in cora- W. Oddy, .the Duke of Brunswick's as tiNj and, in his presence, Eason said, " This is the 011, - :', 1 4 who wants the paper." Plummer and ',ltioen went to Mr. Mote, by whom the file was IN, e"u : d s and Oddy gave Plummer the 5/. as agreed took away the filo of newspapers; but, before s e rf Le c Parat . cd, Oddy told Plummer h e wou ld g i ve hi m Iti o ontd.procure him another copy of the paper in ula n, and Eason subeeq uen tly t o ld I'l ummer h e Na gi r lie him, 241.-for • four more papers of the 19th I rilb ,Cr, 1830. t r itaelnias Term an application was made for a Ots 'al, on the affidavits of, .Mr. Plummer and Mr. t 4 p,;, e lla to th e p urc h ase b y Od dy of the f il e o f the t ta ler the year ,1830, and stating, at greater ff ,it particulars attending, the negotiation. The al t s of Mr. Wood,. the -publieher of the Dispatch, P'Ye, 4l ablee, and . Mr. ,Tibbey, went to show that in Abe 18 41 there was not, nor had there since been, rapatch'office any, paper of the 19th September, lA ' .4 in that - year 1841, au entry was made in a tin ' to t papers then on hand in the office, and there c!itt e , ° lle of the 19th_ September, 1830, which book I.:N:4d to Mr. Wood's affidavit, whereupon a rule 1 4, i 4 granted. On Saturday, the 8:h instant, the t i Person showed cause against the rule, when Al ' • oh o xpressed its unanimous opinion that a new uld :be (scanted. ca use wi ll li kl 'blue will - probably come on at the Sittings after t h ee ' e rra, when -some curious disclosures may • Vie _ ---= ' i l' Pa • 'A 11 1 ., INTSRS . MATEUR ' DRAMATIC SOCIETY '4 O N ''.X IIIBLTIAN OF 1851. On Saturday a meeting of Ip l , t, tl , l ''s held' at the .Whiter Hart Tavern, Catperine. ,' , .N l .. h a nd, for the purpose of establishing the" . Printers ' i t 4 k titi, u ramatic Society," the object of which is to afford, ,It,, tk kir ' ', ll , t 4 6 time;' pecuniary . aid from the funds raised by k it-qq t , mat lc and musical performances to the be . neyo-, ,4` ~'aritable institutiOns connected with the printing otgic,rmae, routine. business having. been disposed of and 04 1 , 01 the society elected, it was resolved that a pro- N,, 4 ll R 'Ve by Mr. Tallent, viz., that the society should N't li, rated by a , performance, the proceeds of which et t .r4 e , ( ?ll. tributed to the funds of the Industrial Exhibi -161144,!.0u1d be Carried into effect, and the committee 1 ' 1 ter 7 ..,`.41 to take the necessary steps for. up 41, 1114 nCe in the course f theensuingmonth. tt o ttoi • 9 ~t II S t 4 r tit 4 ENT IN T. XAMBS'S PARK.—Accord i, 1 1 is • 11 ' 11 to, Parliament (printed en Saturday), an es tl,. 4 , l. l.paeafp etiss . of making, an . ornamental en 1, . q„ orriturig a public garden in front of Buckingham , 0 k..e epense isSWed at 26,9371., of:which 14,000/. Ol k (latred to be voted in the present session. k h ., kr _ : ,• , . . ; . . , k t tlij4ll,,!? TOE WELSH: 'O regret th . tiiii i ,,t,Pat a very general strike has . taken place k N fit et 0 3 .Ot - Ai.9,lllllthShire and ~Giamorganshire; it li :t si t .. lB ticithielit‘nri less than twenty•tive coal work-, e t 4 tiq. s " , anti'requiring 4 vast nuniber of bands, are I.' li as the , lainentable result.—Monmoadishire lei a,:t,, / - qi,f ,, z ,: . Et, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By A. ' o(i 41 11145. *... The simple narrative of the Vendean war V 14,„ 1'6, 4 be a romance of itself. The devoted gallantry lflt e 'aslikt leaders, ..their hair-breadth escapes, their I},ttlflZ,4 or4kPedients, and . their melancholy end, form the ,O, \toi l iPtrative hi comparison with which the boldest '!; l . ?( l de ill i t `' B ,eena tame: PrOminent among . the leaders of !' t r :',r q t i veit, Irena..llarocheja.quelin is exactly the s„!c ,4 0 ,, Gt . Which the novelist can construct a hero. I .l„,",itZkt e 11 3 . 8441 pen has given us ia the present book Y'tlreti;piii,elBl!oricil sketch, and a delightful nevel, at one Itiii.Y 1, 4 ,..... 1 "k. , .. I.:.: V,,...,,,, is 1L.,:1i in plot,. a.:il style k tik4tt hiont L in- Mr. Trollope's most interesting narre -44444'44 a useful and agreeable addition to our --0t.../Stundarth T E LITERATURE. BIOGRAPHY OF LORD JEFFREY. An admirable biography ot 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 research 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 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 thin, the judgment pronounced by the hi• 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 cur 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 descriptions 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 fur the People, con sisting of merely thirty-two gages, 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 Scotchman,- 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 o f th e mas t er ly 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 rea , ters with certain suggestive quota tions. On the Ist of Icvember, IBG2, No. I. of the Edinburgh Review appeared. Its publisher was the "Scotch Mmeenas," 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, H enry B roug h am, 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, en 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 say s,l "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— " '.linui neusam .nzeditamur avenrs 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— " Judex damnatar cum nocens absolviturr 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:— "W e are happy at being able to produce a stilt more interesting and detailed statement ot the circumstances attending the commencement cf the Review—a docu ment hitherto unpublished, and written by Lord Jeffrey, at the request ot Mr. Robert Chambere, in November 1846. It is as follows:—' I cannot say exactly where the proket of 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 goose, where I then lived, in Three/ouch Place (I forget the number). They were atteutled 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 rcom of Willison's printing-office in Craig's Close, where the proofs of our own articles were road over and remarked utoo, awl attempts made also to sit in judgment on the few manuscripts which were then of ired 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. tbout 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 (for 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 conre3eracy, 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 Williscn's office, to which he insisted on our repairing singly, and by back approaches or different lanes! Bs 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 ffence at some alterations.Smith.had made in a trifling article of his in the second number, and left us thus early; publishing at the same time in a magezne 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 : " Constable," he 383 s, " 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 oach number. The ac count-books are missing for three years after 1809, but from 1813 on to 1826 Mr. Jeffrey is credited for edit ing' 700/. a-number, so that his salary appears to have been more than trebled:" Speaking of the amount of the 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 were thrown off, and successive editions still ore numerous were called for. In 1808 the quarterly circulation of the Review bed 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 of Byron and the novels of Scott had taken the public, as it were, by storm, this success was unpre cedtnted." 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 cf Crabte, of Campbell, Worse_ Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth—types of different sebovls; there w as t h e gorgeous c hi v alry of Scott, with his long filo of novels end romances, like an endless procession of the representatives of all ages, con ditions, and countries; there was th e O r i en t a l s plendour and grace of Byron, alternating with his fierce energy and gloomy philosophy—the still mere erring and extrava gant genius of Shelley —and tho youthful bloom of Keates; there were the Liles of Maria Edgeworth, of Miss Auitin, Galt, Wilson, and other not unworthy as sociates; the histories of Millar°, and the historical pic tures of Alacaulay; innumerable biographies r bf great contemporaries who had gone before—the Sheridans, Currane, Whberforces, and abets; innumerable books of travels, that threw open the world to our curious gaze; the gossipping treasures of Strawberry -hill end other family repositories, that revived the wits, end poets, and beauties of a past age; the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; the inimitable leiters of Cowper drawn from their same d privacy; the policy and intrigues of courts laid fare; the whole world of literature end the living world of Europe tit47ed to their inmost depths. What .rich materiale in the wars and politics of the times—in the rise and fall c f Napoleon—in the overthrow of kings and dynasties—in the perturbations even of the mighty heart ;74 of i E s e n : e d a n t h d r t o h b e h a i n r g ts— t o s ebaomf,regeils, railways,W he t d s a c n o d e a:1 that facilitate.; and sw.sc tot I:24ercourx, , ! Over to travel, snoring fi rm l y) such vast and int eres ti ng f i elds ha d t h e _Edinburgh Be view,. under tk9 guidance of its. LONDON, editor, with elate and' confident step, and attended by thousands who caught its enthusiasm, and echotd its seta tin:lents and opiLious." Even from the brief and disjointed quotations hero given, it will be eaiily recognised by the discerning reaiers that the memoir of Francis Jeffrey, to which we have directed their attentior, although published in a miniature form, and on that scale of extraor dinary ch( apness for which the periodicals of the Messrs. Chambers have long been remarkable; is a biography of no ordinary pretentious for its teauty and elegance of cot:Toil:ion, 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. R o b e rt 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 important 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. Jo substance the contest appears to be, whether a dis franchisiug of the occupiers is to take place, through the mere contrivance of receiving the rates from the owner, which it is agreed on ail bands must be laid by the owner upon the rent. The question is not unknown to those interested on the subject of the franchise ' on either side. A few years ago it wou ld h a v e ro u se d 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 Liberal lawyers, for allowing an appeal in cases beyond twenty pouuds. The strong argument they advanced—and it seems to come under the maxim in suet cuique arte— was that judges decide much better when there is an appeal hanging ow r them. And in the actual case there appears no reeeon, why the appeal which lies from judges in more formal and important courts, should bo refused in these which are less. The argument urged in reply, was that - litigants had rather have no appeal and have do na with it; a very doubtful conclusion, inasmuch as every litigant would seem to have the option at all times, of securing to himself this specks of tranquillity, by de termining not to appeal. But this kind of 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 th , s, but by Fraying that the post might be stopped to everybody else. We do not want Cedes law; though it might do very well for a man who could secure every body's being bastinadoed but himself. Gentlemen lock at cheap and slovenly justice, and cry How nice 1"; 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 v ery 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'4 leeving the Chair was put down by 87 votes against 21, which is something more than four to one. The Bill iu short was progressing to the full content of all who wished it well, and a not very lively orator was drags 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 defer the proceedings to another time,— being exactly what an enemy does if he can, with the hope of turning over a discussion to a leis 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 ho 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 barn led to commit themselves; and they will not be again. In the Marriages Bill some progress was made. The confidence of the Howe in what is called the unanimity of Scotland and Ireland against the Bill, was much shaken by the considerations that in Edinburgh there wr.s fighting in a public meeting, and in Ireland seven eighths of the population are devoted believers in a Church which grants dispensations on easy terms for the mar riages in question, acd 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 affective speech, gave example of the confidence with which au Irish Roman Catholic gentleman may be ,looked to ler coned views on the nuestion of religious liberty. In the actual position of the world, such a politician is entitled to take a lead. Oa 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 Commit tee. am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, June 17, 1850. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JUNE 13. 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,Fawily, walked and rode in the grounds. Their Royal .Highnesses the Prince Augustus of Sixe Coburg Gotha, end 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, JUNB 16. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the younger members of the Royal Family, walked early thig 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 Whippingbam Church, The Rev. J. Protheroe officiated. There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner party. Her Royal Highness the Dachess 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 Ler 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 Gloucester 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 Prince 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 Eight Hon. H. LabOuchere, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Minto, end the Right Hon. Fox Murk. The Council sat three hours. His Excellency Mehemed Pacha, the Turkish Am bassador, has returned to :Bryanston-square from the Contirent, after having fulfilled his special mission to his Majesty the King of Holland. .A deputation , consisting of Messrs. Currie, Morgan, ROVIIUM, and Venables, bad an interview with the Commissioners of Railways on Saturday, at their office in the Board cf Trade. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, Dublin, consisting of Mr. Thomas Wilson. Mr. Thomas Hutton, Mr. Chaths Haliday, and Mr. Francis Cokicl, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home office. Sir Thomas Freernstetle, Chairman of the Customs, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his efficial reside nca 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 Overstene, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Alexaerier Spearman, and Mr. T. F. Gibson. Colonel etiairniat, of the Executive Commitaee, at tended. _ _ . Dispatchea were received on Saturday at the Colo S 11 N, MONDAY EVENING, nial-office from the Governors of Labuan, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and the Falkland Islands. and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The Dulie of 'Wellington attended an early Service yesterday in the Chapti • l 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, the Lesions by the Rev. G. Repton, and the Communion Servive by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. J. S. And Trawl. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY: 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 l e ft Ne w Y or k on t h e s t h 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 Halif;x) was only 10 days and 20 hours. The Europa brings the loge number of 150 passen gers. She reports the arrival at Halifax on the 3d of Juno of the steam-ship America, which left this port on the 25th nit. 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 termer accounts, though the details are somewhat contradictory. One report steles 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 Ilavennah on the receipt of this news, and a large number of troops bad left for the supposed scene of action. In fact, scarcely a soldier remained in Havanrain The brig Zenob!a, lately arrived at Savan nah from Cubs, reports that all the troops had again left for Cerdeeas. Ott 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 allayed to re. tune, those of other countries being tried by court martial. Dispatches had been received at \Washington from the American consul at Havannab, stating that he bad 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 turuing 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 ilavanneh to waist 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 Havennah. A Washington letter states that a council of the United S:atcs Cabinet had teen held in that city, when it sa as determined upon to hold the authorities of the island of Cuba rigiAly accountable far their treatment of all American subjects; and to carry out that determina tion a special egent was to he at once dispatched with the necessary instructions to Havannab. 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 " .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 Stater, and that no American citizen should be imprisoned or put to death unless on ample proof being given a ail violation of the laws of Spain, Cuba, and alio of the United States. A letter from Washington, dated June 3, says, that official information bad just reached of the execution of four Americans, and the imprisonment cf nearly 200 others. The four who had been shot had been amongst those left behind at Cardenas. The Spanish authoritit-s had refused the commander of the United Siatea squad ron permission to see the prisoners, or permit them to be sent home f'or The United States frigate Congress bad 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 not be permitted. - - The Spanish Minister at Washington bad remonstrated against the refusal of the American authorities at Key West to deliver up the money which the invaders bad taken. The Spanish commander had demanded the surrender of the Creole and the money. The reply made him was " Wo have no force, and the invaders will not give up the money." The Spanish commander then offend 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 bo 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 press. Two vessels, with reinforcements for General Lopez, and which were commissioned to land at difTerent points of the Wand, were still at sea, their fate and destination unknown. In the event of these vessels being captured by the Spaniards, the United States squadron had been instructed to demand them of the Spanish commander, and in the event of refusal to seize them by force. The stearn-ship Southerner had arrived at New York with several of the returned " patriots." The British steam-ship Thames arrived at Mobile on the 31 Juno with lata 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 will the Cuban invasion, had reported that no evidence had been pre. tented to them sufficient fur the indictment a any per son in that city. Advices from New Orleans report the arrival there of :Z ero, and 62,000 dollars in goldtt h o e t h s p t d e u a l s m s - o s h f p rie A a ,s li 4 b B4 a2mmpaaship San Francisco with dates t. Panama bad reached Pa nama on the 21st ult. with over 1,000,000 dollars in gold dust from San Francisco. Business was prosperous when Ate left. Great activity prevailed at San Francisco, and prices of produce and merchandise wore advancing. Tho emigration to the mines was said to be very greatly on 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 tee) on tho 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 Was hington journals, signed by senators Butler and Morton, and Messrs. Thompson and Toombs. It will be published weekly and tri weekly. The Bishop of Jamaica, Mr. Cobb, speaker of Con gress, and other noted characters, are at present in Bal timore. The proceedings of the American Congress possess no new feature of interest. The slavery discussion still occupied the attention of the Senate. The committee of thirteen had presented a report restricting th e terri torial governments of Utah and New Mexico from pass ing any law respecting slavery. The report has vir tually no meaning. Mr. Soule had offerei his counter project for the di vision of Calif o rnia by the parallel of 36.30, the coun try north beihg admitted as a state; a territory sou th of that line to b e es tablished and called South Califor nia, to be admitt e d a t a suitable time as a state, with or without slavery, as the people may decide w h en t h ey form a State governmen t. 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 do la Roo, 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 Governalent did not intend to permit American vessels to navigate the St. Lawrence, until commercial reciprocity had been sanctioned by the American Congress. The Inspector- General had laid on the table the public accounts', and announced the intention of Goverment to take the duty off salt. Bills to abolish the usury laws, to regulate gEncral assessment, to alter the rate of silver as a legal tender, and to facilitate free trade with the Britsh Ame rican posLessions, ere to be introduced. 1:11 ° Queen's birthday has been celebrated at Toronto with much en thusiasm. All the shop were closed. Lord El g i n an d his eaughter mingled freely , with the crowd in the Col lege- avenue. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. h a e The inteiligencetWe'nottby the steamship Anc rr i ca abundantly supplied with specir, considerably checking trans ac ti ons . rf a i d i 0 t b L n o k effect c were of and accemrnodation was literally afforded. The transactions ill vxeduoges fir the pfefiellt steamer were not very ex tensive. In the business on- the day preceding her de parture exchange on London opened a little lower, sales J : IT N E 17, 1850, being made at of to 9t, but clos ed firmer, say 91 to 10 percent.; Paris, short sight. .sf. 2 3-13.; for 60 days' bills, 5f 26,fc. to sf. 27ic. ; Amsterdai n, 404 to 404; Ham burgh, doing ; and Brea ran. 79 to 79i. Li freights the business done is: gf _tall and unworthy of notice. No change in rates to Barr e, GlaF.gow, Liver pool, or London. A number 01 "teas tls had been taken up to loud deals, &c., at St. Jo . hn,, N. 8., for English ports, from 31. to 41. 55., accordini c - to the eligibility of the ports. Holders of Cotton, after the der erture of the steamer Pacific, continued tooffer stocks fret ty, prices at the close of the week needing to of a t eat., chiefly on mid dling and lower grades. The ma rlaet still continued dull at a farther decline. The rece ip is of cotton at all the shipping ports are 1,922,709 baits against 2,590,186 to same dates last y ear, the decrease bi ring 667,477 bales. The total foreign exports tnis year are 774,121 bales less than last, of which the dec:eas e to Great Britain alone was 590,702 bales.. The shipr re nts from southern to northern ports are 23,179 bales 1 as a this season than fast; there is an increase in stock of X 6,812 bales. The latest quotations et New York were,. low to good ordi nary, 1130. to 11/c.; low to good . middling, 1 l'— s c. to 121 e. • middling fair to fair, 124 c. t as 13c.; fully fair to good fair 13/c. to 131 c. The report ai" the New Orleans market at last ad vices states that cot ton was then active under the Asia's news. On the 3d fastant 4,000 bales had been sold—of middling 1 lie. t o 1140. ; fair, 130. Sales per week 19 000 bales. Receir al; at thet port and Mobile, 473,000 bales behind last ye: tr. Weather warm but healthy. Provisions were firmer, and pr . lees had advanced slightly, but receded again. Ohio pc els, 8 dole., 681 e. to 8 duls. 75c. for prime, 10 dole. 68F t. to 10 dole. 874 c. for mesa. Beef in good demand, At well supported prices, say, 8 delft. 87-i-c. to 9 dole. for ccuetry miss; prime mess, 17 dots. Lard is vrithc tat demand for ex port. Butter and cheese steady. The Molasses and Tobacco markets. are firm, with ad vancing prices. Thu market for Ashes has rev as ined steady and uniform. Pots bring 5 dole. 62ic. 5 dole. 68/c. A large speculative demand has a is en for Flour, in a great measure the result of anticipat a d shortaupplies of Flour and Wheat at the great rem fi ring points of the west. The receipts at Buffalo from at e Upper Likes to the let of June had fs'len short of last year 161,716 hbls. Flour, and 886,960 bushels kl 'heat. Estimated present woe's: in New York is 250,0 C 0 to 400,000 bbls. of all kinds, and 50000 bushels of ;W heat. Quotations arc, Mixed Ohio and Laliana 5 dol. Vto 5 dol. 75c.; pure Gennessee, 6 dol. 12 k.; Via to 6 dol. 18/0.; extra Genressee, 6 dol. ,56c. to 57c. Core a meal continues in fair request, and higher, owing to ad !since in corn. The Drug and Dye markets were ;such depressed. CUBAN GRIEVA.S iCES• Although we received by express la tt night We: in ' telligence from the United States, we ea m only conjecture the results of an expedition, whose. performance has hitherto been so inadequate in its pri m rise as to leave in the minds even of those most sangui na to its failure an unpleasant doubt whether they h lose yet heard the last of the affair. The fete of Mr. Cobden deters us from indulging in political prophecy. We shall not un dertake to say whether the conduct. of General Lopez has been that of a skilful leader or a c misumnsate coward. Whatever may be our private auspic ie ins, we shall not charge the Auserihan Cabinet with an .open participation in au an act of piracy until their yin dication shall have appeared, if, indeed, after the humilit Wing compliance of Lord Palmerston in the case of the it. lierisoned negro at Charleston, they should think it worth while to offer auy to a Government whose policy h: Ls exemplified the exact converse of the Roman red a- -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 conqe at ed as to lead the Court of Madrid to acknowl edge the justice of the colonial complaints, by sending out Count Mirasol on a mission analogous to that of Lou xl Durham in Ca- Earle twelve years ago, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to know something both o f the nature of the Cuban grievances, and cf 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 tar ifir, we find 2,860 articles enumerated as imports. Of these just 25 are allowed to enter free of duty. On 13 ;more the ad yak rem charges range from 2 per cent. to T h i- per cent. These 38, therefore, may be considered as sc imperatively un taxed. Of the remaining 2,822, more, than two-thirds, or 1,908 articles, are rated at 27,i per- cent.; while the remaining 824 pay 33* per cent., or o: as-third of their actual market value. Among tiff- latter, or most highlystrxed class, we find a large p re portion of those articles most necessary for the a a ats or c =forts of the colonists. Horses, flour, so tre salt provisions (of which- enormous quantities a re, introduced as food for aegrors working on es ti %tee), nearly all articles of clothing, the machinery used for the sugar-mills, carts, and other requi seres for agricul tural improvement, are all subjec :e d to this enor mons impost. Not to trouble Our r' tiers with details, we may say, generally, that out cf a i ae pulation of about 1,200,000 inhabitants, of whom one- half, being held in a state of bondage, cannot be consist wed as consumera on their own account, 3,000,000 of d sllars are annually screwed, in the shape of import dude s alone, while even here, Ise every resident in Cuba soon .Iturns to his cost, the total loss of the planter is very in i dequately repre sented by the total gain of the (-xebec, suer ; for, in the first place, it is only as a special far ea it—or, in other words, by means of a bribe—that the im ported goods are allowed to be passed and brought i ate, the market at once; the appraiser, moreover, is a Gov srnment officer, and being very badly paid, or sometime is not paid at all, takes care to snake good the deficien, sy by a few private negotiations of iris own ; then the n allege duties have to be added ; and lastly, there is a es x on all articles sold by retal, of uncertain and vari able amount, but which serves to enrich the local taxaga herers. every one of whom is sent out, as Englishmen re ceived Esat India appointments in the last century, to ao cumulate his for tune as soon as he can, and then make room for a successor. But these form a small frs ction 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 ,sf cane on his own land without previously paying 2 per cent. on the al leged value of the produce. If 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 r. To take a single instance, an arroba of moat, weighing 251bs. English, costs the purchaser five dollars and a half. Upon this the Government charge is three dol !ars, 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 (independsont of the price of a licence) on all goods sold in shops- -an impost on law expenses, on deaths, on registry of bit ths, on free gifts of whatever kind, no matter how small the amount, on the wearing of a uniform, on the erection of e ny public build ing —these, and a hundred more, iieserve hardly to be mentioned in themselves, because only feel:Ding 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 submit'ed to as tho ug h they had originated with the Government of Spain. To begin—all ottices are bought 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 we add that in Cuba one of the heaviest extortions complained of by the residents comes in the shape of voluntary subsosip 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 suns 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 genes rally estimated at not much less than 5,000,0002 ster ling per annum. From this brief and imperfect out line of the financial administration of Cube—aamhinag all four of the qualities which Adam Smith has noted as most likely to produce discontent in the mind of the people—namely, great expense in collecting, in equality as regards different classes, fluctuation from time to time, and encoursgement to the smuggler— we shall turn to the police of the island and personal liberty of the subject. Durine eighteen consecutive months of the government ef General Miceli, 200 per- Sons, many of high rank and respectability, were trans ported to penal settlements, and above 700 sentenced to perpetual banishm e nt. When ()Tonne' had held office a little more than a year (in 1844) an attempt at revolt_ took place on the part of the negroes of four or five estates. The actual mischief done was not much greater than in the case of Smith O'Brien's memorable attempt in Ireland, but it was quite enough for the authorities to act upon. Martial law could net, indeed, be proclaimed, for the best possible reason, that martial law is the habi tual government of Cube, and has been so ever since 1825; but a military tribunal was forthwith established, before which, by the express orders of the Captain-Ge neral, suspected parties might be examined by torture or otherwise. Into a detail of the proceedings of this lay inquisition we have not space to enter; bat some idea may be formed of the kind of justice administered when it is stated that cf Cubans, unconvictrd, untried, but put to the question by flogging and half-hanging. ninety-six were returned as having died under the hands of a single egent of police, seventy-two were butchered by another, and seventy by a third. Many of these victims wercs free coloured man, holding property to a large amount, and in some instances their guilt was well known to have consisted solely in their 'stealth. The exact number of officials err played in this laudable work we are unable to give, 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 teat it was never satisfactorily ascertained that any general or widc-spresd 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 hare stated already; and it is wirlout hesitation as to the answer which will be given by Englishmen, that we e ask—" Ought the n a ti o n s of Europe, in the nineteenth century, to sanction the con tinuance of such a Government as this?"—Herald. NAVAL list TELLIGENCE. 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- Captein (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 is an officer, while his urbanity of manner and obliging de portment rendered him generally popular, and will cau3e him to ho much missed in the naval and social circles 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 Heating; 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 for a change of scene. The Arab, 12, Commander Morris, is lying at Whampoe. The Royalist, 8, Commander Bate, left this place on the 2d for Manilla and Palawan, where she arrived or, the 4th. The Reynerd, 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 Amezon, 24, Captain Troubridge, is in the Straits of Ma'acca. The Cambrian, 40, Captain Morris, and the Fury steem-sloop, Commander Wilcox, are on their way to Singapore from Colombo, with detachments cf 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 Bur ard have been tried—three are to be hanged, nine transported for life, and two were acquitted. PORTSMOUTH. JUNE 16.—The westerly gale moderated on Seturaay, 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, end she soon went away with a fair wind. On the arrival of the Vengeance, 84, 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 yaebt, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence, G.C.11., will embark her Majesty and the Court at Osborne on Tuesday, at a quarter-past two P. 31., for Gofpot t, en route to London. The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander Dumaresq, and her tendtr, 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 69 shifted seven feet further forward. PEMBROKE, 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 beieg 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 Teiun3pb, 74, ore of the lszsrettoes at the port of Milford, is lacing taken to pieces iu 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 was 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 expense 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 raving to the country. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JUNE 13.—Lieutenant George W. Towsey (1816) to the Sealark, at Portsmouth. Second-Master Samuel Braddon (1844) to the Illustri ous, 72, derot 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 eadot—Edward Adoane to the Phaeton, 50, Lisbon squadron. JUNE 15.—Lieutenant John Cartright (1846) to the Sealark... Second-Master William Stanton to the Illustrious. Midshipmen—Hastings S. De Recheck tr, tLe Impreg= nable, 104, flag-ship, at Davenport; C. T. Williamson to the Wolverine, 82, sloop, on the coast of Africa. Naval Cadet—Joseph Crispin to the Victory flag ship at Portsmouth. Gunners—Charles Hicks to the Retribution stsam frigate at Woolwich; William Lesby to the Inflexible steam-frigate at Woolwich. Bosttwain John Smock to the Inflexible. Carpenters—James Cannaway to the Retribution; Thomas Con wing to the Inflexible. Rear Admiral M. F. Berkeley, C. 8., me of the Lords of the Admiralty, and Captlin Sir Baldwin Walker, K C. 8., Surveyor of the Navy, visited Woolwich dock yard 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 guiltier, 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 tt the stern. The keel of the San Florenzo, 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 hor arriving at Van Diemen's Land. 35 ha►e teen put on board from the Warrior convict ship at Woolwich. THE AMIRICAN 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 n aste of waters which separate us. It is entitled " The Franklin Life-saving and Arctic Exploring Expedition," and has reference more partieu lerly to Mr. Grinnell's expedition, and to the passing of the Act of Congress authorising the enogement of volunteers among the men, 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 cf the British navy commands them, Captain Fo rs yth, w h os e services are gratuitous, relying upon the justice cf 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 turneries' to Congress, says,' There are some grounds for beliel— iag this to be a 'propitious' season for exploring the Arctic seas: It is my• present purpose to state, in as brief a manner as possible, some facts and reasons why the present is thought to be a propitious time." lie 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 pvrted ice. A tabular statement is given showing the number of vessels which have met with Polar ice for ten y ears past—viz., from 1840 to 1850; a copy of which we annex:— Years. c a cz 4 ) 4. -u, d ;iv, 4 1841 9 11 1 -- 21 1842 - 7 31 11 16 22 16 I 1 104 1843 - 3 -- 5 12 3 2 -- 22 1845 - 1 4 10.. 9 15 5 -- 44. 1846 14347 1843 1849 - 1 1 1 2 5 1850 1 1 6 5 —. 1-- 13 "It will be seen by this statement," observes Mr. Merinin, " tbat there I% as no Polar ice repot ted flowing _ _ ted as flowing _ . 45 R/ ; south during the year 1848, and but five Januaryselsreporteodf as having seen any in 1849; but as early a the present year immense islands of Polar ice 4 been Lave b th et u a s reported as having reached let. 44 N, lon g . most clearly showing that the Polar regions h acted upon by some unusual phenomen a All this is very Cheering, and gives to ken It restore our day that may yet dawn upon us, t the ande part there of t the of a g oodl y long lost countrymen to their homes. i s a noble, generous, f e o e r d t h h this em e expedition, lle eet eli Americans to send :something very manly in Mr. Grinnell's memorial to Congress, wherein he stated, " That the paramount ind ucement enter prise, is to aid, as tar as ponible, u i c n em ti rtp this und he trusts, the rescue, of Jahn Franklin eandisebeivaerc3o.'mpa binusl but that he shall think it due to the cause of science to instruct the officers in command of the expedition to use all diligence and zeal in the explo ration of the frozen regions to which they are bound. i There are strong "grounds" he continues, "for be lieving this to be a,propitious season tor such an explo ration, and he will not easily relinquish the hope of being, in some degree, instrumental in solving the hung disputed question of the existence of a north.% est passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific." Happy, indeed, should we be if the Atrelican expedi tion succeeded in rescuing Franklin ; but it woullbe too great magnanimity on our part to c ish them to make the north-west passage, which, year after year, we have endeavourer?, for 300 years and upwards, to et fee', but hitherto without effect—mails, indeed, Franklin yet comps out through Behring Straits, as we still think he mays.—Herald. COMMODORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON. The following is an extract from the letter of a Ls bon correspondent, dated June 9 : t Th e whole of the British squadrob, ezeet the Rogue, which bus been left in the Tagus, ;ailed from v this port on the 31st ult. The complimentary remarks, of which the following is a portion, appeared in the columns of the Patriots of the Ist inst.:— " English ships are always patterns of discipline, snd of everythin g 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: Scarc.4 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 .rainutes after, d C o o w m n m hoedrore topmasts, , on e a of the ttd noble in i 5v ot n g a t i n n y . frigates bring have them up again a nd a ll sai l se t. In signalising. too, :hat mute language, to their proficiency in which the English owe a part of ther successes by see, they were fry quently exercised. In paying this tribute of praise to Commod ore M art i n, i t is due at the 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.'" MR. HALE'S ROCKET RING AT OS BORNE. JUNE 15.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert having expressed a desire, through Colonel Wylde, who was prevent 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 lion. 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 of 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 be 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 t f Sib. 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. Hale, 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 consider able 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 vary nearly into the lire of the reckete and the Prince was extremely anxious to know if any danger ‘N as to bo apprehended, as he had heard and wit nessed that they could not be depended upon for taking a straight direction, but Mr. Hale assured his Royal Highness that ho could now derend upon his, and the firing Ives continued very satisfac torily, while Caine! Bouverie was landing at a short distenco south of the station of the rocket tube. Two of the rockets were fired without the resistance balance weight acing applied, and the difference was remarkable, the range being not nearly so great, and tha flight not so quick, although the direction was good, as were alt 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 occupying but Peltier& time. His Royal Highness, when the rockets were all fired, asked if they were more expensive than the usual service rocker. Mr. Lille explained that his rockets could be made at fully one-third less expense than tho common service rockets can be wade at the Royal Arsenal. Mr. Hale subsequently submitted a carcase head for a 10-pounder rocket, and titled 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 ou', and used for setting fire to buildings.. The boatswain afterwards set it on tire, 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. Halo, 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 Alolesworth, Sir W. Buck, L. W. Mangles, R. D. Benttnck, 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. Hutchins, E. J. Gore, W. O. Hastie, A. Verner, Sir W. Philips. Sir G. Lord Langdale 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 Laugthle 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 TUE 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 sate 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 illfated vessel have, we are sorry to hear, been exceedingly small, and inadequate for the plirposes intended. CONCERT AT WILLIS'S RooMs.--M. Godefroid's G co o n d e e e f r r t o ask place perfo o r n m S e a r t o u n rd t a h y e m ha o r rn p i h n a g s . lo ' n rh g e b a e b en ilit3rot' M 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 Lis 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 %Vatic!, 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 hstrumentalists. The principal vocalist was Mdlle. Schloss, who gave the great scena from the Fieischutz, 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 tine though apparently ever forced voice, may be commended for tne tasteful and un affected way in which she rendered Moore's pretty ballad "Rich and rare were thegems she wore.'* t The remaining singers were Mdlle. de Ruppliu, Signor Brignoli, M. Jules Lakin, &c. The pianoforte accornpanyists were NM. Alary, Vera, and Frelon. The concert was not too liberally attended. EXHIBITION or 1851.—We are glad to hear that the directors of the British Institution at their last meeting voted the stun of 1001. to the funds now raising towards earning into effect the great exhibition of ind us t r y. T he corporation of Plymouth have also voted the sum of 504 to which the Chamber of Commerce of that town have added a further sum of 101. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN A LADY.--EXE TEN, JuNr. I.s.—lnformation has just been given to th e po lice of this city by Sir George Adam, Bart., of one of the most diabolical attempts to take away the lite 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 Ad am t h at Lady Kirkcudbright, who has for some time past b een residing the vicinity o f this city, was awakened out of her Bleep the night before last in consequence of experiencing a suffocating smell of tobacco, and almost immediately afterwards she heard sundry small explosions, resembling crackers. 'laving called out to know if any person was in the room, and receiving no answer, she again went to sleep, and in the morning, when the servants 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 some mis creant kad placed some hay 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 p o lice are making the most active inquiri es w ith a v i ew to discover the perpetrators_ ave not of so t barbarou s a d es i gn , b u t up . to th been successful. The affair has the present pcaairtseas.oenh time they gloomla universally re , over the neigh ' bourhood, as Lady Kirkcudbright speeted on account of her liberal and affable habits toward s the poor. Int E —The arrival of her Majesty's ship Medea, Captain N. L. Lockyer, with this valuable gem, looked for. It has been confided by the Governor-Genera to the charge of Lieutenant. Colonel may be d n aily cE. his agent with the Commander-in -Chi e f 'd -de-camp to Lord Dalhousie. The selection of during the late . campaign, with whom is . associated Captain Ramsay, al Lieutenant-Colonel Mackeson for that missicn appears to have been very appropriate, inasmuch as that ouster's dis tinguished services have all been performed i n th e countries with which the history of this valuable diamond is specially e ngaged in every campai gn on the north-western con nected; Colonel Mackeson having b een more or less pro. frontier from our occupation of Caubul in 1838 to the:subjuga tion of the Punjaub in 1849, 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 encoura,ement to temp erance i n th e s upply o f so pleasant and wholesome a beverage is not to be despised, and is what the Londoners have little conception o£ Strangers who come to the metropols from Joe:alines where so salubrious a draught as pure and even moderately soft water is customare, draught were a mere solution y, are horrified in drinking the metropolitan water, with a f ee l ing as if th of lime, gi v i ng as l i ttle gratification , or quenchment of thi rst, as the parch e d t h roat of the dreamer o f dra ug ht s o f water feels alter swallowing imaginarybucketfuls. He nce i t i s that the metropolitaus, knowing nothing of the delights of waver drinking, have a settled but mistaken . id ea t h at i t is water in the abstract that is 'loft tor human drinking. Hence it is that brewers make hundreds of thousands for their heirs to throw aw,y.—Builder. STEAZ,I FROM GLASGOW TO NEW A ORE.—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 berth are also taken up. Y•) raze ,tidy, 23, ht, (+P t. 40 this as of )8011, nne, ells, NEW be'l r. W. TAY% [len- Pas. Ad- ) otll, ,rrd• ,tOl3, ;jar, 160 0 9 kelt, ape' Ra- Nor )ara, ucoi Tbo day. r for N• here 43. 'ryas jib «,ic-. tp rot ig ecK and* last ,144 iitto eed; eds;. , v ed. 0 5A r 00 ' 15 5 ;. igr! I