The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS PROM PARK (From the Time: ) TARTS, TUESDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M. The accounts we have received to-day front the south of Prince have struck a fatal blow to the hopes of the Car hits. The Italian steam-boat Carlo Alberto, which bad teen hired at Leghorn in the name of the Duchess ot Berri, and which left that place on the 25th, has been 'aptured by a French cruiser, in the night of the 3d inst., at a place near the French coast, called Ciotat. The bachess t'e Berri, with a suit of several persons, was on Twe of the latter had landed en the coast, ann Were soon after arrested. One of them was the well , known ultra, Count Kergorlay. The steam-boot, after lAing visited by the commander of the Sphynx brig of war, *aa taken in tow by that vessel, and conducted to Toulon, *here they both arrived early in the morning of the 4th. Shortly after, conformably to the instructions held by the tuthorities there, Carlo Alberto received orders to proceed tauter proper escort to Ajaccio, in Corsica, where the pas tengers were to be landed, and placed in the hands of the local authorities. It is intended to deal with the persons com posing the suite to the Duchess as the laws may have provided for. With regard to the Duchess herself, she :s to be embarked on board a French frigate, and taken t 3 the Frith of Forth, where she is to be consigned to the bands of her friends and relatives, with a warning not again to think of attempting to raise a civil war in France by her intrigues and presence, because if taken a second time she would be desk with less leniently. You will find in this day's Moniteur a long account of this extraordinary occurrence, but no positive declaration that one of the two female passengers on board the Carlo .Alberto was the Duchess de Berri. It is universally understood, however, that the in formation possessed by the Government is quite certain as to her identity, and that motives of delicacy, arising flora her relationship with the present reigning family, have withheld a more positive mention of her name. It Le been deemed necessary to remove the prisoners from that part of the coast, in order to prevent all risk of ex ,its-metit among the Carlists, who, however weak ansl im potent as a patty, are nevertheless supposed to be mote numerous in the south of France than elsewhere. There is a great variety of opinion here as to what will and what ought be done with the persons who composed this moat absurd and foolish expedition. Up to the pre sent moment there is nothing to show that they have been guilty of any act against the laws ; and yet there are grounds of presumption, amounting to certainty, that their purpose was the overthrow of the existing Govern ment, and the immediate establishment of a Regency, at the bead of which the mother of Henry V. was to remain during the whole period of his minority. These infatuated people had really been taught to believe that nothing was Wore easy to accomplish, and that the Duchess de Berli had only to land on the soil of France, and the white flag would be hoisted triumphantly from one end of the coun try to the other with a tapidity not even equalled by Nr poleon's triumphort march in 1815. Ministers appear determined to use the utmost rigour that circumstances will allow ; but there is too much reason to believe that they will not be able to strike with that boldness which alone can produce effect upon the remnants of a party, who cannot be brought by the mere evidence of every day's experience, to the conviction that their cause has not the r:.tnotest chance of success, and who cannot he taught by reason to abstain from attempts which can only lead to useless loss of blood. Our accounts from every other part of the South of France slow that the late occurrences at Marseilles and its neighbourhood have not produced the least excitement here. No chance exists, therefore, for that " civil war in France" which some of your contemporaries already dwell upon with so much apparent satisfaction. M. C. Perier's health continues much the same as it has been for several days. No hope is yet entertained that tie will at any time be able to resume his official duties. It is possible that the Presidency of the Council will be abolished altogether when M. Perier has ceased to fill that pi Present experience shows that it may very well be d sensed with. You will perceive by the official returns that we are getting rid of the cholera very fast. The whole daily mortality at present is, the same in Paris as in ordinary that*. We have no foreign news of any importance. Z. FRIINCIi FUND, PARIS, MAY 8.-Five per Cents., 96f. 90c. 95c. 97f. 961. 95c. 97f. 96f. 95c. 97f. 97f. sc. 10c. sc. 97f. ; Four per gaits., 82f. 75c. ; Three per Cents. 70f. 40c. 45c. 50c. 45c. 50c. ffsc. 50c. 55c 45c. 70f. 55c. 60c. 65c. 60c.50c ; Bank Stock, 1,680 f, ; Rent. de Naples, BYE 40 c . 50 c. 45 c. 40 c. ; Roman Five per Cents. tr..iyi %, ; Rente d'F.spagne, 10; Royal Spanish Loan, 78 784 ; Rente Perpetuelie d'Espagne, 58 % 3,4 59 587,i 59 58% 59 58 ; Belgian Loan, 763 i, 77 76Fi 77 77!-,i 77. Exc. on London, one month, money, 25f. 70c. ; three months, looney, 25f. 55c.-Cours Authentique. rItICES OF STOCKS THIS Rank Stock ..... 201;4 2% 1 3 Pet Cent. Red. ....Au\s,%% iT.%34 T.% 3, per Cent ." ........ --'- o Red 9N34 New 3%per 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann. to exinre. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent - India Stock ........ - IDitto Bonds 2 pm. South Sea Stock 93 Old Annuities........ - New Ditto - 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 13 11 pin. 13 11 pm. Ditto Small ..... 13 11 pm. Ditto Commercial..........— pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account. Cons. for May 23...53 N:4 43j .. Jan. s,_l'-60 lB% 5-16 Oct. 10, 1859. Jan. 5, 1860 16% Jan. 5, 1880 Aprlls, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870.... ....... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 91 y r I Saghui Bonds — Ditto Account 74 314 Brazilian Bonds 47Si Ditto Account — Buenos Ayres Bonds... Ditto Account 23 4t4 Chilian Bonds l6 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds .......9':4 10,4 Ditto Account. Ditto Bonds, 182 4 Ditto Aocount... 3anish Ac count Ditto ................. Ireek Bonds...—. ....... Ditto Bonds, 182 5 . Ditto Account THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds l3 Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip CN pm. IA die. Ditto Account... par o!,;, dis. Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account.. Ditto Bonds, 1822 — 'Russian Bonds, 1822 97\ Ditto Account 971 ii New Loan 94% Spanish Bonds, I*2l Ditto Account l3 \ 14 Ditto Bonds, Ittl3 , 12% 13 Ditto Account — French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. ---- Exchange —f —c. - --:l percent. —l --e. ----- Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip t3\ 7, Ditto Account ...............433% French Scrip Mexican Bonds, 5 per tent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent .32% 2 Ditto Account .334 :3 2 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE 4;;c/ ----- 7,W E : Paid. Per Share. Angie Mex. Min. Co. Liss. at 51. pm.) £lOO 7* Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O 145 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (lrs. at 51. pm ) £2O 45% Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 14% British Iron Mining Company . £so 7%, Columbian Mining Co. Liss. at Si. pm.) 48 5) raiglish Mini ng C ompany l24 (a 0 General Mining Association .£1244 21% Real del Monte Mining C 0.... .. -22% 23 United Hex. Min. Co. Liss. at 1 21...17m.) 40 54N Ditto New Shares 2 4.:i _ qe?4,7•6_ , 4v. ) *A. un• , a . LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1832. It is confidently reported that Ead GREY and his friends will immediately resume office. That Lord LYNDHURST applied to the Duke of WELLINGTON, to Lord HARROWBY, and Sir ROBERT PEEL to assist in form ing a new Administration, but that their yearn ings for power and place were overcome by their better judgment, and that seeing their cause hopeless, they declined. For this, if it be true, which we confidently believe, GOD be thanked, for it will prevent a Revolution ! A great meeting of the Tories was held this morning at Lord STORMONT'S, but the result is not yet known. The House of Commons have this day a duty to perform urgent, more imperative, and more essential to the peace and safety of the country than any imposed on that Assembly since the Revolution, and dismal indeed will be our pro spects if they neglect it. The great majority entered that House pledged to the Reform Bill, now twice rejected by the Lords. The people for more than twelve long months have patiently waited for the accomplishment of their wishes ; they pa their trust in their representatives, led on as they had reaso n to believe, by a patriotic KING and a reforming Ministry, and at the moment they expected the fulfilment of their just and righteous object, the cup is dashed from their lips by the intrigues of foreigners, and the base, deceitful, and hypocritical tricks of a vile c a rtion - : Will the people of England sub icit to the rule of strangers? Are the interests of these great kingdoms to be sacrificed to further the despotic projects of continental Princes, and to gratify personal likes or dislikes of individuals as ignorant of our Con stitution as our language ? Will the House of Commons, now the only legitimate barrier to the inroads of tyranny, and the only hope of the people, in their utmost extremity, be back ward in asserting their rights and the rights of those whom they have sworn to represent faith fully, uprightly, and boldly in the Corn inons House of Parliament We have too much confidence in the.,good sense and spirit of our countrymen, to' doubt for one moment the re sult. We say their good sense, because we are sure they have eyes to see, and ears to hear, that the patience of the nation is wound up to the last pitch ; that confidence in a Reforming House of Commons is their only hope ; and that if that confidence be destroyed by any thing like timidity, or wavering, or skulking, that patience which they have so long and so manfully displayed, will be turned into rage and despair, not silent and sullen, but loudly expressed, and marked by deeds which every friend of peace and every lover of his country must deplore. Let the House of Commons well consider the position they now hold in the country—let them remember that the eyes of every reformer, who has heard of the deeds of Monday night, is on them —let them bear in mind that if they yield, the enemies of Reform mount the breach in order to smother the spirit of liberty in a free and a brave people. They now stand betwixt the people and their enemies—they form the stay in the breach, and long will they repent it, if through faint-heartedness or trea chery they give way and admit the waters of strife. The people of this country have set their hearts on Reform—they are backed (which they have not been since the ominous days of CHARLES I.) by the people of Scotland, and supported and encouraged by nearly the whole Irish na tion. There never was on any occasion such a unanimity of feeling or such a determination of purpose ; and woe be to those who thwart their just wishes and rouse their vengeance ! The present is no time for mincing matters about the personal acts of the Sovereign, or the intrigues carried on behind and at the side of the throne. These formalities are all very well in holyday scenes or ordinary debates ; but they will never be allowed for a moment in times like these to obstruct justice, or conceal the parties who have taken upon them such awful responsibility. It is not the character of the House of Commons only that is at stake—it is not the peace and quiet of the country or the fate of the House of Lords—but we may say, the Constitution itself depends on the bearing and attitude of the House of Commons this evening. The highest personage in the State has hitherto been looked up to with reverence and love—nay adoration. Let those who now have the power, prevent men from being forced on the SOVEREIGN, whose deeds may involve his character, or diminish that esteem and love which, till now, dwelt in the breast of every true friend of liberty. The KING'S name is a tower of strength, but it is a tower of strength only when supported by the affections of the people. All history declares and none more than our own, particularly that of the STUARTS, how utterly insignificant, and even to a King, it is when arrayed against the feelings of the na tion, and abused by men who hate freedom be cause it would destroy their power and wrest from them their plunder. Such an event, we trust, will not happen in our day, and happen it cannot, if the representatives of the people are true to their trust. Let their watchword still be the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, and the❑ the people will support, as they have hitherto supported, a reforming Ministry. Any other Ministry would set the country in commotion, and a Ministry formed of Anti-Re formers, however they might recant, would only be looked upon with suspicion and disgust. The fate of the country depends on the vote of the Commons this night. If favourable, it will allay the heartburning s , and appease the anger of a disappointed nation. If unfavourable, we can see no relief but from the support and pro tection and guidance of HIM " who stilled) the noise of the seas and the tumult of the people." The resignation of Ministers is an act that does them infinite credit. It at once stamps their sincerity in the cause of Reform—of jus tice—of the people—of universal humanity. They might still have remained in office had they chosen to permit even the partial mutila tion of the Reform Bill ; but this their honour forbade ; and like gentlemen, like statesmen, like Englishmen (and, therefore, in all respects unlike Tories), they preferred the sacrifice of place to principle. For upwards of eighteen months, in the midst of storm and tempest, of doubt and difficulty and danger, beset at every step by the intrigues of false friends and open foes, have these high-minded men fought, and with a spirit worthy of a better result, unflinch ingly, the battle of the people. Not an hour have they mispent. Not a chance have they thrown away. Nobly—perseveringly —patrioti cally have they fought the good fight, and now only retire from the field which they have hi therto kept from morn to midnight against over whelming odds, when not a chance remains of victory. People of England, Scotland, and Ireland —are men—are Ministers like these to be shuffled aside ? Men who have perilled their all in your cause? Men who are vanquished only in the attempt to set you free ? Never. We are convinced you entertain too strict a sense of justice and gratitude thus basely to treat those who have proved themselves your staunchest, your most disinterested friends. But should you—which God forbid !—encou rage for an instant the idea of abandoning your Reforming Administration, mark well, we be seech you, what will follow. The Tories will come into office. Mark this—the Tories,: who ' will unhesitatingly devote the plunder of upward ni fifty years, to strengthen their own power, and rivet your chains. Possibly, by way of pacif - ing you for the moment, these tnen will promise you a full measure of Reform. Possibly they will tell you, you shall have all - you could have had from the Whigs, had they continued in office. But who are they that tell you this ? 'Why, the very faction who not three years since refused even the franchise to Birmingham ! Who not two years since declared that all Reform was superfluous ! ! Who, not one year since refused to disfranchise even the six most rotten boroughs in schedule A ! ! ! Will you—can you, put faith in the promises, even if guaranteed by oath, of such men—men ho can only come into office by unsaying all they have said, and undoing all they have done for the last twenty years—by becoming, in short, greater apostates than a certain Bishop, and greater rogues, if this be possible, than "the most unprincipled man” —you know well whom we mean—" in his Majesty's dominions ?" Consider %S . ell the principles of the two par ties. Look on this picture and on that. The Tories have always been behind the age, the Whigs always equal to, or in advance of, it. The aim of the former has always been to en slave—that of the latter, to liberate. Remem ber, too, that all the more popular—all the more enlightened—and few enough they are, God knows !—measures of the Tories have di rectly emanated from the Whigs. This is the only rule we know without an exception. The repeal of the Test Acts was a Whig measure. The revision of the Criminal Code was a Whig measure. Catholic Emancipation was a Whig measure, and—last and crowning glory—Parlia mentary Reform is a Whig measure. The Tories, it is true, have contrived to smuggle themselves into these great questions, and by dis figuring them, as gipsies disfigure children, have passed them off as their own. But why was this ? Was it from principle, or inclination, or liberality ? No, no. It was the result of inexorable necessity, a base, grovelling sacrifice of conscience to place. The Tories well knew they could not retain power, without throwing overboard, one by one, all their most the rished, vaunted political predilections, and like shuffling, lying renegades as they are, they did not hesitate an instant. Stick at breaking a pledge, indeed ! Bali ! Such men would break a thousand, if they could turn a penny by it. But their sun is now in the West, and they know it. The night which has no morn is thickening fast round them. Yes, the Torie s themselves are frightened at what they have just done. They are scared at the sound of their own thunder. At this very moment there is not a man among them all who is not at his wit's end. All union, all system, all self-respect, all confidence is lost. The Ultras will not trust the Waverers, the Bishops will trust, and are trusted, by neither party. As for a certain trimming Ex-Chancellor, he, we believe, is trusted only by his creditors. We repeat then—confidently repeat—what we asserted yesterday, that before another fortnight has elapsed, the Whigs will be again in office. But it is the people, and the people only, that can achieve this triumph. They must be unani mous—they must be peremptory—but, above all, they must be determined. If they lose but a day, but an hour, the Tories will have slipped into office, and all will be lost. Now, then, or never is the time for action. The metropolis has already commenced the good work. The Political Union met last night. The City meets to day. Ten parishes meet to-morrow. In the provinces, Portsmouth—Canterbury—Reading Nottingham—Leicester—Ne wark—Stamford— are all equally on the alert. Every hour adds its mite to the great cause. The sum mons to action flies from mouth to mouth— from town to town—from county to county— north, south, east, and west—and this summons, we need scarcely add, will bring hundreds—thou sands—millions—into the field of peaceful, constitutional, but determined action. We entreat our readers to peruse with the at tention they demand, the proceedings of the Na tional Political Union last night. At this great meeting, the question of the propriety of con tinuing to pay taxes was taken into serious con sideration, when hundreds of members announced their intention of not paying one farthing more, till justice was awarded to the people. Will this stop here, or will the epidemic spread ? Alas, we fear it will, and that the office of tax gatherer will, ere long, become as complete a sinecure, though not so lucrative, as Lord ELLENBOROUGII'S Clerkship of the Fees. But the most effectual was to secure Reform, .will be for the House of Commons to come to a determination to withhold the Supplies, 'till a patriotic Whig Administration again preside over the councils of the country. This, if no thing else, will bring the Tories to their senses. To this point, therefore, the people must de vote their attention. • But above all, they must keep a keen eye on the conduct of their representatives. There are rats among the Reformers in St. Stephen's, and the only sure way to detect the vermin, is for every town, city, and county, instantly to direct its representa tives to refuse all Supplies to any but a stanch Whig Reform Administration. This, we re peat, will bring the Tories to their senses. This will make the pensioners quake ; the sinecurists stand aghast; and, by a necessary consequence, paralyse the Bishops and Pluralists of the bloated Church establishment. Lord LYNDIIURST is reported to have been sent for by the KING. An A dministration framed under the auspices of such a man will not last a week. The proceedings in both Houses of Parlia ment were last night full of interest. Earl GREY in the Upper, and Lord ALTHORP in the Lower, House, formally announced the resignation of themselves a nd th e i r co ll eagues . This alarming catastrophe—for catastrophe we may well call it —is wholly owing to the refusal of his MA JESTY to create Peers. Such a refusal, so un expected, so decisive, will, we fear, create as much disclatisfactioti as Astonishment throughout country. Till now, the people always imagined King WILLIAM the FOURTH was a staich Reformer at heart. It will cost them ►many a bitter pang, to be compelled to give up the flattering illusion. The French Papers mention the capture of the steamer Carlo Alberto, on the 3d instant; on the Mediterranean coast of France, which had on board the Duchess of BERRI and cer ;:iiin Quixotic royalists who hoped to raise the South of France in favour of the ex-Royalists. The Princess, it appears, has been suffered to go about her business, her adherente'llave very properly been shipped off for Corsica. The following are extracts from German Papers, receeived this morning : VIENNA, APRIL 28.—Count Alexander, of Wurtem burg, sun of Duke William, who art ived here a few days ago, is on the point of marrying a daughter of Count Fes tetics. The illness of the Duke of Reichstadt is said tobe still such as to give ground for uneasiness ; the indispo sition of the young King of Hungary has ceased. Letters from Alexand,ia of the end of March, received by way of Trieste, do not yet announce the fill of St. Jean d'Acre, but agree in stating that it will not hold out for a fortnight longer. Mehemet Ali has ordered a very consi derable levy, which will render his regular army very for midable, as it is said already to consist of 60,000 infantry and 25,000 cavalry. These letters state the losses of the Egyptian army in Syria, hitherto, at 5,000 men in all. LORD LYNDHURST. (From the Morning Chronicle.) There is no doubt that the immaculate Lord Lyndhurst was selected as the first person to be consulted by his Majesty on the present imminent position of his affairs, and that he was in attendance at St. James's more than once after the Levee yesterday afternoon. Lord Lynd hurst! !! That name so honourably connected with so many extraordinary associations both in private and public life, on recent occasions ! His public principles, like his coat, are none the worse frequent turning. Will he forget the exordium of his speech on Monday night, in intro ducing the amendment on the Reform Bill, which has lel to all this confusion, with as much facility on the question of Reform, as he did his famous Philpott speech on the Catholic Question ? And we suppose, if he is to be selected as Minister, he will, according to ancient prac tice, choose the worthy Bishop for his colleague, as keeper of the King's conscience and his Great Seal ! But we had already heard that the Noble Judge and the Right Rev. Prelate formed, with the tame Elephant, the Com mittee who framed the amended Reform Bill, of which the latter was so inopportunely delivered after the division on Monday. We scarcely believe that the Noble and Learned Lord's accession to the high office to which he aspires will be hailed by any portion of the people of this Empire—ex cept possibly by his —. We fear that it may be im possible for the new Ministry to avail themselves of the services of a late Noble Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on this occasion. COMMON C;OUNCTL.-(THIS DAY). A Court of Common Council was held this day, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the measures which were ne. cessary to be adopted in consequence of the proceedings in the House of Lords on the Refonn Bill, and on other business, At one o'clock the Lord Mayor entered the Court. There were also present the Sheriffi, Recorder, Aldermen Copeland, Thompson, Wilson, Waithman, Winchester, Hughes, and Venables. Mr. TAYLOR said he had to wake a few observations upon what lie conceived was a privilege of this Court. The last pe tition of this Court had been objected to in the House of Lords, by Lord Eldon and a few other Lords, because it had not the City Seal on it. Now, as a great many petitions had been pre sented to the House of Lords without the City Seal upon them, it :was strange that such an objection should be now made. He should, therefore, propose that it be referred to a Committee to inquire into the proper mode of authenticating petitions from this Court, and to ascertain the number of petitions signed in a similar manner and presented to the House of Lords, while Lord Eldon was in olfice—(Cheers)—and also to. ascer tain whether it was absolutely necessary to attach the city seal to petitions. Mr. FLETCHER seconded the motion. He begged to ask whether the petition in question was received by the House of Lords as the petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Com. mon Council. The TOWN CLERK said he had examined the journals of the House, and found that it was therein stated to be the pe tition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council. Mr. FLETCHER said this Court would not discharge its duty to its constituency or to the Court itself if it did not disa buse the public mind on this question. Mr. Aldermanj WAITHMAN asked whether the Town Clerk ever knew of a petition being objected to on a similar ground. The TOWN CLERK said he had not. It had been the invariable practice for the Town Clerk only to sign petitions. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, it was most extraordi nary for a Noble Lord who for many years had been Lord Chan cellor, and who had known so many petitions presented to the House of Lords signed only by the Town Clerk, while he was in the Government—it was strange that it should only now have occurred to him to make such an objection, when it was at a period of the utmost importance to the Corporation, and to the country at large.---(Cheers ) After some further observations from Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. TAYLOR observed that he thought the appointment of a Committee was called for, by the despicable treatment they had received.--(Cheers.) The resolution was unanimously carried. The LORD MAYOR then rose. He said he had sum moned this Court together, in consequence of a requisition most numerously signed, for the pm - pose of taking into consideration what measures should be adopted, in consequence of the pro ceedings in the House of Lords upon the Reform Bill, and he thought that if ever there was one subject more important than another, it was the one they were now called on to consider.— (Cheers.) And if ever there was a time when it was ineum. bent upon this great Corporation to be consistent with its own principles, the present was the proper time, when, after the just expectations of the people had been raised to the highest possible extent, when, having those expectations trifled with for a year and a half, and the laborious and strenuous ex ertions of Ministers, possessing the confidence of the people —(Cheers)--defeated through the obstinacy of those who had for years lived upon the people, and aggrandized themselves at the people's cost.—(Cheers.) A short time ago, this Court unanimously voted the freedom of the city to two Noblemen, eminent, not alone for their rank but for their integrity and wisdom. If those Noblemen were then entitled to the conti dene., of this Court, they were doubly so now, when, with the greatest disinterestedness, they had given up their places, ra ther than sacrifice their consistency.—(Cheers.) What the opinion of the people respecting those Ministers was, would very speedily be shown. The feelings of the people had been justly excited, and he trusted, that while this Court was emi nent for its patriotism, it would also stand eminent for its um_ deration-slear)—and thereby set the country an example of that virtue.—(Hear.) Mr. GALLOWAY rose, and expressed the great pleasure he felt at being selected by so numerous a body of requisitionists to propose to the consideration of the Court some resolutions and an address.---;Hear.) Ile had no doubt that the country would look up to and ex pect much from this Court, from the character of the indivi duals composing it, and from the deep stake which they had in the well-being of the country, He had been a Reformer forty years, during which period he had done all he could to give effect to any measure which had been brought forward to amend the representation of the country. At that period the advocates of Reform were but few, but he was glad to see the change which had taken place latterly in public opinion on this great question, a change which he felt confident would be attended with the best interests of the country. He considered the great object of his life was nearly accomplished. When he saw the Reform Ministers had offered to the country, he con_ sidered it to be as liberal a Reform as could be pro- PerlY carried at the present period.—(Cheers.) It was un. necessary for him to enter into arguments to prove the necessity of Reform ; that had already been done by that Court, but there was a necessity for coming for ward at a period when those very Ministers who had brought forward so efficient a Reform, had resigned their offices be cause the means of carrying that Reform into effect had not been granted them. Such reasons had certainly induced that Court to meet that day, and he would not occupy its time by further observations, but would read the resolutions and petition he had to propose for its adop_ lion. The Hon. Member then read the resolutions which were in substance as follow :—That the Court had heard with great regret and disappointment the extraordinary and distressing corn. munication made by Ministers, that his Majesty had refused to them the means of carrying through the House of Lords the Reform Bill, which had been passed by a large majority of the House of Commons, and which was re quired by an overwhelming majority of the people. Tha the Court was of opinion, that those wh o had advised his Majesty t o w ithd raw f rom Ministers the means of carrying. the Reform Bill succe ss fully, had proved themselves the enemies of their Sovereign, and had put to hazard the stability of the country. That the meeting, therefore, felt it to be more especially their duty to adopt every course in their power to procure the carrying of au efficient Bill of HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 kirew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 1 , Useful Old Ditto .... .. 3 0 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-gra.s. Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover Ilay 4 10 8 0 Oat Straw £1 12 to .£1 14 I Wheat straw ... 1 18 2 0 Supply moderately good, trade dull, and price. stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 U New Meadow Day 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto :i 0 9 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay 315 4IS Clover Hay (extra tine)....£6 o... Generally flat Straw ...II 14 to £1 16—Wheat Straw 1 16 1 IS A moderate supply, and a steady trade; prices stationary. LEWES M A liKET.—May tl. White Wheat (per quarter)......,—.za 9 0 to £3 4 0 Red ditto. ..,..--. 2 16 0 3 2 0 8ar1ey.....----,, --..—. 1 4 0 1 10 0 Oats, New --... — 1 1 0 1 5 0 Pease 1 15 0 1 17 0 Oil Cake, New 12 0 0 per thousand. HULL MARKET—May 8. _ Wheat, Old —s 58s. 60s. .„... Z.EtW .......-4. 58s. 63. Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, I'oland —s. '2os. 225. Old —s. —s. 24.. - Small or Feed.... —s. 18s. 20s Foreig❑ —s. 16s. 18s , -....5. —s. .-S. Harley, Norf. & Sul ... —6 333. 365. Line. & %Vold —s. 38s 38s Rapeseed, in bond none. , Oa: 2-4 . KING'S lIENCTI.—(THIS`DAy.) i , ', - -;4" . ., - --ell.-- --- - 1 .IFSON..\" „ : . -!-- 4 ,. , . ;: - .;;,•:4 - :..4- :I cet g THE KING V. 7 1107 '-'-' On a former day the Attorney Glmyral olitainerFa - i ' - 1 t: ii., on the defendant, who was the printer and publisher of Si %rist newspaper, t o s h ow cause why d criminal Enfoitkkji IT,tl sh. uld not be filed against him for publishing a libel in that ;ou nal 1)1 the Ist of April, upon the character of Mr. Brown, N;arden of the Fleet. Mr. CAMPBELL to-day showed cause against the rule, and ,übmitted that it could not be made absolute, on the ground of an informality in the affidavits, and the omission of not annex ing the paper containing the alleged libel, to the affidavits. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. WIGHTMAN v•ere heard in support of the rule. Their LORDSHIPS were of opinion that the fact of the pallq not being annexed to the affidavits, was sufficient to discharge the rule. The rule was therefore discharged. The libellous matter WaB a paragraph headed " Case of Cholera in the Fleet Prison. Inhuman conduct of the Warden." SHERIFFS' COURT, RED LION-SQUARE. DUCHY OF CORNWALL-CREASSE AND WIFE v. CARNE. Mr. BEDDOME appeared for the plaintiffs in this action. He stated, that the action was brought by the plaintiffs for the value of a quantity of tin, which the defendant, who is a banker, in Cornwall, had taken from a manor of which they were the lessees under the late King, as Duke of Cornwall, as executors of a relative named Smith. The action had been tried, and the defendants had allowed judgment to go by default; there fore, he had come before the Jury in order to have the damages assessed. The facts of the case would be proved by a gentle- man of the name of Renprase—Captain Renprase he was called in Cornwall, not like his employer, Mr. Crease, a captain of a line-of-battle ship, but, what was of much more consequence in Cornwall, a captain of a mine. The plaintiff held the lease of the manor of Ty. burne Haile, under the Crown, and it would be proved that the defendant had taken a quantity of tin from a mine, called the " Wheal Devonshire Mine," which was situated in that ma. nor, without the leave of the plaintiffs, for which they claimed the sum of 91. 15s, The sum now sought was not what was wanted, but what was of more consequence, it would settle a dis. puted point which existed in Cornwall; for it unfortunately was the practice for what were called "bounders" to go in and .ink for tin in any place where they liked. That was gene rally done by mere adventurers, so that no hold could be got on them; for If such were attempted, they were immediately off to the Bench, or some such place ; but here they had got a respectable man to deal with, and would have been glad to have met him on the merits of the ease in the Superior Court. There had been disputes in the county as to what the lessee was entitled to ; but he would shew by his witness that, in this case, there could be no doubt of his being entitled to the whole amount of the tin abstracted. He then called Mr. Hen, prase, who stated that he was agent for the plaintiffs, and lived in Grampound ; he knew the manor of Tyburne Ilaile, which was the property of the plaintiffs j the mine of Wheal, De, vonshire, was in that matmr. He knew Mr. Carne, who was aver!: respectable banker, and he called upon him fur 91. 15►., as the amount of tin which he had taken from that mine. Mr. Carrie said he had the tin from some bounders, and admitted that he had sold it to a smelter for the amount claimed. He (141 not pay the money, and the action was commenced. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Allen for the defendant, and created a good deal of laughter by his Cornish explanations of the usages of mining, which were not very intelligible to the uninitiated hearers, lie said he had beau ten years well-acquainted with all the details of Cornisis mining. The property of the tin was in the plaintiffs, but they were not freeholders of the manox, but as he had before stated, they held it under the Crown. At the interview he had with Mr. Came, that gentleman said he had the tin under a Joseph Newton, the agent of a party of bounders. lie knew the bounders had no lease or license from the plaintiffs ; never knew a real bounder, but many false ones. The agent for the defendant was about to go into the ques tion of the plaintiff's property in the land in question, but was stopped by the Sheriff, who said that that was not the place for doing so, he should have appeared in the Court above. Mr. BEDDOME said he produced the lease, but it was not read, the Sheriff deciding that it was not a question for the Jury. Mr. ALLEN, for the defendant, contended that the plz..intift' was only entitled to one fifteenth part of the 9/. 155., and that for that amount they had suffered judgment to go by default. It was the custom ,which had now become the law in Cornwall, that any person might go i❑ to the waste lands of the Crowv, and work the tin, by paying one-fifteenth of the produce, anal the defendant was now willing to do so. Mr. BEDDOME said, if the defendant was now going for a reduction of damages, he should produce his Set as a bounder; for all regular bounders only worked under a regularly printed one. Mr. ALLEN still contended, that by the ancient law of the county, his client was only liable for a 15tis, for the mineral, belonged to the Crown, the witness had stated theta to be the property of the plaintiff's; no doubt they were so in Part, but still they were the original property of the Crown. lie trusted the Jury would decide in favour of his client, tot if they decided otherwise they Nvould do a material injury to the' county of Cornwall, they would put a stop to tinning altogether, for the lessee under the Crown could then charge what rent he pleased, notwithstanding the old and written law oC the county. It' they should decide against him fns• snore than a 15th, he trusted they would take into conside . ration that the defendant had employed his capita!, labour, and time, in the production of this 9/. 15s. ; and that they would allow him a reasonable sum for it. The SHERIFF charged the Jury. He said all that the de fendant's agent had put forward might have availed him in the superior Court, but here it could not. All that the Jury had to do was, to satisfy themselves how much tin had been taken away, and did it belong to the plaintiff'? This had been al. ready proved by Mr. Renprase, and the defindant had pro duced no evidence to rebut it. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of 9/. 15s. kw Vie plaintiff. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(TATS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CA SLN LONDON. \Y 9, at FIVE P DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CA LONDON.—IIItY 9, at FIVE P.M. I t !e , • 4 1 . .F. 8. :g ,cf 4 c.st • 0 6 4. 2T 1:1-3§ z A cg Total 119 2 0 0 21 I 420 210 Cases from places before reported - 2177 j 1157 Grand Total 2597 1 13457 -- COUNTRY. • hE bC 6 . " z 4 ; e 4 ret § Total 156 47 14 25 j 164 3064 1454 Total from places where the disease has ceaaed and from which no return has been this day received", 6512 2031 _ _ _ Grithd Total WM. MACLEA: (Signed) 9576 I :136.5 Secretary. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O' CLOCK. Philadelphia Papers, to the Sth of April, Baltimore to the same date, and Vera Crus, to the 18th of March, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The former Papers do not contain any news. The Vera Cruz Papers, brought by the Mexican mail, which sailed on the 18th of March, are not of that gloamy cast, in regard to the defeat of General St. Anna, as was reported. It appears that he still holds out at Vera Cruz, and his defeat has not been of a deci. sive nature. The town and port of Tampico have joined his standard., Accounts have been received from Madeira, stating that the blockading squadron has captured two Portuguese vessels. By the arrival of the cetafet this morning, we have a con. firmation of the capture of the Duchess de Berry by a French sloop of war. The French Government have acted towards her with a kind of contempt, sending her back again to her relations in Scotland. The French Funds come higher, 70f. 50e.; but, no doubt, when the Parisians learn the resignation of our Ministers, their funds will decline. THE FUNDS. All is on the tiptoe in the city this morning, and eager for the event of Lord Ebrington's motion this evening, to address his Majesty upon the present state of affairs of the country, which is again plunged into political storm, and when it will abate we cannot foresee. Our Funds begin to feel the effl•ct, but not to any alarming extent as yet. Consols, which lett off yesterday at 84, opened at S 3 ;at present they are 83 with nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. lip to the present hour we have no inforrsation to be de. peneled upon in regard to the new Ministry. Various reports are in circulation—such as Earl Grey being sent for by the King —but all is conjecture at present. Consuls continue steady at 83 7, for the Account.. The spe. culators are afraid to act in this juncture of turmoil. 'f'he Foreign Funds continue much the same as yesterday. The letters from Madeira are to the 23th of April--one 01 - them states, that the political situation of the island is drawing to a close. Letters are also received from Bahia and Pernambuco of a recent date. They are very favourable. We have several arrivals from India this morning, but they are of old dates. 7 'MEE 0 CL 0 CK. Consols for Account ssa. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols 83 1 Danish .............. . Ditto for Account 8 31 Greek, 1525 29 Brazilian Bouds 47, Nlexica.i, 1825 SS,{ C B o u l e i n ina os bi A an yr l e : . 2 . 4 . — lll San • l i e , ruv ., i Chilian Ditto.... -- Russian lleforni, and until that was done they implored the Iforae of Commons to withhold•the supplies." The petition was an echo of these resolutions. " That the petition read should he adopted, signed Town Clerk, and the corporate seal affixed to it." The LORD MAYOR,thought the'Air.,ing of the Seal of thi Corporation to the petition, w uuhl he establishing a new pre cedent. Mr. GALLOWAY had suggested it in the resolution to prevent trouble. The resolution went further to request that the Sheriff should present the petition attended by the whole Court. —;Cheers.)—That the representatives of the City in Parlia ment, together with the other members of the Court who were in the House of Commons should be requested to support the prayer of the petition,- and to decline voting supplies until the Re form Bill should be satisfactorily secured. That the Court had the greatest regard for Earl Grey, and the rest of his Majesty's Mifisters for the services which they had rendered this country in bringing forward the Reform Bill, and admired their integ. pity in refusing to lend themselves to a delusive and abandoned office. That the Court viewed the present state of the coun. try with alarm, and that it should sit from day to day to adopt such measures as might seem necessary. Mr. PRITCHARD, in seconding the motion, asked whether the present crisis was not the most serious which the country had seen since the time of the abdication of James the Second, and did not fully justify the resolutions which were pro_ posed ? When he looked at the purity of character, and the integrity which the Ministry had displayed since they had been in office up to the present moment, he considered that they well deserved the gratitude of all classes of their countrymen. Their last Ministerial act had been a most proper one under the circumstances, and it justified the count] y in placing confidence in then', but he hoped that it was only their last for a short season, he sin cerely trusted that they would be forced back to those offices they had so ably filled upon the shoulders of the people, whose sincere friends they were, and had proved them_ selves.—(Cheers.) If any Ministry should attempt to govern the country on Anti-Reform principles, he hoped that the peo ple would be quiet, and act only in a constitutional manner, when their wishes must be complied with. He in conclusion hoped that the resolutions would be passed unanimously, for they were, though strong, completely justified by the events of these few days. The first resolution having been read, Mr. Alderman WA ITHMAN said, that the proper course pursued under these circumstances was to propose the resolutions singly, in order to give an opportunity to any Member to deliver his sentiments upon it. After being so often placed in a high situation by the favour ofhis fellow citizens, he felt that nothing could have justified his absence upon that occasion. On the best consideration he could give to the present state of affairs, he considered that this meeting was the most important that had ever been held within the Hall they then sat in. The example of the corporation of London was looked up to throughout the country, and upon this occasion, it would be more so than ever; in fact, lie thought that upon the resolutions, which would be passed thas day would depend whether we would have the Bill or not. That was not the time to discuss the Question of Reform, that question had been discussed by the most eminent men for the last seventy years, and all the evils which had befallen the country for many years had been blamed upon the system which at present existed of corrupt jobbing in that House, which ought to be the House of the people. After the Ministry had come in, on a pledge of granting Reform, and after his Majesty had given his sanction to it, had appealed to the people, who had most nobly answered that appeal, it became now the ques tion, were we to be governed by a portion of the aristocracy— were a few men to be allowed to dictate to the King and the Ilouse of Commons ? The question had been answered by the country. With respect to the conduct of the King which had led to the sure they were now deploring, he would say little, but he had been grossly imposed upon by advisers who were unknown to the Constitution, and who were irresponsible.--tCheers.)— If any one part of the Bill pleased him more than another, it was schedule A, and he thought the Government had acted wisely and honourably in insisting on ascertaining how shedule A was disposed of first. One would suppose the House of Lords were ignorant of the state of country, or of the Revolu tion in France, and the causes which gave rise to it. They might have known that it was caused by an obstinate resist ance to the will and the wants of the people.—(Cheers) II this couutry did not suffer from a state of convulsion it was not owing to the conduct of the House of Lords, but to the good sense of the people themselves. Whatever Ministry came into office, the country must have the Reform Bill, for the people would never be satisfied with any thipg elsc.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Alderman suggested sy hailer, instead of petitioning the House of Commons, it should not be referred to the Committee to prepare a respectful address to his Majesty, and a firm but respectful remonstrance to the House of Lords. Mr. THORNHILL rose, and was left speaking. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S PORTSMOUTH, MAY 9, —Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Stately, Edgar from Jamaica; the Charles Brooke, Bell, from St. Vincent. STANDGATE-CREEK, MAY J.—Arrived the Lady Myle field, Grey, from Mogadore. FALMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind N, to N.E., moderate.—Ar. rived the Plover packet, from Tampico, sailed March 11, fi om Vera Cruz on the 18th, and from Havanna the Ist ult. Passed by the Belle Alliance, Arkall, from Bengal, Madras, and Cape of Good Hope ; the Commerce, Cooper, from Pernambuco ; the Jardens, King, from Boston ; the India, Graves, from Madeira. LIVERPOOL, MAY B.—Arrivel the James and Thomas, Ashbridge, from Bahia; the Coquette, from Demerara; the Bahia packet, Guy, from Jamaica ; the Othello, Leggett, from Savannah ; the William, Larmour, and Tiber, Eldridge, from Charleston. Of port, the Beatrice, Smith, from Mauritius ; the Elizabeth, Tobin, from Demerara ; the Abeona, Steele, from Barbados ; the Plato, Dominick, from Savannah, BRISTOL, MAY 9.—Arrived the Harriet, Allen, from Ja maica ; Mary, Pigeon, from the Canaries. GREENOCK, MAY 7.—Arrived the Warrior, Miner, and Wilhelmina, Spence, from Marseilles. CORK, MAY 7,—Arrived the Thomas, Richardson, from Trinidad. WATERFORD, MAY 7.—Arrived the Rosalie, Agrel, from Memel. Arrived at New Orleans, the Nimrod, Barrett, Niagara, Sidney, and Agnes and Ann, Roebuck, from Liverpool. Arrived at Charleston, the Lady Ilowena, Pace, and Prosser, Howie, from Liverpool. Arrived at Barbados the Montreal, from London. The Fanny, De Vries, from St. Übe's to Embden, was lost on Borkum Reef the 24th ult. ; crow saved. The Carmoc Almas, Soares, from Lisbon, was taken on the 21st ult. by the blockading squadron off Madeira; and on the :4th they took a Portuguese schooner, from St. Übe's to Madeira. The Sabote, Jaccardino, from Liverpool to Beyrout .nd Alexandria, was stranded in Beyrout Bay during a strong gale the 2:2d February, and was full of water. The Zephero, Heu reuse, Matilda, and two other vessels were stranded. THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended May 4, 1832, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. %Vheat— 625. Id.l Oats —21 s. 4d.1 8ean5...... 345. 94. Barley —34 s 10d.I Rye —32 a. 6d 'Pease—. 335. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE MX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat-- 60a. &LI Oats 21s. 2(1.1 Beans—.... , 345. sd. Barley— 345. 6d.1 Rye 335. lid.' 345. 2d. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Bd.l Oats Iss. 3d.1 18s. 3d. Batley 10s. 1041.1 Rye lfis. 3d. Pease.--, 18s. 3d CHELTENHAM A RKET.—May 8. Per lb. d. to d. Beef 6 7 Mutton Veal Durk , 0 Labib 0 0 to 3/. 13s. (id. per ton , ARKEI S.—May 9, Per Bushel s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 56 ' Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3l. ILls DUMFRIES M s. d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 6 tol 0 Barley ....... 3 9 4 1 Oats .......... 5 3 0 Flour, 141 b. 4 0 3 4 Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. . s. d. s. ci Ilut'er, 16oz. 0 0100 Egg,, dozen ..... 0 0 0 I Ilt.'ef, per lb. 0 4 0 Mutton C 4 0 I Veal 0 4 0 : Quartern L0tt'.......,, 0 7 0 ! RAILWAY iIiAVELLING.—We understanf' that from the present time the first-class carriages on th. Liverpool and Manchester railway will travel the who distance in an hour awl a half, awl the second-class car riages in two hours. This, it will be remembered, the Original rate of travelling; awl as no additional saf. is considered to have resulted from the retardation, whil, much inconvenience is known to have been sustained i, consequence of it, the directors have resolved that the of rat e of travelling shall be resumed. We may also mend. that during the summer months a train will leave Lisa pool and Manchester every hour throughout the day.- Manchestfr GURrdiure.