The Sun. — London, England, 1853-06-01 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. I Tinder the management of Mr. Bnckstone. THIS ETEKING, juin 1, Will be performed ELOPEMENTS IN HIGH LIFE. By Messrs. 8. Suntrap, Chippendale , How e, W. Fairel, Bnckstone, Rogers, and Compton; Mrs. Fitzwiniam, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Misses Reynoldi and L. Howard. After which, MR. BUCRSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PA - 1 To be followed by THE BOARDING SCHOOL BALL. __.--.......••••• ROYAL nunrczsrs THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Sean• Last Right but Three of Mr. T. P. CoosE• THIS RYBlifiNG, Juan 1. ►ill be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Principal cha , reefers by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by BLACK-EYED SUSAN. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, JUNE 1, Will be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Suter, and Rosiere ; Mrs. Macnamara and Miss Wyndham. will be performed THE WONDERFUL WOMAN. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Madame Vestris. After which, A BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. To b e followed by THE LAWYERS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Roxby; Mrs. F. Matthews, and Misses Robertson and Ellis. -— THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Juss 1, Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Cha racters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Leigh Murray, Parselle, G. Honey, A. Wigan, Paal Bedford, R. Romer, Cullenford, and H. Bed. ford ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Mary Keeley and Miss Woolgar. After which, NORMA. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, JuxE 1, Will be performed A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE. Cha racters by Messrs. Farren, H. Farren, And G. Coeke ; ,Mesdames Anderton and Bartlett. After which, THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Beggs, Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with MACBETH. Supported by Mr. Samuel Mae beth, Mr. F. Robson, Mrs. Sarah Macbeth, and Mrs. A. Phillips. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. ASTOUNDING NOVELTY.—Arrival of the celebrated and intrepid M. ALPHONSE THEVELIN, the First Gymnasiarque Arlen of France, and Inventor of the Cybistique Games ander the French and Belgian Balloons, who will make his third Appearance in this Country TO-NIGHT. SECOND JUVENILE EQUESTRIAN MORNING PER FORMANCE Will take place on WEDNESDAY, June 1, commencing at Two o'clock. By kind permission of Sir Charles Adam, and by compli mentary invitation of Mr. W. Cooke, the boys of Greenwich Hos pital School, with their Band. will attend. THIS EVENING, Jura 1, And during the week, the Entertainments will commence with the highly successful Hippo Daama, with new scenery, costumes, and appointments, entitled THE CHASE, er LIFE ON THE TURF 111.istrating a Sporting Man's Career. To be followed by M. Alphonse Thevelin in his incredi*Per formance of LEA JEUX CYBISTIQUE ; or, The Four T ICS with the wonderful Vaulting Traverser /Erten of 130 Feet from the Back of the Stage to the Centre of the Ring. To conclude with brilliant Scenes in the ARENA by the most talented Artistes of the day. ttox-onlee open daily from Eleven to roar. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. - - - THIS EVENING, Gigantic Panorama of the BAY and FORTS of CHUSAN. Splendid Menagerie, including Six Elephants, Fon. Lions, Two Tigers,Two Giraffes, Camels, Leopards, Llamas, &c. Grand Military Band, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.—Vocal and Instrumen tal Concert ; Two Songs by Miss Cecily Nott ; Solo Clarionet, Mons. Wuille, and Cornet A Piston, Mr. Phillips; Brilliant Dis play of Fireworks ; Feat of Lanterns ; Attack on the British Fleet; Explosion of Ckinese Fireshipg ; Grand Tableaux. Doors open from 9in the morning. Feeding the Animals at 5. Concert 6. Fire works half-past 9. Admisson Is. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tali DST Morning 0 min. after 10 I Evening 32 min.aft. 10 To-goaßov.—Roruing 1 min. after 11 Evening 29 miu.aft. 11 THE WEATHER.—Styx OFFICE, JUNE 1. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 53 this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'03. WIND, N N.E. to E.N.E.—Light breeze, and cloudy weather. ))\-: Zeb g LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1853. In the olden time England was an oath-swear ing nation ; men were not only invited, but abso lutely required to appeal to the DEITY on numerous occasions and under the most trivial pretexts. Not only were oaths administered in the appointment to any office, but at the mere will and pleasure of any person who desired to put the law in operation. We had test oaths, promissory oaths, and fiscal oaths ; and even a conscientious refusal to take an oath explanatory of the conscientious opinioas of the party was visited not only with civil disabilities, but with the most stringent penalties. Even death itself was but too frequently inflicted for a refusal to subscribe the required tests or to acknowledge the supremacy of the CROWN in matters of re ligion, which was construed into an act of high treason against the Sovereign for the time being. The cruel persecution to which the Covenanters were exposed—the massacre of Glencoe, perpe trated against the inhabitants of an entire dis trict, helpless females and innocent children being included in the bloodshed, because phy sical obstacles prevented the arrival of the Chiefs of the Clan to take the oaths on the very day indicated, and the blood of the best and bravest poured forth like water on the scaffold, but too unequivocally attested the. fear ful importance attached to the submission of the people to " the ordeal by swearing." When those brutal enactments were to a certain extent repealed, and the deepest portion of the scandalous blot erased from the national statute book, other very objectionable provisions were still retaiited. Our fiscal code was founded on a system of affidavits. The smallest article could not be imported in to the country without a series of oaths being required from the parties interested, the Legislature appearing to place greater confi dence in the efficacy of these oaths than of the preventive forces employed to guard our shores. It is almost unnecessary to allude to the demorali sation that prevailed so extensively under the circumstances. It is now a matter of history. Suffice it to say that there was an organised sys tem of smuggling, with ramifications spreading through the entire kingdom, and that the inefficacy of " ijustom-house Oaths," and the habitual disregstrd of such obligations, became matters of too painful notoriety. The truth of the adage, that c'' too much 'familiarity breeds contempt," received another and a very powerful illustration. It was clearly proved that the so called obligations wore worse than uselessas a pro tection to the revenue, their only effect being the inducement to dispense with the other and more efficient checks ; mnd they were at length virtually , abolished with the concurrence, and at the unani mous desire, of the entire community. But although fitical swearing was thus practi cally got rid of, p olitical swearing still flourished in rank luxuriance.. It is true that the stake or the scaffold was no longer resorted to as gentle remedies for non-conformity—we had still civil disabilities to open ate as penalties for disagree ment with the Stat€ religion. Men were excluded from situations of b_onour and emolument, because they worshipped their CREATOR in the manner which in their soul and conscience they be lieved to be most acceptable to the DEITY. And even the v eteran who had well and faithfully served :his country in the hour of enlergency, found ti he payment of his half-pay or pension withheld if he refused to do that which his be 4380 -71 s, convicA ions induced him to believe to least an....nirziofusorbirlden by the Gospel, or to be at A. Wiser, a mor rct e. (3 . , t ck.ery. oierant, and, in e ver y res p ec t, a more politic coirc se was deemed expedient and at length adopted. It and just th a t th e Di ssenters and Roman Cothollies sh o o th id e d no l onger b e excluded nikl. from corporatio n z in Parliament, on account of r officethei from sea t s r religious opi nions. The Test sand Corporation A c t s Were re pealed, Roman Oath olio Emancipation civil and religious freedom conceded, carried, at ied, and : of exclusion or disabilit y for c onscience sak e came a leadin g principle of the British C onstitu tion ; and thes e g reat acts of justice were •wi - thin a few years followed. by a further recognition "I Nu , s 1 i'Nfithe freedom of opinion, by the Acts (4 Wm. c ap. 49 and 82), which enabled Quakers , Mora vla s and Separatists to make their so • cases of c n ivil or lem affir lnation in lieu of an oath in • 4 , erality which was le ." 4 criminal procedure, P an act of lib xv, (1833) by the foj "wed in the very same year eption of an affirmation by Mr. PEASE (a AL a 2!member of the Society of Friends), in place of the vaths ordered to be taken by a M e mber of the 'House of Commons. Too much gratuitous and Nuntecessary "wearing) however, still remained, One class, it was found, were still excluded, not designedly, but from the insertion of the words which constituted no part of the substance of the oath, and which were merely directed against Roman Catholics ; but which, after the Eman cipation Act had removed the cause that led to their introduction, were found to affect by a side-wind another and a very different body. Other complaints were put forward with much reason. One high- minded and conscientious nobleman, a staunch Protestant, an undoubted Member of the Church of England for many years, refused to take his seat in the House of Lords, inasmuch as he could not conscientiously swear that no foreign Prince, Prelate, or Potentate had any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesias tical or spiritual, within this realm—when he not only saw a numerous and influential body of our fellow-subjects recognising the spiritual autho rity of the Vatican, and the nomination of Roman Catholic Bishops by the POPE, which Bishops were afterwards recognised in the United Kingdom. It is quite clear that our Legislators are required to swear that which is not the truth, and which can only be got over by a degree of mental reservation on the part of those high-minded and conscientious Protestants, equal to anything to which they so loudly objected on the part of the Roman Catholics. They could clearly perceive the mote in their brother's eye, while ignorant or indifferent as to the beam in their own. The Oath of Supremacy, then, is positively wrong—that of abjuration would be simply ridi culous were it not in express violation of the first Commandment, a taking of the name of the LORD in vain, which should be carefully eschewed, not merely by every professing Christian, but by every one who believed in the existence of the CREATOR of the Universe, the Omniscient, Omni present, and All-powerful GOD. The person taking the oath is required to deny the title of the descendants of the late PRETENDER—and to abjure all obedience to them in the most solemn and impressive language, while it is notorious that there are no such persons iu existence, nor is there any possibility of any such again coming forward. What can this be deemed but an impious mockery—a contemptuous calling of the DEITY to witness—on a matter of no meaning—a wilful breach of the first article of the Sacred Code, de livered amidst fire and smoke on Mount Sinai. Lord LYNDHURST desires to remove these anomalies to prevent the recurrence of these flagrant evils. The Noble and Learned Lord last night brought forward, in a speech of most persuasive eloquence and convincing argu ment, a measure calculated to achieve this de sideratum. It is to be regretted that the Noble Lord, in opposition to his own better judg ment, continued the words that operate so in juriously in the exclusion of our Jewish brethren. He did so avowedly, because he would not endea vour to obtain by a side-wind that which should have been carried by a direct and positive enact ment—emphatically declaring, however, that he did so " ex necessitate, and as entirely against his decided convictions on the subject." We trust that this statement will not be forgotten when the amendments of the Commons House of Parliament come under consideration, but that it will ponder deeply upon the unequivocal expression of feeling by one of its most aged, most respected, and most eloquent members, and give full effect to his en 'ightened views. Committees are nowadays the effectual and beneficent substitutes for Star Chambers and for Courts of Inquisition. Wherever an abuse is sus pected a Committee is at once organised—a Chair man is appointed—witnesses are called up and examined—and an elaborate, yet, for the most part, sententious Report is the consequence of the entire manoeuvre I Is there a suspicion that something better might be done in regard to the regulation of the Sugar Duties, so as to affect beneficially the interests of the West India Planters ? There is at once a Committee of Inquiry—toiling through a mass of details that would have appalled our ancestors, and preparing the materials for a blue book, certain in time to be refered back to as a standard authority for all future Administrators. Is there an inkling that rather dirtier work than usual has been " doing" in the Dockyards ? There is another Committee of Inquiry as to that conjectured abomination — to sift rumours and to arrive as soon as possible, if possible, at something like a definitive conclu sion. Is there a notion, as our Yankee cousins might say, that there are ghouls aorongst us nowa days arrayed in the surplice or armed with the grave-digger's mattock ? A Committee is fastened upon that loathsome object of investigagon to discover whether it might not be advisable' to prevent the continuance of the horrors conse'-- quent upon intramural interment. The only misfortune is, that a Committee is generally successful solely in exposing abuses in all their natural, or rather unnatural, deformity. It fails altogether in the majority of instances in forcing the need of reform upon the recogni tion of the wavering judgment of the Legislature. The latest illustration of the popular delight in the appointment of these Committees of Inquiry is discoverable in the one which began its sittings yesterday in reference—What to ? To another controverted election ? To another bribery case, sacred to the memory of worthies like W. B. and " the safe man," and the barber FRAIL, and the lawyer FLEviKER, and the bricklayer MORGAN, and " the man in drab," C'Wl7l cceteris paribus ? Nothing of the sort. The Committee, which met yesterday, had reference to the management of the National Gallery—it took into account the condition of the pictures constituting the treasures of that popular Exhibition. Colonel MURE was in the chair, and the first witness examined was Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE. FOr your Committee is supposed to have a comprehensive genius for everything in the wide universe. Re garding it as an embodiment, it .might be sup posed to reason like PLATO, to talk like DEMOS , THENES, to comprehend abstract science like LIEBNTrz, to dance like Cram, to play the violin like PAGANINI, to sing like MALIBRAN, to act like , uARRIcK, to chop logic with WHATELEY, and ingre dients for some delectable sauce with SOYER--tO be, in fact, an Admirable CRICHTON, or a DA VINCI, or a BuorrAitorn. So that a Committee—the members of which might have sat the other day upon some electioneering case of treating and intimidation —is summarily ap pointed by the Lower House of Parliament, and Colonel MITRE is appropriately placed at the head of it as Chairman, to examine into the present condition of the pictures in the National Gallery and into the working of its present system of management I Obviously, of course, the principal good derived from these Committees of Inquiry may be traced to the information supplied in evidence. But as obviously the value of that information is depend ant upon the manner in which it is collected. The answers given by a witness are important or worthless accordingly as the inquiries are dis tinguished by tact or frivolity. Take as an examination in point, that of Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE, yesterday, as the first witness summoned before the Committee on the State of the Pictures in the National Gallery. Several hours were consumed in collecting from this wit ness a variety of particulars relating to the pro cesses of picture-cleaning, with which the public had long before, for the most part, become perfectly familiarised. It is certain, there fore, that numerous pages, folio or octavo, as the ease air eadY fillecr i a ! of a blue rate thing be, for information. have in this manner been _ o p in . some prospective enormity of of so truth the public at the a in regard to system in vogue nmowa P tai lr n. ounce avoirdupois of if possible, there was no need whatever , a S n u ci c l t i c„ , tliat however, syst em is the w e must submit, t e ra:itter, and listen 0 all th is t wa ddli ng must put a good face upon the We w ith exemplary forbearance gossip about smearing pictures with a s ilk hand kerchief, -washing them with 5P and water, sponging no. 'theta, SCOUrtag them, ' m er , b - b- g ' spng them ' alidsi i iin ' iling t h em —the latter op ignif :ration • • • sying the stripping away of the glazings, or the taking off the dirty coat of varnish. Hearkening be nignly, moreover, to all this with a delightful presentiment, or rather, we should say, with a pleasant conviction, that the chief good to be derived from the whole inquiry will be the compi lation of a Report to be ultimately stowed away with the rest of our lumbering line of blue books for after consultation. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1853. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE—(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 500 were taken for export. The market was firm, and closed with out alteration in prices. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 120 Pernam and Maranham at 7d., 400 Bahia at 6id.to 7/d.„ 500 Egyptian at lid. to Bid., and 700 Surat at ap. to 3d. per lb. Rail way shares dull, and the quotations generally lower. The winding-up of the Nova Scotia Mining Com pany is an event that ought not to be passed by without some notice from a public writer, and if the press upon these occasions exercised its vocation with more wholesome severity, we might not again have to record such a disgraceful concoction as the " Nova Scotia Mining Company." When this notable scheme was first ushered forth to the public, it was distinctly stated in the prospectus that the investigations made into the value of the minerals placed it beyond the possibility of doubt, and yet with the names of some of our most respected merchants at the head of the prospectus, as vouchers of this assu- rance, we witness within a few weeks the utter falsification of all that was asserted, and the dis solution of the Company. At least, if no benefit is to be derived in regard to this particular concern, by a reference to the past let us hope that it may constitute a warning for the future. No board of directors is justified in enticing the public to subscribe to a new project without having first instituted the necessary local inquiries, and caused the fullest surveys to be made by its own agents. In the present instance these measures were only adopted after the money was subscribed, and it is not enough now to take credit for the return of the capital, intact, and the payment of the expenses by the Board itself, but we have to con sider that hundreds of persons relying upon the accuracy of the statements made, purchased its shares for investment at a high premium. What compensation can it be to these parties, whose shares cost them 71. or 81., including the deposit, to have 51. returned to them now. It may be very well to assert that if persons buy at a premium, they must take the consequences ; but is there no moral responsibility attaching to the names of our men of business, that will render their word as good as their bond ? If not, there is an end at once to all commercial confidence, and the sooner this fact is understood the better. As to the sur veyors, who certified to those inflated opinions about the value of the estates, their conduct is so flagrant that it is positively unfortunate that the law could not be put in force to reach them. If a man errs from ignorance he should be peculiarly liable for the injury he inflicts, and if he delibe rately deceives, something more than a simple fine should be the penalty. In bringing out these new companies there are always ample means of jobbing in the shares, so as to afford a profit upon upon mere time transactions, and we fear that it is this which prevents the natural indignation of original shareholders from obtaining expression at public meetings. Some speculators are interested for a fall, and others for a rise, and amid the contest the less experienced and more confiding subscriber falls to the ground. Among the bubbles of the year 1853, and they were not few, the " Nova Scotia Mining Company" stands pre-eminent. As was natural to expect, the voluntary " con version" will be at a stand-still while politics and money are lowering and tight. The " assents" at the Bank of England became " fine by degrees," and the opponents of the Chancellor's scheme exult in what they term his failure. When we consider, however, that cash now is in active demand at Three per Cent., we cannot feel. surprised at the absence of any inducement to convert, if parties look simply to the moment. There is, however, a class of persons who sh ould look more to the permanency of an investment, and if affairs settle down before October there will he still a large number willing to receive new stock. Even if two or three millions of Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are taken, there will be a market created, and their very scarcity will be favour able to the price. The Lord Chancellor, it appears from what was stated last night in Parliament, has not even yet made up his mind as to the security ho will take, but we doubt whether the hostile advice of my Lord St. Leon ards to demand cash, and lay out the proceeds in Consols or Reduced, will have any weight, as being either patriotic or wholesome. The fact that all funded securities rise and fall nearly in pro portion is quite a sufficient bar to carrying out his lordship's policy. Concerning the renewal of Eichequer Bills, there is much difference of opinion. Some say the demand for payment will be very limited, others that it will be very considerable, and that the East India Company takes as much as a million sterling. What is to be done with the proceeds we shall curiously wait to see. English Stocks are very fiat to-day, and about to f per cent. lower. Consols 100 to for Trans fer, and Nog for July. The settlement of the Account progresses without difficulty. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102 to and the Three per Cents. 99 to Bank Stock is firm at 230. Exchequer Bills are ls. discount to 2s. premium, and India Bonds 255. premium. Foreign Stocks are mostly heavy. Mexican bring, however, 26 to 1, being firm, owing to the formation of Santa Anna's Cabinet. Venezuela Bonds have been at 38. The following has been received by the Spanish American Bondholders Committee :-- " The Senate and Chamber of Representatives of the tßepublic of Venezuela in Congress assembled. " Resolved, Congress authorises the Executive power to take all 'necessary measures for settling the foreign claims for interest due on the foreign debt, and those debts originating from the law of Espera, o l f em the e. April, 29th 1849, which require peremptory set " Given at Caracas, the 30th April, 1853." t New Grenada promises to make fresh arrange ments. Spanish Bonds are rather lower. Railway Shares are down generally I to A per cent. The Midland have been flatter, and at one time were 10s. to 11. lower. Great Northern also have suffered 10s. to 11. The French Lines have been about 10s. lower for the Northern, and 10s. to 15s. for the Lyons and Strasbourg. Upper India Scrip has been higher, having realised 14 premium. The Gold Mine Shares are all weak, with very little inclination to buy ' but Agua Fria, Ave Maria, and the other Californian companies reman about the same. The Joint-Stock Bank Shares are giving way with hardly an exception, but the new companies are most depressed. The Land Companies' shares continue on the decline. The quotations of some of the shares not yet in the official list, are as follows :—Berlin Water works, *to premium. Central of France Rail way, to 1I premium. Metcalf Mine, 6i- to 7i premium. Jamaica, 3i to 4i premium: Sue River, to premium, and Port Royal, 1* to 11 premium. COURT CIRCULAR. _ The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable A. Gor don, left Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past three o'clock yesterday afternoon for Claremont (travelling by the iLondon and South-western Railway), and visited the Countess de Neuilly and the French Royal family. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter past six o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday morning, attended by Lieutenant- Colonel the Honourable A. Gordon. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Here ditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, her Royal Highness the Duchess Caroline of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, her Serene Highness the Princess Ad elaide of Hohenlohe, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Breadal bane, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Suffield, Baroness Wenchstein, Sir George Couper, Major Baron Knesebeck, Baron Luhe, and the Honourable James Macdonald. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend ance at the Palace, and performed during dinner the following selection : Overture "Le Lac des Fees" Auber. Serenade -Schubert. Grand selection—" Rigoletto" Polka—" Echo du Mont Blanc" Pas redouble—" Martha" Flotow. A deputation on the subject of the submarine telegraph between Great Britain and the Continent of Europe had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell yester day at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted ; of Lord de Mauley, the Hon. F. Cadogan, Mr. Samuel ' Laing, Mr. J. Masterman , jun., Mr. W. J. Chaplin, Mr. J. Brett, Mr. Ernest Bunsen, and Messrs. Camp- bell and Hughes (solicitors). A. deputation of the directors of the Electric Power and Colour Company, introduced (in the absence, by indisposition, of the chairman, Earl Fitzwiffiam) by the Hon. George W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., had an interview with the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-house yesterday, on the subject of illuminating the coast lighthouses with the electric light. A. deputation from the Oxford, Worcester and Wol verhampton Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Mr. Thomas, and Major Tyndale (directors), and Mr. Smith (secretary), had an inter view with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell yesterday at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yes terday from the Governors of the West India Islands and from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. MEXICO---THE NEW CABINET. The subjoined extracts of a letter received yesterday from Havannah by the house of Mr. H. Bade give the latest particulars concerning the new Mexican Cabinet, and the summary measures adopted by Santa Anna with regard to the laws and constitution of the republic : "The Mexican Cabinet was formed on May 10, and is to consist of Ham, Minister of Finance ; Alaman, ditto of Foreign Relations; Lares, of Justice; and Tor nel, of War. " Lombardini is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army, General Carrera having resigned. " The liberty of the press is limited. "All the Mexican officers who, during the wars of ' 1846 to 1848, abandoned their ranks, or were taken pri soners, are separated from the army, without even en joying the privilege of having belonged to it. "All thieves are to be judged by a court-martial. " Dr. Juan Ximenez de Sandoval was received as Spanish Minister. " The North Americans had taken possession of Chi huahua, and were preparing its defence. " Mr. Falconnet, agent for the bondholders, has de clared that the Minister of Finance was not bribed. " All the laws promulgated since the 16th September, 1847, to the 6th February ult., are annulled. " A Council of 20 respectable Mexicans shall be con stituted. " The Tehuantepec treaty is approved. " General Urago is appointed Mexican Minister to Prussia ; General Almonte, ditto Washington ; Sr. Vivo, ditto, to Madrid." THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, at Philadelphia, have elected Sir Charles Eastlake, Mr. Copley Fielding, Mr. Dyce, Mr. Cousins, Mr. George Godwins, Mr. J. P. Knight, Mr. Maclise, Sir Edwin Landseer, Mr. Stansfeld, and Mr. John Ruskin, honor s.] y members of the academy. The Pennsylvania Aca demy is the oldest artistic body in the United States. _IMPORTATION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS.--During the last three years gold-dust from California and silver bullion from the south-western coast of America, to the value of fifty millions of dollars, have passed over the Isthmus of Panama, to be conveyed to England by the Royal West India mail packet's. GENERAL ARISTA, THE EX-PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, who was driven out of that country through the last revolution there in favour of Santa Anna, arrived at Southampton on Monday, in the West India mail packet La Plata, and adds one more to the distinguished refu gees who have sought an asylum in this country. Ge neral Arista is between 60 and 70 years of age. He was ill during the voyage from the West Indies, and rarely appeared on deck. He was accompanied by an aid-de camp. Just before the voyage concluded be was suffici ently well to be introduced to Mr. Barkley, the Gover nor of British Guiana, who was a passenger in La Plata. The General speaks English, though imperfectly. He is at present stopping at Silva's hotel, in Southampton. QUARTZ ROCS MARIPOSA GOLD COMPANY. This c e L epany have • received advices from their superin tondents at Maxwell's Creek that, in addition to the company's miners, they had engaged a body of Chinese at $• . per day, in place of the Mexican and other la bourei:s who had previously been at work on the mine, and who, upon the superintendents taking possession, immediatay demanded an increase of their wages from $ 2 to s3i per day. The company's agents at San Francisco had dispatched to the mines the duplicate set of machinery which had arrived by the Remittance, in addition to the firAt set by Orkney Lass, previously forwarded. THE LIBERTY MINING COMPANY.—This company have received advices and accounts of the mill opera at the Vancluse Mine to the 14th inst., from which it appears that 562 oz. 111 dwts. of refined gold had been obtained from the ore crushed up to that date, and that the prospects of the mine were exceedingly favourable. TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY OF UPPER CANADA. — Yesterday the annual general meeting of this company took place at the offices in Moorgate-street, Mr. Chap man in the chair. A report was read, which stated that the receipts for the last half year amount to 9,348/. 17s. 6d. ; and the disbursements, including interest on debenture bonds, have been 5,5241. 19s. ld. ; leaving a balance of profit for the half year of 3,8231. 18s. 5d., and a total balance at credit of revenue - of 5,6771. 14s. 7d. The directors recommendthat, out of this sum, a dividend the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, be declared on the called - up capital of the company for the six months ending the 31st March, 1853. The engage ments of the company are now not far short of 400,000/. currency and negotiations pending may suddenly and considerably augment that amount. On the other hand, the present limit of the company's operations is 500,000/. sterling. The report having been adopted, and a dividend declared as recommended therein, the proceed ings terminated. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.—The annual general court of the proprietors of this company was advertised for yesterday, for the election of directors of the said com pany, and the transaction of other business, Mr. A glionby, M.P., in the chair. The Chairman said the clause of the charter required the presence of 20 proprie- Oro., and there not being that number present, they could not proceed to business, and had nothing more to do than to adjourn to a future day. The directors had only to see that the money they had to receive was dis tributed so that they might close the affairs of the com pany. Mr. Burnaud beard they had received 15,0001., and hoped they would liave given the shareholders a dividend of Si. pe r share. The chairman said their debts must first be paid, when something would no doubt co me to the sharehold ers. The meeting then adjourned to June 23. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17 ; and, the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.05, it fol lows that gold is about 0.48 per cent. dearer in Paris s ca f , ro a m nd H A a u m st b re ur li g a h ; the price of g old is 427 per mark, which, at the English Mint than Coast of London. N . price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.6 ; and, the exchange at Hamburgh on Loudon at short being 13.51, it follows that gold is 0.12 pet . cwt. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at GO daye sight is 110 per cent., and, the par of exchange betNyeen England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it folLov9 that the exchange is nominally 0.42 per cent. in favour Cli England ; and, after making al lowancetransport, the present rate leaves for charges of a small profit on the imp oitation of gold from the United States. IMMENSE INFLUX OF SHlTElNG.—Yesterday and on Monday the arrivals of foreign and coasting vessels in the river Thames were much mono numerous than on any two days during the present vex. The number of vessels of all classes entered in-war& at the Custom house during the two days up toyesterday afternoon being 255, o i l these 138 sail arrived ou Monday, and 117 yesterday. This immense fleet comprises several vessels of large tonnage from the East Indieq, South America, o ß rt y h A ad m vi e c r e i these from the last named colony is the Duke of Northumberland, with a large a mount of gold dust on freight. The coasting vessels and colliers entered in wards amount only to 88 sail, leaving 167 from foreign ports and the colonies. This number includes the regu lar steam ships trading to France and the North of Europe. A very large fleet is reported to be in the Channel, principally from foreign ports, and may be ex pected upon the first change of wind. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ( From the Official List. ) _ . _ _ Business done. ...... 230 99 $ 100/ 1 / 100 / 102 / Bank Stock .. . . .... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Ceut. Consols Annuities . New 34 per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 25 Consols for Account July 19 looa i Exchequer Bills, 1)01. £l000 N o no 1 d 2 p Small Ditto Advertised PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 99i x d Milian Bonds, 6 per Cent. Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Scrip .. . ...... . .. . Russian Bonds, 5 per • C'ent . . Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent .... ... . Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 23* 3 4 Ditto Passive (Converted) 38 Venezuela Bonds, 34 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange 4 per Ceut. Certificates 96 Ditto for the Account 9 5 .;• 2 HALF-PAST TWO. 100 - j 100 a Consols ............................ Ditto July Account .............. The Marquis and 'Marchioness of Londonderry have left town, for the baths of Hombourg viii Paris, in which capital the noble marquis and her ladyship con template making a brief sejour. ACCIDENT TO MR. COMMISSIONER PHlLLlPS.—Yes terday an accident occurred to Mr. Commissioner Phillips which might have been attended wiith serious consequences. As the learned Commissioner was cross ing the Strand he was knocked down by a cab. He was taken to the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and medical aid instantly procured. It was found on examination that he had not sustained any seriou s injury, and was at once removed to his residence in Gordon-square. A STRANGE CASE.—Mrs. Wilkinson, of Eynesbury, near St. Neot's, completely lost her sight 25 years ago, notwithstanding the best medical aid. About six weeks back she accidentally fell down stairs. Fortunately she sustained no injury from the fall, but the shock occasioned by it seems to have led to the recovery of her sight. A day or two after this accident occurred Mrs. Wilkinson fancied she could see a little, and so Stated to her husband. At first he was, naturally enough, inclined to doubt the fact ; but her sight daily grew better, and she is now enabled to distinguish colours, and to see pre tt y well. The j o y of Mrs. Wil inson, and the different members of her family, may be well imagined. A son, 23 years old, she has just been enabled to look upon for the first time.—Lincolnshire C4ronicle, AMBERLAIN. ELECTION 0. DECLARATION OF THE POLL—(THIS DAY.) The Livery of the City of London assembled in the Guildhall for the purpose of hearing the numbers polled by each candidate for the office of City Chamberlain. Shortly after one o'clock the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermenentered on the platform, accompanied by Sir John Key, Bart., B. Scott, Esq., the unsuccessful can didate, Alderman and Sheriff Carter, Alderman Wire, &c. Mr. Sheriff CROLL then announced the numbers tobe— For Sir John Key 3185 For Mr. B. Scott 2914 Majority 271 and declared Sir John Key to be duly elected. (Loud cheers.) Sir JOHN KEY, Bart., then came forward to address the Livery, and was greeted with the most hearty cheer ing, which having somewhat subsided, he said that the official declaration had announced to them that he was re turned by a majority of 271 to be their Chamberlain. He sincerely thanked all present for their assistance during the contest which had terminated. He would do all in his power to increase £he wealth of the City. It would be his duty to promote the happiness of all mem bers of the Livery. (Cheers.) If in the heat of the con test any one word had been said wrongly by him, he apologised ; and it should be his aim to create for the future a feeling of unity, harmony, and goodwill through out the City. (Loud cheers.) BENJAMIN SCOTT, Esq., then addressed the meeting. He said he hoped that although he was the defeated can didate, he was ,not the disgraced candidate. (Cheers.) He had had the votes of 2,914 of the Livery recorded in his favour. He trusted he had carried on the contest in an honourable manner. (Hear, and Oh, oh.) There were two reasons for his coming forward, viz., the friends who signed the requisition thought that their should be an unrestricted choice made by the Livery. He would not say a word against the corporation, for he respected every member of it (oh), and they must all know that when he came forward there were gentlemen, not belonging to the Corporation, canvassing the Livery. (Hear, hear.) He hoped this would do away with all those statements that it was a piece of presumption on his part to come forward. (Hear, hear.) He only, aspired as all young men should aspire. (Cheers.) There were many gentlemen in the Corporation who had risen to the high honours of aldermen, sheriff, and lord mayor from humble origin and by their own perseve rance. (Cheers.) After some further remarks, Mr. Scott retired amid great applause. Several gentlemen having addressed the Livery the ; meeting dispersed. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) LUMLEY V. GYE. In consequence of the illness of Mr. Justice Wight man the Court postponed giving judgment in this case until to-morrow. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DA Y.) SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY.—.Tames Wand appeared in answer to a summons, granted at the instance of Mr. Thomas, secretary to the Royal Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, charging him with wantonly and cruelly ill-treating a cow. Mr. Joseph Thorpe, butcher, 20, Upper Marylebone street, said on the 16th of May he was in front of his shop when a drove of sheep and beasts came past to gether. After they had passed a little while he saw one of the beasts standing on three legs, the near hind leg up, which appeared in great agony. The prisoner struck the off hind leg with a stick, and the beast fell on the pavement as if shot, he then beat it over the head as hard as he could hit. Witness spoke to him about his cruelty, and the prisoner made a very rude answer. The cow lay about twenty minutes before it got up. David Graham, grocer, 42, Upper Marylebone-street, corroborated the evidence of last witness. The prisoner denied the charge. Mr. Hardwicke said it was a very bad case, and coin• mitted the prisoner for a month. SOUTH WARK.-(THIS DAY.) ROBBERY AND ASSAULT IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE. Thomas Revell, a powerful looking young ifellow, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett charged with assaulting William Revell and robbing him of two shillings. Prosecutor said he went into the Rising Sun public house in Kent-street about 10 o'clock last night, with two female relations, and called for 'some gin and rasp berry. While being served the prisoner, whom he had no previous knowledge of, rushed up to him and knocked him down without any provocation. While on the ground he put one of his hands into his waistcoat pocket and stole two shillings which witness had just deposited there. A police-constable was called in and he gave him into custody for the assault and robbery. The females who were with the prosecutor said they saw the prisoner attack him in a very ferocious manner, and knock him down. While on the ground, they also saw him take some silver from his waistcoat pocket. They called in a constable, and he was given into custody. The prisoner denied the robbery, and said he was first assaulted by a man who was with the prosecutor. lie had known the latter some time, and was on friendly terms with him ; and as he was offering to shake hands with him he was struck. Prosecutor denied that he had any previous knowledge of the prisoner, or that any other man was with him. Mr. A'Beckett committed him for trial at the next Surrey Sessions. NEW DUTIES ON TEA.—The order to receive the new duties on tea reached the Customs at six o'clock last night, and the delivery commenced at six o'clock this morning. The entries exceed the extraordinary number of 10,000. A single house in the City yesterday paid no less than 10,000/. in tea duties. DETERMINED SIIICIDE.—This morning a young woman named Sarah Hallion committed suicide at No. 10, Waterloo-place. From information gleaned by our re porter it appeared that the deceased, who was to have been married on Sunday next, was on a visit to the housekeeper at the house above named and slept with her. About 7 o'clock this morning she (deceased) got up and proceeded downstairs to prepare breakfast, and on the housekeeper following shortly after she was no where to be found. A search was made, and deceased was found in the water-closet with her throat cut from ear to ear. No reason at present can be given as to the cause of her committing the rash act, as on Tuesday she was in cheerful spirits, and had been busily employed in making her wedding dress. The body was conveyed , to St. James's workhouse, there to await a coroner 'a in quest. TREBLE ATTEMPT AT SlllClDE.—Yesterday afternoon information was received from Westminster Hospital of a desperate attempt at self-destruction of a respectable female of the name of Mrs. Amelia Moore, Lillington. street, Vauxhall, by swallowing a large quantity of oxalic acid. It appears that the unfortunate woman had been in a very desponding state of mind for some length of time, owing to the loss of her husband, and, in consequence of her attempting her life twice before, her movements were watched—hence the discovery arose. Dr. Basham, M.D., and Mr. Evans Cauty, house sur geon, was promptly in attendance, and used the stomach pump with such success that it is hoped the poor crea ture is placed out of danger. ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, MAY 30.—Colonel C. C. Dansey, C. 8., a Waterloo officer, who has com manded the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar since April, 1852, having returned to England on sick leave, Colonel Henry William Gordon will proceed from Woolwich to Gibraltar to take the command of the Royal Artillery at that important station, in the room of Colonel Dansey. Colonel Gordon was recently at the head of the Royal carriage department at the Arsenal here, and previously served in command of the Royal Artillery at Corfu and the lonian Islands, where he superintended the fortifi cation of these stations with several hundred large guns of the best modern construction. BRITISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES.—Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was issued, from which it appears that, in 1852, the declared value of British woollen ma nufacture and woollen yarn exported was, of woollen manufactures and woollen yarn, 10,161,0741. MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—The following notice has been issued from the General Post-office :—" On the 10th June major money order offices will be opened at the receiving offices at Brownlow-hill, Mill-street, and Scotland-road,. Liverpool. Minor money order offices will be opened at the undermentioned places on the re spective dates named : England—Milford Junction, 27th May ; Portishead, Ist June. Ireland—Kiltimagh, Ist June ; Trillick, Ist June." THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL GOLD MINING ASSOCIA TION.—A junction has been effected between Mr. Collett, of the Mutual Gold Mining Company, and Mr. Sherwood, who has the superintendence of another English company, for the working of Erskine Island. Mr. Sherwood has to complete the present engineering works, which, with thirty men employed, will, we un derstand, require about a fortnight, after which they share the profits equally. With the practical skill and resources which will be brought to bear upon the work, the success or failure of the speculation will soon be established. On the Turon Mr. Collett has secured twenty claims for the "Mutual," most of which are un worked, and all situated advantageously for the recep tion of gold deposit.—Bathurst Free Press, Jan. 4. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last as the carriage of Mr. Richardson, of Upper Portland-place, was leaving Strawberry-hill, Twickenham, the fore axletree broke, and dropped the footboard of the box seat on to the horses' backs, upon which the animals leaped the quickset hedge on the side of the lane, dragging the front part of the carriage after them into the dyke, where one of them was drowned, and the other so severely injured by his struggles, and the means used to drag him out, as to render his recovery doubtful. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Richardson were extricated without difficulty, but the coachman; and a young gen tleman who was riding on the box seat, had a most miraculous escape. The horses were a remarkably handsome pair of greys, valued at 300 guineas. THE QUEEN'S NURSE. --We understand that Mrs. Mackintosh, who was appointed wet-nurse to her Ma jesty, has returned to the north. It appears that her milk was too rich for the infant Prince—so much so, that her own child was also nursed by her for some time, in order to reduce the quantity. Mrs. Mackintosh left Osborne amidst the regrets of the whole establish ment, expressed in the strongest terms, and accompanied by substantial proofs of the Queen's accustomed libe rality. Her Majesty presented her with a large and valuable gold brooch, an ample wardrobe of clothes, and a cheque for a hundred pounds—all this being exclusive of travelling expenses. The brooch was given by the Queen with her own hand, and will, we have no doubt, be treasured for generations as an heir-loom of inesti mable value.—lnverness Courier. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Th Lords' Amendments to the Bognor Railway Bill were carried and agreed to ; the London Docks Bill was read a third time and passed. The following bills were considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Taff Vale) Bill ; Rooker's Disabilities Removal Bill ; and Wimpole, Wrestlingworth, and Potton-road Bill. PETITIONS. Mr. H. W. WICKHAM presented a petition from the operative tin-plate workers, Bradford, Yorkshire, in favour of the Combination of Workmen's Bill. Sir J. DUKE and several other hon. members pre sented petitions in favour of the Combination of Work men's Bill. Alderman KERSHAW presented a petition from a place in Lancashire against the Government Educational Scheme. NEW TRIAL (CRIMINAL CASES) BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Mr. EWART presented a petition in its favour. Mr. I. BUTT then proceeded to move that the bill be read a second time, and in doing so the hon. and learned gentleman entered into a detailed explanation of the provisions of the measure. It was not easy, he said, to exaggerate the importance of the bill. There could be no doubt that the present state of the law was productive of great inconvenience ; but before a bill of this nature was passed, he apprehended it was the duty of those who proposed it to show that it would not be productive of still greater inconvenience in the adminis tration of the criminal law. The house was aware that in civil matters the law gave parties the power of mov ing for a new trial, if they were dissatisfied with the ruling of the judge or the finding of the jury, but except upon points of law, there was no such power of revision in criminal cases. It was right, however, that he should state that in one case of felony of recent date, the Court of Queen's Bench had granted a new trial, although all the previous authorities were diametrically opposed to such a proceeding. The law, as it was at present ad ministered, contained many anomalies. For instance, if a man was tried upon a criminal charge in the Court of Queen's Bench, or before a special jury in Middlesex, or the city of London, he could appeal to the court above , against the dictum of the judge or the finding of the jury ; but there was no power of appeal in a case tried at the Assizes, or before a recorder or petite jury. Now was it strange that there should be the power of appeal in one case and not in the other. We should have thought, if any exception was to be made, it ought to be in favour of the first and not of the latter case. Well, then, the object in this bill was to remove the defect in the crimi nal law, and to give to the Court of Queen's Bench an enlarged control over the proceedings of criminal cases, no matter where they might have been tried. In mat ters connected with the record a power of appeal already existed ; but the record was no more a reflex of the merits of the case than were the minutes of the house a record of the question debated last night. A judge might admit improper evidence, but the record would take no notice of that, because the re cord was prepared before their trial ; and the principal object of this bill was to give a power of appeal in cases where evidence might have been erroneously admitted, or the decision of the jury was opposed to the facts. Observe, the bill introduced no new principle into the law, because upon points of law the judge who tried a criminal already had the power of reserving matters for a decision of the court above ; but this bill proposed to give a power of appeal in the cases he had stated without the consent of the presiding judge. He had the greatest possible objection to leaving the right of appeal to the decision of the judge. He thought it ought to be an absolute right without any limitation whatever, and since this power of appeal had made the English law what it was, he hoped the house would find no difficulty in adopting this measure. He need not cite cases where erroneous convictions had taken place, they must be familiar to all who heard him, but he must remind the house that in several cases parties had lost their lives through the erroneous finding of juries, which could not have happened had the provisions of this bill been in force as law. Now, why should not a man, on his trial for life, have the same protec tion of appeal as he had in a evil action ? (Hear.) He could see no reason whatever against it, and there fore he had proposed this power of appeal with proper machinery for carrying out speedily which would be found fully explained in the language of the bill. If the house admitted the principle of the bill, he should have no ob jection to refer it to the consideration of a select com mittee. (Cheers.) Mr. EWART seconded the motion, and thought it discrete to refer the bill to a select committee. As the bill now stood it was only applicable to Ireland, but if the second reading was carried, he should move that it be an instruction to the committee to inquire into the state of the law of England as well as Ireland. For his part he thought the whole subject, and not the bill alone, ought to be referred to a select committee, with power of examining witnesses. The subject too of appointing a public prosecutor ought to be referred to a select committee, and when an occasion offered, he should make a motion to that effect. Mr. PHILLIMORE said it did not appear to him that any good could result from the passing of this bill. [LEFT SPEAKING.] ELECTION COMMITTEES.-(THIS DAY. LIVERPOOL. At the sitting of the committee this morning, Witnesses were called to prove agency and the hiring of bands, but the evidence was uninteresting. CLARE COUNTY. Thomas Macnamara was recalled this morning, and examined further as to the kidnapping of voters. Wit ness was employed by the sitting members' agents to stop all the voters he could lay hands on coming into Ennis. He had a party of the boys with him. All the voters that would not promise to vote for Sir T. Fitzgerald and C. O'Brien they carried off, and shut up, but the others were well treated, and had something to drink. Witness paid for some of the drink, and S. Green (an agent of the sitting members) paid for the rest. Cross-examined—Witness was employed to canvass for Mr. O'Brien. By canvassing witness understood that he was to try and induce and force people to vote for Mr. O'Brien, and if they refused, to give them drink, and prevent them voting at all. SLIGO. The case for the petitioners was this morning con eluded, and the learned counsel proceeded to sum up. PETERBOROUGH. The evidence before this committee was entirely unin teresting. DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER.—We have to record the demise of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Fuller, C. 8., an old Waterloo and Peninsular officer, who died on the 27th instant, at Greenwich, aged 62. The de ceased was for many years connected with the 59th Foot, with which he served during the greater part of the late war. He was at the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San Sebastian, the battle of Neve, where he was wounded, the battle of Waterloo, the storming of Cambray, and the capture of Paris. He afterwards proceed to India, and was at the battle of Bhurtpore, under Lord Corn bermere. The deceased held three medals viz. one for Waterloo, a war medal, and a medal for San Sebastian. THE LADY FRANKLIN AND THE SOPHIA.—These two vessels, recently employed in the search for Sir John Franklin, are now lying in our harbour, the first named one having arrived on Thursday morning, under the command of Captain Penny, and the latter yesterday. It was reported some weeks ago that they had been purchased by Captain Penny for the Royal Arctic Com pany, to proceed .to the Arctic Regions, but as this has been contradicted, and as we have been unable as 'yet to see the gallant voyager himself, we can do no more at present than report their arrival here. Aberdeen Herald. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE IN HEREFORD.—Great excite ment was created in this city on Wednesday morn ing by the report, which subsequent inquiries proved to be too well founded, that a Miss Prince, who resided at Putson, near this city, had com mitted suicide. A considerable degree of mystery attaches to this melancholy event. Miss Prince was an elderly lady, possessed of an ample fortune, whose kindly disposition and unbounded generosity deserv edly won for her the respect and esteem of all who knew her. It appears that on Wednesday evening Miss Prince retired to rest at an early hour, her usual habit being to rise at seven o'clock in the morning. Not hearing her moving at eight the servant knocked at the door, but, receiving no answer, burst it open, when she discovered that the bed not been slept in, and that her mistress was apparently sitting on the floor near the window in her night-clothes, her head resting against the wall. A piece of new rope, skil fully tied in a noose, was found round her neck, the other end being fastened to two of the bars of the window. Assistance was immediately procured, but life had evidently been extinct for some hours. Not the slightest reason can be assigned for this lamentable oc currence. The verdict was, "That the deceased de stroyed herself while in a state of temporary insanity." The maternal uncle of the deceased, from whom she in herited the property, committed suicide by shooting himself many years ago in the same house.—Hereford Times. PARLIAMENTARY ORATORY AND DIGNITY.—We que tion if the whole range of broken metaphors employed by American orators " on the stump" can supply a pe rallel to that with which the hon. member for Cambridge shire electrified the house on Monday night. " Looke" he said, in an awfully solemn tone, " Look at the posi tion of Ireland ; as one risen from the grave she was reeling with weakness, her sere clothes soarcely shaken off. At such a moment, he would ask, ought not the Government to give her strength—to repair her energies? Yet, instead of this, here was the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, instead of administering restoratives, diluting her, bleeding her, purging her." (Great laughter.) In the course of another speech on the same evening, cries of "Divide, divide," were kept up for some time, and in the midst of them an honourable member below the gang way, on the Ministerial side, amused the committee with an imitation of the opening notes of Paul Bedford's "Jolly Nose." Are not these stupid buffooneries some what dangerous in these days ? Weekly News. A WISE EDITORIAL PROPOSAL.—An American paper says it will publish original poetry "on the same terms as advertisements." MAGAZINE DAY. Blackwood.—An admirable article, entity-- Few Words on France," adorns the June mint! of Blackwood. In it the writer comments with some freedom upon the consequences of the , Feb ruary revolution—not always, by any means, with fairness, but evidently throughout from the with of his own conscientious convictions. 17nhaP131 it must be admitted that there is a va st d ° truth in many of his most severe s tricture i° upon the excesses into which the m ob France allowed themselves to be carri ed by de" signing demagogues and political incendiart The Press showed this clearly enough by ferocity and madness of many of its exagg era n lucubrations—upwards of twelve hundred differe ; newspapers having started into existence, in Pa rl alone, between the February of 1848 and the De", cember of 1851, several of them advocating theorie ° l subversive of the whole system of morality, clubs the whole machinery of civilisation. The again illustrated the political fanaticism of the tit in a manner yet more flagrantly obnoxione'fi goading on the more depraved classes to kinds of atrocities, and perpetually threaten: ing the Government of the Hour with rebelliv and even assassination. The Secret Societies,.aPiD,' constituted another of the hideous social gar,ia thumes of the day—draining the strength, 'er hopes, and energies of the country, until the po/ 1 of France trembled at last upon the verge of irre' trievable destruction. For strangling the abol; able licence of journalism, General Cava.ignae t. lauded to the skies by his sincere brother licans. For doing precisely the same, the preset Emperor of the French has been disingenn o r e l reviled and execrated by many of the l*so liberals of our generation. For defying the ell' et and for shooting down the emissaries of the Seer il Societies on the barricades of June, by hund rl- 0 , ui e and by thousands, General Cava.ignac was ce gised—and deservedly—as the saviour of F r3n and the defender of Europe, as the chamP i°° for social order and the guardian of civilisation. doing all this more effectually than any ; predecessors, Napoleon 111. has been "pg horred as a criminal of the darkest dye,to an adventurer stained with the blood of countrymen, and reeking with the guilt of PI cide. Blackwood does justice to the merits ofA extraordinary man now ruling France wit h a n",e and a resolution which have come at length Ow universally recognised. What, in fact, is, 4 0 conclusion, the inevitable conclusion to writer in Maga is driven, after reviewing to! r.,. 0 f history of our neighbours during the last qu ar ' e 'to a century ? Why this—He says : "Eighteenn i°° o l:, have now elapsed since the decisive blow was str li pt i and the first period of no preceding governi, has passed in greater tranquillity." It is the tri However distressing it may be to the pers.„o enemies of Napoleon,—however distasteful it be to the disappointed group of the Orleanistii however unwelcome it may be to the despotic Cr un . of the North, it is, we repeat, the simple anu, ;io ; deniable truth,—" the first period of no precet" Government has passed in greater tranquil lit t e : And, recollect, it is no merely stunned quiet.iety, it is a thriving and prosperous tranclofiure A careful perusal of the paper here I v ferred to will repay the readers of Elj f e o tenfold. A sixth instalment is given of the P . ,,r. e .:0 serial in Blackwood—now becoming fan'io known as " Lady Lee's Widowhood." Ther e , i c er curious contribution, rather remarkable, The tainly entertaining in its character, called , 0 0 Paradise in the Pacific"—the introductory se'cied, of which contribution is significantly t ° ,ol " Where is it I" There are two metrical frani-ds in the present number of Maga—neither of the of any particular merit —one, " The Shadow °pi, Way," and the other an effusion by Bayard VP in , somewhat difficult to be decided whether it 19/0, tended for prose or poetry, which the name, 's o the Gamp would say, is " Kilimandjaro." other articles this month in Blackwood are butions referring to " Syria," to " Finlay's 13 1; s ;' tine Empire," to " Six Months with the 1VD;131,14 to " Minor Morals," and to " Free Trade High Prices"—variety being well provided (tis be seen from this) for the delectation and awed ment of the subscribers to the chief of our in° ° periodicals. Led `" A The Emigrant's Guide to Australia. - Second, tion. By John Capper. Philip a nd Liverpool. Foe A second edition affords us proof of the larity already secured to this admirable 1 ., 4 0, volume—perhaps (among all similar public3tllll the most compact, and yet, at the same tiOne most complete guide-book to Australia. its appearance in its present enlarged form con stitn e k moreover, a significant testimony of its 6 ‘ lence. Upon examination it will be found W c r : s l' prise a surprising store of useful and jut e ., so, ing information. It is extraordinary b ° " , , , ,P much should have been condensed withi%oli pages, however compactly printed, or sentent, l ' il ite expressed, ' or ingeniously arranged. The °l.' , W stance becomes, no doubt, less remarkable .oir earance when it is remembered that the 311 . 00 ,111 as editor of the Emigrant's Journal, had prsigiliod of 40 acquired considerable experience in the ra,o' conducting the labours of similar coinn However, that may be, Mr. Capper has In " Emigrant's Guide to Australia," coral , 0 0 1 ° together a mass of valuable particulars relating ; recently discovered gold fields, to the 5 5 t 2 Ge verjj4 regulations for gold seeking, and to other Jill; directly affecting the personal interests of off duals proceeding in quest of better fortnn e „. oo antipodes. Besides possessing the attrac"ol,, three new maps of the gold fields, the /.00 comprises an alluring account of new dig South Australia. METCALFE COMPANY. ~,04 The annexed memorandum is from the Metcalfe ' pany:— if C. , ° ' " Extract of Captain Lean's Report to the get 42l " -° A s pany, dated the 9th May. fit f 4,9 " Job's-hill.—The winze sinking in the he tt ro °7 6. ° '0 shallow edit, No. 1 lode, still continues to ilnP".; r 1;• lode is 4?p feet wide, half of which is good saving ° ~, iptr have sunk 2 fathom 2 feet. atl'" 0 " I expected we should have cut the lode in the it O J, neath before this, but the cross course has threntoin3i4 of its regular bearing and greatly disordered t i be aft i s We have six English miners working three spolis„, low night, at this work, in order that no time nial "- ~14 accomplishing the desired object. ii toil' .4 " The drift on No. 3 lode looks well, especia4 i o'l, 0 '; the bottom. This warrants success at a deeW hle s tli` 0 we intend to be at immediately. We have drivel ioo ro s e e 3 feet in ore ground by means of three Englisli 11 0 til three natives day and night, and have raised s o e 0 1 " fl tons of copper ore. ha s • •iiig . "At Job's-hill east a considerable chang e 1 . art' al• place. The ground has become hard and spare fe,. 0 3 0 We have not intersected the lode yet, but the' _mit.' cations now and then. the ° P r e lli' " At Pembroke we have found the lode on, f i c lep t .„o side of the stream since my last. It is 30 fee' ' to ol '' re posed of gossan, blue and red sandstone, carte s T roc, ' with abundance of small crystals of pYri te9 ) . it f l ' r e fol 4 mises something in depth. I have abandon e. , ery , b time. It requires an engine, and other inseb l° i t i anything here can be proved. p.11"4 • D g s in .ou4 le "We have commenced laying out and lila 3 is b.: gt , ' t ing operations to wash and clean our ore 3 ':llorie s I:3 ' ° - out of the drift, and cutting and making 1, 40 3 I°' ,I the hill. A sufficient stream flows frein . rris' this purpose. s J' re 1)/1 O P / ~ The miners who had been employed b e l odes iate ce 0, were inexperienced, and driving out of the 11 -', „t on i tsi stones lost their way and came to a stand. c dg 1 9 , 1 lii: their error, and began as soon as possible tel'cessfoose s b t a e c a k d , w un hi w ch ef l agmeinhgapunpydtherglyeuhnads part ( s ii i e ' g 1 11 stone, we can raise large rocks of rich L :if.' CIS ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURA hel d 1,. t ot The first open-air show of this society vi a a_ S d thOtigf e j ° day, and the Surrey Zoological Gardenspetin, ottraT,tin: day was somewhat cold and unpropitt _osevosecltor, large number of visitors. The show was c os plan to lie cipally of Cape heaths, azaleas, orchedeoansieg,. let): other exotics. pelargoniums, verbenas:. T h w ere i n c r ife: and early fruit and vegetables, all of will.t t i oo , ..:i i .gg fine condition, and elicited universal adn e llil ion t, P oo tP were awarded to Messrs. Edwards, J rcli • ede °ll lle" Treacher, &c., for tulips ; Mr. Jarvis, oe heaths ; ~,e : Mr. Roser and Messrs. Fairbain, Cal? . .__ . Govesp at o l io I:.pner ore. ./ Ivery and Son, Mr. Robinson, and -W_ . ilanilli i .r, i. goniums ; Mr. Steward, verbenas L.De:I:Ts. pte J t berries ; Mr. Young, grapes ; and DI s ~i --$::4 gust, and Todman, vegetables. I N STrrl ol° ' of hp annual at 0 cuff l i NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT eral 17e f T g : ote , „ „ ge ll An d e rton B io g eet v ev a e lua nin b g le , t i h n e sti f t o u u ti r o te n en w th as Fleet-street ; Launcelot Wild, E5 ( 4 01 , 0 ,, Ter;• 7 o o;t chair, and was supported by Messrs . --,' ot her iiif. o ,lll°,l, Wright, Smith, Miller, Spill an n u k ., v i D g 117% Cf' f , members of the trade. The chairrnvaerr D e , able s. 1 c to ti t i,e the business of the meeting in ters of the try , ereio ivy log upon the prosperous mein the secretary / po et Is 1 port their brethren in distress, tulating t abets f ofi er w at e lAer o ,o report, which commenced by on the gradual progress of th to dear' nted to addition to the pensions allowed a , woo gr% pf . 1 , the trade, temporary assistance i, person not a member, from the fun base 501. fti 0 0/ c% b ds of the scwi or j e st°c pt' committee had been enabled to rirc - case d the P e t lio l ,ll in the public funds, which had incr _. e rep o aoco, e 4 51 Th capital of the society to 1,42- • all o pear one' 0 ! ceonsogcrAietys stated that the committee, from . e of a ltn, lo ,o o , o t been emboldened to suggest the erectio... The or 116.1, concluded by appealing for further n 3 . 1 000 4 I to ii r , statement showed that the receipts fel e _ ditu re to t 0 amounted to 1121. 4s. Bd., and the op:: Bd. ( Ine_ rt of! t , 15s. 4d. ; thus leaving a sum of 4/. lus the er, t P i TerrY, o il ' treasurer. On the motion of gr. then °° erS 'Ol e unanimously adopted. Thanks vve7 o ther of fie ti , 3d committee, trustees, Treasurer, an.. l ter fai o f , 0 gfrn o til proceedings. the usual compliment to the chairman Mo*TTOLTS_,V or 4.) o f DEATH OF THE HON. THOATAR ' in isle, oil —This gentleman expired a Benfr,.' ge Tr Wales, on the 27th of December Pot _ ovt ~, OA ' l ' the eighth Baron Elibank, and vta 1' F• t' t 2f