The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-27 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. —such as would establish a trade in corn, which was what he wished to see : and be remembered hearing two gentle men, during the first agitation of the question, discussing what should be the duty ; and one of them asked the other—" With a-bat view do you propose it?" and the candid reply was, " Certainly with a view to the exclusion of corn." Hear.) Now, if your object is to keep out corn, place a high duty upon it; but my object is not to keep it out, but to place a moderate, fixed duty on it, so that this country might benefit by the change of seasons and climates which Providence has dis posed over the face of the globe, and thereby secure a steady, fair, and moderate prime for food to the people of this country.—( Hear.) I will not say that that might not be, to a certain extent, effected by an alteration of the pre sent scale, by such a change as would not make the fluctu ations ib extremely rapid and with such sudden leaps from one rate of duty to another—by a rate of duty which would give the merchant some security that when he imported foreign corn the duty would not be materially altered. But my opinion is, that aiLiough some benefit might be derived trot such a step, by far the wisest course will be to have a fixed duty on foreign corn in the same manner as was proposed by Mr. Haski .eoo will regard to articles of merchandize. Sir, I don't think there is that very great difference between corn and ether articles. No doubt, when there is a defleient harvest, or an extraordinary abundance, there is a difference between corn and other articles of merchandise; but as regards average years, I skink it should be subjected to the same laws as other articles, 1 d I should propose that a certain fixed duty be imposed, payable by the merchant, so that he may know what he has to deal with, and in what way that com modity might be imported. Sir, in what I have stated, I have not placed any stress upon the arguments which have been introduced from time to time, to show that our manu factures are in a failing condition, and, in fact, that we are about to see the end of that great manufacturing prosperity which has endured for so many years. I don't think a case has been at all made out to the extent which those would assert who advocate a total repeal of, those laws. At the same time, I cannot say that that is tin argu ment against no alteration being made. If these laws have produced inconvenience to our manufac turers and artizans, as compared with other nations, I do not sec why that should be an argument in favour of re moving these disadvontages—altheugh some pereons would go the length of saying that they have that confidence in the capital, and skill, and industry cf our manufacturers, as to suppose that they would still be able to compete with foreign nations. On the contrary, I think we are bound to take advantage of every circumstance to place our ma nufacturers and artizans on the best footing we possibly can ; and I do not think the present system calculated to ffeet that object. Linder these circumstances, I shall willingly vote for going into Committee on this subject, with a view, if the House does consent to go into Com mittee, of making some alteration in these laws.—( Cheers, and loud miss r ,f " Me- PRIME said, on proposing the same amendment he had moved last year, he did not think it necessary to repeat the s eine speech, or indeed any speech in support of it.—(Flea,., hear, and a laugh.) He would merely do - able the House with bn explanation of an argument of his, which heel been misunderstood on the former occa sion. He Lad ant based his argument of a protecting duty on the ' ()Telma of the taxes that pressed upon the land, tit on the ground of the taxes that pressed upon the pro duct'oe of corn. He had confined his view so tithes and parochial taxes, but he had not enumerated the land -tax, because it did not bear upon his argument:, which was, that the taxes en the production of corn increased with increased productiveness, and diminished with diminished productiv enes s—( Hear, hear, hear.) The Honourable Member concluded by moving, as an amendment, to add to the end of Mr. Villiers' motion— ` well a view to the reduction of the average prices speci fied in the table to that Act annexed, according to which the respective duties are imposed." Mr. MI3NT Z said it was his misfortune to rise save hal times in the course of that long night, without catching tie eye of the Speaker--( flear, and a laugh)—but he was still unwilling to give a silent vote on a subject which involved the interest of thousands of the richer Poriaor, of his countrymen, and millions of the poorer. He had arrived in the course of the debate at different conclu sions from many of those gentlemen, with whom he gene rally agreed. He did not think that the repeal of the Corn-laws would benefit the working classes st.s. much as I e hal heard stated.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) His opinion wss, that if the Corn-laws were repealed, the re.. e of wages, and the profits of capital, must conic to the Coetincatal level._( Cheers from the Opposition.) A great reduction of wages must, in his opinion, be the consequence of the free importation of foreign corn._ ( Cheers.) He thought that the home consumers were the support of two-thirds of the trade of the country.— (Loud cheers from the Tories.) If the Corn-laws were repealed, a great portion of the land would be thrown cut of cultivation, and it struck him as rather extraordinary that the landed interest should not be as well entitled to protection is any other interest —( Hear, hear, hear, from the Opposition.) He asked, why had not the owners of land as much right to protection as the fundholders ? (Heree) If we were to have free ttadc in corn, why not have free trade in all other productions ?—(Cheers. ) Above all, why nit have free trade in gold and silver ? He was quite willing to agree with the Hon. Member for Wolverhampt on , that trade and manufactures were never in I a worse condition than at present. The repeal of the Corn laws might relieve them in the course of time, but it could only be by causing a vast deal of suff ring to others in the nacanwhile.—( Hear, Igkr.) He believed that all the evils complejLed of origin ied in misgovernment. But he did not attrib7de any wickedness to that Howse_—( Hear, and laughter)—on the contrary, he believed that the majo rity of that House was composed of men as well inten tioned as any others in the world. At the same time, he thought they were lamentably ignorant.—( Laughter.) Hr had intended to go at greater length into that portion of the subject which was connected with the price of bullion, . and with the currency, but he would not detain the Houseat that hour.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") Although he took a different view of the question from that taken by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, he would vote for the House going into Committee.—(Great laughter ) He would tell them why.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The landed interest had the power within their own hands to do justice to others, and they did injustice to themselves if they refused to make use of that power. He had only cae choice—to vote for the indirect good, because the people could not get the direct good.—( Laughter. ) Mr. VI L LIE RS replied. He had been about to con gratulate the opposite party on the accession of one friend during the debate, and the only person who had spoken against the motion.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) He had been utterly unable to understand what the Hon. Gentleman meant. Pie remembered his predecessor in that House, and he did not think the Hon. Gentleman was an un woriby siermiseor—( Hear, hear, and laughter)—but he hoped Hon. Gentlemen opposite who had cheered 11:m were also prepared to cheer all the sentiments he had uttered, for he had other remedies in store—which, per haps, would net be very palatable to them. It was not the repeal of the Corn-laws, but the alteration of the standard, and robbing the eouatry of its creditor, that seemed be floating in the Hon. Gentleman's mind._ (Laughter, aid cries of " Divide, divide.") He (Mr. Villiers) would not prevent the decision which the House stained anxious to come to. He had nothing to reply to— (Lauithter)—but he had an observation to make, which was that Honourable Members in that House had refused to allow the question to be discussed. _(oh, oh, and a cry of " You have had it all your own way.") He knew not what Hon. Gentlemen meant by sensing it hail been discussed, unless it had been making such a noise that no one could be heard.—( Laughter. ) Three Members had attempted to address the HOEse and had been obliged to sit down irithout expressing their send ments.—( Ccntinued laughter.) No less than six Members on his side of the House had meditated speaking het had abandoned the idea.—( Renewed laughter.) The point the House had arrived at seas to refuse to discuss the—i Oh, oh.) No reply frid been offered to any argument ativasced n support of his motion. It was attemptsd to get rid of a division upon it on a former occasion (Lauehter)— and Hon. Members seemed determined there should be no discussion of it upon that. —( Laughter. ) The cocduct of Members in the House only corresponded with proceedings that had taken place out of it. Lately, when a person ventured into an agricultural district to ex press his opinion on this subject, he was assailed by the dependents of the neighbouring landlords.—( Question, eiuestion.) A resort to physical force was made in order to prevent Ha expressing his opinions, and the same course was pursued in that House. No one was allowed to ex press his opinion.—(Oh, ell ) He knew that it might be said there had been three days' debate—suppose there were to be three or fcur days' more. What were the subjects that ought to engage their attention, if that was not to be discussed ?—( Hear.) How was the time of the House occupied ? They had been sitting five months, and what had been done ?—( Laud opposition cheers.) Nothing. Party contention had wasted their time. (Hear, hear.) Everything proposed was obstructed, and then because a subject was proposed that really tercetine to the peopl e , ai d w hi ch did affect their wa wascondi tionle- generally, the most extraor di nary impatience yeas to ;:recent Hon. Memb ers statir, d opinions They would on the subject.—(Divide, Di v id e .) e'' change the opinion of the people by d ea li ng with the not question in that way. The Hon. Memb er f or Li ncoln shire had complained of an altered tone in his address. Who had provoked that ? He had been willing t o dis cuss the question calmly, but one Honourable Member had treated with ridicule any such attempt, and had meted his address a dull treatise.—( Laughter.) They had set the example of discussing the question out of temper, an d that was the way in which, according to their decision, it must be discussed in future. They had had no arguments to advance—(Laughter)—they stood upon their right_ they had a large mejority against the people—( Hear, hear) —but they were wolullv mistaken if they supposed the people were not watching their proceedings. They had refused the Ballot, because thee said the electors were trustees for the community. He hoped the community would now consider what sort of trustees they had. He 1 0 .rnitted there was an end to the discussion that night. _r , he peo,d e had now to consider, co o lly, calmly, and de lenrately, what power was to them—what power they potsess e d, and how they cou ld exerc i se i t . Th e H o use refused to discuss any question 'n consider w h om their trust . had been a • use. e the people had now to No argument had sent to that Ho d ' v t an b eed but the one which had been formerly urge d , viz.—he hist.e being an edvecate for the total repe a l o f the taxes e wi t h him h* did not advecateater shat f the same one could vote with opinions, op o s H %e e , begged again to ref er distinctly t Hon. Member for Lincol n —h e stated thata all ell w fr h o o m vot t e h d e against his motion expressed hi s unqualified approbation of the present laws. That was the real vote of the night, and so it would be looked 'upon in th e country. His principle was that there ought to be no tax upon the food of the people, and he invited the House to go into Committee, to see what alteration in the present laws could he m ade. All he wanted was, that they should go into Committee, and admit that the present law did not work well—that it ought in some way to he amended—and show the people that they were not prepared to refuse inquiry in the face of a million and a half et sup_ plicants into the grievances they allege they are suffering wader. Strangers wPre then ordered to withdraw. The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it Majority -123 On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, a return was ordered in columns, of the number of actions which have been com menced, and the number which have been decided, in the Court of Session, on matters or points of form, in each year respec tively, from the 1 lth day of November, 1824. to the 20th day of March, 1840 ; the return to show whether the doubtful points arose out of Acts of Parliament, or Acts of Sederunt of the Court respectively; also, whether they wore decided to the Courts of the Lords Ordinary, orby appeal to the inner Houses, and. showing, also, any which were appealed from these to the House of Lords ; also, the probable average cost to the private parties in each action, and the total number of the aforesaid actions in the period specified. Also a return showing, in columns, the daily hours of sitting of each division of the Court of Session, and each Lord Ordinary in the Outer House thereof, between the 20th day of May and the commencement of the lone vacation in July next ; also , the ° average number of hours each Court has sat daily, and the total number of days and hours which each of the aforesaid Courts has sat in the said Session. Also a return, in columns, showing the date and the names of the parties in each cause, the hearing of which had been delayed, postponed, or stopped in either divi sion of the Court of Session, or before any Lord Ordinary in that Court, in order to accommodate counsel ; stating which di vision, aed which Lord Ordinary had permitted this ; and the name or names of the counsel who had been so favoured by the Court in the course of the Session commencing on the 20th day of May, and ending with the long vacation in July. Aiso a return, in columns, showing the number of causes which have been decided by each division of the Inner House, and by each Lord Ordinary in the Outer House of the Court of Session, between the 20th day of May and the long vacation in July ; and also the number of causes which are left over in each of the above Courts, at the commencement of the long vacation. IRISH REGISTRATION. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland, in rising to move for leave to brine in a Bill to amend the Irish Registra tion, wished, he said, first to call the attention of the House to the state , f that registration as it had existed for some years. The House were aware there had long existed in Ire land a system of registration of the elective franchise. He be lieved the first appearance of that mode of recording the franchise was to be found so long back as 1727. From time to time various provisions were made by the Irish Parliament and the Imperial Legislature for regulating the franchise, and for recording it at Quarter Sessions, but various provisions were made from time with a view partly of defining what the franchise was, and Partly prescribing the means by which it might be tested. revious to 1829, and the passing of the Act of Emancipation, 1 and the corresponding statute which raised the elective fran chise from 40s. to 101., the course adopted was that the free holder should appear at the Sessions, where he made an affi , davit that he was entitled to vote as a freeholder, 1 which affidavit became a record at the Sessions. Corresponding with that was adopted the course of granting cer tificates, that the voter specified be registered in the manner de ser.bed. That certificate was not in itself an original document ; it referred to the affidavit of which in truth it was a recital. It would appear the certificate was originally designed partly for the purpose of protecting the voter from any fraud of the Clerk of the Peace or his omission to enter, and partly for testing the identity of the voter. This plan was continued substantially up to the present time, hut for some reason in 1820 the mode of regis tration was materially changed from the manner describedto the course still continued, and which in the Bill recently introduced by the Noble Lord was intended to be re-enacted, instead of the vo'er swearing an affidavit and becoming thereby registered as a recorded voter. By the Act of 1829 he was obliged to come forward in person before the Assistant-Barrister and to produce evidence of his title, and to prove that he was strictly possessed of the qualification which the law required. He was subjected to the strict scrutiny of whoever chose to come for ward, and it was remarkabl e that not only sere persons entitled to do so by the statute, but that it im posed on the Judges the distinct cbligation of in quiring into every part of the qualification, and becoming, as it were, a cross-examini ng advocate against the voter. The certificate was a copy or duplicate of that which was entered in the register, the affidavit which was signed by the 53arrister or Clerk of the Peace, and on its production the voter was entitled to vote, or, if it were lost, to refer to the original affidavit. The use of this document in time might have led to personification of voters and to other frauds, and the object was to apply a remedy to this evil. One object of the Bill he was about to introduce was to do away with the certificate for the purpose of voting ; but he proposed to retain it as evidence of registration, in case of misconduct of the Clerk of the Peace. He proposed to adopt a course by which no man was or could be deprived of his franchise. This might be done in two ways. First, by at once disfranchising all the electors, in order to creme a new body; but that was not his plan, and at thet late hour he could not enter into any discussion of it. He prop csed one revising session should take place at a specified period of the present year, for the purpose of removing from the registry all fictitious names, that means should be adopted of ascertaining deaths, and power given to the Assistant-Barrister, and means adopted by which the multiplication of names might be pre vented, and, in short, that other means which it would be un necessary for him to describe in detail, should be employed to remove the inconveniences and frauds which were now com plained of ; that was the simple remedy he suggested. He did not suggest a new tribunal constituted by the House. As the Assistant-Barristers were selected in 1829, and were retained in 1832, now he proposed they should be retained in the act of 1840. That 'there were inconveniences connected with the employ ment of functionaries employed in the administration of the law, he could not deny ; but parties on all sides having agreed on the capacity and capability of those functionaries, he would not now detain the House longer. He did not p-opose to take away from the people of Ireland the facilities they now possessed, of registering themselves. When habits had grown up among a people for years of resorting to certain pieces for the administration of justice, good cause should be shown to interfere with those habits. The Bill introduced by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies was not adapted to the machinery for registration in Ireland, but be proposed to adopt the same mode of inquiry, and he proposed that from time to time inquiries should be made in the Court of the Assistant-Barrister as to what causes may have happened subsequent to the registry, to deprive a parson of his vote. This would take place every year. But he did not propose to give, any appeal, as to matter of fact, from the decision of the Assistant Barrister.—( Hear, hear.) The principle of the Bill was, no re-investigation as to matter of fact of matter of law, which may have happened subsequent to registration. No appeal against the decision of the Barristers in matter of facts appeal, or matter of law from the decision of the Assistant Barrister. He did not, however, propose to in- terfere with the security given to the franchise in 1829. The principle of getting on the registration he proposed to assimilate to the method now existing in England. This was the outline of the plan he intended to propose; he would not detain the House longer at that late hour by going at greater length into the discussion. Sir R. PEEL said the Hon. Gentleman proposed that this year there should be a special tribunal for striking off persons not entitled to vote. 'NV hat suggestion did he intend to offer as to the future striking off names from the registry. Mr. .7IGOT said that he proposed to have an investigation of the vote of every person who had been on the register one year at the expiration of that period. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON wished to know whether no in vestigation was to take place of the rights of those who had re • registered. PIGOT said that the registries had been contested with as much talent, acuteness, and political pertinacity as the first registration. It was not their intention to interfere with that part of the law, bat they did not propose to subject the claimant to a quarterly investigation, and all the inconveniences which would attend it. Sir J. GRAHAM wished to know whether the Hon. and Learned Gent. would be prepared, within the next few days, to introduce the Bill anointing the appellate tribunal to which he had alluded. Mr. PIGOT said he should be ready to introduce that Bill in a few days. Mr. SHAW then understood that the present Bill did not interfere, with the question of appeal. Lord MORPETH said that that was mentioned in the Bill itself. Sir Ti. PEEL wished to know if the appeal against the re•. jection would be included in the other Bill. Mt.. PICOT said that that appeal, as a matter of law, would certainly be included in the other Bill. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Two o'Clock. CONFINEMENT OF MR. F. O'CONNOR.— This is not a party question, it is a question of justice. It re fers not on'y to O'Connor, but to all those who are imprisoned for seditious libels. We boast of our humanity, liberality. and freedom. Let us see if this be an age of justice, or of tyranny —of law, or of vengeance. Let us find some means to deter mine what the judges meant more than safe custody by their sentence, and what power rests with the magistrates ? For the honour of our country, I would most respectfully suggest to the high-sheriff, the lords-lieutenant, and the magistrates of Yorkshire, that they should immediately ascertain what pew'r they have, to mitigate the severity of Mr. O'Connor's punishment, as well as that of others imprisoned in Yorkshire for the same offence; I feel Lure, that if they hare the power they will instantly use it—and if they require an authority from the judges, I cannot believe that it will be one moment with held.—Letterlrom 31r. Oastler to the editor of the Standard. CHURCH EXTENSION---ENGLAND.—The Ex tension agitation began in England more than a year ego; and it is only within the last few weeks that the Dissenters nave commenced a counter-movement. Up to the 7th of April the Church had presented 1,249 petitions. and the Dissenters only 81. The last returns, however, which come down to the 13th of May, show the following very different result:— Petitions. Signatures. For Church Extension Against Church Extension Average number of signatures to the peti tions for Extension . Average number to the petitions against Extension The Church began its operations this year some time before Parliament assembled; and after the strenuous effotts of its leaders for six months, only 156,000 .ignatures have been pro cured from the seven millions of worshippers of whom the Church boasts. Could there be a more signal proof of failure? In the fourth pert of the time the Dissenters have procured 116,000. We say assentors, because they compose the ma jority of the petitioners against Extension ; but many Church men have join e d th em , as t h e li s t of p titions show. We said formerly, and we repeat it, that if the clergy and laity had really felt a want of additional churches, and haSengaged e the cause with the most ordinary zeal, 1,500,000 signatures could have been obtained, instead of 150,000. The truth is, that while two-thirds of the English clergy . are preaching to mpty pews, or mere handsful of people, petitions for Church Extension, from parishes so situated, would have had so much the appear ance of a bad joke, that neither parson, clerk, nor churchwar den, could muster courage t e o set about it. Even had the Dis senters not sent up a sin efforts have we would have been entitled to assert—after six months' gl have produced only such a beggarly display of signature :hut England has pronounced against the plan of Church Extension —Scotsman. 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.— Deerzerse AND Derry-rive Vi greater p roo f o f the value o' the Messrs. S. and B. rn Invisible Opera tive Voice Corelnetor, and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, m a c annot be adduced, than the circumsta nce of h s ands of individuals who have obtained the greateeet beanneyfitth and instant relief, and the constant immense demand there is for them, and the patronage they have, and daily continue to re ceive. The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons disclaim all connec tion with persons of the same name, and the sale of amber pe e taeles ; the pernicious use of amber s e eetaeles being now well known to the public, and the vendor being aware er ir, he has therefore altered their nam e, b y leavin g out the word " Am ber," and calling them " Patent S p ectacles." Dr. A n d rew liTre, Esq. , M. D., F. R. S. , &c., states amber is most Power fully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an extent as to ex plode into fragments. The workmen, too, are subject to a ner vous tremor in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they encounter great danger by handling such dreadfully exci ted eleetries. Am ber ie of suc h a so f t and sticky nature, that it is apt to take fire ; and when exposed to warmth, it swells, bubbles up. and will burn away with flame. This statement is further confirmed by Sir D. Brewster and Pliny, as also by Parks and Herns on Chemistry. The p ern i c i ous an d destructive use of such a ma terial for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascertained at any respectable optician's in London. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1840. NEW WORK EDITED BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Just ready, in 2 vols., Svo., with numerous iiiusirtvions. A . SUMMER IN BRITTANY. By T. A. TROLLOPE, Esq. EDITED BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Henry Colborne, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 4 ,, Orders received by all Booksellers. His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA IANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY 3 REINIIUM, which (thcmgh they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving anv order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISThIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND. ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FOUR HUN DRED, TWO HUNDRED, ONi.: HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c., amounting to £72,170 Sterling.. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, MAY 27, Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Ann Page. Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled rnd founded en that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Ifainforth, Mrs. C. .'ones, &c. &c. Dress Bores, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, Cs. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat 93 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had ,•-'ely of Mr. Andrews bookseller :67, New Bond-street. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Sixth Week of Haine's New Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Woman," and still increasing desire of the Public to witness its representation, and Second Week of " Everybody's Re lation," which exeites roars of laughter from delighted au diences. THIS EVENING, MAY 27, Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN ; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress." After • hich will be revived the Domestic Drama entitled VIC:ORINE, THE MAID OF PARIS. To conclude with a New Comie Drama, called EVERYBODY"S RELATION. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. On WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, GRAND FASHIONABLE MORNING PERI ORM ANCE. Doars open at One ; commence at Two. SEVENTEENTH WEEK OF THE GREAT WONDER WORKER. London rings with his Lone—the Provinces 7e-echo it. Who is the principal topic of conversation at every Coterie in the Metropolis? The Wizard of the North.—Have you seen him? No.—Th!sn go.--Sixteen weeks of uninterrupted success have not palled the public appetite : the Temple of Magic is still thri nged with miracle-beho din.- auditors, who proclaim him to be the only Wizard extant, and all other assumptions of the Nr eromantic character vain and futile impositions. Do nut allow Impostors, who build upon another's foundation, to deceive you ; go to the fountain-head at once. REMEMBER the GREAT and ONLY WIZARD, HE of the NORTH, will, On MONDAY, and EVn.RY EVENEN 7 'G during the Week, Display his wondrous powers of Divination, Delusion, and Digital Dexterity ; the whole of which is performed with a most brilliant, gorgeous apparatus of SOLID SILVER. Mr. CHARLES SLOMAN, the oily ENGLISH IM PROVISATORE in the World, who can embody the lan guage of our native land in Extemporaneous Verses on any subject proposed by the audience, provided it b e ne i t h er Politi cal, Personal, nor - Theological, will cleliver an Improvisazione, concluding with a Myriorama. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ERUPTION OF HECLA! HURSDAY NEXT. The earnest and unceasing endeavours;;l;ich have been made during the winter, to increase still further the magnificence of this unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with the most complete success, fully demonstrated on each Evening of its Exhibition, by the unanimous and enthusiastic delight with which each portion of the gorgeous display was hailed as it pro ceeded by the thousands assembled on those occasions. In corn eliacce with the expressed wishes of great numbers of the visi tors, it will be repeated OR Thursday, May 28th, commencing shortly before dusk. The Panoramic Model, Al Fresco, of Mount Hecht, entirely reproduced by Mr. Danson. the original Artist, is exhibiting daily from ten till dusk, with the Menagerie, which is now in the finest order, and has lately received many importint addi tions.—Feeding Hour, Five o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received several letters from the country, describing the festivities with which the Queen's birthday was celebrated, but we cannot find room for any of them. HIGH WATEit AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.IIIOIIROW 31criiiii , l3 minutes after 11 1 Evening 47:minutes atter 11 Tne Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN corn. meneed at 10 minutes after Three. es , ,'"::;:•1 , , zbie LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1840. Lord BROUGHAM was present last night in the House of Lords, and presented several petitions ; one against the China war, from Edinhur 4 b, which the Noble Lord said he and the petitioners hoped was not to be carried on to recover compensation for the opium seized. Lord ELLENBOROUCH gave notice of his intention to move for a Committee to inquire into the subject of printed papers. . . The Archbishop of DUBLIN presented a petition from certain clergymen and laymen, praying for an alteration in the Articles and Liturgy of the Church of England. The Most Rev. Prelate supported the prayer of the pe tiLion, as did the Bishops of NORWICH and LINCOLLI. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said the clergy did not require an alteration. The Bisho pof LONDON ra cher attacked his Reverend Brother of Nonwicit and the petitioners. IN hen his Lordship had done his speech, and a few petitions had been presented, the House ad journed. A great number of Peers were present, partly, probably, to hear the prelatical combatants, partly in expectation, we believe, that Lord LYNDIIURST was to talk about sulphur, but his Lordship, from an unex plained reason, forbore to gratify his brother Peers. In the Commons a great number of petitions were presented for the abolition of the Corn-laws, including the petition from the City of London. We must mention amongst the petitions one from the West Riding of Yorkshire, complaining of the incarcera tion of Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR in the felons' cells of York Castle. On this petition Mr. WAKLEY wished to make some observations, Li it presented a case of grievance, and to ask some questions, but was not allowed at the time ; he afterwards gave up his in tention at the request of Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who stated that he had received a communication from Mr. O'CONNOR, that be was in communication with the Under-Secretary of State, and that be proposed taking further steps on the subject. On the motion of Mr. AGLIONBY a copy of the York gaol regulations was ordered to be laid on the table of the House. Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion to open the Museum and National Gallery on Sundays, between one and four o'clock ; Mr. KELLY, of a motion to ad mit all freemen having the P aliamentary to the Muni cipal Franchise ; and Mr. Ewmer, of a motion to re duce the duties en sugar and coffee. Sir CHARLES ADAM corrected a former statement of hi s , by informing the House that the Admiralty had received, during his absence at Easter, dispatches rela tive to the North-West Passage. Mr. GOCLBURN, on the part of Sir GEORGE CLERK, postponed his observations on Mr. HoesmaN's accep tance of office, till be saw whether that gentleman wou'd be in the House to answer them himself. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained that he had been misunderstood, and, in some places, misreported, as having stated that no negotiations were going on with America on the subject of rough lice. On the contrary, he stated that negotiations were on foot. Mr. VILLIERS again brought forward his motion for the House to go into a Committee on the Corn-laws, which he introduced by a most able speech. In parti cular, he lashed, with great vigour and great success, the double-faced and infirm policy of Sir K. PEEL, who makes a speech in support of the Corn-laws, which would not prevent him to-morrow, if he were Minister, from bringing in a Bill to alter them. Mr. VILLIEas spoke with more animation than on former occasions, and did not confine himself to the mere economical effects of the Corn-laws. He pointed out the political effects which would by :he consequence of having a population thoroughly discontented and wholly alienated from the Government and Legislature. He warned the House of Commons that it would be unable to maintain the present laws if it were to try, by trying would endanger the safety of the State. the Hon. Gentleman's speech will have no inconsider able eff ect on t h e country ; the latter part o f i t wa s heard, however, by only a very few country gentlemen, who sot listlessly and yawning for their dinner on the Opposition benches, and that class will be astonished that a speech, which they heard with such sleepy indiffer ezce, has kindled general enthusiasm. Mr STRUTT seconded the motion, and proved 'o de: monstr tticn that the slidirg wale of kept earn when the price was rising, and overwhelmed the market with it when the price had risen. He showed that the sliding scale gave a large bounty to the im porting merchants, by whose a genc y t h e pr i ce i s to be kept steady, to make the price vary. Sir CHARLES BURRELL was the foremost champion of the landowners, and by putting him forward we be gin to believe that they are ashamed of their cause. Mr. EASTHOPE followed, who spoke out boldly, con sistently with the wants and wishes of the people of Leicester. Mr. HEATHCOTE and Mr. PACEE resisted the motion. Sir HENRY PARNELL supported it, and his authority is great. Mr. BAILEY said the abolition of the Corn-laws would injure the agriculturists, and could not benefit the manu facturers ; while Mr. JAMES, still claiming protection for the agriculturists, would vote for going into Com mittee. Lord SANDON defended the destitution, misery, and death inflicted on the people,—the cutting down of the population so emphatically de scribed by Mr. FARING, when he was Mr. .BARING, because in other countries, suffering under a similar or worse system of vicious and plundering legislation, the people arc also the victims a disease. The Noble Member for Liverpool was ready to consider a distinct plan, but he declined to go into a Committee. Mr. WARBURTON zealously and honestly supported, Mr. HANDLEY opposed, and Mr. M. PHILLIPS spoke in its fat our. The House now began to grow very jai. patient, and called for a division. Lord JOHN RUSSELL spoke towards midnight, and declared that he should vote for the motion, but not with a view to abolish the Corn-laws. Though he did not altogether agree with Lord MELaouttNE, he thought sonic protection was due to agriculture, and he shoul.i go into the Committee with a view of establishing a mo derate fixed duty. Mr. PRYME again moved his amendment ; the House growing more impatient, the Hon. Member made a sh,at speech.__ _ _ Mr. Alvan z, the representative for Birmingham, for the first, and, we presume, the last time, spoke against the motion, and described the abolition of the Corn-!aws ns causing a fall in wages. The Hon. Member looks to other remedies for the sufferings of the people than the abolition of the Corn-laws, which would be I,•ss palatable to the country gentlemen who cheered him, and allowed him to speak, than the abolition itself. Mr. VILLIERS replied, and complained that thy House had stifled the discussion ; that several gentle men had risen on his side to speak in support of his motion, whom the House would not hear. But though the country gentlemen stifled discussion in the House, they will only extend it out of doors, and provoke dis cussion into their right to sit in that House to tax others for their advantage. The Hon. Member also justiy satirized Mr. MUNTIS speech. On re suming his scat, the House divided—Ayes, 177 ; Noes 300 ; Majority 123. We are not disappointed by the division, and agree with Mr. STRUTT, that sooner or later the question must be carried in spite of the House. Subsequently to the division, the SOLICITOR- GENE RAL explained the provisions of his Registration ail for Ireland, and obtained leava to bring it in. The House adjourned at Two o'Clock. Mr. F. O'CCNNOR has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in York Castle for a seditious libel. Under the present kw that is an offence of which almost every editor of a News paper in the kingdom is guilty, whenever it pleases the ATTORNEY-GENERAL to ask a Court of Law to say so. The same punishment, therefore, as Mr. O'CONNOR is subjected to in York Castle, may be inflicted on the majority of the editors of Newspapers. We have published his own account of the treatment he suffers, and we confidently ap peal to every man in the kingdom whether such a species of punishment is at' all suitable to his offence, or was meant to be inflicted by the Legis lature. We believe that it is equally abhorrent to the feelings of Englishmen, and to the intentions of the lawmakers, arid we know it to be a complete novelty in the administration of our law. The first persons guilty of a seditious libel who were compelled to herd with the felonry of a gaol, and were treated like felons, were Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS. When Mr. WAR BURTON brought their case before the House on April 13th, the several instances of Mr. CoBBETT, the Messrs. LEIGH . and JOHN HUNT, of Sir F. BURDETT, of Mr. WINTERBOTHANI, &e., were all quoted to show that persons previously sentenced to imprisonment for seditious libels were allowed to feed themselves ; they had respectable apartments allotted to them in the gaol, saw their friends when they pleased, and lived as comfortably as it was pos sibly for men to live deprived of their liberty. Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS, however, on being guilty of the same offence, were stripped on enter ing the prison, had their hair cut off, and were in all respects, till their friends interfered, treated like felons. Somewhere about 1833, we believe, an Act was passed empowering the Magistrates to make regu lations for the different prisons, and amongst those reaulations made for Warwick gaol, and made, as it appears, for York gaol, there is some such regula tion as this, that every person imprisoned for misde meanour shall be treated in the same manner. The Magistrates, therefore, when a person is sentenced to imprisonment on account of a seditious libel, which is classed as a misdemeanour, subject him to their common gaol regulations, and to prevent fa vouritism it has also been settled, we believe, that there shall be no exemptions from the common treatment, but on account of illness. So Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS were subjected to the re gulations of Warwick gaol, so Mr. F. O'Co NNo a is subjected to the regulations of York gaol, and so every person convicted of a sedi.ious libel may be subjected to the same, or similar treatment, accord ing to the gaol regulations, in any gaol of the kingdom. We have heard it said that certain persons, who are no great admirers of the Press, gladly availed themselves of the case of LOVETT and COLLINS, who were poor and very unpopular with the middle and influential classes, to show how heavily they can punish the editors of Journals, whether provincial or metropolitan. Mr. O'CONNOR, a gentleman who is also extremely unpopular with the middle classes, is another excel lent subject, it is supposed, on whom to try the experiment. He is the editor and proprietor of a Journal. From him the punishment may be extended to other editors and proprietors, and they will have no right to complain of similar treatment, if they see with silence or indifference the indigni ties to which Mr. O'CoNNoR is now subjected. Perhaps, when the editors and proprietors of several London Journals shall in turn be compelled to eat skillagalee out of an earthen bowl in company with felons, or go without breakfast, and shad be com pelled to rinse out their own iron chamber utensil, an endeavour will be made, if not before, to kindle public indignation against such unworthy treat ment. We shall not wait till their turn, nor till our own turn comes, to denounce it as wholly un just and tyrannical. We must, in conclusion, whisper as gently as we can in Lord NORMAN BY'S ear, that any Government —though we be lieve the Ministers have had nothing whatever to do with determining the place of confinement to which Mr. O'CONNOR has been sent, or the scan dalous manner in which he is treated—that any Government which even tolerates, much less adopts, such cruelty, is wholly u ndeserving of any support thefromP e Press, ss , b a y n d everywi will u s most Journal of certainly tbe empire. be i opposed r and e o dm A short but interesting debate took place last night in the House of Lords on the presentation of a petition by the Archbishop of DUBLIN, for some change in the Articles and Litu r gy of the Church of England. The difference of opinion amongst the Right Rev. Prelates on the subject was remarkable, one declaring that no clergyman Wok the oaths but with a reservation as believing the Articles in his own sense—another declaring that every clergyman he had ever met with conscien tiously believed every word of the Articles. Most of th e R ev . Prelates, however, ben a)ed a sneaking wish f ur an a l terat i on, b ut i t must be made by themsel ves i n convocat i on asse mbled. They are anxious f ur t h e rev i va l o f t h a t absolete court, but admit sist t o h n at o i t t he i r s p d e illi op e l u e lt i to revive it. An edifyir.g spect ac l e t h ey presented to t h e world, differing among s t th emse l ves about those d o gmas which they in ,—admitting that the Church recognizes liberty of conscience and private judgment, but, at the same time, insisting that it stands on truth, of which they alone are the judges and expounders, and which it is a sin not to embrace as they dictate it. They cannot help acknowledging that an alteration is necessary, but they will not allow the Parliament and the laity to make it, and they have no power to make it themselves. Preparatory to this debate, the Times had an article yesterday on the subject, in which it threw dirt, as might he expected, on Archbishop r% ri A TELY. AL the it s'acti, as tile true principle of our Established Church, " a doc trinal uniformity, which, as alone justifying the confidence of the people, constitutes at once the essence and the stability of an established faith." Of what is this doctrinal uniformity the result ? Of enlarged and liberal inquiry—of conflicting statements freely made, anti tried by the test of experience, such as established the " doctrinal uni formity" of the LA VOSIERIAN theory of combus tion, and the NEWTONIAN themy of gravity ? No, Of an Act of Convocation, passed in the year 1562, not for establishing truth, but for " avoiding dive, sities 9fopinion," passed,too, at a time when free discussion was not allowed, and when the minds of those who drew it up—nurtured in Popery—were scarcely emancipated from any of its errors, and adhered to it.; most profitable, if not its most offensive doctrines. That Act of Convocation, drawn up by a number of semi- Popish Bishops and other Priests, is the foundation of that uni formity of doctrine which is at once the " essence and the stability of our Established Church." It was dictated by men who, having themselves just forsaLn their old faith, naturally supposed that other men would be inclined to change as they had changed, and naturally doubted whether there were any standard of truth which men would not wrest to their own purposes. Not merely the errors of 1562, but the fears of the semi• Papist Bishops, were fixed in the cele brated Thirty-nine Articles, and have been fixed in them ever since, as the pattern of faith for all the members of the Angl,can Church. Such is the source of the present faith of the Established Church, the members of which may be said to hope for salvation by means of an Act of Con vocation. We have received Madrid Journals of the 18th inst., but their contents are unimportant. In the Cortes the Municipal Bill was still undnr discussion. The French Journals of Monday give us to under stand that the Cabinet has at last bethought itself of the expediency of making a general change in the Pre fectures. On Monday M. THIERs called a meeting of Ministers to deliberate on this most important measure ; which, if carried into full effect, will greatly strengthen the hands of the Government. M. THIERS, like Lord MELBOURNE, was hitherto content to have the Cabinet liberal, leaving all the subordinate places in the occu pancy of the MOLE, or Conservative party. He saw, day after day, his Government assailed by placemen, pensioners, Prefects, and officials of all descriptions, while his supporters were men upon whom he had it not in his power to bestow the crumbs of official pa tronage. The Left became at last disgusted with this fostering of enemies and neglect of friends. They plainly intimated to the President of the Council that they would withdraw their support if he allowed the administration of their policy to be thwarted by officiais notorious fcr their avowed hostility to it. The Minis ter has had as ample experience recently as Lord MEL BOURNE himself; that nothing is gained by conceding the tenure of places to political opponents, and that all de licacy in such cas2s is mis:aken for weakness. He has therefore resolved that the Government shall no longer have most to fear from its own officers and the depen dants upon its bounty ; and whether he stand or fall, we applaud the manly straightforwardness of such a re solution. The Constitutionnel enters into a long official expla nation of the Buenos Ayres' question, the drift of which is that nothing has been done one way or the other by Admiral DDPOTET. The article is a riddle not worth solving. The Univers publishes a letter from Rome, which will furnish the Times, the Post, the Standard, and the Herald, with materials for a series of virulent at tacks on the Papacy; and the M'GHEEs and O'SoL LIVANS for an occasion of another vagabondising tour through Great Britain. This letter states that the POPE has resolved upon the conversion of this country to the Catholic filth, and that, instead of four, as at present, he has divided England into eight districts, to each of which a Bishop, under the name of a Vicar Apos tohcal, has been appointed. The letter does not state that the POPE is acting by the advice of the Bishops of EXETER and LONDON, nor indeed that his HOLINESS has had uny communication with the English Prelates on the subject ; but we have been assured that a high dignitary of the Romish Church stated at an entertain ment, not a great while ago, at which were present several clergymen of the Church of England ; that the Holy See would not despair of the re-conversion of England, while her Established Church retained a Liturgy which was but a translation of the Missal. It is true that it was uttered as a pleasantry ; but all who have taken the trouble to inform themselves of the opinions propagated by the Propaganda Society must KNOW it to be a fact. NEWS FROM FRENCH AFRICA.—A letter, written from the Pass of Teoiah, on the 15th, states that all the pre parations were completed, and that on the 16th the army would descend along the southern declivity of the Atlas, and march upon Medeah. The same letter adds, that Generals Marbot and Rumigny, and the chief of battalion Grosbon, bad been wounded in the attack of the 12th, and that the loss of the French on that day did not exceed 50 killed and 150 wounded. Private advices from Algiers of the 17th, published by other Paris journals, estimate the loss of the army on the 12th at 500 men, of whom 150 had remained on the field. The Toulonnais of the 22d states, that previous to the attack Marshal Vallee had done everything to draw the soldiers of the Emir into the plain. The Emir was seen several times on the mountain, preceded by a red flag, and rousing the courage of his fanatical followers. In the afternoon of the 14th a body of Arabs suddenly appeared in the direction of Texeraim, and advanced within a couple of miles of Algiers, and encamped during the night close by the Maison Carree. In their progress through the country they murdered an entire family, de ciipitated two men and a woman, carried off four infant children, arid burnt end ransacked several farmhouses. This unexpected invasion struck terror throughout the whole neighbourhood of Algiers, and the colonists all flocked into the dry. The garrison of the Maison Carree, and of the intrenched camps, having been forbidden by the Marshal to quit their lines, the assailants, about 400 in number, spread devastation everywhere with perfect im punity. On the lath a detachment of troops having sal lied out of Kolbe, repulsed the Arabs with considerable loss. BOURSE.—PAkis, MONDAY, MAY 25. f lest Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price rench 5 per Cents llO 20 ... 116 20 ... 115 Sh ... 1 5 SO 4% per Cents lll 50 .., 11l 50 ... 111 50 ... 111 50 3 p,r t tints B5 5 . 83 10 ... 84 9J ... 84 90 Bank of France 2I9J ...:1500 ...349d ...:519 Lattitte Batik I,OOOL Sh llOO —.llOO ...1100 ...II 0 Belgian Bank S her Cents n per Cents l6 ... 7)) ... 76 ... 76 New York ... • Ohio State of New Yo.k 93 ... 93 ... 91 ... 98 119ited States Bank Loan . VS .... 93 ... i;-1 ... 9. sp.onsti Ac.ive. N'ea,,olitan ... 1(3% ... IC3Si 1(4.3% RAILWAY SHARES. 1((~It1:1R..~ t. (;ennain Versailks, IL B L.B :::85 ... :71,5 ... :58 - ). 59 ...:131 50 Orleans . `trat•burg to Bale 42i ... 415 ... 420 ... 420 EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Despatches from Berlin mention that the King of Prussia was in a most alarming state. No food would rest on his stomach. Broth baths had in consequence been resorted to as a means of sustaining him. Th. mails brought by the last Smyrna packet to Marseilles have reached town, but their contents are not important. They state that in Constantinople, up to the 7th of May, the arrangement of the dispute with Mehemet Ali had not made a step in advance. Let ters from Beyruth, on the other hand, stated, that al though the preparations for war had not relaxed, Ibra him evinced no intention of marching forward.—Times. METROPOLITAN ANTI.BRIDGE TOLL ASSOCIATION. —A number of gentlemen have formed themselves into an Association for the purpose of devising means to throw open the Vauxhall, Waterloo, and Southwark bridges, and latterly have made great and praiseworthy exertions to call the attention of the public, and par ticularly of Members of Parliament, to the subject. Thu great difficulty, of course, is to raise the neces sary funds. Various plans have been proposed, such as an additional tax of 6d. per ton on coals, a lottery, or a grant from Par. liement. The latter proposal is justified by the grant made for London-bridge, and those bridges, particularly W ater l oo -b r id ge, arc cons id ere d as much national concerns as that for which Parliament voted a large sum of the natioreil money. The fairest mode of effecti ng t h e o bj ect of the Association would in our opinion, be by a special Act of Parliament, allowin g a certain number of lotteries for this purpose alone. Indeed, we never could see any good reason for abolishing this voluntary system of raising money. I t is infinitely less oppressive, less immoral, and less injurious to the poor and the middle classes th an the tir:es on c orn an d coa l s , it is practi▪ sed in this coun try in the sl.ape of raffles and other devices, and is still legal among the moral people of Germany. The first great step for raising money ought to be made by the p art i es most inter es t e d— we mean , th e proprietors of land and houses in the vicinity of the bridges. Let them sub scribe liberally or even petition for a moderate tax on these localities, which the i▪ ncreased facili ties of approach would soon repay tenfold, and the public and Parliament would not be backward in for warding a measure which ought to form the principal feature of any general plan for improving the app roac h es and grand tli oroug hl are sof the metropolis. It ought to be borne in mind, also, by those intersted, that throw ing open these bridges would do away with the n ecess i ty and sav e th e cos t o f w id en ing Westminster and Black frials bridges. MONEY AND COllll. ERCTAL N E WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No Liverpool Cotton Market on Monday. We have not as yet received that of Tuesday. The Arrivals this morning are the French mail, and ship letters from St. Vincent, Valpariso, Demerara, and Nassau. Accounts received from Pernambuco to the sth of April, report, that Sugars continue to come in abundantly, but holders of cases are demanding I§oo above ferro, costing on board for high quality White, 225. lOd. sterling, for 1121b3. We do not think there will be any necessity for submitting to more, and expect soon to see them freely offered at 700 rs. above term. White Sugars have ad vare•rd, costing on board 54d per lb. This price will pro bably decline in a f..!ve weeks, as the rise is owing to the high prices in Rio Janeiro and Maranham. There is a great vantity still to come forward from the country. Accounts have been received via United States, stating that the Portuguese at Macao, had sent guns and men to aid the Chinese in defending the fcrts at the Bogue against the British ships, and the conequence will be in all probability, a bombardment of Macao by the Eng lish squadron. In addition to the forts at the Begun. the Chinese have placed a strong raft, well secured by heavy chains across the stream, on this a large force of men are placed, and vessels are permitted to pass through an opening which is made for them by letting one or more of the rafts swing with the tide. The accounts from Canton, of the 12th January, state that the market for tea had not as yet been fairly opened Tee tea men were very stiff in their ideas, and it was prc bable the market would open high. Good sound Young Llyson 30 to 32 tales; Congou, 22 to 24 cents. Some purchases were made, fur the English mark e t, o f Twankay t e a a t 24 t a l es . witig to the tgoppagc of the importati , :n of British property from India and Great Britain, bills have fallen off. THE FUNDS. Yesterday was settling day in the British market, ar,d this is pay-day; which no doubt will pass off with the same correctness as the settling of the accounts. The following official returns of the exports of the Pre cious Metals from the Port of London for the week ending on the 21st inst. :—. Silver Coin to Hamburgh, 36,000 ounces ; Bars to Rot terdam, 5,000 ounces ; Gold bars to Rotterdam, 800 ounces. Consols may be quoted at present at the leaving off prices of yesterday, at 92i I, Money; for the 16th July Account 93y to 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prem ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 176 177 ; India Stock, 252- 253. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is a shade lower, 284 f, owing to their coming lower from Paris ; Deferred, 13 i; Passive, 7 ; Portuguese, same as they left off, 35i a ; Three per Cents., 24H ; Brazilian, 761 ; Co lombian, 264; Mexican, 31i32,-; ; Dutch Two-and-a-Hal per Cents., 541 -; Five per Cents., 101 h 102. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock — India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 91643 Ditto Bonds ...... 31 pm 3 per Cents. Con. 3i per Cent. Ditto Red New 3i per Cent. New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. 25 23 p►n. Jan. 5, 1860., 134 13-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859. ...13a 7-16 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1869. 14 Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880. April 5, 1830. India Stock for Acct... Jan. 5, 1870. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bomb 89 Belgian Bond, Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 24, Prussian Bonds ..... Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account Ditto Account. Columbian Bonds, 1824 26 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds 286 Ditto Account Passive Defer rod Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c. Mexican Bonds,s per cent Exchange... —f. —c, Ditto Account ...... Dutch, 21- per cent ... 54 Ditto,6 per Cent...... Ditto Af-coun , Ditto Acc0unt......... Ditto, 5 per cent 101; Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. X. s. d. X. s. d. s. d. Pad. Per Share. RAILWAY. Bristol and Exeter 5O ...... 26 .. ... to 26i Eastern Counties - to 13 Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O 176 Ditto i Shares London and South Western 3B/ 53 Northern and Eastern North Midland lOO Ditto New South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock London and Westminster COURSE OF EXCH, Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 •11r Antwerp ..............12 4.:1; Hamburg... ...... M. B l3 lli Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 65 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine lsli Petersburg, 3 Us 34 Berlin Vienna, effec.ll. 3 M lO 5 Trieste, ditto lO 6 Madrid 10 9 0 ►NGE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar Leghorn '3o 35 Genoa 25 75 Milan '3l Veniee 47 Naples 4l Palermo, per oz 123 Lisbon 54 Oporto s4i Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days'sight 46& Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars...o 0 0 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 101 Silver in Bars 0 5 (4 HALF-PAST ONE. Money on Consols in the House is not so scarce as it was yestarday. Consols at present may be quoted at 92# for Money, and for the Account 931 ; Exchequer Bills, lower, 25 23 pm. ; India Bonds, 3 1 prem. ; in Bank Stock nothing doing. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 28 ; Portu guese, 351 ; Three per Cents., 24k; Colomlyan, 2641 1 ,- ; Brazilian, 761 ; Belgian, 103; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 54i ; Five per Cents. 1011. The Batavian, Dutch steamer, not yet arrived. Shares arc rather lower. Cadiz 37 Bilboa Barcelona 361 Seville Lord Btougliam arrived unexpectedly on Sunday evening, in Grafton-street, frrim the south of France. His rdship stayed a few days at Paris, en route to England. The Noble and Learned Baron looks well, and is in excellent health. His J.ordship drove to the House of Lords yesterday afternoon. Colonel Pasley has been appointed by the East India Company Inspector and Public Examiner in their Mili tary Academy at Addiscombe, vacant by the death of Sir A. Dickson. The appointment, it is said, is worth 500/. per annum. The Master of the Horse and the Countess of Albemarle left Berkeley-square, yesterday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Verulam, at Gorhambury, where the annual races commenced in the park in the forenoon. The Bishop of London will lay one of the corner stones of the new Episcopal Chapel at Southend on the 24th of next month. The erection of the chapel has already corn, menced. The I imentable illness of Lord Henley, we are told, produces much delay and inconvenience to the suitots of the Court of Chancery. It is stated that the Lord Chancellor is abut to introduce a Bill in Parliament to meet the difficulty. Mr. George anti Lady Mary Lindsay have been placed in mourning by the demise of their eldest son, Mr. Arthur Alex. Lindsay, at. Glasneven, on Friday last. Mr. Lindsay was grandson of the Bishop of Kildare ; nephew to the Earl of Arran, and great nephew to the Duchess of Inverness. WELLS, SOILIERSET.—A numerous and highly respec' able party of gentlemen dined together at the Mitre Inn, ott Monday last, in honour of her Al jesty's birth day. A most excellent dinner and choice wines were served up by Mr. Boyce, with his usual liberality and attention. Many loyal and appropriate toasts were drank, and the utmost conviviality prevailed. Lablache, who is a native of Naples, though his father was a Frenchman, and his mother came from Ireland, appeared first on the Italian stage as Salerno, where his salary amounted to fifteen ducats a month, or Is. Bd. per day. La blache had the honour of giving her Majesty the Queen lessons in Italian singing previous to her marriage. A RIVAL TO FATHER MATHEW.—UnIess the Chancellor of the Exchequer can manage to interdict the Rev. R. G. Mason from preaching teetotalism, we fear he will derive but a scanty revenue in Aberdeenshire from his new fax on spirits. Judging from the number and character of com munications which have reached us within the last few weeks, it would appear that a moral revolution is going forward, se cond only in extent and importance to the teetotal movement in Ireland. As a specimen of what has been done in Buchan, we may mention that, in the town of Fraserburgh, which con tains a population of little more than two thousand, nearly seven hundredhave become teetotallers ! This society includes many of the influential inhabitants of the place; and no fewer than seven vessels belonging to the port sail on the total-absti nence principle ! In the neighbouring fishing villages there is scarcely a man who has not joined the movement; and nearly the same may be said of the adjoining rural districts. In these circumstances, the mot al and physical condition of the people, especially of the working-classes, have been amazingly improved. This satisfactory change has been brought about through the instrumen.ty of the R ev . R . G. M ason, w h ose la b ours have bee.rduous and faithful beyond calculation. In the course of the last two months, this devoted philanthropist has travelled over a district of country—mostly on foot—containing an area of upwards of a thousand miles—has visited forty different places, preached fifty sermons, and delivered eighty teetotal lectures I At Whitehills, Fraserburgh, and Peterhead. he was enter tained at large and influential soirees got up in honour of his exertions, and presented with substantial marks of the people's gratitude. He is now in Aberdeen, making ar rangements f or f orm i ng a N orthern Union, the leading object of which is to concentrate the influence of the various local societies, and thereby attach a common interest to all that tends to advance the object they have in view. In this way it is cal culated that they will be able to issue a uionthly publication, containing a full and authentic record of all the proceedings in the north, and such original articles as will be found of generaltre interest and usefulness. Whatever difference of op a in n i_o a .7.. y may be: in regard to the teetotal principle, the ze t al if , t cl hey et w l of its advocates are worthy of all praise. 1 8, 3 , eke permanent, isTh the gyod they have already done to be any they will require to provide some substsnt t i b b al:fo s c u ( p l in tellectual eravinzs whioh wilt necessarily for exanicr, as se- I habits of sobriety and watchfulness—such, e f r o i r nd th u e e s ed e t i subjects _4dee t je Lebraries,bearnd Hraici, publicelectures upon useful ititl Mteresting EVEN ING EDIT i ON. COURT CII4CULAP. The Princess Sophia Matilda visited her Majesty yei • terdar. Tne Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne bad audiences yesterday of the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera with 'heir presence last evening. The Royal Suite included the Countess of Sandwich, Marquis of Headfort, Hoe. Charles A. Murray, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Wylde, and Mr. Fiends Seymour. The Royal Dinner Party, on Monday evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria D rwson, his Serene Highnesi the Prince of Leiningen, the Marchioness of Normanby, Earl of Stndwich, Earl - o: Morley, and the Hon. General Upton. The Band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Burgbersb, Dowager L;tely Rivers, Hon. Miss Pitt, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. George E. Anson, afterwards joined the Royal Circle in the evening, when a performance of instrumental music took place. M:s, St , venFon, the Lady of the American Minister, was present in the Entree Circle, at the Queen's Draw ing-Room on Monday. The Earl of Erroll, Lord Steward of the Household, gave a grand (full.dress) dinner at Grillion's Hotel, on Monday evening, to a large party, in celebration of her Majesty's birth-day. The company consisted of the Earl of Surrey, Right Hon. G. Stevens Byng, Duke of Buc cleuch, Duke of Roxburgh, Duke of Beaufort, Marquis of Anglesey, Marquis of Westminster, Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Chesterfield, Viscount Sydney; Lords Saltount Biant3 re, Lovat, William Lennox, Robert Grosvenor, Frederick Gordon, and Adolphus Fitzclarence, Captain the El-n. Horace Pitt, Captain the Hon. James Macdo nald, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. G. B. Anson, Mr. Mas,ey Stanley, and Sir Thomas Marrable., The Attorney-General gave a grand dinner on Monday (the Queen's birth-day), to her Majesty's counsel, at the thatched House, St. James'a.street. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager rode on horseback yesterday, attended by the Hon. Miss Anne Gore and & numerous suite. _ The Duchess Ida, with the Princesses of Saxe Wei mar, took an airing yesterday in a pony phaeton sea four. The Princess Sophia Mati'da and the Prince of Leinia gen visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Ingestrivt House, Belgrave-square. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. ... His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Ml nister, transacted business on Monday, at the Foreign Office, and with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Baron Brunow, Colonel Cowper, and Mr. Allen bsd interviews with Lori John Russell yesterday, at the Co lonial Office. Major. General Johnson and Mr. Gully had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the How* Office. Despatches from Major-General Napier, Governor of the Cape of Good Hop e, a n d also from the Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonist Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE- ARRIVALS. General Count Hartig, Governor of Lombardy. gn i Count Edmund Hartig, a t t h e L on d on H ote l ; 5 1 1. , Mrs. Barton, at ditt o ; th e E ar l an d C ountess of •iutab— and suite, at ditto, from a Continental tour; Lady Acton and Sir John Acton, Bart., at the Clarendon Hotel; M r " , and Mrs. Portman and Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, in Berke— ley-square ; Captai n M ac d ona ld an d L a dy Ashwort h, the lion. Shapland Carew, at Fenton's Hotel; Colone Peel, M. P., at ditto ; L or d an d L a d y C om b erm ere, V ice "' l Admiral Lord CNlvir.e, G.O B. ; the Dowager Lady Glynne and Mr. and Mr s . Gl a d stone; L or d Corr andant Lord Ilchester, from Co wes , I s l e o f Wi g ht ; the Earl a nd Countess of Kenmore, at C raw l e y' s Hotel; Colonel El : lison, Grenadier Gusids, f rs . m N ew Y or k ; Captain bo a ' Mrs. Danwell, from ditt o ; G enera l H a milton, fro m. ditto; Major-General Sir John Taylor. K.C.B, from' Dublin ; Lord Francis Egerton, from a Continental tourr! Major-General Welsh, from Calcutta; Lieut.-GeneraD Sir John and Lady Lambert, from the Continent; Mai° Brooke, 67th Regiment, and Mrs. Brooke, from Barba: — does : Sir Robert Bromley, Bart., in Grosvenor-street; Mrs. Scott Murray and family, in Cavendish. square; Baron Von Ibel, at the London Hotel; Sir John Eustace,. Bart. ; at English's St. James's Royal Hotel, St. Jame s's. street, from Brighton: A. J. Dalglish, John Tennsay:. and M. Campbell, Esquires, at ditto, from Liverpool,: Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., at ditto, from Dublin ; Co r '' net H. Scott, 12th Lancers, at ditto; Wm. Worthing-. ton, Esq., at ditto, from Cheshire. DEPARTURES. Lord Plunket and Hon. William Piunket, from Etlghlg . 13 . 114 St. James's Royal Hotel, for Ireland ; the Earl of Cass from ditto, for Birmingham ; the Marquis of Granby. f i tit ; go ditto, for his residence, in Portman. quire ; W. Kg,l ite,. " Esq., front ditto ; S. White, Esq., M.P., Mrs. and Miss Roche, from ditto, for Dublin ; Mr. and m r ' James M.Nair, and family, from ditto, o n a t o ur ; Rec. . Mr. Howson, from ditto, for Worcester ; Messrs. Henri and P. B. Roe, from ditto, for Bath ; Lord and Lair Carew, from Fenton's Hotel, for Windsor ; the Dowager Lady Rowley, for Hadleigh, Suffolk ; Captain Wyman. ; 23d Fusilerrs, for New York ; Lady Olivia Sparrow anti the Hon. William Diego Montagu, for the Centinentl; Captain and Mrs. Johnson, for Dyer ; Sir Thomas p ,ad Lady Montresor, for Dame Hill, Kent ; Sir Andre'', and Lady Pilkington,from the London Hotel, for Kent.; Latig aid Miss Thornborough, for Torquay. Her Majesty and Prince Albert will Marchioness of Norma n by w ith t h e i r compan y on Monday evening next, in Hill- s t ree t, w h ere t h e M arc hioness w give a grand concert of vocal and i ns t rumenta l m usic, for +/hi& sak the opera stars are engaged. bunota- Her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected to leave Buckingham Palace for Claremont on Tuesday next, awl remain until after the Derby day at Epsom to-mcrrow (Mars:: day) se'nnight. Her Majesty and the Prince will proceed! from Esher to the Grand Stand, a distance of six miles fro t Claremont. m Her Comissio M ne a r j t e o s t t n General hi•Ottg Assemblyll Belhaven, Scotlard i, has gation of the Gospel in the Highlands. Grisi, Tamlaurini, Rubini, and Lablache wil l sing at her Majesty's concert on Friday evening, at Bucking' ham Palace. It will be under the direetion of Costa, the lealeader!of the orchestra at her Majesty's Theatre. Chpiree.r.. sented the munificent royal donation of 2,0001. for the prop s..- MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL.-- MS' Southey, in his plea s ant " Colloquies on the Progress and P , :o' spects of Society," observes that the nobility are not in • chig country either physically or intellectually a degenerated c ILA " Luxury" (rejoins the Ghost of Sir Thomas More, his cutor), " has not effeminated them, nor is it considered a point _ of honour for men of quality to hold literature in contempt, a s.. it was in my days among some of the Italians. The 0 1 fashion and the tide of society have set in a contrary 6recv, tion." We were reminded of thi s passage by the. -wind n' fashion wafting to us down the tide of society, in the forte of 1s novel, one of the trimmest barks that ever was launched upozo that sea. We allude to " Emily, or the Counters of Rosen' . dale," by Mrs. Maberly, a lady who may be considered an ex cellent authority in th e f as hi ona bl e c i rc l es . W e t is k e this novel , to be as true, as it is certainly a lively and irt.erestings P°r - , traiture of high life. Nothing can be more natural and agree,_," able than the style, and the t one o f p l ay f u l p l easan t r y in it " the authoress exhibits the f o lli es an d f o ibl es o f t h e society • which she moves ; and she can lay claim to merits of a hie° kind in the excellent good sense, and mild yet severe sattr' with which she displays the heartless selfishness of one portit of her dramatis persona', and the ridiculous vanity of anothr SPOONS and FORKS, strong l y plated 0 nth Silver on a white metal, and consec,uently not liable by ear to show any other colou r . Table Spoons or Forks 21. I ' 7. per dozen. Dessert Sp oons or Forks, Two Guineas per (Joao' Tea Spoons, 255. per dozen. Gravy Spoons, 9s. 6 d'• " eh ' Soup Ladles, 16s. each. T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven door 3 fora Gra ced church-street \ London sr" N.B. 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