The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-30 00:00:00

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HERALD.—A reaction upon the late advance of prices , :40 mav be noted to-day in E ng li s h St o cks, end business gene- - 0,4 rally was heavy till t o w ar d s th e c l ose o f the market, whoa s ax,. the transactions displayed rather more briskness. Consols, however, receded from yesterday's quotations to 92i to - for money, and 93 to for account. The depression was occasioned by some large sales, not only of Consols, but of the In avy stocks. The Reduced Three per Centl , declined to 911, and the Three-and-a_ Half par Cents to 99k. In the Share Market there were some fluctuations. Great Western Railway were the favourite obj,-cts of spe culation, and improved to 29 to 30} premium. London and Birmingham, St; to 8 ; Blackwall, 2i to premium. North Midland declined in consequence of some unfavour able rumours about the great deficiency between receipts and expenditure, to 7 to 5 discciunt for the old shares, acid sto 7 premium for the new. Brighton were 41 tox dis count. rf ~~ !---1 DIRECTORS. Edw. Parkins, Esq., Chairman Alexander Oswald, Esquire, Thomas Reynolds, Esq. Thomas Reynolds, Jun., Esq. A SI:CI:ETA ItY, Mr. Thcanas BANKICRS, Messrs. Wright and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. LONDON, SATUR DAY, MAY ;;O, 1840. PRICE sd. SOLICITOR, R. B. Gargravc, Esq„ 19, Buckingharn.street, Strand. No. 14.81.0. LONDON °Fire", 32, Great St. Helen's,Bishopsgate-street. The COMPANY' being possessed of a healthy and fertile dis trict ix Central America, between the navigable rivers Tinto and Plaintain, within fiftydays' sail of the British Channel, and Under an indisputable title from the Chief of the State, who is protected by the British Government, are enabled to offer to the Public grants of Land therein, represented by the Com pany's Certificates, on a plan possessing all the benefits without any of the disadvantages of a Lottery. Portions of Land, in addition to the Acres represented by the Certificates, are se cured to every Purchaser, the investment must th!refore be safe to all, and will be to many productive of the most pro fitable results. The average passage to the Colony is now 50 days sail, ashen the Mail Steam-packets are placed on tbe 'West India Station, which will be early nest year, it will only be 21 days. This must greatly increase the value of the property now offered to the public. ANTI - SLAVE TRADE MEETING. Notice is hereby given, that the PUBLIC MEET ING of the SOCIETY for the EXTINCTION of the SLAVE TRADE, and for the CIVILIZATION of AFRICA, will he holden at Exeter Hall, on MoNoar, the Ist day of June next, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, The PRESIDENT of the SOCIETY, Has been graciously pleased to intimate his intention to take the Chair at Eleven o'clock precisely. Admission by Tickets only. Gentlemen are requested to write their names on their Tickets. It is understood that Tickets issued for the Platform are not transferable. J. M. TREW, Secretary. THE QUEEN'S visir TO EPSOM RACES. The Stewards have directed the Horses to be Numbered in DORLINGS' CARD, and immediately after the race the Winner's number will be exhibited from the Judge's Stand (white figures on a black ground). Apply at. DORLINGS' STATION on the Course, in front of the Grand Stand, for the latest edition of the Cards and Lists. Returned Lists, containing the Winners. the number that started, &c., may be had at Dorlinos' Station, in about fifteen minutes after the decision of the Derby and Oaks. PUBLICATIONS. THE E\TER..MEMdRABLE JOHN HALES, of Eton, on SCHISM, on Saturday, May 30th, in No. VIII. of TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE, price 3d. No. VII., Sir MICHAEL FOSTER on CHURCH POWER, price Is. Effingham Wilson, and J. S. Smallfield. AT a MEETING of the COUNCIL of the BOROUGH of BOLTON, and of many other ELECTORS of the said Borough, held at the Police-office, on the 118th day of May, 1840. The MAYOR in the Chair. Mr. BAKER moved, and Mr. M.Acoux seconded, and it Alas resolved— _ COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. To a very crowded auditory, we are delighted to say, this theatre on Friday night closed for the season : the performances, consisting of 711 e Merry Wires of Windsor, Patter versus Clatter, and The Sleeping Beauty, being for the ben, At of Mr. Charles Mathews. At the close of the svcon d piece, Madame Vestris, led on by tht, acting_ manager, Mr. Bartley, delivered the following valedictory address, which was throughout received with the most markud approbation, but more particularly those parts of it in which allusion was made to the partial success of the season past, the prospects of a second and a more pros perous one under the same rule, and where acknowledg ment and thanks were publicly offered to Mr. Charles liecnblc for his " great and gratuitous services." At the end of the address Mr. Charles Mathews came forward to lead off Madame Vestris, at which the pit rose and heartily cheered them. " That the votes recently given by Mr. Ainsworth on Lord Stanley's Registration Bill, and the Weaver Navigation Bill, now pending in Parliament, are highly offensive to this Meet ing, and deserve the reprobation of every honest Reformer is the Borough, as being directly opposed to those principles on which Mr. Ainsworth was returned as one of their representa tives to the House of Commons."—Carried unanimously. Moved by Mr. Mo KRIS, and seconded by Mr. ARKOWS)11111 " That a committee, consisting of the Chairman, Mr. Night ingale, Mr. Joseph Ainsworth, C. J. Darbyshire, Esq., and Mr. Baker, be appointed to communicate with Mr. Ainsworth on the subject, and announce the result to a future Meeting." —Carried unanimously. Moved by C. J. DARESISHIftE, Esq., and seconded by Mr. At Lloyd's the Imogene is reported at Liverpool. from Clleuttii. In her iuutc she signillcd the Anti, from China to London, on the 14th of March, which telegraphed 54 days from the coast of China ; date of sailing, 20th of January. The report by her is that vessels which }rad dis charged cargoes were loading teas for foreign account. The English ships were reported by this arrival not t• have left China. There was a report that the Thomas E`outie, from Canter), had been seen entering Table Bay, at alio Cape of Good Hope. But this scenes hardly credible, ac. carding to the tenor of the last accounts. leen ited bca be- Us- TEAM EXCURSIONS every Sunday kj Morning, at Half-past Eight precisely, from London bridge-wharf direct to Herne-bay, and back the same day, with time to land, and return to London early in the evening►, by one of those fast and favourite packets, the CITY OF CANTER BURY or RED ROVER. Saloon, 6s. ; Fore Cabin, ss. ; Children, 4s. Offices, 113, Fenchurch-strcet, and at London.bridge-wharf. VRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE, CONTAINS Milman's History of - Christianity—Naumachia—Modern Greece—Eloquence. Chapter the Second—A Shabby Genteel Story—Woman and the Social System—Journal between Chili and Jamaica—A Pictorial Rhapsody by Titina_ri u —The Ashes of Buonaparte—A few Notes upon Shakspeare rd Stanley's Bill—lndex. James Fraser, 215, Regent-street, London. PLAN. Country Land. Town Land. Acres. Acres. Acres. 4 Locations of 1,500 and 100 each 6,400 8 ditto 1,000 ... 50 ... 8,400 16 ditto 500 .•• 20 ... 8,320 32 ditto 200 ... 10 ... 6,720 64 ditto 100 ... 5 ... 6,720 128 ditto 25 ... 2 ... 3,456 800 ditto 20 .. 16,000 18,948 ditto 5 . 94,740 150,756 20,000 Locations 20,000 Land Certificates of Ten Acres 200,000 20,000 Portions of Town and Country Land 150,756 Total Acres 350,756 EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE PLAN. 20,000 Certificates, each securing to the purchaser ten Acres of Land, to be issued to the Public. To every Certifi cate will belong one of the above 20,000 portions of reserved Land, varying from 1,500 to five Acres. To 252 of these— Sections of Town Land, varying from 100 to 2 Acres are at taehed—in the whole 2,016 Acres. The value of this Town Land is estimated at £lO per Acre, at which price the Com pany engage to purchase the whole or any part thereof, of those who may obtain it, and payment will be made on demand, the sum of £20,160 being set apart for that purpose, and as an en couragement to emigration, and the establishment of the Co lony, The order of choice for these advantages to be determined by Lot, on the 29th of September next, this mode having been itherto adopted with satisfaction to the Public by other Land LAND CERTIFICATES, FA:EACH. 'tbe Cotnpany may also lie treated with for sections of. land of not less than 100 acres, independent of the above reserves. The possessors of the Company's land will be conveyed to the Colony at a moderate expense, it being the intention of the Di rectors to put on first-class vessels for that purpose, at the Ports of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Hull, Greenock, Dublin, 1 .!. ad Cork. N.B.—Persons of respectability wishing to become Agents to the Company, must apply to the Secretary for further parti ettlars„ References will be required. The Directors be. to refer the Public to the following ex tracts, which prove that the proposed Colony possesses in cli mate, soil, and locality for trade, all that can insure comfort and prosperity to the emigrant : " Every variety of (animal and vegetable nature for use or beauty, i or food or luxury, has been most liberally bestowed en this country. It is everywhere plentifully watered; and the soil is almost every where fertile in a very uncommon degree, and capable of producing in the utmost perfection whatever is produced between the tropics. The cotton bush, the cocoa, or chocolate nut, and venelloes flourish spontaneously all over the country. Indigo, too, is a native, and appears to be of the lame sort with that of the neighbouring province of Gautimal, which is accounted the best of any. The sugar-cane arrives here to as great perfection as in any of the islands ; and the quantity of mahogany and sarsaparilla annually exported from hence to Great Britain, renders the settlement already an ob ject of no small importance in the scale of her commerce and navigation. The rivers and coasts abound with excellent fish; and the finest turtle, both for food and shell, is found here in greater • plenty than in any part of the known world. To which it may ne added—and it is a circumstance of no small utility in an in fant settlement, that the mouths of many of the principal rivers produce a prodigious quantity of oysters, both of the Mangrove and flat species; of the latter sort there are banks that appear inexhaustible : so that with respect to food, the in . habitants of this country seem almost to be exempted from the curse entailed upon our first parents."—Edward's History of the West Indies. Vol. V. Captain Speer, an old West India Trader, after giving a similar description of the country, says, " this is a small sketch of one of the finest and healthiest tracts of country in the world. It hath been in the possession of his Britannic Majesty's subjects upwards of one hundred and thirty years ; and is the only retreat for our people cutting Legwood in the Bay of Honduras. If encouraged it will be a valuable settle ment, and not liable to the ill consequences which change of climates have upon the European constitutions. The reason for which may, in a great degree, be attributed, first, to the 'wholesome effect of the turtle and fish, and, secondly, to the • temperature of the air, though so far to the southward , as the latitude from 16 to 10 N , but be the cause what it may, ex perience attests that men usually live to a greater age than in Europe."—West India Pilot. Captain Wright, senior officer of his Majest)'s naval force at Honduras, in a dispatch addressed in the year 1808 to Lord Castlereagh, then Colonial Secretary, uses the following forci ble language in reference to thi4 country :—" Any description I can give will fall very far short of the actual fact, either as to the produce of the country, or the disposition and sincere affec tion of the inhabitants towards the British nation. No eoun - try enjoys more advantages from water carriage ; for, besides nineteen rivers, which are navigable for small craft up to the very interior, a chain of lagoons line the coast, accessible at the • Mouths of different rivers. The climate is mild for these lati tudes, and, bein: continental, not near so hot as the islands of the same parallel. "I have in the course of the preceding narrative endea voured. to describe such of the valuable productions of the country es came under my notice; and I now repeat, that in exhaustible supplies of cedar, mahogany, santa maria, rosewood, • and many other exceedingly valuable timbers may he obtained on the coast, and on the banks of all the rivers in the interior. Dyewoods, gums, drugs, and medicinal plants of various de scriptions, are plentifully dispersed all over the country. The Savannahs rear considerable n-rnbers of cattle ; and if there was a demand for them, innumerable herds could be supported on the plains close to the shore, as well as in the interior. Past experience confirms the assertion that the soil is well adapted to the cultivation of sugar, coffee, cotton, tobacco, hllo, and all the other productions of a tropical climate ; and I have no doubt that a sufficient quantity of rice and Indian corn might be produced, to supply the whole of our amnions in the West Indies with these necessaries." —W. 0. Roams, many years a resident Trader in the Country, pub lished in 182 J. " Some careful observers affirm that a quiet possession in the Mosquito country, would one day be more valuable to Great Britain than all the islands which that nation now possesses in the West Indies."—Abbe RA TNAL. CLIMATE.—No winter is known. During the dry sea son nothing can exceed the softness of the air, the brilliancy of the heavens, and the splendour of the vegetation. —J. G. Bradford's American Atlas. NATURAL PRODUCTIONS.—GoId, silver, copper, iron, jasper, opals, marble, cattle, mahogany, hides, cocoa, aPes, indigo, sugar, wool , and cotton. —Vide J. and C. walker's New Map of the World. A CERTAIN CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. ALLINGHAM'S ROTTERDAM CORN and BUNION SOLVENT, which gives relief upon the first application. The universally acknowledged efficacy of t his 'extraordinary, safe, and never-failing remedy for the speedy and certain cure of Corns and Bunions, however obstinate and long-stand :int. induces the Proprietor of this highly.important chemical disco- YesY. to Caution the Public against base and spurious imitations, in. furious in their effects, and most dangerous to those who, either through ignorance or the fraudulent pretences of others, are indtmcd apply them. The Proprietor has received Testimonials of its be. neficial effects from the most respectable families in the kingdom. The genuine has the signature of .. J. A. SHAR WOOD " on the out; tide wrapper. Bold at 55, Bishopsgate-without ; and, by appointment by Sanger, 450 , and Chandler, 76, Oxford-street and most Medicine Vender:. THE CURE EFFECTED, OR THE MONEY CHARGED RETURNED. MESSRS. COOPER and CO., Members of the Royal College of Surgeons,- No. 10, Rouverie street, Fleet-street, may be consulted from Eight o'Clock in the Morning until Ten at Night, on every stage and symptom of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, Seminal Weakness, End Strictures of the Urethra, &c The treatment they adopt is the re sult of twenty.tive years' extensive and successful practice in London. The most inveterate cases of Syphilis - eradicated in eight or nine days, and cases of a slight nature in two or three, at a moderate expense, unaided by the dangerously indiscriminate use of mercury. The cure effected without confinement or hindrance from business. Letters (post paid) enclosing a remittance for medicines will be answered by return: and Country Patients corresponded with until recovered REANIMATION. THE Medical Effects a Steel, as a strengthener and restorative, have been known for ages to excel those of all other articles of the Materia Medics, and in this age of uxury aryl dissipation, when the indiscretions of* youth disappoint the eI. sectations of maturity, it is not to be wondered that a medicine of such elli , :acy as SEDDON'S genuine AROMATIC LOZENGES of STEEL, should have attracted the attention of the firs' medi cal men in Europe. When the most important functions of lite at e suspended, and those a ho are invalids by inheritance or an rudence are reduced to the molt deplorable state of nervous debility, it Is not in despair that relief is to he fourd. It has been ascertained, beyond a doubt, that these circumstances are occasioned by a gene ral or partial relaxation or weaknesses in either sex; and it is equally certain that SEDDON'S LOZENGES are the best, it not the only remedy ever discovued for this species of debility. When taken into the stomach, they immediately diffuse themselves like a vapour through every pore, producing effects at once delight ful, salutary, and permanent. When the spark GI life begins to grow dint, the circulation lan.uid, and the faculties paralysed, these Lo zenges are found to give tone to the nerves, exhilirste the animal spirits, invigorate the body. and re-animate the whole man. When aversion to exercise, loss or depravity of appetite, and pallid counte nance, indicate approaching consumption, the delicate female will be preserved and restored to health and society by the benign in fluence of this medicine. Prepared only by the Proprietor, and sold by his Agents, Mr. Clifford. 104, Strand; Johnston, 158, Coinhill; Saeger, 150, and Han nay and Co.. 1 , 3, Oxford-street ; also, by Messrs. Ward, Pring, and Co., Westmoreland.street, Dublin ; Butler, Waterloo-place, Ed n burgh ; and of most respectable Venders in the kingdom:; in bexesy St 7s. and 225. each. Observe each box is signed J. P. Seddon. or the cannot be genuine F RANKS'F SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Within a period of Two Months upwards of Three Hundred Patients Were succossftdly treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA. 14 Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and . Professor of Surgery in the King's College ' London. ' I have matte trial of Mr. Frank's Solution of Copaiba, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results was rant my stating, that it is an elfin. %ions remedy, and one w hich does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Cepaiba. (Si gne d) ...JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lineoln's.lnn.tields, April 15, IS= Bransby Cooper, F.sq., F. 115., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &c., and others most eminent in the Medical Profession.' " Mr. Bransby Cooperpresents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks, eadhas great pleasure in hearing testimony of the efficacy of his So. Ihti on of Copaiba iu Gonorrhwa, for which disease Mr. Cooper has Preecribed the Solution in ten or twelvecases with perfect success. New.atreet,Spring.gardens, Aprill:3, ISM." This invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended in all eases of Gonorrhcea, Meets. Urethral Discharges, Spasmodic Sl.:l;!tures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate G land ; Its purifying enacts Islam the ventral health render it particularly ap. Plioahleiu all cases or relaxed fibre and nervous debility. Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Blackfriars.road. ilonuon, and may he had ofall Medleitie.venders in the United King 110m, in Bottles at 2s. Od., 45. 6d., ar.d 1 Is. eaen. CAUTION.—UnIcss i. George Framcs, IllaAfriars road," is engraved en the Government Stamp it cannot be genuine. .• • Mr. Franks may be consulted until Two o'clock daily. 11,111. ATENT and other METALLIC PENS, 1 Manufactured by JAMES HEELY and SONS, Mount street, Birmingham. To secure Purchasers from imposition, all Cards and Boxes of James Heeley and Sons' Pens have the words " JAMES HEELEY and SONS, MOUNT-STREET, BIRMINGHAM," printed in full, without which none are genuine. They offer a reward of One Hundred Guineas (on conviction) to any person who will prove the purchase of spu rious imitations of their Pens from wholesale dealers.—Every card of Pens is accompanied by a holder. THE DIAMOND PEN Is particularly adapted to the hand of the expeditious writer, possessing great flexibility, price Is. per Card of Twelve Pens. THE MACROSTYLE, or SWAN-QUILL PEN, Is known by its large size, and is the most durable Office Pen.--It has considerable strength in the shoulder, and is not easily damaged. Pr.ce Is. 3d. per card, or in boxes containing One Dozen Pens, price 2s. THE LADIES' RUBY PEN - Is an exceedingly fine article, particularly suited for neat Writing, and for the purpose of Mapping, &c. Price Is. per Card of Twelve Pens. THE EUTROCHOSTYLE, An Excellent Office Pen, in strength between the Macros. :yle and Diamond Pen, price Is. W. per caul of Twelve Pens. CLEVELAND'S PATENT PEN , Has a regulating Slide by which the user may adapt it to any degree of Hardness or Softness necessary, Price Is. 6d. per Card of Twelve Pons. THE ORIGINAL RHADIOGRAPHIC PEN, Of which many thousand grosses have been sold in this country, America, and on the Continent, is too well known to roquire any description. Price ls. per Card of Twelve Pens. THE DIAMOND PEN WITH BROAD POINT, - - - For Schools, Engrossing, Copying Music, &c. Price Is. per Card of Twelve Pens. TEE MERCANTILE PEN, Price Is. 6d. per Card of Twelve Pens. THE GOLD-PLATE RUBY PEN. For the Boudoir. Each Card is ornamented with an elegant Portrait of her Majesty. Price Is. 6d. per Dozen. lIEELEY and SON'S PEN AND EVER-POINTED PENCILS. With reserve for Leads and Pens. PACKETS OF BEST CUMBERLAND LEADS, Either H or M, only Is. each. Manufactured by JAMES lIEELEY and SONS,_ Mount street, Birmingham. Sold wholesale by Richard Groombridge, Booksellers, Pnternoster-row, London ; and retailed by all Booksellers, Stationers, Fancy Dealers, &c., in the United Kingdom. Wholesale and Export Agent at Liverpool—Wareing Webb, Stationer, 9, Castle-street, who will supply Merchants and Shippers at the same prices as at the Manufactory, METROPOLITAN PATENT WOOD PAVEMENT COMPANY, On the Principle of that laid down at Whitehall. Capital 150,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 101. each, 6,000 of which are taken by the present Proprietors; Deposit 3/. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. G. T. Andress, Esq. G. Brydges Lee Warner, Esq. Col. Sr Burges Camae,K.C.S. George Lungley, Esq. W. Edward Grainger, Esq. T. Lamie Murray, Esq. George Barrett Lennard, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. With power to add to their number. BANKERS—Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingscote, and Co. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Hodgson and Burton, 10, Salisbury street, Strand. OFricEs-20, John-street, Adelphi. This Company is formed for Paving the 111etropolis, and twenty miles round. Specimens of the principle have been laid down at Whitehall, Buckingham Palace, and Oxford-street, where 2,000 yards more are commenced. The principle is a new:section of the cube. The Blocks are cut across the grain, at an angle of 63 degrees 26 minutes 5 seconds and 8-lOths of a second, which causes the diagonal joining of the obtuse angles of the two parallelopipedes to fall in a perpendicular straight line, which, laid down obliquely, gives to a surface, perpetually even, all the strength of an arch. The streets of London alone comprise 6,000,000 square yards, and are kept in repair at an annual expense of 300,0001. The Irofits of the Company will be derived from the original laying down of the Pavement, each million of square yards yielding 150,0001. profit—and also from keeping their pave ment in repair, which on a moder..te calculation will amount to 60,0001. per annum—at the same time effecting a saving of one-half of the Paving-rates to the several parishes. The pre sent orders received by the Company amount to 30,0001. Ne gotiations are pending for other works to a great extent. Applies.tioa for Sharesla_ho sioldreg to the Steretary,.2o, John-street, Adelphi, where proqwetuses may be obtained. METROPOLITAN PATENT WOOD-PAVEMENT COMPANY. AT a MEETING held at the ADELPHI HOTEL, LIVERPOOL, on Tuesday, the 26th of May 1$40; present, amongst others, the Worshipful the Mayor, several Aldermen, Common Councilmen, and %_,onamis sioners of Highways for Liverpool, Toxteth-park, &c., and the Surveyors for those places, and for the Townships of West Derby, Everton, &c. JOHN HoLmEs, Esq., Chairman of the Highway Board for Liverpool, in the Chair. Mr. J. Lee Stevens, of London, produced models, and ex plained the nature of the invention used by the Metropolitan Patent Wood-Pavement Company, upon the principle of that laid down by them at Whitehall, Buckingham Palace, and other places ; when, Upon the motion of PETER HOPE, Esq., seconded by WIL LIAM GUTTON, Esq., _ _ It was resolved unanimously— That this Meeting approves of the scientific principle adopted by the Metropolitan Patent Wood-Pavement Company, and feels obliged to Mr. Stevens for his explanation and informa tion on the subject. JOHN HOLMES, Chairman. The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the Chairman for his courteous and efficient conduct in the Chair. Liverpool, May 27, 1840. LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 34, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. Established 1823. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. LOWER RATES of PREMIUMS than those of any other Office that entitle the Assured to participate in the profits. The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon an average to 161. per cent. on the premiums then paid ; and, in 1839, a se eond Bonus was awarded, amounting on the average to 311. per cent. on the premiums paid during the preceding five years. No extra charge for residence in any pert of Europe, nor for proceeding (in a decked, sailing, or steam-vessel) from any one Port thereof to another during peace, to Assurers not being seafaring men by profession. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the world, upon terms proportionate to the risks. Polices on the lives of Persons dying by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of justice, are not void, as respects the interests of Parties to whom they may have been legally assigned. Assurances may be effected on any and every day. By order of the Board of Directors, CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNES, Secretary. E CONOMIC UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSU RANCE COMPANY, $, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. The FIRST SEPTENNIAL DIVISION *1 PROFITS of this COMPANY will be declared in the ensuing year en all Policies of the participating class effected previous to the 31st December, 1840. Parties therefore who wish to insure their lives should avail themselves of the opportunity they now have of sharing in the bonus so soon to be declared, by imme diately making proposals. 'l'he following are the annual premiums fur the assurance of 1001. for the whole period of life, en which half credit may be allowed for five years ; which credit may remain unpaid at 5 per cent. interest, to be deducted at death from the sum in sured : Age. Without Profits. With Profits. 20 so 40 a• Annual premium for assuring 1001. payable at a fixed age, or at death, should it occur before the party attains that age : Age to be attained. Sixty. Sixty-five. Seventy, 20 ...... £2 6 1 £2 2 4 £2 0 0 Age when {3O 3210 .. 915 2 40 4 11 0 4 0 3 3 9 7 assured. 50 Example.—A person aged 20, by paying an annual pre ' mium of 21. becomes entitled to 1001_ on his attaining the age of 70, or to the same sum should he die before arriving at that age. For the convenience of parties residing in the City, they may make their appearance and pass the medical examination before the agents, Edward Frederick Leeks, Esq., 4, Seots-yard, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, and S. F. Youde, Esq., surgeon, l, Old Jewry. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Director, Edward Beyd, EA., $, Waterloo-place. Proposals may Ise accepted on Wednesday at three o'clock, and any ether day appearance may be made at half-past two o'clock, when Frederick _Hale Thomson, Esq., the Cempany's Surgeon, is in attendance. EDWARD LENNOX BOYD, Secretary. _HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE BOUGHT to any amount, in Large or Small Lots, for which ins mediate Cash will be paid. Mr. PROCTOR will give 2s. in the pound more than any person in the kingdom. Send for him ; you will be charged nothing for attendance within 20 miles of London ; he will .eave his price, leaving the sellers to do better if they can. Apply by letter, or per:coolly, at Mr. Proctor's offices, at Mr. Rees's, 6, Ivy-lane, Newgate-street, city. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. ESSRS. s — SLOA N and CO., Member of M the Royal College of Surgeons, 4 , ARGYLL-PLACE, REGENT-STREET, and 28, IRONMONGER-LANE, CHEAPSIDE, may be Consulted from Eight o'Clock in the Morning until Ten at Night, on every variety and stage of Syphilis, with that delicacy and secresy they have hitherto ob served. The treatment they pursue will not subject any patient to confinement or hindrance from business. Cases of an ex treme nature they eradicate in eight or ten days, or if slight or recent in two or three, without the indiscriminate use of mer cury. and at a moderate expense. 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Thus persons of limited means have now an opportunity of securing for themselves a mode of treatment that, whilst it is based on experience, is regulated by the pecu liarities which their own cases and constitutions may require; thereby freeing themselves from the absurdities and dangers that wait upon the trnployment of one kind of medicine for all forms of these diseases, without regard to these essential particulars. _ Great Marlborog7ahni tr fr e o e m t ' sßeevgenentto• street, Apply at -12, from Eight to T en in the mornin in the Evening. O n Sundays in the Morning, but not in tho Evening , Rick-cloth, E B NJAMIN LDGING ION Marquee , Tent, and Flag, Man u f ac t urer, 2, Duke street, Southwark , respectfully yinforms the N o bilit y, G entry, and Agriculturists in ge neral, thathe ha s now rea d y for immediate delivery a quantity of WATERPROOF RICK CLOTHS, both new and second-hand, at a moderate charge. Orders, per post, duly attended to. Address in full, Benjamin Edgington, Marqu ee , T en t, an d Rick Cloth Manufacturer, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. A Warehouse at 208, Piccadilly. JACOB LObfiX— " That these resolutions be advertised in the Bolton Papers, the Manchester Guardian,' the London ' Sun,' and the Leeds Mercury.'" (Signed) ROBERT HEYWOOD, Chairman 3 Bolton, 29th May, 1840. " L?.di,-s and Gentlemen,—l have the honour to appear before you to speak what may be called the epilogue to the season, and to ask, in the usual terms of an epilogue, how you like our plays?' " The question, however, bas already been answered, for we have enjoyed a larger share of public patronage than we had ventured to expect. I do not mean that the season has been largely profitable—l wish I did ; but our receipts have exceeded those of any management for some years past ; and, having safely piloted this national vessel through a first voyage, I see no reason why our second, backed by experience, should not be a prosperous one. " In theatrical, as in domestic economy, good managers, if they cannot increase their income, diminish their ex penditure ; and she is the best housewife who curtails su petfluities without trenching upon the comforts, or even the elegancies of her establishment. To this task I hope to prove equal. " I cannot deny myself the gratification of alluding to the chief feature of the closing season—the unexpected re-appeara nce o f the l a st surviving member of that gifted family whose mental and personal endowments were so long the admiration of all true lovers of the drama. For Mr. Charles tremble's peat and gratuitous services I beg thus publicly to offer hint our most cordial thanks. .4 We cannot always command such first-rate talent, but we have endeavoured, in the representation of plays, to look to the production of an harmonious picture, rather than to the prominence of individual figure. " Poets, it is said, are born poets, and cannot be made so by education. To be classical, Poeta nascitur, non fit. But an actor, ladies and gentlemen, however " nascitur," is outfit until after arduous study and long practice. I pray y on, then, support our national schools, that they may produce you good actors ; for if you withhold that support, in the vain expectation that actors will be formed without it, you will resemble the Irishman who had so great a fear of being drowned that he would never go into the water till he could swim " Until September next, Ladies and Gentlemen, in the name of Mr. Mathews, myself, and the performers gene rally, I respectfully and gratefully bid you farewell." DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF THE PRISONER GOULD AND THE CONDEMNED CONVICT BAILEY TO ESCAPE FROM NEWGATE. However extraordinary and incredible it may appear, it is nevertheless certain that the prisoner Gould, who, it will be remembered, was recently tried for the murder of Mr. Templeman, who but a few days since was again com mitted from Bow-street Police-office, upon the charge of having burglariously entered the house of that deceased gentleman, together with the man Bailey, who is ordered for execution on Monday next for attempted murder oil the high seas, have made a most desperate attempt, in which they nearly succeeded, to escape from the condemned cells of Newgate. This occurrence took place on the night of Sunday last ; but so profound a secret has it been kept by the authorities of the prison, that it was by mere accident our informant happened to elicit the fact, and with difficulty succeeded in obtaining the following circumstances con nected with it:— . On Gould's recommittal to Newgate, and his arrival at the prison, Mr. Cope, the Governor, being cognizant of his desperate character, determined on placing him in the most secure portion of the gaol, namely, in one of the con demned cells. Before proceeding further, it is here ne cessary to state, that since the new mode of prison discip line has been introduced, the condemned cells have been removed from their old position, near the debtors' door, to the further extremity of the prison, adjacent to NeW gate.street. The inmates of those cells have in the day time the privilege of access to a spacious ward on the same floor, the basement, the windows of which, as well as the cells, look into a yard. Prior to Could's recommittal, the convict Bailey, who had received sentence at the previous Sessions, occupied one of these cells, and Gould was placed in the other. It is usual in cases when convicts con demned to death are ordered for execution, that one of the gaolers should keep a constant watch on them to prevent the commission of suicide; but in the case of Bailey, who, by the sentence, stands for execution on Monday next, no special order havir.!_ , been received by the Governor, that regulati on h a d not been adapted. In the day time, and at their meals, Gould and Bailey bad opportu nities of conversing together, and no doubt exists but the theme of their discourse was the means by which their escape could be effected, their attempt hating evidently been preconcerted. On Sunday they attended divine scr vice in the chapel of the prison, and at the usual hour, seven o'clock that evening, they were locked up in their separate cells by the turnkey who had charge of them. He saw nothing whatever in their appearance to excite suspicion. The moment,, however, he quitted the place the operations for the escfape must have been commenced on the part of Gould, who 'it will be seen was the origin ' ator or principal actor in the affair. During the night of Sunday, which, from the torrents of rain that fell, was peculiarly advantageous for such a project, nothing particular was heard by the turnkeys of the prison. About a quarter be tore six o'clock on the following morning, Monday, the turnkeys in charge of the prisoners, as was usual, went to their respective cells, for the pur pose of unlocking them, and on entering the yard, dis covered the iron gratings of the windows of their cells removed from their position and lying on the pave ment, and the windows wide open. An alarm was instantly given throughout the gaol, police were called in, and the roofs of the various portions of the building strictly searched, but no traces of the prisoners were there found, and it was generally supposed they had effected their es cape. Subsequently, on the doors of the cells being opened, both Gould and Bailey were found in one of them in an exhausted condition. They were immediately ae cured with double irons, and removed to separate cells, when a minute examination of the place, and the means by which the escape had been attempted to be effected, was instituted in the presence of the Sheriffa. They first commenced in the cell occupied by the convict Bailey, but saw nothing to lead them to a conclusion as to whether he effected his escape without assistance, except by the cell windows, which had been secured by bars which would defy the power of any person on the inside to remove, and which could only have been so by an extraordinary power from without. Gould's iron grating, enclosing the cell window, was forced out into the yard. By the side of the cell door, which leads to a winding staircase ascending to the roof, a quantity of brickwork, to the extent of nine inches in depth, bad been removed apparently by a piece of iron, which was subsequently found in the cell, about five inches in length ; but it was evident that Gould had relinquished this attempt, finding the wall of such uncommon thickness as to resist his fur ther efforts. He then succeeded in removing the gratings of his window, and on getting into the yard assisted Bailey to do the same. On re-entering the yard a rope was found, which had been constructed out of the rugs and blankets of the prisoners' beds. At one end of this a piece of the iron grating was found attached, which, no doubt, had been used with a view to throw one end of the rope on to the roof ; but the heavy rain having completely satur ated the blankets, it was presumed they had become so heavy as to reader the project impracticable. There can be no doubt but Gould's plan had been well matured. A private Committee is appointed to investigate the matter at Guildhall this day. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. Robert Blunt, M. A., Vicar of Bisham, in Berkshire, to the Vicarage of Belton, in Leicestershire, void by the death of the Rev. I. Eddows. The Rev. William Burdett, B. A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of North Melton, Devon. Patron, the Earl of Morley. The Rev. W. H. Charton, B. A., to the Rectory of St. George with St. Paul, Stamford, on the presentation of the Marquis of Exeter. The Rev. Charles Augustus Thurinw, M. A., incum. bent of St. John's, in Beverley, late Vicar of Sealby, has been presented, by the Marquis of Chelmondeley, to the Rectory of Mslpas, in Cheshire, worth 10001. a-year. We understand that the Rev. Mr. Sharwood, the bro ther-in-law of the Rev. J. E. Riddle, of St. Philip's Church, Leckhampton, has been appointed to be the suc cessor of the Rev. C. G. Davies, minister of St. Paul's Church, in this town.—Cheltenham Chronicle. The Rev. Charles Rodwell Roper, to the Rectory of St. Olave, Exeter, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Richard Ilaync. The Rev. John Brampston, Vicar of Great Baddow, to the living of Witham, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Newman. The Rev. James Cottle, M. A., Incumbent of St James's, Taunton, to the Vicarage of St. Mary Magda lene, in the same town, vacant by the death of the Rev. 11 Bower. The Rev. James Cox, 8.A., Incumbent of Tintwistle, to the Incumbency of Trinity Church, Runcorn. The Vicarage of Huddersfield has been presented to the Rev. Josiah Bateman, ill. A., of Queen's College, Cam bridge, Vicar of Marlborough, nephew and son.in-law of the Bishop of Calcutta. The Rev. John Langfield, to the pelpctu d curacy of St. John's Church, Holme Whalley, Lancashire, void by the resignation of the Rev. R. N. Whitakor. OBITUARY. At Lyrniugton, the Rev. R. D. Mackintosh, 8.A., of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, Curate of Childwall, Lanca shire, eldest sun of Dr. Mackintosh, of Liverpool. The loss sustained at the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's-park, by the oxtensive mortality amongst the monkeys has been nearly repaired from the additions made by gift and purcha s e. The collection was never composed of more than 21 species, and there are now 19 species, the individuals of which are all in health and vigour. SUN.—Bills of Exchange on Paris, it may be recol lected, were snore plentiful on last post-day, owing te the supply received by the Great Western, and many of which bills were no doubt drawn on the strength of re• cent sales of American Securities in the French metro. polis. This afternoon this source appeared to have been dried up, and the rates in consequence had a ten dency to decline, being 25f. 50e. to 25f. 55c. OA Hamburg's the quotation was steady at 13 9 to f, and. on Amsterdam at 12 13 to k ; Antwerp was 12 11 ; Rotterdam 12 ; and Frankfort 1493 to 3. Until late this afternoon the market for public secu rities had a steady appearance, but some sales were then effected, probably with a view to affect the closing prices of the Funds, or materially influence their value on the following day. It was stated, and we be lies e correctly, that the proceeds of these sales, amount ing to about 200,0001., were intended for investment Ai City Bonds. For present transfer Consols declined from 923 to 92i 3, and for the July Account from 93! to 93 and 93 ; ) ; ; Exchequer Bills were firm at a s li g ht 4 0 - provement, viz , 245. to 275. premium ; and ladle Bonds advanced to 2s. to Ls. premium ; Bank Stoek was steady at i 761; ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Half par Cents. fell from 100 - to 99Z-; and the New from 1013 to 101. This temporary reaction is attributable to the approaching closing of the transfer books, prior to which there is generally some fluctuation, owing to the large number of sales and purchases. There was but little disposition to do business in the Foreign Securities this afternoon, the jobb, ra not being very liberally supplied with the needful to carry ever their accounts. Most of the Securities recovered, how ever, from the depression of the morning, and left off at about yesterday's prices. The Active Spanish Bond. rallied from 273 to 253. Portuguese New Five per Cents. from 35 to 353, and Mexican from 31i to 32f. Brazilian were steady at 763; Colombian at 26i, and Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. at 54k. Since the 13th instant Sp.tnish Bonds have fluctuated from 29e to 0 7i ; Portuguese from 3-Q to 353 ; Colombian from 26 to 263 ; and Mexican from 30 to 323• The Share Market was somewhat brisker to-day, but not firm ; some of the Railways having declined, while others improved. The more current prices paid were for the Great Western 30 ; the New 14i ; the London and Birmingham 57 ; the Quarter Shares 233 ; the New 26 ; and the South Western 13t premium ; the Brighton shares realized 41 ; the Croy don Trunk 1 ; the South Eastern and Dover 13 ; the North Midland 6, and the Birmingham and GloucestO 10 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were at 4,i, and the Canada Company's 2} premium. There were no arrivals this afternoon. KINGSTON HOTEL, 5, MARKET-PLACE, AND 13, SCALE-LANE, HULL. MRS. DEAN returns her most grateful ac knowledgments for the liberal patronage hitherto conferred on her, and begs to assure all who may honour her with their support, that ea ery exertion will be made to study their comfort and accommodation. Hot, Cold, Shower, and Vapour Baths, on the premises. N.ls. No charges made for Luggage-room. THE MONTHLY CHRONICLE for JUNE contains 1. The Editor's Room-2. The Final Darkness, by J. E. Reads, Esq., Auth or o f " Italy, " &c.-3. Soc i al Despotism of Austria; the Imprisonment of Andugane-4. Influence of Eloquence on English Freedom ; Lord Chatham, Wilkes-5. General View of Modern Italian Literature-6. Notes of a Tour in Northern Europe, Part 111-7. The Bjarke Mash, from the Norse, by Robert Laing Meason, Esq.-8. Some Re collections of Childhood, No. V-9. Sketches of Spanish Ge nerals; the Baron de los Valles-10. New Books. London; Longman, Orme, and Co. PARLIANIENTARJC /IsioN S. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 29. " CANADA GOV E RNMENT BILL. (In Committee.) Fifty-first Clause (the sum of to be gr an t e d perma nently out of the Consolidated Fund of the Province o f Ca nada, for defraying the expense of services named in ( Sche dule A. ) :—Motion made, and Question proposed, to fill the blank with " 45,000/. :" Afterwards proposed, to fill the blank with " 25,0001. :"—Question put, "'That the blank be filled with `5,0001.:' "—The Committee divided : NORITY—AYES, 14. Ewart, W. Wakley, Thomas Gisbotne, T. I Wood, B Morris, David O'Brien, W. Smith Parker, 11.'1'. Vigors, N. A. Aglionby, H. A. Aglionby, Major Bagge, W. Berkeley, Hon. C. Boldrro, 11. G. Callaghan, D. TELLERS. Hurne, J. Warburton, H. Abercromby, G. It Adam, Sir Charles Alston, Rowland krchbokl, Robert Barron, H. W. Blackburne, I. Bodkin, John James Brotherton, J. Brownrigg, J. 1. Campbell, Sir J. Cavendish, G. H. Chalmers, P. Courtenay, Philip Craig, W G. Darby. George D'Eyncourt, C. T. Douglas, Sir C. Dundas, Sir R. Dundas, David Elliot, Hon. J. E. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Evans, G. Evans, W. Farnham, E. B. Ferguson, Sir Robert Gladstone, W. E. Gordon, Robert Grey, Sir C. Grey. Sir G. Hawkins, J. H. Hindc, J. H. ,JORITY-NOES, Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, T. B. Hodgson, Richard Hope, G. W. Hoskins, K. Howard, E. G. tinwietc. Lord Hughes, W. B. Hurt, krancis Hutton, R. Ingham, Robert Inglis, Sir R. H. Jackson, Serjeant Langdale, lion. C. Marsland. M. Martin, Thomas E. Melgu.d, Lord Morpeth, Viscount Murray A. Noel, W►n. M. ()Terra'', More I'akington, J. & I'arnell, Sir H. Pechell, Captain Pigot, D. R. Ponsonby, C. Price, Sir R Betwdon, J. D. Redington, 'l'. N. Rice, E. B. 88. ltushbrook, Colonel Russel!, Lou.! John Rutherfurd, A. Scholefield, J. Scrope, 0. P. Shaw, Frederick Sheppard, T. Smith, R. Vernon Somerville, Sir W. Stanley. E. J. Stock, Dr. Strickland, Sir G. Stuart, Lord James Stuart, Villiers Style, Sir Charles Tancred, li. W. Teignmouth. Lord Troubridge, Sir Vere, Sir C B. Verner, Colo►iel Vivian, John H. White, A. Wilde, Thomas Williams, W. A. Wood, C. Wood (i. W Wyse, Thomas TELLERS, Parker, J. Tufnell, H. THURSDAY, MAY 26. BONDED CORN. Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Committee be appointed to inquir9 under what restrictions it might be ex pedient to permit Flour to be manufactured in Bond :''—The House divided:— Acland, Sir Thomas Aglionby, H. A. Aglionby, Major Baines, E. Baldwin, C. B. Baring, F. T. Barnard. E. G. Barron, W. H. Bernal. R. Bcwes, T. Blackburne, I. Blake, M. J. Blake, W. J. Bowes, J. Briscoe, J. Brotherton, J. Bustield, W. Callaghan, Daniel Canning, Sir S. Childers, J. W. Clay, W. Clements, Lord Clive, R. H. Collier, J. Colquhoun, J. C. Courtenay, 'U. P. Craig, W. Gibson Currie, Raikes Darlington. Earl of Douglas, Sir C. E. Duncan, Lord Duncombe, 'l'. S. past, James Buller Berton, W. T. Ellice. Rt. Hon. E. Ellis, Wynn Ewart, W. Fielden, J. Finch, Francis Fleetwcod, Sir H. Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. Greg, R. H. Bagge, Wm. , JORITY-AYES, 126. Greig, 1). Pondarves, E. W. Grey, Sir G. Philips, Mark Guest, J. J. Figct, D. It Harcourt, G. G. Power, James Hawes, B. Rawdon, J. D. Heathcoat, John Kier. E. B. Hector, C. J. Roche, W. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Russell, Lord John Heron, Sir R. Salwey, Colonel Hope, Charle.. Scholerield, J. Houstoun, G. Scrope, G. P. Howard, E G. Seale, Sir J. Howard, F. J. Shaw, F. Howard, P. H. Shell, 11. L. Ingham, Robert Shelburn, Lord Irving, John Stanley, E. J. James, Sir Walter Stock, Dr. Johnson, General Strutt, E. Jones, John Stuart, W. Viliers Labouchere, H. Style, Sir Charles Langdale, Hon. C. Teignmouth, Lord Lasculles, W. S. Thompson, Ald. Lincoln, Earl of Thornely, Thomas Lister, E C. Tufnell, Henry Li , ton, E. Verney, Sir H. Lushington, Charles Vigors, N A. Macaulay, T. B. Villiers. Charles P. Marsland, H. Wall, B. Melgund, Lord Waruurton, H. Morris, David Ward, H. G. Muntz, G. P. White, Andrew Norreys, Sir 0. Williams., W. O'Brien, W. S. Williams, W. A. O'Connell, M. J. Wodehouse, Edmond 0 Connor Don Wood. G. W. O'Perrall, More Wood, Colonel T. Parker, John Worsley, Lord Parker, R. T. Wrightson. W. Patten, John Wilson Wynn, C. W. Pattison, J. Yates, John A. Pease, Joseph TIELLERS. Pechell, Captain Hutt, W. Peel, Sir R. , Sanden, Lord Br! I, MINORITY—NOES, Gore, 0. W. Giant, Sir A. C. Hale, R. B. Handley, H. Harcourt, G. M. Henniker, Lord Hodges, T. L. Ingestre, Lord Knatchbuil, Sir E. Knightley, Sir C. Lygon. General Mackenzie, Thomas M'Namara, W. Martin, '1•. B. Maunsell, 1' P. Mc•rdaunt, Sir J. Neeld, Jmepti O'Brien, C. Packe, C. W 54. Palmer, G. Parker, M. Perceval, Hon. G. J. Plumptre, J. P. Pusey, Philip Richards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Round, J. It u hbrooke; Colonel Rushour, Bowles Spry, Sir S. T. Stanley, Edward Vere, Sir C. B. Benett, John Broadley, Henry Brownrigg, J. S. Buller, Sir J. B. Y. Burr, Higford ('odrington, C. W. Darby, George Dunbar, George buncombe, W. Duncombe, A. Du l're, George Eaton, Richard J. Eitcoutt, T. G. B. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Fleming, Admiral FresWield, J. W. Vernier, W. Waddington, H. S , Winnington, 11. TELLEKS. Christopher, R. A Heathco.e, G. J. YORK MINSTER.—A Correspondent suggests that the parties in charge of the building, who no doubt receive ample remuneration, must be very much to blame, that after so many warnings they have not been more att.ntive to their duty whenever any repairs were in progress; and he proposes that a part of the emoluments received by them shall be sequestra ted towards making good the damage. SKETCH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.—" Of Sir Robert Peel we are compelled to say, that it behoves the agricultural interest to watch him closely. lie has bees all his life an advocate of free trade in all matters, excepting the Corn-laws. He has been all his life a champion of the money power, as his Currency Bill of 1819 fatally testifies. He is a man of no great moral courage : and he has, on one memorable occasion, betrayed the party that trusted him as no party, perhaps, ever before trusted any public man. We do not, be it observed, object to Sir Robert Peel, that he changed his opinions. No ; we object to him, that he did not change his opinions, while he did change his policy. The man who be trayed the cause of the Protestant Church, may yet betray the cause of the English agriculturist. Therefore, we repeat, let Sir R. Peel be closely watched—let him not, above all things, be too implicitly trusted !"—Morning Herald. The Madrid letters state that considerable un easiness exists in that capital, in consequence of the Regent's determination to take the young Queen into Catalonia. The Regent has yielded so far to the public voice that she puts oft the journey until Morella falls. FREMASONRY. The Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., will preside at Freemasons' !Tall, at the Annual Festi val of the Aged Masons' Asylum, on the 24th June. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING FAPYILS OF Tills DAY. (From the Morning Herald.) The whole system of British colonial empire has been recently exposed to the severest shocks—a little further pressure, and the fabric may fall to pieces. Few problems in politics can be proposed more difficult of solution than how the Canadas may be most efficiently governed ; yet such has been the influence of misgovernment—lnch the course of recent events—that the task of attetnptiug a so lution may no longer be postponed. Of the various diffi culties that present themselves, the vast extent of the Ca nadian territories—the differenoe of races—and the effect of long-existing animosities, constitute most prominent, although not the only obstacles to the success of the Mi nisterial project. It - has long been apparent that the Ca nadas must be better governed than they have ever yet been—or that they must be abandoned. In Upper Canada a democratic faction has long striven to effect the incor poration of the Canadas into the federal union. In Lower Canada the French inhabitants have for fifty years been anxious to withdraw themselves from the dominion ot Eng land. The weak, vacillating colonial policy adopted is this country has ministered to popular discontent, and to the spirit of democracy in a vast variety of ways : the re, suit is, that the Canadas have, for a long time, been ren dered dailjess valuable as a source of power to the mother county. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) The Bishop of London, in the House of Lords on 'Bats day last, emphatically pledged himself to the doctrine that the Church (21 . England is not founded on liberty of cola. science. It has not been our practice ever to receive im plicitly, as Gospel, the declarations of a clergyman who has so largely and actively mixed himself up with other concerns and discussions than spiritual, as his Lordship of London. The purposes of the partisan soust sometimes taint the predications of thy - Prelate, even when he is most within the limits of his proper sphere. And as a different conception of the Church of England was expressed or implied in the remarks made by two or three usher Pro. lates, on the same occasion, there can be no great pre sumption in our suspecting that the Bishop of London's dogma savours of heresy. If it be received as a feet, we can only say that the Church of England is thereby cont. pletely unprotestantized and denationalized. A church not based on liberty of conscience cannot be a Protestant church. It abjures the very principle of Protestantien, It denounces the Reformers and the Reformation. It forfeits all claims to the property and revenues that are held on the tenure of Protestantism. (From the Morning Advertiser.) We rejoice that Mr. Pigott has, with the sanction of Lord Morpetli, brought in a Bill fur reforming the abuses of the Irish Registration, in defiance of Lord Startler and his boasted majorities. The House of Commons will thus be enabled to choose between oppression and protection— between adherence to the Reform Bill and the first step in a retrograde march towards the exploded system of nomi nation boroughs and Parliamentary irresponsiblity. If, by pz!rseverance in the evil practices of corruption and intimi dation, the principles of Toryism are destined once more to entwine themselves with the administration of public affairs, we doubt whether any amount of prudence in the ascendant party can preserve the peace of the kingdom. The elements of strife and contention are abundant every where, and they have only been kept in subjection by the adoption of a just and popular system of government. The event of a general election might possibly overthrow the present Ministry, and restore the Tories ; but such a result, produced, as it necessarily must be, by the most barefaced interference with the rights and independence of the voters, would be speedily followed either by a political convulsion or by a concession of the Ballot—which the enemies of Ireland bate to their utmost core, but which must be carried sooner or later. TIIE TRAVELLING SEASON.--NOW that the season is at hand for the exercise of those travelling propensi ties which distinguish our countrymen, they will, doubtless, be not a little gratified to learn that an entire new path has been opened and smoothed before them by the work of Mr. Trollope, entitled " A Summer in Brittany." This distant, but easily accessible province of France, is unquestionably the most singular and interesting district belonging to it, and inhabitants, particularly the peasantry, may be said to proecat as curious and suggestive a subject of observation to the student of man, as the fossil remains of extinct roues of beings do to the geologist and physiologist. The picture of Brittany pre sented in the pages of Mr. Trollope, is one of singular novelty and variety, and will certainly attract many travellers to visit the original who would otherwise have directed their steps to more beaten paths. The work is edited by Mrs. Trollope, the most original-minded traveller, as well as writer of our day. THE CELEBRATED CARRIAGE MATCH AT NmwstatticET ix 1750.—A match was made between the Earls of March and Eglinton with Tlieobald Taafe and Andrew Sprowle, Esqrs., for 1,000 guineas. The conditions of the artieles were, to get a carriage with four running wheels, and a person in or upon it, drawn by four horses nineteen miles in one hour. Their Lordships were to give two months' notice what week' it should be done in, and had the liberty of choosing any on e d ay i n that week, ' whieh wage perforeseii on Newmarket Heath, on the 0 9th of August, in fifty three minutes and twentv-seven seconds. The horses were all thorough -bred and trained for running; the twe leaders, including riders, saddles, and harness, carried about eight stone each ; the wheel horses about seven stone each. The carriage, with a boy on it, weighed about twenty-four stone. Therborsts had all bolsters to preserve their shoulders. The traces, by an ingenious contrivance, run into boxes with springs when any of them hung back, to prevent the traces get ting under their legs. A rope went from the further end of the carriage to thepole, and brought back under it to keep the pole steady. By the side of each wheel there were tin cases with oil dr,qping on the axle-tree, to prevent its tiring. The boar placed on it was only to fulfil the articles. 11RE.—SIX: DOUSES DESTROYED —M on _ day, about twelve o'clock noon, a fire broke out . in ono of th e thatched houses in Virgin - sq u a re, latterly \ eitch's-aquar e , Stockbridge. It is not known how it originated—one aunjeo ture being that a squib had been thrown accidentally on the roof ; another that it had commenced within the house, the flame from the hearth having caught some clothes that were hung up to dry. The square is c.lnposed of housea l pf on e story, inhabited chiefly by washerwomen,. and on the side which took fire, the roofs are entirely of thatch. Not ma n y minutes elapsed before the engines were on the spot, but owing to the high wind which prevailed at the time, th e fl ames ex tended along the line with fearful rapidity, and in a short time no fewer than five houses were in a blaze. By way of preen tion, the thatch was torn off a part of the sixth, and a farther breach made in the roof of the seventh, but the conflagration was fortunately got under before reaching the latter. We un derstand that some of the poor inhabitants lost a considerable part of their effects.— Scotsman. TILE FLOODS.—The Scotch papers speak of the occurrence of floods in several places. Though less de. structive than those of 1829, they appear to have been produc tive of much mischief. Happily, there has been no loss of hi* from the inundation. This (lay is published, price 6s. 6(1., cloth, Vol. V. of The MAGAZINE of DOMESTIC ECONOMY. A Number of this useful periodical is piklisised every month, price 6d. The volumes already published contain a mass of useful information not to be met with in any other work. Being stereotyped, any Number or Volume may always be had. London: W. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster-row. BRIGHTON. B ELLE VUE MANSION HOTEL, KING'S ROAD, BRIGHTON. 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