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F,VENING EDITION. On Monday next, ITlce 4s. GL E N C 0 E; or, THE FATE OF THE MACDONALDS. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Edward Moxon, Dover-street. 1417.--- vi ready at all the Booksellers, in 2 vols. Bvo., with 'lllustra tions, price 245. bound, I lEUTENANT WELLSTED'S NEW TRAVELS TO THE CITY OF THE CALIPHS, Along the Shores of the PERSIAN GULF AND THE :MEDITERRANEAN. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough-street. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION, WITH ADD TIONS. a.` o 7l' ready, in 2 cols. Bvo., with Maps and numerous Plates, by Major C. C. MITCHELL, K. H., price 245. bound, R JAMES E. ALEXANDER'S EXCURSIONS IN WESTERN AFRICA, and NARRATIVE of a CAMPAIGN in KA FFIRL AND, an the Staff of the Commander-it-Chief. " This admirable work abounds in subjects of striking interest, both in a national and private point of view. Sir James Alex ander has acquitted himself ably, in all respects, and justifies the selection which was made of him by the discerning patron age of Government." —Messenger. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS LAST NIGHT BUT FIVE OF THE SEASON. TIES EVENING, MAY 23, Will be performed Colman anti Garriek's • CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. Lord Ogle Mr. W. Farren; Lovewell, Mr. G. Vanden /I°ff; Sir John Melville, Mr. Cooper; Sterling, Mr. Bartley; Mrs. Heidelberg. Mrs. C. Jones ; Miss Sterling, Mrs. INsbett ; Inlny, Mts. Walter Lacy ; Betty, Mrs. Order. To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, untitled end founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, lir. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. 'Ones, &c. &c. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second %cies, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 11 .3 Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the perf9rmances to 00 Xnmence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plates for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of see, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had "oil application. Private Boxes to be had - My of Mr. Andrews bookseller 1 . 6 7. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. burtnensity of attraction. Mr. Elton for Six Nights more. Two New Dramas, and Fifth Week of Haine's New Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Woman," the succesb of which has surpassed the most sanguine expectations. THIS EVENING, MAY 23, Will be acted the New Village Trav,edy, entitled ..THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S!, DAUGHTER. Realization of Hocrarth's ceieb:ated " Harlot's Progress." After -hick a New ".'ragic Drama entitled THE CAVALIER; OR, A TA LE OF TRIALS. Hargra.)e, the Cavalier, Mr. Elton. • Te conclude with a New Coinio Drama, called EVERYBODrS RELATION. Supported by the Comic strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. On WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, A GRAND FASHIONABLE MORNING PERFORM ANCE. Doers open at One ; commence at Two. SEVENTEENTH WEEK OF THE GREAT WONDER WORKER. London rings with his fairx-6e Provinces -e-echo it. Who is the principle topic of conversation at every Coterie in the lietropolis? The Wizard of the North. — Have y ou seen him? 11 0.— Chen go.—Sixteen weeks of uninterrupted success have not palled the public appetite : the Temple of Magic is still thronged with miracle-behodingr, auditors, who proclaim him to be the only Wizard extant, and all other assumptions of the N, eromavtic character vain and futile impositions. Do not allow Ilzposto7s, who build upon aoother's foundation, to deceive you ; .g.c. to the fountain-head at once. EIIIEMEER the GREAT and ONLY WIZARD, HE of the NORTH, will. (NI MONDAY, and EViIRY EVENING during the Week, Display his wondrous powers of Divination, Delusion, and Pigital Dexterity ; the whole of which is performed with a snost brilliant, gorgeous apparatus of SOLID SILVER. ?lr. CHARLES SL OMAN, the only ENGLISH. PROVISATORE in the World, who can embody the lan guage of our native land in Extemporaneous Verses on any subject proposed be the audience, provided it be neith er Personal, nor 'Theological, will deliver an Improvisazione, concluding with a Myriorania. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ERUPTION OF HECLA! MONDAY AND THURSDAY. The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have been made during the winter, to increase still further the magnificence this unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with tho roost complete success, fully demonstrated on each Evening of its Exhibition, by the unanimous and ent husiastic delight with which each portion of the gorgeous display was hailed as it pro cesded by the thousands assembled on those occasions. In corn iliance with the expressed wishes of great numbers of the visi tors, it will be repeated on Monday and Thursday, May 25th and 28th, commencing shortly before dusk. The Panoramic Model, Al Fresco. of Mount Hecla, entirely trodaeed by Mr. Danson. the original Artist, is exhibiting lastly from ten till dusk, with the Menagerie, which is now in 4 e:iffiest order, and has lately received many vo?ortant addi tions..... Feeding Hour, Five o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 'laming 14 minutes after 7 I Evening 40 minute, atter 7. Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sox com menced at 30 minutes after Three. 4 rn SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1840. . .r,. , -3A,t „_, . ..,.0-,, y4--44,'*,-..4.-47,q, Ca: 4c,,,,..:Ki.:, ~its-',"..'',71.0.4,.*--iy--4.,-, . ~,, .. A :to-‘t -c-4-1-.:>---..g . :5' .''. ' 2 ~:., . ~ - .0.._ .., --,.* - re _ . In i,11.n. "."-''s---TAWDON: SATTIRDAY, MAY 23, 1840. In the Lords, after a considerable number of peti tions had been presented, the Insane Prisoners' Bill Went through a Committee, with some alterations eug;- gested by the Duke of RictemoND. The Bishop of LLANDAFF, who once had the repu tation of being a better metaphysician than a church man, on presenting a petition for Church Extension; declared that for one Christian establishment which was formed, there were hundred: of an immoral cha racter. The Right Rev. Prelate, being provided with the means of drinking wine, by the extorted produce of the people's labour, intimated that beenhouses were immoral establishments. He never drinks in them, and therefore knows not their value or their character. There is no reason why they may not be as Christian As a Bishop's palace, at which nobody's thirst is gene rally quenched but that of lordly Prelates and their retainers. A short discussion took place as to rating stock in Made to the poor, which was remarkable for a declara tion of Lord PORTMAN, that all the laws relating to this foNject ought to be repealed, and all the property sub jeeeed to the rate set down in one Act, which sensible xenotrk seemed to meet the general approbation of the Leals ; but it will make sad havoc with their Lord abipepreViously passed and honoured laws. rrh, House adjourned at a very early hour. The Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly Bill was with drawn i l l , the Commons. Petitions were, as usual, numerous. Notices were given by Mr. EASTIIOFE of a motion on Church oates for June 2 ; by Lord Eeroe relative to New Zealand on the 26th inst. ; by Mr. EwAwr for the estabrahment of schools of design ; by Sir C. LESION for papers relative to the Cape of Gond Hope ; by Lord MOaPETII of a Bill to amend the Irish regis tration ; and by the A T TORNEY-GENERAL of a Bill, in stead of a clause in the Poor-law Act Amendment Bill, to exempt stock in trade from Poor-rates. Sir G. CLERN brought under the notice of the House the circumstance that Mr. HoESMAN had accepted office on the 18th. but had not vacated his seat till the 2l at.. As he got no particular satisfaction, he is to re peat his question on Tuesday. Mr. AGLIONBY asked some questions about Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNNOR, which drew from Mr. MAULE the information that he was sent to York Castle by the sentence of the Judges, with which the Homo-office had nothing to do, and that Mr. O'CoNNoR would be subjected to the rules of the Visiting Justices. In reply to Lord SANDON, Mr. LAROUCHERE stated that the rule followed by the Board of Trade was not to grant any privileges to a Company for steam-boats which could not be obtained for individuals. In reply to Lord INGESTRIE, Admiral ADAM stated that G o vernment had received no official account of the discovery of the North West passage. Lord STANLEY, in moving the Order of the Day for the Committee on his Bill, fixed the 4th of June for the further discussion of it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after making some observa tions on the business of the House, said that be intended to lay before the House, on Tuesday, his Bill for the Registration of Voters ; and the Solicitor-General for Ireland would move for leave to bring in a Bill relative to the registration of voters in Ireland. and be should ',Press it an the House to decide which of the registration Measures it would prefer. We are sorry to see the Nobl e Lord taunted by the T o ries into doing what he did not intend immediately to do. The registration is not a cryi ng evil, and can wait. There are oilier evils of far greater moment, of which the Gros-eminent has not yet undertaken the cure. The z ule-ct was closed by a little squabble amongst the Irish 7,secrebers. On the motion for the second reading of the Cus toms Duties Bill, Mr. HERRIES called attention to the injustice that was do,e to the dealers in rough rice. Mr. WenounToN objected to the timh'r duties. Mr.WrwArds opposed thuall, us continuing an LIPjUSt system of taxation, and moved that the Bill be read a second time in tix nlontbs. Mr. HUME seconded the motion, and complained both of the system of taxation and of the extravagance of the flovernment. After a ,slebite, the second reading was corriel by 107 to 15, the Tories voting fir taxation, and the Ra dicals veiling against it. Nothing else of importance was done, and a'. half past eleven the House adjourned till Tuesday. The Times of yesterday contained an account of a pew contrivance, called by the strange name of the " f;:r the protection of life and pro perty, from destruction by fire, thieves, or murde rers. It is described as a kind of clock, operated on by strings or wires, and so sensitive, that at the slightest disturbance of its mechanism, it begins to strike an Alarum, and pouts forth for a quarter of an hour a peal that would waken the soundest sleeper, and frighten the most determined depredator. It has also the extraordinary merit that its clapper is set agoing on a considerable increase of tempera ture, so that it will warn the inmates of a house and a neighbourhood against fire as well as against thieves. We very much admire the ingenuity manifested in the contrivance, but we deplore much more the state of society which requires such pre cautions. The Indians, when engaged in war, and obliged to watch lest they be scalped, trusting, as they do, when assailed, to their own right arm for protection, live not subject to more alarm and terror than many of the inhabitants of London. There are many houses in the metropolis which shake throughout when any body moves heavily in them, and in such houses, provided with a Biophulax, a child could not tumble out of bed, nor a person hasten unthinkingly down stairs in the dark, without setting the Alarum in motion, and waking all the inmates and all the neighbourhood with the dread that they were at once to be robbed and murdered. Such a cure is worse than the dis ease. It is buying security, if the Alarum can give security, with worse evils than a condition of open warfare. Our Paper yesterday contained an abridgement of the evidence given on the Coroner's inquest on the gamekeeper who was shot by his master at Roundhay. On that occasion the gamekeeper was very near shooting his master and his fellow-ser vant, and three persons might have been sacrificed, as one was, to the apprehension that the lives and property of Mr. NICHOLSON and his family were not in safety. The employment of a gamekeeper or watchman to prowl about in the grounds and pre vent depredation, is another species of ALARUAI, which may buy security at too dear a rate, and may brine , on people the very worst evils they can ever dread. We scarcely extend the analogy too far when we say that the armed police pacing through our streets and scattered over the country, that the perpetual interference of the Magistrates with the concerns of individuals, that the numerous laws made to repress and punish petty offences, and the sharp but costly penalties appropriated to them, are another species of ALARUM, constituting a mass of real evils greater than the imaginary or merely apprehended evils they are intended to prevent. At any rate these multi plied precautions, these cares by individuals and the public to guard life and property—which are not, at the same time, very successful—bespeak a condition of society which demands serious investi gre ation. We live as if we were surrounded by our enemies, and in a state of war. We are not as brethren or fellows of one community—for the mem bers of the Same tribe of savages war not on each other,—but we are as deadly foes, who can only be kept from each other's throats by the sword of some superior power. Some persons, setting out from the notion that the ALMIGHTY has created man weak and wicked, conclude that the great increase of crimes of which we complain is the result of the multiplication of mankind. Such a notion is beat down by the cer tain fact, that man has grown more humane as society has advanced, and has taught humanity to the lawmakers themselves. Individual dependence is the palpable result of the increase of population, and that single change necessarily tends to extin guish the angry, arrogant, and bloodthirsty passions which prevail amongst scattered savages. With the increase of population, too, there has grown up certain habits and certain inventions which may be said to constitute a natural police. The diversified occupations of civilized life send abroad at all hours some of the honest and indus trious portion of the community. The mail coach is always running ; the streets are no sooner de serted by those who go home after the business or pleasures of one day, than they are occupied by those who crowd to the markets to sup ply the wants of the neat. The houses are no sooner closed which are required by those who labour or take pleasure in the evening, than others are opened to do some kind service for those who commence their work with the dawn. The compositors, reporters, and editors of the Morn ing Papers, as they retire to rest, meet bricklayers and milk-girls going to their early labours. In con junction with this succession of the industrious and honest classes who never wholly desert our streets, the invention of gas supplies us with a perpetual light, so that civilized man lives, as it were, under an ever-watchful eye. He is rarely shrouded in darkness, rarely in solitude, and unless it can be supposed that the great majority of society are scoundrels, which is incompatible with its continu ance, all these circumstances, which are attendant on an increase of population, are favourable to vir tue and favourable to the security both of person and property. This continual presence of the honest and indus rious classes in every place constitutes a kind of natural police. Besides this the line of roads con fining individuals to certain places, the turnpike gates through which they must pass, or the rail way station whither they must go to proceed to any distant spot, all supply what may be called natural facilities for knowing whence persons come and whither they go, so as to prevent evasion. They compel rogues to travel in honest company ; they almost make them give an acount of themselves ; thee keep a register, as it were, of travellers, and serve to detect a vil lain or prevent his escape. We do but glance at circumstances, many of which every man may trace for himself, for they fall un der every man's observation, which seem to rebut the opinion that the great increase of crimes which plagues society is caused by the increase of people. 'What, then, may be asked, is the cause? We may be unable to find it out, though able to prove that some of the causes usually assigned are erroneous. We will not, however, begin such an investigation at the tail of a long article. We will conclude as we began, by putting it to our readers whether the supposed security to be obtained by alarums, prowling gamekeepers, armed policemen, meddling Magistrates, and all our present cumbrous and not very successful contrivances, be not real evils, equal in magnitude to our worst appre iensions ? The analysis we offered to our readers on Tues day, which reduced the element of offence in all libel cases to damage done to some indivi duals, forced us to conclude that the only per sons who could possibly be injured by what is called a blasphemous libel are the priests ; and they are only injured, in so far as their authority may be weakened by attacks on the doctrines they teach. It also forced the conclusion on us, that the law was required to uphold the authority of the priesthood. We beg our readers will connect this with the demand of the priesthood for Church Ex tension. First, the State builds up and endows the Church ; next, it enlarges it ; and, thirdly, it punishes those who speak against the authority of the priesthood. It is clear, therefore, that the 1 Anglican priesthood and their Church have no other foundation to rest on, no other hold of the hearts and affections of the people, than the de crees of the Parliament. However much some persons may boast of that Church, it is only a bastard kind of Papacy. It was put together out of the fragments of Romanism, as they w ere spared by the Royal authority. It was modelled after the Roman Catholic Church, and retains many of its most reprobated features. For example, that striking feature, which Mr. HUME'S amendment makes so manifest, of the superior orders of the priesthood wasting the wealth of the Church while the work is done by badly paid infe riors, was very prominent in the Roman Catholic Church before the Reformation, and still is in those countris where it yet prevails in anything like its pristine splendour. That feature seems very early to have attracted the attention of Church Reformers in England, though it has since grown more ugly than ever, for the following description of it occurs in the third volume of Homes History in speaking of the reign of HENRY IV.:--- The Commons were not discouraged by this re pulse, in the eleventh of the King they returned to the charge with more zeal than before. They ma de a calculation of all the ecclesiastical revenues, whi.h, by their account amounted to 485,000 marks a ; yeor, and contained 18,400 ploughs of land. They prc ., posed to divide this property among fifteen new Earle, 1 500 Knights, 6,000 Esquires, and 100 hospitals, besides 20,000/. a-}car which the 'Ong might takf. for his own use ; and they insi:,;ted that the tier ical ,functions would he better performed than at present, by 15 000 parish pri es N, paid at the rate of seven marks a piece 01 yeartu stipend, 1 This application was accompanied with an adclres for mitigating the stAutes enacted against the LoHarris, whi,:h shows from what source the address came. The King gave the Commons a severe reply; and further to satisfy the Church, and to prove that he was quite in earnest, he ordered a Lollard to be burned before the dissolution of Parliament." This is an exact picture of the present circum stances of the priesthood. All their duties might be performed, as the Commons in the time of HENRY IV. thought, for the fourth part of their revenue ; but the cormorants of the Church then swal lowed up three-fourths of that which was set apart for the religions instruction of the people, and ~neo let-d their duties ; for the Commons said the e, - cle rical functions would be better performed by abolish ing the rich benefices and reducing the scale of emolument to a Presbyterian simplicity. Nor is the feature of persecution wanting. Change but the burning of a Lollard into an imprisonment for a libel, and the circumstances are exactly the same. If not the QUEEN, yet the Ministers, to show that they are in earnest, as they must be after the Bishop of EXETER'S address, have burned th :ir Lollard before the dissolution of Parliament. The House of Commons by its recent decisio n in the cases of Ludlow and Cambridge, issuing writs in the face of proved corruption and bribery, invited a repetition of those infamous practices, and its invitation has been promptly accepted. Both Ludlow and Cambridge, we can state on excellent authority, have been carried by bribery, and evi dence sufficient of the fact has been obtained to warrant a petition to Parliament in each case. The Tories will not be allowed to occupy their seats uncontested, but should they be unseated, the House of Commons, so tender of offences which touch Hon. Members—though so angry about a little imaginary corruption in Ireland, will no doubt again treat the offence as venal, and not think of disfranchising the corrupt electors. It gives us great satisfaction to hear, and we hope it will be proved, that the Retormers in both cases resolutely refused to buy a single vote ; for it is better to lose all, save honour, than to lose honour, the fountain of all moral victories. We ate not indeed surprised at the conduct of the Tories. To their agents, who run no risk, the contests are a golden harvest ; to themselves, if they gain, the result is a rich reward. A few corrupt scoundrels in one or two boroughs may now decide the majority in the House of Com mons, and one or two corrupt Members in the House of Commons may decide the momentary fate of the empire ; so that the whole nation, unless the honest portion of the population bestir themselves, and put down the shameful corruption, is at the mercy of a few knaves in Parliament and out of Parliament. The Mon tear of Thursday, which we have re ceived, together with the other Paris Journals of the sar , :e date, contains the following telegraphic despatch from French Africa : TOIMON, MAY 20, 1840. TENIAII DE MOUZAIA, MAY 13. 'MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINLSTER CF WAR. The pass of Mouzaia was carried yesterday by the army, after a brilliant engagement with all the troops of Abd-el kader. The army is now constructing the road which is to lead to Mcdeah. Our losses have not been censidt:rable. The Princes are in good health. By occupying the pass of Mouzaia the French army shuts out the Arabs from the plain of Mitidja. It is the only pass of the mountains of the lesser Atlas; is 3,000 feet above the level of the sea; of rugged and difficult approach ; and at the summit not quite 400 yards wide. This pass was thrice before in the possession of the French, but for some reason or other to us inexplicable they neglected to fortify it. The first occupation of it was by Mar- i shal CLAUSEL in IS3I, at a cost of 200 men killed ; after which it was successively crossed by Generals BOYER and BERTHEZENE. The Na tional, in commenting upon this despatch, recom mends the removal of Marshal VALLEE, but dis approves of replacing him by Marshal CLAUSEL. VVe entirely agree with our - Gallican contemporary, Marshal CLAUSEL is not fit to be trusted with the civil administrative functions of any colony. All the world knows him to be a brave soldier, but his past career in Africa must ever blast his preten sions to the honest administration of the duties of a Governor. The Bank of France's Charter Renewal Bill was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on Wed nesday. On Thursday the Chamber proceeded to vote it article by article, and when the post left Paris the following eight articles had been agreed to : Art. 1. The privilege granted to the Bank of Frazee, by the laws of the 24th Germinal, year 11, and 22d April, 1806, is prolonged to the 21st December, 1867. it may however, cease or be modified on the 31st December, 1855, if so ordered by a law voted in one of the two Sessions pre ceding that period. Art. 2. The capital of the Bank of France, represented by the sum of 67,900 shares, of I,ooof. each, cannot be increated or diminished, except by an express law. Art. 3. All public securities in France shall be consi dered a sufficient guarantee, as provided by Art. 12 of the decree of January, 1808. Art. 4. The Bank discounts shall be continued every day, with the exception of Sundays and holiday s. Art. 5. The Minister of Finance shall publish a quar terly statement of the average affairs of the Bank, and every six months a detailed account of the operations dur ing that period. Art. 6. The discount offices of the Bank of France cannot be suppressed, except by royal ordonnance, or at the request of the general council. Art. 7. The Bank shall be authorised to make certain modifications in accordance with the decree of the 18th of May, 1808. Art. 8. No prOvincial bank can be established withou an express law for that purpose, and the banks now cx stine•b cannot obtain an extension of their privilege, ex ceptby a special law. The Toulon Correspondent of tho Connizerce states that the Lamer steamer, arrived on the night of the 16th inst., from Naples, with im portant despatches, which were instantly forwarded to Paris. It is rumoured that the KING was as averse as before to the payment of an indemnity to Great Britain, and it was thought that the media tion of France would prove unavailing. Three English ships of war, and one French ship of the line sere off Naples, watching the progress of the negotiations. t Letters from the Spanish frontier state that CABRERA has thrown himself into Morella. BOIRISE.—PARIS, TiIUIISDAY, MAY 21, t irst liiighest Lowest Last Price l'rice. Price Price 'rend) 5 per Centc ll5 (if)... 115 75 ... 115 50 ... 1 1 5 15 4),4 per cents._ lll 5J ... 111 50 ... 111 50 ... 111 50 4 per Cents lO5 ... )95 ... 105 ... it 3 per Cents B4 90 _. 81 90 ... BI SO ... 8-1 90 Bank of France 3395 ...3450 ...2395 ...315 , 1 Laltitte. Bank 1,0001. Sh llOO ...110C ...MO ...11 1 0 5,090 f. Sh 5 2 ,1) ...5202 50 ...52 , 3 ..5.2.:,./ s'l Belgian Bank 9.2 50 ... 905 ... 1102 50 ... 95)5 b per Cents 10334 ... 10.1 g. ... 103 ... 103 1 ,4 3 uer Cents 75 75 ... 79 ... 75 75 ... 70 New York 92 5 ... 92 5 ... 92 5 ... 92 5 Ohio 10.3 10 ... 10:3 10 ... 103 It) ... 103 10 State of New York United. States Bank Loan 9B ... 93 ... 93 ... 93 Dutch 2% per Cents 54t.; ... .51 , -; ... 5156 ... 54 , .; Siniitish Active 29t4 ... 29 3 4 ... '..i1) , ,‘ ... 9?.. Passive 7% ••• 7 % ••• 7 % ... ;% Neapolitan 1101nar 103)., ... 1t3% ... 1C35 ... 10„; RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, It. B l'4s ... 575 ... 570 ... 570 L.B. 3Bl 25 ... :81 25 ... `.8!) ... .51 95 Orleans .. NB 75 ... 5151 ... bi,B 75 ... 510 Hontpellier to Cette B.rasburc, to Bale 4ll 25 ... 411 25 ... 41 1 '25 ... 411 25 ____ German and Brussels Papers of the late4t uates have reached us. In a letter from Galatz, in Wal lachia of the 2d inst., we find a further confirmation of the destruction of nine of the Russian garrisons on the Circassian coast. Only two remained, and they were menaced by 20,000 gallant mountaineers, burning with vengeance against the invaders of their country. - The EMPEROR had ordered 10,000 troops to be embarked at Odessa to defend Anapa and Soudjouk Kale—all that now remains of the Circassian conquests of the Autocrat : BERLIN, May 14 . — His Excellency, the Minister of State, Von Altenstein , died this morning at one o'clock, after l incurable.suf feringong from a disorder which hi s i n fi rm i t i es rendered The Minister, Von Nayler, and the Master of the Household, Von Sehilden, were present at his last moments. He was not fully seventy years of age. HAMBURGII, MAY 17.—Count WOTORZOW and family ' ' have arrived here from St. Pctcrsburgh. BIMILIN, MAY 17.—M. Herman Henoch has published a notice in one of the journals that domiciliary visits bad been made in his house, and that of his father and other re!atives in Bcrlia and Giessen, at the instauce of the examining judge at Bonn, under the pretext of his having abstracted affects to the value of $6,000 from the estate of A. H. Welff, bankrupt at Bonn. fie declares that he shall take legal proceedings against the author or authors of this measure, and against all those who propagated false reports respecting him and his family. General Von Borste ll has obtained his discharge f rom the Prussian service, w i t h the rank of Field Ma.t EL HAMEURGII, MAY 19.—The Duke of Brunswick sm, out on th e 13th, for southern G erman y , and p erha ps will go to I'alV• He will be several months absent. The Estates of Brunswick are adjourned to the Ist cf January. The issue of paper currency has been rejected. burgh Papers, May 19. FROM TILE WESER, MAY 10.--- The Magistrates of the town of Hameln have app!ie;l to the German Diet, rc questing it to be rleascd to issue an interpretation of i ts resolution of the S•J - 1 of September, 1830, and to declare whether by this resolution the constitution of the year 1819 is to be recognised as the sole valid foundation of the laws in the kingdom of Hanover, and in consequence, the abolition of the constitution of September 20, 1833„ to be considered as having legal force ; or whether the said resolution Was. not intended to decide on the validity of either constitutions. OELG lAN EU NDS--iBRUSSELS, MAY 5.'0. Actual Debt, 'A', per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant •ll2lfi Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ---------- 3 per Cent. 71,14 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, ilYiper Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent B3 National Seciety .... Exchange on Londola (short) —Brussels Papers, May 20. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 16. Bals. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares - An .10-Itussian Lea!, • Into% iO9 1., Rossi: 11 5 per Cent. Ist bertes, Certificate Inseription, Ist Seriei lO2 Rusrian 5 per Cent. Hop. and Co. &l and 4th Sefics — 9: - . 1 44 Ditto in Certificates - gig, 0 : - - 11 Dutch Actual Debt, 21;, per Cent 52.' Ditto 5 per Cent 'il ) Pons') Bonita Nog ''icket Anglo- 04trisli Loan, 3 per Ceti , Norwegian Lean, 1s:14, 4 per Cent... ...... Spanish, New 1 per Cents.... ..•..... ....a 21)4 EXCHANGES (..7 LONDON. HAN/BURG, MAY 1 , .--13. sk—Two months, 13 4. PETEIISISURGII, MAY 8.---Two months, 3'44 pence STOCKHOLM, WAN* 12 .—Seventy-five days, 12, it!, CiIItISTIANiA. MAY It—Three months, 4 LO. LEIPSIC. MAY I \—Two mo ths, C. 1334. Beau:4, MAY 16, -Three months, 6. WA. . AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEZiIIA, MAY 12. five per Cents. Metailiques Fear per Cents. Three par Cents. . S 2 y, Bank Shares .....,.. .......... —Allgemeine Zritung, May 17 REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER. — This popu lous borough, which long made such a noise in the political world, and was alike remarkable for riots, con tested elections, and violent, sometimes eloquent, repre sentatives, h-ie since the Reftirm Bill almost sunk into - , obscurity. For years it has been treated by its Repre sentatives like an old rotten borough. They go and come as they please--- . -vote or not as suits. their conve nience, and the gentle end accommodating electors take all in good part. 8ef0...e Burdett threw off his old Ra d:cal mantle and declared himself a Tory, he was absent from the House Session after Session. Ccl. Evans at the same time performed his Parliamentary duty in Spain, and when a question of vital importance to the sister kingdom was decided against the Liberal party the other night. The Gallant Representative of Westmin ster was again abroad on pleasure, or personal affairs. and the borough left to shift with one Member. Lord Howick and Mr. C. Wood are not, it is said, wholly lost. They showed strong signs of shame after the division, from which it is inferred that they may yet repent. Instead of walking boldly and erect out of the House, which might be expected of men who had fought a good fight and gained a great victory, they sneaked up through the gallery and so stoic away from the cheers which awaited them. Tory honours sit ill on the brow of a Grey, and the Representative of the Reformers of Halifax could not brave the frowns of the Reformers of the House of Commons. We can, on same occasions, readily excuse a staunch Reformer like Mr. Swynfen Jervis for not voting with the Ministers, but the division on Lord Stanley's motion was on a question of principle. The most determined Radicals who have on other oc casions voted against the Ministers, such as Mr. Leader and Sir William Molesworth, voted with them, and it was not creditable in Mr. Jervis to have walked out of the House. The Hon. Member is a votary of the muses, hut he ought not to allow. than to carry him off from the service of his constituents. The leading articles in the Morning Journals are destitute of interest except to those personally con cerned. Recrimination and abuse are the prevailing themes. The Times sneers at Ministers for not resign ing—the Chronicle abuses the Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Agriculture for putting forth a dishonest document—the Morning Post denoimces Mr. Horsmen es " a thorough place-hunting back"—the .tiforning, Advertiser attacks mercilessly the whole mo derate clergy in Scotland, as they would, if they could, be the " ruin of the Kirk"—and the Morning Herald calls the Globe a " ministerial Zany," " the dullest of Daily Journals," " the afflicted and grinning Globe," and the political " Jerry Abershaw." MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.--The trans actions this week are light, the demand continuing mode rate ; but as there had not been much disposition to press saps, prices of American descriptions have remained pretty steady. In Brazil there is a further decline of id. per lb., and for Surat it is difficult to obtain last k's quotations. At public auction to-day 1,236 Sea Islands were offered, and 162 Surat; but as buyers were not dis posed to give the previous current rates (though since the sale a few of the lots have been sold upon that scale) only 90 of the former were sold, at 121 d. to 184 d. and 20 of the latter at 6a. to Bid. The Surat (230 bales) were taken in at 40. being bid. Exporters have taken 2,500 Mu rcia), and reeculators 2,000 bales. 2,400 bales of Surat (Madras) are declared for auction on Friday, June 5. The sales to-day arc about 4,000 bales of all kinds. The Hamburgh mail has arrived of the date of the 19th of May. Exchange on London 13 51 short. Gold has get up to 431, being 2s. higher than the last arrival. Metalliques 1088, Bank Shares 1,855. " The Second Chamber of the States General adopted yesterday evening the Budget of Expenses by 32 votes against 22, and that of Ways and Means by 33 against 21. The debates were very long," BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 19._The vote of the Budget had a favourable effect on the national funds, and most of the prices were higher, and remained firm. The actions of the Society of Commerce were rather flat, owing to several sales being made, which caused them to fall from 1811 to 1801. The receding of these funds pre vented that of the National from getting up at the closing of the bourse. The prices continued firm, and it is ex pected that the adoption of the Budget will have a favour. able influeneelon the Foreign Funds. Ardouins remain without any variation. Dutch Funds, Two and-a-Half per Cents. 514 ; Five per Cents. 100 346: THE FUNDS. Consols are not quite so good as they left off yesterday. at 921 i, for the Account; at present 92i- both for Mo ney and the Account; for the July Account, 93 to 93i; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prom ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 176 177 ; India Stock, 251 253; - . In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active a little better, 25.8- : 1 ,, ; Diferred, 13. a 0; Passive, 71 1 ,- it; Portuguese, 35+ A: Three:per Cents., 24* i ; Colombian, 26 . 1 i i i; Mexican. 31i 32i : Brazilian, 7.5 i 76 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5441 i; Five per Cents., 1011 i. Shares, Real del Monte, 3i 6:1; (,rest Western, 20- 2 7i p r om ; London and Brighton, 41; 4 die. ; Blackv:all, 2i prem. ; Birmingham, 86 88 prem, ; Southampton, 521 53i per share. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1761 I India Stock ... ...... ..• - 3 per Cent.lled 9lii Ditto Bonds ...... 31 4 pm. 3 per Cents. Con. - 3i per Cent. - Ditto !led ' 99E1 100 New Ditto - New 31 i per Cent. loli 1 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - New 5 per Cent. - Exch. 8i115,1,000/. ... 25 pm. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. ... 25 pin. Jan. 5, 1860... 13 13-161 Ditto Small ...... ... 25 pm. Oct. 10, 1859....13 11-16 k Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860. ..... 14 Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880. - Bank Stock for Acct... - April 5, 1880. ... - India Stock for Acct... 253 Jan. 5, 1870. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Augtritin Bonds - Peruvian Bond , . . - Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds - Brazilian Bonds - Ditto New Bonds ... - Ditto Account - Buenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per Cent ... - Ditto Aceount - Ditto Account 24; Cbilian Bonds - Prussian Bonds ..... ..• - Ditto Account - Russian Bonds, 1822 ... - Columbian Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Account. - Ditto Melanie ...... - Columbian Bonds, 1824 - Spanish Bonds .. 2.Stli Ditto Account - Ditto Acco u n t 28.4 Danish Bonds ••• 794 , Passive Ditto Acc0unt........ - Defer rod l3ia Greek Bonds ... ......... -- French,s per cent... -f. _c, Ditto Bonds, 1825.... - — 7 - 4 per cent-. -f. -c. Ditto Acc0unt......... - 3 per cent... -f. --c• 51exicanBonds,5 per cent Exchange .. 271 Dutch, 2i p e r cer: - . f. .54 . 14 . Ditto Account ...... ...Ditto Account Ditto 5 per cent 544 Ditto,6 per Cent...... . - - Ditto ' Account Ditto Account ...... ... - 101 Neapolitan ............. . PRICES OF SHARES A THIS DAY TO. THIS s. d. NE Paid. Per Share. RAILWAYS. to Hull and Selby . ............... ...... 40_ .... 3 3 0 7 i, London and Brighton ............ . 6 35 0 ..... - 2 - ... to 30 84 - Manchester and Leeds ..•••••••• JOINT STOCK BANKS. . --- Australasia .......................... tt! ) .......... 6 0 45 to - Provincial of Ireland ............... . . r) HSI , 01 , EXCHANOK 2 k..Y i'mulAy, co- --- • 4 1 o ibra:::. .. •"': g 1 'Le ......m...:.:::. . ditto, at :iight .............. 1,2 oiltienoa., ~...............:::..% 25 75 Rotta.krr.....• ............ 12 4y, i Milan ... ...1., ...., ~ : 0 ! Antwerp... .................. 13 12 Venice ,... ..... ~......•••, 47 A ll i a t r ot u . r .. g . .. :::::::.. .......... 2 1 5 3 4320 • }4 ll N 'a z i l c"rm i" o ... Paris , 3 d a y esight .... iis. • 25 f 6 Limcn ...,...................„ .„, ' 54 61 ,1:11-11rt.coe.i.i.iel.... ........................ .. .. 2.1 9 I 0 i gr i t a 0 n . e . 1 . 1., ..........: ..... •,.'••4 - 4 Vi 1. v Bounteous ............... ... _:2b:i.9.., i 8ahia............. Frankfort on Main,,,pi s l' . 7- 3 11r i ieuos Ayel, . ~...., g 3 inirisiln.iy...h.,..7bl.c; .... : 3 .. 1 ,1 . 17.1 05 1 Nrie,wll,ll(.4.o:ppl,n.ta , ,,t ~...1.:,..y....6„.....1;:i:.t zi4 1. T V ,d r i , e i , Es r n t i c d a .. .... l i . d e . ........................ .............. ........ .. ~ t _li i. Ii l'.,li.lpC Portage . l' .ti , 1 i.:.,,,1. t 13 1, 1: : : ) ,./.2t.t:z%::iv - e4 t.,: 4 6% tit CAT nembLiti , 23 • ......,.. !I t I I, i r.ign t•-• 1 ••!uais... 3 17 10% CAdiz..... ..................... 1 - i_ _ 8i11=0:t..... . .................... _ s, 1 .sw Do .... no N... .Ists ~„.„" 0 41f Barcelona ....... ... ....... ~m . Seville ................... auxs Silver --. .:.;its -....-..."*". 0 5 ii HALF-PAST ONE. Money, which was very scarce in the course of afternoon of yesterday, and lent at 6,7, and 8 per cent. , may be obtained this morning in the House at 5 to öf per cent. The only feature worth noticing i s n the Con so l M ar k et , to the prescnt time, is a sale of mall amount of NeW Three-and-a-Half per Cents, ; in other respects it has been a blank day for speculation. The weather being thin of its m em b ers, w h o a r e fine, the House is g ettin g retiring into the country. Consols may be quoted at one o'clock for the 26th inst., at 92 ; foi -- Money 94; Excheque r Bill s , 25 ,3,5 prem. ; , India - Bonds, 3, 1, 4 prem. ;• Bank Stock, 1764 ; India Stock, 2531. In the Forbign Market, little doing. Spanish Aetivi.'t 284 ; Deferred. 13N ; Passive, 7-4- ; Portu g uese Three per Cents„ ; - Brazilian 76 ; Mexican,,24; Dutch Two•atid.a-Half per Cents., 544; Five per Cents., 1011. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) THE MURDER OF LORD WM. RUSSELL. RE-EXAMINATION OF COURVOISIER. This morning the examination of Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, charged with the wilful murder of his master, Lord William Russell, was le3umed. Mr. HALL, the Magistrate, took his seat upon the Bench shortly after ten o'clock, and the prisoner was almost im mediately afterwards placed at the bar. He appeared pale but collected, and more firm than yesterday. Mr. Nobler, assisted by Mr. Wing, the Solicitor to the Duke of Bedford, attended as usual for the prosecutor, and Mr. Flower for the prisoner. There were several gen- amen on the Bench, among: whom we - observed the Earl • of Clarendon and the Earl of Mansfield. The Court was quite as crowded as on any former occasion. Before the prisoner was placed at the bar, Mr. l-losler handed a sealed letter to the Magistrate, which he stated hid been left at Lord William Russell's, addressed to the prisoner. Mr. HALL (handing the letter to Mr. Flower) said that it was not desired to read any private communication, but under the circumstances it would be advisable that some person should be with the prisoner when he opened it. It appeared genuine, as it had the foreign post-mark. Mr. Flo.aer assented to this arrangement. The first witness edited was Inspector Pearce, r: divi sion of police—l went to Lord Wm. Russell's on the 6th May. I went into his Lordship's bedroom with"lnspector Tedman, and saw his Lordship dead. I then went down stairs; and saw the prisoner in the parlour. He was pointed out to me. I asked him if he was the valet, and he said yes. I then went to the pantry ; the door of the safe was pointed out to me by Inspector Tedman as having been broken open. I then examined it, and saw the mark of two implements that had been used to force it open, one v.as a pointed instrument, and the other a large round mark, which appeared as it the round instru ment had been put into wrench the door open; it had in jured the wood, and had left a round black mark on it. I found on a bench in the pantry the screw-driver produced, and I applied the point of it to the mark in the wood, and it fitted the mark with the greatest nicety. It was on the following morning ( Thursday) that I found these things so the pantry. I then found in the fire-place in the same room, near the safe, the tongs produced, and I compared the point of the tongs with the round mark I have described, which also fitted. There are four drawers in the same safe, the top one of which was also broken open. There is a mark of an instrument having been applied be tween the drawer and the frame, just in the centre of the drawer, and the chisel produced 1 applied to the mark, and the chisel will make such a mark, but I cannot speak so positively. The chisel I found on a bench in the same room on the evening of Wednesday. On Wednesday I. noticed the back area door, and saw that great violeace had been used to it, but examined it on the following morn ing. The door is a common ledge door, and there are two bolts, one at the top and the other at the bottom. I noticed that the socket of the top bolt was hanging by one nail ; the upper nail and another nail I found on the ground near the door ; it was bent, as it appears now. The bottom bolt was rusted in so that it could not be moved to bolt the door with, and on examin ing that socket I found that it had been started recently from its position by some instrument put into the socket, and force had been used from within to wrench it off. There was the mark of the point of a blunt instrument on the door post, about half an inch beyond the socket. There had evidently been some instrument applied to the upper socket, and it had been so applied when the door was open. On putting the door to and bolting it at the tea, there was a space of about lull an inch from the bolt to the wood work, so that the bolt could not touch the weed; but there were maths of great pressure on the wood, the woad havinar been driven back under the socket, and at the edge of the door Test, in a line with it, the wood being indented. It was evidently recently done, the wood being fresh, and 'there was a black mark which ep peered to have been made by the instrument used to wrench the socket off the doer. It had evidently been applied several times. The masks mut have been made by some person from the inside ; • it is impossible they could have been made from the outside. Such an in strument as the poker produced, and which I found in the butler's pantry in the fire-place would have made such marks. It is now produced in precisely the state in which I found it. It is bent and cracked, and it appears to have been recently done, as the fracture seems bright. I then examined the outside of that door, and there were a great many marks outside, from the top of the door and door post to the bottom ; evidently near the bottom bolt ' there had been cutting. The wood was cut away by some instrument, such as a screw-driver. Those marks corre spond with each other; they all aepear to hare been pro. duced by the same instrument at the same time, and they were all equally fresh. When the door is bolted, it does not fit close— there is a space of a quarter of an inch between the door and the rabbeting. The hammer I now produce, which I found in the cupboard in the pantry, if placed with the claws between the door and the door-post, on pressing the handle down, fits into the marks exactly. Near the bottom of the door-post in the rabbeting I saw the marks of an instrument. That instrument must have been applied from the outside when the door was closed, as there were marks of paint being knocked off the edge of the door. That mark could not have been made from the outside, if the bottom holt had been bolted, the mark being so far in. I compared the screw driver produced, of which I spoke before, to the mark last spoken of, and it exactly fitted it. By Mr. HALL—I noticed all these marks on the Wed nesday, but did not examine them minutely until the Thursday. Tho prisoner was present on one oceac.ion for about a minute during the examination, but he made no observation, and I said nothing to him. By Mr. flobler—He was sufficiently near to see what I was doing. On the Thursday I made a general search. I asked the prisoner where the plat. found in the passage was taken from, and he pointed out a cupboard in the drawing-room. I asked him what money his • Lordship had, and he said his Lordship had had a hl. note, an d P a 101. note a few days before, in a pocket. He told me how long he had lived with his Lordship, and who he had pre viously lived with. He also told me there were rings missing, which his Lordship was in the habit of wearing. He did not describe them. I, on the Friday afternoon, examined the prisoner's boxes up stairs, and his roem. Police Constable Shaw wits with me. There was a port manteau, a square deal box, and tome drawers, and a carpet bag. I turned every thing out, and examined every thing 'minutely, but I found nothing in theM to excite my attention. I examined the portmanteati, and . found nothing there to excite my attention. I searched generally throughout the room. I saw shirts, but lam not positive whether I unfolded each thoroughly. • I sass dirty linen there. I examined ail I saw,•and there was no mark. I threw the things I examined on the bed. Soon after that the prisoner was brought up into that room. I saw him putting the things back into the boxes. A con stable was in the room with him when I left. I had looked at some clothes before that, but bad not made any search. I had been in the room, and looked about it first. I corn. maim.' a minute search of that part of the premises on the Friday morning, between nine and ten o'clock. The prisoner had before told me the pantry was his room. I went there with some workmen, and ordt red them to take up the drains. Constables Sbaw and Cronin were with me, and I commenced the search of the pantry. I first examined the floor and the skirting round the room near the side of the fire-place. Near the sink is an angle which is formed by the two pieces of skirting board now, pro. duccd. At the edge of one of these pieces I observed hat the mortar hadbeen disturbed. I int my fingers in- side the board at that place; with asudlden jerli the piece of skirting board came away in my hand, and I saw the purse produced behind the skirting under the sink, and about two inches in. Collier, the police constable then came into the room, and I directed his attention and that of the other constable to it. I then took the purse out in the same state in which it is now produced. I examined it and found it to contain five gold rings, five gold coins or medals, one wrapped up in paper, and a bit of sealing wax. I saw a ribbon, and on taking away the other piece of skirting-board I found a Waterloo medal attached to the ribbon, which I now produce. Further on behind the skirting 1 found a lot note; it was folded up in a square form. It Li marked H U, 41,447, 4 January, 1840. Having found these things I took them up into the parlour, where I saw the prisoner. I laid them open before him as they now appear. I said, I have found this property concealed in your pantry, behind the skirting board. He said I know nothing about them. I am innocent. My conscience is clear. I never saw the medal before. He said nothing with regard to the note. I took him down with me, and pointed out to him the place where I had found these things. He said, I know nothing of it ; I am innocent. The prisoner remained in tire pantry some time with us. We continued our search, and, behind a water-pipe by the side of the wall which rums behind and above the safe, at the height of about sown feet, I found the gold splitting now produced. The pri. tamer had left the room before I found it. The prisoner was then taken up into his bed-room, and an officer and I searched him. I found a small gold locket (now pro. duced) upon him, a bunch of keys, and about ha, in silver. The locket and silver were in his right hand trousers pocket. I cannot say if they were the same trousers he had on on Wednesday. When I took the locket up the prisoner said " That is mine." I left the prisoner up-stairs, went down, and continued my search, but found no more property in the pantry. There were other officers searching there as well as myself. By• Mr. HAI.L—I did not tell the prisoner I had found the split ring. I believe that the keys belonged to the house. His Lordship's name is on one of the riags. I continued my search of the house, but found nothing further. Mr. Flower declined asking witness any questions., George Collier, police-constable, 38 E---I was at Lord William Russell's house on Wednesday and Thursday, 6th and 7th of May. I went on Wednesday about two o'clock and found the doors es described by Inspector Pearce, and agree with him in thinking that many of the marks must have been produced by force from within. I had seen them before Inspector Pearce came; they were in the Same state then as afterwards. I examined them all mi nutely. I assisted in searching the pantry on the Friday with Mr. Pearce. I saw him take down the boards, and find the articles in the manner which he has described. I also saw him find the split ring. That same afternoon I was sitting in the pantry with the prisoner for three or four hours, while Mr. Pearce made a further search. I asked the prisoner if those were his Lordship's rings which Mr. Pearce had found. He told me they were, and his Lord ship wore them yesterday. Mr. HALL—That cannot be. Witness—So he stated to me. They were hie own table words. I then asked him where his Lordship put them when he tookthe t m oid off m a c t right. d Ho d to h l e d used m to keep l me on a abe in his his bed-room. I asked him if his He Lordship had a gold finals upon it I tlten said it was a most shocking thing, lie said, It is. I am innocent of it ; but it would tot 10 k so bad against me had not the property been forted in my • pantry. I said it was very suspicious. his said te shou d .1 say nothing until the last, until he heard if the w h o l e t ruth was told, That was all the conversation that took place.- I then took him up stairs and saw Mi. Pearce search him. (During 'the time the witness 'was detailing this conversation the - prisoner coloured up, .and- appeared fidgetty and slightly agitated.): , ,The next morning I searched the pantry with Shaw, and behind a water.pipe by the side of a plate-rack over a sink in .the sclliery which leads out of the pantry, .1 :Mind the seal produced. It has a white stone, engraved With a cept of . a r ms . I foiled it against the wall, by the side of the leaden pipe, fixed in the plate-rack and Wall. It was concealed. I pulled it out with my finger, without removing the pipe. It could not be found without a Minute seorch. This was in the scullery, behind another leaden pipe, which' leads from the, - pantry to the scullery. I found the seal-ring produced. It is bent just as I found it. The bonded part was down, pressed behind the pipe. The hoop of it. I should consider the pressing' it down behind the pipe would cause the hoop to bend. It was in rather light. We coutimued the search, and found nothing until the Wednesday following, when I told tlte plumber to take up the flooring of the pantry, and under the second board, I.:.ar the scniiery.door, I save the plumber pull up a hand fal of rabtish, Emongst which wiN the sovereign produced. lie immediately gave it to me. I did not. find anything sn'ore until the Thursday morning, when I found the two pocket handkerchiefs I know produce, in the prisoner's portmanteau, which I searched, assisted by Cronin, the constable. They were nearly on the top of the portman teau. I examined them, and found several spots of blood on them. I also found the shirt-front produced. The initials of the prisoner are on the handkerchiefs. The pri soner had been removed from the house when these were found.—(The prisoner leant forward anxiously to look a tt;e handkerchiefs when they were handed to Mr. Flower for examination.) By Mr. HALL—TiIe board in the pantry did not appear to be loose ; it was near the skirting board. The sove reign. I should think, could not hare been dropped through the board. I assisted in getting up the board, and it offered considerable resistance. The shirt front is a good one; it has been torn off the shirt; I could not find the body or sleeves. It is buttoned, just as I found it. The prisoner has various sorts of shirts, some resembling this front. , . Frederick Shaw, Police Constable, 114 C.—l went to Lord William Russell's on Friday afternoon, at two o'clock. i saw Mr. Pearce searching the pantry, and was ordered by him to assist. I saw the prisoner with Collier. I as sisted in the search. I searched the pantry, but found nothing on that day. On Friday evening I went up to assist Mr. Pearce in searching the prisoner's boxes. We turned out every thing. I saw Mr. Pearce search the prisoner, and find __the- locket and other ar ticles which he has described. The ne xt m o r n i ng lassisted Collier in searching the scullery. I saw him find the seal behind the pipe, as be bas described. It is the same produied here to-day. I then got upon the window to assist the workmen in taking down the plate rack, and I saw Collier searching a lead pipe on the other side of the scullery, and found the ring as he has described. At five o'clock the same evening, while search ing the pantry, I found a gold locket, with hair in it. 1 now produce it. The hearth-stone had been taken up, and I found it lying between the hearth stone and the floor. By Mr. BELL—I do not know when the hearth-stone as removed. Inspector Pearce recalled—lt had been removed on the Friday. It . was firmly fixed before, and required two men to remove it. There were crevices, but none through .which a locket could have been dropped. Police Ctnstahle Paul Cronin, 158 C---I was ordered to the house of Lord William ussell on the morning of Wednesday, 6th of May, by Mr. Baker. I went at about half-past ter. I remained there several days. On Friday the Bth of Mn'., I assisted Mr. Pearce in his search of the back weshhousc and the butler's pantry. I was present when hefound the articles behind tee skirting-board, and saw the gold.elesp purse lying concealed, as he has de scribed; as also the medal and other articles. On the Tuesday following I was again at the house. The sink had been . removed from the pantry to facilitate the search. It was placed in a yard in the rear of the house. It was a small had sink eased in wood. and originally stood immediately over the tokirting-board behind which the articles .were found. I saw it taken down and removed into the yard. I went to the scullery Leading front the butler's pantry. There is a vault lead ing fame the scullery, into which I went. I there . felt aloeg the bricks of the floor, and telt whet I thought was a ring, between the bricks .and the wall in a crack. With some diffi:eilty I drew it out. It was part of a gold chased watch-key, with the pipe and ring broken off, ee now pro duced. I continued my search round that spot, but foiled nothing. The next day, Wednesday, May 13, about half past two o'clock, I resumed the search with Collie; I brought an iron chisel to examine some stones that ap peared loose in the back yard. I saw -the sink, which had been removed from the butler's pantry, 'lying there. I looked carefully round the edges of the lead, which came over the wooden frame. saw in front the lead ap peared to have been smoothed or rounded differently from the other parts of the sink. Seeing that I raiacd the lead from the wooden case with the chisel, I looked in between the case and the lead, and saw a watch there. I took it out, and now produce it in the same state I found it, with the glass broken. I immediately scaled it up, and it has been in my possession ever since. (The watch is a flat gold watch, apparently of French or German manufac ture.) I have not examined it so m'enttely as to be able to say if the name of Lord W. Russell appears anywhere about it or not. Mr. Haler said he now proposed to a:-.k the police offi cers on duty in Norfolk-street on the night of the =Ari l :el to spew that they saw nothing extraordinary. Mr. think we had better go through the evi dence relating to the property first ? Mr. Hobler—Veiy well, - Sir • then I shall call James Ellis—l am valet to the Earl of Mansfield. I was formerly in the service of Lord William Russell as valet and butler. I lived with him two years and eight months. I left . his service the Ist or 2d of \lay. The prisoner was in Lord William's service at the time of my leasing. He bad been there two days before I left. His Lordship would have been 73 in AuguFr. next. He was a very kind master. His Lordship generally wore fiver ings. Of the rings now produced (found in the butler's pantry behind the skirting) I can swear positively' to three. The wedding ring is like one his Lordship used to wear, but I cannot swear to a wedding ring, and the other I rather think is his Lordship's, but 1 um not so positive as I am of the other three. His Lordship had a gold watch ; the one now produced (from the sink) is the same watch his Lordship used to wear, The name of Lord William Russel; was never on the watch anywhere, to • my know ledge. I have opened it, but never examined it. 1 never observed any name on .the inside, nor any Words. I have observed the 11111110 on the face. The witness here opened the watch, and said, I see-a name added now, but had not observed it before ; it might have been there. His Lord ' ship wore one seal, one seal ring, and two keys. The two seals and seal ring produced I am positive arc the same ; the key also, ezupt that it is broken ; and the split ring appears to me to be the same. I have seen a Waterloo medal of his Lordship's, when he has had occasion to remove any of 'the things•in the little russia-leather box in the bed-room, but I have never examined it. I have no positive knowledge of silk note-cases in the russia-leather box. I know the watch stand. His Lordship's watch was always placed in it the last thing at night, and it was placed by the side of the bed, near the box Gll the table. 'I he russia-leather tray _ . . . with the ivory cases I always consideted as belong'ng to the box. I have seen coins similar to those. produced loose in the bottom of the russia box. I never examined them, and do not know their number. Ido not know this purse (the one 'found behind'the skirting-board). The watch was always placed in the case when his Lordship went to bed, and the rings on the dressing table. Nothing used to stand at the head 'of the bed in the stand. One batik-note his .Lordship alwayS had in his pocket in a silk. purse. He had a miniature of -a lady, anti he alWays ket that, the tray, the medal, and the note-cases in the ruseia leather box. The miniature produced appears lobo the same. I have no recoleetion of the small box. The gold pencil case is his Lordship's, and the toothpick also. The spectacles are similar to those worn by his Lordship. He always had theM in his pockets in the day time, and at night they were placed on the same table with the rings. The sugar-sifter and other articles found by In spector Tedman wrapped in the napkin are also his Lordship's prorriy, excepting the thimble. The top of the cayenne spoon being gone, I cannot speck posi, tivcly to it. The thimble I have no knowledge of, Th e caddy-spoon and the top of the matinees ore liko what his Lordship had. The cayenne-spoon was kept with the casters in the cupboard in the dining-plom. The opera- ' glass appears to me to be the eh'. that was kept on the chimney-piece in his Lords);, 's bed-room. I do not know the ivory ease prod:Ltd& The cloak is his Lord ship's. • ' His Lords l '. ; :p had a locket. I know but of the two produced. - I cannot say which is his Lordship's. lam m' s ". aware ' that his -Lordship had two. The lockbt was generally kept in the russia leather case. ' I should not like to give an opinion as to - either of the lockets. His Lordship used generally to go to bed from -II to 12. • He always had a fire in his bed room during the winter months, generally for nine months in the year, either morning or evening. His Lordship was also accus tomed to have his bed warmed during nine months of the year on au average. lie always burnt a rush-light at night. during the whole time I was with him. It was placed near the wardrobe at the foot of the bed, in a proper rushlight shade. He never to my knowledge used to i have a candle by his side when in bed. When be got into bed i the candle was removed and placed upon the little table 1 near the rush-light shade. ' I am not aware that his Lord ship was in the habit of reading by candlelight in bed. He ' was very careful over the fire and the candle in his room, and has frequently cautioned me on the subject. I was accustomed always to put his candle out before I left the room. I never saw him reading in bed by candlelight. . His Lordship never had. his door fastened at night. I recollect the prisoner once asking me if his Lordship had any lockets in his possession, and he also told me that his Lordship had loat a locket. This was two or three days before his Lordship's death. - I told him t I was aware hi Lordship had a loke in his osses sion. tie said his s Lordship had lost it. - While p out of town I was going to write to the proprietor of the Castle Hotel, Richmond. to know if he had left it there. Ilk LOrdship generally kept from ten to twenty pounds in the - house; the paper money in the silk note-ease, and the gold and silver in his purse for use. By Mr. HALL —The prisoner did not complain of his Lordship to me. He said his Lordship had _told him he would suit him very well. . 's service, By Mr. Hobler—When I left his Loqship I gave the p r i soner a li st of the plate. Inspector Tedman recalled Said the prisoner bad told hint he could not find the list, and it never had been found. The prisoner did not deny having had a list. - James Ellis (examination continued) The screw driver produced is very much like one I had ; the chisels I have no knowledge of. The hammer is like one be longing to the hOuse. The poker and tongs look like i those belonging to the pantry. I produce the original list I have compared it with w h at of his Lordahip's plate. 1 remains in the house , and find articles m i ss i ng . I '•1 counted it all over to the prisoner before I left, and be I ' acknowledged it to be right. I made out this list soon t after I entered Lord William's service. 13y Mr. HALL-1 examined the plate en Wednesdly EVENING EDITION: 6th May; the pritioner was not with rne. There are miss ing four table-Fpoons, four dessert-spools, two tea-spoons, and lout large forks. lOm quite certain they were safe with the irst of the plate w h en I qu i tte d his Lordship's service, :M... lower declined to ask any question. Mr. R. - Nlatthieu Tounsend—l am chief clerk to Messrs... lioares -,the bankers. Baroness Lady De an ;:ccount v.1:11 our house. I know Mr. Wing of Gi - ;:ys-inn. lie is the solicitor of the Baroness de Clifford, and is accustomed to draW on our 'house on her account. On the 25th of April last, I had a•drafrof his for 200/, for the use of the Baronets. I paid fifteen 101. notes, fourteen numbered in sequence, from 41,437 to 41,450 nelaiive. Among those notes I find:41,447. I have no doubt the note produced—(found behind the skirting)—is one of the notes. The other 101. was numbered 41,330, and the remainder of the sum was piid.in :•)/. notes. i always take the letters also ; on that o casion they we c " H. IT." --- Mr. Vv - iv,-1 am a seliciiter, residing in Gray's Inn.. I act as agent for Lady D o Clifford. Her Ladyship is now iu Par:,. In consequence of her Ladyship being abroad, I 2,000/.' for her, on April 25. A oars of it consisted of 200/ in Beale - of England 'notes. On the. 25th April I get the Bak-notes from last witness. The notes that the last witnes.s . speaks of were prid to me by him. I kept them in nippossession until the followin g Monday, wh e n I gave them to the Bar.-..noss De Clifford. Mr. Hubler said the Baroness de Clifford was now in Antis, and consequently these notes could not at present be traced fele:cr. . - new pioposed to examine the poFce:nan as to the state of Norfolk.street on the night in cots:ion, _ _ _ Mr. thought there would be no necessity, as the breaking in, if it took place at all, was from the back, and not from the front. Mr. Holder said that bethought he had made out. a sufficient case for the committal of the prisoner ; but ats. the depositions were of -great length he apuiied to have him remanded to Monday, when in the interval he would read tlurn and see if he had omitted any thing, ashen he would have an opportunity of putting further questions to the witnesses, if necess:.ry, and Mr. Flower would have the tease advantage. Mt. Flower assented. Mr. HALL said you must be aware, Mr. Flower. that I must commit him. Mt% Flu*er then applied for a copy of the depositions, which ‘Vcre ordered to be furnished to him. Ti:e prisont , r was removed from the bar, having been remanded to Wednesday next at one o'clock. LUDLOW ELECTION. The recent exposure before a Committee of the House of Commons, of the corrupt practices at the late election has not had the effect of preventing, so far as the Tories are concerned, a rcpctiton of the same dis graceful bribery which has earned for the borough of Ludlow, an undoubted title to a speedy disfranchise ment. Notwithstanding, there is in the borough a clear majority of Liberal electors, the Tory candidate, Be held, was yesterday returned by a corrupt majority of 41; there was no lack of Tory gold and the persuasive influerce a certain class of electors, is more potent than hustings' harangues on principle, and purity of elec tion, pro•vaded, and will again prevail, until the Legislature provides a remedy, and sets about perfecting that Refcrin Bill which has left such boroughs as Ludlow, as so many Gattons and Old Sarums.; as leper spots upon the representation of England. Upwards of twenty electors, win) at the late election supported the Liberal candidate, yielded yesterday to the tempt ing influence of Tory gold. The immaculate Mr. I.:ehrne:e Cl , arlton, who, , e repeated boxing of the it uncertain on the present. occa: ;on to % -,11c., p,,lnt he would now turn—. afte.: abusing both' p .nutted neut;:r—his Steward, as in duty bound, ;1 the example of hiS master, b ut the little-all of his ! - 7,iice was thrown into the Tory scale. A petition w ill h presented; which will unques tionably relieve Mr. 13,t :l from the honours and duties of l'a dist!) ntary life. I LOYD'S SI-I WPIIS G-(T HIS DAY.) N.N.E , moderate—Sailed the Eua Biwkley, fOr Port Philip; Hartley, Bradford, Sierra Lecre ; and Ri;) Doee, Goodwin, Rio Doec.. 1.11. - Eitecot., MAv 22.—Wind N. N.W.—Arrived the Rontillui, Webster, Jane Ross, APlntosh, and St. Liw rence, Brown, front New Orleans; Nathaniel Cooper. Preto, and Juno, Sackwar,go, Basaro. Sailed the 'Windsor, Ayton, for Pernnrobuco; Grace, Pearsor., Antigua ; Dorothea, Jarrics, Jamaica ; Henry Muet, wright, ditto ; and Thomas Battershy, Leitch,. F Alnta Martha. Off port the Forth, from Monte Video ; gam!, Antigua; Lce, Barbadocs; Argyleshire, SavaLnah; Svlanus Jenkins, Parker, Mobile; Jane, Walker, tilttu Russia, New Orleans ; Huntsville, ditto ; Tporte-, Cows-, Met 22.—Arrived the Mary Frat,r, Eldridge, frun Havattnab. DunLIN, MAY 20.—Sailed the AlPlandrina, Dunn for St. Jolla's, N.B. THE . 11 A‘tWf. - IS -- -(Tili - S DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. SIII ) 0 ; :es are very plentiful-trade very brisk, and prices luv7 er .. to 3e. 6tl. per dozen ; Celery, is. to 2s, 6d. per bundle ; Onions, 3s. to 4s. 6d. per sieve; Carrots, 3s. 6d. to ;')s. 6d. per dozen ; Brocoli, Is. to 4s. per 'Audio ; Tur nips, 9:1. to Is per dozen bunches ; Oranges, 4s. to 101. per Itte ; Lent:Ats, 4s. to 7s. 64. - per 100; Apples, is. to 12s. per bushel ; Cherries, 1 to 20s. per lb. ; Cucumbers 2s. to 3s. per brace ; Asparagus, ss. to tb. per 100; Spinach, Is. per sieve; Currants, Os. per sieve ; Peas, tis. 14s..per sieve; Fre::elt Bums, 4s. to 4s. 6d. per 100; New Potatoes, Is. to 2.. per lb. ; Gooseberries, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per half sieve ; Hot-house Grves, 4s. 6,1. to Ins. per lb. ; Strawberries, (id. to Is. per cz. ; Pine Apples, .Ios. to 'l6s. per lb. ; Old Pots toe,_ tws. ; clOs. to 655. ; Scotch, 555. to 605.; 60.. to nos. per tun. WIIITECIIAPEL MEAT MARKET: A short supply, and prices fully supported. Pork, 35. 84.1. to Veal, :3 s to ; Mutton, 3s. r?d. to 4s. Bd. ; Beef, io 3s. 101. per stone of ;illy.. iLAYMARKET. Goad supplies, witit a steady demand at former prices. Ilay, to 90s. ; Clover, tills. to 110 s. tiqraw, tlls. to 4`'s. per luml. BIT,LIN6 (.;ATE MARKET. goppliCs good and lair trade; prices uready. Turbot ? 6s. to 205.„. ; Cod, to 10s.; Salmon, Ild. to 2s, t id. per lb.; Whithigs, 4d. to Haddocks, 6d. to ; Alacaercl, -td. to ; Halibut plentiful and cheap; Lob stets, 61. to 2s. 61.. NEWCIATE AND LEADENHALL. Gooil'sunplies, and a brisk trade. Beef, 35. to 3s. 10(1. ; Mutton, 3''s. to 41. ; Veal, 3s. (id. to ss. ; Pork, Js. 45..10(1. ; Lamb, 4s. to us. Der stone of t'ilbs.• Surrey Capons, 7s. to 9s. ; Pe:t Fowls, 19s. ; Guinea Fowls, 4s. ; Pigeon s , lid. to lOn. ; Tame Rabbits, ls. Sd. to Is. 911. ; Chickens, 2E. t;s. ; Leverrts, 3s.to i.; 4 - s. (id. to t's. ; Eggs, ss. to (is. rr 120; and Plover Eggs; 3s. per dos n. TEA MAlik'El Very little business done. The- price asked for Compa.rtv's Congou was ; and for freA trade. t.).s. 1(1. TALLOW MARKET. Tuc Ira;tne.s in rnis department wa , s very limited, and the price 495. CI for P. V. C. lIIELAND. DUBLIN, MAI 21. Tim Tbnotts !`OI.ITtcAL tNtor4.—This body has ad journrit to six months, Tb , Learned Judgy of the Consiqorial Court this day pronounced a decree of divorce against Edward Ruthven, late 11. P. - for Kildare county. The suit was instituted by him for the restitution of conjugal rights, with a view to relieve his propQrty from a charge of 3001. a year by mar. riago settlVment. The crime of adultery was fully proved. The Court also granted an alimony of 501. per annum. 11.1.sEss OF BARON PENNEFATIIER.—It is reported in Dublin that . Baron Penncfather, whose sight has for a con siderable time heel! rauch imprirLd, has within these two days had ao•severe an attack, that it is considered very doubtful wlte-ther he will ever sit on the bench again. • OYAL AGRICULTURAL SO- CIETY OF ENGLAND The General Meeting of this Society was yesterday held at their Apartments in Cavendish square. His Grace the Duke of Richmond. President, in the Chair, supported by Earl Spencer, Earl of Essex, Lord Portman, Lord Carrots, Sir John Johnstone, Sir Thomas Gooch, 'Sir Clries Morgan, Sir R. Jodrell, Sir \Vatkin Pell, J. W. Childers, Eq., M, P., T, W. Bramstou,_ Esq. M.P., a n d an attendance of the most distinguished agriculturists of the kingdom. _ Tin 7 Dukr! of RICHMOND read from the Chair the Report of the Connell to the rnce•ting, which referred to the Royal Charter granted by lier Majesty to the Society ; the enactment of bye-laws ; the state of the finances ; the model experiment recommended on orivate farms for the trial of growing Swedish turnips; the three geologies! surveys undertakeu for the Society by Dr. Buckland, Mr. Murchison, and Mr. De La Beebe; the proceedings of the Cambridge Committee for the great meeting of the Society ie that turn next July ; Epidemic so prevalent recently among the dairy and other cattle in various parts of the country, and the amount of q,600 members en the list of the Society, 600 new members having been elected since Christmas. - Philip Posey, Esq., M.P., was elected the President, to coma into office zi! . !er the Cambridge Meeting. the Charter requiring the President to be annual; and the Duke of Buckingham was elected Vice-President in the place of the late Duke of Bedford. he unanimous thanks of the Society were carried: by acclamation to the. Duke of Richmond for the devoted in terest his Gr::ce had evinced in the prosperity of the So. cietv, and the permanent constitution he had so success. fully been the weans of conferring on the Institution. The Noble Duke declared his iibiding interest in the welfare of t h e s oc i e ty, which he telt quite sure would continue in the same prosperous career, while supported as it was by the f ar m e rs of the country, and that when it failed to retain th e ir confidence it would then, and only then, f a ll deserv edly into neglect. Iler Grace the Duchess of Sutherland is not to quit her Majesty's Household, as has been reported. Mr. Spier:i, M.P., is still detained by ill health Rt, Leamington from, his Parliamentary duties. ii AY L Al Ay: 20, 1840.—The brig Riviere sailed to-day for - Nantes, with a 70-inch steam-engine, for the Lappin, Iron and Coal mines, in the vicinity of the Loire. The iiir;ere has forty passengers on board, chick' Cornish miners, and their The Pot. says flint General Wyndham will con te3t. the ,ent t'Gr ( ~ onl,e;.inonth with Mr. flonman, the new I.nr(l of the 'Fre2”lll% ROYAL SOc ETV. - His Royal Highness Albert, who had lately been elected by the Royal iiciety a fellow of that learned body, honoured the Society on Thur.silay last with his attendance at the evening meeting* anti inscribed his nainc next. to that of her Alitjesty. A lIMAGII ELECTION.--It is a nticipated that Colonel ilawilon will be returned without opposition. N 1; I