The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

EV NING EDITION. GRAND FASHIONABLE PALACE OF NECROMANCY. _•1 Le,- ST. JAMES'S BA Z AAR, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.) Elegance. Fashion, extreme Splendmir, intellectually inpro -speetive View of the World of Magic ! The Great WIZARD cf the NORTH respectfully informs Nobility and Gentry, that he has fitted up the above estab shrnent in a style of splendour unprecedented, and on WED ' - 1 ::: - ;DAY„Tusr 10th, he will commence a series of MORN LNG and EVENING EXHIBITIONS of Iklerhanical, Gal vanic, .Viagnetie, and Electric Necromantic Spectallks of Won .. dri, and he relies mi their patronaze for a continaance of that s4uTiort that has hitherto iliqinguished his metropolitan career at the Strand Theatre. Gland Fasikicitable \CORNING PERFORMANCES EVERY DAY. Dears cpen G t Half-pa3t One; Commence at TKO o'Clock precisely Elogant Fa,bionable EVENING ENTERTAIN_ - AIENTs - MONDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS, Dc.f..rs.epen at Half-past Seven ; Commence at Eight o'Clock • . precisely. Rescvved Seats, 7s. G.l. ; F:rst Circle, ss. ; Second Circle, 2F. 6d. The .Wizard will be happy to attend the Private Parties of tilt; Nobility and Cartry, or give Instructions in the art a• Ma gnta(•" on'Tuesday, Wednesday, Thur*day, and Saturday. IIOYAL .:;Ejlilth . :Y ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. WHIT MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY. S , e , rlll Week of the PROMENADES MUSICALES, and CA.P.TER'S EXTRAORDINARY 44 LIME LIGHT." Fir•t.Perrormanee this Season of Handel's Sublime " Hailstone ( :horus."—ERUPTION OF HECL A, with new elFects and increaser) splendour !! ' Oh MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY, June Bth, WI), and llth, • The unrivalled Band of this Establishment, composed en tirely of the most distinguished Instrumantalists in London, and mrainettmt by Mr. Godfrey, will give Three Grand Pro menade. Musicales et Champaires, including the new and much Ldlrolted Melange fro :a " Robert the Devil," and the celebrated Grand Chorus, " He gave them Hailstones," from " Israel n Egy pt. . During the day the unequalled Menagerie, and vast P ano _ rama al Fresco of the BURNING MOUNTAINS of ICE- LAND, by Danson; between the Parts of the Concert, the new az:d intensely interesting Tableau d'Action of Perils and Adventures in the Frozen Seas; Air. H. Carter's wonderful -4 Koniaphoetic," brilliantly illuminating the whole Gardens, Crona One Minute Central Light! ! and at Dusk the ERUPTION OF MOUNT HECLA ! ! Admission, One Shilling. , Fee .ling Hoar of the Caznivora, Five o'Clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Maria Lott:sa, widow of IN`apoleDn, and now married to Count de-Neipperg. alone survives, and resides at Parma. We einnot concur in the hope expressed by " Scotus." The ea-Chief Baron is a very old man, and no public functionaries are better entitled to pension= than the hard-working Eng lish Judges. lif6ll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-111ORROW. liwning' 15 mmutes after 10. I Evening 43 minutes after 10. I be Pubiiaat•ion of the Evening Edition of THF. Sux corn. meneed at IO rr:inutos after Three. cb -7 ,1 7 ,11„ _ i'•;`,7%)." ---.4'!..2b,'. ' ',l't,lli+ LONDON: TUESDAY, JUNE 9, Igo. Besides the important news from China received - yesterday, the overland mail_from India, conveyed to Suez by the Zenobia steamer, has brought despatches and Journals from Bombay, of the 30th of April. Copious extracts from them will be fund in another part of The Sun. The attempts to burn the Bitish shipping in Toonkoo Bay were miserable failures, but they are decisive proofs of the virulence of the Chinese. They begin the war with us, they do not mait to be attacked, as if they were determined to leave the Herald and the 7 lines, and their friends, without a single ground on which to decry the spirited con duat of the Ministers. They have seized at once _lke very last weapon to which a brave enemy would have recourse, and have sought by (Aiming- the ships to destroy a multitude of peaceful traders. It is probable that women and children had taken refuge on board these ships, and that this was known to - the Chinese, which would make their conduct quite It would appear, too, by the memorial of TSANG WANG YEN, sanctioned by the Imperial authority and that of the Grand Military Council, that the plans of the Chinese Government are deliberately and artfully laid, and are to be vigorously executed. On the sum ss of LIN in extorting 20,000 chests of opium, it is inferred that the foreigners arc para lysed with terror, and their absolute annihilation is ri?commended. The ports are to be shut against all fo reigber, and, with a princely disregard of the revenue tki-ived from trade, all trade is to be put an end to the foreigners, Portuguese at Macao and all, are brought into due submission. With a true Ctrines disregard of justice, the innocent and the guilty are all jumbled together, and other nations arc to be punished for the conduct of the English. We cannot abridge, with any propriety, the lan tuage of TSANG WANG YEN, hut it will supply readers with the strongest proofs that the war is begun, and is waged in the most savage spirt by the Chinese. Sump- curious informat ion is supplied from Pekin, where it appears that considerable dis orders prevail, and wheie traces have been disco vered of several conspiracies. Similar scenes have occurred ac another city, called Monkden, where some assistant-mazistraes have been degraded, and a plot .discovered, embracing many hundred persons. With piracy on its coast, and disaffec tion in its .capital;, the Celestial empire Mils an ;mini:rent hazard by provoking an attack flow us. 'The'.preparations in India were going on rapidly, and we are glad to see that steamers, powerfully armed, form part of thc. expedition. The Madras portion of the army was embarked on board the John Adam and Rastomjee Cotvasjee, which had sailed to join the rest of the fleet. The whole force from Calcutta was to have left that place about the 25th of April, " anti we :3lrall look," says the C'ol,-..z;:qa " with great interest fu an account of its proceedin2c." We repeat that, and we look without apprehension, for the recent con duct of the Chinese must have temoved from every mind all doubts of the righteousness of our cause, while, of our power to redress the wrongs which the'Ceiestial Government has inflicted • on our peo ple., no man can have a misgivirt. We are convinced that the priesthood, if they mean. to keep a station in society—we do not say their present lofty station, for that is so incompa riblo'.with their own doctrines and the public wel -4.3re it t - tait ilat be preserved—hut if they mean to ket station of 'any kind in society, they cannot do better than act on the hint we yesterday e1r.4 . ..7, Out, end interpose at once to soothe the con- Ittitt abate the large and incompatible claims which are now made by the different classes of so ciety. There is a want of a mediative power to ititrrfere, - for the Government—using the word in the larg sense) as including the Legislature and all the governing powers—the Govetnment which 002!it to in: such a power—whili ought, in fact, ware it to realise in a very i n f er i or d egree the food expecte d of it—to be emphatically the master of the whole society, a n d to b e wholly unaffected by t h e peculiar p ass i ons an d ' TT IPPODROME RACES, BAYS- Tf i ; To- Ifonnow. June 10, and FRIDAY, June 12. To commence at Two o'Clock. The Hippodr nne Handicap of 25 sovs. each, with 300/. dded, fcr which 31aroun, Grey Milton, Fitzroy, Sc., are Many other Races. Fourteen Hones entered for the Free Plate. The Charges fcr Admission the same as before. From the complete privacy of the enclosure, Ladies and Zildren can enjoy the sp_rt in safety ; and all improper ella letera are excluded. Cares, Waggons, and Omnibuses will not be admitted. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TFIEATRE. : Immense Npvelty for the Holidays—New Pieces with New • Scenery, Dresses, and Appointments. THIS EVENING, JUNE 9, `Will he acted an entireltc New Domestic Drama, by the Author of " The Life of a Woman," entitled ...THE FACTORY B'..)Y ; OR, THE LOVE SACRIFICE Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which a New Comic Drama, called JACK AND HIS NINE WIVES. • j, e k, Mr. Saville. To conclude with, not acted here these TITO Years, ••• THE OLD OAK CHEST ; OR, THE ROBBER'S DAUGHTER AND SNIUGGLER'S SON. interests which prompt the actions of the peo• i the du ple—the Government is completely the creature of one class, the servant of one interest, and the slave of one series of the conflicting passions and desires which are neither very enlightened nor very honourable. The millions have, therefore, ceased to place any confidence in it, and seek to overthrow it. That evil which, born in our day, scarcely has as yet the lineaments of life, will grow to a ter rible neaturity in future, unless the wise and the good, persons with influence and leisure—call them the priesthood—interpose, and assuage, if they cannot extinguish, our intestine conflicts. The class passions, interests, and desires to which the Government owes its birth, make it unfit to per form that office ; and the conflicting desires it will, and must, seek to suppress, should it interfere fur ther betwixt property and no property, betwixt ca pital and labour, betwixt rent and food, will only the more speedily shake 'it to piecee. No reflecting man can now wi:ir to see the operations of Government enlarged, set in mo tion and controlled as the machine is by factious mobs struggling for mastery. At the ;IM: time this new-born evil must be speedily checked, or it will destroy our internal peace and our imperial great nees ; and we are not aware of any means by which that can be accomplished except by some such mediation as we have suggested. Let us inform the ruling classes, if they' are igno rant of the fact, which we can scarcely believe, that no persons ever yet attained influence or power in society but as the instruments of gratifying some general wants, and never retained it but on some principle of great public utility. Itis good to honour the itinnense talent and boundless resources of NA :'O LEO N,hut had not millions of Frenchmen shared in .4;11e. sentiment that France having cast d own h er o ld monarchy, and having thereby alarmed, insulted, and outraged all the monarchies of Europe, re quired great military power and reputation as a means of security, he never could have reached his vast pre-eminence. His Imperial greatness grew from the impassioned want of national indepen dence in thirty millions of human beings. The power of all his Marshals rested on the same basis. That is a modern and a striking instance of the general truth we have stated ; but history abounds with similar illustrations. We shall content our selves with referring to two which touch more im mediately the matter in hand—the influence of our nobility and the clergy. he'l power of our aristocracy was originally founded on their utility, when mankind consisted of conflicting tribes, as leaders in war and judges in peace. In both these functions they have been euperseded, and both war and the administration of the law have become settled trades, leading to all the honours of the aristocracy. Land was the ori ginal sign of the aristocrat's power, and the reward of his virtue; and those who, by the practice of skill useful to society, or by industry, acquire wealth and purchase land, have now become the heirs of the power and influence of the original aristocracy. Utility—the gratification of some conspicuous wants in society—was the foundation of the power of the landed aristocracy, and as they have ceased to be useful, their power has declined, and they have been superseded by other more useful men. The clergy will deceive themselves if they sup pose that they differ from the aristocracy, and owe their power to any other source than gratifying some wants of society. The first missionaries of the Christian religion, whether in Britain or the Sandwich Islands, came from a more to a less civi lized country, and imparted a knowledge of useful arts with Christianity. On the breaking up of the Roman empire many noble Romans took refuge in the Church, which became the depository of all the learning of the ancient world. The power of the Roman Catholic priesthood in the dark and the middle ages was the :power of knowledge over ig norance. A craving for knowledge—a yearning after something to rest on, is as much a part of man as a craving for food or for protection ; and this craving for knowledge, this yearning after something tangible, was gratified by the clergy of the dark ages, and became to them a source of power. Gradually other men acquired all the knowledge possessed by the priesthood. Printing and rapid communication weakened their power, by diffusing through all the knowledge which was before confined to one order of men. Moreover, as time has gradually unfolded the order of nature, and established in the mind a con viction of its stability ; as a knowledge of the're gularity, uniformity, and harmony of the material world, supplanted the fitful gleams of its magnifi cent order, which burst, as it were, by inspiration, on. untutored savages ; as experience explained (that is, referred to general laws) many facts which ignorance regarded as miraculous produc tions, the craving for knowledge has been gra. tified, or taught an appropriate means of gratification by due inquiry, and the yearn ing after something tangible, on which to rest belief and hope, has become feeble. he gradual substitution in the mind of civilized man, of the ideas of order, regularity, uniformity, and harmony, which is the result of the progress of knowledge, for the obscure perceptions of only isolated phenomena, which was _all that was vouchsafed to the savage, must weaken those apprehensions and that desire on which the power of any and every priestlmod is founded. The woke of the Itomish Hierarchy, the most powe!fu and best organised that ever existed,was thus broken by the Reformation, and has ever since been crum• tiling to dust. In like manner, the further pro gess of knowledge has weakened the power and influence of the Protestant clergy, though states men, from a theoretical notion that priestcraft is the cement of society, still strive all they can to in crease and maintain that by laws and gifts to which nature has decreed a termination. A power which is decayed or extinguished in men's hearts cannot be revived by legislation ; and the present efforts to extend the Church are rather proofs of a consciousness of the decrepitude of age seeking to lengthen life by art, than of that confidence of youth which never questions its OW4I inherent vigour. If, then, no men or body of men can long pre serve power and influence in a community unless they minister to some great social wants ; if the priesthood, by the nature of things, are getting gra dually squeezed out of society, while they desire . to keep station in it they ought to look on the present circumstances and condition of the community, and adapt their measures thereto. It was by so doing, and not by endeavouring to carry society 'back to the past, that their Roman Catholic pre decessors established their power. By appearing now in the field as me di ators between the con _ ten di ng clas2e.s, instead of bendin g their doctrines to snit a purpose, and allying themselves with one class against the other, th e y may make them selves, as it seems to us, eminently useful, and pre serve a station in society. To remain conspi eunns in the land they must minister to some social want, not a little artificial craving, created by themselves. Such a want now is that of mediation. The hard money-gettingononey-making,money-cravingclasses now rub gratingly on one another, and it is no ig noble office we call on the priesthood to fill, though it be not the impelling power, not the main spring, nor the revolvin g wheel, when we ask titian to lessen instead of increasing the friction, and contribute to smooth rability of the machine by making ly and easily. TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1840 discussion on the Budget was relieved by an animate d speech of M. TRIERS, in answer to some observations made by General BUGEAUD, relative to the war in Africa. General BUGEAUD, it will be remembered, signed the Treaty of Taloa, and therefore considers himself entitled to the rank of It Le,slator for the new colony. Of the qualification s of. the General we a short time tigo afforded our readers an ainu,inre specimen, by recording his legislatorial declaration that he would prefer thcinvasion of r rtr ee by Prussia, to the allction ofwitnes sing the importation cf cheap beef to fill the bellies of the starving operatives of Paris. On Saturday he pre posed that a grant of 20 ,000,000 should be set apart for the erection of , defensive forts, and in doing so took occasion to pass in review before the Chamber his own exploits in Africa, and to contrast them with those of Marshal VALLEE, to the obvious prejudice of the latter. This called up M. THIELS, who roundly stated that the disasters which had befallen Marshal • VALLEE were attributable to the unfort unlit° 'Edna treaty. That treaty had so strengthened the power of AED-EL KADER, that ten thousand men, and extraordinary eff,erts, were now required to cross the Atlas, pre viously passed by Marshal CeatreEL at the head of only four thousand troops. For his own part he was not qualified to criticise military movetneies, Lor did he think it was the proper time to du so, when a General at the head of his arm was exposed to the tire o the enemy. M. THIEIts warmly and enthusiao.icall) eulogized the heroism of the troops, which he said wen: equal to the soldiers of the republic and the empire. His speech was loudly applauded, and may be regarded as decisive, as regards the exticetion of General Be. GEAUD'S expectations to succeed Marshal VALLEE in the Government of French Africa. The Gloire, on board which the Vice Admiral Beudin will hoist his Wig, is to receive at Cherbourg five hundred trocps ; and letters from that town inform us that a teport was current thsie that an expedition, amounting to three thousand men, would shortly be sent to Buenos Ayres to support the ultimatum of France. According to the Gazette de France, the real candidates for the Government of Algeria are Generals Cubieres, Oudinot, and Trezel. Marshal Claueel has nut bc;en se riously thought of. It was for a moment contemplated - to appoint Major-General Duvivier, whom it was proposed to raise to the rank of Lieutenant-General, though hardly of sufficiently long standing in the army. The Committee on the project of law for a vote of cre dit of 809,000 fr., to be added to the fund furnished by the city of Parts for •the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the days of July 1830, heard to-day at noon the reading of the report of M. de Laborde, which recommended the adoption of the project of 1a... The report will not be presented till the Mini-ter of the Interior shall lieve• been heard. M. de Remusat being obliged to utter d the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, could not go to the Committ,e,, —Le Temps. If, as it is annourced, General Cubieres „should go to Algeria, as governor, a modification of the Cabinet may be necessary, and the notion, which is not abandoned, of giving M. Guizet a place in tae Cabinet is reversed. Are we to believe that M. Mallac, secretary to M. Duchatel, in the department of the interier is gone to London to sound the High Priest of the doctrinaires respecting contingencies which are perhaps nearer at band than is supposed ?—Le Commerce. We have received a file of Hobart Town Papers to 11th of February inclusive. The Planter, from Can ton, had arrived at Sydney, with 5,727 ches!sof tea. She left the GirajT., the Canada, the Morays'ire, and the France's Charlotte taking. in teas for the lens tralian calonies—but, by a strange inadvertence, the date of her sailine is not given. Great complaint s are made in these papers of the conduct of the police ma gistrates, and of the vexatious restrictions to which in these, as yet infant colonies, the labouring, po pulation are subjected. It appears that in Ho bart Town the itinerant vending of the necesse ries of life, such as fish, fruit, vegetables, and sue') basket ware. as may be met with in every street in London, is a criminal act of the first magnitude. "It is abominable," says a writer in Marray's Ilev:*cal, and we echo the indignant expression—" It is abominable that a working man in Hobart Town, leaving his home at the usual morning hour, his wife and children of ne cessity unable to quit her domicile, must find himself and them without a meal on his return from his labour, because the wife could not leave her children and her little all, unprotected, comp; red to traverse the whole town to reach that worst of Turkish Cadi places of oppression, miscalled a market ; and it any industrious person, man or woman, anxious to honestly support his family, ventures to offer for sale vegetables or other articles, perhaps of a perishable nature, some heartless ruffian, armed with police autho rity, seizes the whole, and the pour wretch, and all de pendent upon him are ruined." Nothing can be more pernicious, or more destructive of the comforts of the people than the perpetual intermeddling of the magistracy and police with all their concerns. They cannot turn round in any direction without encouatering intrusive and annoying evidence of the busybodyism of those in authority. The decisions of one of the Magi§trate's— a Mr. PRICE-appear to us to savnili. or :excessive .cruelty. In Murray's Review, of the I!th of r‘kbru.• ary, we find, for example, the following judicial :sen tences A feket-of-leave man, sentenced to be flogged for having given 2 man in the stocks a pipe of tobacco ; James Macdonald, 30 lashes, for being in a public-house after hours ; George Morgan, 25 lashes, for leaving his master's premises without leave ; li4m Bennett, :36 las!aes, for obstructing a petty con stable ; John Phi:lips, 86 lashes, foe bringing a Ltrange female into his master's house." Benide!: .complaints of the Magistracy, and a repo, titian of the Tory clamours about the war with we find nothing of any account in these .Tournals. In the Herald, Pus!, and Sun of last Saturday, a ccnversation which took place between Mr. Divert and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the previous even ing., respecting some Spanish Claims, is erroneously headed and described as referring to Danish at:ma ; we beg, therefore, to rectify this error. In doing this, we are called upon to notice the vexatious delay which has taken place in the non-production of the Report of the Commissioners on the Danish Claims of the third class, which it appears has been most cruelly withheld by the Treasury since the beginning of last month, when it was forwarded from the office of the Commis sioners. On the Bth May. Mr. Cresswell was to have moved that this Report be laid on the table of' the House, and it was then understood that the Report was to be presented to the House the following Tuesd.iy. SUDBURY ELEcnoN.---.Mr. T'otalitie's return for Sudbury was objected to at the moment ii was made by the Mayor, on the vround that he had not allowed time to nominate another candidate. It has since been discovered that certain parties 'have bean guilty of br:bery, the proof of which can be brought home. and the return impeached. Some of the honest elec tors of Sudbury mean, therefore, on Friday, to present a petition against the return, and they have no doubt that Mr. Tomline's election will be declared nu!! and void. ST. HELENA.—It may ba intiresting to our re om, as th j a eitgd d ei tii ri le) : i u, , ,ll : :nry g a. : (l . ),r ie r. o i tT a ot3. A I . 1: t tha o eiiiine k sest r t i el : erl s ,,a - ednn s is o dcht h Aut, 'rimers horities. o oe r; ,reecently t:_•eniN,el;(ll,n dh. 1: : General ear:nv in he present e n; doing It the Y S 3 l Duncan, i i n l a o r ts i - n e ek d c,,pe of Good "•hen Hope,llislegl regiment p d a a t n 2 k n e l fleet affair t a s tf fi a n i r a l ; embarkedcapture, a and d or t h E e a stltti destructioni es , 1 7 0 0 f 4 1( the p-3ioti,gv(a-.1 i n .o f r Trigp3Fio)to under Saib ; S I r li then David dr Baird, l a B n o dre Embarked3 cross . ed the Desert from Cossier to the Nile and Alexandria ; retui r r ns e cl at alter the conquest of Egypt, across the Decor': to India, when he served or, Sir David Band's staff at Madras, Mal t I t,) thats itairrir.isonprtoililuoltBeod9t,o war, Ste., and returned with Si: David to Europe 1714 ta panied hip rsgi sent aud t tbenace°l'l A t Gibraltar, in ISO 4, where, appointed Major ,if• the 48th Lieutenant-Colo nelregiment, sertiecl in on the field of battle at Talavera, where lie and his reg '- merit did good serv ic e . O r d ere d h ome b y a medical board,l in consequence of extreme ill _health, the effects of service in all climates, which he had nut quitted on !rave for a single day. He was placed on the staff in England, an, I was promoted to Major•Generttl in 15.39 ; since which lie has served on the West India staff, and, in 183'J, was ret,soved fron t Grenada to L7t. Helena, on the latter island being tratis 7 erred to the British Government. I'he insufficiency of the means of rewarding loug and distinguished services on the part of the military authorities, cannot, perhaps, be better proved than in this striking case.-- United S'erviee Gazelle. AMERICA. —All is vast, solitary grandeur, in the contemplation of which the mind becomes insensibly de pressed, at the consciousness, of its inability- to compass the imposing magnitude of surrounding objects. I have heard many persons, not natives of the country, make this obsei va tion ; and fur myself, I can bear ready testimony to its truth, as applied not only to Canada, but g e nerally to such parts of the North A mer i can cont i nent as I have visited. If you tra verse its vast lakes, if you' penetrate its deep pins-forests, if you cross its wide-extending plains, nay, if you wandcr by the way side in the outskirts of its towns, you are alike struck vs ith a sense of surpassing loneliness, with a sort of melancholy - , at finding yourself an isolated unit, as it were, in the midst of a space so la rge ; k now i ng, as yor do, in the one ease, that you are not upon the ocean, and in the other, that you arena tread ing upon a newly-discovered soil T—Residen e in America. JEDBURGII.--LORD ABERDEEN'S PILL.-- A public meeting of such of the inhabitants of this town and vicinity as approved of the Bill brought into Parliament by Lord Aberdeen for " removing doubts respecting the admiss ion of Ministars t o b ene fi ces in Scotland," was he within the Court -hou se here on stat• the Tuesda last, when Wm. Oliver Bother lard, Eml• • Sheriff of the county,was called to the cltair. 'The Sheriff,ll after b.' • object of the meeting, ing called up on M a j or Oliver, who moved the first resolution, ap proving c,f the measu re . The motion was seconded by Wm. Ogilvie, -4F. , 1, of Chesters, and adopted unanimously. Peti tions to b ot h H ouses of Parliament, founded on the resolution, were agreed to without a division. _Messrs. John Elliot and William Rutherford, bankers, addressed the meeting in favour of the Bill. The meet.understand,was thinly attended. mg, —Kelso Ch ron i c l e. When a prisoner is to be examined, the best ad vice his counsel can give him is to practice effrontery, and as sume easy indifference, in order to insure a presumption of in• nocenee in weak mans, perhaps t h os e by whom he is to be tried. This sometimes s: . siiceerds, - inconceivable as it is , although it is notorious—indeed, LID rational perron can 4e surprised that the same hardihood which leads a man to an atrocious dived ac ciiolpanies him in his stratagems for denying it. Nevertheless, the re-ai,sparition or mention of some things is too appalling even for this Tobi,7 et erg fr;plz. The Judge, Mr. Justice Buller, who tried the Sir T. Boughton, said after • .; poisoner of wards in private society: rveii;:,, when laurel-water was first mentioned Doneliatfaitet4td and convulsively grasppil the 'oar, hot-4 that mome n t my :nind was made up. —John Bull. it work We think it is estimated that all the landed pro_ petty of the realm passes through their hands once in twenty years, or there is a general confiscation once every twenty years for their benefit. Their very existence in the land, then, is as mischievous or more mischievous than a revolution once every twenty years. Let the public recollect that these men draw all the deeds on ;Olio!) property is secured, and on which it is bought and sold, that they have a powerful interest in making those deeds confused, perplexed, and imperfect, with a view to future liti_ gation—(tl►at the deeds are of this character every person knows)—and recollecting these rnat:ers, the _• owners of property ought to be thankful to the law yeis, and ought to praise their conscientiousness, that they do not make the cycle of confiscation much smaller. A part of the power of the lawyer is founded on that dread of revolution, which, when it comes, is less mischievous than their continued existence. One class and one individual being afraid and jealous of another is the great source of their gains, The mi:Jrust in human nature which the lawyer and the priest encourage—the doctrines they mutually teach, whether true or not, whether useful to so- defy or not—are eminently profitable to them. We have inserted elsewhere extracts from some of the public papers, relative to the claims of Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE, and to the conduct of his Royal Father towards him .and his sister. We would entreat the Duke of SUSSEX, as he values his reputation, not to persist in disregarding those indications of the public sentiment on this subject, which he cannot fail to have observed. The Illus trious Duke must be well aware that this is a ques tion which depends on other principles, and in volves other considerations, than those of party politics. He cannot but know that it is not treated as a party question by any of the journals which give up their columns to its discussion. He must, therefore, if he gives fair play to his excellent under2tamlint.7., see at a glance, that the parental obligations which all these journals unite in impressing upon him, and the condemnation which, with an equally unanimous voice, they have pronounced upon the part he is now acting towards his children, are not to he evaded, extenuated, or in any way got rid of, tinder the pretence that they are either the creations or the exaggerations of a tallous spirit. No supposition could be more erroneous, no de lusion more fatal than this. The very circumstance that The Sllll, the Dublin Evening Mad, and the Watchman—to go no farther—cordially agree on every point of this case, is of itself a convincing proof that the matter lias nothing to do with po!i tics. To our Dublin Contemporary, it is well known that we are diametrically opposed on every ques tion within the political sphere, while the Watch• man, the great religious organ of that cumerous and powerful body the Wesleyan Methodists, feels itself constrained, on moral and religious grounds, and in opposition to its "sectarian interests—if we may so speak—to advocate the cause of Sir Au- GUSTUS D'ESTE, and to condemn the conduct of the Duke of Sussex, although, if we are not mis taken, his Royal Highness has been a great bene factor to Wesleyan charitable institutions. The Dublin Evening Mail alludes to a circum stance which took place at a late meeting of the Royal Highland School Society, as illustrative of the opinions and feelings of Scotchmen on this question. We were struck at the time with the sionifleant manner in which the company expressed their sense of Sir AUGUSTUS D'EsTE's claims. When the health of the Duke of SUSSEX was drunk, it fell to the lot of Sir AUGUSTUS to return thanks, and though the health was well received there was not much applause. But when the speaker, towards the close of his address, used the expression "Illustrious Father," the words were immediately followed by loud cheering, which told, more intelligibly than any language, what the company thought, what they felt, and what they expected. That they expressed the sentiments of Scotland there can be nu reason to doubt, for no true Scotchman can contemplate the wrongs which have been inflicted on the children of Lady Au- GUSTA MURRAY ) without feeling that his native land has been insulted, and that reparation is due. Let hi s R oya l Hi ghness well consider even suc h manifest at i ons as t h ese. They may be slight, but a straw th rown up will show how the wind blows. T hey may become troubleomc in time. The P, - aris Journals of Sunday are more than usually barren of news of foreign or domestic interest. In the Chambrr of Deputies on Saturday, the dulness of the We willingly borrow aid for a good cause where ever we can obtain it. We have not the least ob jection, therefore, to help forward Chancery Re form by a quotation from the Times. That journal yesterday reminded the public " that the predic tions of Sir SANILIEL HOMILLY upon the e.;ta blishment of the Vice-Chancellor's Court have been entirely fulfilled. The grievance of delay is in c:eased, most of the causes are twice heard." It I complained, also, that " all our property is to be sub ject to the control of a system of which the loose ness, the uncertainty, the arbitrary discretion, and the enormous delay are the leading characteristics. We are not quite clear," it added, " whether the whole system of Courts of Equity may not fairly be pronounced a nuisance." Tu find a great branch of the administration of property described as a nuis ance by a Conservative Journal is excellent encour agement for that part of the press which makes no pretence of Conservati3m to repeat such epithets, and to continue its attacks. We quote the following passage to show that tle Times agrees with us in opinion, that the profits of lawyers must be made to depend rather on the cele rity by which a cause can be brought to an end, than on the delay, before any reasonable expectations can be entertained of an efficient reform : It is frightful to think (says our Contemporary) that any man's property or business may be attached in a Court of Chancery, and that it is sure to be susponded six years at least before it can have a c h ance o f b e i ng liberated. We live at the mercy of attornies of the Courts of Chancery. We have no faith that their multiplication will be a remedy for anything, and we see in them additional engines to waste estates and extract costs for the benefit of all persons ex cept the miserable clients. But if an experiment is to be made, why not appoint a special temporary tribunal (if men can be found for such a purpose), to determine all that list of ancient causes in Chancery against which the Chancellor represents a kind of conspiracy to exist among Judges, Counsel, and Attornies. The intricacy and die cuity in which these learned persons, upon their system, have contrived to involve them, alarm and perplex them selves. What a picture of justice I Is this the system of which we are condemned to experience an augmentation ? We have a notion, that if causes could be decided as they arose, and if; therefore, no extraordinary profits could be gotten out of them, the temptation to litigation, and the consequent security of the subject, would be marvellously greater. The Chancery lawyers and the London attornies may not see the matter exactly in this light, but we ra ther think the public, and especially the remoter parts of the country, will take a separate view of their own interest. There can be no hope of any reform worthy of the name till the public. do see the matter very dif ferently from Chancery lawyers. The public mind must be emancipated from lawyercraft before any considerable improvement can be expected. The profession is too powerful for the Legislature, unless it speak the:voice of the people. CROMWELL could not cope with the lawyers, and since his day no Government has possessed power equal to his. It will be the fault, however, of men of property if they allow their property to be continually devas tated by the lawyers. THE ARCHIMEDES STEAM VESSEL. (From the Liverpool Journal.) ARRIVAL OF THE ARCIIIMEDF.S STEAMER.—We have the pleasure to announce to our readers the grati fying intelligence cf the arrival of the Archimedes in this poll, we will not say on an experimental cruise, inas much us the expression experimental would imply the existence of a question as regards the practical superio rity of the screw-propeller over any species of mechanism as yet constructed for purposes of navigation with the aid of steam. The object of the visit of the Archimedes to the port of Liverpool is, we understand, solely to give to the steam interests of our wealthy and enter prising community the opportunity of judging for them selves on the subject of this extraordinary invention, in behalf of an incalculable national benefit. The Archi med,-..s arrived here on Friday last, from Milford, having perk toed her journey, without he aid of sails, in the short space of nineteen hours and a half, a distance of 200 miles. MON EY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, T LVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, Fninmt.—The sales of this day hat e been 4,000 bale:: at steady prices, without any alteration since Friday. The art ivals this morning are the French mail, ship let ters from China and Monte Video, Hobart Town, 21st Feb., Calcutta, 24th Feb., Batavia, and Launceston. We have received Cape of Good Hope, papers to the 9th ef April. " From the Frontiers this week we learn that depreda. ions by the Caff - es have increased of late; these anno3- ttees appear to have their neap and spring tides. It is for the I oetier-guard to learn their periods, and to set watch accordingly." The most important subject in Cape Town at present is the state of public health, and it is one that demands serious attention both of Government and private indi viduals. Small-pox had spread rapidlj during the last two or three weeks, and there is probably not a narrow lane or alley in which more than one family is not to be found infected and suffering under the disease. We are also informed that the malignity of the disease, and the number GI deaths increase daily, so that it might ty considered the most fatal scourge with which this colony has been visited within the memory of the present genera tion. Tile want of servants and labourers, &c. , is again severe y felt in Cape Town. The present epidemic is pertly the cause of this ; but the main cause is that the number of labourers has fallen far below the demand for labour. Ploughing has commenced ; the high price of all agricultural produce will doubtless stimulate the farmers to extensive cultivation. We understand that Government has lately granted a free passage to South Australia to shepherds and persons acquainted with the management of land, from Ireland, provided they be not above thirty nor below seven years of age. The intelligence from China has not as yet bad the least elf. ct on the British :Market. Consols continue steady et the leaving off prices of yesterdav, 91i 4 fur the Account, w:th scarce anything doing ; Exchequer Bills, 23 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; Bank Stock 1764 1771 ; India Stock 2531 2541. In the Foreign 'Market as yet the prices are nominal, and may be .quoted 'as they left off. Spanish Active, 274 2 ; Deferred 124 4 ; Passive, 64 . 4 ; Portuguese 354 4 ; Three per Cents. 244 4; . Brazilian, 761 77_; Co lomliaa 952 26k • Dutch Tf wo-and- a-H a lf per Cents., 544 4 , Five per dente. 1014.1- 4 . snwacs.—Great :Western Beltway, 32 . 33 preni.;; - Lon 'thin...it Brighton. s i discount ; Blackvvall, 11 2 Oren]. ; Southampton, 531 54} par share; Birmingham, 88 90 prem. ; Greenwich, 9i 10.4 pee share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ze. s. d. £. s. d. £. .3. tl. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 50 , 27 ...... to 271 Great Western Ditto New - London and Birmingham 90 London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13* ll ..... to IQ Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares North Midland .. 100 Ditto New JOINT STOCK BANKS. A ust ralacia Union of Australia .. 20 . 30 HALF-PAS'7' ONE. Mr. Waghorn's first expresses arrived in Lo n d on yester day evening, in l ess th an 90 hours, from Marseilles. The second expresses, with date 23.1 May, from Bombay, will arrive in less than 80 hours from Marseilles, in due course. Consols at present for the operiing, 914 4 ex dividend ; Reduced, 91! 1; Exchequer Bills, 263 ss. lower; India Bonds, 4 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 274 ; Pas sive, GE ; Deferred, .14 ; Mexican, 324; Dutch TR C and-a-Half per Cents., 544. In Shares some business has been doing. Great Western, 98% 99, 11- rise ; London and Birmingham, 181 k to 182, 14 rise ; Croydon, 11, fall of - 4 1 ; Manchester and Leeds, 844; North Midland New, 391 40, rather lower; Cheiteuham and Great Western, 271, rise 21. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank stock 3 per Cent. Red 914 ' Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons — Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red.— ... 993 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ....... 13t 1 , Bank Stock for Acct — Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 p er cent , ;. Portugues . e, 5 per cent. 69 Belgian, 5 p er cent...... Ditto, - New Ditto — Brazilian Bon's .. ..... Prussian, 5 per cent.... I3uenosAyres,6 per cent 181 Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, S per cent 271 Ditto, 1824 Danish, :3 per cent.... French,s p er cent...llsf. 50c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. ---, Exchange ilfexi..an, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Duch, 21 per cent 54,i Peruvian, 1 8115, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent IOII SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 7Ol Cheltenham and Great Western Railway Eastern Counties Railway ..4 Great \} e, Railway Ditto New Shares Il.on,len and Brighton Railway 291 London and Blackwell Railway London arid Birmingham Railway Ditto Quarter Shares London and Greenwich Railway ... 9 London and South tVestern Railway .• 54 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 125 Manchester and Leeds Railway Ditto New Shares. North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares .. . ... .. .. 40 DOVER, JUNE B.—There ban been shipped th;s day, at. Dover, for Calais, 459,000 cunces of silver bul. lion, and 1,250 ounces of gold. LONGEVITY --We are informed that there is now living in Halliwell-road, Little Bolton, a man named Evan Counce, who was bora in the township of Rufford, in this county, in August, 1736, and baptized, as proved by the parish register, in the September of the same year. He is thus ap proaching the completion of bis 104th year, and he is remark ably hale and hearty. —Manchester 'Guardian. WATCHES DESTROYED BY few weeks ago the mail-train on the London and Preston Railway unfollunately caught fire, and in consequence a great amount of valuable property was much damaged, or entirely consumed. A box containing ferty-two watches, many of them valuable, and manufactured expressly to order for Carlisle, formed part of the property. To so intense a degree of heat had the watches 1 e n subjected that, though the various metals wet e not meted, every part of the machinery was rendered entirely useless. SHOCKING SUICIDE. —Tuesday morning Mr. Joseph Clarke, farmer of Piddington Grange, Northampton, shot himself in the brewhOuse, and was found by his family quite dead. He had been for some time subject to a severe pain at the top, of his head, which prevented his getting rest night or day. He left his bed about three in the morning, and his wife becoming alarmed at the length of his stay, got up and found him as described. He had shot himself with a short double-barrelled gun, the muzzle of which he had placed in his mouth, pulling the trigger with his hand. 'The roof of the mouth and the tongue were blown to pieces, the skull was ter ribly shatte..Kl, and the brains almost entirely driven out, part being found on the ceiling of the brewhouse. Although a man in good circumstances, he had latterly an idea that he should come to want, and had been very low-spirited, The jury found a verdict of Temporary Delirium. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON RAIL• WAY.— On Saturday night, about half-past eight o'clock, as a labouring man, named Winter, was in the act of getting into one of the carriages, near the Jolly Sailor, on the Croydon y Railway, to come to London as a passenger, the train sudd enl vent on, Wien he wo t inge L ed down, and ;hewheels p assed over both his thighs, which were smashed in a frightful m an _ tier. He was immediately brought up to Guy's Hospital, where he lingered in the greatest agony till twelve o'clock the same night, when he expired. The Earl of Galloway having paired off for the remainder of the session with Lord Lynedoch, is expected im mediately at Galloway-house, Isis residence in Wigtownshire. —Caledonian- iiieroory,. (From the Bristol Mercury.) This vessel arrived in our port on Friday evening I last, and, being moored in Cumberland-basin, instantly became an object of great attraction and admiration. It was a matter of no little disappointment to our eitizrms that, being engaged in an experimental voyage round the coast, the Archimedes was obliged to leave here again en the Monday morning for Milford, on which occasion she was accempanied by the Samswl, steam-tug, engaged by a party Who went on board the Archimedes in order to Witness her perf.rinances with which they were extremely gratified. She is a fine vessel, about 240 tons burden, and is propelled by one engine, of eighty horses' power. The advan tages of her form of construction are, that floe screw at the stern being ever under water, never throws away i!s labours, nor is it exposed to external in jury like the unsightly paddle-wheels of the common steam vessel. In a naval action, therefore, the screw is not to be got at by the enemv ; whereas the present paddles may be so injured by the first shut, as to ren der the vessel unmanageable. The position of the pro peller, too, is such that, when at her full speed, she causes no wore swell in the water than a regular sail ing vessel ; and those advantages, combined with other important considerations, are likely eventually to lead to the general substitu4ron of the Archimedeen screw for the common paddle. Captain Chapple (Govern. went agent) declares that he has not the slightest doubt hut that the screw may be applied to the largest ship of war, enablirg her thus to come into action in spite of contrary winds. Mr. Smith, the inventor, accompanies the Archimedes, and affords every facility to inquiry. ROLLS' UOURT.-(THIS DAY.) ---, The Master of the Rolls having disposed of the consent petitions, heard causes. CLESS D. DC:MPH:UE.3 The plaintiff in this case was the driver of a \Vantage stage coach, and the defendant, his brother-in-law, carried on business as a draper. Tha plaintiff's case was that in January, 1830, the defendant Humphries became desirous of purchasing a small shop in \Vantage, but not being able to pay the purchase money, 1671. 10., he borrowed 150/• of the plaintiff, upon ,an agreement to deposit t title-deeds of the house with the plaintiff. The 1501. arcs advanced, the estate was conveyed to the pl. - lint& by indenture, dated - Jan. 2.•, 1830, and the ti.le deeds were handed to the plaintiff. On a subsequent oc casion, flenqi.ries was desirous of voting at an election for t , e t aunty of Berks, and applied for the deeds, as the re was to be a scrutiny. The wife of the allow. d him to has'; them, and they remained in his pos. session for. sonic time. The mother of the wives • of the plaintiff and defendant remonstrated Humphries for not returning the 'deeds, and stated that her daughter would get into trouble with her husband for parting wit!: them. The defendant then returned them, and they had continued in the possession of the :-Ituntiff ever since. The plaintiff had several times up. plied for his money, but it not bring forthcoming he filed the present bill to have relief upon his equitable mot t gage. The defendant by his answer denied that he ever borrowed the 150/. from the plaintiff at all, but stated that the wife of the plaintiff, who formerly carried on the busi lie33 of a milliner, had sold that business to his wife, and that the 1501. was advanced to her without any cognisance on his part, and that the way the plaintiff got possession of the deeds was that he (the defendant) - wishing to consult his attorney upon his right to a privy, sent them to Lon don by the plaintiff, who had never returned them. Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. HALLETT appeared for the plaintiff, but while the latter gentleman was reading the evidence in support of the bill, Mr. KI NDERLEY , h av i ng consulted with his junior, Mr. SIDEBriTTOM, admitted the plaintiff's evidence was too strong for them to contend against, and a Decree was therefore made in favour of the plaintiff. Tire remainder of the causes in the Paper having been got through, the Court rose at half-past one o'clock. BOW - STREET. -'THIS DAY. Hannah Bland, a married woman, apparently of d:s&- . pated habits, was brought before Mr. HALL on a charge of drunkenness, and wilfully neglecting her infant, aged four months, under the following circumstances : It appeared from the statement, of a woman who lodges in the next room, that the prisoner had not lived with her husband for the last seven years, but receives five shillings a week, which is left with Mr. Parish, in Wnite Hart-yard, by him, for the support of herself and three children. On several occasions her conduct had been so inhuman towards her children, by stripping them and selling their clothes to procure gin, that women who happened to be suckling in fants, and were aware of the drunken habits of the prisoner, frequently went to her room where the children were lying in the most squalid condition, to give the breast to the youngest, which is illegitimate, for which they met with abuse. Mr. Avery, of Clement' lane, who resides next door to the prisoner, sa d that he had known presents of clothes to be given to tie children but they had not them on rn..re than half an hour, when they appeared running about the streets in a state of nudity, the prisoner aving sold them fora few halfpence to procure gin. The wA ness hen ~ 00k the infant, wo ich was rolled in a dirty handkerchief, from the woman with whom she left it in the public-house, and on exposing it to the Court it pr:2- sented a most horrify ng appe.;rance, being reduced to a mere skeleton, and evidently d in j through a want of care a: d proper sustenance. Mr. Hata, dcc ared that a g- - eater monster io the shape of woman rn.ver was brougl:t ty,fore him, and having directed the woman with whom the baby was left to stand forward, she said that she had been employed by the prisoner to look after the children, but in conse quence of twing continually in a state of intoxication she was compelled to leave the children to get whatever they could from persons who were acquainted with the conduct of their inhuman mother, and a few days back' she of er,d her half a crown if she would consent to wring the neck of the baby present, or otherwise make away with it. Oa meeting her last night in a public house, she requested of her to hold the child for a few minutes, and she instantly disappeared, but was sulioequently taken into custody. Mr. HALL ordered Mr. Kirby, the relieving officer of the Strand Union, to be sent for, and on his arrival, he said he had known the prisoner for some time as a most in. corrigible drunkard, an d ow i ng to the • interference of some fellow-lodger s , he went to her room to afford relief, when she promised to alter her conduct, and treat them in a different manner. The woman sho had care of the d) int?, infant was dirt ctcd to convey the other children to the workhouse of the Strand Union. Mr. HALL told the prisoner he intended to commit her for trial should the child die, and she might give some account of the matter before she was removed from the t ar. The prisoner said that she had had a fright in her con. finement, and that was the only way she c..uld account for the reduced condition of the baby. Sho was then ordered to be locked up.. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY. FISH MARKETS. The supply of fine Fish was very short, and of the common sort there was not a large assortment ; prices rather high. Turbot, Gs. to 18s. ; Soles, Gd. to 3s. per pair; Salmon 'carve, Is. to 3s. per lb. ; 'Mackerel, 4d. to Gd. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKETS. Supply moderate, and a pretty good sale at former prices. Clover Hay, 3/. to 5/. 10s. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 10s. t 4/. ; Straw, 325. to 345. per load. TALLOW MARKET. The prices of Tallow were lirrn at 49.4. 9.1. on the spot, but little business done. For New Tallow there was nu inquiry. TEA MAR KET- Little business done, but prices generally were supported. Company's Congou 2s. 31d. to 2s. 4d. per lb. cash. The ge neral impression is that prices will be higher before the end of July. The stock has been increased by the late arrivals, but altogether it is not more than one vear's consumption. COLONIAL MARKET. Little done, but prices were maintained - for the few parcels of goods that were actually disposed of. The arrivals of pro duce were small, but a good many ships were expected. In Spirits there was little done, but prices did not give way. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, JUNE B.—Wind S. E.—Sailed the outwnrd bound. LIVERPOOL, JUNE B.—Wind S., moderato.—Arrived the Ariadne, M'Leod, from Calcutta ; .sailed from the Sand Heads 13th February, and St. Helena, 26th April, Alexandria, Turner, for New Orleans; Medford, Walsh, ditto; Swiftsure, Lyack, Smyrna; Challenge, Herna man, do. ; Laurina, Laguna. Off port, William Russell, Pernambuco; Amelia, Laguna. PORTSSIOUTH • JUNE 8. --Wind S.—Arrived the Prince Regent (steam packet) Ilumble, from Gribraltar. Ar rived off the Vernon, Denny, Calcutta ; sailed 28th Fe bruary, from Cape of Good Hope 22nd April, St. Helena 6,11 ult. ; Windsor, Nesbit, ditto. OFF THE WIGHT, JrJNE B.—The Arab, Westmoreland, from Launceston. COWES, JUNE B.—Arrived Frederick, Bogeman, Macao. PLYMOUTH, JUNE B. Wind S. S E.—Sailed Samuel, Walters, for Newfoundland. Off port, the Calcutta, Chalmers, Hobart Town —sailed about 22 i February. FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind S. to W. S W., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Redbreast, Bruce, and Me!anira, Simpscn, from Malaga. Off port, the Dorothy Gales, Bantam, from Ceylon ; Frances Burn, Edington, Monte Video —sailed March 4. WHITEHA YEN, JUNE 7.—Arrived the Ruth, Ran.lall, from Sierra Leone. The Wilson, Stoup, which still d front Liverpool yesterday fur Montreal, has put into tiiit harbour leaky. HULL, JUNE B. Wind W. by S.—Arrived the Pc rnona, Blues, from Riga. YAEMOUTII, JUNE 2.—The Zante Packet, Bretian, from Newcastle to Zante, got on the Barber Sands to-day, but was assisted off into the roads. There will be a Cabinet Council to-morrow after noon, at which all the Ministers will be present. Her Majesty has recently presented to each of the clergy engaged in the ceremony of the Royal nuptials a copy of the Holy Scriptures, magnificently bound in purple and gold, as a token of her gracious favour. There is an inscrip tion in each, declaratory of the origin of the present in the autograph of the Bishop of London. His Royal Highness Prince Albeit has honoured the Toxopholite Society by becoming their patron in succession of their late Majesties, George IV. and William IV, Her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester will have a small dinner party to-morrow ( Wednesday) even ing i.l Park-lane. This will be the first entertainment given by the Royal Duchess fur sonic months past, owing to her re cent indisposition. Lord Holland will entertain the whole of the Cabinet Ministers at dinner to-morrow evening, at Holland House, Kensington. THE TEA TRADE, JUNE $, he deliv er i es o f Tea last week were not qu i te so large as in th pding seven days, being 361,2001b 5. The trade has not bee e rece n very animated to-day, but prices are firmer, Company's Congous having touched 2s. 4d. per lb. THE APPROACHING ANTI-SLAVERY CON vENTIoN.---We understand that M. I'Sambert, a dikinguished Member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and a Judge of the Court of Caseation, in whose honour medals have been struck at the instance and the cost of the negroes and the free people of colour in the French colonies, has signified his inten tion of taking part in the proceedings of the great Anti- Slavery Convention, to assemble at the Freemasons' Hill, on the 12th instant. He will be accompanied, by several other Members of the French Central Society, notwithstanding the coincidence of the sittings of the Convention with those of the French Cham bers and of the French Government Commission, to which many of the French abolitionists belong. The letters received from China by the Thomas Courts state, that notwithstanding the pending warlike prepara tions as between China and England, the smuggling of opium was freely carried on round the eastern coast. The notorious opium clipper, the Lady Grant, had arrived in Tongkoo roads on the 13th of January, ready to proceed on that passage, and was expected to be absent at least one month in the chan nels of the various islands getting rid of the drug._ , The quail tity on board this clipper was valued at 100,000/. It appears that high wages are given to these who enter the trade, and the agreements between the commacders and their men are only verbal. The Lady Grant was stated to be " armed up to the teeth," mounting fourteen guns, worked by Europeans, besides a full supply of all kinds of ini s§ il et , an d t h erefore f eare d li tt l e " from the Alanciarin junk s . S ome o f t h e men on boar d h a d ex : pressed co n fid ent expectations of " obtaining souse Chirr4l: . : tails (ex ce ll ent f or making watchguards) in a day or two. 11 I_ gives an id ea i n what estimation the courage of the natives of the Celestial Empire is held by English seamen. THE LAST AMERICANsM.—.4 4 114 , dose '31,1r strong 3 . P h Y sician p rac ti s i ng i n Penns.) I: 4 Xi , P/4 of nitre to a patient Ir,b9v,rini, Mutera severe cold,it caused so co profuse a peripira . 1 0n during the night, that he wis f ound drowned the next:morning, • E VENING EDIT ON._- A SPEECH WORTH HEARING, Tice Quincy (Illinois) IVhig, of the Ist Fe bui : ary, contains the followlin report of a recent speech in the Sen a t e o f t h at S tate , on t h e Bill f or repeal' ing internal impiovements , :-- " Mr. Speaker, I rise, Sir, not to mak e speech—spe ec h- ma ki ng i s not my trade, but to tel the friends of the repeal that I am foment them' altho' I h a t e ra il roa d s as b a d as any matton this earth, prehaps, and I have a good rea son to ha te , them, yet 1 s h a ll vote agin repealing them► bekase all m y const i tuents on this side o the river b o d as hi ous l y arc for them, acid i i; a good many on tot h er s id e too• are a fact, Mr. Speaker, I know very lil tla about rail- roa d s , b ut I guess I k now as much as some other folks do—We have had a rail road in Cli n t on f or some years, across t h e bottom there at Carlisle and one over Crooked Creek hot' tom, in Marion, and of all infernal roads in ere' tion, for roughness, they bang th e better--gen tle • ; men may lau g h—b ut i t ' s no j o k e,—my const ituent have lost, in the sinole ►item o f b rea ki ng eggs , S ' f : a handsome fortune. Scott, in Carlisle, and a male tavern too, not I t of your Springfield greas yes, but a ri o i jam up chicken fixen tavern, told ma tha t who k ee ps a save at no mortal man could tell the eggs had been broken in bringin them to tort across that infernal railroad, and 'fully told me 1":1 same thing exactly about Crooked Creek RAT; same smashing of eggs. You know Huey, Speaker ? I wish you could have heara .4llle/ curse, the time his carriage was jolted up into ete i r; nal smash, cross i ng t h e same railroad. [He r , e : t i l t Speaker, unabl e an y l onger to control - his rowh faculties, l aug hi ng l y observed, The geollernBo must confine - himself t o t h e quest i on, an d to the rules of the Senate.'] Well, Sir, as I was saP ti gj he cost; an d h e swore, and fairly snoopy agin, but still he's for railroads. These alle, notions, Mr. Sp ea k er , an d I could not sit Lle'- without bel c hi ng i t out. [Here the orator turned his head, and in an audible voice addressed Senator to his right.]— , Uncle Peter, what's the name of your 'Wolf bill but receiving no alo wer he then, straightening him se lf up, again addr essed the Speaker. As lam now up, Mr.-Speaker , if will give yo u my not i ons on Uncle Peter's 'lf bill— [Here the Sp ea k er i nterrupted h i m again reminding hi m th at the wolf question was °° now before th e S enate , an d therefore i ts M erits could not be di seusse d.l—Y ou ' re mistaken i n your man, Mr. Speaker ; not a cussing "I: ratter, and if I was, I should be very far wag cussing Uncle P e t er ' s wo lf bill . No, Sir; 1 "-s• you and all thi s h ere S enate to understand :that I am no Jupiter Iscariot, in this or any other mar ter. I'm for that bill head and ears, no mistake 14 shave tail,—l go it, Sir, on the loud.—One in 7 rw thing, Mr. Sp ea k er , an d I ' m done,—the ge°l,l; man from Sh amroc k county don't think that's the name exactly either—but the two ' headed gentleman over thete, said the other day—[H ere t h e S pea k er, assuming as muci' gravity as possible, called the gentleman t° order, and requested him to take his seat.] . After , looking the Sp ea k er ste df astly in the eye for at leas twenty seconds, w ith a w i n k of askance, he sait Mr. il".„ Are you in ra l c yearnest, Speaker, if so be you are, you're into me a b out a f eet, 1 ' S pore think, but, Sir—look out—l warn you, Sir, to keepa skin'd ey e f or terrapin tra p s an d moca ssin track? —I have rights, Sir, as the two-headed gende man over there, (pointing to the gentleman from Hancock,) said the other day, that shall no be trodden o n nor treate d w i t h em done,-Sir —I would, h owever, b e f ore I sot down, say 10 my* friend from Union, not to look so serious, when he tells hi s f unny stories, in his sp e ech, but to V," us a sort o f a sm il e , as I do, wh en h e comes Iv the nub, or laughing part, so that we in-ay know whe n to laugh too. 1 have now got over a ll I was arr ! ri. Mr. Speaker, and I will conclude this sPeeeb. There THE GREA T WESTERN RAILW AY.-- far as is eve r y p ro b a bilit y o f t h e li ne being opened for tra ffi c 's the Farringdo n R oa d i n t h e course of another • nurstli, after which time it is the intention of our coach proprietors tC , p l y direct to that St a ti on , i nstea d of taking the lirestnt circuitous route of Oxford, am t as t h e F arr ingdon.Road is little snore NO , 3Q Miles from Cheltenham, the journey' to LOndon will be con' siderably shortened in point of tame.-..-Cheltenharn Journal. THE RAILWAY.--Within the last few days the bank w Vch separated the Birmingham and Gloucester wocka frem the Cheltenham and Great Western, beiween the'Statiou and Lansilown Bridge, has been cut through, from whicheir• cainstan::e we should infer that a satisfactory arrangemene bas been entered into by the Iwo Companies. The greatest-Ix: a ' tiens are making to complete the work up to the Lans Bridge, and from the number of hands ein ac tivity displayed, we should fancy that a very short space of , relit Cheltennur ure suffice for the attainment of that ebjeet.-- Journal. The vote REPRESENTATIO N OF HALIFAX.------ of Mr. Charles Wood on Lard Stanley's Registration Bill bas given great offence to the Whig section of his eonstituents v , e al they have begun to cast about for a new candidate. , names have been mentioned ; among others those Mr. Hu' and Mr. Cobden.—Leeds Intelligencer. ploy-ed, and the ,ti THE LATE DREADFUL FLEE AND LOSS ° l LIFE IN THE CITY.—Mr. Price still remains at the residelie, of Mr. Watkins, surgeon, of Neweeate-street, iN a. state them: approaching to madness, and it is said that he has for source time previous to the occurrence been affected with a nervous cona . plaint. To this is mainly attributed his inability to rescue . 111 , 5 unfortunate wife and children from the dreadful death 41 1 11 , c ; awaited them, it being ascertained from -the position of the premises that he might, had he been possessed of sufficien. nerve, have saved the whole of them by paesing them throoug.la the trap door of the bedroom in which they slept on to thee 's, Mrs. Price was very near her acceuehement. The body ls. scarcely at all disfigured by the fire about the head and l'aer but her legs were completely burnt off. The eldest bby rs identified by a part of his corduroy trowsers which he rn snaged to put on when an a l arm o f fi re was raised. The other chil"::73. are so dreadfully bur n t th a t t h e i r s i ze is the only means by wil. they can be told one front the other. Th e i nquest is to ta k place this evening. PEARL DIVERS.—When a boat arrives at spot considered, from the nature of the bottom, as likely ti prove favou ra bl e , t h e b oat i s anchored, and the crew (livid into two portions • one remains i n t h e b oat to receive the o ys" ters and haul up the divers, the others strip naked, and jui n i' into the se a . A sma ll b as k et, capable of hording from eight to, ten oysters, is th en h an d e d to them, and suspended to their le!t arm, the nostrils are then closed with a piece of elastic hot'''. the diver places his foot on a stone attached to a cord, inhales a ". long breath, and upon raising his right arm as a signal, the roe' is immediately let go, and he sinks to the bottom. After eu lecing as many are within his reach, he jerks the line, 5 01 drawn at once t o th e sur f ace. Forte seconds is the average, one minute and thirty-five second's the ultimatum which they eau remain below.— Weltsted's City of the Caliphs. • • • it is in contemplation to open the railway betwi s° . Glasgow and Paisley in the first week of July.---Seotsman•„ . CCCKERMOUTII.—In consequence of- the jaw' mous interference of the Tories at the late election at Cocker mouth, a Reform Association has been formed in that roa n , of which Sir Wilford L awson , B art., i s president, and - T.Te "•' Dykes, Esq., of Dovenby Hall, the vice. president: A ( 11 97' city of the elect ors have already e n ro ll e d their mines st:' s'gned the important pledge. Cock ermout h has nobly (le t ''' . mined neve-to lose its high name, never to allow an op en or t disguised Ti (Wyndham was the latt er ) to write behind /LP name " Member of Parliament for Cockermouth." The ele4l were very busy on the side of Toryism. About thirty voters , ' all Liberals, were prevented by intimidation from giving 'th eir sulliages to Mr. Horsman.—Whitehaven Comespolden-i. REPRESENTATION OF HALIFAX.—Theiv°2-e -of Mr. Charles Wood on Lord Stanley's Registration Bill if ss • given great off ence to his constituents, and should, an election occur early, the Hon. Gentleman would certainly lose has O at ' e understand that several names have been. mentioned zo f likely candidates on the Liberal side, and among other , those • Mr. Hume and Mr. Cobden. If united the Liberal party can carry whom they please..—Bradford Observer. We are happy to bear that Lord Itossrnore is s 0 far recovered, that 'he Noble Lord's sons, the Mu nc h ers for " A lO- naglian a n d King's County, w ill be able to attend on no t ' • day in their places in Parliament. REPRESENTATION OF DURHAM. IVlr' Granger, th e b arr i ster, has visited the city of D ur h am during the past week, and is mentioeree as likely to succeed Mr. Mir lamd a , s one of its representatiees in Parliament. 1 HE VOLUNTARYP,ANCIPLE TRIUMPJIANr* —For the last two years the inhabitants of Rod', in the c9(. 1 5 4 1 of Pembrok e , h ave successfully resisted the imposition - Church-rate for that parish. It now ail - lards us pleasure to an pounce that the church party have given up all further atteluil to force the p ar i s hi oners to supply the needful for the fabric the church. This venerable edifice is now undergoing elm siderable repair, and the expense is to be defrayed by voluntary contributions. A subscription has been opened for the pir pose, and promises to be a successful one. Thus the struggl e ' which has for a length of time distracted this parish, and err en' dared feelings the reverse of the charity, el joined by the Pr"' ciples of Christianity' is terminated, and we trust will never be renewed ; we hope that each party will in future strive to show its Christian character by acts of kindness and forbearance to • wards those who differ upon matters which only affect tbeeg. selves and their God.— Welshman. STATE OF TRADE._ There is not much change since our last report, but business is improving. Prices are firm, and mere hands are employed. —Leeds Mr ' Tray. SUDDEN DEATH.-A very awful occurrence took place at the visitation of the Arelnleacee of Worcester. at Stratfordeon.Avon, on the 4th instant, ' lie W . Pruens • pay „, preparatory to the ser mon, t v i i:, , a ( r tay o hSandit just concluded e n lu e d a e r d W th a e r when lie was seized with rpoplexy. He ova; immediately removed from the pulpit all -110'A in a dsiag state, and conveyed k, fhe to the house of a friend near the church. Medical aid was speedily obtained, but too l c appointed preacher of Reverend Gentleman expired within a short time after the attack. The eireumsfance eau :: the muds of the clergy asset...deice, sad event. t t o lie b( d ' e o ep f eat any avail, in th-41 indeed of all who wileissed this - - - - SUDDE N IA , ~ niouth, ytu was inn man, in 0 . , i.e.41 . .. , 1av of Mr. Gosling-, malster, &a., of Mon- EA TI-I.—On Tuesday last, a labour in tlac,a‘'t of ,!riving som e pigs to his master's farm, was seized subject to occasional spasmodic attacks, Whilst ):rth a fatal paroxysm, from . the el7ects of which he suddenly fell in .he road and airnost instantly expired. Ile had a few minut-,:s previously told a lad who had accompanied him, th at ly. ',lad had a painful spasm whilst taking the pigs out of a mea dcw. Th e deceased was about 50 year. of age, and had an aged mother entirely dependant' Upon him for her support: — !.70 ioitOuathiee Merlin.