The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

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To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodraiaa.tie, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled and founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Boe. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, sa. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, Lts.__; Gallery, ls. boors to . fre opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Ticked and plat P.s for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Loses to be had , -,l ely of Mr. Andrews bookseller 10, New Bend-street. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Sixth Week of Haines New Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Wornan," and still increasing desire of the Public to witneAs its representation, znd Second Week of " Everybody's Re lation," which excites nars of laughter from delighted au diences. THIS EVENING, MAY 2G, Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress." After • Inch will be revived the Domestic Drama entitled VIC ORINE, THE MAID OF PARIS. To col:clinic with a Now Comie Drama, called EVERYEOIRY - S RELATION. Supported by the enti're strength of the Company. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ERUPTION OF lIECLA ! II Ult SDAY NEXT. The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have been made during the winter, to increese still further the magnificence of tins unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with the most comriete success, fully dernonstratea on each Evening of ICS 12:fbibition, by the unanimous and enthusiastic delight with whio'u each potion of the got polls display was hailed as it pro hy the thouaand3 assernhled on those cee7:sions. In com eii..ani-e with tht expreised wishes of great numbers of the Vivi toil, it will be repeated on Thursday, .Alay - 26th, commencing siiortly heß:re dusk. The. Panoramic M0d.,1, Al Fresco, of .7.l,Amf I-l Ada, entirely inc.:ince:l by Mr. Darion, ori ,, inal Artist, is exhibiting dui 77fr om ten till drwk, with tit,: Menagerie, which i 3 now in t t nest order, and ini4 lately received osatis i'n2ertant addi uens.—Fecifing Five o'clock. AdmiLlion, One Sh:,i,ng, TO CORRESPONDENTS. 'With every wish to promote the cause of the o.Yicers who hare served is the Per,inEuls, "Ind with much gratitude fur the thatik3 with which they, ac a recent meeting, honoured the Press, we rolls' decline to insert the reso lutiuns forwarded, except as an Advertiser err. We hate no means of ascertaining the uarnes and proles siong of the Jurymen adverted to by a " Constant Ilea 2 er," who writes from Birmingham, arid besiles to give them now would be invidious. At the trial we -str,:,.ngly reprobated such prosecutions, but the blame :mach: a to our law-makers, and not to Juries. A'lEll. AT LONDON 131111',GE TO-110ZIIIOW 8 raznutes after 10 1 Evening ...,.,40 rntuutes alter 10 Sts.• Publication of the Evening Edition of Tnz SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. „.„ 1 LONDON: TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840, This night Mr. VILLIERS, the untired cham pion of free trade ; the enlightened friend,not of the poor only, but of all classes, for it is hopelessly impossible for the opulent to live in safety while the multitude are wretched and reckless—is to bring forward again his motion . on the Corn-laws. We despair of its finding as much support as it eleserves, because the crisis of extreme misery i past. Cokl and famine have for this season done their work. Spring and fine Riather have come earlier and more genially than usual ; trade begins to feel the season's demand; hope revives ; all have lived through the worst, and all now again turn to new labour, and look for their subsistence rather to their own exertions than to the Legislature. What the people hare gone through to arrive at this state, where hope again begins, may be known by there petitions from agricultural labourers, com plaining of not having the " keep of a dog," to which we have from time to time adverted ; by the accounts we have published of weavers receiving 4s. lid, per week for the main tenance of a family ; and the lamentable tales we have inserted of men stealing the meal from the hog -trough, to satisfy their own and their - children's cravings. To strengthm all those proofs we now publish a letter which has been handed to we from Dr. RYAN to Mr. VILLIERS, and which is well worthy of perusal, describing the mode of living of the poor, to which, as a medical man, he has been. an eye-witness. " Whole fami!ies," he says,, " subsist week after week on meal gruel," and to purchase even that wretched subsistence, abeerbs their whole income, and they have "nothing for fuel and clothing." We have no longer to dread that our population shall be degraded to the level of the Chinese, or the Jumper-fed Irish ; they have unhappily reached that point, and 'cannot well be more degraded. They are worse fed than gentle men's dogs, and gather their subsistence from the hog -trough. The people have now gone through the pro cess of bei ng starve d down to the present amount of subsistence. Fever and diseases of various kiia, arising from insufficient food and want cif clothing, have now done their worn, and for a littl e w hil e t h e people will he probably''some what better off than they have been. W that;that;th e epectis will rela x th e zea l of all but the most n lightened Anti-Corn-l aw a d vocates, jest as the Inndiean forgets in tile morning what were the wants of the evening before, and looks not forward to the wants of the next. evening; and we expect, therefore, that the House of Commons will regard the motion for the repeal of the cursed Corn-laws with more indif ference even than formerly. , The worst consequence o f the deprivations to which the people submit with such exemplary pa tience, is perhaps, not the temporary suffering, but the permanent degradation which follows. M e n hoverin g through the winter on the very brink of the grave, seeing their little ones a prey to disease, and carried off by death, find a 'We ly ave inserted elsewhere a letter from a Cor great improvement in their condition from the i r est rand ent on the ciensegirences resulting from the warmth of spring, evcn if it be not accompanied, I 3.03 - al . Marriage Act as regards Ireland. There is se it generally is, a little increase of demand for 1..-ot - zhe least doubt that in the event of Sir A uGus- Jahour and increase of waee, Th f ey feel momentary TerS .. l . ;E . sTE surviving the Duke of SUSSEX, he pleasure, contentment to 'a C:ertain degree follows ; f would succeed to the Barony of Aeklow, and to all they make no effort to net more; and . the next win,,. the ter, and next short harvest, w ille w e know, has ever ventured to assert ri. lits accruing from that succession. No one, still atilt more thin th , e i e as fa': a- Act, an Act passed by numbers by starVation, and more, if possible ! , I that the Royal degrade them below the common level l ire when Ireland was a separate of hamar 't • i the. Br itish Legislat : ay e its _ wr, _ 0 . , it ;. o 1 e URI C.7,- We- may look, then, for that • Leetslature ot exacme wretched- V.ugd orn with a c Marriage nese of which we have given specimensand wiii'Ch , 1 'end try that country. not the rule we hope are yet the exceptions, f that Act will he ad to become the general and the permanent e: - i Ivalidity 0 i . i re thinks teat the to the extent of &don of the people of E 1 i ng.ann,. At least il ; ipitted, by , estitutional lawyers, , But, h . ' we understand our Correspondentyightly, on y co,. we are much afraid that the Legislature will ' c 'e • priviroe th e is % (IC 0 ....1.1--C —USSET with i ne t help them, .Will continue to turn aI t. metc.o f= e the n I: of SI as that cot,_ deaf honour deaf ear to their just claims, though enforced G - ' MURRAY VS7:A “. .atf R s suc h e a , might have tire cruel . • by Tory Baronets, and I will not relax o : rid teritanee to wh;*ctk such issue Britain, had o m f ar a r r i l a y g eega Lady beenA ti. fetters it has imposed on their industry nor its hold ( Great _ of their earnings, and will force them to help them- A seti'.l ed within the kingdom of lime been no Royal Marriage Act. Is our Cor- su ,ch be the case it will only manifest the more un ai how mistaken statesmen ate in their n( )(ions respecting the forms to be observed when it is ',intended to maintain the peace of nations. A ne a ion i 3 as susceptible of frankness—nay, even of th a enthusiasm of friendship as an individual ; and it r lay be doubted whether it does not resent as hit ily as would an individual, in a personal instance, the. cold diplomatic phraseology which it feels bound to nitate. In the case of Governments not so in nc, ediately under the irresistible influence of pub )inion as those of Great Britain and the United St At s s, there is of course less danger in the affecta tio t 2 ctf international reserve and suspicion on the part . ,f diplomatists, and to such these remarks are not it, itcnded to apply quite so strongly. But it is to ,be bz.Yrne in mind that the question of war or pea ce l )etwcen England and America is one which the pc( pie will always be more powerful to decide th.: Goveroments of London and Washington. selves, or submit to slow extirpation, like the red ii men of America. The Le ' ature, the so-called representatives of the peop may continue the present systetn, and may gradually, even in spite of the wise provisions of nature for the continual melioration of the lot of mankind, extinguish by starvation those whom it calls, in the jargon of a school, the superfluous labourers of England ; but it will not escape the judgment and the execration of an impartial posterity. We stated, a few days ago, that the revenue of the priesthood had increased eight-fold since the Revolution, while the population had increased only three-fold ; and yet the priesthood have the impudence to demand more wealth for the per formance of their duties. Within the same perio the revenue of the Government has increased from 2,061,8561. to 47,000,0001., or it has been mul tiplied twenty-three•fold ; and vet those who live on taxes are not contented with their share of the national produce. Just before the Revolution, agricultural labourers received 10d. per day, and now they receive, under the most favourable cir cumstances, 20d., but in many cases not 151 When the landowners, then, and other classes, cry out about the great increase of prices, and the great burdens they have to bear, what have they to say to the labourers who have to bear their full share of those burdens without receiving a corre• sponding increase of reward? But what we wish especially to remark in relation to the comparative increase of the people and the increase in the reve rines of the priesthood and the Government, is that the labourers by whom all wealth is created have amply done their duty by the State and the priest hood, as is proved by the increase of their revenues; while it is plain from their insufficient reward, insuf ficient protection, and insufficient instruction, that neither the priesthood nor the State (or Legis lature) has done its duty by the working classes. For the tax-eaters, therefore, to demand more revenue and more power, and for the priesthood to demand more wealth and more churches, under such circumstances, are other specimens of that impu dence which we have said seems at present to pre vail in the management of all public affairs. If the Legislature supposes for one moment that it can hide these and similar facts from the public, it is mistaken ; and if it supposes that while it is unable to hide them it can continue to command the pub lic respect and public obedience, it is under a great delusion. In the most trivial affairs, errors and delusions lead to much mischief, and we know no reason why the rule of every day life should not be cvally applicable to the Legislature. The American Papers, brought by the British Oeeen, contain a correspondence between General SCOTT, of the United States Army, and Sir JOHN HARVEY, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, on the settlement of the Maine Boun d 3.ry question. We never read a semi-official cor rtzponclence which did more honour to the hearts amid the understanding of the writers, than do the leemers of General SCOTT and Sir JOHN HARVEY to. these gentlemen respectively. In every line we h eve the frankness of the soldier and the humanity f the patriot. With a delicacy which the nicest o:iplornatic skill could never give, because it must he the inborn prompting of a noble nature, General SCOTT appreciates all the difficulties of his distin gc•ished friend's official position, and at once ac commodates himself to them. Then, in a burst of fir le patriotic feeling, in which the yearning of the In art towards the Mother Country is scarcely con ce tiled, he adds—" How happy may we esteem at if a personal friendship, commenced in the field, and in opposite ranks, can be made in exy degree conducive to the preservation of peace— a. perpetual peace between our countries 1 For if ar immediate conflict of arms about the disputed t erritory can be avoided, to allow time for the two 'Governments to adjust, at London or Washington, , the great question in controversy (which I am per suaded may readily be done), I see no reason to Mpprehend anotteer cause of serious misunderstand it ig between the two portions of the great Anglo- S .axon race for centuries to come." This is wisely and feelingly suggested, to prevent calumny fi orn casting other bitter ingredients into the c iuldron of contention. But what follows is seall more indicative of the hold cf early historical n :collections upon the mind and heart of the gal lant soldier. " The ties of common blood," he ct nrtinecs, "language, civil liberty, laws, customs, m anners, interests, must, in a reasonable period— a at is, as soon as we can forget past wars, and they ar e almost forgotten—work ou t a s t rong compact 01' reciprocal feeling (far more binding than written en gagements), which the other nations of the world would be wholly unable to dissolve or to resist. ~tch a compact, although the two portions of the ce arc, and probably will ever remain, under Se p :rate Governments, and of different forms, is tw ee scary to both—in war as in peace ; for who shall sa y what hostile combinations in the next one bun dr ed, seventy, or even thirty years, may not take pl; ace among the other nations, to require the united st :ength of England and America for the safety of tli eir common principles and interests r This is melt and nobly said ; and we require but the as surance of General SCOTT that he but expresses the sentiments of enlightened Americans to indulge i rr the anticipation of an amicable settlement of e differences. But while a correspondence thus frank, manly, ae cl amicable is carried on between General SCOTT an d Sir JOHN HARVEY, how is it that an equal tot le of good feeling is not allowed to pervade the clip lomatic notes of Mr. FORSYTH and Mr. Fox? W by should the farce of diplomatic acting be kept u p by an Ambassador and a Secretary of State, w It en its only effect must be to keep alive a spirit 0 . f discord among that reckless border population, w hose self-interest alone prompts them to plunge t% ro great nations into all the horrors of a possibly in terminable war ? The arrogant tone which di p!, ,enatists employ in notes which are to be made pub lie, and which among themselves mean nothing, prc K Luce pernicious effects upon the minds of the mull itude by inflaming their passions, prompting the ( tritivation of hostile feelings, and by keeping alive the embers of vulgar international jealousy and. : hatred. If the whole truth were known we might possi bly 1 lave to add here that neither General SCOTT nor i Sir JOHN HARVEY had the least notion, when per a ling their correspondence, that it would be made y wn to more than their respective Governments, an 3 what would mortify us still more that had they ap pre hended its publication, their communications w , mid have acquired a very different form. Should THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840. respondent aware that Dr. LUSHINGTON and Mr. RICHARDS have had the case laid before them, and have given it as their deliberate opinion that the marriage at Rome is unimpeachable under that Act ? The truth is, that the Act in question does not apply, and was not intended to apply, to any marriages b u t th ose contracte d w i t hi n t h e limits of Great Britain—we might, perhaps, safely say within the limits of England and Wales. There is abundant evidence in the Act itself—were there none other—to establish this point, and we shall take the earliest opportunity that the state of our columns will allow to call the attention of the pub lic to it. As to the contingency alluded to by our Corre spondent, of the separation of the Crown of Ireland from that of England, in consequence of the Royal Marriage Act not extending to the sister isle, no one can deny that, independently of any reference to the Duke of SUSSEX and his children, such an event may occur even through the more limited operation which we assign to the Act. 'I here are, therefore, strong grounds, political as well as mo ral, for its repeal. It is a disgrace to the sta tute-book for its arbitrary and unholy restric tion of an inalienable natural right, while, as far as any actual results have arisen from it, it is al lowed on all hands to have contributed greatly to lower the standard of Royal morality by the ex cuse which it suggests in the public mind for those whom it may be said to force, by its unnatural provisions, into vicious courses. _ The hope which our Correspondent expresses in the conclusion of his letter is one that we would fain indulge. We cannot indeed conceive how,the Duke of SUSSEX can reconcile it to his conscience —to that sense of duty which every parent is sup posed to feel, and which every good man would wish to be thought to feel—to withhold from his children any assistance which it is in his power to afford them for obtaining the recognition of their legitimacy, and at the same time vindicating the name of that nobly-born and noble-minded woman whom he once loved so dearly and so deservedly, and to whom he bound himself by ties of more than ordinary solemnity. We earnestly pray, and the public confidently trust, that better counsels may yet prevail, and that the unhappy cloud which now appears in the horizon may not be permitted to overspread, and permanently darken the evening of a life marked by many good and charitable deeds ; and in the general tenour of which, there is much more to approve than is usually found in the conduct of Princes. The Paris Journals of Sunday, the whole o► which we have received, contain no news of absorb ing interest. On Saturday, as was expected, M. RAY, in the Chamber of Peers, presented the re port of the Committee appointed to examine the law adopted by the Deputies for paying off, or re ducing, the interest on the Five per Cents. The Committee unanimously agree that it would be in expedient and unjust to pass such a Bill, conse quently the Rentieres are safe at least for another year. We have, on more than one occasion, pointed out the monstrous injustice of compelling a nation willing to discharge its legal debts, to con tinue to pay an exorbitant interest upon them to support jobbers and the umbrella aristocracy of the Chamber of Peers. When money might be had by France at 3 per cent. her labouring population is taxed to pay 5 per cent. to the State cre ditors, who consist, for the most part, of the individuals and their creatures, who have clamoured so loudly in the Chambers against the very trifling concession tihich the Government pro posed to make to the demands of public justice. This is one of the consequences of the present electoral system. France, with a population of about 35,000,000 is represented by 175,000 elec tors, all looking up with hungry eagerness to• a Government which has 25,000 places and appoint ments at its disposal. The Journals, we observe, ask what will M. THIERS do, seeing that he main tained the Reduction of the Rentes in the Cham ber of Deputies to be a just and imperative mea sure ? Our impression is, that he will do noshing. Whether M. THIERS was sincere in support ing the Bill at first we cannot tell, but we are well assured that several of his col leagues were not, and also that they would not have voted for it in the Chamber of Deputies had they felt certain that it would be rejected by the Peers. We have not forgotten M. JAUBERT's laconic circular, nor the oft-repeated pledge of M. THIERS to introduce such a Bill. It was moreover neces sary to bid for popularity by the introduction of such a measure to cool the electoral Reform fever which had begun to disquiet both the Court and the electoral shopocracy. In The Sun of yesterday we stated that Marshal CLAUSEL presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday the Report of the Commission on the project of law for the removal of the remains of NAPOLEON to France. The National of Sunday has an article upon it, in which it is treated with a degree of levity equally discreditable to the taste and feeling of that unscrupulous organ of sans culotteism, and anti-British prejudice. As the Report of the Commission will be read with as much avidity in England as in France, we quote it with out curtailment or abridgement REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE DEPUTIES ON THE PROJECT OF LAW FOR REMOVING TO FRANCE THE ASHES OF NAPOLEON—PRESENTED BY MARSHAL CLAUSEL. GENTLEMEN,—It is with the emotion of an old soldier, such as you may easily conceive, that I am to give an ac count of the conclusion of the Commission relative to the bringing back of the ashes of Napoleon. You know the unanimous and convulsive movement of joy and gratitude which seized this assembly at the first word of this noble and pious thought of the Government. There could consequently be no difference of opinion between the mem bers of the Commission. With you, gentlemen, we join in all the sentiment expressed by the British Government on this solemn occasion. In the promptitude of its answer you have recognised the desire to efface even the last trace of those national animosities, which, during the life of the Emperor, armed England and France one against the other. France responds by an unanimous wish to that of the English people, that such sentiments, should a vestige of them remain, may be buried in the tomb where Napo. Icon's remains are about to be laid. " The Commission, however, was not unanimous as to the manner in which this great act is to be performed, nor in the choice of the place of sepulture. We have seen with gratitude the King entrust to one of his sons the sa cred mission of transporting to France the coffin of the Emperor. He has thus shown to the world how identified his sympathies arc with those of France, an union that constitutes the force of people and of kings. We thought, however, that a single ship was not sufficient to take charge of such a precious burden. The President of the Council met our wishes : other vessels will accompany the Prince of Joinville's frigate. We should have wished that a fleet should go to meet the funeral convoy, and escort it to the French soil ; and in this, too, we found Minis ters ready to meet our wishes. When we came to consider the spot most fitted to receive the remains of Napoleon we were uncertain of the right over these buildings, or the claim of those buildings, to be the receptacle of the tomb. There are the Pantheon, consecrated to great men—the Madeleine, which, conse crated yet to no one, might be devoted to Napoleon ; the Arch of Triumph, which would give as an epitaph the names of all his victories and his generals; the column of the Place Vendome, which he erected; and, finally, St. Denis, might claim his remains as those of a legiti mate Monarch. After long hesitation, we at length agreed to the idea of the Government, and consider the Invalides as the fittest place. The quiet of the place, the majesty of the edifice, the grandeur of its re membrance, the isolation of the vast portion of the church where the remains of Vauban and Turenne were alone admitted by Napoleon hiinseff,lustifytii;chOice. But, above all, that glorious guard of veterans, commanded by a Marshal of France, in the Invalides, point out this as the fittest place for the Emperor's tomb. He is not for us the great captain alone; wo admire in him the Sove reign and the legislator. The more we reverenced him as a King, the less should we wish to see his tomb solitary ! and what other guard could be wished for him than that military family, destined to perpetuate and recruit it se lf i n the ranks of those mutilated soldiers, who follow in the steps of the soldiers of Austerlitz . ? .. The genius of Na poleon is impressed upon the Invalines He placed there the two illustrious lieutenants of Louis the Fourteenth. He covered its vaulted roof with trophies, and there made the first distribution of the cross of the Legion of Ho nour. Such are the considerations which lead us to ap prove of the idea of the Government. Napoleon will repose in the Invalides, alone, under the dome, where no other coffin can be laid. This shall be ordered by an ex. press article of the law. We also recommend the erection of an equestrian statue of the Emperor in one of the public squares; and not deeming one million of francs sufficient, we propose the vote of two millions. We have marked in italics a sentiment which impresses us with no very high idea of the Coin►nis- sinners notions of what constitutes the tine sublime. The grave of such a man as NAPOLEON ought pre eminently to stand alone. No human habitation should overshadow• it, nor the world's care-fraught passing voice be heard in its vicinity. If it were possible the visible horizon should bound a space sacred to the influence of is genius, and to the reflections inspired by the recollection of his history, and the sanctity of his mate presence. The Buenos Ayres question has created a great sensation in Paris. We quote the spirit of the Journals of Sunday on the subject : The news which we published yesterday on the state of affairs in the River Plata, have made a deep impression. Most of the Journals, even the Debut, agree in acknow ledging how disgraceful to France are the proposals ac cepted by Admiral Dupotet. Two papers only endea vour to dissemble the importance of the fat's, and these are two Journals of the ancient Opposition converted to the system of March I—the Constitutionnel and the Courtier Francais. The Constitutionnel questions the truth of the news which we gave; this only proves that it is or pretends to be ill-informed; it is not one letter only, but twenty ' letters, which have been communicated to us, and all speak in the same manner, and in terms much more vehe ment, than ours of the conduct of Admiral Dupotet. The Courrier Francais goes still further than,the Con stitutionnel ; it admits the facts to be correct, and endea vours to justify the proposals accepted by the Admiral. We cannot suffer an article to pass unanswered which is full of errors, and presents the question in a false light. The Courrier thinks it very material that we should raise the blockade, that we should renounce all the ad vantages of a position obtained with difficulty, without obtaining any satisfaction besides a promise made by Rosas to send a Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris. But this is not all ; the Courrier carries its simplicity and ignor ance of the facts so far as to say, Not only will the French be treated as was demanded, on the footing of the most favoured nation, but reciprocity is granted us, and the French will enjoy at Buenos Ayres, the same advan tages that foreigners enjoy in France. First, the conces sion made by Rosas is only temporary till the conclusion of a.treaty ; secondly, in requiring to be treated like the subjects of the most favoured nations--that is, like the English and North Americans, we require to be wholly exempt from military service. Rosas, by proposing to apply at Buenos Ayres our laws relative to the National Guard as far as foreigners are concerned, grants us much less. Besides, the service in a country where civil war always rages cannot be compared to the duty in our National Guard. If such a proposal were accepted it would be the source of incessant difficulties arising from the difference in the manners and institutions of the two countries. In its unhappy eagerness to approve every thing, the Courrier finds that we have a right to abandon the allies whom we have ourselves armed and excited, but perhaps, it says, we ought to stipulate that there shall be no further aggressions made on them by the tyrant. This perhaps does not appear very moral. We say, that if the French Government did not secure those whom it had called to arms, it would be wanting in good faith and honour. If all these innovations came from M. Thiers, they rr ake a sad contrast with the language which be lately held in the debate on a vote of credit for the operations in the River Plata. The President of the Council ought to give information to our merchants, who are iu a state of anxiety ; it is his duty to lay the facts before the public, and to declare his intentions. The Licorne corvette is to sail for the Plata to take the place of the Camilla, which brought to Brest the news which has produced so unfavourable an impression. It will doubtless take the answer of the Government to the com munication of Admiral Dupotet. It is to be hoped that the Cabinet will comprehend what a sense of national dignity requires under these circumstances. P. S.—The Moniteur Parisien announces this evening that the Alcyon brig sailed on the 22d from Brest for the River Plata. We would willingly believe that it carries to Admiral Dupot et the expression of the dissatisfaction of the Government.—Le Commerce. On Saturday last the King, Queen, and Royal Family removed from the Tuileries to their summer palace of Neuilly. - HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MAY 22. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares lB6O 1q55 An.lo-Russian Loan lf r 9 109% Russizn 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 103% Russian 5 per Cent, Hopa and Co. 3d and 4th Se:ies — 93 3 4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 52 51% Ditto 5 per Cent 99 -.- Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76% 76% Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent... Spanish, New :3 per Cents. 21% EXCHANGES ON' LONDON. • HAMBURG, MAY 22.-13. 6--Two months, 13 4%. PETERSBURGII, MAY 12.--Two months, 31.1% pence. STocs HOLNI, MAY 15.—Seventy-five days, 19. 2. VIENNA. MAY 14. —Three months, 9. 50Mi. BREMEN, MAY 19—Two months, 610 11. The Madrid Journals received are of the 17th inst. They bring no news of the least importance. General Sir GEORGE EvANs was doing all in his power to prevail upon the Government to liquidate the outstanding claims of the British Legion. He was warmly seconded by the British Ambassador. who had several interviews with the Minister of War on the subject. The letters from Monroyo, ESPARTERO'S head quarters, are of the 13th. The following is an ex tract from General O'DoNNELL's dispatch to the Commander in -Chief, announcing the fall of Can tavieja " Cantavieja, 12th May, 1840. " Most Excellent Sir,—The rebels, who were doubtless terrified at the preparations made for the attack of the forts and fortified town of Cantavieja, abandoned them last night, having previously set fire to the town—carrying their barbarity to the extreme point of destroying by fire their own hospital, as well as their wounded and helpless sick who were not in a condition to march. " The forts are in a perfect state, and within them are the heavy guns, which, however, are spiked. It was evi dently the intention to blow them up, as the trains and other matters for that purpose were found prepared, though they did not take effect." The inhuman wretch of a Governor, who thus burned the wounded in the hospital, and fled almost without firing a shot, is the same whom we de nounced last week as guilty of the brutal murder of two Christin® peasants, the bearers of friendly overtures, by chopping off their heads with a com mon hatchet. CABRERA has thrown himself into Morella, against which ESPARTERO was to advance with all his forces on the 17th or 18th instant. The besieging army was expected to consist of about 38,000 infantry and 2,080 cavalry, with seventy two heavy guns. The castle of Morella is one of the strongest fortresses in Spain, and mounts about fifteen heavy guns, independently of those on the ramparts of the town immediately adjoining, and which to some extent cover it. Before it is reduced by force great must be the slaughter on both sides, as the garrison is both numerous and well supplied with provisions and stores. The Madrid physicians having long since recommended a change of air as indispensable for the recovery o f Q ueen i l's health, the Regent is said t o h ave reso l ve d on sabe bringing her to Caldos, in Catalonia, with the Infanta her sister. Two Ministers, MM. Armendariz and Clouard, were to accompany their Majesties in that journey. The Carlists of La Mancha, who had joined the Chris tino ranks, and formed the squadron of public safety of that province, revolted on the 13th, at Fernand Caballero, and massacred their two commanders, Saturno and Tur qucleno, and another officer. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(T HIS DAY. DEAL, MAY 25.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrived the Jane Lockhart, Colford, from Dominica; Kingston, Ser geant, Jamaica. Sailed the Atlas, Rundels, for Jamaica; Enterprise, Bartlett, Port Adelaide. LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Dalmarnock, and Fama, from Savanilla; Moro Castle, and Nashville, New Orleans; Agenoria ; Arcadia ; Eu ropean, M‘Lean ; and William Pirie, Reid, Mobile ; Albion, Webster; Laurel, Leadbitter ; and Thistle, Ha milton, Savannah ; Brooklyn, Richardson, New York ; Seabird, Smith, and Cypress, Farmer, Odessa. Off port, the Mogul, Apalachicola. PORTMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind W. S. `V. to W. N. W., strong breezes and squally.—Off port, the Malabar, Dun lop, from Mauritius—sailed Feb. 20, Cape of Good Hope March 17, and St. Helena, 30. BRISTOL, MARCH 25. .—1 t blew a gale from the west south-westward all last night.—Arrived the Volta, Hig. gins, from New York. WRITEHAVEN, MAY 24.—Anyived the Campbell, \Vi!- son, from Antigua. _ _ _ CORK, MAY 23.—Arrived off port, the Ardent, Hart grave, from Honduras and Bermuda. A vessel, bottom up, of about 200 tons, with a deep keel and flat floor, and about 8 inches of false keel not copperad, was passed 10th inst. on the edge of Soundings, by the Ardent, Hartgravc, arrived off Cork. SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—Sailed the Nile,' Moon, for Quebec); Agres, Thekill, Cape de Verds ; Elizabeth Holmes, David, Odessa. HULL, MAY 25.—Wind W. by N., fresh gales.—Sailed the Charlotte, Beckett, for Bombay; Aurora. Hunter, Quebec; Calcutta, M'Kinnell, St. John's, New Brunswick. WHITBY, MAY 23.—The Good Intent, of Lynn, which was on shore on Rockliffe, has become a total wreck. LOSS OF THE ENGLISH STEAM SHIP VULTURE. Extract from the Borsen Halle of the 22d May : " By advices received from Riga of the 16th instant, they write as follows :-- " The steam ship Vulture, commanded by Ca p tain Wylde, which sailed from London Ist May, and passed the Sound on the sth, was stranded off Orendsburg, on the island of Ocsel, about eight days since, on her first voyage th is year, and as t h e passengers ar rived here yester day, it is supposed sho is totally lost. The value of the cargo, mostly indigo, amounted, it is believed, to 150,0001., and that of th e vesse l to 40,000 i." " A gentl eman arrived here from Hamburg, reports 80,000 marks as being insured in that city." Colonel itawdon, the new Member for Armagh, has arrived in town from Ireland. The Dowager Lady Cre morne has also come to town. The Cambridge (C onservat i ve ) Chronicle elated by the ill• gotten successof th e gentleman "wholly unknown to the electors till within the last three weeks," advises its friends " to strain every nerve and press forward with redoubled energy until Mr. Pryme be released from his attendance in the House of Commons, and the provisions of the Municipal Reform Bill, a> carried into execution by the Liberals, be a second time subjected to a strict revision, and a thorough and complete reform.,, The same writer, with a modesty most A/We suppose marvellous, affirms that the e l ec ti on h as been carried by " the mere force of hi s (Grant's) political principle , " and not b y bribery and intimid a ti on . (it is utterly im possible to believe any thi ng o f t h e sort), we shall hear no more of the foul calumny that d ozens an d scores of the electors of Cambridge were seduced a t t h e l ast contes t from their public duty, and induced, by bribery an d i nt i m id a tion forsooth, to give their support to Mr. Manners Sutton !" For impudence, coal unblushing impudence, commend us to the Conservatives—they arc no less proficient in powers of face than in the habitual practice of the hypocrisies and dishonesties by which they sup port a disgraceful political existence. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Good supplies and a fair trade ; prices steady. Turbot, 4s. to 18s. ; Cod, 2s. 641. to Bs. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 2s. 641. ; Salmon, ls. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Beef, 7d. to 81d. ; Mutton 7id. to 81d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to Bd. per lb. CITY FISH MARKET. The supplies were good and so was the demand ; prices steady. Turbot, ss. to 18s. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Salmon, 11d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Mackerel, 4d. to Bd. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; Haddocks, sd. to 10d. ; Lobsters,lod. to 3s. 6d. ; Halibut plentiful and cheap. HAYMARKET. The supplies were good, but the demand not very brisk ; prices much as before. Hay, 60s. to 935. ; Clover, 80s. to 110 s. Straw, 325. to 405.. per TEA - MARKET. Scarcely anything whatever done in this market, and the nearest quotation which could be given was 2s. 20. for Com pany's Congou, cash. COLONIAL MARKET. The aspect of this market was heavy, but prices generally were firm. 7,300 bags Mauritius Sugar sold at 50s. to 725. 4,229 bags Manilla, at 19s. to 225. At the two small sales of Jamaica and Java Coffee, prices, where altered, were lower. B.P. Coffee unaltered. MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales of this day are 2,500 bales. A very flat market. Prices same as Saturday. Arrivals this morning. —French mail, ship letters from New Orleans, Mauritius, Feb. 20, and Cape of Good Hope, March 16. Accounts of the 28th March from Rio Janeiro state that coffee arrives abundantly, and that the prices have de clined, superior coffee at 81 to 8/ cents. on board. Stock 20,000 bags. Should the next advices from Europe be unfavourable, as expected, it will still go lower. Accounts from Monte Video state that the Emperor had an attack of convulsion, but is again recovered. Ex change on London, 30i. THE FUNDS. This being settling day in the British Market, the brokers and jobbers are busy making up their accounts against to-morrow, which is pay day, consequently, to the present time, no speculations of consequence have taken place. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet, and the prices are nominal. Spanish Active same as they left off, 28 : i i ; Deferred, I q,- a ; Passive, 7g- ii ; Portuguese, 35, ; Three per Cents., 24U- ; Brazilian, 761 ; Co lombian, 261; IVlexiean, 311. 32 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i i ; Five per Cents., 101 - i. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9l-4, Ditto Bonds ... ...... 4 pm. 3 per Cents. Con. 3-1- per Cent. .. — Old Annuities ... Ditto Red New 31- per Cent. New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. 23 25 prn. Jan. 5, 1860. .. Oct. 10, 1859. Jan. 5, 1860. .. 14 1-16 Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880. April 5, 1880. ... Jan. 5, 1870. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Brazilian Bonds .. — Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bond s ... -- Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Chilian Bonds •• Prussian Bonds ..... ... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account. Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds .. ..... 28i Ditto Account 26,4 Ditto Account Danish Bonds . . 794 Passive Ditto Account — Deferred . . l3i Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c. Afexicanßonds,s per cent Exchange... —f. —c. Ditto Account ... Dutch, 2* per cent ... 548.1 Ditto,6 per Cent...... Ditto Account Ditto Account —3lg-I 2 Ditto, 5 per cent loli Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. £. s. d. X. s. d. £. s. d. Paid. Per Share. 65 30 35 ..... 29 20 ...... 22 30 RAILWAYS. Great Western Ditto New.._____ London and Brighton London and Blackwall Northern and Eastern JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American ..... 35 London Joint Stock ... .. 10 HALF-PAST ONE. Accounts have been received from Jamaica, via New York, to the 18th April, 17 days later than by the Jamaica mail. From the Kingston Morning Journal and the Royal Gazette:— " Great excitement was created at Kingston on the 17th by the false report of the failure of the Planters' Bank, by which great losses were occasioned to the podr and less reflecting portion of the community, who in the panic sacrificed their notes at discounts varying from 25 to 50 per cent. A run upon the Bank was also produced, but without injury to the institution, which paid all demands. " Public meetings were held for the purpose of encou raging immigration, for the sake of preserving the sugar plantations from utter ruin for the want of labourers. In the Legislature on the 7th inst., 50,0091. were voted to be placed at the disposal of the Agent General for the purpose of facilitating immigration. The Legislature was pro rogued on the 11th. The accounts from Bogota are by no means favour able. An insurrection was daily expected in that quarter. It appears that affairs are in a bad state at Santa Maria, and the Governor has resigned, and gone into the country." The Settling of the British Account is going off well to the present time, and the extreme fluctuation during the Account has been about 2z per cent. ; it is a Bull one ; the Contango, or Continuation, may be quoted at 13- to per cent. Money may be obtained on Consols in the house at 5 per cent. Consols at present 93 to 93i- for the Account for July 16th ; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prem. ; India Bonds, 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 176}; Indian Stock, 2531. In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing; Spanish Active, 281 ; Portuguese, nothing done ' • Danish, 791. ; Colombian, 26i ; M ex i can , 31i 32; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents., 541 4 ; Five per Cents. 101 i. Shares aro rather heavy—Brighton, 29i ; Blackwell, 22i ; Northern and Eastern, 22. _ CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. 174 ' Tndia Stock ..253i 3 per Cent. Red 9IA ' Ditto Bonds 4 pm 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 92g Ditto Old Annuities ... 89i 37 per Cent Red........ 100 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 25 pm Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct. 1859 ... _ India Stock for Acct... Jan. 1860 l4 1-16 Consols for Acct 931 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds .. — Prussian, 5 per cent.... J3uenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian 6 per cent — Di tto, Metallic— Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, .5 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent.... 79 3 i Frenc h, 5 per cent... --f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange .. lo6f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 27g French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2A- per cent 544 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct Ditto, 5 per cent lOl4 - SHARES. Bristol and Exeter Railway Cheltenham and Great Western Railway Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares 43 London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway ... 177 Ditto Quarter Shares Northern and Eastern Railway North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares. . South Eastern and Dover Earl Grosvenor has purchased the Dolphin schooner yacht, of 214 tons, of Mr. Ackers. His Lordship in tends to go afloat this season. _ MISS KELLY.—This deservedly popular favo rite opened her pretty little theatre last night. In her opening address she says--" The little fortunes of my long and not tin. laboured life are all in this vent ure ; an d I will not easily relax in my endeavours to form a dramatic school for good acting within the walls of this little theatre." We wish her success. W. B. Mathew, Esq. of Burlington-Hall, Suf folk, lost his life whilst boating on the lake of Windermere, by the boat capsizing. On Monday morning Mr. Mathew and his servant went out in a sailing-boat on the lake, when a sud den gust of wind upset the boat. The accident was observed from the inn, and assistance immediately rendered, but being a mile from the shore, was not in time to save Mr. Mathew, who had sunk in 25 fathoms water. The members of the Royal Geographical So ciety assembled last evening very numerously at their rooms in Regent-street, to hear the President's annual address, and to witness the presentation of the medals to Major Rawlinson and Mr. Schomburgh, Lieut. Holman, the blind traveller; Captain Sir George Back, and other eminent navigators were present. Mr. Greenough, President, then delivered his address, review ing the more important discoveries in geography made during the past year, especially those which had been effected through the instrumentality of the Society, and concluded by stating the fact that Mr. Schomburgh had been engaged by her Ma jesty's Government to proceed to Guiana in the latter part of the present year, for the purpose of laying down the bounda ries of the British possessions in that colony, and ultimately of securing th e nat i ve tribes from the aggressions of the Brazilian Gov ernment —measures most urgently called for at the present moment. Dun- trArtr.—Throuohout the town there is but one opinion, that by Mr. flarland's contemplated retirement, Mr. Granger's return has been placed beyond a doubt. A ru mour obtained some currency at the beginning of the week, that Sir William Chaytor intended to offer himself ; but we believe that the report is totally destitute of foundation.—Durh am Chronicle. NEW FELLOW..--A College was held on Wed nesday by the Provost and Fellows of Eton, to elect a Fellow in the room of the Rev. Mr. Briggs (who expired en the 6th instant), when the Rev. Mr. Wilder (one of the assistant masters in the upper school) received the appointment. As soon as it was 1 nown upon whom the election had fallen, the whole of the boys upon the foundation proceeded in a body to the residence of the new Fellow, when he was loudly cheered. Consols may be quoted at present at the leaving off prices of yesterday, at 92i 3, both for the Account and Money; for the 16th July, 93 to Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prom ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 176 177 ; India Stock, 252 i 2531. At present it is a Bull account. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. The Bishop of Carlisle, the Hon. Mrs. Percy, and the Misses Percy, at the Sackville Hotel, Sackville-street ; Lord and Lady Dufferin, at ditto ; the Earl and Countess of Belmore, at ditto ; Mrs. Wright, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Child, from the Sackville Hotel, Sack ville-street, for their seat in Worcestershire ; Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P. and the Hon. Sydney Herbert, M.P., for Salisbury ; Lord Brooke, for Warwick Castle ; the Earl and Countess of St. Germain's, for Boulogne, on a tour ; the Dowager Countess of Athlone, for Omerongen Castle, the family seat at Utrecht. The Queen, after her return from St. James's, gave a grand dinner and an evening party, to a numerous as semblage of rank, beauty, and fashion. Her Majesty's drawing-room on Monday was the most brilliant of the season. The lines of carriages ex tended from the Palace, at three o'clock, along the adjacent streets and St. James's-park, more than a quarter of a mile. A novelty in the royal equipage which conveyed her M a j es t y and the Prince to St. James s Palace, were two German chas seurs in splendid uniforms of green and silver, behind the royal carriage belonging to the household of his Royal Highness. • THE ILLUMINATIONS.—The illuminations last night, in honour of the Queen's birthday, were upon an exten sive scale. Her Majesty's tradespeople appeared glad of the opportunity of testifying their loyalty and attachment. The west end club-houses made a brilliant appearance. The Reform had a splendid gas representation of the shamrock, the thistle, and rose, surrounding "V. R." The Carlton displayed a large " V. R." in gas, encircled in a flaming wreath, and surrounded by a crown. The Union, and United Service, had similar devices, excepting that the union exhibited various coloured lamps instead of gas. The Atheneum the same, with the addition of "P. A." Crockford's, the words written in full, in coloured lamps, " Victoria Regina." The St. James, the Alfred, the Thatched House, the Albion, White's, the Travellers, &c., a ll li g ht e d up i n honour of the day. THE WATERLOO BANQUET.—The Duke of Wellington caused cards of invitation for this annual entertain ment to be issued on Saturday last. The dresses of the whole of the ladies who paid their respects to the Queen were exceedingly splendid, and were chiefly composed of British manufacture. The clock of St. James's Palace had struck six before many ladies were able to drive home. The equipages of the Duke of Beaufort, the French Ambassador, and Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, were by far the most splendid at the Drawing-room yesterday. The Duke of Marlborough has been unanimously elected High Steward of the city of Oxford, in the place of the late Duke of Marlborough. The piece of plate presented to Mr. Bishop by his Royal Highness Prince Albert consists of an elegantly chased silver teapot, capacious enough to furnish a dozen tee totallers with their favourite beverage. DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL A. MACDO NALD, C. 13., &c.—We have the painful duty to record the demise of this gallant officer, which took place on Thursday last at Leamington Spa, where he was residing for the benefit of his health. The deceased was in the Rep], Artillery. His commission bears date the Ist January, 1794, when he entered that fine corps as second lieutenant; he had, consequently, been forty-six years in the service. In August following he was made first lieutenant, and subsequently served all the interme diate grades with distinction, when at the brevet in June, 18.37, he was gazetted as major-general. The late Major- General had seen much active service, and was in the battle of Waterloo. He was a Companion of the Bath, and a Knight of the Russian Order of St. Anne. FUNERAL OF LORD AsHTowx.--The re mains of the late liberal, high-minded, and benevolent Lord Ashtown were interred on Wednesday at the family burial place, adjoining the beautiful demesne of Woodlawn. The funeral was early and private, in accordance with the positive direction of the noble deceased; yet the attendance of all ranks in the neighbourhood was very numerous. The worthy inhe ritor of the splendid property, and, better still, of the rare vir tues of this good Nobleman, with his excellent uncles, brother, and cousins, acted as chief mourners. The charitable bequests to the tenantry are most magnificent.— Tuam Herald. Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews, after the closing of Covent Garden, proceed to Liverpool and Dublin ; Anderson and some of the other performers go to the south-west provinces. W. Farren, 13rougham, and Miss Rain forth, act for a night or two at the Olympic, next week. A grand show of flowers has been held at Havre. It concluded on Sunday last, in the ball-room, when the Hor ticultural Society delivered medals to the most successful of the exhibitors, and also to four captains of ships bringing new plants from foreign countries. A rather novel mode of testifying gratitude for political services has been shown by the Reformers of East Cumberland to Mr. Steel, the editor of the Carlisle Journal. A subscription has been raised and applied to the purchase of a freehold building site in that city, which is to be presented to him. On Monday last a private in the 45th Regiment, who had bean sentenced to receive one hundred and fifty lashes by a District Court Martial for gross disrespect towards one of his officers, was brought forward, and th e p rocee di ngs an d sen tence of the Court were read to him by Colonel Considine, in presence of head quarters, on their parade at Pillgwenlly. The Gallant Colonel!, animadverted on the seriousness of the offence, but remitted the punishment. TAXATION.—Our Government never ceases to remind us that the iron heel of the Aristocracy is yet upon the neck of the British people. The extortion systematically practised upon the industrious classes—the shameful partiality to the wealthy, and the barbarous oppression of the poor, which characterise the acts of the Legislature —never allow the people for a moment to forget the political thraldom and slavery of which such villainous legislation is the offspring. Tho Aristocracy want money to carry on their wars, and to support them in their career of profligacy and extravagance— and this too, while miserable men are starving for bread, and their wives are selling the very beds from under them to feed their famishing families.—Leeds Times. Words cannot express th e panic which had been produced by the stoppage of the Ramsgate Old Bank. A very numerous meeting of the creditors has just taken place. It is reported that the liabilities are 43,7601., the assets 9,5491; also that only 12,3001. are out in notes, and that 17,500/. will cover the deposits. Much sympathy is expressed for Mr. Austen, whose kindness and hospitality are well known.— Canterbury Journal. Captain Otway was still alive last night at ten o'clock. Admiral Otway remained in the bar.acks with his son. Sir Astley Cooper and Sir Benjamin Brodie continued in attendance. The case appears hopeless; the injuries are in ternal, and of a most painful nature. Miss Josephine Clifton, the American tragic actress, has arrived per steam-ship Great Western, and taken rooms at the Burlington Hotel. DREADFUL OCCURRENCES AT SEA.—On Saturday last, the 16th instant, while a number of fishing boats were off Ennishowen Head, fishing cod, a heavy gale arose from the N.N.E., and, continuing to increase with much violence, the sea became so tempest-tossed as to leave no hope of escape to the unfortunate men, who, to procure a precarious subsistence, had been consigned to its merciless strife. About four o'clock P.M. the gale blew furiously, and maintained its violence during the evening, when two boats' crews from Ma gilligan, containing eleven men, were lost. Five of their bodies have since been found. One from Glenagavony, with five men, and one from Greencastle, with six, experienced a like fate. Three other boats from Malin, about whom no in telligence has yet teen received, were cast off, perhaps to meet, in common with their unfortunate companions, a watery grave. --Derry Journal. AFFLICTING ACCIDENT —SEVEN LIVES LOST.—As twelve of the men engaged on the Southampton Docks were returning Sunday afternoon from Hamble to South ampton, in a boat, with a waterman, named James Welsh, in going about the boat capsized • fortunately for the su rv i vors, the Medina steam pack e t, on her passage from Southampton to Cowes, was off the mouth of Hamble river when the accident happened, and within half a mile of the boat Summers run her immediately to their assistance, and succeeded in saving six of the men, but the waterman and six others were drowned. It appeared they had all been drinking, and their being to leeward was the reason of the boat upsetting, as, though there was a fresh breeze from the S.W., they might have proceeded safely, if sober. Summers landed the survivors at Cowes between five and six o'clock in the evening, where every attention was paid them. They were all very weak, and could scarcely stand. DISTRESS AMONGST THE OPERATIVE CLASSES.—On Wednesday evening, a public meeting, con vened by the Socialists, was held in the Music Saloon, South parade, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament on the subject of the prevailing distress amongst the operative classes of society. The saloon was more than three parts filled, and the gallery more than that. Mr. Ho bert Owen was unanimously called to the chair, and after he had opened the proceedings in due form, the meeting was ad dressed by Messrs. Rigby, Buchanan, Pare, Hollick, "Fleming, Jones, Buxton, Alexander Campbell, Macintosh, and others. The several speakers went into the whole question of the pre vailing distress, commented upon the various remedies pro posed by various parties for the cure of all the evils which afflict society—such as the repeal of the Corn-laws, emigration, Chartism, machinery, home colonization, foreign trade, &c. The speakers appeared to agree in thinking that a repeal of the Corn-laws would be attended with some benefit, but that the advantage would only be temporary, and not permanent ; emi gration they opposed, there being plenty of land requiring cul tivation at home; and machinery a curse when used against, but a blessing when employed for man. They argued that the 800,000 hand-loom weavers who had been thrown out of employment by machinery were as much, nay, snore entitled to compensation than the emancipated negroes, pointed out the want of sympathy betwixt the working and the middle and upper classes which the present system had engendered, and recommended as the truepanacea for all existing evils the Owenite system of communities.—Leeds Times. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 22.--The offices have once more assumed something like the appearance of business, the recent arrivals having been brought forward freely for sale, and a moderate quantity has been taken at the fullest advanced prices; low brown realising 695. to 705., and good Jamaicas as hi g h as 77 5. W e are glad to notice e stre nuous exertions that are being made to introduce a further supply of sugars for home consumption. The imperative neces sity of something being done, as regards our own port, cannot be more strikingly evinced than by a statement of the compara tive imports of West India sugar during the past year, and what it was only ten years ago. In 1829 Bristol received from the various colonies 31,784 ;hhds., 2,484 trees., and 1,911 brls. This has been gradually falling off until, in 1839, it only amounted to 17,235 hhds., 1,219 trees.,; and 690 brls. The consequences have been most disastrous to the trade, increasing competition in the market to a painful and almost disreputable extent, compelling buyers to the hazard of drawing lots for what they may require, almost neutralising activity and judgment, limiting the district in which they can dispose of their goods, as prices are necessarily above other markets, proportionately diminishing profits, i nvest i ng the broker w ith powers, not always properly exercised, which pro fessedly impartial men should not possess; all tending to aggra vate the evils of a distressed and scanty market, terminating, as we .have recently s een , in t h e f orced retirement of several respectable houses from the business altogether.—N.B. The additional duty upon sugar of Is. 3d. per cwt. has accelerated the anticipated advance from a short supply, as the importers readily obtain 3s. to 4s. per cwt. advance on the recent arrivals. There are at this time more than 100,000 bags free labour sugar in the London Docks wanting buyers, at less than half the price of West India (exclusive of duty), and equal in quality. Bristo/ Mercury. A BENEVOLENT OLD BACIIELOR.—Died On the 10th inst., aged eighty, Henry Wreig:lt, Esq., of the firm of Wreight and Ililton, bankers, Faversham. This gentleman, a bachelor, without relatives, appears to have entertained, through an economic al life, a determination to benefit by'his will the poor and needy of the town in which he resided. He has left nearly 100,00 W. as follows : —To his executors, Giles Hilton, Esq., of Preston, and Frederick Giraud, Esq., of theFa versham, latter latter the con t ents of his dwell i ng-house in F i aversham; nolud- . - The Manchester Times has treated its readers with a 66 New Political Compass," by means of which every man may know where he is when the wind blows : 4, By this useful instrument the Whigs are placed in the north ; to us, tothis hemisph ere , th ey are rightly there, as there is our polar star. It m a y b e o bj ected that the Tories are placed in the warm south, perhaps because the sun is there at twelve o'clock' and they are looking forward to noon. The intermediat e paints between the cardinal ones are assigned to those interline" diate politicians who partake of the opinions of the extreme parties ; the name given to them is double, so as to meet the peculiar shad es o f more or less; thus Tory-Radical or Radical- Tory means the same t hi ng, according to which word stan d, first; the diff erence, h owever slight, is made evident. It shoo id also be notic e d th at t h e Conservatives and Radicals occupy the extreme points on what may be called the equator, because these balan ce eac h ot h er, and because as a variation of a sin„le point, either north or south, gives the advantage to the or Tories, which are in the antipodal regions.' A WEALTHY BEGGAR.--On the Ist-instant , at his son's house in Belgrave-gate, aged 70, died Willia ff ! Goode, a native of Sapcops, well known for a number of years as a mendicant of most eccentric and penurious habits._ About twel ve mon th s s i nce l ie was comm i tted by the Borough. Magistrates for one month at the tread-mill as a vagrant, andi is bile confined there, one of his sons, on searching his miser able dwelling, found, in some very old blaeking-bottles, gold, silver, and copper to the amount of 231, which he and his brothers, in little more than a week, squandered away. At his death they discovered that he had d e p os i ted i n the Sav i ngs, Bank 4:31. 3s. This was immediately drawn out, and after ,Je cently burying the old man, and depositing a fourth shar,e in the batik for another brother—a. soldier abroad—they eAvided the remainder between them, and, not worshipping g',ld, like their sire, but indulging their drinking propensities u'.ilimitedly, the ill-gotten pelf, in less than a fortnight, had clrAnged hands. Leicestershire Mercury. • CORN-LAW FETITAONS AND SIGNATURES UP TO MAY STIL—For Repeal, petitions, 3,151; signatures, 1,354,325. Against Repeal, petitions, 3,308; signatures, 233,151. For Alteration, petitions, 23; signatures, 59,682. ANTI,IVIALTIIUSIANS. We understand no. less than 22 notices of marriages were given at the Superiz— tendent Registrar's office last week.—Preston Chronicle. EVENING EDITION. ing a valuable library and numerous prints, collected with considerable taste ; 4,0001. to various persons, as tokens of his regard. Also to the Canterbury Hospital, 1001., and 100/. to the Magdalen in St. George's- fields, all free from legacy duty. The large residuum of about seventy-five thousand pounds, he gives to the trustees of charities appointed by the Lord Chancellor in trust. Some of the interest arising from this capital, he appropriates, namely 1801. per annum to the occupants of twelve alms-houses built by him in his life; 421. per annum to the six widows in Mends field's alms-houses; 101. per annum to the poor man occupying an unendowed alms-house, of Napleton's charity ; 5/. per an num to each of the friendly societies of the town; 12/. per annum to the national schools ; 5/. per annum to the Benevo lent Society; 2/. per annum to the Lying-in-Charity; the remaining yearly interest to be given to any inhabitants of the town of Faversham in want or distress, by the said trustees, they using their b es t j u d gmen t f or i ts di sposal. The capital may be lent at a low rate of interest to the Company of Dredger men when too poor to stock their grounds with brood oysters, or to any industrious inhabitants of the town needing assistance, the trustees taking the best security they can for repayment. STABBING.—The neighbourhood of Biddenden, in Kent, has been greatly excited within the last few days, on account of a tragical occurrence that took place in that neigh bourhood in the afternoon of the 13th inst., the result of which was the death of a labouring man named Munn, who was stabbed by another man James Bell, with a penknife, in the heart. Bell told Munn (they were both angry) that if he did not leave him alone, he would stab him with a knife. On Bell being told that the man was dead, he became frantic, and begged the bystanders, for God's sake to go for a doctor and try to save him, and at the same timc declared that he did not intend to have hurt the deceased. An inquest was subse quently held, when the Jury, after a patient inquiry, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Bell, and he was committed to Maidstone gaol, to take his trial at the ensuing Summer Assizes. DEATH FROM SUDDEN EXCITEMENT.—Last Saturday, ?kir& Ridgeway, of the Greyhound, Sydenham, was left in care of the inn during the absence of her husband, who had come to Lor.don. In consequence of the great influx if visitors to Sydenham, to witness the laying of the foundation stone of the asylum for aged and decayed watermen, at Penge, a short distance from the above village, every inn was filled. The excitement and unexpected hurry of business had such an, effect on Mrs. Ridgeway that she was seized with apoplexy and survived only two hours. She had previously enjoyed ex cellent health and spirits. An inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict returned, " Died of apoplexy." THE IMPRISONED CHARTISTS,---At a recent meeting of the Visiting Magistrates of the Lancaster Castle, the Chaplain of the gaol stated, that he had been applied to by some of the Chartists now undergoing their term of imprison ment, for some mitigation of the prison rules respecting the books now introduced for their reading. Mr. Bronterre O'Brien begged to be allowed to have Blackstone's Commen taries and the classics. A discussion thereupon took place, the Magistrates appearing to think that such books were not contemplated by the rules, which declared that publications, save those of a moral and religious cha racter, should not be introduced into the prison for the use of the inmates. A Magistrate remarked that there was nothing immoral in Blackstone, or in some of the classics; to which it was replied, that neither was there anything immoral in the "Lady of the Lake," and yet books of that class were certainly not contemplated by the Legislature. The majority of the Bench, however, appeared in favour of allowing Mrt Bronterre O'Brien (who has been educated for the bar) the compat ionship of his Blackstone; and one Magistrate remarked, that if Mr. O'Brien had carefully read and duly profited by the works of this con stitutional law expounder, he would never have been within the walls of Lancaster Castle. Eventually the chaplain was told that the Bench saw no objection to the introduction of Blackstone, but that they would not consent to admit the clav44 sits, which would open a wide door, and convert the pmsott after a time into a library and reading-room. A further appli cation was, we learn, made by the Chartists, for permission to correspond more frequently with their friends, and to be en abled to send and receive letters which should not be read by the governor or chaplain. This application was refused by the Bench, on the ground th a t th e Ch art i sts might thus go on writ ing and publishing seditious matter. —Lancaster guardian. THE PRINCESS DASCHKAW AND MARIA ANTOINETTE.—On the day appointed I went there with in son and daughter, and found the Queen already arrived. He, Majesty, with the most grace f u l con d escension, came forwar d to receive us, and having placed me by her side on a sofa, and my ton and daughter at a little round table near it, she addressed us with so much affability as set us completely at our ease, and absolutely captivated us all. Among other little civilities, she complimented my son and daughter on their proficiency in. dancing, in which accomplishment she said it had been told her they were perfect. " For my part," added her Majestv, " I grieve to anticipate the loss of so favourite an amusement which I soon shall be obliged to relinquish." 44 And 'Alp Mamarn," I could not help saying, " should you feel ',uch a necessity ?" "It is,' replied she, " because one is *cot per mitted to dance here after five and twenty." Ace-A-ding to my usual awkwardness of a Ninette a la tour, forge sting what I had heard twenty times, that the Queen had a decided paasion for play, " I can never approve," said I, 44 such a prohibition ; for as long as the inclination lasts, and the feet do not refuse their aid, I should have no idea of not gratifying a taste so much more natural than its usual alterna tive—a love of play." Her Majesty expressed herself to be perfectly of my opinion, and we con ti nued to converse cn a va riety of subjects, luckily for myself, without reflecting on the awkward observation of which I had been guilty, and without her Majesty's betraying the slightest mark of having noticed it herself.— Memoirs of the Princess Daschhawa DEATH OF MR. PLANK. --Died on Wednes day evening, at his residence, Chapel -place, Oxford-street, Mr. Samuel Plank, who was for nearly thirty years connected with the old police establishment, and who for a cons;.derablo portion of that time held the o' ee of Chief Constable of Marl borough-street Police-office. Mr. Plank in early life served on board a King's ship, and he signalised himself on several oc casions by his bravery during the war. He was subsequently appointed parish constable of St. George's, Hanover-square , in which situatio n hi s zea l an d act i v i ty on all occasions was so re that he was appointed a constable to Marlborough street police-office, and here, having more opportunities eve e t , e g l a y ge a d pp in o in a te v d ast e n h u ie ra f fo bel. n o s f t r exe occasirting himself, and his skill an d courage upon ry on recommending him to the no ti ce of the co a l‘ h l d ag i i n st t rt s e s Capa h c e ity wa h s e wasultimo deli cate and important matters in connection with eo f the most noble families of the kingdom, and the fidelity and m intel ligence that he displayed upon every occasion, entitled biln t° the respect of all those who confided their interests to hi s charge. Among other cases, it will be remembered that Mr. Plank was the means of bringing to justice the forger Faun tleroy, and as a proof of his probity and honour, it may b e stated as a well-known fact, that while t'ne examination of the unhappy man was in progress, a sure amounting to nearly 20,0001. was offered to Mr. Plank if he would connive at a plan that had b een l a id f or his escape, but Mr. Plank i ndig nantly spurned the p roposa l , and he declared that nothing should prevent him from a perfortarmee of the duty he owed to the public. During the latter period of his attendance at Marlborough -street Office, the Magistrates treated him more like a friend than an attendant. He was always upon the bench with them, and if any matter of difficulty arose, they in variably conferred with Mr. Plank upon the subject, and his advice was, upon almost all occasions, adopted. By the recent alterations in th e M e t ropo li tan Police-offices, the situation of chief constable was abolished, and he retired upon a pension of 80/. a-year. By a long course of frugality and economy, Mr. Plank amassed considerable property—it is said to the extent of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. He expired on Wed nesday evening about eight o'clock, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. PUBLIO MEETING IN DUNDEE FOR THE RE' PEAL OF TILE CORN -LAWS.--.On Monday last a meeting or the inhabitants of Dundee favourable to the present movement against the Corn-laws, was held in the Thistle Hall, at one o'clock, for the purpose of expressing disapprobation at the manner in which the House of t,ommons recently treated the question of repeal, and devising measures for the better pro motion of the agitation for the total abolition of these laws. The attendance was numerous and respectable. In addition to those who took a part in the proceedings, we observed pre sent a number of our most respectable merchants and others interested in the trade of the town. Provost Hackney was called to the chair. The principal speakers were the Rev. Mr.. Shnebothan, th e R ev . S amuel Spence, Mr. Inglis, Dunf ermline, the Rev. Mr. Blair, Ferry-Port -on-C ra i g , &c. Mr. Shoe bothan (says th e Dundee Chronicle, from which we copy the present paragraph), brought his excellent talents into full pliq in exposing the injustice of the Corn-laws; and Mr. Spence not only followed up th e onset, but showed that he and hi ll .. brethren might with propl i ety d i scharge their duty to the fellow-citizens consistently with their higher vocation as nu" nisters of the gospel. A TRAVELLING FIRAr.--A very clever frrAud has recently been committed on the Continent by a lcnot of swindlers, French, German, and Italian, with, we unak.irstand, some English associates. They forged circular letter.s of cre dit from a large banking-house in London, and stf,rting from Aix-la-Chapelle, divided their forces, and worlred so well in Germany, Belgium, and the north and south of Italy, that they have already raised 10,0001. As some of the F arty have gone to Athens, Constantinople, and Smyrna, it is supposed they will reap further spoil from their well-laid nefarious scheme• Report says that two Frenchmen of rank and. an English lady belong to the firm. As an instance of the skill with which the affair has been managed, we hear that the rnvindlers have in no instance drawn for the full amount of each letter of credit, and the documents being consequently restored to them, there ex ists no evidence of their forgery. COLONEL THOMPsON.—The gallant and out and-out Radical Colonel, in his letter this week to the Leeds Times, tells us that the " English Irish Tail " amongst their other acts of personal hostility to him, ient ; Tory Lord in to Parliament, as t h e means of keeping him out from Mar bone. " There were," continues the Colonel, 4 , at one ti m e actually six Tory Members voting in the 11us e upon t h at strength of the measures taken to keep me out • so that at ‘.,; moment, I might be said to count tw , ,lve on a ' division of the seats for Hull was afterwards recovered, which . makes me to-night count only ten." I 1~~ I K ,~