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EVEN IN G EDITION• - TO TIM SHAREHOLDERS OF THE REGENT'S CANAL. lEARNESTLY solicit your attendance To-stoaaow, at the ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING, at Twoo'Clock precisely to receive the REPORT from the Special Committee to whom the atatement of the Company's Account, and the one c irculated by myself, Was referred. Without anticipating that Report, I con fidently state that my exposition is substantially correct, except as relates to what is called the Reserved Fund, which, being in Shares, has fallen from 4,5861. to 3,0001. The com parative balance of the years 1836 and 1840 will then be -1836. s. d. Available Balance leserved Fund of 250 Shares Sums due for Tonnage and Rent 1840. £28,659 12 9 Balance shown Less due to Reserved Fund Less due to Brent Reservoir 7,500 0 0 Available Balance Difference between Balances of 1836 and 1840 24,106 6 11 £28,659 12 9 it Taking t question without reference to men, and solely to measures, expenditure for the last five years has b een 148,0001. ; ()ugh, in the five years ending in 1835, it was but 80,000/., and was then reported not only as too extrava gant, but as carried on without sufficient check and control. I am, your obedient servant, City-road Wharf, June 30, 1840. E. GREEN. Price 7s. bds. POETRY for the PEOPLE, and OTHER POEMS. By R. M. MILNES, Esq. , M.P. Also, in 2 Vols., price 145., bds. POEMS. By R. M. Manes. Edward Moxon, Dover-street. Second Edition, price 45., G LENCOE, or the Fate of the Macdonalds A Tragedy in Five Acts. By Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, M.P. Also, by the same Author, ON. Fourth Edition, price 4s. 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During the Evening the new animated illustration of Perils and Adventures in:the Frozen Seas ! Carter's " Koniaphostie," Erupton of Hecla, &c. &c. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. The Carnivora are fed at Five o'Clock. Concert commences at Six. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Will the Correspondent, who left some papers relative to the Government of Sir Howard Doaglas in the lonian Islands, favour us with an interview ? HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.— 33 minutes after 3. Evening 51 minutes after 3. Z' he IPublication of the Evening Edition of THE Sur; corn- mencedat 45 minutes after,Three. 4 -, - ~, -1' , ~ e l ' • ...., _ , . _ ,A:ksf:P...- 1r _..-• - • . 1 4 14. q' r S2 -- , IQ ' ,r e , ..- . ....)-1.- ~ .. - 7 , z1111 , . LONDON: TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1840. The Marquis of NORMA NBY last night informed the Lords that the Law Officers of the Crown were of opinion that a Sheriff might be continued in office, who had become a Peer subsequent to his appointment. Several petitions were presented, and the Protestant Episcopal Church (Scotland) Bill was read a third time. The Marquis of BREADALBANB, in presenting pe titions against Intrusion, called their Lordships' atten tion to the great number of signatures to such peti tions (166,734), while the petitions in favour of In trusion only carried 4,161 signatures. The Earl of ABERDEEN, who is, no doubt, well ac. tuainted with the Tory method of getting up petitions, said that no manufacture had modern times made more rapid improvement than the manufacture of petitions. The N on - Intrusionists had sent round petitions by the ladies, and had procured to them the signatures of nurses and children. The Noble Earl encouraged their Lordships to despise the petitions of the peoplo, by describing them as the result of tricks. Such are the means by which Tories get up petitions, and they have to answer !or degrading and abusing this part of our political practises, in common with other parts. On the reading of the Order of the Pay for the House to go into a Committee on the Municipal Cor poration (Ireland) Bill, the :Marquis o f L ONDONDERRY said he would oppose the motion. He thought the Bill would strengthen the power of Mr. O'CoNtict.t. and the Catholics, and be detrimental to the Protestant religion, and therefore it ought not to receive their Lordships support. Lord LYNDHURST stated the amendments he pro posed to make to the Bill, but in the first pace pointed out an inaccuracy in the Bill which made Church wardens liable to a misdemeanor if they did not perfor:n certain duties, and gave them no duties whatever to per form. As to the amendments, he meant to propose that the clause concerning freemen should be restored to what it was in the Bill of 1838, and which would se cure the freemen the rights they had at present, parti cularly in the election of Members of Parliament. The Noble Lord assigned his reason for this alteration in one sentence—the freemen are Protestants. With re spect to attaching rural districts to towns, and subject ing them to taxation, he would not move an amendment, because it would trench on the privileges of the Com mons. He would wait to see what the Ministers would do to remedy the grievance,.and if they did not bring in a Bill to answer the purpose of the Cess Bill, which Lord LyNiativasx had thrown out, then it would remain for their Lordships to adopt or reject the Muni cipal Bill. Lord LYNDHURST, of course, will throw it out. He should insist on the qua lifi cation being a 10/. oue tlircug!)out ; and he should propose that the ,1 appointment of Sheriffs to towns should be vested in I thtibord Lieutenant, in the same manner as the ap poiTment of Sheriffs for counties. He proposed also to re-insert the audit clauses moved by the D u k e of WELLINGTON to the Bill last year, but not inserted in ;his Bill. The Noble Lord further proposed to re. insert Galway in schedule B. The other alterations referred to the details, but unless the amendments were made, he should oppose the third reading of the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Noble Lord's amendments as to freemen would give the franchise to those who did not now possess it, while the Bill secured it to all those who now possessed it. His Noble Friend's object was to let in all the freemen of the guilds to the Parliamentary: franchise. Tne number of towns were left by this Bill as by the Bill of 1838, to which their Lordships had agreed ; he hoped the Peers would not in 1840 repudiate their own work of 1838. Lord BROUGHAM gave his support to the Bill, but feared it would be lost. The Earl of Wrem.ow thought the question of the boundaries should be settled, and he objected to allow ing grand juries to tax the towns, after the rural dis t tricts were separated from them. The Marquis of LANSDOWIIE protested against sub jecting the towns to doublejaxa tion, which would be the case were the Noble Lord's amendment to be car ' tied. One amendment gave. the Lord Lieutenant the power to tax the municip4ities at his pleasure, and that clause the House of Cornnions would never agree to. Their Lordships went int? Committee, and on the 6th clause concerning freemen, divided, when Lord LYNDHURST'S amendment was carried by 104 to 60. Several other clauses were amended, as the Noble Lord proposed. A second division took place upon the qua lification clause, which was amended, according to Lord LYNDHURST'S views, by 29 to 50. Some few clauses were postponed, but the bulk of them were agreed to as madifid or mangled by the Tories. At twelve, Lord LYNDHURST being satisfied with his triumph, the House adjourned • In the Commons the adjourned debate on the Weaver Churches was resumed, and the clause was agreed to by 70 to 58 votes. A motion to print the e% idence, was lost by 166 to 136 ; a sad augury of the success of Sir R. INGLIS this evening, though Mr. HOME gave notice of moving his amendment. We, however, de spair of any good from the present House of Commons, and look, therefore, to see it consent to Sir R. Isicers's motion. In reply to Mr. MACLEAN'S question—Did the Gosernment propose to grant compensation to the opium merchants?—Lord PALMERSTON said his views on that subject had undergone no alteration. In reply to another question, the Noble Lord said it was not in tended to recall Captain ELLIOT. In reply to Lord INGESTRIE, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the people of the Post Office had double work to perform, and it was not therefore his in tention to recommend at present that letters might be posted at as a late an hour as formerly. The Sugar Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, after Lord JOHN RUSSELL had stated, in answer to Mr. HUME, that he did not think Government would be justified in advising the Crown to adopt any measures for securing a supply of free labour for the Colonies till the question bad been brought before Par liament. He was anxious to secure them a supply of free labour, as the best means of enabling them to com pete with slave countries. To do that Lord JOHN RUSSELL should make the planter get rid of all the vestiges of slavery. The Chimney-sweepers Bill was read a third time and passed. On the Order of the Day for a Committee on the Ec clesiastical Duties and Revenues, Mr. PUSEY moved an address for further information as to the duties of Chapters, &c., and expressed a wish that they may be made to fulfil those duties. The Clergy in his county were unanimous in opposing the Bill, and to postpone it for one year would only tend to improve it. Colonel SIBTIIORP seconded the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL would have doubted, had the motion proceeded from any less sincere person than Mr. Poses', whether it was not made merely for delay. The Bi!l was founded on the report of an Ecclesiasti cal Commission appointed by Sir R. PEEL. Mr. ESTCOURT and Mr. ACLAND supported Mr. PUSEY. Mr. GLADSTONE said it was well known that the Bishops composing the Commission were divided as three to two on the Bill. It could never accomplish the object the Noble Lord had in view. It confiscated property, instead of defining and establishing duties. Jealous of Rome, Mr. GLADSTONE held her up as an example they ought to imitate ; and as she is reforming her chapters in England, the Church of Eng land, which is in all things Roman, should do the same. Well done, Popery in Parliament under a Pro testant disguise ! After some discussion the House divided, and the amendment was rejected by 117 to 48. The House went into Committee. In Committee the clauses of the Bill were warmly contested, and several divisions took place, all of which left the Bill as it was. The Committee is to sit again on Friday. Several measures were subsequently forwarded a stage, and at a Quarter before One the House adjourned. 'e 1 eta The Sugar Duties Bill was read a third time last night in the House of Commons, and is for the, Session, past the reach of our missiles. Neverthe less, we may add a word or two on the subject for the benefit of Sir S. LUSIIINGTON, Mr. O'CoN NELL, and the Morning Chronicle, when the sub ject is next discussed. If they who advocated the repeal or abolition of the. Corn-laws, are resolved to levy a tax on the people of England, to the amount of more than 4,000,0001. per year, for the behoof of the West Indian aristocracy, we cannot possibly com prehend why they should object to levy 30,000,0001. or 60,000,0001 a year on the people for the benefit of the British and Irish aristocracy, who are at least as deserving of being maintained in idleness and wealth by a tax as the planters. Every argument nearly that can be urged against the Corn laws may be urged against the discrimi nating Sugar Duties. Both schemes rest on the unjust principle of taxing the most numerous class of her MAJESTY'S subjects to enrich a few, and the arguments drawn from a supposed expediency to keep the land in cultivation in one case, and t o put down slave labour in the other, belong to that order of reasoning which is much more common than wise, and goes under the expressive name of humbug. It seems to us that little or no improvement can ever take place in society composed exclusively of masters and slaves. Any advance made by the West Indian communities is much more due to the mother countries with which they have remained connected than to themselves. Slaves, it is clear, have neither motive nor means to improve. They must do as they are bid, and can invent nothing or can carry no inventions into execution. They con tinue, like gin horses, to work in the same track, from first handling their tools, till they cease to la bour. The principal occupation of their masters, to which all their time and all their energies are de voted, is how to preserve their slaves in obedience, and exact from them the greatest amount of toil. They live under an overwhelming apprehension of an insurrection, and have neither thought nor inclination for improvement. Under such circumstances it appears idle to believe for one moment that slave-grown produce can enter into competition with the produce of free men ; and certainly, if forced into competition with it from any peculiar circumstances, it must speedily be driven from the market. We look on this characteristic difference, the chief one which statesmen should regard, as of itself a complete answer to the puerile apprehension that the slave-grown produce of the Brazils will beat the produce of free labour out of the market. The slave-owner has to purchase the slave, the capitalist who employs a free labourer is at no such expense. The latter provides for himself in sick ness ; the master must provide for the slave. The death of the - labourer may deprive his family of their breadwinner an d protector ; the death of a slave in the prime of life is a pecuniary loss to his master. Taking into consideration the difficulties now thrown in the way of tile slave trade, and the hardships to which the slaves are exposed, which must shorten their lives, the expense of either con tinually purchasing new slaves or of rearing them, while the free labourers rear the next generation of labourers out of their wages, we have a perfect con viction, which history confirms, that free labour must be cheaper to the capitalist than slave labour, and enable the employer of labourers to beat the slave-owners from the field. The greatest impediment to the cultivation of sugar by free labour, atises neither from the climate where the sugar cane grows most luxuriantly, nor the difficulty of cultivation, but from the old prac tice of cultivating it only by slaves, a recently published Supplement to his Cuin g, Lahcair in sugar plantations (says Mr. M'Cul ilnoccria I C i l a Dictionary) has hitherto been associated in the minds of the blacks with all that is most revolting to the feelings; s and it is not rational to suppose now that they arc fr,:e that they should apply themselves to what has been the g the badge and test of their degradati on,y with energy that the lash used formerly to inspire." But these observations are especially true of the whites, and that which they have been accustomed to see performed by the blacks, under the terror of the lash, they will shrink from with instinctive aver sion. One of the most striking curses of slavery, which brings it home to the bosoms of those who inflict it, is, that it so degrades all the occupation s by which life is sustained, that a free man will not touch them. In dooming others to slavery h e dooms th e ar t s th e y practise to degradation, and is likely to perish by his own he]plessnes3 whenever slavery is extinguished. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1840. " The children of the establishment," says Miss Marti neau, in her " Retrospect of Western Travel," speaking of the Orphan-house, at Charleston, " are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the girls sewing ; but the pre judice against work appears as much here as any where. No active labour goes on ; the boys do not even garden. No employment is attempted which bears 'any resemblance to what is done by slaves." Because sugar has been hitherto cultivated only by slaves, and all the cultivation has been planned and carried on with a view to that degraded condi tion of the labourer, it is now difficult or impossi ble to procure free labourers to cultivate it. What is the remedy ? To remove from it, as much as possible, in our colonies, the marks and character istics of slavery. But, far from doing that, the planters labour most assiduously and earnestly to preserve, as much as possible, the cultivators of sugar in their former condition of slavery. There have been stringent laws passed against negro labourers in the West Indies ; none to admit them to all the political and social benefits of the community in which their lot is cast—to compel the planter to treat them better—to compel him to sweep away, as speedily as possible, the ves tiges of slavery —so as to make the West India islands a comfortable borne for many Euro peans, no means would be so effectual as to ex pose him to competition, by admitting the sugar of other countries into our consumption on equal terms with his. Such a measure would, as Mr M'CuLLocH says, " greatly extend our trade with Brazil, and other countries rapidly rising in commercial importance ;" and it would do more than a host of Jamaica Bills to hu,nanize the planters, who cannot forget that their present la bourers were slaves. That such a measure should be opposed by some Liberals of the House of Commons and of the press, lest slave-grown pro duce should beat free-labour produce out of the market, shows a complete want of faith in their own nominal principles. They do not heartily be lieve in the omnipotent energy of freedom ; and from their craven fears, which are repudiated alike by facts and science, they have contributed to in flict an injury both on the consumers of sugar at home and on the free labourers in our sugar co onies. Either the Non-conformists of the metropolis are grossly calumniated by the Standard, or they have fallen sadly away from the high-minded principles of their predecessors. That journal says that they have 408 chapels in London and the vicinity, and only 38 of these have petitioned against a grant for Church Extension. Eleven twelfths, therefore, nearly, of the Non-conformists about London are con sidered favourable to the plan of extending the Church ; and the BAINES'S and the HUMES are derided by the Standard as powerless on this occa sion, from being deserted by the Protestant Dis senters. If it be, as the Standard represents, that the congregations of the Non-conformists are in general swayed by their pastors, we shall conclude that by their pastors on this occasion—who appear rather to prize the wealth and dignity of the priest hood than the freedom of the people—they are betrayed. Let the congregations rook to this, and ascertain whether their interest, as independent men, have not been sacrificed to a desire to en hance the power of the great sacerdotal body. Before our Legislature proceeds to establish a parson, and build a church for every 600 or 1,000 souls, and before it places, as it seems in clined to place, all education in the hands of the Priesthood—before it extends this moral police, the public would like to be informed in what country and at what time such an establish ment has prevailed, and answered the purposes of statesmen ? 'Where are the facts to be found—we are not disposed to rely on the assertions and theories of interested men—which justify the State in extending the Church ? The Church has existed in something like the plenitude of power our priests now demand in Catholic countries ; but surely Protestant England will not imitate France, Spain, and Italy, even after they have found it necessary to curtail the power of the Romish clergy. Something like a universal diffu sion of a Church may be fotind in Protestant Scotland and in Catholic Ireland, but the Anglican clergy will not imitate the economy and simplicity of the Presby terians, whom they scarcely treat as Christians and they are perpetually employed in abusing the Irish Catholic priesthood. There is not, therefore, in Europe, and there never has been, a Church esta blishment, except the derided and condemned Papal Church, at all like that which our clergy seek to establish. Perhaps such a widely diffused priesthood may be found in Russia, it may be cherished in Thibet, or honoured in Hindostan ; perhaps the worshippers of Fo are regularly disciplined after the manner of the Episcopalians, but if that be so we are not anxious to see the English reduced to a level with the Russians, the Hindoos, _ or the Chinesc. There may be such a priesthood in the Brazils or in South America—there is none in the United States, the most thriving and, we believe, the most peaceful community on the globe. Nor does the example of ancient times warrant such a priest hood. If the Levites were about as numerous as it is now proposed to make the Episcopalian parsons, they fulfilled many offices besides that of merely pre serving and studying the law. They united in themselves all the functions performed in our community by lawyers, physicians, surgeons, schoolmasters, philosophers, and life-guardsmen ; and our community is so totally different from that of the agricultural Hebrews, that it is utterly ridiculous to seek amongst them for any justifica• tion of now extending the Church. There is a theory that such a Church and such a priesthood promotes the morality and happiness of mankind. But how can such a theory he con firme4or brought to the test of experience unless it be by the single example of the Papal Church of Europe ? It will be as absurd for the Legislature to believe the ipse dixit of the priesthood, as to be lieve the assertions of any advertizing quack that he can cure all diseases. Whatever the mo rality of any society may be, the common animal wants, the relative, political, and economical situa tions of the different classes, the poverty or wealth of the masses, the amount of knowledge diffused through the community have a much greater in fluence in forming that morality than the doctrines of any priesthood. We will quote one proof and for the present have done. The priests of any reli gion have always taught the same doctrines, or nearly the same doctrines ; since the Christian revelation was propeunded the doctrines of Christianity have undergone very little variation ; but there has been a steady and consecutive advance in humanity, in kindliness, in a respect for human life, in all the gentle and sober virtues which distinguishes the ' modern world most favourably from the ancient world, when Rome was at the height of its power. Now that great and beneficial change seems to us to bear a much closer relation to the progress of popu lation, and the division of labour, than to the un varying doctrines taught by any priesthood. Mo rality therefore depends but little on theirs, and to pay them to teach it is to waste the public revenue. The Select Cominittee of the louse of Com mons appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the opium surrender at Canton, and the liability of t h e (Joverninent to be bound by the acts of Super intendent ELLIOT, has laid a folio volume on the table of that House in the shape. Of eVidence taken before it, and an appendix containing extracts from official documents, calculated to throw considerable light upon the whole question. W e have perused it with more care than many Members of t h e L eg i s lature bestow Upon it, and w e h ave b een 'surprised to find that nearly every page of the evidence bearing upon the question of the actual surrender of the opium proves the cor ' rcetness of the view we took of the conduct of the Superintendent ; from the instant tile first intelligence of the fact reached England. The witnesses examined at length were Mr. Ito. BERT INGLIS, resident at Canton from 1823 to the 30th of May, 1839, of the firm of DENT and Co.; Captain JOHN THACKER, who went out in 1838 to establish a commercial house in Canton ; Mr. A. DANIEL, resident for five years in Canton, of the firm of DANIEL and Co. ; Mr. W. JAR DINE, head of the firm of JARDINE, MATHESON and Co-, resident in Canton since 1820, and Mr. A. MATHESON of the same firm : all of whom, with the exception of the two last, were in th e provincial city at the time of Captain ELLioT's arrival there on the 24th of March, 1839, and were witnesses of his conduct during that trying period. Before the arrival of the Superintendent, LIN had ordered the European residents not to quit Canton, but they were neither deprived of pro visions, nor were their servants taken away. They had consented, at the earnest entreaty of the Hong merchants to deliver up 1,030 chests of opium and to sign a bond to deal no more in the drug, and it was the general impression among them that had Captain ELLIOT not come among them, they would have got off for about 2,000 chests for which they would have obtained payment indirectly from the Hong merchants. But the appearance of the Superintendent at Canton deranged all their plans. He arrived on the evening of Sunday, the 24th of March, and at once convened a meeting of the Eu ropean community, when he pompously announced that his measures were taken—that he con demned the proposed surrender of 1,030 chests of opium as an indication of pusilanimity—that he would take no advice from any person, and requested that none might be offered him ; and yet on the Wednesday following, without having endured any extraordinary privation, as there appeals to have been an abundant supply for some weeks of provisions and water, he all at once consented to the surrender of all the opium in the Chinese waters ! This extraordinary resolution does not appear, from the evidence of Captain THACKER, to have been produced by fear, so much as by a desire to bring about a rupture between England and China. The statement on our part may appear incredible ; we shall therefore quote the following extract from that gentleman's evidence. It occurs in page 64 of the Minutes : Q. After the cession of the opium, had you a conver sation with Mr. Matheson upon the subject? A. I had a great number of conversations with Mr. Matheson upon the tubject after the opium was deli vered up. Q. Did Le communicate to you anything upon the part of Captain Elliot? A Once he mentioned to me that he had just left Cap tain Elliot, and Captain Elliot had stated to him that there would be no time left for shipping teas (I was en deavouring to get two ships away from Canton); that there would be no time after the opium was surrendered to make such arrangements ; that his measures would make Canton too hot to hold any Europeans, even the Americans. Q. Whose measures ? A. Captain Elliot's measures; he said that Captain Elliot wished that to be made public, and that any of us could go and speak to him if we liked, and I went with another gentleman, Mr. Gemmel. Captain Elliot did not give me time to ask any question, but said, lam very glad you have come ; you will have very little time to do anything after the opium is surrendered ; my measures will be such as to make this place too hot to hold any European ;" and he put his hands upon some books or papers lying by him and said," i have just been referring to Lord Palmersten's instructions here, and my measures are taken," or words to that effect. Q. Did he express any opinicn as to the conduct of the Chinese ? A. He said they had put themselves in the wrong, which would give the English Government an opportunity of bringing them to book for it. This is the language of a man more eager to pick a quarrel than to avoid one, and yet we are puzzled to reconcile it with the subsequent correspondence of Captain ELLIOT with the High Commis sioner, which breathes any thing but a valourous spirit. The Superintendent stooped to concessions derogatory to his high official rank, and the lower he bowed himself the greater were the insults heaped upon him. Cap tarn ELLIOT, in the first instance, appears to have been seized with an unconquerable desire to dis tinguish his Superintendency from all others by some notable act. Like some religious zealots, lie panted for a martyrdom which would associate his memory with the oriental triumphs of his native land. In the course of the e xamination of Mr. JARDINE, the following evidence occurs at page 91. We may observe here, that similar testimony is borne by nearly all the other witnesses : Q. You have been in Canton at various periods when there have been differences between the foreign commu nity and the Chinese authorities? A. A great many. Q. Was there any violence ever used towards the Eu ropean or foreign residents by the Chinese on any of these occasions ? A. Not by the Government ; I have seen violence occa sionally by the mob, but to a trifling extent, and gene rally very much provoked by the Europeans themselves. Q. Would your experience on former cccasions have led you to think there was any danger to life or property when the edict was issued by Commissioner Lin requiring the delivery of the opium? A. • Certainly not. Q. Do you imagine that if more firmness had been shown the Chinese would have come to terms with the Europeans respecting the opium? A. I think they would have tried to purchase a certain quantity of it, through the merchants, to satisfy the Em peror, and let the ships go away , with what remained. Q. You do not think they would have treated the fo. reigners with unfairness, if left to themselves? A. I should have no apprehension whatever about their taking my property from me without paying me for it. The only difficulty would be about fixing the price; they would have tried to gat. it as cheap as they could; but I should not have bad the slightest doubt about their not paying me for any thing they forced from me. They would not have adopted the measures they did, if they had not foand the Emperor yielding. Is it not possible that Commissioner Lin may have been encouraged to his late proceedings by the absence of resistance on the part of the Europeans ? A. I have no doubt of it, and also by Captain Elliot offering to aid him in putting down the opium trade. Q. Do you recollect the Europeans ever showing the same weakness? A. No ; Ido not think they ever did. Q. They never were so totally without force ? A. Yes, they have often been as little protected there as to force; but they never parted with property, or acted with so little general spirit, as they appear to have done from the time Captain Elliot joined them. Before further condemning the conduct of Cap tain ELLIOT, we must await the appearance of his own defence—for we hold it to be impossible that any officer capable of defending his public conduct can allow such imputations as are here thrown out in the presence of a Parliamentary Committee to remain unanswered. Several of the witnesses who signed the petition to Parliament representing the danger from which the European community at Canton had been relieved by Captain ELLIOT, answered all questions about that petition in such a way, as to represent their having signed it in the light of an act of com plaisance towards the Superintendent. Some had not even read it, and others admitted that the expressions about the danger were too strong. In fact they left it to be understood that the petition was a sort of vote of thanks, which they could not otherwise contrive to enrol amon g the legislative annals adirnsc o on o ufif closing t G me r sve this et a rh t y etruth Britain. statement reportof w every w r e e p syllableehaat have e thathiwt hitherto published distinctly bilnisah,ieed, b et e l in the shape of opinion, rel a ti ve to the Opium question. The Paris Journals of Sunday bring no news from Spain of a later date than the telegraphic despatch trom Bayonne received yesterday by extraordinary ex press. From French Africa the accounts received on Sunday were for the most filled with fearful forebodings of the ultimate destruction of the colonists. The vic tories recently obtained over the Arabs had only ren dered them more furious. ABD-EL-KADER was dis playing all the military resources of a second JUGURTHA, and he has no Mama to oppose in the person of the veteran Marshal at the head of the French army. M. THIERS is reported to have said in the hearing of several diplomatists, that the differences between France and Buenos Ayres would be settled amicably, and that it was not intended to send any troops to South America, as reported in several of the public journals. The Capito/e angrily affirms that COLHIt DE SERCY, the French Ambassador to the Court of Persia, is merely charged to bring about a good understanding between the English Cabinet and the SHAH, thus ma nifesting to the world that France is on all occasions subsertrient to the ambition of England. This is about as correct as the ravings of the Times about the sub serviency of Lord PALMERSTON, and the dictation of the Cabinet of the TulletieJ: The followng extracts include all the intelligence we find in the French papers of Sunday. We likewise sub. join a pai'agrerit from a German paper relative to the sulphur question, which we ;00 iiaPPY eedily and arnica* arijnsted. to learn will be speedily A letter from Naples clitd the 6th of this month, ad dressed to the Ailgemeine Zeitung of Leif , sig; states tha t the sure, which the King of the Two Sicilies will have io pay to England amounts to 800, 000 ducats ; this account, howeVer, probably needs confirmation. it is not yet known what is the state the sulohur truestioP,; It is manifest that it has fallen under the mediation of Fraii6'. The Monileur Pal isien, says the Journal. La Mode, in announcing the arrival of the sisters of Cabrera in France, affirms that they were provided with a sum of 50,000 frarlcs. The object of this assertion is to give credit to the lying reports which represent the Illustrious Count of Morella, as sending gold to foreign countries. It is totally false (we are authorized to say), that the sisters of Ca t r ra and Madame do Labandcro, their companion in exile, had a sum of 50,000 francs in their possession when they en tered France. Their baggage was entered at the Custom house, and the sisters of Cabrera we found to possess 16 ounces of gold, of the value of S 4 francs each, in all about 1,300 francs. Madame de Labandero had eight ounces, value 650 francs. This was all that the three travellers possessed when they left Spain-1,300 francs. Such are the treasures brought by the sisters of the Count de Morella who has had at his disposal the contributions of whole provinces. —La Gazette de France. The lilemorial des Pyrenees has the following letter from Tarbes of the 23d of June : " The second regiment of Chasseurs in garrison at Tarbes, has received orders to form two complete squad rons, which are to be immediately sent to Perpignan. This unexpected order j caused by the approaoh of Ca. a.O brera and his troops to our frontier, and the great probabi lity that he will enter our territory with his soldiers to escape his pursuers.—Le Constitutionnel. We find the following passage in a letter from Toulon, of the 23d t— " The departure of the five companies of the 3d Marine Regiment, which is to be sent to the River Plate, has been countermanded. It is feared that men who have never been at sea would not be in a state to combat on their arrival on the coast of Buenos Ayres. An attempt is now making to organise some companies from the crews of the ships of the line, but there is such a scarcity of sea men that it is difficult to withdraw from the fleet the number of men required." Is the reason alleged the real one; and is there not some receding from the promise made to Admiral Baudin, under the influence of representations received from Lon don ?—Le Commerce. TRIESTE, JUICE 18. —The steam-boat Mahtnudieh, from Syra, with fifty-eight passengers, arrived here to-day. The accounts from Alexandria of tl•e 6th furnish no poli tical news of importance; the plague was evidently abat ing. Letters from Athens of the 12th say that a ship be longing to the Government was preparing for sea, to convey the Bavarian soldiers to Trieste, and to take back some horses to the King. The Minister Zographos is dismissed, and Christides appointed in his room. The French and English fleets and the Austrian squadron have left Smyrna to cruise in the vicinity of Metelin. Only the French ship of the line Montebello and the Austrian brig Veneto remained in the harbour of Smyrna. Accounts from Berlin, of the 21st June, state that the affair of the Jews 'at Damiscui was, near occa sioning a general rising in they small town of Schwetz, in Prussia, against the Jews who inhabit it. One of the Hebrews, M. S , a rich merchant, had in his service a Christian groom, who left him in a clandestine manner ; and not having heard any com plaints in his house after his departure, very soon after it was reported that the Jew merchant had as sassinated one of his servants, to mix his blood in the passover-cakes ; in consequence of which, the whole of the population assembled round the house of M. S., throwing stones at his windows, and calling out for ven geance against this Prussian Jew ; but the burgo master having come to his assistance with an armed force, dispersed the mob. The fermentation still continues ag iinst the He brews. Net one of them dared to appear in the streets until the Municipality caused his grot m to enter again into his service, who had proceeded to Culan, a town distant two leagues from ;:;chwetz, where he went to procure another situation. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.) PARIS, MONDAY. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. GENERAL CORBIN TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " ALGIERS, JUNE 24. " Two convoys of provisions, destined for the expedi tion, art ived on•the 20th and 22d at Bleciah. The sick and wounded were evacuated on Algiers, without having been disturbci by the enemy. The state of the plains and of the Sahel is satisfactory. " TOULON, JUNE 23. " THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE " Two convoys entered Bledah on the 21st and 22d. General Corbin returned to Algiers on the 24th, bringing back our sick and wounded, without having met a single Arab. Algiers, the Sahel, and the plains are tranquil. The telegnphic trcnsmissions which had been said to be stopped at different points conti nue to work. Marshal Vallee was expected the 27th at Bledah and on the 30th at Algiers. Some Arab de- serters s►y that their countrymen are dying with hanger, that the army of Abdel Kader arc obliged te , separate to seek for fool, and that the Emir's funds to pay his regular troops begin to fail. All is quiet on the side of Oran. Mules, horses, and cattle, abound in the market of Mos taganem." Our Paris correspondent writes on Monday night that the above despatches have produced a great sensation, as no mention, is made of Marshal Vall6e'a operations since the 15th. Monday's papers are filled with disastrous details and Mournful forebodings as to the war in Africa. The French Government is keeping back bad news. Madrid papers of the 21st are unimportant; those of the 22d did not reach Paris on Monday. THE CASE OF MR. CLEAVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Concurring in the sentiments expressed by your Islington correspondent, and regretting the apathy exist ing in the trade I beg to suggest that an immediate sub scription be raised towards defraying the expenses of the above individual, and beg to enclose my humble mite, trust ng it will be followed by the more wealthy of the trade. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. H. Somers Town. [We perfectly agree with Mr. W. H., and have for. warded his donation to Mr. Cleave, to whose address sub. scriptions ought to be sent direct.—ED. Sun.l MONEY and COMMERCIAL .NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 91i i for the Account ; Reduced, 914 i ; Ex chequer Bil s, 22 24 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1732 1741; India Bonds, 1 4 prem. In the Foreign Market it is settling day in the Foreign Funds; the brokers and jobbers are chiefly employed in paying and receiving the various balances arising from their speculations. At present it appears to be a Bear Ac count; in consequence of which, with the favourable intelligence from Spain, Spanish Active, which left off yesterday at 26i, hasimproved to 261;x; Deferred, 124; Passive, 61 i ; Portuguese, 35f 2; Three per Cents., 234 24i ; Brazilian, 76i 774 ; Mexican, 314 1 ; Colom bian, 2744; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 541 4; Fivo per Cents., 1024 1. We understand that several Banks in the North have sent up agents to obtain a supply of money, fearing they might have a run on them, in consequence of the affair of the Commercial Bank at Manchester. SHARES.—ReaI del Monte, 41 51 ; Great Western Railway, 40 41 prem. ; London and Brighton, 61 4. dis count; Blackwell, 21 3 prem. ; Birmingham, 98 10i prcm. ; Southampton, 591 6 0 1 per share ; Croydon 111 i per share; Greenwich, 81 92 per share; Manchea ter and Birmingham, 8 to 6 discount. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Bank Stock 174 3i India Stock ... ...... ... 3 per Cent. Red.......91i 2 li Ditto Bonds ...... ... 1 3 pm. 3 per Cents. Con. 3i per Cent. 99/ Old Annuities ... Ditto Red ... ...... ... 100 99i New Ditto — New 3i per Cent. ...... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 5001. 24 23 pin, Jan. 5 , - 1860. .. 13 13-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859....13g. 11-16 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860. ...... Ditto Advertised ... pin. Jan. 5, 1880. April 5, 18S0.. ... 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 Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Chilian Bonds .. Prussian Bonds ..... ... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account. - Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds ..... ... 26i1 Ditto Account 276 Ditto Account Danish Bonds ...... ... .. Passive Ditto Account — Deferred l2-1 Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c, Mexicanßonds,s per cent Exchange... —f. —c. Ditto Account .. , • Dutch, 2i per cent ... 541 Ditto,6 per Cent...... Ditto Account Ditto Account ...... ... Ditto, 5 per cent — Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. £. s. d. X. s. d. £. s. d, RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 5O ...... 27 .. ... to Great Western - to IC5i Ditto New London and Brighton London and Blackwell London and Birmingham 90 — to .... innos. Ditto New Shares London and South Western 38 71 sok to 61i HALF-PAST ONE. We still continue without arrivals or a letter from Liverpool.' Tee settling of the Foreign Account is going off well to the present hour. An eminent bioker made a purchase in the early part of the day of 50,000 Spanish, which had the effect to improve the Market to 24 since which they have receded to 26a I for the Account. The continuation, carrying over the Stock to the next Account is about l per cent. Money may be quoted rather more easy, as there has not been any demand of consequence for it in the House. Consols have improved since the morning, when they were Olii to 914 for the Account, at present 91i. Euhcquer Bills Is . lower ; Bank Stock also receded 174 33-; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; Spanish Active, 26ii- ; Passive 6i ; Colombian 271; Portuguese 351; Dutch Two.and•a-Haii, 54; Five per Cents., nothing done. I n sh ares a f a : r b us ;,:less has been doing at higher prices than ytwe . day, ced 2 . er share ; Great Western Railway has adv , !: 2 lb, p do. New lk per share; B rg hten adtanct;_ l a per share; Blackwall ; South Western 21 per share, , The Sussex Advertiser states that Mr. Bien cows, a Refatfier, is likely to stand successfully for the repre sentation of Lewes. Mr. Gibson, it is thought by the Leeds Mercury, will be invited to stand for Manchester on the Liberal interest at the next election in the room of Mr. Greg. The Eail of Durham has, according to letters received from the Isle of Wight yesterday morning, already de rived much benefit from the change of air. The Countess of Durham, with Viscount Lambton and the Ladies Mary and Emily Lambton, are all in good health. Sir John Douratt continues in attendance on the Noble Earl. in t hat there report being circulation that there would not be another set of Almack's, we have authority to give our most unqualified contradiction to it, the Ladies Pa tronesses being fully determined to make this the most brilliant set of the season, and to attend themselves upon each night of the subscription. A COURTIER OF THE SIXTEENTH CEN TURY.—Queen Elizabeth, .When in her sixtieth year, is thus described by that finished courtier, Sir Walter Raleigh. He pictures her " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walk ing like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph—sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like Orpheus." • COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (THIS DAY.) MIANCELI.OIt V. DENNE.—LIBEL. (Before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) This was an action brought by Mr. Stephen Sackett Chancellor, a gentleman holding several public situations in the town of Margate, against Mr. Donne, a printer re siding in the town, for the publication of a handbill re flecting on his character. Mr. THESIGER stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff bad been originally a baker, residing in the town of Mar gate, and now he held several public offices in that town. He was collector of Steam-boat and Harbour Dues, and of Assessed Taxes. It appeared that as far back as the year 1816, the walls of the house of a Mr. Thomas John Tay lor were painted with words imputing to Mr. Taylor the most horrible and disgusting crimes. This palatine- on the walls was repeated three several times, and the effect produced upon Mr. Taylor by these repeated anonymous attacks was such that at last Mr. Tay lor had been driven to commit suicide. At that time Mr. Chancellor and another gentleman had been accused of having written these words on the walls of Taylor. An investigation had taken place, nothing was proved against them, and they bad denied the charge. The matter had subsequently rested until 1835, when it appeared that the plaintiff and a Mr. Waddington, of Margate, commenced a series of attacks on each other, and this accusation against Mr. Chancellor was revived. The hand-bill, which was the subject of the present action, repeated the charge by call ing upon the plaintiff to clear himself from the charges brought against him by Mr. Waddington. The charge was reiterated in the Age newspaper, arid the defendant was also accused of peculation in the same paper, and in the month of December last Mr. Chancellor bad brought an action against the proprietor of that paper, and had reco vered 1001. darnr.ges for the publication of the libel. The present action was brought against Mr. Denne, a printer, of Margate, who had printed and circulated these hand bills, having supplied 400 of them to one person, to recover compensation from him for the damages sustained by him in consequence of the publication of such hand-bill reflect- ng on his character. The publication of the libel having been proved, Mr. F. KELLY addressed the Jury for the defendant, and said that this was not a case calling for considerable damages. Mr. Waddington had for years reiterated these charges, and yet Mr. Chancellor had net applied for any criminal information, or brought any action against him ; but when naked why he did not purge himself upon oath of the charges brought a g ainst him, by applying to the Court of Queen's Bench for a criminal information, he brought this action, not against Mr. Waddington, the person who had over amid over again brought these charges, but against the present defendant, who was merely the printer of the bill asking these questions; besides, he had already recovered 1001. damages from the Age newspaper, for the publication of these imputations on his character, and therefere the present could not be considered a case for very heavy damages. It was most extraordinary that the present action should have been brought in December, 1838, and not have ben kreught to trial until the pros-nt tine. The action against the Age had been commenced in October, 1838, and had not been brought to trial until December, 1839 ; that was a most extraordinary circum stance, and it was nonsense to attribute these delays to any ccunsel, or any special pleader, because the cases might easily have been brought to trial before. Lord DENMAN, I.^. SLlMllliilZup the case, said that the defendant had pleaded Not guilty, which meant either to deny the publication, or to say that the hand-bill was not a libel. There was no doubt as to the publication, and it was for the Jury to say whether the hand-bill was a libel or Lot. It was for the Jury to consider w hether the call. iig upon the plaintiff to purge himself of these charges upon oath was or was not imputing to the plaintiff that he had been guilty of those charges. If they were not satis fied of that their verdict must he for the defendant, and if they were satisfied that such was the case the verdict must be for the plaintiff. As to the question of damages, the case came before them under very extraordinary cir cumstances. These accusations had been brought against Mc. Chancellor repeatedly, and this appeared to be but a small addition to those already in circulation. It had been said that the defendant was merely a printer, and had only published this hand-bill in the way of his trade. Now, he thought that such a ground of defence was utterly untenable. The bad feelings of mankind towards one another, would evaporate almost harmlessly, if those printers did not, in the way of their trade, lend themselves to the diffusion. This ques ion had nothing to do with the liberty of the press. It was an abuse of language to make such an assertion. It might so happen that for a great and public purpose, the publication of something which was actionable might occur, but what private good or public benefit could ac crue from the publication of any private slanders.? A printer who, in the way of his trade, sold himself to gra tify the malignity of his employer, was in much the same situation as a chemist who should sell poison to a customer for the purpose of having it administered to a third person. And he hid this down as the law, and if the Learned Counsel (Mr. Kelly) objected to it, could tender a bill excepting to his directions, that every printer who lent himself to the circulation of slanders of that sort was responsible for every circulation of such printed slender& which might take place even by other persons without his knowledge, and that he laid down as the undoubted law of England. With regard to the method taken by any individual to clear his char acter from any imputations that might be cast upon it, that might be done by various methods. A party might say that be would indict the party for the nuisance for the provocation to the breach of the peace, and that was done in some cases; there was also the mode adopted in the present instance, of bringing an action, and giving the defendant an opportunity of pleading the truth of the libel, and proving it if he could ; and there was also the method of applying to the Court for a criminal information, in which ease the party making the applica tion distinctly denied upon oath the truth of each of the charges brought against him. This, in many cases, was the most satisfactory mode that could be adopted, because there might be facts which could only be known to the plaintiff himself, and which he would thus have an oppor tunity of bringing before the notice of the Court ; and, in adopting this course, he thought the plaintiff ought not to be too anxious as to the rule being made absolute, es it was the undoubted privilege of every English subject to come before that Court, and clear his character upon oath. The Jury then retired, and after an absence of a quar ter of an hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff— . Damages, 801. ; costs, 40s. tO BOW STREET.-(THIS DAY.) 'Wm. Fogarty, John Leader, James Fitzpatrick, John M Donald, and Edwin Dugdale, Irish law-students, were charged, the first four with being drunk and riotors, and the other with assaulting the officer in the execution of his duty.. It appeared that a charge bad been brought in this morning, about three o'clock, against a man for tearing a female's bonnet, in which the defendant Fogarty was in attendance to give evidence, and upon his companion's de manding to be admitted, the constable, who kept the door, would not allow them, seeing they were drunk, and had nothing to do with the case. He then became very abusive, refusing to go away, and on a constable being sent to remove them, the defendant Dugdalo assaulteol him violently, in which he was encouraged by 3 Fogarty, the other de fendants all this time using the most disgraceful lan guage in the streets, and refusing to go away. They were thea taken into custody, and it took eight constables, most of whom were thrown on the pavement in their endea vours, to convey them to the cells. The defendants called witnesses to show that they were not intoxicated, and that they would not have goi into trouble bad they not been set upon by the police in the first instance. _ _ Mr. HALL said that the case was very bad as far as the evidence of the police went, and as it was quite clear they had pssemblcd round the station•houso for the pur pose of creating a riot, he should order the defendants Dugdale and Fogarty to pay a fine of 41., or be sent to the House of Correction for one month. The other de fendants should also pay a fine of 31., and in default be sent to prison for three weeks. The defendants not being able to command the amount of the fines] until they could send to their friends, were conveyed to the lock-up cells. The British Queen sailed on Monday from Blackwall for New York, at half-past twelve o'clock, with a fair complement of passengers and goods on board. The fine ness of the day induced thousands of persons to wait along shore to witness her departure. It is stated that the Princess Augusta intends to pay a visit to Aberystwith this season.— Cambrian. THE MOORS.—The report of the sportsmen who have made personal inspection of some of the best Perth shire moors is of a very favourable character, the warmth of April and the early part of May and the general dryness of the season having been much in favour of the hatching. The quan tity of game, ho a ever, which continues to be forwarded to Edinburgh anti London, till near the legal close of the season, is greatly against the sport of the following year, operating, in this respect, exactly as the over extension of the open time in the salmon rivers does with regard to the take of the following year. THE CONVICT GOULD.—The Eden, of Lou der ,1 has arrived off the dockyard, Woolwich, to receive on board eighty prisoners from the Warrior convict ship, stationed there. The convict Gould will, it is said, be sent down, and the vessel will sail, immediately after his arrival, for the penal settlements in New South Wales. - SUDDEN DEATIIS.—At ten o'clock on Sunday morning Sergeant Malley, of the 9th battalion of Royal Artil lery, Woolwich, dro,;ped down when walking in his garden; and, on being removed into the house, 11:3 expired in a few minutes. On the same morning bombardier Wilson was found dead in his bed. He had been previously indisposed, but not to such an extant as to create uneasiness in his family. f. n the evening of the same day, a young boy, three years and a half old, son of gunner and driver Watts, of the Royal Ar tillery, after having attended the Sunday School, was taken ill and died at five next morning. The medical man who was called in gave it as his opinion that he died in consequence of eating part of a fruit-pie, which he had not been able to digest. SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY OF FORTUNE. —An inquest was held on Saturday, before W. Carttar,Esq., Coroner fit Surrey, at the King's Arms, Walworth-road, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Long, z'ged fifty-five, of No. 4, York-place, Walworth-road, who died very suddenly in her drawing-room. It appeared that the deceased lady and her sis ter, who were possessed of considerable property, had resided at the above house for about three years. On Thursday after neon her sister had gone out, and she was sitting alone in the drawing-room, and. one of the servants having occasion to go there observed that she was in apparent good health. In live minutes afterwards, upon the return of the servant, she saw the deceased lying on the rug before the fire-place. She was quite dead. The deceased had frequently been attacked with fits of apoplexy, and on some occasions in the streets, in which state she had been taken home. Verdict—" Natural death." LITERARY MEN ON THE FRENCH PENSION max.—One of the French papers has just published a list of literary men raid females who receive an annual allowance out of the secret service money at the disposal of Government. a i n s d the the w g id re o a w te o s f t The number of these pensioner s am o unts to ei g ht and thirt y . The smallest amount of allowance th i e s Itt 4 a oL e , r 1201. Amongst those who enj o y Abe Rerausat. EVENING EDITION., an RA 1 ON THE R 'VENUE F TO THE EDITOR OF THE gUIV. €,e —In your paper of this evening, I obscr%•e the pub+. iieat :o,l of a document on the above subject, purl Ner.tiesg . t . t_le ' have b ..,.-n drawn up by Mr. Hyde Clarke in vvh..ch, wait ell deft , Alice to that gentleman, there appears sok ere verr • '' and I may add, inexcusable errors—int 'eccusa. egregious, -t e as that those who volunteer to instru,"At the. ble inasmut.. subjects, should, at least, inform thorns Ores public on such real position—for otherwise so far i'ren& respecting their their advocacy becomes nrischierceses . being serviceable, •.ondon and Birmingham Line, in tine The income of the L. .15put down at 60 0 , 000 /. p en ' document alluded to, amount received for the twen t y -- sr:num. Now, the exact 4 -ear, which has already elapsed, - five weeks of the present ~ rate of nearly 700,0001. per is 329,0001., which is at the 4 th e Grand Junction Line annum. Again, the income o. - The sum received on, is stated at 300,000/. per annum. • 1' 1 5,000, or upwards or this line for the same pe riod is . of the Leeds and,,, 400,000/. per ennum. The incomt • Selby Line is pat dow n at 15,000/. Pt the income of the line was 44,7621 ' a I. Wing the presen t, tainly been no falling o ff in the traffic &li e d nn t u h m er . e h ln as lS c 3 e T r. e year. -evenue of the So much for the errors respecting the • tr. Clarke in railways. In respect to the expenditure, A. Nwn the ex an equally unsafe guide to follow :he puts dt N•mr the penditure at sixty per cent, on the income. slightest inquiry will show h im that the average expend'. t• 10 AO tore is less than fifty per cent. It is unnecessary . es that up your space by relating the assertion he mak various counties, such. as Cumberland, York, Glom "e 9 t er ' e and aivonshire, contribute nothing towards the ince, tie T. the different lines now open, but I would be glad to k. 0 .7_ in common with, I dare say , many more of your ma does interested in this subject , how M r. Clarke can make it o.: 1- _ dent that, but for the ex tortion of the landowners, end to adverse feeling of agriculturists generally, the inc et% from railway.s would be five millions instead of two a o tt el . half millions as at present. Extortion ,way increase ?... cost of making the different lines, and, co.•isequently, _4l_ minishes the profits of the shareholders, but it- certainly Psi no bearing on the revenue derived from the' selves. D,V.O. A FRIEND TO RAILWAYS, AND AI lit ~1 ; ', , c., lines tl Wen- CATE FOR THEIR POSITION BE liP ur • A CURATELY STATED. June 29. ._ HAIIII3UR9I-1 MAIL. HANOVER, JUNE 20.—We hear that Privy Cc tuncillo r Von Graef is already in Hano ver, and that the c .peratios on the eyes of the Crown Pr i n ce will be perfon (red in e few days. The presenee of the Re v. Carlon Jelf, formed); the Crown Prince's tutor, is supposild to be on su coup a the intended . operation C OP ENHAGEN, JUNE 20.—1 n the month of Ma y, 1,32 0 vessels from the North Sea, and 774 fr vat tl je Batt ie r passed the Sound ; of which .502 were Ens,‘l,l3, 452 Fr u "' sian, and 133 Danish. et of BERLIN, JUNE 19.—The nob: 0 traits of cha M is whia ll distinguish every line of the two invaluable dc lite r in the late King, published by his .I:lajesty's con Imandr:, BP; pear also in the testamentary dispootions of his last 'Nib' Besides that his august Consort , child re n , and daughter , in-law, his b, sister-in-law, ava . grand eh ildren, are rothers ' remembered with Royal liberality, rcompanic d by rd. ° restrictions. His charitable and benev olcnt hear t has re' m embered, by ample legacies , all the pe... so ns of high rank in his service ; and all , dow n to the lows at of his s ervanter each being expressly mentioned by name. Lai g, 3 sur" are bequeathed to the poor of tho chief LOVAS of th. e save are provinces, among which $30,000 to Berlin, iss ,000 t* Charlottenburg, and to Potsdam, Breslau, and othoi ' 0 ' 1 , 11 : $lO,OOO each. Near $300,000 arc left for imp ° Y I,„ the roads in the Altmark, and large sums ''''.' the relief of poor landholders. One malice an d left for completing the fortifications of Posen,. . 1 another million of dollars towards an iron i ai i nay, to form a communication between the Eastern- an, Western Provinces. As a proof that the late . King: a forded equal protection to the Rs man Catholic relik,':lo6.ll' and that the measures lately adopted, originated in la f solute necessity, he orders in his !tot will, the building; °_ a Roman Catholic Church, and to the passage relating t d : it, he has added, in black lead pencil, in his oivn be' td it, ' writing, " Es soli aber dabei nichts gespert tverden"--1*“ no expense is to be spared. • BAMBURGH, JUNE 2 5 .—The celebration ~ef the Gutters berg fete took place in the Ap ollo Hotel, which Wee ° P"' propriately adorned with armorial bearings .and typogr: phical emblems, and the statute of Guttenborg. A ft .. the execution of a cantata, Professor Hum 4 elivered seat' oration in honour of the occasion. About 400,.Per s°ns down to dinner, when various toasts su.;table to the Oa' sion were drank. —Hanzburgh Papers, June 20.. • - ' THE MAKKETS—(THIS PAY' )' COLONIAL chie . , , s „to • The demand was pretty good, MARKET fly to supply tbA / - s u gar, the home trade, and prices were rather higher for :IP" bol o the stocks of which are very small, and the deliveries- for use on the increase. TEA MARKET. 0 1 1 . Few sales were made in Free Tr ade, bat prices were St Company's Congou, ls. 11d. per lb. cash. METAL MARKET. ge The market was dull for most art icles, but p rices d t give way, excepting for Spelter. SP I HIT MARKET. The demand for Rum was dull, but prices were well ported, owing to the short stocks of the article. Proof i.e.. wards, 3s. 7 1 Ad. per gallon ; Brandy, very slow sales , at duccd rates; Gin, quiet, at ls. I ld. per gallon. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russia Caudle Tallow was dull,:and p r p ie somewhat easier, but there was a disposition to keep tiP r b e value of the article. Fine P. Y. C. 525. to 52s 6d.• stock is large, but no arrivals of women HAY MARKET. over There was a fair supply and a moderate .trade. Hay, 31. to 5/. 15s. ; New ditto, 3/. and 4, 1 . ; Old Cl eado , ► Hay, 3/. 10s. to 41. 4s. ; New ditto,.2/. 10s. to 31 . 3s • ; Strs 325. to 365. per load. Old Al w LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS .134:/r.) LONDON.—Wind this day at noon S. WesteilY, n•P airs, D with drizzling rain. CeP 6 AL, JUNE 29:—Sailed the Lucas, Eldridge, for in t, Breton ; Chili, Drummond, Chili ; Eliza Bentley, 11: St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 29.—Wind variable.—Sailed t.1:143 Clydesdale, Bennett, for Sydney ; Francis, C° cl ti bi d . Bombay ; Pampero, Roberts, Monte Video ; Jabcz' of tell, and Leonora, Harrison, Demerara, with the lob 0 , the outward bound, in ail about 30 vesasels, to foreign II? e COWES, JUNE 29.—Sailed the Wilhelfn Ludvig, 14 " n for Batavia; Fuel, Moore, Quebec. We hear that a brevet will positively take P , if her Majesty gives birth to a son, but decidedly not %lei; daughter be born. " he Queen and the Prince -o,„f 'e c ols will be the standing toast of the. United Service. lcoar• mate on account of recommendations of the MilitrSii.tory mission, is promised in a few days.—Naval and Gazette. n Of 'rhe consecration of Dr. Wiseman as B is " °r ' iR Mellipotamo, in partibus infidelium, took place a the chapel of the English College on the Bth instant. L'therla Fransont officiated, assisted by the Vicars-Apostolic of nor b for Germany and Scotland. Dr. Wiseman is shortly t o set oat England, to assume his functions as Vicar-Apostolic for midland district. morni n g ." REVIEW IN HYDE PARonday the Coldstream Guards were reviewed in Hyde Park, before Colonel Walton, preparatory to the grand review of th s e n " ° her ; f old infantry and cavalry on Thursday next, beo n r-,, ke of Majesty; Prince Albert, t Duke heambridge, the li s tir Wellington, s l.ords Hill aid Comb uke of ermere, and other guished officers. n rnillgo FIRE AT CfI.67:DON. — On Friday 111--- between four and five o'clock, a fire broke out at the SWall de r.- Sugarloaf public-house, Croydon, which created very cosl_tio able alarm, and at one period threatened the safe t y of tha.e!..o, portion of the town. It was got under in about three bif i u ons but not until the whole of the stabling and the bac k For' 0.. of three houses at the rear of the Swan and Sugarloaf ty,ft ! a tirely consumed. It is a very fortunate thing that the n o r not occur at an earlier period of the morning , as a t tba te r there were upwards of forty horses in the stables, the g",che. portion of which must inevitably have been destroy damage is estimated at between 4001. and 500 1 ., but it 1. derstood that the property is insured. w ho A SWIM FOR A THIEF.—A young nl an ' clo ara is believed to be a London thief, named Thomas t'ssicoss Walker, was brought up to the Kingston' Petty S." t ole charged with stealing nineteen silver dessert spoons, s' eles of spoons, eight tea spoons, two dozen forks, and other artirgsret plate, to a considerable amount, the property of Miss 31a eafe 4 Jane Taylor, of the Vicarage House, Kingston. ft BP/ss color from the evidence that on Thursday afternoon placed the plate in question in a tray, which she afterward covered with a rug, and placed in a drawer in the ditrieqvislaf and she the same evening left home on a visit. 00 ha nd• morning Mister Walker was found in the room, tray He ran off with his booty, and was pursued, when be P',„,"issea into the Thames, swam to a boat, and begged to be Pe r ,„"a to take refuge in it ; but this favour was not granted, a",,, or prisoner was rowed ashore and handed over to the t hree the the police. The plate, with the exception of two or I, ere i trifling articles, was afterwards picked up near the s pot w; it had been thrown by the prisoner, and it was identifieeos Miss Taylor as being her property. The prisoner Was milted to take his trial at Guildford. v THIRD CENTENARY OF THE DISC. , or PRINTING.—The third centenary of the discovery ocrverei art of printing is now being celebrated throughout th e P en' cities and towns of Germany. At I-lamburgh, Berlin, _ i t ee hagen, Mayence, Cologne, and Weimar, committers; of tee pi incipal inhabitants have been established, and the prepalr the which during the past few weeks have been making are ° f ,be most extended scale of magnificence. On the moening o f t o, 24th of June ( Wednesday) the inhabitants of Leiprie weifhtl congregate in the churches to return thanks to the Alinknhe for the discovery of the art of printing. At ten o'cloc rade various corporate bodies were to form in procession and c 1 . 00 .1 the streets, and on arriving at the marketsplace a gran 1 , 41 (14 and instrumental concert was to take place, a number of sP ' a n. compositions having been written expressly for the ce e t - e d tO At three o'clock a grand entertainment was to be preen yeas the company in the Augustus plat z, where accommodatilo ee provided for 3,00 0 persons. In the evening the city was llerr, illuminated. On the 25 th a meeting of the literati,bease the publishers, printers, and compositors was to be held in ese sl market-place, and at three o'clock the grand oratorio e° l° ,P,,drsi in celebration of the event was to be performed in the eatTh s le y church. The entertainments of the evening were to ° rie to with a grand bail, and the following d a was to be a s eote , ; o 4 the festivities of the peopl e , accompanied with firs-wo rks torch-light processions. The Select Committee on Aletropolit an l e r; provements ,il closed its sittings on Wednesday last, and presevee. t eport on thefollowing day. A Bill, founded en t hat cols por is to be brought in forthwith, and will provide for to f ro st' • end of Coventry-street to the junction of New lowing fie improvements, viz. :—For opening a thoroughfare t!eet Wate r and Long. acre ; , 00. . for continuing the line of street from e as t , I bridg e (already completed to Bow-street) into P r r o e street, Ilolborn ; for extending Oxford-street in a dire o r through St. Giles's, so as to communicate Holborn,"'t with I ,f a eb near Southampton-street; and for opening a therougo•r tween the, populous neighbourhood of Whitechapel and zr ee t fields, and the docks and wharfs of the river, by a UCW t l. " commencing at Spitalfields Church. portstt I