The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

SEIZURES FOR CHURCH-RATES- DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE. TAC'NTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29. About twelvemonths since a meeting was called by the Cburek.wardens, for the purpose of making a Church-rate ; a mot ion to that effect was made and seconded—an amend. mev.t Was also moved and seconded for the adjournment of the, meeting to that day twelvemonth. The chairman re f'-•"aed to put the amendment to the meeting, and he put .re motion, and, in the face of a great majority against it, he declared it carried. However, a poll was demanded, but many considering the proceedings irregular and illegal would not vote at all ; by this means, and by the rate party bribing a great many peer payers, the rate was carried. Several persona, however, refused to pay, and two or three of them were consequently summoned before the Bench of Magistrates, (two or three of whom were parsons.) One of the persons summoned, Mr. Norman, a boot and shoemaker—a tradesman—stated his objection to pay the rate on account of its illegality, and that he was a Dig. senter, and never made any use of the Church; however, j the Bench decided that he s'lould pay er have h;s goods seized, which to-day they have done, accompani e d with excessive violence. Two or three constables were sent by the Churchwarden who figures is the affair, a banker of the town ; they watched an opportunity when there was no one in the shop but a little child, to go in and force the window sliders open, and take away four or five pounds' worth of boots and shoes (more than double the amount of the rate). The child, seeing men robbing the window,callcd her parents, who came and endeavoured to stop them from carrying away the goods, when one of the ruffians beat Mr. Norman about the head and face with a brass staff, bit his fingers, threw him in the gutter, and severely kicked him. Norman's wife interfered to rescue her husband, when the constab* struck her twice with his staff, and was proceed ing to more violence, but was prevented by the crowd who bad by this time assembled. These are the proceedings, Mr. Editor, that arc carried -on under the desecrated name of religion. Comment upon such is unnecessary. When will the Dissenters of Eng land rouse, and rid themselves of this nuisance? SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE WANING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Herald.) The renewal of the attempt made by Oovernmenf, in I former Sessions, to cut down Cathedral Establishments to ia miserable insufficiency of means, soon to be followed, no doubt, by another bill for their utter extinction, demands l the serious attention of the Clergy and laity of the Church of England. In is against the Church itself that the blow is aimed. The Experiment of Confiscation, hereafter to bs extended to the whole of our religious establishment, is now about to be made open the property of Deans and Chapters. If the experiment succeeds, the bleach in the walls of the Church will be made continually wider, until 0 the work of destruction shall have been completed. This i is an age peculiarly dislinguished, and which will here after be disgracefully memorable in English history, for the compromise of greet principt s. Of such compromise no good ever comes. A timid and truckling spirit of expediency in politics is sure to eugreent the embarrassments which its concessions are intended to avert. (From the Morning Post ) 1 , So excellent is the B:11 which Lord Stanley has brought into Parliament for amending the registration system in Ireland, that its opponents seem to be unable to bring for ward any cite argument against it. All that they say is but a series of variations and embellishments upon the ori• ginal falsehood, that the Bill is an attack upon the elective franchise in Ireland. If that be a falsehood, as we assert it is, and we appeal to the Bill itself in proof of what we say, there has not been one word uttered in all the agita- I tion against the measure which could lead to a moment's doubt as to the propriety of passing the Bill without delay. It is true Mr. Henry Grattan has advertised that be will resign his seat in the House of Commons should the Bill pass, but that we apprehend, however dreadful the loss to the senatorial wisdom and dignity of the. United Kingdom, cannot be considered as a valid argument against making the Bill an Act of Parliament. There is nothing at all in the Bill which interfere 3 with the franchise. (From the Morning Chronicle.) When will the aggressions and insults of an intolerant and intolerable faction cease to distract and madden Ire. laud ? Is this popular turmoil to be endless ? Is there to be no respite for our Irish fellow citizeas from the agonies of mortal panic, and the perils of national convulsion ? How can a people eternally fevered and phrenzied by in -1 justice—for eve: on th e i r d c f eace Aga i nst a watchful and 1 malignant foe, daily summoned to arms in suppo r t o f t h e i r religion against foaming bigots, and their liberties against i corruptionists and tyrants ; bow, we demand, can a people in circumstances like these tread the quiet paths of in dustry, become prosperous themselves, or add to the wealth and power of the empire ? Is the state of tumult and ex asperation in which th e T or i es perpetua l ly krep Ireland 1 consistent with the safety of the kingdom ? Does it con sist with the i n t egr i t y an d sta bili ty of any institution or 1 establishment, to have this ever-blowing temnest of politi cal uproar and excitement raging through the land ? It was not enough to deny the Irish people the scraps and pittances of justice, for which, on bended knees and with suppliant accents, for long years they have implored the Legislature —it was not enough to spurn their humblest petitions ,or the least mitigations of the mightiest grievances and burdens,-for the least reform of the monstrous abuses of the indefensible end cenvicted corporations—.for the smallest reduction of the cruel imposts of a Church main tained at enormous national cost for the use of a petty sect and a shred and remnant of a party ; this was not irrita tion and wrong enough, without adding the injury of as sault upon the few rights and liberties the people had ac quired, without selecting the dearest and most fundamental of those rights for outrage—without aiming a murderous blow at the very root of popular privilege and power, and attempting the wholesale havoc of the elective franchise. ( From the Times.) There is nothing more intelligible than the fury of the O'Connell and the priest faction at the proposed reform of the Irish constituency by Lord Stanley's Bill ; and for the same reason there can be nothing more natural than the fright of the Queen's Ministers, and the clerks and subal terns in their employment. Mr. Edward John Stanley, at his Cheshire dinner, from which every gentleman in the county kept aloof, had the conscience and honour to de clare the Registration Bill " the most atrocious measure" lie had ever beard of attempt to deprive the people of Ireland of their franchises. &c. We will not call this de nunciation by Mr. Stanley of an upright and statesmanlike remedial law the most unprincipled or dishonest proceeding on record by any man bearing the name and character or a gentleman, because we are well aware that the condit' 0 ,.: of his political exi s t ence requ i res M r. E . J. Stanley and his brother functionaries under the Government of L ord Melbourne to throw aside all regard to truth a-, well as decency, or to retire from the service wherein Vim, are en gaged. RELAND. --.....--- , k THE STANLEY A GITATI ON.--A.O the Leinster meeting on Tuv,day, amongst other l',cters of apology rea d, was oae from Mr. Evans, the 31 -ember for the county of Dub lin. The Hon. Gentleedan, speaking of Lord Stanley's Bill, writes :—" I consider this measure as the most fatal blow that has ever ) .,eon directed against the peace and in dependence of tt;is ill-fated country. If thi s Bill s h ou ld o aes, it U must 'altimat e ly lead Li this result, a di sseverance f thenifsn, and a n ultimate separation of the two king, doms. Irishmen, if it pass —one and all must become Re-. , pealers." 1 The Dublin provincial papers are still crowded with the reports of meetings held throughout the country, and es eielly in the province of Ulster, at which all the speakers have adopted a determined tone in relation to the Dis franchisement Bill of Lord Stanley. Mr. Sharman Crawford has addressed a well-timed letter to the friends of liberty at Ulster. At the county of Louth meeting, held on Monday, a leter was read from Thomas Fortescue, Esq., of Ravens dale Park, condemning the Bill. Mr. Fortescue, who has recently given his adhesion to the Liberal party, is one of the most extensive proprietors in Louth. The Count de Salis presided on Sunday -at the meet ing of the parish of Kilmore, cou..ty of Armagh, and I spoke with the greatest energy against the measure of Lord Stanley. r On Monday there was a great public meeting at Dundalk. In the meantime there has ibeen a feebl e att empt i n Bel fast and A tmag h to get 0 1 , nee.and-corner petitions in support of Lord Stanley. The Pilot says that rep Jrt gives the Secretaryship, va. cant by the lamented death of Mr. Diummond, to Mr. Norman Al . Donnell Mr. Claudius I;fest, whose assassination has before been noticed, we l''..nent to state, died on Monday morning, after very sever.: suffering. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30. —Wini vriae. Saild tbe Copeland, Simms, for Calcutta ; He a ctor, bl Johnson, e ditto; William, Morris, Bombay ; Duchess of Clarence. Birch, SSin tkigapor amaicae; City of Per t h, Portch, Part ; Sarah Birkett Lowden , n, J ; Sterling, C onn, Havannah ; Trinidad, , Demerar a ; Ellen Leugett, Hayti ; Agricola, Grhyson, Rio Janeiro ; Intrinsic. Davidson. New York; Arabian, Welch, Clit.trlcston ; William Brown, Harris, New Clriaang ; Spring, Fletcher, ditto ; E7gardon Castle, Waland, Newfoundland ; Pyrenneep, Warnaar, Qu'A)Ct; AN A PPARITION.—Soure time ago, an indus trious family went to Derby. from Wirksworih, to procure ern phyment, which they obtained. The occupant of the house i they selected for their reside nc e h a d j ust departed this life. The room in which he died was contiguous to the one where In another part of our Paper appears an account of a murder perpetrated 1 the family eat their meals, and which opened into it. One night, the mother of the family while sitting at tea remarked, at Halltx, by a gardener, that she should not feel right unless the room in which the under the influence of • dead man had lain was cleaned and white-washed; scarcely . rag Scotsman furious passion. TAIT, be a inresaiduint,Thein had she spoken, when the latch of the door of the ro: , m alluded p in r - es a umed to share in b to was shaken as if by some supernatural agency. Before the horror-struck family could muster courage enough to enable moral HaliP 'ax aClv m an u t s a t g b es e the f them to examine into the cause of so unusual an occurrence, whichavowed religion and high civilization of again the latch commenced shaking with still greeter violence, the doo r slowly opening; this w Great Britain are sas too much for the nerves of upposed to imnart.• ...Yet there the party, and, greatly alarmed. rushed forth the mistress of is no probability that such an outrage will be the house, carrying her child, uttering loud cries, and protest- deemed of an ing she would never again enter the haunted dwelling. Her worth' y special notice by the editors brother, astout athletic man, seized the poker, anti with all his of the Tory journals, though ' 1 • , Marl it appeared first might closed the door, holding it fast shut to prevent the egress of any one from within. The neighbours flocked round, when in the columns of the Dublin Eveninn• M 7 ~, al —were one of them explained that their de art d ' e neighbour had a cat, which could open tbe latch of h p it dressed up with the usual high staconinof t e door, which no doubt had ' . g that been the ea use of their alarm. A search t k l a nd were Ireland the scene ofthe e° p ace, when poor jo urna l , puss was found, half famished and been driven by hunger to exerci h concealed , and had no doubt theme is no doubt but every Tory journal of the of introducing herself to the new e enr ingenuity for the purpose , master's dwelling.—Derbyshire Chrocn, ! i fs of her departed metropolis would expatiate on it, as a strong and DRURY•LANE THEATRE. TI " • --- tis ill-fated t inefraoible proof of the demoralizing influence of blishment is terrted to be let to Mr • Er -es a- . b who, in connection with M. Collinet, of . Paris, ison, the violinist. tl C tholic reliaion, and the barbarity of the ie ,a o has determined ' upon opening it for Concerts a la Musard, upon a much extended scale than has yet been attempted in this en more Irish. Ono hundred instrumental performers are engaged. un,t /7; ' A eery short time hick an aged man, living y theatre will be fitted up in a novel style, and adorned with ever.. I greens and fl owers. No exp ense w ill b e spared to render it , alone i n a cottage, i n t h e rura l , opulent, and agreeable and attractive. extra-Protestant and super-pious parish of Isling- -.... -4.........................., . _ a third time, and passed. The Commons did not assemble in sufficien number to make a nonce. 13. GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, MAY ton, was murdered by one or more persons, perhaps, 111ISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE including females, for the sake probably of a few QUEENS OF ENGLAND. THE SECOND VOLUME shillings. Not many months ago, a watchmaker was IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY, murdered in the heart of this - populous metropolis, At all the Booksellers, price Bs. 6d. bound, with Illustrati:lls. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Cleat Marlborough-street. probably from a like base and low pecuniary motive. Other similar outrages, which it is unnecessary to enumerate, have been not unfrequently perpetrated in and about the metropolis, and they have never, that we are aware of, called forth from the Tories, who are so careful to amplify all the similar occur • rences which happen in Ireland, and even all the exaggerations of the Dublin Evening Mail, any general reprobation of the character and conduct of the English, or any allusion to the influence of the Protestant priesthood. If all the crimes of Irishmen are to be attributed to the religion they profess, we do not see why the crimes of the English may not be attributed to their religion and their Church. We are not, however, about to undertake the invidious task of proving it. We can, indeed, see a much closer connection between the unmitigated rapacity and avarice of our priesthood, and all the crimes, including such murders as those we have above quoted, springing from rapacity, than between either the doctrines or the lives of the Catholic priests of Ireland and the usual agrarian crimes com mitted by the Irish peasantry. But we will not, on this occasion, enter into that subject, meaning to confine our remarks to the presumed advantages cf the English, which appear to leave their crimes without excuse, and to the disadvantages of the Irish, which can he pleaded in mitigation of the severe sentence of their Tory Judges. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait of the Author, and numerous Illustrations by Phiz, PRECEPTS AND PRACTICE, BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ., Author of " Sayings and Doings." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3larlborough•street. To be had at all the Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RIS. THIS EVENING, MAY:I, Will he repeated Murphy's Comedy of KNOW YOUR OWN MIND. Millamnur, Mr. Anderson ; Dashwould, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mated, Mr. Cooper ; Captain Bygrove, Mr. J. Vining ; Lady Bell, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Bromley, Mrs. Orger ; Miss Needle, Miss Emmeline Montague. After which will be repeated. the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled rnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Charaeters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. 131an1, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. &c. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, Ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommense at Sevr2 o'Clock. Tickets and plat e 3 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had open application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews bookseller !6•7, New Bon-el-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THE HOUSE OF LADIES having been received with unanimouse applause by crowded houses, will be repeated (to gether with " The Ladies' Club") every Evening until the end of the Season. THIS EVENING, MAY I. Will be presented, for the Fifty-first time, THE LADIES' CLUB. Mrs. Fitzsmyth (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. 7o be followed by THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Mrs Fitzsmyth (Member for Chatterton)-11Irs. Stilling. Mrs Morton (Member for Smallborough)—Miss Atkinson. Mrs. Reokbv (Member for Edmondsburv—Miss Treble. It is said by those upright men that no compa rison between the crimes committed in Ireland and England can be instituted. We agree in the assertion, but we are const • d to differ from them as to which of the lit:countries dese rves the worst chara c t er . I n I re l an d t h ere are two lips distinct races, professing two different religions ; the one race is the governing, the other the go verned, or enslaved race. In the hands of the former all the legislative and magisterial power was for many years exclusively deposited; for their behoof a Church, said to be of the utmost purity, has been maintained in endowed and sinecure splendour, while the far less pure, as is said, religion of the people has been supported almost entirely by their voluntary contributions. The bulk of the land is Protestant, while the people are Catholics; and till the year 1838, not one of these Catho lics, however destitute or starving, had the smallest legal claim on the Protestant land, or tithes, which they were compelled to pay to the Protestant priesthood. Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton)—Miss Fitzwalter. Mrs. O'Donnell (Member for Donnybrook)—Miss Ayres. Mrs. Bustle (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)— Miss Stephens. Mrs. Twankay (Speakerl—Mrs. Garrick. Fancy, Miss Beachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds. After which, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. Monsieur Jolli;et, Mr. F. Firing; Alexis Kerbout, Mr. Raker ; Madame Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter; Causette, Miss Ayres. THE MIDGET OF BLUNDERS. Dr. Snngface, Mr. Wild ; Dr. Dablaneour, Mr. M. Barnett ; Bridget, Miss Ayres. To conclude with the New and Original Drama (by the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNE'fH VAUGHAN. Gvrynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hall ; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess. The Three New Pieces have met with tumultuous al probation from crowded audiences. and will be repeat• d every evening. THIS EVENING, MAY 1, Will be aeted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN ; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, galled THE WET NURSE. Te eenc'ede with In entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The Scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. Under these circumstances, the mass or the Ca tholic Irish have been for ages exposed to cruel political and social oppression. They were denied all political rights, and'were often downed to starve, in hundrei:is and thousands, on their native land, without the means of escape or the power of com pelling relief. Can we wonder that, und , a such circumstances, the Catholic Irish should he filled with hatred of the race of Protest -Ant, oppressors ? The laws of mind are as iPera"iive as t h e l aws of nt matter, and blood does not more certainly flow from a wound, than hatre A and a thirst of vengeance from outrage and opir4tssion. NEW STRAND THEATRE. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. There are IMPOSTORS in the field.—The great approba tion, and consequent patronage acquired by the Great WIZARD of the NORTH has given existence to a host of IMITATORS, of whom the WIZARD says BEWARE ! Would you see Necromancy in perfection, in addition to splen did apparatus ? If you would, visit the WIZARD of the NORTH,whose eve-deceiving and inquiry -baffling arcana are to be exhibited on THIS EVENING, and every evening dur ing the week, concluding with his celebrated and original GUN DELUSION, wonder-striking in its detail, and perfectly divested of the slightest danger, and cannot be imita'ed or comprehended by itinerants. There is but one Wizard of Necromantic fame—the GREAT ORIGINAL WIZARD of the NORTH—J. H. ANDERSON. A predominant, sentiment like that which must, and we know d aces, pervade the Catholic Irish, and which such politicians as Lord STANLEY, and such pastors alive. "as th e Bi s h op o f E XETER, manfully keep extends to the whole race of the oppressors ; a . .id it is very likely that some of the best and most ( worthy of that race may undeservedly fall victims to the blind and indiscriminating hatred.. Such may have been, for aught we know to the contrary, the case of Mr. WEST or Lord NORBURY ; but we con tend that in the brutal and oppressive manner in which the Catholic Irish have been treated by the Protestant gentry and clergy—the manner in which they have been rooted out of the soil, or shot for defending their property against the legal assaults of tli, tithe-owner, there are mitigating circum stances for their crimes which we shall seek for in vain in England. Their vengeance is blind we grant ; but so is the rapacity of their oppressors. It cannot always find, nor always wait to select, the most fitting sacrifice. In fact the revolting injustice which they have suffered would lose half its odious characteristics if they were not brutalised. Goaded by privations or insults, or exasperated by injuries inflicted on their wives or mothers, or the females of their race—the widow MURPHY, for example they cannot possess the calmness of a sage, nor ascertain, with the discriminating care of an expe rienced engineer, the best means to attain a useful end. ----- RIGEL WATER AT LONDON BMW - 4E TlP.sl•ft ROW. Morning '4 minutes after 2 1 Evening 42 minutes alter 2, The Publieatioo of the Evening Edition of TRE SIN com mented at I() utes after Three. In England there is no marked distinction be ween the races. We hare rich and poor, but here is no insurmountable barrier which always pre vents the members of the latter from becoming rich Till the Reform Act was passed the power of. legislating was not exclusively confined to the comparatively opulent. We had not till then a well•defined master and slave class. The bulk of the English are Protestants, and probably the ad herents of the Endowed Church far exceed in number any other sect. For many years pro perty was constrained to support the poor, and every pauper had a lien on the estates of the nobility. Here the law has been administered by Magistrates chosen by the people, or by gentry in whom they had unbounded confidence. Here, till lately, the tribunals have been unimpeached ; and though the law be unjust it has been in gene ral fairly administered. In England there have been few or none of those causes in existence, which may be pleaded in mitigation of the Tory sentence against the brutality and ferocity of the Catholic Irish. Such being the general features, let the reader now look to the particular murders which have of late been perpetrated in this metropolis. Here the people live immediately in the neighbourhood of the Court and aristocracy, and have all the benefit of their humanizing and civilizing influence. All that can he done for civilization by the drama and by literature is done for the inhabitants of London. They live under the most pure, ac cording to the Tories, of national religious esta blishments, and unquestionably the most powerful. Churches meet their view at every corner and in every street; and, crowning the whole, is that noble Cathedral, which must be of immeasurable utility if its influence over morality be commensurate to its architectural beauty. Nor are they without warnings. The new drop at the Old Bailey, frequently, and the gaols of New- _._.. gate, Coldbatl►-fields, &c. daily, teach them an impressive lesson. In spite of all these immense advantages--here, in this metropolis in the heart of our civilisation, where all is done, that can be done by institutions, to teach virtue, repress crime, and relieve distress, murders are not unfrequently com mitted from base, low, and sordid motives—exactly similar to thos.e which dictate the Corn-laws and the demands of the priesthood for more wealth. In the ebullitions of revenge, such as occur cruelty, in Ireland -_often th e on l y c h ec k to and the only punishment for grievous injustice —we see something redeeming, something generous, something of the nobility of man's nature, which makes us agree with the T or y ournals, t h at t h ere can be comparison b the crimes committed in Ireland, and r the foul, etween rib. i ._'' ..6,,. ~,..4 . ... ../..4..."'"•54 r-,\ 14_ ; , , p., , ,,,, • e - d .; .-P7 1 :'"(-3- , ~ `.:.--4---- ... - .7.;.: 0,-- ,..zbk_..: .. _ 's met resterday after the holidays. Petitions wer-, presented against the Ti t h e Com in favour of Church Extension, and mutation Ac:, , maintaining the Corn-laws. 11 _,e Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice that on T .uesday he will lay a Bill before their Lordships to remove doubts respecting the admission of mi nisters into benefices in Scotland, and then give an explanation of the nature of the Bill. The Tithe Commutation Bill was postponed till Tuesday. 1 774 + LONIY J N : MAY 1, 1840. The Lord, The Marquis of WESTMEATH referred to the agitation which is now getting up in Ireland, and catechised Viscount MELBOURNE on the subject. The Noble Viscount replied very calmly, that agitation in Ireland was nothing new, that he dis approved of all such agitation, and there existed no confederation between him and Mr. OCoNNELL such as the Noble Marquis had described. The Noble Marquis referred to the newspapers for his proofs, but was told by Lord HOLLAND that such a course was irregular. In answer to Lord STRANGFORD, Viscount MELBOURNE stated that no communication had been received from France, announcing an intention of sending a considerable military force to Buenos Ayres. 1, Earl FITZWILLIAM presented petitions from Sheffield, signed by 10,864 persons, each of whom stated his employment and address; from Brad ford, signed by between 7,000 and 8,000 ; and about sixty petitions from various parts of England and Scotland. The Noble Earl addressed a few emphatic words to the Peers, and described the Corn-laws as a law to limit the population of the Uryted Kingdom by limiting the quantity of food. We, however, stick to Mr. BA RING'S description as preferable—the law "cuts down the population ;" and we earnestly beg Lord ASHBURTON, the next time he speaks on the subject, to show that he did not, in using that language, prove that he and his Pro-Corn-law supporters do not now murder the people, or cut down the ropulation. The Marquis of NORMANBY laid on the Table some Papers concerning the New Poor-law, which the Duke of WELLINGTON had asked for, but • _ .he Noble Duke did not wish to have them printed. Lord DENHAM'S Frivolous Suits Bill was read ON, FRIDAY. MAY 1, 1840. The blame, however, we must confess, does not rest solely with the parsons. The parishioners are quite as much in fault, for they passively submit to this overbearing insolence of deportment. They willingly bend their necks to the yoke, which, with a very small degree of exertion, and a little display of spirit, they might shake off. Why did the rate-payers of Taunton suffer the chair to be filled by any person not chosen by themselves ? And why do so many other parishes do the same thing ? By such supineness do they not deprive themselves of all right to complain ? Letters from Constantinople of the Bth and 9th ult., bring advices from Tabriz of the 4th of March. The SCHAH was then at the head of 30,000 troops, with upwards of 200 waggons and a park of artillery, marching towards Ispahan, after having plundered the towns of Cashan and Na thuns, for rebelling some time ago against him. 'Pie unfortunate inhabitants of Ispahan and Shiraz were destined to meet with a similar fate. Such is the morality of Kings ! At Constantinople serious alarm begins to be felt, that MEHEMET ALI will fight for his inde pendence. In his last letter to KHOSREFF PACHA the Viceroy declared that unless they. settled the question without foreign intervention he would raise the standard of the Prophet, and trust to GOD and the devotion of the followers of ISLAM to his cause. From Alexandria the latest adviees would teem to prove that the PACHA is in earnest. We find it also stated in a letter before us that— ----- The interruption given by the British ships of war to the pas;age of several hundred volunteers from Albania to Alexandria, in vessels under the lonian flag, to recruit the army of Mehemet Ali, had so much irritated tho latter that in his communication with Col. Hodges he threatened to produce a revolt in Albania and Asia Minor. Colonel Hodges answered, " If you persist in the use of language of this nature, England will pulverize you ero three months expire I' l The Consuls of the other foreign Powers suc. ceeded, however, in patching up the quarrel. The Gorgon steamer was reported to have carricd to Alexandria a formal demand for the immediate restitution of the Turkish 11 ,, et, and that in case of refusal the English Consul, and other British subjects there, were forthwith to depart. Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have reached us, with advices from Agua Viva, ESPARTERO'S head quartets of the 23d. Three rebel battalions had disbanded themselves. The Carlists were in despair. CABRERA was Still alive, but too shat tered to take the field. Brussels and German Papers, both of the latest ates, have been recei7ed this morning. The ormer bring no news of interest. It was rumoured hat the question of a political amnesty would be soon brought before the Chambers. Letters from Lossy of the 9th of April state that the last ac counts from Odessa represented the Russian army there as quite inactive. The French Consul-Gene ral at Tiflis was performing quarantine ; and a great number of French ships laden with timber Were waiting for a favotnable wind to sail for Tculon, Bordeaux, and Brest. The Circassians had taken the fortress of Sudscha, near Anapa, on the east coast of the Black Sea, together with a large quantity of military stores. The Russian , garrison wag almost cut in pieces. 'The first news of the utter fail ure o f the expedition against Khiva has also been confirmed—iotelligence which a letter, dated the 4th of April, from the Turkish frontier states has set the Mussulman population quite wild with joy. Count PAHLEN is represented to have expressed a conviction in the diplomatic circles of Berlin, that the return of M. TRIERS to the Ministry is fa vourable to the amicable settlement of the Eastern question. His Excellency added that larger con lainous,and sordid murders, the heart-rending infan ticides, which too frequently disgrace the metropolis, the abode of the Court, the seat of the Legislature, and the residence of the Bishops, the Nobility, and the Gentry of England. Mr. O'CONNELL is evidently now willing to make his peace with the working classes and Char tists of England. In another part of The Sun appears a letter which he has addressed to two in dividuals, but which is obviously meant for the hulk of the population in the manufacturing dis tricts. He gives them good advice, and if he can succeed in his design of winning them over to a union with him, and to a professed reliance on moral force, Lord STANLEY and the Church will End him a most ugly customer. They, however, have provoked his hostility, and from him they de serve no quarter. Amongst the working classes there is, however, so far as our knowledge goes, no inconsi derable hostility to Mr. O'CONNELL, which he will have some trouble to conquer. His letter is well adapted, however, to attain his ends. It falls in with their views as to th e i r want of represent a ti on , though it does not coincide with them exactly as to what they should seek, and it repudiates in the strongest manner all appeals to physical force. Though the attempt may not b e successful, we can but admire Mr. O'CONNELL'S policy in making it ; and if successful, it will be for him a most powerful arm, Our readers will find under the head of " He r Majesty's Theatre" an account of a disturbance which does not say much for the good breeding or the justice of those who were the prime actors in it: We may be mistaken, but the thing altogether has the appearance of a plot got up by certain in terested and certain duped parties, to deprive the Manager of his undoubted right to manage his own establishment. If M. LAPORTE has failed in ally engagement with M. TA NIEURINI, there are means of redress without having recourse to the abuse and dictation of a mob. But this will not satisfy the instigators and leaders of the riot. They would com pel the head of an establishment to employ a singer, and on his own terms too, right or wrong, thereby taking from him the power of regulating his ex penditure, and of controlling those for whose ser vices he pay s . I n t h e programp merits made and t o b e ma-' ... e of the enaa.e of Februa r y, TArt.r: ‘, publish e d on t h e lyr antiNl 's name is not men. tioned, and on what principle of justice, then, even in the m "I,st ext en d e d sense, can the subscribers c+err plain ? We should be glad to see this excel lent singer engaged, but not at the expense of fair play and common sense. Lessees of theatres have enough of difficulty to keep their heads above water, without being oppressed and ruined by such a combination as this----the object of which is not only to force an actor on a manager, but also to let him fix his own price. It would be difficult to find a similar attempt at unmitigated tyranny. We invite the attention of our readers to the Church -rate outrage which will be found detailed in another column. We see in this case, as in so many others, the mischievous consequences of that incongruous mixture of religious with civil matters, which constitutes the essence of a State religion. What business have Clergymen to interfere in the imposition of Church-rates ?if a Clergyman be a rate-payer, he may in strict law be entitled to attend vestry meetings, though it would be much more decent and much more to the honour of his cloth, if he declined to use his right ; but what gives him the privilege of acting as Chairman of vestry meetings ? Except in a few local Acts of Parliament made of late years, there is no legal authority for such a practice. Every meeting must be supposed capable of regulating its own proceed. ings and •n_e of those proceedings is the appoint ment of a chairman, whose sole duty it is to act as the organ of the meeting, not as a dictator invested with independent powers. Yet we constantly see the proceedings of vestries embroiled, the greatest uproar and confusion created on the spot, and the peace of a parish disturbed by the refusal of these 'clericalusurpers to put to the meetings over which they have taken upon themselves to preside, motions regularly made and seconded, and approved of by the majority ! C essions than were approved of by Lord PALNIER STON must be made to MEHEMET ALI. The French Journals of Wednesday bring no news of interest. The Neapolitan question excites great interest, but notwithstandny, the warlike tone of the intelligence which will be found elsewhere in our columns, the general impression was that an amicable adjustment would take place. The French Government has consented to abo lish the monopoly in salt. In the Moniteur we find the following tele graphic despatch from French Africa : " TOULON, APRIL 28 ~ THE MARITIM E PREFECT TO THE MINISTER , OF IB4O. THE MARINE. .‘ On the 25th the Marshal went to join the Princes at Bouffirick. The campaign will be immediately opened. The troops are marching towards Blitlab. It is believed that the first operations will be against Medeah." Several petitions were presented in the Chamber of Peers on Wednesday, praying that in conse• quence of the high price of butcher's meat in Paris, lean cattle ;Might be received from abroad, duty free. After an uninteresting debate, the petitions were referred to the Minister of Commerce. The conferences between the French and the English Commissioners were to be resumed yesterday. Mr. Mac. gregor, one of the English Commissioners, being detained at London by his functions, Mr. Buker and Mr. Porter will be the only representatives of the Government. They have only to determine the conclusion, the principle of which is already laid down, and then In proceed to the &- tail of the stipulations.—Courrier Francais. The Toulon Journals of the 24th confirm the news that the Genereux and the Marengo had quitted the roads of Toulon during the night, to proceed to Naples. The Ocean. bearing the flag of Admiral Rosamel, is still in port. This ship, says the Eclaireur de la Mediterrancc, is waiting for the French Envoy Extraordinary, who is ex pected at Toulon to-day or to-morrow, to embark on board the Ocean, %%hien will convey him immediately to Naples. The Cocyte steam-boat had also just left Toulon for an unknown destination. It was, however, supposed that very imvrtant despatches, which it had received on board the s.ime morning, were to be conveyed to Naples. The Gazette du Midi says that the Duke of Algens will return from his expedition to Algeria in a fortnight. The Sur/ of Marseilles says that the Board of ileeith of that city is preparing ap,rtments for his Royal Highness in the Lazaretto.— L e Commerce. The Vautour, which was sent with a commission to Naples, has arrived at Toulon with the despatches, which were immediately forwarded to Paris. It is said that the King of Naples persists in his refusal. The dates from Naples are of the 22d. —Le Constilutionnel. BOURSE.---PAMS, WRDNESDAt, Apart, 29. fret Highest Lowest Last . i rerch 5 per C """ ....... Cent 5,,,.,",,,,, ............ Price Price Price 4 !'2 11 3 59 n. 113 60 113 43 13 45 4 per Cents.. 'l 101 50 ... 1ug .,0 10 3 / 1 ° 108 50 3 104 .. ... 104 104 :lank of • d" per - ei4 .. 84 b ... 84 e 4 5 t,„0; ponce 3375 —33:5 ...334 _3341) -.re Bank loom 101i0 ...1090 ~.1 90 5,000 f. Sh 5203 ...5•21'0 ..52011 i3elgian Bank t) ... F 95 8P 1r. 5 S I , er Cents .;p:osh Active ... 05,f, }4 Pa stye ... 7% ... 7 , 4 ... . 11 4 New I i.ferre.l Old Deterred 7 l /4 7 % 7 % 7 Na tiCat Grnao ll5 ... 105 1(5 105 RAILWAY SHARES. r. Germain Versail!es, R. B 589 ... 537 50 ... 5.50 5;' , 7 50 L.B 3-5 .!:85 3P5 5 ilrleans Hulhausen to Mann ... 485 ... 4 55 485 ... 483 Strasburg to Bale 3ELG AN 1. UNDS—llkussEts, Aram 29. Actual Debit, 23. per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 14' 3 14 Loan of Thirty Million% 4 pe r cent. Loan of City, 15'.12, -i per Cent -- Society ot Commerce, -1!,„ per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent kiSk National Society. Exchange on London (shaft) --Brussels Papers. April 29. HAMBURG BORSENEtALLE, APRIL 2.3. Austrian 5 per Cents. 108% lii, Bank shares An :M.Russian Loan KR R 10/ ussian a per Cent. Ist serie s , C ert i f i cate Inscription, Ist Series 103% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Se. i ,, s 93% Ditto in Certificates I)utch ,ctual Debt, 2% pc, Cent 5 2 Ditto - slier Cent 9B Polish Bond, New 1 ichet Anglo.: ;anish Loan 3 per Cent 75 741 Nor wegi an I.can, i 5 ,34, 4 per Cent ..... lo2 Spanish. New .1 per Cents. 21% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL .8.-13. 6—Two months, 13 4k. STocKtiol.m, A ERIL 21.—Seventy.five days, 12. 1. BREMEN, APRIL - dlr.—Two months, 614 A U., i aid.. ',. I. Ii.s.D.,—VIENNA, APRIL 21 five per Cents. Metalliques kraal per 1...C111.5 11)1 Three par Centa. i-‘2 1 ,6 'link Shares —.AI/gemrine Zeiluri F, April 26, 11 1 111.11,111.11.6 __ . _ WAR WIFH NAPLES. We have received Malta papers and letters to the 16th ult. The following are extracts of the news relating to Naples and the English fleet From the Mediterreneo.) " The Hydra war steamer, which left this on the 3d instant, with a despatch from Admiral Stopford to her Ma• je.ty'g Minister at Naples,- returned here on the 9th, after waiting two days and a half without a satisfactory answer. She left Naples on the evening of the 7th, and Palermo on the following day, where she caged to communicate with her Majesty's Consul. His Excellency the Admiral having already been apprised of the obstinate persistance of his Sicilian Majesty by a special Queen's messenger, ilt° arrived with despatches from her Majesty's Minister at Naples, in the French steamer Scamandre, from Grits Vecchia, on the Bth inst., had order ed.all the British ships of war in Malta harbour to prepai e immediately fur sea. On the same afternoon the Bellerophon ship of the line and Jaseur brig of war put to sea, and during the night the H)dra steamer was suddenly ordered away. The latter makes the best of her way to Naples, to announce the ap 14roach there of the two former (which will call a. Palermo and Messina.) They will be joined in the Bay of Naples by his Excellency, the Admiral, in the Princess Charlotte, with the Beauty of the line, Tyne frigate, and Phoenix war steamer, which are about to take their departure, his Excellency having delayed his departure in order to re ceive the London overland despatches of the 14th instant, which arrived from Marseilles in the Prometheus steam. packet of Monday. The mail for India brought by this conveyance was despatched to Alexandria by the Acheron iteam• packet yesterday. The Implacable arrived from Yourla on Sunday, and will follow the Admiral as soon as she refits. There were no foreign ships of war at Naples when the Hydra left, but many English merchant vessels and several yachts, among others the Anonyma, belonging to the Hoe. Captain Greville who was in treaty for the sale of her to the Neapolitan Government. ( From the Malta Times.) When the Hydra cast anchor in Palermo Bay, nearly the whole of the population flocked down to the Marina, and the smallest indication on the part of Captain Robin son would have occasioned a general rising ; such ap peared to be the excited feelings of the people in favour of tilt English Government in that country. At Girger,ti, it is said an emeute has taken place. A courier extraordinary was sent to the Court of Naples with an ultimatum to the effect that the King should abo lish the sulphur monopoly ; and that if be did not come to this agreement from the day of the presentation of this ultimatum, he should pay 1,0001, per day as indemnifica tion to the British Government until he did agree. This ultimatum was presented by the British Ambassador to the King of the Two Sicilies, on reading which he gave way to violent passion, and refused to accept it. GENERAL BAPTIST MISSION IN ORISSA, INDIA. On L, ,ord's Day, the 26th of April, the anniversary ser mon on behalf the above mission was preached in lEnon Chapel, New Church -street, St. Marylebone, by the Rev. J. Burns, minister of the Chapel. And on the following evening the annual meeting was held in the same place ; David Wire, E: q., in the Chair. The cause wit.; advocated by the Reverends Eustac-.., Cary; J. Pike, of Newbury; J. Stevenson, A. M.., of Borough road ; J. Peggs, formerly Miasioaary in Orissa ; J. Wallis, of Commerral-romi ; Mr. Green, of Norwich, and A. M'Clay, A.M., of New York. . - The services were all well attended, and the collections excecdrd considerably tho,c of past years. It was st sped tl.at the Sabbath School children connected with the Cha rl had coll.'ctA for the mission during the year the sum of 9/. 14i. l ld. THE MURDER at HUDDERSFIELD. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 30.-1 he name of the an who murd.-red Duke is nut Tait. as I stated yestor day, but Alexander MacLouglin Smith, front Stirling, where his wife and family now reside. Alter the inquest, he was forwaricd under the Coroner's warrant to Yolk,. .and it is reported that on his her dcuffs being removed, for the pur pose of giving him some refreshment at Leeds, he seized the form upon which he sat, and attempted to Etissatil the persons in whose custody he was, without, huwe , eer, any mischief ensuing, Some say he is insane. CAMB --- ID G E ELLCTiON.• Thursd-y evening, April 30,, 1840. A very large meeting of the Reforniets of Cam.lbridge, assembled -his evening at the Hoop Hotel, for the purpose of selecting a gentleman to stand as a Candid, ate to rcpr:sent their interests in Parliament. Most rif the influential Liberals were present. After severs 1 ex cellent speeches were given, deprecatory of the con& act of the 'Polies, in attaching a stigma upon the charact. tr of the town, by gross bribery, and resorting to the vile prac tice of corruptin,r; the lower order of voters by prof uzely treating them with ale and spirits, Mr. GUNNING rose and proposed the following reset tion " That Thomas Milner Gibson, EN., having been mainly instrumental in exposing the bribery carried r )n at the la.,t election, be requested to offer himself as a ciii idi date to represent their Reform interest in Parliament; and that a requisition be presented to him as early as possibi ie." The Res.dution ws re c-ived by th,,, unanimous che, 'r ing of nearly seven hundred persons, and subsequen , , •ly hundreds of voters signed the requisition. The Tories are now fearful that no one will have th, e hardihood to come forward in their cause. Mr. Wigrana hss declin e d the honour; probabiy he recollects how Mr. Knight and Sir Edward Surrilen fell dupes to their 11 treachery. Th ey have since made application to Mr. Gladstone, broth, r to the M. tuber for Newark, but with a hat success we are unabl, to say. The election, it appears, is deterred for some %eas ; in th e interim the Reran,' ers will be actively r ngaged in se. curing the ieturn of Mr. Giti3oti CHANCERY COURT—(rffis DAY.) .E6D' • ----- PI.SYFAIR V, THE LOND'3N AND 13IRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPAN The LORD CHANCELLO R was occupied the whole morn ing w lib the further arguments in this partaheard case, which came before the Court upon an appeal motion from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor refusing to dissolve an injunction, restraining the defendants from proceeding at law to enforce the plaintiff to pay his calls upon 100 sharer, which the defendants contended he had purchased. h appeared that when first the undertaking of the London and Birmingham Railway was projected, the plaintiff, as he alleged, had put down his name for 100 shares, in order .to induce others to adopt a similar course, and thereby obtain a suffi,ient number of subscribers to comply with the Standing Oiders of the House of Lords. The plaintiff asserted that he did this upon the under standing that he was to be at liba.ty to relinquish them, and that it was not to be looked upon in the light of a contract. The Company contended that the purchase was a binding one upon the plaintiff, and had brought an action against him to recover the calls. Upon the action being brought, the plaintiff applied for and obtained an Injunc tion, restricting the proceedings in that action, and his Honour, the Vice- Chancellor, dismissed the motion for dissolving that injunction, and from that order the present appeal was brought. Mr. Wigram, Mr. Richards, and Mr. L. Wigram ap peared on behalf' of the Company ; and Mr. Jacob and Mr. Bethell were in support of the Vice-Chancellor's order. The case was proceeding when our Reporter left. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The further arguments in the part-heard case of John ston v. Todd, occupied the Court the whole of the day. V ICE-C HAIN CELLOWS COURT. (THIS DAY.) Monhts U. hiA~—IvtLNCTIOa. Mr. RICHARDS applied in this case exparte for a special injunction to r Strdill the defendant Ilyan from drawing, accepting, and negotiating any bills of exchange lit the name of or on behalf of the Middleton Hill Mining Corn pany, and also from colleetintt in any of the partner ship +debts• ACeordirg to the statethent of the affida vit of the plaintiff, the following were the c'reum stances under whieh the gliplitatioti Was made : In 1837 the plaintiff and defendant entered into partner ship for the purpose of workin:z certain mines in the county of Montgomery. called the Middleton Hill Mines. Each party were to find capital on equal shares, and the pro fits were to be equally divided. The plaintiff had hitherto advanced the whole of the money for carrying on the con cern, which had turned out to be a most unprofitable one. in March of the present year the plaintiff proposed to give it up, agreeing to refer all matters in dispute to an arbi trator. An agreement was drawn up for this purpose, which the defendant had refused to sign, and the plaintiff being informed that he was drawing bills in the name of the partnership, and not being able to discover where he resided, was compelled to make the present application to the Court. The VICE- CHANCELLOR granted the injunction, observing that the Middleton Hill mines appeared doomed to be un fortunate. IN THE MATTER OF TAYLOR. Our readers will recollect that some time since this case came before the Court upon the petition of Mrs. Taylor, the lady or an extensive brewer in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, praying to have access tp her children. The petition had been ordered to stand over from time to time, and upon the last application, Mr. Taylor being abroad with the children, it was ordered that he should answer the affidavit that had been then filed by Mrs. Taylor by this day. Mr. JACOB, at the sitting of the Court to-day, applied for two months' further time to answer the affidavits made on behalf of Mrs. Taylor, on account of their great length. Mr. K. BRUCE opposed the application, observing that if it was granted Mrs. Taylor might as well have her pe tition dismissed, as it would have the effect, Mr. Taylor and the children being at Bordeaux, of probably throw ing the petition over the long vacation, and thereby deny ing her that justice which every other subject of the coun try could obtain at the hands of the Court. The VICE- CHANcau.oft did no:, see how he could refuse the application for further time, considering the length of tho affidavits. As it would be desirable that the petition should be heard after the term, he should direct that the affidavits now filed should be answered on or before the 17th of June, the petition to stand over for hearing on the day after the last day of Trinity Term. The COURT then proceeded to hear short causes:and un opposed petitions. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco. ) The Court was this morning occupied in hearing cases in the special paper, none of which were of any public in' ert st. BAIL-CO U itT-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) THE QUEEN V. IIAsLAW. Mr. COBBETT applieu to the Court to remove this case by certiorari from the Quarter Sessions for the county of Lancaster to the Assizes. A true bill was fou n d a t the last Sessions, against the defendant, sprinter and publisher at Manchester, for the publication of a blasphemous libel in one of a series of tracts advocating Socialist principles, and entitled " A Letter to Ministers of Religion of all Denominations," in which the writer expressed his surprise they should affect to believe a book full of lies to have b:fen written by inspiration of the Almighty, and called upon them to burn it, and repudiate its doctrines. No special ground was stated in suprlrt of the application, but merely that it was the wish of the defendant to have it tried in a higher Court, and to be enabled to avail himself of the grea'er talent which might attend is. The LEARNED JUDGE intimated he did not think suffi cient ground had been shown in support of the motion, and was referring to some cases, when Mr. COBBETT suggested, as the case was of great im portance to his client, and the circumstances peculiar, per haps the Learned Judge would think upon it, and give his decision to-morrow. To which his Lordship ag reed. There were no oth er cases i n this Court to -day of any interest. C.VIMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Court at its sitting resumed the hearing of the ar gnments in a case named Bruce and Wait, (commenced in January last), the point in which was as to the juris diction of the Mayor's Court (we believe) of Bristol, in regard to what is called foreign attachment—that is the attachment of the goods of persons out of the reach of the Court, those goods being in the bands of the garnishee, that is, the party into whose hands the property has been entrusted by the owner. Mr. Sergeant MANNING and Mr. RICHARDS argued the case. Th e arguments mere necessarily of the most technical and uninteresting nature, and would last most of the day. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LTVERPOCL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales of this day are 3,000 bales at yesterday's prices. The following is posted at the North and South Ameri can Coffee-house : " Falmouth, April 29. " The Express (packet), from the West Indies, and the Delight, from Mexico, are both off the harbour, but I do not think they will be in time to save the mail, there being little wind, and that against them. I will write you par ticulars to-morrow." In the course of yesterday there was a tolerably fair business doing in the United States Bank Shares, and at an advanced price -161. was given per share. This day being the Ist of May, is observed as a holiday both at the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange. The New York packet ship President has arrived at Portsmouth, but her papers are of an old due ; five days' later had been previously received. We have seen an extract of a letter from Belize, dated March 1, complaining in bitter terms of the treatment d British subjects in C-ntral America. and urging the pro priety of Government following the example of France in protecting Frenchmen in Buenos Ayr,s. HALF--PAST ONE. The merchants connected with the West Indies and Mexico sadly complain of not receiving their letters this morning by the above two packets, which have arrived (,ff the pout of Falmouth. They observe that a steamer or a heat might have been sent out to fotch the bags of letters This bring foreign post d , y, the neglect is the more exp , rienc, d. The various Funds as well as Shares cont 7 nue improv ing. Blackwell has becu done at to 1 prem. ; and Brighton, 74 discount. Consols may be quoted at 90i f or th e A ccount at pre sent ; Money, 90i ; Spanish Active, 29, an improvement on the leaving off price of yesterday, which was 28a Some buiness is doing in the above funds, but not to any great extent. Money continues very easy f.;r Bank Bills 'al to 4 per cent. ; Money in the Stock Exchange may be cbtained at 13- to 2 per cent. in loans for a few days. HYDE PA RK.—Yesterday, the ring was crowded from five until a quarter to seven. There were a great number of fashionables among the company. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in a pony chaise with out riders, entered the park precisely at six o'clock, attended by the Hon. Col. Cavendish. Some hundreds of respectably dressed persons had collected at the entrance to the park, who saluted the Royal couple in passing through the principa gate. The Queen appeared in excellent health— The eques trians were particularly numerous, among whom we recog nised hi , Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg ' Gotha, attended by Baron Grubhen, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Louis Napoleon, Duke of 13eaufort. Marquis of Norma , by, Vis ,, nunt Villiers, Vis count Uaid tone, Viscount Cant.lupe, Viscount Comber mere, Mr. B. Disraeli, Lord James Hay, Viscount Grim ston, Marquis of Watercord. Hon. Frederick Craven, his Excellency Paron Alunchausen, Lout Burghersh, Earl of March, Lord Seymour, Lord Alfred Paget, &c. The Mar quis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, Marchioness of Lans downe. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Earl of Wilton, Mr. Wombwell, Sir Gore Ouseley, Earl of Morley, Ladies Somerset, Lady Fitzroy, and Hon. l'liss Somerset, Count D'Orsay, Viscount Loftus. Countess of 'l'ankerville, and Lady Fitzharris, Ladies Villiers, Lady Strafford, Lord Foley, Dow ager Lady Glenlyon and the Hon. Misses Murray, Countess of Harrington, &c., were also ;n the drive. The Queen and Prince Albert drove twice round the ring, and at twenty nutes to seven returned by Constitution-hill to Buckingham Palace. The Earl and Countess; of Wilton entertained Vo, loyal Highness Prince Georg,e of Cambridge, the Duke an ,(1 Duchess of Beaufort, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Adolphus lifl!elarenee, Lord Macdonald, Hon. Mr. Mr. Gilmour, .;11r, Duncombe, & e., at dinner, last evening, at their mar4sion G, f , svenor-square. EVENING EDITION. COURT CINCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the H , reditary Prince of Ssxe Coburg Gotha, visited the Duchess of Kent. yesterday at Ingestrie House, Be'grave square, and partook of a dejeune with her Royal Highness. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences yesterday of the Queen. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in the Parks yesterday afternoon in a pony chaise. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Adelaide Gallery with a visit yesterday afternoon. The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl and Counte,s of Clarendon, Viscount Melbourne, Baron de Lowcnfels, Baron de Gs üben, and Lord George Lennox. The Bend of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was in attendance during the evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxo Weimar, visited the Princess Augusta, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Majesty rode out on horseback, attended by her suite, and her Serene Highness took an airing in a poney phaeton. The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in an open carriage. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Glances ter yesterday at Gloucester House. The Agent for Jamaica, and Mr. W. J. Blake, M. P., had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Solicitor-(ileneral, Mr. Nicholls, and Mr. Calcraft had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. The Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouchere have arrived in town from Roehampton. BRIGHTON-THURSDAY MORNING. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Coplei took their departure this morning, for the metropolis. The Noble and Learned Lord returns to town much improved in health, and has nearly recovered his strength. The venerable Earl of Westmorland, accompanied by Lady Georgians Fane, also left, this morning, for town, after a residence of nearly twelve months. The Prince and Princess of Capua, Duchess of Gordon , Earl and Countess of Winchilsea, the Earl and Countess. of Rossie, Lord and Lady George Seymour, Lord and, Lady Oxmantown, Lord and Lady Lurgan, Mr. E. an d Lady Emily Foley, &c., are among the fashionables still staying at this delightful watering place. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe and Colonel O'Reilly, Bishcp of Lincoin, and Mrs. Kave and family. at the Burlington Hotel ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., Si r George Fetherstun, Mr. and Mrs. Dugdale, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Lady Caroline Gordon, and Lords Henry and Alex. Lennox, Mr. and Lady Caroline Turnor, at the Clarendon Hotel ; the Right Hon. Yates Peel, at Fenton's Hotel; Mr. and;Mrs. Paulet, St. Jobe, Mildmay ; Mr. Frederick C. Perthman, from Windsor, at St. James's-square. DEPARTURES. Lord William Douglas, from the Burlington Hotel; Mrs. Henniker Wilson. for Drayton Park ; Lord and Lady Lurgan, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Herring, from Fenton's Hotel ; Lord and Lady Dillon, from the Claren don, for Oxfordshire ; Sir Riggs Faulkner, for Worthing; Lord and Lady Dunally, for Cheltenham ; the Hon. Col. Howard, for Staffordshire; Admiral Sir Philip and Lady Durham, for Brighton ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Ryder, from Hatherway's Hotel, for Hertfordshire; Lady Ravensworth and Hon. Mrs. Georgiana Liddell, for Brighton ; the Hon. George Bridgeman, for Weston Hall, Staffordshire ; Lady John Williams and Miss Cone° Trotter, for St. Leonards-ou-Sea ; Captain Dalbiac, for Sussex ; General Dickson, for Worthing. THE MELODISTS' CLUB. This harmonious Society, which was established in 1 825 ' for the cultivation of melody and ballad composition, held its fourth meeting yesterday at the Freemason's Tavern ; Lord Burghersh in the Chair, and the vice - chairs w ere filled by Sir George Smart and Mr. Parry. After dinner " Non nobis, Domino," was excellently sung by Messrs' Cooke and Hawkins, Horncastle, Parry, Parry, jut' Blewitt,: Purday, Terroil, Spencer, Moxley, Evans , ,'" Taylor, Borrani, Hawes, Handel Gear, Brizzi, F. 141. blachc, &c. Bishop's elegant Glee, 4 ,, Sleep, gentle Lady," was sung, accompanied by the composer on th,, piano forte. After which T. Cooke's " Fill tnc, boy, was given with great spirit. The composer pre siding at the piano forte. Several other glees we" sung, and songs were given with great applause, Y Borrani, Horncastle, Blewitt, Fitzwilliam, Parry, wit" Brizzi, and F. Lablacbc, gave an Italian duet great spirit : solos on the violin by Mr. Hayward, 0a the flute by Mr. Carte, and the horn by Puui, were moat brilliantly performed and loudly applauded, aceom" panied on the piano-forte by M. Benedict. From the above sketch it will be seen that the mu s r cal treat was one of a very high order ; there were no long speeches made to interrupt the flow of harmony. The Noble Chairman gave the different toasts in a manner; and when his health was proposed by General Sir J. Campbell, as the patron and promoter o f the musical art, Lord Burghersh returned thanks in a neat address, and assured the company of hia readiness to support the Melodists' Club at all times. The Club will give a prize of the value of 15 guineas for the best national song, composed by the Honorary Members of the Society; and Lard Saltoun a prize of ten guineas for the best bal lad, after the style of the old masters. To be awarded the 25th of June. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY•) CORN EXCHANGE. od rate, This week's arrivals of English Grain have bee me Wheat un and of Foreign Wheat and Barley tolerably good. . B ea ne varied from Monday's terms. Bailey very heavy in OW. and Pease unaltered. Good Oats scarce, and rather dearer.. Flour met a heavy trade. The duty on Foreign Who', is 13a. Bd., and not likely to he lower, as the London average 2s. per quarter less than last week. SMITHFIELD. Trade brisker than of late. Prime Beef fully maintained late prices, old Downs advanced full 4d. per stone, and fine young Veal 3d. to 4d. ; Pork stationary ; Lamb in good demand at 7s. 4d. per stone for the finest descriptions. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. and 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. Bd. and ss. ; Veal, 51. to bs. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 4d- -- Head of Cattle at Market—Beasts, 463 ; Sheep and Lambs, 7,670; Pigs, 4go ; Calves, 219. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Good supplies. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs.; Salmon, 2s. to 3s. per lb. ; Lobsters, Is. to 4s . ; Macker el, 4d. to Bd. ; Haddocks, 6d. to Is. TALLOW MARKET. This market very quiet, and the price of P.Y.C. 519. 6 d . The season for Tallow may now be regarded as nearly over. 'Met MARKET. Next to nothing doing, and no prices could be quoted Wl ih certainty. COLONIAL MARKET. f Not much doing in Colonial p ro du c e. The small stock ° B.Y. Sugar keeps prices high : very low brown 565. to 57 6 '; mid. 635., and hue 70s ; 5,700 bags Mauritius sold firmly at 50s. and 655; some Manilla went at fair prices. But little Coffee offering, and prices where altered lower. 2,669 bags J 3C ,, Rice sold in part a t 7 s t o 8 s f or i n f er i or ; 1,000 b ags Bengal 3 ' about 12s. for the bulk, but the quality was not good. 248 bags Malabar Pepper sold at 4d. for tolerable quality. COTTON SALE--THIS DAY. A public sale of Cotton, consisting of about 10,0Q0 bales of different sorts, principally Surat, took place at the L ondon Commercial Sale R ooms , Mincing-lane. There wa6 not r l large attendance of the trade, and the sale was dull. A °la part sold, and about previous prices ruled. The Earl of •Minto with Lord Melgund and Sir Charles Adam, returned to the Admiralty on Wednesday' from an official visit to Portsmouth. Baron Tuyll and the Austrian Baron Von Kotz e arrived at Fenton's Hotel, yesterday, from Newmarket, where they made extensive purchases of race horses and hunters. Their Graces the Duke and Duelless of Buck ingham and Chandos gave a sumptuous dinner on Thursday , at their mansion in Pall- ma ll, on th e occas i on of the nuptials o t. the Lady Rosa Nugent, their Graces' relative, to Mr. Grevil le. There were present the Marquis of Westmeath, Mr. and rd ville, Lord Conley, Lady Cowley, an d Mi ss W es l e y, Lord an" Lady Braybrook e an d Aii ss Niville, M r. S cott Murray. 31.P.d Mr. Matthew, M.P., Viscount De Lisle, Lord Tyrconnell, an many other relatives of the united Noble families. The Duke of Cleveland had a dnuier-party Wednesday, in St. •fatnes's-square. His Grace, we have the pleasure to add, h as gr:at l y improved in health 'during the l ast ten days. The Earl of Clarendon gave a Cabinet dinn er on Wednesday evening, at his nieesion in Grosvenor-cresce nt, when Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne. the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Mint°, Lord Cottenhaino Viscount Palmerston, Lord J o h n R usse ll , t h e Right Hon. Sir John C. Hobhouse, Lord Hollansi, and the Right Hon. ile nrY Labouchere were among the guests. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—The Merry Wives of Windsor was revised at this house last night. I" - mode of production was th e c hi e f t hi ng, and t h e gre atest pains were taken to render th e w h o l e a picture of the times of Elizabeth—" Of Elizabeth," we repeat, because it was FT" bably considered that, a lth oug h t h e time i s nom i na ll y in t"e reign of Henry IV , Shak s p eare d es i gne d t h e come dy as $ rep. esentation of his own period, and that a going back to 00 old a period as Henry IV., and clothing ihe characters accor dingly, would have been a violent and an useless destruction to early associations. The two wives were acted by Mesdames Vestris and Nisbett. Miss Raieforth's execution in the duet, " I know a bank," was admirable. 31r. Mathews essayed; Master Slender. Bartley, as Falstaff, was lively, spirited , an" never dull ; Mrs. C. Jones bustled and bridled up as Mrs. Quickly. The scenery and decorations were accurate and beau tiful. FREEMASONRY.—The Governors of the Fe,' male Charity elected their H ouse C o mmittee on Thursday las • t ' consisting of Alderman Thomas Wood, Dr. Crucefix , Stevens, J. P. Actarn, L. Chandler, C. Baumer, W. Shadblt, S. Staples, H. Rowe, J. C. Fouri.lrinkr, J. D. Kincaid, and rell r j e . m T e ' m is b i e r reP T 7l . . Bond Tli m e e a e b t b i e n l g t was ‘‘as most.itn iw the A lever from Beirout of the 27th of a states as follows ;—" War seems threatening, if we ma y judge by the extraordinary preparations which are bel , n,g . made upon every point of our coast, not even excciL ing our city. Ibrahim Pasha is still at Mara ch. Eign (tha chair. It ever thousand men are already in garrison at St Jean d'Acre , the 10th and 30th Regiments of Infantry, as well as 1,000 re: gut:lr and 1.000 irregular artillerymen, have arrived; 95 3 . 6- pounders and 117 of other calibre, which were taken at Neal': hive heen brought lo re. M. e'zultz, Lieutenant- Colooel of Engineers, left this city yesterday. in order to rejoin Soliman Pasha in that stronghold ; we must therefore presume that we are on the eve of war."— Le Sud. DISTRESS WA RR ANTS.—On Thursday, tos tress warrants .sere issued against, the goods of the Rev els • ~ Sprigg (Baptist Minist er ) an d W. Noteutt (I n dependent 311- Disler), for Chureh.rates.— Ipereich Express. i J i