The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

TO MASTER TAILORS. FOREMEN, AND THE TRADE IN GENERAL. THOMAS DAVEY, Inventor and Teacher of the Art of Cutting to St the Human Shape, beKs leave to inform the Trade that he intends to give a PUBLIC LEC TURE, at the Three Doves, Berwick-street, Soho, Admittance Is. T.ckcts to be had at the Bar. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., AIORGAN'S NEW WORK, " WOMAN AND HER MASTER." " Lady Morgan has imparted to history the charm of ro mance. We have read her series of rapid but brilliant sketches with an interest whieh many a novel fails to excite."—Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. p_itis MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (thouzh they are NO LOTTERIES) after many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NO•V SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order , the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing. WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FOUR. HUN DRED. TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c., amounting to £72,170 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RIS THIS EVENING, MAY 11, FOR THE BENEFIT OF AIADAAIL VESTRIS. Will be presented Mrs. Cowley's Comedy of THE BELLES STRATAGEM. Sir George Touchwood, NEI-. Cooper ; Doricourt, Mr. An derson ; Hardy, Mr. W. Farrell ; Flutter, Mr. Charles Ma thews ; Saville, Mr. J. Vining ; Letitia Hardy, Madame Yes tris ; Lady Frances Touchwood, Miss Ellen Tree ; Mrs. Racket, Mrs. Nisbett. To conclude with the New 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 Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. &c. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 35. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. _ _ Tickets and plat C 3 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of lee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROY AI OLYMPIC THEATRE. ___ . . . UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. Last Week of the Seavm. THIS EVENING, MAY 11. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. BAKER, On which occasion Messrs. Compton, Nightingale, and Gilbert ; and Miss Bailin, will appear, Will be presented, THE LADIES' CLUB. Mrs. Fitzsrnyth (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Mrs. Fitzsmvth (Member for 61iatter;oMrs. At i s Morton (Member for Smallborong,h)—Miss Atkinson. Mrs. Rookby (Member far Edmondsbury—Miss Treble. Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton)—Miss Fitzwalter. Mrs. O'Donnell (Member fer Donnybrook)--Miss Ayres. Mrs. Bustle (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)— Miss Stephens. Mrs. Twankly (Speakerl—Mrs. Garrick. Fancy, Miss Beachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds. After which, M.P. FOR THE ROTTEN BOROUGH. Jerry Chance. Mr. Compton. To conclude with the New and Original Drama (137, the author - of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Noll; Hugh Morgan, Alr G. Wild. On Wednesday, for the Benefit of Mr. Newton, Treasurer of the Theatre, a variety of Entertainments. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of Haines New Village Tragedy, "The Life of a Woman," which is rapidly approaching the summit of popularity. New Tragic Drama, in which Mr. Elton will perform. Three interesting Dramas in one Evening. THIS EVENING, ►iAY 11, Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. _ _ Realization of Ho,garth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress." After -hieli tlie New Tragic Drama entitled DON JOHN ARRAGON. In which Mr. Eltcn will perform. To conclude with, CHARLES THE TWELFTH. NEW STRAND THEATRE. The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S STAY PRO LONGED by COMMAND of the NOBILITY, GENTRY, and the PUBLIC ;—MONDAY, MAY 11 , and every evening during the week. he will perform his never to be equalled Delu sions and NEW WONDERS Incomprehensible. —O n Monday, May 11, Wednesday, 13; and Friday, 15, 1840, the Wizard will give his Three Grand FASHIONABLE MORNING PERFORMANCES.—Doors for the Morning Performances open at One o'clock. The Wizard commences his Wonders at Two o'clock : concluding at Four. Carriages in attendance a quarter before Four. Evening Performances, doors open at halt-past Six; Performances at half-past Seven.—Box-office open from Eleven till Four.—Private Boxes at all the agents, CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. SECOND WEEK !—EXTHAORDTNARY COMBINA TION !—THREE PERFO RMANCES by one PERSON. THIS and every EVENING during the Week, except Fri day, on which day a MORNING PERFORMANCE will be given, to commence at 11.df-past Two o'clock. Mr. 31. JACOBS, ILLUSIONIST, VENTRILOQUIST, and DIPRO VISATORE, w hose performances during the past week have been attended by delighted and surprised audiences, and applauded in the most gratifying manner, will continue to give his pleasing Entertainments at the above Tavern, and which are not equalled by any other individual. His Ventriloquism—an imaginary imitation of eleven persons— has been found to be so correct that many have laboured under the amusing impression that some deception has been praeticed upon them by way of confederacy. Admission, Front Circle, 2s. ; Back, Is. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and begin at Eight o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ERUPTION OF HECLA! MORE SPLENDID THAN EVER ! The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have been made during the winter, to increase still further the magnificence of this unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with the most complete success, as was fully demonstrated on Thursday Evening (the first Public Exhibition), by the unanimou. and enthusiastic delight with which each portion of the gorgeous display was hailed as it proceeded by the thousands assembled on that occasion. In compliance with the expressed wishes of great numbers of the visitors, it will be repeated on Mon day and Thursday, May 11th and 14th, commencing shortly before dusk. The Panoramic Model, Al Fresco, of Mount Hecla, entirely reproduced by Mr. Danson. the original Artist, is exhibiting daily from ten till du , k, with the Menagerie, which is now in the finest order, and has lately received many important additions. Feeding Hour, 5 o'clock. Admission One Shilling. HlNti WATER AT LONDON BRIDEIr TO-MOT:Row yrning 4 minutes alter 11 I Evening 3.lnlnutes after it The Publisation of the Eveming Edition of THE SUN OM. meacei at 10 nmites after Three. . zc: , • - • -Bk= , 11-"AZL: trin LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 11, 1840. The recent alarming murder has very naturally attracted attention to the Police. Several days, and even week s ago , we a d verte d to the number of murders which had escaped detection, as a proof that the police did. not give, and, possibly, could not give, that protection to life which is expected i of it. Neither is it so effectual an instrument to prevent and detect crime as might be supposed. Coeval with its establishment, undoubtedly, there has grown up habits of greater decency and order amongst the people ; but they were rapidly forming before it was established. Nor, in justice to other contrivances, can we omit to mention that the pub lie improvement has been accompanied by the es tablishment of Mechanics' Institutions, Temperance Societies, and by various schemes for self-improve ment among the people, to which we are inclined to think those habits of order are as much clue as to the police. At the same time we find no fault with that body. A s f ar as our experience has gone, we have ever found them a diligent, orderly, well behaved set of men, who perform the duties as signed them with great propriety; but we differ from some of our Contemporaries in thinking that such a force, however well it may perform its duties, is not to be confidently relied on to pro tect life, whatever it may do to protect property. Such an opi n i on may, as one of our Contemporaries asserts, add to the tenor which the murder has excited ; but it may induce the Legislature to look, as we are sure it ultimately must, for a more effec ta;,l means than a police for the prevention of crime. It will not be forgotten that o ur poli ce i s b ora r , lwed, with some modifications, from the police of Paris, confessedly the most complete in Europe. it the model force have not succeeded very wtli hi preventing crime, what reason will there be for supposing that the imitation will answer that pur pose ? We find, however, in the Globe of Satur day evening, and in an article written expressly to defend the police from some observations of the' Times, the following remarks : In Paris, where the police possesses a greater degree of adroitness in pursuit of detection than the old Bow-street police, robberies accompanied by assassination, have, du ring late periods, been almost of daily occurrence. The writer in the Law Magazine asserts that in London the practice of msassication by any regular class of depre dators could not be carried on. The murders recently committed in the metropolis do not appear to us to invali date the assertion. It is stated that more murders have been committed of late in Paris in one week without the detection of the offenders, than in London, with now nearly double the population, in the whole year. The complaint here is that the police does not pre vent murders, and does not detect the murderers, and to console us under this misfortune, we are informed that the case is still worse where the model force exits after which our police has been constructed. That is a fact which we have long known, and in that we see a full confirmation of our opinion that it is neither safe nor wise in the Legislature and the public to rely on any police, however well organized, to prevent enmes, We are rot, however, of opinion with the Times that it would be wise to recur to the odd system of selecting police officers from amongst thieves, tir from persons habitually acquainted with thi , -ves. That was a remnant of the Jonathan Wild system, and gave encouragement to so much brutality, that it was properly suppressed. Several robberies, (we allude particularly to those mysterious robberies of jewellery, of which the public has heard a great deal), have escaped detection, as well as some murders, but it is probably better that some crimes should escape detection than that a police force should be organized, containing persons habitually connected with thieves, who must ever be subject to the most revolting suspicions. There seems little doubt that those robberies of jewellery were planned by some of the domestics, or inmates of the house, or by persons who had been inmates ; from which the inference is, that amongst the inmates of the houses of the upper classes ate to be found not ajev;persons of very criminal habits. Against them no police can be a sufficient protection, and, thei efore we say again that neither the Legislature nor the public ought to rely on a police to prevent crime. We agree with the Globe in expressing a hope " that the attention of the Government and the public will be directed to the examination of practical methods for the prevention of crime," and among diem we hope will not be forgotten the influence which the Legislature may have by itself abstaining from criminality. The mass of crimes consists in violations of the right of property, or they spring from attempts to violate it ; and we take leave to assert that a great portion of those crimes are caused by the utter disregard which the Legisla ture habitually displays—by Corn-laws, bank mono • polies, various unjust taxes, and similar enactments —for the right of property in the people. Again, another series of crimes spring from the un restrained indulgence of the violent passions, and the Legislature re!ti , esi to acknowledge any law but its own arbitary will. That the laws are made for the rich, and not for the poor, is a well•known fact, and when the Legislature habitually indulges in injustice toward the most numerous class of so ciety, is it to be expected that this class should be made just and righteous merely by the fear of punishment ? The dread of death, the greatest punishment man can inflict, has little or no influence over mankind, as is proved by soldiers and sailors. It is wisely ordered that it should be so, or life would be a bur den. We cannot live and always think of dyin g . If no hope of preventing crimes can he justly founded on employing this greatest punishment, what rational hope is there that any lesser punish ment can be effectual? In fact, the wit of man has been employed for many hundred years in de• rising punishments to prevent crimes, and has been most unsuccessful. We would earnestly recommend the Legislature, therefore, amongst the practical methods for the prevention of crime, to adopt that most necessary one, a retorm of itself. In this advice, which is most seriously and ear nestly given, we beg leave to include, my Lords the Bishops, who, with all deference to their Lordships, and to the coaches they ride in, as well as to the servants who stand behind them, and the jewels of their lady-wives and daughters, seem to us amongst the greatest encouragers of the crimes which spring from cupidity to be found in the community. We are again obliged to call the attention of our readers to another instance of the oppression inflicted on society by one of the clauses of the New Police Act. It will be found under the head of Hatton-garden Police Court, and requires but a brief comment. The Magistrate inflicted the penalty with great reluctance, and in the course of the examination signified that the policeman was over-officious in obtruding himself into a house where t here was no disturbance or noise, and that, owing to the negligence of the publicans, the ob noxious clause had become the law of the land. But the blame does not rest with the publicans. It must be brought home to the Representatives of the metropolitan boroughs, and to the Government, who suffered a law to pass by which the Police Commissioners can annoy, not only publicans, but the respectable shopkeepers and tradesmen of London, in every possible way. The Magistrates now are decidedly against the clause as it has been hitherto interpreted, vet not withstanding this the Commissioners of Police still persevere in enforcing it in the most tyrannical manner. When the next election comes those who gave them the power to establish this un-English system of surveillance will find the consequence. We hear from many quarters that a violent opposi- Lion will be made to some of the Metropolitan Re presentatives on this account, and we shall do our best to support the opposition. We would not only vote, but encourage every elector to vote, against men who would introduce a tyrannical sys tem of civic police hitherto unknown in this country. The Kirk of Scotland may now rejoice and be exceeding glad. All the Judges of England, ex cept Lords DENMAN and ABINGER, who are Peers as well as Lawyers, have solemnly decided . - that she is Protestant I But will this . decision verily and indeed fill with joy the proud stern bo som of the Kirk ? Will the confirmation of her claim, even by a large majority of English lawyers —a claim which she never doubted herself, and which she dreamed not England' s P re l acy could doubt — content her? Will she no t as k her self, self, was it for this —was it to h ave E nglish law yers with flowing w i gs and de-sp rea d f o li os, sitting in solemn c onc l ave in Serge ant ' s -i nn in London, in 1840, to decide upon her Protestantism, that Scotland, starting from a sl eep of ages, caugh t the soul-stirring sound ev en f rom Geneva, of JOHN KNOX'S "First Blast of t h e T rumpet, " blown in 1558 ? Was it for thi s t h at to scatter the rooks (the Monks and Nuns) that intrepid Reformer recommended the destruction o f the rookeries (the convents and monasteries) through out the length and breadth of fair Scotland ? Was it for this that the POPE with his indulgen cies ; his rosaries ; his bone, blood, tear, and rag relics ; his crosses ; his badges of sanctity ; his images ; his holy wells of pilZriinage ; his seven orders of priesthood ; and all - the mummery with which he had encumbered the simple and sublime religion of the Gospel, was, by a mighty effort of an, united people, driven from his strong-hold in time palace, and his stronger in the cottage, of the least volatile nation in Europe ? Was it for this that that the slayer of a Cardinal (BEAToN), prepara tory to dipping his sword in blood, gave expression to a nation's deep earnestness, and dark, fierce, all conquering enthusiasm, in the following memorably earnest words—" Repent thee of thy wicked life. For here, before my God, I protest, that neither the hatred of thy person, the lore of thy riches, nor the fear of any trouble thou couldst have done to me in particular, moved or moveth me to strike thee ; but only because thou bast been and re. mainest, an obstinate enemy against Christ and his holy Gospel 1' Was it for this that in later times, to escape from the outward and risible sign of Popery-2relacv, the Cameronians took to the hills with steel upon their thighs, and the Bible in their bosoms, there to shed their blood or perish with hunger rather than relinquish the faith they had so dearly purchased ? Was it for this that a few short months ago, the controversial halls of this mighty metropolis were filled even to the echo with the voice of ecclesiastical Scotland in support of the apostol cal and S - ate protensions of the Anglican Protestant Giureh ? The claims of the State Churchmen in ,Scoff land upon the toleration of English Ecclesiastics and Judges ought to have obtained for the Kirk better treatment. In a rectn address of Dr. CHALMERS to the dignitaries of the English Church on the Intrusion or Veto Question, beginning " Venerable Fathers and Brethren," that able and distinguished champion of Presbytery in Scotland and Prelacy in England, alludes particularly to these claims, in pressing for a verdict in favour of the Kirk. " The attempt is making," says the Doctor, with much earnestness and feeling, "to prejudice the minds of English men with the idea that the Church of Scotland, participating in the wayward spi rit of the age, have embarked in a reckless career of innovation. Let me assure you, my friends, of the grossness of this misrepresentation. . . . In all the great questions which affected the vital in- cerests of Protestantism we have made common cause with yourselves. On the spoliation of the Irish Establishment ; on the topic of an entire and unmutilated Bible in every National School ; on the control of the guardianship of the Church over our seminaries of learning ; on the vast importance to the interests of society of maintaining, or rather extending, the ecclesiastical endowments of other days —on these and other kindred topics we -have fought side by side with the Churchmen and Con servatives of England." If such have been the Kirk's battles—and we are very far from doubting the truth of such a state ment when made by Dr. CHALmEtts—we leave her to draw what comfort she chooses from tho- way in which England's Prelacy and England's Judges have rewarded her services. That a polemical pamphleteer like Dr. PHILPOTTS should denounce in Parliament the Church of Scotland as anti- Paitestant, is less surprising than that he should be sileEtly and acquiescently listened to by his Right Reverend Brethren, and that the Judges of the land should be gravely appealed to for a deci sion upon such a question. Now, if it be any gra tification to the friends of the Kirk north of the Tweed to know what the Liberals here think of this question, we can assure them that there is not one of them who ever entertained the least doubt as to the Kirk being not only a Protestant Church, bur the purest of State Churches yet established in the world. The Reformation in England was the work of a brutal, bloodthirsty, lecherous' KING, and a band of hungry, rapacious Yobles; but in Scotland it was the work of the people--of the people under the influence of the most solemn, dis interested impressions. Hence the difference be- tween the two Churches—a fact strangely over looked by the Bishop of EXETER, and those proud Prelates who, say what they will, pretend to no authority which they cannot trace to the Papal chair. We have called in question the heartfelt gratifi cation of the Kirk at hearing the decision of the English Judges, although favourable. But the effect may still be beneficial. It will, in all proba bility, inspire the Kirk with more toleration for the English Dissenters, and even for the Irish Catholics, so long the objects of its intolerant in fluence. Whatever Dr. CHALMERS, iii his honest but mistaken zeal may think, Bishop PIIILPOTTS would rather kiss the POPE'S toe for a Cardinal's hat, than accept the ModeratOrship of the Kirk— aye, and so would hale the Prelates in England, We presume that the Tories will give way this evening to a request not to move fora new writ for Ludlow till Lord JOHN RUSSELL is in his place. They have consented to that course as to Cam bridge —why not as to Ludlow ? Both boroughs have been well acquainted with bribery, and it has prevailed much longer at Ludlow than at Cam bridge. To issue a writ for either of them till some effort is made to cleanse away the corruption would he an invitation to repeat the offence, with an ex. hortation to be cautious. The Tories will be asked to postpone the motion, and will hardly show such a want of courtesy as to make it. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 2nd inst. have reached us. General Sir DE LACY EVANS had arrived in that cal ital, and walked in procession on that day, being the anniversary of the insurrection of Madrid against the French in 1808. The urns containing the ashes of the 121 patriots killed on that occasion were drawn in a hearse by eight horses from the Royal stables, from the Chapel of St. Isidore to the Prado, and there de posited in the vaults of the monument erected to their memory. The crowd of spectators was im mense, but not the slightest disturbance took place. The French journals of Friday and Saturday are filled with the debates on the Sugar question. On Thursday the general debate on the Bill was closed, and the . Chamber proceeded to vote it article by article, which answers to the English Parliamentary proceeding of a Bill going into a Committee of the whole House. On the first Article being read, the former Minister of Finance, NI. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, proposed as an amend ment that from and after the Ist of July, 1841, the cultivation of beetroot sugar should be prohibited io France, and the present cultivators indemnified at the national expense. This was opposed by the Government, M. THIERS, in a very business-like speech, declaring that, much as he prized the Colonies, he was not prepared to sacrifice to them the interests of France. Of the whole commerce of France that of the Colonies amounted to one thirteenth, and of the na , al force of France the Colonies supplied one-sixth. This was a great deal, and he prized the Colonies very highly ac cordingly ; but it was not enough to tempt the Government to make the sacrifice demanded by the mover of the first amendment. After an ad journment the debate on the amendment was re sumed on Saturday, and finally rejected by an over whelming majority. We have said that M. THIERS'S speech was businesslike. We mean by that expression that the President of the Council dealt extensively in figures —i n an animated puzzling jumble of figures of rhetoric and figures of arithmetic. But he took no profound or clear view of the ques tion before the Chamber. On the contrat., pointed out diffi cult i es on all sides, sought to a vo id t h e discussion of its principle: He as if he wished the Ch am b er to do nothing. He was not for sacri ficing th e C olonies by granting high protecting Tine fol!own:7, paragraph appears in all the French papers : tie uutre-fifer sthtes that an agg , aNion has been committed by the English in Senettai. Its amount is that the Senegambie, a French r.chooner. the owiwts 4.f which had undertsluti to engage on the crrist of Africa a hundred blacks as recruits for a company of pioneers formed by the French Goverionent in Gayana, cast ale , or in the Caslinanci liver oppoai;e an Elelish ftetory, when it was captured by the Engit,h brig of war S,racen, and sent into Sierra-Leone. Th,., Governor of Senegal is said to have chartered a trading schooner for Sierra-Leone to claim the Stnegambie, being unable, se cording., to th Outre Mer, to spare a Fri nch vebst:t of war, the embarrassments caused by the English in this river rendering it n,•ces,ary that the whole of the small naval force should remain on the station, In the wine-growing districts of France hopes of a golden harvest are entertained. Never did the vineyards look better or promise a more abundant crop. CHEKIB EFFENDI, the new Turkish Ambas sador to•the Court of London, has arrived in Pads. His Excellency is represented as affable, conciliat ing, able, and learned to an extent unknown among his countrymen. He is accompanied by two secre taries. SPANISH FRONTISR.—GeneraI Aspiroz, according to a letter from Monroyo in the Phare, is not dead, although his wound (his leg was shattered near the knee by a cannon hall) is extremely severe. General Castaneda has taken his command. General Averbe has taken the castle of Ares. near Villatianca del Cid, in Valencia, with all the garrison ; and some gua-boats have forced the entrance of th e Ebro, and destroyed some entrenched works thrown up by the Carlists to intercept the navigation: The same journal mentions the capture and execution of the Cure Lecumberry and several Carlist officers in the provinces. A letter from Saragossa of the 2d announces that on the 29th the Bring commence/ against the fort of Alcala de la Silva. Most of the works defending the place were destroyed in the same day, and it was expected that the fort would surrender on the morrow or the day after. The Courrier Francais publishes the following from the Levant, which was believed in Paris to be well founded : —" At Constantinople the Oriental question was again on the tapir. The French and English Ambassadors had presented a joint letter to the Divan, in which they en glged the Porte to grant Mehemet Ali the heirship of Egypt and Syria, save the district of Adana and Tarsus, that is to say, a kingdom minus the forts which protect the gates. The Divan would net be sorry to grant all this ; hut from a►nour propre demands the preliminary consent 4 the Vtc•:roy. without entering beforehand into any en gagement. The Porte continues to act underhand, in order to conclude an arrangement with the Pasha." BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 9. r irst Highest LOIVeSt last Price Price. Pr:c.o Price roneri 5 per Cents ll4 ... 114 5 .., 112 9,5 ~. 1 4 4 per i ents lO4 PO ••• t 4 P .. 0 ... 104 50 .., 104 50 3 per ( cnts B4 6) • 04 611 ... R 4 56 ... P 4 5;1 .atlittP 11:0 , 1; 5,1100 f. sh s'.'oo ~..521,0 ...5195 „.V97 51) 11.0gian flank 9 0 ... 9011 ... 90 . ... 900 5 1., Ce n t s ner Cents 74 .5 ... 74 1i ... 74 15 ... 74 15 New York .•,•••••• 10'; 10 ... 103 10 ... 1 , 3 10 ... Ita 10 ip.aritsn Ac we . Portiteilese 3 Passive 744 ... 'N ••• 7 % •• 7 % 2.4 jg ... 24 •, ... in% ... 2-43c 2 Neaonliork per Cents 104 60 ... 111 60 ... 104 CO .. 1.4 0 ;,,mat. ......... .3 ... li3S 4 ... 1( 3 ... 1 , 3% RAILWAY SHARES. it. ' , ennui', Versailles, R 0 mi .. - 110 L.P. 5 •,.. 59 . 5 ... 59? 50 .. 59) 50 Orienns 387 50 ... ‘2•17 50 ... :.?87 50 ...397 50 .. 510 ... 510 ... Sul ... 5 , 0 , llulhausen to Thann .. , trasourk, to Bal e B • ,russets and German Papers have been received this morning, the former of Saturday's date.. The Coarrier Beige has the following additional parti citlars about the Chinese Commissioner yepurted to have arrived at Antwerp. We rather suspect that the whole affair is a hoax : Hoang-tang Kao, the Chinese Commissioner, has rived at Antwerp from Anhterdam. He has had a king conference with one of cur first shipowners. This envoy of the Central Empire speaks pretty well both French and Erriglish• He is accompanied by the nephew of Governor Lin. a a-oung man of considerable beauty, and by one of the Russian Mission at Peking. They have already delivered nearly 20 letters printed on rice paper, and stamped with the Imperial dragon. They will arrive to-morrow ( Sunday) evening at Brw. sets by the iron railway. A great number c:f persons will go to meet them. In a letter from Frankfort, dated the Ist instant, we find the following intelligence respecting the Hanoverian Constitutional question We hear that before the Easter Holidays several Memo rials of Hanoverian Corporations were delivered to the Chancery of the Diet Easter, by D. Heseenberg. It is said there are six, of which two are from Osnaburg and Ham.. lar, protesting against the resolutions to be taken by the present Assembly of the Estates respecting the new Con stitution which has been laid before it. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAY 9—Wind S.S.E., 10th, Wind W.S. W. moderate.—Arrived the Maidstone, Wimble, from Cal cutta ; Carmalee, Vass, Madras ; Medora, Sergeant, Cape of Good Hope ; Warrens, Gray, South Seas; Ver non, Lidderdale, Madeira; Toranto, G reswa ld , N ew York. Sailed the Kelso, Roxburgh, for Sydney, New S,•uth Wales; Wilton Castle, Cawley, Jamaica, with the rest of the outward 13,und. LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.—Wind S E., 10th, E.N.E., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Courier, Huntress, from Val p raiso. Sailed, Jan. 31, Christians, Simpson, for New Orleans; Europe, Marshall, New York, sailed 13th ult. ; Frankfort, Russell, ditto; J. and R. Perin, St. Ander; Vivo, Mediterranean ; Lancashire, Last, Alexandria; Sphynx, Malaga. Sailed the Champion, Cochrane, New South Wales ; Devon, Gething, Singapore ; Indian, Frost, Bombay ; Kingston, M'Lean, ditto; Ap pleton, Oliver, and Alecta, Ayshford, Jamaica ; General Wolfe, Dunstan, Rio Grande ; Tullahassee, Chadwicks, New Orleans ; Canton, Gibson, Baltimore • Hercules, Marks, Philadelphia; Wales, Watts ; Superb, Hamilton, and Creel y. Jets, New Yoik ; Belize, Roge,s, Montreal; Elizabeth Bruce, Higgins, S tvannall; Renewal, Wilds, Quebec ; Leopard, M'Donald, Boston ; Gangs, Fernold, Saco. Off port the Isis, from Jamaica; John Peal, Rio Janeiro ; Sheffield, New York ; Britannia, Mobile ; Mal colm, Siiigapore. HOLYHEAD, MAY 9. Arrived off, the Ripley, Steward, from Calcutta; Judith, St. Thomas's, and sailed for H int burgh. .• PORTSMOUTH, MAY 10, Wind W. to S.& W.—Arrived, the I , la, Curri,, front Calcutta, and sailed, the 10th, for Newenatle; 1111cliaLl's, Sado I, the Eliza, 111 1 C,;rthy, for Calcutta, ---- PLYMOUTH, MAY 10, Wind variable.—Arrived, the Fanny and Jane, Lovering, from Cephalonia. Off Port, the Neptune, Hargueray, from Havanna ; Vixen, Palmer, Cape of Good Hope. Fat-swum Mat 9, Wind S. to E.—Arrived, the Pen guiu (picket), I:.nt the West Indies; sailed from Barba does the 15th March, Tobago the 16th, Trinidad the 17th, Grenada the 2311. St. Kitts the 29th, Tortola the 31. t, St. Thoma s and Porto Rico the Ist alt., arid Cape Henry the sth ; Rusco Castle, Murray, Constantinople; Espe ranee, Brodei, Terranova; .11aria, Burnett, Licata; Flier, Et y , Vinc ent , M a l aga. WIYRNHOR Alay 9. The Wilsons, Hunter, from Po-ts mouth, 4 bandoii..d by th e crew . S, vera l smac ks have gone to her. to St. P et , rs b urg, i s on s h ore on the Long Sand, FALMOUTH, MAY B.—A timber-laden vess-I, water logged and abandoned, suple,st d to be the Dorothea, of Dundee, -vas boarc:ed Feb. 24 in lat. 40 lon. 16, by the Penguin packet, arrived here. MILFORD MAY 8 —A cask of vinegar. branded on the heA •' Scott," and neat the I , ung J. B. F. F. A. C. in a o!amond, 75 underneath, has been brought in here. YARMOUTH, MAY vessel of about 170 tons appa rently foreign, with a yellow bust head, masts painted white, is on shore on Hasborough Sand, abandoned by the crew. An empty cask has been picked up from her, marked on the head, •F. C. R , with the figure 2 above, and on the bung. A 21. RAMSGATE, MAY 10.—The W ilsons, Hunter, 'hick was on shore on the Long Sand, has been got off, and towed in here, by her Majesty's steamer Boxer. CORK, M AY B.—The St. Patrick, Johnson , which sailed hence, 17th ult., for New Y o rk i s expected back to-day, having carried aw a y, on th e 21 t h u lt., her jib boom, fore mast-head, f ore an d ma i n topmasts , spar s, sails, &C. The Observer of yesterday contained eight of their long folio columns of the inquest and other particulars connected with th e atrocious murder up to the hour of twelve o'clock on Saturday night; the re-apprehension at Gravesend, by Police-sergeant Otway, of Richard Gould, who was re. cently acquitted of Mr. Templeman's murder. A Monday afternoon edition of the Observe? is regularly published in time for Monday's post, which edition is best adapted for the coun try and readers abroad. • HERRING FISHERY.—We are glad to learn that the prospect of an extraordinary herring fishing in Lochfine, and all round the coast of the West Highlands. never was Glassow Courier. greater in the memory of man than that of the present season. ma L: e lg et e te w irnmo h t a b l e e er s di a ta c m c ei a o. l f ! . ( e s : a n . ehTahsiengfi hints j e s rr e i x n p gs e t u v p d L t o n cchofinln duties in favour of the home beetroot growers, and he was not for sacrificing the home sugar grower!, by allowing them no protection. But he was for re conciling what all France must know to be irrecon cileable—the interests of both. M. TRIERS. like Lord CASTLEREA GH on the Corn-law question, is apprehensive that wars are not yet over, and intimates that when the next is declaim.' it will be mighty convenient to have sugarenouglot home without tiv,ting to a precarious supply from the Colonies. If such maxims as this be generally adopted by statesmen and legislators, the precautionary expenses of nations will annually far exceed the sums required for the most extensive military campaigns. Half the kingdoms of northern and western Europe will be turned into hot houses for the cultivation of the spices of the East —now become as necessary at the dinner tables of the wealthy, as a loaf of brown bread and a mug of beer at the simple repast of the poor. If it he necessary to provide against thechances of war by the cultivation of beetroot, it cannot be less necessary for a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, to devote the public revenues to the cultivation of the tea plant and the coffee shrub. But it is useless to pursue this inquiry further, with the view of exposing an absurdity' all but self-evident to every man of the least rt flection. THE MA $tK iS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of English Grain was moderate, and there was much dullness in the trade. A considerable fresh supply of Wheat, Barley, and Beans, but small of o th er G ra i n . The millers bo ug ht s p ar i ng l y , and ngiish Wheat declined 3s. to 4s. per quarter, and Foreign 2s. per quarter from last Mon day's prices. Barley very dull, and rather lower. Beans bat dll maintained last week's value. Peas unaltered. Oats further advanced Is. per quarter, but the trade was not brisk. The Flour trade extremely dull. PRICES ON lILARD OF SFIP I Beans, Smali new) 44, ItSs --- (old) - Tick (new) lB 42 ...-.- told) ...... 44. HarroW (new) 42• 44, --- (40d). 44,46 s Brank Oats, Feed s Wheat, Red (old; White (01d)... ;I&ifs)„... -- Fin: - Superfine... Cr,. 8. --Wh+te ,18:af.) 60 4..- --- Fine t4le. 70; -Superfine ...... 75, --- Foreign free ...... 60* FO. Ryf' 40, 4D, Bark , - ae - Grinding.......... 20, 24,-. - Malting ..... Malt. .5, Izs -- Fine New Pease, Grey, New Pr,. 3:3 ...... 4 . 4 3 . : 40. 4V.. ARRIVALS OF G:I.AIN IN LI heat. 5, 7 05 Ira. : F-reign ......... , - .—..._ New .5. 29 Poland New • , (1 . 3N Potatoc 32 345. .----- Vow 32 , :34s -. Scotch :l2 "!43. Irish 24.. ... 20 .f.B. • Flour Town f , C,T Sack) .... 5-l; 62 __. Seconds 54 .:Cs -- N.rth Country 5O 52 . Ban IN DON DURING LAST WEEK ;arlev: 0ui.... , r. ,oi7 qrs. 4,007 , zr• 5,0 3 sack. 14,11. OS' , '.:, Od 3,314 rls. English Irish SMITHFIELD. A large supply of Cattle of all descriptions. The demand limited, and prices generally lower. Beef, Mutton (except Downs), Lamb, and Pork, declined full 2d. per stone; Veal steady. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, bs. to ss. Bd. ; Illutton, 3s. lOd to ss. ; Lambs. to 7s. ; Pork, 4s. to .ss. Beasts, 2,681 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,230; Calves, 06 ; Pip, 342. MONEY and CUM .At ERCIAL NF. WS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK, The I - Lmburg mail has arrived of i , l4t,nt, by wh.eh h4ve reeeivod the Homburg parvr, of th, bovu date, bringit,g the Exchin , e on L0t ,, b , 1l gold. 4294; meta), 1071-; Bavk Sharei, ISM obov , l papers do bo, bring ;toy pohteal s:evrs worth no:iee- (From t , e, Am , •rican rect.ivd this tricraing.) SPECM—Th,:t British phcket, Lieut. Lorin g . R N., arrived at 11w4nnah from Tampico the 23• - i M rule. Kit' abaut 225.000 d , iiar#, in spycie for that E.A4- land. and 14. again for FAlixiontlt, England, on t h . The British picket Opossum sailed for the Gulf of Mexico on the 27th. A vessel at New Orleans, from Port.au.Prinee, reports the latter place to be very sickly. The yellow fever, or some disease resembling it, was prevalent. TEAL—We understand that the ship Lowell, which will sail in a few days for Liverpool, will take out a part of her cargo 2.000 chests of tea.—Boston Paper. There his been ships ed from the pun of New York within a month more than 20 000 chests of tea. Arrivals this mot - fling—Tyro Frer,ch, two Ostend, and one Dutch mail; the Lisbon mail, the Tagus, sailed from Gibraltar the 30th April, Cadiz the Ist May, Lisbon the 4th, Oporto the sth, and Vigo the tHI; also a mail from the Leeward Island by the Penguin, sailed horn St. Thomas's the Ist April, and Cape Henry the sth, We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 15th March. The disease brought to the Cape by the Prize negroes, whether it is the small pox, or some other disease unknown to Cape science, has made considerable havoc, both in Cape [own an the neighbourhood. At Cape Tuwn on Sunday night the north.cast wind was exceedingly violent; nine boats were Funk at their anchors. We have received Rio Janeir ) PJpers to the 24th of February. Exchange on London, 31 ; Stocks, 76. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's el.te. 1 - 3OURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY B.—The transactions in National funds remain without truth imprtance, but the pt ices are well maintained, and in general have a ten dency to get up. Dutch Prices.—Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52i ; Five per Cents, 99 15-16 ; Ardoin's, Spanish, 27 7-16. In the Lisbon Mail it is stated that an ultimatum had been presented by Lord Howard de Walden to the Portu guese Ministry, rid ding to the subject of the pending c►vil and military claims, which had not been determined upon when the packet kit, but was ill received by the Ministry. LISBON, MAY 4 —General Don Luiz Fernandez de Cordova after a severe but short illness, died at his resi dence in Rua dos Flores, on the morning of Wednesday last. His body has been embalmed and (I ,, positiNl in the Incarnscao Church, whence, on the arrival of his brother horn Spain, who is hourly expected, it is, agreeably to the G neral's dying wish, to be conveyed to Osuna for in ter I eat. Ttie Jamaica papers aro not came to hand as yet. THE FI3NDS• Consols opened this moruing at the same quotations ;hey closed at on Saturday, 91i for Money, and 91i + fur .he Account; scarce any thing doing in the British market; Exchequer Bills 22 24 premium; India Bonds. 2 to 4 prem. ; Bank Stuck, 175 176 ; India Stock 2491 2501. In trie F.weiga market the only observation worth notice is a decline in the Portuguese Stock,, owing to the unfa vourable accounts from Lisbon respecting the British ',Wm.—left off heavy on 3„,turdsiy a , 351 I. at present at 351 ; Thicte per Cents., 24#; Sf)anisti Aciive , same a they left off. at 28A- 29i ; Colombian, 26 ; D -mist.), 78 79 ; Mexican, 284 119 i ; Brazilian. 754/-; Dutch Two. and-a• Half per Cents., 53i 54ii- ; F:ve per Cents. Mogi : r. 7! H . r.., :}, 6TtscK, •lIIIN DAY Al' ONE , cl.ricr:. :,..iik Stock . 175'-; hh., , tuck _— 3 per Cent. Red. ... go% r,itto Bonds 3 per Cents, Con " 11 4 !i4% South Sea Stock .1;4 ocr cern.. ... , ittti Red. New 3% pet I:err.. -..9.A, Itk;i i .: per Cont. Atinuitrip,. 17:: I Sew 4pi r ( ent. tank Long Annuities toexurr e Ditto sth: 24 _2 pm. Jan. 5, MIL 11 li-16% .Ditto SIII:li; 2r 22 till. Oct. 10, 1859 1:1 !5 9-16 Di tto Commercial til. Jrar. 5, I ,, tifi. ..... —; Ditto Advertised . Jan. 5, I .... t- - pm. IMO ••u. Bank Stock for Account .. Aprils, 1890 — I India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1 8 70 --, Consols for Account 9 .1 ;04 PIaCES OF FOREIGN FUNDS 'MIS DAY AT ONE ti c 1,0, K Austrian Bonds - Peruvian rtorisis Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account irazilis n Bonds ...... ..,..... - Ditto New Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Acc0unt,......., 55 1 4 5 1 4 !Incites Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........ - Ditto 1.:::ral:nt ......... - :: , tto Account .. - C,iiizn rlo - le, s — PrllSSlat: 80/ids IMO I.ecc, r.t - Russian Bonds, IS2' ll4 Colart ian F. - •it.is - Ditto Account - Ditto 4.ccot nt 0 31% Ditto blutallic Columbian 3 -d5,1824 - Di:tti ten:lit Banish Bonds Ditto At cc •nt - Dcf,rrad Greek Bond - French, 5 per cent,. ..... -1. -c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 - ------ 4 per cent -4. -c. Ditto Account - ----- 3 per cent. -I. -c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent - --.---- Exchange. -t. -c. Ditto Account ..... 3C% Dutch, 214 per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent. ... ...... - Ditto Account Ditto Account - Ditto, 5 per cent llOlO, •:;earinlitan - Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... 109 PRICES OF sHArtE, ;HIS DAY At' ONE O'CLOCK Bolivar Copper Mining company.. 2 Paid. o Per Share 1 groat Western Railway Company 65 85A Ditto New &I Gosport Junction 4osk Ix, 25 29% Brighton Railway London -trid Illackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company Midland Counties Railway Company. 100 25 1 4 6 N ,rtn Ntuilniii Railway Company 100 Ditto New lO5 21 2 South F.astern and Dover Railw ay C ompany , IS 33.4 6 4 y.; Union Bank of A ustralia .. ........ ............ , 2O 27% Cent. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS , DUBLIN, MAY 9 3 per Cent. Consols ..... .... 8944 1 Grand Canal Delss. 6 percent. 58% iy, per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1630 ...... ~. 98% City of Dublin St eam Comp. -n, per Cent .l)ebentures,,, 9114 NationallnsuranceCompany Bank Stock ... - Grand Canal Stock - HALF-PAST ONE. (From the Quebec Papers received this morning.) We are sorry to read in the Upper Canada papers that Sir Allen M'llab is labouring under a severe indisposition at his residenCe at Burlington. It is said that amongst cther movements in the spring, the Royals, under Colonel Wetherall, will proceed to the London district, where he will also have under his com mand the 43d and 83d regiments. THE SEASON.—The accounts from Montreal and Up per Canada all lead to the expectation that the river navi gation will be open at an early period. To-day the thaw still continues, with occasional showers, and there is every appearance that the spring will be fully ten days earlier tr an usual. &rico the early part of the morning the Consol market. has been buoyant and looking up. Consols have reached 91 r.tr the Account, aid at present. ntay he quoted at 914 for the Account ; Money 9la ; Exchequer Bills, 24 2 prom. ; Bank Stock 1751. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 281'; Portuguese, t.tfti ; Colombian, 261 ; Mexican, 303 ; Btigian, 103 ; Dkini,h, 791; Dutch Two-and. a-Hall per Cents., 54 ; Five per Cuots., To!Ars —We reported, a few days ago, very favour ably of Mr. Groom's splendid snow of tulip,. ; and found so much pleaure in cis wing them that we have again paid them a visit. Their beauty continues un abated, and they will offer for some days rne of the richest rre4ts to the rover of fine flawers that he can ever enjoy. Mr. Groom's grounds are remarkable for some other beauties as well as the tulips. thougit they are its chief ornaments. This ntlernan is a remarkable example of perseverance. He has visited Holland and France, and spared no 'Maur . nor expense to bring his own favourite plant to perfection. On one occasion he bought front a dealer six bulbs successively at one giumea each, and could make cone of them grow. With the s , venth he was successful, and in the end produced a flower, which eoi.bled him to sell to the person he had bought the set en bulbs of; bulbs to the value of six mid twenty gu Meas. Perseverance like his, whatever it be directed to, deserves a reward. His tine flowers now cumin ind the admiration of the most enlightened lovers of his art, and will be visited by persons from all parts of the kingdom. _BIRMINGHAM POLICE ACT.-.—ln the Parliamentary orders for to-day there is an entry Of the foilowir,g Police Assessment Act, second reading." N ow under this common-place title it is actua'ly proposed to bei;uile Members of Parliament into a recognitio n of the un-English princip!e of a centralized police, against nich last autumn the House so loudly protested. s said " Police Assessment Act" is a curious mea sure . It applies only to Birmingham, Manchester, and Bolt on, and provides for a large increased levy in each of ti ruse places to support the Government Police. The rcpres 'otatives of those towns ought to resist this mast!, re clause by clause. QUEEN'S B: - .NCH.-(THIS DAY.) others that it u urp :d, a pr.vilege. He asked the Attorney- Genaral whether t e hau ever exces ded that duty or priva. lege ? Whet could not the press do ? If it con-- JUDGMENT ON mit. FEARGUS o'coNeort• bined against the Bsnch—the Psrliament—all the This being the day appointed for passing judgment on institutions of the country—it would destroy them. Mr. O'Connor for the publication of seditious libels, the If it combined against the Attorne e -General, would Court was crowded at an ear l y am., On t h e L earne d • destroy him to morrow. fie would not stop to dispute Judges taking their seats, whether the press had an assigned d sty or prescriptive Mr. O'Connor rose and said_Bef o r e he addressed the , right ; but he defied the Attorney-General to produce Court in mitigation of punishment, he wished to lay be. : from the Northern Star a single passage which violated fore their Lordships sever a l affidavits, whi c h he prayed the secrecy of private life, or which could be consider , d might be read by the officer of the Court. libellous. Yet, his prosecuth n was considered so im- The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mad e an observation which ' portant as to require that the Artornes General and four we did not hear, on which gentlemen of the bar should tto t.ent to piosectite him fo Lord DENMAN observed it might be inconvenient, be- ! en account given in four lines in The Sun newspaper of a cause the affidavits might require an an swer; but after a s e eech he had delivered at Rochdale, ie which it was said short conversation many of them were read, Mr. O'Connor gave an sec u t of the proceedings at The affidavits, which Mr. O'Connor said were sixty- Birmingham, and sa d that the people should have guns, two in number, were from various panics in Eng- cartridges, and pikes prepared. • He had not said land and Scotland who were acquainted with Mr. a word of this; yet, for these four lines he was O'Connor, who had attended public meetings at which prosecuted by all the law officers of the Crown. he had spoken, and testified that the deponents had Was that prejudice er not? The At orney- General said never heard Mr. O'Connor advocate any principles of he (Mr. O'Connor) boasted his paper gave an impetus to an illegal, libellous, or treasonable character ; but that, on his party, and it was so. Was not that the object the contrary, he had constantly re p u d iate d suc h pr i nc i ples, of a paper ? If told by the Editor of • the and urged hi s b earers ever to see k t h e attainment of their Times it did not do so, he would laugh, and in of jests by legal and constit u ti ona l means. boasting this he had done no more than other papers Mr. O'C onno r th en sa id, t h ese a ffid av i ts h av i ng b een did, but the Attorney- General did not prosecute the Times. read befere, he addle sued the C ourt i n m iti gat i on o f He, Mr. O'Connor, w as th e great offender. He was punishment. He wished to be allowed, in the first in- . charged with attacking the Queen's prerogative, and pro stance, to thank th e ir Lo r d s hip s , not more for the favour pagating opinions which would le d to revolution. Snow they had teen kind e nous e a to exten d t owar d s him when in him one sentence against the Queen's prerogative in the truth he required it, than f or th e courteous manner in Northern Star; they could not, but he could produce which they had complied with his request. The great thousands in its favour. It did not a:ivocAte. as others difficulty he lad to contend with, he was aware, v h were not prosecuted, a tepee! of the Corn-laws, which we uid he to heap the subject matter for the consideration it it took plac e to day would occasion a revolution to mor ut ih- Court before it, and at the same time to keep row. It. did not advocate a refoim in the Huse cf Lords, himself out of view. It was quite true lie was found for God forbid in the present state of the other Howie, the guilty at York of what was called a libel, a portion of House of Lords should be reformed. Thay were the only Kitsch he would not defend, but he thought the better berriar between the people and the most traffic , ng /I"as° s'ourse would be to separate that which b; longed to him- of Commens the country had ever known. He wae a De self, fr,,in 0).4 the responsibility of which had been Mi. mocrat—a Chartist—lntl he advocaaed the five peinta Pastd up. n a journalist. H.- took his but he would surrender there only with his life. tie had , • , wri eae which had bee,, eontineutvd on by the advocated them at great expense, fur, thank Ged, he was Learlied Judge ii, addressing the Jute, ;led who, after not a mendicant partizan, but he Was not, as he was .S" a full summing up to the Jury they might find him guilty cu s e d, on e of those who ,ought to bring public euttiositici upon , ortie counie—.c nnmenting at the' ,aerie strong' ceetempt. He eid not euercl at oil ttie sp• ech included in anwher count, and sayin g that the aristocracy of the Cabinet ; no, but at its vulga its phraseology was mere!) the fignreeve eay adopted y city. He cemplaim d the aristocracy were robbed sees addr. ssing meetisiga. y -I us nut,,,cou- their iisturai rights, that the connection bet-seen them in tapittity and indecent haste the Jury returned a said the poor, as patron and elect, was dissolves], and the , vendee—net having had time to react ten lines of the lin e o f detnareation drawn more strongly ev..tY alleged libel—that icy found hire guilty upon ell Uinta The objects of the Government were to b e this it was that he cow sulindoed first socech to their obtained per fas ant nefas. The Cabinet was Lordships, an d l e ft i t w i t h t h em w i thout quallficatim. He not modeled as the would nave i t , an d he taought it took she effirtatit 'rem Rochdale, %atilt the speech was de- an excessively vulgar Cabinet. But it was no l i nger a liver d. In the rep art of that speech 1 ,0 WA , 1114(14! !O talk libel to bring a Government into di repute. Mr. O'Con eoriscuse, by a rep at e e who t e a tim e, Itelead n his sffid•‘ret a nor diet. went on comment upon the proceedings of the that he was incompetent for the office he !resumed. He Wing Government in former days, and alluded to the At eas these made to say that feu pound' worth of certain tort - my-General entering into Dudley in 1832 by toschZght' would only tell for five shillings. This was a speettnan of and coup r,d the Gav !riveted of the Whigs with that of the the way in which his sentiments had b ee n misrep resen t e d ; Tories, end asked, when did a Terry Government ever put for what he s a id was , that now ten pound s ' worth 240 men into p r i son f or language • which, as Mr Jostle .° .of cotton would make but five shillings profit in the Coleridge said was that which would be naturalle used by market ; and, again, that ten pounds' worth of wheat illiterate men. He then contended that he had never ad would after a moderate expense had been laid out upon it vocated illegal doctrines, but that, on the contrary, when sell for 25/. in the market, so that the ornis'don of the word ev e r he had addressed the peopl.e he had advised them to " profit" in the report had occasioited it altogether to mis- rely on moral power seine—had told them bow far endue represent whet he really said. But what attracted the (aim.; should be patiently i:ubtnitted to, and when alone en attention of the Jury at Yo r k vas i t b e i ng s a id, idler some durance would become a crime. These were the electrifies comments on the disturbances at Birmingham, " That new he had advocated, and they were those alone which the the peop!e were attacked, they were prepared to give Attorney-General would find in the Northern Star• physical force a warm reception," In another report he He had been accused of exciting discontent among her was made to say that " mischief was a-brewing." Majesty's subjects. Now, what was the fact ? Why, He did say so. But under what circumstances? instead of raising disturbance, be had done all in his power In Birm'ngliarri a large assembly, amounting to 40,000 to put it down. In every part of the country he bad ale persons, were congregated in t h e Bull_ring_th e Magic_ sited all was order and peace ; but where lie bad not been, !rates were assembled, and, as was prover: by affiaavit, there agitation reigned. They had it in evidence that, were of opinion that some d e f ence s h ou ld b e i mmed i ately instead of exciting, he bad put down disturbance W ha , made for the protection o f th e p l ace . Il e ( M r. O'C on- interest could he have in raising disturbances ? He bad nor) went and told the people that they ought to separate, every thing to lose, and as great a stak e in the country and they did so. Y e t h e was ma d e to say t h at t h ey were as the Attorney-General. He could gain nothingby prepared to give physical force a warm reception. Then a general scramble, and he defied any man to say tie came to that which was mos t i m p o rt an t o f all—the affi- that be had ever done any thing that need raise a blush davit of the reporter, who stated that was the first speech upon his face; and as long as be had the power of standing he had attempted is re p ort f or t h e IVorth e r n St ar , an d up to protect his own character from slander, for that was that in consequence of the incorrectness of that report he what was attacked now, he would do so. Every cause became the compiler and sub-editor, which was quite con- hid its martyrs, and he was picked out as the martyr to a sistent, because an individu a l m i g ht be, well qualified for cause w hi c h h e consc i ent i ously believed to be just. No those duties who had n o t sufficient skill to rep or t th e p ro - revo l ut i on b ad been effected without many martyrs, an d ceeoings of a public meeting. They had the affidavits, he supposed he was destined to lie one. Nothing had give° not of Chartists, not of R a di ca l s , not o f po li t i ca l part i sans, him greater delight than to hear the Lord Chief Justice in hut of gentlemen who declar e d t h e y were averse to hi s po l e _ defending the Court against the privileges claimed by the tied' opinions, all of whom were electors of the town of Roach- House of Commons sey thut there was a difference e be dale, and who depos e d th at w h a t h a d so a l armed - the tween political and criminal offences. Who was it, It Attorney-General had had the effect o f t ranqu illi s i ng t h e would ask, that had invited agitation? Why, no I ces town—of putting off the sa c red h o lid ay ; an d, i n f eet, a a persorage than Lord John R usse ll hi mse lf . Now wha t tendency for anything but that which the Attorney- was the nature of the offence for which be was called ow' General had attributed to it. But take that speech, to account ? laity this ;—a report which the reporter him: with all its faults upon its head, and he defied self had stated was not correct. The Attorney-Genera l the ablest lawyer in the land, except by undue had stated that he had been longer in the office of Attor perversion of the law, to say there was a single li- ney-General than any other man for the last century! bellous sentence in it. The Learned Judge who told Toat might be true; but it was equally so that the Jury it was their province to say w h et h er i t was lib el- mote prasecutions had been instituted in that period than lous or not, told them it did not str ik e hi m as b eing libel- at say former time, He (Mr. O'Connor) had advocate d lous. He ( O'Connor) wa s not aston i s h e d to hear h i s the Charter, and lie gloried in having done so ; he should Lordship say that he regretted that fair O'Connor devoted persevere in the course he had hitherto adopted,• but he his talents to the furtherance o f pr i nc i p l es wh i c h ha d a was the last man that would enter resort to or advise th e tendency to subvert the o rd er o f soc i ety, w h en he was adoption of physical force. It could not be said of bin s made to say th a t he w ou ld unseat t h e J u d ges, and take the that he had any selfish motives in view in the course Helie land from its propri e t ors , an d di v id e i t equally had adopted, for he had done it a; his own expense._ among the people. C ommon sense would tett had never attempted t o push that ag i ta ti on by an y Other their Lordships he had never used this language than peaceable means, and he would be most happy to lie wanted not an equalization of the soil ; he was con_ have the Attorney- General as a subscriber to the Northern vineed diet it was impracticable, and that were it cqua_ Star, for in that publication he would find some of the lazed to-day, it would not remain so to. morrow. When h, b:st writing, by uteri us a humble 'sphere of cite, he had spoke of society generelly, he did not mean to include all , eecr read. He had no 'nonunion in saying what society. They might as well say, that because be spok, was the cause of the i rosecution—he had '.'eon pointed agains, a lairtieular A , Artinistration, I.e Was opposed at by Mt. O'Connell ; and it. was .very extraoidittary, • o ell Adrninistratietis. lie swerved from Inn- that n.. 1 a single l air tip Ih, en tiros d l not had then ss:d. . bier, was, that some eepetetment. Shared as simder honeur Mr O'Connor eute then titoc hai eeded of Judges both at home and in the Colonies were a de- . scud the litter which he had writte n to L or d J a h n pit ace to the (hily, and au i nsu l t to the Bar.—( Ap- Russell, which ecieted ~ ut to him tile constquences piausa its the Court, on ehteis Lord Danteen said thin it asiech tne agitation that was then eoieg on eas liaelY t" eny iodithduAl relented it he should he taken into cu , tody, lead to. There eery eAlaitri , Vt tit re pasties might liednifi° use it it Aes, tr..ises di the Court steed(' ta• cleared. ) Lc! 11l peace anti list , . in sestet's:Tien, hut that was net the clis h e i:t 1 be tested by comenni sense. Suety se hid eed. a Eaeland, beceuse. feessed be,Gud. in this cowl* pus sutured to peel is to the people 'ha their f e idahi a s ate. slier Imes were allowed to lake places, and they acted 5 : graced the 13.•neit ; suppose he said that Mr. anew what might be called a safety valve. Wholesale ch` r o e ,,, Park,, or Mr. Baron Alderson, or CeiefJestice Tindal, drat had beet, made against him of publiseing libeb;• N._, so, was there a single man it, Engl an d wh o eould believe him? what was the case ? Why one of the very libels with Was there a reporter who would 'cleat it? He now re- which I,e was charged was taken from the Tyne Mete:ail; turned to O'ifien's speech, He remembered the Atter- Was the props ietor of that er brought upon the floor o f ney-General bad said that he never prosecuted a Mull for the Court of Queen's Bosch as he was? °t ;cords spoken in excitement or after dinner,. lie (Mr, he was wanted by the Attorney-Gencrel to assist O'C.) took no advantage of this, for though spoken after in the prosection of him (Mr. O'Connor), and, there:a to dinner and in the heur of excitement, it made little cliff:_ he was let go free. He defied the Attorney-Gener ience to him, who, whatever he might be, was never libel- prove that he had ever been connected with any sec vet lous. Now as to the matter of fact, he had been inform e d societt, or that his name had ever been mixed up wits of what he was not cognizant when last before their Lord- any disorder that had occu rre d. I t was f or hi s Lordship the N or th ern St ar pu bli shed three editions, to say, considering all the charges that had been made the one for London and a not h er f or t h e N orth of Eng- against him, and what he bad really done, what punish , " n land, and in this editi o n on l y O'B rien ' s at tech appeared. he was to receive. He appeared on the flaor of the Cou rt He had each of th e e diti ons i n C ourt, w hi ch proved the fact, to receive the judgment of their Lordships, although h which must have b e en k nown t o t h e A ttorney-General, and had entered into no recognizance to do so. Wbutetr he rested bis case in miti ga ti on o f pun i shment upon that that judgment might be, he would meet it as a man.; taut fact. There w a s n o t a wor d o f hi s speech in the second Ls considered his life as n o thi ng compare d w i t h t h e can`" 7 _ edition, which 37,000 copies w ere p u bli s h e d , i t be i ng he advocated. If he had pandered to the wishes of Obeli' contained only in the first edition, the circulation, of which he, perhaps, might have been the master of the Attorney^. was very small, and consequent l y t h e pu b lication ' of General, instead of being, as h e was now , t h e servants the libel would have been small if the prosecu. He entreated their Lordships, in the judgment tl ear' tion of the Attorney• General had not occasioned might pronounce, to consider that they were tryil its re-publication. H e h a d ava il e d hi mself of the a cause and not a man. He was not charged with courtesy of the Learned Judge in allowing him to any original libel; and with respect to the Northern Star , procure affidavits from persons of all parties, both in Eng- he challenged the Attorney- General to find in that publi land and Scotland, that they had never heard him at the cation one single immoral sentence. He bad suffered a meetings they attended advocate resort to physical force, great deal, n t because he had violated the law, but on or the seeking a restitution of their rights by any h ut account of supporting it. He had suffered, because be peaceable means. He asked whether these affidavits could was determined not to allow Mr. O'Connell to have be stronger, and whether they were not entitled to the an English tail as well as an Irish one i n the attention of the Court. The Attorney_General said he House of Commons. If the Attorney-General had n ot (Mr. O'Connor) if h e did not approve of the alleged punished others who were far more guilty than libel, should have commented on it, and said that it himself, why, he would ask, should he be punished The was wrong. Here, the n , h e was c h arged with an act of cruse was plain, because he had not become the tool f omission, and not of commission. Suppose the Attorney_ others he had been a mark: d man. He was not ashamed General had taken up the Times, or the Morning (.)fro- of what he had done, but he was sorry that the sixec hes nick, and found in it an ext ravagant speech—did he look of Taylor had found t h e i r way into the Northern Star, to see whether it was commented on by the editor ?—and, for he had found that those who professed to be Bible men if not, why did he not seek for that from t' , e Times and were always the greate:t hypocrites. He was no destructive . Chronicle which he r equ i re d f rom the Northern Star? He had neverattacked theinstitutionsofthecountry. Hewes He came now to the speech of Taylor, and he for the support of the Throne, the palace, and the cottag e r had no objection to th e cast i gat i on i t bad received. He but then they were to be subservient to each other. H e was always opposed to spiritual Chartism, as he had was happy to say that the circulation of the Northern ever been to spiritual Whiggism or Toryism, and had al. Star was perhaps greater than that of any other newspaper, ways opposed the introduction of passages from the Holy and for that he bad to thank her'Majesty's Attorney-Gene - Scriptures into political discussions, yet the Attorney- nil. He hoped be should suffer any punishment their General sought to associate him with the doctrines therein Lordships might think proper to award as a tu tu !' contained; aut he defied hint to find in the two volumes at and this he was determined, that what•:ver the Northern Star a sin g l e p ro fa ne , irreligious, (Cr lode- might be, he would stand by the principles be cent ahrase. Would to God the Attorney_General was as professed. He was truly astonished when th e perfectly convinced as he was that a day would come people had such examples set them as he could refer to--; when they should all stand in de! presence of One who when they had seen power scrambled for—that they had would judge them justly, however the decision here mi g h t been so quiet" as they had been. It had been said, be affected by dis cuss i ons i n t h e C a bi net — the skill of an God forbid that the time shoWd come when the p^ o l , . Atturney-Gens ral, or his cr i m i na l i ngenu i ty. Whatever were not allowed to meet. He for one thought that th a t might have b. en the excesses perpe•retert in the country time had now arrived. The Learned Gentleman Con ha was in no way assoeiet, d with them—he had never been eluded by stating- that he was prepared to receive guilty of any act whi c h h a d t h e l east tendency to disturb any judgment thut the Court -night award, as a m artyr the public pesee, though now aecu , ed of it by to flue min; which he had always, and ever would supports that politic-,1 party ve nich had evewedly done to •he lest days of his existence. more than any win rto produre itwien, Wes The A - rrottsßv GENERAL :hen lose to eddress th e there ever a time when puhr e was owed to Court. He :owed that It W,R not his it t occupy ruts risk as it now did, ;thieve her um ri, sive in [Om- the time of tie ir Leresilipe at eny length il en ) 1-17 , bed little self and a few otoers. Look to the Ina m,., o f more to d o tha n tee etni, ti the Court tteet the delandaer. that party ;if they had lee sueeeestee, Ateet ey- wood there to rte ire i‘s dgru , .-1;t, Itsvine h et ", General wi.add !sot heve stood wh. re he 'ed, iii. coot/listed of puide hiate si : v j i u rel I:hris, the . Obj" C ' was he M . O'C'aiiia , ) proseeet. d, w,t n.of was to ex , o,t the people to the colones nell, Mr. Bridenew, mid Mr. Reby were ps netiesl ripe o f crime. It wee not his ini,eation Ca t er to Vie SIX% lie did not 48k the Atte he . , • tit.itel .tu Rey &teem, of hi s owe e i d u et. He thought why he did not prosec.ite them, but not liavOlg t';al. fair O'Connor had no right to complein that 11 " j done so, why he prosecuted hint ? t he Attorney. harshness had been shown to him, and as a proof of t h at :,. General did not prosecut e M r . O'Connell, because he hew he might refer toahe statement of Mr. O'Connor himse lf, he would not be Attorney-Gene r al if he did. By the that he was nos under ant- tecognizances to appcsr in this present law, no one knew when he had hen guilty at libel. Ceurt. hit. O'Connor had refs rr, dto other pi o secuti If a roan were guilty of murder or r o bb ery h e w hi c h. h ad beset instituted against him Now; with knew it ; b u t h e never knew when he was :;nifty „t lib e l respect to that, he the Attorney-General) mus t state th at until the AttorneaeG eeere f inetit i e e d a pros , rurion roiainst h, eas tint aware of ;qty. fair O'Connar had stated very him for one. Why did a member or Th.- Celenet go to tinily that aft..l. the %erdier wren pronounced he ( the At" Edinburgh and induce parsons to lib by stating 11.0 turricy-Gent rp.i) called upon the le art d Judg e r? , present Gov e r nment were determin e d not to pro‘ecute in- I protiouece sentence. He had done So, because he th , e . a o ss i ' d dictments. What was his protection if the Aosirusy- that in such cases it was far better that judgment sh u General was thus allowed to keep the law in lean ? be Pronounced immedien ly than that it should. have Three times had the Attorney-General called hint into delayed. He (the Attorney-General) would dutyif given of up the charge, but now he sought for 'vanish- he had not brought this case before a jur d y to merit. Hi s (M r . °Twiner's) character had been his country, because the publication seem , :d plunder well tested since the Reform Bill, which had been him and the jury calculated to lead to pl,..by no reform for him, before Committees of the House aid insurrection. The jury believed that that was tn a u ve a in of C-,mmons and otherwise, and he agreed with Mr. tention of the defendant, and for that reason the . Justice Coleridge, who said at his trial that character, verdict against him. Mr. O'Connor bad com when a negative act was chsrged, should go far, and that ethers had not been prosecuted. i Now he (the he time be s w e ei without I n o g as t ion for such there ought to be strong ground', to convict a man of an General) coueldhecotthiseenthhe:tidouhsi?-hsaa that durin e offence which was contrary to the tenour of life which he filled the office if he had he was proved to have led for a long series of years. He had a prosrcutton . ; id ' it. shou ld Mbad also talked never for a single moment violated the public peace him- tation have ifist i, nut , r.. O'Connor s receive some self, and he asked therefore whether it was fair he should ' Of the lsw of heel ; that law might perhap Bill t h e amendment—indeed it hod received it from be watched, as the Attorney-General confessed f Con- Parliament. He agreed with Mr. 0 o ut oc the least hest' Northern Star WAS—yet after all was unable to hang already before „ of a O'Con his • s prosecution upon any other than this slender nor that public meetings often lead to the stability i A f t n t: gd rn t e h y a - t peg --not finding any ground for it in the leading articles, . Government , ; but those !neetings ought never to be Sig' or in hi s own speech. It was said by some the (seas had a nahzeeby speech es being made at them exhorting d an d these resent public duty t o p er f orm ;b y some t h at it posses by pto subvert the laws, to rise sensi N E EN IN G EDITH) N . THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1840. EVENING EIYTION•