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

- r ig lit ; that thst woke N. .., __- ENG• Fell►u' s peech, repeal- n ake s t to tell them , oo this to lisle them► side of and :..... Ii Y lilt!. uch as ,~ rail- bottom !k , era. ;eutle - 5 -- t, ~, S ir, tav ern 1 0"° EVENING EDITION. THE ROYAL GEORGE. Since our last notice of the operations on the hull of the Royal George much wreck has been brought on shore, among which are entire deck beams, the stan chions or wooden standard of the orlop deck which re.stcd on the keelson, some fragments of the after part of the keel, with the dead wood framed into them, attached to which arc strong connecting plates of brass, the stan chions of the pump, well, or shot-locker at the main hatchway, with two vertical rabbits, into which the bulk heads connected with it were inserted ; all this shows that the wreck from the stern-post to the main hatch way is completely thrown abro ld, and that little now re mains to do but to pick up the fragments.. Besides the two divers, George Hall and Fullager, two others of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners have commenced with considerable promise ; one, a private, Andrew Duncan, who distinguished himself before he• entered the servi&e by saving several lives by swimming., for which he received premiums from the Royal Hu mane Society ; to this man, however, a trifling acci dent, luckily attended with no serious consequence, happened on Thursday morning, owing to one of the rig gers, who had charge of the life line, having al lowed it to become too slack, in consequence of which he fell down, which rendered it necessary to haul him up, as his helmet was full of water, and he had become senseless, or nearly so, but he soon recovered, and this spirited young soldier is ready to dive again ; it was only the second time he had been down, the first time ho got up a beam. Corporal David Harris has also been diving for several days with great activity and succass. This morning an iron 32-pounder and two gun carriages were got up, and about two dozen bottles of wine, but the quantity of wreck recovered during the last two days has been rather smaller than usu d, so that Colonel Pasley has directed two charges to be fired on Monday next, one of 2GO!b. the other of 471 b. at the mid-day slack tide, and it is probable that a large charge of upwards of 2,000ib. will be fired at the next neap tides, that is in about a fortnight from this, pro• Lably on the 22d inst. Several small charges have beck fircd during the week, as the mud has been more troublesome than usual, and will continue so as long as any great quantity of wreck prevents the current. from carrying it off either by the flood or ebb tide.— Hampshire Telegraph. THE SPIRIT TRADE. The recent additional duty on home-made spirits is ..creating a considerable sensation amcng the trade. We understand that a deputation of distillers had an inter view with the Convener of the County here a few days ago, and presented a memorial on the subject, which Ur. Grant most readily agreed to transmit to Captain Gordon, who has already shown himself quite a'ive to this interesting subject. On Friday week a meeting of the Formartine _ - Agri cultural Association was held in the Royal lintel, for • the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of . Petitioning Parliament. against the proposed reduction in the duties on French wines and spirits. Robert Cop fara, Esq., Cairofechil, was Chairman. After some conversation, the form of a petition, recommended by .Fiddes, the Secretary, was adopted. Tne grounds of complaint stated in the petition were, that the distil lers, a most respectable class of men, had an immense amount of capital invested in the trade, and that the ,proposed redaction in wines and spirits, if carried into effect, will prove highly injurious to thein, as well as deprive' the farmer of a ready market for a mo,t impor , rant article of his produce. That the distillers, like every other class of the com- romaity myrilo are made liable to new taxes, may have some litt.‘e cause f or grumbling at the increase of duty on home-made spirits we do not doubt ; but we think it • Would be difficult for them to show ally gool reason Why the article which they manufacture should be made 4 11 excepti.an to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's general mule. The complaint, as regards the landed interest, is the most impudent thing we have seen for a long time. Is it not enough that the people of this country should he taxed many millions annually, in the shape of a bre.ad-tax, to keep up the rents of the landowners, but are these landowners to be exempted from all itt , rice• of loss from an increase of taxation, rendered — tlecessary by the occessities of the Exchequer The distillers complain of the paltry 4d. a gallon of Atli ianal duty; but we do not recollect that they made arty demonstration in favour of a free trade in corn, *hen, in consequence of a couple of bad harves t s , corn . bii ied with the operation of the Corn-laws, they were _Li seed to pay double for their barley. The reduction of the duty on foreign spirits is a „Stieition - by itself. - The duty on brandy is at present ict•less than 225. 6d. per gallon. If Vie are to have a 4 .Nde with. France at all, duties of this kind cannot pos stbly maintained. It is a small, and a miserably ' al concession to the manufacturing interests to grant eduction on spirits in return for a reduction of the 'nch tariff on British manufactures. Would the ag• i 4 ".4uriiai - Prefer the. destruction of the linen manufac tilr e„of.the east•coalt of Scotland to the chance of im- PC r ceptible loss from a slightly-diminiihed demand f or barley - by the tee-totallers' - ? 7 —Aberdeen Herald. REASON IeOR REFUSING TO SWEAR. TO THE EDITOR OF TER SUN. ,• Sra—The. introduction of a Bill by Mr. Hawes, in- Tluded to afford relief to all persons who conscientiously tifuse to swear, may induce some of your readers to in quire, What can be the reason why any person should re 1-use to swear? In answer to this inquiry I reply that ;her* are two reasons which opera'e on my mind to in. 'lee me not to swear. First, the full conviction that °lilt' Lord Jesus Christ meant what he said, when, in caradistinetion to the command of Moses, " Swear hl 4 falsely ;" he said," But I say unto you, swear not at L This conviction compels me to believe that all 'll%-earing is entirely prohibited ; as much so, as theft, kialtery, or murder! so that a wilful and deliberate act 's.ls:wearing on my part would be a wilful and deliberate fl'!t of sin ; for to sin is to do that which God has for 4tiden ; o r no t to d o t h at w hi c h G o d h as comman d e d. i -here. is, however, another, though less authoritative ealort, why I wou ld not swear . Th e ac t o f swear i ng ;!' r°3;' part, beli ev i ng suc h ac t t o h a a d e lib era t e ac t o f in . Would be a rev.sonable argument why a jury should vithhold confidence in my veracity; fo; they might cor retly inf er, t h at, having in their presence deliberately lri ejected the authority of Almighty God, by making a so e km appeal t o Hi m, i n a way w hi c h I b e li eve d to b e of nsive to Him, merely to escape imprisonment, it was 11 r) t to b e supposed thtt I could be induced by any lea 1 . of God to speak truth. Thus, the compelling fr 4 t to s wear, even if it could be accomplished, would og ttrate the very object that is wished to be attained !Y 1 'lle imposition of an oath, for the design of imposing f l e n r atli o n a w i tness i s te compel him, by the fear of of , t'cl• 'lig God, t o speak trtah ; but to induce a man to th vat which he believes to be offensive to God, _ vs ay of in creas i ng hi s f ear o f o ff en di ng G o d , i s a atiList absurdity, yet it is an absurdity that has hi k!ertotbeen enfo rce d b y t h e legislators of Britain, and A Go album has Intimated very candidly his intention t 0 en:orce it. Vie must :lot forget, however, that. Goulbitrit and the other representatives of our Ifni eirsi ties, wo o o p pose most d e i. erm i nate l y every e ff or t i at mends to ameliorate our laws in this respect, speak no t 0 2;'1y their own sentiments, but they give effect to t he o f i&oris and -fishes of the whole clerical body. Oh when , will these Christians cease to persecute those whom forget that . our Great Redeemer declared that He should estimq.t e their love to kliraself thus ;--.6 Inasmuch as ye (lid it •-antoone of the lest of these my brethren, ye did it napalm?" A SUFFERER. I'ROPOSED GRANT TO THE CHURCH OUT OF THE POOR-RATES. TO ,THI:.7 EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. _ ta,—Ycu st a ted th e ot h er day that the 20th c l aus e at the New Poor-law Amendment Bill gives a fee of five !hillier to the Clergyman out of the Poor -rate; on the 15 rtrial of each poor person, which would increase the . 1 venue of the Church 3,000/. a year. This, I presume, I t an error of the press—t,he increase will not be less t in 20,0001. a year. The number of paupers and °tiler destitute persons at present buried by the parishes I btilieve; about 80,000 a y ear c these, at ss. each, nuld amount to 20,0001. a year ; aod when it is made t ",_ PuL:ory on Guardians by a direct enxtment not only bury, but to pay the Clergyman a han s is f me fee out :I the rates, t h ere w ill be a great increase m application (,I°lextlense, and I think the increased revenve to the ,rurelt may be fairly estimated at 30,0001. ye a. p n iwyment of any fee to the Clergyman out oi the ttes is at present illegal. I remain, &c. A. B. wct [ Pur Correspondent is correct ; the error he notices a n tisprint.] t;t we .have recently perused a little.volume, en- ItOP," The German Self-Teacher. by Henry 1111:idinge t r, e t '"cd by Whittaker and Co. As an introducticri to a h c. ,;'Y of the• Geman language this book is, for all person t s use. te t iln t,cd tvith . the English the simplest and most • t T l i .`de that we have ever met. language , t purposes to attain its ob and "Y commencing with lists of all the words of similar sound th e ',laning which , are to be found in both languages; and, as of ! s h e w° rds are ext-emely numerous, including the greater part ti;eittnisratoastneletifrn Engiish, the consequence is, that the student u h nexcteelly talking very correct German at the g uage...... _ . w when he is only commencing the study of the lan (-2 14 tots. (1 4 ; A REENIVICH FA In.—The fine weather yester qice'ised, as usual, an immense concourse of persons to visit fae„` en wich, and the Park, the Fdr, and Blackheath, were the atriourite places of resort. 'There was no lack of the customary dow"creents of monkey riding, leis.ing in the ring, and racing th, jr n 9ne-tree and Flamstea(l-1 ills, and the gipsies eiljoyed e,,ed419" hare of the h o lid a y h arves t. by te lli ng th e fortunes of in• th e p " young ladies," and ,of " young gentleme n ." In Cireus pair Algar's booth, Johnson and Lee's theatre. and Clark's ere the principal attrac! ions ; beyond them the arraaige • wer 'ils wer e of the ordinary eFaracter.. A few petty offences ti ct r i; e°llllbitted, and the offenders taken into custo ly, but ' ri g worthy of particular notice occurs, d, CHINA. ATTEMPT OF THE CHINESE TO BORN THE BRITISH FLEET IN TOONGKOO BAY. About ten o'clock on Friday morning two small junks were observed to arrive among the shipping in Toongkoo Bay. About half-past one on Saturday morning, they were observed coming down from the eastern end of the bay in filmes, but the wind being too southerly they drifted in shore of the shipping through the mass of small Chinese boats and foreign schooners : one touched the Devil schooner, and set fire to her forward, but the crew suc ceeded in extinguishing the fire with th.s loss of the jib and damage to the bowsprit. These junks, or rafts, were filled with all kinds of combustibles, cotton, oil, bamboo guns, or rather tubes, thickly mounted in several tiers, that threw out fire balls as the tire reached them. Some of the ships slipped their cables, and the Cowasjee Family was aground for a few hours, but without receiving any damage. It is the opinion of an experienced etc-witness that had there been twenty such junks chained together, the shipping would have been greatly injured. This abortive attempt, however. inns had the good effect of awakening the captains and officers of the ships to the danger to which they are exposed, and they are therefore inure on the alert; several have bent sails, shifted their berths, and got springs on their cables. Since writing the above we have been told another attempt was made to burn the fleet on the succeeding night, hut, from some unknown cause, was not persevered in. Canton Register, March 3. On Friday night, the Bth of February, at about ten o'clock, two junks on fire, to which a number of smaller boats, tilled with combustibles, were attached, were seen to drift towards the shipping from the Cap-sing-moon passage, but wind and tide carried them clear of the ship ping, nearer in shore, among a number of small Chinese boats, some of which we hear were burnt. The only damage sustained was by the schooner Devil having her jib and bowsprit set on fire. which was, however, soon extinguished, and by the awasjee Family, in slipping her cable to avoid the fire ships, having got ground, but got off again with out sustaining any damage. We hear that the boats of her Majesty's ship Volaye were employed in towing these fire ships out of-the line of danger. They burnt out, after having drifted on shore without explosion, though, it is said, they were filled with bamboos . stuffed with gun powder, broken glass, small stones, &c. On the following night another attempt at Bring the fleet was made, but without success. The tide on Friday night was very low, and the weather fine, two circumstances much in favour of the fleet, which might have suffered considerably had the attempt of the Chinese been on a larger scale and better managed. As it is, however, this first trial will but too likely b e fol lowed by others which may possibly be more dangerous, the Chinese front experience being enabled to give a truer direction to their fireships ; and it is hardly neces sary in us to recommend the greatest vigilance.—Canton Press, March 7. MEMORIAL RECOMMENDING T.HE MAS SACRE OF THE ENGLISH AND S lop_ PAGE OF THE FOREIGN TRADE. An express from the Board of War has just brought a despatch from the Grand Military Council, addressed to Lin, Viceroy of Kwantung and Kwangse, &c. E, Fooyuen, of Kwantung, &c., Kean, Admiral on the Kwantung station, and Kwo, Commander of the Land Forces, also to be communicated by them to— Yu, by imperial appointment Hoppo of Canton—. these : On the 1 nth day of the 12th moon of the 19th year of Taoukwang, 14th January, we (i. e. the Grand Military Council) received the following high imperial edict : Whereas Tsang Wang-yen has this day banded up to us a duly prepared memorial, the preamble of which is— " Seeing that the disposition of foreigners is fickle and wavering, I beg hereby to propose that the ports be shut against them—that egress from our shores be prohibited— and that a plan be laid for the litter extermination (of the concerned I), by which means the source of evil may be purified," &c., and besides this there is another document from the same officer, commencing, " I beg likewise to propose that a limit be put to the trade carried on between us and the foreigners of Macao," &c., which having been carefully perused by us, the Emperor, we hereby decree—cause Lin and his colleagues carefully to deliberate on the contents with the most perfect atten tion, and to that end let the memorial and addendum bs frnirly copied out and transmitted them for perusal; and at the same time communicate this my edict to Lin, E. Kwan, and Kwo, that they in their turn may communicate it to the hoppo Dukwan. Respect this! We, the Grand Military Council, do hereby, 'n obedi ence to the Imperial command, transmit the same. Tsang \Vangyen hereby respectfully memorializes the Great Emperor, that seeing the disposition of, or circum stances connected with, foreigners is fickle and wavering, I beg hereby to propose that the ports be shut agar nst them, that all egress from our shores be prohibited, that a plan be laid for the utter extermination of often ch.rs ; thereby to cut off the greedy views of the fo reigners, and cleanse the impure fountain of evil ; such are the motives which ieduce me to lay before your sacred Majesty my most limited view of tine subject, hoping that it may be honoured with the imperial glance. It appears that the opium poison had overspread our cen tral laud almost beyond the possibility of cure, when look ing up to the great Emperor we relied upon him, as occu pying the seat of heaven, to settle the question with his single effert ; and he then commanded the different boards and high officers to deliberate upon and fix the sternest statutes, and the viceroys and fooyuens of the different provinces to exert themselves to the utmost in searching fur and seizing criminals ; and so well did this answer, that within the last year the people of the land have trem ' bled with terror; and out of every ten some eight or nine have already given ear to the dreadful admonition. Arid we further find that when your Majesty specially deputed a higy officer as Imperial Commissioner to proceed with ,te to Canton, there to regulate the affairs of the sea ports, so utterly paralyzed by terror were the foreigners at the display of celestial dignity, that on the first day of his arrival, they took 20,000 odd chests of opium and delivered them up, and gave a bond that in time to come they would never more dare to bring opium to our shores : all this looked as if these said foreigners were perfectly meek and submissive, and at that time nothing out of the way was to be apprehended. But I have heard respecting the English foreigners that from the time when Elliot took the newly-arrived vessels of this year, and detained them in the outer ocean, they have had several vessels alive laden with opium, which they have not delivered up ; and, moreover their ships of war have sailed into the inner seas, and roamed about there for amusement ; nay, they have even dared to ex change blows with our maadarins and soldiers ; this plainly shows, then, that as for the bond which these said fo reigners gave before, they look upon it as mere waste paper; their object is nothing more than to disguise their real sentiments for a short time, and wait till the High Commissioner shall have left Canton, then they will con tinue to bring opium as before, and get the depraved com mon people of the country to dispose of it for them—their cunning craftiness is perfectly apparent ; and as they now see that we are putting down the use of opium with the utmost rigour, and that. if they don't deliver up their opium they won't be permitted to enter the port (these English fo reigners) give full rein to their violent and contrary dispo sitions, they won't endure check or restraint, and to wind up all they even dare to fire off great guns, thereby wound ing the celestial soldiery ; for such a horrid crime they may not be exempted from absolute annihilation. I have also heard that their merchant vessels, several tons of sail of them, remain anchored at Hongkong on the outer ocean, where they keep staring and looking about, and won't go away. Their idea of the matter no doubt is this :—" the amount of duties (derived from the foreign trade) is a million and several myrkds (of taels) ; all those mandarins who are involved in the question must surely take an interest in the revenues of the country, they will therefore, nolens volens, give way a little, and we may thus mutually accommodate matters.' Little do they ki.ow that the wealth of our celestial dynasty is as the four seas ; that our various products abound to overflow. inn ; how then, is it to be supposed for a moment that we depend upon the little, petty, trifling duties arising from the foreign trade to pay our expenses, pray ? Bet, on the other hand, what these said foreigners must have to pre serve their lives, and what they cannot do a single day without—are rhubarb and tea, and these, be it remembered, ire the produce of our inner land. In my humble opinion, then, the very head or chief secret of our plan lies in shutting the ports. No matter what country these foreign ships may come from, do not let a single one of them hold connn,reial intercourse with us. The cargo which they bring in their several tens of ships remaining on hand unsold, they cannot but be em barrassed thereby ; and when we shall have entirely cut off their supply of tea and rhubarb, and caused our merchants and people to trade with them no longer, we shall thus have their lives more in our power than ever ; and thus of these said foreigners there will not be one who won't come be seeching us with fear and trembling-, Perhaps it may be objected that—' there foreigners, expecting something of the kind, have laid their plans with great forethought, and that they have already, in former years, exported from this a supply sufficient for more than tee years' consumption.' But are these cavillers aware, that though rhubarb may indeed be stored up for a long time, yet tea, when kept for two or three years, there is no kind which has not long' lost its flavour, it becomes mouldy, and is unfit for use. Or, perhaps it ,nay be urged_' but there are only tire English foreigners wino won't submit :o restraints, therefore the shies of all other countries may still be permitted to continue their commercial intercourse as usual.' Little do such cavillers know, that of the foreign ships which have inn their time conveyed and sold opium, there is not a single country that is not implicated ; if, therefore, we permit the foreigners of other countries still to trade with us, how are we to be certain that they may not take opium on board and tran ship it to English vessels, there to be stored (as formerly was the custom in regard to the :tore ships that lay off Linda); that they then take on board other descriptions of cargo with which to enter the port; and when they load their tea and rhubarb to leave the port, how are we to know that they may not actually be transpnrting that very cargo for the English ? I must, therefore, beg that your sacred Majesty will issue an imperial edict to the effect that " All foreign ships which have carried opium, no matter what country they belong to, we shall not permit the ships or people of teat nation to trade with us, thereby nivieg the officers and common people of China and of foreign parts clearly to know and understand that the holy Lord is sworn to ° dam up the very fountain of opium, and do away with the confirmed bad habit; and that as gar the a mount of duties, there is really no difficulty them up entirely, and Vats getting rid of the whole concern.' in petty trifling closed against foreigners, if we do rprioly prohibit all egress frOm our 'seacoasts, it will still b e the seine as if our ports were not closed at all. at the same then, tines n n g o t the . seaboard Lir ,pour different provinces the entirely pacific, oreoee..., I n e sse heard . that ,t a r sl v existed a class of fast crab in Kwangtung there forme— „ re uggling, and at boatmen, whose the time when the trade between natives ate.. was inn its flourishing state, these blackguards gave t hen.- selves the most unbridled license, and had 1.0 fear what- I THU SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1840. ever before their eyes. Now I have lately heard that since the enactments agzinst opium have been out in force with such severity these villains, being gime reck less of life, congregate together, and going on board their fast-crabs, proceed to the high seas where they rob and plunder the merchants and, taking on board rice• and bread, supply therewith the vagabond foreigners. If tine du not then utterly exterminate this ca72aille they will t!o the bidding of the foreigners and lend themselves to thc ir se:- vice, which might gradually bring about a very great cala mity, I have therefore to beg of your sacred Majesty that y u will be pleased to issue orders to the viceroys and fooyucns, :he generals, and commanders of the forces of Kwantang, Fajen, Chekeang, Keangsoo, Shantung, and Leoutung, that they despatch their war cruizers with the most stern commands to seize or exterm.r,ate every one of those pirat ical plunderers. At the same time all the commandants of our different military stations, and the taoutacs, must tee caused to examine with the utmost strictness all the boats and craft that ply upon the livers, and which may not be interdicted ; but beyond these, all vessels belonging to the people, whether large or small, should not he. permitted to proceed to the high seas. And regarding those who catch &h as a means of hveihood, they must be required to take their fish in the immediate neighbourhood ; and if we di cover any who, under a false pretence, carry on clandestine dealings, or afford assistance to the foreign ships, let such he immediately seized and put to death. And any manda rins or soldiers convicted of receiving bribes, or conniving j attheLe illegalities, let such pay the same penalty fur their crime. I tind again that in the different little islets adjoining our coasts, there are places where fresh water may be pro cured ; t• ought, therefore, to despatch officers and soldiers to such parts, that being so guarded, foreigners may no longer be able to land and draw water. Further, the common people who inhabit the villages by the sea side ought all to be drilled and formed into a sort of militia, in order. that they may be able to defend their different parts of the country, and should any foreigners attempt to land, let the people sally forth to beat them back, and if any one (of ours) is discover6d to hold clan destine communication with the enemy, let his crime straightway be punished with the utmost rigour. Not only in the single province of Kwangtung ought such measures to be taken, but the same precautions should be secretly enforced in all those provinces which border on the sea. The supplies bring thus cut oft' entirely front the foreigners, and they, finding it impossible to obtain wood or water any longer, will most undoubtedly repent of their crimes, and drooping their heads submissively await our sentence. But supposing that these foreigners do not yet submit, that they still keep looking about them, and dare contu maciously to offer resistance ; as these people rely on their ships being large and strong, as they handle their great guns both quick and well, and as they are aecustoined to the vast ocean, I fear, under these circumstances, that were our cruisers to proceed to catch and slaughter them on the high seas, such were an undertaking beyond our strength. But who is ignorant of the fact ? • These fo reigners being crafty and fraudulent, fierce and oveibear hive despising the law of the land, and not brooking limit or restraint, the soldiery and people of Kwantung have for a long time cherished towards them a violent animo sity, and every man burns with impatience to give vent to it. It is only because the successive viceroys and fuoy uens, being unwilling to do anything that might light the torch of war, have for a long time rigorously held in our people and nut allowed them to give it a trial, that the Kwantung men have kept their patience till the pre sent day. My humble idea of the matter then is this : as we have hitherto appeared as hosts and they as guests; as we are on shore and they are afloat, it does not seem necessary to me, under these circumstances, to send our cruisers a long away out to sea to give battle to them ; but as the inter course of the said foreigners is cut off, and they being but scantily supplied with necessaries, the pressure of their suf terings will not allow them to remain a long time anchored in the outer ocean, they must of necessity again enter our inner waters, and ramble and spy about as before. Now I would still furtl.er entice theta to come in by means of our cruisers, and in the mean time I would call out and get ready several hundreds of the people living on the sea coast ; of those who are the stoutest and the bravest, and the best swimmers and divers, I would cause them a: night to divide into groups, to ge diving straight on board the foreign ships, and taking the said forei g ners uaawares, massacre every individual among them. Or I would fit up several hun dreds of fireships beforehand, and cause the most skilful swimmers and divers to go on board of them ; these should take advantage of the wind and let the fircAips go, and close in the wake of these should come our armed crui- sers. But before going into action, I would proclaim to all the soldiers and people that he or they who should be able to take a foreign ship, the entire ship and cargo should bo given them for encouragement; and this being made known, every one would be more eager than the other in pressing forward to the copture ; and what stay, I ask, would these rascally foreigners have to cling to any lon ger ? Would not their hearts, on the contrary, die within theta for fear? Wilether or not my simple view of matters may be cor rect may I beg your Gracious Majesty to send down or ders to the Commissioner, and Viceroy, and Fooyuen of Wangtung, that as an opportunity offers the expel invent may be made ? Only let a plan be laid for a general mas sacre, and these said foreigners cannot but fear and trem ble, and come to implore us. Afterwards, if we find that they can with a sincere and contrite heart repent them of their crimes, then a memorial may be addressed to )our Sacred Majesty, praying that, out of the abundance of your Heavenly goodness, you will again permit them to renew their commercial intercourse. But even then a limit must be put to the export of tea, rhubarb, and such commodities, and they must on no ac count be permitted to exceed the prescribed b:iunds. This is what I call keeping a strong hold upon them ; literally the plan of the nippers. lf, however, they dare afterwards clandestinely to convey opium into the inner land, then at one and the same time I would punish the offending parties with death, according to the new statute, and again cut (Alibr ever their admission to our markets ; this then would most certainly cut off their greed y vi. ws and cleanse the fountain in secula secutorum. Whether my stanid foolish notions may be put in force or not, I humbly pr.sy that my august sovereign ,will bestow on this paper a single holy glance.—A most respectful memorial. ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT. I further find that the Portuguese foreigners who dwell in Macao, a place subject to the jurisdiction of the Heangshan M tgistrate, have received the support and fos tering tenderness of the heavenly dynasty now upwards of 200 years. These said people depend entirely on com merce for subsistence, they follow after no other calling whatever, and were we, in cutting off the intercourse of tho English and other nations, at the same tame to inter dict their admission to our markets, I really fear that these said Macao foreigners would not have wherewithal to exist ; and this would not be manifesting celestial compassion. And yet, if we do net put a limit to their inter course, it will be difficult to secure that the Portuguese won't convey clandestinely (tea and rhubarb) and sell these to the English and other depraved foreigners ; I have, therefore, to beg that a fixed limit be put to the Portu guese commerce from this time henceforward, and that on no account they be permitted to exceed the quantum of cargo which they shall be so restricted to buy and sell, If we find that these Portuguese foreigners do convey gcoda or merchandize, or supplies of food, for the foreigners out. side, we shall then order our native people dwelling at Macao immediately to leave the place, and interdict all intercourse between them and us. It is my h um bl e opi nion of matters that, after having adopted these sagacious plans and reduced things to a proper footing, and when the English and other foreigners shall have truly repented of their crimes and tendered the submission, we should compel the Portuguese to become security for all the other foreigners. And, should in time to come any , opium be brought to China, besides taking the of fending foreign criminal or criminals, and putting him or them to death, in conformity with the new statute, and stopping the trade, we shall take the commercial relations existing between us and the Portuguese, and cut them off for ever, and drive them back to their own country. If we only make a severe statute to this effect, as the wives and families of the said Portuguese have now resided in the inner land for a long time, there is nut one of them who won't lament such a calamity, and act with the greatest circumspection ; and is it to be supposed that any of them will dare to show the slighest symptom of opposition ? Whether or not I may beg the imperial decree of com manding the high officers of Kwangtung province to deli berate upon certain regulations to the foregoing effect, which shall afterwards pass into laws, I am now humbly waiting the decision of my holy master. With the deepest respect I annex this to my memorial. after gain to the injury of men, we did according to the imperial pleasure cut off their trade, and early drove them out of Maca , . Now or, account of the English still hav ing two or th ree house;. here, the great mandarines have isued orde rs to c l ose the customs, not allowing one article of goods t o go out o f Macao, in order to put a stop to this vicious affair. Besides, things are not brought in, so that wood and f ue l are dear, and we have perceived for several days_ th a t th e peop l e ' s feelings were embarrassed ; there_ f.ire on th e 29 : h d ay of the present month, i n t h e i r b ehalf, we petitioned that the customs might be reopened, and we are waiting in expectation of another order allJwing the same. Now we think the store and shop men of Macao may Lope for a return to business. We fear, however, that there are some who will listen to and believe vlptbonds. suffering themselves to be deceived as to the difficulties of the tinws. That all may know, 1, Lion, with reference to those ?mandarins who are able to discover the authors of those vicious deceptions, command that they be seized and b:ought to trial, not one shall escape being most severely ex 4mined and dealt with. At every place to which I have gone in the exercise of guy official duties I have sworn, and made public my deter. urination by suspending the same over the door, saying should I desire money turning topsy turvy right and wrong-, may my posterity be cut off ; should I yield my assent that perverse affairs Vale right, may heaven and earth forbid! - Morcovvr at Macao, where tta^ natives and foreigners are iatermixed there should be caution. A special edict. Taouktvang, 10th year, Ist month, and 30th day. (March 3d, 1840.) Translated by I. J. R.--Ibid. CHINESE TROOPS. Nine Government junks and boats, some cf them of large s!z:±, filled with Chinese troops, have been lying in the inner harbour fot the last eight or ten days. Five are anchored near the Leen-fung temple on the race-course, and four near the house occupied by the - establishment of Messrs. Turner aud Co. Notwithstanding the Taoutae's proclamation, cargo has not been sent from Canton for the ship laid on for Lisbon, which has been detained for more than two months for her teas, S:c. 'ri►e Provincial Gnvernment, it is said, aro building 30 boats in Canton, under the direction of five Chinese boat. builders hired in Macao. They arc to be double-banked, .28 oars on each side; are to be well armed and equipped for the service of capturing opium ships, brigs, and schooners. The Chinese suspect the Taoutae is meditating s)me foul play, because he is building and putting the Pertugese off their guard by fair promises. —Canton Re gisler, March 10, INDIA. ( From the Calcutta Cannier, A Aril 16. ) The ef/adagasear steamer leaves u s to-morrow morning early—for the Straits and China. W e hear her armament i. of the most complete and beautiful description, her large guns over her stern and bow in particular. She is to be followed in a week or two by the Queen, 68 pounders will no doubi soon thunder in the ears of the Celestial Empire the true sense in which the power and gallantry of the Briti di ought. to ba vien4d: the Enterprise follows her— also fur the China expedition. a. Cal Z u .f a . G. B remmer ern : t h e S taff The Mermaid and the Ilead;q es u t a e r r t d e a rs y i o n f p l r i c er sec A i l , ad i nty o .'s f in the r i r.t e r i g ifat ascar steamers this d a y, an d h er Ma 4lhec9ar'vhev to jes;tv's ship Conway, with a division of the Volunteers, sails from Calcutta in about a week or ten days. The whole force shall then have left, and We shall look with great interest for an account of its proceedings.—Calcutta Englishman, April 17. A letter, ander date the 20. h of March, from Jellala_ bad, says—" With regard to the Russians we have had various reports: one that comes from Herat, and given out by the Envoy, is, that the Russian advanced division of 16,000 men was attacked at flight by a horde of c t e n s out in their camp, and they horsemen and severely handli w , d e , r a e nd hal e t h in o l l:r from Khive. Sometime ago a report o f thi s sort ' f l or i t ' y ad m b a r ; reached us from Bukhara, another. and the latest, is from Barnes, who says, that the Russians are again moving. The general opinion is, that their object is to get to Bokhara—and if they succeed ia reaching Khiva after marching over so great an extent of country, it will be an easy journey from Khiva to Bokhara, and at the latter place they will procure cattle and suppli,s in abuu dance, in fact, everything they require; and frol , :i Bokhara to Khoolum is about 30 marches ; their route would he through a country particularly fertile, so that they would hav no necessity for a Commissariat. But from Khoolum to Caubul, a distance of 250 miles, the road leads over passes 12,000 feet in height, in other places through harrow gorges, and for many miles is so nar row, that two horsemen cannot ride abreast, and several officers, who have been that road say, that it is impossible for any army to force those pastes if they are occupied by our troops—therefore we ought to have a few strong regi ments ;, , f infantry always quartered at Caubal, or Chojar. As for cavalry, they are perfectly useless, and only in the way in this mountainous country, end require infantry to protect them. In fact between Ghuz:ice and Peshawur there is not a single piece of ground that cavalry could act on to any advantage."—Beitgal Ilarkara,..April 16. HEtte r. —A letter from Herat, dated the 14th of .J - mury, mentions .that the last report that had reached them regarding the movement of th e R uss i ans on Khi va, is, that the advancing force, not more than 6,000 5tr011 . .., teas still 45 or 50 marches Pram Khiva, and that the cholera had broken out with violence in the Russian Camp. It is believed there that the Russians will not reach' Kfiiva this year. There is an envoy from Khiva at present in Herat, and he seems to be confident of the truth of the above.—Bengal Harkaru. (Front the Bombard Times.) Letters from' Candahar to the 9th of March state, that the road between that city and Cabool had been shut for come weeks. Everything as far as is known is said to he quiet. Shah Soojah proposes to visit Candahar in July Dort Mahomed is reported as in very bad odour at 13okhara. Grain at Candahar was still kigh, but the prospects were favourable, and a magnificent harvest expected all over the country. The seapoys are in better plight, but all cry out " this is not Hindostan." \Vales and all shop goods are much wanted ; nothing we believe but the risk of being plundered on the road deters the shopkeepers from send ing us supplies from Bombay to Candahar. - We would therefore recommend the political agent there and the officers to arrange some plan for the safe conduct of pri vate stores from the Indus, when we doubt not every. thing wanted would soon find its way to the place. THE CI-lINA EX EDITION. The transports I?ustonyee :Cowasjee and John Adanz sailed at day-light on Tuesday morning-, srith the Madras portion of the expedition to the eastward, consisting of, as follows : —1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 9 Captains, 6 Lieutenants, 1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant-Surgeon, 2 Warrant-Officers, and 212 European Artillery, 9 of the Ordnance and Commis sariat Departments, 8 Native Commissioned Officers and 64 Native Artillery, 1 Captain, 6 Lieutenants, 1 Assistant- Surgeon, 1 Warrant Officer, 4 Native Commissioned, 10 European Non-Commissioned, 1 Assistant Apothecary, and 266 Nttive Non-Commissioned and Rank and File Sippers and Miners, with 132 public followers. —Bombay Times. Russia, ever sleepless, appears to have her eyes open to the probable results of the projected British expedition to C'aina. Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 81t ultimo, state that, in a few weeks, a mission was about. to bt. vent by the Emperor to the Court of Peking.—Bumbay Times, April 11. CHINA EXPEDITION.—It appears from general or ders, that spirits wili not Le issued as rations to the Euro pean troops, but in lieu thereof each man will receive a compensation of 3 rupees 2 annas per mensein—the Can teen system will be established on board, but no man will be allowed to purchase a greater quantity of spirits than two drams a day. The European commissioned offi2ers are to have four ninths' advance of pay and allowances, and tho troops two mouths.'—Bengal Hurharu, April 16. (F.-om the Madras Herald, April 4.) We are happy to learn, on the authority of a contem porary, that the left wing of the 15th Hussars, under the command of Sir Walter Scott, arrived safely at Bangalore on the 31st ultimo. PENANG.-AFFRAY ON THE WEST COAST OF SUMATRA. In our last number we made mention of an affray which the French sloop -of- war Laneier had with one of the ports on the west coast of Sumatra. It appears that Monsieur Luco, the chief officer of the French barque Comte de Paris, w as devatched by her comn:ander, Capt. Darico, in a M a l a y a' , sampan on shcre at a place called Senaghun, where sh e was then trading, with a sum or money amounting to 1,045 doll a r s , Cut in conseque nce o f no tidings being subsequently heard of him, it was strongly suspect e d t h at he had been murdered, and his body thrown overboard, notwithstanding the report of the Malays that his death was occasioned by the sampan upsetting in the surf. i t also seems that on Captain Darlue going On shore in corn. party with Captain Sylver of the American ship Lacula, which was likewise then trading at Senaghun, for the purpose of ascertaining more satisfactory pat ticulars of the death of Monsieur Luco, and endeavouring to obtain restitu tion of the money, they were detained two days as prisoners by the Raj,th, but on threatening him that he would be visited with severe chastisement hereafter by some French or Antcrican vessel-of-war thatwould be despatched express. ly to demand satisfaction for these atrocities , boa t the cap. tains were liberated and the money restored. Oa conipLting his business at Senaghun, Capt. Darlue sailed for France, previously leaving with a jaratalis, or writer, who was in his confidence, a letter to be delivered to the first' French vessel that might touch at that port. When the; Lawler arrived at Senaghun, the letter in question was handed to Captain La Roque de Chaufray, who having received from Captain Sylver a confirmation of Captain Darlue's state mept, hp landed with a suitable force c ' n LT fith Ult., but not being able to obtain the surrender of the murderers of M.tLuco, he burnt the village of Senaghun, filled with merchandise of various descriptions, after an obstinate re sistance from the Malaya, many of whom were iligd. The bar of the river qn the Few!) of the french party to th sloop of war being found suddenly cbs:ructed a n d e ren dered i m p assa bl e , the sailors destroyed their boat s to p vent them falling into the hands of the Aidlays, and marched along shore to Annalaboo, F,:ven miles to the nertbward ender the protection of the:Lapcier, w hi undev xZu '6, - f5 "aailihg Orisf, 6 ' tlC . Elsi the ee mW n who were d rowne d o ff t h e bar of the river. Th us, as tel, account states, has most ample vengeance been obtained 'e fo:- the murder of Monsieur Luco.—Gazette, 111, Ircli 7, Ab out m id n i g h t cm Monday s,,,uniight a thu n d er storm o f grea t violence passed oVir 11114 ll e !;44l4llrhwid, Th e tiatitniag pdeulti;elY vivid and d°1111 " M ". and for a short time the rain fell very heavily. We do not hear that any da mate was eaus . ed by the electric Anil—Ha/if - i t , k vpress. The colliers at some of the works at Merthyr s: em determined not to work at reduced prices. Meetings hays been held on the occasion ; and it is feared that the reduction (10 per cent., generally, ) will be severely felt in he place.— Wel Amin, SPIRIT of the PUBLMJOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) It seemed to bo a great annoyance to the Earl of Fal mouth that what he described as " a very mischievous publication called the Anti -Corn-law Circular, had termed the landlords bloodsuckers, robbers of the poor, and ene mies of the poor." Wh y s h ould his lordship be annoyed at mere words? If these epithets have no response in puLlic feeling, they are perfectly harmless. Nay, if all the world knows them to be as outrageouely misapplied, as his Lordship and the Duke of Richmond seem to think they are, the result of employing them must needs be a recoil in favour of the landlords, an ebullition of gratitude for their generosity, and of indignation et the noto rious misrepresentation of their Legislative impar tiality and self-denial. But the supporters of the bread-tax anticipate no such re-action. They cannot, and do not, flatter themselves with the hope of a sense of in justice being excited by these opprobrious appellations. They know, or, if they do not, others know, that even these harsh terms represent a real feeling —an extended and extending feeling. in the public mind. They begin to apprehend that such a feeling is making way amongst th e i r own dependants. , And this is the source of their anger sod apprehension ; • not the unimportant fact, as it would be, that a periodical had employed words that were no sign or symbol of any formidable reality. True or untrue, just or injurious, warrantable or indecorous, the terms in ge es _ lion assuredly represent the thoughts of thousand, a n d millions of our countrymen. Those thoughts will not be changed by the predestined negative upon Earl Fitz wil. liam's proposition. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) If we are to maintain our hitherto unquestioned supre macy at sea, we must not only have good sailors, but good shipwrights ; for, without the aid of the one, without a thoroughly educated, and able, and scientific body of ship wrights, all the skill and gallantry, and hardiness of our brave tars would be of no avail. The two are as neces sary to one another, as body and sent ; and the true way is to offer and secure to both such inducements as to command the best services of the best men. They must be Ifttter paid, and better provided for in every respect. Their work must be rendered a labour of love, instead of a labour of un remunerated compulsion.—all restraints, unnecessary for the good of the service, withdrawn; and as much per sonal freedom, and means of enjoyment imparted, as can be consistently given. These are the true, and we will add, the only means, not only of retaining the navy in its pristine state of efficiency, but of rendering it 'superior to all the navies in the world. Our shipwrights would not be bribed to enter the dockyards of Russia, nor our sailors to prefer the service of the United States to ,that of Old England, with the glory of a thousand heroic victories pointing the way with triumphant mien to thousands of others to be yet achieved. There would be no need to impress the gallant tar to do or die in the service of his country, nor to enter inefficient and uneducated ap prentices in naval establishments, because the skilful and scientific preferred the private dockyard. (From the Morning Herald.) The Palmerston print and the Chronicle have lately been vieing with each other in exhibiting absurd compa r i sons , or rather contrasts, of the General Assembly of the Scot. tish Church with the National School Society in England. It required no ordinary ingenuity, we think, to bring together such very dissimilar subjects ; but it is the ingenuity which is often met with in " Bedlam and the Mint," which defies all the rules of common sense, and which is so extravagant as to set at nought all serious refutations. The General As sembly, as every one knows, answers to the convocation of the English Church, but has no more resemblance to the Na tional School Society than it has to the Universities of Ox ford or Cambridge. But even this absurdity is lost in the rant anti nonsense of the Globe against the National So ciety. "Itis a creation of the Crown." So is the Privy Council and the Education. Committee of the Privy Coun cil. "It withstands the prerogative:' Strange, indeed Is it any part of the royal prerogative to interfere with the charter of a society which has heels created by the Crown ? When the National Society was incorporated, was it ever contemplated that its schools should be visited by in spectors appointed by the Privy Council ? W e con tend that this Charter must be revoked, or altered, before any such visitation can be imposed on its schools, and that, by the regulations of this charter, it is not at liberty to br;ng itself into bondage to any_ such external and alien domination. It is " uncanonical and opposed to episcopal authority." Still stranger—when all the bishops arc ex officio members of its standing com mittee, and when all the Bishops, except the few who arc the creatures of Lord Melbourne and his Cabinet, are una nimous in its support, and adverse to the inspection pro poed by the Privy Council. We think that all this rant and nonsense is undeserving of any serious notice, and that it betokens a total derangement of all regular thought and argument. (From the Morning Post.) We observe that the Government scribes are beginning to exercise their argumentative eloquence upon the edu cation question. Their performance is very vrof•thy !of the patro►,s whom they serve. . The pith and marrow of their diatribes amount to this, that the Church and Tory party upon the education question are " narrow-minded bigots," and that they are not quite agreed among them selves upon the subject. As to the first of these methods of showing the public that the Church party is all in the wrong upon the education question, it has at least the advantage of being extremely easy. It does not re quire much learning, or even good manners, in order to be able to assure one's opponents that they are nar row-minded bigots; and if the persons so described hap_ pin to be distinguished in society for all the milder virtues which shed a lustre upon the most cultivated poi.- don, of the human race, there is so much the more bo!d•- ness in asserting the opposite. These Government writers, who hope to be heard on the subject of education, remind ul of , certain criminals in gaol, who demanded to vote in political elections on the ground that no persons were more interested in promoting the liberty of the people than they were. If lack of education give men a superior claim to be heard upon the subject, there can be little doubt of the right of those persons who attack the principal Bishops and other clergy of England, and the public men who act in concert with them, as " narrow-minded bigots.' PERSECUTION OF DISSENTERS.' ~ - -- It is not generally known, but the fact is undeniable, that, by the Prisons Act of last Session, every Dis senter who holds, the office of chaplain in any prison in Scotland must be turned out of office on the first day of July ensuing, and that all D:ssenters are declared to be incapable of holding the office of prison chaplain after that date. This prevision occurs in the fifteenth section of the Act. It authorises the new County Boards to appoint chaplains and all other prison officers from and after that date, " Provided always, that the chaplains to be so appointed to the General Prison and icons aforesaid shall be ministers or licentiates of the Established Church qf Scotland." We have heard of one case of great injustice which will flow from this provi sion. A highly respectable Dissenter, belonging to the In dependent body, after being employed for ten years as teacher in a large prison, was unanimously appointed to the office of chaplain in the same prison, by a Board composed, we believe, exclusively of Churchmen and Tories. This individual has filled the office of chaplain for several years, devoting his whole time to the instruc tion of the prisoners, as teacher and chaplain, for which he receives a salary of 901. a year. His assi duity and attention to the duties of his office have been such as to merit the approbation of all his superiors. There never was a single complaint made against him for any cause whatever, and yet after fifteen years' service this meritorious indivi dual must be dismissed from his office of chaplain, on the Ist of July, for the crime of being a Dissenter! The objectionaLle proviso, we understand, was added to the Bill in the House of Lords, and was ap proved of by the House of Commons without oppo sition. It was altogether unnecessary in a religious point of view, because, as Dr. Chalmers and other divines of the Church of Scotland have often -stated, there is no difference whatever between the theology of the Church and that of the great body of Dissen ters ; and it has never been alleged that any evil effects have arisen from the appointment of Dissenters to such offices. It can only be regarded, therefore, as intended to exalt the Church and to annoy and discourage Dissenters. It is a curious fact that there are only two oflicos in Scotland which Dissenters are declared, in express terms, to be incapable of holding, namely, chaplains of prisons, and members of the Board for licensing printers of the Bible, and that in both cases the brand of dis qualification was fixed on Dissenters so recently as 1839. We observe that Mr. Fox Manic has obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend this Act, chiefly, we under stand, with a view to give additional powers to unions of counties for the erection of prisons. We hope some independent Member will get a clause inserted repealing this obnoxious proviso.--7 Scotsman. PATRONISED BY THE ROYAL FAIII` ...Y.-- The following eminent authorities have exatr':-„,,a, and recom mended the Patent Spectacles of '.. 1 . 1 r. E. Solomons, Nos. 36, Old Bond-street, and I, Ohl Jewry, City. They possess con siderable advantages over the ordinary glasses, are lighter in construction, and conyqy 4 beautiful coolness to weak or in flamed eyes ~weft itlYAlttible assi s t an t s t o p ersons rea di ng writ ing, 4e, by day, or by l am p s an d ot h er strong li ghts at night; theydi prese rve v i s i on to extreme old age :—Sir Benjamin C. e, Bart., F. R. S. ; Sir Anthony Carlisle, F. R. S. ; Sir James E. Anderson, M.D. New Burlington-street; Dr. James Johnson, Suffolk-place; ct Aston Key, Esq., St. Helen's place ; Martin %re ' Esq., New Bridge -stre e t ; B rans b y B. Coqp c ;7, 1 sq.',4'. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, New-greet, Spring-gardens ;W. Coulson, Esq., Frederick-place, Old Jewry ; J. G. Andrews, Esq., Senkr Surgeon to the London Hospital, St, tleliai's place; Dr. Conquest, Finsbury -square; .Egli:. 7eott, Esq., New Broad street ; E. W. Duffin, Esq.,. Langha m -place; J. Copland, Esq. , M. D. , F. R.. S. , Bulstrode street, Manchester-square. Mr. E. Solomon's Voice Conduc tors are worn unperceived, as they measure only one quarter of an inch in diameter. By their use musical sounds, and the lowest whisper breathed at a public assembly, vibrate on the or gans of hearing in such a peasant manner as to afford instant relief ti l all persons labouring under th e di stress i ng a il ment o f deafness. 3lr. E. S. being totally unconnected with parties of a similar name, the above inventions can only be procured at his Establishments, No, 1, Old Jewry, City, and 36, Old Bond street, Piccadilly. cki p t c 4 1-lentry Hope, R.N., has. g ;'eb 0 -00/. in aid of the funds of the Roy a l N ava l Female School; and Rea Admiral F. W. Fane has also given 64/.. ihesedonation r ; being in addition to former contributions by the same benevoler o _ ,47o • „Ai " A lady" has sent 50!. to assist in fitting up the house for the intended school. The Marquis of Salisbury, who came up to town last week from Hatfield House, Herts, returned on Saturday. His Lordship lays the foundation stone of the Hertford Na tional Schools this day, and to-morrow the yeomanry races take place in the park, when the Noble Marquis as Colonel, gives several elegant tuns to the successful Primnatitnre PEKING. A spirit of discontent and rebellion has gained cohsi derably upon the inhabitants of th e ca pit a l, an d g i v e n rise to the establishment of numerous illegal associations and brotherhoods in the very precincts of the palace. The report of this state of things does not proceed from the pencil of a misanthrope, but from the Court itself, and may therefore be considered as by no means exaggerated. Defiance of the constituted authorities, robbery in open daylight, and excesses of every description are the imme diate consequences. The inference we must draw from this is, that the Supreme Government is either too weak to oppose effective restraint, or that the police is leagued with the outlaws. After much search five per sons have been discovered who bad joined them selves by an oath, besmearing their mouths and swear ing eternal fidelity to each other. Though th,y are guilty of no ether crime, they have been delivered over to the tribunal of punishment, to be dealt with aceardin,„a to the law, which denounces proceedings. The Imperial- tombs have been again violated, much to the grief of old Tacilkwonv,. Little as we know about the Celestial Court, tliJru seems to be much agitation amongst the dense population. At Monkden, the second capital, mat ters are by no means better, as the translati on of the fo!_ !owing, edict will show. The riots there have be en worse than nt Birmin g ham, but Celestial justice is summary._ patch the cr i m i va i sl ~ yllether chartists or common agitator s , and if you cannot d o so within a specatd t;rno you must take the consequences. Trial, sentence, and eit!euLion, are is this land synonymous terms. We have yeeeived an Imperial edict to the following effect She and Ying have piegentei j 4 ,Creak reouesting to degrade some assistant magistrates for not koePiAli a p«roper watch and the consequent escape of some criminals, that then may in fawre seize them in good earnest. It appears that ;eyeral persons, guilty of murder, though their negli gence abscokied, apd subsequently plotted together to the number of several liund';e4 to A, , I=3 at Al° "kden. Eighteen of them hoe SAW, Gazetle. • PROCLAMATION BY YIH. Yilt,•by imperial appointment Pingspe-taou of the two 4ac!4 and Levu, ruler of the naval and land officers and soldiers of TA'ee"ii:shai.; isc;:ez this i;roJamation that the natives and foreigners of the stores and shops cf Macao may fully know. —as the English formerly sold opium, schmirg VS' nr.„„: TILE REVILED ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY STAUNCH LOYALISTS! (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) CORK, JUNE,4:IB4O. The Roman Catholic Clergy of the diocese'of Cork assembled at the annual Synod yesterday, at the Ca thedral, subsequently to the celebration of high mass for the repose of the souls of the deceased Bishops and Priests of the diocese, the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, R. C, Bishop of Cork, officiating as High Priest, assisted by the Archdeacon O'Keeffe, a Deacon, and Sub-Deacon. In the evening the clergy entertained their respected Diocesan at dinner at the Victoria Hotel, where a superb entertainment was prepared for them by 111(Cormac, the spirited and enterprising proprietor, whose selection of viands, including the choicest deli cacies of the season, and wines of the richest vintage, conduced, of course, to render their social 'ineeting as agreeable as possible. The Very Rev. I'. O'Keeffe, Archdeacon, presided, having on his right the Right Rev. Bishop, Rev. Dr. M'Sweeeny, P. P. Bandon, Rev. Messrs, Mahony and Murphey ; and on his left the Very Rev. T. Barry, P. P. Bantry, Very Rev. Justin F. M'Natnara, •P. P. Kinsale, Rev. Messrs. Falvey and Field. The Vice-Presidents were the Rev. T. Englani, P.P. Passage, and the Rev. William O'Con nor, of the South Presbytery. After the cloth was removed, the Very Rev. Chair man, with a suitable preface, proposed the health of the " Holy Father the Pope, whose exemplary lite, whose learning and great acquirements emi nently entitled him 'to• the high and important position which he occupied over God's Church." The toast was drunk with all the honours. The next toast was the Queen, which the Chairman prefaced by saying that she was the first Sovereign for centuries who, by the aid of a Liberal Ministry, was determined to pro mote the general welfare of her subjects, without pre ference to creed, acknowledging the right of ail men to protectio n and to patronage, according to their moral worth and public usefulness. The toast was responded to in the warmest possible manner, the whole company rising from their seats, and with flowing cups and over flowing hearts pledging their most gracious, patriotic, and Constitutional Sovereign in nine times nine, and one cheer more. At the conclusion of this testimony of esteem and loyalty, all still standing, harmonised the na tional anthem " God save Victoria" in the most effec tive manner. This evidence of gratitude and respect to their beloved Queen was worthy of them as gentle men .and members of their high calling, and in the minds of those who witnessed it reflected no small de gree of comparison between them and those Law-Church Dignitaries who hitherto claimed the exclusive right of testifying loyal feelings towards the Sovereign. The toast which followed was that of the Right Reverend Guest, which was prefaced in a most complimentary manner by the Chairman, who alluded to the parental kindness with which his Lord ship treated his clergy, a course which insured for him their warmest esteem and affection. He (the Chair man) knew he was only declaring the sentiments of his reverend brethren, when he fervently prayed that the God of Mercies, whom he devoutly served, would spare his Lordship for many years to direct and edify his flock. The company testified their fullest concurrence in the sentiments expressed by the reverend proposer, by drinking the toast with enthusiasm. His LORDSHIP, in 'returnin g thanks, said that he felt grateful fir the honour conferred upon him, but more than grateful for the feelings of regard conveyed, not only by the Very Rev. Chairman, but by all his brethren present. His time of labour was nearly over ; but he felt consoled and happy in seeing that his clergy were well able to labour in the vineyard, and determined not to be unprofitable servants. He hoped that in the work of God they would still go on to give their unceasing labour, us he knew the Lord would give the increase. In' conclusion, the worthy Prelate begged their co-ope ration in the great work of the propagation of the faith, which, he said, was to carry the light of the Gospel to the nations, which were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death. Tim CHAIRMAN next proposed " His Royal High nes.; Prince Albert," whose health was warmly received. Then followed that of the Right Reverend Dr. England, R.C.8., •of Charleston, his brother, the Reverend Thomas England, returning thanks ; to which succeeded that of the Right Rev. Dr. Clan ehy, Roman Catholic Bishop of British Guiana, his brother, the Rev. Mr. Clancby respondi ng to the t oas t. The Rev. Gentlemen separated at the early hour of half-past nine o'clock, after spending a delightful even ing in the interchange of friendly and social converse with each other, which is much enjoyed by them on those occasions, when assembled from their distant pa rishes over the extended circuit of this diocese. I should state to you that amongst other topics which engaged the Synod in the early part of the day, that of the Government system of National Education was one brought before their notice by the Right. Rev. Bishop, who, requesting their opinion, of it, and its working, received the fullest expression from all of their approval of the arrangements of the Board, and the conducting of the schools. The establishment of those schools is considered a great blessing in this country. The subject of a m )nument to a respected fellow-citizen, the late Wiliam Crawford, Esq., was mooted, when several members expressed gratitude to him for the liberality with which he, at all times, met the many ap pals made to him for the building of chapels, and for charitable purposes. They also testified their admira tion of his moral worth and high and uniformly liberal principles. The clergy will subscribe over 601. to the intended testimony of respect to the lamented gentle- man. HAMBEJRGH MAIL. HANOVER, MAY 28.—The proposed new regulations (standing orders) of the Chamber determine that in the second Chamber the presence of 20 'members shall be sufficient to proceed to business, so that, as the number of members will be increased by the new Counsellors of Finance, only a fourth part of the members will suffice, instead of half, as is now the case. Besides these new regulations a new electoral law will be laid before the Chamber, as the existing Ordinance (of February, 1832) is insufficient. HANOVER, MAY 30.—The Committee met yester day which is to examine the question respecting the Constitution of East Friedland, and how far a re-esta blishment of it is possible. The result can hardly be doubtful. Even a partial re-establishment of that Con stitution of East Friedland (of 1806) is almost incon ceivable. In fact, it almost seems to be doubted whether its re-establishment is wished by the province of East Friedland. HAMBURGII, JUNE 3.—The number of ships of all nations that passed the Sound in the month of April, 1840, was, from the Baltic, 621, from the North Sea. 956, total 1,607 ; of which 390 were English, via. 323 from the North Sea, and 67 from the Baltic, VIENNA, MAY 26.—We understand that a requisi tion has been made by the Russian Government to Austria, to remove from Gallicia several individuals who are said to have taken refuge in that country, and who were implicated in the last revolution. The same 'request was made some time ago with respect to Hun gary. It was not till very lately that just punishment overtook several Poles convicted of political offences, who are confined in the Spielberg ; but the humane spirit of our Government, which but lately published a general amnesty, will certainly not exercise any severity bey and what is preScribed by necessity and the treaties. IlAmuor.on, JUNE 4.—llcr Imperial Highness the Grand thiChess Helen, consort of the Grand Duke Michael, travelling under the title of Countess Roma now, has arrived here with her three daughters. ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 28.—General von Reniskr- Korsakow died on the 25th inst. in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He was made a member of the Coun• cil of the Empire, in 1838 .—Hamburgh Papers, June 5. BELGIAN I' UNDS.BRUSSELS, JUNE 6. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C , nt I trd Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent...,,...., 1.153 i 3 e Loan of City, 1532,4 per Cent Cent. 73 , 4 Society of Comnwrce, 4!4 per Cent •, lIU Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... 9 S National Society. Exchange on Londois (shoal ..... t P . % —Brussels Papers, 4que G. AUSTRIAN FUNDS ' - ‘ V II Y ".A MAY A live per Cents. Emir per Cents.... Three per Cents Bank Shares 14 N 1011 4 F 2 1137 g .genteine &Wang, June 3, , THE ARCIIIMEDES.—This vessel, the arrival of which is noticed in a separate paragraph, will, at noon to day, take a trip for the purpose of exhibiting her novel powers to the merchants and the shipowners of Liverpool. We are informed by Commander Chappel, R. N., who accompanies Mr. Smith, the inventor of the screw by which she is impelled, for the purpose of reporting to the Lords of the Admiralty the ves sel's performances with the screw, that on the voyage from the Thames to the Mersey, the Archimedes fully came up to the expectations which had been previously formed of her per formance, whether under sail or impelled by the screw. So far, therefore, the invention may be considered to have sue ceeded,—lts application to merchant vessels, as an auxiliary to sails, remains to be tested. —Liverpool 'Won. MATRIMONIAL BLUNDER.—Not long ago a bridegroom, with his fair bride, living at no great distance from Leith Fort, went to a Dissenting clergyman in the same neigh bourhood to get the hymeneal knot adjusted, but on the clergy man demanding the lines, he found they were forgotten. The blooming bride, in whose possession they were, was thereupon despatched for theft, and after a tedious search among bottles and whisky barrels (the bride bring a dealer in aquavits:), abe at last, as she imagined, found the bona fide youct;„;.,- with which she hastened to the clergyman's hou . ::; c --ont on being o ex f a t m le in l e n d ar b r y ia t g h e e p il a n r e s s o : nte was ?,sti --. ..;ned to find, that, instead ion mit. Th. ' to tie the knot on such a of a whisky per _ varsoit nut cho wa os l ing i -vomiter, made the fair bride retrace her steps homeward to find the in was fortunate enough to do, genuine document, s e v l l t iic t i h i e (a p flr u a et l i o e n n g o s f e t a v r h c i l e i i ) t she the parson performed the ceremony, and the happy pair went home in the greatest eestaev.--Scoisman. SINGULAR dccurinENcE.—A friend of outs on a visit at Pisley, near"Northwingfield, on Sunday last, wit nessed a pig very farigusly attack a hen with a br oo d o f chickens,in a farm yard in that village, and completely w orr y her.—Derbyshire Chro!ii?te. On Friday se'nnight a footrace took Mace at Weldrake, between two gentlemen, one aged ninety-two and the other eighty-seven years ! The running was excellent, and . tvnn by nese. EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. The Mittvis of Norrnanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiencervesterday of the aka, }lig Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Duchess of kept yesterday at ltigestrie House, Belgrave.square. The Royal ginner party at the Palace last evening in. eluded his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen Vis. count Melbour ne , Vi scoun t D uneannon, Lord L;lford, Lord George Lennox, Sir John Hebhouse, and Colonel Wylde, The hand of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attended during the evening at the Palace. The DUchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cam bridge, and the Prince of Leiningcn, visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Dukean3 Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, honoured the Earl and Countess of Jersey with-their compt:ny at dinner, last evening, at their resi dence in Berkeley-square. The Duchess or Gloucester and Prince George of Camlar;dge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Cla renee House, St. lusts's. M. Grote, M. P., Mr. Pattison, M. P., Mr. Lowe and Mr. Wire, had an interview with the Marqu:s of Normanby yesterday at the Horne-eft-ice. The * Eta of Stair and the Earl of Zeticnii had inter views y(statday with Vit2count ALlbourne in Downine str. et. A deputation. consisting of Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., Dr. Lee, and Mr. Perry, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Home-Gffice. Captain Williams, Captain Winnington, M. P., and Mr. Charles Pearson, had interviews yesterday with the Mar quis of Norwanby. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL. Mr. Samuel Spry, M.P., from his seat in Cornwall. DEPARTURES. _ The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, on a visit to Lord Dacre, at the Hoo, Hertfordshire ; Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Arinytage, for Ryde, Isle ef Wight ; the Countess Dalberg-Acton, from the Clarendon, for Aldenham Park, Bridgenorth ; Mr. Puike and Lady Rosa Greville, for Wilmer, Kent ; Major Lamont, for Baal ; Lady Carew, for ditto; Colonel Lasielles, grenadier guards, for New York ; Count and Countess Ottegarty and suite, for Os tend ; Right Hon. Joseph Planta and Mrs. Pl anta , f or St. Leona.rd'i-on-Sea; Capta;n Harrington, R. N., for Rydc ; the lion. Wellington Cotton, 7th hussars, for New York, en route to Quebec; Colonel Boldero, grenadier guards ; the Dean of Gloucester, for Clifton; the Hon. John Pon:otiby, M. P,, for Dover; the Hon. Cornwallis Maude, 2d life gu..rds, for Windsor; Admiral Si r m ows . Biker; CA Thompson, IL E., for Archcliffe Fort. THEATRES. HER MAJESTY'S. The veteran Dowton took his benefit last night at the Italian Deere House, which was well filled with an audie ence anxious to do honour to his farewell. The committee. or a portion of it, superintended the arrangements of the benefit, and selected with some appropriateness, as the first perferrnance, the comedy of The Poor Gentleman, which was pr o d uce d w i t h a sp l end i d strength of .ease__ the rteult of a fre , -hearted and cordial co - operation of friendship on the part of the members of the histronie pro-- fes.sien, who regarded Dowton with something of the re spect and affection, bestowed upon Nestor by the Gr e ci an chiefs. Thus we had Farrell as Corporal Foss, Webster as Farmerflarrowby, Harl e ye as 011apod, Meadovis as St ep h en llarrowbv, Cooper as Lieut. Worthington, Mi en T ree as Emily, Mrs. Clover at Lucretia Mactab, Mrs. Humley as Mary, and las:, not least, Dowton himself as Sir Robert Bretuble. The comedy, with such a cast, does not call for criticism. The reception of each popular actor in succes sion was tea iced eith coesiderable enthusiasm; but that of Do vs ton wa , truly overpowering, and affected the old Juan t.) tears. He was. indeed, completely over orne• for the moment, and could not recover from his emotion to go more that, feebly through the part. The acting gene rally was, in particular episodes, a good deal applauded ; but t h e ! met emphatic cheering w as bestowed by the audience upon tan lines cf the epilogue Ahichh,re marked allusion, to the event of the night— ., It .we this slight succeed, Then the poor gentleman is rich iresieed." After the comedy, Sheridan Knowles came forward, full of the excitement o f scam benevolence, and delivered a poetical address, eritten by himeelf for the occasion. Knoe les wait/11v dice - fed at each of the obvious points of the address, l ie gave with the natural eloquenee of sincere feeling ; and ellen it terminated, the curtain rose, and the poet presented the actor, supported and bur rounded by almost all the genernus, the gifted, and emi nent of the probssiou cow it the metropolis. The ap plause was vociferous, and the " Old Friend" of the public bowed his thanks to their last greeting. When he retired, the performers echoed the enthusiasm of the audience with thcee hearty cheers front behind the curtain ; and so Dow. tot' took his farewell. The other performances then took their course; resuming with a Musical P ast i ec i o, i u which Grisi a n d Madame Dorus Gras both took pert: This kin ,- Tne;s was highly honourable to bosh ladies. The farce of Gretna Green sueecedod e Wrench, Oxbetry, and Miss. Kelly sustaining the principal characters. DRUR Y LANJ.. Tuis theatre was last night opened by Mr. Eliason for every i„di, i . l a i ti l o vh n ic o h t t f h i c ittze ana p g a e tr ireiaigt patronage a series of summer cnnecrts. Vi r e! were glad to see a fall audience—for the most part Plegantly attired—and giving d t e h s e erv s e p Tile ratio e th eu is la m tio u n at . f course be in urorortion to the merit and excellence of the musical petforatanec - a. Of the first night we cag.speak terms of aline:at unqualified prais e . The superb orchestra of ninety-. 103 performers were most admirably under the discipline of tacit- conductors, and the selection of thu evening was marked viith the best taste and judgment. The concert opened with the overture to La Gaza Ladra, which was encored. It was played magnificently; and no le s a quadrille, the composition of Julien, who dircc.ed, succeeded. It was a pleasant, lively, perform ance, fuil of originality, and endued with the true Terpoi6 chorean spirit. E,vefi for this there was a struggle for an encore. The great triumph of the night was, however, the B.e:hovea symphony in C minor, which it reflects the utmost credit upon Mr. Eliason to have so produced, Auber's overture to Ganelia was the nest Crowning gem", Koenig, who made last night his first appearance in this country, confirmed the fame which preceded hits, by his, exquisite performance of a solo on the comet a piston. Eliason, in making his appearance in the orchestra, was enthusiastically cheered ; and IVlonsieus Julien, whom Ita introduced, also met with a warm welcome. Al 'MARKET. Last night Charles Kean made his first app ea ra'4 since his return from America, in the character of Richard. His performances excited great interest, for the Irouse at first price was clouded to the slips, and the sou:, actor was applauded warmly from first to last, and lor.dly called for at the fall of the curtain. The orals novrl feature in the getting up of the play was the introduetkm of new scenery, from superb evienterAs of the Bglinton Tournament.; ASTLEY'S. Monday, and the announcement of " a new got.- g,uus dramatic spectacle," attracted an audience more nu merous than select to Astley's on last evening. The ladies in the classic regions bore the heat like salaman. ders, forgetting in the intensity of the drama th, altitude of the thermometer, and they were not without their re ward, for certainly never during our experience of Astley's . has a mo re e ff ect i ve spectac l e b een produced in that theatre of spectacle than The Tower of London. Of course no body expects to hear of the plot, for plot there was none; but there was splendid scenery and magnificent tableau, in which the equine company appeared to great advantage, and the biped s..ud emulated them at a respectful distance. After tha spectacle the elephant appeared, and was received as an old friend, and the evening's entertainment concluded with the usual scenes in the circle. • • SURREY. The manager of the Surrey treated the Whitsuntide folks with two new pieces on Monday evening. Tho first, a piece of " intense" interest, called The Factory Boy, produced many a sympathising tear from the pit and gal lery ; and the second, a comic interlude, set them a laughing as none but holiday folks can laugh. The first piece would have been rather au effective melodrama if o : , e actors did not roar so loudly ; b'ut the second, we fes i , is doomed to a speedy dissolution. The house was ;ull in every part. THE ARMY. The head -quarters of the Royal Scots 'are's., from Dub lin to Liverpool, rolleved by the 6th Dragoons, The 19,h Regiment, from Dublin, t o C o rk. The 9th Lancers are to relievr,the 4th Light Dragoons, and the 14th Light Dragoons to, relieve the 16th Lancers, on the India establishment. The 13th Light Dragoons, on landing at Gravesend, marched for Canterbury. The 12th Lancers, trom Brighton to Ireland. The 1 Ith Light Dragoons, from Canterbury to Brightea. The 1711: Lincers, ii•om Du : one troop for Cakir, another for Kilkenny. "21 1 c e 4 6 t o h i ß g i h fl t e D d r e a p g o o t, on fr s ;m a 1 a c r o g r eid: o ta p ch o m rt e sm nt ov f; l l 4 :o O,b a y. The Ist Royal Dragoons—three troops from Sheffield . to Glasgow. TireT e 77:) 7th Dragoons, depot, from r o fro G m l a s y g o o r w k, Nottingham.riing. The 4th Royal Irish DragrAmi, from Birmingham to Leeds. The 3th, or King's Irish Hussars, from Leeds to Norwich. The 47 from Enniskillen to Belturbet. The 86th. Regiment; from Liverpool to Belfast. The 56th depot, from Belfast to Newry. The 20th Regiment, now at Stockport, relieves the 19th at Dublin. TREE. —This mem ora bl e tree, 44UEEN MA RYS which has braved the blasts of centuries, yielded to th e f ury o f the gale on Monday last. I t stoo d at the east end of the vil lage of Duddingstone, about two miles from Edinburgh, and nearly Opposite Lord Abercorn's gate. It was perhaps one a the oldest thorn trees in Scotland, and of the greatest dimen sions. Its exact measurement we do not at present recollect, but we know, that two men embracing its trunk, at opposite sides, could not make their hands to meet. It was commonly called Queen Mary'. Tree, though it is probable that it Way planted before ber reign. It formerly steod w ithin a park. but nn widening the carriage road, it was brought outside about tea or twelve . was ago, and th en it seemed on its last leg*, sever al fissures appearing in the t run k, th roug h w hi c h the , elements of air and water were fast consuming the venerable tree. Tb* road trnstees had these fissures filled up with stone and lime, and bad it otherwise protected, but the violence of the gale on Monday pulled it up by the roots, laying it along a shattered and withered trunk ; and thus another of the memorials of Ore unfortunate Mary has perished, and in the vicinity of her Holy- to the lotted .oilin , a nor :e in rive the hen cer,