The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-18 00:00:00

EVF,NING EDITION. charge which they may demand for the carriage. and th is ut nitation includes the charge for locomotive power as well as the c h arge f or to ll. I t appears, however, that they do not charge the maximum to which they are entitled by the Aft; and it is acknowledged that their prices are fixed, W ith reference to the prices for water-carriage, between toe towns of Liverpool and Manchester; between which tWo places there are three water conveyances, upon two of which the owners themselves are carriers, in addition to several independent carriers who use these lines of water co mmunication. On the Grand Junction Railway bath these systems are 1 ° operation ; the Company act as carriers, and private carriers have also been admitted on the line. The arrange tents under which the carrying business is at present c onducted on this line appears to have been attended with th eenvenience to a portion of the public, and to have created much ill feeling between the parties concerned. The Company, before admitting any carrier on their Rail -43,, bind him by agreement not to charge his emp l oyers Rail -743,, for the carriage of goods than the price which the ts o mPany demand. It is cbvious that under such a system 7 4 e public can derive very little benefit from the compe "ti°o, while the jealousies that have arisen betwe en the se rvants of the different parties have created many bin °rancor to the traffic, and consequent complaints from the public. The Directors of this Railway have stated to your Committee that they feel great inconve nience from the present arrangements, and that in their opinion it will be necessary that the whole carrying trade should be undertaken by the Railway Company, to the exclusion of the private carriers; and that, in fact, it Is their intention to become the sole carriers on the line, While no restriction will be imposed upon them by law IS to the amount of their rates of charge. The evidence clearly shows that if the Railway Directors determ i ne to carry this opinion into practice, it will be quite imposs .ble 9r- the private carriers to continue their business ; and the entire traffic upon the line of a Railway must inevi tably fall into the hands of the Railway Company, unless to Legislature should think it expedient to interfere. _lour Committee have therefore felt it to be their duty to Inquire, whether or not the public interest makes it desir able that Parliament should interfere. The only measure Which could effectually protect the carriers against the competition of the Railway Company, on whose line they *unduct their business, would be a prohibition to Railway Companies from acting as carriers. A full consideration of all the circumstances, and a due regard for the inte vests of the public, as well as of the parties more imme diately concerned in these undertakings, have induced lour Committee to recommend that no such measure should be adopted by the Legislature; but while they de 'clare their opinion that such an interference would be in expedient, they feel strongly the necessity that the public should be protected against the imposition of exorbitant Charges for the carriage of goods. A reference to theklause in the Manchester and Liver- Pool Railway Acs* will illustrate the view taken by your Committee, but they feel that the various circumstances °f different Railways make it desirable that the nature of the particular traffic upon each Railway should be consi dered before any such maximum rates can be decided upon ; and they believe that until further information shall have been obtained through the intervention of the proposed S Uperintendence, Parliament cannot be in a situation to . i °rPx a correct opinion upan this difficult and important subject. In support of this recommendation, that Railway Com panies should be restricted to a maximum charge for con veyance, your Committee beg to advert to the supply of the London market, and to direct the attention of the House to the manner in which that supply is collected, conveyed, mei disposed of; and your Committee cannot avoid remarking, that when the private carriers have been supplanted by the Railway Companies, an important por tion of the supply of the metropolis will be left in the hands of these great Companies. It has also been urged °Pon the attention of the Committee, that the public de live great advantage from the present mode of conveying goods from one part of the kingdom to another, the car. her being responsible for their safe delivery ; and it has hem stated, that this advantage will be greatly enhanced When the several Railways now in progress shall have been completed. because the carrier will then make his arrange °lents for the distribution of the goods entrusted to him throughout all parts of the country, and the consigner of the goods need not inquire over how many different Rail ways his goods are to be conveyed, nor, in case of their delay or their loss, need he endeavour to trace out which !Railway is in fault; carriers also, in many parts of the country, can convey goods partly by Railway and partly s'Y road, a service which cannot be performed by Railway Dieectors, unless they engage in a branch of business en tirely et variance with their proper duties. In answer to this, it ~'as been said that the Railway Companies will form simile: arrangements to those now made by the car riers, and that whenever goods are sent by these con. eeyances, the Rai;:cay to which they were in the first in stance committed meal: and will be responsible for their due, regular, and safe delivery. Having thus stated the difficulties in which this ques tion is involved, your Committee may here further ob serve, that different systems are in operation, not only upon the three lines of Railway above-mentioned, but also upon Many other lines in various parts of the country ; whence it must be inferred that those persons who arc best informed °Pon the subject, and most interested in arriving at a correct conclusion, have not yet determined which system will be at tended with the greatest permanent advantage. The Rail- W u, Directors have not usually kept their accounts in such °form as to enable them readily to distinguish the profits "Bich they derive as carriers from the profits which t he y r eceive as toll proprietors, and consequently any accurate c omparison of the practical working of these systems ap pears at present impossible. With every desire, therefore, le offer a definite opinion to the House, and to point out, in regard to this important question, which system is best calculated to promote the interests of the public, your Committee yet feel that at the pi esent time any legislative interference, for the purpose of preventing Railway Corn- Panics obtaining a monopoly of conveyance, or for the Purpose of obliging them to undertake the carriage of goods, would be equally objectionable ; and they believe that by suggesting the appointment of an authority to Watch the different systems practised upon the different lines of Railway, they are recommending the course best calculated to insure the protection of the public interests, without occasioning any ground of alarm to those persons bo have invested their property in these vast under takings, which promise to become one of the greatest im• / I rovernents of modern times, and to open new sources of Wealth and prosperity to the nation. May 14, 1840. * And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Company, and they are hereby authorized and required to ear and convey over, along, and upon the said Railway or 'ratnroad, or any part thereof respectively, all such goods, Wares, and merchandize, articles, matters, and things as shall Le offered to them for that purpose; and to ask, demand, re `'e,e've, and recover, to and for the use and bene fi t of the said 'Quipany, for such carr age and conveyance as aforesaid of all 1 1" d ds, wares, merchandize, articles, matters , or things carried n conveyed along and upon the same, for the whole length cr distance thereof, including the severzl rates hereinbefore autlio ' rized to be charged and received, as and for tonnage and tolls, a e rlY suns of money not exceeding the following sums.—( Here follow the tolls.) LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(T HIS DAY) DEAL, MAY 16.—Wind W. S. W. MAY 17. —Wind m oderate.—Arrived the Madagascar, Gimbictt, from Cal ' cotta ; Vasco de Gams, Rogers, Batavia ; Anna Maria, R yan, Calcutta ; Dauntless, Corlass, ditto. Sailed the Duke of Gloucester, Solby, for Barbadoes ; Catherine, ,-70ffey,.Quebec • Pera, Fenning - , Lyra; Lyra. Swan, St. 4 ago de Cuba : 'President, Chadwick°, Ncw York. LIVERPOOL, MAY 17. —Wind W. N. W. , fresh.— Arrived the Farmer, from Savanilla, after being aground en Burbo , 13 aak ; Rochdale, Shepherd, St. Vincent; Alice Jane, tileasdale, Laguna ; New Thomas, Nicol, Capo of . Good Hope; Agnes, Lima; Fortitude, Arbutl:nit and Catherine, Whitney Monte Video; Gardiner, Jai.k4on, and Leo, Kendall, St. Marks; Isaac Hicks, Potts, Mobile; Gloucester, Aikin ;Franklyn, Burgess, New Orleans; Azo airnbe, and Brunette, Robinson, ditto; Virginia. Barstow, Natchez ; Ann Wynne, Cybele ; Ann Eliza, Maddison, and Pocahontas, Baltimore; Potomac, Gorham, Charles ' ton ; Sullivan, Brown, ditto ; Angora, Salisbury, St. Ja aeph's ; Albion, Lovatt, New York, sailed 20:1r ult., Erie, Funell, ditto ; Lady Douglas, David, Odessa; Julie , ditto; Friendship, Smyrna; Whealto, Ilarnlyon;Malaga; Dart, St. Ander ; Amazon, Simson, Savannah; Dalkeith, Faro; Heart of Oak, M'Donald, Mauritius, sailed 29th February. PLYMOUTH, MAY 17. —Wind S. W.— Arriv d the Ca therine, Cromer, from St. Domingo; James Bales, Bai ley, Odessa. FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind W. to W. S. W., strong breezes and squally. 16.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breeze. —Arrived the Royal Tar steam. , r, Brooks from Gibraltar, left 7th inst., Cadiz, tith, Lisbon, 11th, Oporto 12 h, and Vigo, 13th ; Treasurer, SJuril, Odessa. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17.—Arrived the Nymph, Ear wicker, from St. Michael's. COWES, MAY 17.—Arrived the Florence, Stoddart, from Hava.nnah. SALCOMBE, MAY 17.—Off port the Facility, Vincent, from Malaga ; Ceres, Haslewood, Demerara. , GUERNSEY, MAY 14.—Sailed the Isabella, Cunning "ln. from Havannah. SWANSEA, MAY 16. —Arrived the Cohn, Neilson, from Valparaiso ; James Wright, Cum rings, Coba. GLOU C E S TER, MAY 16.—Sailed the Aurora, Martino- Leh, from New York. DUBLIN, MAY I4.—Arrived Monkton, Arinan, Marsala. , VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH. —Corinna, from Liver p ool to t ne Cap e of Good Hope, lat. 43, lon. 13, by the Proteus, balling, arrived off Falmouth. Her Nlajesty's ship Salle, 3d March, bound t o Sierra Leone ; Topaz, Boston t° Rotterdam, out thirty days; A lvina, Harma p ed, out f orty-five days ; Hathemy, boun d to Madras, lat. 3, lon. 16 ; Isakella Thompson, 1 ultimo, by the C Aden Spring arrived in the Downs. Eleanor, Falmouth to Quebec, Ist instant, lat. 51, lon. 21, by the Francis Jeffery, ar rived at Falmouth. Garonne, Casseboom, 21 ultimo. lat. 38 , lon. 57, by the Augusta Emeline, arrived off ()nth. George the Fourth, Liverpool to New Zealand, 6 th ultimo, lat. 1, lon. 20 ; Cleopatra , Bth, lat. 3, lon. g 2; Cherubim, Calcutta to Clyde, 9th , lat. 5, lon. 24, the Cordelia, Creighton, arrived at Liverpool. Lord Auckland, M'Donald, London to Bombay, 6111 ultimo, on t he Equator. THE NEW SERGEANT.—We have the greatest satisfaction in announcing that Mr. Richard Moore is the new Sergeant. In professional standing Mr. Moore is eminently entitled to the highest legal station ; but upon other grounds i ns appointment will afford much gratification to the public as Well as to the sound-thinking portion of the Bar.—Dublin Evening Post. We have reason to believe, that at the present Moment a vast number of Bank of England notes are in circu lation in this district of the kingdom, and the traffic in base "in aPpear's also to be carried on to an equally serious extent. ---Birmingham Advertiser. DUBLIN, MAY 15.—The Evening Mail con tained last night an account of the death of Lord Rossmore. The report is unfounded, and, according to the letters received trona Monaghan this morning, the Noble Lord was much better yesterday.—Morning Chronicle. LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 18, 1840. We gave on Saturday an account of the financial measures proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and shall no•,v state our opinion of them. Hitherto it has been one of the great, if not the very greatest merits of the Whigs, that they re duced expenditure, and diminished taxation. This was the redeeming topic to which their advocates always referred most triumphantly when any con trast was instituted between them and the Tories, and when any invidious doubt was thrown on their patriotism. Even so late as Saturday the Globe published a statement, which we willingly repro duce, of the savings of the Whigs : By the tables printed by order of Parliament in pur suance of Mr. Herrics' motion, is shown the aluital reve nue and e xpendilnre of the two Governments. Kir the last four years of each the account stands thus : Last 4 years of Tory government.... £206,( 97,940 Last 4 years of Whig government 190,739,895 Whig saving in four years In addition to this the Whigs relieved the count!) , in taxation to the amount of the boasted Tory surplus ; which, in the language of the Post, " places in a strong light . the contrast between the practical reselts" of the NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from a Return of the number of Stamps issued to the several NelNspapers in Great Britain and Leland, from the Ist of January to the 31st of March, 1840 : SUN ..... 330,000 STANDARD GLOBE COURIER • • ••• THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post B vo.. THE CHILD OF MYSTERY; Or, ERNESTINE. By A LADY of FASHION. Henry Colburn, Publi,her, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. MABERLY'S NOVEL. On Saturday next, in 3 vols. Lost Bvo., with Portrait of Emily , EMILY; OR, THE COUNTESS OF ROSENDALE. By Mrs. MABERLY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. EMPEROR aand o f H. IS AUSTRIA GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) affer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW 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 ftlS, THIS EVENING, MAY 18, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. FARREN, Will be revived General Burgoyne's Opera of THE LORD OF THE MANOR. Sir John Contrast, Mr. W. Farren ; Rashly, Mr. Borrani ; Young Contrast, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Trumore, Mr. W. Harrison ; Le Nippe, Mr. Meadows ; Annette, Madame Ves trig ; Sophia, Miss Rainforth ; Peggy, Mrs. Humby ; Moll Flaggon, Mr. Keeley. After which the popular Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. Mr. Puggs, Mr. Keeley ; Griffinhoof, Mr. W. Farren.' To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled and founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 'IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. &c. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had e c"ely of Mr. Andrews bookseller !67, New Bond-street. _ ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. Mr. MARK LEMAN respectfully announces that the Ma nagement has kindly appointed THIS EVENING, MAY IS, For an AUTHOR'S NIGHT, on which occasion the Per formances will commence with the Burleas of LOVE AND CHARITY. Julia Amer Louise Bertrand Mrs. Stirling. Phoebe Pop After which a New Farce (never acted) called A CAPTAIN PRO TEM. Darby O'Reiley, Mr. T. Lee (T.R.D.L.) To which will be added, THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Fitzsm3th (Member for Chatterton)—Mrs. Stirling. Morton (Member for Smallborough)—Miss Atkinson. Mrs. Rookby (Member fcr 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. Twankay (Spealerl—Mrs. Garrick. _ Fancy, Miss Bea - clianip. Time, Mr. Edmonds. The Tarantula by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin. To conclude with the favourite Drama of SELF ACCUSATION. Joseph Rahy, Mr. Compton. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immensity of attraction. Mr. Elton for Six Nights more. Two New Dramas, and Fifth Week of Haine's New Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Woman," the success of which has surpassed the most sanguine expectations. THIS EVENING, MAY 18, Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress." After chick a New Tragic Drama entitled THE CAVALIER; OR, A TALE OF TRIALS. Hargrave, the Cavalier, Mr. Elton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called EVERYBODY'S RELATION. Supported by the Comic strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. NECROMANCY, MAGIC, AND IMPROVISATION. SIXTEENTH WEEK OF THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH HOLDING HIS MYSTIC COURT. Redoubled Success of the Great Wonder. worker—his Temple is nightly crowded with Scienc,?, Literature, and Beauty—all must see the Mighty Wizard of Necromantic Fame who performs such wonders, if only heard of would never be believed, and, when seen, all are delighted; yet his mysteries are incomprehensible to all. The inanimate at his command is animate. All nature seems to be at variance with the Wizard. On MONDAY, and every Evening during the Week, The GREAT WIZARD will perform his Thousand Incom prehensible Delusions; and Mr. CHARLES SLOMAN, the ONLY English Improviiatore, will nightly POETISE EX.. TEMPORANEOUSI.Y. N. B. J. H. A. begs to state he has refused the offer made to him by the Emperor of the Celestial Empire—ne:er will he turn traitor to his country. CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. THIRD WEEK !—GREAT ATTRACTION! —UNRI VALLED AMUSEMENT!—SURPRISED, ASTO NISHED, AND DELIGHTED AUDIENCES !—Su perior to all Wizards, whether real or imaginary ! Mr. M. JACOBS, ILLUSIONIST (ridiculously termed Conjuror or Wizard), VENTRILOQUIST, and IMPRO VISATORE, will continue to give his interesting entertain ments at the above Tavern, THIS EVENING, and every EVENING during the Week. He is the first legitimate Sleight-of-hand Performer in Eng land. His tricks are done with dexterity and skill, and may be termed deception unmasked. His Ventriloquism has been ac knowledged by the Morning Herald, Morning Advertiser, Weekly Dispatch, and other Papers to be, if possible, superior to the great Alexandre himself; and his Extemporaneous Song on subjects proposed by the audience a production of the most amusing description. Admission, Front Circle, 2s. ; Back Circle, Is. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; commence precisely 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, fully demonstrated on each Evening of its Exhibition, by the unanimous and enthusiastic delight with which each portion of the gorgeous display was hailed as it pro cezded by the thousands assembled on those occasions. In com pliance with the expressed wishes of great numbers of the visi tors, it will be repeated This Day and Thursday, May 18th and 2ist, commencing shortly. before dusk. The Panoramic Model, Al Fresco. of Mount Heels, entirely reproduced by Mr. Danson, the original Artist, is exhibiting daily from ten t►ll dusk, with the Menagerie, which is now in the i tinest order, and has lately received many important addi tions.—Feeding Hour, Five o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlorning 4i minutes after 3 I Evening 4 minutes after 4, The Publication of the Evening Edition of 'l'm: SUN com- menced at 10 minutes after Three. --,,1,i)4 - ,_ ~ , L_-_,---t rs r(-- :-- -#;::;1 .. .7 . - z --• '.. 4 ::- - . ...< . :, t4-.51 41 ....,,, 7,,,,714,..,'q. / o w l " : ,,. . } .0., t )1 ,.... •,--15.:...._' , fi1t.- : fik.),f)g 'llll+ T. .E SUN, I_4()NlioN, MONDAY. MASS Is, IR4o. two Governments. The account as between the two Go vernments will, in point of fact, stand thus : Whig saving X15,358,0 45 Tory surplus 25,061,437 —Being about the difference of income in the two pe riods : the gro.s amounts of revenue in which were:— Tory four years Whig four years 25,445,127 By a Parliamentary return, ordered to be printed March 22d, 1836, the gross amount of taxes repealed in 1831, 2,3, 4, and 5, was 8,922,3761., whilst the gross amount of taxes imposed during the same period was 871.0831.; showing a net reduction of more than 8,000,0001. Since then the farther reduction to a large amount of taxation has been affected, and various imposts, which pressed severely on the commercial and labouring classes of the community, have been removed, the amounts of which we have not before us, but the facts are known to all. The reduction on Newspaper stamps, and the sub stitution of an uniform penny postage for the former heavy and unequal rates, may be estimated at 4,000,0001. By what we may term indirect alleviation in the public bur dens, relief to the extent of four millions more has been efftcted. We cheerfully admit that it was a great merit in the Whigs so to reduce taxation. We believe even that these successive reductions have been the great means of successively stimulating enterprise and keeping alive hope ; we believe, therefore, that this substantial relief has, more than any other Reform, contributed to carry the country through the diffi culties by which it has been beset; that it has, in part, neutralized many of the evils of the Corn-laws, and has nourished that prosperity which they would, but for the reduction of taxation, have annihilated. Admitting all that, and stating the successive re ductions as a great merit in the Whigs, we are thereby driven to the conclusion that they have sui cidally destroyed their, own work, and in proportion as we praise them for the relief they have given tr, just in that proportion we must condemn the addi tional burdens they are now laying on the country. If we could convince ourselves that these were unavoidable, we should not repine. But our loyalty has never driven us to approve of the im mense allowance made to her MAJESTY. • Our respect for vested rights has never induced us to sanction taxing the people for the sake of preserving the pensions of the Civil List. Our attachment to colonies is not strong enough to approve of re taining them in obedience by force. We think a great deal of unnecessary expense has been incurred by Commissions and carrying out theories which should never have been allowed to take a sixpence out of the pockets of the people. We admit the necessity for increasing the Navy—we subscribe to the propriety of vindicating the national honour and defending the national rights against the Chinese ; but we think that had the Administration been more just to the people, fewer military would have been required at home, and the expense of tire Army, with the expense of the Court and the expense of the Home Government, might have been much kept down, and the necessity for aditional taxa tion avoided. In the present condition of England, we hold the contentment of the masses to be the chief aim of public policy ; and we cannot give our approval to any measures for adding a single hair to their vast burdens which is not required by the clearest and most overwhelming necessity. We dissent, therefore, from the opinion that greater economy was not practicable, and that in creased taxation could not have been avoided. Adopting, however, the Ministerial view, we next come to consider whether the best mode of in creasing the taxation has been adopted. We agree that, under all circumstances, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has done well. He will raise an additional income, without any additional machi nery. He could scarcely raise the two millions he requires at a less cost. Moreover, by preserving as much as possible the present relative taxation on different commodities unaltered, he will intro duce the least possible disturbance into commerce, and give the least possible occasion to speculation. The new survey he is to institute for the purpose of levying the Assessed Taxes, may give rise to some momentary and some partial dissatisfaction, but the increase of the Assessed Taxes can be as well borne as any increase of taxation we can imagine. One great evil, indeed, may result from enhanc ing the Customs and Excise duties, which we must advert to. Sir ROBERT PEEL in the debate on Friday night censured the increase in the duty on raw cotton. At present that is 2s. 11d. per cwt., and five per cent. will raise it to 3s. 7-10ths of a penny. Now small as that increase is, under the present keen competition with other countries in the foreign markets, it may inflect a serious injury on our manufactures. But besides the actual tax on cotton there are Customs duties on a number of articles used in manufactures, such as indigo, oil, alkalies, and dye stuffs, of various kinds, all of which will be liable to an increase, as well as the duty on cotton. The cumulative effect of all these in the price of our manufactures, will be something con siderable. Prices generally, with the exception of the prices of corn will undoubtedly rise, and th?. consequence will be to narrow the market abroad for our manufactures, which in their present state is much to he deprecated and avoided. Moreover, at present, tea, sugar, coffee, enter largely into the consumption of the labouring classes. They are the great consumers of beer and spirits. On them, therefore, mainly will the increase of the Customs and Excise duties fall, and as there can be no hope that this increased taxation should give them increased employment, and enable them to raise their wages, this increase of price in the articles which they consume will tend mate rially to diminish their small modicum of enjoyment. On these two grounds of endangering the sale of our manufactures, and trespassing on the comforts of the working classes, we should have preferred very much Mr. HUME'S .plan of subjecting real property to the legacy duty, to the increase of the Customs and Excise duty proposed by the CHAN CELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER. Other persons entertain the same opinion ; but they say that the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER could not possibly carry any such mea sure, or any measure imposing a direct tax on pro perty. On this ground—the ground of what can be at present accomplished by the Ministers—we have already said that the plan adopted is the best pro bably that can be devised. The greater justice of Mr. HUME'S suggestion, or of a direct tax on property, we cannot question ; but no Minister could now carry either through the House of Corn. mons. In that statement we see a prodigiously strong argument for a further reform in the House of Commons. The justice of a course is admitted, and it is avowed that the House of Commons can not be induced to take it. We are ruled over, therefore, by injustice. But what better can we expect from a body which springs, as the House of Commons mainly does, from beastly and disgusting corruption, like that at Ludlow, or that at Cambridge ? Those who act in conformity to its wishes, as all Ministers must, are but the in struments of its corruption and its injustice, and can claim no higher character. So viewed, let us say with all the deference that is due to rank and wealth, that a writer for the public press who pur scuorert, s up astraightforward path, and is the servant of igh truth and tteausness, is a higher character than a Mini s t er w h o i s t h e mere agent an d servant o f a unjust body like the House of Commons. The trial of Mr. CLEAVE, at the Central Cri minal Court, on Saturday, for a blasphemous libel, is but the commencement, we believe, of a series of prosecutions for similar offences, growing out of the writings of the Socialists. A Mr. HEYWOOD, of Manchester, and Mr. HETHERINGTON, of Lon don, are both indicted for publishing the letters of Mr. HASLEM, and both, as was stated of Mr. HEYWOOD, at a public meeting held at Manchester, have merely published and sold those letters in the way of their trade, without being at all aware of their contents ; neither of them being the printer or undertaker of the work, who is probably Mr. HASLEM himself, or whoever assumes that name. We did hope that prosecutions for such vague and indefinite offences as writing or pub- lishing blasphemous libels were at an end ; but we are deceived ; and prosecution, or persecution, in the name of a religion of mercy and charity, is again begun under the influence of the State priesthood. Mr. ADOLPHUS stared at the trial that the prosecution was instituted by the Government ; why then did not the ATTORNEY-GENERAL ap pear? Was he ashamed of it, or has Mr. ADOL PHUS misrepresented the case? We should hope the latter ; for we should be slow to believe that Ministers had brought the law to aid the imperfect polemics of Dr. PH ILPOTTS, or satisfy the un christian animosity of the priesthood against those who differ from them in belief, as they differ from them in height, complexion, and security of in come ; but we remember that Dr. P _ HILPOTTS moved the branch of the Legislature of which he is a member, to address the Crown to enforce the law against the Socialists ; and we presume that it was in obedience to that address, that the Ministers have been compelled, they being, as we have elsewhere said, only the servants of a corrupt system, to institute the prosecutions we have ad verted to. Some Baptist clergymen, and several individuals who are staunch believers, have not been afraid to grapple with the errors of the Socialists, and have obtained considerable praise for their success. It is only the State priests who cannot rely on argument and truth, and who imply that they themselves entertain doubts by calling on the law to enforce their views by pu nishment. But whatever may be the apprehensions of ti.e priesthood, we see no good ground for the Judges and the law becoming subservient to their views. The law is altogether made by men, and to shield men from injury. The notion that it can in any case vindicate the outraged honour of the Divinity —supposing any mortal man to be a judge of that —has long been given up. To calJ it- into opera tion, an injury or damage must be done to some living and set - view,: being. We can understand, _ _ therefore, Dr. PHILPOTTS prosecuting Mr. CLEAVE or Mr. HETHERINGTON for a libel on him ; we can understand the law punishing those publishers for injuring the feelings of Dr. Pfm porTs, or for injuring the feelings of the body o the priests ; we can understand the law punishing any and every writer who excites alarm in them for the continuance of tithes ; but we cannot com prehend a prosecution and a punishment for a libel on no human being. Mr. ADOLPHUS said the libel was an atrocious attack upon that religion which is held so dear by all the thinking people of this country ;" but the religion—that is the body of doctrines, or the books in which they are contained, or the authors of those books, who have been dead many hundred years— could not possibly be hurt by any thing Mr. H ASL EN! might write, or Mr. CLEAVE might publish. The thinking people holding those doctrines very dear, might be hurt by their being held up to ridicule, or decried as absurd ; and we can understand a prosecution and a punish ment for injuring their feelings. But if that be the ground of the prosecution and the punishment, it ought to be stated—and a fiction ought not to be substituted which only makes the law an object of scorn and contempt. There might indeed be some danger of not ob taining a conviction, if, instead of an atrocious at tack on religion, Mr. HASLEM or his publisher were accused of an atrocious attack on the feelings of those who hold in respect the doctrines con tained in the Bible, for common justicelmight then induce the jurymen to refuse the office of judges in their own cause, and request the trial to be post poned till an impartial jury (an impossibility) could he found. If the prosecution, too, were instituted for injuring the feelings of the public by a writing, that would open such a door for strange prosecutions, that, to state the real ground of the prosecution, if it be what we have said, would be sufficient at once to stifle it. We cannot, therefore, too strongly condemn a prosecution carried on in the name of a fi c ti o n, which seems to us to serve no other pur pose than to endeavour to put down those of whose arguments the State priesthood ale afraid. We can not also too strongly condemn the law inflicting a punishment on Mr. CLEAVE, without its having been shown or proved that a single human being has been injured by any thing he has said, written, or done. We have given in another part of the paper, the Third Report of the Select Committee, appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the State of Communieation by Railways. After three lengthened inquiries the Committee have come to the resolution that it is inexpedient at present to make any legislative enactment to prevent Railway Companies from obtaining a monopoly of conveyance, and simply recommend the appointment of officers under the control of the Executive to watch the systems on the different lines of railway, for the purpose of protecting the interests and in suring the convenience of the public. This, at all events, will be a great improvement on the present practice. Persons aggrieved can thus apply to recognised authorities for redress, and if the sys tem should on trial be still found defective, a suffi cient ground will be established for legislative in terference. In a private communication from Paris, received this morning, it is stated that as soon as the pre sent campaign in Africa is terminated Marshal VALLEE will be replaced as Governor of the French possessions there, by Marshal CLAUSEL. We had thought that CLAUSEL had enough of Africa. We have not forgotten, nor have the Co lonists, the close of the " hero of the illustrious sword's" last exploits in that part of the world. B u t a worse appointme nt was possible. The KING might have placed the Government in the hands of General BUGEAUD. The Marquis of SALDANIIA has just arrived in this country from Portugal, with full powers to adjust with Lord PALMERSTON the claims of the British Government upon the Portuguese nation. The Marquis is accompanied by Colonel BA NEIRos and Lieutenant PICALLWA, as members of the mixed Commission for the adjustment of the claims of the British officers and men who fought for the independence of P , oltuga!, under the stan dard of Don PEDRO. I his intelligence cannot hut prove highly satisfactory to the British na tion. The Marquis of SA LDANIIA is a man cf unsullied honour, and one who on all occas i ons appeared disposed to do justice to the c l a i ms o f i Portuguese creditors. It s stated that the Mar quis comes equipped with bills to th e amount o f bills 240,0001. sterling. If the be good, the Mar quis will cut a most imposing figure in Downing street. Letters and papers front Madrid of the Sib and 9th inst. have reached us. General Sir De LACY prosecuting th e c l a i ms o f t h e EVANS was actively' British Auxiliary Legion. The accounts from Baycnne are of the 12th, and from Monroyo, ESPARTERO'S head quarters, of the 7th inst. General AYERBE sent two pea sants with letters to the Governor of Cantavieja, offering him honourable terms if he would surrender at discretion, and thus spare the useless effusion of Spanish blood. The wretch's answer was charac teristic. He ordered the heads of the peasants to he chopped off with a hatchet, and stuck them upon spikes over the gate of the fortress ! We ex pect to hear of bloody reprisals. The preparations for the siege of Morella were complete. CABRERA, at the head of 300 horse, has entered Catalonia, to levy contributions, and to escort his sisters to the French frontier. The German Papers just received state that a letter from Warsaw announces the banishment of the Polish Archbishop of PALACHIA from his diocese, by command of the Emperor of RUSSIA, who has been graciously pleased to assign the Ve nerable Prelate a residence in Siberia. This ty rannical proceeding is said to have created a great sensation in Poland. The Hanoverian Minister at the Frankfort Diet, Baron VON STRALENHEIM, has demanded the dismissal of Dr. HESSENBERG, Procurator of the Diet, with the nullification of the sentence of the Court of Appeal in his favour ; likewise a pledge from the Diet to receive no more petitions from the Corporations of Hanover against the revival of the Constitution of 1819. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us, but their contents are not of much political importance. The following telegraphic despatch from French Africa is copied from the Moniteur of Friday : " TOULON, MAY 13, Two O'CLOCK, P " CHERCHELL. MAY 9. " MARSHAL VALLER TO THE M4SISTER OF WAR " The army has traversed the entire plain of Metidja and the valleys of the Oued-el-Haehem and the Oued, Benin. Five engagements, highly honourable for our troops, have taken place, and in which the enemy suffered considerable losses. We have had only 20 killed, with 103 wounded, whom I send on to Algiers. I am establishing a fortified camp at Haouch-Mouzaia, near the foot of the Atlas, where I have formed a large depot of pi ovi{ions. " Chercheil was attacked during six days. The garri son repulsed the enemy, occasioning them a severe loss. " I am about to continue my operations, and in the course of three days I shall have crossed the Atlas. " The' Princes are in good health. The province of Oran is perfectly tranquil. " I have ordered to Chercell three battalions of that di vision, who shall very soon return to their corps." In the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, the Algiers Supplementary Credit Bill was carried by a majority of 261 against 68 of a minority. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, composed entirely of Imperialists, charged with examining and reporting upon the project of law for removing to France the remains of NAPOLEON, -appointed, on Friday, Marshal CLAUSEL its Chairman, and M. DE LA REDORT its Se cretary. The Committee of the Chamber of Peers on the Five per Cents. Reduction Bill is opposed to that measure. The 811 will consequently be thrown out. This created a sudden rise in the price of the Five per Cents. on the Bourse of Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday M. Tr-11E11s presented a project of law fer establishing three transatlantic lines of communication between France and North and South America. The first line between Havre and New York, is to be made over to a company, to which the State will allow an annual subvention of 1,200,000 francs. The Go vernment reserves to itself the two other lines: that of Marseilles is to correspond with Martinique and Mexico. The Bordeaux line is also to correspond with Mexico and with New Orleans. Sixteen steamers of 220 and 450 horse power, are to be constructed for the purpose . at the public expense. The whole costs are fixed at 25 millions of francs, payable in three years. Murders are becoming frightfully frequent in France. The following details of a horrible murder at Artigues near Bordeaux, is from the Me morial Bordelais. The murderer, who was a tutor and a person of considerable literary attainments, was preparing for the press a work entitled " A History of the Christian Religion, by a Preceptor of Little Children." He first murdered a boy, and to conceal this crime, afterwards murdered the mo ther and little sister of his victim : " On Tuesday morning, at half-past seven, ElizAbide was taken to the place where his crime was commit ed, in a cart, escorted by a party of gendarmes, with their mus kets loaded and their bayonets fixed. His hands were bound, and the guard had the strictest orders not to !osc sight of him for an instant. The whole population of Artigues and the surrounding communes were as sembled, and assailed him with imprecations. At eight o'clock the Procureur du Roi, his substitute, the exam ining magistrate, the captain of gendarmerie, and two sur geons arrived at the church of Artigues, where the bodies of the victims were laid. Elizabide was first taken to the spot where the murder was committed. It is in a hollow on the left side of the road, bounded by two steep banks, which prevented tke cries of the victims from being heard. The ground was covered with a pal of blood. He at once admitted that it was there, at 9 on Saturday evening, he first struck the child on the head with a stone, the blow being so forcible that the sutures of the skull opened at once. The same stone, ho added, served to knock down the mother; and afterwards, fearing that she st.ll suf fered, he used his knife to cut her throat, as well as to sepa rate her nose and cheeks, plunging it six times into the right temple, which was previously beaten in. At 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he was met by several persons, he re moved the bodies, after having first stripped them of their clothing. lie first threw the body of the mother into the watercourse of a mill, ar.d afterwards that of the child into a rivulet. On being conducted to the church, and desired to look upon the bodies, he refused, saying Kill me if you like, but do not exact from me what is above my powers !' Afler a while he recovered, and related all the circumstances of his murder of the boy at Paris, which he efE_Tted in like manner, by first felling him with a stone, and then cutting his throat. At two o'clock in the after noon the murderer was brought back to Bordeaux. The crowd was so great at the Salicres, and thence to the en trance of Fort du Ha (the prison), that it became necessary to call out a detachment of troops of the line to protect him from the indignation of the populace. His name is Pierre Vincent Elizabide ; he is a native of Mauleon, in the Basses Pyrenees, and thirty years of age. lie had obtained at Bordeaux the certificates necessary to qualify him for a communal teacher." The following extracts are horn the Journals of Friday and Saturday : The Etna steamer, which reached Toulon on the 12th instant, brought intelligence from Naples to the evening of the 7th. The Vautour, with the Duke de Monte bello on board, anchored before Naples in the morning of the 6th, and was immediately saluted by the batteries of the harbour, and the English and French vessels of war in the roads. The tri-coloured flag was fur the first time hoisted by the Neapolitan vessels of war on the Ist of May (King Louis Philippe's fete-day), and hailed by a salute of 21 guns. Since the mediation was accepted matters remained in statu quo. When the Etna sailed four British men of war were still before Naples—namely, the Bellerophon and Benbow, a corvette, and a steamer. " A ceremony is pretty generally spoken of as intended to take place at the Tuileries in the course of next week. According to this report the King, seated on his throne, and surrounded by the Great Officers of State and the Council of Ministers, will receive General Bertrand, who will deliver into the hands of Louis Philippe the sword of Napoleon. " The Duke of Saxe Coburg is on the point of pur chasing the domain of Muskau, of Prince Puckler, for the sum of 1,500, 000 dollars, of which 1,400,000 are already paid. The (;.omain is intended for tier Imperial Highness the divorced wife of the late Grand Duke Constantine of Russ'ia, who has hitherto resided at Elfenau, near Berne." --La Gazette de France. BOURSE.-PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 16. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price trench 5 per Cents ll4 85 115 40 ... 114 85 ... 115 SO 4 per Cents lO5 ... , 05 ... 105 105 , • 3 per Cents B4 75 .• 84 85 . . ..• 84 75 ... .ii 85 Bank of erance Llttitte Bank 5,0001. Sh 5'201 —.5200 —5'200 _5200 Belgian Bank 9. 0 ... 900 ... 900 ... 900 5 per Cents IO3Y, ... laiki ... JO3 ... 103% 3 per Cents 75 ... 75 ... 75 ... 75 Ilritcd States Bank Loan 9S ... 93 ••• 98 ••• 98 Sdantsh Active 97 ... 20 ... 29 N -• 20 Passive 7% ... N i ... 7% ••• ./<, Portuguese 3 per Cents Neapolitan Roman P.U, ... 113 ii ... 103 ... 103 k 104 24 75 ... 10 24 1 75 ... 10 24 4 75 ... 104 4 75 RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain Versailles, R. 13 568 75 ... 568 75 ... 567 50 ... 567 50 LB. 385 ... ,85 ... 385 ... 3 8 5 Orleans . 111 ulhausen to Thann Strasburg to,Bale 412 50 ... 412 50 ... 412 50 ... 412 5G HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MAY 14. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares PIN 109 A it,lo- R uss i a n Loan . Itussizai 5 per Cent. Ist semi, Certificate Inscription, Ist Serif, lo3ya Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Se,ics Ditto in Certificates Dutch A ctual Debt, 214 per Cent 517,4 Mi i Ditto ........................ 5 per Cent 9B • Polish Bonds N e w ticket Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76 76;:. Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent. lO2 Spanish, New .5 per CentS. 21 t jQ EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, NAY 15.-13. 514 —Two months, 13 4. PETFCRSBURGII, MAY s.—Two months, 30 pence, BREMEN, MAY 12 —Two months, NG Ily v. CLARISTIANIA, MAY 6.—Three months, 4 I`.'2 LEtrsic, MAY 11.—Two moatlis, ti. 1214. The Duke of Cleveland has at length deter mined on disposing of his famous pack of hounds, and they will shortly appear for sale. It . will be a source of much regret to the sportsmen in the neighbourhood of Castl e Ilaby. His Grace has been at the sole expense of keeping the pack since 1;9:2, and they are the oldest trained pack in the country. The Noble Duke has not huntel withlthem during the last eight years. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrival of Wheat and Barley, both English and Foreign, was considerable ; of other grain moderate. The fresh supplies of ail descriptions of Corn were middling. Wheat of superfine quality obtained Is. per quarter advance on last Monday's prices, but all other sorts met a heavy trade at no improvement in value. Barley unvaried. Beans hardly main tained their last quotations. Grey Peas very scarce and ra ther dearer. Boiling Peas nnvaried. The Factors will not sell Oats except at advanced prices, which the buyers appear indisposed to give. Flour very heavy in sale at former quota. tions. PRICES ON BCARD or sFIP Wheat, Red (old) —s. —s. Beans, Small (new) 445 481 --White (old) —v. —s. (old) ..... .... -- 3 • 11 * ----- Red 0839) 555. tiOs. Tick (new) 385 42 •••• —— —..— Fine 625. 655. . (old) 425.443 ----- Supertine......66s. tBs. Harrow (new) 424.441. --- White (1839)....605. f4s. --...... Fine 661. . 70s Brank --- Superfine ''2s 755. Oats, Feed ...•-41.—s. - ---Foreign free 60s. SO s . N ew 255.293 tin. ' 46 s. 40s. -- Poland —s.—s. Barley 305.356. New .6 3l's. ..--;..... Grinding 30s. 348, Potatoe 325.345. -- Malting 38s. 425. Malt 565. 655. Scotch 123.345. --- Fine New &is. 725. Irish 245.... 265.28 r. Pease, Grey, New .365. 3:14. Flour Town (per simic)....s3s 62.. Maple New . .365. 42*. Seconds 548.56 s -- White 38s. 40s, —..— North Country-- 50, 52 , . Boilers 40s. 4Z. Bran lO .11. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK IWheat. I Barley. oats. r ..,, r. .. • 0, •l tairs. 2,659 qrs. I 2,41,: qrs. 5,542 sack. I t ;,9-3 5 0 — 7, 1,041 3.1.98 1 rls. English Irish 1 -- &reign ... SMITFIE A large suppl y o f cattle caused LD. a dullness in the trade fur Beef at former rates. Mutton and Lamb were in request, but as toe supply was equal to the demand, although 5,000 short of last Monday, prices remained without variation. In Veal a steady trade, at ss. to ss. Bd. per stone ; Pork realized 2d. advance, with more than an usual number on sale. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Veal, ss. to ss. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to ss. • Lamb, 4s. 2d. t o 7 s. ; Pork, 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Head of Cattle at Market-Beasts, 2,658 ; Sheep and Lambs, , 21 0 890; Calves, 112 ; Pigs, 618. .BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were not so very large, and not much cheap Fish at Market. Business was fair, and prices steady. Turbot, 4s. to 18s. ; cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs. ; Soler, .'d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters. 91. to 4s. ; Salmon, 11d. to 2 s . p er lb. ; Mackerel, 4d. to Bd. ; Whitings, 6d. to Is. ; and Haddocks, tid. to Is. IRISH PRODUCE MARKET. Very little doing in any kind of provisions. Irish Bacon at 495. to 525. No Irish Butter. The best Foreign Butter 110 s. 11E111IONDSF.Y WATER-SIDE POT ATriE. '.‘t ARK ET. Supplies large, and trade dull-prices were nominally the same as last week. HOP MARKET. Trade dull, and prices unaltered. The accounts from the Hop growers are favourable. SEED MARKET. In Linseed and Rape Seed for export there was a good de mand. Linseed at 435. to 535. per quarter ; and Rape Seed 231. to 301. per last. Arrivals-35 quarters of Tares, and 2,415 quarters of foreign Linseed. MONTHLY PUBLIC SALE OF TEA. The monthly public sale of tea, consisting of 16,169 pack ages, making 1,030,5671b5., of various kinds, but principally Congou, commenced at the London Cotuinercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, at 11 o'clock There were very few persons present, and the sale progressed as heavily as can be imagined, so much so as not to give any quotations—in fact people were afraid to b:d. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Queen Dowa ger, attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The musical service was Boyeo's in A, the Commandments, Ebden's, and the Chaunt Lord Illornington's. The anthem, " Behold how good and joyful" (Nares), was sung by Messrs. Bradbury and \Vylde. Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Sand wich, lion. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Major Keppel, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel \Vylde, and Mr. Francis Seymour. The Queen Dowager was attended by Frances Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Anne Gore, and Earl Howe. Her Majesty and Prince Albeit visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. Prince Albert visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, and on Saturday, at Ingestrie House, Belgrave-square. His Royal Highness also paid a visit yesterday to the Duke of Sussex, at Krinsingtan Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in an open carriage in the Parks on Saturday afternoon. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel \Vylde and Mr. Francis Seymcur. honoured the rehearsal of the Philhar monic Concert on Saturday, at the Hanover-square Rooms, with his presence. Viscount Mclbmtne had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday. Her Maj.sty and Prince Albert a:tended by the Ho nourable Miss Cocks, Hon. giss Cavendish, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Major Keppel, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel \Vylde, and Mr. Francis Seymour. honoured the Italian Opera with their presence en Saturday evening. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House, and also the Princes., Augusta at Clarence House, St. James's. Majcsty the Quecn Dowager attended Divine Ser vice 3csterdayafternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge returned to town on Saturday, from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. His Royal Highness honoured Sir Gore Ousel with his company at dinner in the evening, at his residence in Upper Brook street. The Duke and Duchess cyf Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta Augusta of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Miss Kerr, Baron Knesi - beck, and Major Stephens, were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. Tier Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess Sophia on Saturday, at Kensington. The Duks of Cart bridge paid a visit to her Majesty yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Au• gusta on Saturday. The Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge paid visits to her Royal Highness yesterda}. The Duchess Ida, with the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine Service yesterday mornirg in the Royal German Chapel. The Service was preached by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. The Council sat two hours. The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ma. ;esty's Most Ilonuurablc Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday at the Council-office. The Lords present were, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Montcagle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. La bouchere, and Sir George Grey. The Hon. \V. Bathurst, Clerk of the Privy Council, was in waiting. The Dean of Norwich and Mr. Kerr Hamilton had in terviews with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at the Co lonial-office. Despatches from the Governor of Malta, and also from the Governor of Ceylon, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Miss White, housekeeper at Windsor Castle, expired at one o'clock yesterday morning at Windsor Castle, after a snort illness, in her sixty-eighth year. Miss White was appointed, in the first instance, housekeeper to the Pavi lion at Brighton, and was highly and deservedly respected by the Royal household during the long period of twenty-five years, in the service of their late Majesties George IV. and William IV., and of her present Majesty. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Independent ) PORTSDIOUTII, MAY 16.—The Andromache, 28, Captain R. L. Baynes, arrived at Madeira on the Bth of April, from Portsmouth, and sailed on the 10th for the Cape of Good Hope. The Victor, 16, Captain Dawson, has been taken out of the Basin, and is now making great progress in lit r fitting, alongside the sheer hulk. Tie Magicienne; 24, Captain Mitchell, remains in the harbour quite ready for sea, and is expected to sail for the Mediteranean about the latter end of next week. Captain Robert . Maunsell has been appointed to the command of the Rodney, 92. The gallant officer was severely wounded when midshipman of the Maidstone, in 1804, while serving in her boats, cutting out a convoy near Toulon, for which he was promoted ; while commanding the Procris sloop, he performed a gallant exploit, by leading her boats to the attack of six French gun-boats, which were captured off the Is land of Java, for which he was posted—he also served on shore at the reduction of that Island, in 1811. He was last employed in the Mediterranean in command of the Alfred frigate. Arrived on Monday last, the line-of-packet ship ' Westminster, Captain Moore, from New York, bringing papers to the ?Ist. ult., the contents of which, how ever, are devoid of all interest, with the exception of a report of a discussion which had taken place in Congress on the North Eastern Boundary question, which was distinguished throughout by its moderate and pacific tone. We also are glad to see the hope ex pressed by several of the Americanjournals, of a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the question. Another steamboat accident had happened on the Mississippi, by running on shore on a bank, and be- coming a total wreck. The passengers and crew were saved, but the cargo, estimated at 100,000 dollars. was all lost. The weather has, during the last two or three days, been most unpropitious for the elegant little pony car riages now so much :in fishion. The Duchess of Roxburghe is drawn by two greys, postilion fashion, with two outrider. The Countess of Glengall ha s a l so greys, but larger, • of more blood; her Ladyship drives. Lady Wilton's cream coloured ponies are well known ; the Countess is a most ac complished whip. The Marchioness of Aylesbury guides her bays with a n_ore timid hand. We cannot but admire her Ladyship's invention, simple as efficacious : the parasol is made to slip up and down the whip, thus keeping off the sun, and keeping on the ponies. Mr. Comyn has been appointed Crown Solicitci of Roscommon. --- ALE OF .. T ..UNE.—During the last five or six days we have had fine refreshing rains, in consequence of which vegetation is making rapid progress . The fruit trees are abso lutely cover e d w i t h blossoms. ° Grain is spearing luxuriantly, and trees of all sorts, with the exception of the ash and poplar, are in full leaf. Mr. and Mrs. D'lsraeli entertained at;dinner, on Saturday, at Grosvenor-gate, the Marquis and Alarchioness of Thomond, Lord and Lady James Stuart, the Marquis of Granby, Mr., Mrs. ' and Miss Goulburn , Mrs. Dawson, Lord. Exmouth, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Long, Mr. Stapleton, and. Lord Alfred Paget. On Friday, Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick gave a dinner to the Earl and Countess of Darlington, Lord and Lady Hillsborough, Lord and Lady G. Lennox, Lady C. Somerset, Mrs. L. lox, the Earl of Kilmorey, Lord Stuart de Rothesay, Lord Canning, Mr. Standish, the Hon. Horace Pitt, &c., &c. EVENING EDITION. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) NEW CO UK T. ( Before Mr. Sergeant ARA/31N.) John Blake stood indicted for an assault on the person of Wm. Barnett. The prosecutor was the captain of the Helena, a South Sea vessel, and the prisoner was its se cond mete. On the night of the 13th of December last, the vessel was at Anchor in the Bay of Conception, on the coast of South America, and the captain allowed his men to go ashore, with an order that they should return by three o'clock in the morning.. The men, however, did not come back until betieen six and eight o'clock. Im mediately on their return, a quarrel ensued between the prisoner and a common seaman, on board the ves sel ; the captain interfered, and according to bis own evidence and that of his son, while be was endea vouring to separate the parties, the prisoner gave him a blow, which 1 e retu - ned. Charles Coates, however, the surgeon of the vessel, and some of the crew deposed on the contrary that the captain struck the first blow. James Colman, a cabin boy, gave some evidence not immediately connected with the cage, stating some: former instances of cruelty on the part of the captain. He al•o stated that after the quarrel the captain ordered the prisoner down to the cabin, and drew out a pistol, threaten.. ing to blow his brains out. The RECORDER in charging the Jury said, that the only question that they had to decide was, as to who bad strue~ the first blow. The Jury after having retired fora few minutes returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." The Jury was then discharged, and the Court closed for the Sessions. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, LIVERPOOL. C(TTON MARKET, SATURDAY..-The sales this day arc 3,000 bales at yesterday's prices. Arrivals this morning. —Two French, two Ostend. one Dutch mail ; also a mail from Malta by the Royal Tar, isith a mail from Lisbon of the date 11th May; front Mal:a, 19th April; Alexandria, 21st April ; Gibraltar, 7th Mar ; Cadiz, nth May ; Oporto, 12th May ; and Vigo, 13t11 May. We have a number of ship letters, all old dates. We have received the Antwerp paper of yesterday's date. Srociatonte, May 5.--His Majesty the King has or dered his of Foreign Affairs to conclude for the term of five ycats a treaty of commerce with the towns of Ilam?,urch and firemen, on reciprocal principles. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 15.—The business in the National Funds was less animated tc-day, but the prices remain without any variations. Some transactions were done in Ardoin's Spanish ; their getting up at Paris did no: produce any effect. The price may be quoted at 27 3 I6ths to The most important arrival this morning is the Lisbon mails, which has brought to this country the Marquis Sal daubs, who comes here on a special mission to settle the various civil claimv, which amount to about 400,0001. sterling. Ir. is stated that he brings with him bills to the amount of 240,0001., guaranteed by several capitalists of Lisbon. upon the mortgage of the revenue of the Customs and tt.b.lcca contracts, to pay the above claims. This is another severe blow towards the holders of Portuguese Bonds, as all the money that the Portuguese Government can scrape together will go towarda paying the British claims. TILE FUNDS. The British Market continues very buoyant, and Console opened this morning at 92i 9,.;, both for Money and Time; at present may be quoted 92i H for the Account, and f,,r the July Account i; Exchequer Bills also 'mprcved, 25 27 prem. ; India Bonds 3 5 prem. ; Bank Stock 17.:4 176:} ; India Stock 251 252. In the Poreifin Market Spanish Active 254 29 ; De. ferred 131 z ; Passive 71 1 ; Portuguese (although the accounts arc very urfavourable to the Bondholders) has rather improved--left off on Saturday 351, at present 35i 36 ; Colombian 20- 27 ; Mexican 311 a ; Brszilian 761 ; Dutch Two-aad-a- Half per Cents. 54 ; Five per Cents. 101 _ .., . The chid business in' the Foreign Mat ket is in shares, and a good dual is doing in them, with au improved market. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1761 India Stock 3 per Cent. Bed. ... ...... 91,-4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cents. Con. 92: 4 -ii i g South Sea Stock 31 per Cent. Ditto Red ... ......... Nev 3} per Cent. New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 5001. 27 29 put. Jan. 5, 1860... 13 13-16 L Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859....13 11-16 Ditto Commercial • dis. Jan. 5, IB'6o. 14 1-16 14, 1 , Ditto Advertised ....: Pm Jan. 5, 1880. AlTil 5, 1880 . ••• Jan. 5, 1870. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austria!) Bonds 11e!gian Bonds 1034 Ditto Account Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds -- Brazilian Bonds ......... 75,1 Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account 24,7 Chilian Bonds .. -- Prussian Bonds ..... ... ~ —. Ditto .Account Colombian Bonds Ditto Account. Coln nbiati Bonds, 1824 26 Spanish Bonds .. ...... 2SEi 9-1' Ditto Account...26.' 2 7 03-fi; Ditto Account 2S4 9i Danish Bonds 3oa Passive Ditto Account —a Defel rod l3i Greek Bands Ditto Bonds. 1825 Did n Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c.. Mexicanlionds,s per cent --Exchange... —f. --c.. Ditto Account ...... .. Dutch, 21; per cent ... 541 1 1; I)itto,6 per Cent _31.4 Ditto Account - baig Div() Account 3; 4i 2 Ditto, 5 per cent !wig. Nearo'itaii ••• Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. X. a. d. £. s. d. .E... s. d. RAILwAYS. Paid. Per Share. B. i,tol end Exeter 5O .......:0 ..... to C`reltenham and Great Western Eistern Counties - to a Great Western - to 95, 4 Ditto New G /spott Junction London and Brighton . London and Blackwell London and Birmingham 9O Dittos, Shares Ditto New Shares London and Greenwich ..... ...... 20 London and South Western 3Bl London and Croydon (Trunk) •.. 13:-1 l 9l-..... to 12 Ditto Scrip Northern and Eastern North Midland, (New) 20 South Eastern and Dover York and North Midland ... ...... 50 JOINT STOCK BANNS. London Joint Stock ... ........ .. 10 National Provincial of England... 35 - -- - -- - - PRICES OF HUSH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 16 3 per Cent. Consols N per Cent. Stock 9% Ditto, 4 per cent. Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1S:i0 pm' Cent. Debentures... 91% Nationallnsurr.nce Company -- Bank Stock - Grand Canal Stock - Royal Canal Stock - I per cent.... HALF-PAST ONE. Extract of a letter from Malta received this morning : " The Editor of the Portfolio still continues to insert in his columns the Damascus affairs, which is evidently for some particular purpose, and in which it is equally evi dent he deights. If he still has his doubts as to the false hood of the motives he has advanced as reasons for the act, let him consult • Leviticus, chap. xvii, verses 10 to 16, in the Bible, and which sets at rest all doubts on the subject of requiring blood on he occassion. As to the assertioa that the accused under torture confessed the fact, lam surprised that any sensible person acquainted ail the horrors of the Inquisition, should advance such a thing, since he ought to know that under . suck sufferings every one confesses what the oppres sors requirt. 1 believe the French Consul at Damascus must be a Greek, for a Frenchman is too liberal in his • ideas. All passed qu'etly in passion-week—raill prejudice continues against the Jews. The Talmud has been translated, and the use of Christian blood is not men tioned in I'. We Ia 1 ten Neapolitan: vessels: sent in by a squadron. 'We have also the plague in the Lazaretto, on hoard one of our steamers." The arrival of the Cordelia, at Liverpool, from Hong- Kong, caused the tea-market on Saturday to be dulb, owing to her having brought accounts of six ships taking in tea. Prices :must be regarded; as nominal. Com pany's Congou cffered at 2s. 4d. per lb. for cash. Bills Consols nsolsfo, Account, 92 4 ; Mon e y, 92i ; 'E xchequer improved, 27 5. 28 prem ; India Bonds, 4 prem. ; India Stock, nothing done ; Bank Stock, 176 i. In the Foreign NI itket, 29i to 1; Def erre d I3 i ; Portuguese re. ceded near I per. cent., in the morning they were 361, at present 351 ' • Three per C ents., nothing do,ne ; Colum bian, 26'1; Mexican higher, 32 ; Brazilian, 75 ! ; Dutch higher, 54i ; Five pe r C ents, 1011. Th:.s. Share Market continues buoyant; all shares higher except the Southampton. The Earl of Yarborough left town on Thursday last for Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight. The Noble Earl in tends staying there until his yacht is thoroughly equipped, when his Lordship sails for the Humber. His Lordship visits Brocklesbv *luring the assembling of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry Cavalry. We hear that a marriage is on the tapis between Sir George Baker, Bart., and Aliss Sutton, daughter of Mrs. Nassau Sutton, in Harley-street. Sir Robert Peel gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday evening, in Whitehall-gardens, to the following•_Nc‘ blemen and Gentlemen :—Viscount Lowther, Earl of Hilts borough, Viscount Dungannon, Hon. Colonel Lowther, Sir Arthur Brooke, Sir John Pollen, Sir A. Grant, Mr. Barry Baldwin, Mr. H. Baillie, Mr. Chute, Mr. T. A. W. Parker, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Baker, Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. J. Bailey, jun.„ Mr. T. I'. Williams, Mr. H. C. Compton, Mr. Cumming Bruce, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Bolling, &c: THE RIGHT HON. Sir ARTHUR PAGET, G.C.B.—We regret to hear that Sir Arthur has been dange. rously ill during the past week, so as to cause great alarm to his family. Mr. Carter with his lions, tigers, Sze., after a tour of seven months in Faris and the principal towns of France, has returned to London to fulfil an engagement. Lablache, who is a native of Naples, though his father was a Frenchman, and his mother came from Ireland, appeared first on the Italian stage at Salerno, where his salary amounted to 15 ducats a month, or Is. Bd. per diem ! How TO CALCULATE POSTAGE.---.TO find the postage of a letter, first weigh the letter, then multiply the ounces by two, and you have the postage in pence. For ex ample, a letter weighing seven ounces, say twice seven, four teen pence. In this case every fraction of an ounce must be calculated as an ounce, as the postage of seven ounces and a quarter, for instance, is as high as the postage of eight ounces. THE SANATORIUM.--A meeting of the sub s ribers and friends of this institution was held on Saturday at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James. Lord Robert Gros venor, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary read a list of in sub s e o v estab lishment uedsiinngeesitthoegether to about of t the i nstitut ion,ihe c apital O r a il l i° l n a s ei nts tr,eac m j uiced to tut the institution in operation was t at:d to be 3,9001. * t ~ ~~ .. . • II f