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to the amount of 75,000 dollars. The fire origi-
nated in a stable and burned several valuable

horses, but it was not reported that any persons
lost their lives. With a humanity worthy of the
highest commendation, the Governor had thrown
his house open for the reception of the wives and
children of the sufferers from this great calamity.
The accol,ints from the Canadas continued fa-
vourable. There were isolated border outrages
frequently occurring, but the horrible system of
midnight burnings and reprisals was disappearing.
" MONEY-MARKET, &c., APRIL 24.
" We have again to notice the increased activity in the
stock-market, the business to-day having been very consi-
derable, and in most instances at a further improvement,:at
the advanced quotations of yesterday. The amount of
floating capital in the street within the last few days has
been increased a good deal, and has of course exercised a
favourable influence on the market to a certain extent,
until the banks resume a more liberal course of discountts,
however, no very permanent relief appears anticipated.
Sales were made to-day of United States Bank at 114 ;
sellers 30 days ; Dry Dock Bank, 1061 ; Delaware and
Hudson, Sli ; Vickburg Bank, 62; Stonington Rail-
road, 35a; Haarlem Railroad, 63; and Paterson Rail-
road at 69i. 1,700 dol. Delaware Hudson 6 per Cent.
Bonds sold at 90.

" The sales of exchange on London for transmission by
the Liverpool packet, leaving to-morrow, showed no varia-
tion on the prices obtained by the Great Western, closing
at 81- to 81 per cent. premium.
" The Mechanics' and Traders' Bank has declared a
dividend of 4 per cent, for the last six months.
" We have the first intelligence of the effect produced
on the southern cotton markets, by the Great Western's
advices, from Charleston under date of the 20th instant.
The market up to the period of the receipt of these ac-
counts had been very heavy, when it once rallied, and
several hundred bales were taken on Friday at cent. ad-
vance, and with a disposition on the part of the holders to
await higher prices. Quotations are 14c. to 181 c. In
long cottons, 62 bags Santee, at 53c., and a small lot
Maines, at from 40c. to 50c., comprised the business of
the week.

" The Report of the Bank Commissioners to the Se-
nate of the State, of the affairs of the Brooklyn Bank, is
an awful disclosure of frauds and villainy. Fortunately
the public have not been cheated, but the stockholders
have been swindled out of one-half of their stock, and all
the surplus. The principal persons whom the report re-
presents as figuring in the operations of the Bank are
Abel Corwin, Peter Poillon, Robert T. Hicks, Peter
Poilion, jun., Mr. Willoughby, and Mr. Cromelin."

Brussels, Dutch, and German papers, with ad-
vices from Berlin, Vienna, Pesth, Rome, and Con-
stantinople, were received last night. The follow-
ing are extracts from them
BRUSSELS, MAY 17.—Yesterday the King gave audience
to a deputation from the town of Hubert, to General
Magnan and to Count, Lalting, Charge d'Affaires at
Madrid, who took leave, being on the point of returning
to his post.
His Majesty transacted business with the Minister of the

Interior and of Foreign Affairs.
By a Royal decree of the 15th, a commission, composed
of fourteen members, is formed to make all the preliminary
arrangements necessary to prepare for the pecuniary set-
tlement that will have to be made between Belgium and
Holland.

M. Raikem, President of the Chamber of Representa-
tives, is much spoken of for the post of Minister of Justice.
Advances have been made to the Government by a great
number of candidates, but it seems that at present M.
Raikem is the only one who has a chance of success. It is
said that his nomination will not be published till the
close of the Session. The Reigning Duke of Saxe
Coburg is expected to. day at Brussels with his son, brother
to the King of Portugal.
The Chamber of Representatives has commenced the
debate on the project of law respecting the Scheldt toll.
ROME, MAY 4. —His Majesty the King of Bavaria ar-
rived here this afternoon from Naples, and alighted at the
Villa de Malta, which belongs to him, and which the
Crown Prince left yesterday because there is not room for
both. It is said that his Majesty will stop here a fortnight
before he returns to Germany. His Majesty is in excel-
lent health.

PESTH, MAY s.—The election of Deputies from our
country to the Diet of the kingdom took place. The
electors (all of them nobles settled in the country) came in
great numbers to Pesth to give their votes. On the day
preceding the election a great entertainment was given to
a great many electors at the expense of Count Radoy.
On the morning of the election many of the electors ap-
peared with flags inscribed " Count Gideon Radoy and
M. Szent Keralpi." It was resolved that the election
should not be made as usual by acclamation, but by ballot.
Out of 1,419 votes, Count Radoy had 1,140. His most for-
midable opponent had only 230, another 17, and another
only two votes. The election of the second Deputy was
then decided by acclamation, and fell on M. Szent
Kiralpi. It is possible that there may be some difficulty
in consequence of former circumstances, with regard to
the confirmation of the election of Count Radoy.
Two sons of the Archduke Charles arrived yesterday in
the steam-boat.

VIENNA, MAY 9.—The Court is expected to remove to
Schonbrunn on the 18th instant, and the Archduke Charles
to Weilburg, near Baden. The Archduke, Viceroy of
Italy, will probably stay here two months, unless some
alteration takes place. Prince Esterhazy will set out this
week.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 21.—The accounts from the
army of Hafiz Pacha are not very favourable, and
seems to have put the Sultan out of spirits.
He intends, for the present at least, to under-
take no active operations, and has formally promised
this to the Representatives of the Great Powers. He will
even order Hafiz Pacha to withdraw his troops into the
cantonments which they occupied a few months ago, as
soon as assurance is given him that Ibrahim Pacha will
also make a retrogade movement with his army. Till then
he will leave Hafiz Pacha to set according to his ownjudg-
relent, that he may not have reason in the sequel to repent
having yielded too precipitately to the wishes of the Great
Powers. The state of things is therefore little changed,
as it depends on Ibrahim Pacha whether ithe armies shall
separate in peace, or continue to threaten each other till
some unexpected event shall bring on a collision. It is
therefore the duty of the Foreign Ministers to use energe-
tic language to Ibrahim ; if they do this, things will re-
main on their old footing.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 17.

(Official.)

We, William, &c. &C.—On the report of our Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs of the 9th of this month, stating,
that since the publishing of the Treaty of Commerce be-
tween the Netherlands and the German Commercial
League, the ratifications which were then wanting by the
kingdom of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, and the Principality
of Reuz Geritz, have since been exchanged, at Berlin, by
which the business is entirely- completed,
Order, that notice of these four ratifications shall be
given in the Staats Courant.
The Hague, 10th May 1839.
(Signed) WILLIAM.
By his Majesty's Command,
(Signed) VAN DOORN.
, Published 16th May, 1839.

THE HAGUE, 16th MAY.—We learn that his Majesty
has signed a resolution by which the men of the levy of
1832--1833, are to be sent to their homes with unlimited
furloughs.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 16.—T0-day was the thirteenth
General Meeting of the Netherlands' Society for the
Moral Improvement of Prisoners, at which M. C. J.
Vaillant presided. Several persons were elected honorary
members, among whom were Mr. Samuel Hoare, Presi-
dent of the British Society, London ; William Allen,
Stoke Newington ; Pierre Bedford, Croydon.
THE HAGUE, MAY 16.—His Majesty the King, and
Princess Albert went yesterday to the Palace at the Borsh.
His Excellency Count Van der Duyn Van Maasdam has
returned from Stuttgard.
We learn from the Scheveningen that a fisherman has
picked up off the Texel, and brought to Scheveningen 16
bales of hops, damaged, and that he saw a great many
more drifting about, which he aas not able to take on
board.

AMSTERDAM, MAY 17.—Sir Richard King, Bart., and
Sir James J. Duckworth, Bart., officers in the British
service, arrived here to-day.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEADAM, MAT IS.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amon Syndic, 4 % per cent 94% 95%
Ditto, ditto, 35¢ per cent. 70% 11054
Commercial Company, 40,4 per cent 182% 18231
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9834 99%
Exchange on London, One month ll 97
Two months
BELGIAN k U NDS—BaussEta, MAY 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. ...... .. 72%
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent 92
Society of Commerce, 434 per Cent. llB
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent Bl%
National Society . lOO
—Brussels Papers, May 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViaNNA, May S.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents
Bank Shares 1531
.—AllgemeineZeitung, May 13
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, May 17.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1530 1528
An, 10-Russian Loan 107% 107%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 10254 112
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop! and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9854 98
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 244 pe Cent 5454 54%
Ditto
.__ _ _

Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7214 72
Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent. lOl% 1(.1%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MAY 17.-13. 6.—Two months, 13 4%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. MAY 13.
Bids. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 103
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 1021 A
Isxchange on London, three months 6 20%
—Prussian Slate Gazette, May 14.

The reverses sustained by the Carlists have not
been confined to the Basques. CABRERA was in full
retreat towards Salmeron on the 9th, pursued by
Generals AYERBE and NOGUERAS. The division com-
manded by AYERBE took from the Carlists two pieces
of cannon, and made three hundred prisoners.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. The new French Ministry
are not wanting in endeavours to acquire popularity
among the Liberal party. M. F. BARROT, brother of
the Republican Deputy, has been nominated Standing
Counsel of the Treasury—a lucrative post hitherto
held by M. TESTE, and an offer of, a seat on the judi-
cial bench of the Court of Cassation has been made to M.

DurotcT(De L'Eure). On Saturday M.SA uzET, the ,sew
President of the Chamber of Deputies, took the Chair
for the first time, when he addressed a speech to it soli-
citing the indulgence extended to his predecessors. We
select the only paragragh in it of a political tendency :
" The Chamber will accomplish that noble mission of
peace, of progress, and labour, intrusted to it by the wishes
of the country. The preceding Legislature have solved
great political questions. Many causes of discontent have
disappeared ; parties have shown a disposition to forego
their former feuds; the Chamber can do a great deal
towards effecting their reconciliation ; the country stands
in need of our union. This union, based on principles of
order and generous ideas, can alone insure its repose and
promote its future prosperity. It will impart to the Cham-
ber an additional strength, and ultimately consolidate, on
a broad basis, the Throne and institutions which France
has founded."
When M. SALTZET had concluded, M. DuctiATET.,
Minister of the Interior, presented a project of law
for a grant of 1,200,000 francs as a secret service fund.
The Minister contended that the insurrection of the
12th and 13th in the capital imposed upon the Chamber
the necessity of granting that suns.
The Opposition Journals openly charge the Police
with having secretly encouraged the recent insurrection,
which was designed, according to them, to cover de-
mands for secret service money, and to sanction new
laws which are in preparation for more effectually
gagging the press.

of -political news of interest there is an absolute
dearth in these Journals.

We have the following letter from Toulon, of the 15th
of May:—

" Preparations are making, but without any noise, to
receive some eminent person. It is supposed, not without
some reason, that this person is a member of the Royal
Family. Orders have been given very secretly to prepare
an entire steam-boat for his service, and some splendid
articles have already been ordered to fit up the Crocodile
for this mission. The Ro3al Barge has been put in order to
convey on board the Crocodile the person for whom these
mysterious preparations are designed. It is thought that
the Crocodile will go to Oran, and another steam-boat
will escort it.

The Jupiter is just ordered to sail for the Levant. The
Trident will soon follow. The Legere schooner, Lieut.
Lefrapper, sailed yesterday on a special mission to Tunis.
The 4th regiment of the line, which lately arrived from
Lyon; is very shortly to embark for Africa.
The Diademe of the line, which sailed on the 10th for
Algiers, has orders to return ac soon as it landed the effects
which it had on board.--Le C,,mrrterce, May is.
BOULOGNE, MAY 13.---A fine steam-boat from Havre
has just put into our port, being compelled to do so by the
bad weather which has prevailed for some days, and has
on board between four and five hundred monkeys and
parrots, sixty Russian travellers, and other foreigners.
Gazette de France.
BOURSE, Pains, SATURDAY, MAY 18.

HALF-PAST THREE.—The market has been very dull, and very
little business done. The increase in the rate of discount by the
Bank of England has occupied public attention. For the Account
the Three per Cents. opened at 810 55c., and declined to close at
81f. 35c., being a fall of 20c. on yesterday (Friday.) The Five per
Cents, opened at Illf. 20e., and closed at 1110 10c., also a fall of
20c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 10c., znd the Five per
Cents. 20c. lower. The Bank of France Shares have, on the con-
trary, advanced 20f. The Latfitte Bank Shares again, to-day, have
not been quoted. The Spanish Active has varied only from 20
to 19i, closing at the former price. The Belgian Five per Cents.
and Three per Cents. not quoted. The Railway Shares continue
without any very material variations. The Versailles Left Bank
have advanced 5f., and the Versailles Right Bank, which have
lately taken such a start, are 100 lower.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lOl 90 ... 11,1 90 ... 101 1,0 ... 101 91
3 per Cents Bl 40 ... SI 4,; ... 81 :1i
... gi 35
Bank of France
...,730
Belgian Rank 825 ... 827 50 ... 1:25 ... 807 50
Coupons
Spanish Active ‘,-.0 ... 20 -.. 19% ... 21)
Passive 4% ... ”i; ... 4% ... 4
Neapolitan
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Cermaiq
..
Versailles, rt. B 740 ... 740 ... 73.3 . 740
L. 8.250 ... 285 ... 277 50 ... 280
935 ... 005 ... 965 ... stis
475
- ... 475 ... 475 47!" ....- .. ___

Havre .
Orleans ..

Strasburg to Bale: 336 75 ... 3;iB 73 ... 3.57 56 3:37
Mulhausen to Thann

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL
SUMMARY.

The Morning Post of this day still persists in the ridi-
culous, thrice- refuted statement that the resignation of Sir
Robert Peel was occasioned by a Whig intrigue, and
blames the " Bedchamber party" for throwing the onus of
such intrigue on the Queen. " Among the many circum-
stances," says our captious Contemporary, " deeply and
indebilibly disgraceful to the Bedchamber party, which
have marked the course of the late public transactions,
there is none more dangerous or more odious than the use
which has been made of the name of the Sovereign.
The Queen,' they say, has done it all.' In the first
place this is a very cowardly assertion, Nothing can be
more dastardly than that certain old and ' callous' intri-
guers should so manage a transaction—whether designedly
or fortuitously matters not to the point in question—as to
return suddenly to situations which they appeared to aban-
don, and then, lest haply public inquiry into their conduct
might be too vigilant, that they should throw the whole
responsibility upon a young and inexperienced Sovereign.
If the whole affair was a mere stratagem, as it certainly
appears to have been, how gross to throw the imputation
of partnership or leadership in such a business upon one
who in the course of nature can have neither capacity nor
disposition for that discreditable species of ingenuity F'
The Morning Chi.onicle still renews its exhortations to
the Ministry to go forward briskly in the straight-forward
path of Reform There cannot be a doubt that the
feelings of the people have everywhere been strongly ex-
cited in favour of the Queen ; and there can be as little
that if Ministers know how to take advantage of the
sympathy, the Tories will be completely baffled. No-
thing less than the spirit so opportunely displayed by the
Queen, and the chivalrous feeling which it has aroused,
could have again brought together the various sections of
the Reform party. Where there is a will there is a way.
If Ministers really wish to prevent the Queen from fall-
ing into the hands of the Tories, the means by which
they can effect this object are sufficiently obvious. They
must do something to satisfy the Reformers."
The Morning Herald, true to its ultra-Tory creed,
abuses Ministers in the following figurative, and would-be
facetious style :—" The efforts of Whig- Radical emis-
saries and sycophants to lay on the steam of popular agita-
tion throughout the country, in support of the Chamber-
maid Ministry, have only served to show more palpably than
cyst- to what a depth of public scorn and contempt Whig-
gery has sunk in the land where a few years ago it' wielded
at wili the fierce democracy,' and threatened the institu-
tions of the country with a force that seemed almost irre-
sistible. Whiggery, repudiated by the country, entrenches
itself in the palace, behind a strong circumvallation of pet-
ticoats, and, acting upon the hint thrown out by a gallant
Chartist leader, who suggested that, in case of a collision
with the military, the females should be placed in the front
line, gets behind the Bedchamber women, and hugs itself
on its ignominous security. The Chartist leader, to whose
gallant proposal we have alluded, declared that the mili-
tary would not fire if the women were placed in the front
rank, and certainly Lord Melbourne has found his imme-
diate safety in adopting similar tactics."
The Times, alluding to the public demonstrations now
making throughout the country in favour of the Queen,
observes, " The Ministry, returning to office, were pre-
cisely where they had been when they quitted it ; the same
slender and hollow majority was to be set up against the
same Conservative force, and the same Radical contempt.
The only new circumstance, the only point that could be put
forward as making the slightest difference in the position of
the Whigs would be a popular impression of injury to an
innocent and lovely Princess. Excite the people, then.
Through every city, and town, and village, and hamlet spread
the inspiring cry that shall call Englishmen to the rescue
of their Sovereign Lady from the overweening sway
of the Tory leader. Admirably projected, but lamentably
disappointed. The beacons refuse to catch fire, the praise
is denied, and the plunder baulked. What waste of inge-
nious chivalry I What dulness in the lily-livered multi-
tude that lack gall to make bitter a Royal suffering so
romantically prepared for their sympathies! Yet so it is.
The fictitious wrong does not take with the people; the
sham grievance will not circulate among them ; the false
die the counterfeit presentment of their Queen's coun-
tenance—is detected and broken." It can be no " fictis
tious wrong," though it may suit our Contemporary's pur-
pose to say so, that induces the people to meet (as they
have done 'during the last week, and are still doing), and
send up addresses to her Msjesty. The whole of the
above passage is based on falsehood.
The Morning Advertiser, commenting on the proposed
grant for the purpose of national education,
of
ed urecamtaiornk,saares
follows:—" Some ardent people, friends
discontented at the smallness of the grant ; but had the
wealth of Creasus been assigned to the holy work, it
would have been an useless parade of prodigality. The
Committee for Education have conceived that the imme-
diate want to be provided for was not so much schools as
schoolmasters; that there was not so much lack of education
as of a good servicable education, suited to the condition
havetionof
the workmen and servants' of this busy realm, They
therefore, tasked themselves with the duty of providing better'
schoolmasters, and a better system of education. For these
purposes there must be a normal and a model school, to in cloann.-
care of the
members of the Commit
stitute which, to put them a perfect condition, as
plan
tations h!
would,
therefore,
tations of good teachers and examples for
es
and
the guidance of
other schools, will
funds leavet than
require all
ee.provide larger
been useless for the present to thelt thoughts
they now seek from Parliament.'

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

- _
Nothing of any public intere2t took place at this Court
up to the period when our reporter left.

Colonel Thompson is once more a candidate for
the honour of representing Hull in Parliament, and has
most successfully canvassed his former constituents.
Hull Paper.
At a meeting of the Institution of Civil En,i.
neers held on the 14th inst., William Tooke, Esbq.,
F. R. S., was elected an honorary member.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock
entertained a few select friends on Saturday evening,
at
their house in Spring-gardens.
STORIES OF TORRES VEDRAs.-—This work
is written by Dr. Millingen, who, as a medical staff
officer, was present during the whole of the memorable
Peninsular War. His stories are various in their nature,
sometimes detailing with intense interest the startling inci-
dents which characterised many of the sanguinary strug-
gles between the French and English forces, and at others
describing the humours of a camp—the boisterous fun of
the men, and the revelry of the officers. These again are
varied by the stories either of love or war with which the
tedium of the bivouac was occasionally beguiled.