The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BEVERLEY RACES.—FRIDAY. del'
The Kingston Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., with 20 added'
Kingston Course 5 Subs. -
Mr. Allanson's f. by Humphrey Clinker, 3 yrs ..................... .
Mr. Foulis's Eaglet, 3 yrs
Mr. Wood's f. by Humphrey Clinker, 2 yrs ........................
Mr. Stable's b. c. The Young Mohican, 3 yrs. ............. ....
A Plate of 50 SOV3. for horses not thorough-bred. Heats,
and a half. 1 1
Mr. Simpson's Aggravator, 5 yrs, lCst. 71b .....................4
Mr. Latnplough's ch. c. Camilla, 6 yrs, 1 Ist. 31b ......, .....
Mr. Witty's b. g. Speculation, 5 yrs, lOst. -1W .............• a r
Mr. Robinson's b. g. Logic, 6 yrs, 12st. Gib ..................

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER
NEWTON DIANOR CUP, P.P.
6 to 4 agst Dick 2 to I agst The Bi.rsl, 6 to 1 agst Theano.
Pavis is engaged to ride Dick.

• The 'Ara:lois and Marchioness of Ailesbury, 31,1'.8
sojourning a s;rt time at Tottenham Park, intend rnakini-J
tour on the Contin,lnt.
Princess Lieverr,. the lady of the late Russian Ani;
bassador, is daily expe_.'•ed to arrive in town from arcs Pr. her
, d,z.lnsion a..4d domestic eb;'ablishrnent are engarre
- .
HiglineSZ,
The Earl of Asliburnham ha: left town for 13riglit°"'
I, I-
Mr. G. is stated to have lost il. 2)000/. by l'itic
stone Winning the cup.
The Duke of Sussex presided on Wealesday Pifilb'ey
at the quarterly communication of Freemasons, ,attende, le,
Lord Henry John Spenser Churchill, the Hon. Fet I‘l',lotc
Mr. Prescott, and other ~,,,rand and other officers. l'he .vo of
of Sussex addressed the brethren several times in the CO' ost
the evening at some length. His Royal Highness was
1-
cordially 'welted by the meeting. bi. 4
The Duke of Devonshire has recovred I'l.ool lcfr
late indisposition. The Earl and Countess of 13alingten 3t
Belgrave-square, on Saturday, on a visit to his
Gr4ce
Brighton. attaclz
Sir Matthew Tierney is confined by a seven ~ in
of gout to his house in Brutoc-street, which seized ii".t t
the night, after his return from v!siting Lord Egrcroon
Brighton. ~.
QuNeeontdhuhrlignbathne exceed t
itillineesswaotfcitihreulKmintgtc;ntion of
(t.,11:,
never leaves the room during the day, and at nighht.eprniyaire6(g
in a chair. in the ante-room. ' tile
The investiture of Prince Esterbazy oth it i%
ensignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Bath,
understood, further postponed. re bee°
The Duke of Arg,vll and Miss Campbell bas_t their
staying with - the Hon. -Henry and Mrs. Wcstenra, 4 Lady
beautiful cottage near Windsor, for the Ascot race'.
‘, &c.,
C. Stanhope, Mrs. Leycester Stanhope, Lord 131aYne•" I
joined the party on Wednesday. leildi“
has been,
Prince Esterhazy gave one of the most sEsion of
balls of the season on Friday night, at the nle
whole arrange'
The
the Austrian embassy, Chandos House,
ments were upon the most magnificent scale. .
so, of
Lord Fore'ster has .riven the munificent
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0.
:3001. towards the erection .given
a new church at ellinti,°,,,crea
Grisi, it is said, demanded 8001., and at last J.; otiog
bar terms to 600/. for singing at the Manchester musvictile
cop;
in September next. This cast thought too high
s" ,"_, demand
mittee, who applied to Madame Devrient, and
his'one thousand guineas.—Manchester Courier.
Madame Pasta has announced her inte"tiljacinfover,:
-log a grand concert at the King's Concert Ronot,a,slith the adof
square, on Monday morning, the 19111 inst. ;. ar j ',,atrooar,s,
vantage of having the special permission ;I,(it
their Royal. Highnesses the Duelicss of hone
Victoria. rand rolics'

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of this establishment have caused copici of the follow-
ing circular to be addressed to the different Ilan1;in:
Houses, for the information of their correspondents
and the satisfaction of the public:—
" In consequence of the falure of the Treasury of the
United States to pay the demands made upon it in sp:eie,
the Bank of the United States holding large claims upon the
Treasury Banks which it is unable to realize, it has bezo com-
pelled to suspend specie payments also.
" The Government, through its Deposit Banks, having
failed to meet its engagements, the Bank of the United States
did not think it justice to Philadelphia to continuo specie
payments.
" Whenever the Government is ready to resume specie pay-
ments the Bank of the Urited States will be ready to co-
operate with the Treasury in that object."

The Alban? awning Journal, in announcing the
suspension of cash payments by the Baunk= of that
city, observes that the step thus tal.:en should be hailed
as a measure of seasonable and necessary relief.
" The Banks," it states, " are each and all solvent.
Every note will be redeemed—every debt will be paid.
The bills of our Banks are just as good, and more
convenient, than gold and silver. There is no occa-
sion for alarm or apprehension, nor do we believe that
any will be created."

In the mean time it is gratifying to be able to state
that the great bulk of the mercantile classes in the several
States of the Union were doing all in their power to
maintain public credit. Among all the conviction
prevailed that the disease had not reached any vital
part, and that a generous forbearance on the part of
the public creditors would set all to rights again.
The New York Legislature, at the solicitation of the
Chamber of Commerce, passed an Act legalizing the
suspension of cash payments; and was about to pass
another, authorizing the issue of small notes of the
nominal value of from fifty cents to three dollars to

the aggregate amount of one million of dollars
made payable on any of the incorporated Banks of

that State. This would meet the immediate demand
for a small currency, the want of which was generally
felt by retail traders. The concession which the Go-
vernment had been compelled to make to public opi-
nion, both with respect to the collection of the public
revenue and the meeting of Congress, was beginning
to produce a more prosperous state of financial affairs.
Measures which in any other country would prove
ruinous to an established governlnent—completely
destroy its authority, and for ever deprive it
of the shadow of moral influence—promised
to have a most beneficial effect upon public
credit. For the details of these concessions
we direct our readers to the extracts from the New
York papers, • which are given in another part of The
Sun. President Van BUREN'S Proclamation for the
assembling of Congress in September is a curious
commentary upon the conviction expressed in his letter
of the sth ult., addressed to the Committee of the
New York Mercantile Association.

The Committee appointed to inquire into the
state of the New York Banks has made a report
approving in general terms of the management of
the New York, the City, the Merchants', the Trades-
mans', the Leather Manufacturers, the Fulton, the
National, the Dry Dock Company, the Commercial,
the Northern River, the Merchants' Exchange, the
Union, the Butchers and Drovers, the Greenwich, the
State of New York, the Phoenix, the Long Island,
the Atlantic, the American and the Mechanics' Banks.
The Committee, however, is -of opinion, that although
the Banks are all solvent, New York has now less
facilities of doing business than it had in December
1835, by at least thirty
.millions of dollars. This is a
very large sum indeed, but we do not consider it at all
above the mark. The Report concludes with the fol-
lowing general observations :
"As estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, on the Ist day of December. 1836, the whole amount
of bank capital, in round numbers, in the Union, was three
hundred millions; bank paper in circulation, one hundred and
twenty millions ; specie in possession of the banks, forty-
five millions; specie in circulation, twenty-eight millions
(which is believed to be at this time over thirty-two mil-
lions): which, at the time that this estimate was made, showed
that the bank paper of the several States combined, was
as nearly three to one of specie in the Banks, and as a little
over one and a half of paper to one of specie in the banks and
circulation. From this statement it is manifest that the in-
crease of specie has been greater than that of capital employed
in banking, and also greater than the bank paper in circula-
tion, as on the Ist day of January, 1834, by a statement from
the same source, there was two hundred millions of dollars
capital employed in banking : seventy-six millions of bank paper
in circulation ; twenty-seven millions of specie in the banks,
and twelve millions of specie in circulation. At this esti-
mate, the bank paper is over three to one of specie in the
banks, and as about two of paper to one of specie in the banks
and circulation; whereas, in the city of New York, at this
time, the bank paper in circulation in the hands of the people,
and the specie in the banks is about equal in amount ; and it
is confidently believed that there is as great an amount of
specie in the banks of the State, and in circulation in the
hands of the people, as there is of bank paper of our own State
in circulation. This is another circumstance which should in-
spire confidence in the solvency of our banking institutions."

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion for a Committee to
inquire into the manner in which leases of what is
called " church property" have been granted, comes
on to-night in the House of Commove, The pro-
posed inquiry is one of great importance, and we trust
it will be conducted in such a way as to bring out
the truth, however hard that truth may bear upon
those who have been entrusted with the guardianship
of the ecclesiastical revenues. The ptiblic expect the
scrutiny to be rigid. No hole or corner in which mal-
versation can hide itself must be left unexplored, be
the consequences what the may.
That any opposition should be made to the motion we
cannot anticipate. In the first place the party in the
House of Commons, who are always loudest in their
professions of attachment to the Church, and with
whom clerical impeccability is an article of faith as
firmly believed as any of the Thirty-nine, must hail
this investigation with peculiar delight ; because it mu-it,
in their opinion, tend above all other possible contriv-
ances, to vindicate the character of the hierarchy from
the imputation of fraudulent collusion under which it
now lies in the public estimation, and to pro-ec be-
yond all future. challenge their own often-repeated as-
sertions of clerical, more especially of Episcopal in-
tegrity and self-denial. According to their theory,
nothing is to be anticipated from this inquiry but
proofs of the most conscientious regard to the sacred
interests of the Church, on the part of its high func-
tionaries. Nothing like the carnal workings of self-
interest in the breasts of holy men, is to be pre-
sumed. Much less is it to be imaeined that a steward of the
temple could ever have been so lost to all sense of duty,
as for his own private ends, to enter into a composition
with his master's debtors, making them write down 50
where they owed 100. Nothing of all t 1; • •
e sa)•
is to lie so much as thought of by the so-called friends
of the Church, and therefore, were there no other
reasons for theii assenting to Lord Joux RUSSELL'S
motion, this would be sufficient—this whitewashing, as
we may call it, of the cloth.
But there arc other reasons which may be added to
the foregoing. Sir ROBERT PEEL, and those who
with him opposed the Church-rate Resolution, based
their strongest argument against it on the erroneous-
ness of the calculations on which the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER relied. They all svith.one voice
declared it doubtful whether any additional value could,
be given to Church property; but were quite certain that
nothing approaching to the amount stated by Ministers
could he reelized. Now the Committee will satisfactorily
settle this important point. The opponents of the
Ministerial plan must therefore rejoice that an oppor-
tunity is ordered them of proving the superior accuracy
of their calculations, and at the same time of shying
the revenues of the Church from what they hold to be
sacrilegious robbery.

A motion for a Committee of Inquiry into the state
of the nation had, even in the time of TIERNEY, who

so often brought it forward, become stale and almost
riciculons, because it always led to " unprofitable
talk," and ended in nothing. In those days—when
the Continent was under the controul of France—when
our commerce was excluded from almost every port—
when the public debt was increasing-, year after year;
with frightful rapidity, and great discontent prevailed—
such an inquiry might have been productive of good,
and in all probability would have been acceded to it
we had had a reformed House of Commons. What
occasion there could be for such an inquiry in these
times we were at a loss to discover ; and when Mr.
ROEBUCK gave notice of the motion, we naturally
looked forward with some interest to see what argu-
ments a speaker of his ability would urge in favour of
it ; but never was disappointment greater. During
the whole of his speech he hardly stated one fact—he
proposed no rational remedy fur any one existing evil—
it was in truth a mixture of unmerited abuse and vague
generalities ; and all he gained was to lower his own
character, and render such a motion only a theme for
laughter. No member, for years to come, will
venture to repeat it. Most of his charges against
Government were unfounded, but they were not more
unfounded than his remedy was absurd. Admitting
that the Lords are as bad as he described them, what
man in his senses would in these days seriously propose
to sweep them away altogether ? The speech in fact
was made not for England, but for the meridian of
Canada, and even there not one in ten would concur in
it. In every form of Government that has borne the
test of time, a House of Lords has existed in one shape
or another ; any plan of a Constitution without it would
he regarded Utopian ; and to propose it for aristocratic
England exceeds whatever politician, philosopher, or
poet, have ever yet devised. The course which Mr.
RoEnercre pursues is exactly defined in his own words
—" it is useless for good purposes, and the power he
has he uses only for evil." By proposing these ex-
treme measures—by calling for more excitement, and
by endeavouring to stir up the unrepresented against
the rest of the community, he would, were his power
equal to his purpose, make all men of property, all men
in business, and all who dread sudden changes, turn
their eyes to those who hate the very name of reform.
We are inclined to believe him sincere ; but the ex-
amples of COBBETT, HUNT, and BURDETT, give
rise to serious misgivings. Between the sublime and
the ridiculous there is but a step, and these patriots
have proved that there -is but the same short space
between Ultra-Radicalism and Toryism.

The necessity of facilitating the intercourse between
Great Britain and India, by means of steam navigation,
is daily becoming more apparent to all classes in this
country. Our increased experience of the application
of steam power, and the result of the inquiries that
have been instituted as to the practicability of the pro-
posed routes by the Red Sea and the Euphrates, have
removed all apprehensions of the moral impossibility
of carrying such a project into operation as that of
communicating between London and Calcutta by the
regular process of steam navigation. The obstacles
are still great, but they are no longer regarded as in-
surmountable ; while every hour but proves how deeply
we are interested in overcoming them. Our Empire in
the East includes a gross population of a million of
subjects; and, exclusive of the China trade, our com-
mercial relations with India extend to something more
than nine millions annually. By the present mode of

intercourse 16,000 miles are traversed to reach a
country not 6,000 miles distant ; and five or six months
are taken to make a voyage fraught with dangers,
which experience assures us could be made without
risk of any kind in less than as many weeks. In fact,
personal intercourse with India is at present so difficult
that few of the most enterprising travellers ever ven-
ture to visit it a second time, unless compelled by
family or official considerations ; and out of the 1,500
individuals who are supposed to leave England for
India every year, we do not believe that there are five
influenced merely by those motives of curiosity that
set the English rambling in thousands over continental
Europe. The voyage by the Cape is too long—too
dangerous—to be hazarded by the constitutionally de-
licate, and by those whose sole object in travelling is
the indulgence of the senses ; and as in mercantile
establishments the absence of the principal for a period
exceeding twelve months could not be contemplated,

it follows, as a matter of course that merchants are
compelled to conduct the whole of their business with
India through the inefficient agency of the Post Office.
Among the many individuals eminent for their mer-
cantile, statistical, political, and general information,
who have sought to direct the attention of the Govern-
ment to this important subject, we have pleasure in
conceding a distinguished place to Dr. LARDNER,
who has addressed a letter to Lord MELBOURNE, in
favour of the route to India by the Red Sea. A copy
of this letter is now before us, and without question
we pronounce it the most lucid exposition of the de-
tails of this question that we have yet met with. It is
well observed by Dr. LA RDNER at the outset that
—" Nothing but that state of passive acquiescence ge-
nerated by a long habit of following a certain course,
could reconcile a people so commercial and so loco-
motive as the English to be confined to the route to
India by the Cape, since the art of transport by land
and water has received those astonishing accessions

which have been recently co►►ferred upon it by the steam
cngine. The distance from Falmouth to the nearest
port of India by the Mediterranean and the Red Sin

is 5,800 miles, of which there arc not 200 miles of
!rand, and that through the dominions of a friendly
power. The distance usually traversed by sailing yes-
schi in the voya.;e by the Cape is about 16,000 miles,
How strong must be the force of habit, which recoil-
ciks us to such a circuit to reach a place not 6,000
miles distant ! How overruli►►g must that neces-
sity be which sends persons and correspondence a voyage
t quid to two-thirds of the circumference of the globe, to
convey them less than one fourth of that space'!
Prima
*facie the question is not, why persons and
correspondence should be sent direct to India by the
Red Sea, but why for such a purpose the present pre-
, i,oqerouly circuitous route should be still persevered
in." This is so obvious, and has been so often ex-
pressed before by ourselves, that comment upon it is
quite unnecessary.
After a careful examination of the entire route by

:he Red Sea, Dr. LA RDNER recommends that the
170 miles of lan I between Cairo and Suez—V.le ex-

tram boundaries of Egypt—shall be traversed by a

good road, the safe passage of which the rci ;Mug
Pacha would secure to us for a very trifling re mine-
ration. His reasons for preferring a stone road to a
railway are given at some length, and appear to us to
be quite conclusive. He next proceeds to examine the
size and power of the vessels which ought to be em-
ployed in the navigation of the route between Eng-
land and India, upon which lie has the following just
and lucid observations :
" This, my Lord, is precisely one of those cases where a
stinted outlay in the first establishment will be bad economy.
Large and powerful steam-ships will afford such extensive and
luxurious accommodation for passengers, as, united with the
greatly-increased expedition, cannot fail to withdraw a very
large proportion, if nut all the most respectable and affluent
class of passengers, from the route by the Cape. But, inde-
pendently of this, steam-ships of great tonnage will always be
the most efficient means of transit on those ling sea voyages.
This is consonant with all the experience we possess in steam
navigation—by far the fastest and safest vessels now existing
being among the very largest class of steamers. Ii is en this
ground, and for other reasons which it would be tedious here
to detail, that I would strongly recommend in the establish-
ment of this line of communication, the adoption, from the
first, of large and powerful steam-ships.
" Such an arraugement will of course increase the amount
smaller proportion, the annual expense of maintaining the
of the first outlay ; and also augment, though in a welch

proposed line of communication ; but, on the other hand, cer-
tainty—regularity—Tseeurity—and despatch, will be absolutely
ensured. To spare a few thousand pounds in the first outlay
for such a project, would be the less excusable, because the
objects, in which t:hieily fixed capital would he invested, are of
a nature which would be sore to re-produce the capital sunk
in them. Efficient steam- ships will, for a long period of time,
find a market, even if it be necessary or advisable that the
Government should dispose of them; but, independently of
this, the exigent, s of the State will, from year to year, re-
quire such a supply of these vessels, that there can be no rea-
sonable apprehension of being overstociaed by a few powerful
steam-shins, in the event of the abandonment of this project.
" A mistaken desire to cut down the probable expense of
the project to the lowest practleable bas Induced the
partios interested in this measure to recommend a class of ves-
sels for it of a power and .tonnage decidedly inferior to that
which such veaiges would render most advisable.
" Not affected, therefore, by the apprehension that I shall
'care your Lordship's administration and the Honourable Com-
pany by the scale of expense of the establishment which I
shall recommend, I shall advise at once the adoption of steam-
ships of a thousand tons burthen, and two hundred and fifty
horse power. One of these should be appropriated to the pas-
sage between Calcutta and Point de Galle, touching at Ma-
dras; a second should perform the stage between Point de
Galle and Socotra; a third between Bombay and Socotra; a
fourth between Socotra and Carnaran ; and a fifth between
Camaran and Suez, touching at Kosseir. These vessels should
he built of the same magnitude—upon the same model—and
should correspord to each other, with the last degree of pre-
cision,
in every particular, nautical and mechanical; so that
any part of one would admit of being interchanged for a simi-
lar part of another. Thus, any part of the machinery or
stores, for any of these vessels, would be fitted for any other.
The berths and other conveniences provided for passengers,
would precisely correspond. The first steamer would convey
.its freight from Calcutta to Madras: it would there take in
the Madras passengers and despatches, and convey the whole
to Point de Galle. In average weather, the time from Cal-
cutta to Madras (765 miles) would be four days; and the time
from Madras to Point de Gallo (530 miles) would be three
days ; and allowing a day at Madras, the time of the passage
, from Calcutta to Point de Gallo would be eight days. The
first steamer would there, transfer its contents to the second,
and would restsfor the purpose of cleaning the boilers, machi-
nery, &c. The second steamer receiving in addition to the
passengers and despatches from Calcutta and Madras those of
Ceylon, would proceed to Socotra; and, except in the south-
west monsoon, would make the passage in eight and a half
days. At Socotra she would meet the steamer plying between
Bombay and that place. This latter voyage (1210 miles)
would, except in the monsoon, be performed in six days. For
this sage a steamer of less power and tonnage than that
which we have mentioned, would perhaps be sufficient, the
number of passengers and despatches to and from Bombay
being less in a considerable proportion than the other ports of
India. But a convenience would be obtained from uniformity
in all the steam-ships which would more than counterbalance
any increased expense which would arise from the greater size
and power of the Bombay steamer. Independently of this,
another material advantage would result from the greater
power of the vessel of larger tonnage to encounter the mon-
soon : small vessels with the same or a greater proportion of
power, cannot resist adverse weather as effectually as larger
ones. A vessel, for example, of 600 tons, and 150 horse
power, would not be as efficient against the monsoon as one
of 1000 tons and 250 horse power—although the proportion
of power to tonnage would be in both cases the same.
" The steamers coming from Point de Galle and Bombay
would deliver to the fourth steamer at Socotra their passeng,rs
and despatches; and the latter would convey them. from So-
cotra to Camaran (790 miles) in four days. At Camaran the
passengers, would be transferred to the fifth and last
steam-ship, by which they would be brought to Suez (1,065
miles), touching at Kosseir (815 miles), to land such yassen-
gers as might prefer the route through Egypt by Luxor, or
Kennah and the Nile. The time from Camaran to Kosscir
would be four days, and from Kosseir to Suez two days."

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Satur-
day have been received. The Charic of Saturday even-
ing contains the following official news from Spain :
" Government has received the annexed telegraphic des-
patches :____

" NARBONNE, JUNE 10, HALF-PAST SIX, A.M.
" Fort le Baitis, the 9th, in the Evening.
" It was known on the Bth at the Seu d' Urgel, thet the
Navarrese had crossed the Cinca after suffering a considerable
loss. Their wounded had been collected at Benavarre. On
the 6th, at Trempc, the troops of the Pretender were ex-
pected on the following day. An engagement took place on
the 6th between Viet' and Berga. Five thousand rebels,
commanded by Tristany, defeated the division of Osorio,
1,500 strong, and made 200 prisoners.'
" BORDEAUX, JUNE 9, SEVEN O'CLOCK, I. M.
" It was at Estadella that the Carlist expedition crossed
the Cinca, after losing 400 men prisoners, and an equal num-
ber killed and wounded. On the morning of the sth, Ores
had occupied Barbastro, and was following the enemy closely.
Baron de Meer was proceeding in the direction of 'term, cn
the left of the Cinca.
" BAYONNE, JUNE 9, HALF-PAST Two o'CnocK.
" A Carlist spy has been arrested at Sanguesa. He was
the bearer of an order from Don Carlos to assemble in Na-
varre all the disposable battalions, for the purpose of making a
diversion in Arragon. This concentrating movement com-
menced (notwithstanding the arrest of the spy in question) on
the 5;11; 15 battalions and the whole of the artillery are can-
toned between Etchary and Estella. Espartero remained at
Tafalla on the 6th, in observation of their movements, and had
detached only 4,000 men into Arragon.
" The report of the death of Colonel Conrad is unfortu-
nately but too true—he was interred on the 6th, at Saragossa,
with the greatest honours. Nothing official has yet been re-
ceived respecting the affair of the 2d, in which he fell ; but
it is certain that the Carlists passed the Cinca on the sth, on
their way into Catalonia.'
" BAYONNE., JUNE 9, 5 O'CLOCK, P.M.
" ' General Evans has just arrived here. He quits the
Spanish service, as do most of the English officers. There
remain 1,500 English formed into a brigade, under the corn-
mand of Colonel O'Connell. Count de Mirasol commands
in chief the English and Spanish troops at St. Sebastian and
its environs. He has sent two battalions by sea to Santander,
to cross over into Castile, into which province it is feared that
Batanero, who is on the Riveira, will conduct an expedition.
There are no longer any Carlists in Guipuscoa.' "
The escape of Don CARLOS into Catalonia,
though purchased at so great a loss, reflects discredit
on the vigilance of the QUEEN'S Generals. What
success the Pretender will meet with in the most dis-
tracted and most Ultra-Republican province of Spain
remains to be seen.
General EVANS addressed. a farewell General
Order to the British Auxiliary Legion on the 30111
ult., a copy of which we have now before us. He
therein thanks the officers and men for the support he
experienced from them ; states that his health and his
obligations to his constituents imperatively urge his
return to England ; and assures them that his utmost
exertions shall he made to promote their interests.
Time is no domestic news of any interest in the
Paris papers. The Chamber of Deputies was occu-
pied on Friday with the African question. The fol-
lowing arc the only extracts :
The departure of their MajestieS the King and Queen of
the Belgians is fixed for the 16th of this month. The Duke
and Duchess of Orleans are to accompany their Majesties,
and to pass some time in Belgium.—Le Temps.
COMMERCIAL DOCUMENT, MEXlCo.—According to a decree
issued in April by the Govertiment of the United Mexican
States, the following ports of the Republic are closed against
foreign commerce on the Gulf of 11:,,xice Goaza-
coalco, Alvarado, Matagordo, Galveston. On the Pacific
Ocean, Thratulco, Manzanilla, Natividad, Mazathan, La Paz,
Lorito, San Diego, and San Francisco.—illoniteur.
FRENCH FU NIPS —Ps los, JUNE 0.
Five per Cents., P Rf. OCc. 11,c. 70c.
Four per Uri:C., 9:11. s"c.
thr..e per Cents., 7'f. 771. 95c, 701 sc,
Bank Actions, 2030 f.
rtente de Nliles, 1550 30e. .19e, 50c. 60c.
Roman Five per Cents., lot lA,
Spanish Actives, 25 25 Li•
Spanish Passives.
11-ti;ian Loan, rive per Cents., 1013 i.
Brussels Society, 1,5551
P,elgian Bank, 1,1a51.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 23i,
EXCIIANUI: ON LoNnoN.
One month, paper, ; money, 25f. :35e.
Three mouths, paper, •25r. moray, —l.—c
—Coors Authrnticue.
F; Nl*.—PA Rte, JUNE 10,
Five per C. na., !NE ice. 7:,e. SOc.
Fe. per Cents , 50e.
Three per i ;Sf. 10e: 15c. lec.
Bank Actions, 2,4301
Itviite cc Yaples 75c.
Roman Five p 2l'Cents.,
101 a.
Slianish Actives, 25 21%.
Spanish Ditibres,
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Belgian Lean, Fier ner Cents, 105 N.
Belgian Bar,li, I,IEI Lee. 1,41:4.
Portuguese Three per Cents
Dutch Two and a lialfper Cents , 53
liaNtian Loan, :3301
Excus.rme. ON LONDON.
0115 menu), pert., 251. 537 c.; money, 23f. fV•c.
Three mouths, parr, 9.51.17';:c.; mono', —1
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents.. I :8.1
Three per Cents. 781 Cs.
Mink AC:ii4l., .2,13.5 f
Rent: de Nlites, 9,31
Tlpmaii Five per Cents., 10th.
13elgian Loap,
Brurscls Bank, 1,115 f.
Pcrtua,ticse Three per Cents.,
Spanish Actives, 24•
Spanish Passives 5%.
DifTeres, 7.
Ditreres,
Dutch Two and a Irtr per Cents.,
Bet e,i Society, 1.0.,f•
lAN ri; —T. a ussr.i.s, JUNE 10
ra
dual Di.ht..i? per Ceat.
ItotlischiliPs Dna, 5 p" r" Cent. 100!,2
Loan of Thirty Millie.).
Loan 01 ( it v, 15.3•2. 4 pi.T Cent 94
S-sciety et Coornerce, 4,5 per Cent l3l
Bank et 5 per Cent
Papers, June 11.
AUS TR lAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNI: 2.
1-11,1 per Cents: Aletalliques
nnir per cents.
Throe per Cents.
:,!-,ares
I_7S
—Alle;nctric ;;',1t,a1,;, June 7

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS

The House sat this morning to bear appeals. The Lord
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brou ;ham, Lai
\Vynford, and the Earl of Shrewsbury.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY V. CAMPION.
The arguments were resumed in this ease, and 1: not con
eluded when. our Reporter left.

VICE-CHANCERY.----(THIS D I Y.)

This being the last day of Term, Via Vic CFDNCELLOR
took motions to-day.

LEE V. LEE.

Mr. KNIGHT applied in this case, on behalf of the plaintiff,
for a receiver of the effects of the partnership which had been
carried on between the plaintiff and defendant, as worsted-
spinner., near Wakefield.
His HONOUR granted the application.
The Court rose shortly before one o'clock. His limo; r
will sit at Lincoln's Inn to-morrow, and take motions.

KING'S BENCH.-(T HIS DAY.)

HUNT V. CMICK.-BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

In this case, which was an action for •breach of promise of
marriage, a rule bad been obtained to show cause wily the
damages.should not be reduced, or a new trial had. The par-
ties resided at Chard, and were in an humble situation in Ilfe,
and at the trial the defendant brought forward witnesses for
the purpose of pr.wing that the plaintiff was a person of infa-
mous character, but the witnesses were themselves of very
disreputable character. The jury did not believe them; and,
to mark their sense of the defendant's improper conduct in
attempting to destroy the plaintiff's character, gave her 3001.
damages. _ _ _

Mt:: CROWDER now appeared in support of the rule, and
The COURT, after hearing the Learned Gentleman's argu-
ments, said there was no doubt the .damages were excessive,
considering the station in life of the defendant; but the plain-
tiff had consented to their being reduced to what was reason-
able. The Jury were perfectly justified in taking into account
the conduct of the defendant ; if be had broken off the con-
traet without assigning, any reason, there would be no ground
for-doing so ; but his having afterwards put forward reasons,
calumniatory of the a oman he bad wronged, which the Jury
believed•to be fabrications and falsehoods, showed him to be a
heartless, unprincipled, and profligate man ; and under such
circumstances the Court could not at all understand how the
Jury could be justified in not taking the facts into their consi-
deration. The Court would suggest that the reduction of the
damages should be left to the arbitration of some gentleman
at the bar; and if that course was not acceded to, the Court
would,- in the course of the day, dispose of the case in some
other way.

THE KING V. LA RI:R.-CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

In this case a rule nisi for a criminal information had been
obtained on behalf of Mr. Lewis Rogers, a merchant carrying
on business at Havre, in France, and at Richmond, Virginia,
in the United States, against M. Eugene La Rue, a Freqch
gentleman at present residing at Leicester-square, London.
It appeared from the affilavits read that there was a balance of
an account, amounting to 139,800 dollars, due to Mr. Rogers
by the defendant's father, on a tobacco transaction ; and Mr.
Rogers sued out a writ against M. La Rue, sen., upon which
the defendant wrote a letter to Mr. Rogers, expressing his
surprise at Mr. Roger's impertinence in suing out a writ
against his fAther, as he (M. La Rue) believed, if the accounts
were adjusted, the balance would be found the other way, and
demanding satisfaction for the insult ofd red. It further ap-
peared that previous to this transaction, Mr. Rogers had him-
self sent a challenge to M. La Rue, sen., in which he stated
that as soon as he had settled his affairs in England, he would
go to France and call M. La Rue, sen., to the field.
After hearing Mr. Creswell against the rule, and the At-
torney-General in support of it,
The COURT was of opinion that as the applicant did not
come into Court with clean hands, the rule for the criminal
information could not be made absolute; but taking all the
circumstances into consideration, they should discharge it
without costs.—Rule discharged.

THE KING V. THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS.
The COURT gave judgment in this case, which was a rule
for a certiorari to bring up an order of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners of the 21st January, for constituting certain parishes
and townships named in the margin into a union, under the
title of the \Vhitcchapcl Union. The rule had been obtained
by the parish called the Old Artillery-ground, and the argu-
ments of Counsel in support of it were principally directed to
show, that where a parish had a local Act for administering
the affairs of the poor, the Commissioners had no right to
interfere. The Court was of opinion that to withhold the power
of uniting every small parish merely because it had a local
Act, might have the efEct of preventing the operation of the
law throughout the country generally, as was the intention of
the Legislature. The power of uniting parishes }vas conferred
on the Commissioners by the 26th section, without any reser-
vation, and they were therefore of opinion that the Commis-
sioners had exercised their lawful power, and their order
must be confirmed. _ .

The above decision is of very great importance, and the
rules for writs of certiorari, of which several have b•rcn ob-
tained against the Poor Law Commissioners, must all be dis-
charged.