The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS.

This popular place of summer resort opened for the
season last evening. Advantage has been taken of the
recess to lay out the gardens most tastefully, and various
new cosmoramas and shrubberies, together with several
transparencies and some well-executed pieces of statuary,
add to the attraction of this pleasant Vauxhall is minia-
ture. Many thousand lamps formed various devices, or
were elegantly disposed in festoons round the gardens.
The proprietor has catered well for his visitors, and he
must be indeed fastidious who cannot find amuse-
ment here. For the lover of music there is the
orchestra of 50 performers, who perform overtures and
some of the waltzes of Strauss and Musard, in a manner
that would do credit to a band of much higher pretensions.
Miss Fords, from Drury-lane, affords the concert the be-
nefit of her talents, and if shouts of laughter are any test
of the merits of a comic singer, then may Mr. Manclark
be considered first rate. Then there is an Arab who per-
forms wonders on the slack-rope, while Madame Rossini
makes what the bills, without exaggeration in this instance,
call a terrific ascent and descent on the tight-rope,
surrounded by fire. Since Madame Saqui's appear-
ance, we have seen nothing to be compared to the
performance of this lady. The fire-works were magnifi-
cent,
and did great credit to the pyrotechnic skill of Mr.
Darby. The whole of the performances were concluded
by half-past eleven o'clock—a great advantage, in our
opinion, especially when young people constitute part of
the audience ; and we left the Gardens highly gratified
with our evening's entertainments. The Gardens, we
were happy to see during the greater part of the evening,
were thronged.

LATEST TROM PORTUGAL—LISBON, MAY
13.—Her Majesty's ship Hastings, with the Queen Dow-
ager on board, left the Tagus on the 7th instant, receiving
the customary Royal salutes from the shipping and forts.
The monthly election for President and Vice-President of
the Cortes took place on the Bth, when Messrs. J. C. de
Campos and Viera de Castro were re-appointed. The
accounts we have received from the Algarves are anything
but favourable to the tranquillity of this country. A large
guerila of them, under the command of the leaders Cabrita,
Mira, and Rachado, surprised a detachment of the Queen's
Lancers on the 4th instant, at the Ribera de Vasco, killed
one of them, and took ten others prisoners, together with
their horses, and young Remechido, at the head of another
guerilla, was blockading the town of Odeneira on the
sth instant. It further appears that the whole of
these guerillas act now under the directions of a
Miguelite officer, who calls himself Baron de Almodovar,
The Duke of Palmella's palace was in great danger of
being burnt on the Bth instant. A house not six yards
distant caught fire and was totally destroyed, notwithstand-
ing the great efforts which were made in order to extin-
guish the flames, and there is every reason to fear th..t it
was not a casualty, but the work of some incendiaries, who
hoped by those means to destroy the Duke's palace. Two
iron steamers, the Don Pedro and the Infante Don Hen-
rique, arrived on the 9th in ninedays from Glasgow. They
belong to the Tagus Steam Company, and are intended to
ply, the one between Lisbon and St. Übe's and Aleacer do
Sal, and the other down to the mouth of the Tagus. Ex-
change on London, 56.
The heat at the Duke of 'Wellington's ball on
Friday night was intense, and the crowd greater than was
ever remembered. While the arrangements of the ball.
room saloon, &c. are perfect, the staircase, considering the
size of the mansion, is one of the narrowest and most in-
convenient in London.
Title Derby and Birmingham Railway will be
opened to the public at the end of June, or early in July ;
and by the spring of next year the railroad to York, by this
and the North Midland line, will be opened, giving an
entire line from London to that city.—Derby Mercury.
APPREHENSION OF Two OF THE LLANID-
LOES CHARTISTS. —On Tuesday last, two of the lawless
gang who lately committed such dreadful outrages at
Llanidloes, passed through this town (Newport) in cus-
tody of police officers, on their way to Montgomery gaol.
They were apprehended at Merthyr, where, it is supposed,
some more of the party are secreted. A proclamation,
offering a reward of 2501. for the apprehension of others
of them named, has been issued, and widely circulated
through the country. We doubt not it wall lead to their
speedy apppchension.—Merlin.
MALTA, MAY, s.—The Rodney, the Belle-
rophon, and the Talavera, as well as the frigate; Castor,'
which left this port nine days ago, have arrived at. Corfu,
having been sent to that island with the view of exercising
their crews, 'vim had for some time been in idleness. The.
Talavera is to cruise in the Archipelago ; the other ves-
sels will return about the 15th, after touching at Patras.
The Rodney and Bellerophon will shortly return to Eng-
land. As soon as the repairs to the Princess Charlotte
are completed, the Admiral will sail for the Levant with
that vessel, the Vanguard, the Minden, the Asia, the
steam vessel Rhadamanthus, and the Jaseur. To these
will shortly be added, the Ganges and the Pow-
erful, which are expected from England. Prince
George of Cambridge arrived here yesterday on
board the Acheron. His Royal Higness was re-
ceived by the Governor, accompanied by the officers
of his staff, and a guard of honour of the 59th. Another
guard of the 47th accompanied the Prince to the gates of
the Palace. His Royal Highness proceeds to Constanti-
nople. He will probably embark on board Admiral Stop.
ford's vessel to proceed to the Archipelago. The Prince
visited the Governor's Palace and the Library, and also the
Theatre. The brig of war Zebra is to be placed at the
disposal of the Duke of Devonshire, who will shortly sail
for Naples. The Tunisian brig Morali, has arrived in the
Roads, having on board Sidi Mustapha, son-in-law of the
Bey of that Regency, with his suite, and the Chevalier
Ruffo, interpreter to the Pacha. Sidi Mustapha is going
to Paris, to make a complaint of the conduct of M. Lazan,
the French Consul at Tunis.

AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A visitation of Di-
vine Providence, awfully verifying the words of the royal
Palmist, " In the midst of life we are in death," oecurred
at South Shore, Blackpool, on Sunday last, in the person
of Mr. Lees, formerly a banker in Oldham. The family
all went to the church, leaving that gentleman seated on
on the sofa in good health ; after an absence of not two
hours they returned, and, shocking to relate, he was a
lifeless corpse, and sat in the same position they had left
him. His remains are to be interred at South Shore
Church. The deceased was 65 years of age.—Liverpool
Chronicle.

THE HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA

—On Saturday the Grand Duke Alexander, accompanied
by his Royal Highness the Prince of the Netherlands,
attended by Lord Torrington, Lord in Waiting on her
Majesty, Prince Dolgorouky, Prince Bariatinsky, Count
Tolstoy, M. de Patkul, M. d'Adlerberg, &c., left Mivart's
Hotel at twelve o'clock to visit the British Museum. His

Imperial Highness was received by Sir Henry Ellis, and
conducted over that institution, Their Highnesses stayed
an hour and a-half. The party then proceeded to Chis-
wick, to visit the horticultural fete.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS

Bank Stock 195%; India Stack 258%
3 per Cent. Bed toll Ditto Bonds .7 35
3 per Cent. Cens. 9N,1 Ditto Old Annuities —
Tyi per Cent. Red 993/4 Ditto New Annuities ...... ...
New 3 per Cent 101 Ex. Bills, 1,00111 23 ....... 33 pm.
New 5 per Cent — - Ditto 5031 Id pus.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 36 pm,
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan, 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Asturian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto .... 35
Brazilian Bonds 7234 i Prussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ....... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent....
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colomb.an, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent. IN
Ditto, 1824 3l Ditto, Consolidated —
Danish, 3 per cent ...... .....—. IFrench, 5 per cent.... e c.
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct. I Exchange —l•—c
Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, :3 per cent l. —l-
- 6 per cent., lBea — Dutch 2}.i per cent.
, ''''ti
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..." Ditto, 5 per cent. lO3
81-IARDS
Eastern Counties Railway....
Great Western Railway .....
London and Birmingham It
London and CI oydon Railw.

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kilway 159
iy (Trun',;) 12%

HERTFORD ELECTION.

(THIS DAY.)

The polling commenced this morning at eight o'clock.
The following are the numbers up to half-past twelve :
NINE O'CLOCK,
Sir Minto Farquhar - - - - 54
Hon. Mr. Cowper

TEN O'CLOCK.
Sir Minto Farqohae - - - - 86
Hon. Mr. Cowper
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
Sir Minto Farquhar 136
Hon. Mr. Cowper -
TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Sir Minto Farquhar - - - - 161
lion. Mr. Cowper

HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Sir Minto Farquhar - - 173
Hon. Mr. Cowper
The above numbers are from Sir M. Farquhar's
Committee-room. Mr. Cowper's Committee make the
numbers nearly the same.

BANKRUPTS.
JOHN TAYLOR, stone-merchant, Albio a... Wharf, King's-
cross, Middlesex, to surrender May 28, and J
Tilly 2, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official-a ;signec ; Batho,
America-square.
SMITH WRIGHT, grocer, Watton, Notion', June 10, and
July 5, at twelve, at the Anchor Inn, Thetford. Bell, Broth*.
rick. ana Bell, Bow Church-yard, Cheapside, Lot .tion ; Pillans,
Swatfliam, Norfolk.

WILLI:AM APGILL, draper, Liverpool, Jane` 4 and July
2, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Robinson,
Post-office-place, Liverpool ; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple,
London.

WILLIAM MARTIN, currier, Southwark, May 28, at one,
and July 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankrupt, y.
Cannan, Finsbury-square, official assignee; Parker, St. Paul's •
churchyard.

COURSE OF EXCHi
A listerdar,
rim°, .ggitt C.F. 12 4%
12 1
2 U. 12 5
Aurerp....
.............ALB iatnburtr l3 111,4
AI tont:
Paris, 3 days' sight...... 25 35
..................3 Ms 25 05
M trscillci
Bot.:rdcaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151
Petersbutfth,rublc...3 Us. 10%
. 7 0
V;enna, effective. 11...3 51 lO 5
10 6
Madrid 37
17%
B,lbort .
B Itwlot-r 4
Y "IG;

I.IVGE.—( THIS DAY.)
(libratt4r ....... ..... 48
....... 55
'Genoa..
31
Venice 47
Naples
Pa!enno oz. 120
Lisbon
Grcrto
Rio Janeiro 2B
Bahl- 27
Buenos
New York, 21 days' sight 461 i
Philadelphia 45
PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ.
Portugal Gold, c0in....40 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 18 0
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars ......... 0 0
Silver in Bars 0 0 0

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Cstrrent of May 20.)

1 SUGAR.—The demand for West India Museovaeloes
Sugar last week considerably abated, both grocers And,
refiners purchased very cautiously,, and the sales atnounted ~
to only 600 hhds and tierces, but importers remained firm,
and having supplied the market sparingly, Were,Oneblefl
to obtain termer rates for all descriptions. There beets.:
no public sale of Barbadoes, but one of 35511 e lasthlils,sss tipieerrccess,
and 12 barrels is declared for Friday.
paid were 64s 6d to:6ss for mid yellow Jamaica, -Berbice,
and Demerara ; 67s for good grey Jamaica and 'St: :WTI-.
cent's; Demerara, with a good deal of coloni'TOi the scale,
has fetched the same price, and other sorts up to 701.
The weekly delivery has increased, but still if is not equal
to that of last years. The Gazette average price is nearly
8s higher than in 1833 at this period.
REFINED.—In the Refined market standard lumps fetch
82s to 82s 6d, brown lumps 79s to 80s, and common patent
goods 81s ; a few small parcels of crushed manufactured
from Foreign Sugar at 36a. Pieces and Bastards at far-
mer quotations. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 34s 6d per C.wt.
MAURITIUS.—There has been only a limited demand by
private contract from grocers as well as refiners, and none
has been offered at auction, but the prices previously
established have been supported.
EAST INDIA.—In Bengal former prices have been sup.
ported. Manilla at 245. Siam and Java have commanded
late rates.
FOREIGN.—In yellow Havannah no iuclination mani-
fested on the part of holders to submit to lower prices. Ha-
, vannah : 38s to 42s has been paidjor 300 boxes; brown
Brazil last weelt was in demand by our refiners, and the
late advanced rates fully supported, 200 chests having been
sold at 24s to 24s 6d fur good and fine. A cargo of white
Pernambuco has been sold afloat for Trieste at 345.
Motesses.—West India have mair,taired former rates,
but the purchases have been only to a limited extent.
COFFEE.—For clean descriptions, which are wanted by
the grocers 1193 to 120 s has been paid; Ceylon has se-
cured a fair sale by private contract at 2s profit on the late
auctions, for goon ord 98s to 100 s has been paid, and 107 s
for fine green. Java has been inquired for, and the re-
mainder of the late arrivals from the Cape, about 1,300
bags, have been sold, fine pale yellow at 793, and common
green and yellow at 755. Mocha has been in good request
at the rates pre, iously established : fair green clean gar-
bled has been sold at 95s to 96s 6d.
Rum, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—Leewarcls have been
sought after, principally for Liverpool, bat the demand has
been checked by the short supply at market, and importers
obtained prices fully up to those of.last week, excepting for
strong sorts, which are rather higher ; 100 puns of the former
have been sold at 5s tad for 33 per cent over proof ; of the
latter 250 puns have been sold, 30 to 38 over proof at 5s 2d
to is lid, proofs to 8 over 3s 4d to 3s Bd. For Brandy
prices have slightly improved. Geneva. at late rated.
British Corn Spirits unaltered. ~
TALLOW.—The prices demanded for Petersburgh yel-
low Candle on the spot still being high, viz., 52s to 12s 6d
for first quality, prevent business of moment. For new
Tallow prices are unaltered, 46s to 46s 6d, being the price
paid for the last three months.
On.s.—Cernmon Fish Oils' have been taken only in
mall quz:ntities for home use; Cud and Southern Lave
ni.lintamed previous rates, but for Seal rather lower prices
have been accepted ; Sperm for small parcels of first qua-
lity 95/ is still paid. Linseed Oil at 26s 6d. In Rep.:
prices have declined to 38i 6d for Pale, `and 378 6d for
brown. In Olive little passhig. . ,
TEA.-..-The operations hai,c been very limited since the
sale, but in prices there is no change; the deliverleS ' from
the warehouses last week were 430;000lbs: . - • -

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL
SUMMARY.

The Courier of last night comments as follows on Mr.
Goulbui ti's claims to the Speakership of the House of
Commons :—" 'The proposal of the Tories to thrust Ales
Gouthurn into the Speaker's chair is one of those
tical vagaries into which faction is at all times liable
to wander, but which excite not the lessi. when they
do happen, the gaping wonder of an admiring world.
A man loss fitted to do credit to the presidential
chair, it would have been difficult to select from among
tl:e pcllui of either side of the House. At all times i&
fierce partisan, he •has never been kept by a feeling of
personal modesty from occupying a more prominent position
among his party, }et, even by his friends, he has sekom
be.en more than tolerated, and by the House at large he has
never been more than endured."
The Globe says, with reference to Sir R. Peel's late
Parliamentary explanation We repeat—the party has
made itself ridiculous, or its leader has made it so. it'
such obstacles can keep it out of office—out of office it
must stay. But we would not be supposed for a moment
to believe seriously any such thing. It is something else,
and something more than the tremendous presence of
Lady Normanby that dooms the Tories to successive dis-
appointments in their ambitious prospects. It is simply
that the principle of mere negation—repression of new
growths—hostility to new influences-reennot govern the
country. The Active and positive principles of Toryism
are feared and disliked as much by the cool and enlighted
men of their own party as by those of ours. They are
afraid of their own adherents; and with even more reason
than they sometimes taunt Liberal politicians with being
afraid of theirs."
The Standard, remarking on an article that appeared in
the Chronicle of yesterday morning, takes the opportunity
of renewing its coarse attacks on Lord Melbourne :
" Every one will say that to exhibit the Queen in this
light is foully and seditiously to libel her Majesty, and some
will impute malicious, and perhaps treasonable motives to
the author cf the passage cited above. It is, indeed, a foul
and seditious libel to represent the Queen as the implaca-
ble enemy of her subjects, but it were unjust to charge
that upon the hand which held the pen in writing the drama
got up by others. Lord Melbourne is the libeller—
he is the author of the drama, in which the Queen is made
to play a part so unbecoming of her Majesty's family and
office, and we arc sure so alien from her just and generous
nature. Lord Melbourne has, we trust, failed in his en-
deavours to poison the Queen's mind against neither the
least respectable, the least numerous, nor the least loyal
class of her Majesty's subjects, but he has certainly em-
ployed those endeavours with that purpose, and be has
employed them in a manner to create an impression (wa
are sure a false impression) that they have been successful.'

RIOTS IN THE POTTERIES.---There have been I
some serious riots at Lane-end, in the Potteries, arising
out of the arrest of some drunken fellows at a beer-shop
,
by the police. The men were locked up, and next day a
mob of five or six hundred commenced throwing stones,
and threatening rescue. A car was sent from Newcast'e
for the Fir:oners, who were conveyed thither under an es-
cort of ten foot soldiers and some of the police. After
repeated ineffectual attempts to restore order, the Riot
Act was read, and the mob were desired to disperse, but
they refused to do so, and continued to throw stones, &o.
at the police and military, until about nine o'clock,
when things beginning to wear a serious aspect,
the cavalry were ordered to clear the streets. 1
Blank cartridge was fired at first, but that not having any '
effect in dispersing the mob, the cavalry fired ball cart-
ridge, and also used their swords. Several persons were
wounded—one very dangerously, a ball having entered his
abdomen. Another was wounded in the thig with a ball
—another is very seriously cut in the head, and is not ex-
rented to recover. Others were wounded less seriously,
Eighteen were taken into custody. and conveyed to' a
meeting of the Magistrates on Thursday morning at
Trontham, from whence they were committed to Stafford
gaol. The troops remained on duty, but peace has been
restored, although a very riotous disposition still prevails.
MURDER.—An inquest was held at Warkwerth
on the 29th ult. and the 3d inst. on Thomas Mordue, agedfifty, who belonged to Addington, and had been employedin the woods at Acklington Park, belonging to his Grace
the Duke of Northumberland. Mordue died Very s d
denly on the 21st ult. and, in consequestea of the zudduen-
nees'nf hie death, the unusual appearances which he as.
turned, and a report having become prevalent that his
daughter, Jane Mordue, a girl only fifteen ears'
r of
returned a verdict of
v judicial inquiry.
bad purchased some arsenic at a shop at .
\Varkworth, his
age,
body was exhumed for the purpose..
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raful i
patient
id
u Murder
n a
gan
investigationistj
thean
eii\
juryi e,
ord ue, and against a
woman named Susanna Stephenson, as accessory, and they
were committed under the Caroller' s warrant for trial at the
next assizes for Northumberland.. Newcastle Chronicle.