The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1838.

berless meetings we have lately referred to, in the different
counties of Ireland, make us answer—No. The inhabitants
of the towns are one class, the agriculturists, who are the
tithe-payers, are another. The success of the former
may embolden, but it will certainly not satisfy the latter.
It will increase their demands by an assurance of success.
They will not pay tithes either in the shape of rent, or in
any other shape. The Tories, the poor defeated Tories,
will give Municipalities because they cannot help them-
selves ; but they will not get the tithe question settled to
their satisfaction and the satisfaction of the Protestant par-
sons. The Irish have in truth got beyond the controul of Par-
liament, which, like Lours PllirmrE, according to certain
French politicians, reigns, but does not rule. At the same
time we quite approve of the leaders in Parliament accom-
modating their party differences as they best can, which
will enable them to preserve appearances, and still seem, by
giving in due time a legal form and sanction to the popular
will, to possess the sovereignty after it has passed out of
their hands.

For a number of years 'after steam navigation was gene-
rally adopted in this country, the explosion of a steam-
boiler was an event of rare occurrence, and the public had
such confidence in the security of the vessels, that it was
considered more safe to travel by sea than by land. The
numerous fatal accidents, however, that have occurred
lately, destroyed much of that confidence. Explosions are
about as common here as in the United States, and as the
English are not quite so reckless of life as the Americans,
we are convinced the Directors of Steam Companies will
be compelled, from interested motives, to adopt some new
regulations for the public safety. The numerous explosions
in America have been satisfactorily accounted for, and in
most cases arise from wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
We are afraid the same causes operate here ; and in all
instances where this could be proved against the engineer
or captain, the proprietors would be liable to actions for
damages, as much as the proprietors of stage coaches for
the negligence of their drivers, or the insecurity of the
coaches. The heavy damages which juries have for years
awarded against offenders of this sort have produced a
thorough change. The vehicles are in general secure. A
drunken driver is an animal now of the rarest description ;
a totally different class of men have been appointed, and
the consequence is that not one accident in ten happens
now that did formerly. A similar reform is requisite for
the conducting of steam-boats. The Congress, we believe,
has taken up the subject in the United States ; and unless
the proprietors of steam-boats here adopt some new system,
it will be imperative on the British Legislature to follow
their example. 'Without wishing to prejudice any pending
investigation, we are afraid that in most of the instances
that have cccurred lately there has been negligence in
some quarter, either from not keeping up a proper supply
of water, or defective boilers, or want of attention to the
safety valves. In all such cases a jury would be much in-
clined to make the owners responsible.

King ERNEST of Hanover is, after all, but a sorry
performer of the farce of absolutism. Notwithstanding
the constant aid which he receives from that clever but
most unprincipled prompter Von SHELE, he rather excites
the contempt than the risibility of his subjects. From a
long acquaintance with the sort of moral and political
character which his MAJESTY, as Duke of CUMBERLAND,
acquired among all ranks and classes of men in England,
we confess we were prepared for something less grotesque
than the subjoined account of his performance of the func-
tions of Royalty on the 9th inst., which we'copy from the
German Papers received this morning. The letter from
which the following is an extract, is dated " Hanover,
June 10:"

" M. Rumann, the Chief Magistrate, had yesterday a private audience
of the King, in which he requested that to-morrow being fixed for the
celebration of his Majesty's birthday, a deputation of the magistrates and
citizens of the city of Hanover might be permitted to offer their congra-
tulations on the occasion. The Cabinet Minister, Von Schele, who was
present, took this opportunity to express to M. Rumann the surprise
rand displeasure of the Royal Cabinet at the conduct of the magistrates
and citizens of Hanover, who, forgetting the benefits which had been
so amply enjoyed by their city since the arrival of the King, had
sent the General Assembly of Estates a deputation, with a protest
in favour of the Constitution which his Majesty has abolished, M.
Von Schele spoke likewise of the well-known meeting at Bre-
men, declaring that the taking a part in it was not only wholly
unauthorised, but even a punishable act, and added that if M.
Rumann had thought fit his influence must have been sufficient to in.
duce the citizens to refrain from that step. His Majesty fully agreed in
the opinion of M. V. Schele, and ordered M. Itomann immediately to
call a meeting of the magistrates and citizens once more to acquaint
them with his Majesty's will, and to call on them to withdraw their pro-
test. In conclusion his Majesty was pleased to decline seeing any depti-
tatlon from the city of Hanover. In consequence of this scene, which
is generally related as we have stated in substance, a meeting of the
magistrates and citizens has been held to-day, and it was unanimously
resolved by no means to recede from a step once taken with mature
deliberation. All those who were present at the meeting represent it as
one of the most remarkable they remember, and the affair is the sole sub-
ject of conversation."

The threat of veiling the Royal countenance from the
Magistracy of Hanover seems to have produced no very
powerful effect upon the nervous system of that phlegmatic
body. We wonder how M. RUMANN could keep his
countenance, when Von SCIIELE had the effrontery to refer
to the benefits conferred by his Royal Master upon the
capital, unless indeed it can be shown that the abrogation
of a nation's liberties, and the ruin of one of the finest uni-
versities in Germany, are metropolitan advantages.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday have been
received, but with the exception of the subjoined extracts,
they contain no news of any interest :

Since Rear-Admiral Leblanc has been stationed in the Plate, many
vessels suspected of being engaged, both in the slave trade and in piracy,
not being able to go up that river, have sought refuge at ether points of
the coast. One of these ships has been captured by the English, who
toak it to Jamaica. It is a handsome brig, of American construction,
carrying 12 guns, with a crew of about 600, of all nations It bears
the names of San Salvador Sarah and Caiman, according to circum-
stances, and is commanded by a man who is said to be a Portuguese
Creole, of whom most extraordinary things are related. There were
found in the hold seven or eight prisoners, among whom were two
French sailors.

A letter from Algiers, of the Bth of June, says our intercourse with
the Arabs of the interior continues to be very frequent ; trade is brisk ;
into
effect. for forming settlements on the plain will soon be carried
effect. Abd-el-Kader has set out for Tekcdempt, and he will go thence
to the conferences which are to be held on the frontiers of Morocco,
with the Emperor of that country and an Envoy of the Sultan. TIC
has left El Barcani with his army at Medeah. The expedition against
the tribes which inhabit the border of the desert towards the S.E. is
put off.

The Phare de Bayonne of the 14th says:—" The Pretender was still
at Tolosa on the 11th, without having been able to form a new Minis-
try, which late events have rendered indispensable. Maroto, who is still
considered as the future General-in-Chief of the Carlists, had not take❑
the command of the :,raiy. There are numerous difficulties which op-
pose this choice. Mutiny has broken out in the Carlist army under
Cabrera."

The following is a letter from Tune! of June 9 :—" Three days ago
there was a great disturbanceat Cantavieja. The 4th battalion of Arra-
gon mutinied, because it had not received like the Ist all its rations.
The mutineers were at length disarmed and expelled from Cantavieja,
with a threat that the artillery should fire upon them if they did not re-
tire. There is great distress and Insubordination among the Carlists "
—Le Commerce.

Hamner', JUNE 10.—We lvarn on good authority that the pro-
fessorship In the University of Gottingen, vacant since the deli irture of
M. Dshlinann, has been otfered to Dr. Hanemann at llfeld, author of
the " History of Hanover and Brunswick." Dr. Hanemann will not
hesitate t.i comply with the wishes of the King, and is alrca•ly gone to
Gottingen to make la imself more accurately acquainted with the general
gat,: of parties.—Frankfort Paper.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 10th inst. have
been received. The Gazclte of that date announces offi-
cially that Colonel RODRIGUEZ fell in on the Bth with the
remnant of BALMASEDA'S forces, then pursued by ZUR-
RANO, cryl made prisoners of two chiefs, twenty eight
officers, two chaplains, and two hundred and sixty-five
privates. He likewise released the remainder of the
Christino prisoners taken by BALMASEDA, and retained as
hostages.
From the capital the news is rather important. Messrs.
ord enabled
the 13.1cAttuo and ARPOIN had made a new proposal for a
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the Government to raise twenty millions of reals in the
course of one day in the capital alone. It was further
reported, that thirty-five millions of reels were advanced
by the House of ROTHSCHILD for a three years' renewal
of the Almaden mines' contract.
Rumours were in circulation, to the effect that Ministers
Cortcs to pass •1 • would shortly call upon the
.a BO for re-
thelbert-y of the subject during the continuance
of the civil war. As yet, they do not appear to us to be
well founded.
It was also reported that OttAA had received orders to
disband the National Guard of Saragossa, and to arrest
seventy inhabitants of that city on a charge of treason.

VERACITY OF THE STANDARD.--The Standard
is a publication in which very important statements are sometimes made,
which the public are called upon to believe on the authority of its co,,_
ductors ; but when it is shown that, even on the most trifling matters,
and to gain she most petty advantages', the Standard will violate truth
in the moat shameless manner, and, when detected, will resort to the
shabbiest and most contemptible shuffling; and, when it is seen that
these malpractices are accompanied by an air of sanctimony and an
habitual parade of religion, which reminds one of Mother Cole, they will
be simple people indeed who will Inhere the most trivial fact on its au-
thority.—Manchester Guardian.
IMPRISONNIENT FOR DEBT.—There arc at pre-
sent (says the Brighton Gazelle) nine debtors confined in our city gaol,
many of tli:m with large families; the total amount of the claims for
which they are incarcerattcl an:mu:24l7s to 191. 14 ;Id., aucl the ez.
verlscs to 341, 163. dd.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 18.—Wind A.M. E.S.E., P.M.S. W.—Sailed this morning
the outward bound, as per last, on their respective voyages. Came down
from the River and remain, the Eleanor Russell, Worth, from the Mau-
ritius; and Greyhound, Hutchinson, for the northward.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 18.—Wind E.S E. to W., fine.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Arrived the Gloria, Ileber, from Altona.
Sailed her Majesty's ship Talbot, for the Mediterranean; and Sir Ed.
ward Paget, Campbell, for Bombay.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Wind variable, light breezes and fine.—Sailed
the Star packet, for Havannah, Belize, and _Mexico; Reindeer packet,
West Indies; Patriot Millen, Havannah ; aEd Tampico, Hamburg.
LIVERPOOL, Juxtr. 18.—Wind moderate, thick weather and heavy
rain.—Arrived the Crescent, Ball, from Mobile. Arrived off port, the
Resolution, from Savannah. Sailed the Manchester, for Quebec; Alex-
andrina, for Riga ; and Sisters, for Labrador.
OPP THE WIGHT, JUNE 18.—The St. Bartholemew, —, from
New York; Euratus, Robins, from Charleston ; and the London,
Kent, from Jamaica.
PORTLAND, JUNE 18 —Arrived off port the Castle Lachlan, Bruce
from Jamaica.

GLOUCESTER, JUNE 18.—Arrived the Frederick, Beck, from Memel.
WATERFORD, JUNK 16.—Arrived the Queen Victoria, Booth, from
London.

Coax, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Mary Blade, Gillies;from Laguna.
BELFAST, JuNE 16.—Arrived the Gazette, Macculloch, from Alicant.
DaoctiEna, JUKE IG.—Arrived the Lady Douglas, Stevenson, from
St. John, New Brunswick.
BRIDGEWATER, JUNE 18.—Arrived the Amitie, Schultz, from Memel.
BREST, JUNE 13.—The Mentor, Allenies, from Demquestre to
Guadeloupe, has put into the Roads, having lost her topmasts off Ushant.

The William Salthouse, Barr, from Trinidad, put into St. Thomas
in distress, and discharging having been on Anegada Rees, bound to
Liverpool.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

TITS FUNDS.

There being no arrivals this morning of any consequence, every thing
in respect to commercial affairs and speculation i❑ the Funds appears
very dull in the City.
During the whole"of yesterday very little business was doing in the
British market, and the same inactivity continues this morning.
Consols closed firmer than they were in the early part of the day at 954
to # for the July account; opened this morning at 95 lAi4 ; Exchequer
Bills, 70 prem. ; India Bonds, 74 76 nominally; Bank Stock, 2051.
The Foreign market continues in the same state as that of the
British—scarce a bargain doing, and most of the prices are nominal.
Spanish Active, 21 221 with Coupons ; Portaguese, 36 371 ; Three
per Cents, 24 25; Brazilian, 791 80; Mexican, 25 26 ; Colombian,
274 ; Belgian, 101i_102 ;DutchTwo and-a-Half per Cents., 55k.

PRICES OF ITO6KS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 93% 4
3 per Cent. Cons. —
3% per Cent..... ~.
Ditto Red. IOIU%
New 3;4 per Cent ..—,..
New 5 per Cent.. —
Bank L'nagAnnuitlestoexpire
Jan. 5, 1860 154 3-16''
oct. 10, !SW
Jan. 5, 1860 —
Jan. 5, 188,1 —

India Stock
Ditto Bonds
South Sea Stock
Old Annnities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 17a L --
Exch. Bills,
Ditto
Ditto Small ... 7O 71 pm.
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Advertised. — pm.
Bank Stock for Acc0unt........

April 5,
Jan. 5. 1870...
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds ........
Belgian Bon,!s
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds 793
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Datil Account
.;hilliar. Bonds .....
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1821 27
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds ....„.
Ditto Accouut

India Stock for Account
Consols for Acconnt 051,41/6
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds •.
Ditto Account ..... ....
Portuguese Bonus
Ditto Now Bongs
Ditto Account ..
Ditto, 3 per cent
Ditto Account
Pnnsian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 1822
Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account
Ditto Bonds.lB2l 22
Ditto Account 21%

Greek Bonds ************
Ditto Bonds, 1325
Ditto Account . ...........
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent...,
Ditto Account

French, 5 per cent__ ,„„_.... f......,
----- 4 per cent l. —c.
3 per cent. —f. —c
-- Exchange —f. —c
Dutch, 234 per cent 5516

Ditto, 6 per cent. ...... ...... liTaACiount
Ditto Account Ditto, trot' c7nt.... 100% 1 100%
Noapolitm . Ditto Account —
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

__ _____ ___
Paid. Per Share.
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 2211
British Iron Company
Eastern Counties Railway 5 WAN%
Great Western Railway Company 65 B5 3%
Brighton Railway Company
London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 171
Ditto IA Shares 5 28%
London and Southampton Railway Company— 5O 42%
Mroxhestor and Birmingham Railway 7 7%
Do. • Do. Extension
North Midland Railway Company 35 3S,
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 8
Do. Liverp00l
Cleneral Steam Navigation Company ......„
Kent Zoological and Botanical Gardens Company 1 1%

HALF-PAST ONE:

Consols are not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, and
may be quoted at 95h for the opening; Reduced, 931 94. Exchequer
Bills, 69 71 prom. ; India Bonds, nothing doing; Bank Stock, 2051.
In the Foreign Market very little business doing. Spanish Active,
22 ?, rather better with Coupons ; Portuguese, 36,1 ; Three per
Cents. 241 5; Brazilian, 791 SO; Mexican, 25 26; Columbian, 271 ;
Dutch, Two mid a Half, 551.
In the Share Market a good deal doing, but the prices are not higher.
Brighton Railway 1 premium; Great Western, lower, 181 premium ;
Birmingham, Si premium; Claridge's Asphalte improved to 6 premium.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account 23h..

NATIONAL LOAN FUND ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
—This Society, which is well adapted to enable those to provide for their
old age, who have no certain staff on which they can then hope to rest,
appears to be going on successfully. It is stated that sirwe the publica-
tion of their plan, many Friendly Societies have applied for information
and advice as to the best mode of effecting an amalgamation with the
Society ; the Directors have thereforefixed upon a plan which will enable
these bodies to effect that object, by retaining their present officers and
without disturbing their existing relations.—Essex Herald.
We observe that Mr. Laporte has announced his
benefit at her Majesty's Theatre for Thursday next. The great attrac.
tions of the 2,Tozze de Figaro, the appearance of Fanny Ellsler in the
cachticha, and of Taglioni in the Tyrolienne, with the variety of other
entertainments, are sufficient to ensure an overflowing house. But we
cannot let the occasion pass without doing justice to the many claims
Mr. Laporte has on the public for his able and spirited management of
the Italian Opera, He has brought together an host of talent, both in
the opera and the ballet, which the theatre has never before witnessed
at the same period. We heartily wish him success on the occasion of
his benefit, as well as for the remainder of this brilliant season.
THE CORONATION.—Company visiting the me-
tropolis at this interesting time, would do well to inspect the extensive
and elegant assortment of all kinds of ornamental hair at Ross and Sons,
119, Bishopsgate-street, particularly their newly invented Ventilating
Perukes and Scalps, Head-dresses, and fronts, in which the use of both
weaving and sewing silk is entirely superseded, thus rendering them the
nearest imitation of the natural hair of any extant. Importing their
Foreign, and manufacturing on their premises, all their British Perfu-
mery, including every description of Combs and Brushes, they are ena.
bled to offer them of the most superior quality, and at a moderate price.
A visit to their Grand Neapolitan Saloon for cutting and arranging the
Hair in, is particularly requested.
On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicolls. K.C.8.,
was appointed to succeed as second member of Council at Fort St.
George, on his assuming the office of Commander.in.Chicf at that presi-
dency.

On the night of the Coronation all places of public
entertainment are to be gratuitously free of access by Royal command
4001. being paid for this purpose to each of the larger houses, 2004 to
the Haymarket and Lyceum, 1501. to Astley's, 100/. to the Surrey and
Victoria, and proportionate sums to every other description of minor
establishmen

The Corporation of Liskeard on Tuesday last voted
25/, to be expended in celebrating the coronation.
MUSIC AND STEAM.—The Rev. J. Birkett, of
Ovingham, an excellent musician, good divine, and ingenious mechanist,
has invented a steam organ, which he has adapted to the Tyne locomo-

tive engine on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
Mr. Talbot, one of our County Members, has
bought the copper works at Talbach, which have been for nearly a cen-
tury in the hands of his tenants the English Copper Company, and of
which the Messrs. Calvert, the great London brewers, were leading pro-
prietors.—Cambrian.

THE LATE DUEL.—The ball passed through
Lord Castlereagh's right foie-arm, in an oblique direction; it entered
about an inch above the head of the tibia, where that bone is articulated
with the wrist joint, and made its exit about two inches from the extre.
mity of the radius. Dr. Forbes, the experienced Peninsular surgeon,
who attended on the field, immediately cut open the sleeve of the coat,
and after an accurate anatomical, examination, pronounced the bones
and extensor muscles and tendons to be uninjured, the ball having most
fortunately passed merely under the shin. We are happy to learn that
no danger is apprehended.

It is with great pleasure that we announce to our
readers that the Ramsgate Improvement, or rather the Ramsgate addi.
tional taxation Bill, was demolished in the House of Commons, by the
introduction of clauses moved by Mr. Attwood, which scarcely leave any
wish of ours ungratified. The job was one of the most impudent that
parties, however interested, ever attempted to palm upon the public—
and it was, at the same time, most foolish. If Ramsgate is to flourish, as
it has done since the " Commercial Steam.packet Company" visited its
harbour, it will flourish, not through trick or cunning, or base attempts
at most impolitic taxation. Of the motives of the parties who mooted
this shameful and indefensible Itamsgate Improvement Bill we are per.
fectly aware—their influence, most interested as it is, we despise. They
are already drowning men—and it shall not be our fault if their heads
and their motives be not speedily jammed between the two ugly guardians
of a harbour which had a beginning, but, apparently, is not very speedily
to have an end.—Morning Advertiser.

The last railway train, last Friday evening, from
Manchester, performed the whole. distance (to the mouth of the tunnel)
in 41 minutes It wai drawn by the "Sun" engine.—Lityrpool
Chronicle.
_

The answer (luring yesterday to the numerous in-
quiries at the residence. of Viscount Castlereagh, in Chapel.street, Park-
lane, was that his Lordship seas doing as well as could be wished. The
Marchioness of Londonderry drove up as early as twelve o'clock to see
her noble stepson, who is attended by Dr. Forbes of Argyle•street, and
Mr. Walker. The ball of the Noble Lord's antagonist, M. Gerard de
moor, passed through the fleshy rart of his right arm, near the wrist,
which is severely injured, but it did not, as stated by a Contemporary,
graze his chest and leave a track of blood. His Lordship, we under.
stand, disclaims having fired at M. de ; he says that he discharged
his pistol in the air. M. Cottreau, M. Gerard de Melcy's second was
among the inquirers after his Lordship's health on Monday. He was
able to see a few of his intimate friends yesterday, among whom sees
the lion. Henry Thomas Liddell, M.P. The Noble Lord is not such a
very young man as has been stated, he is in his 33d year, and has sat
eleven years in Parliament for the county Down.
On Friday morning, between eight and nine o'clock,
a lad, named George Eykes, residing at Stratford, was run over by a
butcher's cart close by Limehouse-bridge, and was killed on the spot.
At the approaching Hams Sessions there are said
to be upwards of lOU prisoners for trial, while at the Assizes which
take place the week after, the judges will, comparatively, have little
criminal business to attend to,

,
Most cheering is the Reform prospect in East
Sussex, as presented to us in the large assemblages of honest and index
pendent electors, who, at either extreme of this division of the county,
last week met spontanesusly to do honour to two Representatives who,
accurately embodying the political sentiments of an immense majority of
the really intelligent and respectable portion of the constituency, have
well discharged in the House those duties which their fellow.citizens,
scarce twerve months 3iuce,gyg cicditably confided to them.--Brigh-
ton Herald