The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-31 00:00:00

GREECE.

Letters have been received from Athens of the 18th.
The new Ministry had been well received. The
Chambers had voted the law of taxes.

ITALY.

Accounts have been received from Rome of the
2I st. They fully confirm the intelligence of the
victory of GARIBALDI over the Neapolitans at
Velletri, which city he entered on the 20th. The
Neapolitans have, it is said, retired into their own
territory. The following is the official dispatch
announcing GARInALDI'S victory :
" Head-quarters near Velletri, May 20, One A.M.
" Citizen Triumvirs,—Yesterday morning about ten
o'clock, our advanced guard, commanded by the brave
Garibaldi, was attacked on the Consular Road, about a
mile from Velletri, by some 600 infantry and cavalry,
who issued from that city. The Republicans, with their
usual courage, made two charges on the enemy with
their bayonets and drove them back to take refuge in
the city, leaving many dead on the field of battle, and
one officer and 30 men prisoners in our hands. I
arrived myself about two in the afternoon with my
corps, and found the enemy replying by a brisk
fusilade and discharges of artillery to the Attack of
our troops, who enclosed the town by a cordon resting
on the right on the Consular Road, and on the left on
the height of the Capuchins. I thereupon relieved the
soldiers of the first brigade by fresh troops, and con-
tinued the reconnoisance of the walls. This action
was very warm, and gave occasion for the display of
the ardour of our troops. Night put an end to a com-
bat which was supported on our side by two pieces of
artillery, regularly placed and served. Our loss has
been comparatively light, we having had but a few
men wounded so as to render them unfit for duty,
among whom is a very small number killed. I shall
send you details of the affair with all speed.
" ROSELLI, General in Chief.
"Velletri, May 20, 9 A.M.
" I have the satisfaction to announce to the Minister
of War that the enemy, discouraged by the valour of
our Republican troops in the battle of yesterday, aban-
doned Velletri at three A.M. The army prepared to day
to attack the town, when, from the reconnoisance which
I had caused to be made, I discovered that the enemy
had fled. We then entered Velletri; the soldiers are
suffering from fatigue and hunger, and I have ordered
them to take repose and nourishment, and I can. spare
only a few cavalry and foot soldiers to send in pursuit of
the flying foe to take as many prisoners as possible;
their flight is in the direction of Cisterns. Long live thel
Republic!"

It is said that the armistice with General OUDINOT
has been renewed for ten days.
An Austrian corps de armee of 16.000 men, with
forty pieces of cannon, was advancing against Ancona.
The Austrians entered Florence on the 24th.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
6,000 bales, of which 1,200 American were taken, for ex-
p ut. The market was quiet. The transactions in-
cluded 5,000 American at 30. to 6F1., 200 Bahia at 4i(l.
to 54d., 300 Surats at 3d. to 31d., and 20 Sea Islands at
93. to W.—Railway Shares had further declined.
The Chain Elites is the provincial markets which
make official returns were 134 week moderate, viz.,
74,751 quarters of Wheat, 15,894 of Oats, and 7,394 of
Barley. The six weeks' average for Wheat is 455. 3d.
per quarter.

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Aster the correspondeflce between the Duke of Bed-
ford and his Protectioeh4 tenant, who, with all his
complaining, is not agreeable to receive compensation
and quit his farm, people will not be so much inclined
to " b,lieve ail they hear" of ruinously low prices, &c.
No doubt, however, the "transition" state is unfavour-
able for many tenants holding leases at high rents, and
there may be no colouring in the subjoined statement,
contained in a private letter, dated yesterday, and re-
ceived this morning from Norfolk. The writer observes:
" Business is very dull here ; what with bad prices of
agricultural produce and the continued wet, our traders
are doing next to nothing. As to the farmers in these
parts, it is not so much the price of grain which has
hurt them this year, as that of beef, for they have to
buy their bullocks, and then to sell them, to realise the
profit of their root crop; and this is the only thing they
do buy, except labour, beyond their rent and tithes ;
and as they bought in their lean bullocks
high twelve months ago, and sold them out
at or very little beyond the cost price, they lose all
their root crop, and the cost of the oil cake and linseed
or other sorts of artificial food. Wheat has been low,
yet the average price from Christmas last when the
agricultural year commences, to the present time, is not
so very different to what it was last year, and the price
of Barley is actually higher on an average this year than
last. Other grain is much on the same level as wheat
on the average. The growing crops are all looking the
worse for the wet and cold, and beet and turnip sowing
is now retarded and must be, as the summer fellows are,
very foul. Our farmers are very small holders of Wheat
and our merchants still smaller."

Although we have noticed in the order of occurrence
the state of the money markets here and abroad, it may
be useful to recal the changes of the month ending to-
day, as summed up.for the June number of the Bankers'
Magazine :
" Business in Paris is again almost entirely at a stand-
still. Our own Public Securities were in some degree
influenced unfavourably for a few days, but the
decline has not been material. On the Rhine and
in Germany there has been a renewal of active
warfare, and all institutions of property in
these regions are surrounded with so much uncertainty
that already there is a renewal of that emigration of
capital to this country, of which we saw so much in
1848. This is a circumstance not to be overlooked in con-
sidering the posture of our own money-market. In
Lombard-street there has been little, if any, alteration.
The rates of discount are still exceedingly moderate, and
for the first rate, Three-months' Bills may be described
as ranging from 2i to 21- per cent. The brokers accept
funds at call at 2 per cent ; not always, however, with-
out the delay of a day or two."
The dates at which the transfer books will be closed
at the Bank of England are as follows:
Consols ..• ••• •••
Reduced Three per Cents ...
New Five per Cents ...
Annuities for terms of years ...
India Stock

Juno 13

South Sea Stock ... •-• 13
The re-opening of the transfer books for Consols takes
place on the 17th July.
The Amsterdam Bourse on Tuesday was well sup-
ported. Spanish were in request.
The Stock Market has been dull, but keeps tolerably
steady in the face of the 21 per cent. decline from
Paris. Consols are 911 to and have been 914-j. The
New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. are 901 I. Bank
Stock is worth 1931. Exchequer-bills are 48s. premium.
and India Bonds 675. to 70s. premium. The Honourable
East India Company intend to reduce the rate of inte-
rest from 41 to 31 per cent. on their floating debt; but
this can hare no present influence on the money market,
since they are compelled to give twelve months' notice,
and consequently the alteration cannot take place until
June, 185 u.
There have been ono or two defaulters on the Stock
Exchange this morning, parties who were Bulls of Con-
sol Shares and Foreign Securities, but the influence of
these stoppages is purely local, and the public, therefore,
have neither interest nor concern in them.
The foreign account has been settled to-day. Mexican
have been 271 to ex-coupons. Spanish Three-per-
Cents. are 32i to 33. Portuguese Four-per-Cents. are
26 to 28, Equador have been 31. Belgian Four-and-
a-Half per Cents, are 79.
The arrangement of the Share Account is in progress,
and very little other business is doing generally the mar-
ket is firmer, the speculators having Geared more rail-
way stock than they can deliver. Eastern Counties are
supported, and Great Western, Brighton, and North-
Western are higher. The French lines are flat.

ON L t;l.4off,
t'll.'YS Of :,JlVrt3ti 'ITN] 8 O'CLOCK. PRICE S
3ank Stock
3 „or Cent. Reduced Ar...ns . . ....
'per Cent. Consols Annuities 91% ii 91%
New 314 per Cent. Anus.— . 90%3/4 90744, '
Gong Anne. to expire Jan. 1860 ..• 8 9-16 8 9-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 8 5-16
Irdi, Booth, 1,0004 .... .. 67 p 67 p
Ditto under 1,000/.. ....... ....... 70 67 p 67 p
Consols for Account
t,:xchequer Rills. 11,.2d. & 2d.
1,0001. June 4B p 48 p
5001. June
Ditto Advertised • ... 43 46 p 46 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSIN ,
O'CLOCK. nucES

78
31/2

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small —
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bowls, 1 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred — 37
12 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 29'h
Ditto, Account — 293/4
Ditto, Ex Coupons ... ... 27% % 27%
Ditto, Account ...... 273/414 2734
Spani3h 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . l6l 16%
Ditto 3 per Cent.-- 32% 33 3314
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41,E per Cent 79 79
Dutch 21% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 491
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSINti
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Nberdeen 5O
Do. Preference
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 6 ...... ... ...... ......
_ _. ..

kyrshire and Galloway.. 7%
Belfast & County Down 20%
Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 5
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. '2O .
Do, withoutguarantee 20 .
Bi: ming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calla duly
pd, or with guarantee 10
Do. withoutguarantee 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 10 ........ • 11104
Bo ,ton, Stamfd &Il3irm. 5
Bristol and Exeter 9O
Ditto, Thirds
ISuckinghamshire ... 161. 4s.
Caledonian
Do. Quarters ..... 12% — .............
Do. New 101. Pref..... 10
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50

10%

5%
62

1114

Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10

Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. -
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast June. 37%
Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% —
East Anglia, 251., L. &
Z. and L. and .D... ... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 ......
Do., 31. 105. -
Eastern Comities 2O ...... INA .
.....
Do. New Guaranteed

-
8%

6 per Cent..... lO ...... 1114
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.......
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. -
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Ditto, IA Shares
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 34 —
Do., Class B (I. & B.) 224 — ......
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 224 —
Do. crip (6 per cent.) 20 ..... • ..... ••
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent............ 21 ...... ...
East Lancashire
Ditto, New - ...... ••••••
Ditto, New Quarters 61,4...•••
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 614 754... ...... B
Ist Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ...... •••• ••• .
Ditto, Half Shares
Edinburgn and Northern 25 ......
Ditto, Newport
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2r" 8 ......
Exeter and Exmouth... 215....... ---
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
..81.65.
8d...•
Glasgow,Kilinar., & Ayy 50 -

7%
27%
42

Dii.Preferenee ConsOl.
Great Northern
Do., A Deferred ... 1214.... ... ..,..
Do., I/2 B 6 per Cent... 71,4. —
Do. Extension

Treat South. and West
(Ireland) - •••
reat North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto
•••
Ditto. New, 301 3O
Ditto. New ,15/ l4 .. .. ......... ......
Great Western 100 ...... 78 77 .. .. . 77
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, -14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ..... ...... 20
Ditto, Noy 171..... 15 ..... .!....

Hull and Seiby .. ...... 50 ...... - . •
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... - . .
Ditto, Q ... ......
uarter Shares 12% ......
!,aacn.ter cod Carli2le... 50 ...... -
Ditto, Thirds -
Larlca.,.hire & Yorkshire 93
,-
Ditto, ditto - ....- .........
Ditto, 4 Shares
Do. Quarter Shares 17% -
Do. Fifths... ....... ..... 10
Do. Sixteenths. 614 -
Do. Thirds
Do. New,Gua.6 net ct. 10
Do. Liverp. coi. Bury 46 -
Ditto (flutter ticld .
and Shed:) 47 - •• ••
Do.(Wakefield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50 -
Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 . ..... 314
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
D 0.14 Shares (A)... 9% - ..
Leeds and Bradford 5O -
Leeds and Thirak ...... 50 - •••...•• ......
Ditto, New ...... ....... 45
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31,i -
.......
........
Do., Pref. Qffir., 1818 8 -
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport -
London &81ackwa11...... 12% - ... .. .........
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ..... 3634 %
Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... -
Do. Pret..s per cent.- 50 .. ... -
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 - ..............
Ditto, New 51., guar.
6 per cent. - ••. ......
Lo ',don and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... -
D. tto, Preference .. . 20 -
London and N. Western 100 125 125% 124%
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 -
Ditto,Fifths ..... .. .. 2 - see
Do. 404 Shares(L.M.) 10 -
Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 -
Lund. &S. Western 5O -....-
Do. New 50/. ... ..... 42%.. ... - ..... •••••• •••
Do. New 404 . 34 -
Ditto, Thirds 1€4138.4d.... -
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls 5 --. .
Londonderry&Coleraine 30 - ....•..........
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen...... ... ...... ..... 3114 -.
Manehester,Buxton,and
Matlock.... 4%. -
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo -
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 - ••••
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 - •••
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12% - Ole •••
Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 -
D.tto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 - •- -
Ditto
Ditto ditto - .... . . •.........
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 2O . ••• -
Do., Grimsby Dock 25 - ••. ...... ••••••
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union..... 44 2s. -
Midland ........ ...... -100 ...... 68 67%
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo -
Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 - ......... ......
Do. Birm., and Derby 100 -
Do.Consol.Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......124%.... ........ ...
Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 40 ...... - ..... ..... ...
Ditto ditto ..... .18/.123.6d.... -
Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 5u -
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo -
Middlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar.
Midland Great Western
Irish 47% - ..........w „..
Newcastle and Carhsle.loo .. -
Do. Quarters
Nswmarket- . 21 -
Do. Extension .........21. 125.... -
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford 6 .••••• ---
Newry and Enniskillen 7 - ......
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor .. 20 - ..
Norfolk .... ..... 100 - - ...... • ••• ••
Do. New 201. .. l5
Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 -
Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 -
Do. Lo westoft(4 per et) 20 -
Ditto (6 per ct.) -
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 •••••• -
Northern Counties Union 4
North British ........... 25 ..... - -. ..... . .....
Ditto, Halves - - -
Ditto, Quarters -
Ditto, Thirds .... .... 814 .... - ~...,
Ditto Preference 1 - •••. ........ -
North Staffordshire 17% 1214....
North Wales . .. 3% -
North-Western ..... 12% -
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
50
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 3 %.• ... - ....,.,»
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 25
Ditto, New - .• ..•
Shrewsbury and Birna... 11 -
Ditto ditto. Class B. 7
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury andllerefd. 2 -
8 irewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Alin.) - ...
Ditto halves ... ditto 9 ......
Ditto Oswestry ...... 181/2 -
Ditto New .. ....... .. 1 .. -
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 - ••• ••..
Shropshire Union -
South Devon... 5O - ..... .•• ..•
Do. Preference
So .th Staffordshire 7% -
South Eastern ~ 33% -
Do., No. 1 2B -
Do., N 0.2. - •• ••
Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 •••••• -
Do.. Registered No. 4 10 ...... - .•
Do., Scrip No 4
S,uth NN ales 3B ...... -
South Yorkshire, Don-

614

314
37

36%

12fi
9%

io%

124

r'

caster, and Goole 8
Sheffield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent l2
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ..• 5 •••••• •••••••••••••••
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 6
raw Vale Extension ... 8
names Haven Dock
and Railway .... 17% —
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 20
Waterlbrd and Limerick 47% •—•
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent
Guaranteed ...
Do. do. do. ... 25
Do. do. do. ... .....
West Cornwall
N hitehaven & Furness 16
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western........ 12
Wilt Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. — 25 ...... .....
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20 ......
D 2. G.N.E.Preferenee 8 .....
Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway .. 100 . .....
York and North alidland 50 ....•
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian). ... 5
Boulogne and Amiens...
_2O
•...•• .
Central of France (Or-
.......
Vierzon)
Demerara
•••••• 17% ••• .........
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular 5 .
Do. Do ... , los. ..... % ................
Louvain a ...
la Sambre
Luxembourg
Ditto 10""
Madrid and Valentia 2
Namur and Liege
Northern of France-- 13
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ......
Paris and Orleans ...... 20
Paris and Rouen 2O 18%
Paris and Strasbourg ... 10
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuso 2O ... .. 3
Strasbourg and Basle ... 14
Tours and Nante5........ 11
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ...... 20
West Flanders B3/L .•

12%

17%
155

-71,14

Ditto
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

14%

6%

134

4%

......
%

2%
18%

gl4 ..........
.
Australasia
British North American 50
Colonial
Commercial of London 20
.....
London Joint Stock lO
London & Westminster. 20
National Prov. England. 35 - ........
-- ......
Ditto New........ -.••• 10
National of Ireland 221,4... .... ••• .........
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto,New • ••... 10 ....•.•••• •••
Union of Australia ..... 25 ... ...
Ditto,New••. ...... •• ••• 2%••• ..••• ---
Union of London.... lO — •
40 ....
Union of Madrid
..... ....
MINE. .....• .--
Asturian Mining Com... 11
Australian ...... .--
3 ...... 5%...

15'A
28A

JENNY LIND.—The Journal dei Debate of Tues-
day says:—"Mdlle. Jenny Lind is at this moment ill
Paris. This very day (Tuesday) she has taken out her
passports for Sweden her native country; and it appears
certain that the marriage, about which there has been 90
much idle talk in England, is definitively broken off."---
[So we said in The Sun a fortnight ago from good au'
thority.—ED. Sun.]
JENNY LIND. —" We hear that Mdlle. Jenny Lind
remains in Paris for the present, aed that her marriage
is broken eff."—Vide Morning Chronicle, May 21.
Dear Jenny Lind has changed her mind,
And run away to Paris;
So Betsy Prigg was right, we find—
There is no Mrs. Harris !—Punch.
THE OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE...-"Ber
Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance
at the St. James's Theatre with their presence last even-
ing. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Can:
ning, the Hon. Miss Murray, Viscount Clilden, Ear;
Listowel, General Wemyss, Hon. Colonel Gordon, and
Captain Se) mour. tier Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent also honoured the theatre with her presence. lien
Royal Highness was attended by Lady Augusta Brig*
Baroness de Spetb, Sir George Couper, and the Bon.
General Upton.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
The state of the wind and weather at the provincial
ports this morning at 9 A.M :—Colchester, N.W., fine;
Gosport, S., cloudy; Glasgow, W.N.W., tine; Glouces-
terrN.. fine; Lowestoffe, S., rain; Hull. S., cloudy;
Leith, N. fine; Portsmouth, S., cloudy; Newcastle, S.,
el°linlY; Southampton, S.W., cloudy; Yarmouth, S.W.,
ra.

LITERATURE.
CONINGSBY. Fifth Edition.
Mr. Colburn has just published what the adver-
tisements call a popular edition of Mr. Disraeli's
"Coningsby," which expression savours somewhat of
tautology, for "popular" and "Coningsby" are about
synonymous terms. If, however, this, the fifth edi-
tion, is to be par excellence the popular edition, its
sale must be something marvellous. Of the earlier
editions,_ three were disposed of in three months; and
we learn from the preface to this volume that more
than 50,000 copies have been sold in the United States.
Yet, after this, after the issue of four editions,
" Coningsby" is out of print, a new edition has been
called for, and the new edition makes its appear-
ance in the most attractive and acceptable shape—
the three volumes condensed into one of the size of
the standard novels—beautifully printed, neatly
bound, and moreover adorned with an engraved por-
trait of the author, from an admirable likeness by
Chalon. Such, and for the moderate price of six
shillings, is the fifth edition of "Coningsby." To
criticise a work so well known, and so gene-
rally admired, would just now be a work
of supererogation. The impartial critic of
some future period, considering the literature
of our day, may, perhaps, pause to investi-
gate the causes of the almost unprecedented success
of "Coningsby." He will, perhaps, marvel how the
production of no unknown hand rising fur the first
time into eminence, but the work of an author justly
celebrated and generally admired, should have taken
the world by surprise, and have been greeted with one
universal burst of acclamation. He will marvel at
this, and he will marvel yet more when he re-
members that this popular work was in many
particulars opposed to the liberal spirit then
reigning predominant with the multitude.
But that critic would marvel no longer if he ex-
amined closely the principles of " Coningsby," and
the signs of the times in which it first appeared. It
was at a time when the " organized hypocrisy" of a
Conservatism that conserved nothing worth conser-
vation was in power that this work, advocating the
principles but denouncing the practice of that party,
made its appearance. A caustic wit and a brilliant
satire assailed the vices and exposed the errors of the
politicians and placemen of the day from the pages of
" Coningsby." A mirror was there held up—a
cruelly truthful mirror—to partisans and red tapists
of high and low degree. The effect was telling.
Nor was this all. Notwithstanding the Toryism of
"Coningsby"—(and it is unnecessary here to say in
what and how much we differ from the political
opinions of Mr. Disraeli—we speak of him now as an
author, and one of the greatest authors of the present
day, his political sentiments we leave for " another
place")— notwithstanding the Toryism of " Co-
ningsby," it breathed in many instances a liberal
spirit, and enunciated noble and holy sentitnents,
which found a ready echo in the breasts of the impres-
sionable million. Apart from the beauty and the
interest of its fictitious characters, there was a fresh-
ness and romance about " Coningsby," " political
novel" though it was, peculiarly fascinating to the
New Generation. But, as we have already
said, it is quite unnecessary now to commend
the attractions or comment upon the
peculiarities of " Coningsby." To persons already
unacquinted with these peculiarities let us briefly say—
read the book. Here you have it offered to
you in the most convenient shape, at a most
moderate price. Read the book, and we
pledge our word for it, you will find there abundant
matter of entertainment. Whig, Tory, Radical, or
even " organized hypocrite " though you be, the pe-
rusal of " Coningsby'' will inevitably delight you,
and perhaps make you a better man. It seems that
we are to have no new novel this season from Mr.
Disraeli's pen, a circumstance hardly to be wondered
at, when we consider his industrious attendance at
the House, but a circumstance which a multitude of
readers will deplore. Mr. Disraeli has, perhaps, de-
cided correctly—the people of Buckinghamshire
must be represented, and the Protectionists have need
of a leader; nevertheless the reading public, we can
assure him, have as much need of his services as the
people of Buckingham. However brilliant may be the
orations of the leader of the Opposition, we cannot
spare from the ranks of literature the author of
" Vivian Grey," and more than that of " Coningsby."

the world, but none so admirably adapted as New
Plymouth to the support of a large and prosperous
agricultural population ; and I am sure you will join
with me in hoping that the attention of the emigrat-
ing public may soon be drawn to this fine but ne-
glected field for colonization."

LONDON, MAY 31.—Wind S.S.W., moderate breeze,
and dull cloudy weather.
PALRouTri, MAY 30.—Wind variable.—Arrd. 29th,
Margaret, Osterlok, Bolivar, for Bremen. Off port,
Edmund, Smith, La Guayra, and sld. for London.
1"-LY24ouTR, MAY 30.—Wind N.W.—,Xrrd. 29th,
Pb
of Bronte, Adelaide; William Jardine, Port
Philip.
RULL, MAY 30.—The Admiral of the Danish fleet
took the crew of the Rob Roy steamer on board his own
/easel, and sent on board some of his own men, with
permission for the passengers to be landed at Cuxhaven.
the mails were retained.
PEAL MAY 30.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrd. Wilhel-
-1.133!na Arnolda, Mulder, Batavia for Amsterdam; Kyle,
'ung Buenos Ayres ; Salisbury, Young, Matanzas.
Arrd. from the rivr and sld. Louisa, Pallor, Barbs does.
uu, 0 Donegal, of and for Exeter, got on the Main, off
',ngsdown, this morning, but came off on the flood.
VPF DOVER, MAY 28.—Hansa, Mlrteno, Charleston
for Antwerp.
euwEs.—Arrd. Jenny, Kriest,
Moresby,
MAY 30. Arrd. Ripon steamer,
Alexandria.
LtvrtiPooL, MAY 30.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. 29th,
fttriek Henry, Delano, New York; 30th, J. 0., Barnes,
Trinidad ; Samuel, Barbadoes ; Constitution, Martin,
Charleston; Robert Burton, Deccan, Philadelphia; Mon-
"zinna, Leavitt, St. John's, New Brunswick; Dundo-
:aid, Wright, ditto. Sid. 29th, Ranee, Calcutta; Lalla,
*la Francisco; Edith, Santa Martha;; William Rushton,
Vera Cruz; Centurion, New York; 30th, Winifred, Cal-
Lucknow, Demerara; Jane, Stetten Island; Olive
ranch, Boston • Lydia, Portland; Ann Hale, St. John's,
Brunswick; Jessie, Quebec; Hope, Newfoundland.
CI, port. Anglo-American.
the Orynthia, from London to Bermuda and Gre-
nada, touched the ground at Bermuda, and was surveyed
lbut had not received any injury.
'TILL, MAY 30.—Three Danish steam ships from
Copenhagen were expected off the Elbe yesterday.
E'
MAY 29.—51 d., Sappho, Hong-Kong, and
Canton.
WEXFORD, MAY 29.—Wind S.W. Arrd., Harp,
St.
15 John's, New Brunswick.
‘,.RISTOL, MAY 29.—The Mine, of Kinsale, bound to
.F!eath, in coming down the river yesterday, grounded in
the Cleaves, and sunk with the returning tide.
BELFAST, MAY 29.—Wind S.S.W.-26th, Arrd.,
New York Packet, Liverpool, for the West Indies, with
loos of fore-topmast, &c., but will sail immediately;
48th, Victoria, Clements, St. John's, N. 8.; 29th,
4111c„°3', Cunningham, New Orleans and Liverpoo.
et,too, Mar 29.—Wind S.-27th, Adeline Cann,
Cann, St. John's, N. B.; 28th, Sld., Robert and Mar-
ga,ret, Quebec. 29th, St. John's, N. B.
LIMERICK, MAY 29.—Wind S.W. to W.-28th, Arrd.,
Quebec.
Waring, Barbadoes. 29th, Sld., Prince Albert,
Viehec.
cittLecv.oitb, MAY 29. Wind W.-28th, Gentoo,
NEWPortr, MAY 29.—Sld. Sertum, Havannab.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
ATEUTGATZ AND LEADENHALL.
pri,, elle markets were somewhat inactive to day. In
to 3-4 no material change took place. Beef, from 2s 2d
10d,3,2,.d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d; LAmb, 4s 8d to 5s
b ' eal, 3s to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s per Blbs
Y the carcase.

311.8. Y MAX/MTS.
ditS,MITTIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31155; Clover
11,°, 31 03 to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lls per
u•
‘-'I3VIBERLAND Supply good, and trade very dull.
Clover . Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31 18s ;
ditto, 31 Os to 41 14s ; and Straw, 11 7s to
d.'2i per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish
r`,IrITZCIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 15s ;
pfl' over ditto, 3/ Os to 41 16s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ Ils
14 IQ". Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at the
Ye quotations.
s MEAT MARKETS.
Lit otrrgALL, MAY 30.—Prime Beasts, Sheep, and
"Ibbs, commanded a steady sale, at fully last week's
gia°htati°ll3. Otherwise the demand was in a very slug-
48.ratate, Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s to
3,,4ainb, 4s 81 to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s; and Pork,
to 3s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal.
of 1(3):1!"13, MAY 30.—We had a full average amount
tertt:6'ness transacted here to-day, on the following
b' 43
from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d;
" 43 10d to 6s;. Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10d; and Pork,
qq 2,4
t° 33 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 265;
With old store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Milch Cows,
L their small Calf, 131 to 171 103 each.
Prie,,4B. MAY 29.—Our market was steady at full
4,„--,!• Beef, from 31 to 43; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d;
"1", 53 to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs.

CORN AVERAGES.
tor taEZERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
Inspectors "eek ended May 24, 1849, made up made up fromthe Returns of the
Per -InPed in the different Cities and Towns in Eng land and Wales
I'
al the
PitteE 1445E
I' BABLZY.I OATS. 1261E I BEANS. 1
I YEAS.
• Gd 275 8d 17s Sd Oil 1 31s 3d 32s 4d
WsEAT. bUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
0(1 1 ZAALEIr. I OATS. I ATE. I
Is 04 BEANS. I
is Od PEAS.
Is Od I is Od Od

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sitting in Banco.)
LACEY V. noGERS.
In this case, which was tried before Mr. Baron Parke,
CoCKBUBN moved for a rule to show cause why a
Iloiv trial should not be had on the ground of misdirec-
ltion. It appeared that the plaintiff had been in the ser-
he ice of the defendant as a footman, and that shortly after
had left his service the defendant's house was brokenttt
111910, and some property abstractd, and he defenda
maself attacked. The defendante being oft opinion that
,the Person who had attacked him was the plaintiff, di-
rected a constable to take him into custody. When the
412° came before a miwistrate, it was proved by a witness
at at the time when bthe burglary was committed, the
e defendant was in bed with the witness, and
:tild not be there. He was therefore dismissed;
prison was brought to recover damages for false
im-
mzent, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff for
Was ground upon which the present application
to Cu,o was, that Mr. Baron Parke left it for the jury
for whether or not there were reasonable grounds
thatlasPecting the plaintiff ; whz.reas it was contended
the d ought to have put it to the jury whether or not
who had firmly believed that plaintiff was the man
impress. ad entered the house; for if he were under that
" it was maintained that the defendant could
Ili. held liable to pay him any compensation.
Nvoulci LoRD CHIEF BARON intimated that the Court
Con 14 the chin • c"ahe. nI• r Baron Parke before giving their dcci-
-

_ _ ....................---....
1,,,1, -STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
man, . ° 112" he , named Rush and ll'ucey, the former coach-
bet;)
ta and t latter footman, to Mr. Maple, were charged
With Mr' Hall with being drunk and disorderly, and
In assaulting the police in the execution of their dut.
of -Vector Wilkinson, of the F division, stated that
tahnr the Prisoners having last night set down the ladies
He- e°°aPosed their arty at the Royal Italian Opera
f use'
tuck' 11placep - with the carriage directly in
rout or
,L p a
got h:y
told Gust
"1
station-house in Bow-street, they were
could not be allowed to stand there, but
re, on to the rank of private carriages in
about 4' to the
The coachman Rush was
and to to drive thither, but Waccy interfered
hi_ abused the policeman who had spoken to
i,s', and ultimately struck both the constable and the
til_Pector. He was taken into the station-house, but
tere 11.i3 conduct was more violent. Ile jumped over
`he.railings of the dock where he was plact‘d, and made
Ittttelent attack upon the policemen on duty. It ulti-
ely required six constables to remove him to the cell.
1/athe meantime the inspector observed that Rush, who
s very quiet outside, was too drunk to take care of the
horses, and had him taken into the station-house, where
he also became very violent.
kr. HALL said that offences of this
kind amongst the servants of gentlrmen visit-
i 110 the theatres were formerly very frequent, and
„ e Magistrates at length came to the resolution of
with imprisonment,
withishithe offenders at once vititho stn
rat extent, suppressed the evil, but as the present had
"r 1 the first case of the kind for a long time, he would
/aot ins'
th_ Kist on the imprisonment, but give them for once
fo;inanee of paying a fine•
house drunk, and 203. for his Ho would fine Rush ss.
violence in the station-
-203 -0, Wacey 40s. for his assault on the police, and
tell:I:40er th Police Act, for being runk when in at-
on his carriage at the theatre.
____

NEW ZEALAND.
The l
has etter from which the following is an extract,
me den received from f January
the New
ent, in Nevv Zealand, dated the 2d o
ia4t • Plymouth settle-
a ''' Another valuable block of land
iclilired from the natives, and it is
gratifyinghas been
iloio)!earn that they have expended the purchase
eattie7 in procuring from Sydney a cargo
se-
-100 le e and horses. Some new settlers who had
I„eted their land in this block were employing about
irnbCo natives, at the rate of 2s. per day, in felling
er and clearing, at which they are very expertd
jurnini other letters it appears that he first races ha
Ilaat: e°lll° off with great eclat and much delight to the
'witness a large concourse of whom assembled .to
riders the sport. The ' Native Stakes,' for native
There, and owners, were won by Waitera's horse.
is The lately purchased here by Sir George Greyro
now in course of substantial repair, and will p
bably be
The
reaetonverted into a delightful private. residence.
ilt:hablitants‘s.ant,, acts
the settlement is an increase of
-'2fle present European population is
New 200, whilst tracts of land already secured to the
euit. Zealand Company
.. tvation a would require for its moderate
P°Pulation of from 10,000 to 12,C00. Of
etneemagricultural labourers originally sent out by the
; PanY, there are not 20 who will now work for hire
Il'f.z days in the Week ; almost all of them have become
ferweeholders,' possessing a house, some stock, and a
acres of land. Nothing, indeed, but the steady
fineness ~.r
tit the weather saved a portion of the last
ihnarvest fr rotting on the ground. Other countries
degree from
°Borne
a gree particular excellence in a higher
aceprolifil:ut for a land in which are found combined
soil of the easiest cultivation, beautiful
I‘Ly..,Pery. and a climate at once delightful and invigo-
, this part of New Zealand is probably un-
elliculti. I have, QS y op, know, seen several Palt3 of

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, M 49.

REVOLUTION IN TYPE-MAKING.
When Guttenburg first discovered the art of produc-
ing from one plane a continuous series of impressions of
any given work, the advent of a new era was proclaimed
to the world. Instead of the laborious and uncertain
labours of the transcribers, there was substituted at once
the easy, precise, and unerring operation of machinery.
At first, as in the case of many other improvements—
some of which might be instanced in our own day—the
inventor himself had but limited ideas as to the nature
and consequences of the new power he had created. The
types from which Guttenburg and Faust originally pro-
duced those impressions of the Holy Scriptures, which,
from their uniformity and regularity, gave rise to the
accusation of sorcery and witchcraft, were something like
the, woodcuts of the present day. At a somewhat later
period moveable types were substituted for these wooden
blocks; but the art of manufacturing moveable types has
remained almost stationary since its invention in the six-
teenth century. The defects of the present types need
not be enumerated to practical printers—the fragility,
softness, and rapid deteriortion which were felt in
the days of Caxton, and the early printers, are felt
still more in the present day in consequence of the use
of steam -presses. There is not a single newspaper or
book office, in which largo impressions are required,
that does not feel the disadvantage of being obliged to
use a type composed of an alloy fusible at a low tem-
perature. All the metals possessing this property being
destitute of the hardness necessary for producing the
number of impressions now required, the immense and
almost incalculable impetus given to human progress by
the invention of typography, and the consequent diffu•
sion of knowledge amongst all classes of society—even
with the imperfect means we now possess—must make
any improvements in this department a subjt et of the
highest importance to every true friend of civilization.
A machine, which promises to revolutionize the present
system of typography, invented by M. Petit, after years
of thought and careful experiment, was exhibited last
Saturday, at the meeting of the Royal Society, and
having elicited the highest approbation from the mem-
bers of that distinguished body, was yesterday opened to
private view in Bartlett's•buildings, Holborn. The object
of the invention is to perfect, by means of self acting ma-
chinery, printing typo of a durability almost infinite. This
is effected by the use of hard metals, copper being the
material ultimately adopted by the inventor after many
experiments. The new process of type-making, as
shown by this invention, brings this most important and
intellectual department of industry into harmony with
the mechanical genius and improvements of the age. In-
stead of the old and complicated processes by which
types were formerly founded, a strip of copper wire, upon
a revolving wheel, passes through a series of wheels,
levers, pulleys, and cranks, of the simplest description in
reality, however complicated in words; the type is struck
or " punched " at the same moment that its size is ma-
thematically determined; and after passing two other
simple machines, is ready for use. By means of a small
steam-engine applied to the type-making machine 60 per
minute can be struck, or 36,000 per diem. The clearness
and beauty of the impression produced by the types thus
produced, must delight all connoisseurs. In the new
process, instead of fusing the metals and pouring into
moulds to give the necessary form, the inventor of the
apyrotype machine effects this by a mechanical operation
at ordinary temperatures, chiefly by means of powerful
pressure and the use of steel dies and matrices. The
type thus produced possesses the utmost sharpness of out-
line and hardness, in consequence of the superiority of the
metal employed, and the pressure to which it has been
subjected. Of course, it is impossible, at present to say
to what extent the new type will surpass that in use as
regards durability; but the superiority of copper, even in
its ordinary and compressed state, is admitted by
practical printers to be greater than that of ordinary
type, in the proportion of 100 to 1. The amount of pres-
sure which the copper undergoes in the apyrotype ma-
ehine must necessarily tend to increase this superiority.
We do not propose entering into details respecting the
beautiful applications of mechanical science observable in
this invention of M. Petit. We can only say that after
carefully inspecting the exquisitely constructed machi-
nery by which ho proposes to effect the object in view,
that we have no hesitation in placing it among the most
valuable, most important, and most desirable inventions
of this present inventing age. The type can be pro-
duced even cheaper than under the present system. In
proportion as the founts decrease in size they rise in price.
A decrease in weight, under the new system, will be
accompanied by a diminution in cost; and when, ulti-
mately, the sharpness and clearness of the type has been,
by long use, deteriorated, the metal will retain an intrinsic
value far above what the present composition of metals
now used for printing types does in similar cases. We
believe that M. Petit has, by his invention, bestowed a
great benefit upon society, and brought type-making into
harmony with the machinery by which impressions are
Row had from types. —A dvertiser.

a troop of horse, which, indeed, will (by Gcd's blessing)
far more advantage the cause than two or three com-
panies of foot, especially if your men be honest, godly
tn‘ n, which by all means I desire. I thank God for
stirring up the youth to cast in their mite, which I
desire may be employed to the best advantage; therefore
my advice is, that you would employ your twelve-score
pounds to buy pistols and saddles, and I will provide
four-score horses; for 4001. more will not raise a troop
of horse. As for the muskets that are bought, I think
the country will take them of you. Pray raise honest,
godly men, and I will have them of my regiment. As
fur your officers, I leave it as God shall or bath directed
to choose, and rest,

" Your loving friend,
" August 2nd, 1E43. "OLIVER CROMWELL."

Among the many interesting episodes with which
the e.litor has illustrated and enlivened this epistolary
collection, one of the most attractive is the account of
the siege of Lathom House, so ably defended by the
Countess of Derby. " This siege of a valiant lady in
her castle," says Mr. Hall, "excited universal sym-
pathy. It threw a solitary glow of personal interest
upon a corner of the great war; it was like a scrap
of old romance let into a framework of coarse, violent
reality." After Lady Derby had exhausted every
expedient for gaining time, and after she had
indignantly rejected every proposition of surrender,
Colonel Rigby, the commander of the besiegers, re-
solved to proceed to extremities; he collected a quan-
tity of powder and manufactured it into grenadoes,
which he could fling upon the garrison as opportunity
suited. We leave Mr. Bell to relate the stirring
scenes which followed :
" Having gut his materials ready, he sent a furious
message to Lady Derby, summoning her peremptorily to
surrender. The heroine was standing amongst her
soldiers when this message was delivered. Receiving
the paper on which it was written from the hands of the
envoy, she tore it up, and exclaimed that the proper
reward for Rigby would be to be hanged at her gates.
' Tell that insolent rebel,' she continued, 'he shall
neither have person, goods, nor house; when our strength
and provisions are spent, we shall find a fire more mer-
ciful than Rigby's, and then, if the providence of God
prevent it not, my goods and house shall burn in his
sight ; and myself, children, and soldiers, rather than
fall into his hands, will seal our religion and loyalty in
the same flame.' Apprehending, from the determined
spirit of this answer, that Rigby would immediately open
a fire upon the castle, her Ladyship, whose valour was
quite equal to her eloquent expression of it, resolved to
be beforehand with him; and, at four o'clock the next
morning, her soldiers issued out of the eastern gate
upon tne desperate design of endeavouring to secure
the ditch and rampart. It was a choice of deaths. The
cry amongst them was, We must either kill or be
killed.' The horror of the crisis inspired them with a
courage and devotion beyond all ordinary calculation.
There was one mortar-piece which had raked them
piteously, and which they feared more than all the rest
of the enemy's guns. From its dreadful mouth issued
those flaming grenadoes which, tumbling in showers of
fire upon the heads of the beleagured garrison, produced
the most terrible results. The first thing they did was
to make for the trench where this mortar•piece lay
guarded by fifty soldiers. After a quarter of an hour's
fighting, they won the sconce, gained the rampart,
levy led the ditch, and drawing up the iron monster by
ropes, dragged it into the house. Having accomplished
their object, they looked down upon Rigby with scorn.
It was a jubilee to witness the mad glee with which the
poor soldiers danced round this fearful trophy when they
had got it safely within doors, and saw it lying dumb
and harmless at their feet. The historian of the siege
says, Now (exulting over the mortar) neither ditches
nor aught else troubled our soldiers; their grand terror,
the mortar-piece, which had frightened them from their
meat and sleep, lying, like a dead lion, quietly among
them; every one had his eye and his foot upon it, shout-
ing and rejoicing as merrily as they used to do with
their ale and bagpipes. Indeed, every one had this
estimation of the service, that the main work had
been done, and that what was yet behind was a mere
pastime.' " _

And they were right, for the siege was shortly after-
wards abandoned. The specimens we have given
will be sufficient to show the interesting and im-
portant nature of this work. It is embellished with
engraved portraits of the Earl of Essex, Lenthall, the
Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir W. Waller.
and a full-length representation of Oliver Cromwell,
taken from a rare allegorical print by Faithorne, entitled
" The emblem of England's distractions, as also of
her attained and further expected freedom and happi-
ness, per ii. M. 1658." This portrait, which has
been beautiiully engraved by Jos. Brown, represents
the Protector in complete armour, crowned with
laurel, holding in his right hand a drawn sword,
bearing on its blade three crowns; his left holds forth
an open volume, we presume a Bible.

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—Last evening Mr. Staite
again exhibited to the public generally, the unrivalled
brilliance of the new light. His apparatus for this
occasion was carried to the summit of one of the
piers of Hungerford Suspension-bridge, that, namely, on
the Middlesex shore, and thence he threw the radiance
of his magnificent discovery now along the bridge to the
multitudes that watched from the Surrey shore the effects
of the illumination, now upon the buildings which form
Hungerford-market, and now upon the water front of
Somerset-house, and upon Waterloo-bridge and the
steamers passing up the river ; but a herever it lighted,
the beam dazzled the beholder, whilst it discovered to
those who controlled it the minute characteristics both
of dress and of architecture. The power of the light,
however, is well knowr, and to those who wieh ocular
demonstration, an opportunity will be afforded at the
same place during the remainder of the week. But
what is interesting to all who desire the progress of
scientific discovery, and the application of it to the uses
of society is, that Mr. Staite has been most successful
in effecting and maintaining the relative adjustment of
the two points, or opposite poles, which occasion the
luminosity. This has been one grand desideratum, which
we believe he has attained through means of the electric
current itself, so that it is self-acting, and by apparatus
even more economical of mechanic contrivance than we
last night had the opportunity of witnessing. His efforts
are now turned towards making his discovery economi-
cally
applicable, and they have hitherto been most suc-
cessful. It may be interesting to those who saw the
brilliance of his light last night, collected as it was into
one focus by a reflector thrown behind, to know that the
power of:it is estimated at 750 candles. His apparatus
constructed for domestic use gives a light equal to from
eight to forty candles, with this singular advantage,
that the blaze can be produced and retained under an
air-tight glass shade, so as to prevent the possibility of
ignition.
MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A MAIL GUARD.—
Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a most savage
attack upon the guard of the mail-cart which is dis-
patched at midnight from Biggleswade to Ware was
made by two men, about two miles from the town of
Stevenage, in Hertfordshire. From the accounts of the
occurrence which have reached the Post-office in St.
Martin's lc-Grand, it appears that, at this lonely point of
the cross-road, Morris (the guard) observed two men
rush up to the cart, the one to the head of the animal
he was driving, and the other to the body of the mail-
cart. In an instant he felt the reins torn from his band,
while the ruffian grasped his throat and dragged him
out of the vehicle. In order to protect the letter
bags with which he was entrusted, he made a
desperate effort to free himself, so that he
might regain possession of the mail cart and its con-
tents; but the villains, no doubt anticipating his object,
rushed upon him with redoubled fury, besting him
unmercifully, and endeavouring to rob him; they tore
open his pockets and rifled them, without, however,
finding any booty. In the meantime the horse, finding
himself at liberty, bolted, and rushing forward, could
not be stopped until it had nearly reached Barnet, where
the bags were found quite safe. Some parties frees a
distance having witnessed the flight of the animal by the
motn
moonlight, and fancying that something was wrong,
mostthey dwentisehilne d ssetaartcohof near thethe
sguard,pot wherewh o
the
es
attackfo und
wasintt
themselvesthhernogbbperresviofionstilyinmgede
of A ta() About foiledfou r
in their
amtadteme,pt, having
ago an attack was made upon a mail-guard not far from
the same spot, when the robbers obtained 14s. from the
pockets of the party they attacked. Every e'eertion is
being made by the authorities to trace the villains.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG FEMALE.—
Yesterday Mr. Wakley, jun., held an inquest at the
Lord Hill, North Wharf-road, Paddington, on Margaret
Fitzgerald, a dressmaker, aged 24. Mrs.i Charlotte
Gordon stated that deceased, who assisted her in the
millinery business, left her residence, No. 17, North-
street, Lisson-grove, to visit some friends in Queen-
street, Edgeware-road, on Friday evening. She did
not hear of her afterwards until the following day, when
she heard that she had been killed near Maida-hill.
Constable Moriarty, 191 D, was on duty at maida_hill
between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday morning,
when he observed a cab, with deceased in it, turning
into Edgewarc-road. She was disputing with the cab-
man about the fare. The latter complained that he was
driving her about all the morning, and that she would
neither pay him nor say where she lived. He then
drove on, and in a few minutes afterwards witness
heard a scream, and looking towards Maida-bill saw
deceased lying on the road, while the cab drove on.
When he went up to deceased she was quite insen-
sible. He stopped the cab and had her removed to
Dr. Greenwood's. The driver's badge was numbered
462, and his cab 2,948. Coroner—Where is the cab-
man? Southern, the summoning officer---I could not get
his address, as the badgeeoffice was closed on Saturday
and Monday. Dr. Stevenson :attended deceased the
moment she was picked up. She was insensible and
speechless. She never rallied, and died at half-past
three on Saturday afternoon. He examined the body
after death. Inside and below the left knee and above
and below the left ear there were wounds ; there was a
large fracture of the skull, which produced effusion of
the blood on the brain, and that caused death. How
those wounds were inflicted be could not say. After
some discussion between the coroner, the jury, and the
fair gds of deceased, the inquiry was adjourned to enable
the peliee to produce the cabman.
THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—On or about the 20th
of June is the period spoken of as a probable time when
the floating of the tube may be expected to come off.
A party of jack tars from the Sailors Home, Liverpool,
have reached the locality, and are barracked on the
banks of the Menai, and these will be under the direc-
tion of Captain Claxton, to whom the arduous task of
floating the tubes has been confided. The scientific
world looks forward tb this grand operation with much
interest, not unmixed with anxiety, but yet with confi-
dence; and it is expected that numbers will personally
satisfy themselves of the success of this certainly Her-
cUlean teek.—Worth Wales Chronicle.

RAIL WA Y INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.

The following is a list of such Railway Bills (twenty
in number) as hare passed through the Select Com•
mittens of the House up to the present period:—
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (Abandonment
of part of Line, and Extension to London and North-
Western).
Caledonian (Lease or Purchase of Glasgow, Barrhead,
and Neilston, and of Wishaw and Coltness).
Chester and Holyhead (Increase of Capital).
Cockermouth and Workington (Branches).
East Anglian (Extension of time for making Ely and
Huntingdon).

Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Wilsontown, Morning-
side, and Coltness amalgamation.
Edinburgh and Northern (Dunfermline Branch and
Deviations).
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, and Ardrossan
Harbour Acts Amendment.

Lancashiro and Yorkshire and London and North-
Western (Transfer of interest in Preston and Wyre
Harbour).
Lancaster and Preston (Junction with East Lan-
cashire).
Leeds and Thirsk (power to guarantee interest on
shares). _ _

London and Blackwall (Amendment and extension
of time).
London and South-Western (extension of time for
making Basingstoke and Salisbury and Farnham and
Alton lines).

Newcastle and Carlisle (Alteration of and Branch
from Alston Branch).
Shrewsbury and Chester (Branches and power to
subscribe to Shrewsbury and Hereford).
Stockton and Darlington (Alterations, &c.).
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western (Richmond to
Windsor Extension).
York and North Midland (Deviations and Aban-
donments).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Barmoor and Aln-
mouth New Branches), and Lease and Amalgamation of
Maryport and Carlisle and Newcastle and Carlisle
Railways.
The following measures, nine in number, and chiefly
for " amalgamations," have been " withdrawn" since
their introduction into Parliament:—

Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (Power to Sell
to London and North-Western).
Caledonian (Lease of Dundee and Perth and Scottish
Midland Lines).
Eastern Counties and Newmarket Amalgamation.

Edinburgh and Northern (B and C Bills).
Great Indian Peninsular.
North Staffordshire (Amendment of Acts).
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate (Branch to London
and South- Western).

South-Eastern (kemoval of Restriction to Opening
Tunbridge and Hastings Lines).
Stockton and Darlington (Amalgamation with York,
Newcastle, and Berwick).
The Royal Assent has been given to two, namely—
EdinkOtrgh and Northern (Additional Capital and
Amendment of Acts).
North-Western (Extension of Lancaster Branch,
A bandonn ent of Williamsland Branch, and Extension of
Time for Purchase of Land and Construction of Works).

DEPARTURES and ALTERATIONS in the
FOREIGN and COLONIAL MAILS for JUNE.

The following are the dates on which the Foreign and
Colonial Afails will be made up at the General Post-
office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the month of June,
and when the return packets will be due at Southamp-
ton, Liverpool, and Falmouth:—
British North America and the United States, on the
evening of the Ist (to-morrow), to be forwarded by the
Cambria steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and New York;
on the evening of the Bth to Boston, by the America; on
the evening of the 15th, by the Hibernia, to New York;
on the evening of the 22d, by the Caledonia, to Boston;
and the evening of the 29th, by the Niagara steamer, to
New York. Next packets due on the 6th from Boston,
14th from New York, 20th from Boston, and 28th from
New York, at Liverpool.
West Indies, &c.—To the British and Foreign Colo-
nies in the West Indies (except Honduras, Nassau, Ber-
muda and the Havannah), Venezuela, and Jacmel on the
morning of Saturday the 2d, by the Great Western
steamer, vie/ Southampton, and evening of the 16th;
Bermuda, Nassau, New Orleans, Mexico, Honduras, and
Havannah on the morning of the 2d only. Madeira,
Grey Town (San Juan de Nicaragua), New Grenada,
Chili, and Peru, on the evening of the 16th only. Next
packets due on the 7th and 22d at Southampton.
Madeira, Brasil, and Buenos Ayres on the evening of
the 4th by her Majesty's brig Swift, via Falmouth. Next
packets due her Majesty's brig Express (over due), and
her Majesty's brig Crane on the 115 th at Falmouth.
The Mediterranean, Malta, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon,
India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the evenings of the 7th
and 25th by the fortnightly overland closed mail, via
Marseilles. Due on the 3d and 23d, via France.

Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt,
Aden, Ceylon, Mauritius, India, &c., on the morning of
the 20th, by the Oriental Steam Company's packet, via
Southampton, due on the 28th at Southampton.
Peninsular, &c., Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, via
Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the mornings of the
7th, 18th, and 27th, by the Peninsular steam packets,
via Southampton; due on the sth, 15th, and 25th at
Southampton.
Sydney, Now South \Vales, Australia, Van Diemen's
Land, and New Zealand, by ship letter bags, as the
♦essels may mil Irtm Gravesend and other ports.
N.l3•—Newspapers must all be pre-paid ld. to these
colonies.

Franco, and countries through France, twice daily
(morning and evening. except Sundays), by steam
packets, via Dover and Calais; due daily. Belgium, and
countries through Belgium (liamburgh, Prussia, Russia,
Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, &c.) daily, in the evening
(except Sunday), via Dover and Ostend; due daily.
Holism], &e.—Wednesday and Saturday mornings;
due Mondays and Thursdays.
fiainburgh, &c.—Tuesday and Friday evenings; due
Tuesdays and Saturdays; by the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's packets, via the Thames.
Mails will be made up for Madeira, the Cape de
Verde Islands, Portendic, Sierra Leone, and the Island
of Ascension, on the en ning of the 4th, to be forwarded
by her Majesty's steam sloop Reynard, appointed to sail
trom Devonport on the morning of the sth of June.
Newspapers to Madeira, &c. 2d; sierra Leone and Ascen-
sion free.

RACES TO

Hungerford 1
Ascot
Hampton l3
Beverley, Hull, & E. IL 13
Newton
Knighton l5

Carlisle
Newmarket 3
Liverpool ll
Ox ford lB

AUG

COME, 1849.

Presteign l9
Bibury 2O
Stockbridge 2l
Newcastle
Winchester 2B
Salisbury 2B

Brighton 1
Ripon
Chelmsford ~ .
Derby
Lincoln
Wolverhampton l3
Canterbury l6

Lancaster
Go2dwood
Ludlow

SEPTE:

Warwick
Lichfield
Weymouth
Doncaster
Leicester

ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL.
The anniversary festival of this institution was held
yesterday at the London Tavern, the Lord Mayor in
the chair. A eery large party sat down to a
most excellent dinner shortly after six o'clock. Among
the company present wo observed the Earl Wal-
degrave, the Marquis of Thomond, Lord Byron,
Admiral Sir J. Ommanney, Admiral Bowles, Ad-
miral Sir C. Malcolm, Captain Aldridge, Captain
Sweny, Captain Milne, Sir W. Symonds, S. B. Carr,
Esq., J. Wilson, Esq., I'. Legh, Esq., H. Mandeville,
Esq., the Rev. Dr. Mortimer, the Rev. J. Chambers,
head master of the school, &c.
The LORD MAYOR, who made a very forcible appeal
in behalf of the school, observed that he should be
l:appy to present a donation to its funds, but desiring to
stimulate in a right direction the energies of tbe youth-
ful mind, he hoped the council would allow him to give
a silver medal to commemorate the honour conferred
upon him in his being selected for the president of this
year's festival. The proposal was most warmly wel-
comed.

OCTO:

Newmarket Sec. 0ct.... 8
Newmarket Houghton.. 22

Huntingdon 2l
York
Great Yarmouth 2B
Radcliffe
Egham 29
Lothians Club 3O

Bedford
Manchester 2O
Newmarket First Oct 25
Wrexham
Walsall

,BER.
1 Worcester

NOVEMBER.
Yorkshire Union Hunt .5
IRISH RACES TO COME, 1849.
Carragh June 26 I Curragh Sept. 4
The Heath July 3 Curragh Oct. 16
Down Corporation July 24

FESTIVITIES AT TILE TURKISH EMD ASST.-111S
Excellency the Turkish Ambassador gave a grand di-
plomatic entertainment last evening at the residence of
the embassy in Bryanston-square. The following Mi-
nisters honoured his Excellency with their company on
the occasion:—His Excellency Baron Brunnow, his Ex-
cellency General Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency
Count Colloredo, his Excellency Mr. George Bancroft,
his Excellency Baron de Cetto, his Excellency M. Van
de Weyer, his Excellency Monsieur le Commandeur
Marques de Lisboa, his Excellency Count de Reventlow,
his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, his Excellency
Count Schimmelpenninck, his Excellency Viscount de
Moncorvo, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, his Excel-
lency Baron Rehausen, his Excellency M. J. J. Osma,
Colonel Sir Edward Cust, and M. De Berg, First Secre-
tarythe
of the Russian Legation. The banquet
was of
his
most superb description. Later in the evening,
the
Ex-
cellency gave a grand ball, which was honoured
presence of nearly 300 members of the aristocracy and
fashionable world.
THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.-With reference to
the truth or falsehood of the statement
mcontained in an
article which appeared in the .
,es of yesterday, re•
specting the intended marriage 7o; the
_Conde de Monte-
molin, we abstain at this moment from giving any
opinion. But we are in a position to state that the
Prince left his house in Harley-street yesterday morn-
ing, at half-past eight o'clock,
and had not returned at
endwiduit;h that none of his advisers now in London
have the slightest slightest knowledge of the rumoured alliance,
or of the present residence of the Prince,—Morning Post.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A Tnier.—About half past
one o'clock this morning a man, whose name is unknown,
entered the first floor of the house occupied by Mr.
Jenkins, No. 4, Nassau-street, Soho, by climbing up the
water-spout. Mr. Jenkins, who was in bed in the ad-
joining room, was awakened by hearing the thief pack-
ing op some silver plate, and on entering the room where
the thief was, the latter jumped from the window, with
the intention of escaping by the projection over the door.
Unfortunately, he missed his footing, and fell with great
force on to the area railings, where he was completely
impaled. He, however, managed to extricate himself;
and ran as far as Hay's-court, where he was taken by
police-constable M'Bean, 182 C, who, observing blood
flowing from the man's person, conveyed him to the
Charing-cross Hospital, where he died in about an hour
after his admittance.

Sir William and Lady Tuyll and the Baroness
Von. Carpel!an, were among the passengers that left
Blackwell yesterday morning, by the General Steam
Navigation Company's mail stem-ship Ocean, fur got-
terdAm

From the report of the society, which was dis-
tributed to the company present, it appeared that
the council had been enabled to carry on the
school during the past year without encroaching upon
the invested capital; and that, by the observance of the
strictest economy, the expenditure had been brought
within the receipts. The expenditure had been consi-
derably diminished, but, on the other hand, the receipts
had also proportionately decreased, the balance at the
end of last year being leo/. Bs. sd.
A very handsome subscription-list was announced
in the course of the evening exceeding 5001., in addition
to her Majesty's contribution of 1001 The
list included the names of the Marquis of Tho-
mond, &c., Lieutenant-Colonel Petit, 52/. 10s.; Earl
Howe, 101.; the Rev. Lord De Saumarez, 51.; Admiral
Sir C. Ogle, 101.; Admiral Sir G. Seymour, 10/.; Ad-
miral Lysaght, 2/. ; Admiral Bowles, 5/ ; Captain Sir
B. Walker, 5/.; the Lord Mayor, 251; Rev. J. H. Fisk,
20/. 101.; the Master of the Temple, 51; Mr. Neill Mal..
colm (four nomination debentures), 100/. Some of the
smaller contributions elicited much applause, owing to
the impression that they came from men whose love
for the serviee induced them to be frugal in order to
render this aid ; one officer sent " a day's pay."
Several gentlemen rose when the health of " the
former pupils" was drunk;, and it was said that three
of these gentlemen had taken first-class honours at Cam-
bridge, and a fourth had taken honours at Oxford ; two
pupils of the school also passed out first this year in
the examination for marine cadetships, and another
took the first mathematical scholarship in King's Col-
lege, London. As may be supposed, on such an occa-
sion, in the heart of the City, and with the Lord Mayor
in the chair, due place was given among the toasts to
" The Corporation of London ;" and Sir C. Malcolm,
in calling on Mr. Wood, the chairman of the finance
committee, to speak to the toast, expressed his hope
that the school would some day be laid under particular
obligations to him in his official capacity.
The business of the evening was enlivened by the
vocal performances of Miss Thornton, who, by the very
admirable manner in which she sang one of her songs,
" The Cavalier," elicited the greatest applause; Miss
Henderson, and Messrs. Jolly, Machin, and Young.
The whole entertainment was well conducted. Mr.
Higgs, as toastmaster, was attentive and efficient.