The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Al'ber,, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, returned to Buckingham Palace
twenty minutes betore two o'clock yesterday afternoon from
Claremont. The Royal Suite consisted of Lady Port-
man, Hon. Miss Cocki. Hon. Miss Cavendish, Marquis
of Ileadfort, Hon. Charles A. Murray, Mr. George Ed-
ward Anson, Sir William Lumley, Colonel Buckley, Sir
Edward Bowater, and Mr. Francis Seymour.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday after-
noon of her Majesty.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Ductless
of Kent yesterday at Ingestrie House, and the Queen
Dowager at Marlborough House.
The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening in-
cluded his Serene Highness the Prince Leiningcn, Earl of
Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Portman, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, and Hon. William Cowper.
The Band of the lot Life Guards attended at the Palace
during the evening.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess Ida
of Saxe Weimar and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe
Weimar went yesterday to St. Paul's Cathedral to witness
the Aniversary Meeting of the Charity Schools of the
Metropolis. Her Majesty was attended by the Viscountess
Barrington, lion. Miss Caroline Boyle, Hon. Miss Gore,
Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, Hon. William Ashley, Hon.
Edward Curzon, and the Rev. J R. Wood.
The Prince of Leningen and the Duchess Ida of Saxe
Weimar, visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday.
Count Brunow and Mr. George E. Wood had inter-
views with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday, in Downing..

street.
The Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council on Education, had a inecting
yesterday afternoon at the Council-office. There were
present the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon,
Lord John Russell, Lord Monteagle, Viscount Duncannon,
and Mr. Labouchere.

A Deputation, consisting of Messrs. Pattison, B. Wood,
Travers, Warner, Hodgson, and Heyward, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Despatches from Sir C. Metcalfe, Governor of Jamaica,
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

LITERATURE.

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.

We have only just received this Magazine, which
will account for our delay in noticing it. It is an en-
tertaining Number, chiefly by reason of its notices of
new works, which are drawn up with tact and
judgment. In the review, for instance, of the " Me-
moirs of Sir Samuel Romilly," we have a copious va-
riety of extracts, not one of which but possess interest,
and is just of a fitting length. The " Green Lanes"
is a sort of prose pastoral, fresh and fragrant as
the subject of which it treats. The author thus
speaks of wells, so frequently alluded to in the
Old Testament, and so commonly to be met with on
the outskirts of our couutry villages :—" To us, a well
is at all times, in itself, a pleasure to behold ; and we
love in our summer-eve ramblings through the verdant
lanes, dearly love, to stumble upon one, nooked
in some leafy, recess, fern-fringed, and mossy
to the bottom, .whose clear and bubbling waters
tempt us to uncoil the rusty chain, and fetch
up a bumper cool as the polar ice, and
grateful as cool. It is a certain indication of the near
proximity of those picturesque abodes—those snug,
suckle-wreathed, rose-embowered, romantic dwellings,
for which merry England has long been famed—the
cottage homes of her peasantry.' In the " Autobio-
graphy of an English Opium-eater," there is an inte-
resting Memoir of Miss Elizabeth Smith, a young
lady who must have been quite a prodigy, for
at an early age she had mastered the French,
Italian, Spanish, Latin, German, Greek, and
Hebrew languages ; had no inconsiderable know-
ledge of the Syrise, Arabic, and Persic tongues ; was a
good geometrician and algebraist, an expert musician, a
clever artist, and something of a poetess! This ex-
traordinary young lady died of consumption at the early
age of twenty-nine. " The Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham"
are full of curious anecdotical matters. Jerry seems to
have been a lad of singular precocity, and, at the age
of thirteen, wrote a copy of Latin verses on the death
of George 11., which were honoured with the approba-
tion of Dr. Johnson.

PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Whittaker, London, 1840.

We cannot say that this book is quite so interesting
as a Wavcrley novel ; nevertheless, it is not without its
redeeming points, for it discusses an intolerably dry and
perplexing subject in so concise and lucid a manner as
almost to render it palatable Towards the close done
of his chapters, however, the author falls into a pious
paroxysm, and endeavours to prove that the science of
Political Economy is the necessary consequence of the
Christian Revelation! With the exception of this pre-
posterous crotcbett, the volume does credit to Mr.
Atkinson's argumentative faculties.

A DISCOURSE ON THE PAST ORAL CARE.
Washbourne, London, 1840.

A republication of a well-known treatise by the late
Bishop of Salisbury, to which is prefixed a clever and
appropriate prefatory address from the pen of the Rev.
Thomas Dale.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(rtruasimy EVENING.)
HERALD.—This is the first day of the transfer
books being closed at the Bank preparatory to the pay-
ment of dividends on Consols and the New Three-and-
a-half per Cents. The Funds were a shade lower than
yesterday ; Consols leaving off at 9li to for Account,
without the dividend, which, with the dividend, as
quoted yesterday, is equal to 93i to Exchequer
Bills were 265. to 28s. Bank Stock, 176 k to 7.
The complete confirmation of the new financial
operations about to be undertaken by the Government
at Madrid, and now sanctioned by the Cortes, for the
emission and sale of fresh stock, to the amount of
200,000,000 of reels, has greatly cooled the ardour oF
speculators in Spanish Securities, as indeed it is well
calculated to extinguish any hopes which might still
have been entertained by sanguine bondholders. For
some days past the supply of stock has been free, but
to-day it was vastly beyond the capacity of the market.
The Spanish Active, with the May Coupons, declined
to •27 to and left off with a heavy appearance and
prospect of a further depression, although the intelli-
gence of the fall of Morella was known in the Stock
Exchange some time before the close of business. Por-
tuguese Five per Cents. were 351 to r,} ; the Three per
Cents , 24 to I ; Brazilian, 76 to 7 ; Mexican Old
Bonds, 31 to 3; ae New Bonds, 33 to ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54 to i; the Five per
Cents., 10] tto ; Belgian, 1031 to

SUN.—Canadian people are looking with anxiety to
the course which the British Houses of Parliament will
adopt on the subject of the Clergy Reserves and the
Union Bill, and complain of the attempt got up to give
the English colonists but a weak or partial majority in
the Provincial Assembly. The people themselves will
evidently be up and stirring. The uneasiness of the
people caused all manner of rumours to gain credence,
and it had been even asserted that Governor Thompson
would consent to very sensible modifications of his Bills.
On this subject one writer observes :—" But we have
no fear—no doubt upon the subject. We believe the
Governor-General too sound, too liberal, and too poli-
tic—having the dignity of the Crown, the right of the
people, and the establishment of a good and efficient
system for the future government of Uited Canada too
much at heart to take any part, however remote, in de-
feating what he has the commands of his Sovereign to
do, what his judgment approves, and what the people
and prosperity of Canada so ardently require. However,
the final and successful establishment of the liberal and
efficient Government which is now contemplated to be
given to Canada will depend on the people themselves. In
the next general election they secure it, or they probably
lose it. The next Parliament will give a healthy and vigo-
rous, or a corrupt and feeble tone to the people's influence
in the Government. Circumstances arc now auspicious,
if the Governor-General and the British Government
are supported in their efforts to establish a good govern-
ment by the people of the Provinces. The opportunity
now neglected, present auspicious circumstances, which
may now be so easily lost or unimproved, will be fol-
lowed by a state of confusion and Colonial discou-
ragement—and can only be regained by time—through
scenes of confusion, and with, perhaps, extreme diffi-
culty. Our duty is obvious."

The Englis% Stocks were not quite so firm this
afternoon. Consols left off at 921 Exchequer Bill.
at 26s to 28s. premium, and Reduced Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. ut 091; 100.
The market for Spanish Stock was heavy throughout
the day, in consequence of the vote of the Cortes sanc-
tioning an emission of bonds to the amount of 200
millions of reals. This afternoon news reached the
City, by extraordinary express from Paris, of the fall of
Morella, the garrison having surrendered themselves to
the Christinos prisoners of oar. The Stock Exchange
was, however, closed before it became known. Spanish
Active Bonds were done at 27i in the morning, but
did not close higher than 261, being a per cent.
lower than yesterday. Portuguese New Five per
Cents. were heavy at 351 to 4, and the Three per
Cents. 24i to 8-. Chilian Bonds were 37 to 38, and
Brazilian touched 77. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents were only worth 54i to
Shares were the turn lower.

il Elt MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mozart's splen-
did opera of Don. Giovanni 7.as performed on Thursday night,
with the usual powerful cast ; after which 111dlle. Taglioni
made her second appearance, in her favourite ballet of La
and delighted all by the gracefulness of her move-
one of her pas from the Mazurka to the con-
meGluehnoltaitnsn.ga,CEacyleiruycha drew down vehement applause. The house.
although what is termed an extra night, that is, not included in
the subscription, was fashionably attended. The Queen and
Prince Albert, who had returned from Claremont, were present.
Rubini, the great pnino Lenore of her Majesty's,
Theatre, is now in his 46th year, having been bora in 1.79,..6, at
Romano, near Bergamo. In 1811 he was a chorister tt the 1
theatre in that town, and subsequently belonged to a strolling
i company. .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS Or YESTERDAY.
( From the Globe.)
The report of a Committee of the General Assembly,
on the conduct of the party leaders in London regard-
ing the difficulties of the Church of Scotland, involves
some things which seemingly amount to a charge of bad
faith against the Tory chiefs. We, however, shall wait
until we have the report, the speech of Dr. Chalmers,
and the correspondence which he read to the As-
semble, before us, in an authentic and indis-
outabie shape, before we do more than allude to
he imputations en Lord Aberdeen and his friends.
Of this there can be no doubt—that the leaders
of the Vetoists—men little disposed to expose
political dignitaries—complain loudly of having been
inisled. They were promised one thing and offered
another. Their approval was obtained, as they thought,
to a Bill complying with their wishes and satisfactory to
their convictions ; and the Bill was found to be hostile
to both, and satisfactory to the desires and opinions of
their opponents. Dr. Chalmers apparently complains
of a slackness and dryness in the correspondence of the
Tory chiefs, amounting almost to personal discourtesy
—a strange thing to be offered by aristocratic insolence
to a man the equal of the best, and the superior of most
of them, in talent and power.

(From the Courier.)
One of the most important practical questions of the
day, if not really the most important of all, is doubtless
that of emigration, as relates to the fatherland and its
interests socially and economically. In this view it was
chiefly treated on Tuesday last in the discussion of the
propositions submitted by Mr; AV. S. O'Brien, There
are, however, branches of the same subject. partially ir-
respective of direct domestic considerations, however
collaterally bearing upon them, which were not
sufficiently taken into account. We mean the
questions of immigration in the Colonial sense
of the term, and as understood differently in the
different Colonies themselves. For in Canada, Austra-
lia, and the Cape of Good Hope, the desire for and pro-
motion of immigration chimes in with the precise objects
sought to be achieved here by emigration. They are in
want of that supply of British hands and labour which
here we are accustomed to regard as in redundance, and
tending to repress, therefore, the condition of the social
body generally, but especially that of the working classes ;
whilst by finding a safe vent for the excesses of the colo-
nial dependencies, where required and in demand, both
the Colonies and the parent state would be equally and
profitably relieved in various reciprocating mays.
(From the Standard.)
Ever since the splendid meeting of Monday, held
for the purpose of fully and finally extinguishing the
accursed traffic in slaves, the Morning Chronicle has
kept up an unremitting fire of complaints that Mr.
Daniel O'Connell was not permitted to address the
assembly. It might be sufficient answer to these
complaints to say that Mr. O'Connell was not more
worthy, as an individual, to obtain an audience of the
great assembly than the several gentlemen who
were preferred to him, and that, therefore, he has suffered
no more wrong than three or four thousand others who
were silent at the meeting, and who have modestly re-
mained silent since. As, however, such assemblages of
the people arc comparatively of a recent date, and the
laws by which they ought to be governed are per-
hapsimperfectly understood, it may not be thoughtimpro-
per to offer a few remarks upon the subject of them, with
a word or two also as to the extreme indecency of Mr.
O'Connell's attempt to obtain an audience on the occa-
sion, and as to the unreasonableness of the complaints,
because of its being refused to him. These assem-
blages, then, are not. held for any purpose of debate,
but for discussion only ; they present, and are intended
to present, no disputed question for the judgment.
They are designed merely to make known as publicly as
possible the sentiments of the persons collected, and to
make them known with all the advantage of varied and
oral expression,