The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Immense success of Haines New Village Tragedy, "The Life
of a Woman," which is rapidly approaching the summit of
popularity. New Tragic Drama, in which Mr. Elton will
perform. Three interesting Dramas in one Evening.
THIS EVENING, ►iAY 11,
Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S

DAUGHTER. _ _
Realization of Ho,garth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress."
After -hieli tlie New Tragic Drama entitled
DON JOHN ARRAGON.
In which Mr. Eltcn will perform.
To conclude with,
CHARLES THE TWELFTH.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S STAY PRO-
LONGED by COMMAND of the NOBILITY, GENTRY,
and the PUBLIC ;—MONDAY, MAY 11, and every evening
during the week. he will perform his never to be equalled Delu-
sions and NEW WONDERS Incomprehensible.—On Monday,
May 11, Wednesday, 13; and Friday, 15, 1840, the Wizard
will give his Three Grand FASHIONABLE MORNING
PERFORMANCES.—Doors for the Morning Performances
open at One o'clock. The Wizard commences his Wonders at
Two o'clock : concluding at Four. Carriages in attendance a
quarter before Four. Evening Performances, doors open at
halt-past Six; Performances at half-past Seven.—Box-office
open from Eleven till Four.—Private Boxes at all the agents,

CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND.
SECOND WEEK !—EXTHAORDTNARY COMBINA
TION !—THREE PERFORMANCES by one PERSON.

THIS and every EVENING during the Week, except Fri-
day, on which day a MORNING PERFORMANCE will be
given, to commence at 11.df-past Two o'clock.
Mr. 31. JACOBS, ILLUSIONIST, VENTRILOQUIST,
and DIPRO VISATORE, w hose performances during the
past week have been attended by delighted and surprised
audiences, and applauded in the most gratifying manner, will
continue to give his pleasing Entertainments at the above
Tavern, and which are not equalled by any other individual.
His Ventriloquism—an imaginary imitation of eleven persons—
has been found to be so correct that many have laboured under
the amusing impression that some deception has been praeticed
upon them by way of confederacy.
Admission, Front Circle, 2s. ; Back, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Seven, and begin at Eight o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
ERUPTION OF HECLA!
MORE SPLENDID THAN EVER !
The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have been made
during the winter, to increase still further the magnificence
of this unparalleled Spectacle have been crowned with the most
complete success, as was fully demonstrated on Thursday
Evening (the first Public Exhibition), by the unanimou. and
enthusiastic delight with which each portion of the gorgeous
display was hailed as it proceeded by the thousands assembled
on that occasion. In compliance with the expressed wishes
of great numbers of the visitors, it will be repeated on Mon-
day and Thursday, May 11th and 14th, commencing shortly
before dusk. The Panoramic Model, Al Fresco, of Mount
Hecla, entirely reproduced by Mr. Danson. the original Artist,
is exhibiting daily from ten till du,k, with the Menagerie,
which is now in the finest order, and has lately received many
important additions.
Feeding Hour, 5 o'clock.

Admission One Shilling.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1840.

The recent alarming murder has very naturally
attracted attention to the Police. Several days,
and even weeks ago, we adverted to the number
of
murders which had escaped detection, as a proof
that the police did. not give, and, possibly, could
not give, that protection to life which is expected i
of it. Neither is it so effectual an instrument to
prevent and detect crime as might be supposed.
Coeval with its establishment, undoubtedly, there
has grown up habits of greater decency and order
amongst the people ; but they were rapidly forming
before it was established. Nor, in justice to other
contrivances, can we omit to mention that the pub-
lie improvement has been accompanied by the es-
tablishment of Mechanics' Institutions, Temperance
Societies, and by various schemes for self-improve-
ment among the people, to which we are inclined to
think those habits of order are as much clue as to
the police. At the same time we find no fault
with that body. As far as our experience has gone,
we have ever found them a diligent, orderly, well-
behaved set of men, who perform the duties as-
signed them with great propriety; but we differ
from some of our Contemporaries in thinking that
such a force, however well it may perform
its duties, is not to be confidently relied on to pro-
tect life, whatever it may do to protect property.
Such an opinion may, as one of
our Contemporaries
asserts, add to the tenor which the murder has
excited ; but it may induce the Legislature to look,
as we are sure it ultimately must, for a more effec-
ta;,l means than a police for the prevention

of crime.
It will not be forgotten that our police is bora
r,lwed, with some modifications, from the police
of Paris, confessedly the most complete in Europe.
it the model force have not succeeded very wtli hi

preventing crime, what reason will there be for
supposing that the imitation will answer that pur-
pose ? We find, however, in the Globe of Satur-
day evening, and in an article written expressly to
defend the police from some observations of the'
Times, the following remarks :
In Paris, where the police possesses a greater degree of
adroitness in pursuit of detection than the old Bow-street
police, robberies accompanied by assassination, have, du-
ring late periods, been almost of daily occurrence.
The writer in the Law Magazine asserts that in London
the practice of msassication by any regular class of depre-
dators could not be carried on. The murders recently
committed in the metropolis do not appear to us to invali-
date the assertion. It is stated that more murders have
been committed of late in Paris in one week without the
detection of the offenders, than in London, with now
nearly double the population, in the whole year.
The complaint here is that the police does not pre-
vent murders, and does not detect the murderers, and
to console us under this misfortune, we are informed
that the case is still worse where the model force
exits after which our police has been constructed.
That is a fact which we have long known, and in
that we see a full confirmation of our opinion that
it is neither safe nor wise in the Legislature and the
public to rely on any police, however well organized,
to prevent enmes,
We are rot, however, of opinion with the Times

that it would be wise to recur to the odd system of
selecting police officers from amongst thieves, tir
from persons habitually acquainted with thi,-ves.
That was a remnant of the Jonathan Wild system,
and gave encouragement to so much brutality, that
it was properly suppressed. Several robberies, (we
allude particularly to those mysterious robberies of

jewellery, of which the public has heard a great
deal), have escaped detection, as well as some
murders, but it is probably better that some crimes
should escape detection than that a police force
should be organized, containing persons habitually
connected with thieves, who must ever be subject
to the most revolting suspicions. There seems
little doubt that those robberies of jewellery were
planned by some of the domestics, or inmates of the
house, or by persons who had been inmates ; from
which the inference is, that amongst the inmates of
the houses of the upper classes ate to be found not
ajev;persons of very criminal habits. Against them
no police can be a sufficient protection, and, thei efore
we say again that neither the Legislature nor the
public ought to rely on a police to prevent crime.
We agree with the Globe in expressing a hope
" that the attention of the Government and the public
will be directed to the examination of practical
methods for the prevention of crime," and among
diem we hope will not be forgotten the influence
which the Legislature may have by itself abstaining
from criminality. The mass of crimes consists in
violations of the right of property, or they spring
from attempts to violate it ; and we take leave to
assert that a great portion of those crimes are
caused by the utter disregard which the Legisla-
ture habitually displays—by Corn-laws, bank mono •
polies, various unjust taxes, and similar enactments
—for the right of property in the people. Again,
another series of crimes spring from the un-
restrained indulgence of the violent passions, and
the Legislature re!ti,esi to acknowledge any law
but its own arbitary will. That the laws are made
for the rich, and not for the poor, is a well•known
fact, and when the Legislature habitually indulges
in injustice toward the most numerous class of so-
ciety, is it to be expected that this class should be
made just and righteous merely by the fear of
punishment ?

The dread of death, the greatest punishment man
can inflict, has little or no influence over mankind,
as is proved by soldiers and sailors. It is wisely
ordered that it should be so, or life would be a bur-
den. We cannot live and always think of dying.
If no hope of preventing crimes can he justly
founded on employing this greatest punishment,
what rational hope is there that any lesser punish-
ment can be effectual? In fact, the wit of man
has been employed for many hundred years in de•
rising punishments to prevent crimes, and has been
most unsuccessful. We would earnestly recommend
the Legislature, therefore, amongst the practical
methods for the prevention of crime, to adopt
that most necessary one, a retorm of itself. In
this advice, which is most seriously and ear-
nestly given, we beg leave to include, my Lords
the Bishops, who, with all deference to their
Lordships, and to the coaches they ride in, as well
as to the servants who stand behind them, and the
jewels of their lady-wives and daughters, seem to
us amongst the greatest encouragers of the
crimes which spring from cupidity to be found in
the community.

We are again obliged to call the attention of
our readers to another instance of the oppression
inflicted on society by one of the clauses of the
New Police Act. It will be found under the head
of Hatton-garden Police Court, and requires but a
brief comment. The Magistrate inflicted the
penalty with great reluctance, and in the course of
the examination signified that the policeman was
over-officious in obtruding himself into a house
where t here was no disturbance or noise, and that,
owing to the negligence of the publicans, the ob-
noxious clause had become the law of the land.
But the blame does not rest with the publicans. It
must be brought home to the Representatives of the
metropolitan boroughs, and to the Government,
who suffered a law to pass by which the
Police Commissioners can annoy, not only
publicans, but the respectable shopkeepers
and tradesmen of London, in every possible way.
The Magistrates now are decidedly against the
clause as it has been hitherto interpreted, vet not-
withstanding this the Commissioners of Police still
persevere in enforcing it in the most tyrannical
manner. When the next election comes those who
gave them the power to establish this un-English
system of surveillance will find the consequence.
We hear from many quarters that a violent opposi-

Lion will be made to some of the Metropolitan Re-
presentatives on this account, and we shall do our
best to support the opposition. We would not
only vote, but encourage every elector to vote,
against men who would introduce a tyrannical sys-
tem of civic police hitherto unknown in this country.

The Kirk of Scotland may now rejoice and be
exceeding glad. All the Judges of England, ex-
cept Lords DENMAN and ABINGER, who are
Peers as well as Lawyers, have solemnly decided

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that she is Protestant I But will this. decision
verily and indeed fill with joy the proud stern bo-
som of the Kirk ? Will the confirmation of her
claim, even by a large majority of English lawyers
—a claim which she never doubted herself, and
which she dreamed
not England's Prelacy
could doubt—content her?
Will she not ask her-
self,
self, was it for this—was it to have English law-
yers with flowing wigs and de-spread folios,
sitting in solemn conclave in Sergeant's-inn in
London, in 1840, to decide upon her Protestantism,
that Scotland, starting from a sleep of ages, caught
the soul-stirring sound even from Geneva, of
JOHN KNOX'S "First Blast of the Trumpet,"
blown in 1558 ? Was it for this that to scatter
the rooks (the Monks and Nuns) that intrepid
Reformer recommended the destruction of the
rookeries (the convents and monasteries) through-
out the length and breadth of fair Scotland ?
Was it for this that the POPE with his indulgen-
cies ; his rosaries ; his bone, blood, tear, and rag
relics ; his crosses ; his badges of sanctity ; his
images ; his holy wells of pilZriinage ; his seven

orders of priesthood ; and all - the mummery with
which he had encumbered the simple and sublime
religion of the Gospel, was, by a mighty effort of
an, united people, driven from his strong-hold in time
palace, and his stronger in the cottage, of the least
volatile nation in Europe ? Was it for this that
that the slayer of a Cardinal (BEAToN), prepara-
tory to dipping his sword in blood, gave expression
to a nation's deep earnestness, and dark, fierce, all-
conquering enthusiasm, in the following memorably
earnest words—" Repent thee of thy wicked life.
For here, before my God, I protest, that neither the
hatred of thy person, the lore of thy riches, nor
the fear of any trouble thou couldst have done to
me in particular, moved or moveth me to strike

thee ; but only because thou bast been and re.

mainest, an obstinate enemy against Christ and
his holy Gospel 1' Was it for this that in later
times, to escape from the outward and risible sign
of Popery-2relacv, the Cameronians took to the
hills with steel upon their thighs, and the Bible
in their bosoms, there to shed their blood or perish
with hunger rather than relinquish the faith they
had so dearly purchased ? Was it for this that a

few short months ago, the controversial halls of
this mighty metropolis were filled even to the echo
with the voice of ecclesiastical Scotland in support
of the apostol cal and S-ate protensions of the
Anglican Protestant Giureh ? The claims of the
State Churchmen in ,Scoff land upon the toleration
of English Ecclesiastics and Judges ought to have

obtained for the Kirk better treatment. In a rectn

address of Dr. CHALMERS to the dignitaries of
the English Church on the Intrusion or Veto
Question, beginning " Venerable Fathers and
Brethren," that able and distinguished champion of
Presbytery in Scotland and Prelacy in England,
alludes particularly to these claims, in pressing for
a verdict in favour of the Kirk. " The attempt is
making," says the Doctor, with much earnestness
and feeling, "to prejudice the minds of English-
men with the idea that the Church of

Scotland, participating in the wayward spi-
rit of the age, have embarked in a reckless career
of innovation. Let me assure you, my friends, of
the grossness of this misrepresentation. . . . In
all the great questions which affected the vital in-

cerests of Protestantism we have made common
cause with yourselves. On the spoliation of the
Irish Establishment ; on the topic of an entire and
unmutilated Bible in every National School ; on the
control of the guardianship of the Church over our
seminaries of learning ; on the vast importance to
the interests of society of maintaining, or rather
extending, the ecclesiastical endowments of other
days—on these and other kindred topics we -have

fought side by side with the Churchmen and Con-
servatives of England."
If such have been the Kirk's battles—and we are
very far from doubting the truth of such a state-
ment when made by Dr. CHALmEtts—we leave
her to draw what comfort she chooses from tho- way
in which England's Prelacy and England's Judges
have rewarded her services. That a polemical
pamphleteer like Dr. PHILPOTTS should denounce
in Parliament the Church of Scotland as anti-
Paitestant, is less surprising than that he should
be sileEtly and acquiescently listened to by his
Right Reverend Brethren, and that the Judges of
the land should be gravely appealed to for a deci-
sion upon such a question. Now, if it be any gra-
tification to the friends of the Kirk north of the
Tweed to know what the Liberals here think of
this question, we can assure them that there is not
one of them who ever entertained the least doubt
as to the Kirk being not only a Protestant Church,
bur the purest of State Churches yet established in
the world. The Reformation in England was the
work of a brutal, bloodthirsty, lecherous' KING,
and a band of hungry, rapacious Yobles; but in
Scotland it was the work of the people--of the
people under the influence of the most solemn, dis-
interested impressions. Hence the difference be-

tween the two Churches—a fact strangely over-
looked by the Bishop of EXETER, and those
proud Prelates who, say what they will, pretend to
no authority which they cannot trace to the Papal
chair.

We have called in question the heartfelt gratifi-
cation of the Kirk at hearing the decision of the
English Judges, although favourable. But the
effect may still be beneficial. It will, in all proba-
bility, inspire the Kirk with more toleration for

the English Dissenters, and even for the Irish
Catholics, so long the objects of its intolerant in-
fluence. Whatever Dr. CHALMERS, iii his honest
but mistaken zeal may think, Bishop PIIILPOTTS
would rather kiss the POPE'S toe for a Cardinal's
hat, than accept the ModeratOrship of the Kirk—
aye, and so would hale the Prelates in England,

We presume that the Tories will give way this
evening to a request not to move fora new writ for
Ludlow till Lord JOHN RUSSELL is in his place.
They have consented to that course as to Cam-
bridge—why not as to Ludlow ? Both boroughs
have been well acquainted with bribery, and it has
prevailed much longer at Ludlow than at Cam-
bridge. To issue a writ for either of them till some
effort is made to cleanse away the corruption would
he an invitation to repeat the offence, with an ex.
hortation to be cautious. The Tories will be
asked to postpone the motion, and will hardly show
such a want of courtesy as to make it.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 2nd
inst. have reached us. General Sir DE LACY
EVANS had arrived in that cal ital, and walked in
procession on that day, being the anniversary of the
insurrection of Madrid against the French in 1808.
The urns containing the ashes of the 121 patriots
killed on that occasion were drawn in a hearse by
eight horses from the Royal stables, from the
Chapel of St. Isidore to the Prado, and there de-
posited in the vaults of the monument erected to
their memory. The crowd of spectators was im-
mense, but not the slightest disturbance took
place.

The French journals of Friday and Saturday
are filled with the debates on the Sugar question.
On Thursday the general debate on the Bill was
closed, and the . Chamber proceeded to vote it
article by article, which answers to the English
Parliamentary proceeding of a Bill going into a
Committee of the whole House. On the first
Article being read, the former Minister of Finance,
NI. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, proposed as an amend
ment that from and after the Ist of July, 1841, the
cultivation of beetroot sugar should be prohibited io
France, and the present cultivators indemnified at
the national expense. This was opposed by the
Government, M. THIERS, in a very business-like
speech, declaring that, much as he prized the
Colonies, he was not prepared to sacrifice to them
the interests of France. Of the whole commerce
of France that of the Colonies amounted to one-
thirteenth, and of the na,al force of France the
Colonies supplied one-sixth. This was a great
deal, and he prized the Colonies very highly ac-
cordingly ; but it was not enough to tempt the
Government to make the sacrifice demanded by
the mover of the first amendment. After an ad-
journment the debate on the amendment was re-
sumed on Saturday, and finally rejected by an over-
whelming majority.
We have said that M. THIERS'S speech was
businesslike. We mean by that expression that
the President of the Council dealt extensively
in figures—in an animated puzzling jumble
of figures of rhetoric and figures of arithmetic.
But he took no profound or clear view of the ques-
tion before the Chamber. On the contrat.,
pointed out difficulties on all sides,
sought to avoid the discussion of its principle: He
as if he wished
the Chamber to do nothing. He was not for sacri-
ficing the Colonies by
granting high protecting

Tine fol!own:7, paragraph appears in all the
French papers :
tie uutre-fifer sthtes that an agg ,aNion has been
committed by the English in Senettai. Its amount is
that the Senegambie, a French r.chooner. the owiwts 4.f
which had undertsluti to engage on the crrist of Africa
a hundred blacks as recruits for a company of pioneers
formed by the French Goverionent in Gayana, cast
ale,or in the Caslinanci liver oppoai;e an Elelish
ftetory, when it was captured by the Engit,h brig of war
S,racen, and sent into Sierra-Leone. Th,., Governor of
Senegal is said to have chartered a trading schooner for
Sierra-Leone to claim the Stnegambie, being unable, se-
cording., to th Outre Mer, to spare a Fri nch vebst:t of war,
the embarrassments caused by the English in this river
rendering it n,•ces,ary that the whole of the small naval
force should remain on the station,

In the wine-growing districts of France hopes
of a golden harvest are entertained. Never did the
vineyards look better or promise a more abundant
crop.

CHEKIB EFFENDI, the new Turkish Ambas-
sador to•the Court of London, has arrived in Pads.
His Excellency is represented as affable, conciliat-
ing, able, and learned to an extent unknown among
his countrymen. He is accompanied by two secre-
taries.

SPANISH FRONTISR.—GeneraI Aspiroz, according to a
letter from Monroyo in the Phare, is not dead, although
his wound (his leg was shattered near the knee by a cannon
hall) is extremely severe. General Castaneda has taken
his command. General Averbe has taken the castle of
Ares. near Villatianca del Cid, in Valencia, with all the
garrison ; and some gua-boats have forced the entrance of
the Ebro, and destroyed some entrenched works thrown up
by the Carlists to intercept the navigation: The same
journal mentions the capture and execution of the Cure
Lecumberry and several Carlist officers in the provinces.
A letter from Saragossa of the 2d announces that on
the 29th the Bring commence/ against the fort of Alcala
de la Silva. Most of the works defending the place
were destroyed in the same day, and it was expected that
the fort would surrender on the morrow or the day after.
The Courrier Francais publishes the following from
the Levant, which was believed in Paris to be well founded :
—" At Constantinople the Oriental question was again on
the tapir. The French and English Ambassadors had
presented a joint letter to the Divan, in which they en-
glged the Porte to grant Mehemet Ali the heirship of
Egypt and Syria, save the district of Adana and Tarsus,
that is to say, a kingdom minus the forts which protect the
gates. The Divan would net be sorry to grant all this ;
hut from a►nour propre demands the preliminary consent
4 the Vtc•:roy. without entering beforehand into any en
gagement. The Porte continues to act underhand, in
order to conclude an arrangement with the Pasha."
BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 9.

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,russets and German Papers have been received
this morning, the former of Saturday's date.. The
Coarrier Beige has the following additional parti-
citlars about the Chinese Commissioner yepurted
to have arrived at Antwerp. We rather suspect
that the whole affair is a hoax :
Hoang-tang Kao, the Chinese Commissioner, has
rived at Antwerp from Anhterdam. He has had a king
conference with one of cur first shipowners. This envoy
of the Central Empire speaks pretty well both French and
Erriglish• He is accompanied by the nephew of Governor
Lin. a a-oung man of considerable beauty, and by one
of the Russian Mission at Peking. They have already
delivered nearly 20 letters printed on rice paper, and
stamped with the Imperial dragon.
They will arrive to-morrow ( Sunday) evening at Brw.
sets by the iron railway. A great number c:f persons will
go to meet them.

In a letter from Frankfort, dated the Ist instant,
we find the following intelligence respecting the
Hanoverian Constitutional question
We hear that before the Easter Holidays several Memo-
rials of Hanoverian Corporations were delivered to the
Chancery of the Diet Easter, by D. Heseenberg. It is said
there are six, of which two are from Osnaburg and Ham..
lar, protesting against the resolutions to be taken by the
present Assembly of the Estates respecting the new Con-
stitution which has been laid before it.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAY 9—Wind S.S.E., 10th, Wind W.S. W.
moderate.—Arrived the Maidstone, Wimble, from Cal-
cutta ; Carmalee, Vass, Madras ; Medora, Sergeant,
Cape of Good Hope ; Warrens, Gray, South Seas; Ver-
non, Lidderdale, Madeira; Toranto, Greswald, New
York. Sailed the Kelso, Roxburgh, for Sydney, New
S,•uth Wales; Wilton Castle, Cawley, Jamaica, with the
rest of the outward 13,und.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.—Wind S E., 10th, E.N.E.,
fresh breezes.—Arrived the Courier, Huntress, from Val-
p raiso. Sailed, Jan. 31, Christians, Simpson, for New
Orleans; Europe, Marshall, New York, sailed 13th ult. ;
Frankfort, Russell, ditto; J. and R. Perin, St. Ander;
Vivo, Mediterranean; Lancashire, Last, Alexandria;
Sphynx, Malaga. Sailed the Champion, Cochrane,
New South Wales ; Devon, Gething, Singapore ;
Indian, Frost, Bombay ; Kingston, M'Lean, ditto; Ap-
pleton, Oliver, and Alecta, Ayshford, Jamaica ; General
Wolfe, Dunstan, Rio Grande ; Tullahassee, Chadwicks,
New Orleans ; Canton, Gibson, Baltimore • Hercules,
Marks, Philadelphia; Wales, Watts; Superb, Hamilton,
and Creel y. Jets, New Yoik ; Belize, Roge,s, Montreal;
Elizabeth Bruce, Higgins, S tvannall; Renewal, Wilds,
Quebec ; Leopard, M'Donald, Boston ; Gangs, Fernold,
Saco. Off port the Isis, from Jamaica; John Peal, Rio
Janeiro ; Sheffield, New York ; Britannia, Mobile ; Mal-
colm, Siiigapore.
HOLYHEAD, MAY 9. Arrived off, the Ripley, Steward,
from Calcutta; Judith, St. Thomas's, and sailed for
H int burgh.

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PORTSMOUTH, MAY 10, Wind W. to S.& W.—Arrived,
the I,la, Curri,, front Calcutta, and sailed, the 10th, for
Newenatle; 1111cliaLl's, Sado I, the Eliza,
1111C,;rthy, for Calcutta,

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PLYMOUTH, MAY 10, Wind variable.—Arrived, the
Fanny and Jane, Lovering, from Cephalonia. Off Port,
the Neptune, Hargueray, from Havanna ; Vixen, Palmer,
Cape of Good Hope.
Fat-swum Mat 9, Wind S. to E.—Arrived, the Pen-
guiu (picket), I:.nt the West Indies; sailed from Barba-
does the 15th March, Tobago the 16th, Trinidad the 17th,
Grenada the 2311. St. Kitts the 29th, Tortola the 31. t,
St. Thomas and Porto Rico the Ist alt., arid Cape Henry
the sth ; Rusco Castle, Murray, Constantinople; Espe-
ranee, Brodei, Terranova; .11aria, Burnett, Licata; Flier,
Ety, Vincent, Malaga.
WIYRNHOR Alay 9. The Wilsons, Hunter, from Po-ts-
mouth,
4bandoii..d by the crew. S, veral smacks have gone to her.
to St. Pet, rsburg, is on shore on the Long Sand,
FALMOUTH, MAY B.—A timber-laden vess-I, water-
logged and abandoned, suple,st d to be the Dorothea, of
Dundee, -vas boarc:ed Feb. 24 in lat. 40 lon. 16, by the
Penguin packet, arrived here.
MILFORD MAY 8 —A cask of vinegar. branded on the
heA •' Scott," and neat the I,ung J. B. F. F. A. C. in a
o!amond, 75 underneath, has been brought in here.
YARMOUTH, MAY vessel of about 170 tons appa-
rently foreign, with a yellow bust head, masts painted
white, is on shore on Hasborough Sand, abandoned by the
crew. An empty cask has been picked up from her,
marked on the head, •F. C. R , with the figure 2 above,
and on the bung. A 21.
RAMSGATE, MAY 10.—The W ilsons, Hunter, 'hick
was on shore on the Long Sand, has been got off, and
towed in here, by her Majesty's steamer Boxer.
CORK, MAY B.—The St. Patrick, Johnson, which sailed
hence, 17th ult., for New York is expected back to-day,
having carried away, on the 21th ult., her jib boom, fore-
mast-head, fore and main topmasts, spars, sails, &C.

The Observer of yesterday contained eight of
their long folio columns of the inquest and other particulars
connected with the atrocious murder up to the hour of twelve
o'clock on Saturday night; the re-apprehension at Gravesend,
by Police-sergeant Otway, of Richard Gould, who was re.
cently acquitted of Mr. Templeman's murder. A Monday
afternoon edition of the Observe? is regularly published in time
for Monday's post, which edition is best adapted for the coun-
try and readers abroad.

•
HERRING FISHERY.—We are glad to learn that
the prospect of an extraordinary herring fishing in Lochfine,
and all round the coast of the West Highlands. never was
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duties in favour of the home beetroot growers, and
he was not for sacrificing the home sugar grower!, by
allowing them no protection. But he was for re-
conciling what all France must know to be irrecon-
cileable—the interests of both. M. TRIERS.
like Lord CASTLEREAGH on the Corn-law
question, is apprehensive that wars are not
yet over, and intimates that when the
next is declaim.' it will be mighty convenient to have
sugarenouglot home without tiv,ting to a precarious
supply from the Colonies. If such maxims as this
be generally adopted by statesmen and legislators,
the precautionary expenses of nations will annually
far exceed the sums required for the most extensive
military campaigns. Half the kingdoms of northern
and western Europe will be turned into hot-
houses for the cultivation of the spices of the East
—now become as necessary at the dinner tables of
the wealthy, as a loaf of brown bread and a mug
of beer at the simple repast of the poor. If it he
necessary to provide against thechances of war by the
cultivation of beetroot, it cannot be less necessary for
a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, to devote the
public revenues to the cultivation of the tea plant
and the coffee shrub. But it is useless to pursue
this inquiry further, with the view of exposing an
absurdity' all but self-evident to every man of the
least rt flection.