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almost impossible, because the ready fall of prices in this
country would send back the gold for goods to the English
market, or prevent it from leaving the country. These re-
marks would apply if the country were to be prohibited
under the iron grip of the present prohibitory system,
which cramps and cripples all its energies and powers
of production ; but when we come to consider
how the Foreign Exchanges would stand under a system
of free trade, and more especially under a moderate fixed duty
on foreign corn, we shall find that such a state cf things would
be much more in favour of this country. The clear and natu-
ral result of it would be to steady the supply and demand, and
to equalize prices. It might at first be supposed that when the
Bs. duty came in force there would be an immense extent of
orders sent out for foreign corn, and that these orders would
necessarily be paid for in gold, thus draining the Bank and
turning the exchanges against this country. But the substitu-
tion of a fixed dui y for a sliding scale, would not produce such
a consequence. It unquestionably would strengthen the Bank
of England when the system had time to operate, because the
corn would then be paid for by British manufactured goods.
At the commencement of the new system, the amount of
orders for importation would depend upon the price of the
home growth. Supposing, for instance, that a duty of
eight shillings was to take effect at present, when the
average price being about 645. to 68s. the duty is ties. Bd.,
there would be a diminution of duty on foreign corn at once
of 14s. Bd. But the price of best Dantzic at present at that
port is about 335., and the result of the change would in
crease that price considerably, so that if we add 6s. for
freight and charges, and allow for factor's commis ion and
other expenses, besides the fixed duty, the price at whi h it
could be sold in the home market would not be under 545. ;
and it is to be remembered that the best foreign wheat is in.
ferior both in weight and fineness, to our English wheat. We
should, therefore, have a reduction i the price, of perhaps
eight shillings a quarter on our growth, or about halt the
amount of the difference of duty. The 'rice, then, of Eng-
lish wheat would be about 565. a quarter ; and while there
was a sufficient supply of it at about that price,
there would be no occasion to send much gold out of the
country, to import an inferior article from abroad;
at least the people would not be obliged to buy
it for food ; and it is not likely that speculators would
run the risk of importing it to keep in bond to wait a change.
The bonding trade would be materially diminished, because the
"rice, being no longer subject to the fraudulent system of
averages, importers would not require to keep a large stock on
hand. They could at all times deliver their'shiprnents quickly
to supply the demand under a fixed duty. Under the proposed
change in the Corn-laws the Bank would only be called upon,
even in the first instance, to find gold, in the event of a
scarcity of the home supply. There could be no heavy im-
portation of foreign earn at the first movement of the change,
if the forthcoming harvest be propitious, and before another
season comes round, the increased demand for British manufac-
tures from the Continent, the Brazils, and the United States,
consequent upon the modification of our tariff, would give such
a preponderating turn to the balance of trade in favour of Eng-
land, that the Bank would be entirely relieved from uneasi-
ness on the score of bullion.

It is not, however, our object or our province to follow out
the subject into its ultimate settled consequences. We Con-
fine ourselves to a consideration of the immediate influence
which the substitution of a fixed duty on corn, for the sliding
scale, would produce on the bullion in the Bank of England,
and have eneeavoured to show that the fears of those are fal-
lacious who say it would cripple the establishment by drawing
off its gold. An Bs. fixed duty would be first of all attended
with a fall in the price of English wheat. and arise in the price
of foreign. The immediate fall would not exceed what we
have stated. When the supply on the Continent and in Ame-
rica, however, came to find its level with the increased demand
the fall would be greater. But that is a matter beyond our
present purpose and our province. It is enough for us to
state here that if the fixed duty of Bs. be carried, the people are
sure of a cheap loaf, and plenty of employment for the manu-
facturing population.
Consider, on the other hand, what wou'd be the consequence
of persevering in the present prohibitory system. The tight,
Hess of the Money :Market would necessarily continue jwith
stagnation of trade. There would be constant but ineffectual
endeavours to bolster up the Exchanges, and to give them a
healthy feature, whip the bullion, at something under
5,000,0001., not half what it ought to be, and, with another
bad harvest, would be totally incapable of enabling the Bank
to weather •he storm.

Sir. Robert Pee! must entertain a very low opinion of the
intellect of the people of England if he suppose they will be
deluded by his assumed prosperity of the manufacturing inte-
rests, deduced from a reference to the figures of exports.
There is not a weaver in any of our manu!acturing towns
who does not know that the increase is confined to arti-
cles in which the lowest amount of labour is expended, and
that in the highest quality of manufactured goods there is a
)early and a steady decline which the opening up of our Aus-
tralian world is unable to compensate, and which the shutting
up of the Brazil and American markets would most ruinously
increase.

A change from monopoly to free trade is essential to the
safety of the Bank of England.
TiSIES.—The debate on the sugar duti..s, which entirely
absorbed public attention, having at length come to a con-
clusion, people in the City are beginning toturn their thoughts
to foreign eta rs, especially to the present position of the
Regent of Spin, which is naturally interesting to the
great body of creditors in this country. The great point
of discussion is whether Espartero will be able to main-
tain his position, and whether, which is nearly the same
question, Spain is to have any or no government. , The
principal mercantile houses who communicate : with
Spain, and are most careful in watching the opera-
tions in that unfortunate country, seem to agree in the opi-
nion, that while there would have been no possibility of main-
taining a Government had three Regents been appointed,
there is that possibility now, though it is a possihility only,
which none seem inclined to think amounts to a probability.
Although he owes his political existence to a revo:ution, it is
generally agreed ma that the revolutionary party will be the
one which Espartero will have to dread, while to the Conser-
vatives he must look for sum ort, since, although prior to the
events of September they were his natural enemies, they alone
from their stake in the country, and the maintenance of order,
feel the necessity of upholding existing authority, whatever
dislike they may harbour against the person in whosehands it
is lodged. The election of the Regency itself is sufficient
to :how that this opinion is not hastily formed, as the
more moderate party were to be, found among the Unitarians,
while the Trinitarians were composed of the ultra-democrats.
On the Conservatives, then, it is said, Espartero must rely, and
must further resolve that revolutions shall proceed no further,
riot only for the sake of the country, but for personal con-
siderations, since a fresh movement, while it revived anarchy,
would probably remove him from power, and consign him to
the fate of the many who have been by turns the leaders and
victims of popular insurrections. The list of the Ministry is
expected with anxiety, and much, it is believed, will depend on
the choice made by the Regent, since of himself, though no
one doubts his firmness, resolution, and in short his qualifies
as a soldier, it is believed lie would not act without able
assistance, the want of that mental cultivation which
his arduous military life, commenced in his earliest years,
has precluded. In 'a few words, the soldier is thought
superior to the statesman. Even with a powerful
Cabinet, it is believed he will meet with the strongest opposi •
tion in both Houses of the Legislature, especially the lower
one, and the only expedient course will be to prorogue the
Cortes for a while, testing the disposition of the Members
before they are allowed to act, and, in the event of discovering
that all chance of working with them is utterly hip-less, to
come to a dissolution, and use what influence he has at the
elections. The army, fortunately for Espartero, seems to be
to his favour, and in this and the Conservatives his strength
will depend, while the formidable opposition will be found in
the various municipal authorities, and all those who are more
or less imbued with the republican spirit. Thus, the mer-
ehants whose opinion is here set forth agree that reliance can
be placed nowhere else than on the firmness and intelligence of
Espartero and his Government, though whether reliance can
be placed even there all seem inclined to doubt. The unwill-
ingness of .Spaniards of property to settle in their own country
is an important index of their real view of the present state of
things.

POST.— fhe result of the debate of the last eight days in
Parliament has been considered here most decisive. It is
thought impossible that, after se signal a demonstration of the
public feeling, the Melbourne party can pretend to cling to
office a moment longer.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have passed a reso-
lution that will, we should think, be found to operate very
inconveniently for brokers and others having business to tran-
sact in the public funds; but such is the wisdom of the gentle-
men of the Committee—such the solicitude they manifest
upon ad occasions for the interests of the public, and for the
maintenance of the institution over which they preside in
its primitive and immaculate purity—that we doubt not they
must have some unanswerable argument to offer in jus •
tification of the measure. 'they have just decreed that
the quotations contained in the official lists published
at one and four o'clock respectively, may, in future, be
added to, or altered, at the pleasure of members requiring it,
up on the authority, of their written representations. A num •
ber of reports of the movements of the House, founded upon
the prices recorded in the official tables, go forth at irregular
intervals.- At twelve o'clock, for instance, lists are made uii,
and despatched to all parts of the metropolis, the contents of
which are embodied in the correspondence preparing for the
country, and the foreign mails, soa.e of which close early in the
day. Nuw, as any alteration made in the official lists between
twelve o'clock.and one goes direc ly to falsify the advices pre-
viously given of the state of the funds, it is quite evident that
bankers and others residing at a distance will find a diffi-
culty in reconciling the discrepancies which they can-
not fail to discover, from time to time, between
the quotations forwarded to them by their brokers
or agents, and those eventually introduced into the official
publication. Parties sitting down at three o'clock in the af-
ternoon with the lists before thern,to give their friends in the
country, or on the Continent, a fair and detailed statement of
what would appear to have passed at the Stock Exchange up
to that hour will often find, on the distribution of the printed
document at four, the whole of it invalidated by subsequent
interpolationi. What object this change in the practice of the
stohffieci seangte reasons s o f the efo Committee mit
its adhouse is intended to answer does not strike us, but, as we have
mottpetio cano doubtless
furnishbf e intimated,
and sufficient good
HERALD.—For some days past there is been a difficulty in
money affairs, that is in raising money, which has been severely
felt in many quarters. This morning the rates of - money were
as high on accredited securities as even to eight percent. But
towards the close of the Stock Market there as a greater easi-
ness in money matters, although money was still scarce and
not to be had under six per cent. in the best quarters, and on
good securities.

TURKISH FRONTIERS, MAY 4 Letters
from Alexinezza give a frightful account of the er"ltY co
m_
by the Turkish soldiery in the Chri•tal ll'az,, ra:f
Bulge. ia. Ihe remains of 700 families have arrived
fugi-
tives at the Servian quarantine establishment of Al
and are demanded by the Pacha of Nissa, but Prinse.lll.lcezhapj
refuses to give them up till instructions are realm! fr,,--m.
Constantinople.
THE HAGUE, MAY 15.—We hear that hi.
Majesty has appointed Major-General Napieu to go 0
t 4 a rni:
sion to St. Pvtersburgb, to congratulate the lmp-rial Family
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of Russia on the msrriage of the Crown Prince Malawi,.
Front T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F.R.S' ,
to Messrs. S. and D. Soloznons, 39, Albemarle.street, Piccadilly,
opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, Bank ol
England.—" Gentlemen,—l hare no hesitation in replying to
your inquiry as to the results obtained by the use of your
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writing for many hours together by lamp-light, it is but justice to
say, that your newly-invented spectacle lenses have afforded me
the greatest comfort, When employed the ordinary pebbles, I
never failed to experience in the morning a great irritation in the
eyes. Since I have used your admirable glasses syffer from no
inconvenience of the kind. I shall ever feel grateful to my good
friend, Dr. Blundell, for having drawn my attention to the subject.
—Believe me to be your's, very respectfully, T. J. PET (GREW, 8,
,a•rilljg-rpw, Jan. 4, 1839."—" M. G. Sir Howard Ephinstone begs
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CORN-LAWS.-IIIELAND.
• (From the Dublin Evening Post.)
The opinions upon the Corn-laws to which we have given
expres,ion since the recent Ministerial announcement upon
the subject, have been precisely the same as we have always
maiotamed, and with which, from frequent repetition, the
readers of thi. Journal have been long familiar. We advocate
a fixed du'y. in preference to the present fluctuating and gam-
bling system, because we are thorougly convinced that it
would be much more advantageous, permanently and in the
long run, to the Irish farmer. But our present purpose is not
to discuss the question. We have now to place before the pub-
lic—and we claim for this important document the attention
of all partie?—a litter from the venerable Sir John Newport
to
.Mr. Purcell, the Honorary Secretary of the Irish Agri-
cultural Society, in which he declares that he infinitely pre-
fers a moderate fixed duty, such as that proposed by Ministers,
to the uncertain system, founded upon the fluctuating average
prices of grain. The sentiments of such a mart, especially
on the Corn question, are entitled to the deepest attention
" Newpark, Bth May, 1841.
" DEAR SIR—I aught sooner to have requested your being
so kind as to insert my name in your list of annual subscribers
to that agricultural improvement fund—owing so much to your
valuable and successful exertions for its establishment, and to
the prudent foresight of the Committee for its permanent con-
tinuance, by the judicious division of its funds, resting its an-
nual expenditure solely on its annual subscriptions only, so long
as they shall be found adequate to the object in view. I would
now request my name to be inserted fur three pounds in that
list, which I will readily increase as occasion may require. I
wish to know when the first payment is to be made. I have
paid to the generrl fund ten pounds; and from the whole urea•
sure anticipate, being thus conducted and placed under such
direction, incalculable benefits for Ireland. _ _

" Will you now allow me to add a few lines on a subject a hick
long before the corn intercourse act of 1806 was introduced by
me, has very closely received my attention, and is now about to
call for a renewed Parliamentary decision, in which Ireland and
Irish interests are seriously involved—l mean the question of a
duty fluctuating with averages in the price of corn in the home
markets, or moderate and fixed, as proposed by Minister:,
on the admission of foreign corn into our markets. To
this question 1 have during several years, after watching
closely the operation of the present laws, become firmly con-
vinced of the infinite preference of a moderate fixed duty for
the advantage of the agriculturist, as well as the artisan and ma-
nufacturer ; and if this is the case as it respects Great Britain,
we of Ireland have many more decided reasons for adopting
an alternative which will no longer leave us at the mercy of
the unbounded efforts of wealth, speculators on the greater
or lesser produce of the lands, and the various effect of the
weather on the corn crops of both islands, to admit or exclude
foreign corn at their pleasure, of which speculation the Eng-
lish capitalist, from superior wealth and nearer approximation
to foreign markets, must have that advantage over the Irish
agriculturist which over more fertile soil and less costly ma-
nufacture of it would otherwise ensure.

" I will not trouble you further with my statement of opi-
nions, which I have for several years decidedly entertained;
and now feel myself bound to express to you. Lord Charle-
mont, and the other members of the Agricultural Committee.
as the result of the inquiries and observations of the framer of
she Irish Corn Intercourse Act.—l am. dear Sir. yours very
truly, " JOHN NEWPORT.
" Peter Purcell, Esq."

THE MINISTRY—GREAT MEETING AT CARRICK.
ON-FERGUS.
( Abridged from the Dublin Evening Post.)
CARRICK-ON-. Sunt, MAY 16.—The requisition convening
the meeting, though prep tred in a very short time, obtained the
signatures of the gentry, clergy, merchants, and traders of the
town and neighbourhood, who, with the exception of a few
sticklers fur Toryism, came forward, notwithstanding minor
differences, to exhibit their firm determination to oppose, by
every constitutional means, the return of the Tory faction to
power, and to proclaim their confidence in her Majesty's pre-
sent advisers, who have shown themselves to be the devoted
friends of the people of Ireland. The meeting was held at the
public news-room, John Fitzgerald, Esq., M.D., was called to
the chair.

JOHN POWER, Esq., Mountrichard proposed the first reso-
lution, and said—The return of the Tory faction to power
would let loose all the wor.t passions of the nation, stir up
strife and discontent, pave the way to universal commotion,
and give a blow to the rising prosperity of their native laud,
from which it would take centuries of good government to en-
able it to recover.—( Hear, hear, and cheers. )
JAMES CANTWELL, Esq., in proposing the next resolution,
dwelt for some time, and with much energy, on the hors ors
conneeted with Tory Administrations in Ireland. He fer-
vently prayed that the day might never arrive which would see
the Tories restored to theinancient dominion.
Josnrir M. RIVERS, Esq., in proposing the next resolution,
said, there should be no jealousies or biekerings—but a long
pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, should be made to
keep out the 'furies, and lay the foundations of the country's
permanent peace and prosperity.—( Cheers. )
The remaining resolutions and the address having been
agreed to,
The SECRETARY said to expect justice at the hands of the
Tories would be to look for honour, decency, and truth from the
Robys, the Bradshaws, and the M‘Neiles —tho,e men who tes-
tify, beyond the power of contradiction, the real sentiments of
the Tory faction.—( Hear, hear.) To those men the people of
Ireland should never consent to entrust their lives or liberties,
or the person of their beloved Sovereign, who had exhibited
herself so true a friend of Ireland.

The meeting separated amid loud cheers for the Queen and
the Ministry.

A FEW FACTS.

" The people of London," said Si: Thomas Potter, at the
great meeting at Manchester on Monday, " were ignorant of
our condition here," arid in order that the grasping monopo-
lists in the metropolis and elsewhere may learn a little know-
ledge on the subject, without much reading, we extract the
following from the speeches made on the occasion :—I was told,
said Sir Thomas, there were 4,000 or 5,000 horses in Hyde-
park every day with splendid equipages." He afterwards as-
sured the meeting, in confirmation of what had been statt d by
Mr. Alderman Kershaw, that in certain districts of Manches-
ter '4 there wene 2,000 families without a bed to lie on ;" ant
it appeared from the evidence of those who had visited
these districts that the distress was indiscribable. Some
idea of it, however, may be formed from the statements of the
same worthy Magistrate. In one district were 2,000 families,
consisting of e,366 persons, who had only Is. lid. per head a
week to li%e on ; in another were 2,000 families who had only
ss. 34d. a week for each family ; in a third was the same num-
ber of families, whose weekly ineome amounted to only 6s. 3id.
for each family, and in consequence of the utter inability of
these poor people to pay. 200 provision dealers had made bad
debts to the amount of 23,6441. The last tact stated by Mr.
George Hadfield, however, is worth all the rest. In 1634-5,
when wheat was 395. the quarter, the average amount of the
fever cases was between 400 and 500 per annum. In 1839,
when wheat was nearly double, the number of fever cases was
trebled, being upwards of 1,200 ! The bishops and clergy pray
" give us this day our daily bread," while they support the mo-
nopolists, and obstruct the wise dispensations of Providence by
withholding bread.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS'
ASYLUM.

Wednesday a special general meeting of the donors at large,
summoned by the Board of Management, was holden in the
Board-room of this Institution, for the purpose of electing
occupants f.,r fonr vacancies, o'casioned by death. Twenty-
three candidates stood in nomination, varying in age from
fifty-three to sixty-four, fourteen of whom were males.
the following is the list of names, and number of votes ob-
tained by each individual:—

Cushway, William 4.907+ Homer, Eleanor.... 25
Sotherden, Sarah s,66dlJewell, Stephen 26
Dyer, Richard " 4,044 Mitchell, John Thomas l5B
Smith, Thomas
Cart, r, Hannah. .... 62 Seeker, Caroline Soph 272
Field Richard
Needham, William 54 Wright, James .... ...... 96
Sweet, Richard Bass l2B Howard, George 216
Gooding, George _ 2,974 Morris, Sophia 256
Jones Ann SS Waterman, Sus. Mary.. 936
Neate, Jane 35 Watkins, William . 26
Stephens, Richard . 2,100
'1 he Chairman, consequently,
Smith, and Dyer, duly elected.

declared Sotherden, Cushway,

GERMAN 0 PERA.-DRURY-LANE.
Wednesday's performance of Figaro's Hochzezt afforded an-
other proof, if proof were wanting, that an English audience
will enjoy, and do justice to Mozart's music. A more than
usually crowded house received this beautiful opera with en-
thusiastic applause, and we cannot give the performers a higher
meed of praise than by saying that they did justice to the
composer. This was evidently the opinion of the audience
generally. The overture. Figaro's great aria in the first act :
" Dort vergiss leises Wehn, susses Wirnmern," the duet be.
tween the Countess and Susanna " Wenn die sanften Ahen-
dlufte," and the concluding chorus, were all encored. There
were, in fact, too many repetitions for an opera, which at all
events draws largely on the powers of the singers; the more
so as the• promiso given in the bills, that all the mas'c
written for this opera was to be performed, was
faithfully kept. Cherubino's air in the first act, " Tha, die
ihr die Triebe des Herzes Kt nnt," Figaro's recitative and air,
as also Susanna's, both in the third act, have been generally
left out when the opera was performed in this country, most
likely for the best of all possible reasons, that the singers were
not sufficiently vigorous or skilful to undertake these additional
exertions. Last night justice was done, more or less, to all
the music. Heinefetter and Staudigl stood out boldly in their
now acknowledged excellence, as Susanna and Figaro. Mad.
Schodel and Herr Dellinger, as the Couut and Countess, were
neither of them very welt fitted for their parts; the former,
if she be intended as a substitute for Madame Von
Hasselt, who was promised us in the beginning of the season,
and whose reputation as a good singer stands deservedly high
in Germany, is by no means a sufficiently goad one. She is,
we believe, an excellent musician, and has good taste, but
nature has denied her the one great requisite for a prima
donna at a theatre like Drury-lane ; the volume of sound
which issues from her throat is, notwithstanding her most-
painfully evident exertions, insufficient to fill the house.
She is exceedingly well calculated for a singer at chamber
concerts, but can never satisfy the audience at Drury-lane.
We were pleased, nevertheless, to perceive that she was
received with great kindness, and had the advantage of
the most perfect quiet during her great airs. To
any lady, the singing and acting with Heinefetter
must be a severe test, and, accordingly, the interiority
of Madame Schodel was most perceptible in the duet which we
mentioned above. Mellinger, as Count Almaviva, sung as well
as usual; but he has no idea of the character which he under-
took3vorluties, gay,biem
se-
ductivea
to represent. His German straigtforward honesty totally
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unfits himl t
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ar then,
and therefore,
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„rantedthe wily,
which,sce
is indispensible to good acting. Madame Schamann,
ever the favourite of the public, sang beautifully, but her
acting wanted that set.uctiveness which ought to characterise •
the scapegrace Cherubina, and she was not well dressed. Noone
could ever for a moment have taken her for a boy, and yet
some attempt there ought to be to create an illusion. All the
subordinate parts were well performed, and the whole went off
w,th eclat. The Royal box was empty.

The funeral of the late John Thomas Barber
Beaumont, Esq., will take place to-morrow, at his own
cemetery at Stepney. It is now full three years ago since Mr.
Beaumont caused a tomb to he prepared for himself in front of
the chapel of the cemetery, two immense pedestals of ganite,
p..inting out the spot as the last resting-place of him•ell and
family, and a tomb contiguous as that of his friend Dr. Fel-
lowes. With a somewhat eccentric spi
of beautiful oak to be
rit, Mr. Beaumont also
caused, about the seine POO4, P. coffin
made, and by his order to undergo the procoss commonly
called f' Ryan's process for preveiftion-frohi 4y rgtP." 1111'
coffin was theu sent to D 4. Ifinaney, his undertaker, tp whP,P
possession it has sines reinains4, till it was tits week assigqpd
to the melancholy purpose for which it had been so lona pro-
vided. A very beautifully executed bust a M. Beaumont,
done at Rome some years ago, was also placed in the chapel Of
i
the cemetery two years ago, with a plain marble tablet beneath
it, and it is said that an inscription was else nrePared' which
will now shortly be placed on it. The funeral is expected to be
attendedby many of the members of the leaned societies with
iiinelitfie'V4apyd IFis cnoTigeted•
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THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

A file of the Polynesian, issued at Honolulu, to the 10th
of October has been received at New Bedford, in the
United States.
A sum of between eleven and twelve hundred &liars
has been raised for the benefit of the Oahu Charity School,
by the sale at auction of donations received from Europe
and the United States.

The Polynesian of July 4 says :—Since the arrival of
the King and his suite at this place we have been grati-
fied to learn that his Majesty and most of the chiefs of
the island have spent considerable time in consultation,
for the purpose of forming new laws, and effecting a revi-
sion of the laws enacted about a year previous. The new
code is intended in some degree to limit the power and
define the duties of the King, governors, and all other
chiefs. The form of trial by jury,- which heretofore has
been adopted 'in capital offences, we understand is to be
extended to all high crimes and to some civil actions.
There are to be different classes of courts, though it is
said the higher court is to have no jurisdiction except in
cases of appeal.
The art of engraving appears to be practised with suc-
cess at the high school of Mr. Andrews at Lahainulana.
Several views of Hawaiian scenery, executed on copper-
plate by pupils of the seminary, are spoken of as mani-
festing strong native talent fir the art.
_ .

The bark bark Flora sailed from Honolulu, Aug. 3. for New
York, with a cargo of upwards of 200 tons of sugar and
molasses of Sandwich Island produce ; some of which
was raised by and shipped on account of the natives;
16,000 goat skins, and the first shipment of raw silk, from
the plantation of Peck and Co., Koloa, were also freighted
in the same vessel.

A plantation had been commenced by Pikoi, William
Harebottle, and some other young Hawaiians. The plan-
tation includes, at the smallest calculation, two thousand
acres, including mountain land, and is secured for them
for fifty-five years. They first planted sugar cane, but
the soil proving, too dry and not rich enough, they have
now turned their attention to raising corn, beans, 8.x.,
and live stock. Coffee also thrives well.

The Polynesian of Oct. 3 contains an account of the
trial of Kamanawa and Lono, captain of the schooner
Kooikaika,,for the murder of Kawakuiki, wife of the for-
mer, by poisoning.
Gov. liekuanoa was the presiding Judge, the King
and high chiefs being present. The accused were al-
lowed to challenge the jury, which consisted of twelve
of the most inelligent Hawaiians, all of high rank. They
were also allowed to select counsel.

Kamanawa and his accomplice confessed their crime.
Lono also confessed a; previous murder, that of .the
former commander of the Kooikaika, whom he poisoned
in a similar manner, a few years since, at Hawaii. Be-
sides their (mil. confessions, the testimony of the wit-
nesses was full and ample. The jury brought in their
verdict against the two, as guilty of wilful murder,'
and they will soon undergo the penalties of the law.
Such deeds are said to have been quite common in
the days of heathenism ; but, since the introduction of
Christianity, this, we believe, is the first case of convic-
tion. Kamanawa is one of very high rank by blood, and
trial and condemnation by his Peers show in them a
commendable determination to assert the supremacy of
their laws, however high the rank of the offender. The
trial throughout was conducted in a very respectable and
dignified manner, and made a favourable impression
upon the minds of the strangers present. .

TRANSLATION.—Sentence— of the Chiefs sent in writ-
ing to Kamanawa and Lonopuakau, published for the in-
formation of all people.
To Katnanawa and Lonopuakau.•
In accordance with the sentence of death, passed upon
you on the 30th of September, we hereafter notify you
that the day of your execution will be on the 20th day of
the present month, at 11 o'clock, A.M.
Happy indeed will you be should you improve the
present few da3s by repentance, that your heinous sins
may be forgiven, through Jesus Christ.

KAMEHAMEHA 111.
KEKAULUOIII.
Honolulu, Oahu, Oct. 5, 1840.
[TRANSLATION.]
Law prohibiting'the manufacture and use of intoxicating

drink.

In our inquiries after the best means of promoting the
interests of the kingdom, it has appeared to us that an
increase in the production of food is of great importance.
Scarcity of food is,_ of course, a great evil to the country.
It is said that the present is a time of scarcity, and we
therefore have been searching for the cause of it. One
reason we ascertained to be the following. Articles of
food, potatoes, sugar cane, melons, and other things,
are taken and transformed into intoxicating drink ; the
people remain in idleness, without labour, in consequence
of their lying drunk ; wherefore the land is grown over
with weeds and is impoverished.
In consequence of our desire to promote the order and
welfare of the kingdom, we have assembled to re-
flect on the subject, and now enact this law.
1. If any man take potatoes, sugar cane, melons, or
any .other article of food, and transform it to an intoxi-
cating liquor, and drink it, he shall be fined one dollar,
and if he do the like again, the fine shall be two dollars,
anti thus the fine shall be doubled for every offence, even
to the utmost extent.

2. If any one make an intoxicating liquor such as is
mentioned above, and give it to another to drink, he too
shall be fined, according to the first section of this law.
3. Whosoever shall drink that which another has pre-
pared in order to produce intoxication, as mentioned
above, he too has violated this law, and shall be fined in
the same manner as he who prepared the drink.
4. If a man be fined according to the above require-
ment, and have no money, he may then pay his fine in
produce, or, if he have no produce, he may pay it in la-
bour, the labour being proportioned to the amount of
the fine, or, if he do not labour according to the require-
ment, the punishment may be increased, or he may be
confined in irons.

4. When this law is proclaimed by a crier in any vil-
lage, the day of the proclamation shall be the day that it
takes effect at that place. But if it be not prccLim2d, it
shall take effect on the last day of November. at all the
places at these Hawaiian Islands.
Enacted by the Government of these Hawaiian Islands
at Honolulu, Oahu, this Ist day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1840.
(Signed)

KAMEHAMEHA 111.
KEKAULUOHI.
—New York Commercial Advertiser.

CROYDON POLIcE.

A young man named Scriven attended before Messrs.
Warington and Currie, the presiding Magistrates at the
Town-hall, on Tuesday, to answer a charge of assault pre-
ferred against him by a person named Freeman, a member
of the Society of Friends, arising out of the following
circumstances.

It appeared that the complainant, who is a stanch tee-
totaller, had resolved upon giving a lecture to the inha-
bitants of Croydon upon the subject of teetotalism, and
on Thursday last he sent a bellman round the town to
give notice of his. intention to do so at the back of the

Town-hall, and, accordingly, at the appointed hour, a
number of navigators from the railway and other loise
characters assembled, and Mr. Freeman having mounted
upon a tub proceeded to harangue them. The people
appeared .to give very little credence to what he said,
and at length a navigator got on the shoulders of one
of his companions and held up a shovel, and asked the
lecturer whether he thought a man could use such a tool

if he drank nothing but IVater. This was the signal for
a general row, during which the lecturer was very
roughly handled, and his clothes were nearly torn front
his back, and he was obliged to run into a tradesman's
house for slicker while the police were sent for, and they
escorted him out of the town. The defendant was stated
to have been one of the parties who was concerned in
the attack upon the complainant.
The Magistrates asked Collier, the inspector of police
for this district, how it was that such a meeting, which
was almost sure to result in a breach of the peace, was
permitted to take place in the public highway?
The inspector replied that he had not the least idea of
any such meeting or lecture being intended. He was
absent from Croydon on other duty, or he should most
certainly have prevented it. from taking place.
The complainant here exhibited his coat, or rather the
remains of it, and assured the Bench that he had been
most shamefully treated.
The Magistrates told him he had no one to blame but
_ .

himself. if he had minded his own business instead of
getting a mob together in the public street the occur-
rence would not have taken place.
The Bench then said that under the circumstances they
should order the defendant to pay a line of one shilling
and the costs.

THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following
interesting new works have just been published by Mr.-
Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be
had at all the Libraries :-1. The Life and Literary
Remains of L. E. L. By Laman Blanchard, Esq.,
2 vols.-2. Three Years in Persia and Koordistan. By
George Towler, Esq.,
2 vols.-3. The Love Match, a
Novel, by Mrs. Maberly, 3 vols.--4.
The Life of Pe-
trareh. By Thomas Campbell, Esq., 2 vols.-5. Trol-
lope's Summer in Western France, 2 vols. 6. De Clif-
ford ; or, the Constant M. By R. Plumer Ward,
Esq., author of " Tremaine " " De -Were," &c.-7. The
Idler in Italy. By Lady blessington, 3 vols. 8. The
French Stage and the French People. Edited by
Theodore Hook, Esq., 2 vols.-9. Dr. Croly's Personal
History of George the Fourth, 2 vols.-10. The Book
Without a Name. By Sir Charles and Lady Morgan,
2 vols.-11. The Life and Letters of Beethoven. Edited
by Ignace Moscheles, 2 vols.-12. SWinburne's Letters
from the Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Cen-
tury, 2 vols.-13. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, an
Historical Romance, 3 vols.,—and 14. Dr. Granville's
Spas of England, 1 vol., with numerous illustrations.
The Hon. Mrs. Darner, it appears, is about to
publish immediately the Diary of • her recent tour in
Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land. The cu-
riosity with which all works illustrative of the sacred
V ritings are regarded, will, no doubt, insure the attention
of the public towards the highly interesting travels of the
fair writer. The feelings, impressions, and observations
of this intelligent lady, whether in the Holy City—in
the lone and sterile desert—or amid the splendid reiain.
of' antiquity which abound in this part of the world, and
which have attracted the attention of travellers of all
nations, cannot fail to be peculiarly acceptable to her
countywomen. Her volumes will be accompanied by
views of Suez, Jaffa, Beyrout, Arimathea, the birth-
place of Joseph, the house of Lady M. W. Montague, the
rock from which St, pipli preached to the Athenians, the
MOUt.irtif ()AN i'e v li liq
4, of clehosehrit, the exterior
of the Thly ~:?'
igi!ulchrOlivquite in al? Pc4l'l2 and other
attractive and aliftruteristip I(4lstrgtions, -
THE HAGUE, MAY j, ~....In the sitting of the
!Second Chamber of the ls'h rif May, of which we will give as
soon as Poisailit a particular aeaounti the fullowtng prlljeets of
-"' airreed to, after a long clabaNs :-1. For regulating
am we..
- •• 4,ha administration of juice. by 47
some points respecong -tinual situation
votes to 6. 2. For 'putting- an end to the excel.....
of the •
cial division of the Province of Limburg, by 50 to 3 votes.
Duchy of Limburg,' by 4.5 to 8 votes.. 3. For the Judi- 1
i

THE MONOPOLISTS' MAJORITY
OF THIRTY-SIX.
Is it to be believed for one moment that the great
manufacturing county of Lancashire will continue to be
misrepresented by
Lord Stanley, Lord F. Egerton,
Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Bootle Wilbraham ; The
Metropolitan Boroughs of
Marylebone, by Lord Teignmouth,
The Tower Hamlets, by Dr. Lushington?
Greenwich and Deptford, by Mr. Wolverly Attwood ;
The great Sea Ports of
Liverpool. by Lord Sandon, and Mr. Cresswell,
Bristol, by Mr. Miles and Mr. Berkeley,
Hull, by Sir W. James,
Newcastle, by Mr. Hodgson Hinde,
Belfast, by Mr. Emerson Tennent and Mr. Dunbar ?
And the smaller Sea Ports (many of which are largely
engaged in ship-building) of
Boston, by Mr. Brownrigg,
Dover, by Sir J. R. Reid,
Grimsby. by Mr. Heneage,
Harwich, by Mr. Herries,
Hastings, by Mr. Planta,
Ipswich, by Mr. Kelly and Sir T. J. Cochrane,
Lynn, by Lord G. Bentinck, and Sir S. Canning,
Pembroke, by Sir J. Graham,
Penryn and Falmouth, by Mr. Freshfield,
Scarborough, by Sir N. W. Trench and Sir C. Style,
Southampton, by Mr. Dottin,
South Shields, by Mr. Ingham,
Sunderland, by Alderman Thompson,
Weymouth, by Viscount Villiers and Mr. G.W. Hope,
Whitby, by Mr. Chapman,
Whitehaven, by Mr. Matthias Attwood ?
The great Cities and Towns of
Bath, by Lord Powerscourt and Mr. Bruges,
Brighton, by Sir A. Dalrymple,
Durham, by Lord Dungannon and Mr. Harland,
Exeter, by Sir William Follett,
Gloucester, by Mr. H. T. Hope,
Lincoln, by Colonel Sibthorp,
Winchester, by Mr. J. B. East,
York, by Mr. J. H. Lowther ?
The Manufacturing Towns of
Blackburn, by Mr. Fielden,
Bolton, by Mr. Bolling,
Dudley, by Mr. Hawkes, .
Frome, by Mr. Sheppard,
Kidderminster, by Mr. Godson,
Lancaster, by Mr. Green and Mr. Marton,
Macclesfield, by Mr. Grimsditch,
Newcastle (Staffordshire), by Mr. Miller and Mr.
Horsey,
Norwich, by Marquis of Douro,
Nottingham, by Mr. Walter,
Stafford, by Mr. Chetwynd and Mr. Farrend,.
Stockport, by Mr. T. Marsland,
Stoke-upon-Trent, by Mr. Davenport avd Alderman
Copeland,
Walsall, by Mr. Gladstone,
Warrington, by Mr. Blaele.urne,
Warwick, by Sir C. Douglas,
Worcester, by Mr. Bailey ?
And the Boroughs and Towhs of
Berwick, Evesham,
Beverley, Hereti rd,
Bridgewater, Leominster,
Bridgnorth, Maidstone,
Colchester, Pontefract,
Droitwich, Wenlock,
by the men who voted on Tuesday night's majority ?
—aronicle.

THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE.
Well I we learn now, after years of silence or mystifi-
cation, that beyond the boundary wall which encloses
the aristocracy, there exists a people—swarming, indus-
trious millions—pinched by want—burdened with taxa-
tion—at whose sufferings, borne with wondrous patience,
it is safe to laugh no longer. Silent though they have
been—silent and inactive, we may mark how our rulers
spontaneously move towards them for power. The late
unlooked-for change in policy was not born of clamour—
it is not a boon granted to noisy supplication, or sulkily
given to appease threatening wrath. No'. but just a
confession wrung from aristocratic governors, that a
fresh gain in power must be sought at the hands of the
people—that right can purchase might. Not much is
offered—but the offer itself, though it were ten times
less, is a concession that carries in its bosom all other
concessions. In letters of burning light recent events
have written the truth—that power is with the people,
and that justice is the key to it.
This lesson, it is for the people to con and to improve.
If they can put up with little things, things little enough
will be given, they may rest assured—less, marvellously
les; than what is promised. They owe the Ministerial
note of hand to necessity, not to good-will. It is for
them to make the most of their advantage. Ministers
ask power—give them a vast deal more than they want
—more than they can manage, except by doing justice.
" Moderate protection," say they, ".help us to give you
molerate protection." The true policy of the people is
not to refuse the help, but to give it in greater abun-
dan-;e, for much greater objects than their rulers desire.
" Abolition of monopolies" should be their response.
" Yoa shall have power to put an end to all monopolies."
The ruling party are now in the hands of the people.
Let them . trust nothing to the aristocracy of either
section. Something must be done—the principle of class
legislators is to do the least possible—that least can only
be done by the people, who can do ()Teat things much
easier than little ones. The terms of the bargain rest
with them for decision.

If this great notion is again cozened it will be through
the treachery of the middle classes. We will not suspect
them of it. Famishing millions look up piteously into
their face and cry, "give us our own bread—we ask no
more—whip us for idleness—shoot us if you like for
trespass, but do not starve us, and then punish us be-
cause we cannot live." This is the earnest agonizing
prayer of pining multitudes, though they utter it not—
though in pride they turn their backs upon the middle
classes and utter nothing. Within, their sufferings, and
without, their haggard features, emaciated frames, and
tears that will not keep down at the bidding of stern re-
solve, articulate this cry " give us our °SYR—let not the
exclusives rob us of our own." What will the middle
classes do, we mean the electors ? Will they respond to
Ministers or to the people ? Will they carry PROTEC-
TION or REPEAL ?—ffon-Confornzist.

THE MINISTERIAL MEASURE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
EXETER, MAY 19, 1841.
The Ministerial Measure has not excited so much feeling in
this district as might have been apprehended. It was
thought at first that the agriculturists would be roused into
violent opposition, but. I never saw them so quiet on hny oc-
casion when the Corn-laws were touched on before. This
is a good sign. The farmers feel that they have nothing to
gain by a continuance of the present law. Give us a fixed
duty (they say) and don't let it be too low, and we would
prefer it to the sliding scale. Ido not believe that they are
satisfied with the eight shillings propo,ition, but Vat it comes
ret,y near the mark I gather from their easy indifference.
Indeed I heard a gentleman say who has the management of a
large property, some few miles to the south of Exeter, that he
did not think the landlords would be required to lower the
lent at all on estates that had been fairly let. Those who have
been squeezing their tenantry at every increase of prices will,
of course have to come down, and we see no good reason why
they should not. _

With respect to the sugar question, that is universally po-
pular. A petition signed by the wives, sisters, and mothers
of the working classes, for cheap sugar, is about to be sent
up to Parliament. I have no doubt frogs the feeling of the
City that it will have a vast number of signatures.
We are to have a contest here. The Tories are about
to bring forward Mr. 'fhomas Baring, son of the Corn-law rat
Lord Ashburton. Sir William Follett will be dawn soon to
look alter his interests, and Mr. Divett is also on the alert.
I cannot believe that the Tories have the slightest chance of
affecting Mr. Divett's scat.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
kiegistered in the week ending May 15, 1841." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :.-.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Weekly
Total. Average

1838-9-40.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l2B 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l4l 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
_ _

Organs of Divstion...

. _
Dise:es of the Kidneys, &c.... ........ ... 2 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Old Age, or Natural Decay 64 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 15 - 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes _ _ .....„ 761

_
Average Weekly Deaths .. 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40.
Western Districts ... 10' ...... 139
North Districts
Central Districts 1.57 ..... 190
East Districts
South Districts ...

Total 761
It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—
and the parishes of St. Slat yiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith ( Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for
1838, 1839, and 1810, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
TEatrEP.aTtia,E IN THE WEEKS ENDING
May 8. Slay 15.
72 72'
45 46
58 58
20, 1811.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean
General Argister Office, May

T;iE WEATHER—NOON, MAY 20
TtGY AL GA LEERY OF SCIENCE, ADELA Ti)-sTREET.
Barometer
'Thermometer... 60 Highest 60 t L0we5t.........48
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

- - NEWS VENDERS' BENEVONT ANP PROVI-
DENT I''''CITPTIc.3!-.7:-Ttie Algrobers of the above Society
held their second annual meetin on Wednesday, at Andertoo's
Hotel. Fleet-street; James Harmer, Esq., in the Chair, The
Chairman said he was happy to observe that the Institution
was in a very prosperous condition, and he knew of no So-
ciety. more deserving of public pal ronage than that of the
newsrenders. The Seentary then read the second annual
Report, from which it appeared that the foals of !he Institu-
tion were in a prosperous state. On the motion of Mr.
Wild the Report was adopted. Several resolutions ware
pas after which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and
the meeting separated,

~<.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
We do not recollect any occasion upon which the
smallness of the room was so much felt as it was yester-
day ; the crowd was so great, until long after seven
o'clock, that, although a great deal was gone into in the
way of comparing and squaling books, many parties
were unable, from the mere want of space, to transact
any business at all. This being the case, we cannot be
expected to guarantee that the subjoined-statement con-
tains all that was done ; we can only recommend it as
being substantially correct. The E 0( rby engrossed nearly
all the betting, but did not exhibit such important fluc-
tuations as usually occur at this period. Ralph was a
worse favourite than on Monday, 11 to 2 having been laid
several times, and currently offered up to the close.
Scott's two favourites were in nearly the same position
as before, Van Amburgh having the call. 3 to 1 was
repeatedly offered against them jointly. Coronation was
a little on the decline at first, but rallied, was backed
for a large amount at 10 to 1, and closed fourth favorite.
Galaor was supported at an improvement, but Belgrade,
after standing a long time at 10 to 1, fell a couple of
points and closed with a very feeble party. Ermen-
gardis was backed at 25 to 1, and Sir Hans repeatedly at
30 and 33 to .1 without making any advance, and although
the odds were taken frequently about several outsiders,
Mustapha, Muley, Monsieur le Sage and Hereford were all
that left off in any force. 100 to 1 each was offered against
each of Scott's three outsiders—Satirist, Duke ofWel-
lington, and Knight of the Whistle. It is generally ex-
pected that there will be a very large field, the numbers
guessed at ranging from 22 to 27 ; upon this point, how-
ever, it will be impossible to speak with any confidence
until Monday or Tuesday ; and to say who will ride (if
riders can be found for ail that are thought likely to run)
is quite out of the question. The Oaks—Scarcely any-
thing was done on this race, and the only alteration was
in Lampoon, who was backed at 4to 1 in fifties. We
did not hear Ghuznee mentioned, Latest prices :
THE DERBY.
11 to 10 on the field agst four—taken
11 to 4 asst Scott's lot—taken
1000 to 15 agst M. Rush's lot—taken
1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken
11 to 2 agst Ralph—taken
7 to 1 agst Van Amburgh
8 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—taken
10 to 1 agst Coronation—taken
11 to 1 agst Galaor—taken
12- to 1 agst Belgrade—taken
25 to 1 agst Ermengardis
28 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc
30 to 1 agst Sir Hans
40 to 1 agst Joachim
40 to 1 agst Mustapha Muley
1000 to 15 agst Hereford—taken •
1000 to 15 agst Monsieur le Sage—taken
2000 to 25 agst St. Cross—taken
2000 to 25 agst c. by Plenipo, out of Bangtail—taken
1000 to 10 agst Satirist
100 to 1 agst Duke of Wellington'
3000 to 50 agst Eringo—taken
2000 to 15 agst Finchley—taken
3000 to 25 agst Metternich—taken
2000 to 10 agst Portsoken—taken
. 1000 to 500 on Sir Hans agst Satirist—taken
500 to 400 on Sir Hans agst Joachim—taken
500 to 40 on Eringo agst Cameleon—taken
1000 even between Knightsbridge and Paliemon
1000 even between Knightsbridge and Eringo
2000 even between Mustapha and Eringo
THE OAKS.
4 to 1 .agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken
6 to 1 agst Col. Crawford's Ermengardis
7 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Potentia—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Una
16 to 1 agst Mr. T. 0. Powell's Mysteryfilley—tak.
The Betting-rooms will be opened as usual at the
Grand Hotel, King-street, Covent-garden, to-morrow
evening, and continue during the races to subscribers
only.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
GOODWOOD.—Tuua SDAY.

LAST DAY.—Nominations for the Orleans Cup :
Hyllus, 5 yrs ; Little Wonder, 4 yrs • Apatria, 3 yrs ;
Wardan, 4 yrs ; Palmyra, 3 yrs ; Mustapha,f 3 yrs ;
Oakley, 3 yrs • Marshal Soult, 3 yrs ; Caution, 4 yrs ;
and Mus, aged:

THE DUKE OF ORLEANS AT
CHANTILLY.

The festivities at the chateau of Thursday evening
were kept up till an early hour on Friday. There was
a dance in the theatre after the play, and a grand supper
concluded the enjoyments of the night. The presents
given to the performers this evening by the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans ere very handsome. Mdlle. Doche
and Mdlle. Balthazar received brooches set with stones.
Arnol was paid 500 f. for the evening, and his expenses.
The cost of the drainatic representation of this evening,
and the same for the other day, is estimated at 4,000 f.
On Friday evening, after the dinner given by the Duke
and Duchess of Orleans, the Gymnase company per-
formed Bocquet Pere et Fils and Les Vieux Peches. Some
elegant presents were made to the performers by their
Royal patrons. Mdlle. Nathalie received a rich bracelet,
Mdlle. Jullienne a gold pin, and Mdlle. Maria a gold
chain.

On Saturday there was a stag hunt in the forest, in
which the Prince took part ; and a stag, which was
driven near the chateau, was killed in the presence of the
Duchess of Orleans, and the ladies who Were his Royal
Highness's guests. The animals were brought into the
grand court, and reckoned over by torch-light.
The Constitutionnel gives the following particulars of
the Duke of Orleans's hunting establishment:—
" Hunting is out of date ; our customs and the divi-
sion of estates are contrary to its continuance ; nor does
it find in the higher classes the opulence necessary to
its maintenance. The Duke of Orleans piques himself,
and with some show of reason, upon his taste for the
chase ; in this he does not bow to prejudice, but to wise
considerations. Nevertheless, he to this pleasure de-
votes only what a Prince may -devote. His principal
hunting establishment is at St. Germain's, under Firmin,
his first whipper-in. The pack is not numerous, but suf-
ficiently well broken-in to catch a stag in two hours or
two hours and a half, the mean time. Generally the
runs take place without the Prince, M. de Cambis being
his representative. MM. de Nicolai, Beranger, deCaumont, de Laigle, and Godefroy Jaden, often attend
them, for the purpose of choosing subjects for their
tableaux.

" The pack accomplishes its four runs or five a month,
and the result is honourable enough and positive enough
to merit some attention. A recent fact will give an
idea of the quality and ardour of the dogs. The pack
was one morning at play upon the terrace of St.
Germain's, a promenade which it patronises twice a
day regularly ; the dogs started a hare, which was
a-squat at the foot of the palings, and hunted it right
outside of the forest, through the gate Dauphine., In
the evening Mr. Birkett, an English gentleman, came by
the pack on horseback, and accompanied by a mongrel
cur, of a size and colour likely to remind the dogs of
the hare they lost in the morning. Scarcely had; our
horseman passed the pack than, abruptly turning round,
he set off at full gallop without calling his dog, which was
playing very prettily with a few leaves a short distance
off. Bow-wow turning about to look for his master.: saw
him already far enough away, and took to his heels after
him ; but by this precipitate departure edged on the pack,
which forthwith set off full speed too, and, in spite of
the efforts of the whipper-in, and of the hounds' yak's,
who, in consequence of the mishap of the morning, were
more attentive than before, the poor wretch of a dog
was hunted full cry, and with unparalled obstinacy to the
bridge of the Picq, where he was caught and torn to
pieces,

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, MURDER ON BOARD AN ENGLISH VESSEL.
—So far back as the evening of AVednesday, the 6th of
January last, while the schooner Lorina Thompson, of
Liverpool, Captain Bettes, was in the port of Algiers, a
quarrel arose between one of the seamen named Elias
Enough, a native of Jersey, and the cook, an Irishman,
named John Rein, during which the latter,' as is alleged,
seized a large ham-knife, and plunged it into the chest of
the seaman, which penetrated to the back bone. The
seaman died in a few hours afterwards, and Reid , was
immediately secured, and put in irons by order of the
British Consul, who issued strict orders to the Captain
of the Lorina Thompson to have . him conveyed to Eng-
land. The vessel sailed for the Clyde, and, after per-
forming quarantine at the Holyloch, arrived on Satur-
day at the Broomielaw, when the prisoner was trans-
ferred from her to the charge of Captain Richardson of
the Gorbals police. where he will be detained until in-
structions are received from the Secretary of State as to
his ultimate disposal. If the usual custom is follo'wed,
Reid, we believe, will be brought to trial before the
Court of the High Admiral of England. The prisoner
is about 20 years of age, and the depositions and post
mortem examinations have been sent along with the
vessel.

THE CHARTISTS AND PHYSICAL FORCE
MEN DEFEATED WITH THEIR OWN WEAPoNs,—A
meeting was held, on Monday evening last, at Carpenters'
Hall, convened by a Chartist placard, to consider the
propriety of electing Dr. • M'Douall to the Convention,
for another fortnight ; and it was announced, that that
true friend of' the people, C. J. Harney, would address
them. There were various prices charged for admission
to the platform, the body of the room, and the gallery.
The Chartists assembled and commenced ; but it appears,
that some scurrilous attacks on Mr. O'Connell; in the
Northern Star, had so aroused the feelings of his country-
:nen in this town, that they determined on meeting the
Chartists on their own ground. They mustered in great
numbers, and succeeded in displacing the Chartist chair-
man, and putting in the chair one of themselves. , They
carried, by a very decided majority, a resolution in
favour of a repeal of the union with Ireland ; and the
Chartists, endeavouring to disturb the proceedins work,
twice or thrice ejected in a body from the hall they have
looked upn as their own peculiar and exclusive ground.
They were driven down the stairs with the greatest pre-
cipation ; and showed themselves almost as good at run-
ning away, as at shouting and brawling, when practising
on the forbearance of public meetings.---Moivehester
Guardian.

WESTMINSTER MEETING.—The following is
a description, sent by a Correspondent, of the figure al-
luded to by r, ffdounell at the Covent-prdea meet-
ing yes,terday :—The effigy in Covent-atkr4ol represents
an aaistocratic landowner in Co rt costume of ancient
fashion. He is treadit% ktpo,h the cap of liberty, whilst
at his feet i 4 plikWAI a loaf, ihto which his sword is thrust,
emblematical of the power he possesses of withholding
the supply. 'rho motto, •4 Homo Homini Daemon" (Man
to man is a very devil), extended across forty feet of
the front.

TORY ANTICIPATIONS (RATHER PREMA-
TURE.)—" Stanley is to have the Colonies, and be pitch-
forked into the Peers ; Graham the Governor-General-
ship of India (Stanley is so anxious to be rid of him.)
Lyndhurst is to be the Chancellor for the third time."—.
Intercepted " West End Correspondent" and "Nobleum,"
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MOTINiNG 141DITTON% •

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19. —The destination of the new brig
Bittern, 18, offered for commission by Commander the Hon.
13. Cary, is said to be th) North American and West Indian
station. .

The Dublin, 50, has been coautissioned at this poit by
Captain John Tucker, for the flag of Rear-Admiral Richard
Thomas, appointed to the command in the Pacific, and to re'
lieve the President, 50.
The schoo: er Fair Rosamond, destined for the Cape anl
African station, will be 'ready to proceed thi her about till
28th instant, being quite manned.
The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, has arrived 'frogs
Sheerness, and remains at Spithead with the Indus, 84, Ver.,
non, 50. and brigs Pelican, IS, and Nautilus, 10. The Edin-
burgh, 72, and tietlerophon, 78, are daily expected from Ply'
mouth to be paid off.
Lieutenant Lord Henry Russell is promoted to the rank of
Commander. This facer, it will be remembered, nearly I°4
his life on hoard the Melville, 78, in this harbour, by the tall of
a block on his head.

The brig Trinculo, 16, Commander Coffin, has arived 111;
Plymouth from Li4ion, in order to await a courtmarttal, the
particulars Gf which have not transpired.
The new steam-ship Driver will be put into commission St
this port, it is reported for the lklediteiranean.
'I he sch,oner Cockatrice, Lieut. Oxenham, has left P 11"
muuth for Rio de Janeiro. and the steamers Albert and Wilber'
force, for the Niger Expedition.
The Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, will be ready to retail
to the coast of Africa about the t..)hth instant.
The frigate Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, is daily expected foal
Chatham to await orders.

Captain Henry Codrington, late commanding the Talbot►
28, has arrived from Malta, and in a few days will join ill°
Queen, 110, vs Flag-Captain to his father, the Port Admiral.
Lieutenants Clanwell arid Tennant are appointed Oar
Lieutenants, the former to Richard Thomas, Rear-Admiral fot
the Pacific command, and the latter to Rear-Adiniral Sir
William Parker, for the East India command.
In Harbour7-Queun, Victory, Excellent, Royal Georg
yacht, Dublin, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, and tender s.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)
LONDON, MAy 20. —Wind this day at noon, S. W., W fine
walker.

DEAL, MAY 19. —Wind S. S. W., fresh breeze.—Arrind
the Lascar, Mackie, from Singapore; Emma, Buenos Ayre",
Highbury, Falconer, Berbice ; Annandale, Burgess, Jamao'
Governor Read, Bermuda. Arrived from the River, Clift°ll'
for Sydney, Now South %Vales • Fair Acadian, River Sr.. Las"
rem*, with loss of maintopsaii-yard ; Theodore, for Quebec;
her Illajesty's ship Reindeer, westward.
MILFORD, MAY 18.—The Isabella, Reed, from Liverpool i°
Algiers, must discharge to repair. '
YOUGHAL, MAY 17.-1 he John Loyd, bound to Newport'
in proceeding to sea, got on shore at the entrance 0
of the '.
bour, and is in a bad position. .
PORTSMOUTH, MAT 19.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes soo
squally.—Westminster, from New York.
COWES, MAY I9.—Arrived the Wolga, Turner, 'Havalanit
DARTMOUTH, MAY N.—Arrived off, the Baron, Bomber"
from Batavia for Amsterdam ; Zeernanshuop, Digker. .111V4,
Goutter, Rio Janeiro, for Bremen; Caledonia.,
Orleans, for Havre.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S. W —lt has blown gee
night from S.W. and continues.
FA ',MOUTH, MAY 18.— Wind W. to N.W., fresh bree,e'4o,
Arrived off, the Lavinia, Downing, from Sierra Leone for 01
sailed March 18.

SCILLY, MAY 12.—Arrived the John Barry, Carter, ir,to
Newcastle, leaky, and sailed 15th for Bordeaux. Sailed `"
Argus, Vantier, for Portsmouth.
DUBLIN, MAY 18.—Arrived the Siren, Fosta, from Leg.
horn. Sailed the Perseverance, Scott, Quebec, o.
CORY, MAY 17.—Arrived the Chamois, ce,mdav, 130 ed a
Ayres ; Margaret, Rath, from Porto Rico. Bailed the "'n
and Mary, Cunningham, for Quebec.
&Imps, MAY 18.—Sailed the Oberon, Hiorth,
Janeiro.

SUNDERLAND, MAY IS. —Ari ived the Francis, Lawson, ft°
Ceylon ; William Rotterdam ; Josephine, Dunkirk. Afe
Hum., MAY 19.—Wind S.W. fresh breeze. —l".%;a ti
0"
the Guide, Barflett, from Uddenvall'a. Sailed do,
Richardson, for Quebec ; Ibis, Harper, Oporto.'
LOWESTOFFE, MAY 19.—The Mary Atkinson,
.R05pe0...4
running for the harbour this morning, got on shove at the
of the the pier; cargo discharging. Wind. S.W2, a gale. her
A LDBOROUGH, MAY 19.—The Primer, Ellegis, pert7star
anchor 4,ff this bay 17th inst. Sestral others shared the
fate to-day.
RAMSGATE, MAY 19.—Arrived the Cog, Edet, oder 4
for Cheibourg, with loss of aorthor and chain; Clytba, °ln"
ditto, for Bristol, with rudtPer damaged.
LIVERPOOL MAY 19.—Wind S. W., fresh.--Arrived
Whitehaven, from Jamaica; Protector, Bowman, 13si'bad°1i.
Helen, Hamilton, Maracaibo ; Condor, Finney, :vetches ;
verpool, Devon, New Orleans ; Harkaway, ditto ; Aire
Branch, Savannah ; Ostsee, Stettin ; Sir Colin Qampbell, p
Orleans. Sailed the Acadia (steamer), for Halifax -i fOr
h.
ton. Arrived off the Isabel, from Antigua ; Medora;•Pci,rri-
does ; Diadem, New Orleans ; Washington, Mobile
tude, ditto ; Charlotte, Charleston ; New York, New; For

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Trea'surer, Novas"- 117
to
Boston, 4th instant, lat. 42, lon. 47;' Endymion, ditto 43,
Miramichi, and Hibernia, Plymouth to Quebec, 6th, tat. bf
lon. 46; Orbit, Cork to Quebec, 14th, lat. 49, lon. A,"' best,
the Sir Colin Campbell, arrived at, Liverpool. Leo, Itv;.t,
pool to Quebec, 16th instant, off CQrk ; 'l,,
homas
and Roue,
Plymouth to Dalhousie, 15th instatft, lat. 50, lon. 14 ;
Young, Leghorn to London, 24th ultimo, off Gibraltar, „
by
George, arrived at Chatham. = Cato, from Sunderland, MI,
lat. 41, lon. 39, by the Wbltehaven, arrived at Liverpo:%
Clara Henriette, Amsterdva to Batavia, 2:
(1
) January, ie
__tL
12 S., lon. 13 E., by the Doggersbank, arrived in the- T
Clyde, Clyde to Quebec,
Jupiter,the 2d, lat. 48, lon. 41 ;
arriv
Carron, N!_w_A
castle to ditto, 4th, tat.at. 44, lon. 38, by
in the Clyde. 11,10'.-co Bozzaris, Amsterdam to Batavia, 20Z
February, off Madeira, by the
arrived at Sutinom
Nina, London to Valparaiso, 25th March, lat. 2 N.,
run
22 W., by the War • • , arrived off Hastings.

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CORN AV ERA GES.
GENERAL, AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, .1
For the Week ended May 1i,1841, made t
up from' tbv lletuqlna
the inspectors ui the dinerent Cities and Tarns in. getria" "
Wales, per imperial Quarter.
Wheat 023 58 Oats
Barley... ..... 31s. 22.1 Rye
AVERAGES
11:eczalainCe: ... ******
."*".......16-ilt!
Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. RTE. . BEANS. ',. ...9
..-7.--.... ..—..._ ...—.._. —....—...--................ .770
April" 9
16 63 8 132 f; `23 5 3(3 39 638 10
2a (3 8 32 4 237 3 1 35 $ 39 n os
M 1
3.+ O3 8 31 8 '23 0 35 0 :'•l3
ay 7
1 .
rol
IMPEKIA L AGGREGATE. AVERAGES Or THE PII WI - 04'
Wheat El'. so 05" ....... 233 Id. 8ean5........ : di
Sark,,.
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 114
, • 44 s/ Wheat 2l3s. Bd. 1 Oats
Harley l3s. 102,1 Rye

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THE MARKE'T'S—YESTERDAY'
COLONIAL MARKET. ay,
The business done was extremely limited by private tr
and the public Fates were of little amount, but prices wfre
for most kinds of produce. The imports were light.
TEA MARKET.
The business done for actual consumption was extrell
limited. Speculators were cautious in their oprzatienstoo
prices had snit a dlwnward tendency. Compt‘ny's CA!'°
offered at Is. 84. cash.

- TALLOW MARKET. Sondi
P. Y. C. dull of sale, at 4G. 6,1. on the spot. Of
American the supply is large, and prices are on the decline'
WHITECHAPEL HAY .MATAKET. two('
d
Our Market was well supplied with `leiow Hay and `.'414 tO,
with a good demand, at our last quotations. Clover, of
5/. IBs. ; Meadow Hay, 3/. los. to 4/. 12s. The surrl
Straw moderate, and demand brisk, at 11, 17s, (0.2/.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. ..---'
45.,044;
Wheat. ' Isarley. ! Oats. Beans.
___;.,,..,',•
-- ..... --_,—...... ----. P.
a......_ i ~..
Per Quarter s, to s. s. lu s. ' S. to s. a. to s. $ '4' 64
Bsston
R ramtc cc 54 61 28 35 94 29 35 40 .b 1 1
11,ighton 57 CI 23 33 24 27 ::8 43 •"" ti
Cambridge — t',6 28 ... 22 35 ~-4;
Chichester 55 f‘.s ‘,B 3 24 26.140 42 ;.•_, 4"
Dunmow - 35 40 ;4' /
Grantham f 2.f, 60 28 31 20 30 44 --
..,/
GrinisbY
Hailsliam ''l ••',
Hilchin 53 C 4 3u 37 22 30 31 4' .„-- 41
Ipswich. 5O 66 29 ~5 21 c 6 37 40 41. 110'
Lewes 5l 60 26 29 It 2 23 34 33 ;44 101
Lyon 5O 60 :;4 .. 30 .2 24 34 .38 34 .."..
3laidstone 59 61 I :1G39 26 32 38 40 .'"'" 4'
Norwich
'.. Pet worth -
Romforcl
Sandwich
Thetford
Wisbeen .... 56 62 28 34 ,-A 23 35 N 3t ,44
i
Witham La 60 'id 33 '2 30 36 40 a„',, P'
Yarmouth 162 66 1:1 31 24 30, 40 41 "'"

John C. Weir, Esq., Agent of the Royal
Hospital at Haslar, has been alluwed by the Lords Cenivies;
sioners of the Admiralty to retire, after long public scribal,
and Alr. Ilallilay, ihe agent tor the Victualling at floe
line, has obtained the appointment.

, ........--.........r—.--- - gun te
PLATE .—A. B. SAVORY and SONS ite thsa
factoring Silversmiths, No. 14, Corollal. London, ° t)Pe7.lll'
Bank of England. The best wrought FIDDLE PAI ' TV
SILVER SPOONS arid FORKS, at 7s. 2d. per •Juncc. of
following are the weights recommended, but the artiCle.'
be had lighter or heavier at the same price per oun ,!(`. , d,
02. s. 0.
,4 ' 5 1
12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons.... ......... .30 at 7 2... '" „ 13
';
.2 ditto Dessert ditto 20 , 7 2... ~ I:11
(..e, d tio '1 able Forks 3B . 7 2... i," 0
12 : ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2... ,'ii °
10 7 2...
2 ditto Gravy Spoons
1 ditto Soup Ladle. l. 7 2....' 4 a
'" ti '
4 ditto Sauce ditto... ICI 7 P... d
0 I 0
. i 0
4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 It; 0
t ditto Fish Slice
11. 0
44 ditto Tea Spoons lO 7 8... lf,
1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong) • • Ate'
N.B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper, illilgtf-tbe
by drawings, and containing every information relat ivol°lol
purchase of silver or Sheffiell plate, may be had on aloof
tion, or will be sent into the country, free of postage, ill a
10 a paid letter.

T't
TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to I":r
for durability, equal in appearance. Tahle candlestic
nchea high, 7s. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches,' IP
per pair , ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches high,' /'
per pair; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chaser')s
tre, 4s, each. The particular metal of which them
great variety of other articles are made, can only be 0 4(
silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis.
RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Ox.ford-sl"ccct'

131 T. T H S. poi'
On the 4th inst., at her Quinta. do St. Thiago, Cintrider
tugal, the lady of Admiral :.;artorius, Viscount VPie
, 101 l of
of a son,
On this 13th inst., at Arcot, 1\ orthomberla'ndi the.
Henry Shorn, Esq., of a son. :..

/3. ,
bl
On the 20th inst., at All Souls, Latrgham-plso,t rot°,
Very Reverend the _Dean of Chichester, %I,llliatn
West, Esq., of Clapham New Park, tr.est son of chic'
Ogle West, Esq., of Streatham-hill, to kllen, eldest 87i‘e"t:
of the late Isaac Wilcox, EN , of Grovehurst, Petnbult
On the 16th inst.. at St.. Geore.:*s, Hanover-s(111i01:
Williatn Heathcote, of Hursley, South am ton, Part.,.":ingt°l"
,
eldest daughter of Evelyn John Slaie.ey
of Lower "
Warwick, Esq.

.D/E/:. per
On the 2ith of April, *t Naples, Nina, eldest daul
James Temple Bins dole., und niece of the late
ville Temple, Bart,

London Waited and Pul,tislied by MURDO Y 013' a
IU. 112, strand, at Me San (Ace, No. 112 , S
the county of 3liddlesolro-..-Friday, May 21. liAle

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