The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

THE ERA NEWSPAPER.

THE ERA of SUNDAY NEXT,
June 21, will contain Original Articles on the fol-
lowing important' subjects :—The Assassination Conspiracy—
Union of the Canadas—Whiggism exemplified, Lord Stanley's
Bill—A Pcep Behind the Scenes—The Sulphur Affair—Emi-
gratiOn—Progress of the Beer Bill—The Birmingham Button.-
makers.

ASCOT RACES.
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and Oxford—Fire at Wapping : Loss of Life and extensive
Destruction of Property—Arrival of the British Queen—Par-
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RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
• der many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
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Amounting to £72,170 Sterling.
The Smallest Portion is £5O,
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Brilliant Success. More Novelty. Another New Piece, and
Second Week of the Factory Boy, which has been received
with the most unequivocal marks of approval from crowded
audiences.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 19,
Will be acted Haines' New Drama, entitled
THE FACTORY BOY; OR, THE LOVE SACRIFICE,
Supported by the entire strength of the Company.
• After which, First Time, a Comedietta, to be called the
LADIES' MATRIMONIAL CLUB.
The Address, Orders of the Day, Debating, and General Busi-
i ness, Conducted Entirely by Ladies.
To conclude with the Nautical Romance of the
ANCHCAPE BELL; OR, DUMB SAILOR BOY OF
THE ROCKS.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SYMPHONY ! !
,:VA MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY NEXT,
June 22d, 23d, and 25th,
THREE GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES
be given, when the celebrated Grand Battle Sinfonia,
(ttriposed by Beethoven to commemorate the Battle of Vittoria,
-arid vividly describing by musical sounds all the stirring inci-
dentiof that famous Victory, will be produced with its original
effect and grandeur, having been arranged from the MS. some,
in the possession of Sir George Smart, for the Band of this
Establishment, to which many eminent Instrumentalists have
been added.
The new animated illustration of Perils and Adventures in
the Frozen Seas! CARTER'S " KONIAPHOSTIC."
ERUPTION OF HECLA, &c., during the Evening.
Admission, One Shilling.
Concert commences at Six.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, JUNE 19:1840.

The Lords met yesterday, when the Marquis
ofLANsDOWNE elicited from Lord LYNDHURST that he

will not oppose the motion for going into a Committee
on the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, but in
Committee will move a series of amendments, as he did
last year, have them printed, and subsequently discuss
them• The Noble and Learned Lord is to sweat the
Bill to an alomy, if he do not extinguish it.
The Bishop of EXETER is to-day to move for a copy
of the instructions given to Mr. POULETT THOMSON
as Governor of Canada. _ _

Their Lordships immediately adjourned.
In the Commons a number of petitions was pre-
seated, one of which, directed against the Corporation
of London—an ancient and unabated nuisance—Mr.
WaatanaTora is subsequently to bring under the notice
of the House.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition on the subject of
Non-Intrusion, and gave notice that on Monday he
should present a petition from the seven suspended
• ministers of Strathbogie.
Sir JAMI:s GRAHAM complained of the misrepre-
sentations of the Morning Chronicle, touching his
having exerted himself to prevent a House being formed
t to•hear Sir R. INGLIs's motion on Tuesday, and posi-
tively denied that he had prevented Members from en-
tering, which he should regard as a breach of duty.
The Report on the Vaccination Bill was brought
tip, and the Timber Duties Bill went through the
Committee.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the third reading of the
Canada Government Bill, and explained that he would
follow the advice of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and not make
the debts of the provinces a charge on the consolidated
revenue, and the advice of Mr. ELLICE, and leave out
the clauses ordaining district councils.
Mr. HOME regretted to hear of these alterations, and
recommended a general amnesty.
After a few words in commendation of the Bill from
Sir H. PEEL, and ja few words censuring it, as the
foundation of Canadian independence, from Sir THOMAS
COCHRANE, the Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Police-rate Assessment Bill then went through a
Committee.
The further consideration of the Report of County
Constabulary Bill set loose the tongues of many country
gentlemen, who dilated on tlia virtues of the rural popu-
lation, the great dignity of the unpaid Magistracy, and
the sufficiency of the old constables, with some little
improvements, to keep the peace in the rural districts.
Mr. HUME, of course, adverted to the necessity of
County Boards. Sir E. KNATCHBULL and Lord G.
SOMERSET advocated sending the Bill to a Select Com-
mittee, and on this question the House divided, reject-
ifig the motion for a Select Committee, by 105 to 39.
A discussion which occupied the greater part of the
evening ensued, on the several clauses of the Bill.
The House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'Cioek.

Loid STANLEY'S Disfranchisement Bill is again
to be discussed tonight. Already that measure
has occupied the House of Commons eight or ten
nights, and will pry bably occupy it eight or ten
more. It is a party meuurei and deeply interests

individual Members, but disgraces the Parliament,
The peitinacity with which it is urged is exactly
proportionate to its value for a class and its worth-
lessness for the nation. Ministers have, in our
estimation, unadvisedly given a sanction to Lord
STANLEY'S measure, by proposing a Registration
Bill of their own.
What is the mighty evil complained of ? A
score or two, or a hundred or two, Irishmen vote at
elections more than is agreeable to the landowners.
That is the sum of the evil ? Who complains of
it ? Some score or two of landlords. The Tories
are kept out of office. The political in-
fluence of the Orange landlords is not equal
to their wishes ; they petition a few fellow landlords ;
theycomplain:of perjury and fictitious votes; and the
anxiously moral--the virtuous beings they address,
cannot rest till these fictitious voters are removed,
and till the registration be so arranged as to be
completely under the control of the landlords. To
attain that end Lord STANLEY brought in his Bill.
To attain that end he has wasted eight or ten days'
precious public time ; and to attain it he is sacrifi-
cing the character of Parliament, and will sacrifice
the peace of Ireland. The whole proceeding is
mere scampish faction assuming the garb of pa-
triotism.
The eagerness with which Lord STANLEY and
the Tories force on this Landlord's Bill, contrasts
finely with their repugnance to listen to the de-
mands of the people for the repeal of the Coin-
laws. Last Session they would not allow any
inquiry into them ; this Session they have scarcely
condescended to admit a debate. Fifteen hundred
thousand petitioners are of no consequence ; a score
or two of Orange landlords lutist be instantly at-
tended to. The Commons, oh ! how misnamed,
scouted the prayers of the people. Lord STAN-
LEY' S Bill will have a more injurious effect even
thanffronting and insulting the Irish ; it will burn
into the brain and heart of the community the angry
conviction that the House of Commons is the mere
organ of a narrow and selfish class, that it cares
much for a few landlords and nothing for the masses.
When that conviction becomes a part of the
public mind, can Lord STANLEY suppose that the
Legislature will be obeyed ? What is there in his
name, or the colour of his skin, or his waspish
temper, to make it virtuous in the mass of the Irish
to fall down and worship him ? What is there so
divine in the votes of a Sergeant JACKSON or an
EMERSON TENNENT, though confirmed by a
LYN DHURST, to make a great nation obey them,
sater it is convinced that the members of the Legis-
lature seek their private advantage and trample
the public good under foot ? People discriminate
too nicely for slavish obedience. They understand
as well as Lord STANLEY that the will of the Legis-
lature means the decree of a mere faction, and the
public good the superiority of the Orange landlords.
Why should the masses submit to the passions and
interests of the few ? Why should the unrepre-
sented submit to have their lives and proper-
ties disposed of by their enemies ? The Irish are
beginning to ask themselves those questions, and
the answers will go far, not to keep a fictitious vote
or two on the registry, but to make them refuse
obedience to the law. Lord STANLEY thinks he
is only purging a register ; he is laying the axe to
the root of his own power.

The Metropolitan Police, established by Sir ROBERT
PEEL, for the convenience and protection of the public,
has, from the supineness of, the Home Government, and
the despotic propensities of Justices of the Peace,
and other Magistrates, become the scourge of the com-
munity. We write advisedly when we state, that at
no time within the last fifty years, not even during the
most. tyrannical period of the Tory Government, have
the inhabitants of the metropolis been so harassed by
official interference as they are at the present moment.
Acts have been passed with the consent or conniv-
ance of the Whig Government, which interfere un-
necessarily with the habits, trade, and amusements of
the people, and these Acts have been stretched beyond
endurance, by the men raised and maintained at the
public expense. No species of legislation appears too
contemptible to be taken up by the modern Solons.
The House of Commons have muzzled the Chimney-
sweep boy, muffled the bell of the muffinman, laid an
interdict on the Savoyard's barrel-organ ; they have
sat in deep counsel, and gravely debated the most
effectual punishmer.t for boys who fly kites and trundle
hoops ; and the Commissioners of Police, imitating the
manly example, have out-heroded HEROD, and taken
advantage of the Police Act to prevent boys and girls
from riding donkeys on Sunday. Women cry shame on
the tyrants. They haie not, however, confined their
labours to children. The middle and lower classes, of
all ages, arc placed under their special surveillance,
and no means appear to be left, untried to tame down
an Englishman to the abject slave. One of the most
offensive, and we have always said illegal, stretches of
police authority, is exercised against respectable citi-
zens and tradesmen who retire. after the labours of the
week, to their little clubs and coteries for conversation
and rational amusement. Every parlour and tap-room
must be cleared by twelve, and this, too, in defiance of
the decisions of some of the most judicious and reTect-
able of the Police Magistrates. Not satisfied with
this, the Police Commissioners are now extending their
inquisitorial power into the rooms of private societies,
which even the SIDMOUTHS and CASTLEREAGHS,
in the worst times, respected. An Institution, called
the Eccentric Society, which has existed for forty
years, is to be the first victim. On Saturday, an in,
spector and two policemen entered the place of meeting,
from which all but members are excluded. On Tues-
day a summons was issued for the attendance of the
landlady at a police-office, and to-morrow the case
comes on for adjudic ition at Bow-street. This society '
was founded by gentlemen connected with the press ;
it is kept up by them, and, from the nature of their
occupations, it can be held only on Saturday night. It
numbers on its books more than six thousand names ;
among which are some of the brightest that adorn the
history of the country. SHERIDAN was among the
earliest that inscribed his name. VAN &HEN, the
President of the United States ; Lord MELBOURNE,
we believe—at all events, his late brother GEORGE
LAMB ; the present Attorney-General, Sir JOHN
CAMPBELL ; Mr. ADOLPHUS ; Mr. CHARLES PHIL-
LIPS ; and two or three of the most eloquent men of
their time, now dead, often attended this society for the
purpose of acquiring habits of extempore speaking ; yet
this useful institution is to be extinguished under a
Liberal Government, and on a doubtful clause of an
Act of Parliament. Lord NORMANBY comes in for a
vast share of blame in suffering these Pharisaical doings,
not that he is touched himself, but that be yields to the
Puritanical notions of Mr. Fox MAULE, the Under-Se-
cretary of State.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday state that on the
previous day the Chamber of Deputies passed the
Paris and Rouen, and Montpelier and Nimes, Rail-
way Bill. The great business of the Session is there-
fore over—the Budget having been previously voted.
The KING has appointed Count MATHIEW DE LA
RLDORTE Ambassador at Madrid in the room of the
Marquis DE RUMIGNY, who is named Ambassador at
the Court of Berlin.
The Prince DE JOINVILLE iS to sail for St. Helena
in the beginning of July. His Royal Highness will be
accompanied on board the Belle Pottle frigate by
Generals BERTRAND and GOURGEAUD, M. DE LAS
CASES, junior, and sonic other Personal friends of the
EMPEROR.

The KING has addressed a letter to Marshal GE-
RARD, expressive of the pleasure he derived from the
review of the National Guards of Paris and Banlieu,
on Sunday last.
The Temps publishes a letter from Cayenne, dated
the 4th ultimo, in which the French Government is
blamed for attending to the remonstrances, or accept-
ing the mediation of England, relative to the South
American quarrel. The French Tories are as long-
eared a race us the SIBTIIORPS of Great Britain.
In the Constitutionnel we find the substance of letters
from Constantinople and Alexandria, of the 28th ult ,
which represent the Oriental question as in the rapid
progress of amicable adjustment. The writers attri-
buted this entirely to the diplomatic ability of the
French Ambassador.
The plague had abated at Alexandria. The late fire
at Cairo was proved to be the work of en incendiary.
The number of houses destroyed was thirty.
I t was rumoured at Constantinople that the Em-
FUROR of RUSSIA, in person, would accompany the
army destined to invade Circassia. The Circassians
were reported to be in an ecstasy of joy on account. of
their late triumphs. Besides the capture of the Rus-
sian fortresses, they had taken 120 pieces of cannon,
with ammunition for ten years.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll7 25 117 25 ... 117 1,7
4 per Celts lO5 it)a 105 105
3 per Cent, 64 75 84 75 FA 10 04 70
Sank of France rAino . v6no Nem 3000
Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sit lll5 .
1115 lin ""1115
5,00011 sh 5250
Belgian Bank
5 per Cents
Ohio lO3 15 10 15 103 15 103 15
State of New York
Dutch per Cents
Spannh Active
27 ••• te7; 27 v7l'
55
Passive (;5, (")%. fite,
Neapolitan
Itonian lO4 104 IC4 104
RAILWAY SHARES,
St. Germain
Vcrsaillcs, It. B 535 1,35 5,25 525
L 8.'i40 710 335 335
Orleans .. a37 50 537 50 525 525
Strasburg to Bale 427 50 ... 427 - ... ".
75 423 75
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN,JuNEI3.
Bills. Money.
St.Schuld. Sch., Cy per cent. le3 10254
Prussian English Loan, IS3O, 4 Per cent. 10214 ltll2
kixchange on London, three months... 6 Si
—Prussian State Gazette, Julie

DUTCH FiS:NDS.-ANISTEP.DAN, JUNr. 16.

' Money, 15 11,
Actual Debt, `..N per rent
Ditto, ditto 5 por ma.
A into t Syndic, 4 !... per ceilt 92 4 0* V 3
Ditto, ditto, 3 Percent...... 7634 774
Commercial Comonny, 4,!:; per cent 1795(- 18e 4
1./ttr, (1,7,.25 akd 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1K,"7, 5 ock• cant.
Exchange on London, One tenth ll ' 0
Two months
—Dutch Papers, June 17.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 9th instant.
On the 11th. -the two Queens were to set out- for
Catalonia. They. were to pass through Guadalaxara
and Saragossa to Lerida, where General 'ESPARTEItO
was to receive them at the head of the army of the
North. The Funds had improved. On the 9th the
Fives opened at 26 7-l6ths for cash.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
This week's arrivals of English Grain have been moderate,
and of Foreign tolerably good. The Wheat trade firm, and for
the best quality more money asked. In Barley, Beans, and
Peas no variation. Oats a dull sale, at rather lower prices.
Flour continued to meet a retail trade. London average for
Wheat 6,066 quarters, at 71 s. 9d.
SMITHFIELD.
There was in general a fair trade 4311 descriptions of meat,
with an average supply of Cattle of all kinds. Beef, Mutton,
and Pork unaltered ; inferior sorts of Lamb 4d. lower, but for
the finest young meat no variation ; Veal commanded good
prices. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. Mutton 3s. 10d. to ss. Veal
sc. to ss. Bd. Lamb Sc. 6d. to (is. 6d. Pork 4s. to ss.
Beasts 532, Sheep and Lambs 11,270, Calves 390, Pigs 379.
SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
Hay 655. to 86s. Clover 85s. to 110 s. Straw 345. to 38s.
COLONIAL MARKETS.
Produce was in fair request to supply the wants of the home
buyers, and prices assumed a firmer appearance. The imports
light, but several ships are near at hand.
TEA MARKET.
Business to a fair extent was transacted in this market, and
former rates were well maintained. Company's Congou,
2s. Id. cash.