The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.

The demand dull, and prices look downward. Fine P.Y.C.
465. 9d. to 475.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.

We had a moderate supply, with a dull trade, and our pre-
sent prices with difficulty supported. Clover, 31. 18s. to
51. 18s. ; ;Meadow Hay, 2/. 18s. to 4/. 10s. ; New Hay,
2/. 10s. to 3/. ; Straw; 1/. 16s. to 21.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKIT, JUNE 23.—W* have bird
an extremely good Cotton Market to-day, the sales amounting
to 6,000 hales, nearly all of which have been purchased by the
trade at steady prices.
LIVERPOOL SNARE MARKET, JUNE 23.—There is no alte-
ration to notice in the rates; for Railway Stock Exchange the
business very limited :—Paisley and Greenock New Shares,
33 ; Grand Junction, Quarter Shares, 25; ; Great Western,
New Shares, 62.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 23.—Our quo-
tations are—Manchester and Leeds, 52 i; Sheffield and Man-
chester, 20,1, ; London and Birmingham, 15711; Bank of Man
chester, 6; Manchester Assurance, 91. 6s.

Accounts from Rio Janeiro of April 21, state that the mar-
k►t was in a bad state for all kinds of imports. No sales can
be made except at reduced rates, on account of the great sea--
city of money. Coffee has accumulated ; stock near 6,000
bagc. ; prices almost nominal. Exchange upon England 30.1 firm.
Private letters from Constantinople of May 27, state that
the Sultan's health was fast declining. He was attacked by a
violent inflammation in the stomach.

We have, received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's
date.

BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JUNE 21.—The .11Tationil Fundi
have been in favour, and they were much sought after ; to-day
the prices are better. Ardoin's was in demand at the low
price of yesterday. Two-add-a-Half per Cents. 51 11-16 ;
Five per Cents., 99i ; Ardoin's, 20 15-16.
THE FUNDS.

Although the President's Message is of a very pacific nature.
it has not had any effect on the British Funds to the present
hour. Consols opened this morning at the price they left off
yesterday, 891 if for the Account ; Reduced, 89; 1 ; Three-
and-a-Half Reduced, 981 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock, 247 248 ; India Bomb,
1 dis. 1 prem.
. .

In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal as yet, and
the quotations are the same as they left off. Spanish Active,
226 ; Deferred, 103 e ; Passive, ; Portuguese, 334 ; Throe
per Cents., 194- 20 ; Brazilian, 67 68 ; Colombian, 20?,- 214 ;
Mexican, 27k; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents., 52i ;
Five per Cents., 99;fi 100.
SHARE MAAKET.—Great Western, 25 26 prem. ; New,
11 12 prem ; London and Brighton, 611 5/ dis. ; Blackwa!l,
7 6k dis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem. ; Southampton, 53i
54i per share; Croydon, 134 per share ; Greenwich, 71
84 per:sha.re. _

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.

Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Midland Counties

Northern and Eastern
York and North Midland...

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster . ... .. 20

HALF-PAST ONE.

The British Funds continue firm, although there is no busi-
ne s of importance doing ; but small investments are con-
tinually being made. Money is very easy in the house at
4 per cent., and in the Foreign Market at 5/1 to 6 per cent.
Consols may be quoted a shade better than in the early part
of the morning, when they were 89a ;at present may be
quoted 89% for the Account ; Reduced, 98% i ; Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 983- ; Long Annuities, l2i ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 8 6 9 prem., rather improved ; Bank Stock,
nothing done ; India, same.
The Foreign Market is entirely neglected to the present
hour. There are only three quotations. Spanish Active,
22 ; Belgian, 100%; Dutch Five per Cents., 99?-0 have
been 100.

In the Share Market a little has been doing. Great West-
ern, New Shares. 61 ; Ditto, Fifths, log; London ar.cl
Brighton, 443 ; Midland Counties, 89 ; Northern and East-
ern, 19i ; York and North Midland, 71.
TWO O'CLOCK.
The Dutch Mail has arrived of the 23d June, bringing the
Amsterdam prices of the 22d inst. Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 511 11-16ths ; Five per Cents., 99 15-16ths; Ardoin's,

No reports or news to the present time.
QUARTER TO. THREE.

In the City scarcely any thing else is now thought or spoken
of but the coming election. All parties are zealous in
their canvass, and the Tories have gone the length
of asserting that, if the Liberals get in one candidate, and
that one Mr. Wood, they may think themselves well off.
Whether this may arise from a mere boasting inclina-
tion, or from a sort of belief among the Tories, almost
amounting to infatuation, it is not our province to determine,
but it may be remarked that the more moderate of that pro-
verbially hot-heated party, are charitable enough to give their
opponents two Members, or, in other terms, to " split the dif-
fei enee."
The Money Market showed no movement of the least in-
terest.

Consols fur the Account, 894- fi ; Colombian, 20i 2lh ;
Mexican, 27i ; Spanish, 2.2 t-,
Prices firm, though but little doing, and inquiry is made
after Stock, which louks as if a rise would take place.

ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE
—We regreCto announce that during the performance of the
gun-trick, by the Wizard of the North, last night at this
theatre, by an unlucky mistake he was struck in the face by
the wadding of the gun. Mr. Anderson had just sufficient
power to explain to the audience that the accident did not
arise from any fault on the part of the person (in the pit) who
had loaded the gun. Two medical gentlemen were speedily
in attendance, who accompanied Mr. Anderson home in a
coach; and we have the satisfaction to state that he is pro-
noun(ed out of danger.

FIRE.-Yesterday morning, about half-past one
o'clock. a destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr.
Pym, paper-manufacturer, Berner-street, Commercial-road
East. The buildings, which were very extensive, are totally
destroyed, together with a considerable quantity of valuable
machinery. The damage done is estimated at 5,0001.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON was
generally reported and expected that the railway would open
to Hayward's-heath, twelve miles from Brighton, on Monday,
the 213th inst., ; indeed the contracts for coke, &c., were ad-
vertised, with the proviso that portions should be delivered by
Saturday next. The opening► is now deferred until the 20th of
July, by which time it is expected the whole line will be finished.
Clayton tunnel, the longest and only one remaining unfinished,

wifl'be keyed in on Monday next.
We regret to state that Mr. Butt, who has
held the office of Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms attending the
Court of Chancery for upwards of thirty years, died on Tues-
day night at his residence, in Abingdon-street. Mr. Butt
was universally respected by the profession., The right of
nomination to this valuable situation belongs to Sir George
Seymour, who holds the office of Serjeant-at-Arms. Mr. Butt
was 70 years of age.
It is said that the nomination of candidates for
the City of London will, in all probability, take place on Wed-
day next, the 30th inst.
We learn from Tiverton that Mr. Charles Ross
has given up his canvass, has retired from the contest, and has
left the town. The two sitting Members will therefore be re-
turned unopposed.
Lord Surrey has been called up to the House of
Peers under the title of Baron Maltravers.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL.--• The
thirty-fifth anniversary dinner of the friends and patrons of
this excellent institution took place yesterday at the Highbury
Barn Tavern, Islington; Charles Barclay, Esq., in the Chair.
Covers were laid for about two thousand five hundred persons
—in the large room of the tavern for 600 ; in a marquee ad-
joining for 300: and in the grand marquee, 'where the Chair-
man presided, for about 1,600. Among the company present
were Mr. Byng, Colonel Thomas Wood, Sir Matthew Wood,
Mr. Pattison, Mr. Crawford, Mr. T. Duncombe, General
Evans, 11r. Masterman, Mr. Attwood, Mr. Lyall, jun., Mr.
Villiers Sankey, Mr. A. K. Barclay, Mr. J. J. Harrison, Mr.
Perkins' Mr. Bryon, the Governor of the Incorporated So-
ciety of Licensed Victuallers, and several of the past Chairmen
and Governors of the Institution. In the course of the evening
the Secretary announced the following liberal subscriptions:—
Charles Barclay, Esq., 50 guineas.—(Loud applause.) The
firm of Barclay and Co., 100 guineas; Lord John Russell, 10
guineas—(Cheers) ; W. Crawford, Esq., M.P., 10 guineas ;
.1. Pattison, Esq:, 10 guineas ; G. Lyall, Esq., 10 guineas ;
announced nnu a l
on
this f
J. Masterman, Esq., 10 guineas ; M. W. Attwood, Esq., 10
guineas ; :Gen. Sir de Lacy Evans, 10 guineas ; T. S. Dun-
cl
°O guineas.miE' The q " i guineast ta l of subscriptions pYtniognis
annual
casion amounted to neatly 1,2001. oc-

. .
MONOPOLY.—What is the happiest commu-
nity ? What the city which should be chosen above all
others as our home ? It is that, the members of which
form one body, in which no class seeks a mono-
poly of honour or good, in which no class is a
prey to others, in which there is a general de-
siro, that every human being may have an oppor-
tunity to develope his powers. What is the hap-
piest community ? It is not that, in which the goods of
life are accumulated in a few hands, in which property
sinks a great gulf between different ranks, in which one
portion of society swells with pride, and the other is
broken in spirits ; but a community, in which labour is
respected, and the means of comfort and improvement
are liberally diffused. It is not a community, in which
intelligence is developed in a few, whilst the many are
given up to ignorance, superstition, and a gross animal
existence ; but one, in which the mind is so reverenced
in every condition, that the opportunities of its culture
are afforded to all. It is a community, in which religion
is not used to break the many into subjection, but is dis-
pensed, even to the poorest, to rescue them from the
trde-
grading influence of poverty, to give them generous semneni,
ments and hopes, to exalt them from animals. matohappy
into Christians, into children of God. Thlids is
honour,
community, where human nature is he.
where, to rescue it from ignorance and cndmhea,pptoingiesz
is
an impulse towards knowledge, virtue. an
Dr-Channing
thought the chief end of the social unio_n.
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Wednesday
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pifars)oalns of every class.
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EVENING EDITION,

LITERATURE. -
THE PRESENT STATE OP THE CONT1:0
VERSY BETWEEN THE PROTESTA\T
AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
By Hunter Gordon, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn.
Second Edition, dedicated
_to the Cardinal Archbi,shof

Malines.

This edition contains an original dedicatiol, to
the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, exteuclia;_
to 20 pp., in which Mr. Gordon lays before Iris
Eminence a sketch orthe temper and actual po-
sition of religious factions in this country, espe-
cially of the Anti-Catholic fanatics, and a view of
the situation and prospects of the Catholic cause
in the United Parliament.

The following extracts speak for themselves :

" When the honourable and learned gentleman, to
whom here every Catholic bosom swells with gratitude,
and whose nervous eloquence, like the harp of Tara,
strikes both the sorrows and the wrongs of his country,
when Mr. O'Connell struck the shackles from the galled
body of Ireland, and the sores and bruises of two centu-
ries were exposed to the view, we hoped for a little in-
terval of lenient councils, a short suspense of the ribald
invective which her foes had never ceased from pouring
on them, like a caustic poison, burning and ulcerating
the imposthumation of former wounds. All men of sense,
how little soever informed, expected that at least the
present generation of Catholics, some of them nursed in
civil war, and all bearing on them the marks of their re-
cent fetters, would be permitted to enter, without dis-
turbance, on the enjoyment of those rights which their
inveterate enemies had yielded to them, and which the
law of the land had at length vouchsafed to them. But
scarce had their chains fallen, when their adversaries of
the rival hierarchy, aided by their lay disciples, raised
the cry of vituperation with more fierceness and malig-
nity than in any former period. Those who took their
seats in the Legislature, found themselves vilified, and
their country, their religion, and even their manners held
up to ridicule, and made the prey of the lowest and most
vulgar prejudices. And such was the desire of these men
to prolong the discord and enmity of religious opinion,
which had so long filled Ireland with violence and blood,
that a new Protestant agitation succeeded to the former
Catholic agitation of Ireland, for the express purpose of
awakening the animosities which concessions had allayed,
or at least much assuaged and even of propagating in
England the same fury and intolerance which had long
run uncontrolled on the other side of the Channel.

"My Lord, your mixed chamber of Representatives,
either during your union with Holland, or since the se-
paration, can give you no idea of the circumstances under
which the accession of the Catholics to the United Par-
liament took place, or of the difficulties which they have
had to encounter. The Catholic Relief Bill, for the first
time, admitted the Irish nation to the rights which the
English had enjoyed for many centuries ; and that peo-
ple, finding their constitutional history at length begun,
were eager to taste the blessings from which- they had
been excluded. During their long proscription, their
wrongs had accumulated to a frightful height. The
whole system of laws and institutions in that island,
having been reared up without a voice in the Legisla-
,ure, pressed very heavily on the children of the soil.
The unexampled spectacle of seven millions, taxed to
support a religion professed by one, was not their worst
grievance. The Protestant Establishment there had been
laid and cemented in blood, and in the maintenance olita
reign had been hurried into violent and sanguinary ex-
cesses. When the true remedy for these disorders was
at length found in the admission of the Catholics to the
representation, the whole business of remedial legisla-
tion was to begin. The Irish Representatives were men
of genius and capacity, formed in the civil struggles of
their country, and thoroughly conversant in the conduct
of public business, to which its wrongs had trained them,
by long practice in those leagues and associations which
had grown out of long misrule. The names of Grattan
and Plunkett are, probably, not known in Europe. Ire-
land required a Catholic organ. Such it found in O'Con-
nell. His influence, derived originally from the griefs of
his country, and supported by that organisation which
the Catholic Church can always supply, as well as by his
own great talents, reached its ascendant mainly through
his unshaken attachment to the Catholic cause, and that
uncorruptible fidelity with which he adhered to it, re-
gardiess of private advantages. Those who charged him
with ambition, knew that a great part of his life had been
one continued defiance of those allurements by which, of
all men, popular leaders are the most easily seduced.
Those who imputed sordid motives to him, knew not, or
affected not to know, that he had relinquished profes-
sional emoluments sufficient to satisfy the ambitihn of any
man. The baleful calumnies of the press, flung by lite-
rary mercenaries and Orange partisans, more easily re-
coiled from him ; and while he still opposed the rage of
vulgar fanaticism and bigotry, he had less to fear from
personal aspersions than from the unreasonable, but on
that account the implacable, enmity which here prevails
against the cause of which he is the champion.
" How this obsolete root of prejudice supports its own
vitality, and in what manner it feeds the virulence of re-
ligious faction, this is not the place to inquire."

THE LAST KING OF ULSTER. 3 Trois.
Madden, London, 1841.

The author of this historical Irish tale tells us,
in his introduction, that he is a • British officer
who fought through the Peninsular campaign,
and being seriously wounded at the battle of Sa-
lamanca, was conveyed by the humanity of his
countrymen into the city, where he was lodged
in one of the cells of the Irish College. Here,
when he was sufficiently recovered from the
effects of his wound, he was permitted by the
worthy father of the establishment to spend his
leisure in their library, and " gratify his taste
by searching through the Irish manuscripts
which it contained." One of these manu-
scripts referred to the celebrated Irish
family of O'Donnell, and so struck the author's
fancy, that he resolved on transcribing it, making
such alterations as were necessary to adopt it to
the taste of the day, and, as the orginal title was
lost, of giving it the name of the " Last King of
Ulster." This is a hacknied mode of introducing a
story, and reminds us forcibly of Sir Walter
Scott's ingenious introduction to Quentin Dur-
ward; but- indeed much of that transcendant
novelist's manner is visible throughout the
story, though, it must be confessed at
the same time that the imitation is any-
thing but a servile one. The principal in-
cidents are supposed to have occurred during
the exciting period of the reign of Elizabeth, and
the scene alternates between England and Ire-
land. The " Virgin Queen" herself—as she loved
to be styled—is introduced more than once on the
tapis, but the introduction is seldom happy, and
leaves not the slightest impression On the reader's
mind. The author's two most successful cha-
racters are his hero and heroine—young O'Don-
nell, and his kinswoman, Cathleen, who after
undergoing the usual amount of vicissitudes,
are, as a matter of course, married in the last
chapter of the third volume, and left in a state
of supreme felicity. The cleverest portions of
the tale, however, are the descriptive, and we
have been much entertained with the author's
sketches of the storm at midnight on Loch
Neagh, and of the defeat and dispersion of the
vaunted Spanish Armada. As a whole, however,
the story is prolix and wire-drawn, and too many
' formal preparations are made for catastrophes
that never arrive.

Mr. Parker, of the Free-list office, Diury-lane,
takes a benefit, we observe, this evening at the Haymarket.
Both as box-bookkeeper, and in his present situation, Mr.
Parker has always proved himself a very attentive and very
meritorious servant of the public, and we trust,
hi -return,
his benefit will be as generally supported as it deserves to be,
especially as his bill of fare comprises the names of many po-
pular favourites.
DEATH OF Slit JOHN JERE24llL—EXtract of
a private letter received from Sierra Leone, bearing date April
27 :—tie have lately been plunged into great distress by the
death of Sir John Jeremie from a Port Locco fever. He died
on the 23d, after an illness of twenty-one daYa•"
On Friday
COUNTY MEETING AT DA NFF.—
and
afternoon a special meeting of the landed proprietorswas
held
Justices of the Peace of the county of Banff
n addressed
to the convener, under:thoconv
in the Court-house, in terms of a requisition
majority
ietion “ that the
of the General Assenthll-
- depose the seven clergymen
pressively in attemPtfi,f-7
Strathbogie from their offices in
of the Presbyter,' have acted illegally and op-
obeyed the Jaw of the land."
the Ministry,•
ef
Oairnfield, and a great
of Birkenbog,, A Gordonon
.th
coo y'
Sir Robert
of t e gentlemen of - e
number n
bog. and .Yorglen, Bart., was
Amongst the gfellherg resent were Sir R. Abervomby
Abercromby of Birken
ex-
plained the object of
read and proposed a series. of re-
Esq., of Netherdale, .
en. approval of the conduct of
solutions expressive of their called to the chair, andthien a. speech of farnessomenloeshegtihnnes,
Assembly in attempting to pde e them, which were
the seven clergymen, and deprecating the conduct of the
to.
Another of the frequent and daring
instances of robbery which have lately so much abounded
y-ImßlßgireedEcoA. —KING AND DARING Rog-
committed on the premises' of H.
uB nE aniinyi
HOUSE-BREAKING
uoN us siEl)
owp,asEsq., in Westbourn-place, either late
ionnt}h' Friday Buchanandv aiDnn vicinity,
tor on Saturday morning last. There
appears to be a gang of most expert house-breakers in-
festing this neighbourhood, who both disregard and set
at nought every attempt of the police to prevent robbery,
by attacking the rear of these houses, to Which they have
ready access by scaling the garden-walls from a large
open space of ground in Caroline-street, formerly occu-
pied by a builder for his saw-pit, workshops, Sce., as
well as from a gentleman's stable-yard inColeshill-street,
which extends in a parallel line along the bottoms of four
houses in Westbourn-place. In the present instance the
family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop,. two children,
and four servants, were unconscious of any attempt
having been made upon their house, mail the servants
got up at seven o'clock on 'Saturday-morning, when a
scene of the greatest confusion presented itself, the
whcle of the lower part of the house appeared to have
been searched with extreme care for money or plate, but
the latter had been nearly all carried to the top of
the house, consequently the total amount of their booty
L does not exceed 20/. They are supposed to have-been
several hours on the premises from the number of boxes
and drawers, beSides chiffoniers, which - were found
broken open, and ransacked ; it is . probable that they
were eventually alarmed by the crying of an infant, as
there were several portable and valuable ornaments
lying on the table ready to be carried off, and they eon-
r fined their search entirely to the lower part of the house,
, although the dravving-room door was open to theta,
contained a variety of trinkets, snuff-boxes, and much.
and;
valuable property which might easily have be much'
been
verted into money without feir of being traced. cull'

EVENING EDM ON

BOROUGH ELECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The following propositions having met with the ap-
p/uhation of many of my intimate friends, perhaps you will
hr 7e no objection to make them public, in order to test whe-
ther they would be worthy of being brought under the consi-
deration of the new Parliament. The reasons why the proposi-
tions are made are sufficiently obvious without stating them.
1/ That no person entitled to be on the Burgesses' Roll shall
le qualified to be entered on the list of voters made out by the
verseers of the poor.
2. That all persons on the Burgesses' Poll shall poll before
eleven o'clock on the morning of tie di), of election.
3. That all householders on the list of voters assessed to the
Poor-rate under the net annual value of 25/. shall poll be-
tween the hours of eleven and one o'clock.
4. That all householders on the list of voters assessed at and
above 251. per annum to vote after one o'clock.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
R. W. D.

Ilfracombe, June 22, 1941.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have heard much discussion as to the nature of
the power your Correspondent, Mr. Johnson, calls upon
'this Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex to exercise at
this precise time, in your paper of the 18th current.
Indeed to my surprise I have met with some brother
Freemasons who are unable to see through the very
llixhsy veil4by which Mr. J. has surrounded his panacea
for all the ills the Church and State are heir to. I therefore
take the liberty of giving you, for the benefit alike of
the itritiated and the uninitiated, my view of Mr. John
40th; meaning, which I think is neither more nor less
eau the simple union of the higher order of ethics taught by
our science, with PURE SCRIPTURAL CHRISTIANITY,
freed e7like from Catholic and Protestant Creeds and Arti-
cles of I,`,:ith of MAN'S WISDOM, and from all the pollutions
of time, and :VIE DESIGNED MYSTIFICATIONS OF PRIEST-
CRAFT.
•lisheci Church reach a Christian-
Once let our Estab.
p. 1.
of Jesus, and adorned
itv based on the pure
With all the primeval beauty and simplicity of his Ser-
mon on the Mount, and you will Cttse to behold "schism
and rival
shops " covering the face of the cjiattrY,
priesthoode condemning each other to e.....rti1t1",..,,,,damna:
tion, and filling our lunatic asylums with th: "u""cer"
victims of their bigoted fanaticism.
Our Church would take her true position, and exercise
her legitimate influence, and puritans would no longer
refuse her her just dues, and plead the rights of con-
science for withholding her support. In short the peace
and humanity, and broherly love, that would result from
such an union are incalculable.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, June 23, 1841. A FREEVASON.

THE WEATHER.-NOON, JUNE 24.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Earometer

---
Thermometer... 66 1 Highest 72 1 Lowest .... 47
Wind E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH, June 23.—Her Majesty's ships at Spithead
and in Portsmouth Harbour hoisted the Royal Standard on
Monday, and fired salutes of twenty-one guns in honour of the
accession of Queen Victoria.
A rendezvous has been opened at this port for volunteer
seamen for the Impregnable, 110, and Belleisle, 72, preparing
for sea in Plymouth Soand. The former goes to the Mediter-
ranean, and the latter to the East Indies.
The Trincelo, 16, and Wolf, 18, are being overhauled at
Plymouth for commission.
Orders are here for the Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, to
prepare to leave Spithead for the Mediterranean ; but it is not
thought she will get away before the early part of July.
A Sardinian corvette from Genoa has arrived at Spithead,
and landed an Envoy from the Court of Turin, under the cus-
tomary salutes.
The brigantine Lynx, Lieut. Broadhead, arrived from the
coast of Africa on Sunday, and is ordered to proceed to Chat-
ham to be paid off. She brought home one of the native Princes.
A new 36 gun frigate, the Cambrian, is to be launched at
yembreke Dockyard on the 3d July.
The Champion, 18, and Scout, 18, have been commissioned,
the cornier at Plymouth, by Commander R. Byron, and the
latter it Sheerness, by Commander J. Larcom.
The brig Savage, 10, is re-commissioned at Plymouth, by
Lieut, Bowka, her former Commander. She goes to the Lis-
,bon station to relieve the Espoir.
Orders are daily looked for to hoist the Eendant on board the
St. Vincent, 120, for the Port-Admiral, Sir E. Codrington's
flaThe C,ornwallis, 72, Captain Peter Richards, will be ready
to leave Plymouth about the 26th instant fur the East Indies,
there to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker,
Commander.in • Chief.
The Serpent, 16, is to be prepared for commission at
Chatham.
The steamer Alban, commanded by Mr. King, Master, is
in the harbour refitting to embark troops.
The cutter, Seallower, Lieutenant Robilliard, will return to
Jersey for the protection of the fishery, as soon as refitted.
At Spithead—Monarch, 84, Indus, 84, Edinburgh, 72,
Vernon, 50, and Sardinian Corvette.
In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Dublin, Bittern, Excellent,
Royal George yacht, Echo, Alban, and flag tenders.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 23.

THE QUEEN V. MaXON.
This was an indictment against the defendant, who is an
eminent bookseller in Dover-street, for having published a
lalasphemous libel in a recent edition of the poetical works of
Shelley. Three esstracts from the poem called. " Queen :Mato"
e ere set out in the indictment, and some others were read by
the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, as illustrating the
,seneral tenour and tendency of the whole work.
Mr. THOMAs, upon the part of the prosecution, after having
stated in a general way the nature of the provisions made upon
the subject of blasphemy in the legislative and judicial systems
of ancient and modern times, read the passages which had been
extracted from " Queen MO," and set out upon the indict-
ment. The first was taken from page 9of the volume lately
published by Mr. Moxon, and edited by Mrs. Shelley, the
vidow of the poet. Having made some observations upon the
suture of the Christian religion, and the conduct and general
character of its priest, the poet proceeded as follows:
'1 hey have three words ; well tyrants know their use ;
Well pay them for the loan, with usury
Torn trom a bleeding world—God, Hell, and Heaven !
Avengeful, pitiless, and almighty fiend.
Whose mercy is a nickname for the rage
Of tameless tigers, hungering for blood :
Hell a red gulf of everlasting fire,
Where poisonous and undying worms prolong
_Eternal misery to those hapless slaves
Vtilose life has been a penance for its crimes ;
And Heaven a meed for those who dare belie
Their human nature, quake, believe, and cringe,
Before the mockeries of earthly power !"
The next passage which had been set out was in prose, in page
,19, and expressly denied the existence of God, or, admitting
.that there was one, affirmed that he was vengeful as almighty,
::ad that Moses, who is in the passage called a " murderer,"
taused the death of Cora, Nathan, Dathan, and Abirans, for
being so good and dauntless as to hurl defiance at the throne of
Ged, girt as it was with power. he third was also in prose,
and, like the second, was extracted from the notes upon the
.p.em. It ridiculed the notion that " the Spirit which pervades
ahis infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish
woman, and all the miserable tale of the Devil and Eve and
the Intercessor, together with all the childish mummeries of the
(Sod of the Jews.' The Learned Gentleman called a witness to
prove the publication, which closed the case upon the part of
the prosecution.
Mr. Serjeiest TALlsonen (with whom was Mr. Hayward).
upon the part of the defendant stated that the passages which
.had been made the subject of prosecution were extracted from
a book containing twenty thousand lines, of which the
iselected portions composed not the three-hundredth part.
They presented, therefore, a very sorry and inadequate im-
pression history
of the whole, which was the of a great
moral and intellectual phenomenon of the several successive
stages of a great poetical genius from its infancy through
its
maturity to its early and sudden extinction. The effect which
would be produced by a perusal of the whole would be
therefore entirely different from that of some particular
,passages when taken out of their connexion with the rest.
If prosecutions like the present could succeed, they
must
destroy the existence of the greatest ornaments of literature,
ancient as well as modern. The Learned Gentleman
Proceeded to recite several passages from ..Paradise hereLot'
in which the devil is invested with a great variety oi f moral
attributes and surrounded ta-Vh several magnificent iimetsor'ireas
and in which the devil himself is represented as uttering what
tee Learned Sergeant eliaracterised as being sublime defiances
of the Almighty's power, with many satanic reflections up on
She alleged goodness of the Omnipotent. All these portions
of Milton's illustrious work would form as legitimate a ground
for prosecution as the present
Sphoemell,
,which was in fac
at only
of and w
wohnidelsercfounitagienediun7orae
the intellectual biography
mighty, awful, and improving picture,
proofs of the existence of a God that.' all that could be pro-
duced out of the stores of philosophy for that purpose. if the
Jury were to find the present defendant. guilty,
•they must
equally condemn the publishers of the works tiltilton, Gib-
bon, Byron, Voltaire, Rousseau, Congreve, Wycherley, and
even of Shakspeare himself.
Lord DENM.tN having stated in a general eay the nature
and subject of the prosecution as they have been
_ nmaention_ed
aLove, went on to obsrr7e that after the animated •elto-
quent address which they halt heard from the Learned s •r
-
geant, it was stnnewhat difficult to quit the captivating sub-
jects which had been brought before their notice, and to come
to the consideration of the matters upon which their judg-
ment was to be founded. The only question for the Jury to
consider, therefore, upon the present occasion was, whether'
in their opinions the work which had been made the subject
4)1 prosecution deserved the imputations which were cast upon
It by the indictment, and whether the publisher had sent it,
4th deliberately to the world knowing its character to be
such. About the motives of the publisher it was unnecessary,
to make any inquiry, as he was responsible in law fur whatever
seemed to be the direct and necessary consequences of the pub-
lication itself. The Noble and Learned Lord here read the first
of the passages above given, and concerning the words " God."
Heaven," and " Hell." he observed that he thought there
could be no doubt that they were intended to signify the God
whom all Christians adore, and the heaven and hell in which
they believed, and that the purpose of the passage which
had been cited from the poem of " Queen flab," was to cast
reproach and insult upon what were in Christian minds the
causes and objects of veneration. It was not, however, suf-
ficient that mere passages of such an offensive character
.31,0u1d exist in a work in order to render the publication of
it an act of criminality. It must appear that no condemna-
tion of such passages was contained in the surrounding context,
and even that would not be a sufficient vindication of the ob-
noxious passages, if the pretended contradiction were only used
as a cloak for disseminating the mischievous libel which it pro-
fessed to repudiate. It had been said that the extraordinary
poem in question was the composition of a youth of 18, and that
at in many places contradicted itself. This was certainly true—
that could not prevent the poem from being very mischievous
and offensive, or from producing very injurious impressions,
upon the public mind. How far it was in general prudent to
have recourse to prosecution for the purpose of suppressingsuch
sentiments, hie (Lord Denman) would leave to be considered by
*Ate persons who had in general the right and the power to in-
t.
atitu.‘g iluch proceedings. For himself he was of opinion that
the hem 11,-nti most effectual method of acting in regard to such
obnoxious 'Alio, was to refute them by argument and
foci._rea-
soning.
The Jury retired for about ,e. quarter of an hour, after which'
they returned a negecompanied by any ob-
verdict of Guilty,
servatiou.
Thstremere7.o..,?ther cases upon the same .511bject in the
paper, that of
Otley," vaii4knts,s Queen v. Fraser," and " The Queen v.
of the work in al: defendants were charged with the sale
the case of Mr. m0x,„,;13 As soon, however, as the verdict in
the prosecution in the ot.wCereturned, the prosecutor forewent
eases,
was therefore given for each of the and verdict of Not:Guilty
two &atter defendants.