The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

Money, 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 5 6 4 6 prem. ; Bank
Steck, nothing done ; India -Stock, `250; India Bond=, par.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing. Spanish
Active 23-; Colombian, 23k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 524; Five. per Cents., 100.
In the Share Market scarce anything thing. Great Western,
934; London and Brighton. 44 ; London and Birmingh4nl,
159; North Midland, ilk ; South Eastern and Dove:, 154.
No reports or news.
We have a report of another failure in the West India line.
No change in any of the Markets since the report at half-
past one. Nothing whatever doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS, ..
Bank Stock ~. India Stock
3 per Cent Red. BB4 Ditto Bonds --par
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red 974 Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent..
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ spm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 6pm
Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct _250
Oct 1859. . India Stock for Oi

Ipg. ...

Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent lo9a Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres,6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic..
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 231
Ditto, 1824. 22i Ditto, Deferred . 12
Danish, 3 per cent. — French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 50c.
Greek, 13:45, 5 per cent —-l Exchange —f. -- e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... I French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 'Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52f
Peruvian, 182.5, 6 per ct. , Ditto, 5 per cent . 100
SHARES

Great Western Railway (65 paid) .
London and Brighton (50 paid).
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 159
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3i
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) • •
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ...... ...... ... 22
North Midland Railway ( 100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 34i
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 15ir
COURT' CIRCULAR,.

The Queen held a Court at half-past two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Right Rev. Dr. Pepys had an audience of her
Majesty, and did homage on his- translation to the See
of 'Worcester. The Marquis of Normanby, her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, and the Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of
the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony.
The Marquis of Normanby had an audience of her
Majesty.
The Queen was attended by Lord POltimore, Lord in
Waiting, and the Hon. W. Cowper, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Lord
Alfred Paget, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday afternoon.
The Princess Royal was taken an airing yesterday in
a carriage and four.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess of Lei-
ningen, took an airing yesterday afternoon in a barouche
and four.

Prince Albert honoured the Archbishop of Canterbury
with his company at dinner last evening at Lambeth
Palace. His Royal . Highness was attended by Lord R.
Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole ; Mr. G. E. Anson,
Treasurer ; Earl of Morley, Gentleman in Waiting ;
Sir G. Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in
Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last
evening, included her Royal Highness- the Duchess of
Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Leiningen, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Uxbridge, Lady
Anne Maria Dawson, Baroness Spaeth, Lord Portman,
Lady Barham, and Sir Henry Wheatley.
- The Queen Dowager attended Divine service yester-
day (Holy . Thursday) in the Chapel Royal. St. James's.
The Bishop of London preached the sermon.
Her Majesty's suite included the Countess of Brown-
low, Hon. Miss Wheatley, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl
Howe, and the Rev. J. R. Wood.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Prince of Leinin-
gen visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday.
Prince George of Cambridge arrived at his residence
in St. James's Palace on Wednesday evening from
Dublin.

Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar 'arrived at Marl-
borough House, the residence of the Queen Dowager,
yesterday, from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited the
Queen Dowager yesterday.
The dinner party at Cambridge House, on Wednesday
evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mrs.
Howley, the Archbishop of York and Miss Vernon
Harcourt, the Bishop of London and.. Mrs. Bloomfield
Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister on a special
mission, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Lady
Caroline Legge, Lord and Lady Burghersli, Lord Ellen-
borough, Sir John and Lady Shelley, and Mr. Culling
Smith.

The Lord Chancellor will give his usual breakfast to
the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., at his Lord Ship's
house in Bruton-street, on Saturday next, the first day
of Trinity Terin.
Colonel Westenra had an interview with the Marquis
of Norrnanby yesterday at the Home-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes—
terday. The Attorney-General was heard in "wood.
and others v. Goodlake and. another." At the conclu-
sion of his address their Lordships adjourned the further
hearing of the case until Tuesday next.

CHRISTCHURCH, .SURREY.-A. most nume-
rous meeting of the inhabitants of the above parish was
held in the large room of Newton's Hotel, Blackfriars-
road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of petitioning the Legislature for a repeal of
the Cora-laivs. Mr.. Myles, the churchwarden, Was.una-
nimouslisallekto the chair. Mr. Pellet, and several
other gentlemen addressed the meeting at great length,.
and a petition, thanking her Majesty's Ministers for the
measures they had brought forward, was subsequently
carried unanimously, with a request that the Members
of the Borough do, present and support the prayer
thereof. Thanks were then voted to the • Chairman,
which, was duly acknowledged; and the meeting sepa-
rated.

REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND.—A foolish
paragraph in the Aberdeen Constitutional of Friday has
been republished in some southern papers. It intimates
that all the Liberal Members of Forfarshire are to be
opposed by Liberals—Sir Henry Parnell. in Dundee,
by Kinloch of Kinloch ; Lord 1). G. Hallyburton, in
the county, by the llon. Lauderdale Maule ; Mr. Chal-
mers, in the Angus burghs, by a gentleman from Lon-
-don, name unknown. The following statement may be
relied on, as regards Forfarshire:—Kinloch of Kinloch
certainly intended to oppose Sir Henry Parnell in
Dundee, and with every prospect of success ; but the
development of the Ministerial policy will prevent any
contest in that town, if Sir Henry is willing to retain his
seat. The Hon. Lauderdale Maule would not oppose
the present Member for Forfarshire, if his Lordship
wished to continue its Member. From the weakness of
his health, however, it is most probable that he will not
again offer his services. We know, indeed, that his Lord-
ship, so far back as last election, was anxious to retire.
In that case Mr. Lauderdale Maule will be doubtless put
forward for, and carry Forfarshire. He will be opposed by
a Conservative gentleman, connected with the Airlie fa-
mily, who will give a little trouble, but cannot carry the
county. Mr. Lauderdale Maule is a younger brother
of Mr. Fox Maule, and holds his opinions. Mr. Chal-
mers will meet no opposition in the Angus burghs.
There was lately some disagreement betwixt hiM and a
portion of his constituents, because he refused to pledge
himself to the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-
laws. Mr. Chalmers refuses to give pledges, but we can
say assuredly, that he is favourable to more liberal mea-
sures than those proposed by the Ministry. He enjoys
the confidence of the electors of the Church party, who
are numerous in the Angus burghs ; and there would be
no more hopeless contest than one against Mr. Chalmers,
on the part of either Whig or Tory. We are quite certain
that the Constitutional's nameless gentleman will never
be named in Montrose or Arbroath.—Aberdeen Banner.
GRETA BRIDGE, SATURDAY.—AWFUL OC-
CURRENCE.—On Thursday evening, between the hours
of five and six o'clock, the village of Londonderry, near
Bedale, was throWn into the utmost state of alarm by
a female running out of the house of one Robinson, a
trflrdener, covered with blood, and faint6d on the road,
who turned out to be the gardener's wife, whom her
hu.sband had nearly killed. On some persons going
up to the house, a most shocking spectacle presented
itself. The son of the unfortunate man lying dead,
murdered by the hands of his father—the father himself
pacing the room with a gun in his hands, no one -daring
to approach the house ; but in a few minutes the re-
port of a gun was heard, and on entering the house " the
maniac," for what else can we call him, was .weltering• in
his blood, with his head nearly blown off. But faint
hopes are entertained of the recovery of his wife, whom
he had mutilated to a shocking degree. The two corpses
of the father and son • were interred on Saturday last.
The rumour is, that the cause of the melancholy aftiiir was
the loss of his place, combined with a series of misfor-
tunes that have reduced him, or was likely to do, to a
state of poverty.—Tyne Mercury.
THE LOSS OF THE WILLIAM BROWN.—
HAVRE, MAY 16.—The surviving pa,sengers of the William
BroWn, brought to this port by the ship Crescent, request that
their names may be inserted for the satisfaction of their friends
at home. Subseriptions are in prozress here for the purpose ,1
of getting them all sent out to New York with the next packet.
The following are the names of those saved, many of them
being witnesses to the awful, heart-reraling scene of their
brothers, sisters, cousins, and other relatives 'being-launched
into a watery grave ;—Mrs. Margaret Edgar, Isabella Edgar,
Susannah Edgar, Margaret Edgar, and Jane Johnstone Edgar,
all from Lochmaben ; James Black and wife, from Dublin ; !
James Patrick, and Matilda Patrick, and child, from Co'e-
mine ; Bridget Macgee. Drogheda ; Bridget Nugent; West- !
meath; Ann Bradley. Sarah Corr, Mary Corr, and Anthony
Corr, :41 from Coleraine; Julia M'Adam, from Dublit. It is
not correct that the hands were cut off from those who clung to
the sides of the boat

LITERATURE.
i BUCKINGHAM'S AMERICA, 3 Vas.
• Fisher, London, 1841.
Mr: Buckingham has penned these volunies
in the kindliest spirit towards our transatlantic
brethren, though we are not aware that lie 110
allowed is partialities to get the better .of
sense of justice. On the question of slavery,
particular, as it • exists at present in the
United States, he speaks out with - com-
mendable boldness, and laments the "31)"
parently almost unconquerable prejudices 5°
prevalent among persons of all political parties,
on the subject." So imperfect, it seems, are
,
Jonathan's notions of freedom, as " the natural and
inalienable right of every man"—according to the
famous national Declaration of Independence--
that lie scarcely considers it to be a blot on his re-
publican escutcheon, thatthe several States of the,
Union, which slavery still exists, should boll`
so many thousands of their fellow-men in unjust'
and unwilling bondage. " But what is the nu',
surprising of all," observes Mr. Buckingham, "is
the fact that so large a number of the clergy, but
especially those of the Episcopal Church, theta-
ding those who call themselves evangelical
should be, not merely palliators of this state of
slavery, but advocates Itir its continuance,
and deprecators of all public discussion or
agitation on the subject; so that if "the Be,
publicans understand civil and political
liberty.. but imperfectly, the Christian P 1;"
fessors seem to understand the liberty of rr;
giun and• justice still less." This serious ileTer
in their national character • excepted, our • mita%
was much pleased with the Americans. He follad
them quick, intelligent, sincere, courteous, a 3,
hospitable to a degree; but more sensitive to to.e
opinions of foreigners than he was prepared to ex'
pect: Captain Maryatt, if we remember rightlij
was struck by the same national peculiarity; 31
we can scarely wonder, •therefbre, that Jonatha3
is not over-partial to John Bull, considerl
how often the latter; has made him the su";
ject of his severest, sarcasm. The preseuf
volumes will, -we suppose,. act as a sort r?„
salve to the wounded vanity of our Amer' "
brethren, for unquestionably Mr. Buckingliau,
,;
is more favourably disposed towards them ti3l"
any of his English predecessors. Of New Yon,,"
where he landed, he speaks in high terms ()far
probation; according to him it is a most imPesil,
and improving city, all bustle, activity, cheerfa
ness, and variety, and containing a population littlef
short of three hundred thousand. The beauty °
the American women, too, greatly struck 111
"The women," he tells us, "are much 1133
somer than the men. They are almost uniforuilit
gOod-looking—the greater number are vclla
would be called in England pretty woine" d
which is something between good-lookino-,3iai.
handsome, in the nice distinctions of beauty: flit.;
uniformity extends also to their figures, which 3.
almost universally slender, and ofgood symmetry
Very 'few large or stout women are seen, 31`0
none that we should call. masculine. A mare tl,lbasr
usual degree of feminine delicacy, enhanced ;§'
the general paleness of complexion and slikh We,
of figure, is .particularly character stir of Atta
rican females; and the extreme res e 3;
deference shown to them every where by tilet
has a tendency to increase that delcacy, v
ictcY, .n.lO
making. them more dependent on the a :tent?-0
and assistance of others, than Erglish lidiea
the same class usually are." OtlV ashing,tvooir
the. capital of the United States, our aut,i!be
speaks in qualified terms of praise• leo
city, it appears, is about fourteen English Ot,
in circumference, but the dwellings are 'e.
tered over it in detached portions, grail') 801
fragments of streets, and isolated building'? to
that it has the appearance of a town rising 111,,5,f
existence, but gradually arrested in its progre'e
and now stationary in its condition.
the public buildings, however, are fine' •ra,,ie
foremost among them is the Capitol, wo, 'Jai,
the Congress hold their sittings, and w";:i e
if we may judge from the engravings of it the
if we may judge from the engravings of it
first volume, must indeed be a splendid e
lice. The. greet Canadian lakes, of course/ !tea
cited Mr: Buckingham's curiosity, and he ViSi
them all in succession, amazed at their apparen,g,
ocean-like extent, and the variety and rnagnio
cence of the adjacent scenery. His descriptions.it,
this branch of the subject are replete with 51),.'10
and even eloquence. He lauds the beauty the
American autumn, as its effects are visible on'et
vast forests of the lake district, in the warmest
terms of panegyric, observing that in some 1"3,6',4
Some
0a
the scenery at this period of the year supa- ,
u,
anything be ever saw in the Old Wor/
His volumes, as being the result of three r'
, yea ri
close and patient observation, are worthy Of evhie
attention, and certainly furnish us Witt', ....at
• clearest ideas we have yet had, of the PreeNeve
aspects of society in the United States. , „,or
quote a curious passage, which will show
exceedingly sensitive brother Jonathan is 011".
subject of slavery :
American actor, was engaged at the
,s During our stay at Washington, Mr, Forrest, the grek.:
connected with his performances, some anecdotes came of
my knowledge, which, as they are strikingly illustrative
the state of feeling in the slave States, on all .nl,a'gi'ej,
touching negroes and slavery, deserve to be inonr the
After his representation of Othello, the editor ° ,Jalt
Native American, published here, denounced the,.,tliert,
principal theatre; and,
as one wholly cult to be permitted in any 06"e„fe,
State, where it was revolting, as he thought, to: 'foil
sent the
.dark Moor, Othello, paying his suit to the ot
d,
Desdemona. This was an outrage which he deemed it the sort
of every white man to resent; and he shadowed forth tl!!_, by
of resentment which he thought ought to be put in praetu;ere
saying that " even if Shakspeare, the writer of the plaYtehefl;
to be caught in any Southern State, he ought to be LY/I„,rea,)
(that is, summarily punished by being tarred and.
for having written it !" In strict harmony with this. sen,.°ool
was the other incident that occurred. Mr. Forrest had fle"°lthis
the part of Spartacus, in the play of the Gladiator ;an bet
is represented, first, the sale of a wife and child away frog' es,
husband, all Thracian cap
elv
tives, at which great bort° is
pressed by the characters of the play themses; tire,andoel.,
glaliators, who a. e all slaves, are incited by Spartacos obr
Volt against their. masters, which they do suceessfullyi. Prot',
lain their freedom. On the day following this,-Mr• -I""r*,,,- ell
benefit was attended by the President and his Cabinet, sstfre
aimembers of both Houses of Congress, and a full !bare re'
re'
sidents and strangers. But the manager of the th___(4%;
ceived many anonymous and threatening letters, icarPtoir
against ever permitting this play to be acted inVB9l;i
again; and one letter from a member of Congress, Oita
that if he dared to announce it for repetition, a card suss
addressed to the public on the subj, et, which the,r-n- g
would repent. Such is the feverishness of alarm,,,-En'uttir
population whose constant objection to any efforts fort hejolf
and legal emancipation of the slaves, is, that they arc
and contented that there is no need of change!. and: 010014
are so sati.fied with their present condition, that they
not accept of their freedom if it were offered to thew !'

•
MADNESS IN THE STATES.—Fanny
""
side-combs were raffled for in New Orleans for 5,00 vie
The lucky winner exhibited such decided evidences of der'
ment that confinement was found netvasary.
Ledger. bils
lilivssEL4, MAY 16,—The Princess Isa
pbn
Ferdinand, daughter of the Infant Don Francis Derau're'too
arrived at Brussels on Friday, set out yesterday on her
to Paris, accompanied by two of her brothers. A jeeil:
BRUSSELS, MAY 18.—The King, anti by -
and their suite arrived at Laeken last night at ten e'cl°c"
special train from Courtray ; they left Paris on Surielaki;ie:o
iag and slept at Amiens. Her Royal Highness the
of Kent is expected at Brussels in a few days. twerC
ANCIENT CONCERTS.—The seventh CPljigly;
took place on Wednesday, under the direction of his 80Y3,1, jog of
ness the Duke of Cambridge, for his Majesty the "
Hanover. Conductor, Mr. Bishop. 'TIII
MONOPOLIES. CLASS INTEREST-. so-
Constitution (said Burke) is not made for great. ene,ra theo
proscriptive exclusions sooner or later. it wia destri y
or they will destroy the Constitution. . • •ve. otir
BERLIN, MAY B.—We are able gl
0.1
readers the joyful intelliimnee that the conventions relate „d-
-the continuation of the 'German Customs Union, Nct re
alr
yesterday, and that several of the plenipotentiaries have
left Berlin to return home.--Prussian State Gazette. .t,eo
MORTALITY IN EGYPT.—We have feC!lod
a private letter from Alexandria, in which is given an aceopoil
of the ravages which the plague is makini, in Egypt,' 1'1i
%01
the tle'ails of which the most implicit reliance' may. be P"efy;
We extract the following therefrom gefillser
mortality at Cairo is greatly on the increase, arid the
is now computed at 115 a day. Of these deaths,' „srbe
severity and eighty arise from the plague, and regre ype
that among them may be reckoned several distirtmli'be„edcd ~,
sonages. In this city the' diurnal average alre'ady.
twenty, and serious alarm is beginning to be rnanires,„.l
consecpence of the quarter which is inhabited by WI:0cl
and which hitherto hail been exempt, having become
v,
01l
and presented a distressing scene. The Europears, "l
ey to
ai
always obtained a rer.own for the precautiors which t 1/01!
invariably resorted to, have this time, by their owf' hattl
den- e, been the victims of their wonted courage, irlatlY„s,
been lid away by the absurd opinions of certain physiela-,-, sea
hare dnbbed themselves non-contagionists. I have al'°,,tesi
that the plague has made its appearance on board twoA,,toolf;
and two gritish ships, and that in consequence i,f the
nance thereof its Egypt, the last French steamer "
this port refused to take any passengers." . itBs
On the subject of the recent elopement wh:ci
t rid
caused so gniat a aensatiun in the. French a-
gy
Imlepciulent, of Brussels, has the f*.ttlowing ta
ders.ard that the Comte Gurowski aud the illf"11 tare}
belle have declared to the authorities of Namur th it
were mayried by a priest before leaving Paris.
aff4ir shall have been further settled the Princ‘7itiegj
q.:itted the hotel d'ArsAirnp, and is gone to re,iot4
the house of the Burgotint.ster of Namur." Itbr
!tea the of
that Oh.

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tool),
•
BURGLARY.—lnformation was -given.at Bow-
. o
street on Wednesday, that the premiges of. Messrs. tory r.:fitsal. The. Einakeipation, gianll3
.v„,,,, e
Of M:„Aile. Rachel some time back, and met with .00
Edward Hainos and Sun% printer's, and or Messrs. Baines t•ays that the Princess Isabella was brought to e 1011 th
and Newsome, hooksellent, Leeds, were
,on Satarilky from Namur on Friday last, .and lodged -at °l'
another Bei
night broken open and robbed of -from 120.1. to 130/. in principal hotels. . Were
notes, gold, and silver. About loot. of the money was , ANTIQUITIES - Certain iinpravements e pro'
in 5/. notes,- principally of the Leeds Banking Company. •'
. itran' thPei
. lately conimeceed r,und the woods of Drutncou Jae
A reward is offered for the detection of the thieves.ctor, 100
petty 0111 r. Heron, of Duncow ; and the contra_
Ti_e, ~
, THE. QUEEN AND THE TORIES,—We have per„ii;.; sson, while engaged in forming a sunken fe `usuf
ors, curio as °
it on very fixcellent an 1, ; /'
toor.ty, toat her ;Majesty has again, surprise came upon a whole posse of arcient sw _
weave
to,
and very recently; expres9ed in the strongest terms her ex. formed, of a brittle material, and very unlike tl, iike
Du"
tretne reluctance to accept the resignation of AliniAers under . the present day. ,'',lost of them are small, and mq_ 00041
any circumstances; and there is every reason to believe, that piers than either a hafted or Daina9ctis blade. One,"ol„ch ts'of
though a &solution will i„, all probability take place, that ber appeared to have been a halberd, the handle otc_rrosioil.a,
the ..present Ministry wII remain in. power at been br. ken off in tie act of tai,ing it, or by the ffneer° a
neve
f0e...,,
- - • The people have evely 'rea:son time. An old peel or keep is st.ll habitable at I); t.,1 Alpo
le4st for some months longer.
he has most zealously stood by distinctlyvisa.
' and the traces of a Homan camp are
to stand by the Queen, for s
• 1 mile off.—Pamir/0. Cugrter,
them.— Clte/ten4M gt"if"?Cr: . .