The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

EXECUTION OP DARMES.

Since the above was written, we have received
by express, an account of the execution of
DARMES, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, at
the Barriere St. Jacques. He walked bare-
footed, in his shirt, to the place of execution, his
head being covered with a piece of black
crape, in conformity with his sentence. There
were but few spectators, owing to the early hour
at which it took place, and the almost moral cer-
tainty on the part of the citizens of Paris that
the KING would commute the capital punish-
ment for imprisonment for life. DARMES was
escorted from the prison of the Luxembourg to
the foot of the guillotine by a strong military
force. His bearing was firm, calm, and col-
lected. To the last he refused to make any con-
fession implicating others, and died more nobly
than he lived. The spectators were unmoved,
exhibiting neither sympathy nor horror, and
when the bloody apparatus was removed, dis-
persed peaceably to their several homes.

For the KiNo's sake—for the sake of France
—we deeply regret the execution of this miser-
able wretch. As the blond of martyrs is the seed
of the Church, so the blood of such criminals as
DAIIMES is the seed of the atrocities for which he
has suffered decapitation. The guillotine, instead
of terrifying, was the crowning gratification of
his wretchedr' vanity. He competed the risk of
dezth with a Monarch—interested all Europe in
his trial—and left behind him a name never to be
forgotten by Kings and Crown prosecutors for
high Treason. Where the crime of regicide
is known not to be the demoniac inspirations of
a single bosom, such an example is of fearful
moment. God grant that King Louts PIII-
LIPPE may not have cause to regret the precipi-
tancy with which he has suffered the sentence of
a most unpopular court to be carried into effect
on this memorable occasion.
The disturbances in European Turkey have im-
posed upon Austria the necessity of concentrat-
ing a large military force on her Turkish frontier.
VV e trust shelter will not be refused to the un-
happy Christian refugees.
Such immense quantities of locusts have appeared this year
in Spain, that they threaten in some places ent:rely to destroy
the crops. At Daimiel, in the province of Citadad-Real, 300
persons are constantly employed in collecting these destructive
insects, and though they destroy 70 or SO sacks every day,
they do not appear to diminish. There is something frightful
in the appearance of these locusts proceeding in divisions,
some of which are a league in length, and two thousand paces
in breadth. It is sufficient if these terrible columns stop half
an hour on any spo', for every thing
growing on it, vines,
olive trees, and corn, to be entirely destroyed. After they
have passed, nothing remains but the large branches and the
'wits, which, being under ground,
—Le Constitutionnel. have escaped their voracity.
The Journal du Havre, of the 29th, publishes the transla-
tion of an article, which, it says,
was published at Portsmouth,
and dated from the Telegraph-office, stating that a despatch
had been received from Holyhead, and addressed to Sir Ed-
ward Codrington, stating that the President had. arrived at
Holyhead, and that it had been blocked up in the ice. As this
news is not confirmed by the London letters of Friday evening,
it is feared that a cruel hoax has been perpetrated.

Waterlow, - .-------__
PRICE OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND AND BERLIN.—A
curious table has been published by J and A. J.
Eng-
land and at Berlin between the years 1791 and 1840,
, Birchin-lane, of the price of wheat in Eng-
inclusive, from which it appears that the price of wheat
has varied in England in that period between 38s. and
1405., and in Berlin between 775. and 20s. At . the
1
k,arai.3 tke ow wages of labour in Sussex have varied
only between 9s. an 4 Ils. 0.2 thus the price of wheat
has varied 3
times, while the wages Of iftlintir Imre
only varied one half. Who, then, can say.dat wages de?
pond on the price of wheat ? The most curious part of the
table is the difference of price at the two places .it each
yGF, WifjOf liciug multiplied by the quantity acorn con-
sumed' An -11T473-14, it .is ppflyeti that tlw greher
price paid in England " than in licain fill tie
whole quantity - consumed between 1791 and 1840
amounts to the sum of 1158,000,000/., or 390,000,000/.
more than the national debt. Such a table
is worthy
titian P Messrs. CI-oulbitrn,-Peel,
liflp the national affairs. We would especially recom-
of the study of those who undertake to regu-..
and Co., who boasted
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THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
TEA MARKET.

The demand was good, and prices advanced Id. to 2d. per
lb. Large sales were made in Company's Congou at ls. lod.
to Is. 104 d. cash, and Free trade fetched similar rates.
TALLOW MARKET.

Pi ices kept up but the mat ket was dull, and P.Y. Candle
could be purchased at 465. 3d. on the spot, and 475. 3d. for
delivery in last three months.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.

We had but a moderate supply of the best, as also the
middling and inferior sorts ; the former met with a fair demand
at our present quotations, the latter heavy on hand. Clover,
41. to 5/. 17s. ; Meadow Hay, 4/. to 41. 10s. ; Straw, 1/. 16s.
to 2/.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LoNDox, JuNk. I.—Wind this day at noon, light westerly
breeze, and cloudy.
DEAL, MAY 31. Arrived the Mars, Henderson, from the
South Seas; Margaret, Port Rico; Emeline, Antigua; Ren-
shaw, Gibraltar; Lydia ( Brig), and Barque No. 2095, West-
ward. Arrived from th,.. Riser, the Countess of Wilton, for Laun-
ceston ; Charles Heddle, Mauritius ; Jane Catharine, Quebec ;
the Bonne Mere, dismastetl, waterlogged, and abandoned, was
fallen in with the Bth ult., in lat. 33, lon. 39, by the Bianken •
nor, arrived the in Downs.
BRIGHTON, MAY 30.—Arrived off, the Woodhouse, Tate,
from Odessa; Fortefield. Wells, Matanzas; Vernon, Calcutta,
sailed 3d April ; Ledaal, Rio Janeiro.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31. —Wind, W. S. W.— The ToroLto,
London, for New York, arrived off Coie, Mauritius.
OFF THE WIGHT, MAY 31. The Saltwedal, from Pernam-
buco, for Hamburgh.
PLYMOUTH MAY 31.—Arrived off the Mary Ann, Tur-
butt, from Madras ; Richmond, Amouns, New Orleans ; Pil-
grim, Trieste ; Nanette, Auclerc, Porto Rico ; Albany, Watson,
New York for Havre; Carl, Havannah ; Adolph, ditto ; Eliza,
Vandecood, Batavia; Gossipium, Brown, New Orleans.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Capri-
corno, from Savanilla ; John Bolton, Teulon, Mobile ' • Magnifi-
cent, Suvannah. Sailed the Eutaw, for New York; Pollock and
Superb, Dalhousie. Arrived off the Cabotia, from Bahia ;
Mary Queen of Scots, Pernambuco ; Cornubia, Maranham ;
United States, Alexander Grant, Wallace, and Wales, from
New Orleans; Agnes, Mobile; Roscoe, New York ; Betsy
Hall, Leghorn.
SALCOMBE, MAT 30.—Sailed the Mary Ann, Cook, Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 30.—Arrived off the Vancouver, Dun-
can, from Sandwich Islands. Jan. 17, the Cuhawka, Smith,
New York.
FALMOUTH, MAY 30. Wind variable.—Arrived the
Albert, from Leghorn ; Tagus, (steamer,) for Vigo, &c.
Sailed H.M.S. Reindeer, for Gibraltar. Arrived off, the
Eliza, Cooper, from Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Rotterdam.
BRISTOL, MAY 31.—Arrived the Lady of the Lake, from
Charente ; Adelaide, Danvell, Tobago. Sailed the Clifton, for
Malaga.
CORK, MAY 29.—Arrived the Eliza, Grange, from Buenos
Ayres ; Jessie, Logan, Calcutta; Dawson, Manilla ; Euphra-
tes, London, for Ceylon.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 30. Sailed the Sarah, Nicholson, for
Calcutta.
WIVENHOE, MAY 30. The Wilsons, from Newcastle to
London, which was ashore on the Middle Sands, has been got
off and brought in here, after throwing overboard about 200
tons of coal.
PENRHYN, MAY 29.—1 t blew a hard gale on the night of
the 27th, during which the schooner Centenary, and sloop Har-
riet, went on shore. The schooner Benjamin damaged her
stern, and the sloop Progress lost bowsprit, &c. The Lord
Exmouth received much damage to her bulwarks, &c.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 31.—We have to
report an excessively dull business in the Cotton trade to-day ;
the sales do not amount to more than 1,200 bales, all of which
have been purchased by consumers.
LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 31.—We have had
an exceedingly dull business at the Stock Exchange this day.
The transactions comprise only Grand Junction at 199, being
a reduction of two pounds upon the last quotations; Half-
shares 99 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares 53.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 31.—The Mar-
ket is very inactive, but prices remain without alteration.
Manchester and Leeds half Shares, 20% ; Eastern Counties,
nto 8 Manchester and Birmingham, 24i to 25 ; London
and South Western, 541 to 55k; Manchester and Liverpool
District Banks, 10i 11.

Some disappointment was manifested in the city this morn-
[rig at the non-arrival of the Britannia steam-ship, from Bos-
ton and Halifax. She was to leave the former place on the
16th, and the latter the 18th ult.

The packet-ship Roscoe has arrived off Liverpool from New
York. Her day of sailing was on the 7th ult., which will be
four days later than the last • accounts. The letters and papers
are expected about three o'clock.