The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-07 00:00:00

FIVE DAYS LATER FROM THE

UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.

We have an arrival at this port to-day from
New York, with papers five days later than those
previously received by the Roscoe. They are to
the 16th ult., and were brought by the Stephen
Whitney, which has made her passage in twenty
days. She has forty passengers on board. By
this arrival we have nothing satisfactory respect-
ing the President steamer. These papers con-
tain a long examination at the British Consul's
Office of Captain Bowman and mate of the Bri-
tish bark Recovery, who had reported that
they had seen the wreck of the steamer
on their passage from Bristol to New York.
The evidence does not, f however, bear out
the opinion previously entertained. There
is a much more probable report made by the
Captain of a vessel from Havre to New York,
who states, that on the 16th of March he passed
several fragments of a wreck about which were
a quantity of chains such as are used in the rig-
ging of a steamer. The case of M'Leod was to
come on upon the day the Stephen Whitney
sailed.. It excited the most intense interest at
New York, and would probably occupy some
lays.
Cunard's steam-ship Britannia was advertised
to sail on the 16th, but up to this hour she has
•iot made her appearance off this port. It is
generally onsid,cred,here that she would he de-
tained to bring out the decision on M'LEon's
case, and the extreme punctuality in the arrivals
of these ships certainly warrant such a conclu-
sion. She is quite full of passengers.
Business at New York was rather brisk, and
the late advance in the prices of American
Stocks have been fully maintained. The ex-
change on England ranged at 71 to 71 per cent.
premium, with a good business doing for the
Britannia, by which almost all the letters and
papers were despatched. Freights to Liverpool
for cotton were 4to per lb. United States
Banks, remain stationary.
We regret to state that the communication
received by this packet does not hold out the
slightest hope for the safety of the President. It
is now three months since she left New York,
and no intelligence that can be depended upon
has been received from any quarter.

The great debate and the great majority of
ONE, will have no influence whatever on the fate
of the Ministry or the country. It was altoge-
ther a sham fight, the real fight will take place
at the hustings, and in the country at large. It
abounded in personalities ; it contained a little
constitutional lore ; but it is impossible for any
;:erson to perceive in it a ray of light to guide
the community across the stormy sea on which it
is now embarked.

Lord STANLEY, indeed, violent and rash, assured
the House of Commons that he and Sir ROBERT
PEEL, cautious and timid, after seven years' most
intimate and unreserved communication, candidly
concurred on all political questions. Such an as_
surance, which delights the Tories, will be for the
public a clue to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy. He
was taunted with not explaining his views, but
wherefore, since he and Lord STANLEY cordially
concur, and since he zealously supported the
Noble Lord's Bill for disfranchising all Ireland
except the landlords? They both agree in en-
deavouring to deceive;. coerce, disfranchise, and
starve down the people to the conveniency of the
landlords, and no person, except one who wilfully
shuts out the truth, can have the least doubt as
to the policy of. the PEEL-STANLEY Cabinet,
whenever it shall be formed. The principles
will be those we have just stated, but the hot-
headed recreant Whig, to attain more securely
his fatal ends, consents that those principles
shall be brought into operation by the wily cun-
ning of his plausible ally.
With the exception of this sudden flash across
the darkness, which revealed the terrific danger
which lies in our course, that five nights' debate
was as little instructive for the people as any dis-
cussion that we ever remember. Nor is the de.
cision of more value than the debate. A House
of monopolists which had previously, by a con-
siderable majority, practically refused to confide
in Ministers, did absolutely nothing by putting
in words that which it had before exhibited by
its deeds. True Sir ROBERT PEEL induced
the monopolists also to say, that for the Mini-
sters to continue to hold office after having
lost the confidence of the House, was at
variance with the spirit of the Constitution .
an assertion which the Ministers practically ad:
milted both before and during the debate, by
having formed a resolution to dissolve the Par-
liament and appeal to the people. If the Minis-
ters had persisted in holding office without ap_
pealing to the constituencies, there might have
been some ground fur the motion, and some
ground for making out a case, if possible, against
it; but admitting that they mean to appeal from
the monopolists to the public, there was no
ground whatever for the discussion. It was an
objectless mockery of the public, who are well
aware that the only questions now at issue will
be decided by the press and on the hustings.
Much of the matter, too, was as futile, and as
much a mockery of good sense, as was the dis-
cussion on the undisputed truth of the resolution.
One of the great charges, for example, which the
Tories brought against the Whigs, one of the
most striking proofs which they urged of the
weakness of the Government, was that many of
their measures had been supported by the Tories
themselves. After giving this support they re-
proached the Government with it, as if they
were conscious that they had acted wrong.
If the measures were proper, why should not
the Tories praise the Government imp for them "
roper why not e'
If they were I
themselves, instead of reproachine:;:ne
Ministers?.,ndem
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tthethuroouvgelrintmheenret-;
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The Tory idea which pe_eepnsa•
proach is, that it has by
all along the business
'‘o break ti:
of the Opposition
and these h-
hands r". ,_...inest patriots claim credit at the
al the public for not having broken it up
w'
~en the Ministers acted so as to merit their ap-
probation, and deserve their confidence.
: The Tories chuckle very much over their ma.
1
jority of one. We regret it, we admit, but be.
cause it was notgreater. It would have been more
creditable to the Ministers, a stronger assurance
to the country that they are in downright ear-
nest, and that they and the monopolists have irre-
vocably broken, had the whole 36, or even 36
more, who refused to allow the. starving English
to obtain cheap sugar, on the pretence that it
might be the produce of slave labour, while they
allow that sugar to be consumed on Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S estates, and for Mr. GLADSTONE'S profit,
voted that they had no confidence in the anti-
monopoly Ministers. We expected, and we
hoped that every Corn-law man would have de-
clared against the Ministry,- and would, one and
all, have rallied round Sir ROBERT PEEL, SO that
there could not, by any possibility, be a doubt in
any man's mind of the principles of the two par-
ties. Far from being pleased that the majority
was only one, we should have rejoiced had it been
forty.

We have seen with mat satiafactionthe work•
-
ing then at Sheffield, Manchester,Liverpool;and

T. other places, themselves with the C.-,r1.•
law repeaters. We believe, both from what has
occurred at late meetings in the metropolis, ault
from what has fallen under our own personal oh-
servation, that the working men here are fully -I
prepared not only to coalesce with the repeaters,
but to exert all their energies in favour of a tonii
repeal. We rejoice at that, because, though wi
may have contributed but a little to bring it
about, it is an object we have continually desired
to accomplish. As a step to obtaining the
franchise, as a means of putting down some of
their most virulent enemies, the Chartists could
not take a wiser course than to unite as one man
to demand the total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Just in proportion as that is a rational and
measure, certain persons, who are indebted for
their power and their wealth to deluding the
people, will exert themselves to hinder the
Chartists from making common cause with
the League to put down the knavery ofj
the rent-owners.- Nor is it unexampled,
that they should find tools and traitors
amongst the working classes themselves. For
their sake, on whose incorruptibility depends
the salvation of the country, we regret to say
that the rent interest has succeeded in seducing
some of its victims to become the ministers of its
corruption. We cannot doubt, after reading
the correspondence on this subject ; which
we have received, and after reading the
statements of the Manchester Guardian, that
the pretended Chartists who go about promoting
the success of the Tories at elections and disturb-
ing meetings of the Corn-law repealers, are the
hired and promised-to-be-paid tools of the rent :
interest. They are the CASTLES, the OLIVERS,
and the REYNOLDS, of the Tories out of office,
who, being excluded from power, and unable
now to disguise their villany under the Royal
robes, with equal hypocrisy use the ragged
mantle of democracy for the same purpose. The
pretended friends and representatives of the
working claSses, mentioned by our Corre-
spondents, are . their. enemies and traitors.
Instead of being respected, they should
be treated as spies. The Liverpool Chartists,
we see, have disowned the disturbers. Too long
have the people trusted, and too often have they
been betrayed ; and it will be their own fault,
after this exposure and warning„ if they are once
more deceived.

Let us remind the working classes favourable
to the Charter, that during the sitting of the
Convention it was stated that the Tories had cor-
rupted some of the pretended Chartists. The
suspicion of treachery, therefore, is not new.
Perhaps the very men who are now receiving the
gold of the Corn-law Dukes, contributed then to
make the Chartists appear ridiculous. We ad-
vert to this distinction, because we will not
blame the whole body of the Chartists flu• the
iniquity of these hired spies.
The industrious classes cannot do better than
follow the excellent example which has been set
by the.meetings at Manchester and. Liverpool.
TEe language of the operatives in the latter, was
exactly described by Mr. J.l.ldcrman SHELL, as
conveying, in terms which it was impossible to
surpass, sound doctrines, great principles, and the
most correct views of society. If the industrious
classes, generally, follow these examples, and
exhibit a noble spirit of union, their aristocratic
and priestly enemies will soon tremble in their
shoes. " The glorious meeting," says the Liver-
pool Alercury," in Clayton-square, on Wednes-
day evening, shows that the working-classes are
Lave to the importance of the approaching
struggle, as it affects themselves. Let the middle
classes, the merchants, traders, and shopkeepers,
only display the same spirit and intelligence on
the day of battle, and the victory is certain.
Above all, let it ever be remembered that the
contest is not merely one between Whig and
Tory, but between monopoly and free trade, and
that the popular war-cries should be cheap
bread! cheap sugar !! and, down with the Coro-
laws !!!' "

The wanton and cruel despotism which for the
last six years has been exercised by the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland, has at
reached such a pitch that the • Legislature, as an
act of justice, and, still more, of mercy, will be
compelled to interfere. Our English readers
have no idea of the suffering to which the great
body of the people, and nearly one half of the
Established clergy are subjected by the unholy
agitation and the ruthlesspersecution that now pre-
vail in a country long celebrated for the moral and
religious conduct of its inhabitants, and the mild
yet efficient discipline exercised by the Church.
For the last hundred years, we will venture to
say, no Church in Christendom has done so
much good, no clergy have been more exem-
plary in their conduct, and no people have ac-
quired, as it were by universal consent, such a
high character for many of those qualities that
form the ornament of civilized life. That Church
which has been one of the instruments in the
hand of Providence for regenerating a barbarous
nation, is now torn with dissensions, it is at war
with the State, and at war, too, with the great
body of the people, and unless restrained by the
civil power, will speedily complete its own do-
struction. Has the State, from which it de-
rives its existence as an Established Church,
no duty to perform on such a fearful oe-
. casion ? Can the Legislature which endowed
the Establishment stand by while this use-
fill institution is pulled down by the hands of mad-
men ? During the short period often days allowed
by law for their annual meeting, the General
Assembly, have deposed ten clergymen. Seven
of these were deposed at once, not for heresy, or
immorality, or any one offence, but for disobe.
dience to an act of Assembly, which the Supreme
Civil Court in Scotland and the House of Lords
pronounced illegal. Two others were expelled
the Church on the same grounds; and a third was
expelled ostensibly for heresy, but in reality for
defeating the intrigues of the Non-Intrusionists
in his own pari.h. One hundred and twenty-five
members voted against the deposition of the
seven ministers of Strathbogie, most of them
signed a protest against the decision, and further
ii.timated that they would hold communion as
usual with their persecuted brethren, and treat
the decision, in all respects, as a nullity' Unless
steps, therefore, be taken to stay the plague,
those hundred and twenty-five
be deposed next session, f el',.rcry`inen must
-°": 'the holy inquisitors
have no bowels o
right of ie` compassion; they claim the
—terpreting the will of GOD ; in the
sac:ed name of CHRI,-T they execute their deeds
of vengeance, and with impious presumption
assert that " they are ratified in heaven." These
atrocious proceedings have naturally excited the
utmost horror in Scotland. Men of all
speanrttiaesered. enclounnwceetdhneemsdaa3s,
(amdeisogfrtaiciee
ltaorgtheset parned-
mbuorsgthAssembly Rooms, to
respectabletookplace
intneethtiengs- ever held in Edin-
burgh
againstxpress
the
conduct sympathy
t protesththeestiGifeenreerrsa,lanri Assembly .
Lord DUNFERMLINE, the late Speaker of the
House of Commons, was in the Chair, and was
supported by more than 600 gentlemen of all
shades of politics. Party spirit was forgotten in
this great work of charity, and universal indig-
nation expressed against these disturbers of the
once happy and peaceful Church of Scotland.
Lord DUNFERMLINE, evidently suftering under
great distress for the afflicted state of the Church,
made a powerful speech on the occasion, and
pointed out in these words the painful condition
to which her clergy have been reduced :
" They are called upon to perform many important
judicial duties, involving important rights of individuals,
under a conviction, perhaps urder the certainty, that
if
they go one way they will be punished by the Church,
and that if they. go another way they will be punished
by the Civil Court. Is not this a most cruel and un-
just test to apply to the courage and virtue of any class
of men ? From what class of are you to expect a
firm, faithful, and impartial performance of their duty,,
when they have before
,them the almost certainty 01
punishment; and possibly the degradation of their
station, and the sagificke of the best and dearest.tn-.
terests,of 'their families? What other Off Vet
will this have
on the
._ naigers of the. .Chureh-of:geotland? It appears
Wine that one of its most painful And distrewing effects

is the tendency it has to , if it is
character of the clergymen 0.! the chlir,•h
Such persons live under a double despotism—thy have
'no means of avoiding the pains and penalties of law but
by receding or shrinking from the performance of their
duty—by stooping to every manner of equivocation-6y
shuffling by every discreditable w
have no existence at present, but which certainly will
grow up if this irate of thing:; is maintained and pt:r,

Sir JAMES GIBSON CRAIG also addressed the
meeting, not with the mildness of the Noble
Chairman, but with the ardour and vigour which
have characterized him during his long life when
resisting oppression.
" I never knew an instance," said he, " even in the
most atrocious case that ever came before the General
Assembly, where sentence was passed on persons who
had committed the most immoral acts—l never knew
case where sympathy was not expressed for such pers,-,12
—where regret was not professed to be felt. But in this
case there was no sympathy. The Rev. Doctor who
moved the resolution, came forward, and in the most
cold-blooded, heartless manner—(Tremendous cheering)
—moved a vote of deposition against these gentlemen,
because they had dared to obey the law."

The sentiments expressed at the meeting were
but a specimen of the general feeling in Scot-
land. Never, on any one occasion, was there
such a wonderful unanimity among the writers
of the public press as on this subject. With
the exception of one or two newspapers, and
one of these has sprung up during the Non-
Intrusion mania, all are opposed to the conduct:
of the dominant party. We have eleven Si.otch
papers of last week before us, Whig, Tory, and
Radical, and they vie with one another in de-
nouncing the cold-blooded, heartless inquisitors,.
Our readers will judge for themselves from the
extracts given in another column. We trust
that the Legislature will not lag behind public
opinion. If no immediate Act is passed t.o re-
lieve the people of Scotland from this thraldom,
we confidently trust that the subject will at least b.:
brought forward both in the Houses of Lordsand
Commons without delay, and that an expression
of their sentiments will convince these men that
the -safety of the Church of Smtland is not to be
risked with impunity.

The Assembly, towards the conclusion of its
proceedings, appointed a day in the next mouth
to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, aud
prayer. The hypocrisy and malignity of the;,
men are exceeded only by their i►►►pudence.
Frightened by the arm of the civil power, which
they set at defiance, they also appointed a depu-
tation to proceed to London and lay their ca.e.
before our most gracious SOVEREIGN. Though
in their wild rhapsodies they boast that CHRIST
is the only head of their Church, they now flee
to the head of the English Church for protec-
tion, and vainly imagine that the QUEEN will
shield rebels. We know not what answer Lord
MELBOURNE will give to their application f
admission to tile presence of the SOVEREIGN,
but we know that if he were. to address them is
words like the following, he would acquire the
gratitude of maw; thousands of her MAJESTY'S
subjects You made a law for your own sel-
fish pur''..oses. You appealed for a confirmation
of tlAt law to the highest legal authorities of the
realm—your appeal was unanimously rejected—
you still obstinately resist these authorities, and
punish your unuffending brethren for yielding
obedience to them ; and till you repent in sack-
cloth and ashes for the great calamities you have
brought on the Church of Scotland, her Ma-
jesty can hold no conference with you."

Sir R. PEEL has declared more than once in
the House of Commons that the prosperity of
manufactures is a better security for the prospe-
rity of agriculture than the Corn-laws. That both
rise andfall together, and that their prosperity is
mutual and reciprocal, is an opinion as od, in
England at least, as the time of CHARLES the Se-
cond. All Anti-Corn-law men accordingly main-
tain that the repeal of the Corn-laws, whatev,f
might be its effect on the rent interest, or (o!
mortg,agees,would be as beneficial to the workin:4
agriculturists as to the manufacturers. Such are
the doctrines and hopes of the Anti-Corn-law
party, and they would not injure or destroy any
part of the community.
Not so the Tories and Corn-law monopolists.
They would, and they avow it, destroy our
nufactures. We formerly called attention to tl4
suggestion in the Quarterly Review, that hia
our towns might be destroyed without injury t
the community. In the same spirit the Standar
ofSaturday said, " ENGLAND WOULD BE AS GREAT
AND POWERFUL, AND ALL USEFUL ENGLISHME:-:
WOULD BE AS RICH AS THEY ARE, THOUGH ONE
RUIN SHOULD ERGULPH ALL THE MANUFACTURING
TOWNS AND DISTRICTS IN GREAT BRITAIN." ThOSc
who think so, and at the same time write din
tribes against the cotton lords, would, if the;,
had the power, destoy our manufacturing; town,
and manufacturing population. It is with malicc
prepense, therefore; that such men maintain tile
Corn-laws. They aim at starving the manu-
facturing population out of existence. How
different are the principles, and how different
the results of free trade and of monopoly
One is all benignity and kindness, cement-
ing individuals and nations in bonds of
peace and amity, and producing ease, abund-
ance, and happiness. The other is all hatred
and cruelty, pitting class against class, and
nation against nation, and producing constraint,
poverty, famine, and misery. The one is of
Heaven heavenly, the other is of Hell and i,
hellish. Between these two systeths, betweer
good and evil, between life and death, between
liberty, genuine liberty, and cruel tyranny, the
people are now called on to choose. However
the ignorant, deluded, priest-ridden, and land-
lord-led serfs on the land! may choose, the in-
habitants of manufacturing towns cannot choose
monopoly without sanctioning that destruction
to which the Corn-law Tories have vowed them.

The meeting of the working men at Liverpool,
the speeches of the Chairman, of Mr. It THBONE,
Mr. JONES, and others, require the attention o
the pUblic. In particular the aristocracy and our
leading politicians ought to read them, in order
to understand, if possible, what is going on
the minds of the great multitude. What the
men at Liverpool express is felt, we believe, by
the great majority of the working classes; and i•
puzzles us to conceive how our present systeth
can be preserved, without great alterations. Are
the multitude to be ruled in conformity to, or in
spite of, their opinions ? Hitherto they have
been favourable to the system. Fifty years have
not yet - elapsed since they were nearly
one and all Church and King men. They
were ruled then in conformity to their
opinions. Since then their minds have under-
gone a gradual change, and now such a
thing as a staunch Church and King man is al-
most unknown amongst the working classes. We
ask the West Indians, we supplicate the aristo-
cracy, we implore the Bishops, to ponder over
the sentiments of the Liverpool operatives, be-
nefited as they have been by numerous high
Church meetings, held in that town, and inquire
of their own hearts and consciences whether
there is any possibility, we do not say probabi-
lity, of maintaining their monopolies and privi-
leges except by the sword, even if that be
possible, and by establishing a ruthless, military
tyranny ? Freedom, perfect freedom—and ty-
ranny, perfect tyranny—are now be;,ught into
collision. The mind cannot enter into a com-
promise between these opposing. principles—the
moral • light and darkness of society. One or
other must conquer; and we say, though the
West Indians, the Peers, and the Bishops
perish in the conflict, success to freedom !

The general election movement has commenced in the
borough of Marylebone with spirit. There are three
Liberals and two Tories in the field, and we call upon
the electors to exercise their judgment in the great crisis
which is now approaching. About NAPIER there can be
no doubt. He is a straightforward sailor, who has never
been defeated, who has spread the fame of the British
Navy into every quarter of the globe, and who now comes
forward'as the Liberal candidate for one of the roost
populous boroughs in the kingdom. One of his-celleagues,
has heen tried and not found wanting. Sir BENJAMIN
been in i'arlitinient for ten year's, an

with the exception

.s one or tom-- oe,;asi,; s he

_ .
aiways been found- in the Howe of Commons voting
the cause of the people. He is a man that can ba trusted ;
he is a landowner, and interested in keeping up the price
of corn, but he has invariably voted for the repeal'of the
obnoxious Corn-laws. We are not aware that he has,
on any important question, swerved from his duty as a
legislator ; he is attentive to the local interests of the
borough, and we confidently trust that he and the gal-
lant friend of 'MEHEMET AU will be returned at the
next election.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 27th
ult. have been received. On the 16th there was
some rioting at Seville, but on the appearance of
the Captain-General at the head of some troops,
order was restored.

The Minister of Finance was actively labouring to raise
funds. At a meeting of capitalists, which took place in
his hotel on the evening of the 25th, he applied to them
for an advance of 60,000,000 reals, on the mortgage of
two branches of the public revenue. The capitalists re-
plied that this proposition required some consideration
on their part, and that they deemed it advisable to confer
on the subject with the Directors of the Bank of San
Fernando.

The Four per Cents. were done at 23 for cash, and the
Five per Cents. at 27* for cash, and at 27k and 13-16 at
60 days. The transactions in the hitter amounted to
13,000,000 reals. The Coupons to be capitalized sold for
22 at 60 days ; and the posterior debt bearing no interest
at 5i for cash, and at 61 at 60 days.

The Paris Journals of Thursday hare all
reached us, but they are wholly destitute of
political news of any interest. The following
are Extracts from them :

We have a letter from Auvergne, Which says—
" Tax-collectors are sent into the houses for the pur-
pose of counting the doors within-side, a thing never be.
fore heard of, and the invention of which belongs en-
tirely to the cheap Government. These agents make
their examination in a manner of which you can have
no idea. All the inhabitants of our country are in a
ferment at this measure, the consequence of which it is
easy to foresee ; the discontent of the people has risen
to the greatest height since the state of the finances has
been fully known. M. Aubry Foucauld, editor of the
Gazette de France, was summoned yesterday before the
examining Judge, for having inserted the letter of Mr.
Simon Didier. Thus there are already nine Journals
implicated in the affair of Grenoble.—Gazette de France.
The editors of the Paris journals, who republished on
the 27th of May the letter of M. Didier, appeared yes-
varday before Mr. Boulioche the examining judge.
The Commerce says, "We are informed that M.
Simon Didier has been summoned before the examining
judge and interrogated, not as a person inculpated, but
as a witness. It is added that the Magistrate confined
himself to some inquiries respecting the letter..
The Quotidienne observes, that several journals which
have published M. Didier's letter, have not been seized.
.—Le Constitutionnel.

FLOODS.—The waters in the Seine have risen within
the last few days rather suddenly, and assumed the yel-
low and turbid complexion of winter ; though there has
been very little rain at Paris for a considerable time.
On Monday the level by the scale at the Pont Royal was
at 1 metre 60 centimetres, and yesterday morning was at
2 metres 40 centimetres, making a rise of 80 centimetres
(2 feet 74- inches English.) If this increase should go
on, whicfi, however, is not probable, the wharfs would be
covered and business impeded. It is the consequence of
violent storms in the South. Bargemen recently arrived
from Burgundy state that the meadows of the Cote d'Or
and the Yonne, are in part overflowed, and so much
damaged, that in many places the hay-harvest is consi-
dered as entirely lost ; many of them having been already
mown, and the crops washed away.
A letter from Tirlemont, in the Observateur, of Brus-
sels, states that, on the night of Thursday last, that
place was visited by a dreadful thunder-storm. The rain
fell in torrents for upwards of three hours, and the town
was inundated. Several cattle-sheds were washed away
with the animals which they contained, one farmer losing
flve•eows Several of the inhabitants were compelled to
leave their dwellings with the greatest precipitation to
avoid being drowned, the water reaching up to their
waists. Letters from Courtrai, Hooglade, and Ostend,
in the same Journal, state that a similar visitation was
experienced on the same night at those places, which
caused great damage. Hail-stones, of the size of pi-
geon's eggs, fell in great abundance, and many windows
were broken. The raja fell in torrents, and inundated
several houses. The flax and other crops were much da-
maged.

M. Thiers is to leave Paris to-morrow with his family
for Lille. He proposes to visit the baths of Ems in the
course of the summer. M. Thiers dined two days ago
at a party in which he met several of his friends ;
amongst them were General Cubieres, the Count de la
Redorte, Count Roger, M. Mignet, M. Victor Hugo,
and M. Alexandre Dumas. The health of Madame
Thiers is much improved.
A severe conflict took place at St. Denis, two days ago,
between some journeymen blacksmiths belonging to the
compagnonage, and other workmen of the saaie profes-
sion, who rind not been received as compagnons.
Serious wounds were received on both sides, and it was
with difficulty that the gendarmerie, assisted by some
troops of the line, could separate the combatants. Three
of the campagnons, who were ringleaders, and who
struck the first blows, were arrested, and sent Off to Paris
for imprisonment.
A grand ball was given on Thursday last, on board
The line-of-battle-ship,. the Friedland, lying in Cherbourg
Roads, by the officers of the ship, to which the principal
inhabitants' of Cherbourg and the neighbourhood were
invited. The vessel was profusely dressed out in flags:
slid the quarter-deck fitted up as a ball-room, with an
effect truly magical, giving it more the appearance of 'a
fairy bower than the deck of a ship. "The guests in -
cited to this festive scene were brought off from the 'shore
by the boats of the vessel, the crews lcsitig dressed in
their best suits. The bands of one of the regiments in
garrison -of Cherbourg was in attendance, and dancing.
W :kept up with great spirit until a late hour, when the
rests disembarked, delighted.with their entertainment.
.1 collation was laid out in the cabin, composed of the
choicest viands ; profusion and good taste reigned
throughout the fete. .

The Gazette de ilfetz states that a horrible scene oc-
curred, a few days since, in the Assize Court of that
place. The President had just condemned a man, who
had been found guilty of theft, to five years' confine-
ment at the hulks, when the prisoner, suddenly taking
a knife from his pocket, stabbed himself so severely in
the breast that he died a short time after he was removed
to the infirmary.
A public vehicle running between Saint Julien and
Limoges, on the 28th ult., with 22 passengers, most of
whom were summoner). to appear as witnesses on a cri
Lninal case to be tried on the following day, was over-
turned, with a tremendous shock. One passenger had
his face so crushed that it is feared he will lose his nose.
A young woman had both her legs broken, four other
persons had limbs fractured, and all the rest, with the
exception of two, received wounds or contusions of more
or less severity.
THE PHENIX AND BRITANNIA STEAMERS.—The ap-
peal to the Cour Royale of Rouen against the decisions
of the Tribunal of Commerce of Havre in the case of the
Phenix and Britannia steamers, the hearing of which has
occupied several days, was decided yesterday. The
judgment of the Tribunal is confirmed in every point,
except that the General Steam Navigation Company is
decreed to pay the dues on registering the judgment,
from which it was relieved by the inferior Court. The
English Company and Captain Stranack are ordered to
pay all the costs of the appeal.
M. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the composer, has ac-
cepted the invitation of the King of Prussia to fix himself
at Berlin, and has been appointed second Chapel-Master
to his Majesty (Meyerbeer is the first), with a salary of
10,800 f.
BOURSE--PARIS,
THURSDAY, JUNE 3.

Irst Highes, Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick Price
erefich 5 uer Cents —...•••• 114 70 .. il4 85 ... I'4 60 . 114 75
4% per Cents ... 104 5n ... 104 ... 101 50 ... 104 5
4 per Cents 99 0 .. 99 40 ... 99 40 .. 99 40
3 per Cent 5......., 7B 65 • '8 70 ... 7A 60 ... 78 70
-lank of trance

I,itiitt;?liniti.oool. S, argil 1155 . 1r55 ..le :',5 ... 1055
5,0001 skares '4,5 ...SI 5 ...51N5 ... :slts
.Igian !•anl, 775 ... 775 ... 77., ... 77:,
5 per Cents.
New Loan l, 1% ... 1 1% ... 104‘ ... 111%
Spanish Pas,ive 5% -• f•Ne —5% ••• 5%,
New Deferred
4eavolit4u lO5 25 .. 105 50 .. 'l5 25 . 05 40
"Oman ..... ;ON ... 102% ...1013 ...101%

RAILWAY SHARES.
,ermair, ......... . 690 ... 690 ... 68. 50 ... 685
ye... miles. L.P....—.
it B 322 50 ... 322 50 ... 315 ... 317 50
ttouen
hkee.u. ............. 485 ... ... 85 ... 48,
itraanurg to ..... 222 50 ... 242 30 ... 220 ... 220

Mr. Fielden and General Johnson deserted the Minis-
ters on the late division, when the Ministers were acting
rightly. That the monopolists should forsake them was
to be expected, but that the friends of free trade and
cheap food should stand aloof in the hour of trial, ap-
pears to us wholly unwarrantable.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 4.2:The total
sales of the past month amount to 63,120 bales, of
which speculators took 1,800 bales American, and 100
bales Surat ; and exporters 2,450 bales American, 250
Pernams, and 1,500 bales Surat, besides 1,670 bales
American, and 200 bales Pernams. were forwarded into
the country unsold.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 4.—The follow-
ing are the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange
this day :—Eastern Counties, 8* ; Ditto Debentures, 6*;
Chester and Crewe Junction, 49i ; Midland Counties,
88 ; North Midland, New, 54.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 4. Our
Market closes firm at the following prices : Great
Western, 94 ; London and Birmingham-32/. Shares, 54 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 23 ; London and South Western.
55 56 ; Manchester and Leeds, 51 52 ; North Midland,
Thirds, 5i 54 ; South Eastern and Dover, 15.

We have no accounts yet of the arrival of the Britan-
nia, and no further intelligence respecting the President.
MANTMAIN, RANGOON.—Accounts have been receiv, d
that on the night of Sunday, March 7, the greater part
of the town, and part of the walls of Rangoon, were
destroyed by fire. About 570 houses, it is said, were
consumed, and several of the English merchants there
have :sustained great loss. The soldiers and palace-
builders, increased the calamity by spreading the fire,
robbing, and plundering, and even killing the inhabitants.
It is said some forty were found murdered.
Information has reached us that a party that pro-
,,,ecled from Calcutta in the schooner for the purpose of
visiting the Assam Company Tea plantation ..have at
length arrived it Gowahatty, On the ,19th of March.