The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

At the sitting on Saturday while some discussion was going
on, the Moderator interrupted the speaker, and said he had
received that instant a communication which, he thought, it
was his duty to lose no time in laying before the House. He
then read the following letter :
" Edinburgh, May 29, 1841, Quarter past Seven, p.m.
" Reverend Sir,—l beg leave to inform you that there is in
attendance a messenger-at•arms, to serve upon you, as Mode-
rator, and on the clerks, procurator, and agent of the Church,
an interdict, issued this morning by the Lord Ordinary on the
bills, against you and all others, from carrying into effect a
sentence of reposition against Mr. Cruickshank, and other
ministers of Stiathbogie. As it is necessary that this should
be done while the Assembly is sitting, and, as I am informed,
orders have been given not to admit even public officers in the
discharge of their duty, I have to request that you will give
me immediate notice whether the doors of the Assembly are to
be closed against a messenger-at-arms, having a warrant from
the Supreme Court to execute.
" 1 suggested to the procurator and agent for the Church
this morning, that it might be most decorous that the neces-
sary intimation be made in the vestry, which, being within the
precincts of the Assembly-house, will answer the purpose quite
well, and avoid any delicate questions.
Whatever answer is to be given, I request that it may be
in writing, either from yourself or the clerks of Assembly.
"I have the honour to be, Reverend Sir,
" ALEX. PETERKIN,
" Agent for the Strathbooie Ministers.
" The Rev. Dr. Gordon, Moderator of Assembly.
As the High Commissioner was not present, and the Assem-
bly did not seem prepared to give any answer in his absence,
a messenger was despatched to inform his Grace that an inter-
dict had been served on the Moderator and all others, from
carrying into effect the resolution of the Assembly. The
Commissioner speedily arrived, and a long, irregular, and
unseemly discussion ensued, of which the following, giving the
result of the proceedings, is a fair specimen.
The Moderator said, the officer of the House had informed
him verbally that Mr. Peterkin was at the door, and wished to
know if he would be admitted.—(Cries of "Admit, admit.")
Mr. Peterkin then entered and advanced towards the Clerk's
table, apparently with a view to make a communication to the
Moderator, when he was met by loud cries of " Withdraw,
withdraw."

Mr. Dunlop asked what he wanted? Mr. Peterkin's answer
was inaudible; when Mr. Dunlop turned round and exclaimed,
" This is the way we are treated—we remove all obstruction to
Mr. Peterkin's access, and he immediately comes up to the
table." This was followed by loud cries of " Withdraw," and
Mr. Peterkin retired accordingly to a more removed art of
the House.

An animated discusssion then took place on the question
whether they should bring in the papers or proceed to the
business. They were about to take a vote on the question,
when 11r. Gray. of Perth, reminded them that it was drawing
near the Sabbath (it was now past eleven o'clock), and that,
even if they refused to receive the papers then, there was no
doubt they could be served over again on Monday.
It was then agreed to bring in the papers. and they were
brought in by the agent, and laid on the table, the officers
stating that these were the papers left at the door by a Queen's
messenger.
Mr. Hope wished to know if the House now received these
documents as properly served.
Mr. Dunlop said that question would never be answered by
the House. Ihat was for the Judges of the land to determine,
not the House.
Here the discussion terminated.

THE WEATHER.-NOON, JUNE .
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.

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GREAT NVESTERN STEAM-SHIP. RACE'
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.—The following letter from
Captain Hosken, Commander of the. Great Western
steamer, has been handed to us by Mr. IL B. Webb,
agent for the Company in this city, and it is only neces-
sary to state that we copied the paragraph in question
from a Liverpool Paper of the 17th instant. We in-
serted the paragraph in the usual business way, without
even the most remote idea of giving umbrage. to any'
party whatever : • `` London. May 24, 1841.
. •dear
halejust received the Glasgow
acti
Courier of the 20th instant, and notice a paragraph
headed " Race across the Atlantic," which states the
remit of the passages of the Columbia and Great West-
tern, in the slang of the turf, a dead 'heat.' I cannot
allow
dead passthibsetaot,asis veryhout easily
proved, The Columbia •
v
left Boston about two hours after the Great Western left
New York—Boston is about 180 miles nearer LiverpOol
litron, as the result was.
a
than New York is to Bristol---allowing twelve hours
loss of time for calling at Halifak, which is more than
sufficient, still the Columbia, to make a dead heat, ought
to have reached Liverpool four hours before the Great
Western reached Bristol. At six- o!elock on the morn-
ing of the 15th, the Colombia was (where ?) off Holy-
head, and at one P.M. on that day, she reached Liver-
pool. The Great Western was in Kin_
g Road, Bristol,
at seven P.M. of tiv 14th, or at her destination eighteen
hOurs before the Columbia reached hers. I therefore
say most decidedly, the Great ‘Vestern has beaten 'the
Columbia one days sail, at an average of rather more than
ten kno's or nautical miles, per hour, in the ' race across.
the Atlantic.' If the Glasgow Courier will not do us the
justice to acknowledge. the Columbia beaten, I must find
other channels to make the fact known at Glasgow, as'
well as it is known in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Bm—l
am, my.clearSir,
t'our's very'i JAMES
To H. B. Webb, 'EI: G.lisg°w• —GiasyoicCO4rier.
It is rumoured in Merthyr, and the neighbour-
hood, that several huntir.l of workmm have had netiee
to leavefie iron uia,:t.r§ in the.
Mercury.

COMMODORE NAPIER FOR MA

RYLEBONF,, AND THE REPEAL OF TUE
CORN-LAWS.
BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE REFORM AND RE-
GISTRATION ASSOCIATION.•
. _

On Mondaia-special General Meeting of the Borough of
Marylebone Reform and Registration Association, which is
composed cf between seven and eight hundred electors, and
includes a large portion of the wealth and respectability of the
Liberal part of the constituency, took place at Lawson's As-
sembly-rooms, Gower-street, New-road, for the purpose of af-
fording Commodore Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., as a candi-
date for the borough, an opportunity of being introduced to
them,. and of explaining his political sentiments.
JOHN BAGSHAW, ESQ., late M.P. for Sudbury, and
President of the Association, presided, and wasesunpo.rted on
the right by the Gallant Commodore Sir Charles Napier, and
surrounded on the platform by the leading Reformers of the
threo parishes composing the borough of 11Iarvlebone. The
room was exceedingly full, and there could not -have been less
than six hundred of the electors present.
The CHAIRMAN having explained the object of the meet-
ing, proceeded at some length to eulogise the manly and
straightforward character of the Gallant Commodore,
which he conceived had been fully developed both as a
statesman and a warrior, and concluded, amidst the most en-
thusiastic plaudits, by introducing him to the meeting. •
Commodore NAPIER then stood forward, and was received
with waving of hats and renewed cheering for several minutes.
He said that it was a pleasurable thing for him that his poli-
tical enemies furnished him at every meeting he attended in
the borough of Marylebone a new text to preach from.—
(Cheers and laughter.) At the last meeting in Christchurch
it fell to his (the Gallant Commodore's) lot to demolish the
untruths put forward by a Mr. Benjamin Wall, who, he under-
stood, was the factotum of Mr. G. A. Young—(Laughter)—
with respect to his (Sir C. Napier's) opinions upon the Poor-
law Bill and flogging in the navy. —( Hear' hear.) His text
that night bore upon an article which had been inserted in
the British Queen and Statesman Newspaper, very kindly
appointing him (the Gallant Commodore) to a command at
Lisbon, whereas he had only, nn Friday last, resigned his
command in the Mediterranean, in order that no obstacle
might be thrown in the way of his aspiring to the honour
of a portion of the command in Marylebone.—(Loud
cheer s.) The Gallant Commodore here read the article he
had alluded to, and observed that the excellent Editor of
that Journal had been grossly imposed upOn. With rso
much art had the imposition bren practised, that it had.bcen
sent to the paper as an official communication, from Lord
Minto; and the parties had gone down to Woolwich, in order
that it might pass through the bands of the Woolwich corre-
spondent of the journal in question.—(Cries of 1‘ Shame.")
He (Sir C. Napier), however, was too old a sailor to allow his
flag to be turned.—(Loud cheers and laughter;) It was with
sincere pleasure he met so large and so influential a body of the
electors of that great borough as he saw before hina.--( Hear,
hear.) And he had no doubt they would feel gratified also
when he told them that at no previous meeting
.which he had
attended in Marylebone could there be found more than seven
persons who had held up their hands against hitn.—(Cheers.)
If he was sent to Parliament by them lie could ensure them
that he should 'pursue the same independent course, in
,the
House of Commons that he had done in the service of his coon-
try.—(Great cheering.) :He would not go in shackled to
support any particular Administration—(Hear, hear)—but if
he was elected, he would do his duty whether it might be at
the pleasure or displeasure of the Goveniment.-4 Loud cheers)
He believed his poatical sentiments were very well known, but
in order that he might not be misunderstood, he would say
that he was for vote by ballot under a proper protection, be-
cause he believed that no Englishman could come up to the
poll and give his vote fearlessly and honestly without it.—
(Cheers.) With regard to flogging in the navy, it did not de-
pend upon individual officers, but on the Government—
( Hear, hear.) If Government would pay men better, a bet-
ter class of men might be obtained, and then corporal punish-
ment would scarcely ever be heard of.—(Loud cheers.) He
was for short Parliaments because he thought seven years was
too long a period to trust any man or any set of men.—(Cheers
and laughter.) With regard to the Poor-laws he would be
the determined opponent of any system which would preclude
to the aged poor the privilege of out-door relief.—(Cheers.)
He bad no notion of having the poor confined like prisoners
in Union bastiles--(Cheers)—and he would have them•
placed on precisely the same footing as the poor pensioners
in Chelsea and Greenwich hospitals.—(Loud cheering.) For
the able-bodied, work ought to be procured, but there
were in every parish a set of idle people who would not work,
and against these the law ought to be put in force; they should
be treated with justice, and even with kindness, but the law
ought to be enforced against them.—(Certainly.) He had
been asked, if a war should break out, and he (the gallant Com-
modore) should be called upon again to take a command in
the service of his country, would he resign his seat for Mary-
lebone ? He had no hesitation in saying, that the moment
such an event took place he would at once resign the trust re-
posed in him into the hands of the electors of Marylebone.—
(Great cheering.) He believed he had touched upon most
topics, but he would be happy to answer any questions that
might be put to him.—(Loud and long-continued cheering.)
HENRY WAYMOUTH, Esq., said he wished to put a ques-
tion to the gallant Commodore, which, as it was one upon
which great feeling existed throughout the kingdom, was one
of extreme importance. He wished to ascertain the opinions
of the gallant candidate upon the compulsory payment o
Church-rates?

Commodore NAPIER thought it extremely hard upon the
Dissenter, after having contributed to the support of an estab •
lishment of which he was a member, that; he should also be com-
pelled to pay a rate towards a church in the benefits of which
he had no participation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HOUGHTON (Churchwarden of St. Pancras) said he
thought the most important point of all had been omitted. It
was a question which came home to the hearth of every poor
man, and which would decide him more than any other as to
whether or not he should give his support to the gallant can-
didate. Ile meant the great questions of cheap bread, cheap
coffee, and cheap sugar.—( Loud cheers.) In fact, he wished
to ask the Commodore whether he would not be disposed to go
the length of free trade ?—(Renewed cheers.)
Sir CHARLES NAPIER said he was prepared to go the whole
length of the measures now before Parliament.—(Cheers )
He was not irepared to go farther at present, but as soon as the
time arrived for farther advances he would be found in the sup-
port
of them.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. Hoecurroat said the question had been answerzd en-
tirely to his satisfaction, and he trusted to the satidaetion of
that great meeting.—(Cheers.) He therefore felt great plea-
sure in proposing a resolution in support of the Gallant Corn-
modore.—(Renevt cd cheers.) He felt deeply upon the question
of the Corn-laws, and as a merchant he had an opportunity of
visiting many foreign countries, anti he was convinced that the
only way to secure the prospelity of Great Britain was by her
entering into a free and unrestricted intercourse with all other
nations.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman here described
the markets which Russia would produce for our manufactures
in exchange for corn, and the advantages which would accrue
thereupon. He was delighted to find that the present Go-
vernment had at last had the boldness to throw off the shackles
of the aristocracy and the obnoxious system cf legislation for
classes, and, instead, had determined on legislating for the
people. —(Loud cheers.) In so holy a work they ought to
be supported, and it was only by the return to Parliament
of such men as the gallant candidate before them that the
people of England could show their gratitude.—(Loud cheers.)
He believed the electors of Marylebone meet cor-
dially, approved of the principles, and most heartily
would respond, whenever the time arrived, to the name of
Napier.—(Cheers, and "We will.") With regard to their
other representative, Sir Benjamin Hall—(Loud cheers)—he
had watched him narrowly, and he was convinced that there
was no true, no honest Reformer in the borough, who was not
satisfied with his conduct, and who had not a wish to place be-
side him in Parliament a colleague worthy of himself.—( Loud
cheering for several minutes.) Mr- Houghton concluded by
moving a resolution, pledging the meeting to support the Gal-
lant Commodore Sir Charles Napier, as the colleague of Sir
B. Hall, at the next election. —( Great applause. )
Mr. STOCK seconded the mceion' which was carried amidst
shouts of acclamation, with but five dissentients, who, upon in-
quiries being made, turned out to be three Tories and two
Chartists, who, by some underhanded means, had managed to
obtrude themselves into the meeting.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, having returned thanks,

Three cheers for him, Sir B. Hall, and the Reformers of
Marylebone were proposed by the CIIAIRMA ti, and most heartily
and enthusiastically responded to.
A similar compliment was then paid to the Chairman him-
self, and the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

CHRONICLE.—The meeting at Guildhall yesterday was
every way worthy of the first commercial city of the world.
The immense hall was crowded, and several of the first names
of the City were present.. Mr..Larpent alluded to a meeting
convened in the same hall in 1825, at which thirty resolutions
had been brought forward in favour of free trade, one of them
by Mr. Alderman Thompson, seconded-by Mr. Buckle; recom.:
mending the admission of foreign grain for home consumption
from all parts of the world at a fixed duty, liMited to a fair
equivalent for such taxes and burdens as are borne by the cul-.
tivators of the soil, either exclusively or in a greater proportion
than other branches of industry. Indeed the City of London
has on many occasions come forward in behalf of free trade.
So far back as 1820 the merchants, bankers, and traders of the
city of London, embodied their sentiments in favour of free
and unrestricted trade in a petition, the first name to which
was Samuel Thornton, one of the first merchants in the
City, who had . been Governor and was a Director of the
Bank. Mr. Alexander Baring presented the petition to
the House of Commons, and we well remember the ear-
neatness with which, on presenting it, he enforced Its prin-
ciples. We have inserted this memorable petition at the close
of our reports of Corn-law meetings. -Another meeting, to
protest against the mischievous stature of commercial restric-
tions, and more especially the corn monopoly, was held so late
as 1839; and the first resolution at that meeting was moved
by Mr. Horsley Palmer, who stated that it was of the utmost
importance, with reference to the currency, to have a fixed
ditty. No advocate of the Corn-laws had the courage to face
this meeting, and the circumstance was so far a subject of re-
gret, talk Grote that he observed—" Much as 1 rejoice to
see the unanimity which now prevails amongst you, I still wish
that it had been so far interrupted as that some of those gentle-
men who in 1825 signed the petition which has been read to
you,
,and who now see cause to change their opinion, had come
forward to-day and sustained their arguments, for I think that
the fallacy of their reasoning and the infirmity of their argu-
ments could easily be shown,"-..-(Cheers.) Mr. Grote,
though he thought the best plan was to have no duty at all,
yet admitted that interests-had grown under the present system
which it Would be cruel at one blow to cut down. "
TIMES.—The Conservatives of the City of London_ had, we
doubt not, good reasons !Or -546 ring the gentlereen who as-
sembled at the Guildhall yesterday for the purpose of delivering
speeches against the Corn-laws, and who, departed after the
business was over with " three hearty cheers, and one cheer
more for Lcrd John Russell," to conduct their proceedings as
they pleased without interruption. The statements made by.
Alderman Thompson on Friday to the City Conservative Asso,
ciation had in some measure prepared us for this Conrse, by
showing that, the constitutional interest is strong enough in the
City to justify them in giving a little law to their onppripiit,.
If those statements may be depended upon (Which we ice no
reason to doubt), the approaching contest for the four inetroPO-'
litan seats must Mevitably result in the signal
.disconAtgre of
the Whig party—a discomfiture 'which prehably will not step
short of the election of all the four ' sitting MenibersV
Under_ such circumstances it might Well. be considered'
unnecessary to take any steps which,. by producing a
violent collision of parties us the Guildhall, might possiblYitave
endangered the tranquillity of the metrAsolis, especially sinoel
commercial men among the Conservatives themselves-
,are
tbeitiedin opinion about the Corn-laws, the ostensible 'silbjea'
for consideration at the meeting. We hair.altie reason Acs, be:c
lieve.that the City Conservatives are as inxions'as their .opPo-
nents to avoid putting an extinguisher upon th?,projegted cart-
didif:ship of Lord John Russell for the .honours about: to he
vacated by IVIr. Grote, partly because' they desire to haveT
"foeman worthy of their steel," and partly ilecausa.they.thinirs
the difficulty of such an achievement as the defeat of the Noble
Lord would be by no means proportionate to its glory. The'
proceedings of the meeting, in which the Whigs Ivem Ong
quietly permitted to have their own way, furni4b. but tittle that
rs
worthy of notice. There was the old erambe 'rtpctita of
Anti-corn-law arguments, good and bad, upon, this necasion,
even more than usually diluted with the falsehood and nonsense
. which make the majority of sober.minded men feel that a cause
disgraced by atc.h.grPsf rnPuiltOankery and imposture cannot:
be alhigether a gOod one. •
post.. The debate 'upon the conduct of' Milliliters will be

resumed thi s evening. 'We hope it will afford no more exam-
ples of English member s endeavouring to excuse inconsistency
by foolish re; inements., These at:empte are unmanly and un-
a man will frankly say that he dislikes and
dreads
vkless policy of the present Ministers, but still
E
hates the To ries so fervently that he will keep the present
Ministers: :in power, that the Tories may be kept out—if a
man will .sa)' t. ts, tiv 3 rosy think little of him as a statesman.
and a pewit:l,', but twe can still respect him as an honest and
plain-speaki'att.,7 man. This we cannot do with respect to those
who are afra •stl to vote against the present Ministers, and equally
afraid to stat a the plain, reasons of their votes. Nothing can be
more absurd .nd offem ice than the attempts which have been
made to bamboozle the public by persons who argue that
though they disappro ye the policy of Ministers, they are con-
sistent in cot ing to :keep them in office. Such persons only
show that th ey are c onscious of their own duplicity of con-
duct, and so udiamed of it that they endeavour to hide it from
public observ. stion, as d perhaps from their own. Much better
would it be ft ir such wen at once to avow the real state of the
case, narosAy, that bat las the policy of the Whig-Radical Go-
vernment is, they wo, ad rather have it because it is Whig-
Radical, ti'lat t have a ndther Government whose policy they
would prefa r, if that ott..er Government were to be composed
of Tories. 'io bad is the position of Ministers, according to
the view to be taken of them from the point selected in Sir
Robert Peel's I esolution, that their partisans are doing all they,
possibly can to ibift that p, Ant. They are incessantly labouring
to misrepresent the question before the House. " You are
called upon," sa: r they," to accept a Government which has not:
stated its plan. s. This is not the question before the House.
it is not a quest, on whether the Government of Sir Robert
Peal is likely to he b otter than the Government of the Viscount
men;ourne. It is. Snot a question of comparison between the
merits of respect ir( parties. It is a very much more impor-
tant question the n t hi'. It is a question whether a Govern-
:lint win eh has tre i unsuccessful in carrying its measurest.r
six years, .and is at length beaten upon a leading question of
finance, whe,`her a I ;overnment so circumstanced does not act
unconstitutions, 11y is presuming to retain office. This is a
question which gOes far beyond the present crisi important as
that may be. It ig a constitutional i.oint, and not merely the-.
oretical, as some con stitutional points may be deemed to be,.
but eminently practiei .1. The fitness of the Conservative party
to administer the Gt vernment has nothing at all to do with
the question. •
HERALD.— TE ere was a meeting yesterday of electors of
the City of Londot 1, hi sld in the Guildhall, '• to take into con-
sideration the prop iet, of petitioning Parliament for an altera-
tion of the present Cur n-laws." The Lord Mayor presided at
it. Considering t' be p. :otracted period during which that ab-
surd Association, wh ace members announce themselves as
" agitators profess 4 sd" :against the existing Corn-laws—have
had to lay their pl ans—,nrepare their movements—and coneect
their speeches—we I must declare that this was one of the most
lamentable failures that even the bungling pertinacity of the
leaguers" has yet .iperpetr.ated. It has supplied much too slight
a text ,for the rem:- ries we have been, from time to time, desirous
of subm,'tting to tl to reader on the general question of Corn-
laws ; of their Items sity, their modifications ; of the point of
demarcatio n which a salutary policy suggests between that un-
restricted fr,
ee trade i n perhaps the most precious of commo-
dities, which Mr. a llon advocated at the meeting in ques-
tion,-and that reguh .ted machinery for its control which the
vicissitudes of sCason s, not less than those of our political rela-
tions, really requi, e to he established. But the meeting af-
forded a most signal illustration of the one-sided views, the
selfish prepossessions, the impracticable prejudice of the Libe-
ral, disinterested, un. cereal commerce, the free and unre-
stricted intercourse-sel tool, which, arrogating to itself the " ex-
elusive professio, of the most enlightened vie,,vs in every de-
e eft, trade, is really " exclusive" unit/ of our dam
in its zeal to assert sis own interests at the expense of all
others, in the welfare of which that of the community is indis-
soluble bound u

MONEY MARRET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE .731.0RICEn 1 PAPERS or THIS PAY.
CHRONICLE.- -The newk'
from China, announcing the
occupation of the :Bogue forts . ,
and factory at Canton by the
British forces, has I :ept the Funds flat ; but, in the absence of
details, the effect orAe way or the other has been but trifling.
The tea market has, however, exhibite..i increased animation,
and a rise of 2fd. per lb. for Company's Congou has been
realised on the prices of yesterday.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mine,
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10/4 per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 40, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25. 37k, it follows
that gold is 0.10 per •cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advices front. -Hamburgh the price of gold is 430 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17. 10%d. per
ounce for standard go Id, gives an exchange of 13. 7i, and the
exchange at HamburE 'II on London at short being 13. S*, it
follows that gold is 0.:34 per cent. dearer in London than in.
Hamburgh.
The announcement of the recommencement of hostilities in
China was regarded "by the dealers in the English funds as
unfavourable to the :maintenance of present prices, and what •
with this and the payment of the cash in satisfaction of the
stock sold on Chancery .account, there was rather more than
usual heaviness in the ma.*Set.

Great apathy is exhibited as respects business in the foreign
securities, and the character of the bargains that take place
is so unimportant that prices continue the same from day today.
In the tea trade the news from China gave a fresh zest to
speculation, and it produced quite a sensation at the public
sales, which were proceeding in Mincing-lane when it was first'
announced. At first there appeared a probability of the sales'
adjourning, but this idea was soon relinquished, and as soon •
as the news had been read they continued. Out of doors the
speculators were very busy in concluding contracts, and upt
to the close of business on 'Change there still seemed the
desire to operate. However, there was that slight reaction in
prices which generall v takes place when a considerable ad-
vance has been attained. At the sales, although a good deal
was withdrawn for high.er prices, the few congous that were
sold went at a rise of 2d.. to 3d. per pound. The most exie;
rienced parties still think, however, that this disposition to ape-'
eulate is too hasty, and that the supply will be sufficient to
'meet all ordinary 'demand.
Notwithstanding the news from China slightly contributed
to depress the English funds, and materially affected the tea;
trade, those persons in the City who have most carefully.
watched the progress of affairs in China, and who may be con-
siaere:l to entertain -the soundest views on the subject, expresi
no great dissatisfaction at the renewal of hostilities, thinking
that the negotiations hitherto carried on were of such a bung-
\ ling and unsatisfactory nature, that .any change was for the
better, and indeed that those who were acquainted with the
ChinCse character could anticipate no other result than a re.."'
turn-to arm.. It is Seld that 'Sir H. Pottinger, who set sail"
this morning in the Ch eat Liverpool steamer, together with-
Sir W.- Parker, 41ho gees to take his station as Admiral of the
Indian Seas, -is to act as sor". Plenipotentiary in our affairs with
China, and will altogether supersede Capt. Elliott.
The settlement of the risks upon the President entered into
at Lloyd's, was to have taken ph:ce to-day, but was postponed
to the 11th inst., to allow further time for news respecting her.
New York Papers to the 6th inst. inclusive were received in
the City late in the day. It appeared by these that Mr.
M‘Leett had arrived in .New York, and was brought into the
Supreme Court on the tith, and that the trial was set down for
the 15th. The " United States Banks" shares are quoted at
about 17, and generally the price of the different State stocks
seemed to he improving in the New York market. The ,
jug-
gling measure, which goes by the name of the " Relief Bill,
after being vetoed by Governor Porter, has been re-passed by-
two-thirds of the Members of each House in Pennsylvania
which, according to the constitution of the State, is suffickeet
to make it a law, in spite of the veto. It will be remembered
that the constitution of the Federal Government makes the law
respecting the passing of Bills precisely the same in the event
of a veto by the President.
POST.--The Committee of the Stock Exchange met to;
day to determine what should be done with the Portuguese
half-dividend bonsis, issued under the conversion scheme of •
November 2. 'A resolution was passed to the effect, that it
was inexpedient to recognise and quote such bonds for the
present. The words for " the present" show but too plainly
what the Committee would do if they could—that they would
be at their old tricks again, as in the case of the Spanish swin-
dle of 1834; but they cannot. The iniquity of the thin,g:is
too palpable, and their open sanction of it would most likely
lead to the destruction of their monopoly. They entered fin.-
ther upon the consideration of the propriety of altering the
lists also, and the result of their profound deliberations is,
that prices may be changed and others introduced before the
publication of the lists, if they are duly vouched for in writ-
ing by both the buyer and the seller, the 'statements upon the
subject being formally laid before the Committee on the sue •
seeding board-day, we consider that the authorised lists of the
house are completely vitiated by this foolish arrangement, and
and that, under it, all sorts of abuses may be expected to en-
sue to the detriment of the public.

Mention has been made of an assignment of a portion of the
assets of the United States Bank as security for their post and
other notes held by various banks. We have now some parti-
culars upon the subject, a copy of the assignment having been
put on the file of the Recorder's cffice, with a list of the
trustees named on the part of the banks at Philadelphia, namely,
Messrs. James Pundas, M. D. Lewis, S. W. Jones, Robert
L. Pittfield; and Robert Howell. It may be interesting to
the shareholders here to know what part of the assets of,
the United States Bank have been hypothecated. They
are enumerated as follows : Bonds, mortgages, at Phi--
ladelphia 165,924 dollars ; real estate ditto 1,242,651
dollars ; real estate, Mobile 1,255,067 dollars ; pr,perty
and effects, Buffalo 464,912 dollars ; stocks and loans, Phila.
delohia 1,705433 dolhsrs ; property in district of Colombia
447,707 dollars; property and effects in Cincinnati 1,099,279
dollars ; bills an notes, office at New Brighton 372,721 ;.
bills, notes, and real estate, office at Pittsburg 655,602; NHS
and note., office at Erie 337,126. The total amount la
7,772,250 dollars. The aggregate of the post notes covered
is b,078,444 dollars.

The Canada accounts notice the opening of the river St.
Laurence, which was at length clear of ice, and steam-boats
had commenced running between Quebec and Montreal. The
first arrival at Quebec for the season was the ship Vere, on
the 29th ult., from Pool. On the following day came in the
barque Great Britain, from London. That vessel encountered.
some ice on the Banks, and large quantities in the Gulf of
St. Laurence. . ,
HERALD.--It is clear already that the anticipation of the
French loan begins to tell on the Funds, and it may be Cod.
dently stated that various capitalists, both in thwStock- Ex-,
change and out, are making preparations for so far getting out
of home stock as to be able to enter -for certain amounts into
the new French loan operation when brought out, should the
terms be, as anticipated, of an advantageous nature. Indeed it
may be fairly osumed that in the present unpromising state of
money and commercial affairs the French Minister of Finance
is midi too shrewd. a man to apply for a loan, had any other option for the. satisfaction of present pressing necessities,beee
open to him, and therefore that, as necessity has no law, h' -
will net, and cannot, scruple in such an emergency to consent
to large samifices, and by way of attracting capital and invest-
ments to proffer some considerable and tempting bonus in 30111 C
shape or other.
UN.— The market for public Securities was heavy before the
arrival of the news from China, Consols being at 8911 i.gfor
pent transfer... The highest quotation for Consols was
the
and themarket was confirmed in its previously heavy tone ent ine
receipt of theintelligence from China. The latest bargains
Acount
al t
Cotssols..forAoney were.a.t. sellers, and for the
.cum ; t
.. e
90i_to 9Qa ; xol,equer Bills were at 11 to 13 prteam;sl .
turd
New:Three-antiVai.half per Cents. brought 99
Three= per Centil•Annurnes - receded to 88%
.
§toelt,was rcrs.2s2.
. more business doing:
ttl'ill6 Vin'eignVarket to. day there was
of sellers than
The activity, however, was more on the parta alnd 851; 'lndia '
Bonds
Security. 'I he Spanish „
current value of nearly every
se at 334 to 3%; the
buyers, and became attended therefore by decline in the:
were at 231 to 23%1 the New•Portu,guceB
to
2;
8h Colombian•
Three per Geirts at 2%; ;Mexicanha; 77i to 774 ' Russian at •
at 21 ; Peruvian at 15!4 ; Danis
.a..,aif
percents. at 526
14.0% to 112": i. ; and Dutch Too-and 11
Co 62%. .
' Western were at 29 ; Birmingham,
id
In. the Share Market thare
North Midland, New, at 10i
Western at 16i; ; and York aiiiaekwaii, 6 ;
w"Thniordsa,nimitaZ"; Snernetaht
Manchester and
pirem.,; Brighton were,
In the Exchanges there was
was a slight improvement. It
'Leech, New, 8i ; and appearanceNo4rth;/11idariland,33
to-
day, and ondis of steadiness
ilambargh there
whether the rat
,vere takena s
fOl7, . ,
to 62ie. i 1-lainlinrgh 13 10. i. to '.;
lows :—Paris 25f. 60c.
.. •
1 i • and Trieste 959 to 10-. ".
snenemPardiosuwbitlfluklieneenw4. the
Firherneehe months'i°l3is
bouiltl:
NeW York brings %ices of e
The Ito,,cius packet Worn .
..,.d_
Amsterdam 12 3/ ; Frankfurt -4° '
ad
.. .th.
counts :—United states Baiik
Bth ult.' 31one was then easy, awl -tra e much the same as
at the date of the previous accounts

Shares were 17i- ; and the Exchang, London was Bpi em.
Mr. il'Leoci. case, which was about to come on, that gentle-
man being in confinement at New I'm *, excited much interest.
The'following are the official return s of the exports of bul-
lion from- the port of London for the week ending Thuriday
lest :
Silver Coin to British West Indies -........ 9,763 oz.
Do. do. Rotterdam
........ 52,700 „
'Dd. do. • Mauritius ...... -. ....... 8,000 „
Do. Bars Rotterdam—.. 7,000 ~
Gold, Coin to British Wont Indies ..„ ...... 30

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 1.
12th regiment of Light Dragoons—Couet D. A. Morro
to be :Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wellesley, who retires ;
F. M. lqulewster, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Alonro, June 1..
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Sir J. E. Haring-
ton, Bart., to be. Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, r.ce
Clayton,. ybo retires, June 1.
. 14th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. R. Budd, to be Captain,
without- purdhav, vice Hazlewood, who retires upon full-pay ;
Ensign H. J. Warre, from the 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Budd,'June 1.

20th Fo.ot—L-Ertsign R. Daly to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Masterson, who retires; Henry Murray, Gcnt.; to be En-
sign, by purchase; vice Daly, June 1.

. 34th. Foot—Lieutenant W. E. James to be Captain, by'pur-
chase, vieeßradfute, who retires ; Ensign B. Rooper to be
Lieutenant, ,by purchase, vice James ; R. C. Puke-, Gent.
to .be,Ensign,, by purchase, vice Rooper, June 1. •
• 43d Foot—Ensign J. A. Dick, from the 58th Foot, to be
Ensign; 'vice Primrose, promoted, June 2.
46th Foot—Gentleman Cadet A. R. Garrett, from the
Royal Military' College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase' vice Fyffe, promoted, June 1 ; J. L. Spilling, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by 'purchase, vice Haygarth, appointed to the
`'cots' Fusilier Guards, June'2.
_ .

. 54th Font—. Gentleman Cadet E. Neville, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Warre,
promoted itt the .14th Foot, June 1.
56th Foot.-" Ensign A. W. Byles to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Turner, deceased, April 15 ; J. b. Saun.
tiers, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Byles, June 1.
sst POot—Epsign J. . Flack to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice King, whotretires ; J. A. Dick, Gent., to be En-
sign, be purchise, vice Flack, June I ; Ensign T. Pedder,
from the 62d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Dick, appointed to the
43d Foot; Junel.
62d Poot—J. G. 'Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase; vice Pedder, appointed to the 58th Foot, June 2.
67th Foot—Lieut., C. W. James to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Harpour, who retires upon full-pay; Ensign A.
Miry to be Lieutenant, vice James ; Gentleman Cadet his
Serene Wm* Prince W. A. Edward of Saxe Weimar,
'rim the Royal Alilitary College, to be Ensign, vice Dury,
June 1.
69th FOottieutenant St. J. Mundell to be Captain, with-
out purchase vice Considine, deceased ; Ensign C. W. Tup-
per to be -Lieutenant, vice illundeil ; Gentleman Cadet E.
Bowen, front the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice
Tupper, Jnne I._ _ _

,gid Foot—C, E. S. Gleig, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice. Napier, who resigns, June 1.
, be Majors in the Army—Capt. R. Leonard,
f the Ifoyal Marines ; Capt. F. Spry, of the Royal Marines,
Nov. 4, 1840,_
111E3itottAriou)t.—The commissions of Brevet Majors J.
Whylock and. Morrison, of the Royal Marines, have 'been
antedated to the 28th September 1840.

;,• OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAT 31.
Corps a Royal Sappers and Miners—Captain Henry Sand-
ham, of thp Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Alajor of; /36-
gide, vice Matson, who resigns; Second Captain M. Wil-
liams, of the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant, Tice.
Sindhani, May'24.

!• DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
RICHARD BOWLEY, broker, Mincing-lane, London.
• -SAMUEL RAYNER, marble-mason, Derby. •
LEWIS BRYANT, coal merchant, Stamford-bill, ,Mid-
dlesex.

WILLIAM COCKING, market-gardener, Beeston,;Bed-
fordshirC., t.
EMILE MORINTERE DENIAISSE and HENRY THO-
MAS WOOLER, merchants, Bucklersbury.
•BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
.JOHN 'WATTS, cement manufaCturer, Wednesbury,,Staf-
'fordshire. •- - • •