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THE SUN, LONDO SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1841.

to increase the prosperty of the town ? But if this were allowed,
then the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Richmond would be
obliged to sell their flour at the same price as Sir Joshua, and that
was the real grievance. To talk, however, of the working man
being protected, or benefitted by this law, was preposterous. The
rate of relief of the New Poor-law was the whole amount of protec-
tion that he would get. While from fifty to eighty thousand per-
sons were yearly expatriated, torn from their relatives, and from all
that they had been accustmed to look upon as dear, never let him
hear of the working man receiving any protection from the bread-
tax. Why did those poor emigrants bear themselves from this
country ? Was it to find cheap clothing ? or to go in search of habi-
tations ? Why, there were 20,000 empty houses within a nide
or two of the Exchange of Manchester, and in many of those that
were inhabited, two or three families were driven by poverty to
live together. Was it then to find better cloth, better iron im-
plements, or better utensils of any kind to number to their demestic
comforts that Englishmen in thousands left their native shore? No.
wherever they went they took these things from England. They
went away to other lands to obtain the very bread which was de-
nied to them here under the plea of protecting them, and the last
sight they may behold on leaving their native shores may be those
towering warehouses called the Queen's, in which are deposited
hundreds of thousands of barrels of American flour, which was de-
nied to them in the place of their birth, and which they were
obliged to go 3,000 miles to cat.—(Loud cheers.) The quantity of
American flour which now came to Liverpool was no criterion of
what it might be if trade were free. He never talked of foreign
competition—whenever he talked upon this subject, it was of our
inherent right, as free men, to exchange the productions
of our lrbonr for the food grown in every part of the world,
and if this right were conceded, abundance might be found without
complaining of foreign competition. Three-fourths of the earth
were at present lying fallow, or were very thinly populated, and
some people were living in the midst of superabundance of that
which we wanted. They would exchange that superabundance
with us for our manufactures. They would exchange with the
Germans too. Why let them. The storehouse of the world lay
open, and there was enough for all.—(Much cheering.) There was
a country with which England was most intimately connected, and
it produced by slave labour cotton, tobacco, and rice. These were
the only articles of any magnitnde which we were allowed to take
from the United States. There were two millions and a half of
slaves in America toiling, he was sorry to say, for this country ; but
there were twelve millions and a half of free men in the splendid
prairies, who pastured cattle and raised corn, and with these we
were forbidden to treat (Hear, hear.) Mark the hypocrisy of
those men who forced us to treat for slave.raised produce
alone with the United States, and who yet at public meetings pre.
tended to have so great an anxiety that we should not treat with
the Brazils fur slave-raised sugar.—(Much laughter, followed by
very great applause.) But this was not all, England compelled the
great communities of free men to purchase their commodities
through the slaves. The free State of Ohio could not receive our
goods unless through the slave states, and they were consequensly
compelled to minister to slaves as much as we are. Now, what was
the prospect which opened up to Liverpool as well as Manchester
if the Corn-laws were repealed ? Why, the trade we might do
with the I welve and a half millions of freemen, speaking our own
language and having our own sympathies, was infinitely greater
than that we now had with the stave states. Would not this,
he asked the meeting, minister to their prosperity ? Would not
it be advantageous to them, if twice as many ships came
hither freighted with flour as there came ships from New Orleans?
There were boundless praries in the United States, on which suc-
cessive crops of corn might be raised almost without labour. There
was the State of Illinois itself, and he had been told by an intelli-
gent American in Birmingham, that that single State was capable
of producing as much wheat as would give to every man in the
United States, England, Fiance, and Germany 31bs. of bread every
day; and that State was as accessible to us as the counties of Sus-
sex and Devon, and only comprised one-thirtieth part of the sur-
face of the United States. We need not talk of the danger of Arne.
rica not taking our goods in return. The fact was, that they did
take our goods ; and the only complaint that he had ever heard of
was that they had a habit of taking more that they could eonve.
niently pay for. It was not with them as with the ports in the Bal.
tic. Was there a man with the spirit of a Christian, who would
not rise up and protest against this mighty grievance ?
He knew that they should have to encounter difficulties and ob-
jections, and this reminded him that one of the great lights of
this town, one of the Nestors of commerce, Mr. John Glad-
stone, had said that we could not send out goods for corn, and
that therefore there would be a drain for bullion if corn were
imported. He the (speaker) had never heard this argument em-
ployed to restrain the importation by the aristocracy of one arti.
cle that ministered to their luxury or convenience. In the
course of his travels he had inquired wherever he went whither

the best of the productions of the place went. Lately, for in-
stance, he took a trip up the Mediterranean, stopping by the way
at Lisbon. At Oporto there were immense cellars of wines, and
on inquiry he found that all the tine brands were going to Eng-
land. Malaga produced fine raisins and plums, and when he asked
where the best were going to the answer was all to England.
A little further on he encountered a specimen of the ingenious
partiality of our law-makers. At Genoa there is manufactured of
fine flour an artic'e called maccaroni, which came hither to mako
soup, and was packed up in very delicate boxes and ha was told on
inquiry that the finest are sent to England. Thus the aristocracy
bad no objection to the importation of flour when it came in the
shape of an article of luxury for themselves. At Smyrna they
talked of figs as the people in Manchester did of cotton, and he
saw:that the plumpest and most delicate of the fruit was packed up in
drums to be sent to England. In Egypt he found persons employed
in packing up luscious dates, and they told him that all the deli.
cate qualities were going to England. To complete
.the climax he
got to the top of theAlps,and found that the Swiss were manufacturing
Gruyere cheese, the finest of which went to England. It was
very curious too that the beautiful and fine damasks, and the
splendid silks of China worn by his family, and even the mahog-
any table he ate from, should never have entered into Mr. Glad_

stone's recollection, when speaking of the sudden peril to this
country from the drain of gold. Did he not fear that there should
be a drain of gold for all the articles that had been enumerated ?
If he (the speaker) were to go on from the places mentioned to
the v.ast plains of Russia and Poland, or to the almost boundless
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prcirie lands of America, where he might see pigs in the corn fields,
stacks of wheat lying there to rot and waste, and the peo-
ple clad in the mean time in sheep skins, and ask why
the superabundance was not sent thence to England.
in exchange for the fustians that they would be de-
lighted to wear, he should be told that there was a
sliding scale of duties on corn in England that prevented their
doing it.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He calculated that
during the last 25 years we had imported about a thousand mil-
,:

lions worth of foreign produce into this country. He meant of
foreign luxuries or conveniences. This would give from 40 to 50
millions every year, and he belie red that the whole amount of gold
which was in circulation did not reach 25 millions at any time, and
was it not curious that though we had imported so much there had
never been a drain of gold for any of those things. When Mr.
Gladstone; wailted to show that drains of gold might happen, he
lost sight of those things imported for his luxury and pointed
close to the small amount of corn imported, and to the consequent
drain of gold. Yes, it was true that this drain of gold did follow
that slight importation, and this was the very argument which
they used against the sliding scale.—((Hear, hear, and cheers.)
After a few further observations, in the course of which he con-
tended strongly for a total and an immediate repeal of the Corn.
laws, the speaker concluded an idst vehement and prolonged applause.
Mr. DICKS, a tailor, then came forward to advocate the existing
Corn-laws, of the justice of which he professed himself a firm sup.
porter, and entered into a long argument to show that the Anti.
Corn-law League was only deluding the labouring population, as

much as their object was so to reduce their.wages as to enable

hem to cumpete with foreigu labour in a neutral market.

Mr. COBDEN briefly, but triumphantly replied, and carried with
him the suffhtges of nearly the whole of the vast assembly.
Mr. W. RATIIBONE then came forward amidst great applause, to
propose the following resolution :—" That this meeting, deeply
sensible of the gross injustiae, as well as impolicy cf the existing
system of Corn-laws, pledge themselves to persevere in their exer,
tions for the total repeal of those laws."

Mr. L. HEYWORTII seconded the resolution, which was carried
by three dissentients only, and amidst the most rapturous demon.
strations of delight.

Mr. Alderman SHELL then proposed that the best thanks of this
meeting be given to the members of the Manchester Anti-Corn.
law League, who have this day honoured Liverpool by their pre-
sence, for their powerful advocacy of the cause of justice and
humanity.

Mr. C. HOLLAND seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously, and with loud acclamations.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and themeeting sepa-
rated at a quarter to Twelve o'Clock.

CORN-LAW CRISIS.
The following extracts from the Countr%
Papers will give some idea of the excitement
which Lord John Russell's motion has created.
(From the Derby Chronicle.)
A more important week than that which is now ended will
probably never be witnessed in the political history of this
Empire. Since the days of the Reform Bill, no measure at
all comparable to the momentous one to modify the Corn-laws,
announced by Lord J. Russell has been brought forward. This
great question has come upon us with the rush of an avalanche
alien seemingly most rooted and remote ; just as the Reform
Bill itself exceeded by its extent the most sanguine hopes
of its expectants. A political, a financial, and a commercial
crisis have happened at the same moment in conjunction, so as
to force every man in the empire to range himself on one or the
other side of this battle. This Ministerial defeat on Lord
Morpeth's Irish Bill forced the Cabinet to pay their trump card
at the end of the game. While an annual deficit in the re-
venues of the State, amounting to upwards of two millions, in
the face of declining commerce and the expiration of our com-
mercial treaties with the Brazils and the United States, and the
mole and more rigid exclusion and compatition of the Ger-
man States, all combined to threaten with malign aspect
the star cf England's supremacy. To resign inglori-
ously the Palladium of European liberty and progress
into the hands of its deadliest foes, the Tories—to hang on in-
el: riously in a state of inaction " bombarding the Lords and
the Commons with good measures" amidst the taunts of friends
and foes, or to make one last final appeal to the magic of Re-
form, and to the enthusiasm of popular principles, were the al-
ternatives which presented themselves to the Whigs. The
Ministry were not the a:en to " bow beneath the ills upon
them piled." By one vigorous effort they have cut their way
through the serried ranks of the monopolists, and once
more stand in the vanguard of the battle. Disguises are
thrown aside, and the twenty-seven millions of people and the
thirty thousand oligarchs stand face to faee, " foot to foot and
steel," under tried and trusty leaders.
(From the Durham Chronicle.)
THE CORN-LAWS—MINISTERIAL PROGRESSION.—ORCe
more we hoist our flag for the Ministry I They reformed the
Poor-law, which was eating up the land ; and with equal wis-
dom and courage they have announced their purpose to alter
the Corn-law, which, for years past, has been undermining the
commerce of the country. It is a bold and manly course ; and
regardirr, it as such we seize the earliest opportunity to declare
our adhesion to their new scheme of ,fiscal policy. We
feel the greatest satisfaction in doing this, because it
has been more than once imputed to us, that we were
amongst the unreasonable grumblers who had deserted
the Reform Ministry to play the game of the Tories.
But suffering by-gorses to he by-gones, we now see the Whigs
taking up "the question of questions,"—that on which the wel-
fare of the country depends—with something like the spirit
which distinguished their conduct on the introduction of the
Reform bill. They have intimated their determination to
stand or fall by the measure ; and the circumstance of one of
their official connections-11r. Gordon—having resigned his
soa-, through dissatisfaction with their movement in commer-
cial reform, is an s artiest that they are as film in their pur-
pose as just and enlightened in their policy. This, we con-
cei%e, to be precisely the point at which a reunion between
'tern and the earnest Reformers of England ought to take

place.

(From the Western Times).
The falling state of the revenue has driven Ministers to
a course pregnant with the most momentous consequences.
They have determined to grapple with the existing Corn-laws,
and alter the whole system of protection. The announcement
was made by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons,
last Friday night, and to-night he is to state the specific na-
ture of the proposed alteration, which is to substitute a fixed
duty for the present sliding scale. This step has gained for the
Ministry a burst of enthusiastic approbation in the manufac-
ttu ing and popu'ous districts ; but in the rural districts it will
of course be differently received the amount of the duty to
be proposed being now the sole question of interest—when
that is declared we shall haw° an opportunity of seeing how
the matter is received in th a.ricultural districts. All the
towns of the north are already t 1 and alive, anxiously waiting
for the Ministerial proposition, and prepared to give it effect.
(From the Staffordshire Examiner,)
We will not deny that on this struggle depends the existence
of a Alinistry hitherto deservedly obnoxious to thorough-going
Reformers, and to the great bulk of the people. We do not

seek to disguise that by assisting this movement of Govern-
ment, the people will renovate Ministers in office. Never-
theless, we conscientiously call upon every class of Reformers
strenuously to espouse the cause. By supporting Ministers on
the present occasion, the various classes of Reformers whom
they have dissatisfied, will best obtain the ability to discharge
them for better men, in event of future provocation. By sup-
porting the present movement, those who advocate propositions
to which Ministers are inimical, can best remove the obstacles
to their propositions. Chartists, Anti-Poor-lawites, Educa-
tionists, and every other peculiar class, cannot further ad-
vance their particular projects, if their views be right, than by
contributing to destroy the bread-tax.
(From the Coventry Herald.)
. .

Let every homely working man do his duty himself, and in
his own sphere, and we shall then fear nothing for Charlatans,
either of one sort or another. The abolition of the bread mo-
nopoly is offered. The abolition of the sugar monopoly is
offered. The abolition of the timber monopoly, which en-
hances the rent of every dwelling house erected, is offered. If
the Tories and the Chartists combine to get these offers re-
jected, let every man put the question to these unnatural
agents—can or will the Tories or the Chartists give anything
better ? Succeed in breaking down these monopolies, and
other monopolies of less magnitude must inevitably share the
same fate. There can be no better rule adopted at the present
crisis than to take exactly the opposite ground to the great
landlord interest, and to imitate their energy at this opposite
point—that is to say, exert as much energy as the landlords ;
but let it be in favour of what they oppose.
(From the Hutt Advertiser.)
Wi!h heartfelt satisfaction we congratulate the friends of the
national interests and the industrious classes of this country
upon the wise and patriotic course adopted by Ministers—a
course which has awakened both terror and exasperation among
the supporters of monopoly and class legislation. If the people
of the United Kingdom only prove true to themselves, the day
of their deliverance from want, the consequence of iniquitous
ptivileges and insufficient employment is at hand. An en-
lightened system of finance is now offered for public acceptance,
and such a revision of the accursed Corn-laws as will render
justice to the many without oppressing the few.
(From the Leicester Mercury.)
Men and measures must sometimes be distinguished. We
will not, like the Ministerial Papers, call on the people to rally
round the Ministers, but we do invoke them to assemble, in all
their might, beneath the banner of Corn-law Repeal. We
deem it a sacred duty to support so good a cause, by whomso-
ever it may be advocated ; and were Sir Robert Peel to come
into office next week—which, for ought we know, he may—
and to propose an alteration of the Corn-laws, we should re-
commend just the same course as we do now, and that is, to
petition agitate in every possible way—not for the measure be-
for:. Pai liament, but for total and immediate repeal, leaving the
House to draw its own inference as to how much short of jus-
tice it may be safe to grant.
(Fri.m the Brighton Herald.)

All suffer now. Trade being bad, wages are low, millions
unemployed, and many of those employed not half paid. With
more trade would come increase of wages; with increase of
wages, increase of consumption ; and all, even the agriculturist,
would benefit. As it is certain that the Government will ap-
peal to the country before long, it as ill depend much upon the
people whether they will have more trade, good wages, cheaper
food, or whether they wlll have increase, of taxation without
any advantageous adjuncts ; the continuation of the Corn-laws;
and misery and crime rapidly increasing. If they support and
urge on the Government, much good may be done ;if they
blindly and selfishly :oppose the intentions of the Government,
let them not he eafter complain, but submit quietly to the
tyranny they wi-.1 have assisted to establish.
( From the Plymouth Journal.)
That this question of opposing and various interests and of
party spirit should be so manfully grappled by the Govern-
ment was beyond our fondest hopes. We honour the courage
which has induced this bold adherence to this great measure
of reform ; but that courage is upborne by the broad principles
of wisdom and justice on which the alteration is founded.
Nahing could follow more opportunely the late Government
minority than the Ministerial adoption of this measure. It
will establish the present Ministry more firmly than ever in
their country's esteem and confidence and ensure their sup-
port. The question of Corn-law repeal has within the past
year made astonishing ground in the general conviction of its
high expediency. We shall reserve any further remark until
the Goverment measure is more fully knewn. In the mean-
time petitions should be sent up. Not an hour should be lost.
( From the Nottingham lieview.)
This is a new prospect; this is a bright era opened to the
view. All the lords will band together—the land-lords, the
corn lords, the timber-lords, the West India-lords, the aristo-
crats and monopasts of every size and feature, will conjoin
with the Tories in a determined effort to overthrow the Minis-
ters. Were it a conflict only for power and place, we should say,
let them alone, let them waste their time and their powers in the
unholy strife, the time of the people will come. but the case is
very oifferent; if we are not mistaken, the time has now come.
Let this long oppressed, burthened, and insulted nation unitedly
avail itself of the opportunity offered at such an unlooked-for
moment, and by putting forth its powers, as at the Reform
Bill, crumble all monopolies to the dust ! Probably there '
may never be another opportunity offered, in which it can be
done without a bloody struggle ! " The people must gird up
their loins for the battle, and consider that it is one for life and
death. Not a day, not an hour is to be lost. Let every man
bare his arm for the fight. A brief display of vigour and
energy now may avert years and years of suffering. The best
interests of the country are at stake, and the interval must be
turned to account. England expects every man to do his
duty.' "

(From the Kent Herald.)
NECESSITY FOR FREE TRADE.—In making the financial
statement fur the year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer de-
veloi,e,l principles of commercial liberality, as welcome as un-
expected, in a reduction of the sugar and timber duties, and
Lord John Russell crowned the dismay of the monopolists by
announcing his intention of bringing forward the question of
the Corn-laws with a view of substituting a moderate fixed
duty for the present almost prohibitory restrictions. This at-
tack on the stronghold of the the aristocracy excited among
lards and gentlemen" the utmost astonishment and conster-
nation. The landed monopolists, the grinders of the poor, the
oppressors of commerce, the destroyers of the national prospe-
rity, burst at once into loud expressions of fear and anger.
The et yof exul'ation out of doors was scarcely less. The pro-
pest of food becoming cheap and plentiful, of trade reviving,
of England's commerce again resuming its ascendancy, of na-
tions becoming bound together in amity by the enduring ties of
mutual interest was hailed at once with grateful acclamations.
(From the Wilts Independent.)
THE CORN-Laws.— We hail the announcement with joy ;
not that we approve of any duty at all on the first necessary of
life, but that we see a clear indication in it that public
opinion is operating upon the Government, and that those who
have buckled on the armour of Anti-Corn-lax agitation need
but proceed in their course to achieve the most important vic-
tory that ever was won by human means.
(From the Derby Reporter.)
We remind those who deprecate this struggle, that it is in-
evitable. They may disapprove of the Anti-Corn-law agitation,
but it will go on, and no earthly power can stop it. 'The mer-
chants and manufacturers of England are not a class to be put
down by legislative enaciments, aided by the sword. It would
be a dark day for England that should witness the attempt.
They will go on to agitate, and rouse the masses; every
year their exertions increase, and the Tory Poor-law
agitation is adding to the vast amount of discontent, rapidly
spreading throughout every part of the land. All this is tend-
ing to the overthrow of a monopoly which enhances the price
of food. The opportunity for settling this question is most op-
portune ; if neglected, such an one may not occur again, and
hence it becomes an urgent, duty that all whose habits and
views lead them to deprecate strife, should join her Majesty's
Government in the attempt to reconcile these conflicting in-
tei eats by such an adjustment as will at least put an end to
dangerous agitation, if it do not give universal content.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council, at one o'clock this
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Se-
rene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, arrived
in town at half-past five o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a car-
riage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Windsor
Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal with her at-
tendants, and the Royal suite, followed in four of the Royal
carriages. The suite consisted of the Countess of Mount
Edgecumbe, Lady in Waiting; Lady Caroline Cocks and the
Hun. Miss Cavendish, Maids of Honour in Waiting; Earl of
Listowel, Lord in Waiting ; Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in
Waiting ; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom to Prince Albert ;
and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness.
The Queen and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham
Palace by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Comptroller of the
Household, and Colonel Wemyss and Lord Alfred Paget,
Equerries to her Majesty.
Immediately on her Majesty's arrival at the Palace the Royal
Standard was hoisted on the marble arch.

The Royal dinner party at ilu;kiniam Palace last evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their
serene Highnesses the Prince and Princes of Leiningen,
Earl of Erroll, Viscount Melbourne, Baroness Spaeth, Sir
George Couper, Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Anne
Mari‘i Dawson, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish,
Baroness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord
Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, Captain Francis Seymour, and
Dr. Pt cetorius.

The Band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards were in
attendance at the Palace during dinner.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her Suite,
left Sudbury Hall yesterday morning, and came to town by a
special train on the London and Birmingham Railway. Her
Majesty's Suite consisted of the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in
Waiting; Hon. Charlotte Hudson, Maid of Honour in Wait-
ing; Earl Howe, Earl of Sheffield, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Andrew
Barnard, Sir David Davies, and the Rev. J. R. Wood. Her
Majesty arrived at her residence, Marlborough House, Pall-
mall, from the Euston-square terminus, at ten minutes past
seven o'clock last evening. Her Majesty, we are happy to state
is quite well.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady,
Anne Maria Dawson, arrived at her residence, Clarence House,
St. James's, shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens and
Lieut.-Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday afternoon
from his residence at Kew. In the evening his Royal Highness
honoured the " Nulli Secundum" Club with his company at
dinner, at the Clarendon Hotel.

Mr. Handley and Mr. Grattan had an interview with Vis-
count Melbourne yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

PERTH CIRCUIT COURT.—At the Perth cir•
cuit Court on Thursday, Catherine Symon, from Dundee, was
charged with murder, in so far as she did, on 15th March
last, wickedly and feloniously throw her infant child into a
sheet of water, to the north-west of the terminus of the Dun-
dee and Arbroath Railway, foot of Trades'-lane, Dundee, in
consequence of which it was drowned ; or did strangle or suffo-
cate the said child, and then throw it into the water, where it
was found dead. The panel pleaded not guilty. After a
lengthened trial, Lord 11edwyn summed up; and the jury,
after retiring about half an hour, returned a verdict, finding:,
by a large majority, the panel guilty as libelled, but unani-
mously recommending her to mercy. Lord Mackenzie, after a
feeling and impressive address to the prisoner, proposed that
she should suffer the punishment of death; after which, Lord
Medwyn sentenced her to be executed at the common place of
execution at Dundee, upon Wednesday, the 26th May.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.--_A General Court-
Martial is ordered to be held at Woolwich on Monday, at which
Lieut.-Col. C. Cruttenden will preside as Judge-Advocate.
The part;es under arrest at present are Lieut. E. %V. Dance, of
the second battalion, appointed June 20, 1840, and Lieut. Percy
Francis Gother Scott of the ninth battalion, appointed Dec.
18, 1640. Ihe breaches of discipline with which they are
charged have not het bei.ln made ptolie ; hut, from report, the
differences betwixt those two officers took place in a billiard-
room, by Lieut. Dance applying an unofficer-like expression to
Lieut. Scott, who immediately retaliated by personal resent-
ment, the ultimate result of which was a challenge sent by
Lieut. Dance to Lieut. Scott, to induce him to fight a duel.
Highly to the honour of the Artillery, a court-mai tial on a
comnais,ioned officer has not been held in the garrison at
Woolwich dur'ng the last twenty !ears.
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Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now ready at all the Libraries,
R• WARD'S NEW NOVEL,
" DE CLIFFORD ; or, the CONSTANT MAN."
" A sterling work—a work not to be perused and dismissed
in a breath, but to be read and studied again and again. These
volumes will long continue to be an ornament to the polite lite-
rature of our time."—Literary Gazette.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
11-IE QUEEN'S POISONER;
Or, FRANCE in the SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
By MISS LOUISA STUART COS fELLO,
Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines.'
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
`DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS
THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
_

Will he repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled

LONDON ASSURANCE.

Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark.
ay.-ay, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson
Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
:Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace farkaway.
Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Humbv.

After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex-
travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Beauty, Madame Vestris : The Bcast, Mr. W. Harrison ;
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar-
rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee.
Doors tc I e opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'clock.

Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
25.; Gallery, Is.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
mzy ne had upon application.
Private BOZIA to be had so'ely of Mr. Andre ;a, bookseller,
:67. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THEMANAGEAIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES. --
Ile most powerful attraction ever offered. Sixth Night a
Claude Duval, supported by Mr. J. S. Balls, and the ac-
knowledged best Company in the Metropolis, with an en-
tire change of Pieces.
THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled
CLAUDE DUVAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN.
With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma-
chinery, &c.
Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls.
After which, the Comedy of
WILD OATS; OR, THE STROLLING GENTLEMAN.

Rover. Mr. J. S. Balls.
To conclude with the Romance of Diablerie, entitled
APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND.
Apollyon, Mr. O. Smith,
The Last Night of his Engagement.

IHOIL WATER AT LONDON 'BRIDGE TO-MORRO W
flung :6 minutes afar 3 1 Evening IS minutes after 4

:he Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sus corn,

meneLd at 10 minutes after Three.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1841.

Both Houses were engaged last night with very interesting dis-
cussions, the Lords on the Corn-laws, the Commons on the Sugar-
duties. Every night the former is likely to occupy their Lordships'
attention, as they are intensely interested in it. We shall not,
for want of space, further notice the debate, than to say that
it was spirited, and that we were glad to hear the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE give there, as Lord Jou r; RUSSELL gave in the
other House, a flat and unqualified contradiction to the
statement, that the Cabinet had taken up the question of
the Corn-laws and the Sugar-duties on the spur of the moment,
and after they were defeated on the Irish question. The de-
bate in the Lords arose on presenting a petition, and led to
no other result than the debate itself.

In the Commons Lord J. RUSSELL announced the duties
that be proposes to levy on corn : Bs. on wheat, ss. on rye,
4s. 6d. on barley, and 3s. 4d. on oats. The announcement
immediately excited the ire of the Earl of DARLINGTON, and
Mr. flaximmr declared in the course of the evening that they
were lower than the most sanguine opponents of the Corn-laws
would expect, and would be worse than no protection at all.
On the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of
Ways and Means being read, Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a
masterly speech on the policy of the' Government, on the state
of the finances, on what was due to the people of England,
and on the prorosition which the Ministers have submitted to
Parliament. The Noble Lord spoke for nearly two hours, and
though terser and more pointed speeches have frequently been
heard, a speech more replete with good sense and right feeling
towards the people of England, and replete with more compre-
hensive views, was perhaps never heard within the walls of Par-
liament. Nor was it destitute of caustic remarks applied to
the Tories, who now trade in philanthropy, and wish to seize
the Go% einment by pretended or sudden affection for the slave
population, lraving themselves a hole to creep back to
taxation and trade when their present purpose is answered.
It gratified us to hear views which we have laid before
our readers, both of the conduct of Ministers in proposing
these measures, and of the bearings of those measures, con-
firmed and corroborated by the observations of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. His remarks on England being unable to supply the
Brazilians with cottons if we would not take the produce of
slave labour from them, were excellent, as were many of his il-
lustrations. Put the crowning excellence of his speech was
the vigour with which he enforced on the House the duty of
attending above all things to the people of England. Of the
condition of Bolton, for example, as contrasted with the blacks
of Jamaica, he drew a most mournful picture, which wade
us wish that the negroes would send forth from Jamaica to
emancipate the starving slaves here. Lord J. RUSSELL con-

eluded his speech by an eloquent vindication of the principles
of free trade, and an admonition to the House not to lose the
opportunity of acting on them. He left the House to adopt
the plan ; the Ministers had done their duty by presenting it.
Lord SA NDON followed, and after a heavy speech full of sta-
tistics, to show that there would be plenty of sugar without al-
lowing foreign sugar to be imported, he concluded by moving
the resolution which we have already published.
Mr. Hoco seconded the motion in a neat speech, in which
he was all for the East Indies, and making common cause with
the West Indies in assaulting the pockets and the health of the
people of England.

Mr. 11A IVES made a speech full of good details, but it did not
tell with any force on the House.

Mr. HANDLEY explained that he meant to vote against the
Ministers, and plainly avowed that he united with the West In-
dians and the East Indiaus in wringing taxes from the people
of England.

Mr. JAMES assigned a few reasons why he meant disinterest-
edly to support Ministers, as he has an estate in Jamaica.
The crack speech of the night, however, after Lord JoHN's,
a speech very much to the purpose, snore to the purpose than
any other speech, from the familiarity of the speaker with the
subject, was the last of the debate. It appeared to make a
great impression on the House, and we regret to say it was
againht our cause. Dr. Lusiiiiic.rox spoke with energy, and
carried conviction because he spoke with sincerity. He op-
posed the Ministerial measure, as tending to encourage the
slave-trade, to make slavery in Cuba and other places more
hateful, to increase human misery, as unjust to our colonies, and
he said there is no necessity for it. He dwelt at considerable
length on the supply of sugar for this year, which he had esti-
mated at 205,000 tons ; he was eloquent on the misery of the
slave trade and of slavery ; where slaves only are employed, and
are used up and then cast out to die like hack horses. He ex-
patiated on the propriety of continuing the protection on sugar
for the sake of the emancipated negroes, and he justified all
his statements by quotations from letters, authorities, and books.
He could beast of his own undeviating consistency, and de-
dared though others had changed he had not changed one
iota of his opinion. It was impossible to hear him and not
feel that he must be answered, or the Ministers will
suffer in character. We trust they will find some man of
greater calibre than Mr. EWA RT, who rose to speak, but moved
the adjournment of the debate—some practised orator, as well
sk lied in the arts of his trade as Dr. LUSHINCTON himself,
to refute his speech. _ _

Dr. LUSHINGTON is obviously fanatical for philanthropy.
Such a man cannot be answered by the cold calculations of a
political economist, who weighs, balances, and refines doubts,
and yet dogmatized, but who never is and can never be pas•
sionately in love with a theorem.
Dr.ri a. r
USHINGTON must be
answered by some man fanatical for justice. He must be
;minded there that he is not sent to the House
of Commons to legislate for the blacks of
sin in the world_a far
unable to accomplish that—but
le of England. He is to
greaterCt tba, othrantohe ehxatsinbgeueisnh
the Brazilians, or the
lteogii)srloamteotfoerththeehma,pnpoint efsosr otfh
et the
fprei
coapn
Spaniards. He must look at the real misery at home, not
gloat over the factitious and imagined misery of the slave-ship
or the sugar plantation. To the people of England he owes
the duty of justice; to the suffering Africans he
must be content to give his compassion. But when
he taxes the people of England to the fraction of

a Lathing on the supposition that he is thereby conferring a
benefit on the negroes, he commits a positive injustice, and is
as criminal to the houseless and starving poor of Bolton as
the Brazilian planter is to his slaves.

Dr. LUSHINGTON has no faith in his own principles. He
professes to be an advocate of free trade, and he has no confi-
dence in it. Hence he fancies that the man who buys slaves
can grow sup? cheaper than he who finds labourers un-
bought. How much the wages of a labourer in Jamaica surpass
the cost of buying and maintaining a slave in Cuba was not told,
nor was the division of labour, which can be extended only
among free men adverted to, neither was the ingenuity which
s'aves cannot possess taken into consideration. When these
points are carefully examined, we have no doubt that slave la-
bour will be found dearer even now than free labour, and that
Jamaica, if left to itself, would soon undersell Cuba. But Cuba
has not to maintain a large wealthy proprietary in Spain ; there
are few or no mortgages there hungering for interest on money
borrowed on the supposition that sugar was never to be so'd
for less than 4()s. per cwt. ; and if Cuba had these plagues, with
a great protecting duty, the sugar grown there would be
dearer than the sugar grown in Jamaica. If Dr.
LUSIIINOTON had looked on some of the gentlemen
around him, he need not have despaired of the
efficacy of free labour, and been false to his own creed. If
Dr. LUSHINGTON be opposed by some man who is fanatical
fur justice, who has a strong conviction of the duty of a legis-
lator to the people of England, he may be answered and
refuted, but he will not be answered by any pert, insincere,
mere man of expediency. The Ministers must put up a good
man to answer Dr. LUSHINGTON.
The Debate was adjourned.

We rejoice to see the address of the Anti-
Corn-law League. They remain true to their
principle, and still demand the TOTAL AND IM-
MEDIATE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. Their
declaration has relieved us from a difficulty. We
adhere to the same principle; we were not quite
sure how the League might act, and we have
been comparatively silent, lest we might
be a cause of embarrassment to our friends.

We can agitate with a clear conscience
rbr the total and immediate repeal; to ag:-
Ate for a fixed duty, however small, would

be to sanction an abominable bread-tax. By the
declaration of the Ministers that the landlords'
tax, and the public taxation, and the na-
tional prosperity, are hopelessly incompati-
ble, a blow has been given to the worst
monopoly that ever cursed a nation, tin-
der which all the monopolists of the em-
pire reel like drunken men. It depends on
the people to send that blow home, and extin-
guish the bread-tax for ever. Let us all work,

then, in conjunction with the League, for a total
and immediate repeal. To agitate for that will com-
pel Ministers to act boldly. All the possible evils
of agitation will be as much caused by agitation
for a fixed duty as by agitation for the total abo-

lition of the law. He is not a good surgeon who
risks a patient's life by a large amputation, and
yet fails to cut away every atom of the dis-
ease. The good of the country, the ne-
cessity of avoiding a future agitation, requires
the people now to exert themselves, let who will
be Ministers, and insist on the total repeal of the
scoundrel bread-tax. Up, then, men of Eng__
land, and wipe awa3 this badge of sla-
very. It is a hateful poll-tax. Show
yourselves worthy of your sires. Exhibit
their energy combined with your own modera-

tion and wisdom. Tell the Legislature—tell the
owners of rent—tell all the brood of monopolists
who have so long sucked your blood, under the
name of PROTECTION, that you will be their
slaves no longer.

We have only room to call attention to the
great Anti-Corn-law meeting held at Liverpool
on Thursday, of which a full report is given in
another part of The 57.01. The extracts from the
Country Papers, which we also give this day,
will be read with the highest interest and delight
by every enemy cf monopoly, and every friend
ofthe poor. The Provincial Press is doing the work
manfully, deterred neither by the frowns of the
landlords nor the dire hostility of the aristocracy
and the Church. Men who thuslend their aid in
the cause of the starved and oppressed will meet
with the reward promised in Scripture, " Blessed
is he that pleadeth for the poor and needy."
In Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S admirable speech last
night, this topic was handled with great skill
and eloquence. His words will make a deep im-
pression throughout the country; and in order
that they may have fall effect, we advise the
Anti-Corn-law Association to print the whole
speech in a cheap shape, and distribute it in
every city, town, and hamlet in the United
Kingdom.]

Having received and published in our After-

noon Edition of yesterday the only important
news in the Paris Journals of Thursday, nothing
remains for us but to quote the following addi-
tional extracts from them :

The grand mass on the anniversary of the Emperor Napo-
leon was celebrated yesterday in the Church of the Invalides.
The choir vas hung with violet velvet, enriched with escut••
cheons emblazoned with the arms of the empire, flags, and
trophies. Above the high altar was an immense banner with
the arms of the empire, surmounted by a golden eagle with the
wings displayed. On the altar, resting on a cushion, was
placed the golden coronet presented by the town of Cherbourg.
On each side of the choir was stationed the King's Aides-de-
Camp, the Peers, and Deputies, including Marshals Moncey,
Grouchy, and Gerard, Admiral Duperre, Generals Gourgaud
and Petit, Messrs. de Las Cases and Marchand, and the Abbe
Cnquereau. Under the dome was collected a large body of
officers, among whom were some who wore the uniforms of the
empire. The Cure of the Invalides performed the service, and
the music was executed by the band of the 66th of the line.
After the absolution, Marshal Moncey, supported by General
Petit, and attended by his aid=s-de-,camp, was carried into the
Chapel of Saint Jerome, and there received the golden coronet
from the hands of the Mayor of Cherbourg, and deposited it on
the coffin of the Emperor. This duty being performed, nu-
merous persons were admitted into the chapel to do honour to
the remains it enclosed.

We have often said that the surrounding of Paris with bas-
tiles was a precaution taken' not against foreign enemies, but
against the interior. We have repeated this to the National,
we have repeated it to M. Barrot, all our representations have
been in-vain; they stopped their ears to the very clear decla-
ration of M. Guizot in the Chamber of Deputies, and to the
still more explicit revelations of several Members of the Court
party in the Chamber of Peers. Now the mystification is
complete—the law is voted—the treason of M. 1 biers has suc-
ceeded by the aid of those on whom he had the least reason to
reckon—the Ministry no longer fears to make known the idea
which predominated in this fatal law, and the following
are the clmr and precise terms in which it expresses
itself :—" As for the faction, as for that handful of agitators,
enemies of the Government, and so often admired and pro-
tected by the Journals of the Opposition, the Government has
proceeded with vigour against it wherever it has shown itself.
It is especially against the hopes of this faction, it is in spite
of it, it is for ever to destroy the only probability of its future
triumph, that the Ministry has asked and obtained of the
Chamber the project of law on the fortifications of Paris."
The Journal -which contains these avowals is in some mea-
sure more than an official Journal, it is the expression of the
real opinions o. M. Guizot—it is the Memorial de Rouen.
This paper has always been the faithful organ of the party of
the Doctrinaires. It was to the Memorial de irouen that M.
Guizot, when Ambassador at London, addresssed those
confidential notes which presaged the fall of the Cabinet of
the Ist of March, and which excited so much anger in
the journal of M. Thiers. When the Memorial advances a
fact, we may say that it is the echo of M. Guizot and the pa-
lace, for it was established a: Rouen to represent the ideas of
the personal Government. Thus, then, according to M.
Guizot, the fortifications are directed especially against intes-
tine parties. We believe, for our part, that they menace them
alone. The Courrier Francais, the confident of M. Thiers,
had made confessions nearly similar, by declaring that they
would be good against internal and external enemies, But
who canbelieve that the Government would think of expending
a thousand millions to fortify itself against that handful of agi-
tators of which it speaks, isolated from the population, and
which the National Guard alone would always crush by its
numbers and spirit. It would be an act of extravagance, and
the affrays in the streets, which we have witnessed during the
last eleven sears, abundantly prove that the Constitution and
order have no need to defend themselves with fifteen bastilles and
2,000 pieces of cannon, with which it is intended to surround
Paris. It is evidently to keep the Parisian population in awe
that the fortifications have been planned, and now that the Mi-
nistry has obtained the law, it no longer condescends to con-
ceal its thoughts.—Le Commei ce.
BO UR SE.—PARDI, THURSDAY, MAY 6.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
french S per Cents ll4 ... 114 50!... 114
4 per Cents.... ...... b 9 20 ... 9p9 20 ... 89 20 114 50
99 20
3 per cants 79 55 55 79 3, ' ~9 55
Bank of terance: 2
1040 —lO4O 182 50 ... 3182 50 „Also ”3140
...1040
iseigian Bank
1841
5 per Cents.
101
3 per Cents 7l 20 71 20 71 20 71 620
New Loan lOl% ... 111% 10th 101 k.
:npnish 24% 2
Portuguese 3 per Cents 20% 20% 207
Scapotimn
_lO3 (30 102 75 ... ,`.13 60 ... '75
Roman
EAILWAII SHARES.
$t Germain
244) ... 240 ... 240 ..: 240
Rouen 4t 0 ... 460 4:.7 50 ... 457 LO
()gleam ;. 487 50 ... 4:0 ... 487 50 ... 420 Strasburg to Jiale '426 25 ... (.433 21 ... 236 9.5 zz:6 25

The official despatches giving an account of
the actions in Canton River appeared in the Ga-
zette of last evening, and are precisely the same
with those we published on Friday, and which
were communicated by the respective Comi nand-
ing Officers to the Governor General of India.

GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH RAILWAY.__
The contractors on the above
.line of railway art: getting for-
ward with their respective portions in a mannwe highly satis-
factory. It is expected the above railway will te opened from
end to end in the month of August next, and, should favoura-
ble weather continue we have no doubt but. such will be the
case.—Glasgow Chronicle,

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

ORDS V. LYON—LYON r. ORDII.
His LORDSHIP gave judgment in these causes, in which
cross bills had been tiled, and which arose out of a suit to com-
pel the specific performance of a contract. (They have been
already noticed in The Sun.) His Lordship ordered the bill
to be dismissed with costs. The cross bill must also be dis-
missed with costs, for his Lordship did not think a sufficient
case had been made out to authorise him to do otherwise.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was engaged this morning in hearing petitions,
by order, which presented no feature of general interest.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE. )
MOOO RIDGE V. DREW.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a dentist in Old
Burlington•atreet, against the defendant, an elderly lady, to
recover the sum of eighteen guineas, for a set of artificial
teeth. 'I he defence was, that the teeth did not fit, and were
of no service whatever to the defendant, who could neither
masticate nor articulate with them. The case was tried before
the Under Sheriffs of Middlesex, and the Jury returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff.
Mr. HILL had obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict
should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial
granted on the ground of misdirection by the Sheriff.
After Counsel had been heard at length,
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE made the rule for a new trial abso-
lute, and directed that such ne A trial should take place before
a Judge.
Rule for new trial made absolute.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY B.—Wind this day at noon light breeze
from S., cloudy weather.
STAN ;ATE CREEK, MAY 7.—Arrived the Independent,
from Ancona ; Melville, Mejorna ; Fama, Tarragona ; Eli-
zabeth, ditto ; Isabella, Leghorn ; Albanian , Vostozza,
Conservative, Smyrna.
DEAL, MAY 7. —Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Courier, from
Mexico ; Busy Yacht, Faro; Albatros, St. Michael's. Arrived
from the river and sailed, the Laura, for Algoa Bay ; Mariner,
Quebec ; Jew, Marseilles. Sailed all the Outward bound.
SHOREHAM, MAY 7.—The Diadem Lee, bound to New-
haven, is on shore behind the East Pier, at the entrance of
this harbour.

RAM GATE, MAY 7.--Arrived the Gem° Giorgo, Ibrail,
from London, leaky, and with foremast sprung, &c., and has
proceeded for the Creek.
Ponisstounr, MAY 7.--Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Same-
rang, for Madras.

COW ES, MA Y 7.—Arrived the Elise, from Buenos Ayres
Verstocht, ditto.

SEAFORD, MAY 7.—Arrived off port the Harriet, M'Haren,
from Sierra Leone ; Charlotte, Anderson, Torrevechia.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 7. —Wind S. S. E. to S. S. W.—Arrived
the Cambers, Green, from Pernambuco, sailed sth ult. ; Nor-
val, Corbin, do. ; Baronet, Wylie, Monte Video; Wanerer,
Cowan, Honduras; Reindeer, Kemp, Messina. The Eliza-
beth, from Anclam did not arrive, reported yesterday. Sailed
the Alfred, for New Orleans • North America. New York;
Torolusta, do ; Helen Mar, ; Grace, Quebec ; Indefati-
gable, Africa. Arrived off, St. Vncent, from St. Vincents.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of Meat were small, trade was brisk, and prices
of some articles rather dearer. Mutton improved fully 6d. per
stone since last week, Veal and Lamb sold readily at rather
higher rates. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to
4s. 6d. ; Lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. 4d. ; Veal 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ;
Pork, 4s. to ss. Poultry in rather short supply, trade good,
and prices the same as last quoted. Eggs dull of sale at 4s. 6d.
to ss. 6d. per 120; and Plovers 3s. per dozen.
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
There was an active demand for Meat, and prices advanced,
the supply being small. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. to
4s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. ; Lamb,
ss. to 6s. 4d. Clover, 41. to 5/. 17s. ; Meadow Hay 31. 10s.
to 41. 17s. ; Straw, from 1/. 15s. to 11. 18s.
TEA MARKET.
There was a fair demand for Free Trade, and the rates have
been fully supported. Company's Congon, Is. Bd. cash, with a
firm Market. The stock is on the decrease.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices of Russian Tallow do not give way, but the market
was dull. P. Y. Candle 475. 9d. to 48s. on the spot, and 48s.
3d. for delivery in last three months.
OIL MARKET.
Fish Oils firm, and the demand good for all sorts. Seed
Oils rather dull, and prices on the decline.
SPIRIT MARKET.
Rum dull of sale, and prices were sustained. Brandy rather
cheaper, and the demand limited, 13Litish Corn Spirits steady
at 9s. l Id. cash.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, ALIT 7.—The sales of to-
day are 2,500 bales to the trade.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 7.—The Share Market
to-day has been limited, without alteration ofprices to any ex-
tent :--Eastern Counties are quoted at 84 ; Ditto, debentures,
7 ; Glasgow, Parley, and Greenock, 29i ; Great Western,
5/. Shares, 44; Manchester and Leeds, 52A ; Liverpool Union
Eank, 12.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.—The Share
Market still continues depressed, and prices have an inclination
to give way :—Manchester and Leeds,sli to 53i, ; Ditto, New,
21 to 22; Manchester and Birmingham, 254 ; London and
South Western, 58 581% • Ditto, Tenths, 44 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, ti to 91-; Bank of Alanehester, 7h ; Manchester and Sal-
ford Bank, 10.

By the llamburgh Mail received yesterday afternoon the
Extthange upon London comes 13 5 ; Gold, 432 ; Metalliques,
107 i; Bank Actions, 1,655.
In consequence of what Viscount Melbourne stated in the
House of Lords last night respecting the affairs of China, teas
got up 2d. in the lb. This is a godsend for the tea holders.

TILE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of yes-
terday, 90 to A for the Account ; Money, 891 90. Up to the
present timo thcreis not a feature worth attention in either of
the markets. Exchequer Bills, lower, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock,
168 169 ; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 24i ; Deferred,
12& ; Passive, 53 ; Portuguese, 34} ; Three per
Cent:., 201 ; olombian, 2234 ; Mexican, 29A ; Bra-
zilian, 68} 69i; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 524 3;
Five Fer Cents. 99k.
Sir a icxs.—Great Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14*
prem. ; London and Brighton 21 14 dis. ; Blackwall 6i 54
d's. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 57i 581 per
share ; Croydon 133 14i per share ; Greenwich 83 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New 5O 64 ...... to
London and South Western 3B& 574..... to
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13/ 14*...... to
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 6* Genoa
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 124 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz 114
Ditto, 3 months 25 75 'Lisbon
Marseilles
Bout deaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 150* Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
'Perlin.
Vienna effec. 11. 3 M lO 0 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilboa 35 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville ... 35 Silver in Bars 0 5 0*
HALF-PAST ONE.

Consuls are h lower than in the early part of the morning,
and may be quoted at present 90 for the Account ; Money,
89i 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 6 85 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 ;
India Bonds, 2 prem., 2 dis.

In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing. Spanish
Active 24% ; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese nothing done ; Colom-
bian, 224 ; Mexican, 29%; Dutch nothing done.
The Share Markt:t is inactive. Great Western, 92 93% ;
New, 64 ; Croydon and Trunk, 14%.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols, Account, 90%; Mexican, 281- 29 ; Portuguese,
34% % ; Spanish, 24%. No business doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank •Stock ... 168 India Stock —
3 per Cent Red. BB% Ditto Bonds 2 pat
3 per Cent Cons 89% Ditto Old Annuities ...
3% per Cent Red 97% Ditto New Annuities... _
New 3% per Cent 98% Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 7pm
/Cew 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 7pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm
Jan. 1860 il 1. Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 9O
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent ... 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lOO% '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 24%
Ditto, 1824 . ...... ... ..... Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent....... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange —f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent ... French,-3
per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2% per cent. ...
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 99j
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)...... .....
Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 7%
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93%
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64
London and Brighton (50 paid) 47A
London and Sou4h Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 14%
North Midland Railway (100 paid)

THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE.—When Lord
Waldlegrave arrived in the Queen's Bench on Monday, he pro-
ceeded to the coffee-room of the prison. In the course of the
evening Lady Waldegrave came in her carriage, and was im-
mediately conducted to his domicile ; but her ladyship was so
annoyed by the gaze of the prisoners (who formed an avenue
through which she had to pass) that she determined never to
go within the prison again ; in consequence of which Lord
Waldegiave has the apartments over the lobby of the prison,
occupied by Sir Francis Burdett when he ir.is committed to
the custody of the marshal. His Lordship since his imprison-
menth has been very liberal to the roar debtors. Heasa
and
numerous retinue about him, sees a good deal of company,e had
lives in excellent stile. When Sir Francis vi.asher .
of ueen's
a parole of honour between gates, which the Court
Bench can grant, but the marshal (Mr. Chapman) ,a
Qha the
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power himself to allow such liberty.
DREADFUL SUICIDE ATLONDON-BRIDGE.---
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fYa el sat:: daafy
saufitceirdneo ownasabut hcommittedalf-pasattfo
and SWI ei
all hi
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spectable young female, to be •
been observed for a short time previously pacing up and
about twenty years of age.
down the bridge in a state of great excitement, which attracted
Storey, 572, who were on duty on the bridge at the time, and
the attention of City policemen William Wood,
they watched her motions; but with singular rapidity, and be-
fore they could reach to prevent her, she ascended the parapet
over the centre arch and leaped into the river. In her de-
scent she fell upon one of the starlings of the bridge,
and
from thence rebounded into the water. Two waterrnen who
were in a skiff, and were passing through the bridge at the
moment, observed the splash, and immediate]e
y made to the
;pot, and succeeded in picking up the
unfortunate 'lir . On
being conveyed ashore mid taken upon a stretcher to St.
homas's Hospital, it was found that she was quite dead.

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