The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY" 2:5 +S4I.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANA6EMENT OF MR. DAYIDGE
AND AIR. WILLIS TONES.

Extraordinary Novelty. Last Week before the Ilolidays.
Last Nights of 3lr J. S. Balls. An entire change of nieces,
.supported by tbe ra It talented Company in the AletropGlis.
1 HIS EVENING, MAY 25,

Will be acted the Drama of
THE IRON CHEST.
Wilfred, Mr. J. S. Balls.
After which,
THE UNIFORM.
To conclude with
THE
Long T„ni Coffin, Mr. Hicks.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
:Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Tragedy. Immense
sensation created by the affecting Drama of " Simon Lee."
'the Legendary Romance of " Rookwood!" with a New
Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations !
THIS EVENING. MAY 25. AND TO-MORROW.
A New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts. entitled
SIMON LEE; Olt, THE MURDER OF FIVE.FIELDS'
COPSE. _ .

Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. S aville ; and Grace Hatherleigh,
M:ss Vincent.

After which, the Romance of
ROOKWOOD ; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD
LIME TREE.
Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Songs of
"'Hurrah for the Came of High Toby "Nix rcy DAly,
Pall, Fake away !" and " Bonny Black Bess."
To conclude with the Laughable Burletta of
TILE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL.
Richard Witle.s, Mr. Gardner; Mabel, Mrs. Howard; Mar-
rale. Mrs Lee.
Bases, 23.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6.1. Half-price at Half-past
Eight.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Whit. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY !! !
THE first grand ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the
rejoicings which take place jn Rome at the celebration of
11 giorno di S. Pietro," will be given on MONDAY, MAY
.31st, when will be presented an exact far-simile of the superb
CIRANDOLA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest
and most magnificent display of Fireworks in the World, with
the ILLUMINATION or ,t PETER'S, when the whole of
this vast and gloriuus edifice is brillantly lighted with count-
less myriads of lamps, presenting together a coup d'mil of in-
conceivable splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The
unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by 'Mr. God-
frey, augmented by the addition of many performers of emi-
vience, will give the first Promenade Musicale et Champetre,
csanmencing, at Six o'Clock.
'fhe Menagerie, including the great male Oraeg Outang,
and several other rarities, is exhibited daily, with Dansou's
Colossal Pictorial Model of Rome !
Open at Ten. Admission One Shilling.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
411 ,ruing 45 ininutos altar 4 Evening minutes after 5

LONDON :=
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1841.

Another very earnest debate on the Corn-laws took
place last night in die House of Lords. Our indefatiga-
ble friend, Earl FITZWILLIA3I, took the opportunity of
repelling some of the assertions at the Leicester meet-
ing—such as that one-third of the soil would be swept
ravay—such as that corn would be shipped from the
.Continent at 265. the quarter—and such as that this was
a tenant and a labourer's more than it was a landlord's
question. The Noble Earl insisted that it was a land-
lord's question, and that the law was passed only to
raise rent.

Lord WlLLorcnny InaEsivf endeavoured to show
that wages wero high in proportion to the price of corn.
The Earl of WrNennsEA also entered at large into
the subject of wages, and stated that they had risen in
Rent from 9s. to 155., a statement which is contrary to
what we have heard. The Noble Lord was vehement
against a fixed duty, and we coincide • with him
that it is undoubtedly the worst duty that
,call be levied. To another part of the Noble Earl's
st-eech, as well as to some of the points of Lord RlD-
yan,'S and Lord ASHBURTON'S speeches we have else-
where adverted.

--
some smart and bitter words uttered by LordsREDES-
-.DALE and IlinnwteKE, and the silence of their Lord-
ships when they were spiritedly rebuked by Lord RADiion L
prove that their 'Lordships are made to feel in these
debates. They cannot shake off their convictions and
their alarms. They begin to be sensible that something
.oi even more importance than their rent is at stake, and
s good demonstration on the part of the people will
rni::e the majority of the Peers abolitionists.
TL eir Lordships adjourned after this, not very agree-
able, p.7eparation for their dinner.
In the House of Comnwns, as soon as the hour for
commencity: public business began, Sir ROBERT PEEL
gave notice, 1.21 at oa Thursday he would move a resolu-
tion that Ministers da not possess the confidence of the
Mouse, and that- to hold office under such circumstances
is. at variance •,vith the spirit of the Constitution.
On Thursday, then, will come the tug of war, and
Sir ROBERT'S notice was received with long and loud'
_cheers. Toe eountr;. will Le delighted to see the
question Lrought to an issue, but it will not de-
bate it, neither will the House of Commons, on the nar-
row grounds of the Tories. Such a resolution admits
of the widest discussion, and the Tories, who pro-
voke a war of principles, may prepare themselves
_for a complete and most dismal defeat. In re-
ply to Lord SANDOII, Lord PALMERSTON' stated that
Government of 'Monte Video had applied to the
British Government to bring alyiut a reconAliation bo-
.tweet' it and the Government of Buenos Ayres,
mod institutions had been sent to our Minister at
Buenos Ayres to ()tier her Majesty's good offices in bring-
, ing about au accommodation. He hoped the mediation
would be accepted.

In. reply to Mr. AfACLEAN, Lord PALMERSTON stated
that the British mission to Persia was still at Erzeroum,
and that England was not yet satisfied with the conduct

or Persia.

In reply to Mr. PoLunt., Lord J. RUSSELL announced
that he should not prOceed with the Poor-law Amend-
anent Itill this Session.
The Reuse went into a Committee of Ways and

-Means without opposition. In the Committee the CHAN-
-CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved a resolution that the
Sugar Duties be granted to her MAJESTY.
Sir R. Them seconded the motion, expressing a deter-
mination not to throw any obstacle in the way of' carry-

ing on the Government, or engaging in any conduct
which he knew would be called factious.

Mr. lirmtE expressed his astonishment at the conduct
of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories, and hoped it would
go forth to the people of England that the Tories de-,
rail them all relief. On every hustings, he said, they
should be met with a demand to know why they would
not lower the price of sugar, when they could with ad-
vantage to the revenue, 3d. per lb.
Sir R. PEEL said he should be ready to defend his
conduct at the hustings, by quoting a speech of the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny. The Hon. Baronet, with a
a similar degree of good fortune as attended him
on the debate of the sugar duties, in reference to the
Manchester pamphlet, and, we believe, with a similar
lack of sincerity and uprightness, quoted a speech of Mr.
FlrmE's, in which he had pointed out that slave-labour
sugar was being brought into the country, and that he
preferred free-labour sugar.
Mr. HOME, by referring to the circumstance' on which
he had made the observations, showed that Sir ROBERT
had perverted them front their just bearing.
After a little sparring between Lord STANLEY and
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with that raciness which dis-
tinguishes the quarrels of friends, and a sensible speech'
from Mr. WAKLEY, tO make amends for the attack
he made on Ministers when they brought' forward
the Budget, and after a few observations from Mr.
SLANEY and Sir C. GREY, the resolutions were agreed
to. So we presume ends the apprehended stoppage of
the supplies. The Tories have not yet made up their
minds, greedy as they are of office, to attempt to seize it
by so bold a measure.

The Report of the Administration of Justice Bill was
postponed, after some conversation, on account of Sir
E. SUGDEN'S proposition to limit the sz!ary of the Ac-
countant-General to the surnof 4,0001. a year.
The Victoria Park Bill was reported. The Drainage
of Towns Bill was thrown out, because it gave the Com-
missioners of Sewers a power of levying taxes, and it
ought, therefore, to have originated in the House of
Commons.

The Copyhold Bill was reported. Several measures
of little importance were forwarded, and the House ad-
journed at Half-past Ten o'Clock.

The discussions now continually provoked on
the Corn-laws are throwing floods of light on
that important question. For example, the
sublime inventor of the Kentish fire, who, a few
nights ago, vehemently denounced the Bs. duty
as a tax on the poor man's bread, last night pro-
nounced a spirited eulogy on the present system
which at this moment levies a tax of 235. on the
poor man's bread. What the Earl of Wixom.-
SEA objected to, then, was the smallness of the
tax ; and, while Bs. would be unjust to the
poor, 235. is only a fair protection to the agricul-
turist. Such is the consistency of one advocate
of Corn-laws.

The Earl of RADNon,•one of the most spirited
of their opponents, made a bold sreech, which
deserves-to- be cherished in the innermost heart
of every man in the empire. He told the Peers—
That the whole object of the Corn-laws was to uphold
rent. It was said that the object was to employ labour
in the cultivation of the land. Now, if that were the
case, Why was the produce of grass land protected ?
(Hear, hear.) There was a tax upon the importation of
horses, also upon the importation of asses.—(Laughter.)
Horned cattle were prohibited, so were sheep and swine.
—(Hear, hear.) Turkeys, fowls, cheese, milk, and eggs
were taxed.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) There was not
an article of food of any description which was not
taxed. What could be the object of that but to put
money into the pockets of the landlords ?—(Hear, hear.)
Not only the produce of the land, but that of the seas
was taxed.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now, this was said
to be done for the sake of protecting the fishe-
ries, and of encouraging a race of fishermen.
How was the fact ? What fish was the most highly
taxed ? Why, salmon— the fisheries of which had
nothinr, to do with educating seamen. Several Noble
Lords, by means of this tax, derived as much as 4,0001.
and 5,000/. a year from their salmon fisheries. But
what fish did their Lordships think was exempt front
taxation ? They would suppose it was some ignoble fish;
but it was no such thing. It was a fish that never was
seen on the table of a poor man. It was turbot.—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) Yes, there was another fish not
taxed. Was that a poor man's fish ? No, indeed ' • it
was lobster, that their Lordships might have sauce for
their turbot.—(Laughter.) This was not a subject for
their Lordships to laugh at. Hundreds of thousands of
their countrymen were Starving around them ; whilst
every animal upon the earth, every fish in the sea, and
every bird of the air was taxed to prevent its coming
to those famished people.—(Hear, hear.) •
The Noble Lord emphatically added and re-
peated, " That is discreditable to your Lord-
ships." And the Noble Earl's words will be
echoed by every man with a human heart in
the kingdom. It is discreditable to their
Lordships to allow turbot and lobsters to be im-
ported duty free for their own tables, and to keep
out cattle and fish and flour, which might keep
the people from starving. With such charges
clearly brought home to the Peers, they can no
more be respected and honoured by the nation
than the Principle of Evil.

We must add another illustration of what the
Noble Earl put so well, relative to taxing the
produce of grass land, encouraging at one and
the same time the cultivation of arable land, and
the laying them down in grass requiring little la-
bour. At the Lincoln meeting, held on Friday,
Sir M. CLIOLMELEY said—

He had that morning. on his way to the meeting, rode
over Lincoln Heath, which within his recollection has
consisted of nothing but rabbit gates, and which was
now covered with copious and abundant crops. The
former condition of the land was similar to that which a
lady had given as a description of Norfolk, who, when
asked what she had seen in that county, said the only
object she observed was two rabbits fighting for a tuft of
shear grass.—(Laughter.) Now, he thought it was not
the true object of a supporter of liberal measures to do
anything which would bring back Lincoln Heath, and
many other districts, to a similar state.

The people, then, have been taxed to the ex-
tent of fifty or sixty millions a year to bring
Lincoln Heath into cultivation. Now, if it were
really the object to promote the cultivation of
poor soils, and so extend the cultivation of the
country—which is the pretext of the landlords—
why should they not give the cultivators of the
poor soils exclusively a bounty proportionate to
the difficulties they have to overcome? By the
protecting plan they raise the price of all the pro-
duce of the soil, and give an equal bounty on cul-
tivating the wheat and beans land of the Isle of
Thanet, the fat Vale of Evesham, and the heaths
of Lincolnshire. A more absurd, as well as un-
just and. cruel plan of promoting the cultivation
of poor lands never was imagined.

We hear a great deal, too, about the tithes and
heavy taxes in relation to the light taxes and fer-
tile land of the Continent, as an excuse for taxing
the whole of the people's food. That argument
should make the Legislature confine the bounty on
cultivation to land subject-to tithes, which all
land is not, and to land of which the produce
would not enable the cultivators -to pay the
taxes. With a want of discrimination that
is only admirable fiat- the level manner in
which it plunders all the consumers, the Peers
make them pay an equal bounty on the cultiva-
tion of tithe-fre.e land, and the poorest and the
fattest land of the empire.
We see, too, by Sir M.
C
state-
ment, why the' Lincolnshire gentlemenl LE
lC's are
eso
deeply attached to the Corn-laws. They get
a large share of the fifty or sixty millions
we pay for the cultivation
of
as Lincoln Heath. But are we
esuctho landpay
that sum for ever ? It would be better to buy up
the interest of these gentlemen, as we bought
up the interest of the slave-owners. Untaxed
bread would be better worth 20,000,0001. than
the freedom of thenegroeS.
It is quite plain, from these facts, that keen-
ing land in cultivation is a miserable pretext
to conceal the plunder of which the landlords
are ashamed. There is no proof whatever that
an acre of land would go out of cultivation were
the Corn-laws abolished, for the decreased ex-
pense of cultivation would more than counter-
balance the fall in price,—more than counter-
balance the present bounty, and, stitnulating the
population and increasing the demand for food,
would rather increase than- decrease cultivation.
The whole of the arguments of the landlords are
fudge, pretexts, and humbug, the coinage of
their own brains, to gloze over their own wrong-

doing.
In his speech Lord ASHBURTON dilated last
night at considerable length on the superior
food of the English, and quoted Mr. JACOB to
show that no white bread was met with in Ger-
many to the east of the Rhine. Our own expe-
rience is different from that of Mr. JACOB. We
traversed a great part of Germany before Mr.

► JACOB, and found white wheaten bread, in some
shape or other, in all the towns to the east of the
Rhine, and in most of the respectable inns. But
it is not the common food of the people. The
bread-which they in general consume is made of
rye flour with only the bran taken out. The cele-
brated Pompernickel is, we believe, made
of rye flours containing the whole of the
grain; both kinds are dark coloured. At
the same time, the English like dark•co-
loured mutton, why not dark-coloured bread ?
Rye bread is much liked by the Germans; and
they assert that it contains more nourishment
than wheaten bread. We know, from personal
experience, that it is wholesome, and many of
the Germans prefer it to any other bread.
Lord ASHBURTON forgot Ireland, however,
where the bulk of the people have no bread at
all. They have not got so far as to manufacture
and use bread. They live on boiled potatoes.
Many of them, too, live o❑ the worst kind of
potatoes, which the Germans appropriately call
Vieh cartele (cattle or pig potatoes), and
which they would disdain to eat. Lord Asn-
BURTON forgot Scotland, too, where many of the
people live on unleavened oat-cakes, and are
unacquainted with the use of bread. Perhaps,
too, if he had asked the, Duke of RUTLAND,
his Grace would have told him that the labourers
throughout the union of which his Grace is
a guardian, and we believe throughout a
considerable portion of the counties of Leicester,
Derby, Nottingham, Yorkshire, and the mid-
dle and north of England, live on barley-
bread, and, therefore, his Grace humanely pro-
posed that or cakes should be the
food of the paupers. At least, barley cakes,
not bread, for barley will not make bread, was
the common food in those counties twenty-
five years ago. When Lord ASHBURTON re-
ferred to white bread as the food of
the people of this country, he meant, and
could only mean, the inhabitants of our
towns, the seats of our commercial and manufac-
turing wealth; and if it ever were the food of the
peasantry—as we believe it was of the yeomanry
and little farmers of the south of England—it
has in most cases now been superseded by pota-
toes, and of them the people cannot get
enough. The labouring classes in England,
poor shivering, unclad, unhoused, unfed,
and still more the peasantry of agricul-
tural Ireland, would esteem themselves happy
were they as well fed, as well clothed, and as
well housed as the black-bread eaters of West-
phalia, and all the north and east of Germany.
Lord ASHBURTON only proved himself extremely
ingenious in finding reasons, wholly false though
they were, why the people of England should
submit to poverty and starvation. They will not,
however, consent to he starved, to enrich Lord
ASHBURTON, because the Germans eat black
bread, and the French do not consume on an
average more sugar than the Irish.
The most wonderful part of Lord As HBURTON'S
oratory was, that this great stickler for class-
legislation, which breaks up society into repelling
classes, reproached the Ministers with causing
dissensions, as if the Anti-Corn-law League were
never heard of before the Budget was brought
forward, and as if the landowners had not
been stigmatised as plunderers from one
end of the land to the other, before
the Ministers proposed a fixed duty on Corn.
No, Lord ASHBURTON, the horrid dissensions
which certainly exist in society are the result of
your class legislation; and Ministers, instead of
extending and fanning those dissensions, have'
taken the first step towards extinguishing them
for ever, by extinguishing the scandalous injus-
tice that causes them.

The Corn-law men have at length roused a
spirit in the land which will never be laid till the.
Corn-laws are wholly swept away. The willing-
ness to accept the fixed duty offered, which has
been shown at several places, but only as an in-
stalment, is an evidence of the prudence with
which the Anti-Corn-law men are work-
ing out their cause. London, already mov-
ing in its wards, is about to respond by its
Common Hall to Manchester and Liver-
pool. Aberdeen echoes Southampton. Not a
single town in the empire, except it be a cathe-
dral town, or some corn market, will fail to de-
nounce the Corn-laws. Even at Lincoln, where
the Corn-law men seemed very successful, a
strong spirit of opposition was evinced ; and
when the enthusiasm shall enable the enthralled
people to break the landlords' chains, the latter
will find more enemies, even on their own estates,
than they dream of.
Poetry and prayer, with all their fervour and
all their sincerity, are engaged on our side.
Religion is for us, though the established priest-
hood be against us. Statistics and political
science furnish powerful arguments at every
meeting, while a sense of injury gives
them poignancy and force. Justice is with
us, and our opponents have only wealth,
the fruit of extortion, corruption, hypocrisy,
and deceit. We have no fear for the result.
To doubt on which side victory will ultimately
be, would be to doubt the wisdom and goodness
of the ALMIGHTY.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday last have
been duly received. The Journal des Debuts, a great ad-
inirer of Sir ROBERT PEEL, has a long article on the
Right llon. Baronet's speech in the House of Commons
on the Sugar Duties, which it pronounces the finest ever
delivered by him either in or out of Parliament. But the
Debuts miscalculates the effect of that speech upon the
people of England. It has answered the expectations of
no party here, and yet no speech was ever more charac-
teristic of the speaker. The country demanded an expo-
sition of the Right Hon. Baronet's principles, and he
answered it by a piece of special pleading from which
he excluded principles altogether. The only pledge
he gave was that his first year in office would be spent
in doing nothing. Sir ROBERT PEEL is a clever political
actor, but he is no Statesman. His position, too, is a
false one. Liberal and tolerant himself he has accepted
the leadership of all that is illiberal and bigoted in the
country. But notwithstanding the Debate admiration of
the Tory leader's speech, both it and the other Paris
journals support Lord JOHN ItussELL's anti-monopoly
policy. They are all for the abolition of the Corn-laws
and the sugar and timber duties.
The Commerce has a long article on the enormously
high price of butchers' meat in Paris. If the duty on
the importation of beef be not speedily reduced the poor
of Paris will be famished.

The following petition, signed by 5,000 persons, was
presented to the chamber of Deputies on Friday :

.4 Gentlemen Deputies,
" Letters which convey the expression of the most cowardly
and infamous treason have been attributed to Louis Philippe.
The Judges of the land have acquitted the journal by
which they were published.
" Ministers have replied by vague denials to imputations
cast by them upon the Chief of the State.
Public confidence demands an investigation of their au-
thenticity.
We accordingly invite you to call the Ministry to account
for a fact which so deeply affects the honour, liberty, and inde-
pendence of the nation."
The following paragraph from the Consnserce was
deemed in Paris worthy of credit :
A Cabinet Council was held at Neuilly on Thursday, for the
purpose, it was believed, of examining the propositions of se-
veral French capitalists relative to the loan. However, as M.
Humann was to have interviews with other bidders on Friday
and Saturday, no resolution was adopted by the Council,
which was again to meet and discuss the subject on Sunday.
THE PRINCE ne JoiNviu.e.—The Quotidienne states that
the contemplated cruise of the Prance de Joinville had not for
its object to protect French whalers on the Banks of New-
foundland 1—" The campaign which the young Prince is about
to undertake being less naval than matrimonial, for he contem-
plated the conquest of Priucess Sophia, daughter of the King
o• Holland, now aged 17."
The life of the Duke de Chartres, the second son of the Duke
of Orleans, was on Friday pronounced by his physicians to be
in imminent danger.
FRENCH AIRICA.—The last intelligence from Algiers is
dated the 14th inst. The Moniteur publishes General Bugeaud's
account of the last expedition to Mcdeah and Miliaria, the
occurrences and results of which are already known to our
readers. On the 15th, the Governor-General was to embark
fur Mostaganem, the rendezvous of the neat expedition. He
is to march from thence with 1%000 men, against Mascara, and
after the occupation of that place, the army will advance on
Tekedempt, whilst another column of 5,000 or 6,000 men is to
.proceed from Medeah, to destroy the military establishments of
Abd-el.Kader. General Duvivier, wbo was to command the
latter, having taken umbrage at some expressions of General
Bugeaud, tendered his resignation.
111. Thiers intended leaving Paris for Lille immediately after
the Session„in order to spend some months in the family of
his wife, and to be at leisure to complete his History of the
Empire.
Darmes and his two co-accused, Duclos and Considere, were
removed to the prison of the Luxembourg on Monday last.
The trial, which was to commence this day, would, it was ex-
pected, occupy four days..
Several Journals have announced that Viscount de Germizig,

Prefect of the department of Seine and Marne, was to be
appointed as Postmaster-General. We are authorised to de-
clare that this statement is completely false.---Moniteur.
The following notice has been communicated to us
A Journal announces this morning a piece of intelligence,
the consequences of which must invite the attention of Catho-
lic France: According to this account the Bishop of Evreux
has baptized in the Tuileries the child of the Countess of
}lautpoul, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans being sponsors.
As the Church does not permit heretics to be received as spon-
sors, it follows that the Duchess of Orleans must have returned
into the pale of the Catholic Church. A Bishop would not
have permitted himself to commit such a violation of the laws
of the Church."

It was asserted yesterday evening in a political circle eat the
signature of the Protocol of London, by Baron de Bourqueney.
was to take place on Tuesday last. The official copy of that
document may be expected every moment to reach M. auiaot.
A letter from Madrid of the 15th has the following passige :
—Notwithstanding the manifest intention of the Chamber to
continue the sittings, it has been forced to suspend them for
want of business to go on with, and likewise for want of a suffi-
cient number of members to come to a legal decision. The
formation of the Ministry continues to engage general attention.
It would probably be already settled if it had been possible to
procure a Minister of Finance. The Chambers will probably
not resume their sittings till the new ministry is formed.—Le
Commerce.

Since "the above was' written we have received the
Moniteur of Sunday, with advices from Madrid of the
16th instant. The French Chamber of Deputies adopted
on Saturday the Commercial Treaty with Holland,
which M. THIERS considers will give great political as
well as commercial influence to France upon the Rhine.
From the Spanish capital the only news of interest is the
announcement of the formation of a new Cabinet, under
the auspices of Senor OLOZAGA, late Spanish Ambas-
sador at the Court of France. The arrangements were
not completed, but it was said in the best informed
circles that Senors QUINT°, CORTINA, CHACON, FRIAR,
and CANTERO, had all offered to accept office, and that
their offers had met with the approbation of the RE-
GENT whose popularity daily increases.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 22.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
rreoch 5 per Cents ll4 15 ... 114 80 ... 1.4 55 ... 114 73
4 per Cents l.B 90 ... 98 90 ... 18 140 .. Lll 90
3 per Cents 79 13 .. ,9 30 ... 19 15 .. 19 25
lank of r'rance
Leine Blllik I,ooof.St area 105 S ...1('55 ...1p!,5 ...10,5
5,000 f. Shares 513! ...5130 ...5130 ...5130
tieligian Bank
~.. 180 ... 7,0
1841 lO2O ...1024? ...1024 ...1020
5 per Cents.
New Loan 1131% ... 1.1% .. 10,% ... 101%
:Danish Active .........
..
veal olitan lO4 20 ... 104 20 ... ".3 20 ... in 4 z 0
noznan ..... ;ON ... 101.4 ... 10l ... 10114
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles. LB
B
Rouen

(media. . . 486 25 ... 481 25 ..: 486 25 25
4tratiburg to Bale 232 50 232 50 ... 230

The friends of the Liberal party will be glad
to learn that a Committee of Reformers has
been constituted to attend to the coming elec-
tion. The Committee will sit daily at the Re-
form Club, Pall-mall, where all communications
may be addressed to the Secretary.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—The Assembly met on
Thursday, when Dr. Gordon was elected Moderator
without opposition. On the motion of Mr. Dunlop, a
Non-Intrusionist, the names of the three clergymen re-
turned by the Strathbogie Presbytery were struck from
the roll under a protest from Mr. Edmond, Dr. Bryce,
and others. The Strathbogie case will be taken up, it
is supposed, on Tuesday ; but whether the Wrongheads
have resolved to push on in their headlong course, or to
back out by some manoeuvre, has not transpired.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
Money has been very scarce all day, and bore an in-
terest, for short periods, equal to about 6 and 8 per
cent. Since the 15th of April last Consols have alter-
nated from 90a to 89g. To-day they were marked 89i
to 90 for present delivery. Exchequer Bills were Bs.
to 10s. premium, and India Bonds par to 2s. premium.
Bank Stock touched 169, and the Reduced Three-and-a-
Half per Cents, were at 971- to 97-a. The Market left
off well. '

In the Foreign Market business continues as dull as
ever. The accounts from Spain give no positive intelli-
gence yet respecting the new Ministry ; and those from
Lisbon only add to the knowledge we possessed before of
the extreme penury of the Royal Treasury. Active
Spanish Bonds were to-day quoted 23i to a ; Portu-
guese New, 344 ; the Three per Cents., 20 ; Mexican,
2811 ; Buenos Ayres, 23 ; Brazilian, GSA ; and Peruvian
16. These prices exhibit a trifling depression in Spa-
nish, and a rally of about one half per cent. in Portu-
guese. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were dull at
52i1, and the Five per Cents. at 99k ; Belgian Bonds
were firm at 100.

The Railway Shares were in limited request only.
Brighton were marked 41 to 4; Croydon, i; Manchester
and Leeds, 20; Birmingham and Gloucester, 29, and
Eastern Counties, 15 discount. South 'Western Shares,
17i, and Birmingham and London Quarter, 18 premium.
Australasia Bank Shares were 18f premium.
In consequence of the singular circumstance of a large
steamer having been seen in the Atlantic by three dif-
ferent vessels, viz., the West India packet Petrel, and the
sailing vessels Lord Saumarez and the Conde de 'Pahno,
the almost expired hope of ever again hearing of the Pre-
sident steamer has been slightly revivel in the City.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
It appears from Lisbon papers, brought by the Tagus steamer,
that the American treaty with Portugal had been ratified by
the Government of the United States.

LIVERPOOL Corms; MARKET, MtY 22.—We have had
a limited business done in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales
scarcely amounting to 2,000 bales at Friday's quotations. In
export or speculation nothing to report.
LivEaroon SHAILLMARKET, MAY 22.—A rather better
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange to-day,
but there is a visible decline in prices ; Grand Junctions are
again lower, and now realize 201; Birmingham and Derby,
3/. Is. 6d. ; Eastern Counties, 8k; Glasgow, Paisley and
Greenock, 29k; Great Western new shares, 631 ; Manchester,
Bolton, and Bury, 53i; Midland Counties, new shares, 213/4.
MANCHESTER, STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 22.—The Share
Market is not worse, but the business is very limited, and the
following are the only transactions of the day :—Manchester
and Leeds, 53 5111 , North Midland (New), 17s. 6d., 225. 64.,
17s. 64. ; Manchester and Salford, Banks, 10 ; South Lan-
cashire, 5/. 3s. 9d. ; Union Plate Glass, 9%.

We have received the Ilamburgh mail of the 21st irpt., with
papers of the same date, bringing the Exchange upon London
13-64, being a quarter of a shilling higher than last post day.
Gold, 430 i, same ; Metalliques, 1084 ; Bar. k Actions, 1,648.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 2.l.—The intelligence of
the check which the English Ministers received, has caused the
national funds to be heavy, and it is expected that the English
funds will fall in consequence. Ardoin's are still on the fad
without any great business doing.
The accounts received from Lisbon of a three .masted
steamer steering for thc Azores, and supposed to be !he Presi-
dent, has caused some excitement in the City this morning.
This steamer must have been the same that was seen by the
Lord Saumarez some time since. Various are the opinions
formed on the above event, and nothing of a decisive nature
can be said as yet in respect to her being the President.

The British Funds opened this morning at the leaving-off
prices of Saturday, 893 90, both for the Account and Money ;
Exchequer Bills 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169; India
Stock 250, 232; India Bonds, par., 2 premium.
In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal, as yet.
Spanish Active, 233 3 ; Deferred, 113 3 ; Passive, 53 3 ; Bra-
zilian, 673 683 ; Portuguese, 333 34 ; Three per Cents., 203;
Colombian, 223 3 ' • Mexican, 283 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents.'s23 3 ; Five per Cents., 991/ 100.
SHAKES.—Great Western, 273 28% prem. ; New, 133
143 prem. ; London and Brighton,:4 33 dis..; Blackmail, 7 6
d.s ; Birmingham 6870 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per share.
Croydon, 133 14 per share ; Greenwich, 83 per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 151 143.t1i5.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ... 90
Ditto 3 Shares
Ditto New
London and South Western 383 — ... .. to
Ditto Tenths
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Both commercial affairs and the funds remain in the same
inactive state, as for several days past, and there is not a fea-
ture in the British market worth noticing to the present time.
This night's debate in then House of Commons is expected to
be of some interest, and for which our City politicians are
anxiously waiting.
Madrid arrivals of the 16th inst., received this morning,
sate that Gonzales having resigned, Olozaga has undertaken to
form the new Ministry.
Consols may be quoted the same as they opened this morn-
ing, 893 90 for the Account ; Money, 893 90, have been 90.
Exchequer Bills 8 10 prem., Bank Stock 168 169, India Stock
232, India Bonds 2 prem. par.
In the Foreign Market there are only four quotations.
Spanish Active, 233; Portuguese, 343; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 523 3; Five per Cents., 99%.
The Share Market also inactive. Birmingham and Glou-
cester 71, London and Brighton 453 46, London and Birming-
ham 233 shares, London and Birfningham Thirds 53, New 23,
Manchester and Leeds 50.
Consols, Money, 90, sellers ; ditto, July 16, 903 3; Mexi-
can 283 3 ; Portuguese 344 3; Spanish, 233 24, Markets firm.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bulk Stock ... 169 India Stock 252
3 per Cent Red. BB3 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ...
33 per Cent Red 973 Ditto New Annuities...
New 33 per Cent 933 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....23d 10 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l2 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l4 pm
Jan. 1860 ... 12 11-18 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct. 1859 l2 9-1 d India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. 9O
Belgian, 5 per cent
Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese,, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —• ICFonusNolspfosr. Acct
343
FOREIGN
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 683 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto...
Chilian, b per cent...-. —' Ditto, Metallic —
'Russian, 5 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 233
Ditto, 1824. .. ..... _- Ditto, Deferred ... 115
.
Danish, 3 per cent _... French, 5 per cent. —l. —c.
Exchange —f. c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. --c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Diitch, 23 per cent. ... 523
Peruvian, 1823, 6 per ct. 16 Ditto, 5 per cent 993
SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 71
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)....... 8
Great Western Railway (65 Paid) ••• —a
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50.. raid ') ''' 46
London and Birminghant nail% ty (90 pd)
53
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ••:""•..
Ditto Quarter. Shares ( 5 Paid) ,,, 23
.. 2$
56
London and South Western
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
2

Ditto Tenths(li paid) ......
London and Croydon Railway
payai(dT) ...runk) 1505 a
Nanchester and Leeds (70
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
NOithern and Eastern (50 paid)

HAMBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSBURGH, MAY B.—On the day of the mar-
riage of the Grand Duke Alexander, the Emperor issued
a special manifesto, granting full pardon, or a diminution
of punishment, for 35 different kinds of crimes. We
give the preamble of the Imperial manifesto, and the first
five classes of crimes pardoned which arc the most im-
portant :
" Following the impulse of our hearts, we have taken
the resolution, on the day of the marriage of our beloved
son and successor the Cesarewitsch Grand Duke Alex-
ander Nicolasewitsch, an occasion of so much joy to us,
and to all our faithful subjects, to distinguish it by marks
of our favour. Immediately after our accession to the
Throne we declared our firm resolution to exercise the
right to pardon given us by God for the general good,
without thereby impairing the force of the laws. When
we now pardon many not very serious crimes, and miti-
gate the penalty of others, we hope that the clemency
manifested to the criminals will awaken in them the feel-
ing of repentance, and that by their future conduct they
will justify our indulgence to their former transgressions.
The. dispensations from payment of various claims hereby
granted, are chiefly, in favour of those whom poverty or
temporary distress have rendered incapable of discharging
the same, and we do not doubt that the. indulgence will
induce others to double their efforts to fulfil these obli-
gations. With these well meant intentions we graciously
order—

" I. To exempt from trial and inquiry all those who
up to this day have been brought before the Courts of
Justice for offences which are not connected with sacri-
lege, murder, robbery with violence to the person, usury,
robbery, stealing the property of the Crown by persons
to whom it is entrusted, coining, and forgery of the pa-
per currency. Those cases are not included with which
private claims are connected.
"IL Criminals condemned to public corporal punish-
ment exempt from such punishment, and are only to be
subject to hard labour.
" 111. Criminals condemned to corporeal punishment
and banishment to Siberia as colonists are not to suffer
corporeal punishment, but only to be sent as colonists to
Siberia.

" IV. The exemption from trial and inquiry granted
in the first article, is extended to all persons serving in
civil offices and in the army and navy.
" V. To military persons of every class, pea-
sants, and others who, up to this day have re-
tired into foreign countries, or deserted from their habi-
tations and regiments, we grant our most gracious par-
don,:if those living in the empire return to their habita-
tions in half a year, and those in foreign countries
within a year, and the military return to their regi-
ments. This pardon does not extend to those who have
fled to foreign countries to escape trial or punishment
for rebellion and conspiracy, and endangering the inter-
nal tranquillity of the State. The ordinances respecting
such persons remain in full force."
STOCKHOLM, MAY 14.—Count V. Wrangel, his
Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Hamburgh has concluded
treaties of commerce between the kingdoms of Sweden,
and Norway, and the free cities of Hamburgh and Bre-
men, founded on perfect reciprocity. They have been
approved and ratified by his Majesty, and will come
into operation on the Ist of July next.
The important question respecting a change in the re-
presentation is to be decided in the next diet.--Hamburgh
Papers, May 21.

tsELUIAN I?UNDS—BausilLe, MAY r..)2.
actual Debt, 2)4 per• Cent.
Rothschild's Lean. 5 per Cent.... ......
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93
Sper Cent. —
--- ... 7054
- —(1A0) lOO%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent- Bl 34
Society of Commerce, 4 ).iper Cent ......
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... .........
Nationa I Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, May 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vripina, MAY 15
five per Cents. Metalliques - lOB%
Foe r per Cents. ••••••••«••• ....... ••••••••••••• ...... •••••••• lOU
Three psi* Cents. ............ ....... . ....... •••••••••••••••• 'l9
Bank Shares ... ..... ..... ..... ..„ .... . ..... .—..... ..... ... 1C39
—Allgemeine &Using. May 19
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, BAY 31.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ..... — 106%
Bank Shares — 164 4
Anglo-Russian Loan lO-% 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Svies lO2
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th

Thirty.seven.

- .
Series 97% 9714
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) B;2i, K.%
Dutch actual Debt, 2% lie, Cent 51% 51
Ditto 0 per Cent —
Polish Bondo
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 70% 75;4
N .iwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cifa:..„
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB 38%
EXCHANGES; ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MAY 'el.-13 9 —Two months, 19 64
PETKRSBURGH, MAY 11.—Two months, 387 i pence.
STOCKHOLM, MAY 11.—SeVelity.fiTe days. 11. 47,
VIRNNA, MAY 1:t-Three months. 0. 40%.
Saluda. MAY 18. —Three months, 6. 194.
HAMBURG MARKETS.
GRAIN.

Wheat, Mardll MI to 430 Barley, Mecklenourgh 132 to H 6
--....... Magdeburg 2BB to Sill -- Magdeburgh... 150 to 151
.--. Anhalt, white 283 to :33i---- Holstein 132 to 1:.0
--- red ... 245 to 3:to--- Summer ll4 to 132
- Brunsuick 284 to 330 Oats, Eider
--- Mecklenburg.. 258 to 333 -- Mecklenburg , 135 to 147
---- Polish gio to 536 -- Holstein 135 to 147
-- Holstein - East rrie.land... 101 to 111
Rye, Mecklenburg
-- Dantzic
-- Elbing and Ku- Buck Wheat lOB to 19:
nigsburg
- Upland
.-- lti Ira

COTTON.

Carolina and Tennessee 7 l4t;
Ist suit 0 7%
tld 7 7.4
:hi and 4th 6 .tiN
COE.

Mocha 11 to lA%
flatxvia 3% 51
Sumatra

Rio 4 5;4

3laiTnham
Mater.. by., 5-4
Stint.; 5 a li
Do c_rijo ..... ......... ... 6% ti
7EL..

Domingo 4% to 5%
La Guayra 4% lie
Porto Rico 6li 74.

Ilavannah 49; Ili

Bahia
SUGAR.— (Wit
Havanna!), White 3 to 4 '
Brown 2 2%
White
. Brown '2
Manilla. Brow

p.. 8% Msentint.)

Bahia, White - e% to2N
3rown 96 2%
Pernambuco, White 234 !2%
Brown 2 2Y4

2i to 274

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their respective
suites, attended Divine Service in the Gallery at Clare-
mont, at twelve o'clock on Sunday.
The service was performed by the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anne Maria Dawson, arrived at Claremont at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty
from town.

Viscount Melbourne 'took his departure from Clare-
mont at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, for town.
Late in the afternoon. the following visitors arrived at
Claremont. and had the honour of joining the Royal
Circle at dinner :—The Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of
Erroll, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Robert Grosvenor;
the Hon. Amelia Murray, and the Hon. Harriet Lister,
Maids of Honour in Waiting ; Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir
George Couper, Colonel and Lady Isabella Wemyss,
Hon. William Cowper, Mr. George Edward Anson, and
Captain Francis Seymour.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, and the two Misses
Gardiiier, had also the honour of joining the Royal din-
ner party at Claremont, last evening.
Major Bassle and his son Gustavus Adolphus, attended
at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday evening, when the
latter had the honour of going through a Mnemonic per-
formance in the presence of her Majesty and the Royal
party. Mr. 8., jun., had the honour of exhibiting his
powers of memory on Saturday, before their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended the rehear-
sal in the Hanover-square Rooms yesterday morning.
Her Majesty's suite included the Viscountess Barring-
ton, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Hon. Charlotte Hudson,
Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, and Sir Andrew Barnard.
The Duke of Sussex vislted the Duchess of Kent, on
Sunday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing to
Kensington yesterday afternoon, in an open barouche
and four.

The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing
to Kew yesterday. Her Royal Highness and the Prin-
cess returned to town in the afternoon.

Mr. Hodges, M.P., and Colonel Anson, had interviews
with Viscount Melbourne yesterday afternoon, at his
official residence, in Downing-street.

Mr. Brotherton, • M. 8., had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Earl and Countess of Lindsey, and the Rev. P.
W. Pegus, have arrived at Farranee's Hotel, Belgrave-
street.

THE DISTRESSES.) POLES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—You have always been ready to assist the endea-
vours made for the relief of the distress of the exiled
Poles, and you would render them, I believe, very mate-
rial service if you would, by inserting this letter in your
columns, apprise the public of the effort which is about
to be made in their behalf, and of the generous conduct
of imademoiselic Rachel in reference to them—con-
duct which will secure to her :as fully the esteem of
the public as her unrivalled talents command their
admiration. Having had the honour of being pre-
sented to Mademoiselle Rachel, and having ventured to
request of her in the name of this Association, to play on
one occasion, during her stay in England, for the benefit
of the Polish Refugees, she was kind enough in the hand-,
somest manner at once to grant the request. Some diffi-
culty, however, occurred, becausd the terms of her
engagement with Mr. Laporte precluded her
from performing in public till after its termination.
She plays in London on the 4th of June, and is obliged
to be at Marseilles on the 10th: Madlle. Rachel, on find-
ing there would be no possibility of rendering to the
Poles the service asked for them on any day but the sth,
with a generous disregard of her own convenience and
comfort, immediately, determined to defer her departure
till the morning of the 6th; and on the sth she will re-
cite some passage's from the tragedies in which she is
most admired, at one of the theatres, or some of the
public rooms. The public will thus have one more op-
portunity of witnessing the performance of this eminent
tragedian, while at the same time they will contribute to
the relief of the refugees.—l have the honour to be,
Sir, your obedient servant,
DUDLEY COtTTTS STUART,
• May 24,1841. Vice-Piesident.

THE LATE SIR EDWARD BANKS.--A very
handsome and classic testimonial to the memory of Sir
Edward Banks has recently been erected at Chipstead
Church, Surrey. An admirable bust likeness, with all
-the fine manly expression of the original, is placed upon
an elegant Grecian pedestal, Waterloo and London
bridges, and the last of his labours, that of Southwark,
are chiselled with great breadth and freedom upon a lofty
massive entablature, and the tout ensemble is in every way
worthy the name it is thus the intention to perpetuate.,

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