The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-03 00:00:00

the gates were opened to him by, ilicrmaiines and ieameli
.-wlt-whartsbl/4116Tfoi-se-gsiOn or it.

Now this, instead of being a "notorious fact,''
is a notorious falsehood. A t the storming of S!--
don Sir CHARLES NAPIIIt was actually at the
head of the Marines who forced the gateS,- and
*as one of the first to enter the town. We speak
from the testimony of an eke-witness who was
near the person of the Gallant Commodore. So
much for falsehood the first.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday have reachci
us, hilt they contain no political news of
slightest interest, with the exception of the fo:".-
lowing paragraph from Galignard's Messenger,
which forms the subject of various commentaries
in all the French Journals:— •
We understand that the signatures to the Protocol of Lon-
don have been postponed, because Lord Palmerston, in accord-
ance with the Russian Ambassador, has refused to sign the
act until Mehemet Ali shall have accepted the hatti scheriff
the Sultan, which has been sent to him for that purpose. This
information is said to have been received here on Friday last,
from the Austrian Ambassador. in London by a courier, who
continued his route on the same day for Vienna, with the des-
patches containing it to Prince Metternich. It appears on the
other hand, by the last despatches received by the French Go-
vernment from Alexandria, that no doubt is entertained of the
unconditional adhesion of the Pacha to the hatti scheriff.

Whilst at Acre, although he rendered good service,
he took up a position, in his too great eagerness to have
the victory all to himself, which prevented one of the
finest ships in the fleet, the Revenge, commanded by
Captain Waldegrave, from using her guns.
The position which Commodore NAPIER took
up at Acre was the position which, as Comman-
der of the leading ship, he was entitled to take—
namely, abreast of the first large battery. The
Battle of the Nile afforded him a glorious pre-
cedent, as in that engagement the leading Brit-
ish vessel anchored alongside the headmost ship
of the French line. What is said about the
Revenge being prevented from using her guns,
is a sheer calumny. So far is that from being
the case, that when the Gallant Commodore
saw that the Admiral had neglected to order
in the Revenge to support him, he made
a signal to Captain WALDEGRAVE to ad-
vance, which that brave officer did in a most
masterly manner, taking up a position a-head
of the Powerful. The Standard is of course
aware that Admiral STOPFORD'S plan of attacking
Acre was with three line-of-battle ships, three
steamers, and a number of troops. Had this plan
been carried into effect the expedition would have
proved a miserable failure. The country need
not be told whose influence caused it to be aban-
doned. -

The National has a very severe attack on M.
HUMANN the Minister of Finance, whom it
taxes, with gross partiality in the collection of
the revenues, and gross favouritism in the dis-
tr►bution of official appointments. _ _

These Journals state that the KING would have
pardoned DARMES but for the Ministers who in a
Cabinet Council insisted upon the execution of
the sentence of the Court of Peers, as a warning to
others.

Two numbers of the Feuille de Douai have just been seized,
for having announced the false news, that Louis Philippe was
going to submit to the process of re-election as King, and for
having accompanied it with reflections in which the lawyers
think they see a political offence.
Letters from Madrid in the Memorial Bordelais contain the
following paragraphs :—The Marshal Duke of Saragossa
(Palafox), has been appointed by the Regent to the post of
General-in-Chief of the Royal Guard.

General Chacon, late Minister of War, is appointed Com-
mander of the Military division of Madrid.
General Van Haien, Commander of the Military Division of
Catalonia, is raised to the rank of Marshal of Spain. Major-
Generals Concha and Bolcali, are arised to the rank of Lieute-
nant-Genera!s.— Gazette de France.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes in its official part
a Report addressed to the King by the Minister of the Interior.
This Report, which ails more than ten columns of the Moni-
teur, gives the summary of the wishes of the Councils-General
in their session of 1840. The Minister says, in conclusion,
" that he has decided that all the circulars in which the Minis-
ter of the Interior shall ask the advice of the Councils of the
departments on general questions concerning the administra-
tion, should be prepared at least a month beore the presumed
opening of the session, and that they shall be printed in vaffi-
cient numbers to be transmitted to each of the members of the
Councils."—Le Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 1.

We have nothing but the glory of the results
to oppose to those who delight in whispering
about that Sir CHARLES NAPIER was not the
most blindly obedient of subalterns. Were Sir
CHARLES NAPIER of so accommodating and
submissive a nature as Captain BOXER, for
example, and in the habit of having no
will or understanding but that of his immediate
superior in command, neither BEYIRUT, nor
StnoN, nor ACRE would have yet fallen, and we
would by this time have been in the thick of as
" pretty a scrimmage" with 'France as we ever
were under the Republic or the Empire. Dis-
obedience of orders—since the truth must be
told—drove IBRAIIIM PACHA out of Syria, saved
the Prince of the Mountains from being utterly
destroyed, the battalions which NAPIER had
passed in the rear of the Egyptian Commander
from being cut in pieces, and, in fact, the loss
of all the British forces. Pity it was that NAPIER'S
disobedience did not extend so far as to carry into
effect his own brilliantly-conceived plan for cap-
turing the whole army of IBRAHIM PACHA. And
yet the great wonder is how any man, circum-
stanced and situated as he was, could have ac-
complished such glorious achievements..

first Highest Lowest Last
•
Price Price. Price Price
French 5 ref Cents ll4 45 ... 114 70 ... 1:4 45 ... 114 70
4 per Cents. 99 •0 ... 99 49 ... 99 40 ... • 99 40
3 per Cents 7B 9..1 ... 18 90 ... 78 70 ... 78 90
8 ►nk of rrance 3245 ...F250 ...3241 _5250
L.:Atte flank I,oool.Sharos 1057 50 ...1057 50 ...len 50 ...1057 50
e.lg►an Bank
5 per Cents.
New Loan ioiS4 ... 115 ..., 101% ... 101s4
Slanish Acilve 5:434 ... 2411 —. ::4% ... IV(
Passive 5% ••• 5% ••• 6% —5%
Neapolitan lO4 30 ... 104 60 ... ►n4 .0 ... jai 60
Roman .... 11-254 ...1023t4 ...10255 ...10

RAILWAY SHARES.
tkt. Germain
Versailles 1.8 177 50 178 75 ... 177 50 ... 178 75

R. B 325 . 3.25 ... 325 ... 3'25
..
louen
Orleans . . 4S7 50 ... 487 50 ... 48i 50 ... ab 7 t.O
DUTCH FUNDS.—Asia'retnaw, JUNE 1.
None/. Bi.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amos t Svndic,4% per cent 936 91
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7• % 74%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 165 165%
Ditto (1835 and 1K17) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 97%
Mchange on London, One month l2 7%
Two months .....
Dutch Papers, June '2.
BELGIAN I. UNDS—BausszLe, JUNE 1.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 103%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent....
--- 3 per Cent.
--- Thirty.seven--- .. ...... 7014
(14n) 11:0%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Bl%
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 75
National Society . •••• ...... III••• -
Exchange on London (short)
..—Brussels Papers, June 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 25
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. 99.,
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1613
—Angemeine &Ening. May 29
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MAY 29.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1645
A HKlo.ltussian Loan lO-% 10836
Russian 5 per Cent, tat series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 102%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series ... 97% 9'714
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) Bl% e,7
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pei Cent 5114 51
Ditto S per Cent -
YOlish Bonds -
New ticket ' )63%
A ngl 0. Dan ish Loan, 3 per Cep*
N. 4 wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cvsll...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB%
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Balms, MAY 29.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4L., per cent. - 104 103,.',
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102% 101%
Exchange on London, three months ... 6 : 91,
—Prussian State Gazette. May 30

We have said before that the friends of Ad-
miral STOPFORD would best consult his fame and
his repose by avoiding any comparisons between
himself and Commodore NAPIER as Naval Com-
manders. There is but one NAPIER in the •ser-
vice—there are fifty STOPFORDS. NAPIER is the
NELSON of his day—STOPFORD is an Admiral
whose distinguished services are exhibited
in the honourable flag at his mast-head.
But these are unpleasant topics, and we
advise the Standard not to provoke their
further discussion. To Sir CHARLES NAPIER
they can hardly be less painful, on the score of
good feeling, than to Sir ROBERT STOPFORD, for
whom HE has ever expressed the kindliest
feelings.

The accounts of the meetings held yesterday
at Manchester and Norwich, which will be found
in another column, show the signs of the times.
At both meetings the working classes took a just
view of their condition and the two parties be-
tween whom,they had to choose. If the people
of Manchester ever forget the horrible scene
which took place in that town in 1819—if they
forget that the Tories refused with dire hostility
their claims to the franchise, and that but for the
exertions of the people and the Liberal Press,
a town containing 300,000 inhabitants would
still have remained unrepresented, as9ld Sarum
now happily is, then we pray that they may be
saddled with two Tory representatives for the
next half century. But we have no fear of the
result. Intelligence pours in from all quarters
favourable to the cause of the people, who cry
out for cheap bread, cheap sugar, good timber,
and full work. It remains with them whether
this cry shall be heard, or drowned amidst the
yells of the selfish and unfeeling monopolists.
The accounts of the election movements are also
favourable, but we refrain from giving them at
length till the debates in the Commons have been
brought to a close.

CORN-LAWS, St. LUKE'S.—We are- glad to see that
the metropolitan parishes are taking up the good cause
of abolition of the Corn-laws. A numerous meeting was
held at St. Luke's, the day before yesterday, and sonic
spirited resolutiOns were adopted. Clerkenwell had be-
fore met. Why has the rich and populous parish of Is-
lington no voice in the great question ? When will it
imitate the good example set by its neighbours ? It
ought not, pious and religious as it is, to be the last in
protesting against the legal murder committed by the
Corn-laws.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Edward Murray was placed at the bar charged with having-
stolen a coat, the property of Air. Charles Knight, 14, King-
street, Covent-garden,
It appeared that the prisoner was passing the shop of the
complainant, and seeing no one there, walked in and delibe-
rately took the coat from the counter, and made off with it.
111 r. TWYFORD said he never heard a more barefaced rob-
bery, and the prisoner was fully committed.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JUNE 3.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 66 Highest 74 ( Lowest ......... 133
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

The question of the Danish Claims was again
brought before the House of Commons last
night, but as it involved pecuniary considerations
to the amount of 200,0001., the scrupulous
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER refused to deal
with it, as the clock had chimed that "witching
hour" when ghosts bursting their cerements take
an airing upon tomb-stones. We are no advo-
cates for after-midnightlegislation, and if Mem-
bers of Parliament could be prevailed upon to
substitute the morning for the evening in their
deliberations, there would be less occasion for so
many sessional Amendment Acts as nightly en-
cumber the table of the House of Commons.
But we like not the political sleight of hand which
plays fast and loose with principles—which sud-
denly experiences the twinges of conscience
when anything is to be conceded, but allows it to
go to sleep when anything is to be gained. We
have no objection, but, on the contrary, an earnest
desire to see the rule established that the House
of Commons shall vote no money after midnight.
But surely there is something inconceivably
monstrous in hypocritically objecting to ask the
House of Commons to vote 200,0001. at an hour
somewhat earlier than it has been asked by the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER during the
present Session of Parliament to vote several
millions. Besides the House could not be taken
unawares upon the Danish claims. Having
thrice voted them to be just, and their liquida-
tion having been recommended by a Commis-
sion appointed by the Government, it could mat-
. ter-little at what hour they were brough forward.
But the Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted
a pretext to get rid of, them,.,,, and he
found it by glancing at the clock. His slumber-
ing- conscience was suddenly awakened to the
honour of voting away the money of a sleeping,
and consequently a confiding people. Now, we
cannot but feel astonishment that such men as
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Lord MORPETH, and Lord
MELBOURNE, should countenance such shuffling
conduct on the part of so inconsiderable a public
man as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER?
They cannot but know well the injury which is
done to the claimants, and the discredit which is
cast upon themselves by a line of conduct
which would cast discredit upon an Old
Bailey attorney. The Danish claims are not
like the items of an undiscussed Budget, under-
stood only by the clerks in the Home-office.
They have undergone the closest investigation,
and the House of Commons has approved of
them by three several and distinct votes. Now,
we tell the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
dial the.. Members of the Cabinet who so
lbolishly abet his obstinacy, that the claims must
be conceded. At what hour of the day or night
we know not, nor is it of the slightest import-
ance to the claimants, provided it be soon.
For our own part shall be most happy
to see them voted as early in the ilay as suits the
convenience of the Cabinet. Were the 1-1 .se
to meet at ten o'clock in the morning to
vote th-e&u: we should not offer the smallest
objection to 8444 4 p?ogeeding. But, we re-
peat, they must be gnaw; 41.14 it s..4;mot
but te9d to injure Ministers with the country to

THE WEST-RIDING REPRESENTATION.--
There is likely to be a smart contest for the representation of
this important division of the county, at the ensuing election ;
but notwithstanding, we have to congratulate the Reformers
on their present position, and their almost certain prospect of
success. So far as the canvass has hitherto proceeded for Lord
Morpeth and Lord Milton it has exceeded the most sanguine
expectations of the noble candidates' warmest supporters. In
the mean time, however, the Tories are not sleeping at their
posts. A numerous meeting was held at the Straffot d Arms
Inn, Wakefield, on Monday last, at which it was decided to
bring forward two candidates in the blue interest. The honour
has been offered to E. B. Denison, Esq., who immediately ac-
cepted it, which seems to argue but little " want of confi-
dence" on his part. However, as our correspondent shrewdly,
and rather facetiously tbserves, he supposes that the reason of
two candidates being brought forward by the Tories now is,
that the Hcn. J. S. Wortley having had to bear the mortifica-
tion of defeat so often alone, it is but fair that some one else
shotild share the discomfiture with him.—York Courant.

CoRN-LAws, &c.—A deputation from Clerken-
well, consisting of Messrs. Nicholson, Roberts, and Macphail,
waited upon Mr. Duncombe, M.P. for Finsbury, this morn-
ing, with a petition for:presentation, agreed to in vestry, signed
by 1,500 rate-payers, for the removal of restrictive duties on
corn, sugar, and timber.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, ar-
rived off the Custom-hoipe at nine A.lll this day, with the
Dutch mail, after a favourable passage of 24 hours.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, MAY
29.—The present warm weather is considered to be very fa-
vourable to the growing crop of hops, and has already im-
proved the appearance of the bine, which, in many gardens,
is more than half way up the poles. There are certainly
some complaints of dead hills, caused, no doubt, by the blight
last year; but, taking the average of the whole plantation,
we should say that the prospect is good. This, added, to the
non-appearance of fly, has affected the market, which has new
become dull again ; and hops are with difficulty disposed of at
last week's prices.
FURTHER PROTECTION.—I farm some very
poor land in Surrey, for which I give, notwithstanding,
a considerable rent ; and as I am unable to grow wheat
in sufficient quantity, or of a sufficient quality to com-
pete with some of the neighbouring farmers, I contend
that I am entitled to protection from competition with
those who are placed under more favourable circum-
stances.—Letter in a Morning Paper. [The writer is
quite right. The owner of bad soils ought to have a
bounty as compared to the owners of good soils, to keep
them in cultivation.]
The " Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L."
is attracting much attention. " With regard to the volume
containing the Literary Remains," the Naval and Military
Gazette observes, " it may be described as being at the very
least as full of literary merit and valu. as any of those publica-
tions that took place during her life time. Moreover, it
nearly all consists of her latest and most carefully polished
compositions. The most important piece in the volume is a
tragedy, entitled " Castrucci° Castrucani." This drama is
full of high poetry, and contains enough of passion as well as
of character, to claim for it an immediate place on our national
stage. The series of prose sketches, which follow this drama,
will perhaps be more popular than any other part of the vo-
lume. The remainder of the work consists of separate pieces,
of every poetical character and style of composition, all of them
worthy of the high place of their writer among the poets of her
country, and tome of th..m inferior to nothing else of their
kind extant."

CITY AND COUNTY OF LIMERICK.—Sir
David Roche, Bart., M. P:, arrived in town this morning from
Limerick, and is to sail this evening for London, to vote against
Sir Robert Peel's motion of " Want of Confidence." The
lion. Member 'will a;ain stand for Limerick, which will have
the effect of preventing any contest for that city, and will also
liable the Reformers there to secure the return of two Liberal
Members for the county, where the registry is in a most satis-
factory state, the Reformers having a majority upon the 201.
and 501, freeholders, exclusive of the honest ten pound elec-
tors. —Dublin Evening Post.
We have heard that Mr. Cavendish has been
canvassing in Buckinghamshire. If this information be cor-
rect, it explains the non-appearance (which has occasioned
much surprise), of any address from the Hon. Gentleman.
Brighton Guardian.
i4USSELS, MAy 31.—We learn - that her
*-31Ve under.
Royal Highneso },}e Duchess of Kent will leave Brussels in the
course of this weet.'
SHORT TIME AT BLACKSWW
stand that a meeting of the spinners t-iii'manufacturers of
1314ckburn and the neighbourhood, was held on WednesdaY
Vh..en tt ras unanimously resolved to reduce tl.e time of
)vorking tq four .d4,s Ougrdiccri.
•

''t

fenß Lompov•itnrAsnAv, j7iNlll "1441,
_ .06 _
find that, when countenanced ;.by Sir Itonntrr 1 THE MARKL.T irr*
COLONIAL MARKET.
PEEL, they wilt only yield this ju,:t measure upo:i
The operations by private treaty were cxtremly limited, and
compulsion. the public sates went off heavily, but iu prices no variation Of
moment took place. The arrivals were to a small eatenr only.
TEA MARKET.
The transactions in fre:r trade were-liinited;' bUt the buldt rs
were firm, and obtained 1u:1 ra,es. The speculative market
was dull. Company's Congon at Is. I Id. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
There was little variation in the value of P. Y. Candles, but
the Market was heavy, and 465. 6d. the Auotation on the spot.
For delivery in the last three month sellers at 475. 6d. per cwt.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.

The supply of Meadow Hay and Clover was moderee, the
demand dull, the best qualities not making more than our
present quotations. The supply of Straw was very limited,
and prices advanced about 2s. per load. Clover, 4/. to 51. 18s. ;
Meadow Hay, old, 3/. to 4/. 6s. ; ditto New, 2/. 10s. to 31. 10s. ;
Straw, 1/. 16s. to 2/. 2s.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
Lo now, JUNk. 3.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze from
W. to S. W.

LIVERPOOL' JUNE 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Josie.
Logan, from Calcutta; Woodman, Bombay; Courier and
Huntress, Lima, sailed, February 7 ; the Lady Lilfcrti,
Valparaiso, 28; Rosalie, Alsop, ditto; Fortitude, Buenos
Ayres; Eliza, ditto; Nightingale, Paraiba; Richmond, Mara-
caibo, sailed 2d Aprd ; Penelope, Trinidad; Adram' Barba-
does, sailed sth ult. ; Lydia, Antigua, sailed Bth ult. ; Mexican
Packet, Laguna ; Fairy Queen, and Mersey, ditto ; Albion,
Tobasco ; Howell and Commerce, from New Orleans; Hud•
son, Mobile ; Ark, Charleston ; Bee and Duncan, St. John's,
New Brunsviiek ; London, Yarmouth, U. S., sailed 3d ult. ;
Marquis Wellesley, Lang, Sierra Leone ; Charlotte, Williams,
Bouriy, sailed 7th Feb., and Fernanda Po, 14th; Julia, Naples;
Dinah and John,Lee,Mes.ina; Selby,Palermo; Marwood, Malta.
Arrived off, the Columbine, from New Orleans; Joseph Cunard,
ditto; Charles Hamerton, Charles Eyes, Mersey, Greenhorn.
The Paragon, hence to Halifax, was fallen in with in a
sinking state, on the 9th nit , in lat. 43, long. 66, having been
run aboard of by a large American ship the day previous—
crew saved by the London, arrived here, which vessel, on the
12th ult., lat. 43, long. 51, struck an iceberg, lost bowsprit,
fore and main topmasts, &c. ; shortly afterwards heard a crash,
supposed to be caused by another vessel running against the
ice, which, it is feared, foundered, but the weather was too
thick to discover her. A very large steamer, painted a dark
colour, without funnel, large paddle boxes, foremast ci;ppled,
a large square topsail on the main topmast, a top gallant sail
on the fore topmast, and with fore and aft sails set. was seen
about ten miles distant 25th ult., at 5, a.m. in lat. 47, long.
25, steering N.E., and making little progress, by the Forti-
tude, arrived here.
DEAL, JUNE 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Fox, from
Palermo. Arrived from the river and sailed the Catharine
Elizabeth, for St. Vincent.

POItTSOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind W.—Arrived the Derwent,
from Hobart Town.

COWES, JUNE 2.—Arrived the Commerce and Hannah :
Orestes, Pernambuco.
Sount A MPTON, MAY 31.—Arrived the Grace,Wilkins,from
Mauritius ; Triton, Assens.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind W.—Arrived Lord Eldon,
from Sydney. sailed Jan. 5. Off the Start, June 1, the Fryen,
Kruse, Rio Janeiro.
• FALMOUTH, JUNE 1.--Wind S.W.—Arrived off, the Cleo-
patra, Bothwell; from Denia, sailed 25th April ; Cottager,
Young, Odessa, and sailed for Newcastle.
SciLLY.—Arrived the Premier, from Malta; Henry Leeds,
Mobile for Havre ; Orient, Stege, Tampico for Bremen.
BRISTOL, JUNE 2.—Sailed the Earl of Liverpool, for Nevis
and St. Kitts.

DOVER, JUNE I.—Arrrived off port the Arabian, Hawes,
for Charleston.

ARRIVED OF THE WIGHT.—The Ebro, from Mobile, :for
Antwerp; Hebden, Odessa.
DUBLIN, JUNE I.—Arrived the Urgent, Morton, from
Demerara.

The Rosalie, arrived off Holyhead from Valparaiso, sailed
Feb. 17, and reports that on the Ist January a revolution
broke out in Aricuipa in favour of General Vivanco, against
Gormaro, and all the smaller cities proclaimed in his favour
the same day. It was the general opinion that Vivanco would
prevail, and that Santa Cruz would be recalled to the Province
of Bolivia on leaving Valparaiso. It was reported that all the
minor ports were blockaded, but it wants confirmation.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
_ CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 2.—Another in.
animate Cotton Market to-day : the sales amount to 1,300 bales
to the trade.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 2.—We have had
rather a better business to-day at the Stock Exchange, but
there is no change to notice in prices : Grand Junction,
Quarter-shares, 254 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 199 ; Lon-
don and Birmingham, 159; Quarter-shares, ditto, 22' ; ditto
32/._ Shares, 54.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 2.—Our closing
prices are :—North Midland 67 68; Ditto, New, 33 34;
Manchester and Leeds, Old, 51 52; Ditto, Half Shares,
20& 21 ' • Eastern Counties, 8h ; Grand Junction, Half Shares,
99i ; London and Brighton, 45i 46 ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 24i 244.

We have received Hobart Town Papers to the 6th February.
" During the last two or three days Hobart Town and its
vicinity have been visited with some copious and most refresh-
ing showers. The three bushrangers convicted of the robbery
of Air. Cole at Snake Island, and sentenced to die, will undergo
the penalty." . _

‘...NEW'ZEA LA ND.—A letter from Port Nicholson, New
Zealand, states that there has been a succession of arrivals of
large vessels, with emigrants and merchandize ; that the popu-
lation of Port Nicholson was about 2,400, was daily increasing ;
at Cloudy Bay, for example, there were already many settlers,
and mote wet e expected."
Swazi RIVER. —A general meeting of the Bank Proprie-
tors ( the hall-yearly general meeting of Bank Proprietors)
was held this day. The Chairman laid the usual returns on
the table, which were, in a prosperous state. He informed the
meeting that the circulation had increased 25 per cent., and
the deposits about 17 per cent. The amount of specie had
diminished 11 per cent., and the securities had increased 20
per cent. The receipts had increased 40 per cent., anti the
payments 4n the same proportion. The amount of discounts
had increased 28 per cent., and the reserve fund had increased
28 per cent. The Chairman declared a dividend of I 2 per
cent. per share in the past half-year, which was equal to 32
per cent., and the reserved fund had increased 28 per cent.
HOBA RT TOWN, FEB. I.—The Grain Market appears to
be quite without purchasers, and a considerable quantity of
Wheat remains, unsold. The price is Bs. to Bs. 6d. per bushel.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 31.—Yesterday little business:was done.
Integrates 51i, Ardoin's 22A. To-day the transactions were
also of no importance, only something was done in sales of
Ardoin's at 22b to 1-16.
The Dutch mail has arrived, bringing papers to the 2d of
June, with the prices from Amsterdam of the Ist instant.
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i ; Five per Cent., 100; Ar-
doin's,