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'UNITED SERVICE CLUB, Sec.
(JUNIOR).
•
On Tuesday next (•t.l June) is A GENERAL MEET..
ING—iu reference to a " motion" of the UNDERSIGN'D
namely—the election of a Trustee—to prevent the repetition
of a fraude—as in the hitherto transfer of " Club-monies, alias
Income, with enterest on 12,0001." at the Bank of England by
certain parties, under a false name " A MAN OF STRAW" as
—invalidating all claim—in case of Bankruptcy as creditors.
This election being a point-blank " to bar" the giveing away
of the subscribers'-money to servants, etc., without a general
sanction as illegally done in 1833, namely—raising the Gene-
ral " SECRETARY'S wages at' that period from 3001. to 400/.
with client-like attempt " behind the scenes" this year by
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Splendid success.—Fourth Week of the first Vocalists in the
Kingdom. The New Opera, " A Queen for a Day," and
" La Sonnambula," on alternate nights, supported by Miss
Romer. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Leffler, a powerful Band, and an
extra Chorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 21,
Will be acted Bellini's Grand Opera,
LA SONNAMBULA.
Amino., Miss Romer; Lisa, Mrs. Serie ; Rodolpho, Mr.
Leffler ; Elvino, Mr. Wilson.

After which,
THE. QUAKER.
Steady by Mr. Leffler.
To conclude with,
YOUNG LOCHINVAR; OR THE BRIDE OF THE

GRAVE.
Lochinvar, Mr. N. T. flicks.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.

The p.-eatest wonder of the present age is Mr. J. TI. AN-
vz:tzsoN, the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH. now
nightly performirg at the above 't heatre hi; wonderful and
incresable fees of Tat
and Oc,sultomarv. As a proof
of the ris.n,l reput,tion and renown of this tlistinntished anti
not-to-be-equaltei tl.e Theatre -is nightly
crowded by ASTONISHED AND IJEIIGIITED AUDI
ENCES. comprising the elite of Scienct., Literature, and
Fa:hion, i and around the 3letropols. To attempt to enu-
merate or descant on the wond,r-tirorkings of this unparalleled
artiste would be useless—they must be sern to be believed,
r.nd when seen, must be pronounced the ne plus ultra of all
that is astonishing, delightful, and rational. The various de-
lusions performed by THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE
NORTH are entirely different from those which gained hint
such immense patronage at the Strand Theatre some time back,
which even at that time wereere universally allowed to be without
parallel. The incredibilities
.he now enacts are the result of
many years' research, indefatigable study, and perseverance, to
say nothing of his magnificent display of solid silver apparatus,
forming a tout ensemble at once unique and elegant, and alone
worthy the public attention and admiration.
Strangers at present sojourning in the Metropolis, should not
neglect visiting the Adelplu Theatre—the Temple of the Magi
—the cheapest and greatest treat in London.
Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Half-price at
Nine o'clock. Private boxes, to contain six, 1/. 55. The
Box-office is open daily from 11 to 4. Parties desirous of se-
curing places are requested to apply as early as convenient.
Carriages at a quarter past Ten.

ROY-----AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
UNDER HER MAJESTY'S ESPECIAL PATRONAGE.
PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES,
by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments,
The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S and Superb
GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO,
EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY. AND THURSDAY.
The Promenade Musicale will include Berlioz' Overture
"The Inquisition"—a new Quadrille, composed for the occa-
sion, " The Court of Flora"—Jullien's celebrated " Nightin-
gale Waltz," with Piccolo Obligato by Master Hall—Grand
Selection from " Maria Stuart" and " Oberon"—" Les Cent
Suisses" Quadrille—Overtures to "Die Zaubertlote" and " Za-
netta"---and Handel's Grand " Firework Symphony."
Open at Ten. Concert at Six. Girandola at Dusk.
Admission One Shiiling.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
minutes after 3 I Evening ......t.6 minutes after 3

LONDON:
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1841.

Certainly the bread-taxers are the most impu-
dent of robbers. Other plunderers try to make
their victims believe that they have taken little
or nothing from them the bread-taxers delight
in magnifying their booty. The great object of
some dozen of pamphlets and hand-bills they
have recently put forth, is actually to vaunt of
very. They make it 'out
could be sold in England
•a profit to the
eent.; after paying all
If it be so, then, instead
a tax of 10s. per guar-
.tee, on the consumer of
eY levy a tax of douhl-

Tory Sc have asserted, and even

said in the House of Lords, that wheat from the
North of Europe may be imported into England
at 30s. per quarter. If the Anti-Corn-law
people were to make such statements with a view
to exaggerate the wrong which the landlords
of England inflict on the suffering and starving
people, we could comprehend their object, but
for the landlords and their partisans so to exag-
gerate, implies either boundless impudence or
boundless fatuity. The lower the price at which
corn can be purchased abroad and-brought into
England, the greater is the amount of plunder
obtained by the landlords in keeping it out ; and
the greater the abundance of foreign corn which
we can obtain, the greater is the injury which the
landowners inflict on the starving people.
For our parts we laugh to scorn all these cal-
culations. We do not doubt that in a particular
year a single ship load of wheat may have been
bought at Odessa or Dantzic at such a price,
that it could have been brought to England,
and sold here at a profit, for 355. per quarter.
But to make a law on the single contingency
of one such case, implies that the seasons are
always abundant, and suffer no variation in other
countries, whatever may be the case in England.
On the contrary, only last year, or the year be-
fore, such was the scarcity of corn in Russia,
that exportation was prohibited, and none could be
obtained from it at any price. Three years have
not yet elapsed since corn or flour was sent from
England to the United States, where, on the
average, we believe, it is grown at a much less
cost, by free labourers, than by the serfs in
Russia. The attempt to frighten the starving
people from demanding and obtaining justice by
such contemptible statements as these n•ill injure
and deceive nobody but the silly men who rely
on them for success.

If those who make them were acquainted with
the A B C of political economy, they would lay
down their pens. Corn is an article of manufac-
ture, depending mainly for its production on labour
and skill, like cotton cloth on steam-engines. It
follows, as a matter of course, that, like other
manufactures, it will be produced at a less costin
countries where skill and industry are great than
where they are little, at a less cost therefore in
England than Podolia, and at less cost in
England than the United States. We
say at a less cost, meaning a less quantity of
labour, not a less money price, because
the money price is determined partly by a law
passed to keep it very high. In fact, with the
exception of labour and skill, there is no other
element to be considered, and he must be little
acquainted with the condition of this and other
countries who doubts that labour is more skilful
in England than in almost any part of the
globe, and consequently is more productive, or
the cost of all which it produces is less.
Some persons think fertility of soil an ele-
ment; but what constitutes fertility no per-
son knows, d it is no more an element
of cost tha sunshine or rain. All are
equally the free gifts of a benevolent
GOD. Labour is the sole element of cost,
and it is invariably productive, not in proportion
as the soil is fertile, but as the labourer has ac-
quired knowledge and skill. The valleys of the
Mississippi and the plains of New Holland were
just as fertile when they were inhabited, the
former only by Red Indians and the latter only
by prowling savages, as at present. Then, how-
ever, they produced nothing but lofty trees,
tangled grass, or scrubby brush-wood, and now
they teem with a great abundance of good cattle
and flocks. What has made the vast and blessed
difference ? The labour of skilful men. It is that
turning knowledge of soils and cultivation to ac-
count which has, as it were, filled the two coun-
tries with all the means of subsistence.
Now it does not admit of one moment's doubt
that the cost of producing all the present abun-
dance of food which prevails in the United
States and New Holland, is much less than was
the cost of producing the wretched subsistence
of the red mea or the prowling savages. A
whole day's labour scarcely suffices to obtain a
single meal for the savagc,while the skilful labourer
in the United States, in New Holland, or in Eng-
land, by a day's labour not only feeds himself,
but feeds a considerable number of persons who
produce nothing whatever. But the same prin-
ciple, in degree, applies to. all countries less
peopled and less civilized than Britain, and
more peopled and more civilized than were the
present United States and New Holland three
centuries ago. In all countries, and at all times,
fertility is no element of cost, any more than
sunshine or rain; and in all countries at
all times the cost of subsistence will be
less, as the inhabitants are most ad-
vanced in knowledge and skill. Where
the people know, as in Mexico, how to
scratch the ground, and sow maize, a favourable
season yields them an abundant harvest, but in a
bad season they get little or nothing. Between
the most abundant and the least abundant seasons
in England there is no such difference as is ob-
served in the produce of Mexico. The skill of
civilized man, therefore, whatever may be the
presumed fertility of a soil, will, moresurely than
that, give him an average abundance of food.
We extend these general principles to all coun-
tries, and affirm that, on an average of years,
wheat is grown at a less cost than in any
of the countries in which it is sold for a
much less money price than in England. We
will not now advert to all the causes of the much
higher money price in England than in other
countries, but they may all be explained without
supposing that it costs more to grow wheat in
civilized England than in half-barbarous Podolia.

Some persons affirm, for example, that as coun-
tries become peopled and civilized all things be-
come dearer, and therefore they say the pr, -
sent high monied price of food in England
is a natural and necessary effect of our civiliza-
tion and the multiplication of our people.
But what do such reasoners say to the
price of all kinds of cotton manufactures, which
has fallen in proportion from 10s. to ls., within
the memory of man ? What do they say to the
price of all kinds of hardware, of all kinds of
silk goods, of all kinds of groceries, not subject
to a monopoly—to teas and coffees, to every
thing which is brought from abroad, most of
which, as every body, we believe, knows,
but the Corn-law advocates, have Jaen in cost
amazingly within the last century? Corn ap-
pears not to have fallen, because they have
fallen so much more ; but corn itself has fallen
in cost price. So far from civilization and the
multiplication of people havinc, a tendency to
raise the cost of production, they have the con-
traryeh
th e ltendency;atvu.i al
nndo t al
oltlivil nugss,to ehxacveepatt
afoloodw,
price, cost less and less as the increase of people
promotes knowledge and civilization.
Even the money price of food is following the
reduction which takes place in the cost of pro-
ducing it. Thus the average price of 1815 to
1818 was somewhere about 80s., and the average
price latterly has not been above Vs. The law
cannot keep up the price, because everywhere,
iu England as in the United States and in Po-
dolia, as the people acquire skill the cost of
growing corn becomes less. That England is
not an exception to the general rule that
cost diminishes with civilization is evident
from the fact that in England a much
larger number of persons in proportion to
the whole population is maintained in ease and
opulence than in any other known country of
the globe. That itself is a proof that food ac-
tually costs less labour to obtain it in England
than in Podolia, though our barbarous laws,
framed in the very spirit of hostility to the pro-
grets of society, striving as too many laws do to
put constraints on society, and make it something
different from what nature dictates, prevent a
gret number of the people from obtaining- food
at almost any price. That it naturally -costs less
to obtain food in England than. in any other
country, and that at the same time it
is both dear and scarce, is the condemnation of
the lawmaker. If' great injury w•uild rt.::111t
from abolishing our barbarous law as to food,
though we think that amazingly overrated by

those whose fears are the parents of their worth,
that is an additional proof of his folly or his guilt,
in having made such a law. Go on under it we
cannot, and to throw it off, though infinitely the
lesser evil of the two, is still a great evil which
he has inflicted on society.

The coalition of the IVlonopolists is perfect
and avowed. Their intention, also, to continue
to levy taxes on the public, which do not go into
the Exchequer, is plainly stated. A meeting of
the General Shipowners' Society was held on
Friday last, one HENRY BUCKLE in the chair,
supported by Messrs. G. R. ROBINSON, GEORGE
R YOUNG, GEORGE PALMER, M.P., Alderman
THOMPSON, M.P., A. CHAPMAN, M.P., G.
POWLES, &c., all Esquires, at which meeting
a Report was read from the Committee, contain-
ing amongst others the following passage :
Long experience has taught your Committee how in-
effectual must be the exertions of any separate interest,
when placed in array against popular theories, backed
by political influence, and official power. In such
struggles it is evident, that from combination alone can
success be hoped for ; but, unfortunately, placed, as it
has constantly been, in the forefront of the battle in
defence of the protective principle, it has been rarely
that the shipping interest has been able to excite the
sympathy, or engage the co-operation, of the other
great interests, notwithstanding the prosperity of those
interests has been admitted to be involved equally
with that of navigation in the maintenance of a just
protection. In the present instance, however, the can-
dour or the incaution of the assailants of the principle,
leading them to include in their purposed legislation a
direct withdrawal of protection from the agricultural and
colonial interests, an obvious and pressing motive for
union at once presented itself. Availing themselves of
this advantage, your Committee felt it a duty not to be
deterred by any apprehension of the misrepresentations
to which such a step might expose them, from tendering
to the West India body, the Agricultural Association,
and the Colonial Society, in conjunction with their col-
leagues of the British North American Colonial Associa-
tion, every assistance in their power in maintenance of a
cause which the nature of the Ministerial propOsitions
had rendered common to all. The offer thus made «•es
promptly responded to, and a cordial communiedtion with
those influential bodies was in consequence at Once esta-
blished. . It did
appear to them that while insisting on protection for
themselves in the carrying trade of timber and sugar, it
would have been inconsistent and unjust to have se-
parated themselves from the agriculturists, who were ex-
pressly connected with them in the very measure they
were called on to oppose. It did seem ti them, that im-
portant as is the support of that powerful interest for
the maintenance in the legislature of protection to na-
vigation, they would have compromised every principle
of duty, if they had hazarded the loss of the future
assistance of that interest by a selfish isolation in
the hour of common peril. They are not unaware
that there are ship-owners who look to the extension of
the carrying trade by the free introduction of foreign
corn. But, apart from the probability that, under such
a system, accompanied, as it must be, by further changes
in our navigation laws, the greater portion of such im-
portation would eventually fall into the Sands of the
cheaply built and cheaply navigated shipping of foreign
nations, your committee appeal with confidence to
the great body of ship-owners, whether they would ad-
vocate a course which would justly affix to them the cha-
racter of grasping monopolists ; eager to promote their
own gains by the maintenance of a principle which applied
to others, they are equally ready to subvert ; and
whether they can sincerely believe that, if such a course
were either manly or honourable, it could by possibility
prove in the long run successful. Satisfied that it must
have resulted in the failure and disgrace it would have
deserved, your Committee felt at once that it was in-
compatible with their honour or with the permanent in-
terests of ship-owners ; and they have acted On their
convictions by making common cause with other im-
portant interests in the great struggle for the protective
principle justly applied, which has only now commenced.

The Report was adopted by the general body
of shipowners, who have thus entered into a
league against their fellow-countrymen. There
have been many laws made against workmen
combining, but we are afraid that no law has
ever been directed against the unprincipled com-
bination of these several great bodies mutually
to plunder the people by legislation. The
shipowners appear to us to he inexcusable,
for they admit that the ground of their
apprehension is that foreign ships are cheaper
built and cheaper navigated than English ships ;
but they are so cheaper built and navigated in
consequence solely of our Timber and Corn-laws,
and thus the shipowners obviously sacrifice the
maritime interest of the community to their pre-
sent advantage. They will allow the English
shipping to be dearly navigated arid dearly built,
to the certain diminution of its utility
and employment, if they be not dis-
turbed in their present monopoly of bringing
timber from Canada. Those who know the ship-
owners will probably not be surprised at their
conduct. The men who patiently allowed
impressment to be continued during the
war without remonstrance, and, it is said,
even encouraged it, in order to keep the
seamen more dependent and subservient—the
shipowners who never threw the shield of
their wealth and power around the brave
men who in their service encountered all
kinds of hardships, and exposed themselves to
every clime, cannot be susceptible of patriotic
feeling. Such men as Alderman THOMPSON, Mr.
G. ROBINSON, and the other Esquires, can have
no sympathy either with their seamen or their
suffering countrymen, and it is only natural that
they should combine with similar selfish men to
preserve that protection which is another name
for legal robbery.

The, provincial papers are all full of election
addresses and election proceedings. We are
happy to see that the spirit displayed in the
City of London has had a good effect throughout
the country, and many places are rallying which
mere politicians gave up for lost. There is
even a stir in East Sussex, according to the
Brighton Herald, and a longing for a Liberal
candidate, though Mr. CAVENDISH has so
cruelly betrayed and deserted his friends.
One of the best signs that we behold is the una-
nimity of the working-classes in opposing the
Monopolists. The non-electors are everywhere
bestirring themselves, and taking measures to
make known their wishes to the electors. In
Manchester, Wigan, Kendal, as well as at Bath,
and Liverpool, they have taken a lively interest
in the good cause. We do not despair, there-
fore, of succeeding quietly through the means
of Parliament. We trust that such will be
the case, for it will be a fatal day for England
when' a House of Commons shall be again con-
stituted to maintain by a majority the laws which
ordain plunder and starvation.

In the miscellaneous columns of a well-con-
ducted newspaper there is that principle of order
observed which assigns to whatever appears in it
not only its place but its character. Politics
are never jumbled up with the Court Circular, nor
is an unpopular actor ever attacked under the
head " Shipping Intelligence." Those readers
of newspapers who care more to hear about the
gossip of the Jockey-club, the newest fashion,
the last new novel; or the price of Stocks, than
about Corn-laws and electioneering, have only to
turn to their respective departments in their
favourite journal to find the information they
seek, undiluted with the offscourings of rabid
party spirit. To this general rule the Times is
an exception. Under the head " Money Mar-
ket" in that paper of Saturday, commercial
readers are treated to a long tirade about the
prospects of metropolitan Toryism at the ensu-
ing election, in which there does not happen to
be one syllable of truth. Now we are not unpre-
pared for political lying in the Times, but
we do object to meet with it in the
City article of that or any other news-
paper. If the commercial readers of the Times
want to learn any falsehoods about Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and the Whigs, they have only to turn to
its editorial columns to ;obtain a surfeit of them.
Besides, the writer of the City article in the
Times is a clumsy hand at the management of a
wholesale falsehood. He has none of the editorial
tact in tricking out a lie with here and there a
shred of truth. Having fabricates a story as im-
probab!e as notoriously untrue, he drags it in
neck and shoulders, and, presenting it to the
public in its naked: deformity, gravely invites
them to receive it as an absolute fact. His base
coln.wearsthe impress of nothing calculated to
obtain for it a- temporary currency.
The brass
which he offers for gold is not even gilded with
that precious metal. He tells us that the Con-
scrvati ',vs of the Ci Lv of London, " the more they
reflect the more truly pitiable do they consider
the position of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in coming fol..

ward as a candidate ;" and yet he knows right well
that there is not a Conservative elector in the
City of London who entertains the shadow of a
doubt of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S triumphant re-
turn to Parliament for the metropolis. To what
purport, then, are such lies, save to cast dis-
grace upon the public press, and ta create
doubts of the authenticity of commercial intel-
ligence? They cannot possibly minister to any
clever party purpose, much less to any just or
useful one. Now, to mix up every department
of a newspaper with the politics of the day is to
debase the character and greatly to abridge the
utility of the public press. This is what the
Times is labouring to effect, but as yet it has
found no imitators among our Contemporaries.
It stands alone in baseness and apostasy.

An Extraordinary Express from Paris has
brouglit the following intelligence of Friday's
date from that Capital :

PAtats, Jusrs 18.—There is nothing of the slightest interest
to communicate to-day. In the Chamber of Peers the dis-
cu,sion on the budjet des dcpenses terminated this day, and
they are at this moment proceeding to the division on the
whole bill. The funds continue depressed, in the absence of
any information respecting the new loan.
MADRID, Ju NE l.—ln consequence of despatchPs received
last night from Pails, a Council of alicisters was held. It is.
said they contain the conditions upon which Queen Christina
consents to relinquish the guardianship of her children, but
which the Government does not feel justified in accepting.
It is thought the question will be brought before the Cortes
about the 15th.

The Minister of Finance was much engaged with the pressing
Alm made by the British Ambassador for the 5,000,000 reels
due to the Legion. Very little doing at the Bourse ; not a
bargain for cash, but 20i to 27i at various dates.
At Barcelona on the Ilth the most perfect tranquillity pre-
vailed. The municipality had addressed a suitah:e proe:arna-
tion to the working classes.
CANDI..., JUNE 4.—Letters of the Ist and 4th announce that
the Candians bad expe,ienced a serious reverse, and that in
consequence the most influential chiefs amongst the emigrants
in the island had addressed to the British and French Consuls a
request for an interview with Tahir Pacha and Mustapha
Pacha, on board either of the fleets, for the purpose of coming
to an understanding. The Consuls applied in vain for this in-
terview ; but yielding to their solicita ions, they obtained per-
mission to leave the island by the'ships of those Powers.
The emigrants ask for a delay of 10 days to deliberate, but
which the Turkish commanders refused. Such was the state
of things on the 4th. It was thought this wretched state of
affairs was drawing to a close. The little activity cli•played by
the Turks in their preparations for attack would gain foe them
the 10 days asked for.
Accounts from Constantinople, dated the 27th ult., state that
the hatti-scheriff would be forwarded to Alexandria on the
31st of May. _ _

The Paris Journals of Thursday contain no
news of any interest to an English reader. The
Constitutionnel contends that the British Go,
verument having failed by diplomacy to cause
the Spanish Ministry to conclude a commercial
Treaty with this country, now tries the effect
of smuggling upon a large scale. This is-a
falsehood so notorious that it would be a waste• of
words to refute it in more than a sentence. The British
Government is no more responsible for the conduct of
our merchants, than is the President of the French
Council. It is not to be supposed indeed that the Bri-
tish Government will take any very active part in the
suppression of a contraband trade on the coasts of Spain,
which, if successful, must open an extensive market to
English merchandise, and it is not improbable that more
is expected from this annoyance to the Spanish Govern-
ment towards bringing about a commercial Treaty,
than from any attempt to convince the rulers of.
Spain that it would gain more by such g Treaty
than from a system of prohibition and exclusion, which
the Constitutionnel admits to be imperfect, inasmuch
as the accomplices of the smugglers are the %firy persons
whose office it is to drive them away. The Constitu-
tionnel, far from approving of the prohibitive and re-
strictive systems in Spain as a general principle; com-
plains of it as an offence • against Europe at large,, and
calls upon the Regent for a modification of the tariff on
all things, excepting, of course, British goods, for these,
says the Constitutionnel, come in direct competition with
the manufactures of Spain. Our Contemporary forgets
that, in the present state of Spain, the extension of in-
dustry is a very doubtful thing, for it is only in coun-
tries where there is perfect protection for capital and
manufacturing enterprise, that the one is invested
and the other developed. Until the pacifica-
tion of Spain shall be complete, and confidence in
the honesty and stability of its government be estab-
lished all the prohibitive tariffs that the Cortes can enact,
and all the coast-guard that can be raised, even suppoS-
ing it to be as faithful in the performance of its dutieS as
it is the reverse, will not suffice to prevent smuggling,
and every attempt to foster native industry will be vain.
It is a mistake also to suppose that Spain can ever be
made a manufacturing country, to such an extent as to
render it prudent to exclude the manufactures Of other
States. Her wealth is in her soil, by the proper culti-
vation of which she may carry on an extensive ex-
change. The Constitutionnel mentions as one of the ob-
jectionable items of the Spanish tariffs the enormous
duty on French books, which are the only foreign books,
it says, read in Spain. This sympathy for the book
trade in France is very natural ; but if English books
were the only foreign works read in Spain, would not
the argument against the prohibitive duty on them be
just as strong ; and if it happens that English hardware
and cotton goods enjoy as exclusive a preference among
Spaniards as French books, may not the English com-
plain as justly of their exclusion, as the Constitutionnel
does of the excluSion of French books?
The Commerce says :—" It is confirmed that the Austrian
Government has contracted a loan of five per cent., and it is
said to be at par. The holders of French five per cents made
large sales yesterday in order to buy into the new stock."
The Gazette de France of this evening asks some questions
of the Government, to which probably no an,w( r will be
given. The facts which that paper mentions strike the eyes
of eversbody, but it states them precisely, and on that account
it cannot but be useful to repeat the article.

" All the troops which are in the first military division, ca-
valry, infan'ry, and artillery, are constituted and orpnised as a
corps dame, with a staff, paid as in times of war, as it would
be on the frontier in the presence of the enemy.
"'there are 70,000 men of all arms, a park of 42 field pieces,
forming 7 batteries in the advance of Versailles, besides the
100 pieces of cannon at Vincennes, and those of the military
school.

" There is a Staff composed of a General-in-Chief (General
Schneider) with Generals of divisions and Brigadier-Generals
under him, for the cavalry and infantry, to say nothing of the
swarm of officers of every grade attached to the extraordinary
service.

" On what pretext has this organiation been made when
there is at Paris a General to command the military division,
besides a General of division instead of a Major-General to
command the department of the Seine, when in all the chief
towns of the adjacent departments.there are Major-Generals to
command the troops, and to superintend the military police?
"Since 1789 there has never been round Paris an army orga-
nized on the war establishment, independently of the Com-
mender, in all the departments.
How does it happen that so enormous a fact has not been
pointed out in the Chambers, when the expenses resulting from
it make it necessary to burden the people to a degree which
calls forth protests in all parts of France a;ainst demands for
money, bemuse the people are unable to satisfy them?
" In England, when a Judge goes to a county to hold the
assizes all tee troops are withdrawn to a distance of 36 miles,
that the law may be unimpeded in its course. At London
there are never more than two regiments as the Queen's
guards, and at Paris, the seat of the Parliamentary Govern-
ment and discussions, there are 70,000 men, organised on the
war establishment."—Le commerce.

the English and American news. No news in them respecting
the President steamer, with the exception of the rumours in
our English papers concerning the above vessel.
We have also received the Demerara papers to May 6th :
" Great complaints are made cf the inconvenience arising
from the present 'condition of the currency of the Colony, to
which it is earrestly hoped that the Court of Policy will apply
some speedy remedy.—( These papers are also vcid of interest.)
The Barbadoes papers, which we have received to the 9th of
May, state that the great blessing which the country has re-
ceived is a plentiful rain, which fell in the greater part of
the island on Thursday night and early yesterday morn-
ing. This delightful and most welcome weather has given new
life and spirit to the agriculturists ; the labourers are very busy
planting corn, peas, &c.
The Swift packet deserves her name this voyage, having
arrived on Thursday in twenty-six dais.
We have received papers from the Northern Islands, none of
which possess any interest.
Bermuda papers have been received via St Thomas's of the
6th May. We collect nothing from them but that the Lieut. -
Governor Reid h, d met the Colonial Parliament, and matters
were going on smoothly. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey
had arrived from Jamaica.

( From the Port of Spain Gazette.)
His Lordship the Bishop of l3arbadces may, we understand,
be expected to arrive here on Thursday or Friday next. His
Lordsh.p intends to leave Barbadoes in a steamer.
Our only arrivals of consequence this morning, are two
mails from Jamaica. The latest dates are of the 15th May,
pith papers of the same date, which are extremely barren of
intelligence. The packet Swift brings a freight of 6,0001. in
gold dust. The Colonial House of Assembly at Jamaica had
been prorogued from May 18 to June 22. Those papers do not
mention anything about the crops, or the working of the
labourers.

'I his being Saturday, as usual the British Funds remain in a
state of stagnation, as well as all eeseriptions of commercial
affairs. Nothing is talked of at present in the City but the
e!cc•i ns ; parties are busily engaged in canvassing both for
the Whigs and Tories.

The British Funds opened this morning as they left off yes-
terday, 89% to ; Reduced 89% %; lhree-and. a-Halt per
Cents. Reduced 986 ; Exi.lequer Bills 5 7 prem ; Bank
Stock, 167% 168%.
Up to the present time there is nothing doing in the Foreign
Market, and the prices are nominal as yet. Spanish Acti
as they lest off, 21 22 ; Deferred, 10% ; Passive, 4/ 5%;
Portuguese the same, 33%; Three per Cents., 19% 20; Brazi-
lian, 57 68 ; Colombian, 20% 21 ; Mexican, 26%'27% ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52% ; Five per Cents. 99% 100.
SHARES - Great Western, 24% 25% prem. ; New, 11%
prem. ; London ai.d Brighton; 6h 6 ais. ; Blackwall, 7% 7
cis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem ; Southampton, 53% 54% per
share ; Croydon, 13% per share.
PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......
Ditto New
Great Western

Ditto New
Ditto bias
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ... 90
London, and South Western 3B; .. .. to
Ditto Tenths
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
North Midland
Ditto New
Ditto Thirds
York and North Alidland. .

We cannot expect any further arrivals from New York for
a week to come, of later dates than already received. The
Great Wt stern leaves the above city this day, the 19th of June,
and the Acadia, leaves Boston on the 16th inst., and Halifax
on the 18th or 1911 i inst.

The paeket-ship of the 7th inst. from New York, being a
Failing vessel, is not yet due, and the date of her arrival is un-
certain. _ _

We have again to state that the British Funds remain in the
same state as in the early part of the morning, firm and steady,
but without any business doing. 'there was a report that Mr.
Craivtord and Mr. Pattison had resigned, leaving the field to Lord
J. Russell and Sir M. Wood; but up to the present time we do
not hear anything official on the subject, and the report does
not gain ground. There does not appear to have been any
betting on the elections this morning in the House..
Consuls are at present the same as they opened, 89/ 4 for the
Account; Reduced, 89/ 4 same;' Exchequer Bills, 75 7
prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing doing; India Stook for the
opening, 248.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues heavy at
22 ; Brazilian, 67/ ; Colombian, 214 21 ; MeXican, 274 ;
Portuguese, 33/.
in shares scarcely anything doing :—Great Western, 91 ;
New, 61/ ; Ditto, Fifths, 104 ; London and Brighton, 43/ ;
Leaden and Birmingham, 157.
It seems as though we were destined never to know the
fate, .except by surmise, of the President steainer. The West
India accounts received this morning reach to tha 16th of last
month, and yet do not bring the-least item of intelligence
respecting the discovery of any wreck or. fragment.
The week which closes to-dly has not been one of much
activity in the produce markets, and the prices realized
also leave but little room for congratulation. As, however, the
value of many leading staples is now comparatively low,
it is ra• her expected that when freed from the trammels
of the existing political excitement, attention will be attracted
towards business again. From Liverpool and some of the
Midland and Northern districts our accounts on the subject of
manufactures are mare cheering.
It is satisfactory to learn by accounts from Demerara, that
Lord John Russell has approved of the Civil List as settled by
Sir H. M'Leod.

Consuls, b9h 8%; Mexican, 27 27i; Spanish, 22 22k.
CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock lndia Stock '

3 per Cent Red B9A Ditto Bonds —par
3 per Cent Cons B9k Ditto Old Annuities ...
3; per Cent Red 9BA Ditto New Annuities...
New 31j per Cent - Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 Bpm
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001 8 pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small ll pm
Jan. 1860 124 Batik Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg....24S

Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 58
Belgian, 5 per cent — !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... I
Spanish, 5 per cent 22
Ditto, 1824 ... ... Ditto, Deferred ..

Danish, 3 per cent. French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 25c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f. e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. ,Dutch, 2i per cent. ...
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent

SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester Railvtav(loo p)
Ditto New Shares (2i paid) ......... 21
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9l
Ditto. New Shares (00 paid _ 6

Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid).
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 157
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (li paid)
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3l
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Northern and Eastern (30 paid)
North Midland llailway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
Ditto Thirds ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 694

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