The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lOO4 'Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 23 !Russian, 5 per cent ll2l
Chilian, 6 per cent._ Ditto, Nletallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 234
Ditto, 1824. ... ..... 224 Ditto, Deferred .. 111
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 25c.
Greek, 18;45, 5 per cent — 'Exchange - e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. IDutch, 2 per cent. ... 524
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et Ditto, 5 per cent 994
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 9li
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64
London and Brighton (50 paid)... 4si
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) lB
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto 'thirds (32 paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
Ditto Scrip. (4 paid)
London and South Western
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 67
Ditto New Shares (40 paid).. .........
South East,,rn and Dover (33 paid)... 14i

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar . .. .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 6i Genoa . . . 25 85
Antwerp
flamburgh M.B. 13 13i Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz 119
Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bout deaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 150* Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres
Berlin....
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 0 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid . . 35 Portugal Gold Coln £0 0 0
.... . _

Cadiz
Bilboa ..

Forein Gold, bars 3 17 9
'New Doubloons 0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville ... 34

New Dollars 0 4 10a
(Silver in Bars 0 5 0,-;

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
and Princess of Leiningen, arrived in town at twenty minutes
before six o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and
four, escorted by a party of Huisars, from Claremont. Colonels
Wemyss and 'll ylde, and Dr. Prcetorius, followed in another
open carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal and her attendants occupied another carriage, and in the
la.t carriage and four were Lady Portman, Baroness Leiner',
Baroness Spa th, and Lord Poltimore.
Her Majesty and the Prince were received at Buckingham
Palace by the Lord Steward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Groom of the Stole to Piince Albert, Earl of Aboyn.!, Lord
in Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, and Major the
Hon. George Keppel, Groom in Waiting.
The Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen last evening,
and afterwards accompanied her Majesty and Prince Albeit to
the Italian Opera. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen
also accompanied her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The
Royal Suite consisted of the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady
Anne Maria Dawson, Hun. Miss Murray, Earl of Aboyne,
Major the Hon. George Keppel, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel
Wylde, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. His Royal High-
ness Prince George of Cambridge also paid a visit to her
Majesty yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis of Ely with
his company at dinner, last evening, at his residence in Bel-
grave-square.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia
Matilda, visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam-
bridge House.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses
Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage.
Mr. J. Parker and Mr. Ward had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing. street, on the sub-
ject of the Sheffield Address to her Majesty.
Mr Gillespie had an interview with Lord John Russell yes-
terday at he Co!onial-office.
Despatches from the Governor of the Honduras were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday.
Mr. Baron Parke gave judgment in "Dalzell c. airrodaile,"
Commissioners of Compensation.
The Solciror-General was beard in the Appeal relative to
the will of the late Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester, and con-
cluded his address soon after four o'clock. The Court
then rose.

Commodore Sir Charles Napier visited the Panorama of
Acre and Damascus yesterday, and was highly gratified at the
correctness of the views.

DR. REID'S LECTURES.

NEW PRACTICAL COURSE FOR SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.

Yesterday the first practical lesson illustrative of the
course recommended by Dr. Reid, was given at Willis's-
rooms. Dr. Reid's views are, that the introduction of
practical lessons in chemistry, in all schools and acade-
mies, will be equally advantaffeous in their influence on
the arts, on public health, and in economising the means
of the poor, while they are essentially necessary for all
who may be intended for professional pursuits, where a
knowledge of physical science is required.
The practical lessons are given immediately before the
lecture, and consist of a series of demonstrations as to the
nature of air, water, combustion, or such other subjects
as may engage attention, each of the pupils performing
simultaneously a series of experiments illustrative of the
facts described, and being interrogated upon each, so as
to quicken his powers of observation in tracing the suc-
cessive phenomena that are presented as the experiments
proceed.
The pupils stand round a table, each having an assort-
ment of apparatus and materials placed before him, such
as are required for the operations in which they are to
be engaged. The apparatus is exceedingly simple, and
consists merely of slips of glass, with which numerous
experiments are performed, and of a few tubes, glass jars
and candles, gas-lamps, or charcoal, according to the de-
gree of heat required. The following statement of the
experiments performed in the introductory lessons will
give a better idea than any detailed explanations of the
system adopted. The pupils performed all the experi-
ments with much interest, and we noticed a number of
ladies and gentlemen, including several Members of the
House of Commons, examining attentively the nature of
the system, and the manner in which the young pupils
entered upon their experimental operations.
Dr. Reid began the practical lessons by placing in the
hands of each of the pupils a small instrument, which he
termed a chemical abacus. It is constructed in the same
"manner as the common abacus ; a number of beads
strung upon different wires, representing the different
elements, which are moved in different positions, accord-
ing to the nature of the combination it may be intended
to represent.
In the first experiment the pupils placed a jar over a
candle, when their attention was called to the manner in
which it burned till it was extinguished, to the products
of combustion, to the moisture deposited, and thus to the
impurities communicated to the air, these being tested
saccessively by litmus, lime-water, &c.
In the next series of experiments the pupils operated
upon the air which they expired testing it in the same
manner as the products of combustion, by litmus and
lime-water.

Lastly, they dissolved a portion of a chemical prepara-
tion which was given them with the view of explaining the
extreme minuteness of the particles of matter, and having
effected a solution by boiling it with water upon a piece
of flat glass, they lifted-- tests with another portion of
glass, and applied them to the matter of experiment.
During the whole course of thew experiments the
teacher keeps up a continued conversational intercourse
with the pupils, and they are continually examined and
cross-examined upon the varied phenomena that are ob-
served, till he is satisfied that they are thoroughly un-
derstood.

ELOPEMENT.—A great sensation has been ex-
cited at Camberwell by the elopement of a widow lady
named Hallan, of Cottage-green, with a Mr. Abraham
Horne, of the Foxley-road. The paramour of the lady
has deserted a wife and four young children in the most
heartless manner, besides having absconded from his
creditors to a large amount. The guilty parties were
traced to Monteuil, on the road to Paris, where they were
arrested under a false passport, the man having assumed
the name of Alfred Hallan (the lady's name), It is sup-
posed they intend to proceed to America.
CONCERT.—:MIIe. E. Meerlis's Grand Even-
ing Concert on Monday, the 7th of June, will be a great
treat ; as, in addition to her own beautiful voice she has
secured the talent of Dorus Gras, with Mdlle. Bertuccal
no the harp. 01111 M. H. Vientemps on the violin ; who.
with the Beneficiare, has the latinour of appearing before
her Majesty nt 41,e -1'414,c,, op Wednestlai evening..
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expenditure both of time and money.
The Count de Survilliers (Joseph. Bonaparte),
with his son-in-law, the Prince de Canino, and his son
Lucien, Dr. Stokoe, Messrs;Maillard and Thibaud, se-
cretaries, and a numerous suite, embarked at' the Brims,
Wick Wharf, 81,-.ickwall, yester+y Oternon, 9 R-Ilord
the Peniiiiiilar .o!hiorC)i4ental 5i01Tt1,4%.-igation Company's
ship U, Corer, gsco Commode; for Genba,

REPRESENTATION OF MARY-
LEBONE.
Last evening a meeting of the electors of the Borough of
Marylebone, residing in the district of Paddington, was held
at the King and Queen Tavern, Paddington-green, for Ilse
purpose of receiving from the Reform candidate, Commodore
Sir Charles Napier, an explanation of the grounds upon which
he solicits their votes at the next election.
At seven o'clock precisely, the chair was taken by Mr.
Welsher, one of the late Churchwardens of the parish. The
Gallant Commodore presently afterwards came into the room,
and was greeted with much cheering.
The CHAIRMAN said that the duty which he had to perform
was a pleasing one. It was merely to introduce to them Sir
Charles Napier, of whom they had heard so much for the last
two years.—( Cheers.) It was not necessary for him to say
anything for the Gallant Comodore, who would speak for him-
self.—( Cheers and laughter.)
Sir C. Nama then rose, amidst the most enthusiastic and
prolonged cheering. He said, Gentlemen, you must be aware
that the occupations which I have had fur the last two years,
make me perfectly capable of understanding the tricks and
manoeuvres of our opponents.—(Cheers and laughter.) At
our last meeting they attempted to make it appear that I was
opposed to the amendment of the New Poor-law Bill. But I
tell you, once for all, that there is not a man in England
who is more a friend to the poor than I am.—(Cheers.) And
I will second, with might and main, every effort to amelioraie
the condition of the poor, and to mitigate the asperities of the
Poor-laws.—(Repeated cheering.) I was for two years one
of the guardians of the poor in my own parish, and I did all I
could to soften the hardships of the law, and to lessen the suf-
ferings of the poor.--( Renewed cheering.) We took the re-
sponsibility upon ourselves of departing from the orders of the
Central Council, and we allowed out-door relief to the aged poor
of 6s. instead of Ss. a-week. If the state of the old law requ.red
alteration, I am still of opinion that the union workhouses
ought to be like Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals—places of
refuge and comfort for those who are worn out in the service
of the community.—( Tremendous cheering.) I think that
those who are past their labour ought to have a home and a
refuge there, and he allowed to go out to take their walks when
they liked, as in Chelsea or Greenwich—(Cheers)—but I do
not think that the young and the idle ought to have the same
indulgence at the expense of the industrious.—( Hear, hear.)
I understand that the parishes of St. Pancras and Marylebone
have good local acts, well administered, and that the best
parts of the New Poor-law have been taken from
their example ; and I will therefore do ail in my
power to prevent any interference with the local
management of those districts of this borough.—( Hear,
hear, Lear.) There is now another subject to which I must
allude—and which, indeed, must be looked to all over the
country—l mean the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
am a deadly enemy of those laws.— (Vehement cheering.) 1
go with her Majesty's Ministers as far as they go—(Cheers)—
and I believe that their propositions would not aggrieve the
landholders, but would greatly benefit the people.—( Cheers. )
But even if the alteration did tend to diminish the incomes of
the owners of land, is that a reason why the luxuries of the
rich should be maintained at the cost of misery and privation to
the poor ?—( Cheers.) I have had a calculation sent up to me
from the country, by which it is shown that a difference cf 3d.
in the price of the loaf makes a difference to the
poor man with a family of fully one-fifth of his income, and to
his landlord a difference of only one-four-hundredth part.—_
(Cheers. ) I think that if money must be raised for the sup-
port of the public establishments of the country, it should be
raised without oppressing the poor—it should be raised by a
property-tax.—( Applause.) I think that if the transmission
of property in the funds is taxed, so a'so ought the transmission
of landed property to be taxed.—( Hear, hear.) The matter of
the Sugar Duties, gentlemen, is now an old story—( Hear, and
a laugh )—and all I have to say about them is, that I think
every old woman in the country ought to have enough sugar to
her tea.—( Great laughter.) The Tories have no right to
throw it upon the Ministers that they would encourage slavery
by reducing the duties. What did the Tories ever do to discou-
rage slavery ? But,Gentlemen, if you wish to understand the
whole state of the case upon that question, read Lord Palmer-
ston's speech, and you will see how it stands, and how far the
measure of the Government is from being an encouragement
to slavery.—( Hear, hear.)
An ELECTOR—What do you say about the timber duties,
Commodore ? _ _

Sir C. NA PIER—The gentleman asks what I say about the
timber duties? Well, that's easily done.—(A laugh.) The
Government always uses Baltic timber in its own ships, and I
can't see why the merchants should not be allowed to use it in
their vessels, or why the people of England should be com-
pelled to use the inferior timber of Canada in building their
houses.—(Hear, hear.) _ _

An ELF.CTOR--NONV'tell us, Commodore, what do you think
of the Ballot.—( Hear,. hear. )

Sir C NAPIER—I tell you what it is, Sir ; when I was a young
man, I thought it was the best way for every Englishman to
go up to the poll, and speak out his mind like a man, and for
that reason 1 did not like the ballot. But I have since seen
that it is impossible to have the people represented unless they
are protected by some such means ; and I am decidedly in
favour of the Ballot.—( Cheers.) I find that there are in this
borough upwards of 35,00 J ten-pound householderi. I find
that I 1,500 only of these are registered; and I find, lastly, that
of these, only 8,000 have ever voted.—(Hear, hear, hear.) 1
understand, also, that the true cause of so few registering, and
so much fewer voting, is, that they want the Ballot to protect
them from persecution.—( The Gallant Officer then sat down
amidst repeated rounds of applam.e. )
Mr. SMART (who was greeted with the warmest applause)
said he had a resolution to propose, which he was satistied
would meet with the cordial approbation of every one of the
numerous body of his brother electors then present. It was—
" That this meeting has heard with entire satisfaction the sen-
timents of the gallant Commodore, Sir Charles Napier, and the
electors present pledge themselves to use their best exertions
to secure his election as a worthy colleague of their esteemed
representative, Sir Benjamin Hall."—( Great cheering.) He
could not but express his deep regret that another attempt
was about to be made to divide the Reform interest in the
borough, and to continue the misrepresentation of Marylebone
by a Tory.—(Cheers. )
An ELECTOR—We are not so YOUNG as to be caught that
way again.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. SMART Or as sorry to see a gentleman professing
Liberal opinions, and whose sincerity he would not venture to
dispute—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter)—coming for-
ward, when he knew from previous experiments he had not
sufficient support in the borough, having never polled more
than 700, with the whole interest of Sir S. Whalley in his
favour, to throw himself in the way of a man who stood so high
as Commodore Napier, in the estimation of the electors and of
the country at large. Such conduct was, to say the least of it,
nothing better than playing the game of the Tories. —( Cheers. )
Mr. kIAynoN, who was also received in the most enthu-
siastic manner, seconded the motion.

The re.solution was then put by the Chairman, and was car-
ried without a single hand being raised against it.
Thanks having been Toted to the Chairman,
An ELEcTort proposed three cheers for the Queen and Com-
modore Napier, which were accordingly given with many
repetitions.
The meeting then separated, and as Sir Charles Napier pro-
ceeded across the green, he was followed by a large concourse
of the inhabitants, loudly cheering, arid calling out " Hurrah
for the true British sailor."