The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-09 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE POPE

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
PARIS, JUNE 7."
His Holiness the Pope died suddenly on the Ist in
*tent, between nine and ten o'clock A.st.—Times.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
T kTTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.
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A few bets were laid on the Derby at the prices returned
below, but the weight of the business—and at the best it was
bad enough—was on the Emperor's Cup, for which Orlando
became as good a favourite as Alarm—in fact, bad the call.
The transactions, however, on the whole, were so insignifi-
cant that we may confine ourselves to a quotation of the last
prices :

THE EMPEROR'S VASE.
4 to 1 agst Col. PeersOrlando—tak. and afterw. offered
4 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Wolfdog—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Mentor
10 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Miss Sarah
10 to 1 agst Lard Lonsdale's Jericho
17 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's The Baron
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wood Pigeon—taken
25 to I agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Corranna—taken
000 to 600 on Orlando agst Mentor—taken
550 to 400 on the field agst Alarm and Orlando.

THE QUEEN'S VASE.
4 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Khondooz.
Mendicant is declared not to start for the Royal Hunt Cup,
Sting and Joyful do not go to Ascot.

THE DERBY.
1000 to 30 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's Miles's Boy—taken
1000 to 25 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—taken
2000 to 50 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt—taken
10 00 to 20 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crozier—taken
1000 to 20 agst Lord Stradbroke's Marpessa colt—taken
5000 to 50 agst Sir R.Buikeley's Brother to Joinville—taken,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The racing at MaEchester has borne out my predic-
tion pretty nearly to the letter. I named the winners of five
stakes, the first and second in two instances—tolerable suc-
cess for one meeting. Now for the aristocratic gathering on
Ascot-heath, which commences to-morrow. The bill of fare
is better this year than it ever was before, a very good stake
being added by the Great Western Railway directors. The
high-mettled racers there, en route, or going, amount to the
very large number of 140, or thereabouts. So we may reason-
ably expect to have four days good sport on the dusty Heath.
On Tuesday the First Class Ascot Stakes will have either
six or seven starters. The Marquis of Conyngham or In-
heritress for my cash.
The Second Class Ascot Stakes, I opine, will go to Lord
Salton or Jenny Wren, seven starting.
The Queen's Vase, I fancy, will ,so to the Peri colt or Wood
Pigeon—Grimston cannot get the distance, and Wolfdog will
not start.

The Ascot Derby Stakes seem madefor Joy or St. Demetri.
The 100 soya. Stakes will furnish a field of third-rates, six
in number, with Binnacle for winner, Eclat and Crown
Prince second and third.
The 50 soya. Stakes, for two yrs old, will have either Field
Mouse or Don John colt for winner.
The Welcome Stakes will bring the following to the post :
—Tragical, Ward of Cheap, Sting, Humdrum, Burlesque,
Queen Anne, lago, Blackie, Footstool, Cynynion, and pro-
bably one each of Exeter's and Greville'a. I have some
doubts on this race; to my aye, Sting, Burlesque, and lago
are pretty evenly matched. Should Queen Anne be up to
the mark, there is another rival for the Welcome honours. I
have a slight preference for the son of Slane, and will look to
him to do the trick, the other three being too near to be
pleasant—Burlesque or lago second,.
The 100 sous. Stakes, for three yrs old, will entice two to
the post, King Charles and Prussic Acid, the latter for winner.
On Wednesday the Swinley Stakes to Lord Loasdale.
The 25 sot's. Stakes to Mr. Hill, should Jericho not start.
The 50 soya. Stakes to Lord Albemarle.
The Coronation Stakes to Princess Alice or Birthday.
The 50 sous. Stakes, Sting Ist, Joy 2d, and St. De-
metri 3d.

The Fern Hill Stakes will have about seven starters, with
BurlesTne or Laundry Maid for winner.
The Royal Hunt Cnp will collect together a very good
field, probably thirteen. At the finish the front rank will
consist of Beaumont, Sir Francis, Sotades, Cocoa Nut; and
Leaconfield—Sir Francis or Sotades for winner.
On Thursday, the Dinner Stakes, to Draco or Harmony
filly; the 50 soya. Stakes, to Lord 'Albemarle; the St.
Jericho'
James's Palace Stakes, to Free Lance. The Emperor's Plate,
the grand attraction of the meeting, will bring a first. rate
Such a 'field as a lover O_Tr.lando
field to the post. As far as lam able to judge at the present
to the back Lone. The racing
MissoN Miss Sarah, Kesbeng,
and (I fancy)
time,
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ifioallowi g
n will go for it :—Sweetmeat, Peri colt,
Prince,
h,erel-
teldrciees: Wolfdog, Alarm,
admires—no trash, , Coranna, and the Crown Prince.
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on on Thursday next will be
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belt
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posed of at thneaan;
coltchowilihave had enough ;
,anadndPeJnFeri will form the "crack
Sweetmeat or Jericho winning, which I
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Sweetmeat,hgee when,p thella: BaroneSarah,
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having seen above seven of the
cannot
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little about thisyoungsters, five year, not
have been before the public. I should say the Miss° Clifton
filly, Don John colt, or C?ttisford were as good as any ; busilt,
you must not rely on this, for my prophetic vision on this
stakeswill be -
On Friday the 300 soya.
—Leopold first, Fuzbos second.
to Lyons; Muscatel second.
The Military Stakes
particular race is remarkably misty.
The match between Wolfdog, Bst 71b, and Miss Ells, Tat 71b,
and Taurina,by the former.
will be won by the latter ; and the match between Camelia
For the 300 sovs. given by the Great Western Railway
Company the winner will spring out of the five-year-olds. I
cannot be more particular, as this stake depends so much
I am, sir, yours, upon the others,
Monday. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

THREE DAYS LATER FR IM
AMERICA
(From the European Times.)

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JUNE 8 1840.
We have just received, by Express, from Kitale (Ire-
land), New York papers to the 19th—landd at that
port for us by Captain Bailey, of the New Yck Packet
Ship Yorkshire, to whom we tender our best hanks for
his polite attention for this and ell similar fanurs. This
arrival furnishes news three days later than tart brought
by the steam ship Cambria. The Yorkshin made the
passage to Kinsale in about sixteen days, mtwitbstand-
ing the light winds which are supposed t 6 hue prevailed.
The nee s brought by the Yorkshire is ofan important
character. Hostilities between the United States and
Mexican armies had continued ; and by tie arrival of a
ship at New Orleans on the 9th ult., intePgence was re-
ceived from the former up to the 29th rf April, from
which it appears that a portion of the American soldiers
bad suffered another defeat between Pint Isabel and
Matamoros ; and that seventy volunteers, in attempting
to reach General Taylor's camp, were :tented and en-
tirely destroyed. Fro:o the position of the two armies,
it appears that General Taylor is entirdy surrounded by
the Mexicans, and his supplies cut off.
It would seem that there is not anyiesire on the part
of the citizens of Louisiana, to enrolthemselves as vo-
lunteers in the glorious cause of the country. In fact
it was necessary to have recourse 'l3 a conscription, in
order to enable the executive authorities to raise the re-
quired number. Rumour also asrts that several who
at first consented to volunteer, hale deserted just at the
time they should have marched for the scene of action.
We give below a proclamation, skned by the Mayor of
New York, calling upon the citizens within his civic
jurisdiction, to respond to the requirements of the Pre-
sident's proclamation. We observe that a large meet-
ing, on the same subject, has been hell in Philadelphia,
at which resolutions were adop'ed pledging the meeting
to assist the Government.
A rumour prevailed at Washington on the 14th, that
Mr. Pakenham had protested against the warlike opera-
tions of the United States against Mexico. We give
it merely as a tumour. The New York Herald is the
only paper which contains the rumour. We annex the
following extracts from the papers which have reached
our office :
FURTHER LOSSES TO THE AMERICANS.
(From the New York Tribune, of Va'Ar 18.)
"' "- s--;eful necessity of recording another
disastrions conflict between P.irit Isabel and l!atamoros,
in which severity volunteers, att.,,ipuug to reach brenerar
Taylor': camp from the former post, were routed and cut to
pieces by an overwhelming Mexican force. The worst of it
is, that our men appear to have behaved badly, which will
embolden the Mexicans in future encounters. Capt. Wall,e-
himself, so far as we can gather from his :recounts, did not
distinguish himself otherwise than in running. wherein he
approved himself a match for Stannard, or " the American
D-er?' himself. He came in ahead of the remna tof his
flying coreQ. and there can be little doubt that his time"
was about the best on record.
As yet we are not enabled to determine by what authority
a Captain of volunteers undertook wi h his corormy to r•,.
open General Taylor's communication with Can Isabel. when
the veteran commander does not see fit to attimpt it with
2,500 regulars. If captains of volunteers meditate pr pceed-
ing to the Rio del Norte to make war on their ou n look, it
will be expedient to put them in straight jacke's at once, and
set their men to planting potatoes at home. They can be of
far more use thus employed than in undertaking to manoeu-
vre and fight as partisa-s in n mintry of which thuy know
nothing and their enemies everything—they fi;.-;-litioz with-
out artillery, while half the hostile force is cavalry; and
the Mexicans, if indifferent soldiers, are notoriously good
horsemen.
The worst news we have from the South is that of the
departure of the steam-boat from Galveston for Brassos St.
Tago with sixteen volunteers for the relief of General
Taylor, and the absolute failure cf Louisiana to raise four
regiments (two thousand five hundred men in all) for the
same purpose without a resort to the conscription. This is
most disgraceful to those who have so wantonly involved
the nation in its present responsibilities and perils. If
Texas does not rush to the rescue of General Taylor, we
insist that she ought to be kicked out of the Union without
ceremony. For her sake our Government has set up an
unrighteous claim-to the boundary of the Rio Grande ;
for her sake our little a-my is now surrounded on the
banks of the great Mexican river. We have to foot the
bill at all events, and it bids fair to be a heavy one. If,
in addition to this, we are to be subjected to conscripion, a d
dragged from our homes to fight for her nnrighteous preten-
sions in that region of yellow fever, who among us will longer
look with favour on as connsmion from which Texas reaps all
the advantage, and we n( thing but perils, calamities, and
crime?
(From our New Orleans Corrrspowlent.)
The schooner Mary Clare arrived at New Orleans on the
9th inst., from Brazos St. lago, which place she left on the
29th. aptain Griffin and passengers report that Captain
Walker and seventy rangers were nearly all killed and taken
prisoners on the 28th ult., about twenty miles above Point
Isabel, by a large force of Mexicans.
Captain Walker succeeded in reaching the point at 4 P.M.
with only three men. He applied to Major Thomas for more
men, and announced his determination to proceed to General
Taylor's camp, or die in the attempt—his object being to
communicate full particulars of the attack to the commanding
officer.
He started from his camp on the 28th with his whole force
to reconnoitre, and, if possible, open a communication with
Gen. Taylor. He had proceeded as far as about midway
between Point Isabel and the Camp, when an overwhelming
Mexican force approached suddenly. A portion of his
troops were raw recruits; he instructed them to keep on his
right, and gave orders to the whole to retire under cover of
the chapparel in view; but his raw troops, panic stricken,
scattered in confusion.
The Mexicans advancing with overwhelming numbers, he
glke orders to retire. He was followed until within a mile of
Point Isabel. where he arrived with only two of his men ; six
others subsequently came in. Capt. W. estimates the num-
ber cf Mexicans he encountered at 1,500, and he supposed that
at least 30 of them fell during the 15 minutes which he en-
gaged them.

The force is supposed to be a portion of that which had, at
last accounts, crossed the Rio Grande some 20 or 25 miles
above Matamoros, and which is estimated at 3,000 men. It
is believed that they had taken a circuitous route on the
Eastern side of General Taylor's camp.
The post is very strongly defended. By the exertions of
Majors Monroe and Saunders, with 500 men to defend the
post, it is believed it can be made good against 3,009. There
are now about 5,000 Mexicans on the American side of the
Rio Grande, one half above, and one half below General
Taylor's camp.
The greatest apprehension is now felt for the American posi-
tion, is that the Mexicans may raise fortifications which com-
mand Brassos Satiago. The natural formation of the ground
is mostly favourable for such a purpo.e; the men- would be
effectually protected from any naval force by the natural
embarkment, and the position could only -be carried by
actual storming of the works.

A slip from the Tropic says that a gentleman passenger in
the Ellen and Clara informs uathat General Taylor on the
29th, bad only six days' provisions. The Augusta was met
going out with troops. The Cage and Florida were left it
Point Isabel, loaded with goods. The night previous to the
Ellen and Clara leaving, an attack was expected on Point
liabel. It was expected tllat General Taylor would cut his
way through, and come to the relief of Point Isabel.
The latest adrices received at Vera Cruz from Matamoros
were to the 15th ult. Immediately after the arrival of Ge-
neral Ampudia, his notice to General Taylor to retire behind
the Nueces was known, and the Vera Cruz people expected
to hear of hostilities. We have heard it reported that the
British Consul saw a letter from General Taylor to General
Ampudia,andthat he approved of the same.

-FROM THE MO GRANDE DIRECT.
The report brought to this city yesterday by the schooner
Empire, which left the mouth of the Rio Grande on the
28th ult. was, that a body of two or three hundred Mexi-
cans (two or three companies) had crossed the Rio Grande,
at a short distance above the city, and after an engagement
with a portion of our force, had captured 150 men: The
Empire also brought a report that twenty or thirty Ran
cheros had crossed the river between the American camp
and Point Isabel, and captured a waggon containing stores,
This is a Mexican report.
There are two ferries between Point Isabel and Matamoros,
one at Buchita and the other about eight miles below -Mata-
moros. At intervals of some five miles there are places
where boats might land unobserved.
The captain of the Empire states that the report when he
left was that the Mexican army consisted of about 8,000
men—of which 5,000 were regulars and 3,000 Rancheros
and militia. There were nothing but Rancheros Wow
Matamoros.

WAR MEETINGS.
PHILADELPHIA.—One of the largest meetings ever assem-
bled in this city, was held on the 14th, to respond to the
proclamation of the Mayor, upon the present condition of
affairs here, and OA the protection of the country.
Mayor Swift presided, assisted by the Recorder, Presidents
of the Councils, the Mayor of the Northern Liberties, the
Presidents of the Board of Commission., and the Chief Bur- ,
gess of West Philadelphia, as Vice Presidents.

_ .
The spirit of the meeting may be seen by the principal re,
solution, which was as follows :

"Resolved,—That while this meeting deeply regrets that
negotiations of a friendly character have failed to effect a
pacific settlement with our sister republic, we deem it a
duty to make known to the nation at large, and particularly
to the Government, that our full and entire sympathies are
with our country, and that, should the exigencies of the na-

ion require it, our services, our fortunes, and our lives, are
hereby pledged for the preservation of the integrity of the
national domain, the security of the lives, and the conserva-
tion of the rights of oar fellow-citizens, and the honour of
our beloved country."
The meeting was ably, effectively, and eloquently ad-
dressed by many distinguished citizens, among others by
Josiah Randall, Mr. Page, General Peter S. Smyth, Judge
Conrad, Mayor Smith, P. A. Browne,B. H. Brewster. A
fair sprinkling of Whigs, democrats, and natives.
In the Senate, on the 15th, in reference to this meeting,
Mr. Cameron presented the proceedings of the war meeting
in Philadelphia, and said he was proud of that city, for the
opportunity she had given him of laying before the senate
this evidence of the patriotism of her sons. What she had
done for the country she would do again. She had coal
enough in her mountains to warm her friends, and iron
enough in her mines to repel her enemies.
NEW YORK.—In this mart of commerce the same active
movements are in progress—the citizens are beginning to
arouse to a sense of the importance of the present war crisis,
and of the necessity of strenuously co-operating with the
Executive in prosecuting the war with rigour.
THE MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION.
Mayor's Office, New York, May 15, 1846.
Whereas a preamble and resolution has this day passed
both branches of the City Government, requesting the Mayor,
in conformity with the views impressed in the message of
his Excellency the President of the United States, in which
it is stated " that a state of war exists between the Govern-
ment of Mexico and the United States." to issue his procla-
mation calling on all persons acting under the city authority,
and exhorting all ether of our fellow-citizens to observe
faithfully the requirements of the President's proclamation,
and our fellow-citizens belonging to our military corps par-
ticularly, to hold themselves in readiness for any service
which may legally be required of them.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew 13. Mickle, Mayor of the city
of New York, do hereby, in pursuance of the foregoing, commend to the inhabitants of this great and patriotic city,
to aid in carrying out the views expressed in the message of
the President of the United States, as well as the unanimous
expression given by the Common Council thereon. Be-

lieving, as I do, that in any emergency, one and all of our
citizens are ever ready to respond to the legitimate calls of
the Government, I therefore tecl the greatest confidence that
the same line of conduct will characterise our fallow citizens
on this occasion as has ever heretofore been manifested.
In testimony whereof, I hive hereunto subscribed my
name, and have caused the seal of the mayoralty to be
hereunto affixed, this fif eenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hund-ed and forty-six.
ANDREW H. MICKLE,
Mayor of the City of New York.
The Committee of Arrangnnent a f-.T a meeting of citizens
in the Park, with the view of expres-ing a public opinion on
the relations of our country with Mexico, are requested to
meet in the Mayor's office this evening at six o'clock.

A. H. MICKLE, Mayor.
We find the following in the New York Herald of the
18th:—

PROTEST OF THE BRITISH MINISTER.
THE PRESENT IMBECILE CABINET MUST GO OCT.
PROBABLE WAR WITH ENGLAND.
WASIIINGTON, MAY 14, 1816.—The Britkh Minister, Mr.
Pakenham, formally protes:ed this morning against the course
adopted by this Government against Mexico. The reasons
assigned are those which are usually advanced by that Power
upon similar occasions—that of the injury and Vinterruption
to commerce which such a state of things naturally produces.
The British merchants at Matanzas, you are alrea,ly aware,
have protested against the o 'cupation of the territory oppo-
site to that city by our troops, and the blockade of the river
upon which it is situated, by our vessels; and, in further-
ance of this declaration her Majesty's Minister has solemnly
entered his protest. If this country do not at once succumb
to this threat—a thing which it will not do—he will ask for
his passports, probably, and depart immediately for some of
the British provinces, near this country, until he hears fur-
ther from his Government.—[Doubtful, very.—Ed. Her.]
Such is the crisis to which Mr. Polk and his miserable ad..
risers have brought us at last. The country has never bad
any confidence in his Cabinet, and how can it sustain it now,
when the emergency calls for the co-operation of the mighty
minds of the nation ? They must be forced from his councils,
and able men placed in their stead.

THE COERCION BILL.
(From The Sun of Last Yght.)
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Coupled with the fact of the re-appearance of the
Coercion Bill for a second reading this evening, the
meeting of Liberal representatives in Chesham-place,
on Saturday, portends either some extraordinary ca-
tastrophe or some extraordinary concession in our
Legislature. As under all circumstances of similar
importance a variety of opinions and a multiplicity
of rumours have been disseminated among the multi-
tade as to the probable issue of these occurrences
Every one is dubious respecting the ulterior conse-
quences of their influence, though all coincide in an
ticipating some remarkable denouement after so many
remarkable preliminaries. Whether the present
alsoiss.- win L., oo r.....h.r..irapa in the division upon
the Curfew Bill as to necessitate their withdrawal
from office; or whether the lesser half of the present
session cannot be sustained by a Government power-
ful enough in its moral influence to carry a
measure of such peouliar vastness during the com-
mencement of this same session, are the questions
now agitating the popular mind, and constitute for
the moment a more seductive object of speculation
than the rail wayphobia itself. Nor can the position
of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administration at this critical
juncture fail to ensure the sympathy of the least sus-
ceptible, or to arouse the interest of the least reflective
amongst our countrymen. The origin of this sudden
indecision as to the stability of his Government is
simple enough, but it is also striking and instructive
enough in all conscience. Vague suspicions and
shadowless inuendues have repeatedly been promul-
gated by those misguided or obtuse-minded observers
who were desirous of the Premier's discomfiture ;
but not until within a very few days had these
rumours assumed anything like a palpable or sub-
stantial form. What was hitherto a scarcely per-
ceptible vapour has gradually accumulated into a
storm-cloud ; and from the resolutions which were
almost unanimously adopted on Saturday at Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S residence, its dormant violence is
expected to burst forth at every instant, and
the public attention is rivetted upon the Par-
liament House, anticipative of those political deto-
nations which are expected to hurl Sir ROBERT and
his colleagues from authority. Some are looking
with sanguine satisfaction at the day- dawning of
power to Lord JOHN, some with despondency at the
probable retirement of the present Prime Minister.
Within possibly the present week, unquestionably
within the ensuing fortnight, the result of this agita-
tion will become apparent, either in the perpetua-
tion of the present Ministry, or in its final overthrow.
" A peerage or Westminster Abbey !" was the battle-
cry of NELSON, and one equally resolute appears to
be the ruling motto of the PEEL Administration.
Supposing, however, that the most disastrous defeat
is destined to be the portion of Sir ROBERT,
either upon the Coercion Bill or the Sugar
Duties, or upon both together, he will never-
theless fall amidst the jubilation of one of the
greatest conquests ever achieved by statesman, with
the grateful voices of his countrymen still ringing in
his ears, and after having imperishably linked the re-
collection of his genius with the acquisition of free
trade and the commencement of universal peace.
In waiting, therefore, for the preservation of official
power to himself, or for its transmission to the
hands of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we must acknow
ledge that we do so with less trepidation as to the
consequences of this occurrence than possibly was ever
experienced by journalist when awaiting the mutations
of authority. In either case the interests of the People,
the dignity of the Crown, and the pros
perity of the empire will be committed
to legislators most eminently qualified for
the discharge of such fesponsibilities, and in
whose political wisdom the most implicit and
earnest reliance could be placed. Satisfied as we are,
however, that extreme benefit must accrue to the
nation, whether Sir R. PEEL be continued in office,
or Lord J. RUSSELL nominated Prime Minister, we
cannot but turn with a scarcely expressible anxiet;
to those discussions and those divisions which are
about to decide the Parliamentary tourney between
those two eminent characters. As to the abolition of
importation duty upon slave-grown sugar, or, in other
words, of its equalisation as a commodity in foreign and
colonial commerce with the sugar cultivated
by free labour, the question is so inextri-
cably bound up with that of commercial emancipation
generally, as scarcely to afford that room for a com-
bination of interest sufficient to subvert the Govern-
! ment. With the Coercive measure, however, the
case is altogether different, as the amalgamation of
heterogeneous parties into one homogeneous
opposition, threatens, without any question, to
place the Ministerial authority in jeopardy. Nor
can we detect anything absolutely reprehensible in
the difference of opinion formed upon this matter by
Sir ROBERT PEEL and his colleagues, or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his adherents. The former, in accepting
the office of Premiership, ipso facto, pledged himself,
among other things, to secure the personal safety of
every individual in the realm as far as the Executive
department would permit, and, as a matter of course,
it became incumbent upon him so to regulate the
operations of that executive department, as his judg-
ment prompted him, and as circumstances appeared,
according to that judgment, to require. From
a sense of the awful responsibility thus appertaining
to his rank as Prime Minister, Sir ROBERT
was driven into the formal proposition of
the Curfew Bill, by the wantonness and fre-
quency of agrarian murders in Ireland. Knowing
these things to be actualities, it is evident to plain
sense that the Irish are indebted for this Bill, not to
the Premier or the Cabinet, but to those ruffianly
marauders who have soddened their land with the
blood of murder. Lord Joust RUSSELL, in
like manner, is incited to the opposition
to this same measure from a belief of its
inefficacy as a preventive of crime, and as
an onerous restriction upon innocent millions. Both
statesmen are actuated, we cordially admit, by sen-
timents of conscientious rectitude, though one, by
necessity, can alone be right in his conclusions. The
end of this honest difference will be fraught with
momentous results as regards the two leaders them-
selves, but of results infinitely less momentous to
the multitude, seeing that in no case can they be the
lasers. Our own views upon the matter are uniform,
though apparently contrad.ctory ; we should deeply
lament the secession from office of Sir RonkiaT
PEEL, though we should ardently rejoice
at the advent of Lord JouN RUSSELL to
power, and this because we recognise in them a
grand feature of similarity ; they are akin to each
other, i oasn.uch as they are animated with the same
atnbitic n to promote the prosperity of the people.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BIRMINGHAM.—OnSaturday
morning
' fire broke out on the extenTepremi ses of Mr.
Elliot, :Regent-parade, Regent-place, Birmingham, Which
was not got under till most of the valuable property and
machine ry WIIS destroyed. By the timely and well-directed
efforts of the District Fire-office engine, a goldsmith's shop,
immediately adjoining Mr. Elliot's, was saved. The pre
mine npere hilly Wound. The lire mt. purely widened.

C OURT CTRCULA R
Her Roy-al Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting,
Colonel Bouverie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and,the Princess Alice, took
their usual walk. and rides jesteroay in the gardens of
Buckingham Palace.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Atigu,ta Brun- and Sir G. Couper, honoured
Drury-lane Theatre with her presence yesterday evening.
Their Royal Hignesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, and at-
tended by Baroness Ahlettldt, Mr. Edmond Mildmay,
and Colonel Keate, went to Greenwich yesterday morn-
ing, and returned to Cambridge House in the afternoon.
Mr. Hogg, M.P., had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel yesterday.
Mr. Hunter had an interview with the Earl of Dal.
housie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

(From The Sun of last Nigh%)
There was a moderate demand for Cotton at Liverpool on
Saturday, and the sales were about 4,000 bags. Prices were
steadily supported.
The proceedings at the meeting held at Lerd John Russell's
mansion on Saturday last have been rend here, by the mer-
cantile and monetary classes, with the deepest interest and
anxious attention, as it is feared in many quarters that
with a defeat•either upon the Coercion (Ireland) Bill, or the
Sugar Duties, a dissolution of the Cabinet is all but inevitable.
The course of legislation would, under this contingency, or in the
event of a dissolution of Parliament, be most materially im-
peaed, and at a period when almost all parties are prepared to
enter freely into operations in produce, both colonial and
foreign, under the lull anticipation that the corn and other
tariff measures will soon be passed.
The private communications received from the West In-
dies this morning, brought by the Tweed steam-ship, are
rather more unfavourable if possible than the previous intel-
ligence conveyed by the public journals of nearly all the
islands. For the protectionists, the news of the losses of
cattle, &c., and the destruction of the crops by a most severe
drought, has come at a good time, as not a doubt is enter-
tained but that it will be made a handle of to show the im-
policy of the Legislature adopting a line of policy which
must in their opinion tend further to the distress of the
colonists. But there will be a word to say on the other side
in favour of the changes to be pressed forward by Lord J.
Russell and his supporters, viz.—that though so general a fai-.
lure of the crops in the West Indies is a reason for admitting
foreign free grown produce at reduced duties, yet this would
prevent the people of Great Britain being compelled to pay
such high prices for sugar as now, especially when the crops
in our colonies turn out so deficient. The remittances on ac-
count of the Dlexican dividends are considered good, and
show that, so far at least, notwithstanding the war with the
United States, the Government of the Republic has held
sacred the reve.tues hypothecated to the payment of the
dividend.

The • Public Securities have been drooping again today,
and the cause no doubt is the somewhat precarious situation
of the Ministry, and the uneasy feeling which political ex-
citement must ever create. For Account Consols have been
marked at a decline to 95% and 951. The premium on
Exchequer-bills has been steady at 17s. to 215., and on India
Bonds at 285., for those under 1.0001. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 9714 to 1/2,
anti the Three per Cents. 9514%.
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Mexican Five
per Cents. have been flat at 29% to 4, and the Deferred at
1624 to %. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been heavy,
and have lost th-e improvement of Saturday, being now
marked 49. Mitch Two-aed-a• Half per Cents. have been
quoted 60%, and Russian'Bonds 110 to 1104.
In the Share Market the transactions entered into have
been upon a moderate scale, and the qUotations are for the
mast part without any alteration of moment.

ONE CLOSIN(
O'CLOCK. PRACE,,
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95%14 95M
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97% % 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. 1014 3-16 10 3-16
[mile Bonds. 1,0001. .. .. • • .. .. 28 p 24 p
C',onsels for Opening .. .. .. .. .. 954% li 55%
Exchequer Bills. 154 d. Ikt d.
1,0001... .. .... 21 17 pm. 17
5001. ~ .. .... 21 —— pm. 21
Ditto. Small .... 17 22 pui. 22
ONE ('LOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
29;4
29%
17
49%

KRITIBII FUNDS.

FOREIGN FUNDS
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account
Ditto, Deferred ..
Portuguese Four per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 49
Russian Bonds .. • • IIOU 110
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DOSE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. 10 .. .. 4 . .. • ... 41,4
Amber., Notting., Boston, and

.. .. .. 291 A%
•• .. .. 16%h

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Eastern Junction 1%,•,,,,,,,• 1%
Birmingham anti Oxford Junction 2 .... ..... 23%
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .. B5
Buckinghamshire 425. .... %% dis.
Caledonian .. 10 ..,. 11%r4 • • 11
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% .... 1%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) % .......
Direct Northern .. 23(1 .... 2 ....
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 23% % 23 ...
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 7 6% p.....
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. .........
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p.......
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 1 .. .
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... .........
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%.... % .........
Great Eastern and Western .. 2% .... 1 .........
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22%
Great North of England . ..100 ....221 .........
Ditto, New .. . 1% .... 14% .
Great Western .. 85 ....144
Ditto Half shires .. 50 ....
Ditto, Quarter Shares 5 ...•
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 ....
Leicester and Bedford.. 225..... MIA p„
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Janet. 23{ .... 2
London an Birmingham . —lOO —.2283%
Ditto Thirds .. 24 .... 62%
Ditto Quarters ••• .. 2 .... 29
Ditto Fifths 2
London and Black wall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. .........
Ditto, New 2% .....
London and Brighton .. .. 50 .. . .........,
Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • .. 30 403 ...
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 %
London and South. Western .411. 6s. 10d... .......
Ditto, New .. • • .. • • -173
..........
London and York .. .. • , 23x.... 2% 2......
Ditto, Half Shares •
.. 2% ..........
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 2% 1%
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 10 .... 5
:nanchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. 81% .. •• . .
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •••• %p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... I % .....
.
Midland .. • • • • 100 ....150 149......
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... ..
Ditto, New- . • • .. 1 •.... 98%
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15
.... 25
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston •• .... .....
Nortblk • • • • • • • • • • .. 20 25%
Ditto, Half Shares.•
Nortn British .• • • •• 22% • • 30 29%
Ditto, Bali ;;bares .. • • • 8% ........
Ditto, C,rlisle Extension .. 1%.... 1%3
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% •
.... %
North Statlimtstiire •. • • • • 425. •• • • 354%y, p
Oxlil.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 814
Scottish Central .. . 10 .... lb%
Scottish Midland .. 10 —• ••
shrewsbury and ll:rminghain 234 .... 2%34
EAstern and Do. or •- 33%
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. I. 16 .. 20
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. %
Waterford and Kilkenny 8 ....
Welsh Midland .. .. • • • . 23% .. 1 lig. ..•••...
West Riding I'nion • • .. 425. .. % p...
York and North Midland . to .
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten, 1 • 11 10%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bouloguu and Atniens .. 12 .... 11% 10%
East India
•• •• Ss. %
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia .• • • 2 .. ••
••
1,4••• •• ••
• .
Orleans and Bordeaux • •. 6 .. • . 10
Paris and Lyons Constituted • • 5 • ••
Paris and Rouen .. ••..20 .. • . 38% •• • •••
•
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia .. . • • • .. 40 .... 27 _
Commercial of London .. .••
20 .. • • 23 ••••• • • • •
Loudon Joint-Stock .. 10 .... 14% • ••• • ••
•
National Provincial of England 35 .. 35% •••..• • • • • •
Utdon of London lO .• • . 11 ..........

Real del *fonte. Unregistered ..
Santiago de Cuba .. .. 10

3~...... ...

314 p
814
162

RAILWAI :514 kitE iviARKETS.

LEEDS, JUNE 6.
STOCK EXCUANGE.— Our comment on the state of the Share trade
this week is necessarily brief, as the extent of business passing has
been so exceedinzly limited as not to afford fair groun,4 on which to
torni On opinion. This cessation of business is chiefly caused by the
intervention or' the Whitsuntide holidays, although speculators are
vet feeling their way, and evince no great inclination to operate
-until the effect of the state of affairs in America is more clearly de-
fined. Old stocks have been firm, indeed no decline of moment can
be noted in anything. Local stocks are a little higher, with Dews-
burys, and Huddersfield and Sheffield are in request. In Foreign
Shares no alteration. The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, % p. - Huddersfield ate! Sheffield, 6 p. cash—Leeds and
Bradford, 2714 p. cash —Leeds and Dewsbury, 14 p.--Manchesterand
Leeds, Quarter Shares, 81 p.—Ditto, FM Sharks, 9% p.—North
British, Carlisle Branch, 9s. Gd. p.—Chelmsford and Bury, 16s. dis.
—Clitheroe Junction, 275. dis —Derby and Crewe, 3% p.—Leicester
and Bedthrd, 4,. 6d. p. —London and York, 14 dis. - London and
Manchester (Remington's), 2s. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Al idhuid, 19s. p. -Northumberland and Lancashire Junction,
16s. dis.—North Staffordshire, 3/. 16s. p.—North Western, 14 p.—
Welsh Midland, 275. dis ;t Hiding Union. 4/. 13s. 6d.

EDINBURGH, -JaND SI

SToca EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 41. 7s. 6d.--Aber.
dean, Banff, and Elgin, U. 58.-Airdrle and Bathgate, 31. 65.-
Arbroath and Forfar, 271. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10s.-
Armagh and Portrush, 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, IL 65.-
Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir, 2/. U.-Banffshire, 165.-Belfast and
County Down, 11. 155.-British and Irish Union, 21.38.-Caledonian,
111.-Ditto, New, 11. 195.--Caledonian Extension, 11. IN.-Cale-
donian and Dumbarton, 1/.Bs. 6d.-Caledonian and Northern Direct,
1/. 133. tid.-Carnwath and West Linton, 11. 45.-Chelmsford
and Bury, lbg.-Clydesdale Junction, 141.-Cornwall and Devon
Central, I/. lOs.-Deeside Railway, 31.-Direct Northern, 11. 17s.
6t1.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 1/. 108.-Dundee and Arbroath, 39/.
-Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, I/. 165.-Dun-
des and Ferth, 174 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Kinross Extension, 21.-Eastern
Counties Extension, 11. 55.-East Indian Railway, 12s. 9d.-East o!
Fife, IL 118.-East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 11•
Si. 6d. -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. Os. 6d.-Edinburgh and
.q.
gow, 751.-Ditto, Half Shares, 171. I.s. - Ditto, Quarters,he .c2.u.'1,-..
Ditto, ditto, New, 181.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 181.
-F.dinburgli, Leith, and Granton, 15/. 10s. -Ditte,Ple;4sl::
-Edinburgh and Northern, 5/. 12s. 6d.-Ditto,ll. Newport,los. 6,1.-
Ditto, Lochgelly, IL 65.-Edinburgh and e
umfrieb.,
11.Edth 9,31).-Forth
-J.Eid,eitniobunr,*_ll7'sog.r.lo6bPde.ell_ou,
0 Ditto Quarter Shares,
shire, 741-Ditto, New Stock, 321. 1
181. 10s.-Glasgow Be 11 12s
aialgoMwusas
jeidlbuArr..,
Glasgow General Perminus,
irk 40/. los.
Ditto. Stock, 8/
-Glasgow and Garak ' Greenock, 161. 105. - Sew .
9/. 10s. - Glasgow and Gree
t 15q,-(11:1, ~,ow Harbour Grand Junction,
2al_i;dl.D6udo.d-eea -Ditto,
slid Carlisle, 21. 3e. lid.-astG,ljasogioeiwi.
Iss. -- Ditto. Preteretice,
Harbourl Miners,], D. 155.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
I/. 108.-:Glasir.' Ll2l. -Glasgow, Strathtlesialgvteienrn,(,:talas.nldts.)L,36ed:rnahagow,
10s.- • Great County Down, 11. 10s.-I,r,tit.
and Ardrovsan, 1 .
i., .....par»e, Belfast, and Ballymena,. .---.loTidt;
~2x1,1,.,.
drBtsit,.,o-ottiGi
Lothians,
nchester (Eemington'e), 18s.-London and York
and Hounslow, Irts.
31. 12s 6d.
aj'
uile
iil,l3l:litd olt:vae;341:111e1
21. 4s . Cs 1 . - -ni°11:::11 °t" -Ditto, 01 , 'Halt Shares, 2/.-Midiand and Eastern Counties:
t-I.Lt°Ons(.ll"Mognrady2•Bl.ll:l4-re., IL-Newcastle and Berwick, Ye-Newry anti
Halves, 111. 10s.-
Londonderry, North British, 294-Ditto,
Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, I/. 13s. 6d.- Ditto, extension to Dal-
Keith, 61. 65.-North Wales Mineral, 141 10s.-Ditto, New, 61. 10s.
-Perth aid Cried Direct, It 13s. -Perth and Inverness, U. I Is. 6d.
-Scottish Central, 16/. N.-Ditto, New, 71. ss. - Scottish Central
and Caledonian Junction, 11, 10s. -Scottish Grand Junction, 19s-
Scottish Midland, 71.-Scottish ,outhern, 11. 13s. 6,1. - Shrewsbury
and Hereford, 9s.- Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 31.-South
Midland, 1/. 18s, 3d. -Stirling aria Dunfermline, 1/. lls. 6d.-Stir ling and Midland. 21. 28.-Strathearu Junction, 1/. 105..-Surrey
Grand Junction, 108.-Wishaw and Coltmess, 511.

YORK, Jurtz 6.
SToct EXcEtsistre..—The sales arr. --Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 1 - ;rand Ur!on (Nottingham and Lynn), 128. 6d. I; swirl'
and Bury, 6—Leicester and Bedford, D. 7s.—London and York, 2
—Mahon and Dritileld Jun,tion. 2% —3l anchoster, Buxton, lat-
lock, and Midland, 21. 19s. 6d.—Newcastle and Berwick, 251. Bs. 9d.
—.Newcastle and Darlington BraLdling, 4314—Ditto, Extension, 91.
6s. 3d.—North British. Carlisle Extension, 11. 14s. 6d. - North
Western, 11. 78.—Welsh Midland, 1/. 38.—York and North Midland.
Now (East and West Riding); Ili, ls.