The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-17 00:00:00

The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows:—
Candles, per doz. 6s. ikl. to 7s.fkl. I Moulds, per dtizen —Si. lid

PRICE OF TALLOW,
['own Tallow 445. Od.
Yellow 44a. Od.
White -a. Od.
soap Ditto —a. Od.
'Melted Stqff 31.• Od.
Ditto. Rou 2. 'Se Od.

, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b.
Yellow Soap---................. R2s. Od
Mottled ........---................ 70s. Od
White -- . 72a Od
Graves ••••••••••••14....1W1NM, 16a. Od„
Good Dregs..---. bs. Od

COAL MAR

ET.—June 16.

Per Tot.. s. d.
Bensham Main 16 9
Dean's 16 6
East Percy IS 9
Holy well
Ord's Itedhn,h 15
Pontop Windsor 17 6
19 0
West Hartley 17 6
Ivylain
Walls End Bewicke Co. 19 tt
Walls F.e.d Brown's---.. 17 6
W Its End a.r and C. 17 6
tvalt, End Goobrth 19 n
Walls End t 1, atnn 19 6
Walls End Hi1da.,........,. IS 0
Walls End lif IS I.
Walls End Killingwotth IS 6
Ditto Northonv—ri ,?-• IS
Ships arrived since

Per Ton. s. d
Walls End P.•areth,--- Di 3
Walls End Perkins...... IS 0
Walls EMI Rtodell's --. 19 0
Walls End Btaddyll's...... 19 7
Wa'ls End Hetton ...--. 20 3
Walls End Lain!sten 20 3
wslis I,nd Stewart's...-. 20 0
Walls End G0rd0n..,,,..,. IR 6
Walls End Tees ..—....... 19
Walls End West Hetton 19 0
Blythe l4 6

Cowpen 16 6
Harrard'sNetlierton Main 15
Hartley l7 6
Qvlkstttne Simpson— -- I,T 0
Stlkstone Wilson 16 6
Walls End Elgin 17 9

last market-day, 13.

HAMBURG PAPERS.

HAMBURG, JUNE 13.—BORSEN-HALLE.—The small
parcels of wheat received from Mecklenburg were
promptly disposed of to our consumers at the quota-
tions. From the Upper Elbe nothing has been re-
ceived this week, owing to the lowness of the water in
the river. New arrivals, if of good quality, might
command the quotations. Rye has improved. In
barley the only thing done has been the purchase of a
cargo for Norway, at the highest quotation. For peas
some demand for England has manifested itself. For
beans the demand continues. From the 31 st to the
6th inst. 32 cargoes of corn passed through the
Sound ; of these three were bound for British, six for
Dutch, fourteen for Swedish and Norwegian, and
seven for Russian ports. One was bound for Mar-
seilles, and one for Algiers. There were also three
cargoes of oil-cakes for England, and three cargoes of
flour for St. Petersburgh. _ _

Rix-dollars.
Wheat, Anhalt, white
--.--. red 74 to 75
Marks
Mecklenburg
-- Holstein
Lower Elbe 5B to &I
Rye, Upland — to -
-- Mecklenburgh . 52 to 55
Holstein
'Barley, Anhalt 44 to 46
Meeklenburgh 35 to 40
Lower Elbe 24 to 34
Oats, Mecklenburg 3l to 33
-- Lower Elbe 23 to 38
Malt, Pomeranian
Pease, Upland, yellow
Beans 52 to 62
Tares — to
Rapeseed — to
Ditto Cakes
Linsead ditto
83 to tin

Funds were firm to-day. In Spanish and New
Austrian much business has been done during the last
few days.
Discount, = per cent.

End of June.

.
A liglo-Danish, Loan, three per cent 71%
0 knglo-Russian lO2
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 9554
Ditto,ditto, 1831
Ditto, ditto, 1832 954
Certificates
Polish Bonds l3l
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1291
Ditto Metalliques 1.054
Ditto 4 per Cent. (1634) ll6

Spanish 3 per Cent's.. ••• e.
454 ..•••••••. ........... Se
Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and sons) 4314
Ditto 4 per Cent S6N
Dutch Iyt per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 951.;
Portuguese Regency 754
Hamburg Reporter.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JUNE 13.-13 10 ; two months, 13 8%.
CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 4.—Three months, 5 0,
ST. PETEKSBURGII, JUNE 6.—Three months, 105.
BERLIN, JUNE 10.—Three months, 6 24qi.
STOCKHOLM, JuNE 6.—Two months, 1231.
BREMEN, JUNE 10.—Two months, 609,

IMPORTANT TO SNUFFTAKERS.—A pro-
vincial paper says, that a gentleman in Devonshire has
invented what he calls .a snuff pistol. It has two bar-
rels, and being applied to the nose, and touching the
spring under with the fore-finger, both nostrils are in-
stantly filled, and a sufficient quantity driven up the
head to last the whole day.
MR. MORIER'S NEW WORK—AYESHA,
THE MAID OF MARS.—" The author has taken a can-
vass wide enough to admit of a more extensive group
of contrasts than he had ventured upon in his ad-
mirable novel of ' Zohrab,' and we have every rea-
-1 son to congratulate him on the manner in
which he has filled up his outline. We have
Turkish manners, in all their varieties, from the ma-
jestic Fadishah himself, down to the obscure Dogber-
ries of a sequestered village,—their wives and slaves.
We have some lively specimens of the Greek charac-
ter. We have in Cara Bey and his gang, a crew of
ferocious outlaws, devil-worshippers, equally abhorring
and abhorred by Mussulman and Christian x we have,
finally, all these Orientals in immediate collision with
the Russians, and throughout with a perfect English
gentleman. It must be allowed that here is ample
room and verge enough for the picturesque,; and the
bold and dashing vigour of the execution lends itself
with equal ease to all the multifarious objects of de-
lineation."—Quarterly Review, June, 1834.
EFFECTS OF CHAGRIN.—GtAartno Vero-
nese, ancestor of the author a the " Pastor Fido,"
having studied Greek at Constantinople, brcught
from thence, on his return, two cases of Greek n-,anu-
scripts, the fruit of his indefatigable researches ; one
of these being lost at sea, on the shipwreck of tbe
vessel, the chagrin at losing such a literary treast re,
acquired by so much labour, had the effect of turn ng
the hair of Guarino greT ope night.—Sismondi.

, It must be satisfactory to the friends of Mr.
Abercrombie to learn that there will at present
be no opposition to his return for Edinburgh.
Mr. Learmonth, the Tory antagonist of Sir
John Campbell, who was the other day soundly
beaten by the latter learned gentleman, declared
that it " was not expedient to oppose" just now
the election of the Master of the Mint ; and
the Ultra-Radical interest •having on the last
occasion appeared so small that it Would be
idle to entertain fears of them, there are no
materials for a successful stand against the new
member of the Cabinet. Mr. Abercrombie, We
are glad to see, issued a declaration at Edin-
burgh which shows that he is resolved not to
sacrifice any principle for the sake of retaining
office. He is aware, of course, that his con-
duct will be anxiously watched by his friends
as well as by his foes.—Times.

Lord Brougham and Sir John Campbell
are, it would seem, decidedly at issue on the
interesting subject of newspaper prosecutions
for libel ; and, as is not unfrequently the case;
the truth, perhaps, will be found to lie midway_
between their two opposite opinions. The
Lord Chancellor, in his examination before the
.House of Commons' Law of Libel Committee,
is represented to have- said, that "he conceived
that no prosecutions should be instituted
against a iywspaper except iipses where pri-
vate character was libelled." Upon which the
Attorney-General, who is' a member of the
committee, inquired of the noble and learned
lord " whether he did not think that a news-
paper which called upon the people to pay no
taxes ought to be prosecuted ? To this the
Lord Chancellor emphatically replied •" he
thought it should not." The question was
what might by. most men be considered a
poser, but exhibited neither discretion nor
(rood taste. If it were one which should have been
asked (as between the parties) at all, it ought to
have been put thus : " Ought a newspaper to
have been prosecuted for giving the same ad-
vice to the people that a noble earl, and a Mas-
ter in Chancery, your lordship's brother, had
given with impunity ?" In this point of view
it was probable that the noble examinant him-
self saw it, and thus, by a direct and straight-
forWard negative, escaped the trap which was
apparently laid for him, while the Whig At-
torney-General receives from the highest law
authority of the government a pretty palpable
condemnation of his own proceeding, and of
the too-compliant verdict which he obtained
upon the occasion alluded to. With regard to
Lord Brougham's opinion, which gave rise to
the qUestion and answer just cited, while_ we
hail it as it great boon in favour of public dis-
cussion, we feel inclined to doubt whether, as a
mere abstract proposition, it does not hold out a
somewhat wider range of impunity than either
public convenience or the respectable part of the
press has ever required. Ofprosecutions for libel
it may with truth be said that they generally.pre-
sent a remedy ten times more tormenting than
the disease, by giving an importance to their
objects, and not unfrequently a martyrdom,
which silent contempt would never supply.
This -is our fixed opinion as to by far the
greater majority of libels, both public and pri-
vate. At the same time, to possess the power,
and to use it vindictively, indiscreetly. or unad-
visedly, are very different things. The terror
of the law as a preventive check is not, how-
ever, without its salutary influence in restrain-
ing the virulence and intemperance of bad men,
nor, as such, do we wish to see it removed.
And though it would not be very easy, nor is
it desirable, to prescribe bounds to public dis-
cussion, we are not prepared to say that cases
may not arise wherein public discussion may
not run riot and call for restraint. Such in-
stances, however, are very rare, and form the
exception not the rule. Laying aside a few
contemptible panders to the base appetites of a
few, this may truly be said not to be the age of
libel. Let. any one turn over the pages of Ju-
nius, and he will there see a tone of virulent ma-
lignity, for which he will find no parallel in any
publication of the present day. Yet Junius.,
who would have probably been silenced by the
thin-skinned sensibilities of the present day,
was scarcely prosecuted at all. The public
men whom he reviled were of two. very opposite
classes, yet acted with a mutual forbearance,
equally wise and prudent, the one feeling that
their character and conduct was the best answer .
to the assailants of the one or the other ; and
the second, not less conscious that prosecution,
though it might end in punishing the traducer,
would only the more draw public attention and
investigation to comments, the topics of which
would ill bear the light. As it is, Junius has
taken his place upon the shelves of our libraries
as a species of classic ; while the characters of
those whom he assailed are passing through the
crucible of history, uninjured by the assaults of
a writer, whose, pen was dipped in the bitterest
gall which ever gave utterance to thought.
Morning Herald.

.The session will not, according to pre vent
appearances, terminate so soon as has been
supposed. It was stated last night by Lord
Grey in the Lords, and by Lord Ahhorp in
the Commons, that the Irish Coercion Bill is
to be renewed in sub Stance, though not in the
exact words. Mr. O'Connell instantly gave
notice that, on every day the measure was
brought forward, he would move that the hoilse
be counted ; from which we may infer than all
possible opposition, compatible with the rules
of the house, will be given to the new bill
during its progress. That the honourable and
learned gentleman expects to be able to re-
tard considerably the measure, may be infer-
red from what he afterwards threw out, in
the way of joke, in discussing the mode of
proceeding with the Poor Laws' Amendment
Bill, namely, that a motion announced by
Mr. Poulter was premature. When they
got into the middle of September, said he,
such a motion might be entertained. We
would fain hope that, in consequence of the
growing improvement of Ireland, the law will re-
main a dead letter. We learn, however, from
the Irish papers, that a third reformation is
now contemplated, in order to recruit, if possi-
ble, the Protestant ranks before the return to
Parliament under the commission. We sup-
pose we are so to consider the petition presented
in the early sittings. a yesterday, by Mr. Shaw,
relative to thQ burning of a bible at neon-day,
and in the most public manner, by a priest in
King's County. The petition was subscribed
by a deputy lieutenant • of the county, several
magistrates, in all by six hundred persons, of.
the first respectability. The priests .may: see,
from the sensation the burning- this Bible
has occasioned, that there is a . danger in
drawing the string of the bow too tight. We
are quite aware that the Pope, a few years ago,
addressee( to the faithful an Encyclical

letter, strictly. forbidding everywhere the use of
Bibles in the vulgar tongues, and that the Ca-
tholic Church has never countenanced Bible-
reading. But religious sects owe something to
the feelings of each other ; and whatever the
opinions of a Catholic may be with regard to
the Bible, he ought not to outrage the feelings
of Protestants by committing in public such
an act as that denounced in the petition. The
Catholic hierarchy should endeavour to mode-
rate the zeal of their inferiors in this respect.
The mention of the outrage in Parliament will
probably- have the effect of preventing a repe-
tition of it. The Protestants of the present
day—(we say the present, because we re-
member a time when the high church clergy
of England were almost as much opposed to
Bible-reading as Catholics look with great
horro: on the burning of a Bible, and they
should be spared the spectacle of what they
deem equivalent to sacrilege. It was stated by
Mr. Shaw that the petitioners had taken every
fnethod to procure redress from the Irish Go-
vernment before applying to Parliament on the
subject, but that there was no punishment for
the offence, as it was not contemplated by the
law. It will not, surely, be contended that a
priest is entitled to appropriate any volume
against the will of the owner or owners, and
commit it to the flames. In these matters,
public opinion is of more pOtency than Acts of
Par'iament. The same cause which prevented
the falnilv whose Bible was burned from sueing
the priest, wo*ld equally prevent witnesses
from giving evidence in a criminal prosecution.
Respectabb Catholics must have the same feel-
ing with Protestants as to the act complained
of ; and thou:h there is, no doubt, frequently
greet provoca!ion given by well-meaning but
fanatical landlords, who wish to avail them-
selves of their temporal influence to make
converts to Protestantism, we trust the third
reformation will not be disturbed by any more
acts of this offensive character.—Morning
Chronicle.

All the changes which became necessary in
the ministry, in consequence of the resignation
of Mr. Stanley, Sir James Graham, and others,
have now been completed ; and the following
list of the cabinet, and its attachh, exhibits the
result :

THE CABINET.
Earl Grey First Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor.
Marquis of Lansdowne
Earl of Carlisle. Lord Privy Seal.
Lord Althorp Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Holland Duchy of Lancaster.
Lord -Palmerston
Lord Melbourne Home Secretary.
_ _

Right Hon. T. S. Rice Colonial Secretary.
Lord Auckland
Right Hon. C. Grant
Lord John Russell Paymaster of the Forces.
Right Hon. E. Ellice
Rt. Hon. J. Abercrombie Master of the Mint.

NOT OF THE CABINET.
arquis of Conyngham Postmaster-General.
Mr. Cutlar Fergusson Judge Advocate General.
Mr. F. T. Baring Secretary to the Treasury.
Captain Byng One oft he Lords of the Treasury.
Looking at the names—and yet there are many
of them not without note—which compose the
above list, it cannot be said of them that they
present a very formidable or a very daring
phalanx. For Earl Grey we entertain all the
respect which is due to the most triumphant
„onsistency that ever marked the career of any
public man, in. any age or country of the world ;
while the flashes of genius and eloquence as
well as of the keenest wit and most delightful
humour—accompanied as they have been by
displays of the most extensive learning and prO-
found wisdom—which we have so repeatedly
witnessed on the part of Lord Holland, ate
things which, once heard, can never be for-
gotten ; but age, which sears and weakens the
faculties of all men, has gained too much upon
the former, and disease upon the latter, to allow
either to do their duty to the public in that
vigorous and efficient manner which the spirit of
the age and the circumstances of the times so im-
peratively call for. Andso also of Lordßrougham.
.No one disputes his powers, either of thinking or
of acting ; but what can be expected from
one whose attention is daily exercised upon such
It multiplicity of subjects, and of such various
bearings ? The noble lord does more than
either can or ought to be expected of him; but
what can be expected from him in the Cabinet,
a'ter his time has been given up . to, and his
mind wearied out with, the business of the
Court of Chancery, and the ten thousand ad-
juncts which naturally arise out of it ? With
regard to the other members of the Cabinet,
there are none of them marked men—none of
them persons who have hitherto distinguished
themselves by any great political act. They
are all what is termed in common life men of
business habits ; but their business habits form,
in times like the present, but a poor substitute
for manly decision and commanding talent. In-
deed the most efficient and satisfactory minis-
terial concoctions consist of the individuals who
have been appointed to the subordinate offices
Hof Mi. Abercroinbie—of Mr. Cutlar Fer-
gusson, and of Colonel Leith Hay. All these
accessions are not only of the right stamp as
regards principle, for they have been well tried,
and have proved their consistency, but as re-
gards talent ; and as we observed the other dav,
they furnish the most satisfactory proof that the
present M.nistry have got rid of a great portion
of the 'drab; 131.*hich.,tkeir motions were for-
merly impeclA, and that a better policy i., now
about to be purtied. -More ahle; and bolder
men; such as Mr. Tennyson and others, we
hold iiqu2stronably have been desirous of
seeing either in the Cabinet, or in some impur-
tant office immediately connected with it. But
it is but just, at the same time, to confess that
the present Administration, if not the foremost
in talent, or in energy, is characterized by an
unanimity of sentiment and a soundness of
principle, Which is even more to be desired
than the art of the rhetorician, or the hazardous
hastinegs of the well-meaning, but unthinking
innovator. At-
all events, there is enough about
it to insure the confidence of the public—to
deserve a fair trial at its hands ; and that trial
they shall have from -us, without prejudice, as
without partiality.—Morning Advertiser.

One evening, after a great battle, Frederick
11. approached a fire which had been lighted by some
of the grenadiers of his own regiment. The soldiers
began to ask him where he had been during the battle.
" Generally," said they, " you lead us yourself where
the fire i 3 hottest ; but this time nobody saw you, and
it is not right to*.abandon us so." The King, in a
good-humoured manner, explained to them in what
part of the field he had been, and his reasons for being
there, which had prevented him from being at the
head of his own regiment. As he began to grow
warm, he unbuttoned his great coat, and a ball dropped
out, which he had received in his clothes. The hole
the ball had made in the great coat and coat was per-
ceptible. Upon this the enthusiasm of the soldiers
knew no bounds. They cried out, with all the tender-
ness of expression belonging in the German tongue to
the singular pronoun. " You are our own good old
Fritz ; you share in all our dangers with us—we will
all die for you ;" and the conversation concluded with.
three cheers, and their entreaties to the King to take
more care of his own safety.—Mirron

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1834.

The House of Commons last night, in Com-
mittee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, left
out the 62d, 63d, 64th, and 65th clauses, rela-
tive to settlement, and altered the 66th. By
the alteration it is provided that no settlement
can be acquired, aftei the passing of the act,
by hiring and service, or apprenticeship. As
these, from experience, had been found to be
the chief sources of litigation in parishes, the
amendment was agreed to without opposition.
An alteration was also made in the 68th
clause, by which it is provided that the occupa-
tion of a tenement will not secure a settlement,
unless the tenant has been assessed to the poor
rates for the space of one year. The law of
settlement is thus altered in three important
points, hiring, apprenticeship, and occupation
of a tenement assessed to the poor rate.

The Committee have now discussed 68 clauses
of the 92 of which the bill consists, and the
only clauses of great importance' remaining for
discussion, are those relating to bastardy, some
of which we consider highly objectionable. In
no one point does the bill make a more radical
change than in this ; and, though the old law
was bad, if these clauses are passed without al-
teration, we are afraid the new law will be worse.
It had long been a subject of just complaint
that a worthless woman could, on her mere oath,
compel a man to maintain her child or undergo
great expense in a law-suit, and that the magis-
trates could commit to prison an innocent person
because he refused to pay a fine or contribute
to the support of another man's child. It is
proper and necessary to abrogate such an absurd
law and one fraught with such mischievous
consequences, but there is a great difference
between this and enacting another which not only
takes frotn lie mother the power of proving who is
the fatlr.:r of her child, but also compels her, or if
she is notable, or dies, compels her father and mo-
ther to maintain it. To exempt the father from
all expense might be expedient in a country
where there are foundling hospitals, but in Eng-
land it is Worse than inexpedient—it is cruel
towards the mother—it allows probably the
more guilty party to escape punishment—it
will hold out an inducement to child murder,
and in nine cases out of ten throw all the
expense of maintaining bastard children on the
parish.. There is neither justice, mercy, nor
sound policy in such an enactment. It may,
in some cases, act as a check on the woman,
but that will, be more than counterbalanced by
the imputiity which it gives to depraved men,
'without feeling or honour, on whom the ex-
pense of maintaining the child acts as the
surest restraint. It would be advisable,
therefore, to make an important alteration
in the present mode of affiliation ; but when
the affiliation is made out to the satisfaction of
two magistrates, the father ought to be made
to contribute his share, at least, to the support
of the child. Prudence is not a virtue for
which women of that description are remark-
able, and consequently any fear of expense
or want will act as a very imperfect re-
straint, when they know, at the same
time, that the . parish cannot leave them
to starve. The repeal of that absurd and cruel

law by which a woman, under such circum-
stances, might be imprisoned or otherwise
punished, at the instance of churchwardens and
overseers, and the law by which a woman might
swear a child to an innocent man, are highly
expedient ; but the objections to the other parts
of the clauses on this head appear to us in-
surmountable.

It is reported that the Earl of WICKLOW,
or some other Tory Peer, intends this evening
to move an address to his MAJESTY, praying
him to recall the Irish Church Commission.
We cannot but disbelieve this report for two
reasons, first, that notice of such motion is
usual, as a matter of courtesy (unless, indeed,
the Ultras intend to throw all courtesy aside),
secondly, that such conduct on the part of their
Lordships, even if successful, will have a
direct tendency to bring them into collision
with the House of Commons. It remains to
be seen Whether their Lordships will be fool-
hardy enough to provoke such an encounter,
which can have but one termination—their own
complete discomfiture, for it is clear
.that the
Commons will move a counter-address to his
MAJESTY, who will be advised to return some
such reply to the Ultra faction as he did on the
Portuguese question.

Lord ALTHORP mentioned last night in the
House of Commons, that it was the intention
of his Majesty's Ministers to propose, in the
present session, the renewal, but with some
material alterations, of the Irish Coercitm Bill,
on which Mr. O'CONNELL expressed his de-
termination to move a call of the house every
night during the proceedings on the measure.

When out of office Mr. Hus issoN pub-
lished a pamphlet on the Bullion question, in
which he said, " In retirement I became sen-
sible that, when in place, I had been deficient
in almost every thing but diligence." We hope
that Mr. STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM
will subject themselves to a similar self-exami-
nation, and avail themselves of their retirement
to redeem their deficiencies. They have both
much to learn, and must begin by unlearning
much of what they have been taught. Mr.
STANLEY has been known hitherto only as a
clever debater, but Sir JAMES GRAHAM has
appeared as an author, at least if report speaks
true ; he published a tract upon corn and cur-
rency, without understanding anything of
either subject ; and, as Chairman of the Agri-
cultural Committee of last year, he took up a
position altogether counter to that which he
assumed in his pamphlet on corn and currency.
These right honourable geotlemen will do an
infinite deal of good to the country by avail-
ing themselves of the leisure of retirement to
investigate the causes of its distress, and more
particularly its agricultural distress, in which
both of them are more especially interested, for
which purpose we beg leave to propound to
them this question—How happens it that un-
employed labour continues to increase, and un-
employed capital continues to accumulate. in
this country ? and to assist them in this inquiry,
we further beg leave to apprise them of two
facts, first, that general prices began to fall in
1811, and next, that agricultural distress began
and has continued since 1816, since which
year also unemployed labour and capital have
continued to increase and accumulate.

Notices for the meeting of nineteen public
committees, and six private committees, ap-
peared in the House of Commons' paper of
yesterday. There are not so many rooms for
committees to meet in, and of those that are,
the greatest number are of a miserable descrip-
tion. The incommodiousness of the house,
and the want of proper committee rooms, are
evils which ought long ago to have been re-
moved. Mr. LEY'S house has hitherto stood in
the way. He has, no doubt, as good a right to
his house as lie has to his salary during his
life. Let him, therefore, be compensated.
But let not the health of members be longer
subjected to injury from want of accommodation
to transact the business of the country. We
trust that a committee will be forthwith ap-
pointed to settle the compensation to be given
to Mr. LEY, and to fix upon a plan for a new
building containing a -sufficient number of
spacious committee rooms, which may be began
as soon as Parliament shall be prorogued, and
erected during the vacation. The same oppor-
tunity should be taken to render more commo-
dious the present House of Commons, or to
build a new one.

German papers are chiefly filled with discus-.
sions on domestic topics, such as the projected
improvements in the University of Leipsic, of
no great interest to our English readers. A
letter from Constantinople, dated May 20, and
contained in the Austrian Ob,server, states that
the Turkish squadron had arrived off Samos
the inhabitants of which island had shown

themselves favourably disposed towards the
SULT A N'S authority.

The Paris papers of Sunday are, as might
be expected, full of speculations on election
matters. The Doctrinaires are straining every
nerve to get men of their own party returned,
and so strengthen their interests in the new
chamber. A letter from Madrid, dated 4th
inst., mentions that the Spanish Government
had received information of the surrender of El-
vas, Campo Mayor, Orihuela, and other strong
places held by the Miguelites. The army of
General RODIL had in consequence been
ordered to the insurgent Spanish provinces
Several decrees respecting the finances were
stated to be in active preparation by the Govern-
ment. Among other things, it was supposed
they would recognize all the debts contracted
for the service of the country (that of the Cortes
included) with the exception, however, of
80,000,000 francs due to France. The interest
on the whole debt would be reduced to one
third of that, at which each branch of it was
respectively contracted. Among the . Carlists

at Paris it was reported that the daughter of
the late Duke de BERRI was about to be
married to the Prince Royal of BAVARIA,
who is in his 23d year. It was said also that
the departure of the King of BELGIUM from
Paris on Sunday last was occasioned by the
threatening attitude assumed by the Dutch
army on his frontier.

The following are extracts from Jamaica
Papers to the Ist of May, received this morn-
ing at the North and South American Coffee-
house :
( From the Paper of the 28th April. )
SPANISH TOWN, APRII, 25.—A party consisting
of eight gentlemen, headed by John Stirling, Esq.,
went from the town to the wood above Tulloch's
Estate, for the purpose of breaking up the haunt of a
band of desperate runaways, who have been for some
time committing depredations on the adjoining estates
to a very great extent. These gentlemen discovered
their haunt, and, after a desperate resistance, suc-
ceeded in capturing ten of the gang, among whom was
a woman.

(From the Paper of April 30.)
We perceive by the minutes of the Common Coun-
cil, that a most flagrant insult was offered to one of
the Magistrates of the City by those who were bound
to respect most particularly the laws.
We have been waited upon by a gentleman from
Portland, who has assured us that the report we gave
a few days ago respecting the insubordination of the
negroes on Little Spring Garden estate was exagge-
rated. It appears that the proprietor of the estate
had given the slaves on the property an holiday every
Saturday, and that a new overseer, was appointed, who
was not aware of the arrangement, and when he
called on them' to turn out to work, they refused
obeying. After an explanation, however, the affair was
amicably settled.
The principal topic of conversation in town is the
blundering conduct of the Board of Health respecting
the troop-ship Romney, which arrived on Thursday
last with the 64th Regiment. It appears several per-
sons had died on the passage of measles ; the vessel
was placed in partial quarantine, and a report was
sent to the board in Kingstown, which was sent to
Hector Mitchel, the ' president, who. we fear, without
taking the trouble of reading it, ordered the vessel to
be released, and a debarkation of the officers and their
families immediately commenced. As soon as Dr.
Bancroft heard of the imprudent and dangerous course
pursued by the Mayor, he ordered the, vessel to be
again put into quarantine.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.

(FROM 1.1..)YD'5.)
DEAL, JUNE 16.—Wind W. S.W., strong breezes,
in squalls.—Arrived from the River and remain, the
Bombay, Kelloway, for China • and James M'Queen,
M'Call, for St. Kitt's, with the rest of the outward
bound. The barque Julia, of Stockton, from Sierra
Leone to Sunderland, was wrecked on the Goodwin
Sands—crew saved.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 16.—Wind W., hard gales.—
Sailed his Majesty's ship Revenge, for Lisbon ; and
Duchess of Hastings, for the Mediterranean. Arrived
the Speditivo, Manzueli, from Trieste.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind S. S.W., fresh.—Ar-
rived the Reform, Leadem, from Terra Nova.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes.
—Arrived the Firefly steam packet from the Mediter-
ranean, left Malta the 7th instant, Gibraltar the Bth,
and Cadiz the 9th ; Pitscottie, Young, from Candia ;
Augea, Touzel, from Corfu ; and Lavinia, Rosewell,
from Licata. Off port the Flora, Hardy, from Port-
au-Prince ; and Adelaide, Bloomfield, from Constan-
tinople. Sailed his Majesty's ship Scorpion, for
Oporto and Lisbon.
CORK, JUNE 14.—Arrived the Matilda, Comyn,
from Laguira ; and Jane and James, from Leghorn.
BELFAST, JUNE 14.—Arrived the Beginho, Lup,
from St. Übe's.

LEITH, JUNE 14.—Arrived the Olive Branch, Leader
from Lisbon.

YARMOUTH, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Vier Gebroder,
Gerckalf, from Rostock ; and the Myrtle, Should,from
Wvburg.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Retson, Dillar,
from Buenos Ayres ; Lee, Scott, .from Barbadoes ;
Robert Isaac, Varnum, from Savannah ; Midas, Cher-
nook, from New York ; Malay, Hutchinson, and Co-
romandel, Parry, from Quebec; Emma, Perceval,
from Naples; and Plym, Davis, from Leghorn.
PENZANCE, JUNE 15.—Arrived the William, Lard-
ner, from Galipoli.
BRISTOL, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Earl of Liverpool,
Bailey, from Nevils ; and Good Hope, Kinner, from
• Naples.

The Robert William Harris, Ferrie, from Liverpool
to Newfoundland and Quebec, struck on a piece of
ice April 23, in lat. 48, long. 50, and sunk. Crew
saved.

UNEXPECTED FORTUNE.—At Heanton
Punchardon, near Braunton, are two paupers, John
Slade and his wife, who have been inmates of the
workhouse for thirty-five years, and ignorant they had
any living relative, or a shilling in the world but
what they derived from the parish, have come as
heirs to an estate near Glastonbury, worth about
1,5001., and considerable arrears of rent, said to be
for seven or eight years. They have, in consequence,
an additional weekly allowance, to increase their com-
forts, until the business is finally arranged.—Exeter
Flying Post.
REVENUES OF THE SPANISH CHURCH.—
A curious statement has been published by one of the
papers in Madrid respecting the number and revenues
of the Spanish clergy. From it it appears that the
number of buildings appropriated to religious purposes
throughout Spain is 28,249 ; that that of the clergy
is 159,322, and that of the friars and nuns 96,878.
The entire amount of the ecclesiastical revenues is
calculated to be 50 millions of dollars, and of this
sum the part consumed by them is shown to exceed
the whole revenue of the state by some eight millions
of dollars.

BUTCHERY EXTRAORDINARY.-PROVI-
DENTIAL ESCAPE.—A few days since Mr. H. Hone,
of Stoke Orchard, employed a butcher in that neigh-
bourhood to kill a fine young bull, and as the animal
was v ery violent, the man of steel deemed it more
prudent to put him to death with powder and ball,
than to risk. the " tug of war" in an encounter with
the hatchet. A country lad in Mr. Hone's service
was accordingly ordered to drive the bull into a narrow
passage, partially boarded up at one end, so as to
allow the butcher to take aim without personal danger
to himself. The gun was forthwith loaded, and the
lad, pursuant to orders, stood close behind the bull,
with his arms extended so as to prevent the animal's
retreat. Ihe butcher fired, and shot the bull dead ;
but had the aim proved otherwise than true, or had he
missed the animal, he must have killed or dreadfully
wounded his thoughtless assistant, who, becoming
conscious of the danger to which he had been exposed,
as soon as it was over, exclaimed, " I say, Measter
Butcher, if thee hadsn't killed Bull, thee must ha'
shot'n I"—" By Gogh !" replied the Butcher, shocked
at the escape he had had of shedding human blood,
" and so I must—l never thotight o' that I"—Chelten-
ham Journal.

RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.—
A German newspaper related the following anec-
dote : —ln an imperial city, lately, a criminal was con-
demned to be beheaded, who had a singular itching to
play at nine-pins. While his sentence was pronounc-
ing, he had the temerity to offer a request to be per-
mitted to play once more at his favourite game at the
place of execution, and then, he said, he would submit
without a murmur. As the last prayer of a dying man,
his request was granted. When arrived at the solemn
spot, he found every thing prepared, the pins being
set up and the bowl being ready. He played with no
little earnestness, but the sheriff at length, seeing that
he showed no inclination to desist, privately ordered
the executioner to strike the fatal blow as he stooped
for the bowl. The executioner did so, and the head
what had occurred. He immediately aimed at
dropped into the culprit's hand, as he raised himself to
see
the nine, conceiving it was the bowl which he grasped.
All nine falling, the head loudly exclaimed, " Well,
I have won the game. " This reminds us of a story
which has been told in proof of the amazing dexterity
of the German executioners in cutting off. heads with
the sabre. A Culprit being bound and prepared for
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 17.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past
,welvo o'clock.

The Limerick Bridge Bill, the South London
Water Works Bill, the Darrington and Canissfield
Road Bill, the Dundee Gaol Bill, the Heton Bridge
Bill, and the Liverpool Court of Passage Bill, were
severally read a third time and passed.
Mr. PE NL EAG E presented a petition from South-
ampton, signedby 2,700 persons, in favour of the Itchcn
Bridge Bill.