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IZITI SII INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL.
A_.d The GALLERY, with a SELECTION of PICTURES by
ANCIENT MASTERS and DECEASED BRITISH • ARTISTS, will
be OPENED on MONDAY NEXT, the 10th instant. Admission Is.
Catalogue Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.

WJ FOX'S LECTURE to the WORKING
e CLASSES.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION HALL, 242, HIGH HOLBORN,

The LECTURE announced for NEXT SUNDAY, June 9, is POST-
PONED, and the following will be substituted :—" The Principle of
Endowsuenta, Religious and Educational, Considered in Befaence to
the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and the Bights of Property." . _ .

Admission to the area of the Hall, 3d. ; Gallery, 4d

QIGNOR MARRAS'S GRAND MORNING
CONCERT, under the immediate PATRONAGE of her
Royal Highness the DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE, will take' place
at HER MAJESTY'S CONCERT-ROOM, HANOVER-SQUARE, on
TUESDAY, 11th June. .
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Programmes and Tickets may be had at all the principal Music•
sellers, and of Signor Mamas, 87, Piccadilly.

LAST WEEK OF ➢iR. HORN'S LECTURES
On the MUSIC of EIGHT different NATIONS at the

ROYAL ToLiThdHRIC INSTITUTION,
Without Extra Charge to the Public. '
The EIGHTH and LAST SUBJECT, consisting of the MUSIC of
CHINA and HINDOST AN, commences on the 3d - instant, and
will be continued during the week, on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday Evenings, at Eight o'clock ; and on Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday, at Three o'clock, with VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL
ILLUSTRATIONS. All the other LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS
as usual. LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE and OPAQUE MI-
CROSCOPE. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, ARMSTRONG'S
HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, &c.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
(Patronised by the King of Saxony.)
NebilitzrGentry, and Public are respectfully informed that on
and after SA DAY istEx.r, *Jinja "exliibited at the Egyptian Bail,
Piccadilly, the CELEBRATED GERMAN DWARF FAMILY,
consisting of Two. Brothers and a Sister, who by their astonishing
pantomimic performances have gained the applause (testified by cer-
tificates) of the several Continental Courts before which they have
had Big honour to appear.
Open from Eleven o'clock A.M., until Nine o'clock P.m.—Ad-
mission, Is.

ROSIIERVILLE GARDENS, near
GRAVESEND.
These delightful and romantic GARDENS are DAILY OPEN to
the Public. Admission, 6d. each. _

and Quadrille Band is in constant attendance, and
the Dancing is conducted by Baron Nathan, master of the ceremonies,

Refreshments of every description, and of the best quality, both hot
and cold, will be served under the direction of Mr. Littlejohn, of King
William-street, London, at very moderate prices. .

NIONEY.—GRAND DISTRIBUTION of
70,1701. sterling, AUTHORISED and GAURANTEED lay
his IMPERIAL MAJESTY anu the GOVERNMENT of AUS-
TRIA. The NEXT DRAWING of 35 Series, containing 700 Bonds,
each of which must obtain on,e of the 700 Prizes of 23,0001., 5,0001.,
&c., the lowest 501., will commence at Vienna, on the Ist JUNE,
sad be paid in British money.
A few Series Tickets, 31. each ; fifths, 12s. (six tickets, 151.), with
Prospectuses may be had, till the Bth only, lof Messrs. F. E. Fuld and
Co., Bankers and Receivers-general, Frankfort; or, by inclosing a
Post-office order, to their office, 26, I3,ouverie-•street, Fleet-street,
London.—Government lists of the drawing will be sent to each
purchaser. Office hours from Twelve to Three.

THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM-
PANY beg to inform families Visiting the Provinces, that
they may procur. GENUINE TEAS direct from the Company, of
their Agents, in nearly every town and village in the kingdom,
packed in Lead, and warranted Genuine by the Company.
Spurious and English made Tea being now commonly sold by
the shoniceepal in the country, the greatest caution is necessary.
Observe the Company's seal on each package.
A,plications for Agencies for the sale of the above Genuine Teas,
by which a considerable income may be derived, to be made to the
Company at their Warehouses, 2, Lawrence Pountney.hill, London.

FMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
A to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the East India Tea Company, for the
sale of their celebrated teas.

Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
little trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only I ls. per
annum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.
Application to be made (if by letter post paid) as above.

IFRANCIS HILLEN, at present, and for
A., eleven months past, residing at 21, Shepperten Cottages,

in the parish of Islington, and county of Middlesex, immediately
previous of No. 8, Durham-place, Dalston, Middlesex, for
the space of two years, and being an assistant in a warehouse,
do hereby give notice, that X intend to present a petition
to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, in the city of
London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate,
and effects, and to be protected from all process upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects for payment of my
just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice, that the time
when the matter of the said petition shall be heard is to be adver-
tised in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun Newspaper one
month at the least after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this
3d day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1844,
FRANCIS lIILLEN,
Witness, John J. Spiller, 35,' Camomile-street, London, attorney
for the said Francis Millen.

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FOR DUST OR RAIN.-LIGHT COATS,
CAPES, &c., in great variety, in all the various descriptions
of material that are xnade.—Gentlemen will find the PATENT
MOHAIR CAMLOMERE and GOSSAMER to surpass every other
kind of repellant or waterproof yet invented, not being an absorbent,
like most other goods. The wet will not remain on it ; 'heat, cold, or
time will not affect its impervious quality, and will not confine per-
spiration, to the great comfort and health of the wearer. An inspec-
tion is solicited at the Djanufacturer's. Also, Mohair Cloth, for riding
trousers, in the piece, or made up by, experienced workmen, at
PAYNE and CO.'S, 28, King-street, Covent-garden; and at 19,
Conduit-street, Regent-street. None are real but those stamped.

PUBLICATION S.

Immediately will be published, in 2 vols,Bvo.,

I,•
PAIN and the SPANIARDS in 1843.
By Captain S. E. WIDDRINGTON, F.R.S.,
Author of" Sketches in Spain in 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832."
T. and W. Boone, New Bond-street; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh ;
J. Cumming, Dublin.

On Saturday will be published, a Second Edition of
BOOK of. COSTS in ALL the COURTS, in-
cluding the Costs upon the lower Scale, as recently settled
by the Judges. By OWEN RICHARDS.
London : Owen Richards, Law Bookseller, &c., 194, Fleet-street.

Just published, in 2 vols., price 21s. cloth,
SYDNE 1 MORCOM.
Edward Moxon, Dover-street.

In 3 vols., price 31s. CA. cloth,
ELLEN- ,MIDDLETON.
. A TALE.

By LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON.
" Lady Georgiana Fulleiton has accomplished a difficult task in a
masterly manner. She has laid the scene of her novel in high life,
without introducing, insipidity and common places; she has inter-
spersed it with religious scenes and sentiments, without becoming
either mawkish or presumptuous ; she has portrayed the ravings of
remorse without a taint of the revolting, so common in such pencil-
hinge ; and she exhibits the fruits of a single error in a light most
mournful indeed, but which must tend to send away her readers not
merely sadder but better for the perusal."—Times.

Edward Moxon, 44, Dover-street

Published this day, Second Edition, Bro., Is., sewed,
REMARKS on the EFFICACY .of MALICO,
as a STYPTIC and ASTRINGENT. With additional Cases,
Mode of Trefitment, &c. By THOMAS JEFFREY S, M.D.
London : Longman and Co. ; Liverpool, Grapel. May be had also
of Thomas Keating, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, with a specimen
of the Plant (postage free), by remitting eighteen postage stamps.

Just published, in 1 vol. 65., handsomely bound.
THE MYSTERIES of PARIS, freely Trans-
lated front the French of EUGENE SUE. It contains 960
Pages, and upwards of fifty Illustrations ; and is the cheapest book
ever presented to the public. Every line of the original is faithfully
rendered. May be had of all Booksellers.—Also,
PAUL DE KOCK'S WORKS, in English : Barber of Paris, 2s.—
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Niece, 2s.—Brother James, 2s.—The :Man with the Three Pair of
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This day is published, in Two Vols., post Bvo., with numerous portraits,

price 245. cloth.
UR ACTRESSES; or, GLANCES AT
STAGE FAVOURITES, PAST AND PRESENT.

By Mrs.' C. BARON WILSON,
Author of the " Life of the Duchess of St. Albans," " Memoirs of
. _ .

Monk Lewis," &c., &c.

, .
Among the contents will be found Miss O'Neill, Miss H. Faucit,
Mrs. Glover, Miss Brunton,. Miss Paton, Mrs. Nesbitt, Mrs. Edwin,
Mrs. Waylett, Mrs. Orger, Miss Bolton, Miss 'Ellen Tree, Mad.
Vestris, Miss Duncan, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Rainforth, Miss M. Tree,
Mrs. Warner, Mrs. West, Mi4Foote, Mrs. Yates, Miss Love, Miss
Kelly, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Miss Stephens, Miss F. Kemble, Miss I'.
Horton, Miss Taylor, Miss A. Kemble, Miss Chester, &c., &c. &c.
London : ,Smith, Elder, and .Co., 65, Cornitill. Euinburgh : Bell
and Bradfute. Dublin : J. Cumming.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Islands.
Dispatches were also received from Honm b-Kong.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. G.
Palmer, Mr. Hays, and Mr. Hawes, had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday to the Lieutenant-
Governor of Gibraltar from the Colonial-office.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN
DOWAGER AT CALAIS.
CALAIS, JUNE 3.—To-day, at half-past one o'clock, the
steam-packet Princess Alice, Captain Smithett, entered our
harbour, adorned with the royal standard of England, and
bearing the Queen Dowager and her suite. She was received
with more than the usual honours paid to foreign Princes in
a French port: A royal salute was fired, the civil authori-
ties were on the port to receive her Majesty, and the regular
troops of the line and the National Guards with their music
were in attendance, the latter playing' " God save the
Queen."

The crowd of French and English was immense, and very
respectful in demeanour. .After taking lunch on board the
packet, and the horses being put to the carriages, her Ma-
jesty left the quay a little before three P. 31., for'of Omer.

GRAND MILITARY REVIEW IN
WINDSOR GREAT PARK.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENI;GT.-- FrOmthe publicity
which had been given to' the grand review which had been
fixed to take place place this morning, in the Great Park,
before her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Emptiot of Russia, the
King Of Saxony, and the numerous illustrious and distin-
guished visitors at the Castle, the town was tilled with
company from London, and all the adjacent villages, by an
early hour, several of the trains bringing down from the
Paddington terminus from 1,000 to 1,200 passengers each
journey. With one train we noticed no less than thirty-six
carriageS belonging to the noblemen and others who left town
this morning, at nine o'clock.
It having been announced that the review would take place
at ten o'clock, long before that hour the number of persons
who had assembled in the Greid Park could not have
amounted, on a moderate calculation, to less than from
30,000 to 40,000. The number of carriages and vehicles of
every description which entered the. park at the Lan-
caster-lodge-gate, at the end, of Sheet-street-road, were be-
tween 700 and 800.

Shortly before ten o'clock the whole of the troops to be
reviewed, in number upivards of 5,000, hail arrived on the
ground. They were as follows :—The Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish ; the
Royal Horse Guards (Blue), commanded by Lieutenant-
Color el Richardson ; the 17th Lancers, commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel St. Quinten ; Royal Horse Artillery, and a battery
of field artillery, consisting of eight guns, commanded by
Colonel Cleaveland ; the 2d battalion of Grenadier Guards;
the 2d battalion of the Coldstream ; the 2d battalion of the
Scots Fusilier Guards, commanded by Colonel Colville ; and
the 47th Regiment of Foot, which arrived from Gosport this
morning by the railway. Major-General the Hon. Edward
Lygon took the command of the cavalry, and Lord Saltoun
the infantry; the line being commanded by General Vis-
count Combermere. The ground was kept by a detachment
of the 3d Regiment of Life Guards.
Her Majesty arrived on the ground shortly, after eleven
o'clock, in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the
Duchess of Cambridge, and attended, by the Lady in
Waiting. Several other of the Royal carriages and four fol-
lowed, containing the infant Royal Family, many- of the
illustrious visitors to her Majesty, the Maids of Honour in
Waiting, &c.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, and his Majesty the King of Saxony-,
who accompanied the Queen on horseback, were attended by
a numerous and brilliant staff, consisting of upwards of sixty
English and foreign officers of high rank, including his Royal
-
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington,
of Londonderry,
ofAnglesey, u
Lord Edwin
Lord Ranelagh, the
Hill, Viscount
tleq u3la
Combermere,r is
the Marquis
Marquis of Worcester, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir James
Macdonald, Colonel Griffiths, Colonel Arbuthnot, Lord
Charles Wellesley, Major-General Wemyss, Count Orloff,
Prince Wassiltschikoff, General D'Adlerberg, -Baron Reich
ardt, Prince Radzivil, Count Albert Vitzthum, Colonel
Berkeley Drummond, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater,
Lieut.-Colonel Wyld, &c. Sir Robert Peel, Lord Frederic
Fitzclarence, and Admiral the Hon. William. Powlet, also
formed part of the royal cortege to the ground.
Her Majesty, upon her arrival, was received with the most
tremendous cheering from the assembled thousands, who also
greeted the Prince, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of
Saxony in a similarly gratifying and enthusiastic manner.
The Duke of Wellington and the Premier were particularly
cheered upon their arrival and departure as they proceeded
through the Long Walk and across the Great Park to and
from the Castle.

The Queen; with her Imperial and Illustrious visitors, upon
taking up a position in front of the centre of the line, was
received by the troops formed in line with a royal salute, the
bands of the respective regiments playing the National An-
them, and the Horse Artillery, on the right of the line, firing
a salute of 21 guns.

The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Emperor of Russia,
the King of Saxony, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of
Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and the whole of the brilliant
staff, then rode along the front of the line, returning up the
rear; when they stationed themselves around the carriage of
her Majesty, the Emperor placing himself on the.right, and
the King of Saxony on the left of the Sovereign.
The Infantry then marched past in slow and quick time,
the Duke of Wellington, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, placing
themselves at the head of the battalions of their respective
regiments, viz., the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards,
and the Scots Fusilier Guards, and saluting her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses and the Duke of Wellington after-
wards again took their stations by the side of the Queen.
The Cavalry also walked and, trotted past, and the Infantry
then wheeled into line, the Ist Life Guards forming line in
front of Infantry, with the Horse Artillery in their centre,
masked. The Ist Life Guards retired in open column from
the right and dropped the Horse Artillery in the right rear
of the Infantry. The Infantry then formed squares, and
commenced firing, preparing to receive cavalry. The Royal
Horse Guards (Blue) in column, between the Ist and 2nd
squares, formed line and attacked the front, the infantry
forming into columns, and changing position right back,
quarter of the circle. The Ist Life Guards advanced in double
column from the centre, formed line, and attacked the front,
supported by the 17th Lancers. The infantry then formed
line again, and deployed on the original parade line, the Life
Guards and the Blues forming on the right, with the Horse
Artillery, the Lancers, and the field battery on the left. The
whole of the troops then advanced in parade order, and gave
the royal salute.

The review having terminated, his Imperial Majesty rode
up to the General commanding, Viscount Combermere, and
expressed himself highly gratified at the high state of divci-
pline of the British army. The following is a copy of the
notification of the satisfaction experienced by the Emperor,
which has been communicated to the commanding officers of
the several regiments reviewed this day ;--
"The Commanding Officer is directed by General Viscount
Combermere, to acquaint the regiment, that his Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of Russia expressed himself highl,y
satisfied with the several corps reviewed this day, under his
Lordship's orderS ; and to request his Imperial Majesty's
approbation might be made known to his comrades in arms,'
as he was graciously pleased to style the British troops.
" Wednesday, June 1844."
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The review was over about half-past one o'clock. Upon
the Royal and Illustrious party retiring from the ground•
three cheers were given for the Emperor of Russia, and a
similar manifestation of regard and respect was also shown
to the King of Saxony, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel.
Her Majesty, and the Royal Family left the Park, with se-
veral of her distinguished guests and suite, shortly before
one o'clock, and returned to the Castle amidst the loyal and
warm acclamations of the assembled people.
A splendid dejeuner a la fourchette was given after the re-
view, at the cavalry barracks, by Colonel Cavendish and
the fficers of the Ist Life:Guards, to a party of upwards of
one hundred distinguished officers and their friends, amongst
whom were the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Curzon, Lord
Alfred Paget, Lord de Ros, Lord Edwin Hill, Viscount Corn-
bermere, the Marquis of Anglesey, the ]ldarquis of Worcester,
Lord Ranelagh, Sir James Macdonald, Sir Watkin W. Wynn,
M.P., the Hon. Mr. Pakenham, General the lion. Edward
Lygon, Admiral the Hon. 11'.' Powlett, lion. Octavius
Duncombe, M.P., Colonel Griffiths, Mr. Powlet, Mr. Tern-
line, &c. .

An entertainment upon a grand scale was also given by
Colonel Colville and the officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards
beneath Tippoo Saib's tent, which had been graciously lent
by her Majesty, and pitched in the square of the infantry
barracks, in Sheet-street.
Notwithstanding the immense number of persons who
were assembled in the Park to witness this grand military
spectacle; the hundreds of vehicles drawn up around the
portions selected for the evolutions of the troops, filled with
elegantly-dressed females to enjoy the spirit-stirring scene ;
and the crowds of persons who had dangerously perched
themselves on the branches of nearly every tree in the vi-
cinity, we have not heard of a single accident.

THE JEOPARDY OF COMMERCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sm,—Your Currency article in Tuesday's paper is most
valuable. God grant you may be able to rouse the opiate-
-drugged merchants of this wretched country to a sense of
the terrific danger in which they stand!
If we should have a deficient harvest the empire may be
shaken to its centre!

By a refinement in idiote3,-, the Bank is to be compelled to
reduce its amount of paper in the ratio in which its gold is
diminished. If, therefore, A, B, and C draw out,.for the pur-
chase of corn, ten millions of gold, the Bank must call on its
debtors, E, F, and G, to pay in ten millions of paper !
Thus, the commercial operations of one vast portion of the
community are to be cramped or destroyed, because those of
another portion are more active than usual I If I happen to
be trading on a loan of a thousand pounds from the Bank,
and you happen (having a deposit account therewith) to
draw out a like sum in gold, to extend your trade !—I must
be " pulled up," and my trading stopped! Truly this is a
splendid, plan for "protecting the trading interests of the
empire!'
How agreeable, too, for the Bank! You draw out a bag
of gold from the cellar at Threadneedle-street, and forthwith
the Bank is to lose the interest I paid for the use of its notes !
How delightfully we shall be off, if the bullion is again
reduced to a million or so, and an equivalent reduction made
in the note department. How comfortable to have the paper
reduced from thirty millions (fourteen on securities, sixteen
on bullion) to fifteen ! (fourteen on securities, one on bullion).l
How _cheerful the merchants will look " sure-ly," as the
ploughman said!
By the bye, what a superlative invention is this, of the
"paper based upon gold!"
Pray, whfit'WFSlff U enlier genii- it ? 'The Bank of Eng-
land, for example, collects sixteen millions in gold, makes
sixteen millions in notes—lends them at a certain rate of in-
terest—good. Pray, could not it have lent the gold itself at ,
the same rate ?

I repeat my question—Who gains by the issue of the
paper?—Yours, always, COMMON SENSE.

ON BANKING AND CURRENCY.

TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., &c. &c.

beg most respectfully to call your attention to
some considerations connected with the currency—a subject
that I deeply studied, and wrote upon to the late Mr. Can-
ning and Mr. Huskisson.
I think that I have well digested the propositions you
have submitted to the House of Commons on the sub-
ject of banking, and which I clearly see will ultimately lead
to a centralised bank of issue, with the Government credit
as its capital. There can be no doubt of this result, in the
event of a general war in Europe, or a succession of bad har-
vests in the United Kingdom.

So far as your plan affects the Bank of England, it is good ;
and for the reasons that it is good every bank of issue over the
kingdom, beyqnd the limits of the Bank charter, should be
governed by the same principles; their banking and issuing
departments should be distinct and separate; their issues to
depend on the amount of money they would lend the Go-
vernment, or, what would be still better, on landed securities
mortgaged to the Government, and the amount.of gold in
their coffers. What I mean by landed securities are mort,
gages now in existence on lands, or that may hereafter be
three years in existence on lands. The bank of issue in the
Isle of Man has vested such a security with the Government
for the payment of its notes; and such securities should be
made by law as easily transferable as an F.xchequer-bill or
bill of exchange. The greater the number of banks of this
kind there would be profitable business for, the greater
would be the amount of employment, and the greater the
strength of the Government; besides which, there would be
confidence in every locality as to the intrinsic value of the
currency, the holders of Bank notes would know that these
tokens of value, or promises to pay, were not only founded
upon gold, which the exchanges make occasionally flitting,
but upon lands in their neighbourhood they know the value
of. should adverse exchanges occur when banking was in
this state, the contraction of the currency would be gradual
and general, until increased exports from low prices would
turn the exchanges in favour of the country.
You will clearly see that from whatever circumstances the
exchanges might be deranged, the Government would have
no serious dangers to apprehend when a great number of
banks of issue were established, with the proposed publicity
of their operations and Government inspection; but that the
Government would have serious dangers to apprehend from
adverse exchanges with only one bank of issue. A panic in
the latter case would not be likely to subside until the Bank
was drained of all its gold, and an Order in Council was issued,
as in 1798, to make its notes a legal tender ; whereas hi the
former case, from local confidence in local banks, no such
effects from panic could arise; the labour of the country
would continue to be employed, with variations in its value,
according to the demand for it; and (as labour is wealth)
the less it would be interfered with by the sliding up and
down of the exchanges, political agitations, and panics, the
better it would be for the community.—l hope you will ex-
cuse this liberty ; and have the honour to be, &c.,

RICHARD DILLON TEiNNENT.
29, Berners-street, Oxford-street, June 3, 1844.

THE PITMEN'S STRIKE.

Last evening a public meeting, which seemed to excite
much interest among the great body of working men, was
held at S mine House, Leicester-square, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the grievances under which the pit-
men labour, and the causes of their strike, with a view to
adopting the best means to assist and alleviate their dis-
tresses. The large room, capable of holding many hun-
dreds of persons, was completely crowded. At half-past
eight o'clock the chair was taken by Thomas Sling,by
Duncombe, Esq., M.P., amid immense applause. On his
left was Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and he was supported by
numbers of gentlemen who take an interest in the pitmen's
strike. _

The CHAIRMAN, after stating the pleasure he at all
times felt in assisting the working classes, said they had met
on a subject of the most vital importance to that body.
It was not a subjsct which should be viewed at a distance,
but one which 'ould be taken a part in by every man who
valued the blessings of freedom and fair dealing. The
effects of the misunderstanding between the colliers and
their employers had already began to be felt by all classes
how much more it was felt by those whom he now saw
before him, and many of whom he represented, he need
only mention to prove the great effect the misunderstanding
must have on these least able to bear it. But he would not
put it on a pecuniary consideration ; he would put it on the
footing whether labour ought not to reap its reward, and
whether the honest man should not be able to live by the
sweat of his brow. He had heard that the strike was to force
the masters to pay the men 4s. per day wages, and thatpoint
had been advanced in the House of Commons •, but, so far
from this, he would state that they. had worked for 245. per
fortnight, and were willing, if the public would state it was
fair, to go back again at the same rate of wages, provided.the
grievances they laboured under were removed. The men had
offered to leave the subject to arbitration, but the masters
had refused; and, under these circumstances, he could not
but deem that the men were in the right, and he would ren-
der his assistance to gain for them what every man was en-
titled to, namely, " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work."
He was quite certain that 30,000 men would not leave their
work anddistress their families, if they had not fair and just
cause of complaint. He had seen the men on their native
hills discussing their grievances, and their conduct had been
most proper and praiseworthy.
A number of speakers then addressed the meeting, detail-
ing the grievances under which the colliers laboured, in the
shape of short wages, deductions unjustly made by the
masters, and impositions in the shape of charges for various
items. The speakers were from pits in Durham, Stafford-
shire, and other counties, and they detailed, with great credit
to themselves, as working men, the species of injustice they
laboured under. The fines put upon the men for getting any.;
thing short of their quantity were loudly complained of, and
the system of always keeping a week's payment out of the
hands of the workman for the purpose of amassing interest
for the master, was explained. The weighing measure of the
collieries, which was by steelyard, was objected to, a beam
and scales being required.
A string of resolutions were carried unanimously, advocat-
ing the cause of the pitmen, and declaring that Parliament
should. take measures to remedy their causes of distress. A
strong vote of thanks was likewise passed to Mr. Duncombe
for his bold advocacy of the interests of the working classes
in the House of Commons.

THREATENED ATTACK ON THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND SIR R. PEEL.
On the afternoon of Monday last, information was received
at the station-house of the T division, on Brook-green, Ham-
mersmith, that a man named Bernard Fitzpatrick, an Irish-
man, had that day called at the residences of Dr. Conolly,
superintendent and physician of the Hanwell County Lunatic
Asylum, and of the Rev. J. A. Emmerton, and Rev. Mr.
Burt, in the village of Hanwell, Middlesex, and had there
uttered threats of his intention to shoot both the Duke of
Wellington and Sir R. Peel, Bait ; and that from the known
violent and determined character of Fitzpatrick, great fears
were entertained that he would carry his threats into execu-
tion. Immediately on the receipt of the information, Mr.
Superintendent Williamson dispatched a mounted messenger
with intelligence to the Commissioner of Police, at their
office in Great Scotland-yard, who promptly issued orders
that every exertion should be made to apprehend Fitzpatrick.
Constables were accordingly dispatched in all directions ; and
it being known that his wife kept a lodging-house in the
town of Brentford, a sharp look out was kept for him in that
neighbourhood, and about nine o'clock the same night his
capture was effected in a public-house in Brentford. At the
station-house the charge was entered on the police-sheet by
Inspector Marquard, as " charged with threatening to shoot
the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, Bart."
Bernard Fitzpatrick is of strong frame, about fifty years
of age, six feet high, and of violent and most determined
character, having on one occasion nearly killed a man for a
very trifling offence. He was years ago a soldier, it is be-
lieved, in the 47th Regiment, and was for some time sta-
tioned in the West Indies, where he suffered greatly from
yellow fever, from the effects of which it is supposed his
mind is at times affected. He has been twice an inmate of
the Hanwell County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and has been
twice discharged as convalescent. The ground °frills hos-
tility to the Duke of Wellington is stated to be a delusion
that his Grace, while in power, prevented him from obtain-
ing a pension for which he applied, and his antipathy- to Sir-
Robert Peel has only showed itself since the incarceration of
Mr. O'Connell. On Tuesday morning he was conveyed from
the station-house of the T division, in Qld Brentford, safely
secured in a cart, to the residence of Mr. G. Baillie, of Ilan-
well-grove, before whom, and the Ilev. Dr. Walmesley, mlo-
tlier local magistrate, he underwent an examination.
After some evidence had been taken,
Dr. Haffendon, of Hanwell, vas called in to examine the
prisoner, and immediately certified as to the man's insanity.
An order was then signed by the magistrates for his re-
admission into the Ilanwell Asylum, where, after much per-
suasion by Mr. Baillie, lie consented to go, and promised to
he quiet on the way, on condition that Mr. Baillie would do
justice to his wife while he was in the asylum.
Mr. Bain) gave the required pledge, and he then got into
the cart, 'accompanied by his wife and several policemen, and
was conveyed to the asylum,

I'M:01017TH, JIINZ s.—The Oeea.n, from Fowey to Shields,
got 'on the t arber Sand this morning, but came off and pro-
ceeded.

IMPRISONMENT OF MR. O'CONNELL-POPULAR

DEMONSTRAiIONS.
DUBLIN, JUNE 4.—Meetings are in progress, in all parts of
the country, to protest against the unjust incarceration of
Mr. O'ConnellJ and to make arrangements for the more efke-
tive collection of the repeal rent. This movement is charac-
terised by the greatest enthusiasm, and it is now quite mani-
fest that Mr. O'Connell is a much more formidable agitator
in his prison than he had begin at Mullaghmast or Tara. We
subjoin a brief notice of some of these meetings :
NEwar.—A. meeting was held in Newry on Sunday, for
the purpose of addressing Mr. O'Connell. The night Rev.
Dr. Blake presided. Addresses to Mr. O'Connell and the
other State prisoners were unanimously adopted. The ad-
dress was presented to Mr. O'Connell yesterday.
CAIIAR, JUNE 2.—A repeal meeting was held here to-day
—only announced at last mass to take place immediately
after, when there was the extraordinary sum of 301. collected
from the few who attended. Thursday next will be a holi-
day, and we expect to be able to send to the Association
about 601.—a large sum indeed from so poor a parish,
taking all its other contributions through the year into ac-
count.

The Cork Examiner of yesterday contains detailed reports
of meetings held in Macroom, Fermoy, ➢Mallow, Newmarket,
and various other places in that extensive county. At all
these meetings a considerable amount of repeal rent was
subscribed.

DEPUTATIONS FROM THE IRISH CORPORATIONS.
The Evening Post of this afternoon contains the follow-
ing :—" We learn that it is the intention of the Liberal Mu
nicipalities of Ireland to send deputations to Dublin, headed
by their respective chief magistrates, ID wait upon Mr.
O'Connell and his associates, and to express the feelings of
the important communities severally represented by the de-
putations. Thursday, the 13th, is understood to have been
fixed upon for these imposing demonstrations."
The Cork Examiner of yesterday says :—" We understand
fhe Mayors of the province of Munster will meet at a certain
place in a few days, and will proceed to Dublin, to visit the
illustrious inmate of a Tory prison, and prove to the Govern-
ment that although they may imprison the Liberator of Ire-
land, they never can weaken his influence, or lessen the af-
fection of his countrymen."