The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1844

( surprised at this. There have been so many new
Cabinets since the flight of ESPARTERO, and the people
of Spain have fallen so low in public estimation, that
any change of government hardly deserves notice.
The Government, the army, the church, and the
nobility, are evidently favourable to the old system of
despotism, and in a few months probably the Cortes
and the Constitution will be formally, as they are in
reality, thrown aside like old almanacs. The Corati-
lutiannel, almost the only journal that condescends to
make any remarks on the " Sabre" Ministry, evi-
dently anticipates such a result. " The accession of
NARVAEZ to power," it says, "may give rise to various
conjectures, but whatever those surmises may be, the
political meaning of this Ministerial revolution is evi-
dent. It is no other than the result of a restoration.
In the time of ESPARTERO it was the reign of the
Exaltados. A defection of this party overthrew Es-
PARTERO, although the OLOZAGA Ministry was com-
posed only of Progressists. A fresh defection throws
the power into the hands of those who brought to the
moderate party the zeal of fresh converts. Now the
old Moderado party govern alone, and the new Cabinet
brings back Spain to the time of the ministries of the
Duke DE Plass, or of Count D'OrALIA. If this re-
trograde movement continue, it will bring into power
the authors or the partisans of the Estattao Real, of en -
lightened despotism behind which Carlism can alone
be found."

Little has been published in these journals lately
about a commercial treaty between England and
France, but the exposition made by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER has called new attention to the
subject. When France finds that England will make
no reduction of the duties on wines and brandies until
France exhibits more liberal commercial views, and
there is otherwise little chance of raising these articles
from their present state of depression, the Govern-
ment may deem it necessary to show something like
an intention to act on reciprocal principles.
The Globe, a Ministerial paper, throws out the fol-
lowing, probably as a feeler, on the question :

" It is known that the English Government intended to
take the initiative in the question of reducing the tariffs, and
that it was to commence by diminishing the duties on wines
and brandies. The budget, presented by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has disappointed those hopes. It would ap-
pear that the British Cabinet refrained from adopting a
mea-
sure so important until the Customs Bill, now before the
French Chambers, should have been discussed, and that the
question relative to foreign threads and linens should have
been definitively solved. Notwithstanding this adjournment,
negotiations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of the two
countries have been opened by the English and French Go-
vernments, and will be prosecuted with greater activity dur-
ing the interval of the session. Persons engaged in the wine
and brandy trade must not, accordingly, lose all hope. The
question is adjourned, and not decided, and sooner or later it
must be settled in the interest of the extension of the com-
mercial relations of the two kingdoms."

It is stated in some of the journals that negotiations
for a commercial treaty between England and Naples
have been again renewed, and that the conditions will
prove highly favourable to British interests.

The French Funds continued to advance. On Tues-
day the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 65c., and the
Fives at 122 f. 40c.
THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, MAY 7.

First Highest Lowest Leal

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French:Pive per Cents 122 05 .. 122 25 •• 122 05 .. 122 15
Three per Cents... 84 60 .. 84 65 .• 84 55 .. 84 60
Bank of France"... .• • • 3lOO ..3100 . 3100 • • 3100

Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll67 50 ..1170 ..1167 50 ..1170
5,000(. Sharessl62 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50
Belgian 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50
Belgian Fives, 1831..

1840 ........ 106 .. 106 •• 106
1842 .• ••• • • • 108} .. 108} .. 108}
Spanish Active ........ •. • . 32} .. 32} .. 32
Three 5............ 3i • • 353 • • 35

Passive 6 .. 6 • • 6
Portuguese Five per Cants• • 46j .. 461 .. 46
Neapolitan 102 .. 102 05 .. 102
Roman, sz div.... •...... • • 104 .. 104 .• 104

•• 106
•• 1081
•• 32
• • 35;

•• 6
•• 46i
•• 102 05
.. 104

mArLwAkY SHARES.

Versailles, R. 8... .

.. 380

.. 37J

.. 380

..... 252 50 .. 257 50 • • 252 50 .. 257 50
Rouen 965 .. 965 .. 965 .. 965
Rouen to HaYre...... • • .. .. 737 50 .. 737 50 • . 735 735
Orleans ...... ......... 972 50 .. 972 50 • • 972 50 . • 972 50
Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • 275 .. 277 50 .. 275 . • 275
lyignonto Marseilles ••• • • • 770 • • 770 • • 768 75 • • 768 75

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Ver•aille5,R.8.....
L. 8.• • ••..• • • • • • 252 50 • • 260 .. 252 50 • • 260
Rouen
Rouen to Havre— ..... . 737 50 718 75 .. 736 25 .. 736 25
Orleans 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 972 50 .. 972 50
Strasburg to Bale.• •••• •• 277 50 • • 277 50 • • 275 .. 275
Avignon to Marseilles...... 770 .. 770 . 768 75 .. 768

THE EMPEROR or RUSSIA..—It is stated that
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., &c., Coru
mandant of Woolwich garrison, has received her Majesty's
commands to proceed forthwith to St. Petersburgh, for the
purpose of escorting his Imperial Majesty to England. It
is generally believed that Lord Bloomfield has been selected
for the honourable duty in consequence of his Lordship being
personally known to the Emperor during his long residence
at the Court of Sweden. In the absence of Lord Bloomfield,
the command of the garrison will devolve on Major-General
Sir Hew Roes, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General of the Royal
Artillery.
ORIGIN OF THE NAMES Or THE AMERICAN STATES.
—Maine was so called as early as 1638, from Maine in
France, of which Henrietta Maria, Queen of England,
was at that time proprietor. New Hampshire was the
name given to the territory conveyed by the Plymouth
Company to Captain John Mason, by patent, Nov. 7,1639,
with reference to the patentee, who was Governor of
Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England. Vermont was so
called by the inhabitants in their declaration of indepen-
dence, January 16, 1777, from the French verd, green,
and mont, mountain. Massachusetts from a tribe of In-
dians in the neighbourhood of Boston. The tribe is
thought to have derived its name from the Blue Hills of
Milton: " I have learned," says Roger Williams, " that
Massachusetts was so called from the Blue Hills." Rhode
Island was named in 1644, in reference to the Island of
name of
itsof York and Albany, to
Rhodes in the Mediterranean.
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named, in 1681, after William Penn. Delaware, in 1703,
frem Delaware Bay, on which it lies, and which received
its name from Lord Delawarr, who died in this bay.
Maryland, in honour of Henrietta Maria, Queen of
Charles 1., in his patent to Lord Baltimore, June 30,
1632. Virginia was named, in 1584, after Elizabeth, the
virgin Queen of England. Carolina, by the French in
1564, in honour of King Charles IX. of France. Georgia,
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Mississipi, in 1800, from
its western boundary. Mississippi is said to denote Kie,
whole river, that is, the river formed by the union of
King
many. Louisiana, so called in honour of Louis XVI. of
France. Tennessee, in 1796, from its priucipal river:
the word Tennessee is said to signify a curved spoon.
Kentucky, in 1782, from its principal river. Illinois, in
1809, from its principal river. The word is said to sig-
nify the river of men. Indiana, in 1802, from the Ame-
rican Indians. Ohio, in 1802, from its southern boun-
dary. Missouri, in 1821, from its principal river.
Michigan, named, in 1805, from the lake on its borders.
Arkansas, in 1819, from its principal river. Florida was
so called by Juan Ponse Le Leon, in 1572, because it
was discovered on Easter Sunday ; in Spanish, Puscus
Florida.—Simmonds' Colonial Magazine.
'TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—This splendid ornament of
the metropolis was thrown open to the public on Thurs-
day last, and the ceremony was attended by all the boys
that could be got together on the spur of the moment
from the streets in the neighbourhood. A juvenile party
instantly began to " christen" the posts, by leaping over
them ; and no square-keeper having been regularly
sworn In, the whole spot was a scene of alarm-
ing anarchy, until K 12, with considerable presence of
mind—although not on duty—invested himself with the
striped band for the wrist, and took his station on the
top step, commanding a view of the flats of
asphaltum which spread themselves slantendicu-
larly down towards the cab-stand. Amongst
the other objects of interest at Trafalgar-
square, we must notice particularly, the two extensive
washhand-basins, cut out into the shape of the shells
used for scolloping oysters, from a design in the posses-
sion of the Messrs. Lynn, of Fleet-street. These
aqueous receptacles were the subjects of various
nautical experiments, in honour, no doubt, of the
great naval hero on the summit of the column ; and
who, by-the-by, looks as if he contemplated suicide by
jumping from the top of it. Several paper boats were
launched on the surface of the tawny fluid, and alto-
gether a decidedly aquatic turn was given to the day's
proceedings, some of the boys sprinkling their com-
panions festively with the salubrious element. The
only drawback to the general hilarity was occa-
sioned by the non-removal of the wooden hoard from
the base of the Nelson column. We understand that a
difficulty as to the price of the iron railings is the cause
of this unsightly continuance of the wood-work ; but it
is confidently hoped that the ironmonger will see the
matter in a proper light in the course of a few days, and
put up those spikes, the absence of which, on Thursday,
the assembled multitudes so much deplored.—Punch.
TWELVE POUNDS FOR AN OPERA.—The late Dr.
Arnold, at his professional outset, found it so extremely
difficult to bring his compositions before the public, that
he long despaired of gaining any emolument from them.
His greatest ambition was to get his music heard, and
for that purpose he was obliged to submit to many sacri-
fices. Vauxhall-gardens was supplied by his pen, gra-
tuitously, with songs that were at the time only equalled
by those of John Christian Bach. Through the interest
of Beard, the celebrated tenor, he was engaged by the
proprietors of Covent-garden to select and arrange the
music in the opera of The Maid of the Mill, for which
he received the munificent sum of twelve pounds. For
this opera he also composed two songs, and the finale
for the first and act, which immediately placed
him in the first rank as a composer of dramatic music.
In this opera Dr. Arnold showed his great taste and
judgment by the selection of the music, as he introduced
some of the most favourite airs of Pergolesi, Jomelli,
Srarlatti, Picini, &c., all of which he adapted with so
much skill to the various characters that it is difficult to
believe but what they were composed for them, Instance
the songs of the rustic Giles, two in particular, " Hark,
'tis your own true lover," and " Odds, my life," which
are melodies that would fascinate the amateurs of the
present day. Sir Henry Bishop, on the revival of this
opera some twenty-five years since, preserved these
songs, and also memo.: i a ; a 3es he only composing an
additional air i is;l.: a i Stephens.— The
Maestro,