The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-01 00:00:00

the true principles of commerce, because France, or any
other country, chose to act erroneously. We cordially

echo that sentiment.

attacked Marshal SEBASTIAN' for signing the
Right of Search Treaty without orders, when here as
Ambassador of the Court of France. Crowded as are
our columns, we must endeavour to find room for the
defence of the illustrious Marshal. With what shame
does it not cover the Jesuitical policy of Count Mom;,
hitherto generally respected, because so little known in
this country. MoLL and THIERS are, in truth, a pre-
cious couple—as shameless as dishonest. Marshal SE-
BASTIAN' said :
He came to that tribune to defend an old treaty, that of
1831. He hoped the Chamber would permit him to speak of
the English alliance, for it was that alliance caused the treaty.
When Minister for Foreign Affairs under the Minister Perier
be had been always careful to preserve the alliance as the most
solid guarantee ot peace. He was also at that period engaged
in a question which interested humanity, the treaty fur tne
extinction of the slave trade. At that time all France ap-
plauded the treaty, since become the object of so many at-
tacks. The right of search, it is pretended. lowers France,
and is contrary to the interests of the nation. It would be
so had it been made in the interest of England; but the treaty
was reciprocal, and reciprocity humiliates no one. How could
it he onerous for our commerce when we had the right of visit-
ing double the number of our own vessels ? He thought we
ought to be proud of a treaty which was legally made, as the
means of abolishing an infamous traffic. On quitting the
Ministry to be employed as Ambassador in London, said
the Marshal, my whole thought and care were to main-
tain peace, and that alliance, the effects of which would
have been felt, and which I cannot but regret now.
I was then doubly occupied in the maintenance of
the English alliance and the extinction of the slave-
trade. I have said that I was in the Ministry at the
time of the treaty of 1831, that I applauded the treaty of 1833,
and that I supported that of 1841, because the .question is not
of zones, more or less. When the right of search is granted
and contested, it must be contested wholly. I signed also the
treaty of 1831 ; I applauded those of 1833 and 1841. 1 hare
been consistent. I may have been deceived, but I think nut.
In 1836 England proposed the extension of the zones. I sent
to the President of the Council the pi oposition. I could never
obtain an answer, though it seemed to me to merit one. In
1836 and afterwards, the President of the Council took it
into his head to put into execution one of the treaties of
1831, which consisted in making all the powers of Europe ad-
here to the treaty. I own he treated with Portugal, that the
instructions given to our Minister at that Court were sent to
London and communicated. Nothing direct. In 1838, M.
Desages, first clerk of the po:itical department of foreign affairs,
was sent to London, which he reached on the 10th of December.
I signed the treaty. I wrote on the 13th. We were then en-
gaged in a great negotiation. It was proposed to me to ago
the protocol by whien the Three Northern powers were called to
accede to the treaty. Why, said the British Minister, not
continue the alliance? I was placed in the alternative of
either engaging my responsibility, or of breaking the al-
liance. I signed the protocol, that is the opening ot negotia-
tions. I communicated these reserves; you have the terms of
my letter to the President of the Council. I engaged him to
make some changes, some modifications in this protocol and in
the treaty. I will say more ; from 1836 to 1838 I took two
journeys to Paris ; I frequently had occasion to see and to
convene upon important business with the President of the
Council ; he never opened his mouth to say a word upon the
treaty. Consequently I thought myself authorised to en-
gage my own responsibility with respect to the Minister,
not being able to do so with respect to the State, for I
spoke of modifications, of changes, and he replied not. I
leave you to judge as you will, whether a Minister should
be silent upon affairs of such importance; whether he should
limit himself to sending a copy of the despatches which he has
sent to our Ambassador in Portugal; if there was ever an Am-
bassador or a Minister independent by the will of the Minister,
I think it is the Ambassador of your own country. I certainly
do congratulate myself for having signed that treaty, for with-
out that the affair would nave been immediately broken up. I
will only say a few words upon the negro question, and the
right ot neutrality. These questions have never been taken
up. The responsibility does not reach them. The Marshal
here said that he felt too weak to speak more, and would merely
add that he would have followed his instructiona had he had them.
Not having them, he could only do what he had done.
Marshal SEBASTIAN' has acquitted himself like a
brave man, whereas Count MOLE, by his own previous
boast in the Chamber, that he was all the time only
hoaxing England, has proved himself a person so utterly
false as to be an object of universal contempt.
The Moniteur publishes the following Royal ordi-
nance, countersigned by the Minister of Finance, M. DE
LACAVE LAPLAGNE :
" Having considered the 14th article of the Bth of Septem •
ber, 1841, which fixes at 5 per cent. per annum the interest to
be paid to the Treasury in case of any delay in paying up the
instalments of that proportion of the loan of 150 millions to be
adjudged in pursuance of that order ;—having considered the
meaning of the second paragraph of the same article, stating
that in default of payment in the course of one month, the full
amount of the sum stated in the certificate may be required,
and that the Minister of Finance may sell it fur the benefit of
the Treasury to the amount of the sum due by the contractor;
considering that the cash on hand in the Treasury exceeds the
actual demand on it, and that, consequently, by modifying the
terms of the aforesaid article, so as to give the contractors the
privilege of retarding their payments, it would relieve the
charge on the floating debt ;
" Decrees—That the rate of interest to which the contrac-
tor of the first portion of the loan of 150 millions, adjudicated
the 18th October last, as liable in ease of delay in the payment,
is reduced to 3i per cent. per annum. This interest wi I be
required to be paid on the fifth day atter the expiration of the
term without further notice.
" The delay of one month, announced in the second para-
graph of the '24th article of the decree of the 18th of Septem-
ber, 1841, is extended to three months.
"Paris, May 28, 1842." " LAPLANGE."
The King and Queen, returning from Bizy, arrived at Neu-
illy yesterday afternoon.
We do not know what will become of the continuous walls
when the Chambers have broken up • but at this moment there
are scarcely 2,000 workmen employed on this part of the works
and in the fortification of the capital. Grass is already grow-
ing on some parts of the works which were abandoned last year.
It is not so with the forts, the erection of which is carried on
with great activity. We must al=o observe that the portions
of the continuous walls on which the workmen are employed
are those which will seems as points d'appui to the military
establishments, respecting which the Government has not
thought fit to give an explanation. Our readers may
remember that the military stores which were deposited
in the ancient Abbey of Panthemont were removed during the
winter to the building of the former entrepos of Grorbatilon,
which had been transformed into a barrack. The ancient
church of Panthemont was to be repaired, and to serve as a
Protestant church ; the workmen had even begun their opera-
tions, but in consequence it is said of the remonstrances of the
clergy, the work has been suspended. It is not now known
what is to be done with this building.
The Spanish authorities have lost no time in following the ex-
ample given by General Harispe, who hasforbidden the French
officers and soldiers to enter the Spanish territory.
A letter from Ainpoa to the Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the
26th, says :
"'the valley of the Baston has just been reinforced with a
battalion of the regiment of Bourbon, 25 horses and twenty
mules, loaded with tools, have just arrived at Urdach. It is
thought it intended to erect a corps de garde on the extreme
frontier.
" The Spanish officers and soldiers are expressly forbidden to
enter the French territory."
Count Appony will return to Paris with part of his familly by
family by the end of June.— Commerce.
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We have admired none of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S free
trade sentences more than that in which be expressed
an opinion like the late Mr. DEACON HUME, that Eng-
land ought to buy at the cheapest market, let the com-
mercial law of other countries be what it might. If Sir
ROBERT PEEL, in order to spite the French for not buy-
ing our linen yarn (though we are by no means sure
that the smuggler will not correct the vicious policy of
the Government), shall impede the English in getting
wine cheap, he will inflict another injury on our trade
besides that which the legislation of the French Govern-
ment is calculated to inflict. In Sir ROBERT PEEL this
would be a much greater offence than LOUIS PHILIPPE'S
conduct, because Sir ROBERT is under an obligation to
promote the benefit of our people. LOUIS PHILIPPE is
going to injure our linen-yarn spinners, and Sir ROBERT
PEEL, to retaliate, will injure our wine merchants. Be-
cause the French will not take our linen yarn, that
is no reason why we should not have good and
cheap wine. The mischievous effects of his law would
be much more certain quoad our people than the law
of France. Without his interference we believe that
the increased difficulty of sending our linen yarn to
France must prevent the French from selling us so
much wine, or they must give us an equal quantity for
a less price. The impelicy of the French will punish
themselves, without Sir ROBERT PEEL taking on
himself the odium of inflicting an additional injury on
our people. We trust, therefore, that his implied
threat will die in the utterance, and that he will not
multiply the ruinous restraints on commerce which
Governments have imposed, as if they were the scourges
which inflict, instead of the balm which heals, the
wounds of society.
Unfortunately for Sir ROBERT PEEL, however
bad may be the policy of France, that country
may plead his special example. France is only
doing that—(affording what its Government supposes to
be an adequate protection to the comparatively unimpor-
tant manufacture of one part of the French people's
clothing)—which Sir ROBERT has done for the tenfold
more important manufacture of our people's food. One
Government deprives its subjects of a cheap dress, the
other, much more criminal, deprives them of cheap and
abundant subsistence. Sir ROBERT PEEL, too, is about
to impose a duty of 45., or if he have relented from his
malevolent plan as is said, a duty of 2s. on coals ex-
ported, fur the avowed purpose of depriving the foreign
manufacturer of the advantage of cheap coals. The
French Government, therefore, only imitates his own
policy, which, considering the age and country in which
it originates, deserves no other epithet than that of
barbarous. If England should gradually find herself
excluded from trade with all the world, it will be the
consequence of the vast success which has accompanied
her restrictive system without being caused by it, and will
be the realization of the wishes of that unpatriotic party
which placed Sir ROBERT PEEL in office.

Another dispute has arisen in that abode of theologi-
cal strife, the University of Oxford, which we notice
merely to express our contempt of the whole affair.
When Dr. lIAMPDEN was appointed Regius Professor of
Divinity at Oxford five or six years ago, the heads of
houses, at the instigation of the Pusey party, and being
animated by a fierce Tory spirit, passed a statute to de-
prive the Whig Dr. HAMPDEN of some of the privi-
leges of his office. They dispensed with the students
attending his lectures. At length the fierce spirit of
bigotry and party strife has relented, and those of the
Learned Doctors, who have recovered their senses, have
proposed to do justice to Dr. lIAMPDEN, by repealing
this statute. There is, however, a large body, chiefly
Pusey ices, it is said, who are not ashamed of their into-
tolerance and their malice, who oppose this step
with all their might. Between those who now wish to
do right, and those who persevere in doing wrong, both
having been heretofore united in enmity to Dr. HAMP-
DEN, all Oxford is in a blaze. The fierce contention,
however, is of no interest whatever beyond the circle
of the wordly monks and their pupils. It will neither
cheapen bread nor add to improvement. We should,
therefore, have passed by the subject in total silence had
not several of our Contemporaries, by elaborate remarks,
sought to invest it with public importance. The verbal
and yet wrathful contentions of University Doctors, are
more contemptible than the disputes of rival fidlers, of
Which the proper public notice taken was—
'Tis pity there should be
Such furious wrath 'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Nothing is more natural than the universal interest
excited among, and horror expressed by, all classes of
British subjects, upon learning that a second attempt
has been made upon the life of one so dear to every
British bosom as our young and universally-beloved
SOVEREIGN. Taking a cursory glance at the crime, and
its consequences, had Heaven been less mindful of the
protection of our QUEEN, we repeat it was not only
natural, but appeared only decent that the two Houses
of Parliament should be adjourned, and that a meeting
of Privy Councillors should be held to examine the mise-
Table man who could be guilty of so cruel and unprt

yoked an enormity.
But calm reflection can hardly defend such a line of
proceeding. The great object to which the attention of
the Government, the Legislature, the Magistracy, and
the public should be directed, is the prevention for the
future of all similar attempts upon a life so precious in the
eyes of her people as that of Queen VICTORIA. Now the
experience ofall ages shows that by extraordinary notoriety
crime may be made as contagious as a fever, the plague, '
or any other infectious disease. This is peculiarly the
case in great cities, where wretches abound who care
nothing for life, provided they are sure of acquiring un-
bounded notoriety. The extraordinary trial of FIESCHI
in France, for attempting to take the life of King LOUIS
PHILIPPE, was followed by repetitions of the crime, and
which only ceased when the public took no notice of
them, and the KING declined to give the climax to their
vanity by cutting off their heads. The BURKE and
HARE atrocities found imitators, and when a young
woman, in a fit of insanity, threw herself from the top
of the Monument, others, as insane as herself, chose tlit
same place for " shuffling off this mortal coil," till even
the City authorities became alarmed at the prospect of
establishing a perpetual Coroner's Court in Fish-street-
hill.

We arrive, then, at the conclusion, that the less no-
toriety is given to such crimes, and the less such
criminals are paraded before the public eye, the
better fur the safety of the Illustrious Personage thus

rendered peculiarly the object of a nation's solicitude.
The person guilty of such an attempt must be mad, or

may safely be assumed to be so. No man in his senses,
however wicked, however instigated by the Devil, could
be guilty of such a crime, knowing, as he must that,
whether successful or otherwise, benefit he could
have none, and escape would be impossible. The
worst men do not voluntarily thrust their necks
into halters—do not court national execration—
without sume selfish notion. It is otherwise with mad-

. .
men, crazed with a longing for notoriety in any shape.
They will commit any crime merely to be talked of.
When, on a former occasion, the wretth OXFORD
fired a pistol at the QUEEN, had he been sent to Bow-
street to be recognised, and thence conveyed as a lunatic
to some asylum, there to be kept in strict seclusion for
life, we should not now have to record the repetition
of such an atrocity by JOHN FRANCIS. Let some
such measure be adopted now. Parliament is sitting, so
that ne time need be lost in preparing and passing a
Bill for the greater safety of the Royal person. There
are plenty of people we know who, in the exuberance of
their loyalty and the paucity of their wisdom, would
recommend the gibbet and chains ; but, as we observed
before, this would only serve as a provocative to the
diseased imaginations of the crazed creatures who are to
be found in every street of this vast asylum
of crime and madness. Make all attempts against the
life of the SOVEREIGN convictions of incurable madness,
and let the poor wretches be for ever dead to the world,
and there will no longer be any danger of repetitions of
such crimes. But, except the Secretaries of State, no
persons should be allowed to visit them from without
the walls of their prisons. The violation of this rule in
the case of OXFORD we deem highly objectionable, and
of dangerous tendency.

PROMPTITUDE AND STEAM
POWER.

Monday night we had the melancholy duty, mingled
with grateful joy, to announce exclusively before
Post-time the atrocious attempt on the precious life
of our beloved Sovereign. The news was brought to
The Sun office about a quarter before seven. We
had our doubts of its truth, and despatched messen-
gers on horseback to ascertain the fact. Meantime
to save post, if possible, we wrote the account, the ac-
curacy of which was soon confirmed, and by half-past
seven o'clock upwards of two thousand papers of the
Third Edition were printed off, packed up, and
posted in St. Martin's•le-Grand, a mile from The
Sun office. By half-past eight an Express Edition of
about fifteen hundred more, containing the sudden
rise of both Houses of Parliament, and long addi-
tional particulars of the assassin-attempt, was sent
off by the Railways to all the large towns—North,
South, East, and West.
We mention these things not by way of boast—for
The Sun has no occasion to boast of such matters—
but merely to show what can be done by the com-
bined agency of steam-printing and railroad expedi-
tion. The Third Edition of The Sun of last night
conveyed the news of pain and pleasure all over the
empire. Yesterday morning it was read in Lanca-
shire, Yorkshire, &c. ; last night it was in Dublin and
Scotland ; and will be everywhere to the extremest
verge of the United Kingdom this morning. So much
for steam power—the power to go a-head !

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE DERBY AND OAKS.

will
however,'
awPvler-,
Some three or four hundred persons of different ranks entered
the yard yesterday afternoon, its tile vain hope of settling their
accounts on the Derby and Oaks, and they were, one and all,
miserably disappointed. The heavy defalcation already an-
nounc,d, would alone have been sufficient to produce a
owae of
sen-
sible effect, but when we add that from parties who did not show
at all, and those who did attend. and only paid in part, a further
sum amounting to upwards of forty thousand pounds
letter mwasto n
"want
ciated. It was stated yesterday that the names of severalle par-
ing ," the nature of this so called " settling"
ties had been made free with, and we fear, in more instances
thanshow
showed
ea,nad-ipt with i some
partreason;
anothertw o
fnorr
wt three
d
eeo of
his principal creditors, stating that hisloss was so heavy as to
render it utterly impossible for him to meet his engagements on
the day, but that he felt c infident of realizing such securities as'
will enable him to settle with every person in full
in a very short time. In the other quarters the cases
are not considered desperate, and as they differ in this
respect from the one we treated so uneeremoniou-ly in our last,
it would scarcely be fair towards their creditors to publish their
names, or ir.dulge in any allusions that would have a tendency
to prevent an ultimate adjustment. With the exception of
Colonel Ansen, the large amount of whose winnings must have
enabled him to realize a portion, we do not believe that a singl .
person quitted the yard a winner • one gentleman was 7.0001.
short, by bad or parried debts, ineliding 4,0001. by Mr. Beaks,
the whOle of which was commission money ; another nearly
5,000/. ; and several o'T two, three, and four thousand each.
Such is the present state of the turf money market; in another
week or ten days, the intentions of those in arrears will have
developed themselves, and we shall return to the subject ; in
the meantime, it is almost superfluous to mkt, that betting is out
of the question.

The French Journals are in extacies at the mortifica-
tion which the English Press is 'expected to experience
from the result of the debate in the French Chamber of
Deputies on Saturday, upon M. LACROSSE'S motion for
an increase of 1,240,000 francs upon tbe marine budget.
The Government had asked for 23,356,000 francs, which
the Opposition considered too little, and moved and
carried the r.bove amendment, in order to kcal)
in a state of immediate service for a NP,r
with England eight sail of the line, which
the Minister of Marine proposed laying up i„
ordinary. Now for our own part, we feel no mortifica-
tion whatever that such a vo*.e should. be carried by the
Opposition. A Government never refuses money when
it finds the people such fools as to pour it spontaneously
into the Exchequer. The more France spends in this
fashion the more she exhausts herself, and the less have
We reason to fear her. In the course of the debate M.
MAot;INN, who has latterly talked more nonsense than
any man in France, contended that France wanted no
army ; what she wanted was a good fleet, and she ought,
instead of twenty, to, hare sixty sail of the line con-
stantlyin a war footing. Continental France without
au, There a war . statesman for you, of
the
..in9clija French school ! M. MAGUINN next

ASCOT RACES.
Potentate is declared not to start for the Vase, Cup, or
Stakes. Little Wonder does not start for the Cup.

FRENCH PLATS.—MdIIe. Dejazet acted on Monday
as a Ravadeuse in the amusing little piece of the Comtesse du
Tonneau. After the first piece, she came on the stage in the
character of a brave soldat, and sang the " Trompette de
Marengo," in which she has been so much applauded in Paris.
We regret to hear that Mdlle. Dejazet can play only to-morrow
and Friday, when she" will be obliged to return to Paris.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE L 1842.

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Belgian, 5 per cent
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Chilian, 6 per cent
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a report that an attempt had been made on the life of her Ma..
jesty the Queen ; and immediately the report was confirmed
by the statement of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons.
'I here followed an almost universal burst of commingled shame
and indignation—of shame that there should be an Englshman
so brutalised and degraded as to desire to terminate the exist-
ence of a Soveteign who bears her great faculties so meekly,
who sympathises so deeply for the sufferings of the humblest
of her subjects, and the happy and graceful tenour of whose
domestic lite is equally instructive to the highest and the lowest
—of indignation,. that England should be a second time dis-
graced in the estimation of the world by so wicked and atro-
cious a treason. If earnest devotion to the public welfare—if
unaffected zeal for the Constitution, which is still the admira-
tion of mankind—if brimming kindness, tenderness, and cha-
rity—if the love of a nation, and the affection of a people could
shield any Sovereign from harm, then indeed would Queen
Victoria bear a charmed life. Happily, however, Providence
has again guarded her Majesty against a treasonable attack from
, which her own excellence and purity ought to have been suffi-
cient protection."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The South Shields ship-owners have signed a memorial to
the Privy Council against the new duty of four shillings a ton
on coal exported abroad, whether shipped in British or foreign
vessels ; and stating that the indiscriminate levy of such a duty
will have the effect of transferring a large portion of our home
trade from the hands of the present coalowners.
Sir Allan N. APNab. Dr. Thomas Rolph, and Mr. R.
Brown arrived in Glasgow at the close of the last week, as a
deputation to bring the subject of emigration under the con-
sideration of the inhabitants of that city and its vicinity. A
meeting on the subject wa' held on Tuesday last in Edinburgh,
and on Friday a similar meeting is to take place.
ELECTIONEERING.
The Election Committee for the borough of Lyme Regis,
after a protracted inquiry, which has lasted for twenty days,
terminated on Monday, when Mr. Hussey was declared the
sitting Member.
Mr. Robert Bateson has been elected for Derry without op-
position, in the room of Sir Robert Bateson.
1.1-I.W 11. ND PO LICE.
Eleven desperate burglars have just been captured at Bath,
after an attempt on a private house. They have long been a
terror to the neighbourhood.
I.TTER.ANCY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Dr. Payerne's invention is likely to prove of importance to a
great naval country like England, as he considers that he can
by his process render respiration easy for three hours, and sup-
port any number of men in deep water : it is likely therefore to
prove invaluable in the examination of the bottoms of ships,
foundations of piers or bridges, &c.
THEATRICAL.
'1 he English Opera House is displaying itself in the appear-
ance of Harley, Mrs. Humby, and Miss Faucit. The latter
lady last night played the principal character in One Fault, a
piece in whi':h Miss Ellen Tree used to act very finely at the
theatre in 3111 to- street.
SPORTING.
The sale of the hunting-stud of the Earl of Rossiya took
place at Tattgrsall's on Monday. Lord Rosslyn's horses were
the private pJperty of his Lordship, who is Master of the
Staghounds, and which were well known with her Majesty's
hounds : of these Muon.ight fetched 125 guineas, and Twilight
150 guineas.
Lord Cassilis's horses, which have been hunted with the
Pytchley hounds, were put up to sale at the same time, and
fetched fair prices : among them Grasshopper was knocked
down at 115 guineas, and Embassy at 58 guineas.
The Earl and Countess of Shrew bury are daily expected at
Mivart's Hotel, from Paris, on their 'mum from Italy.
His Excellency Count ensdorf and his sons, attended by
Colonel Wylde, visited the Tower on Mixiday morning, and also
inspected St. Katherine's Docks.
Lady Sondes gave a splendid ball at her mansion in St.
James s-square on Monday night. The roams were crowded
with the elite.
Prince Dolgowroky left. Mivart's Hotel on Monday afternoon
for St. t'etersburgh. The Prince has made exteasive purchases
of British manufactures during his brief visit to this country.
The Duke and Duchess of L.eds, Baron Van Heckeren and
family, and General Ellice and family, left town on Sunday
morning, for Rotterdam.
The ord Chancel.or has issued cards for a grand dinner to-
day, in George-street, Han..ver. square.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A gas explosion took place in the interior of the Oriental
Club House, Hanover-square, on Saturday afternoon, by which
damage to the extent of 100/. was done, and Weaver, the
porter, dangerously burnt.
The state apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed to-
day, in consequence of some alterations which are about to be
made.
On Sunday 6,921 persons landed from the steamers at
Chelsea, and 4,162 at Putney.

MONEY and COMNIMICIAL NEWS
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
To-morrow being the shutting of the Bank preparatory
to the payment of the dividends, a great pressure for
money to ,‘ take in" Stock existed during the day. At the
latter end of it, the Broker who usually operates for the Bank
of England, came forward and took in some heavy accounts,
and it was supposed that he was acting for that body. How-
ever the case may be, the .11arket experienced great relief
thereby, and Consols closed at 921 921 for Money, and 93k
93k for the Opening, the 15th July. Bank Stock, 167 k
1664 ; India Stock, 250 '252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 41 43;
Advertised, 36 38 prem.
The settlement in Foreign Securities has been easy, and
prices remain as yesterday, Belgian Bonds 102 103; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 53; the Five per Cents.
101 1011; Danish, 801/2 811/2 • and Brazilian, 67 68.
The quotation of Mexican is lower, being 37k 38. •
Great Western Railway Shares were nut quite so high, and
Brighton were a shade better, the others remained stationary ;
London and Birmingham, 179 181 ; Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 50 52 ; Great Western, 91 92 ; the Halt Shares, 611
62k; South Western, 62k 63; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New
Shares, 32 33; South Eastern and Dover, 26k 26k ex divi-
dend, and New Shares, the Scrip, 6k 7 : Eastern Counties,
9k
.9k; Northern and Eastern, 42 43 ; 11 ; and
Brighton, 35i 36 per Share.
The Foreign Exchanges were all 'arm, and improved upon
the rates of Friday. -Hamburgh, 13 10k, 13 101 ; Amsterdam.
12 44, 12 4; ; Rotterdam, 12 41; Antwerp, 12 4i ; Frank-
fort, 151; Paris, 25f. 771 e. to 25f. 80c. ; Vienna, 9 521, 9 ..3k ;
Trieste, 9 9 55; Madrid. 361; and Lisbon, 53,
The last Account in the Bonds having proved to have been a
" Bull" one, the opposite party have taken advantage of it, and
accordingly depressed the quotations, which were—Colombian,
26k 261; Peruvian. lBi 19# ; Portuguese Five per Cents.,
371371 ; the Three per Cents., 22 22k ; Spanish Five per
Cents., 221 23*; and the Three per Cents. 24k 241, Money
bas continued excessively high in the Market the whole day.

(From Tiie S'utionast Night.)

As might have been expected, the greatest excitement and
indignation at the event of last evening exists in the City to-
day, and but one feeling of sorrow at the disgrace which it has
brought upon the country is visible. Some fear was expressed
at the early part of the morning that it might be the result of a
conspiracy, and in consequence the Funds gave way ; but since
then confidence has been restored, by the certainty that no one
but a maniac could have been guilty of the crime, and Consols
are 92a 92/ fur Money, and 93* 93a for the opening. Three
per Cents. Reduced, 911 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Re-
duced, 100% 10114 ; ditto New, 1011. Bank Stock, 1671
1681. India Bonds, 21 23. Exchequer Bills, Old, 40 42;
Advertised, 35 38 premium..
The settlement in Foreign securities is proceeding satisfac-
torily ; in fact, it is now a rare occurrence for a time bargain
to be made in them. A pressure for money has rendered the
market flat ; the Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. 521 53 ;
the Five per Cents. 101 101 i ; and Danish, 81.
Mexican Bonds are quoted lower than yesterday, being 37i
for Money, and 37/ fur the Account.
Very little has been done in Shares, and transactions have
been confined to South Western; 63; South Eastern Scrip,
61; Eastern Counties, New, 41. 19s. 2d. ; Greenwich, 4*;
Great Western, New, 621%; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 52;
Ditto, New, 4%.
The quotation, of the Bonds are— Colombian, 26a for Money,
and 26h. for the Account; Por ugues Five per Cents., 37i ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 23, the 'three per Cents., 24i for
Money, and 24i for the Account.
Money has been in great demand, and 5 per cent. has been
paid for it in the English Market ; while, in the documents
named immediately above, the rates vary from 8 to 10 per cent.
An estimate appears in one of the American papers,, of the
loss which has been sustained by the holders of various securi-
ties issued by portions of that country ; and, by four items
only, the amount is calculated at 326,936,000 dollars, or
nearly 80,000,0001. sterling. This is altogether exclusive of
the numerous failures of mercantile houses, which may rea-
sonably be set down at 8,000,0001. more; and more than two-
thirds of the whole has been borne by this country
The decline on the current rates of Indiana and Illinois
Bonds, from August 1841, to the present time, has been
from 60 per cent., to 17 and 18. These calculations arrive
very opportunely at the period when every probability exists
that great efforts will be made to induce European capitalists
to subscribe for the new State Loan the endeavours so raise
which in the country itself, have hitherto utterly failed. It
has been acknowledged that " the immense number of mer-
cantile failures, and the curtailment of dividends have checked
the accumulation of capital • at the same time prices of all de-
scriptions of goods have fallen so low, that the floating capital
which remains . finds a more profitable investment
than even seven per cent. Government Stocks ; these com-
bined have operated powerfully to prevent investments
in the new loans created." The excess of expenditure being
ten millions of dollars annually, it is evident that money must
somehow be procured, and it is doubtless the policy to raise it
if possible, abroad; and the germ of a national debt being thus
formed, it may be extended to an indefinite amount, for which
no adequate security can be given, while parties in Congress are
so divided on the plan by which the interest is to be provided
for as' they ate at present.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 30.—Several spinners
visited our market to-day, and purchased rather freely at the
last quotations. On the ahole an extensive business was done,
6,000 bales having changed hands, including 1,500 American
taken on speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 30.—A good demand
was experienced for Eastern Counties New Shares, but there
was little inquiry for other Stock, and the transactions con-
sisted altogether of a few sales in Eastern Counties, New, 5i ;
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, New, 5a ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, New, ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 17*; South
Eastern, New, 7.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 30.—Although
we have had more buyers of Railway Stock, yet little business
has Veen done. Eastern Counties, Old and New Shares, and
North Midlands, are in good request. London and Birming-
ham 321. Shares, 60 ; Manchester and
LOSING PRICES. Salford Banks, 10a.
C
BRITISH. FUNDS.

India Stock pm
Ditto Bonds .... 21 pin
Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 43 pm
Ditto 5001...... 42 pm
Ditto Small ...... —pm
Bank Stock for Acct.-168i
India Stock for Acct....
Consols for Opg.July 15 93/
/ FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent ll4
Ditto, Metallic •• ••
Spanish, 5 per cent...... 222
Ditto, Deferred . 10%
French, 5 per cent —f. —=•••
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent, —f. —e.
Dutch, 2i per cent. 524
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 1011
SHARES.

Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 31
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 9}
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• 52
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid 4l
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 90
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... 62i
London and Brighton (50 paid) ........ 351
London and Birmingham (90) . .. 189
London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 4d 14)
London and South Western (43/ 15s Odpd) 63
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 pain)

A_TTElive

ON E

assassin.

The following particulars have been obtained by
one of our Correspondents, and their authenticity
may be completely relied upon :
The prisoner's real name is John Francis, and he
is about twenty-five years of age. On the 14th of
January last he engaged the second floor back room
at the house of Mr. Foster, a respectable master-
tailor, residing at 105, Great Titchfield-street, Mary-
lebone, and he occupied that room with another
young
.man, named William Elam, and they :ointly
paid the rent. The prisoner was considered a good-
tempered inoffensive young man, and came home
regularly •to his meals, and was never out late at
night. One parson, of a rather superior class of so-
ciety, from his dress and general appearance, has lat-
terly been in the habit of visiting him, and remained
for some time alone with him in his room ;
but no parcels were ever sent to him, as ap-
peared from very particular inquiry made
upon this subject by the police. During the
last few weeks the prisoner has been backward
in paying his rent, but My. FOster, from his good
opinion of him, did not press him upon the subject,
and on Saturday last the arrears amounted to 1/. 14s.
The prisoner's conduct during the last few days ap-
pears to have been most extraordinary. lle had all
along been getting his livelihood by working as a jour-
neyman carpenter, but on Monday week he engaged
a shop aid parlour, at 63, Mortimer- street, which
adjoins Great Titchfield-street, at the weekly rent of
twenty-four shillings, and expressed his intention to
open it in the trade of a tobacconist. Ile then em-
ployed a painter to put his name over the door, as it
now appears—" Francis, Tobacconist," and expressed
his intention to open it on Thursday morning.. In
the meantime he caused cards to be printed, and a great

quantity of snu tobacco, cigars, and other articles, we.
sent in, and on Thursday morning the slop was olden
and the prisoner attended to it all day. On that nigl
having closed the shop, he went home to bed as usua
and the next morning he again proceeded to the snu
shop, and remained there until his fellow lodger.bn
gone to work, and he was then seen to go up into If:
(From our Evening Edition of Yesterday.)
The name of the assassin is John Francis, and the room, and remain there a short time., when he ago.]
left the house. Upon the young man, Elam, return
following is the description of his personal appearance :.
He is about five feet six inches in height, rather stout, in g,
he found that his box had been broke:
but exceedingly well proportioned, dark complexion, open, and that five - pounds ten shillings in go..
small black whiskers, dark, sparkling, and rather ex- had been stolen. .He immediately gave information t
Mr. Foster, his landlord, who at once proceeded
pressive eyes, and his countenance and general appear- the snuff-shop in Mortimer-street, where be four
ante are handsome and prepossessing. He was
risoner sitting, in a most unconcerned
dressed in a black dress coat, black waistcoatp
, andunconcernedMann!!
dark mixture trousers. After he was conveyed behind the counter. He immediately said tes! Inn
" What have you been about ? I suppose; ye-
to Tothill-fields Bridewell last evening, he was sullen
and silent, refusing to enter into conversation; in- know what I have come here for ?" The prson.e
tL
deed Lieutenant Tracy, the Governor, very properly immediately replied, " Oh, I suppose you want
a.
abstained himself from questioning the prisoner, and money ; and he directly pulled out the gold, and g
gave strict orders that others should be prevented it to Mr. Foster, who then told him not to enter h
house any more. The prisoner expressed sac
from doing so.
At a quarter before twelve this morning the pri- anxiety about his boxes, and said he supposed
sone r, accompanied by Lieutenant Tracy, the Gover- Foster •would not object to letting him hai
nor of Tothill-fields, and guarded by two of the them. Mr. Foster, suspecting from the discovel
wardsmen of the prison, was taken in a hackney-coach that had been made that the prisoner might hal.
to the Home-office. The coach drove up to the committed some other depredations that won;
principal entrance in Whitehall, and Lieutenant be discovered by searching his box-es, determine
Tracy having alighted, and ascertained that all was upon retaining possession of them; and he toi
prepared for the prisoner's reception, gave a signal, him that he would take care of them f;
when the prisoner, in custody of the two wardsmen, him, but that he should not have :possessie
who each held him by an elbow, alighted from the of them for the present, and he went awa:
coach and was conveyed up the stairs of the Home- It appears that on this same day ' the pe
office to the Council Chamber. We attempted to sons of whom the prisoner had Purchase
gain admittance, but were refused by the police of the the articles to stock his shop, and to whom 1
A division, who were stationed in the lobby of the had promised immediate payment, came to him ar
Home-office, and who stated that their orders were insisted upon receiving the amount of their goad
imperative to refuse admission to all except Members He told them he was unable to pay them, and the
of the Privy Council, witnesses, and those immedi- insisted upon having back their property, and tl
ately concerned in the examination. Strict orders had whole of the goods were accordingly removed, and tl
also been given to afford no information whatever shop cleared. This occurred in the latter part of the da,
on the subject. and about dusk on Friday the prisoner shut up the she
As early as ten o'clock the witnesses against the and was seen to walk away. He then, it appear
prisoner began to assemble at the Home-office, anl not having the opportunity, for the reason abes;
were accomodated with seats in the lobby. At the stated, of going to his own lodging, proceeded to
time of the prisoner's arrival there must have been at coffee-shop at the end of Oxford-street, where I
ldast twenty waiting in the. obby ; among them was hired a room, and where he remained unl
the soldier in the Scotch Fusilier Guards, who arrested the Monday, when the desperate act was cote
the prisoner. The prisoner cast a hasty, unconcerned mitted. It has been already stated that the . poll'
glance round the lobby as he was being conveyed to obtained access to his apartment in Titchfield•stsee
the stairs. He looked well, and did not appear in the and that they searched his boxes, but although ft "
least haggard or care-worn as he was reported to the sake of establishing the identity of the accuse(
have looked when taken into custody last evening. In- it was deemed advisable that they should be take
deed, a spectator -who had been ignorant' of the cir- charge of by the police, we are enabled to state th;
camstances of the case, would never have imagined there was nothing at all suspicious discovered in b
that in the handsome. intelligent looking youth before boxes, and the contents were merely dirty linen OX' i
him, he beheld a traitor, and all but a regicide. • • s
some scraps of poetry, and other writings of no 1
.0
It had evidently not been expected that •the exa- portance, and nothing of a political tendency vs'
mination would take place at so early an hour, for discovered. The conduct of the prisoner on enteric
there were not ten persons at the door of the Home- the snuff-shop was looked upon by the persons
wl
office at the time of the prisoner's arrival.. knew him, as a very singular proceeding, as el
A crowd, however, soon collected, the arrival of was known that he had not the slightest knowledi
the Ministers and the other autherities having given of that business, and was entirely without means
notice that the examination was about to commence. carry it on ; and it is supposed that being pressed f
Mr. Hall, the Chic: Magistrate of Bon'-street, ac- the Money by the parties of whom he had obtain'
companied by Mr. Burnaby, his clerk, had been in the goods, he was induced on the Friday morning
attendance at the Home-office from a very early hour steal the money of his companion under the .circus:
At about twelve o'clock, the Attorney-General, ac • stances above described.
companied by Mr. Maule, the solicitor io the Trea- Since the remand of the prisoner, it has been
!sad'
sury, arrived at the Home, office, and the crowd began factorily ascertained that the pistol actually explode ;t
now rapidly to collect. and a search has this morning been made, in order
Among the members of! the Privy Council who ar- endeavour to discover the bullet, if possible ; but '!!!,
rived by the principal entrance in Whitehall, we ob- ! yet the result of the search has not been made knosci
served the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of As in the case of Oxford, the overt act of treas6'
Ripon, the Earl of Jersey, the Duke of Buccleuch, being a direct attack upon-the life of her Majesty', ti
and Lord Wharncliffe. The Solicitor-General arrived ordinary forms in cases of high treason will not aPPt
shortly after twelve o'clock. and the culprit will be tried in the ordinary form.
Sir James Graham had .been in attendance at an the pistol had not exploded, the offence_ of atteraP -•
early hour in the morning, and Sir Robert Peel, as
to shoot, supposing the weapon to have been 1(014!
we understand, had been early at the Treasury, and I is one of equal magnitude as if it had been actual!:
passsed into the Home-office by the private entrance discharged, and the circumstance of the failure to s?'
leading to the Treasury. The Duke of Wellington plode, would not in the slightest degree -mid::
arrived on horseback at about ten minutes after twelve. either the character of the offence or the punishraei.
The crowd immediately divided a line for his Grace to which the party convicted of it would be
to approach the door, and all present took off their I found guilty.
hats. The Duke acknowledged the compliment,
with which he seemed to be much pleased. The
Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, and Colonel
Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness -Prince Al-
bert, arrived shortly afterwards.
At half-past twelve o'clock, the Cabinet Ministers
having arrived, the prisoner was taken before the
Council, and-the examination commenced.
The Council chamber looks into the Park. It is
the room on the second floor, which is lighted by three
French windows, reaching to the floor. An excellent
view of the assembled Council was obtained from the
parade in the Park, fronting the Horse Guards, which
was crowded With spectators. Mr. Maule, the
Solicitor to the Treasury, was seated in the recess
formed by the windows and was busily engaged in
tixleing,notes of the proceedings.
We understand that the pistol was actually dis-
charged, and that when the prisoner was taken the
barrel was discovered to be warm and fouled,
exhibiting every appearance of having been recently
discharged..
The lodgings occupied by the prisoner have been
searched, but nothing suspcious has been discovered.
The Police o'' the A division distincny stated that
no reporters w.,uld be achn-qted even into the. loh'sy
of the home-otlice. The coreluct -0: the aiithorities
was polite in the ext.-eines and the sentinels who were
on duty up to a quarter after twelve, also performed
their duty with great forbearance, but yet with ex-
cellent effect. At that hour, however, the sentinels
were changed, and the one stationed at the door of
the a nne-office (a tall, stupid-looking fellow,
with . a long nose, the redness of which,
emulating the colour of his coat, betokened that the
man behind it was better acquainted with the smell of
gin than of gunpowder) waxed valiant, and com-
menced trending on the toes of one of the bystanders .
instead-of remonstrating, the gentleman thus assaulted'
laughed at the fellow's impertinence, observing that
he should as soon think of reasoning with a loco •
motive, or any other piece of mere machinery, as
with suflii a mere soldier as the sentinel who hai.
thus exhibited his Jack-in-office propensities. • This
had the effect of raising a loud laugh among the
crowd, at the expense of the officious sentinel who
seemed heartily ashamed of his conduct, and from
that time did his duty temperately, and therefore
effectively. The sentinel in question belonged to the
Grenadier Guards.
The neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace has been
crowded the whole day by persons anxious to ascer •
taro that the Queen had not suffered from the fright.
As early ci ten o'clock several persons had inserted
their names in the book at the Palace-lodge, as having
called to make inquiries after her Ma esty's health.
We are happy in being able to state that her Ma-
jesty has suffered no ill effects whatever from the
alarm occasioned by the diabolical attempt of the

.~

,

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
HOME OFFICE, Three o'clock..
The prisoner, Francis, is still under examinatip•
and there is every probability that the proceedinf
will last for some time longer. Shortly after,
o'clock the prisoner was ordered to withdraw
the Council
.Chain . er, and the Council remainea

deliberation for about a quarter of an 114.•
At the expiration of that time the prisoner was fig
called in, and.the Council proceeded to hear the
deuce of Alien, the soldier in the Scotch F 1151::
GuardS, who arrested him.i
The prisoner's father is in attendance at tile 104,
2.,
office. .
Among the witnesses waiting to be examine
.1
Mr. Smith, the gunsmith, of Bridge-street, of
it is said the prisoner purchased the pistol with ("'
,
he made his diabolical attempt.

• • .. •
. , (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.)
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISON' t
The prisoner, John Francis, is the son of a re.l;-ri
able man of that name, living in TottenhaUve e,
road. He' is about 20 years of age, about 4,, i
5 inches :, hi height,- and at present rather shau4o
appearance. - ,He has a foreign cast of Colinteil elf
though by no means such as to warrant .triee,ll', irk
first entertained that he was a German. is le,
very dark, and he has dark whiskers,' . ilise
a.plexion is sallow, and allowing for the P." ..of
natural to him in such a -situation, ratheriiii
light olive. There is certainly nothing t° It,
cate ferocity in his countenance. It appears'Of
he has been absent from his family for more" 0
six months past. His father• had not heo:./
him for nearly that time. The father, ``ci,ok
a very: respectable, honest-looking m_ an,. cause,
to the Home-office, in a state of the °. i
anxiety. He was, it appears, at. Deptforko. 0
he was informed of the tact that a youth, wh„.,01
believed to be his son, had committed this ~.,,b-1
Scarcely believing the possibility of the thll, e 4
nevertheless hurried up to town, and the firs'ore
he had heard of his son for so- many months. LllO
out to be that he was in the hands of the law 7.tif,
with this most serious offence. At first an _
was made, probably from a. humane motiveii 0 l
the poor man to believe that he was mistakeoA--7
ultimately .turned out that his fears were 174.-„,
When asked about the residence of his son, he,' i 0
did not know. The last he had heard of hiv
three or four months ago, when he lived ill.
Portland-street.
The father was not examined last night, 1/6,lti
the evidence already before the Council was . -011)
for the remand. It is understood that he '. PI
examined this day. A large square. deal bost, r,
as we understood at the prisoner's resideUtfc
brought to the Home-office and examined ; 2
contents were did not transpire.
From a different source we have received' it
account of the prisoner. It will be found to. 1
stantially corroborative of the above : _ . lt,t
The name of the prisoner is John Franc is' li
20 years of age, his height five feet five inebeio,,. ° to
person somewhat corpulent ; bearing, notwitP4o4,i(
the latter circumstance, a very strong reser°' 9.
Oxford. He was dressed in a dark frock eicstt-y
too large for him, a light waistcoat, 1111(.':,,
with a pin in it, drab trousers, boots,. and • fl?
brimmed il'
One particular circumstance observable reel'
prisoner's appearance is, that he has s .(jen
rolling eye. „t-r(lto,
He is the son of a machinist at Core 0 0,
0 ci
Theatre. His father, who is a very clever Aopt ot
trious man, brought his son (the prisoner) et ~,,,t•
same business, but some months since 11°,._yi;o0
confirmed loose habits, and deserted l'''',„1110
Since then he has had no direct con' - riV
with him. . jesr
es
Several of his relations and acquaintall.o, CI,
him as being of a very quarrelsoine dispotu:oo,3l
When the prisoner arrived at Tothillje's,
vernor, Lieutenant Tracy, placed him -in._
cell, leaving a turnkey to watch him. ..e'oi.All7 4,
It is stated that the prisoner has for sci_•--
0'
been seen lurking about Hyde-park. ,_ pOi
,rlytt_nit
The prisoner had been searched by the
o•orr
as given into custody by Colo foits
after he w of„,
not, the Equerry in Waiting. There 'ere r rit1(17,1011
his person a pocket book, without name °inch (P.,ge ii,
any clue to the party's occupation, a lit.), cl-v.,,,
and a small pocket knife. There was 1 rvotbili;e 'lt
any kind, nor any ball, or cartridg.' ; ‘,OOlll is.s. 3
fact, from which any idea of re loading 'd; it 1,. 04.
ferred. The pistol had been disch3ll: fen teeth
small pocket pistol, about seven inches lot ' r
appeared to have been recently loadedtar ,er ':cii
with ball or large shot, we could not le e'srs}'?'"cetlie
It has been stated in some of the nii op ot .' il,,
• counts that a soldier of the 2d battia, oinl'ethel',,
Fusilier Guards was the first lvho, i'l far A (Dor,
prisoner ; such, however, we learn, ti.P°of the 0 clli ri,
quiry, was not the fact. A
on hill,
tiboui' tile rti,c
sion, on duty on Constitution-hill, hau_otice:l,l),:4l)
ter of an hour prior to the occurrence, Provicto twat
soner leaning on the pimp, and was I;Fisolieri
somewhat strange behaviour of the P