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obsti!::od agreat cioird to assemble abont
Al'r.•(l him in his passaoe. • - • ' ••
Z• ()ern, the Ala istrato's clerk, said there was quite suffi-
iti!gain,t.the pris.4mer to warrant the Magistrate in rernat
pt 0 until they could learn from the Crovrn what was
ne With him. They must
-take th• opinion of the Attim-
-7_ and Solicitor- Genesis upen the subject.
" - c,°,,,stable 173 then produced a large bundle of 4.1 d.
headed be took nut of the ,in risoner's apron. One of th
der'" The " Rhymes for the army ; blood, battle, and plan-
cr seccnd was the case of a poor woman, narip.rl
a r's wife, who applied same time ago f,:r re•
at .ti Airelagss b
istyrates of London.
.having been left in a state
forOsat ilist her hushand, =a who lately left this coun-
Celt 'said the prisoner could be admitted to bail to ap-
"'a, an,wer any charge which might he preferred against
'4lll, n‘.the receipt ot the Government instructions.
4pperar‘,.l7gan said Mr. Sturge would be bail for the prisoner's
, -re.
ties
forth; °*Ph Sturge then rose and entered into 20.-. sureties
psoner's appearance.
Pr'es ri
aho bound himself in the same sum, and left the office.
Thp
• LATE FIRE AT HAMBURGH
4
' e .
mail packet Caledonia, Captain Cheesman,
11'!, ed at Blackwell on Sunday, with the Hamburgh
till" The following letter from our correspondent
4" by this conveyance
6 "Hamburgh, Friday, May 20.
arriv4;l..,..!l(pht, from the short intervals between the
eessil et the packets from Hamburgh, and the sue-
fire counilunications therefrom, the subject of the
City is almost exhausted with you ; but
eve' it may be on r side of the water there is
ood 6, ou
that, inue°o4rgnhpartotr. yearsi of reflection on this, seeing
ages . a y a moment of time, the fruits of
'lD.r„
try, and the successes of years of pros-
? hue been entirely- swept away.
Ince my last, we have received 'many large do;
n.B from foreign countries. His Majesty of
~Lsthe kia. has sent us 80,000 marks Banco; and it is said
for tbing of Saxony has subscribed-1,600 louis d"ors,
lkilci.`e Purchase of stone and timber for our new
kited The King of Wurtemburg has contri-
410aev.r°111 his, private purse 10,000 florins ; and of
5,000-.Ls collected, I may mention, that at Stutgard
and at Banco were obtained' on the 15th inst.,
aottte of nkfort 1,000 florins were subscribed by
4,000 the banking establishments, in addition to
Prarifir°4l Rothschild. Also, it is said, that at
establir and other places the ladies are abOu. therelinf_ of t
to
bazaars, and transmit the proceeds for
the sufferers at this place.
this r.uins of St. Peter's Church were blown
ithip
inredi,;l4l,4'g : I hear some soldiers were slightly
eornit— the operation. The rebuilding has already
rary shied various parts of the city. ; but tempo-
Advarie °Ps and stores are already occupied, and by the
itre,,q money made to the tenants by the corn-
es
- s tai'4- °I supplies, many are stocked and doing some
•
itket
,_the designs for :the new public buildings,
:Drevpl',"., the utmost precautions are to be taken to
it 4-1' such another terrible catastrophe as this, and
'arliessine'rely hoped that our Senate will, at the
•144 °PPortunity, apply themselves to the task_ of
11$:,411.1g, scme more effective means en they have
—‘9 Possessed for thaextinction of fire.'
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discount
MY 20.—The .money market been
ttabo day thati t has yet been since the fire,also
,hess tlft difficulty at four per cent. Regular business has
4414'44. thO first _time, transacted in colonial produce to a
to he seztent, chiefly in coffee and sugar. W. tale lam py
ts,dittole to add that a more quieting impression has.prevaileodt
°olsl°n Exthange, through the fact that up to this day., n
'ott eftrnercial failures have taken place, but there is no
ass.,
4n°,Vn ut any merchant having failed
.to meeteip_unmetetia-t
,fooesiZtteements. such a fact, after such &disaster, t 1
'owe, of the commercial prudence and stability whichbe-
td`42the•dealings of the Hamburgh merchants, and must, as
,hatj 'les, have a-very favourable effect on the London Ex-
,Se,
sentuave the more satisfaction in the stating of these circum-
the fr°,:a Frain can announce to you of the intentions of
I,okt , 'erlate the first I informed you they would make a
koe'dr,"nu this I can now add will be done preferably in the
taarlset, as soon a•, all the arrangements of thedGoh-
ts tent having been made, they shall have summone e iiiiigoershaft t sanction their resolves, and pass the requisite
haset,°,legalise their being ca-sled into execution. Already
and t'sa't §eriate been led to raise a loan in this their own town,
sister ones of Bremen and Lubeck, the amount of
I,hiejt they have limited to 50,000,000 of mares, and towards
our
_th res has been the most ready subscription. This maena:
4,,,..,zas originally a secret one, it being unconstitutional,
.
filaY the governing body on their own responsibility. •
present Senate are labouring under many apprehensions, past,
nt, and to come. They dread to meet the Bu ghershaft,
ofDtr.ing to be called to task for the inefficiency and timidity
eir first measures.
ort roe •
orth . etiag the Burghershaft, the Senate have also the. dread_
pee._,? de iding what they consider too much. It is sup
that the general feeling will incline strongly to the town
t's,a,rlne the whole of the losses, but the Senate, with what they
loss before them, are anything but satisfied that such a large
eilthi as this would require could be undertaken consistently
the general prosperity. In the first place they will have
6;4llotchase th . ground of the whole consumed part of the
t:S, and on this to erect not only the requisite public buildings,
..private tivrellings and warehouses. By the plan submitted
e
st6trtled,e Sttne'aute.hbeir Dlr. Lindley, scarce a singlestraeei‘twtiinllgbetorwn-
°tie new plan, tenirtuatnies must be bi
interests
tsewr
elstta away, and
and convenience of the
be raissd in its stead. Independent of the immensity of
itheeyethrsorrtsenttaresiponsibility on the gso_vnetrnt ieengnebarodiy,
it, ld
labour under the Pitraenser ofn they
the Buerh
overbuilding—that is their houses
Standing, from the cost price or rent, unsold. There is the
1,44,ed y or portioning out the whole town, the building of part
~Ttlie Senate, and allowing the rest to be constructed by in-
""iirlual enterprise. •
Zil have mentioned these fluctuations and difficulties as they
st in high quarters, as evincing to the English mercantile ‘,°.rid that there is far more likely to be an underborrowing
'ltpresent irresolution or timidity to attempt all that is re-
e.,! than there is a likelihood of an embarrassment to the
iy an ovi r tiemand of the needful funds by way of. loan.
at'et la.st, great facilities have been given to discounts,
ts -I!i'd having been established for that purpose. The house
tle.lT'o has engaged itself in the most liberal manner for
Mi",/ marts .banco. The Royal .Prussian See-Handlung
111't 'in,. Society), a pet establishment of the present King,
qc:slZisedontributed to the general facilities by ari.advance
1.44:1;"6 11X dollars. While since the previous English mail,
"I'Neht-va'n this day, money having, from the remittances
Itu -'t7"ree more plentiful, a greater elute is felt. _
/'`'hartar4:l;ze°tainue to invite subscriptions from England. The
1,-"Ti°af>h a",''a are well attended to, and the greatest interest
ets.'Re6ris°,7, all Germany evinced more and snore by the in-
rl.4l'bUbr `ach courier brings of sympathy, and what Is better,
. il'ti"s mooted and raised. So plentiful a stock of
iSte ha* been s t here on all sides—cheese, baean, hams,
dtr;;ltaikth at'ehn p store-house on the Elbe Is overbur-
"'rto:-"" !Id tehme4 if kept, must become uneatable, to-
Nth t I,Publie saleam
takes' place of the greater part, the pro-
The ce (serried to the fund.
Inifert s4hseription of her Majesty, announced here. to.day, is
;he (I' tin, ate; it has not equalled expectation, notwithstanding
rtiSt.„":, of her wn- people, but of this I may be able. to
itrs„.4 ray next. °i
say the Queen of England's subscrip-
its -rseauenhfortuna.te one, not ly in its amount of 200/.
to ~nis this the same day as that of the Emperor of
1,"0 sit Nu", it is no fair contrast ; the Autocrat. has sent
ere „-ver roubles, which, if I mistake not, as some-
' -thz)llt 9,0001.
•ti 'As s
- THE SALE
"EALIZED B
orb cT°RA.C
sE WALPOLE'S STRAWBERRY
11Ce,3e ale of the Strawberry Hill effects, which corn-
'at.il°lll4 Wednesday, the 4th of May, and concluded
Vosai aY last, having occupied Mr. Robins in'threir
ta a space of twenty-four days, produced, as I.y
1,4% Yit4 :%liabled to draw up from rough results of each
I.7.bly,:tia.uzation, the subjoined amounts,
. which pro-
. 4N chsa,w.
,a• more accurate calculation, will be found to
aY 4 n a much larger sum of money:—
aad \-11" 5- The Walpole Cabinet of Coins
k,"Naghld.als, was sold on these two days, and
ay 1
, naogother, the sum of £1,004
Islttld pi "'limas:is, Miniatures, Sevres China,
kabout
kaY na and Crockery, of various orders
Itaay
_ieiatures, Gems, Snuff-box, Relics, &c
` -uortraits of distinguished persons
ttee, ;,. Antiquities of the Middleton Collm-
lfrhato `,.-,er.sisting of Gems, Missals, and Benve-
Yuts 12`-olltili's Silver Bell
pis day's sale comprised the Decora-
Stay 'llriiiture wi e rote old Raphael or
111,,44 Ware, and the relics . 1,167
ic?,hiefly the contents of Sir
..Horace
'.4ora, china closet, the round waiting-
411d i 'afy Diana Beauclerc's closet; bronzes,
waiting-
It Inltiture of the library ; also of the 1101-
/iiaNts efts of
star-chamber, waiting- room,
Y-14 aBe,
e an
days 1,182
ey sale consisted of the etyeets
china-coo With thepietures, drawings,
A 41- 41Otlels
articies of the green closet—there were
yr 16. of note • 8.5
klActorille valuables in the round tower, the
the entrance, and the armoury 1,272
• Portraits of the library, the ILA-
k'qa.ii,""l'llber, and the great north bed-
Ittaa3' IR.'sr ...................
ka). 19. of paintings continued
Ai; 20. 1•1",° of paintings continued
alimede Antique Furniture of Horace
k °Oleo, s ressig-00, circular drawing-
3, 2. `l', long gallery, &c
zaturtlay, last day's sale ••
above
r Total
limas 'ln the , •• • .................................... .£22,682
))1,,1e
wove total it appears that on an off-hand
clllets
,pards
of 22,0001. have been amassed by the
85 rare teuri. the sale of these sedulously-collected articles
giv `u• We have no doubt that stating 30,0001.
4111 n, would bring it nearer to the mark.
j►fOqk SINE p
. nan,ur OF A SILK WAREHOUSE.--
441 Co.,
5,1% night last, the warehouse of Messrs. John Barton
Rao, and
a,K rnanufacturets, 29, Spring-gardens, was broken
4.441- 'earge quantity of raw and silk goods stolen there
iseie. cellar, beneath the premises occupied by Messrs.
end ft to Ms. Edward Briggs, manufacturer, of Black-
, 1), see.
Troin this cellar, the door of which was found mt-
. sh": tbieses stleslay morning he robbery was discovered
Ftea by seontattiltli,,nade their Way into Messrs. Barton's coutnting
n aperture through a bulk-head beneath one
ows. and immediately above the cellar steps.
wrta 400 t (4 the Premisesfi-house the thieves had gained access to other
sis?: at a 00., and appear to have escaped with
.their
.71 dmit from the packing-room into Sickle-
-1,1 ec,
twss found open.
This door was secured inside
1;1: and"t.(l)
tbrs. locked with three of Chubb's patent pad-
" an three. tev.!:s,, haying been unable to open these, had
°f the thi,vesvv, believe no traces have, as yet, been ob-
. ,e Prize otiered
,eatsPa•es et by the Academie des Sciences
en aw
_f,\lX.,'4o7oengluit.eosE•
dfooruairh:
Lbaebsat:viaoyrek on the History of the
s,neeession, both eivill • and olit;cativ has
,411,0 st a sitting of the Acadesmy
0 other essa}s. The e • • "n°%!
Prable mention
awards will be publicly
inst.
to be held on Saturday,

1,080

700
1,300
900

2,160

2,452
4,927
673

2,930
850

IT.E RNT UR E.
THE WAR IN SYIE/A. By Commodore Sir
CHARLES NAPIE R, K.C.B. In 2 Vuls. London,

-_Julia W. Parker, 1842.
The future historian of the naval glories of Eng-
land. will find this work an excellent guide through
the labyrinth of the Eastern question. Much as we,
knew( about the Syrian expedition, before, and we
may assume what little merit there may be in closely
watching its progress from adistance, and reading every
despatch and note hitherto published concerning it, we
found so much entirely new its these volumes that we
perused them with as much interest as we should have
felt had we never before read a word upon the subject.
The language is homely and conversational, but given in
the terse, vigorous style of the gallant old Commodore.
The narrative is of course egotistical, for the Commodore
had no heroic or diplomatic deeds to record equal to
ifs :awn; but where praise can be justly accorded, it
is bestowed with all the generous warmth of a true son
of the ocean. Commodore Napier states two filets
which frequently appeared in the leading columns of
The Sun during the Syrian war, namely, that but for
the indecision of Admiral Stopford, and the hatred of
Mehemet Ali indulged in by Lord Ponsonby, the
war would not have lasted half the time which it did ;
and again, that had it only lasted a month longer, we
would have found ourselves at war with France. We
have not the slightest doubt that, but for the headlong
gallantry of the Commodore, which settled the
question before France had her loins girded for
the conflict, we should now have been at war
with half the States of Europe. Some racy corres-
pondence passed between the Commodore and Adiniral
Stopford, Lord Ponsonby and Major-General Sir C.
Smith, relative to the celebrated " unauthorised "
convention, which we regret to find is too long
for insertion in our columns. The gossip about
Mehemet Ali, Soloman Pacha, Ibrahim Pacha, and
the Emirs of the Mountains is exceedingly interest-
ing. We cordially recommend these volumes to all
who take an interest in the triumphs of our gallant tars.

MODERN FRENCH LIFE. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1842.
The tales contained in these volumes are all—with
but two exceptions—illustrative of the manners and
habits of France in the present day, and are selected
from the works of eminent writers by an able
linguist, for whom, as she tells us in her preface, Mrs.
Gore has undertaken the task of revision. If the tales
be indeed an accurate representation of modern French
Life, that life has little to boast of, on the
score of morality, for there is' no country in Europe
where the moral code would appear to be so relaxed.
But the most interesting tales in the present volumes
are not those whose scenes are laid in France, for the
Russian narrative, entitled the "Red House," is far
superior to any one of them, and refers to a murder,
committed under most extraordinary circumstances,
by the young and beautiful Countess Vaninka,
daughter of the Russian General Tchernmyloff.
This story, we are assured, is founded on fact, and
the events occurred shortly after Suwarow's return
from his campaigns in Switzerland and Italy against
the French republic—towards the close of the reign of
the Emperor Paul. The narrative is told throughout
with great terseness and energy, and furnishes us
with some brief, amusing glimpses of social life in St.
Petersburgh.

FINE ARTS.
THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT.

This picture, which is now in the course of exhi-
bition at the rooms of the Society of Arts, in the
Adelphi, is the production of Mr. Melling—a pro-
mising artists, who, if he has not successfully ac-
complished all that he proposed to himself to do, has
yet displayed no little talent in his painting.
His design is better than his execution, ex-
cellence in which last comes only from conti-
nuous study and practice. The most prominent
figure in the painting is of course the great hero of
the day—Henry the Fifth of England, who is repre-
sented in the foreground, defending his Royal brother
of Clarence, who has been wounded and struck down.
The attitude of the King is natural and spirited, and
is free from that exaggeration which we detect in the
figure to his left, who is seen bearing the Royal
standard. The sketch of the dying war-horse biting his
leg in his agony, while the blood streams from the
wound made by an arrow in his neck, is forcibly
pourtrayed, and is perhaps the most efficient bit of
colouring in the picture. • We regret we cannot give
similar praise to the figure of the dead French Knight,
on whom his victor, stout old Sir Thomas Erpingham,
is trampling with very little ceremony, for the white,
chalky hue of the Knight's face is anything
but true to nature. The English archers, too, are
aiming their shafts in such a direction that they
appear more likely to hit their own countrymen
than their enemies. But, despite these defects, the
painting is a clever one ; and the contest between
the French and English men-at-arms in the middle
distance, teems with life and energy._

PORTUGAL.
Fa Lamour, MAY 21. —The Montrose st earner arrived to-day
with the Peninsular mails. The dates are Gibraltar 12th, Cadiz
12th, Lisbon 16th, Oporto 17th, Vigo 18th. Passengers—Earl of
Durham and Ladies Lambton, Colonel and Mrs. Grey and
suite, Major-General Vernon; Messrs. lllarryatt, Al'Culloch,
Brun, M'Call, Donnellin, Tremley, Strong, Sodrell, Sala-
vanda, Renshaw ; Mrs. Constable and three children ; Cap-
tains Moore, Blamer, and Murray'; Marquis Fayal ; Messrs.
Bartos, Nognera. Gomez and two men servants, Williams,
L arrowny, lillaudint, Woodcock; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Lucas,
Mr. Dyce Sombre and two servants.
LISBON, MAY 16.—1 t is understood that as far as regards
the slave-trade treaty, and the general treaty of commerce, an
agreement has been come to by the two Plenipotentiaries, who
had a conference on Saturday. Lord llowsrd bad not indeed
received his formal instructions on the points submitted to
the home Government, but a sufficient intimation bad, it is
said, been given that no difficulties would be raised there, and
the Duke of Palmella signified his readiness to sign both the
treaties. A council of state will be held to-morrow, to sanc-
tion the Duke's proceedings with respect to the treaties, which
will probably be forwarded by the next packet.
A clause has been added to the slave-trade treaty, merely
stating to the effect that, in case it is proved that the legiti-
mate commerce of the Portuguese possessions in Africa is sub-
jected to injury from the prosecution of the right of search by
our cruisers, the two contracting Powers may consult together
to remedy the same.
The treaty of commerce aklishes British privileges ; but
some security is considered to be afforded against the oppres-
sion or unfair taxation of Portuguese authorities by a clause
proposed by the Duke of Palmella, that a mixed commission
of English and Portuguese shah assess the income-tax, in case
of English residents; and with respect to justice, Portugal is
to give the same securities as are afforded in England to Por-
tuguese citizens. The principle of a mutual reduction of the
respective tariffs has been agreed to, and this, which is the
main question for us, will now have to be seriously entered
upon. This is a point of great difficulty here. In the first
place, there is a deficit in the revenue, which makes a large
reduction of duties a dangerous experiment; secondly, there is
the manufacturing interest to contend with or satisfy, as well
as the Fishery Company, which has already sent twelve vessels
to Newfoundland this year, and has three more ready to go,
and which, though trading all along at a loss, and on the road
to a natural extinction, has made a great stir against a reduc-
tion of the present high duties on foreign fish. This Com-
pany would have probably become extinct ere this, were it not
that the 1 unny fishery off Algarve, in which it has been for
some time engaged, has proved very profitable, and helped to
make up fur its losses in the Newfoundland fishery.
Another difficulty is presented by the coining elections, and
the unscrupulous use made by the opponents of the Govern-
ment, of the fact of the pending treaty with England, as
totally destructive of Portuguese industry. The Nacional
makes out that wages to the amount Of eighty contos, or near
20,0001. s week, are paid by manufacturers in various parts of
the country, all which, it says, will be ruined by the English
treaty. It was considered by the Government as a great
stroke of policy, to put some leading manufacturers, as Pinto
Bastos and Larches, on the commission for examining the
to-iff with a view to reduction; but the Nacional only cries
out the more, that " all is lost." .

Believing the Portuguese Government to be desirous, as
far as possible, to meet our views on this subject, and to place
the trade of the two countries on a liberal footing, allowance
must be made for the peculiar difficulties in which it is placed
at the present moment, en the eve of the elections, with a
powerful coalition against it, a manufacturing interest to some
extent grown up under the existing system, and a constant
deficit in the revenue. In England the question is quite dif-
ferent. The Government having resolved on the experiment,
and provided against the probable consequence of some loss of
revenue, thereto no obstacle in the way of a large reduction.
The lower Portuguese wines and fruits can be admitted into
England so much the better for all classes, without injury to,
or opposition from, any one. Here the ease, as I have shown,
is different ; but there is reason to believe that a considerable
advance towards liberal commercial relations may nevertheless
be made.
I sent you a list of most of the new Peers last week. It was
incorrect, as regarded the Marquis Vianna, who has not yet
been nominated. In addition there have been named the fol-
lowing :—Viscount Graciosa, Barons Larangeiras and Foote
Bella, and Senhors A. ,B. F. de Vasconcellos, D. d'Or-
nellas e Vasconcellos, F. T. d'Almeida Proenca, F. de
Serpa Saraiva Machado. J. B. Castellinb, Cotta Falcao, J.
Pereira ecis Santos, and Maneel de Serpa Machado. The new
nominations are thirty altogether ; and of the Peers who bad
seats when the revolution of September took place there re-.
main 41, making 71, besides the Bishops. There is a question
still pending about calling up the sons of former Peers, which
will probably be decided in their favour.
Decrees have been published for issuing 6,520 contos of in-
ternal 5 per cent. bonds, to be made over to the Company of
National Credit, in pursuance of• Senhor Avila's contract, the
interest to be paid by' the Board of Public Credit, which is to
receive 326 contos per annum from the tobacco contract for
that purpose ; also for issuing 1,368 contos for arrears, ificc.
capitalised under the law of December 31, last year; the inte-
rest to be paid by the Board, which is to be endowed with 68
contos more from the Lisbon Custom-house, which is also to
hand over the amount necessary to pay the halt year's interest
due in June next, on the above. It must he observed that
the dividends on the bonds thus issued will be subject to the
tax if ten per cent. as well as the other dividends, though
created since this tax was imposed, and it is especially stated
so in the present decrees; the amount arising from the said
ten per cent. tax is to be paid over to the Board of Public
Credit to increase the endowment destined for the payment of
the foreign dividends.
A liberal decree has been issued, admitting all rice, the
produce of Asia, into Madeira for consumption, whether
brought directly or indirectly, and in the ships of all nations.
If brought indirectly it will, of course, be subject to the 20
per cent. additional duty imposed on the indirect trade, by the
law of October last year.
The Count Ra.:zynski, Prussian Minister at this Court, ar-
rived by the Lady Mary Wood steamer on Friday last. Senhor
Mousinho de Stiviere, who was Administrator of the Custom-
house before the revolution, also returned by this steamer, and
it is expected will resume his former functions.

The Bishop of Versailles, wishing b reward the
exemplary conduct of the Cure of Meudon in his attention to
the sufferers on the occasion of the late railway accident, has
appointed him Honorary Canon of the Cathedral.

A FRENCH REPROACH. AND AN

ENGLISH APOLOGY.

There was one purpose bf the Queen's grand fete
last week discovered only by our sensitive neighbour
over the water : ever.pricked to . the qui& by their
point of honour, they were sorely alive to the fact that
the whole affair was no more tan a splendid insult-
fo France ! In the days of the July and the Quin7
tuple Slave-trade Treaties, the days of Crecy and
Poictiers should be forgotten; whereas France, in
her own imagination, again graced the triumph of
England, because in the age of Waterloo were re-
vived the pageants of the age of the earlier victories.
But our worthy neighbours overlook the difficulty of
choice. If the young Queen of England and her
chosen spouse desired to personate a couple on
England's Ancient. throne, what 'scope had they for
selection, without disastrous associations of some kind?
To be, Rith the latest reign of a picturesque co, -
tume, the last before the Dutch Prince intro-
duced dulness and ugly , dresses, that of James
the Second—should Albert play the sneaking fu-
gitive, the patron of Jeffries, and Victoria enact
Anne Hyde, or the Queen that fled into exile ?
Should they have personated the abandoned
Charles and his plain neglected wife ? Cromwell
may be passed over, as unsuitable for Royal sport.
Then comes Charles the First, the man that defied
the law and 'corrupted the Judges, to perish on the
scaffold, and Henrietta, who henpecked her husband
and fled by night with her babe. Next is James the
First and his Danish wife—the misshapen pedant and
bungling state-craftsnian, stained with Raleigh's
blood. . Would our 'French friends have had Victoria
appear as Elizabeth—and Prince Albert as
Leicester ?—oh, fie ! Should they have been Mary
and Philip, a Queen Regnant and her husband, with
Smithfield fires and conjugal misery ? Henry the
Eighth and one of 'his murdered wives ? Henry the
Seventh, who married the neice of the man that he '
had caused to be slain before his eyes ? The crookback
Richard and his bride, his victim's widow? Edward
the Fourth and Elizabeth Woodville, a rake and the
adventurer that trapped him ? Idiotical Henry the
Sixth and the virago Margaret ? Henry the Fifth
and Katherine ?—France forbid that ! Should
Prince Albert have been the audacious Bo-
lingbroke, the usurping Henry the Fourth ?
or Richard. the Second, perishing by violence ?
Edward the Second, shrieking in Berkeley Castle ?
Edward the First, who swindled. Wales, be-
trayed the Scots, and was the father of the minion
just named? Henry the Third, called in the Pastore
Letters " a squinting. fool," whose reign was one at-
tempt to cheat his people out of the Charter ? John,
the name for all that is base, mean, and cruel, whose
vices were the strength of the Chartists of those
days? Coeur de Lion, who roved from Berengaria
and his usurped throne, to spend his people's
money in Syrian. wars ? Henry the Second,
the sport of bigotry, and of filial impieties?
Stephen, who scarcely sat upon the throne ?
Henry the First, the usurper of a crown, the husband
of a nun, and the father of children drowned at sea ?
Rufus, the hard sportsman, wifeless and childless, may-
be passed. Could the Saxon Prince of Saxe-Gotha
have played the part of the Norman bastard, that
wrenched the kingdom from the Saxons, and lived a
life of tyranny, to die abandoned by his menials and
be buried by charity? Or should 'the royal mummers
have gone back to the • Saxon days for the beautiful
lovers, Edwy and Elgiva—separated,seared, and wor-
ried to death by Dunstan. What couple could they have
chosen for prototype, in the picturesque ages, not tor-
mented by violence against their own persons, dis-
graced by profligacy or cruelty, or both, the victims
of political intrigue or religious bigotry, wretched in
their progeny, or associated with some national mis-
fortune ? In truth, Edward the Third and Philippa
made about as good and safe a choice as any, although
romance would fain- arrest the progress even of their
history, and avert the sight from the monarch's de-
clining age. France may put up with the rub on an
old forgotten wound, in thinking that England has
escaped yet harsher reminiscences.

MONEY MARKET and: CITY NE.WS.
TIMES.—The reduction of the rate of interest on
Exchequer bills from 21d, to 2d., which is now officially
announced, has been generally commended as a proof of
the acuteness and attention to business of the present
Administration, who have lost no time in remedying the
blunder committed by the last. 'lt will be remembered
'that when the advance from 11d. to 21d. was made by
the Whigs, it was the general opinion that id. was need-
lessly thrown away, and that a rise to 2d. would have
been
.quite sufficient with proper management to keep the
bills in, circulation. By again taking off the id. the pre-
sent Ministers have brought Exchequer bills to their
proper value, and done away with the anomaly of keep-
ing up the unfunded at a higher rate than the funded
debt, which should always bear higher interest, as
the capital is liable to fluctuation. The time also
at which the operation is effected is no less com-
mended than the principle of the measure, as Exchequer
bills are at such a high premium, that there is: not
the slightest chance of the announcement of reduc-
tion being followed -by a demand for payment. Sonic
indeed have expressed an apprehension lest the reduc-
tion of the interest on English unfunded securities
should -give a new impulse to investment. in Foreign
stocks ; but so decidedly unpopular have such stocks be-
come, and so many severe lessons of experience have
been learned by those who dealt in them, that the ap-
prehension does not seem to be well founded, and the
common opinion is, that the only tendency of the re-
duction will be to drive people to invest in the English
funded securities. -As a practical illustration of the
dis-
inclination to have anything to do with Foreign bonds,
it may be mentioned, that chile Consols since February
have advanced about 3 per cent., Dutch stock has ad-
vanced only 1, although it is by far the most secure
stock of those that are commonly dealt in. It was
re-
marked yesterday that the operation had been pretty
generally anticipated ; and this accounts for the compa-
ratively small decline that has taken place in the value
of Exchequer-bills. Indeed the June bills have for
sometime commanded a lower price than the March bills;
in consequence of such anticipation.