The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

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LONDON!
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1842.

Both Sir R. PEEL and Lord STANLEY, on Friday
evening, explicitly stated that the inquiry into the
Bridport case was not for the purpose of criminating
any person. Of course, it Cannot, therefore,' have
for its object the dispossessing any Member of
his seat. From the whole course of the proceedings,
it is plain that the inquiries to be entered into
by Mr. ROEBUCK can have no such effect. It
would be monstrous for the House of commons
to single out, on the representation of Mr. ROE-
nucx, or any other Member, five or six Members,
and institute an inquiry into their mode of getting
their seats, when it is notorious that scores of Hon.
Members have got into Parliament by similar means.
On these reasons it seems certain that Mr. ROEBUCKS
inquiries can have no other effect than to establish the
existence of bribery and compromise to serve as a basis
.of legislation.. They will bring the matter clearly and
-with evidence before the public, and they will damage the
diameter of the House of Commons. That, and that
alone, will be their result. It will be curious, how-
ever, to see Hon. Members still retain their seats,
after they have been reported to the House by Mr.
ROEBUCK'S Committee, or any other Committee, as
guilty of bribery or'a corrupt compromise. How will
they look the House in the face? How will they look
the public in the face ? llow will the House itself
appear before the public, with several branded and con-
victed bribers on its benches ? Either the House has
gone too far in allowing the inquiries to take place at
all, or it does not go far enough in not allowing the
Committee to report criminally. By the present
,betwixt and between course the Rouse will find
itself at last in a dilemma, from which it can only es-
cape by a speedy prorogation.

,In the explanation which Lord STANLEY gave on
the 19th of April of the condition of our colonies, in

respect to their present capacity"for receiving emi-
grants, after explaining that New South Wales was
completely overstocked With labourers, that South
Australia was bankrupt and pauperised, his Lordship
said that New Zealand offered better prospects for
emigrants, or seemed more likely to absorb labour
than any °flour settlements in the South Seas. The
little hope ftnd little consolation which the Noble
Lord's statement seemed calculated to afford to the
thousands who are perishing at home have been, we
are afraid, entirely dOe>llo,ray by the latest arrivals
from that part of the world. The Patriot of Wed-
nesday published a letter from a Mr. QUALM, a mis-
sionary in New Zealand, which contains some intelli-
gence calculated to excite alarm for the future pro-
gress of that colony, and even for the future safety
of the colonists.

.The letter, we must remark, is without date, but
it quotes_ a document of the 4th of December. The
Patriot says it " has just come to hand," and as the
latest arrivals from that colony are of the date of
January the Ist, it has ,come, we presume, by them.
Besides this uncertainty as to date, Mr. QUAIFE has
been the editor of a newspaper which was suppressed,
and his disappointment on that head may give a colour to
his remarks, against which we must warn our
readers. We shall quote his account of the matter,
both in order to place him fairly before them, and in-
form the public of the arbitrary law, as to the 'press,
under which the colonists_ are placed. After giving
a history.of the up-hill establishment of his journal, of
his desire to promote order and obedience, and of his
growing conviction that the trimming proceedings of
the Governor would require him to take a bolder
course, he says—
At length, the celebrated "Act of Council" arrived,
and was published in our Gazette. The moral objects
for which I had entered on my undertaking were now too
manifestly at stake to admit of further delay in taking
my ground. That Act annihilates native property, and
stands in direct and glaring contravention of the pub-
lished declarations of the Ministry, and of the promises
made, in their name, to the native chiefs, both on the
acknowledgment of their independence and the cession
of their territory. I knew that, in other colonies, conse-
quences the most calamitous to the aboriginal races had
resulted from the non-recognition of aboriginal pro-
perty ; and my eye instantaneously glanced through
the vista of years, pervaded by a chain of oppressions,
retaliations, wars, subjugations, &c., terminating in
the slavery of the New Zealanders, or their entire
destruction, as in Van Dieman's Land. The prospect
was. appalling, but I could see no other. The only hope
appeared to rest in the growing enlightenment and phi-
lanthropy of the age. I hesitated not a moment to adopt
my course ; I resolved to write against the Act with all
my power, and to enlist the interest of the settlers
against it, by showing them how much they were in-
volved in the calamities it entailed. This I did ; and I
flatter myself I demonstrated the iniquity and absurdity
of the Act to the satisfaction of all. When the Commis-
sioners arrived, they could not put it in force. The New
Zealand Government, however, took the alarm, and sent
me a notice, placing me under the Sydney Newspaper Act
passed by Governor Darling, requiring 6001. recogni-
zances, and subjecting an editor to arbitrary trial, and,
for a second conviction, to transportation. TheLieutenant-
•Governor, Hobson, told a deputation that he should
persist in applying this Act, although when he found the
whole colonial press against him, he .relaxed his se-
verity; but it was too late, for our paper was then
extinguished.
From such laws and proceedings we are not sur-
prised that Captain HOBSON is not popular in New
Zealand, and the danger to be apprehended from the
natives, which Mr. QUAIFE thus describes, would be
less alarming were the settlers united and the Go-
vernor respected.'

On the 20th of November a most atrocious murder
was perpetrated upon all the members of a family living
at Paroa, Island, only some five or six miles from Koro-
rareka, and within the Bay of Islands. The family,
named Robertson, consisted of Mrs. R., a widow lady,
with two of her own children, a little boy about six
years old, and an infant daughter eighteen mor.ths old ;
a little half-caste daughter of Captain Brind, and Tho-
mas Bull, a servant man. The last named had his head
cleft horizontally with an axe, while asleep in the gar-
den, in the afternoon. The little boy is supposed to have
been thrown over the rock alive into the sea. The others
were found in the kitchen, burnt to a cinder, but with
deep gashes still visible on the back of the neck or the
occiput. The house was plundered, and then burnt to.
the ground.
A Coroner's inquest being called, it came out, in evi-
dence, that certain natives charged a young chief,
named Makatu, with the horrible deed ; and they pro-
duced some articles as a part of the plunder, which they
alleged were received from him. To obtain this informa-
tion, two gentlemen, residents at Kororareka, and
jurors, were under the necessity of risking their safety,
by going to that island alone, and spending an entire
day among the natives, to the amount of two or three
hundred, who are in a state of most equivocal excite-
ment on the occasion. They stated that they were seve-
ral times greatly alarmed for their personal safety.
They would not have gone unprotected ; but the Police
Magistrate peremptorily refused to act or give orders,
and, without those orders, the constables would not pro-

teed to the island. The Favourite, a British frigate,

lying in the harbour at Russell, with two of her—Ma;
jesty's discovery ships, was applied to by the Coroner
for boat's crews to aid in capturing the murderer or mur-
derers, but refused to take any part in the affair with-
out the Magistrate's orders. If anything was to be
done, therefore, Messrs. Spicer and Wilson were under
the necessity of endangering their lives to accomplish it,
and this they did. They could not, however, get the
young man away. He was the next day brought up in
a canoe, by his father, Rube, evidently with a view to
reward, and then he would deliver him only into the
hands of those two gentlemen, and that, on condition
that lie was to remain with them till the inquest was
over, when, it is clear, it was expected he would be
given up again to the . natives
_ _ _

Titer; was a reward offered to the parties who disco-
vered the murderer ; but it appears that the real cause
of their readiness to make the disclosure, was the mur-
der of the little half-caste, who was the grand-daughter
of the great chief, E Rewa (Rivers). This circutu-
stance seems most providentially to have interested him;
and he has not expressed regret, as far as I am informed,
for any other part of the massacre.
While Messrs. Spicer and Wilson were at the island,
and fully expecting the aid of police, or military, or of
some boat's crews from her Majesty's ships, for the pur-
pose at once of protecting them, and securing the per-
son of the alleged murderer, those ships left the bay, and
did not deem it proper to wait for further communica-
tions from the Police Magistrate; thus proving that they
fully concurred in withholding every endeavour to cap-
ture the assassin. The Favourite has this very day re-
turned to her post, almost three weeks after the emer-
gency which required her prompt interposition.
Native witnesses were examined on the inquest.
They all regarded him as the murderer ; but there was
nothing more than circumstantial proof in their state-
ments. Their evidence, added to a number of other cir-
cumstances, led me to conclude that they did not bring
forth all they knew. He acknowledged the deed himself,
described the manner of its perpetration, and stated some
motives by which he was prompted. To the question,
whether other parties were concerned, he would give nu
very decisive denial. here the inquest failed of its point.
Subsequently, at Auckland, he stated he was induced by
his father to commit the horrid crime, and that he, the
father, had a claim upon the island. One of the wit-
nesses showed a previous knowledge of his murderous
intentions.

On the close of the inquest, Makatu was committed by
the Coroner's warrant, and not given up into the hands of
his father ; and from that circumstance has arisen tio-
excitemen t above mentioned, which has nearly spread
itself over the whole of this island, north of the Thames.
Now, there is every reason—l speak deliberately, and
from a twelvemonth's observation—to believe that this
miserable state of things arises out of the absurd en-
deavour of Captain Hobson to set up British authority
in these islands, without being furnished with physical
means, or intellectual capacity to do so. Trade has
been everywhere crushed ; prosperous settlements have
been ruined.; his own capital is perishing ; British law
cannot be enforced ; the native mind is roused to a most
dangerous state of irritation ; the missionaries them-
selves are full of apprehensions ; and all, I believe, attri-
bute the crisis to the Government follies. And it may
be safely affirmed that Captain Hobson and his Colonial
Secretary have not a single friend, native, English, or
foreign, in the whole country. The gloom which rests,
both on public and private affairs, is appalling ; and
where the scene will end I do not know.
Let it be remarked, that the inhabitants of the Bay of
Islands are, at the present moment, indebted for their
safety to a most providential and singular occurrence.
One day last week, the tribe to which Makatu belonged
had taken a threatening position at Waitangi, or Ma-
tarva, on the side of the bay opposite to Kororareka.
There they expressed their detertrunation to be avenged
on the white people for the detention of the young chief.
And I am particularly informed by a gentleman, who
says that he can bring native evidence to prove the fact,
that, on one evening, there was a decided plan to make
an immediate rush upon Kororareka,: to kill, plunder,
burn, and
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tered to remain ibr our protection as !ono-
it necessary for cur. security, although he 6 had no otherme
object whatever in remaining here. All address was sent
him, acknowledging our sense of his kindue,:s, to which
we have received a most courteous reply. Compare his
conduct to that of our own men of war and officials; 'and
think especially of the remarkable interposition of God
for our" preservation, when our natural protectors, on
whom we had every rightful claim, abandoned us to our
fate.

Of the unpopularity of Captain HousoN and the
disturbed state of the colony, unfortunately, other
evidence is at hand. The inhabitants of Port Nichol-
son have petitioned her MAJESTY to recal him, and
the New Zealand Gazette, published there, uses'this
language :
It appears, then, that large sums of money are col-
lected in Port Nicholson,
and remitted to Auckland.
That these funds are imperatively required for the im-
provement of our port and for public buildings. That

there is not the smallest chance of any portion worth ,
mentioning of the Port Nicholson contribution 'ever
finding its way hack: front Auckland here ;
'Because—the GnVernor is our foe, and the majority.of
the Legislative Council are his. tools. .As long, there-
fore, as the present men are in office, and the existing
system is upheld, we must be expected to be victimized.
Shall the wrong be quiety endured ? Has the spirit of
resistance to injury, cherished in England, become ex-
tinct in New Zealand ? There' is that on the pages of
our journal which forbids the supposition. The consti-
tutional right of petition for redress of grievances has
been exercised, and the removal of a Governor viru-
lently prejudiced against this settlement, has. been re-
quired from the Queen. Nothing has occurred to show
that the colonists acted unwisely or precipitately on the
occasion referred to. On the contrary, they took a just
measure of the man they had to deal with. We see the
necessity of again petitioning for the recal of Captain
Hobson, and for responsible Government.

In. these circumstances, and having a much less fa-
vourable opinion of New Zealand as a place for settlers
than is generally entertained, which makes us infer
that the colony may be filled with disappointed
and discontented persons, we see considerable
cause for alarm. The mischief has, to a great
extent, been caused by Government appointing a
Governor, and a whole host of officials, who seem to
have nothing else to do than to harrass the settlers.
Lord STANLEY is not the man, we are afraid, toremedy
the evil ; 401vill be for interfering still more, when,
in truth, besides affording to the colonists the general
protection of sending a ship of war, now and then, to
look after them, they Cannot be too much left to
themselves. At this vast distance from the spot, we
will not think of saying what ought to be done—we
will only express our fears, that more mischief is
likely to ensue from the rash interference of the
Colonial-office than from its forbearance.

LONDON
,TO THE NORTH.—We perceive that the
London and Birmingham, and Grand Junction Rail-
ways, are about to extend the facilities for travelling to
Liverpool and Manchester from London by altering the
present two o'clock afternoon train to half-past one.
This will enable passengers to leave London two hours
and a half later (the last day train starting at eleven), and
arrive at Liverpool or Manchester by a. quarter past
eleven at night. The-only wonder is, that an improve-
ment so obvious had not occurred to the Directors long
ago. Possibly the new line of Railway from Manches-
ter to Crewe has quickened their praiseworthy appre-
hensions. Of course a corresponding train v ill leave
Manchester and Liverpool at the same time for London,
otherwise the advantage will be all one way. The
change takes place on Wednesday, the Ist. of June.

The collection of Oriental literature, collected by Jas.
Bruce, of Kennard, extending to near one hundred vo-
lumes, and announced for sale by auction in our columns
of to-day, is probably the finest MS. that ever was pre-
sented to public competition.
A LETTER-CARRIER'S FUNERAL.—In Islington, yes-
terday, a letter-carrier, of the name of Greening, re-
cently deceased, was followed to the grave by a consi-
derable number of his brother letter-carriers, dressed in
their uniform. Such a mark of respect must be gratify-
ing to the deceased's widow and family. It is a proof
that he was esteemed, and his loss regretted by his use-
ful brethren.

The effects of Lord Lichfield, in St. James's-square,
are to be sold in a fortnight, and will occupy a whole
week. The service of gold and silver plate is said to
be magnificent ; and, in August, Mr. George Robins
announces a sale, extending over eighteen days, at Shug-
borough Hall, of the same Right lion. Peer, which will
create a sensation little short of Strawberry-hill. The
gallery of pictures and the statues are accounted of the
first order. The furniture is throughout splendid, and
within the cellars are 20,000 bottles of wine of a quality
most recherche.

PRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY: EVENING, MAY 30, 1842.'

FLANDERS AND• DUTCH MAIL.
MiUSSELS, MAY 26.—The average price of wheat
last week was 23f. 46c. ; and that of rye, 13f. 29c.
On the 22d, 23d, and 24th, there were violent storms
of hail, and torrents of rain, in different places. At
\reneche and the neighbourhood the hailstones were as
large as walnuts, and fell in such quantities; 'that on the
following day titey lay in several places to the depth of
More than a foot. At Maline, great damage was done
to the hothouses and greenhouses of the botanic gar-
dens of many private houses. . .

ANTWERP, MAY 25.—The mate of the English ship
the Forth was sentenced yesterday by the Correctional
Tribunal to a fine of 25 francs and the costs; for resist-
ing the Sub-Chief of the Pilots.
On the other hand, the King's Procurator has brought
an action against the same pilot for having ill-treated
the mate of the Forth, and against an officer of the marl •
time police, who, far from opposing his ill-treatment,
lent his staff

The amount of subscriptions for Hamburgh raised by
Mr. Bucker, the Hanseatic Consul, is nearly 31,000 f.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 4.—1 have just learned, from
good authority, the real facts relative to the arrests of
the Chiefs of the Druses. Above a month before the
Chiefs of the Druses had entered into a conspiracy
among themselves. to throw off the Turkish yoke. The
Turkish authorities pretend that they were impelled by
foreign influence. They attempted to engage the Maro-
nites in their conspiracy, and with this view applied
to Tranzis, the great Maronite Sheik in Horan. This
crafty man entered into negotiation with them, which he
artfully protracted, constantly making them promise, and
assuring them that he had gained over a great number
of Maronites to their cause. -That the authorities of the
Turks might not be attracted by their frequent meetings.
he persuaded them to correspond in writing. As soon
as he had his written proof' from the principal Chiefs,
he secretly sent them to the Seraskier Mustapha
Pacha. Mustapha saw from this correspondence
the danger of his own situation and that of
Omer Pacha, and immediately took all necessary mea-
sures. He gave information to Nedseib Pacha, in Da-
mascus, and ordered him to march with 5,000 men to
the Horan, under the pretext of compelling the payment
of arrears of taxes. The Government of Beyrout and
Saida received orders to have their garrisons in readi-
ness to march and to be ou their guard. He also opened
a communication with Egypt, in order, in case of ex-
treme need, to receive assistance from that country. He
intrusted. Omer Pacha to seize, by stratagem, the eight
chiefs, against whom he had written proofs in his hands.
Omer Pacha prepared an entertainment, after which he
assembled the chiefs in a conference, in which he ener-
getically demanded the restitution of the property that
they had unjustly taken. 'When the Druses refused this
he caused them to be surrounded by a battalion of
troops, and made prisoners. As for the Maronites, they
have declared for the Turks, and offered Omer Paella
an anxiliary corps of 2,000 men to march against the
DruSes, which he, however, declined.—Algemeine Zeitung,
May 23.
ROTTERDAM, MAY, 24. This afternoon the war-
steamer the Bromo, intended for the East Indies, was
launched here from the Royal Dockyard.
THE HAGUE, MAY 20.—The horses and carriages of
his Majesty King William' Frederick Count of Nassau,
are to be sent to-morrow from the Hague to the Loo.
A dreadful thunderstorm passed over the Luwarden
and the environs on the 24th. Three or four farm
houses were struck by lightning and totally consumed.

DUTCH FUNDS..-.AMSTERIDAtd, MAY 27.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Allan t Syndic, 4% per cent 93!; 9104
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7634 76%
Commercial Company, 4!., per cent 152 1529.
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ... 99 9914
Exchange on London, cpte m0nth............ 12 12%
Two months .... 12 05
Hamburgh, One month 25 814
Two months ...
Dutch Papers, May 28.
,4EL6IAN 1. UNDS—Baussus, MAY 27.
actual Debt, 214 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IO3
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 94
-----3 per Cent.
—Thirty.seven--- .. 73
-------- (1 s4O) 1( 434
Loan of City, 1e32, 4 per Cent t,3 y..
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent f-ti
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ........
National Society
Exchange on London (short) .... -
-Brussels Papers, May 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 18.
five per Cents. Metalliques - 10834
FONT per Cents. IGO
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares

NEWSPAPER PRESS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—
The fifth anniversary of this Association was celebrated on Satur-
day, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, by a private dinner,
confined to the members and their friends, the ladies (as usual)
joining the gentlemen at the table—a happy innovation upon
our national manners,. which the association has The merit of
having set one of the earliest examples. Thomas Thornton,
Esq., a past chairman of the direction, presided on the occa-
sion, and from the ability and urbanity which he displayed in
executing the duties of his office, afforded the greatest satis-
faction to the conrany, consisting of between sixty and seventy
ladies and gentlemen. The day was altogether one of great
enjoyment, to which the efforts of a select party of professional
ladies and gentlemen (including Miss Betts, Mr. Horncastle,
Mr. Allen, Mr. Jones, Mr. Young, and Mr. Leonard, the
latter an Irish singer of considerable celebrity, who has just
arrived in London), greatly contributed. From the state-
ments made after dallier, it appeared that this institution,
though established but a short time, and before the rules
permit its complete operation, has been the means cf relieving
several cases of unforeseen exigency, amongst the families of
persons connected with the literary department of the news-
paper press. It also appeared that during the last year several
new members hado;ned the association ,4*, that 200/. had been
funded, and that the, permanent fund of the society was
already 1,4001.

• THE LONDON SANATomum.—On Saturday a meet-
ing of the friends of this Institution was held in the Hanover
Rooms, to receive the Report of the Committee, and to transact
other matters of business. The Marquis of Normanby was
called to chair. The institution, which is now opened, is in
intended for the lodging, nursing, and care of sick persons of
the middle classes. Amongst the classes for which this institu-
tion is designed are students of literature, science, fine arts, me-
dicine, and law, teachers and literary persons, especially those
connected with the periodical press, persons engaged in govern.
ment offices, the church, merchants counting houses, banking
houses, and other establishments, commercial travellers foreigner,
and. sick persons visiting London for medical or surgical advice.
The persons admitted are to pay two guineas per week, in re-
turn for which they will have every comfort, and all the medi-
cal attention and, skill which could be obtained in the happiest
and most opulent home. The Report having been adopted,
Lord Ashley addressed the meeting on the necessity, utility,
and aesii ableness of such en institution. Various other gen-
tlemen moved and seconded appropriate resolutions, and dwelt
en the great advantages which would result from a Sanatorium.
The following subscriptions were announced to the meeting
The Marquis of Lansdowne, 20/, ; the Marquis of Normanby,
10/. ; the Earl of Harrowby, 10/. 10s. ; Lord Sandon, 51. ss.
The late Captain Conolly, in his amusing Travels in
the North of India, carried away a napkin which did not be-
long to him from a bath. Discovering his mistake, he ordered
his Persian servant to go back and restore it to the owner ; but
the man protestedagainst so unusual a proceeding, saying that
he should be taken either for a thief or a madman, and con-
cluded by a recommendation to his master to keep the napkin,
and to satisfy himself with putting up a prayer for the man's
prosperity. This is the way with our rulers. They keep the
Corn-law, and instruct the Archbishop of Canterbury to put
up a prayer for charity, and the relief of the distress which
they have done so much to cause. Restitution is in such cases
worth myriads of aspiratitins. —Examiner.
Should it please Providence to give us a favourable
harvest, which after so many seasons of scarcity/may be looked
for as probable, the despondent tradesmen would gain cus-
tomers, and the pining workmen would find employment. The
Money Market has been effectually relieved ; the Bank of Eng-
land stands strong, and the exchanges are in our favour. The
Bank, it seems, has increased its issues, between the 2d of
April and the 30th of April, from 16,894,0001. to 18,404,0001.
—partly, it is said, in advances to railway companies—but an
increase which seems to us undue and unsafe, though it will give
immediate relief. It is stated that " the recent arrivals of yes-
sols from distant countries have brought more orders for goods
from almost all quarters except Australia and the United States
than were expected." We trust, therefore, that the light is
breaking on the verge of the thick darkness. —Leeds Mercury.
The office of Coroner for the Tower of London and
its Liberties has become vacant. The si nation is at the dis-
posal of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, being the High
Constable of that fortress, and by whom the office was bestowed
on the late gentleman about two years ago. Several candi-
dates have applied to his Grace for the honour.

A VALUABLE BUSTLE.—Some amusement was oc-
casioned one day this w eek by the town crier proc:aiming the
loss of a lady's bustle, and offering a reward for its restoration.
But great was the surprise of all who heard the public orator
when Le announced that this elegant appendage contained a
large sum of money in notes and gold. It is to be hoped that
this notice may meet the eye of the finder, who is, perhaps,
unaware of the value or use of the article.—Monmouthshire
Beacon.

A new candidate for honours in the leading cha-
racters of the drama is, it is rumoured, about to appear on the
London stage in the person of Air. Henry Betty, son of the
famous performer of that name. When yet a boy, his wonder-
ful talents for acting were known and admired at almost every
provincial theatre in the country ; but for some time past a
severe illness has been the cause of depriving the public cf these
talents. He has now, however, recovered his health, and will,
it is said, shortly make his appearance on the London stage.
Sir Robert Peel has spoken wisely on the subject of
reciprocity ; he has said, let us do what is right and politic
without waiting for sour neighbours ; the example is in our
power, and will sooner or later have effect; but while according
to this excellent doctrine, he lets foreign competition into some
of our markets, he continues a law protecting monopoly
which as completely shuts us out of certain foreign
markets as an express prohibition to enter them could do.
Here our legislation inflicts upon US a greater disadvantage
than the most barbarous interdict of foreigners could accom-
plish, and the Corn-laws have done what the Berlin and Milan
decrees of Napoleon, in the height of his power, could not effect.
How strange to foreigners must appear the sound doctrines
respecting recriprocity, and the wisdom of presenting the right
principles to the world, and leaving it to discern their virtues
and adopt them, proceeding from the lips of the man who main-
tains the evil example of that common nuisance to all the
world, the sliding-scale Corn-laws.— Examiner.
ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—A literary friend in Scot-.
land, who was personally acquainted with the unhappy young
man who last week committed suicide at Croydon, has furnished
us with the following particulars respecting him :—" The
youth's name," he says, "is William Barrie, a native of the
Isle of Sian. He had a patrimony sufficient for his subsistence,
but was liable to a nervous affection, which made him shun
society, and turn hypochondriac. He wrote to me or, the 17th,
stating that he was going to commit suicide by throwing him-
self from a steamer into the Thames. Next, on the 18th, a
letter (received by me at the same time) stated that he had
made the attempt, but had been fished up. A third letter,
written a day or two after, stated that he had determined to
use a pistol, and to commit the act in a field near Croydon, to
which he would proceed by the railway. There can be no
doubt, therefore, that William Barrie is the individual whose
body has been found. He lived at No. 6, Snow's-fields, in an
obscure lodging, with a number of books and philosophical in-
struments around him, and which were his only companions."
The body was yesterday buried in the parish churchyard of
Croydon.-- Sunday Paper.
The Havre Journal mentions, as an instance of
ex-
traordinary speed, that a diligence from Paris to Havre arrived
at its destination on Sunday in 12 hours and 10 minutes, and
another diligence in 12 hours arid 25 minutes—the distance
being 52 leagues.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 30.
0i At. GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET
liermometer .... 66 Highest 6B •1 Lowest 43
Barometer 30.05.—Wind S.W.