The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind this day at noon, W.
DEAL, JusE 14.—Wind S.S.E. to S.E., light.—Arrd. from
the River and sailed, Gluka and Favourite, Cape; OnliSon,
Bermuda, Racer, Halifax.
lith.ouchsTErt, .1u 14.—Arrd. Swift, Hull, Odessa.
Dumas, JUNE I•2.—Arrd. 31aranham, St. John's.
DZIRLIN BAY, JUNE 13.—Arrd. City of Durham, Odessa-
()lT COKK, JUNE 12.—SId. Cumberland, Power, Apalit.
t .r Liverpool.
REP:RU4I"EN, JUNE 11.—Arrd. Amity, Harris. Laguna.
PoUrsmormr, s: 14.—W'ind variable and light.—Artd.
Iles Majesty's steamer, Alban, Lisbon.
l'i.v3rotrril, JUNE 14.—Wind variable arid light.—Arrd.
f;riaia a Deo, Alarlich, Trieste ; Phillippa, Loverain, Zante.
Ski. Jessy, Demerara.
FALMOUTII, variable and light—Sailed
Liverpool, Gibraltar. Arra. off, Ann Johnson, Roda,h, and
nailed for Hull.

I.IV Ent root., J I 1-I—Wind N. W., light.— Arrd. Oberon,
Odessa. Sid. Memphis, Swanton, and Siddons, New York;
Albania, Boston ; Enterprise, Quebec ; Don Juan, Newfound•
laud. The Douce-Douce, horn Montreal to this port, was
dismasted in the St. Lawrence during a squall, and returned to
(4w-bee. 'I he Richmond, Kennedy, bound to this port, was
inside the bar of Maracaibo, on the 30th of April, wilting
for order!.
Siiici.ns, JUNE l I.—Sld. Eliza, Mauritius.

N'EssEr.s; sroKEN wren..—Monongahela, Liverpool to Phi-
ladelphia, 26th ult., tat. 62, by the British Queen. William
and Margaret, Shields to Quebec, 7th ult., lat. 47, lon. 45, by
the Stir-bug, arrived at New York. Peter Proctor, London to
Coluinbo, April 14, tat 1.4:x, lon. 21.41 W. ; Rosendale, Liver-
pool to Bahia, 15111 ult., lat. I N., lon. 22 W., by the Pioneer,
are ivied at New Bedford. Plymouth, Liverpool to New Or•
leans, I Stli May, lat. 24.13, lon. 64.33, by the Ludwig, or-
rived at New York. Pallas, Cork to Montreal, 21st April,
lat. 43, lon. 116, by the Resolution, arrived at New York.
Amity, Hall, Jamaica for London, •21st ult., lat. 45, lon. 36,
by the. Resolution, arrived at ditto. Prince Albert, London to
Rio, April 6, lat. t) S., lou. 32 W., by the Pillorha, arrived at
New Bedford. Indemnity, London to New Zealand, April 14,
lat. I N. km. 20, by the Com, arrived at. New London. Lady
London to Halifax, 9th May, lat. 44, lon. 42, by
the Oafurd,• arrived at New York. Hebe, Cette to New York,
18th, tat. 41, lon, 6:;, by the Empress, arrived at New York.
liinvcll (barque) of Liverpool, for Salem, off the Canary
Islands, all well.

C i' GREENWICH PARK. ---Abollt nine
ono'clock Tuesday
evening, a middle aged man, appa-
rently t foreigner,eiteommitted suicide by shooting himself
through h the Maze Hill
gate
of tireenwic't Park. lie had been sitting on one of the
Suit
N a dreadful
sea:s under a large walnut tree, anti was seen suddenly to pull a
large horse-pistol from Ins pocket and, directing it to his head,
pull the trigger. The only parties near the place at the time
were a boy, named Smith, and an old College mail and his son,
who ran op to the spot, and found the miserable man quite dead,
-the explosion having taken away the whole of the face
from the lower jkw to the crown of the head. 31r. Adam
Young, a Count.). 11.1agistrate, Egglestone, the Park-keeper.
and police constable Nimmo, 143 R, were quickly on the spot,
and the remains were removed to the George Inn, where they
await a Coroner's inquest. The deceasedlwas attired in a snit
of black, with sa'in cravat and Wellington hoots, and hat-
mak i's name Hawkes, London. /louse." During the day
portions of the head were picked up by persons who visited the
sPot. One person found s...ven teeth, arid another a portion of
the ear and brain. Numerous applications have been made to
view the body by persons who have missed relatives, but all
parties have been refused. On his person was found a card
with the name of ‘• Chapeott" engraved on it, and his. in silver.
An audacious robbery was eon-in-rated on Tuesday at
two o'cl.eck .in the day, at No. 10, Gloucester-road, Old
Brempton.• 'the thief, it is presumed, entered the house by
moans of a picklock-key to the garden-gate, and took frOm the
back parlour a large cofos- nut sugar basin,of a triangular form,
mounted with silver, with its contents, and silver tong.
marked A, of the old English character, The lady of the house
was sitting in the breakfast-room adjoining it at thit 000
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LONDON-
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 16. 1842.

T.f.)ra ASHLEY'S Bill was read a second time last nigh

without remark or opposition. No person can contest
its importance, and it is scarcely creditable to the House
that it shonid pass a measure affecting the bulk of the
• collier population with less discussion than it would be-
atow on a Turnpike Bill. But if the measure have no
interest for the House, it has some for the public, and
neither it nor the Report of the Commissioners meet
with unanimous approbation.
We have, for example, been favoured with an extract

from it vet unpublished Report of the South Shields
Committee, appointed in 1839, for the investigation o!

accidents in mines, in which it i 3 stated, with reference
to: 1-40ril ASHLEY'S Bill, that to restrict boys going to

woi-k in mines until they have reached the age of twelve,
which is, however, only ono year under Lord AsuLEy's

3:andard, would tend to restrict the supply of pit-men,
..and would throw such obstructions in the way of freely
Working the mines, that some of them would be entirely
extinguiihed, and all would be worked at a vastly in-
creased, expense. Ultimately that would fall on the
pu!,llc, and be injurious to our arts and manufactures,
&ready exposel to serious foreign competition. Already,
too, the fine coal of Belgium, at about 11s. per ton, is
varonting with,success the finest British in the markets
-of Rouen and Marseilles, and may eventually find its
to other ports, to the displacement of this article of
British exports.

" If pitmen's sons," it says, " are prevented going to their
father's employment, partially to relieve him from the charge,
they will with his approval seek another, where the restriction
does nut spilt'. And if pitmen's sons turn their backs upon
the mines. it will be almost impossible to induce the grown-up
ebilarrn of other sections of the community to attempt so irk-
' to e an emptoyrikent, or even their arm's to sanction it with
their popuar terror of its nature and its danger. The instances
air' very rare exceptions in which a boy, not originally con-
nected with the miles, ventures upon such an undertaking.
' Besides after the age of 12, habits are beginning to be formed
and tastes acquired, much more in accordance with the ordi-
nary employments on the surface ; and it is probable that then,
4.1e1l a pitman's son may have grown into a repugnance to
• exchange the light of day, and the companionship of his !chows
',thick most other trades afford, for the solitary darkness of the
mine and its confined and severe labour."
Now that we think is a very serious consideration for
thoSe who, 'without being very intimately acquainted
With the labour of colliers, undertake to restrict the age
at which children • may. begin to acquire the habit of
livin,g and working in the bowels of the earth. There
:are a great many arts which, being naturally difficult or
-titagreeabk., must be acquired young, or the mind and
•hotly on never be drilled into liking and skill. Mining
is one of these, and humanity will not be promoted by.
• preventing the repugnance to it being conquered
in very early life. We say nothing of na-•
tianal prosperity, but we believe that the well
being of the population would not be increased
- :'by plaCing impediments in the way of the collier youth.
• --;aelhiring almost from infancy the habit of that toil which
after Efe to be their daily lot.
- provincial journals, we see by the Manchester
Guardian, are beginning to find out that Lord ASHLEY'S
" •Cntictruents " will be very severely felt in districts where
a large portion of the female population is so employed ;
and, where no other means of employment are in ex-
i to ice, cases of great hardship will necessarily
arise." Those who support Lord ASHLEY'S Bill say that it
will only compel the drunken husbands to labour more,
-l, wittluut, teaselling the wages of a familv, will make
the male gain the whole ; but those who make that as-
sertion have not studied the Report. We have already
quote I the case of MARGARET BAXTER, a widow 50
years old, by whose labour, for 12 years after her hus-
ban I was unfit for work, her family was maintained,
:There are numerous instances in the Report of women
who have laboured many years in the pit. Such as
BeTTY HARDMAN, 38 years old, went into the pit when
--. was 7, has had- eight children ; BETTY WARDLE,
—orked in a pit since she was 6 years old, and
-hildren ; JANE JOHNS, aged 29, who
her unefr:first, yoked her to the

carve, her father and mother being dead ; JANE PEA-
COCK, who is 40 years old, and has wrought 33 years
in the bowels of the earth. There are many
',lore who have been accustomed to work in the pit
20, 30, or 40 years, whose habits are formed to that
species of labour, whose subsistence depends on it, and
to them it will be a great hardship to be at once deprived
of this mode of earning their bread. We know that
Lord ASHLEY means well, but it is a sad mistake to
suppose that he can add to the comfort of such persons.
and convert them all at once into neat, thrifty house-
wives by Act of Parliament. He will do them great injury,
even if he can persuade the Legislature to give them
pensions equal to the wages of which he will deprive
them.

The Report of the Commissioners, as well as the Bill
funded on it, is beginning to excite contradiction and
opposition. The coal trade of Newcastle have answered,
and contradicted, seriatim, nearly every paragraph of the
Commissioner:: Report. To quote one example, with
re,pect to the little trappers being without light and
without companions, and almost in solitary confinement
of the worst kind, as asserted by the Commissioners, the
Coal trade says:—

" This is a very erroneous and exaggerated statement.
The working trapdoors are all placed in the principal passages,
leading from the bottom of the pit to the various works, so that
an interval of seldom more than five minutes, but generally
much less, passes without some person passing through his door
and having a word with the trapper. Neither is the trapper de-
prived of light by any means general, as the stationary lights
(lamps) on the roily and tram ways are frequently placed near
to the trapper's seat."
This is confirmed incidentally by the Report of the
South Shields Committee, above alluded to, in which
some dreadful accidents are mentioned, as the results of
the trappers having neglected their doors to go and play
with other boys.
Before the Bill is further proceeded with, we shall, we
hope, be able to lay before our readers some further
evidence of the mistakes and exaggerations into which
the Commissioners, without designing it, have fallen.
We must now close by warning the Legislature to be
oareful how it brands a useful and necessary occupation
)y a hasty enactment. There are difficulties and dangers
enough connected with mining to appal the stoutest
hearts which are not familiarised with them from infancy;
,ind it would be, as we have already said, a much wiser
plan, if the Legislature must of necessity gratify its
yearnings after the reputation of benevolence by inter-
fering with the colliers, were it to limit the hours in
each day during which boys may be employed in mines,
and place no limitation as to the age at which they may
begin to learn their dangerous occupation.

We are much puzzled, both by the actions and words
of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He has, in his tariff, made sun-
dry abatements in Customs' duties, with a view, as he
expressly stated, to encourage trade. He has levied an
Income-tax, in order to spare industry, and he has per -
mitted the introduction of cattle, to promote cheapness.
On Monday night, however, he obstinately clung to the
duty on exported coals, which can have no other effect
than to check trade and deprive the people of employ-
.nent. There is no consistency, then, either in his lan-
-4uage or his conduct, and he puts down one day some-
thing he has put up the day before.
We confess that we are quite at a loss for any clue to
his conduct. Ile seems only to adhere to the multifarious
)ractices which many Ministers, acting on different
principles, at different times, have introduced into our
Liws. At one time he protects native industry, at an-
other he taxes it ; one day he is all for supporting pro-
perty, and the day after he insists that it shall bear all
nis new burdens. If we had not heard him dwell with
;rent emphasis on France taxing coal, on Prussia taxing
coal, and on Holland taxing coal, we should have been
wholly unable to account fur his taxing coal. When we
heard him say those things, however, we knew at once
that the spirit of envy and imitation were strong
in him, and he resolved to tax the export of coal
because they taxed the import. They tax it to encourage
coal digging at home, and he taxed it to follow their
example. They get a revenue from coal, so will he.
Our contempt for this man, and for his shallow shuffling
with the national happiness, grows on us daily. We have
now come, however, to wonder more at the patience of
the people under his quackery than at his undaunted
boldness in daily administering remedies which neutralize
each other.

We are scarcely surprized at the inhabitants of the '
Cape of Good Hope petitioning the Legislature by the
hands of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, last night, for a repre-
sentative government. They have suffered most of the
evils which are usually experienced by the inhabitarits
of Crown colonies. The administration has been arbi-
trary, capricious, and extravagant. They have grown
rapidly in prosperity, though a large portion of the popu-
!ation has been driven, by real, or fancied, injuries, out
of the colony; and though the colony has been overlooked
or neglected by the authorities at home, they even corn-
plaia that the colony has been depreciated and injured
by official misrepresentations. They seek therefore for
, representative government, to secure for themselves a
regular administration of their affairs, and a protection
against official idleness or ignorance.
It may serve to justify their demand, if we lay before
our readers, an example or two of the progress of the
colony :
I was in this colony (said a Mr. Prince, at a recent meeting
of an agricultural society at the Cape) before the British emi-
grants arrived, and perfectly well recollect, when the whole
business of the Eastern provinces of this colony was carried on
with une old ship—the Young Phoenix, belonging to Messrs.
fleets and Korsten, the latter of whom was the only person of
business there ; and now, gentlemen, permit me to ask you,
and I do with pride and exultation, what is the value and ex-
tent of the agriculture, trade, and commerce of the Eastern
provinces of the Cape colony ?
I hold in my hand a statement of the colonial produce which
was exported from the colony for the year ending the 10th
October, 1841, which, with permission, 1 will read and com-
ment on. The first article is wine, of which about 8,000 pipes
were exported, the declared value of which is 65,096/.
The next article is that all-important one, wool, of which I
perceive 1,060,4481b5. was exported last year—valued at 51,606/.
The production cf this article may be increased to an almost
unlimited extent. We have land in abundance, and good land
too, inviting people to occupy it. We have upwards of 3,000,060
of sheep in the colony, whereof, perhaps, at present about
600,000 are wool-bearing animals. The colony is capable,
be)ond doubt, of supporting and maintaining nine millions of
sheep, which in a few bears would, with capital to purchase
rains and labour to tend them, render each, in wool, 35., or a sum
..f 1,350,000/. Gentlemen, this statement is not an extravagant
one. Thirty years ago New South Wales had few or no sheep;
she imported the whole of her original stock from abroad ; and
the last }ear's value of the wool was 560,0001. Now, gentlemen,
if we set heartily about it, and persevere for a few yews, what,
I ask you, is to prevent our converting the whole of our long-
haired, thick-tailed animals, into wool-giving sheep? and who
is there, then, who can fix a limit to the quantity and value of
wool this colony will produce?
It is, we believe, because these colonists feel their
growing power, that they are anxious to have legitimate
organs to give effect to their own will. We applaud
their spirit. Our ancestors made this a great nation, by
insisting upon the principle of self-government ; and
there is no surer sign of a pure descent and undogenerated
race, than to follow their example. We should think
meanly of the colonists at the Cape, if they did not de-
in:old what has boon conceded to Newfoundland.

We are exceedingly glad to learn, from the. American
papers, that the Cabinet at WashingtOn is sincerely tie-
,,irous of maintaining the most . amicable relations with
this country. They have given the best proof of this,
by ordering the reduction of the army and navy. The
former proof of amity .does not
.concern us so much as
she latter. The army of the United States was, in
1632, and for eleven years previously, only 6,000 strong,
horse and foot. When the Florida war broke out, in con-
t;equence of the Sacs and Foxes tribes having refused to
abandon their hunting-grounds in favour of white set-
tlers, three regiments were added to the army ; one of
infantry, and two of dragoons. The Florida war is now
over,
.and Congress is for reducing the army to the old
peace establishment. But, what is of the utmost mo-
ment, the men employed in the naval depots of the
United States have been discharged, and the preparations
for fitting out a number of vessels. for sea suddenly aban-
doned. This of course has excited a great clamour
among the discharged workmen and their friends, which
has found an echo in the more factious New York prints.
Still there is not one word in their columns against this
country, or in favour of a nearer approximation to
France. They scarcely notice the Right of Search
question, now that it has been virtually abandoned by
Lord ABERDEEN. Neither do we find in them any vio-
lence or dogmatism of tone respecting the Boundary
question. On the contrary, they allude to it in such
terms as lead us to believe that they are most sincere in
their desire that no time shall be lost in settling it in the
most amicable manner. Lord ASHBURTON'S mission
has so far, therefore, been eminently successful. He
appears to have entirely removed the panic which filled
the public mind on his arrival ; to have convinced the
Cabinet and the 'Members of Congress that there was
not a syllable of truth in the rumours circulated to our
prejudice by the war party in France ; and to have shown
then, which it was very easy.for him to do, that there
really existed no rational ground tbr a war between
England and the United States. We sincerely trust
that our Ministers will respond to these proofs of
'amity in a corresponding spirit. They are espe-
cially valuable on the eve of a general election in
France. All the hopes of the war party there were
drawn from the hostile disposition of the Yankees, and
of these aspirations President TYLER has manfully de-
prived them. This may teach a useful lesson to the
bulk of the French electoral body, who are now called
upon to determine whether France shall remain in peace
and concord with all her neighbours, or plunge madly into
a war for which she has no rational pretext, from which she
osn promise herself no specific advantages, and in which
she cannot calculate upon the support of a single ally.

We have no jealousy of the greatness of France or the
United States. The time when we Would have
entertained such a feeling is gone, thank Heaven,
for ever. We are delighted to hear of their
prosperity so long as that is the result
of frugality on the part of the Government, a. d
industry and peaceful enterprise on the part of the
people. A nation of barbarians may be gr at y
benefited by being conquered by a civilised pew, le
Conquest in such a case may operate as the precursor•
and hand Maid of moral and physic 1 improve
ment. lint countries such as England, France,
and tl.e United States must ever be losers by hos-
tilities one with another. In fact, among civilised
people war should cease altogether. There could be no
difficulty in settling all disputes between nations by
means of a Court of Arbitration, whose members would
compose the independent Sovereigns of Europe. Peace
is one of those blessings of GOD of which none but a
wicked man, and a short-sighted politician, would desire
to rob a civilized people.

We have some hopes that common sense, in time, will
prevail over the absurd and inveterate practice of Courts
of Law, when the very lawyers themselves become
ashamed of them. It has long appeared to humane
persons extremely cruel to insist upon a priso-
ner pleading to an indictment, and allow no
evidence to be taken till the accused admitted
guilt, or, as in nine eases out of ten, solemnly stated
a direct falsehood. The absurdity of the practice is the
more glaring when it is recollected that in Police Courts,
and other Courts also, prisoners are constantly cautioned
against criminating themselves, or indeed saying anything
that can prove their guilt ; yet when the great trial comes
the Judge insists upon them telling a lie, or convicting
themselves. JOHN SAtint, a lecturer on education, brought
the subject by petition before the House of Lords on Tues-
dsy, and prayed that the plea of "not guilty" might be abo-
lished. Two of the three law Lords who spoke entirely
agreed with the petitioner, one saying that he could see
no occasion why prisoners should be called on to plead
at al!, and the other adding that " no questions should
be put ;" but not so Lord WYNFORD, who objected to the
inconvenience of continued alterations in the law. The
unhappy victims of crime, or rather misery (for men is
comfortable circumstances, like Lord W YN FORD, are rarely
tried at the Old Bailey), are thus to be subjected to a sort of
torture, without one useful purpose, because a change for
the better is inconvenient. The ELoo's system, how-
ever, has now completely broken down; many a peg has
been taken out of the thing he called the Constitution,
since the good old Tory days ; and of all the improve•
ments it has undergone the greatest have been made in
that department of it called the criminal statutes.
Hanging, in those times, was the general rule ; now, to
the credit of the Reformed Parliament, it is the exception.
Much, however, remains to be done, and from the general
feeling, exhibited on Tuesday night, the next improvement
—in Tory language " inconvenience "—will be the abo-
lition of this wicked practice. Let criminals refuse to
plead, for they are now safe from torture, and we shall
j hear little more of the pleas " guilty " and " not guilty."

The French Journals devote their columns to matters
connect, d with the forthcoming elections. Each Journal
calls loudly for the triumph of its party.
. .

The late Chamber was elected in March, 1839, and as article
31 of the charter limits the duration of the post of Deputy to
five years, it had one more session to run before its legal ex-
piration. Tl.e Chamber is composed of 459 Deputies, and
each sollege elects but one Deputy. The Seine has 14
colleges (including Paris), and is the largest number ;
nnd Corsica has the smallest, two. No person can be eligible
as Deputy if he has not attained his 30th year, and if he does
not pay 500 f. direct contribution. An elector must be 25
years of age, and pay 200 f. direct taxes, unless he be a member
and correspondent of the Institute, and then 100 f. will suffice.
Officers of the army and navy having a pension of 1,200 f.
are entitled to a vote if they have a three years'
residence. No elector can vote in two electoral
arrondissemens. No speechifying takes place in the
Electoral Colleges. The legal personages preside in
them, and provisional scrutineers are named from the two
eldest and two youngest electors in each coilege. The college
fixes its definitive bureau by majority, and the oath is taken by
each elector before voting. If, at the first scrutiny, no can-
didate has more than a third of the voters comprising the col-
lege, or wore than half the voters present, another scrutiny
takes place. if at the second the requisite number has not.
beep illtritilied by the candidates, the bureau declare/ the names
of the two who have got the greatest number of votes, and at
the third scrutiny these two only are eligible. If there should
be even numbers, the candidate who is the eldest is chosen.

Last 'night (at midnight) Chevallier's centrigrade thermo-
meter, marked 23 8-10ths above Zero. To-day, at six in the
morning, 22 5-10ths, at noon 31, and at two o'clock 32 5-10ths.
It will be recollected that Ben-Aissa, the Kabyle chief, was,
after serving France for two years as Kalifa of Sahel, in the
province of Constantino, condemned by the Permanent Court-
martial of the province to hard labour at the hulks for twenty
3 cars for forgery, but that he had his sentence first commuted
to twenty years' detention at the island of Saint Marguerite,
on the Mediterranean Coast of France, and further, in the
course of last month, received the Royal pardon, at the instance
of his son Ahmed, who came from Africa, to solicit it, on con-
dition that he should reside at Verdun, under the surveillance
of the police. A Toulon letter informs us that, on having this
last act of grace communicated to him, he earnestly requested
to be allowed to remain in his prison on the island until the
arrival of his family, whom his son Ahmed was gone back to
Africa, to bring over to him; this stiange request was complied
with.

A letter from Toulon, of the 9th, says that the stivadron
under Vice-Admiral Hugon, is daily expected at the Hyeres
Islands, and that it is believed that it will soon return to
Toulon, and that the Prince de Joinville, whose visit to Eng-
land is said to be put off till next year, was expected very soon
at that port.— Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PAL:is, MONDAY, JUNE 13.

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DR. TURNBULL.—It will be seen by reference to
an article which we have copied from the Literary
Gazette, that our eminent friend, Dr. TURNBULL, goes
on his course rejoicing. The public are already
aware of his great, his beneficial discovery in re-
storing the .deaf and dumb. But .svonderful as that
discovery was, we are apt to think his recent success
in curing the blind is still more so. It is the divine
attribute of true genius, never to rest satisfied in the
march of improvement, but to urge still onwards,
diffusing knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
Such has hitherto been the happy labour of Dr.
TuaNnuLL, and we hope he will long live to command
the hearty gratitude of his fellow-men. One active
man of genius stimulates a hundred others to benefit

the world by his example.
The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and a great
number of Members of the Common Council, went up at
half-past one yesterday, to present addresses to the
Queen and Prince Albert, on her Majesty's.providential
escape. The procession looked exceedingly gay, and
attracted much.public attention. It %as rather singular
to observe so large a body of city police attending on
either side of the coaches.
THE LAND RECLAIMING AND RIVER IMPROVING
COMPANY.—This is a Company formed for reclaiming
and improving land periodically overflowed by rivers in
different parts of Ireland, and a Bill is now • before Par-
liament for its incorporation. It proposes .to raise a
capital of one million sterling, in 20,000 iilitires of 50/.
each, which is to be devoted to the reclamation of waste
lands, the profits from which are expected to be very
considerable, and will be divided among the shareholders.
The object of the Company is laudable, and, if well sup-
ported, promises to be very remunerative.
Complaints were made on Tuesday at the Mansion-
bonse, against the practice of bathing in the Thames,
at places exposed to public observation, when the Lord
Mayor annoul.ced his determination to inflict the heaviest
penalty on persons offending against the laws of decency.
It is all very well to inflict heavy penalties, if no other
remedy can be found for nuisances ; but it is the duty of
the Chief Conservator of the Thames, to exert himself
a little on the side of mercy, and see if he cannot make
arrangements, by which the working classes may enjoy
the healthful recreation of bathing, without offending
public decency. Particular places on the banks of the
river, at which steam-boats seldom touch, might be set
apart for the purpose, and the bathers be compelled to wear
some covering, as in most other countries. We cannot
see why the inhabitants should be deterred, by the pe-
nalties of the Lord Mayor, from using the river for such
an object, and for which it was intended by nature.

THE NEw TARIFF.—In one of the early discussions
on the tariff,'Sir Robert Pe 1 intimated thtit it would
not come into operation till the month of October. Cir-
cum:Aances howev,:r have induced him to c::ang.- his
Ilan, as he stated last night ;hat, according to th.
general rule, the new duties would cont. into operation
from V..e passing of the Act. In less than a month,
therefore tLe public 'yarn see how it works.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, JUNE 14.

Constantinople letters of the 27th ultimo state, that a
meeting of the Envoys on the 19th had been f01i0.% edby
an interview of Baron Summer with the Grand Vizier,
to remonstrate on the maintenance of Omer Pacha ; but
the Vizier remained unmoved. A new Pacha of Tripoli
Is to be appointed.

Malta news is of the sth.
Madrid letters of the 9th mention that three ministers
are surely appointed : Rodil, war ; Alniodovar, foreign
affairs ; and Landero, home affairs.

THUNDER STORM.—After an unusually long period
of dry Sultry weather, the metropolis and neighbourhood were
visited on Tuesday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, with
a thunder storm, accompanied with a slight fall of rain. The
thunder was very loud ; but there was not much lightning.
The rain will do incalculable good to the crops generally, al-
though some injury has been sustained by the fruits in several
gardens and orchards. The thunder storm lasted about an
Lour, and we have not heard that any accident happened.

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