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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

It is
deePlY to he regretted that while the citizens of
Ito dOn
are praiseworthily bestirring themselves to
reader pecuniary assistance to the people of }lamburgh,
all impression should pre ..'ail' among the populace there
1114 t the destruction of their noble city was the work of
in
English cfnidia ries. Yet such is the fact. All the accounts
zoceived this morning from Hamburgh state that so strong
7" the Populir deluSiOn upon this point, that it was
'eared some Englishmen would be murdered in conse-
quence, " While this unfortunateand frightful delusion
prevails," writes our correspondent, " those Englishmen
so active in suppressing the fire are scarce safe. A
mat jealousy•has unfortunately prevailed among the
'working classes o f Hamburghers against many Englishmen
.11)1:loyed here who receive higher pay. These are only en-
Ned in machine manufactories and for the railway; that
15'°11 Work for which the townsmenare manifestly incom-
vet"lt, but which they boast they can do as well." This
S,jis th
most„ rational solution of the popular delusion.
me fiend incarnate set a rumour afloat which
knew the people would swallow with avidity.
q„11" let no violent acts of a people in a state
of let
operate- to their prejudice in any Bri-
tish
ttle hei,Jra. Let not the hand of charity be stayed by
vlok:nee of poor people driven frantic by. their losses
41111 their sufferings. On the contrary, the existence of
41--" delusion is an argument in favour of our being
eore liberal. We cannot take a better or more
Ittlan- means of • removing, it than by con-
utrnfi largely to • the restoration of the an-
itentt "'Torii= or -"Getman civilization and corn-
eE'• We..., trust' some Member of the House of
itn-trn°llswill moot the subject of this calamity in the
that. tier MAJESTY'S Government may have an
th-VePortnnityi of expressing sympathy, at least, for
14'0Ple of gamburgh. More substantial support
-biLtulOY --might only "have the effect of checking
tY?,n'evolen6e, But should it be ultimately found
Cei9.4lk toViiiii*Hinfburgh without an appeal to the
fir-i!tg.°4•.,y:Orf?,a' rtiarneut we should be among the very
to countenance and, support it..

•
ty,'11;1..„ Migei which Yea to the late frightful calamity on
-1!!; y.er'sailles Rail-4-oad will, we trust., meet with due
-
1.1„1r Osation before the :Railroads Bill passes both
Cr of ParlSament. Some useful clauses, proposed
chi nanor, were rejected almost without hearing,
i.173' on thr; authority of the Member for Readin,:,..
th:3Awe 'regretted at the time, and from the Reptirt of
.4.,"W
,-.eray of Science at Paris on the disaste-, we are
shlv4lef A the Bill, must be materially altraed, else it
in be rejected altogether. That learned body,
th6va: document published .yesterflay, pointed out
s (tan of using two locomotives for the
..01% iusec,„ ``,,danger
'lll.4raciti the exaelty of locking up the passen-
, -
the :8 is done on some of the English lines, and
1111,71,ftirltite, necessity of'having elastic substances, or
thtrtilpfik between the passengers and the engine,
spf4.°P°3ecl‘::by the .Member for Bradford: Want of
cif th *nts from making any lengthened remarks
ake--I.,;(s9;pprtance of these suggestions, but indeed they
14,„ sFt rational. and. well.fouuded, that they require
ecT uncut. If no Member of the Commons, there_
h.ave. the courage to take up the subject, and move
!,insektion. of additional clauses in some future stage
~
(lf the Bill, the public must, took to the House of Lords
l.tnec tion.

Athere i
ft.n_ sno Political news in the French papers. The
,tfttt accident on' the Versailles Railway, and the
,siAvvay-Bill occupy the attention of the public Journals
11'7*e:exclusion of everything else. We began to
appre-
1. that the world h,ad lost M. TRIERS, but happily 111
turned up in the debate upon the Railway Bill. We
h
ver= eiuly room for the following extract from his
stieceh •
" Their finances were, no doubt powerful, but then they
'were mortgaged, and friged for several years. A charge of millions hung over France at that moment, and this arose
from tha fact of a variety of civil and military works being un-
dertaken at the same time.. The reserve of the Sinking Fund
would met. 300 millions, and the loan of 500 millions, and
in would place . the debt in a state of liquidation in
to ()or
plieears. Was this an embarrassment which ought
railevent the country from undertaking to execute
ought, " Decidedly not ; but it was one which
tooia,. to blige them to limit their efforts. The Ho-
Der then weut on to prove that the oucrlit
t° engage themselves for 50 or 60 milli ns a yyear,e'as
t'eough t
4ca.ti n„t b y he Minister of the Interior ; it would raise the
(14,
tiot, aebt to 450 minims a year; and, after all the
'nilcoul 11'4 be called a purely national one, since there
te'.est. Buen°eoe!? concealed, in almost every part ef it, some local in-
, Alinistl4 :led by a deputy, or some political one defended by
I,:h cireulnl '4 captivate the electors of some renege. Under
ccent.ty to °Races it would be. unpardonable to constrain the
courflnake such an effort as was now demanded. Fo-
,-,,4nced i6l,`ll;is hail been much spoken of, and it was ad-
in'cotnti_irCaielite,:rivalry of other countries would. force Franc!)
to , ueorabie vast system of railroads. thought it
uestr, that the Government had not yet come forssard
`'evcrotj the falsehoods of maps and journals. The absolute
leatseq toers had deceived Germany as to railroads; they had
i„)e Printed and circulated that they were exe,uling
are " all directions, so that Germany at last had begun to
ofiiitliiihreotli:t the was covered with these lines.—( Laughter. )
,was no such thing. Germany had scarcely 20 leagues
44.1.14,49 more than France. 1 have seen those maps,"
tt;_ail!,44°l.Thiers, covered with various colours, indicating
ne re 'nes. I sought for them on the ground traced out on
eerta aadtould not find them. Plenty of colours there
tit nly
, were on the map of Germany, btu. no railroads. So
ta,•att:s far as that country is concerned, we need not be obliged
flit, pt any extraordivary effort." g
4nent ''x--Alinister contended that the plan of the Govern-
:tp he as too extensive ; that the better way would be
W;ttil one line first, and having finished that,
th:eeied trO another, and so on. M. BILLAULT opposed
eObid ew of M. Turtats; and maintained that all the lines
ti 6tnpleted 'without difficulty in three years,
last -( ae had .continued three days, and was likely to
tta .
Luny more.
461: temarks of the Journals upon the railway noel-
-4 Vat; 111", generally temperate and judicious. The
to 4tricti only indulges in misrepresentations calculated
skip and inflame the public mind against the Ver-
vies,es Railway Directors. A sort of fiendish spirit per-
ti,„ this journal. It is never happy but when sowing
„
,At,a of foreign or domestic strife. It advocates
o,
eed
ft."rs°rla "Y, and calls it Republicanism. Constitutional
Nshas nut a more dangerous, foe in France than
-c„ Pretended Republican organ.
.139uRQ,-,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11.
t, First Highest Lowest Last
Der cents
9th, .
Price . Price. Price.. PriCe.
119 73 119 75 ... 1 9 03 -. 119 (15
r
!tin 3- - -Pats. ...... 102 ... 102 ...102 ..; 102
,„ Per
.. 81 95 81 95 ... 81 90... SI 90
Era ...
2:350 ...3360 —3360
N,• .7,9 Y ;.00;.1., Snares 1010 —lO4O .1041 —lO4O
4,taSri'itAck,!s,l/rAt. ~tiares 1(451 ...5060
Per Crmts.
/44 3 is4o lcs4 tor,y( 10:04
h4h_Pet cents 73 50 ... 73 65 ..73 50 73 t,5
A
11),A ...25 ... 25
.. 43, ... 4%, ...
44
R 1.5% ... 1(374 ... 103%
RAILWAY sHAREs,

141:,'in• .'B4O ... 840 ... 810 ... 840
, "51,„; '". R. E.
utl '3 tai ...... ..... ISO ... 18.1 ... 177 50 ... 177 50
::%.t1744.........• 552 50 ... 553 75 .. 552 50 ... 5:3 75
qiktikto.:..2. .... .
q 't..:Mi. toßale...
--- • • .
r()_r, 1., l. IND LASI3'S W00L.71.1. return has
been laid
i, liii ratnent of the quantity of wool imported into
at tlic. 0.41 in the year 1841, and we are glad to see
6s ~ fitlantity received from our Australian posses-
t7l4 cil"eds that imported from all other countries ex-
-% wil:111411y. The following are 'the principal States
'4,ktuiti.ich the supply is obtained, with the respective
214f1,41.8 in pounds weight :—Germany, 20,958,775
i 40() 04h possessions, including Van Diemen's Land,
js,ssj,' 90 ; States of the Rio de la Plata, 5,105,637 ;
•414i/),-V1.,131,652 • Peru, 3,144,462 ; Italy, 1,502,254 ;
'°BB,Y,OO ; 'Cape of Good Hope, 1,079,910.

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(THIS DAY.)
4 ' 'C LYAIE REGIS.
),,, o
is.,, onamittee met at the usual hour. Mr. HAwzs in
'tt
it;eYote of James Powell, which had engaged the time of the ,* tee all day yesterday, was still under consideration when
teport was brought off.
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--,VI)'S SHIPPING- (THIS DAY.)
c) 4,, ,
,)4 01,, AlAir I3.—Wind this day at noon, W.
the l:, A lll,tr 12.—The.Elizabeth, Pike, from Shields,
1.44 k ^
ground outside the harbour this morning, but is ex-
,4 (I oir neat tide.
114,1-, MAN- 12 —Wind NW. light.—Arrd. Europa,
.11611', Honduras • Arrd. from. the river and sld., Hooghly,
h N4a; Harleqiin, Algoa Bay ; Abercrombie, Robinson,
itpairrie t anti Fanny a Garilgues, Jamaica.N.
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‘l, Arid.
;01)diikr}.;311dTJTsRon,,. AL
London,
01,113. d DI o
d and sailed for NewW York; Clyde
kl):4ll,ti'' Nouthainpton, and has gone into dock. Sid., Rajas-
t4ombay.
lob ,••', Ajax 12.—Arrd. Hope, Roberts, Paraiba.
)0 'l'4l" ,MAY 12.—S1d. Edmond, Quebec. Arrd. off Al.i), /1 .
/itv. obeson.
Jaffe:.l., MAY 12.—S1d. William Thomson, Jamaica.
' 4 roo t 11.1AY 12.—Wincl S., light.—Arrd. Ontario,
it,t(iNn. New' Orleans ; Edinburgh, Lawson,
rtPhAiliobile ; Jef-
-411,4'. Makin Virginia. Sld.HeOlecuean,o
I,laas(:,,,,Video: Lydia, Bahia ; lip ; Siren,
Hamilton, La Guayra;
tit;;•"*votori-i NI-aware, and Shakspeare, New York.
t LI
• ---- Sid. Comet, St. John's.
'legi4let Ararqui'.---"---"------.s of Water..or has ordered a new and
nthe t).6thi''n (diarist to be built, which is to he completed by
'4l ii 'list., about which period his Lordship's marriage to
‘4ll' Miss Stuart de Rothesay is expected tube solemnised.

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" Who runs may read."

:1"017.EIGIV.
In the French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, M.
Dupin called the attention of the House to the necessity of
enacting severe penalties against railway accidents, it being
absurd and ridiculous to punish with a mere fine only errors
that may arise from neglect, ignorance, or presumption, when
those errors lead to such disastrous effects as those that have
filled Paris with grief and horror.
M. Thiers delivered a long speech on the nailway Bill. He
ridiculed the pretensions of Germany to having any great lin: s
of railroad laid down but in maps, and proposed for France, in-
stead of the plan laid down in the law poject, one single icreat
line from north to south, from Lille to Paris, and from thence
to Marseilles through Lyons. He should protest against the
faults abcnt to be committed, first to engage the resources of
the country for a length of time, and next to scatter their
strength, in place of concentrating it on a single point.
The P; esse mentions a report that. amongst the articles
seized a few days ago in the Passage Violet, were thirty-four
bombs of strong sheet iron, filled with bullets and fulminating
powder, and of which even the accidental explosion might have
caused grave accidents in the places where they were deposited.
The. Temps rut the following questions to M. Guizot :
" Is it true that a short time after the treaty of 15th July M.
Guizot, in the hopes of obtaining some concess.ons from Eng-
land, consented to the Right of Search Treaty, such as it has
been signed on the 20th December, 1641 ? Is it true that M.
Guizot, the Ambassador in London, proposed at that time to
Thiers, who was President of the Council, the accersion of
France to the latter treaty. on condition of certain modifications
to the one of ltith July? Is it not true that M. Thiers peremp:
torily refused? "
A private letter from Madrid of the sth states that Govern-
ment has issued most preremptory orders to the civil and mili-
tary authorities of Barcelona to maintain the public peace.
The late seditious events in that city called forth in the Senate
for some explanations from Ministers, who answered that mea
tures of caution and repression had been adoptel to preserve the
tranquillity of the town.
Some questions were put to the Spanish Ministry, and in the
Senate on the 4th, as to the late riots at Barcelona. The
Minister of the Interior replied, that there was nothing alarm-
io in the state of that town, and that the ne:essary orders
had been issued to prevent a renewal of the disturbances.
The Minister of War presented in Congress a Bill to fix the
number of the Spanish army for the year 1842, at 90,000 men.
_ _

trlENmr.
The Lords engaged last night in rather an amusing dis-
cussion about hops, wends, mines, and morality. The larl of
Winchilsea having presented a petition from Kent against the
• reduction of the uuty on hops, Earl Fitzwilliam took the oppor-
tunity of reminding their Lordships in relation to a previous
discussion about mines, that the morality of hop gardens was
not excessive, which of course the Kentish Earl vindicated.
The Earl of Winchilsea also said that the cultivation of hops
was of great importance, as giving value to wood lands, on
which hop poles are grown. The retort made by Earl Fitz-
william was, that the hop duty, then, was required to pay for
growing wood, not that hops might be cultivated. The Noble
Earl added, which is, we believe, very true, that the owners of
woad lands would be more injured by the timber duties than
by the reduction of the hop duties.
The Marquis of Lanttlowne, in moving for some returns, ex-
pressed a strong and decided opinion against the proposition to
tax the foreigne':, wko have invested their property in the
Engli,h Funtit, The Noble Lord described it as a flagrant
breach of f"...ith, or repudiatory on a small scale.
The .F.arl of Ripon, being in the Ministry, pronounced a
different opinion. Lords Monteagle, Brougham, and Mel-
bourn;, took similar views to the Marquis of Lansdowne; so
tha, it was established, in the minds of their Lordships, that
.Sir R. Peel's proposition is a breach kf faith. The returns
were ordered.

Lord Brougham's Bill to bestow indemnity on those who
might criminate themselves by evidence relative to bribery at
elections, went through a Committee. Their Lordships sat
till seven o'clock.

The Commons did not meet in sufficieat numbers to form a
House, and was accordingly adjourned.
rd 0 11MY—T.ic..ELILE C 0 MMERC E.
The Irish Society of London held their twentieth anniver-
sary yesterday in the Hanover-square Rooms. Two hundred
and sixty-four Irish Bibles, 1,919 Testaments, 3,812 portions
of tit, Bible, 83 Common Prayer-books, six dictionaries, 76
grammar., and 10,959 primers, had been distributed by the
Society during the last year. There were established 614
schools, attended by 14,160 pupils; of whom 10,708 were
adults, 290 were above 50 years of age, and 2,394 were females.
The Home proceedings were equally- gratifying. New associ-
ations had sprung up and the funds increased. The receipts,
including 211.1. from H. L. 8., and 2001. from America, were
4,1351. 18s. 11d., and the disbursement ;. including, 3,1001.,
remitted to Ireland, amounted to 4,138/.4'

NAVAL AND itiILICTJULY.
From the official return of the ships of war and steamers
now building and fit for service, it appe,.vithat the latter, riz.,
steamers for service, number 84 ; steamers building, 20 ;
ships of war building, 56 ; total ships of war, in ordinary and
commission, including steamers, carrying Xrom 1 to 120 guns
each, 605.
The British fleet, the largest in the world, employs in time of
peace 33,000 able-bodied seamen, 2,000 lads, and 13,000
Royal marines, forming in all an effective naval force of 46,000
men, and 2,000 lads.

LAW AND P Q X, X';
Yesterday at the Thames Police-office, Thomas Paul, alias
Scottie, Curzon. and Tidy, excavators, and another man
named Jones, who was arrested at Swansea, charged with the
murder of Duncan Crawford, in the Isle of Dogs, in 1837, un-
derwent another investigation. Mr. Ballantine said there was
a case of strong suspicion against the prisoners, and remanded
them for a short time.

TRE.ELTRICILL.
The benefit of Mr. Charles Kean is to take place at the Hay-
market, on Alonday, the 23d inst., on which occasion, a Shak-
sperian revival is promised
The sudden death of Mr. Oxberry's wife, in child-birth, will
prevent his appearance at the English Opera, of which he is
lessee, for some time.

The celebrated opera of the Vestal, one of the finest which
has been produced in this country of late years, and which ob-
tained for its author, Gasparo Spontini, the prize from the
Acaclanie Imperiale in 1807, was performed at Covent. garden
last night for the first time in this country. It was well got
up, and the music is of the first order.

- COI7 itT-FASHXONAMILE.
Yesterday the Hon. and Rev. Henry Legge, vicar of Lewis-
ham, brother of the present Earl of Dartmouth, was married
at Lewisham Church to Miss Rogers, of Eliot-place, Black-
heath.

Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief, intends shortly to pay
another visit to Brighton.

The Eton anniversary dinner is fixed to take place on the
21st instant, at the Thatched House Tavern.

The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr, has issued cards for
a state banquet on Thursday next, in Grosvenor-street.
zilpottS.
The Hon. Miss Lawley, daughter of the late Sir Robert
Lawley, and sister to the late Lord Wenlock, died at Park
Cottage, near Cambridge, last week.
The Queen completes her twenty-third year on, Tuesday,
the 24th instant, but it will be celebrated at Court on the 19th
instant.

Jersey, which may be reached from London in IS hours by
the steamers, contains at present 20,000 English residents, and
it is proposed this summer to run a steamer direct from Brighton
thither, w►thout touching at Guernsey.

LINES ON THE MASKED BALL
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
BY T. WAKLBY, ESQ.

N.B. We have received by express the following pointed
and polished lines, which ara from the imaginative pen of the
Middlesex Coroner, who, Wehave reason to believe, is qualifying
for the post of Poet Laureate.

All ta,,te is matter of opinion,
Some love a cowcumbsr, and some a inion ;
Scene, such as Wordsworth, a "Louisa" love,
And write droll songs to her in Rhydal's grove ;
But I love dearer far to sing of all
The splendors of her MajefAy's State Ball..
Such a grand show ! It quite eclipsed, I remember,
The Lord Mayor's show on the 9th of last November !
Dukes—Marquises—Earls—Barons—by the score,
All over jewel,, danced upon the floor ;
The Duke of Sutherland had'on a dress,
That cost one hundred thousand pounds, I guess.
And Normanby's armour couldn't have cost much less !
Sir .Robert Peel, too, looked uncommon nice,
And danced in velvet breeches once or twice,
Cutting in Majesty's sight full many a caper,
Such as it's impossible to describe on paper.
But looking now and then as grave and staid,
As tho' a half-year's income-tax he'd paid.
As for Lord Cardigan, Quixotic Flat !
He looked as vicious as a drummer's cat,
And quite electrified Royalty, who,
'Tis plain, mistook him for a kangaroo ;
With regard to the rest, they frisked and waltzed as gay,
As sparkling sunbeams on a summer‘lay,
And quitted the Palace, full of fun and glee,
Just as the Horse-Guards' clock struck hplf-past three !