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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, JUNE 6. Marquess Normanby expressed his willingness tn n>- .k papers regarding the removal of certain Wal o^ '"fllf, but proposed lo the Earl of Rip0n to d- "!lCers at Ma,ta 5 count of the absence, from indispo«-' on ac" The Earl of Ripon acqu,V of L4or,luGIeune bring forward the sub- -ced' and stated that he sll0ul(1 on the question as ear'y fts possible.—Several papers quess of y ..ere then ordered on the motion of the Mar- Ii" ..ormanby, .-rl Stankoipe presented petitions complaining of the Poor- law Amendment Act, and one from an individual complaining of oecttliarly harsh treatment. Lord Brougham, in presenting a petition in favour" of the government plan of national education, said that he was against I the plan, not for reasons expressed by others, but because it I did not go far enough." The Marquess of Lansdowne observed that among the num- berless falsehoods circulated on the subject, was one that it I would be compulsory in every part of the country. The Bishop of Exeter moved for a copy of the commission under which the Dean of the Arches holds his office, which I was ordered.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, JUNE 7. Marquess Londonderry again called the attention of their lordships to the case of those officers and others who had been inveigled into the Spanish service, and said he should move for returns of what had been done on the subject.—Lord Mel- bourne said that the committee appointed by the Spanish go- vernment and by the officers had proceeded in their labours; bat as our government had no controul or part in the proceed- i\\g8) fteithef he nor that house had any power to order returns his lordship, however, thought he could procure the accounts and he was perfectly ready to do so. Earl Stanhope presented the petition, of which he had given bobca, regarding the poor law commissioners. Lord Lyndhurst, pursuant to notice, moved for a series of returns respecting the rtate of business, &c., in the Court of CSancety and Exchequer. In the Court of Chancery, in 1750, the amount locked up by proceedings there was £8,000,000 how the amount is f40.000.000. He directed the attention of the house to the absolute inefficiency of the Court of Chancery, as now constituted, to meet the wants of the country, so far as the dispensation of justice is concerned. The Court of Chan- cery is, in fact, borne down by the weight of business. There are, at this moment, cases in arrear to the number of 850 whilst, on the average, a period of between two and three years must elapse before a case can be brought forward for decision. This state of things constitutes, the learned lord observed, an intolerable grievance. His lordship proposed that there should be two new judges one to assist the Lord Chancellor by hear- ing appeals from the Vice Chancellor, &c.; and the other to «id in the equity part of the Court of Exchequer.— Lord Rrougham professed himself opposed, on principle, to the mul- tiplication of judges. That practice—besides the expense to which it gives rise, and the patronage which it creates—tends, according to his opinion, to lessen the vigilance and industry of the judges, and to induce in them a feeling that, in the event of theit shrinking from the laborious discharge of their duties, and permitting arrears of business to accumulate in their courts, parliament will interfere to relieve them from their difficulties, by multiplying the number of their coadjutors.—To him it ap- peared not at all impossible, to work out the end desired, by greater industry on the part of the learned judges—by a sterner •coaomy of time-and, above all, by a separation to a consider- able axtent. of the Chancellor's jndicial functions from his te gislative.—The Lord Chancellor expressed his concurrence in the general principles laid down by Lord Lyndhurst-althou}!h that noble and learned lord's remedies did not appear to be adequate in their extent, to the emergency of the case. The Lord Chancellor utterly denied the accuracy of Lord Brougham's opinion, that the judges in equity could, by any amount of personal toil, cope with the immense chancery business.—After remarks from Lord Langdale, Lord Li/,idhmst observed that he was not prepared to acquiesce in giving two new judges to the Court of Chancery-it would be better to trv what first could be effected by one.—The Lord Chancellor said that he had made such arrangements that he should commence the diminition of the arrears of his court after Wednesday nexl. I he motton for papers was then agreed to and their lordships ( adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YV EDNESDAY, JUNE 5. I Petitions were presented in favour of a fixed rate of penny postage. Mr. Godson presented a petition from the loyal operatives and other inhabitants of the borough of Kidderminster, signed by 2,500 persons, against the Poor-law Amendment Act. Sin R. Inglis moved that Mr. Burge, agreeably to the prayer of his petition, be heard, as agent for Jamaica, against the Ja- maica Bill when its second readmg should be moved. Mr. Labouchere said that he had no objection; he was de. sirous that all should be urged that could be on the subject. Sir Stratford Canning instituted inquiries respecting the blockade of Buenos Ayres by the French, which had now lasted 18 months and asked whether there was any prospect of its termination. I Lord Pnlmerston answered that the blockade still continue. I but that her Majesty's government had used every effort, both in Paris and at Buenos Ayres, to bring about an adjustment. Mr. Greene moved a resolution respecting the standing orders, which was afterwards understood to be withdrawn. The Clerks of the Peace bill went through committee, after some remarks from Mr. Pahington and Mr. Barneby.—Report ordered to be printed, and to be considered on Friday. COPYHOLDS. Mr. J. Stuart moved that the report of the Copyholds En- franchisement bill be taken into further consideration. 5 Sir E. Sudgen wished the measure to be postponed, and said that the bill ought to be brought forward earlier in the session, when there would be a chance of passing the measure. ) Mr. J. Stvart hoped the bill would not be allowed to be postponed. The fault was not his that it was not brought for- ward earlier he had attended each night, but had not had the < opportunity of proceeding earlier. The bill was not his—it 1 proceeded from the recommendation of a committee. He was not bigoted to the details; let them be considered in committee. S r G. Strickland moved, as an amendment, that the report be taken into further consideration on that day six months. The compulsory clauses remained, and to them he was decidedly < opposed. He moved that the report be taken into further t consideration that day six months. Sir R. Inglis seconded the amendment, because he had a great objection to the compulsory clauses in the bill. The Attorney-General supported the bill, and contended that the house ought to proceed with it. He hoped this session would not pass, before something was done for an improvement in the law of copyhold. He would advise his hon. friend, however, to give up the compulsory clauses in the bill. He hoped this would be an instalment of the reform in copyhold law. He hoped there would be nothing like finality in respect (Hear.) He was opposed to this principle of finality In legislation—(hear)—for he felt that where improvement was necessary, reform should proceed. i-.fr S*dgen nid it would be difficult to proceed with this for it^consideraf'o8U^°eSte<* ^urt^er l'ine should be given F^inr.a m W Lord G- Somerset, Mr. Hope, Mr. Solicitor VpnufMr Frcshfield. Sir Strickland, the S i i* ?tuart' and Mr- Goulburn, the mo- mittee onllie bill Th rh hou8e reso,ved itself into a com- mittee on the bill. The Chairman reported progress and ob- tamed leave to sit a^ain. Thp 0 dered to be printed for re-committaK receive and or- The High Sheriffs' Expenses bill was committed. The house then went into committee for the purpose of providing the means of building stables at Windsor Castle. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the present stable- so far from being fitted to a royal residence, were not even such as a private individual would be satisfied with. Thev were situated in the town of Windsor, in very inconvenient situations, and their sites could be much more profitably em- ployed for the interests of the crown. There was, besides no riding school attached to them, and the vote which he proposed to take, would afford the means of building one without any additional charge. The right hon. gentleman then moved that the sum f70,000 should be voted out of the land revenues of the crown, for the purpose of building stables at Windsor. After a few words from Mr. fVarburton, Mr. Phillips asked if the sum proposed to be voted, would cover the whole of the expense. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it would be sufficient, even if no profit were made from the site of the old stables. Nr. IVakley deeming £70,000. for the building of stables an exiiavagant wasle of the public money, gave notice that at a future stage, he would move that it be reduced to £50,000. He would do so then. but that he feared the hoiise would be counted out.—The vote was tften agreed to. and the house resumed. THURDAY,JuNE6. l'ftr. Macauley, the new member for the city of Edinburgh, took the oaths and his scat. The third reading of the London-bridge Approaches Bill culled forth earnest opposition from Sir R. Inglis, Lord Dun-, giinnon, and Mr. Estcourt, as it authorises the pulling down of the church of St. Barthomolew, Exchange-, where are depo sited the remains of Mites Coverdate but after a division (ayes 9*2, noes 33) it was read the third time and passed. Mr, O'Connell gave notice that on June II, he would move for leave to bring in a bill to enable Roman Catholics to hold office in the spiritual courts of Ireland and (he was under- stood to add) to be lord chancellor of that part of the united kingdom. Lord J. Russell, with reference to the business of the house, proposed that the Prisons (S'cotfand) Bill should be considered on Friday, then that counsel should be heard on the Jamaica Bill, taking tlte discussion on Monday on the question of going into committee. He proposed to resume the consideration of the Canada resolutions on Thursday, and if they were affirmed, to bring in two bills founded on tnem—the first, for a legisla- tive union of the two provinces, not to be pressed beyond the second reading this session the second bill, to continue till 1842 the powers now vested in the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada, he wished to pass this session. Mr. IVahley gave notice that on June 11 he would move an address for copies of the correspondence betwe^rt the Queen and Sir R. Peel 14th May, and read b*' the right hon. baronet to the house when explaining ilie circumstances of his failure to form an administration.— Lonl J. Russell said that he certainly should cpjVdse any such motion. Sir n. Inglis made inquiry whether the government had adopted any step in consequence of a Roman Catholic (M'llale) having assumed the title of Archbishop of Tunm, contrary to law. (Hear, hear, hear.)—l.ord J. Russell said that he was not at all aware of the fact; but on a former occasion, he had refused to acknowledge a title of a similar nature.—Mr. O'Cnll- nell denied that it was contrary to law; but afterwards admitted, when Sir R. Inglis had read the clause from the Roman Ca- tholic Relief Bill, inflicting a penalty of £ 100. for every such offence, that he was wrong. The house then resumed the consideration, in committee, of the Election Petitions' Trialliill, &c. The discussions in the committee occupied the greater part of the everting. A conversation arose rcspectiiig the proceedings of the Char- tists, during which tOrd J. ttussell stated that the accounts from the country on the subject, were more favourable than they had been.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, JUNE 7. Some discussion took place on the Cheltenham Improvement bill which was lost on a division, the numbers being—aves, 177, noes, 186. Lord J, Rnstell said, in answer to Lord Dungannon's inquiry, that it \5 his intention to make his statements regarding the goveftttiient plan for national education, on Friday. He did Hot expect that the discussion on the Canada resolutions, would last beyond Thursday night. Sir E. Sltdgell inquired whether any measure was in contem- plation respecting foreign lotteries. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that attention had been directed to the subject, but there were so many means of eva- sion, that he feared the remedy would be difficult. Afr. Herries inquired whether the government had directed any attention to the report of last session on metropolis im- provement. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that it had been referred to the commissioners of woods and forests, who were ready to afford every facility in their power. Colonel Perceval directed attention to the complaints against the prevalent practice of persons carrying sticks laden with lead and asked whether the government intended to propose the re-enactment of the 11th Geo. II., c. 10, or any other remedy. Lord Morpeth answered that he hoped to have soon to em- body the recommendations for remedy in a bill. The committee on the Prisons (Scotland) bill was deferred till Wednesday next—the District Sessions bill was ordered to be read a second time that day three months—the order for re- ceiving the report on the District Prisons bill, was discharged. The report of the Prisons bill was further considered, and amendments made. Lord J. Russell said that he could not fix any specific day for further considering the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues bill. The house (after an adjournment till half-past eight o'clock) then proceeded to hear counsel against the second reading of the Jamaica bill. Mr. Burge and two other counsel were in attendance. Mr. Burge addressed the house at great length, which occupied neatly the remainder of the sitting. It was arranged that the debate should be taken on Monday, on the question of going into committee on the bill.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-SATUIWAY, JUNE 8. [SITTINGS IN BANCO.] THE QUEE:" v. FROST AND PARTRIDGE.—The Attorney-Ge- neral applied on behalf of Thomas Phillips, Esq., the mayor of Newport, in Monmouthshire, for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against John Frost, thp. author, and John Partridge, the printer, of a libellous placard, imputing to Mr. Phillips misconduct in his character as a ma- gistrate. There had been, as their lordships were aware, some riots at Newport, occasioned by the Chartists. These riots were put down. Many of the ringleaders who were apprehended, were brought before Mr. Phillips, as mayor of Newpoit, and were by him dealt with accordingly to law. In consequence of what he then did, the libellous placard in question had been piinted, and posted over the-walls of Newport. He did not complain of it for its comments on his political opinions, nor would he have noticed it on account of the personal attack it contained on himself, but it was also full of most undeserved :ensure and false statements, respecting his conduct as a magis- rate, and was a gross incentive addressed to the Chartists, ac- tually inciting them to actual violence. On these grounds Mr. Phillips felt himself called on to appeal to the protection of the court. The placard began In this manner —" One of the mosl noisy brawlers for Reform was Thomas Phillips, the mayor of \Ionmo\ltll, and this insolent man, sprung from what he is 1)leased to call the lower orders, is now the most biller persecu- tor of those who advocate a real reform of the House of Com- mons. After this false attack on Mr. Phillips's character, the placard went on thus:—"On Saturday, when they were brought before the mayor, I informed him that I was ready to prove that they were innocent, and told him that he had con- demned them without hearing evidence in their favour. I said that their witnesses were refused admission into the room when the examinaiion was going on he in a most impudent manner refused to examine them he required bail to a large amount for their appearance at the Quarter Sessions, and also to be of ijood behaviour; and if bail had not been procured, these inno- cent men would have been sent 10 a jail." Even this attack, though it imputed misconduct to Mr. Phillips as a magistrate, Inl!?hr have been passed over, but then came the following part, vhich was an absolute excitement 10 violence :—" The men ol he north of England use language of this sort -—' We,' say hey, seek for justice for ourselves and our families, and in loing so we keep within the law. If others exceed the I 11111 Is- f our leading men be imprisoned, no violence having been committed—why then we shall consider that a coal-pit is quite is safe a place for a tyrannical persecutor, as a gaol for an In- locent Chartist." Now, when it was recollected that the Chartists had been very violent in their conduct, and when he nformed their loidships that there were numerous coal-pits in that neighbourhood, this threat of personal violence was not to Ie disregarded. The placard thus went on :—" The Monmouth nagistrates threaten to take away licenses from public-houses, f Chartist meetings be held in these houses. Here was pretty iecunty Threaten to deprive a man of his livelihood, if he is n favour of Reform in the House of Commons Countrymen, this is a state of slavery which cannot be longer borne. Be drm, be peaceable, and our righteous cause will succeed." ) hts was the placard in respect of the publication of which he l*as justified in calling for the interference of the court. The printing was clearly proved on the affidavits to have been done !IY Partridge, and the handwriting of the paper from which the placard was printed, was that of Frost. The publication was, therefore, made out against both of them. The court granted the rule.

THE CZAREVITSCH AND THE WELSH MSS. SOCIETY. We have to record one of the last munificent actions of his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, which took place only a few hours before his departure from Mivart's Hotel, Friday se'nnight, on occasion of an application 'rom the Rev. Mr. Evans (the secretary of the Welsh MSS. society), on behalf of the committee, for permission to placc lis Imperial Higlmess's name as patron of the above society, ind explaining the laudable objects it has in view, viz., the translating and publishing the numerous Welsh MSS. which yet exist, containing matter both poetical and historical, of jreat value and interest; and we subjoin an extract from the letter with which the honorary secretary was favoured, written iy the Conseiller Joukovsky, by the command of the Czarc- ulsch :— Sir—His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia laS directed mc to acquaint you that he accedes with much pleasurc :0 the wish expressed by the Socicty for the Translation anti Publica- tion of Welsh MSS. that his name should he placed as a patron of the iaid Society, to whose labours hc wishes all the success, whICh. from :heir very interestinK naturc they may fairly anticipate. His Imperial Highness has further directed me to inform you, that he has ordered me hundrcd pounds to be plaecd at the disposition of the society, t, he employed by them for the advancement of their objects. For my- self, sir, t can only express my deep sense of the honour the society would confer upon me, and 1 shall be proud of being associated with a body of gentlemen united for so laudable a purpose as that which the Royal Welsh Literary Society have in view.—1 have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedicnt servant Mivart s Hotel, May 31, 183!)." I he eminent writer of this letter is well known to be the Byron of Russia, as far as poetical genius is concerned, and is selected by the Emperor, for his supeiior learning and moral qualities, as the companion of the Grand Duke on his travels, and whose name will henceforth be enrolled among the hono- rary members of the Welsh MSS. Society.

MANSION-HOUSE.—SATURDAY. DISCOV ERY OF A DAUGHTER or KINO GEORGE THE FOURTH AND MilS. FITZHERHERT.—A well-dressed female, of respec- table appearance, who said that her name was Sophia Elizabeth Guelph Sims, waited upon the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of soliciting his lordship's assistance in proving that she was the daughter of Mrs. Fitzherbert, by George the Fourth, in ordei that she might obtain, not honours and distinctions, but a sum of money which was left for her maintetiahce atul education, [ll is proper to say; that if any tnoncywasteft to defray the expences of her education, it was quite evident there had been no application of it to that purpose.] The Lord Mayor said he had never heard that there was any issue from the connection between Mis. Fitzherbert and the Piince, and he had seen by a letter from the Times newspaper, some time ago, that it was mentioned incidentally by Lord Stourton that there had been no child. Mrs. Guclph Sims said lhat she had written to Lord Stour- ton, contradicting his Lordship's staifcrtient lo that effect, as she was, according to the dying assurance of her nurse, and othci circumstances of a mysteiious nature, the child of that union, having been horn of the body of Mrs. Fitzherbert, on the 4th of May, 1802, at eleven o'clock at night, if the Countess of Jer- sey and Sir Richaid Croft told the iruth. The Lord Mayor: What proof is there, there was any child at all resulting from what you call the tlniod, but what every- body knew could be no union at all or why, if you thought you were Mrs. Fitzlieibeit's child, did you not make a stir about it ? I don't see how it is possible lhat a woman in your circumstances, believing herself to be the daughter of a king, could have been so long quiet.—Mrs. Guelph Sims said Mrs. Fitzherbert knew nothing about it. The Lord Mayor: What! were you born without her know- ledge ?—Mrs. Guelph Sims She supposed that her child was still-born, and was never told to the contrary and I was always afraid, when I was informed by my nurse that I was the daughter of the Prince, to apply to either my father or mother. The Lord Mayor acknowledged that it would be very difficull to convince him that there was any foundation for the supposi lion that Mrs. Guelph Sims's birth was at all superior to wha' appeared to be her present condition. Mrs. Guelph Sims said that she had certainly no guide in the affiir, except the dying declaration of her nurse, Peggy White, and the letters of Lady Jersey, which, in her opinion, as strongly as possible testified to her identity with the child that was born to the Piince. Peggy White received her from the hands of Sir Richard Croft and the Countess of Jersey the moment aftei her birth, and about three weeks afterwards she was delivered over to the care of a woman named Boswell, in France, where an attempt was made to assassinate them both. On the 1st of September she was brought back to London to the Countess of Jersey, and baptized in the name of Sophia Elizabeth Guelph. She was then put under the care of Mrs. Hill, sister to Peggy IThite and wife of Captain Hill, who received £2000. to adopt her, provided she was not claimed, and was commanded to call her Margaret Hill. The Lord Mayor asked whether she had received any part of the money ?—Mrs. Guelph Sims replied in the negative. The Countess of Jersey, she said, left in the hands of Lord Rivers, who was subsequently found drowned, £1000. to be paid to her upon her attaining the age of twenty-one years and Mis. Hill was to receive fSO. a year, from Loid Rivers or his heirs, till she reached that age, which happened on the 4th of May, 1815. Mrs. Hill died in November of the same year. She I ( Mrs. Guelph Sims) having been put in possession of important letters on the subject, delivered them to Lord Rivers, at his request, upon his assurance that he would lay them before the Duke of Wellington, in order that they should be put into the hands of her Royal Father, but the letters were detained and the Duke of Wellington, upon being applied to afterwards on the subject, declared that he had never received any communi- cations of the kind. One of these letters was for Mrs. Filzher- bert, Park-lane, and was written by the doctor, and sinned by the minister. Upon application for the correspondence to Lady Rivers, alter the death of Lord Rivers, she ( Mrs. Guelph Sims) received a verbal message to call upon a Mr. Haye, but all the satisfaction she received fiom him was the information that Lord Rivers was too much the gentleman not to give the letters to the Duke of Wellington. The Lord Mayor: And what are you doing now in the midst of all these expectations?—Mrs. Guclph°Sims I am married to a journeyman baker, but he is in ill health. I have every reason to think that I am the daughter of George the Fourth and Mrs. Fitzheibert, and 1 am most anxious for some inquiry. The Lord Mayor: If George the Fourth knew it, 1 am sure that he would have made provision for you but I dare say you will easily procure the assistance ft somebody to solve the mys- lery. I can only tell you that the Lord Mayor cannot do tt.

A NOVEI, SUPPER.-A man and woman of very clluivociJl character were last week held to bail by the magistrates of Lambeth-street, for being drunk and disorderly. It appeared that on Wednesday night last a raffle took place at a public- house in East Smithheld, for a bullock's head of more than or- dinary size, and the winner of the prize, it seemed, had made up his mind to give his friends a sumptuous treat. With this object in view, he piocurcd half a hundred weight of potatoes, and having sent them with the bullock's head to a neighbouring baker s invited neatly twenty persons to be of the party to enjoy Ihe sumptuous feast. The immense pan containing the baked head and the potatoes was borne on the shoulders of lour men, and guarded by four others, with broom sticks in their hands, W'lH ner and fifer in front, playing The roast beef of Old England as Ihey marched along. The prisoners were among the guests, and, on the principle it was supposed, thai good eating deserved good drinking, imbibed more than they ought, and this led to the present charge.

In a dispute which arose last November in a place of public resurt between Messrs. Joly and Cborcadelle, two medical xtudfcnts, about a young woman, who, it appears, had been the dure amie of both, the former gave his rival a blow. A meet- 109 with swords ensued in the Hois de Meudon, and Joly, being run through Ihe body, fell dead on the fi^ld. These cir- cumstances were stated by us at the time. Chorcadelle and the four seconds were yesterday arraigned for the muider before the Court of Assies but as it was clearly proved that the provo- cation given by the deceased was exceedingly gross, all the par. ties were acquitted.—Galignani. Among the names of some officers recently presented for promotion by the Prussian Minister of War to the King," says a Berlin correspondent, was that of Lieut. Baron de '1' of the Hussars of the Guard, a member of an old Brandenburg family, and whose ancestors had powerfully contributed to the establishment of the monarchy. It happenerl, however, that the King, on examining a petition lor pardon of a young woman who had just before been condemned to death for the murder of her child, had observed that she stated the father of it to have 1 been Baron de T whose desertion of her, and refusal to make any provision for his offspring, had driven her in despair to commit the act. His Majesty instituted an inquiry, and satisfied himself of the truth of the poor girl s assertions. Upon this, he has not only granted her full pardon, but has refused 10 promote the baron, and has ordered him to be removed from the Hussais to the same rank in a regiment of the line. In consequence of this, tiio baron has resigned his commission, and is gone into retirement."—Franch paper. The Heir Apparent to the Turkish Throne was 10 leave the harem of his mother on the 15th ult., and to assume a regular establishment of his own. This was considered at Constanti- nople the greatest innovation on ancient customs which the Sultan had yet attempted. The young Piince in question is called Abdul Medjid, and completed his 16th year on the 20th of April. The Sultan has another son living, Abdul Aziz, now in his 10th year, and four daughters. EXECUTION OF SEVEN MEN—Yesterday morning, the seven men convicted of the murder of the blacks, at Liverpool Plains, sufficed the last sad penalty of the law on the drop, in the jail yard, George street. Four of the men were Episcopalians, and were attended 10 the scaffold by the Rev. W. Cowper and Mr. T. Hyndes. The remainder being Roman Catholics, were attended by the Rev. Mr. Murphy, of St. Mary's Church.— rhe unfortunate men, Kilnvaister especially, seemed deeply de- jeeted. Having severally shaken hands with Mr. Keck, the jailor, and kissed each other, they resigned themselves to their fate, and were speedily launched into eternity. The Colonist, December 10. A dreadful accident occurred at the end of April in a steam- boat, near New Orleans, America owing to part of the piston rod giving way, a rent took place in the boiler, an immensity of steam escaped, and thirty of ihe passengers who were exposed to its effects, and inhaled the heated vapour, died in consequence- Several others were seriously scalded. TilE S. AVR TR ADE.—We justly boast, as a Christian nation, of our abolition of the slave trade, but are loo apt to shut our eyes t° the humiliating truth, which is demonstrated to us on all sides, that our abandonment of it has not materially dimin- uhed its amount, and that ,t „ carried on at ten times the cost o human suffering inflicted when i, was a lraffic carried 0n by all nations, and subject to regulation. Our zeal therefore in the cause should suffer no abatement until all other nations have been brought to concur wi, ns in pultin (ota) s,0p to iiT find'i0 ,he instance of Brazil alone, a vast field opened for their exertions. The letters by the last mail state, that in the port of Ri„de Janeiro, there were no less than 36 vessels hiitmg out for this delestabk traffic in human beings, as openly as colliers ,u Thames, for the peculiar nature of the service admits of no mistake in this Icspect. Of the car. goes brought by them into p„r, ,|lerc are J j js ,rlIC) any official entries, but ,n other respects as tittle concealment is practised as in the fitting out for that destination and any mer- chanton the spot may, If he pleases, collect U.e.esults with- out difficulty. 11 may be stated as a fact derived from .he authority of commercial letters, that in the month of Janu- ;iiy last, into the port of Rio alone> 1042 ^ere brought ,0 three ships and that itl „le mon h ot',arv 6137 slaves were brought in ten ships. As the destruct.on o Fife in these sddom'Ie°ss ,il "onY^ «P"»* port and dunnp ,°nC-half'Ltransactions for one Brazilian than 14 000 huma"0!"1,0 ? °n' 'nvo've li,e sacrifice of more face of the Le no "gS A" "lis h*s ^en P,ace ,n under the PortuguesTf!anS tl°ria|),Urerthe VeSSe'S to arrive frolD Eng- an to en orce those instruclions,-Times.

DOMESTIC NEWS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has obtained leave to bring in a bill to make perpetual the act of 1 Victoria, cap. 80, to exempt certain bills of exchange and promis- sory notes from the operation of the usury laws. ATROCIOUS OUT JIAGES—,0.n Wednesday evening a meet- ing of the resDebtgUle inhabitants of Trowbridge* was hetd in that town, for tllc purpose df deliberating upon tta best means of securing the quiet of the place, and the protec- tion of life and property, as soon as the police force granted them from London during the late Chartist agita- tion should be withdrawn. When the meeting had broken up and were dispersing; it happened that a number of the policemen were looking out of a window, when six men and two women, of the lower class, passed by, and one of the former drawing a loaded pistol from his person, fired it among, the police force; biit fortunately without effect. The policemen, without wailing to pursue the offenders by going through the house door, jumped at once from the window, and took the whole eight into custody. On some of their persons ball and powder were found, and the pis- tol was discovered in the hedge close by where it was lired. The matter waits full enquiry. On Sunday, a party proceeded iii a boat from Stourport to HamstaU Inn lo spend the day. On their return, a person was drawing lip the boat with a rope tied to the inast, when the rope broke, and the sudden jerk filling the boat with water, the whole party were thrown into the Severn, when Mr. John Jennings and a boy named John (Juilliani were drowned. An inquest, on Monday, re- turned a verdict of" Accidcntat Death" in each case.— Worcester Join Hah A private of the Life (juards, having absented Iiimself from his regiment without leave, was suspected to have gone to the house of his relations near Bradford, in York- shire, and directions were sent from head quarters to ap- prehend him and send him back to London in custody. The officers succeeded in capturing their prisoner, and were taking him to gaol, when he gave them the slip by ingeniously tripping them up, and oil he started, followed over hedge and ditch, leading them a gallant chace, ulti- mately taking refuge in the fire-hole of Mr. W ill oil's mill, whence his pursuers dragged him out. lie was again on his journey in custody, but soon again played the consta- bles the same trick, and started off with renewed speed, followed at a distance by his pursuers, who, after a long run, lost their man among some small houses. The women who had afforded the soldier shelter, determined to aid his escape; so they got some masons to put the officers on the wrong scent, (tressed the Life Guardsman in plain clothes, shaved off his mustachios, and walked with him; the con- stables passed who were looking after him, leaving him to pursue his road to London.— Hull fax Express. GEORGE STEVENSON, ESQ—That truly great and dis- tinguished man, Mr. George Stephenson, Civil Engineer, of Newcastle, stated pnblicly, at the recent opening of the York and North Midland Railway, with the truth and simplicity which mark his character, that he commenced his career in life as a plough-boy, and that he was sent out by his parents to labour, when he was only eight years of age. The village of Killingworth, near tins town, it is undeistood, had the honour of giving birth to Mr. Ste (iliensou—now certainly one of the most able, as well as useful, men in the whole world. SuicinE FOR LOVE.— Mary Ann Nightingale, aged 26, poisoned herself on Friday morning at Boon field, near Peterborough, under the following circumstances:—The poor girl had been keeping company with a young man who went to America. She followed him to the United States, under the impression of becoming his wife; but, on her arrival, lie refused to marry her. She lately re- turned home, and her faithless sweetheart's conduct so preyed upon her mind, that she committed the above fatal acl.- Lincoln Chronicle. A Conference was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Ollice, when the ratifications of the treaty of peace between the King of Holland and the KlIIg of the Belgians were exchanged. This final act brings to a happy termi- nation a question of vital importance, beset with many difficulties which seemed almost insurmountable, and which did, upon more than one occasion, force Europe to the vety threshold of a general war. It is, therefore, with hearty pleasure that we announce this final act of its peace- fill settlement, I Mr. George Binns, of Sunderland, attempted to preach in the Market-place, South Shields, on Sunday last, in behalf of the Rev. Mr. Stephcns's defence fund but the authorities interfered, and the preacher and his congrega- tion proceeded to the Sea Banks, where Master George held forth for some lime. I lis sermon was a medley of blasphemy, and disaffection to the institutions of the country.— Ti/ne Pilot. The friends of Alderman Thompson, M.P. for Sunder- land, have sent forth a baud-bill to the electors ol that town, desiring them not to pledge themselves to vote foi Mr. White, the Liberal M.P., in the event of a ueiier.il election. They intimate, we hear, that the London Alder- man is to bring another candidate with him, to have a double "Rare-up" at the next Sunderland election. They will not, however, so easily put the ctillilxtsh upon the Li- beral part of the constituency as they expecl.-lbid. The Chartists held a meeting at Cowpen Quay, Blyth, on Wednesday last, which was attended by Messrs. Hume and Charlton, as a deputation from Newcastle. The speakers addressed a small audience in a very moderate and subdued tone. Government firmness and royat pro- clamations have evidently had the effect of curbing a great many of the physical redundancies of expression indulged in by these worthies; and it is hoped the time is not dis- tant when the woiking man will turn away from the inciter to violence and crime, and unite with the classes immedi- alely above him in obtaining a safe and progressive reform in those institutions which are aknowledgcd as defective and inefficient.— Ibid. COMMlTfAL OF Fouu MEN IN YORKSHIRE FOR DRILL- ING.— It will lie recollected that a short time since Lord J. Russell forwarded to the Lords Lieutenant of counties a letter, intimating that if respectable bodies of men chose to associate for the purpose of protecting life and property, ihe Government would furnish them with arms. In order to be enabled to use the arms effectually, these bodies of persons must, of course, be drilled, and since the publica- tion of his Lordship's letter the Chartists have been on the look-out to detect any of the Russell Armed Association men in the act of drilling, for the purpose or laying all information by way of retaliation for the committal of some of the Chartists for a similar offence. They have at length succeeded in their object, and at the Petty Sessions at Barnesley, on Wednesday last, four tradesmen who had been drilling were ordered to hud bail to answer the charge at llotherham sessions.— Courier. MAN KILLED BY A BULL. Samuel Millingham was killed last week by a bull, which ran at him and tossed him into the air. Ihe bull is the property of Mr. Albut, of Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, and the deceased was his cowman. Verdict," Accidental Death." SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Monday, Mr. R. N. Fynn and Mr. John O Ilara went out to fight a duel at Clonlarf, Ireland, when, after the first fire without effect, the former gentleman, by some accident, shot himself in the leg. He is out of danger. I A stack of wheat, the property of Mr. Bayley, of Bos- ford, IIPar Shrewsbury, Was on Monday se'nnight consumed by fire, the wokof an incendiary, who has not yet been I discovered. A communication between Oxford and London is about to be established by steam-boats. ANCIENT ROMAN SILVER COIN.—A denarius of Marcus Aurelius was dug up by one of the excavators of the foun- dation of the steps to the front entrance of the proposed Queen's College, near Rath, and presented last week, on the day of King Charles's Restoration, to the projector. Ibis coin was struck in the beginning of the second cen- tury-and although therefore, 1700 years old, the beaUi- tully executed head of the Emperor which it bears is in perfect preservation. On Thursday se nnighl, the Corporation of Newcastle- on-lyne met to petition Pailiamenl in favour of the minis- terial plan of education, when the Chartists of the place attended the meeting, outvoted the Corporation and their adherents, and passed resolutions condemning the system of education. IRELAND. DISTRESS OF THE POOK.—Accounts continue to be received of the increasing sufferings of the poor in some parts of the south and west, in consequence of the scarcity and high price of potatoes and oatmeal. In Cas- tlebar, in the county of Mayo—the scene heretofore of periodical famine-oatmeal is 20s. per cwt., and potatoes 7d. per stone of 14lbs. Here many labourers, who are fortunate enough to obtain employment, receive only 8d., and in some instances but 5d., per day. A meeting is about to be called in Castlebar, to apply to the Govern- ment for assistance. Matters are little better in the south, It is stated that the labouring peasantry of Kerry are on 'n ? s'3fvation, and that in the town of Tralee nf T?, es are destitute of the absolute necessaries fore' ?„ populace of Cork broke the windows of some oresiauerswho had been regraling potatoes, and destroyed ""On gates of the potatoe market. Tlie police were Ca|^ °?!' Ll 'e m:,yor found it necessary lo bring the military also, before the rioters could be induced to disperse. .ED,CF L CONGRESS IN DUBLIN.—A very numerous te mg o the physicians and surgeons of Ireland was held last week in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dubliii, for the purpose of forming all union of medicine an surgery, and no gentleman was admitted without first signing a pledge, to the effect that he was favourable to A ProPose change. The room was crowded to excess, an teie could not be less than 400 aeutlemen present. Surgeon Carmichael, President of the College of Surgeons, Wm Cff e» i° d'r' a,,d the resolutions for carrying into efleet the object of the meeting were carried. »r.e|1fLvr.R°Iui IN I.u.LAND.-There has been at length a 'l nn 6 the weather, and all ground for ncirlv it nnTT ''Ie ^'rovv't? crops may be considered ,V'i!!>e course of Sunday night rain coin- is evetv anne^rar 'i ia,l(* l^e neighbourhood,and there by plentiful shower's'^ Tu PThctI SOi' wi" bC re,'eVCCl rejoiced to learn the mij llThlT' Evening Post. been ver>' general.—Dublin A correspondence has taken place between Mr. H. used by the latter in comment^Tl"8 S°m,e ex;Pr,esslfons mer, reported in an Irish paner r sP,ee £ pressed sorrow for having 8iveE Mr ex-

MlNlNd. [From the Mining Journal.] PRICES OK SHARES.—UR1TISII MINES. No. ol NAME OK es g-a R.Ji 5 s Shines COMPANY. £ '« 2 .¡ 500 Anglesey 100 5 10 8 8 10 1,800 Arigna lroti & Cosff Co.. 50 33 — — 4,000 Bissoe Bridge 5 5 I l 8,000 Blaenavon 50 40 431 435 43-| 8,000 British Tin 2 £ 2 £ £ x a 20,000 British Iron 50 50 9A 9 91 1,00(1 Carigi;an — 13 5 5 5 100 Copper Bottom — 41 30 3u 30 2,000 Cornubian Lead Company — 4J 4 4 6,000 Cornwall Great United 12 9 2 2 2 5,000 Dartmoor Consols 5 5 3 3 3 10,000 Durham County Coal Co. 50 30 — 2,000 East CornwallTin, &c. 6 6 £ l 3 3 2,560 East Wheal Strawberry.. 10 61 f 1 a 1,500 East Mulberry Hills. — 3' 2 2 2" 4,000 English 25 121 2 12 2 10,000 Hibernian. 50 9 4, 3i 41 1,000 Holnibush 100 14 42 40 41 2,000 Isle of Serk (Guernsey).. — 5J 11 11 11 12,000 Kellcwferris 5 2' 1 1 20,000 Mining Co. of Ireland 29 7 13 13 13 6,000 Perran Consols 5 3.5 ]3 ji j j 3,000 Polbeiou Consols 10 lo* l* ]4 j 6,000 Polbreen 5 4 u j j 2,000 Kclistian — 20 19 20 5,000 Bedinoor Consolidated 5 41 31 2' 10,000 Rhymney Iron 50 40 36 362 362 8,000 St. Hilary 2A Is £ J 4 800 South Towan 10 10 6 0 6 4,000 Tregollan 5 3 3} 3} 31 6,000 Trevoigus 5 5 J 1 1 4,505 I'releigb Consols 5 41 ]i jl. ja 4,505 1'amar Consols 5 3 3 3" 6,000 I'in Croft 10 6J 6 51! 6 198Trevaskus — 60 60 55'! 55 3,000 Irewolvas 10 8 2 -2 1 2 4.0(H) United Hills. 5 5 11 101 11 2,000 Wendron 8 8 3 3 3 3,300 West Cork 50 50 — — 5,000 Wheal Brothers 20 20 1 5,000 Wh. Harm. & Montague. 10 10 6 5^ 6 6,000 Wicklow Copper 5 '5 8 8 8 4,520] West Wheal Jewel 8 6 5j 5 5 800|Wheiry Mine 15 12 12 12 12 20,000;Westein Mining Associa. 5 1 — — 5,000 Wheal Sisters — i 256 Wh. I'rosper (Stithyans) — 3J 5 4j! 5

RAILWAYS. BIRMINGHAM, BRISTOL, AND THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.—-On Wednesday the 5th inst., there was a special general meeting of the proprietors of this company, at which i' was resolved to raise £50,000. for the purpose of carrying into cffect the objects of the company. ll was slated by the chair. man, that it was the intention of the directors to bring into use stationary power and not locomotive.

BANKING. A return has been laid before Parliament, of the amount of deficiency in bills issued to the Bank of England since the 5th «f January, 1838, which is stated to be £ 23,689,918. The same paper contains the weekly returns from the Bank of Eng land to the Stamp office, from the 1st of March, 1837, to Ihe 1st of March, 1838. The highest return was £ 20,379,155., for the week ending July 22, 1837 and the lowest was £ 16,910,376., for -he week ending 6th of January, 1838. The fluctuations in the quarterly averages of the deposits, which 'he same return exhibits, from the 1st of March, 1837, to the 1st of March, 1839, have not exceeded £ 1,600,000.; the highest £ 11,535.000. for the three months ending the 6th of March, 1838 and the lowest was £ 8,949,000., for the three months ending the 13th of November, 1838. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.- -The following private banks, in Yorkshire alone, have, within a short period, merged in joint stock companies. At this rate, it may be predicted that, ere many years elapse, private banking in the country will becxinc extinct :—Rawsons and Co., Halifax and Iluddeis- field Briggs and Sons, Halifax H >gues and Co., Dewsbury Perfects and Co., Leeds and Pontelract Bywater and Co., Leeds Smith and Son, Leeds Fletcher and Co., Borobridge Coates and Co., Knareshorough Farrers and Co., Ripon Dressers and Co., Thrisk Buckleys and Co., Saddleworth Hulton, Other, and Co., Richmond and Leyburn Walkers and Stanley, Sheffield and Rotherham Skinners and Co., Gainsborough; Wilson, Sons, and Co., lIudderstield.-MtlJI- chester Guardian.

The shares in the Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company, which for years were in a state of ruinous depression, now beai a premium of £ 5., and are eagerly sought after by capitalists. I nON SHII>.— The largest iron sailing ship in the world is new building in Messrs. J. Ronald and Co.'s yard, Fooldee, Aberdeen. This stupendous vessel is of the following dimen- sions — Length of keel, 130 feet breadth of fiame, 30 feet depth of hold, 20 feet; length over all 137 feet Ions legister, ;):37. Jutlgillg from her appearance, she is a beautiful model, and will carry an immense cargo on a small draught of water. She is intended for a company in Liverpool.-Aberdeen Net aid. CIIESIIIRK MAUL.—CAUTION TO ENGINEERS.—In an excel- lent work recently published under the title of Life of Thomas Telford, written by himself," that celebrated engineer, in speak- ing of the difficulties which had to be encountered in the for- mation of the Liverpool and Birmingham Junction Canal, thus expresses himself It now became necessary to carry the Junction Canal in lite shortest possible direction between the Birmingham Canal, near Wolverhampton, and the Ellesrneie and Chester Canal at Northwich, although this led to crossing the numerous inequalities of ground between the before-men- tioned places, whereby this canal encountered cutting and em- •>nntiinf;s &{ uousual n'aönilu<Jc, anJ propnrlmnably expensive. In passing through Cheshire, the canal was in this respect pe- culiarly unfortunate for the heavy soil of which the surface of that rich country chiefly consists, when used for embankments, slips and bulges in great masses, and rapidly dissolves when exposed to the atmosphere. From an unaccommodating dis- posilion in some of the landholders, in persisting to prohibit the proper line of canal, these evils were experienced to an unpre cedented extent and I am bound to state, for the benefit of engineers who may be engaged in similar works, that to the height of ten or twelve feet, it was found by experience, Ches- IlIfe marl retains its shape sufficiently well but when the height required amounts to fifty, sixty, or seventy feet, no estimate can safely be made, and the enterprise ought not to he hazarded." IIIK UNITED KINGDOM SAI.T COMPANY.—Capital £ 300,000> in 6000 shares of £50 each. Deposit £10 per share.-The ob- ject of this company, as appeais from the prospcctus, is to ma- nufacluie, front sea water and saline springs, salt of a quality superior to that which is now in common use, and at a greatly reduced price, both for home consumption and exportation and also lo introduce it gcueially throughout the United Kingdom as a manure lor land, and as a condiment for improving the condition and theieby obviating the diseases of sheep i-nd cattle of every description. The consumption of salt at present amounts to not toss than 500,000 tons annually, while the ap- plication of salt to agricultural purposes may be considered to be still in its infancy. The directors have secured the use of the patents of Messrs. Wilson and Baylis, for producing satu- rated brine from sea water and saline springs, and rehniric the same, and confidently expect that the cost of making salt in any of the company's works will not exceed 5s. per Ion, and in many situations considerably Itss. Only 600 shares will, in the first instance, be issued, and not more than £ 20. per share will be required to bring into eficctive operation a woik at Burry Port, neer Swansea. The Court of Directors of the East India Company have determined on augmenting the number of their officers in India, and likewise to form an additional regiment of Europeans at each presidency, which will create vety extensive promotion throughout the army, and an additional number of cadets. Naval and Military Gazette.

WiiiE-WoriM.— We have effectually got rid of this pest by thrusting carrots into the ground, and taking them up eveiy twenly-four hours. The little wretches are yery fond of this vegetable, and, if they have only worked into it an eighth of an inch, lliey will not let go till they are pulled out by force. In this way we have killed thousands the same carrots last a IOIM' time. Let our doubting friends try the experiment with a single carrot.—Gardener's (lazettc. BEST A<;F. FOII MUTTON.- I he sheep is in its best condition, as food, when about five years old an age which it is almost never allowed to attain unless when intended for the private use of the owner, and not for market. It is then sapid, full- flavoured, and firm, without being lough and the fat has be. come hard. At three years old, as conmonly procured fionk the butcher, it is well tasted, but is by no means comparable lo lhat of five years. Ityoungerthanthfeeyearsitisdcricient in flavour, and its flesh is pale. Mcat which is half mutton and half lalllb is very unpalatable food. M. tjde says, Al- ways choose your mutton of a dark colour and marble-like appearance." MOHTALITY OK THE NAPOLEON FAMILY; The month of May would appear to be fatal lo the Napoleon family. Napoleon himself died on the 5th of May, 1824. Pauline Borghese. his sister, on the 10th of May, 1825. Cardinal Fcsch on the 13th of May, 1839 and Carohne Napoleon, Ex-Queen of Naples, on the 18ih of the same month. By the death of the latter, there remains no other sister of Napoleon his three sistets it will be recollected, having been. Eliza, Pauline, and Caroline his brothers alone have survived, viz., Joseph, the eldest of the family, Louis, Lucien, and Jerome. Napoleon was, it is UI)- derstood, in no small degree inclined to a belief in the doctiine of the Fatality of Epochs, and the mysteries of Judicial Astro- logy. Were it not that the curious coincidences to which we have alluded, must be regarded merely in the light of fortuitous results, an over speculative mind, a Cardan, an Albetus Mag- nus, a Cajcetan, or a Sir Kenelm Digby, for instance, might draw from them a specious support for the vagaries of their favourite theories. ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING.—Small tobacco-pipes of an ancient form are frequently found in Ireland on digging or ploughing up the ground, particularly in the vicinity of thme circular in- trenchments, called D-nish forts, which were most probably the villages or settlements of the nallve Trish. In the first volume of the -4 Anlhologla IltberOlca," there is a print of one which was found at Bannockstown, county Kildare, sticking between the teeth of a human skull; and it is accompanied by a paper, which, on the authority of Herodotus, Strabo, Pornpontus, Mela, and Solinus, goes to prove that the northern nations of Europe were acquainted with tobacco or a herb of similar pro- perties, and that they smoked it through small tubes-of course long befo.e the existence of America was known. The argu- ments m favour o the antiquity of smoking, receive additional support from the discovery of several small clay pipes in the hull of a ship found some years since, when excavating a new sluiceway, at the upper end of the Fairwater at Dantzig. The ship was discovered buried in the ground at the depth of about twenty feet; she measured, from stem to stern, in the inside, n fly-four feet, and in breadth twenty feel. A box of tobacco pipes was found, all whole, with heads about the size of a thim- ble, and tubes from four to six inches in length. It is supposed the vessel had been lost in some convulsion of nature previous to the foundation of the city, which had been built over the spot 500 years. We have been favoured with a table of the ingredients used in filling that noble punch bowl, t, Guy's porridge pot." at the late festivities at Warwick-eastle :-25 gallons of old rum, J5 gallons of brandy, 18 dozens of lemons, 3 dozens of oranges, 90 pounds of sugar,— Northampton Herald. i V-

COURT AND FASHION. €sd'RT C incur A K.— Her Majesty and her augmt mothft; attended djvifie srrvicc on Sunday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Kev. Dr. Hook, from RccfcsiaMes c. 5, v. 2. The prayers were read by the Hev. Mr. Knapp; the lessons by life Rev. Mr. Hall, and the altar service was read by the Sub- Dean, and the Rev. Messrs. Hall and Knapp. The chanli was Chard's; the Te Deum and Jubilate ill C, Nares the j sanctus, Savage; the responses, King the anthem," Sing, () Heavens" (Kent), was stifle by Messrs. Uawkim, Ilobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the orgapp. The Bishop of Norwich, clerk of ihe closel, was in waiime. The royal suite included Lady Lyflelfon, Lady Flora Hast- ings, Hon. Miss Spring ICice, Hon. Miss Pager, Karl of (Jxbndgc, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. Major Keppel, and Colonel Weinyss. The royal party returned to Bucking- ham Palace after the service.—The Duke of Sussex visited her Majesty on Sunday.-The Queen, accompanied by r', I "I the Princess Victor of Saxe Cobourg, and the Prince and Princess of Leiriingen, took an airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carnage and four in Hyde Park and Rf'{;I'HL':j¡ Park. The Baroness Fenycvessy and the Hon. Miss PV-e* followed in a carriage and four, and Colonel WcmyV equerry in waiting, attended her Majesty on horseback Viscount Metbourneand Lord Johll Russell had audience* of her Majesty on Saturday.—Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobutfi. Piincess Victoirc and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the Piince and Princess of Lemon-on and Count Alexander Mensdorf, and attended by a larg, suite, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence oi> Saturday cvening.-Sir James Clark has been tn atten- dance at the Palace during the week on Prince Edward o<| V who is indisposed.' | Prince and Princess Doria Pamphilli are fully expected 0 at Mivarts Hotel, on Wednesday next, from Paris, where, after passing a few days, the Prince and his Princess pw\w ceed to Alton Towers, the seat of ihe Earl and Countess; f ol Shrewsbury, in Derbyshire. The I.ATE JLOKD LANGFOISD.—On Saturday, ihe moria'! remains of the late Ilighl Honourable Hercules Langford Rowley, Baron Langford, were deposited in the catacombs. Si of the llarrow-road Cemelry. The funeral, in consonance] ft with the wishes of the deceased, was striclly private thell only connections observed lo be present were, Lord Lang- L ford, a fine youth about fourteen years of age, the Hon. Hercules Langford Boyle Rowley, the Hon. Richard Row- .Q ley, and Cliailes F.gan, Esq. The burial service was mos> *'• impressively performed, in the chapel of the Cemetry by S the Chaplain, the Rev. Joseph Trigger, M.A. By the de- inise of the lale Baron, the following, among other noble. families, will be placed in mourningThe Marquess 1,1 Wellcsley the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of LOlIgford, and ihe Marquess of Headford. It is reported that Lord Hill is about to retire from the Horse Guards, and that his place will be taken by the Marquess of Anglesea. n') Il is staled m professional circles, lhat Dr. Meirnnai' has been appointed to succeed Sir James Clar k, Bart., a* physician to her Royal Highness ihe Duchess ol Ret* Sir James, it is understood, retains his appointment in he' V'> Majesty's household, as first physician in ordinary lo the Queen.— Morning Herald. 'to. MARRIAGF IN HIOII LIFF.—O11 Tuesday the 4lh insti at Oorharnbury, Herts, the seat of the Earl of Verulan- Lady Catharine Barharn, daughter of the Kail and C..u" less of Verulam, was united to the Earl of CUendon. \\o¡, The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. !\Jr. > Villieis, brother of I he noble bridegroom, in tlte presence0' spl the Earl and Countess of Craven, Earl and Countess 01 Co Morley, X'iNco-jt)f Griinstoti, floti. I- Griiiistoti, J,,adl Mary Grimston, Mr. an.t lady Theiesa Lister, llofl' "c Charles 1'. Villiers, Hon. Mrs. Villiers, &c. The Eaf' "< and Countess of Clarcndonlefl Gollmmbury in the I ;tile' part of the evening, for the Grove, Walfoid, where thej ''ar intend passing the honeymoon. Wei THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE HERO OF WATERLOO. A* 1\1a a meeting of the deputies of the Cinque Ports, held al "t Dover on Saturday last, the designs for the grand paV s, n lion, by Mr. Edmunds, of Margate, in which the propos^ banquet lolhe lord warden is to take place, weie approve1' **si of. It is stated that it will be about one hundred aii( twenty feet long, and superbly filled up. It was resotyf 44" lhal the whole management of the affair should be veste 'I in ihe bands of the Dovor deputies. The lime for recei* Pi, mg applications for nckets is to be limted to the 30th illSI Pnii

LTNES SUGCESTED AFTER 1UARINC, MISS B. PLAYING THE tKRr. O gentle harp, how sweet thy sound, \Vh,c? ? cr.str>ng8 her fingers move, And bring forth sounds of melody, de And strains that warm the heart to love. 1 Methinks 1 now Can hear thee still, w'll i't -y hcr hn £ ers soft and fair, !„ p AiK; i ? 'gills ofiier s„ect homi-, t N'ewpon. r lor ever there. | K

LONDON MARKETS. n CORN EXCHANGE. j MONDAY, JUNE 10.—The favourable state of the weall^ since this day se nriight, caused Ihe wheat trade to be dull <0, nerally a lew picked fresh-tbiashed and heavy parcels of t. glish brought about the rates of last Monday, but all oth" sorts of home growth must be quoted Is to 2s per qi. cheap'1 In foreign not much business was transacted, and fine qualit'- 1 were not generally offered on lower terms, but the scrond.1 .It t descriptions ol new wheat paiticulai ly if inclined to go out' lest condition, which is the case with much of the recent import* rrs, tiohs, weie Is t« 2s per qr. cheaper, and difficult of sale at tl^ decline.—-Hour was without alteration in value, but thedematfj was wholly con fin d to fresh made and prime marks.—G<^ barley beiui; scarce commanded full as much money, but biead com only, the fresh thiashed and perfectly sweet W*f |J„. saleable at fair pnces.-Finc malt was held higher, and such' Rj m;; into few hands, with no abundance of any desciipti^ ratherlLrerVn S,0NV 'eflueM' and offered consequence ( W mideraieUf f,-c"n?"7Peas were as dear-There wa«' 1 for fine corn Rave" about° 1^ '° dcalers ,an,t c°nsumeis, hav sc'iiniRht.—In linSd Ji ?Ver l,he la,« o{ th,s t 'Ml: curred. rapeseed nothing of moirnnt & WIIEAT, Essex and Kent., red 1 Suffolk and Norfolk^; l|vr,0|j new ^2 4 HANI 1.v, • .Malting Chevalier. 34 J MALT, .Suffolk & Norfolk 55 58 Brmv|I>f# kii gston & Ware go 72 OATS, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, feed 26 29 Potatoe.. 33 ougltal & Cork black 24 27 Cork white — yl 24 27 Scotch Feed 28 30 Potatoe.. 30 J f'"ANS- Tick 37 41 Small. 42 f I EAS, Grey 36 37 maple. 36 o 40 4 1 boilers, 40* SEED, Rape 261. 341. Irish -I per las* Lnglisli Red Clover, fine 66 76 80s per C* nr White 67 68 76s Mustard, White 12 14s Brown 16 lös po busbe( ,„res ^O 37s new 60 — s perl t iou it, I own-made 56 62s Suffolk s per sack' Stocton & Norfolk s Irish fines s 280 lbf R AVERAGE. Imperial Weekly Wht. 1 Bail. Oats. Rye.Bean< Pe»s Average, endiui: | Average, endiui: ) May 31 70 5138 7 26 4 40 5 39 8 38 AfiRregateAverage of 6weeks,which regulates Duty. 71 1 30 6 25 6 40 101 38 10 38 t)utyon For.Con, 6 81 3 4 9 3 9 61 12 f 12 t SMITHFIELU MARKET MONDAY, JUNK 10. Notwithstanding the prevailing wolf weather, the butchers, who were, on the whole, in numero attendance to-day, purchased all kinds of beef readily. at' improvement on the currencies noted on this day se'nnight. lully 2d per 01bs., and a good clcarance was effected, b' to the number of sheep being great, the mutton tiade was he>'j at in a few instances, a decline of 2d per Bibs. llouever, pi imest Southdown produced 4s 4d per Bibs. Per sl. of 8lbs., sinking the offal i f. j ■ c • S- s* d. s. d. ». Loarsc and inferior Prime coarse wool „ bcas<s '2 4 2 6 Sheep 4 2 4 Second quality do. 2 8 2 10 I Prime South Down Pllnte large oxen. 3 2 3 8 ditto 404' Prime Scots,&c.. 4 4 4 8 Larg.coarse calves 4 0 4 Coarse and inferior Prime small ditto. 4 8 5 3 6 3 8 Large Hogs 3 10 4 Second quality do. 3 10 4 0 Small Poikers 4 8 5 Suckling Calves, from 18s. to 38s., and quarter old sLel Pigs, 12s. to 21s. each. SEED j\JA HKET. Clover, English, red 66 76 white 6776pcrc\(1 Dutch 68 95 — German i „ ,• French$*>0 70 /6 superior, 60 in boi> Trefoil 20 24 Rapeseed. English £ 26 £ 34 foreign £ 28 £ 30 per '<lS' Bal!ic — crushing 40 4.5 Mediterranean, ) and Odessa.. } 42 46 Hempsced, small 32 31 Jarge 38 40 kar?w*y 40 46 Coriander n 14 per A Mustard, brown 13 10 19 white 10 14pcrbu>" new. 16 20 12 15 turnip Seed White 34 36 red & green 34 46 Kye Grass, English 30 40 Scotch — — Tares, Winter 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. J WOOL MARKET. MONOA Y, J UNF. 10.— The British wool trade is in a very pressed state, and in some few instances a decline of fullfji per lb. has been submitted lo in order lo effect sales wW the supply is extensive. Exceedingly little is doing iu any of foreign wool, and the currencies noted in our last report, with difficulty maintained. Arrivals, 900 bales, chiefly f^ New South Wales and Germany. Per lb. s. d. s. d. Down Tegs | 8 to 1 8J jjalt-bred Hogs 1 8 1 8J Ewes and Wethers 1 I Leicester Hogs. 1 4 1 41 Leicester Wethers 1 31 1 4A Blanket Wool 0 a 11 Flannel ditto .) 0) I 4,1 Combing skin j o 1 4 LIvmirooi,, JUNE 8.—A few bales of foreign wool were P11) chased this week by manufacturers, who were in immedi*, want, but no other transaction occurred, and the trade throug out has worn a very dull aspect. 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THE TAKING OF THE SALMON. BT THOMAS TOD STODDART. A birr 1 a whirr! a salmon's on, A goodly fish! a thumper' Bring up, bring up-, tfce ready gaff. And if we land hifn we shall quaff Another glorious bumper! Hark} 'Us the music of the reel, Ttie strong, the quick, the steady The line darts from the active wheel, Have all things right and ready. A hirr a whirr! the salmon's out, Far on the rushing river; Onward he holds with sudden leap, Or plunges through the whirlpool deep, A desperate endeavour! Hark to the music of the red! The fitful and the grating; It pants along the breathless wheel, Now hurried—now abating. A birr! a whirr! the salmon's off!— No, no, we still have got him The wily fish is sullen grown, And, like a bright imbedded stone, Lies gleaming at the bottom. Hark to the music of the reel! 'Tis hush'd, it hath forsaken With care we'll guard the magic wheel, Until its notes rewaken. A birr! a whirr! the salmon's Up, Give line, give line and measure But now he turns! keep down ahead, And lead him as a child is led, And land him at your leisure. Hark to the music of the reel! 'Tis welcome, it is glorious It wanders through the winding wheel, Returning and victorious. A birr! a whirt! Ihe salmon's in, Upon the bank extended; The princely fish is gasping slow. His brilliant colours come and gu, All beautifully blended. Hark to the music of the reel! It maraattrs and it closes; Silence is on the conquering wheel, M Its wearied line reposes. No birr! no whirr! the salmon's ours, The noble tish-the thumper Strike through his gill the ready gaff, And bending homewards, we shall quaff Another glorious bumper! Hark to the music of the reel! We listen with devotion; There's something in that circling wheel That wakes the heart's emotion!

„ C°,,RT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 6.—Doe on the Demise of hompson v. Sir Matthew Wood.—The Attorney-General said ie was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why the ,|"n of ejectment in this case, on which depended the validity )f the will of the late James Wood, Esq., banker, at Gloucester, >hould not be disposed of by trial at bar in this couit, and why t should not be tried in any other county than Ihe county of Gloucester. The ends of justice, so far ;\s ihe equitable dis- Msa) of the immense property in question went, could only be net by having the issue ascertained before a jury and in a place vhere the conflicting feelings and interests of the rospective claimants could not prevail and that was in this court, and before a Middlesex jury. There were two other ejectmenis vhich he was anxious to see disposed of in the same rule. Lord Vbinger thought that it was not at all necessary to have the nalter disposed of I,ya trial at 11M. Much intricacy and nice |uestions of law might be expected, but all these might be airly brought before a single judge at Nisi Prius, and would ;ive the parties an opportunity of bringing the matter beforc mother tribunal by a bill of exceptions. With regard to changing the venue, there could be no objection to it.—Rule Nisi granted. It was lately decided by Mr. Justice Coleridge that an inn- keeper cannot legally maintain and charge in his bill for waiters, chambermaids, boots, &c. unless it can be shown that the defendant had agreed to pay such attendants. In an action, therefore, lately brought in the Bail Court, an item of £9. for jervices of this nature, was ordered to be struck out.