eee nee ee

eee want

>

oo eel

oo a

o ie i na i

: i %

e

?

a) —~

= Pret SSE sn

to the Sultan’s pavillion The Sultan expected he had got King Richard, and was not a little mortified to dis- cover his mistake.

TSrRs ae .

News by the last English Mail.

[from Willmer & Smith’s European Times.]

PRICE OF BREAD STUFFS—STATE OF THE

CROPS.

The uninterrupted fineness of the weather during the last fortnight, still holds out the assurance that our harvest of grain will be a full average one. From all quarters of Europe there is also a general concurrent opinion that the yield will be abundant in the chief grain producing spots. On the 19th May, the price of best American Fiour in Liverpool was 48s. to 49s. Yester- day a considerable sale took place of the same descrip- tion of Flour, at 27s. to 17s. 6d. The highest market price of best Wheat at Mark-lane on Monday the 2nd, when a further reduction again took place of from 8s. to 10s. per quarter below the curreacy of the previous Monday, was 70s. per quarter. Considerable supplies were brought to market, and sales were with the great- est difficulty effected. The quality of the new Corn ex- hibited, “rubbed out,” was excellent. We regret to state that some failures have taken place in the Corn trade, and the rumours which have reached us respect ing the credit of some of the London dealers are very unsatisfactory. We are of opinion that, however abun- dant the harvest may prove, the stocks in Europe being so exhausted, and the decreased supply of potatoes, whether arising from a diminished cultivation, or from their deteriorated quality, requiring a large importation to make gp the deficiency, that prices of Gain will, to- wards the close of the year, after inevitable fluctuations, still be maintained at a further cost of production. At this moment, however, the market is in a state of great depression. The harvest is nearly over in France, and

has commenced in some of the southern counties of

England. With regard to the potato crop, although it may be admitted that partial failures may have taken place, we still entertain the opinion that in general throughout England, and [reland, the crop has not suf- fered.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMEMDT.

Her Majesty prorogated Parliament on the 23rd ult.

The following is ve THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. My Lords and Gentlemen,

“JT have much satisfaction in being able to release you from the duties of a laborious and anxious session. J cannot take leave of you without expressing my grate- ful sense of the assiduity and zeal with which you have applied yourselves to the consideration of the public interests.

“Your attention has been principally directed to the measures of immediate relief, which a great and unpre- cedented calamity rendered necessary.

“T have given my cheerful assent to those laws which, by allowing the free admission of grain, and by affording facilities for the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries, tend to increase the quantity of human food, and to promote commercial intercourse.

“TI rejoice to find that you have in no instance pro- posed new restrictions, or interfered with the liberty of foreign or internal trade, as a mode of relieving distress. I feel assured that such measures are generally ineffec- tual, and, in some cases, aggravate the evils for the alleviation of which they are adopted.

“ { cordially approve of the acts of large and liberal bounty by which you have assuaged the sufferings of iny Irish subjects. I have also readily given my sanc- tion to a law to make better provision for the permanent relief of the destitute in Ireland. I have likewise given my assent to various bills calculated to promote the agriculture and develope the industry of that portion of the United Kingdom. My attention shall be directed to such future measures as may be conducive to those salutary purposes.

“ My relations with foreign powers continue to inspire me with confidence in the maintenance of peace.

“ It has afforded me great satisfaction to find that the measures which, in concert with the King of the French, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Portugal, I have taken for the pacification of Portugal,have been attend- ed with success ; and that the civil wur, which for many months had afflicted that country, has at last been brought to a bloodless termination.

“ T indulge the hope that future differences between political parties in that country may be settled without an appeal to arms.

“ Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

“ T thank you for your willingness in granting the ne- cessary supplies; they shall be applied with due care and economy to the public service.

“ | am happy to inform you that, notwithstanding the high price of food, the revenue has up to the present time been more productive than I had reason to antici- pate. The increased use of articles of genera! consump- tion has chiefly contributed to this result. The revenue

derived from sugar especially has been greatly aug-| Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, &c., still they will be found!

mented by the removal of the prohibitory duties on for- éign sugar. * The various grants which you have made for edu-

IP ee mm nero dnceningm ante \ seis om —

x

: : al ce mmm SOc seca Sige ai. a

THE EXAMINER.

lom will, 1 trust, be condu- moral improvement of my

‘cation in the United King¢ cive to the geligious and people. “ My Lords and Gentlemen,

“ I think proper to — you ~~ . oe immediately to dissolve the present fa . imn I rely with confidence a the loyalty to the throne, and attachment to the free institutions of this country, ‘which animate the great body of my people. I join with them in supplications to Almighty God, = ~ dearth by which we have been afflicted may, by ; 1e Di- vine blessing, be converted into cheapness and plenty.

RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS.

We issue our present number during all the excite- ment of a general election. Parliament havin been dissolved on the 23d ult. the writs for the new Parlia- ment were issued on the same day; and ina fortnight hence, before the activity of the harvest commences, the business of the election will be entirely over. The borough constituencies in England have indeed already performed their part. The city of London commenced the struggle, and, bya noble effort, has placed our Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, the champion of Free-trade, at the head of the poll. Vast efforts were made by the Tories, his opponents, to lessen his lord- ship’s popularity ; but upon his presenting himself on the hustings, at Guildhall, his manly eloquence so com- pletely rooted out all prejudice, that the tide turned, and his triumph was complete. Mr. Pattison, Liberal, is the next of his colleagues on the poll, Baron Roths- child, the eminent banker of the Jewish persuasion, the third ; and, after one of the most severe contests on re- cord, Mr. Masterman, the banker, who has long repre- sented London, stands the fourth, having only a majority of three over Sir George Larpent, in about 6700 votes. But Mr. Masterman is a convert to Free-trade, and Sir George Larpent has not yet had the advantage of a seat in Parliament. This triumph has given the impulse to the rest of the Elections, Liverpool, the second in im- portance in the kingdom, has returned two Free-traders Mr. Cardwell and Sir Thomas Birch, by an overwhelm- ing majority. Mr. Cobden has been returned for Stock- port, and Mr. Bright, unopposed, for Manchester. Bir- mingham has also nobly done its duty, by ejecting Mr. Spooner and returning Mr. Muntz and Mr. Scholefield, both Liberals, the latter gentleman a highly qualified member, well fitted to represent so important a manu- facturing community. Dr. Bowring has secured his seat for Bolton, but Mr. Williams has lost his at Coy- entry. The Liberal party have, however, upyn other crounds than Free-trade, suffered some discomfiture. The dissenters in the metropolitan constituency of Lam- beth, have succeeded in ejecting one of the most able men in the Jate House of Commons, Mr. Hawes, the

of his vote in favour of the education grant. Mr. Roe- buck also, a Legislative mind of the highest order, and an excellent speaker, has been supplanted in Bath by |Lord Ashley, a Protectionist; but in Norwich the dis- ‘senters have not succeeded in placing their candidate ; vand Mr. Sturge has failed at Leeds. Sir John Hob- | house, a Cabinet Minister, has been disgracefully beaten ‘at Nottingham, Mr. John Walter, son of the late Mr. | Walter, a proprietor of the 7%mes, having been elected by a vast majority; Mr. Feargus O’Connor, a Chartist, is the other successful candidate, Sir John Hobhouse having been completely “tailed off.” General Fox, who holds a high office under the crown, has been de- feated in the Tower Hamlets by Mr. George Thompson, the Anti-Corn-Law League lecturer. The other metro- | politan boroughs of Westminster, Finsbury, Marylebone, and Southwark, have all sent Liberals and Free-traders to Parliament. Mr. Goulburn, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, has, after a sharp contest, regained his seat atCambridge University ; but Mr. John Lefevre, a Free- trader, is rejected, but his failure arises from sectarian ‘prejudices, rather than from aati-F’ree-trade opinions, Mr. Gladstone has again obtained “University honours” at Oxford, being now one of the members; but his brother, Captain Gladstone, has lost Ipswich. Sir Ed- ward Bulwer Lytton has again failed to obtain Lincoln. Sir John Rae Reid, the West India Merchant, relin- quished Dover before the election, his anti-liberal votes precluding all hopes of his getting again returned. Serjeant Talfourd has reinstated himself in Reading; and Colonel Thompson, a Free-trader, is returned for Bradford. Mr. W. J. Fox, the popular dissenting ora- tor, has procured a seat for Oldham, having extruded Mr. Fielden; and a rich Conservative, Mr, Duncuft, has ‘obtained the second seat. Mr. Villiers has already ‘been returned for Wolverhampton, and is said to be secure of one of the seats for South Lancashire. In case of a double return, he has stated, “that if left to himself, he would sit for the borough; but, in the event of success, he will doubtless make his choice of the county. Upona review of the result of the elections ‘as far as they have yet been determined, we still think ithat the relative strength of parties in the new House will not be materially affectec. In many of the changes ‘which have taken place, the new members, althouch they have displaced Liberals, as at Nottingham, the

Colonial Under-Secretary of State, purely on the ground}

SMES I DL RET laws, or of the Education Grant, and some minor topics, may be brought forward.

he apprehension which exists, that Mr. Wyse and Mr. Sheil will lose their seats ior Waterford and Dun- garvan, the vacancies to be supplied perhaps by mem- bers for Repeal, is one of the indications of the times in Ireland.

In Scotland, we regret to say, that Mr. Macaulay, a Cabinet Minister, one of the most enlightened men of the age, and celeb rated both as a poet and an orator, has lost his election for the city of Edinburgh, his vote on the education grant having been a political sin, nct to be forgiven by the non-conformists of the “ gude city.” This is to be deeply deplored. A paltry grant of £100,000, the benefits of which were to be distributed with impartiality to every clasa of our co-religionists, has been made the handle for excluding from Parlia- ment some of the most able and public-spirited men in the country. One imagined fault, where sectarianism is concerned, seems ever to be punished with deep se- verity, whilst a thousand political crimes are otherwise disregarded.

IRELAND.

The week’s rent at the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, held on the 19th, was announced to be £59 19s 4d. On the succeeding weekly meeting it amounted to £60. Mr. Collett, the late member, and present candidate, for Athlone, was present, and, with Mr. Morgan John O’Cornell, addressed the meeting. All the speakers expressed a confidence that the Repeal movement would regain strength, and that the next Par- liament would grant a Repeal of the Union.

An immense number of tenantry have been evicted at Charleville on the Ear] of Cork’s estate, and it was represented to have been effected under circumstances of considerable harshness. This, however, has been contradicted, and although no acts of cruelty have been perpetrated by the agent, still the eviction of the tenan- try seems to have been on a large scale.

The remains of-Mr. O'Connell having been brought by way of France to Southampton, were carried by railroad to London, and thence transferred to Chester, where they arrived on Monday evening, and were laid in the Roman Catholic Chapel of that city. Mr. Gard- ner, of Chester, had received orders to make a new cof- fin, as that in which the body was encased, and which was made at Genoa, was of rather common workman- ship. High mass was celebrated inthe chapel on Sun- day, and in the evening a procession accompanied the remains to the railway station. On Monday, the 2d, they were placed on board a steamer specially engaged, and by it conveyed to Dublin. The funeral will take place on the 5th of August.

Tur O’Conor Don.—The Right Hon. Dennis O’- Conor, commonly called the O’conor Don, one of Her Majesty’s Lords of the Treasury, died on the Dth ult. He had occupied his seat in the House of Commons as representative of the county of Roscommon since 1851. As a politician the O’Conor Don was an ardent and consistent Liberal; the moral and social advance- ment of the people of Ireland was among his most fer- vent and perpetuel aspirations; as a Roman Catholic, he was an advocate for a more generalised system of church endowment; as a philanthropist, he was solici- tous for the removal of the more rigorous enactments from our criminal jurisprudeuce ; as an Irishman, he was a Repealer. The O’Conor Don was regarded as the chief of the ancient family of the O’Conors, as his title indicated.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The affairs of Portugal having once more settled down into tranquillity, no events are now occurring to cloud the politica] atinmosphere in Europe, with the ex- ception of the widely extended conspiracy discovered and defeated at Rome, and the threatening state of the Helvetic republic. It portends but little good to the prospects of the liberals in Italy, that Austria should have advanced her armies and taken possession of the frontier town of Ferrara, simultaneously with the events which have happened at Rome. When it is considered that the progress and regeneration of Italy depends almost entirely upon the life of one man, the present enlightened Pepe, it behoves the Italians to rally still closer round Wie papa) chair; and it isthe duty, as well as the interest, of France and England, both free con- stitutional governments, to counteract any designs which Austria may have formed for crushing the rising spirit of liberty in Italy. In Switzerland affairs seems ripening to a crisis. ‘he disputes which have so long harrassed the cantons, the contest for political and reli- gious domination which has raged so Jong, seems now ready to burst into open hostility. The decisive step which has beentaken by the Federal Diet, by decrecing the dissolution of the seven Catholic cantons, and the threats of resistance on the part of the latter, seem like- ly to bring matters to such a point as will require the long threatened intervention of France and England, according to the stipulations of the treaty of Vienna. It is indeed a melancholy spectacle that these distracted cantons cannot adjust for themselves a form of self-

government such as will secure permanent tranquillity to all classes. We earnestly trust some means will be

ben almost rae stad tant eae: Pinte on the side of found to solv@this difficult problem, without the forma! jthe present Government, only withdrawing their votes!interveption of the Allied Powers. With Austria on

or opposing it when the domestic question of the Poor-! ; i

~ =

one side, and France on the other, each ready to ag.