The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

LINN'S. 1011. IL CAZILIAL MAMMAL FUND Thia, the ..triee theatrical event of the. Lent season, took place bat evening at the Preens:acme Tavern. free was so lack of attendance, although the reeciadieg of the loogestatilishal prohibition which until this year eloped ill theatres din* Pamirs week, and set actor• free from their ordinary duties at the :uterine of their atierela, deisied to many si! the celebrities u the preheats • gratificat,u in which they ben bees in the habit for many years 01 andulgiog ; Mt. NAMED WIGAN was the and he was supported by Kul *MOM air Coattm Mr. T. Mr. Palpate Simpimoo, Mr. R. H. Wynd. lain. Mr. w H. Doses (lienser of 1.4,-4, Mr. Jerwood, Mr. Iten'inno Webster, Dr. Hestia" Mr. Jolla Reddish, Mr, 11. M. Parker Mr. CoMenford, Mr. Ituckstone, Mr Cathcart, Mr. Everett. Mr. Alfred Mellon, Mr. H. Butler, Mt. *klieg Colas, Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. George Godwie. Mr. Brant. Mr. H. 0. Day. Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clark, Mr. Weinell, Mr. Hoary HIM, Mr. Ferret, lac. The general company membered about 200. The musical smarm:ate were. es total, gratuitous; and although some of the gran wage which on some former (Knauss have wen inert to theme entertainments were witutieg, there was so Glebe - Man is either talent or variety. The vocal rail instnintesial seeps iocludal the following amulet: - -Vat:abate : Mir Aymala Thomson, Miss Vushroke Yew Welk, Miss J. Wells, sad Mho Poole ; Mr. George Tedder, Mr. t., Geer. Mr. W. Ooward, Mr. Fielding. Mr. Donald Kiog, Mr. t. Walker. Mr. niodonDistio Mr. J. Coward, sad Mr. Lawler. Soloists : Ocomet-ibpiseea, Mr. Levy • impboutoo, Mr. Alfred Phony; grand pianoforte, Mr.Cootii. The CuAln‘latt, having disposed of the two loyal tome" paid the customary tribute to the services, in which he re. marked upon the favour with which the dramatic art was bell by both army sad MOT, illasteating his ponitiou by ea eseal. , te to tire infect that at Sebastopol a performance of Bark lip/id:maw was postponed by an announcement that the pence who was to have the bulled which gave the title to the piece had had his head shot off that morn ing the trenches. (A laugh.) In the navy the same es mpathy for the dramatic art wig felt, and he mentioned a ease in which the enemy illostntive of • drama played an board • maa el war was panted by Ile captain end mem of the crew is • moaner that would have dons credit to a Stanfield. He pod • high compliment to the volunteer force, and coupled with the toast the health of Mr. T. P. Cooke. Mr. T. P. CuOlte returned thanks for the three services. Ile was an old sailor--a sailor not of the present day but of the past century, when ships were really ships and not iron turtles oe bettering rams. But those graceful forms that, after pouring their broadsides into the enemy, would mesetuvre. gracefully with the bellying sails before • Jervis or a Nelson, it appeared were consigeed to the tomb of the Catmints or Davy Jones's Locker. (Cheers and laughter.) lie hope! that the honour of Old England would be as safe under the asw regime of iron as it had beat under the reigu of our old,' wooden walls." (Loud cheering.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening— " The Royal toserslTheatidod Vend "—said,-oentlernen. the task of laying favourably before you the claims of the institution—in aid of whom hada you have kindly gathered here tonight—of depicting its usefulness, its necessity, the many sail claims upon its resources, sad of stimulating your charitable feelings on its behalf, must ever be a grateful one to him, but ha meat always fear lest that teak being ill done , as to-night I fear it omit be, the cause should mutter when, its advuoite is aloes to blame. Let me beg you, therefore, to think as little as possible of Alfred Wigan penonally. He occupies a pod that has often been tilled by distin guished arid illustrioua nem, the recollection of whose services as chairman most quite overshadow any effort ha may make, however much his heart may stir in the wager. As a member of the polemics whose claims ho ails= to be is about plead tie own soma. not without a seen of the force of that proverb which declares that "1%, man who pleedeth his own mass bath a fool for his client.' (Laughter ad cheers.) Band/, then, with your better thoughts, my shertomangs, sad support me with the promptings of your owe boosts at the point where I fail to reach them (Hear, hear.) Without trespassing too far upon the proems of my friend Mr. Buck tone who will shortly have the honour of enter rug 1110 ft, fully into matters of detail, 1 may be permitted to briedy ~.plain the nature and objects of the general heatriod fund. It was established le years ago, to supply a want that was felt for an additional instituting of the same nature as the Irrury•lane sad Covent-garden Funds, which, from various cameo, had been found inadequate to the esigencim of the profusion for whose benefit they wen instituted. It resembles those neatent institutions in this that the actor is ambled, by means of a small annual gap meet to claim as a right, sot as a elm , ity --(hear, heart, — an annuity is the event of his being disabled from the pea toe of his profession either through ill-health, age, or other legitimate cause--much as our public servants receive the support of a pension from government, only I am sorry to say the comparison holds good in no eloped as to the mean. at cumsiamL It differs from those funds in this, that all members of the prams:on are admitted to its bettetita, without restriction as to age, set, length, or place of service interne the privilege of admission to the Drury. lase and ti(' nest-palm lands s outmoded by many here and limitations, so doubt ..crap at the time they were trammed, but which the various cleave in the mstitutioa of theatres and of the theatrical profession have reedited worse than soden. Slightly paraphrasing the words of lb* prologue b. Henry VIII. —•- We CI RUC no more to make you hush, things now That bear a weighty and a serious brow We *ow prison. Tberefore. for emeinese sake, a. you are known The nest nil happl.a hearers of the boot. Be sad a. we would make ye. Think ye se The very pers o ns if our bumble story As they were living Thule you on them great Mid followed with the ceneral throng and sweat Of thousand friends. Then lea moment se line Nom. Use mightiness meets =Way. (Omen.) Although sepal* directly to your charitable hailer. I should be loth to place the claims of our prefer- Mon before you in say light that would lower the dignity of a series* and responsible calling—one in which we are amwerable Is , Heaves and our country to uph o ld the ranee if tnerahty. (rheen.) In weighing our professau in Use balsa.* with others, the name of lihakapeal e would, like the sword of liresom. bear down the scale, Imam, loaded to ear disadvantage. Hut it a sot in his mighty same sloes that we ley claim to your respect. We are, or should be, means of educktioe, not to be demand even in the present day .1 universal hernia; and competitive examination. The intellect is only um. of the ("wipeout larva of man, and it should not be forgotten in this stirring, struggling geoeratrou that there is • moral awl corporeal *damsels, god a cultisation of the imagination, alai necessary to com plete menhe.st. (Hear, bear.) It ham been brucght spinet us that to , too aliliCala to laugh, and ao niche laugh, to juggle and play tricks, mod to think when we pocket the proceeds the affair is ended. Whenever we do so, we de grisle auntie, and wrung the public. (lieer, heir! The power of instruction positioned by the stage may perhaps of late bare fallen somewhat into disuse, but it must be allowed that the drama hiss this advantage over all other forms of teaching combined with ainusemeet—that its influents) arts by esaniple rather this by precept. It eau embody the consequent., of eel pain lines of conduct sad represent then. in a series of actione en. vivid and cone. Ilets as almost to counterfeit the positive experteaesa of a e, and give a Imam with all the force of reality. Our art. though a beautiful and a useful one, shares toe lobe teat weakness of all the line arts. It dos not increase the material produce of the world, and would be clamed by the iodate:l ecueinimet among the unproductive labour; an), inaaiairh ar it it not directly proiitivtive, it munt always be too large number Olireinuni•rattire. Mimi the aveetabled here there is no need to plead [lie ranee of art, set to those who, would undervalue it as useless I would ,:aim with Lear, 11, resin not the nerd • our hoed beggars Are in the poorest thing superflitoui, Allow sot nature more than native 'weds, Ili Is cheep as beest's, Aid I would vesture to ranged those who, partly from prepidice—in former days, I grant. well grounded—partly from :Aeolian kmorance of all that is mid nod doue in theatres. regar.t them with disfavour. I would venture to remould:ism that the mere the cultivated and pure, those whose tasted and instincte require whelesoine food, elistein trim the theatre, the more aubjeet will it be to those evil imitate, s which surely tempt the actor to lower his teach ing to the standard that he Ands will Ocoee. (Loud applaose.) The actor is subject to the most sudden varisite.ne of fortune, as all men must be who are mi.re or less depetelent on the fluctuating fashions of public tail'. and he's dependent more Was any other inn.. oil his own personality. Ills duties °intim be per forced I.y deputy. A dramatic rtpreientation is no compli cated a piece of machitiery that the absence of even the smallest whet may destroy the whole structure ; if he can ad weak. ant he most. lie tiust. as I know, leave the bedside of the sick wife, the drug &add, assume the drum and manner of sum and wealth, with nu aching heart sad an empty cupboard. (Heat.) Other men go through trials so severe of their laud but there is something in the contrast batistes the real sod the counterfeit life of the actor, which iu the hour of suffering is peculiarly ghastly. Add to this. "the thousicel natural ills that flesh iv heir to," and I think you will see that our profession offers a toes uncertain tenure on peiterlty than &Meet any iither. Ito rewards of the successful actor are inimeliate, duet and intoxicating, but they are no fleeting a+ they are brilliant. sad the ware of a single generation Is enough to wash away his shallow footsteps on the mods of time. ( Ap. please.) Even for the most presperom actor there is ever the peril of failiog health, which may at say roomiest stop the mot brilliant career. Yoe toomany, ale' there has been no rehoued, sod those cooly to whom recovery has been vouch safed can estimate the fervent gratitude for health restored. But there is another close on whom the accident—be it age, Mama, or what sot that prevents tlie continuance of their exertioes—falle with a paralysing weight—that numerous claw, es orosseary to the full development of the drama as the brightest stare—for Hamlet must hare his Roma. meats, Richard his Colosbp—who bare cheerfully accepted mad worthily sustelo thew humble profession al p t i l t i ioa j their incom es aff ord ilirLarrisearcrfrud"expagiVlawalrtle necessities *sod the various claims of life aessesaae is melee proportion. To these. hew often ■nniews thought for the future occurs, thew diapered contributions to this fund bear honourable tostimmy. (Hoar, hear.) And it le to them that this moiety Wisp the most sulateatial belleita. The statemeut of our treasurer will show you that this isetitution is in a great degree self-supporting. and that we do not pray to you, our I [erodes, without first putting our own shoulders to the u lice . .. liut it mast be ren.embered that the cue tributions of the actors themselves caanot be large. I have spoken of them as small annual payments, but com pared with the incomes from which they ere takea they are large ; they are out spared from luxuries and super fluities, but front Decameters, and more especially in the case of provincial actors, amid toils and privations borne with • cheerfulness and patience amounting to heroism--a patience mud cheerfalnees which nothing bat an almost fanatic devotion to their art could sustaie. To their hanlly-earned savings add your own more capable benefi mace, end a load of care will be lifted from many hearts, whose joy will find a silent echo M your own. It is not vet long ago that we were in the eye of the law rogues, vagabooila, and sturdy beggars. how, lest you should think me still demerit's of the last name, permit me meet respectfully to place this appeal in another light, and come before you in the character of a creditor, not • dun, a patient, coediting creditor. The creditor respectfully makes out his claim thus:—Fist, let me dwell for a moment on our grateful acknowledgment of your support, your stimulating applause, and the dependence of our success 93041 sour encouragement. But is there not another side to the picture! Which of you does not remember that occasion when sadness, whether of impe rtinent or of real sorrow, was dispelled and cheerfulness re stored by that lucky visit to the play. Was it the merry tone that still lingered on the ear, or that hearty jest, or the recall of some dear, early, long-faded memory that sent you home a heppier man ? I care not which of these it was, if I am right in believing that you each can remember one. Aad If it be so, may I not, without undue holdmes, sek—Wee by the pees cif i your seat your debt to the poor actor wholly paid! May not that rest to the anitions wearied mind, that temporary " rasing out of the written troubles of the brain,' produced by the sympathy with the mimic joys or sorrows of the stage, resemble the rest given to the toil-worn body by gentle sleep! May not that rest have yielded in renewed elasticity and vigour an accu. mulated interest, of which be who helped to give it may claim his modest share! If the poor blind Behaarius asks you for a penny, may he not also, with not ungrateful pride, remind you that he won your battles! (Applause.) As illustrution has sometime* more force than the strongest argument ; and as I ern „fairly at the and of all my wise maws, and as I am told by my friend Mr. Punch that the wad we all desire is the end of • speech, let me offer you two modem° instances of the benefits afforded by this fund. The one, a gmatletuan, young, of promising ability, with a young wife dependent on him and hie professional aim• lop for existence, in one instant, by the falling of a stage platform on which he was standing, became a cripple for life, utterly incapable of further pro. feasional exertion. The other, • young lady with no bus • brad to support and protest her, after a few months of fading sight, became totally blind. Neither of their sub scriptions had at the time of their calamity exceeded W., sod they are each of them in the receipt of an annuity from this had of M. a per. These facts will, I think, speak i o tangoed" in favour of that cause which I have, I 1.--,.. it, belly advocated. I ask your forgiveness Jot my Teaser; but if my pardon be hopeless, take the reea s4 =Mb at contrasting the richness of the collection w ith My of the collector—(laughter and sp ot the help with the weakoeas of e ll 4 " .1 11 011 " Prosperity to the General Theatrical /Peed ' IL Boomees—ladies and gentlemen, although for diem yews we have bete bewared on these occasions by Ole eilli~l4tudis7llM lonsriable men—amongst them shisemes, and noblemen—yet I always acknow kirks tea feeling ei patiation when I see the chair filled by as ardor --(&seaand more especially when that actor le so iiieinguishei en the gentleman who presides over us this seriming. (Lead Shinn.) I know, to nee a phrase whisk, of course, yon have never beard before—(laughter) —emaccuotomed as he is to public speaking, yet he kindly red readily consented to take his position to-night from a hearty wish to serve and a sentiment of devotion to our mam. I believe it to be his "first eight " (laughter)— I sled first appearance in the character of a chairman ; but you see how he has sustained it this evening. I have known Min for many years, long before he courted public favour, and have wakhed his gradual advance in hie profession with great interest, until he not only became a leading actor, out arrived at experiencing all the hopes, fears, suc cesses, failures, knees, gains, triumphs, and disappointments of a manager—(laughter)—and as 1 have koowo all these sensations myself, I have deeply sympathised with him— (laughter) and when my time may wine to retire from management, I only hope I may be able to do so as easily and profitably as our respected chairman has done. (Cheers.) The presidency of this evening over such en assembly and in such • cause is not the least of the dramatic , boriours achieved by him, while his ready acceptance of the aim was received by our directors with great pleasure, and in their names I heartily thank him. The objects of the General Theatrical Fuud are now so well known that it is only necessary for me to say it receives members from every theatre in the kingdom, where they have been before the public for a certain number of years, and that wilco prevented by age, accident, or infirmity from fulfilling their duties, they become aunuitaots. You will thus perceive, gentlemen, that the General Theatrical Fund provides for those who have bora punctual in the payment of their subscripticus, and have had the prudence through a eerier of years to put by a small sum to entitle them to the benefits of this fu nd . Therefore, gentlemen, when these annuities are granted, it is not considered as au act of charity, or given to persons who have never in any way prepared for old age, but an act of justice to those who have Memo provident, and who claim such annuities as their right ; and as I have subscribed to this fund for T 3 years, when 1 bowies old and intirtn—(laughter)—abould I used my annuity I shall not hesitate to claim it—(shears) —though I hope I shall sot only never need it, but never become old and infirm. (Laughter.) The number of oar subser.biug members is 170. We have 17 annuitruita, to whom, duties the year, we have given more than 7001., sod our capital, when this night is over, will not be far short of 13,01.10/. Our fund is now firmly established, sad I hope I may be allowed to aware you it is one of the most tfo..rMaiag sad best managed institutions in the country. (Cheers.) llt eve also to inform you, gentlemen, that dur ing the peat year we have received • legacy of 2101., left to us by Lady Morpo, once, ea many of you may know, • distinguished writer, and the daughter of • theatrical manager—the lady of whom one of the comic versifiers of many yaws ego, in his imitation of • popular poet and essayist of that day, thus wrote : now ileihtlithil Ala to recd My Lady Moron in the street: Thee to gaaiuhei her : is the ElJlllitiVr, With a psrsigritila short and sweet. It is to be hoped that her ladyship's kind recollection of the art elle followed in bar youth may act as an example to • many other wealthy lovers of the drama • and if amiss them who for Al or 40 years have visaed the theatre, and enjoywl duriag that time their hundreds of hearty laughs at bows ut our comedians, and perhaps tragedians, were only to remember our fund at the nits of a half peuoy a laugh, it would produce a very acceptable arm. Ceutleruou, I am sorry to alarm you with the Wafture* that I was fearful we should nut have met hers in toll booquettiog hall to-night ; in plain words, that we ahead hare had nu dinner to-day, as our excellent Lord Chamber hue has given permission that all the theatres may be apes this week, except on Friday. To be sure, some of the (deify hove striven with might sod male to make his lordship reverse his decision, rod so deprive about 5,000 or 6,000 p o or moo, worms, and children of their daily bread— (bear, hear)—and when there was no sensible necessity for It ; but (am happy to say his lordship has stood firmly against this forty Larson power pressure. (Laughter and c ha s m) Still, if the Haymarket had been opened this evening, the treasurer of our food could out have been here, the secretary might have been missiog, and you would have fiend yourselves short of stewards to reword you of your doustrous. However, bag before his lordship's permission to open io Passion Week was scut to the Haymarket mesa pr a had decided to employ that tune us cleansing and decorating the theatre, a praiser it required after four years' couatant use, and preparatory to the opening of the National Exhibition—so, as the clown says at Christmas, "Here we are again." (Cheers.) But why the Chamber lain should have been called upon to withdraw his puma are., and compel the theatres %close, seem didlcult to un derstand. The shops are open, trade is going on, the lawyers are talking in the law—(laughter)—courts, workpeople are at work everywhere, the music halls are open, and you may hear "Aunt Sally," though you may nut listen to Shahs pen or Sheridan. Thee why is the poor player to hold his tongue! A certain philosopher has mid that if any one set of men ought to go to heaven more thee soother it's the needs, because, he argues, what fouls the poor fellows are, what frights they undergo, what infamy they get, and what ends they come to ; are they, he says, to have within; fur all thin! Now I think if any class ought to be made happy more than any other, it's the players. See bow bishops, deans, and reverends are continually rising up against no; recollect how we are to be sheet on Ash , Wednesday, or when any day of thanksgiving is appointed, and on other occasions; think bow we are denounced from; some of the sensation pulpits—laughterl—and by persons who know nothing whatever about us ; think bow we are sometimes bleed and are we to have DMA* fee all this! I know wears often encouraged by your applause, encouraged, too, by seeing you assemble ow such maim as the present, and encouraged in may other ways. Tel this meddling of the serious party with the amalgam% of the people and the tolerant views of the Chamberlain only reminds me of what a countninan nom mil la • pleasant little village, where Mood the village pew, when I asked him if they danced round the maypole there now on Ilay.day. "We used to," was his reply, ' but it's all been done away with by the clergy—they put it down." What fur! I inquired. • Well, sir, he answered, " be cause they can't bear to me people enjoy themselves." (Laughter.) Gentlemeo, amongst many other startling aovelties that have moody appeared and set the public thinking, from undeigrousil railways to iromplated men-of-war, there is one novelty which if it am net startle dL us has imparted • *end surprise, and that is, the novelty introduced at some of our public dinners of having the ladies to din with us. (Cheers.) I do not see why this novelty should not be generally agreed to—(cheers)—and instead of the ladies gazieg at us through opera games from the realms above— ' (laughter) —we should not have them by our sides here be low. The directors of our fund have not yet adopted the meshy, but should the propriety of doing so ever be dis enies4 I for on shall give my vote in favour of it : for much THE EXPRESS,' TUESDAI EVENING, APRIL 15, 1862. as I respect my friend sitting beside me on my right or my , left—much as I may admire his manly countenance, yet must cottage I should prefer having one of the fair sex close to me—(loud laughter)— and with or without crinoline— ' (continued laughter)—though without it would Le most agreeable. And then ads think of female indasnce at the time when the steward@ go round for donatime—think of • lady whispering in the ear of • subscribing admirer, when . with pencil iu baud he had written but a small sum, "Oh Augustus, don't be mean—make it guineas." (Lund laughter.) And now, gentlemen, let me call your attention to the real purpose of my address, " whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is," to rouse your generous feelings in our behalf ; for although, all I have said, we claim our annuities as a right, still it is greatly due to your liberality that we are enabled to pay them. We shall soon have many more claimants, therefore help us to do our duty by them all. We know you have had uurneruus calls upon your bounty lately, and all for excellent objects ; but still, please to remember the poor player—please to remember those who it their days of health and strh have done their beet to amuse and in struct you, and also remember that charity is like mercy, "it blemeth him that gives, and him that takes." (Loud cheers.) " The Houses of Parliament" was the next toast ; and afterwards Mr. B. Webster proposed "The Chairman." complimenting him upon having given vitality to two theatres—the Olympic and the Mt. Jame's—which but for him would probably have remained closed. The toast was appropriately acknowledged; and after some others germane to the occasion bad been disposed of the company separated. The subscriptions announced amounted to something over 4001. IL ato intelligence. COURT OF BANKROPTCY.—APRIL 14. (Before Mr. Commissioner IloIroyd.) IN RN HOCELET IMEDERICK WOOD. This bankrupt was also sa attorney, having offices in Portugal-street, and residing in Jewin-street, Aldersgate strut. The debts are of trilling amount. altogether under 3019. ; meta in good debts returned etsBl. Mr. Hodgson opposed for Mr. Treble, • enditor for a twelvemonth's board and lodging supplied to the bankrupt. Am sctiou had been brought, when the bankrupt pleaded a set-off for professional services rendered to the plaintiff ; but an award was made in the plaintiff's fivoir fur 501., to be paid in small instalments at 51. each. Only 21. hod been paid under this arrangement, and in February last, Mr. Treble arrested the bankrupt. By the vexatious defence to the action the plaintiff had been subjected to costs of Zl/. Some of the items in the set-off were mat extraordinary, and even absurd—sums of 21., 31., and 5/. being charged for making application for debts due to the plaintiff. Mr. Treble, hairdresser, Jertnyn-atreet, the opposing creditor, deposed that the bankrupt, his wife and servant, had lodged in his house for • twelvemonth, at 25,. a week. Had only received 101. on account. Bankrupt owed 59/. when he left. He frequently promised payment, and never said anything about a counter claim. When the action was commenced he claimed a set-off of 85/. The 'Una war re ferred to Master Turner, who recommended witness to take 501. by monthly instalments. The coats were TN. Bankrupt did not pay • the first instalment. Witness frequently called upon him, but got nothing but promises. Only ' 1. bad been paid. Winne had him ar rested on the 6th of February. Through the bankrupt's default witness had been obliged thrive • bill of sale, and all his property had been sold. There was no truth in any of the items of the set-off ; some of them were of a aoasida lous nature. Mr. Denny, who appeared for the laakrupt, cross examined witness—The t was that Mrs. Wood should have board as well as Mr. Wood had his breakfast every day, and three or four meals on Sunday, for which be paid coning. His Honour said that as the verdict had been given for • less amount than the sum sued for, he could not consider this a vexatious defence. The bankrupt, in answer to questions from the oozed, said that his earnings ea an attorney of late had been very small indeed—not more than 1801. • year. He had a serious accident a year and a half ago, which had almost in capacitated him from followinghte prolamin]. His Honour granted the order, subject to the condition that the bankrupt should set aside all he received beyond 1501. a-year for the payment of his debts. IN RE MARCIE AND HOOPER. The bankrupts were leather-merchants, of Bermondsey, In 1860 they petitioned the court under the arrangemeet clauses of the old act ; their liabilities wore then upwards Si 90,0001.: the petitioners assigned the whole of their Nis* retaining only the lease of their premises, and undertook to pay in addition • composition of Is. 6d. in the pond., Being unable to carry out this arrangement, they novenae before the court on their separate petitions. Mr. M. Abrahams appeared for the emigres. ; Mr. Lek. later, Mr. Crofter, sod Mr. Butler for creditors ; and Mr. Roxburgh for the Unkempt'. A preliminary disenuon arose as to whether the sow fulalment of the contract by the bankrupts had the effeet of reviving the full amount of the debts. It appeared that there had been a former bankruptcy under the old aat, which had been annulled, and the bankrupts had obtained release. Mr. Linklater, on behalf of the trustees, contended that it was open to them to go into the whole cue of the bank rupts trading. His Honour was of opinion that this could not be due. The creditors under the former bankruptcy had removed the Mate from the court, and had chosen their own tri bunal ; they were, therefore, Mend by what they had dope. and could not re-open the whole case. It was stated that the bankrupts bad since been out ci business, and there being no opposition on the part of any now creditors, his Honour granted the order of di scharge. IN 11 WILSON. The bankrupt, • harases-maker of Watford, applied fee , his order of dissharge. Mr. Aldridge opposed. The bankrupt only owed 1131., and he had paid W. to an attorney to take proceeding in bankruptcy. His Hower said this was clearly a payment in contem. planes of bankruptcy. Had the money been applied in discharge of his debts the coeditors would have got 2a 6d. in the pound. The sitting would be adjourned to gin as opportunity for the money to be refunded. (Before Mr. Comndodoner Coeburn.) In BE J. G. LYONS. The bankrupt was described as of Great Miasenden, out of business. His liabilities are considerable • but • we.. pealhad been made for taking the procee dings out of court under the 187th entice. Mr. C. E. Lewis appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Linklater for the bankrupt. It appearing that the signature of one other creditor (which had been promised) wee necessary io order to com ply with the terms of the section, an adjournment was ordered, to give an opportunity of completing the deed in proper form. _.—..-- The bankrupt, who wu a military major, applied for hie order of discharge. The Commissioner granted an adjournment to Wed nesday to give time to inspect the proceedings under a former insolvency. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—Apsn. 14. (Before Mr. Comminiotier Nichols.) 1111 ER JAR TROUP.-811100LAS CASZ. This was an application on the part of Mr. Troup, who denied that he had ever been an insolvent, to dismiss the petitions in his case filed by creditors. All the debt. had been paid and there was a surplus in court, which on grant ing the motion would be paid over to Mr. Troup. - Mr. Macrae appeared for Mr. Troup, and Mr. Bargood showed cause. It appeared that Mr. Troop had considerable property at Hastings,and • Mr. Mooring became a purchaser for 17,0001. The debts were paid and a balance left. There had bean litigation in Chancery, and a good deal of expense incurred. Mr. Sargood asked the court to impose terms on Mr. Troup before the application was granted, u Mr. Mooring might be put to great expense and litig ation by the other side. Mr. Macrae submitted that Mr. Troup was entitled to vacate the proceedings, all the claims having been der charged, and there was a balance in court. Mr. Comtuiseioner Nichols occupied some time over the matter, sod eventually adjourned it to the 26th inst. for I further information. THE POLICE COURTS. wYnresrEx _ _ LAW AdfENDMINT SOCIETY. Last night the usual bi-monthly meeting of the members of this society was hold at their rooms, 3, Water loo-place ; Sir Wittlitie ATIMITOS, the attormey-general, in the chair. The subject appointed for consideration was that of charitable trusts ; but before that matter was brought forward, Mr. HASTINGS said he wished to call the attention of the , society to • circumstance which had taken place since their • last eseeting. The legal profession had long looked forward to the erection of new courts of justice, in which law and equity might be administered under the same roof ; and • eonimittee of the society had recommended that they should be erected in the immediate neighbourhood of the lons of Court. That view bad also been taken up by her Majesty's government, and they accordingly introduced • bell 1.1 the present semion to eve effect to it ; bat whoa it came on for • second read* it was defeated by • majority of two. He deeply regretted that such had been the fate of the measure. He had lately vnited Dublin, and he there found the professing and the public provided with • set of courts so admirably i as to admit of an easy communication with each othe t r7t understood that there were in Edinburgh • set of courts equally convenient ; but in London. the metropolis of the world, the arrangement of the courts was of • most dis graceful character. Not to speak of the courts at Dootod commons, they had the common law courts and the Court of Prolate and Divorce in Weetinthater-hall, the coats of equity in Lincoln's-inn, and further east, at Guildhall, the courts in which the greatest portion of the std pries litiga tion of the country wee disposed of. H• looked upon the concentration of these courts as a matter of law reform-a convenience to the bar andto the solicitors, and the envie, of expense to their clients. On sanitary pounds he wee op posed to the proposal that the courts should be erected in Lincoln'winn-fields, which he hoped to me thrown open to the public. If, however, they were built upon that site, it would become neceesary to make proper approaches to them from Holborn and fleet street, and that would entail an amount of expenditure which would exceed the wet of purchasing the congeries of miserable haws which lay between Bell-yard. the Strand, and Corey-street. The matter was one which the society should not lose sight of ; sad he would, therefore, at their next meeting, move • resolution in reference to the lons of the bill to which he had alluded. Mr. L•weawci, as a member of the Incorporated Law Society, stated that body took the same view as Mr. Hastings did of the neosmity of basing the courts of justice concentrated, and regretted that Mr. Selwyn should have been so successful the first time be appeared as the advocate of retrenchment. Even if the whole coat of the new courts were to come out of the Consolidated, Fund, their erection was most &aka& ; but since the proposal was to take it out of the Suitors' Fee Futid, it interfered with that which was notoriously no man's fund. The ATTORNST-GINIBAL said the society would, he was ware, confirm what he had stated in the House of Com mons, that the provisions of the bill had all but the ninth. mous approval of both branches of the profession. He at tributed the loos of the hill, in the first instance, to the op position of the Society of 'Anodes-inn • aid secondly, to the fact that in the present state of the country, when there was an imminent and urgent necessity foe an immense outlay, the plea of economy appeared to either house more feasible than it really was. He hoped, however, that before loog the object they had le view would be obtained. The subject then dropped, and an intwombng discussion followed upon the policy of cootrolling the power of testa ' tore sad donors, in respect to charitable traria The general opinioa of the society & b leared to be that DO charity should be allowed to hold or rit landed property, and that the Court of Chancery, or some competent tribunal, should be invested with the power of reviewing the mourn ' stances of every charitable tryst, to which review every / vatic charity would become liable after • period of thirty / years from the date of the trust ; but not that the court I should absolutely then interfere. Mr. White, Mr. Hare, Mr. Freeland, M.P., Mr. Lawresee, Mr. Allen, and the / Attorney-General, took part in the diermedon. r The processbnp terminated in the nal seasser. THZ COVZNTRY EMIGRATION MOVIMIDIT. —A band of emigrants left this city and district on Thursday last for Liverpool, for the purport of sailing thence to Canada. Twelve families, including 56 individuals, went from this city ; the others from Folethill, Bulkington, Bed worth, Attleborough, and Stockingferd, were picked up at the stations between here and Nuneaton. The total numbs, of families was 66, sod of individuals, 234. Upwards of 3,000 persona followed the emigrants from Coventry to the station, and the parting scenes were very touching. The some at the Nuneaton station was equally affecting. Here also hundreds of people had congregated together, many of them to take a final fere relatives &nil friends. On the platform were Lord Leigh, C. H. Brans bridge, Esq., the Rev. Canon Savage, vicar of Nuneetoo ; the Rev. J. R. Quirk, incumbent of Attleborough ; the Rev. J. Thomas, incumbent of Stockuerford ; the Rev. R. Potter, vicar of Bulkington, Ste., all of whom were instru mental in exercising a cheering influence oe the emigrants and their frilleds by kindly and eneenragiag coevenatien with them. As the kilo which ooeveyed them amp left the station, three hearty cheers were given for their enema, in which Lord Leigh and his friends cordially joined. We understand that every arrangement has been made for the comfort and welfare of the emigrate both on their voyage out and on their arrival in Canada, the governmert emigre lion agent at Quebec having been furnished with funds to give them temporary assistance and forward them to their ultimate destination. On Thursday night, Lord Leigh, Mr. Bracebridge, and other members of the emigration com mittee, went to Liverpool in order to see the emigrant, comfortably shipped on board the Oulleden,ha which venial they will saiL—Dirmingaon Daily POOL NORICUM or DISTITUTION AT BLACKBURN.--. Deep is the distress, and small the mama to alleviate it, in the populous district of Blackburn. There are in Black burn 84 mills and weaving sheds, containing 1,035,720 spindles and 29,487 looms, and employing, when in full operation, no fewer than 20,352 persons. Of these 84 establishments about 18 are working full time, 23 are altogether stopped, 25 are running four and five days, and the remainder three days per week. There are 7.000 operatives wholly unemployed, whose lan is wages alone may be estimated at about 6,0001. per week. During the week ended last Saturday the relief fund committee die. tributed 9,9931b5. of breed and 10,19301ba of oatmeal to the necessitous of the aix respective wart* at a cost of about 130/. Through the agency of the Poor-law guardians 7,286 persons have been relieved in the Blackburn district, at a cost of 3841. 14.., being little more than Is. per head. THAMES. In ordinary times the weekly expenditure of the Blackburn Easily Sarah. Bucher, aged 28, and Clara Jane kniykt, relieving officer is from 701. to 801. The total number of I aged 20, sisters, end both married, were brought up on memos relieved last week in the Blackburn Union was I remind charged with stealing a large quantity of property 8,974, at a cost of 4671. 17e. 6,1, while in the corresponding belonging to Mr. Howes, a woolleodraper, and others, the week of last year only 2,416 were relieved in the entire i assignees of James William Bucher, tailor, late of Brick union, at an expense of 1321. 13s. 3d. The relief fund lane, Bpitalfields. amounts to nearly 2,400/., of which about 1,600/. has been i Mr. Metcalfe conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Thompson already expended during the peat nine weeks, reeving a sum defended the prisoners. of 8001. to provide for the futon wants of from 1,200 to i It appeared from the evidence that Burlier, the husband 1.500 persons , including children. The relief committee, of one of the prisoners, and brother-in-law o f other, was believing it almost impossible to obtaie ample means in the declared a bankrupt on his own petition on the 24th of town to meet. the increasing distress, ham Issued "an appall January last, and Mr. Henry Howes, woollendraper, and ou behalt of the distressed operatives of Blaeltharn."—Afan- the largest creditor, of No. 123, High-street, Whitechapel, cheater Guardian. was appointed trade assignee. The bankrupt impaired STATE OF TRADI IN LANCANTRIL—We are sorry before the Commissioner et the Bankruptcy Court to peas to say that there is yet no increase in the employment of his examination and give an account of his estate sad effects the factory hands of Lancaster. Messrs. Storey Brothers in a state of intoxication, and conducted himself in • and Co. have this week commenced to run four days a week ; very strange manner. He was threatened with committal only a portion of the hands of Bath Mill are employed ; and for contempt of court, and the case was finally adjourned work at Queen-street Mill has been altogether suspended sine die without protection. The bankrupt has since ab during the past fortnight. Mr. W. Jackson is running Eve wooded. In December last Mr. Howie observed a great days a week, and the silk mill operatives are fully employed. decrease in the bankrupt's stock, consisting of wollen A larger number than usual of labourers are now in want of cloths, prints, and other materials need by tailors in their work. In the face of this sleekness of trade, the applies- business. Only five pounds' worth of goods were given tions fo*elief, at the Poor-law office do not seem to indicate up to the creditor, sod the messenger of the Court of any large amount of destitution. This fact is full of mem. Ininkrupty had cleared out. The liabilities were said to big. Twenty years ago, in much better times than these, exceed 2, 0001. The charge against the prisoners was that the relieving o ffi ce would have been thronged with noisy ap- they had feloniously concealed the bankrupt's effects. On licants for relief , but provident habits have dike been the 21st of last month the sisters hired • room of Mrs. largely encouraged, and the working claims now make some Louisa Cumming. of No. 29, New-street, Whitachapel. provision against the fluctuations which seem inseparable Mn. Bucher represented that her sister, Mrs. Knight, from ioduatrislyurruita.—Laneasier Oilardiett. • was " a young lady from the country," whose luggage CRYIRAL rALACIL URg SMILLING DAY. was at the railway station. After the ream was hired, MONDAY, APRIL 14. —Admissions m payment, 770 ; amo Mrs. Bucher aid that the young lady was going to the by season CAM., 717—total, 1,487. railway station to fetch some goods. She was from Ipswich. Some of the distinctive charneteristies of Dr. de On the same night a horse and cart arrived with a had of Joneh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil are thus drecrihed by Dr. woolleedrapery goods, which were deposited in the room, 'Warr. Hall. Physician to the Hospital for consumpues, to the pent surprise of Mrs. Cummin g , who !moon- Torquay I have found Dr. be Jobith's Oil tosgree better with strata with th e prisoners, and said, ' Surely you are the digestive organs, especially in those patients who consider no t going to pot all those goods is my room ?" Al! themselves to be bilious it is more palatable to most patients t h e geo d e wen tern g h a d „ men ; and a f ter they than the other kinds of Cod Liver Oil :it Is stronger, and come- L.A b oom e u eposi 1 the room Mrs. Knight said she gamely • smaller dose Is sufficient." bold only In capsule,' bottles. B u f or d . I ores very much fatigued by her journey, and would sleep Lica." 77, Stand , tly N Dr iad . de a Jo mb ogli t, s ag 4 l44 Adrart Ausar isem'ent; with her sister. The sisters then left. On the following William Pembrook, a young man, aged 28, • dis charged soldier, was placed at the bar before the sitting magistrate, charged with a most determined attempt to mur der his grandmother, Mn. Mary King, aged 75, at 31, Charles-street, Westminster. The prisoner, who has been discharged from the Royal Artillery about two yean, lodged with his grandmother at 31, Charles-street. At Christmas last the pension granted him on his duimisaal expired, sod though • harness maker he re fused to look for work, but coutinually demanded money of lie iirsochuotber, mother, sad sister, threatening their lives they denied him. On Sunday afternoon, between four sod five o'clock, he made a demand of more money from his grandmother, and on the old lady refusing, he pulled out a razor and commenced a most murderous attack upon her, inflicting frightful wounds on her throat, face, and neck. The old lady's cries brought assistance, and the pri soner was secured and the razor taken from him. Mrs. King was taken to Charing-cross Hospital, where it was found that the wounds were of • dangerous, if not fatal character, and the surgeon's certificate to that effect was put in. The prisoner, who evinced no emotion, was remanded , for a week. Friday, after the prisoners had made repeated mills at the house, Mrs. Cumming gave iiihrmation to the police. The geode, worth 15W., were seized by Police-enema Polka, 10 K. who also apprehended the prisoners. He told them who he was, and Mrs. Kuight exclaimed, "oh good God, I expected this." Pollen mid to Mrs. Bucher, "How OYES you In pommieo of these 30 or 40 paresis of goods? to which she replied, "My father, Mr. Sykes, has lest mosey on them." The property, which covered the table of the court, WAS identified by Mr. Howes. The solicitor for the prosecution produced documentary evidence of the adjudication in bank ruptcy, and the prisoners were committed for trial. flail was excepted. DISTRESSING SUICIDE. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne, coroner for the I City of London, held an inquest at the Committee-rooms, Fountain-court, Minoriee, on the body of John Roseabohn, aged 58, who was found in the water-closet attached to his residence, 16, Somerset-street, Aldgate, with his skull chopped about in a most horrible manner, and his bead nearly severed from his body. Margaret Humphreys said she had known the deceased for about a month. She had been nursing his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached. She bad been an invalid for about twelve years with paralysis. On Thursday last witness had occasion to go into the kitchen for a pitcher of water. She opened the kitchen door, anthem the feet of deceased projecting out of the water closet, and a stream of blood was running down the yard. She immediately milted an alarm, but was too frightened to go near him. The illness of his wife was as far aa she knew his only trouble. John Rodgers, 45, Giffen-street, said be was a bricklayer, and was working opposite the deceased's house. On Thursday last be was called by last witness, who told him to come and see what was the matter, as she thought her master had been murdered. He opened the watercloset door, and discovered deceased kneeling on his right knee, with his arm resting on the seat of the water closet, his head banging down, and chopped in four or Ave pla cer . He hail a penknife clasped in hie left hand. The plaoe was covered with blood. He found a common wood axe covered with blood down the pan of the water closet. William Floyster, City police-constable, No. 511, said he was called to'the house of - 16. Somerset-street, to man who had his throat cut. He found him in the water closet, as described by last witaam. Mrs. Harriet Davis, servant to deceased, deposed to having heard her master complain of his great trouble—meaning his wife's illness. He was connected with the angar-reilning business, and bad been so for thirty years. He was very sober and steady. Charles Thomas Bleekrnan, of High-street, White chapel, said he was a surgeon, and had been attending the deceased's wife for several years. He wax sent for, and when be came he found deceased lying on his back in the yard, where he had been removed to, but quite dead. oe examination he found four severe scalp wounds is an oblique deeps They might have been canned by himself by t e chopper produced. His throat was cut from ear to ear, and his head nearly severed from his body. He mast have died instantly. it was the most determined use of suicide he had ever heard of during the whole of his experi ence. Verdict, "Temporary insanity." SERIOUS AmmarNr ro A ROPS.WALKER. A serious accident occurred on Thursday night in the course of the performance at the Surrey Musuohall, SheMeM. One of the performers is Madame tialvi, de scribed as "the world-renowned rope-aseensionist and rope• dancer," who made her first appearance is that town on Monday night. For her performance a somewhat MAD wire rope was stretched from the stage to the top galley', which is of very considerable height, and up this she was accustomed to walk in various ways— going at first straightforward, then backward ; then she would wheel a harrow up the rope, returni blindfolded, and performing other feats ila Bloodin. Madame Saler succesfully accomplished her tricks on the three previous nights of this week, and on Thursday night was repeating the performance. She had bees up the rope and returned, and was in the act of wheeling a barrow to the top, when, having reached about half-way, the rope suddenly broke, precipitating the unfortunate actress into the pit beneath, a distance of some 2U or 30 feet. The event, of course, caused great consternation amongst the audience sad the persons connected with the place. Assistance was in 'tautly rendered to Madame Sabi. who bad fallen upon the sesta, and medical assistance was obtained. She was found to be seriously hurt, but the exact nature of her injuries we were unable to learn. It was mid that two of her ribs were broken. but this, we hops, was ew exaggeration. Fortunately, the weights &Maenad to the rope were so disposed that persons in the audience could not very readily sit underneath the rope, and the place was not very full at the time, so that the accident was not so serious as it might have been had the actress fallen upon any of the pecple below. The cause of the fracture of the tope has not been ascertained. Though by no means thick, yet, being of wire, it was supposed to be abundantly strong for the purpose for which it was used, much thinner ropes having, we understand, sometimes been used.--Shejlield Independent. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. The report of the directors to be submitted to the peers' meeting tomorrow states, that a comparison of the working account now presented with that of 1860, will show that while the receipts from freight and passage money exhibit • considerable increase, the working expeoess have been less by the sum of 5,1291. 181. 6d., although, as stated in last report, they include several charges on account of the Avon and Pampa, which ships were chartered during the year, and have contributed largely to the gross revenue. The only item of expense which exhibits any material increase upon the corresponding charge for 1860, is that of "general service and stations," and this is accounted for mainly by the necessity of hiring a Yowl to eery on the service betweeu Rio de Juno° and the River Plate, during the temporary withdrawal of the Mersey in consequence of an accident to her machinery. The directors have deemed it right, under existing circum stances, and to cover loss from sale of ships, to make • reserve similar to that appropriated in 1859, viz. :—One per cent. on the value of the company's remaining fleet, in order to meet such losses, and the sum of 13.9361. Bs. 8.1. has been accordingly transferred to the credit of the general reserve fund. The repair and renewal account shows a balance of 6,3191. 19s. 10d., in favour of the company. The general reserve fund, after charging the loss sustained by the sale of the Eagle and Medway, exhibits, in consequence of the additional sum transferred from the profit and loss account, a balance also in favour of the company of 4,8291. Os. 2d. The Medway and the Dee having been withdrawn, as no longer fit for employment in the mail service, were sold, the former in August and the latter in January last. A sale was effected also a few weeks ago of the Prince, at St. Thome. The directors advert with satisfaction to the fact that they were enabled, when called upon by her Majesty's govern. meut on a sudden emergency connected with the recent threatened disturbance with the United States of North America, to place, without delay, at the disposal of go vernment for the transport service, two of the company's steamer', viz., the Magdalena and Parana. These vessels, which are admirably adapted for such employment, were engaged in the conveyance of troops to North America, and performed the service in a manner which elicited ex pressions of the most satisfactory character from the officers to command of the regiments embarked, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty werepleased to sigaify their approval of the conduct of the company's captains in currying out the duties entrusted to them on that occasion. The reports which have reached this country of gold dis coveries' in British Columbia Lave attracted great attention, and the tide of emigration that has been consequently in duced is likely to be attended with • considerable accession to the conipauy's traffic in that direction, • large number of passengers fur that colony having already proceeded by several of the late steamen from Southampton. This un expected amino of revenue will tend in tome measure, it is hoped, to compensate for the lass that must result from the competition which haa been commenced by a French line of steamers between St. Nazaire and Mexico, calling at Mar tinique and St. Jago de Cuba intermediately, and subsidised at a rate per mile of more than double that remised by this company. The company's contract fur the West Indies and South American mail services becomes, from the com mencement of 1863, determinable after twelve months by notice from the Postmuter-Genend. His lordship has in timated the intention of the government to serve on the company that notice on the Ist of January next. In conclusion, the directors recommend that the usual divi dend he declared of 2/. per share. free of income tax, and that the mains be made payable by warrants to be issued on the 38th instant. The balance which will remain, after payment of the dividend out of the sum to the credit of the profit acid loss account, will be 15,3391.3 e. 9d., but pending the litigation arising out of the arrangements with the European and Australian Company, the directors do not deem it prudent to dispose of that amount. TRAFFIC RETURNS. RAILWAY. IMO Par )ter- row. Tc44l, epos sewers shandlae 1662 194 Week 44/1124 March IC 4 t Ottoman b 263 119 - Week mull= AprU IL Loudon, iffestao, sad IL COlit 2411 11,224 4,V6 15,500 17,511 South leasers — 12,164 4,04 16,869 19,617 SOUTH Kitrefferrox Mtrestrm.—During the week Gediz. April 12, the visitors bare been as follows :—On Monday, 'Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open (row 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 12,637 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, studsots' days (admission to the public 6d.), open from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., 1,140 ; total, 13,677. From the cmoning of the Museum, 2,608,676. [Advertisement. )--liowne•Ve Pima.—The Great Necxxilitr.—One moment's reflection shows the absolute need of pure blood In the system: out of its compounds the whole frame Is formed, maintained. and repaired. Holloway's Pills recom mend themselves under twofold adveatiges : they expel all morbid matte?* larking Is the body, sad regulate digestion so that the food le thoroughly converted into good blood. re t Z tly lies Ms secret of sound health and happy exidenee. Holloway's Pills are tree from all mineral and noxious &sip: they cleanse and strengthen at one and the tame time. Invalids 'offering from loss of appetite and nervonsrestlessimes can soon he r es t ore d by these pima, which are invaluable in renovating constitutions impaired by climate, indulgence, excess, or anxiety. AGRICULTUR.AL PROSPECTS. • The week opened showery, and on Monday a : 4 4 6 ,1 deal of rain fell at intervals ; while the wind having vane( round to the uorth•east the temperature was lower. Vitae Suffolk on Tuesday it was remarked :—" The wet ' , anther is amain a good of anxiety for the growing crops, which begin to look sickly." Wedeesday was shoriere, after a steady fall of rain throughout nearly the whole of the night. In Nottingimioahire there has been a weal droll of wet, and the sowiug of aping corn was much ie terfered with. In Scotism] tbo weather had Leen I more favourable. On the wet coast it was obeerv,.i, "The weather has bean dry and seasonable over the week:" and on the east coast it was favourably "poker, of, the farmers progreesiag with spring sowing ou the dry lands. From Liooolush ire on the same day our ad man run : " A good deal of rain has fallen since Isst week ; but from yesterday the weather has been more vet. tied." Throughout Wednesday night very hear lama fell in this district, and all tire low lands were flooded on Then day morning. This was also the case in some parts of Suf. folk, where during the day a heavy fall was experienced, with a lower temperature. Near the coast in that comity, on Thursday, the accounts were very unfavourable, suit was remarked, "We have had a light fain almost doily since the 3rd inst., but last night aim this morning we were nearly drowned. About the greatest weight of water ever remembered fell here, and our low lands are flooded, no d even in the uplands the water runs over the furrows. u p to yesterday our farmers had looked somewhat cheerfully upon their prospects ; but today they were much de• pressed, and we fear with some good reason, for a wet March and April never yet produeed either quantity or quality in grain." In Worcestenhire " fanners are complaining mu c h about the land being in inch a wet state. Wheat is not look. iog so well, in oonsequence of so much wet." Friday was showery, with a cold north-easterly wind, and up to this day in the week, within 80 miles of town, scarcely any spring corn has been sown. Such delay andprocrastination must he looked on as unfavourable for future prospects. Anxiety h e much increased as to the wheat plant and early-sown barley : so great • fall of rain, from the 17th March to the present time, not having been experienced within the same peri o d for many years. Further north the accounts are not so lad, From the West Riding of Yorkshire on Friday it was re. marked, "The weather has been very wet, and is now very add; bat it has been dry nearly all the week. If only it keeps dry until to-morrow night the farmers will have got • large breadth of land sown. On Friday night a sharp frost was experienced, and Saturday morning *peed more smilingly. The sun shone out, mod it proved the finest day fora long time past, with • pretty clear atmosphere, wind northerly . , and very cold for the season.. The land with such weather would soon be in a fit state for spring tillage being proceeded with vigorously. and probably this change with so low a temperature will be much better for the crops generally than if it became suddenly warm. During all the rain of the week the barometers have been very . high, up to 30.30 at times, • circumstance which may Indicate fine weather at hand, and then the farmers will be too buy to being any quantity of corn to market. Shorter supplies and better condition will work their usual healthiness to the trade.—Mark4one 'express. MARKET& LONDON WEEKLY DOCK : taco 3,479 bags 3,798 bags 6,402 bangles bags . boxes 360 boxes aatenY casks 1,544 BraM packages Do bapi COPTIZ—Wait India gags' 722 Do..brk. k Daml,-418 ger coke bats. is begs 8,038 Yogis, Pacbagas ag Other IL India packages 8,564 Do. go. Des** Costa Mei I,lrf C 000• bap 26 Forelegs Eoatcsax Da. Bias, SAierneras— XMAS= P9U ®nay—W. I. Min II Ilirrilbm 1 Zia Isla ~ I Sim bri Zwi l l i ti 1,956 10,703 7,464 194 8.677 687 646 1,662 526 1,374 1,1101 MN 1,019 1%619 taxa MAU =IAD 16,04 10,444 ties/ 2. 6,018 1 8 ,7 19 4,96111 11.71111 14,11115 14614 U7K { S &TX same atos kilt 111,791 SAO LTA 30,443 10,712 4036 6,406 15,116 SAN M,MI 1,1112 111.413 - Tr,436 - 80,948 TALLOW. - The tallow market was miry steady throughout last week, with scarcely any variation is the quotations. A considerable portion of our deliveries was again exported, and cootioental houses are still buyers for delivery in future periods, chiefly October to December. The market is firm to-day. Spot and all this month, 455. 9d. ; June, 465. to 46e. 3d. ; July to September, 465. 9d. ; ber to December, 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. Town tallow is in good supply, at 455. 9d. net cash. Odom sheep scarce, ' 46e. 9d, Australian beef, 44a. 3d. to 44.. 6d. ; sheep, 45e. 6d. to 465. ; North America, 4555. to 455. 9d. ; South American, 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. Cocoa-nut oil is steady. Cochin, 435. Bd. to 50v. ; Ceylon, 48s. 6d. ; Sydney, 47.. 6d. to 48.. , good and floe, to 46e. 6d., low. Palm oil fiat, 41s. to 41s. 6.1. fine Lagos ; 395. Accra. Palm nut ofl, Me. to 375. Horse grease, 38s. ; rough fat, 2s. 501.-(Prom the circular of Messrs. Smith and Charles, dated Monday evening.) COTrON.—LirEurom., Arum 14.—There has been pod demand for cotters to-day, and a large business Ms been done with a dearer tendency. The sales NM 10,030 balm, including 1,920 American, at 90. to 130.; 3,000 Bang, at 7d. to IM.• 1,700 Eprptiara, at 12d. to Md.; 850 Pernam, at to 13d .: 2,000 Bahia, at llid. to 12d. ; 30 lifaraultam, at 12gd. ; of which 4,000 are for speculation and expert. The week's import is 2,214 Ulm. CATTLE.—LiviraPooi, APRIL 14.—The supply of cattle nosey the same as last week ; the demand excessively aloe, and prices rather lower. Sheep in very dull demand, with. ant alteration in price. Cattle, 2,028 ; sheep, 5,028. 00ALS.-Lorrnoff, Aram 14.-Bates' West Hartley, 1.5 a. ; Bell's Primrose, 124. 6d. ; Huddle's West Hartley, 16s. 9d. ; Bruia's Bebside West Hartley, 16a. Si. ; Ong. head Steam, 14e. 6d. ; Hastinp Hartley, 16.. 3d.; Holy well, 15a. 6d. ; Tanffeld Moor Hulas, 12e. 9d. • Walker Primrose, 12a. 6d. ; Wrlsm,lss. flet ; Walls Fad Heitz VW; Walla End Sheriff Hill, 14a. 6t1.; Edna Maim 94.; Walls End Framwellants, 16s. ; Walls End HMOs, 17a. 64.; Walls End Stewarts, 175.; Walls Eod TunataM, 16a; Walls End Cassop, 16s. 6d.; Walls End Candor., 16s. 64. ; Walls End Hartlepool, 175.; Walls End Haugh Hall, ins.; Walls End Halloo, 16s. 9,1.; Walls End Batik Hartlepool, 16a. 3d.; Walls End South Hellos, 16s. 6d. ; Walls Es 4 Thorpe, 16a. ; Walls End Trimdon Hartlepool, 175.; Walls End Trimdon Thanley, 14a. 6d. Oarway and Duffryn An thracite, 21s. 6d. ; airway and Onflrill Malting, 24 . - Ships at market, 79; sold, 56. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CABIJALTI. Billow (brig), Captain Oouerr, from St John's, Nfld., to lire . pool. with oil and molasses, wan abandoned on the 27th lerb lu lat. M N., lon. 88 W., leaky, with three feet water lb her hold, lola of rudder-head, foto awl main topmasts and Ma bulwarks stove, and deck swept; crew taken off. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Aida (ohipl, Jan. 11, lat. 2364 & lon. 67.12 L Harried° Brothers (American shit, for Falmouth, for orde rs, Jan. 17, lat. 26.216., lon. 61.33 Mien Rtnartjrom Liverpool fac Calcutta, March 9, lat. 1.51 N low. Etta W. Lily (barque), Jan. 11, lat. EL IA 8., ion. 67.12 E. Montrose, of Liverpool, March 17, lat. 45 N., lon. 8 W Bavenscraig (ship', Zan. 1, from Plymouth to New Zealand. let 6 N., lon. 20 30 W. ; all wall Wellington, Barstow, from Liverpool for New York Nord BIRTHS, IdAB.RIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. DAVIES.—ApriI 9, at Oakley-street, Chelsea, the wife of the Rev. R. U. Davies, of a daughter. DAVlO.—April 12, at Bedford-square, W.C., the wife of tit D. J. Davis, of • sou. POWLL—April 10. at Staines, Middlesex, the wife of the Be'. T. W. Fowls, of twin daughters. lILIANIL—ApriI 10, at St. James's-square, the wife of W. Resat Req., of a daughter. 1111.M1.—April 10, at Westend, Hampstead, the wife of W. B. I Miles, Uq, of • son. STRNHOUSL—ApriI 9, at Ftnchley New-road, the wife el T. ittenhome, Es q., of a son. TAYLIR.—ApriI 11, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the wife of CsPeell H. Taylor, H.R.'s St. Helena Regt.. of a son. WALICDRN.—ApriI 10, at Camhrldge-terrace, 11611tingA, the wife of Mr. J. Walkilen, of a daughter. WILKINRON.—ApriI 9, at Victoria-prod, Cispham-cemmou, the wife of A. W. Wilkinson, Req., of a &tighter. MARRIAGES. DAVIS—PENNINGTON. —April 10, at West Hackney Church. A. M. Davis. Beg., to Mary, daughter of A. Peuniugtoo, of West Mackney. HANKY—DUKK—ApriIIO. at Paul's, Chichester, by the Rs,. G. G. Henry, H. 0 Harvey, Em , Army Staff Asbisoot - Impost. to Ada Caroline. daughter of A. Duke, lei • °I Chichester. lIRYWOOD-BT. GEORGE.—ApriI 10, at Pt. Mark's, Vulva , . by the Rev. G. H. Sumner. Thomas Haywood. son . 4 T 11 ' 1 . mood. of Hope-entl, Herefordshire, to say liric". daughter of the late S. St. George, Eq., of Beadford, Ireland HOW ARD—HICKALIA.—ApriI 10, at Trinity Church, linaley• common, by the Rev. A. Rawson, J. Rowed, Eat., of gate, Kent, to Arabella, daughter of P. Nickalls, Wipe-road, Peckham. DEATHS, CORY.—April 0, at Worthing, Emily, daughter of Mr. II Cori. of Lincoln's-inn. GOIDWIN.—ApriI 10, at Peckham-rye. Mr. J. Godwin, imel GORR—April 10, at Royal York-creecent, Clifton. Wall' , Uestmiant.Colowd Clore, aged at MARRA& —April 10, at Bath, Sarah, widow of the lat e 11. Hammer, Esq., Captain EI. M.S., aged 76. MEDLEY.—ApriI 9, at nedbrook, near Taunton. E. 1 10114 ' _ _axed 67. PRItRiMITON.—ApeII 10, T. Pemberton, lkm., of Wastme Mease, near Birmingham, aged 71. 8120D1—Apell 11, at goidlia lomersetaldre, AdmirsiSir C. Bared*, K.C.8., K.C.H., egad EHOMAIL—ApriI 9, at ibmantinc Villa, Paddingloa. Hr. 1' Thaw^ aged 49. Printed Ind Published by waLum Rum am", al 1 ° 1: 3 ; Loniberdetreet, to the City of Londe% Prieto. Othee Lorabardetreet, to the Prechta of Whitefrlfet• TUISDAY, Allllll6, WEI. ere.—Aria. rt [Pr. Stmt. 1811.