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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAIIOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their 'riends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TrEsDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock„ at the Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, cont dining instructions, are respectfully requested t be add' ossec). All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. TIER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE. To-Morrow Evening, TUESDAY, MARcit 17, will be performed (for the [trot time this Season), Venn celebrated Opera, entitled, E • . RNANI. - Elvira, -Madame Pasini (her first appearance in this country) ; Ruy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Bencich (his first appearance in this ceuntry); Ernani, Signor Castigliano (his first appearance in this country). To conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by M. Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Po ui. The Scenery - by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA. ; on, LA Fl LIE DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdile. Lucile Gratin, Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlies. Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Tagßoni; M.M. Gosselin, Bertrand, Di Mattia, and Perrot. Verdi's highly successful Opera of NJNO will be repeated forthwith. Madame Caste Han is daily expected In town, and will shortly appear. IILEA.TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CItUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Rurdini, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, n. W. Ring* Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. To conclude with a new grand comic Pantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. • THEATRE ROYAL, LIAYISIARKET. THIS EVENING Wilt be performed the Comedy, called LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly. Mr. W. Farren • Ch a rles Courtly, Mr. H. 11011 ; mark Meddle, Mr. Webster ; Cool, Mr. Brindal; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone ; Dazzle, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Seymour ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. Hamby. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Reine d'un Jour," "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz, and the Quadrille, " Le Eel d'Yvetot." After which a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Hamby, &c. To be followed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, 3llss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. . _ First Appearance in the Regular Drama of the celebrated GENERAL TOM THUMB ! THIS EVENING The performances will commence with WITC a AND WARD. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To.be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, on ttled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and h:s Seven League Boots. In which General Tom Thumb, who is engaged expressly I( r thls occasion, will have the honour of making his appearance. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; :Misses Arden, Yillars, and lloward. Stalls, ss. CBoxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Great success of the New Drama of " The Cabin Boy." THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, Mr. Paul Bedford; Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Woolgar. After which, a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs.Honeybun, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &e. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Vaudeville Comedy, entitled, THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. Duke de Chartres, Mr. J. Vining ; Count tle Brissac, Mr. Harris ; Dr. Druggendraft, Mr. Compton ; Pierre Palliot, Mr. C. Mathews; Mdlle. Duval, Miss E. Homier ; Duchess tie Chartres, Madame Vestris. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled MATHEWS AND CO. Characters by Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Walton, Oxberry, and Miss E. Hormel'. To be followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled, A SPEAKING LIKENESS. Baron de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. ,fames Vining; Coco, Mr. Compton ; Manette, Madame Vestris. To he succeeded by Mr. Charles Mathews's Farce of PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT. In V which Messrs, “Ilbert, Marshall, Adrien, 3liss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and 3ldlle, Melanie Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M.'PHILLIFTE'S SOIREES and MAIINEES MYSTERIEIJSES. _ _ Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who do:,k to tttend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will g;ve his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Idorimg, st Two o'clock. M. Picillippe'striosißOintlar Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments Will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter p.tst Sam to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, Gel. ; Pivate Boxes, 17. Is., 'awl 11. 11 g. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY T IIE iTRE. IMormous hit. Unparalleled attraction. The New Grand Spectacle and the Army of Women...received with Thunders of Applause. The New Drama highly successful. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE S;:A KING'S VOW; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Roger, Cowell, May nard, Johnson, Lewis, Heslop, Monson; Mesdnts. Vining, Daly, Martin, "Iles Glover, and One Hundred Female Warriors. After which the] New Drama, entitled, THE PASTOR'S DAUGHTER. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITEIEATRE OF ARTS. Sixth Week of the Magnificent Elephantine production, which is nightly bailed by brilliant audiences with the most tremendous applause. Second Week of the Elephantine Tight-rope Dancer. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF NTA.CIPOTIE or, the tlacrcd Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of .the Establishment will W. brought into requisition. . Brilliant Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of tl:e British and Foreign Company. The whole to conclude with a Grand MILITARY BALLET. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MARCH 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 55; Noon, 57. BAROMETER, 30.19.-WIND S.S.W., fine. MARCH 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 54. BAROMETER, 30.10.—WLND W.N.W. Morning, rainy ; Afternoon, fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. l!erning .. 49 animates after 3. I Evening .. 5 minutes after 4. ` 41. 1 4:e V t. de s • •;I •V , h USZI4I: #trti r 4 , , " rn i ttatit i lITAX LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1846. A Parliamentary return, which has just appeared, fur saishes some curious, we may almost say startling, informa tion about these terra incognitce, the Universities of Oxford rnd Cambridge. It is a return of various particulars relative •t o certain professors in the two Universities, and. among ether particulars, of the number of pupils attending their lec tures. The professors included in the return are the Regius Professors of Divinity, Physic, Civil Law, Greek and Hebrew, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and the Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in both Universities, the Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ecclesi astical History in Oxford, and certain professors, to whom an annual stipend is voted by Parliament, and who, we gather from the return itself, are paid by Parliament, as follows : OXFORD. Modern History, Dr. Cramer........... £37l Geology, Dr. Buckland lOO Mineralogy, Dr. Buckland Chemistry, Dr. Daubeny... lOO Botany, Dr. Daubeny Experimental Philosophy, Mr. Walker lOO CAMBRIDGE. . History, Mr. Smyth Anatomy, Dr. Clark • Chemistry, Mr. Cumming ... lOO . Botany, Mr. Henslow Natural Philosophy, Mr. Willis lOO Mineralogy, Mr. Miller lOO The sums voted by Parliament are certainly not large, but the question is, whether for the good which these professors Seem to do they are not paid dear at these small salaries ; p ro bably, the inefficiency of the professorshipsis to be traced to the smallness of the emoluments ; and if so, we ethould by all means say, pay the professors better, and make them more efficient. At any rate, the present state of things Is indefensible. Either give no money, or give enough to do good. The celebrated Dr. BUCILLAND holds the two hprofessor .- "hips of geology and mineralogy in Oxford; and ; yupils does the reader think that this phil . oso ow ph in er an o y f • European reputation has had in both classes during the last follryears? 107, says the return. That is, less s n average a of len for each class in the year! Dr. DAUBEI:Ya' and oaverages r fo o oeshtewmv twenty_ annual number for his botany class is six, eleven ! The Professor of Modern History • Four; while the Professor of Experimental Philosophy beats sdl his colleagues, having had , in 1842, seventy-five pupils ; in 1843, ninety-one; in 1844, sixty-two; and in 1845, eighty. • live. Bv.t there may be, and probably is, some special reason far tboie larger numbers, as we tee by the returns that a . considerable proportion comes each year from one college (Claist Church), where probably some regulation exists for enforcing attendance. " In Cambridge things are no better than in Oxford. The Professor of Anatomy had only six pupils last year, and the Professor of Chemistry only ten : the average number of pupils with the Professor of Botany is only to enty ; the PCO - Solar of Natural Philosophy has only ten to fiften pupils a year; the Professor of Mineralogy cannot state the number, however:, we may safely conclude, because they are too twrnerous to count; and the Professor of Modern History has • given nq lectures at all for the last four or five years, " not in; I :e' (we quote from a letter written by the professor gehiel is quite a curiosity in its way), because I had br:ome deaf and old, but because I found that I had lost audience, and that if my lectures were to have any chance of doing good they must be priblished, which was accordingly done, precisely as I had been accustomed to deliver them." To the loss of his uni "f2:,ritty audience, then, the p u bli c i s i n d e bt e d f or P ro f essor s works on " Modern History," and the " French X .vo ution." But why did he lose his university audience? rwirrVne,efoneusmoblneer years, rsf pupils," he says, " th a t use d to atten d 70t090 ; but when the exatnina n, called the Little- on go,' eras instituted, I lost a consider *? :e part of my audience, one-fourth at least. My audience at erwards dwindled down to about 18 or 20," believe th.,t with most professors, as with Professor ilklYlN:e rir, recent changes in the educational system at the Universities, which have the effect of absorbing more and more of the time of the young men in claTsical and mathematical studies, have been the cause why their lecture-rooms have been emptied. This is the explanation given by Mr. LYALL in his strictures on the English University system, in his work on America. But what can justify to foreigners, whatever there may be to explain, the desert state of lecture .rooms presided over by such men as Professor SMYTH and Professor BUCKLAND Nothing can be more lamentable than the frequent occa sions in which, of late years, public attention has been drawn to the serious delinquencies—to use the mildest term—of which, in our courts of law, the clergy of the Established Church, whom, from their position, we are taught to regard as the appointed instructors in both moral and religious edu cation, have been found guilty. Our columns of Friday contained the:report of the second day's trial of an action for damages, in which a reverend gentleman, a doctor of di vinity, an incumbent, haying the cure of souls, and the recipient of a large income, figured as the defendant, and in which the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. We are not about to descant upon the evidence upon which this verdict was obtained ; suffice it to say, that a special jury, composed of men of property, education, and intelligence, whose sym pathies, if they could at all be supposed to sway;theirjudg ment, would be far more likely to be entertained on behalf of the reverend defendant, a gentleman iu: their own rank of life, and moving in their own circle, than of his accuse:, who had been his menial, found the charge to be true, although this divine enjoyed all the advantages which wealth can afford, especially in securing for him the services of the Attorney-General, who has made himself so distinguished an advocate in cases of this peculiar description. Thus, then, has another instance been added to the black catalogue of clerical offences. Are these shocking errors traceable in any degree to the loose manner in which the Universities educate, and the hierarchy suffer, candidates for holy erders to be inducted into the Establishment? How notoriously loose is the life too generally led by young men at Oxford or Cambridge; and where is the restraint upon the destined and youthful recipients of clerical prefer ment from following in the crowd of his dissolute com panions ? Once formally through his degree and the subse quent nominal examination of the bishop, he immediately acquires, without test, let, or impediment, the full enjoyment of his family patronage in the Church, the emolument of which he has been taught to regard, from his earliest years, as being as much his own as that of the ancestral domain is of his elder brother. How different is the probationary course with the ministers of other persuasions. The evidence of their fitness for the sacred office must be well established previous to their entrance upon it by a long course of arduous study, supported by a life of irreproachable purity. Surely the time has come when some better means should be adopted by those seats of learning for grappling with the evils by which the public mind is, as it were, gangrened and which spring, too, from the very sources which are regarded, and which they boast, to be within their own special juris diction. For years have the Dissenters claimed the right of admission into the Universities, which bigotry and spiritual monopoly have, as yet, unfortunately too successfully resisted. This narrow-mindedness is reaping the penalty of its own selfishness, for we are constantly witnessing the unhappy fruits of the education pursued within the college walls; whereas, if the doors of the national :academies had been long ago , liberally thrown open;as they ought to have been, to the disciples of every creed, bigotry and superstition would have soon become shrouded under the auspices of that enlightenment which is the sure result of permitting all classes to mingle together, and generously to com pete for the honours of the state as well clerical as laical. No doubt much has of late years been done by the Legisla ture towards eradicating in part, and more in amending, many of the administrative evils of the established religion, but it is greatly to be regretted that so little has been effected towards improving the constituted ecclesiastical tribunals for visiting in a more efficacious manner the recog nised functionaries of religion with the severest penalties when they have been adjudged guilty of such atrocious charges as have, unfortunately, within the last few . years:been so frequently brought against them. To the exemplary manner in which the ministers of the various classes to which we have referred have discharged their solemn vocations, are we indebted that the State religion has been compelled to adopt even such partial and scanty reforms as those to which we hare alluded, and we do sincerely hope that the example furnished to us by the Scotch Church, in the investigating, and (if guilty) punishing such ministers of religion as sacri fice their high calling to the gratification of their lustful pro pensities, will soon be followed, and its spirit incorporated in our statute-book. In that Church, should a complaint be made against one of its pastors, it is in the first instance ad judicated on by the Presbytery, from thence an appeal lies to the Synod, and thence to the General Assembly, the court of final resort, whose decision is binding and con clusive. To a tribunal so constituted there can be no pos sible objection ; every one must be satisfied of the impar tiality with which its judgment is arrived at. The wise provision of our British constitutional law, that every con tested fact in which the life, the property, the reputation of any man is involved, shall be left to the decision of his peers, is there acted up to, and the public, satisfied that strict jus tice is done, at once acquiesce, without cavil or complaint, in the ultimate decision. Such, however, cannot be the case when the entire matter is to be investigated before a single judge, whose prejudices and feelings may possibly lead him to take too lenient a view of the circumstances, and it is to the comparative impunity with which so many grave of fenders against all that is sacred, against all that they have so solemnly undertaken to fulfil, and by pre cept and example to inculcate, have been suffered to escape, that the confidence of the public mind has been altogether shaken in the decisions of the clerical courts of judicature. The force of public opinion is ever the herald to salutary re formation; and it is the duty of the journalist to give this opinion a faithful embodiment; and, certain that we are only correctly pourtraying the public feeling when, we urge the necessity of stringent and immediate measures for the cor.- struction of a proper tribunal for the investigation of these serious charges, and the purification of the altars of religion from such polluted excrescences—we shall not cease to urge the adoption of a different system from that which now pre vails, to the end that, on the one hand, the disgust engen dered by these repeated exhibitions of clerical demoralisation may be removed ; and, on the other, that by a salutary change, the approbation of every well-regulated member of society may be secured. Destitution, disease, and want of employment, are spread ing with the most alarming rapidity throughout Ireland. Even the veriest sceptics of the misery germinating among the populace of that doomed country find it no longer possible to hesitate in acknowledging the present emergency. Sir R. PEEL, in his character of Prime Minister, has demanded in the most solemn language the assistance of Parliament for those millions of starving Irish. Mr. O'CosixErx has pronounced the condition of his fellow-countrymen as requiring one immediate help from Government, if the legisla tors would comply with their responsibilities as guardians of the multitude, or, in fact, if they would fulfil the most be nign precept of Christianity by feeding the hungry. Pro fessors KANE and PLAY FAIR have given us the detailed statistics of that deficiency in vegetable food, which is now tending to debilitate, if not to exterminate, a fearful portion of the population of Ireland. The Legislature also has acted a be coming and merciful part on this occasion ; the ordinary routine of Parliamentary business has been interrupted to afford an op portunity for expediting certain measures likely to entail ma eh benefit upon the sister island. A preference has been given to questions hinging upon Irish matters. Indian corn to a considerable amount bas been purchased with our national funds, and shipped for the principal ports of Ireland. as much to preserve the scanty crop remaining of sound potatoes to be employed as seed for the next barves t, as for the purpose of placing wholesome provisions at a moderate charge within the reach of the sufferers. 'Parlors 1 modes have been devised and mooted, both within and with out St. Stephen's, by which remedies might be applie d to an extensive and importunate and spreadir,g evil. Some of these devices have been adopted. But while arrangements are thus making tardily and with hes i tation, the penury and helplessness of those four or five millions of human beings are daily becoming more and more dire, and hopeless, and awful. Each packet is the bearer of still more calamitous intelligence, the harbinger of yet darker days. Starvation in some districts is not only threatening—it has already commenced. Agents have been dispatched to those scenes of want and idle- , ness ; their communications in return have more than corroborated all the previous rumours of wretchedness. Fever and dysentery --originating in tainted roots, or in a total absence of nourishment—are prevalent to no unim portant extent in Several.of the towns and villages of Clare. While the hovels, which in moments even of plenty are always choked up with filth enough to generate a mallaria, are now abandoned to a yet greater state of dilapidation ; the limbs and muscles of their inmates rendering them by emaciation but little inclined to exertion. Nor are these terrible grievan cies confined to the inner and more rustic parishes; the dwellersfiercest on the sea- s h ore are beginning to experience all the so hopeless a a pangs gs of -, privation. So extreme is their indigence— men been trfutur r e— o parttha future --that witht tmerelyheirliht little have poort c h ra e pso f fisher compelledhouse- hold furniture (such as beds) and their wearing apparel, in order to appease fo r a t i me the hungertheir families, but they have been driven to that of final stress of a necessity of raising a trifle of m oney upon their nets. , the ßy th e se circumstances all opportunit y o f redeeming their po sition is at for ever, unless some charitable interferer cemy e nable them to struggle again in their own callin g for theira livelihood. Seventy-five of these fishing -nets have been staked away for food in the above manner on the south-west coast alone ; and so urgent were the cir cumstances under which the bargain was struck, that the pawnbroker of Kilrush declares his conviction that if the unfortunate men could possibly have conveyed their boats to his warehouse, they would have resigned those instru ments of their industry into his possession for the purpose of buying meal. That these significant occurrences may not pass without the observation of Government, a petition from the fishermen of Clare has, it appears, been drawn up, im ploring the Members of the Lower House to take the penury o: the petitioners into consideration. And fain are we to believe that that prayer will not remain long un answered. The dykes are breaking down; if they be not speedily repaired, Ireland will be inundated with woe. Believing, however, as we do, in the promptitude and justice of Parliament, we cannot for a moment suppose that that au gust body will remain impervious to the lamentations of the famishing. Let our legislators remember, however, that the scarcity among the Irish is gradually dwindling down to nothing : and that, after the warnings and supplications which they have already received, they will be answerable before Heaven for one single victim of starvation ! In addition to the Government pro posal, there is the suggestion of the Premier, that private charity should co-operate with the Legislature in finding sus tenance and employment for the poverty. stricken Irish. This suggestion appears to have been treated slightly, or to have been altogether contemned ; but fur ourselves, we conceive it to he imperative upon every individual who is competent, to join in some grand, national contribution fur affording succour for the famished crowds in Ireland. A mere mite from each would accumulate into a vast boon for those destitute classes of our countrymen. By depriving ourselves of not one single comfort we might ward off death from the unfortunate. An emniscient DErrY has thought proper to visit Ireland with one of his severest scourges: it is the very moment, therefore, when England should follow one amongst the noblest precepts inculcated by that DErry. We feel assured that this recommendation from the lips of the Prime Minister is not merely feasible, but that it is ab solutely requisite. Isdeed it is but reasonable, while coer cion is proposed for the suppression of Molly Maguireism, of the Rockite factions, the Whiteboy conspiracies, and those hideous agrarian assassinations which are unhappily - so prevalent in our sister country ;—it is but reasonable, we say, that this coercive system (abstractly so obnoxious to the Irish tenantry, should be reconciled, in some measure, to the populace, by simultaneous efforts on the part of Government and of the British public, to employ the unemployed and to feed the foodless. A community of action such as this would be conducive to the welfare of the peasantry, while it would enforce their revereuce for and obedience to the majesty of the temporary law. As a co-operative measure, nothing, however, would be more likely to ensure this happy consum mation than a strenuous movement on the part of the Irish landlords—an interference on behalf of the labouring classes, more natural than any interference of Government, or of the English public, and one more certain of ensuring the tranquillity and of compensating for the bygone miseries of that luckless multitude. It was from a conviction of this fact that Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'Bnaus endeavoured to im press the necessity upon .the representatives and the Mi nistry ; it was from a conviction of this fact that Sir rlcumsr PEEL immediately afterwards declared that "unless the Irish proprietors can be induced to come forward and co-operate with the Government, all that can be done will be almost entirely useless." Surrounded, however, by those gloomy signs of hesitation, and increased poverty, and contagious maladies, let Ireland still remain patient and hopeful ; her cup of sorrow is coming to the dregs; a happier epoch is approaching. In the midst of such scenes the very ingratitude of Mr. S. O'BRIEN will pass by unheeded, and the ill-timed and in jurious remarks, which he made on Friday evening, be drow,n2d amidst the cries of starvation from his countrymen. We observe that Mr. PARKER, the Member for Sheffield, has given notice of a motion on the subject of railway h gis • lation, which wears much more of a practical appearance than the proposed motion of Mr. MORRISON. Mr. PARKER'S motion is for a Select Committee, " to consider whether pre cautions cannot be devised by which the effects of the rail way legislation, now pending, on the labour and money markets of the country, may be provided against." This is hitting the right nail on the head. Mr. PARKER'S motion is fixed for Wednesday next. Before then weshall return to the subject. Mr. Monmsox has fixed his motion for Thursday next; but Mr. PARKER'S motion, on Wednesday, will pro bably lead to a debate that will bring out the views of both Hon. Members, and render Mr MomusoN's motion unnecessary. We have received Madrid journals of the 6th, but they bring no news. The Funds on that day were rather more firm; the Three per Cents. closed at 29 1 / 4 for the 30th inst. Nothing was done in the Five per Cents. The Paris papers in general regard the Polish insurrection as at an end, though some of more sanguine temperament still entertain lingering hopes that in the distant provinces the struggle may be carried en with some chance of success. That, however, is neither the common belief; nor even the wish of the best friends of Poland, and all that can be done row ; is to raise funds with a view to render some relief to the devoted victims of this ill-judged attempt. All classes in France have evinced their sympathy for Poland. Even the clergy have come forward and mingled their prayers with the sympathetic wishes of their countrymen for the restoration of this afflicted people. The Bishop of Pen has addressed the following appeal to the inhabitants of his diocese :—" Beloved diocesans, we will respond to the wishes of those brethren who by their impetuous valour and the brilliant qualities of their hearts have desired to be called the French of the North. Never, perhaps, was Polanl. more worthy of the sympathies of all Catholic hearts. Be hold her in her hale, old age bringing forth martyrs, whose heroism is no wise inferior to that of the first champions of our faith. Poland, unhappy and beloved sister, you will not have vainly placed your hopes in the Gallivan Church ; we will all mitti,aer relief to your sufferings. The pontiffs, clergy men, and faithful unite their voices and hearts to implore peace and mercy in your behalf. Our prayer will ascend to Heaven with the still smoking gore of your martyrs, and the blood of martyrs, mingled with the prayers of the saints, ever falls as a shower of blessings on the land from which it rose. We already descry, at no remote distance, the dawn of less in auspicious days, which the Loup reserves for that noble land. The entire of Europe is attentive to the groans escap ing from the bosoms of your children on the icy shores of Siberia. Everywhere generous voices are raised to demand our deliverance, and everywhere those voices are rapturously hailed by the sympathising nations." Nut fewer than 149 Members of the Chamber of Deputies have subscribed sums for the relief of the insurgents. Most of the public schools and the Parisian bar also have subscribed. The sums, it is true, are small, but France is not a wealthy country, and the universal feeling of sympathy only shows what the people would do if they had the means. The Polytechnic School has subscribed 50/. ; the Normal School, 36/. ; the Central School of Arts and Sciences, 161. ; and the Parisian bar, 381. The Government are anxious to repress any popular demonstration which may give offence to Russia or other powers ; but, as far as can be judged from the official organs, even the Ministers feel great sympathy in the cause. Some nights since police agents were sta tioned in the pit of the Opera to prevent any outbreak of popular feeling, and, according to the National, the ballet of Diable a Quatre was prohibited on Wednesday night, because, the scene being laid in Poland, some noisy demonstration was likely to be made. The same jour nal relates the following occurrence :—" As the KING to-day, at three o'clock, was driving in his carriage across the Place de la Concorde, on his way to Neuilly, a citizen took off his hat, and saluted his MAJESTY with the cry of \rive la Pologne !' This was immediately repeated by some five and-twenty persons, and it was sufficiently loud, notwith standing the noise of the carriage and the galloping of the horses, to reach the ears of the KING, who, on hearing it, threw himself back in his carriage." We have no later news from Cracow in these papers, but the following details of what occurred in the surrender of that town will be read with interest. They appear in the Journal des Debats " The German papers and private letters we have to-day received from the frontier of Silesia confirm the entry of the troops of these protecting powers on the Republic's territory, and the occupation of the city of Cracow. The intention of the inhabitants does not appear to have been to offer any resistance whatever to the combined forces of the three powers. As early as the Ist of March, two daya after the re-capture of Podgorze by General Collin's troops, they had re moved the national red and white flag from the residence of the Provisional Government, and substituted the white flag. Flags of truce, borne by the most notable inhabitants of Cracow, repaired to General Collin's head-quarters, in order to render the capitulation of the city. The Austrian General, before all, demanded hostages, the surrender of arms, and unconditional sub mission. Whilst • these conferences were proceeding, the Russian corps was advancing by the Olkusz high road, moving towards the north-east of the city, the part that can be least de fended. The moment General Collin heard of this mov lent, he Ordered two battalions to cross the bridge and enter Crar e, which they entered at the same time as the Russians. Wha the Inhabitants will be who have taken part in the inst... not yet known. It is to be feared that the instructions issued to the Generals commanding the troops of occupation order them forthwith to establish councils of war, and proceed with the utmost rigour. The most compromised insurgents had left the city of Cracow almost Im mediately after General Collin's entry into Podgorze, and had striven to cross the Vistula ; but the opposite baak was already occupied by the Austrian troops, come to support General Collin. They therefore repaired, on the 2d of March, to Neu-Berum, en the Silesian frontier, where the Prussian troops were. The three principal leaders, Colonels, Zhorowski, Wodzicki, and Bninski, after an interval with Generaide Felden, laid down their arms on the sth March, and surrendered at discretion. The insurgents delivered up to the Prussian troops alto gether 200 horses, COO scythes, but not a fire-arm. The Prussian corps crossed the same day the republic's territory, and was to have arrived at Cracow on the 7th. We yesterday reckoned the force of the Prussian corps at 3,000 men. Having received large reinforce ments from Breslau it must amount to 7,000 men. The Russian corps is of five thousand, as well as the Austrian corps, which was partly to remain at Podgorze, facing Cracow. General Collin, since he left Cracow, until his return to that place, has received but two battalions of reinforcements. Thanks to the strategic line of railroads, which now extends from Bohemia, Austria could have easily assembled from 20,000 to 30,000 men in three days on the Vistula. It is supposed that the reinforcements sent toaho neral Collin have been sent to maintain order and tranquillity in e circles wherein the insurgents have striven to the insurrection." At Dresden the fate of the unfortunate Poles has excited the deepest sympathy; and in the Second Chamber, on the 4th instant, a strong demonstration was made in their favour. M. DE GABELENTZ, in pursuance of a notice given the pre ceding day, asked the Ministry whether it was true that all Poles, without excepting even those who had long been set tled in Saxony, had been ordered to leave the kingdom, and if this were so, to explain the motives for such an extreme measure, in order to satisfy those who feared that the sacred rights of hospitality were not in any degree violated by Saxony, which country had ever made it a point of honour to observe them most religiously. The Minister of State, M. DE FULKENSTEIN, declared that he was the more ready to give the explanation demanded, as the measure had been unjustly condemned. It was, he said, general, but was taken in such a manner as to leave those affected by it sufficient time to make every requisite preparation for de parture and arrangement: for the future. The measure, though general, did not exclude exceptions, and the number of Poles in Saxony whom it could be applied to was only sixteen, but he could not make known in a public sitting the motives which had induced the Government to adopt it. M. DE GABELF.NTZ, then made a motion, that the Chamber should insert in its minutes that it was confident that the Ministry would modify the measure taken with regard to the Poles in such manner, that those who were able to prove they bad a legal domicile in Saxony should continue to reside in the kingdom. Upon the motion of M. DE LESCHAU, the Chamber went into secret committee. This secret sitting lasted two hours, at the end of which the Chamber resumed its public sitting, and after a further THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING MARCH 'l6, 1846. debate, the motion of M. DE GABELENTZ was carried unani mously. . _ We subjoin some miscellaneous extracts from the papers !---. The St. Petersburgh". journals, of the 25th ult., publish the reports of General Prince Andronikoff, Commander-in-Chief of Southern Daghestan. According to these reports, part of the Caucasus say be regarded as entirely pacified. Generals Nicsteroff and Freitag have made, in the forest of Shekl, openings like those effected in the wood of Goilo in December last. The Russian detachments have had some skirmishes with the Schetchenes, which latter were worsted, and their country, one of the most difficult in the Caucasus, is thereby opened to the Russian armies. On the right wing of the line of the Caucasus, the warlike tribe of the Abadseks, which amounts to about 100,000, has made its submission to Russia. A letter frem Stutgard of the 2d inst. says :—" Yesterday the municipal council, with M. Gutbrod, the mayor, at their head, pro ceeded to congratulate the King on the approaching marriage of the Prince, his son, with the daughter of the Emperor of Russia, the Princess Olga. After having thanked the deputation for their friendly sentiments, the King said: I take advantage of this oppor tunity, gentlemen, to tranquillise certain persons not only in our country, but throughout the whole of Germany, who have seen in this circumstance cause of alarm for the independence of our future policy. The union which my beloved SOW is about to contract is entirely unconnected with political considerations ; and you may rest satisfied that as long as I live I shall follow the exclusive system of Geranin interests, which is that of our country. I feel convinced that my son, when called on to govern, will act as I do.' " A letter from Posen, of the sth" inst., states that about 20 addi tional arrests had been just effected there ; amongst them were some ectlesiastic►. The Cathol.c Gymnasium and Ecclesiastical School hays been closed. The National states that M. Guizot, in his anxiety to prevnt the Deputies from subscribing in favour of the Poles, said—" Every new adhesion on your part will be responded to by the decapitation of a Polish insurgent." The French Funds improved considerably on Thursday. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 80c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,315 E ; Rouen, 1,050 E ; Havre, 752 f. ; Great Northern, 782 f. 50e. ; Avignon, 987 f. 50e.; Vierzon, 750 f. 50e.; Bordeaux, 670 f. ; Boulogne, 525 f. ; Basle, 242 f. tOe. ; Dieppe, 472 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 545 f. ; Tours and Nantes. 578 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, definitive, 627 f. 50c.; Spanish Actives, 3434 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38. The following are the quotations for other lines : Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot) 512 f. 50e. ; ditto (Lecointe), 506 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Merldienale), 504 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette (31 ackenzie), 504 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 512 f. 50c.; Charleroi, 496 f. 50c. MARSEILLES, MARCH 7.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,010 f.; Nor thern, 800 f. 20c. LYONS, MARCH 10.—Rouen, 1,045 f. ; Yierzon, 747 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, STARCH 13. Boulogne and Amiens, 10%—Bordeaux', Toulouse, and Celle (Mackenzie), 2—Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, % --Great North ern of France Constituted, 16—Great Indian Peninsular, % —Great Western Canada, 34—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 1% Louvain and Jemappe, 1 —Luxembourg, 2 Orleans and Pier son, 1934—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12!8—.1totien and Havre, 22 Tours and Nantes Constituted, 7% —West Flanders, 3%, . A meeting of liish Liberal Members called by Mr. O'Con nell took place on Saturday, at the Reform Club, to consider the course to be taken in the House of Commons, with re gard to the Suppression of Crime (Ireland) Bill. Mr. Neweegate is to propose, to-night, to nominate the following Members for the Committee on the Registration of County Voters :—Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Craven Berkeley, Mr. Adderlry, Mr. Ridley Colborne, Viscount Sandon, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. James Stuart Wortley, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Charles Villiers, Mr. Hodgson Hinde, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bankes, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Sir John Walsh. Mr. Etwall is to propose an altered list on Monday for the Committee on the Andover Union, in which the names of Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Langston, Sir John Walsh, and Sir William Jolliffe, are substituted for those of Mr. Charles Wood, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Beckett Denison, and Mr. Henley, in the list first proposed. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, and the prayers were read by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour tenay. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their accus tomed early walk yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prit ce of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their usual airings yesterday in the royal gardens. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the royal gardens on Saturday forenoon. The Prince afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater. Her 11 , ya1 Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing on Saturday. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on Sa turday, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of Delawarr, the Right Hon Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Couper, Bart., and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Majesty and Prince Albert did Messrs. Hunt and Roskell the honour of inspecting, on Saturday, the jewels they have just completed for her Royal Highness Princess Sophia, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxony; also the piece of plate presented to his Excellency M. de Lisboa, and the magnificent silver candelabrum, part of a service of plate row finishing for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their approbation. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre sence, on Saturday evening. Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and alsd from the Governors of the other North Ameri can provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial office. The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and preached the sermon at the daily service ; the Bishop of Salisbury preached the sermon, and the Rev. Dr. Sleath officiated at the communion service. The anthem, " 0 God, thou art my God" (Greene), was sung by Messrs. Bennet and Bradbery. Mr. Turk pre sided at the organ. The Marquises of Anglesey and Northampton, Earl and Countess Delawarr, Earl and Countess St. Germans, Lords Palmerston, Cantalm,e, Ingestre, Hatherton, and Foley were among the nobility present. The following are the Lent Preachers at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, for this present week : Sunday, March 15—Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Wednesday, March 18—Dr. Wesley. Friday, March 20—Dean of Lincoln, Mr. Ward. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a Committee meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Bessborough, and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Marten 14.—Wind light airs and hazy. FALMOUTH, MARCH 12.--The Lady Ann, put back here, saw, ten days ago, a schooner's mast, appeared to have been cut by the board, lat. 47 N., lon. 17 W. The Karel Nuberding, from Port-au-Prince to Antwerp, which put in here 11th instant with damage, has been sur veyed, and must discharge. BRISTOL, MARCH 13.—The Sarah Crowell, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to Liverpool, which got on shore in the river yesterday morning, has been twisted off with much damage. LIMERICK, MARCH 11.—The report of the loss of the Rachel is in correct, the vessel having arrived at Tralee ; all well. BRIDLINGTON, Marten 14.—The schooner which sunk in the Bay on the 12th or 13th of December last, during a gale, proves to be the Removal, Furse, of Brixham ; crew supposed to have been drowned. 13.—Arrd. Ceylon Providence, ovd Hartley, enee Wilso n , St . J o h n ' s ; Ali ce Sumatra;Bolivar, Kenrick, Madras; DUNDALK, MARCH 11.—The Robert, E. Ward, of Strangford, which Hicks, Calcutta. Arrd. from was on shore on the Ballast Bank , ho v e off this morning. theE aDs t DEAL, A c ai Anglican,cn and Eliza, Wells, Boston. Arrd. f rom the River and aid., Gladiator, Bunting, New York. Ski. Ann, Smit h, Demerara ; Ellen, Demerara; Matilda, Luckie, Berbice. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. O ressa, S m i t h , gd S a te .e N lia en ' s P , Calcutta; Thetis, Honduras ; Asgatria, Little, Honduras ; B r iti s h Princess, Mather, New Orleans, lost boat, bulwarks, &c.; Letitia, Heyn, Parry, New Orleans; Grampian, Graham, Savannah; Brook lyn, Laidley, New York; Londonderw„Finlay, Licata. Off port, Isabel, New Orleans. The Charlotte, hence to Leghorn, on shore at Dublin, was got off yesterday, after being lightened of about 200 tons of cargo. The general belief in the political clubs is that the measures of the Government, for the immediate reduction and eventual abolition of the duty on foreign corn, will be carried in the House of Lords by a majority of from 25 to 30. —Observer. The Alnianach du Mois states that the Council of the Order of Advocates determined on Tuesday that a sum of 4,000 f., set apart for presenting a medal to each of its members when elected, ..44 be appropriated to the Polish muse." • • - A great many Englistititmilies of rank have congre grated in the French capital, among whom may be included the Dowager Countess of Sandwich, Lady Brougham, the Earl and Countess of Erroll and family, the Earl and Countess of Roden, and I Lady Maria Jocelyn, Viscountess Campden, Viscountess Powers coast and family, the Marquis of Hertford, the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Cadogan, Viscountess Castlereagh, Hon. Sir Alex. and Lady Duff and family, the Misses Ricardo, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, &c. IMPORTANT POST OFFICE NOTICE. —The following important notice to the public was issued on Friday by command of the Postmaster-General I —" A contract having been made by her Majesty's Government with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance of mails, once in every month, each way, between Panama, Callao, and Valparaiso, and other intermediate ports, the agent of this department at Panama has been instructed to for wardall newspapers and letters addressed to I) by the steam-vessels to be provided under this contract laces on the western coast of South America, and forwarded to hint in the closed mails made up in London on the 17th of every month. It is expected that the first contract packet will be in readiness to leave Panama, on or about the 23d proximo, with the corres pondence posted in this country up to the 17 th i n stant. Per missionpts. I h n as th b e een st g a l i v e e s n o f f or N t e h w e packets to the port of Buenaventura.o call at the under-mentioned Iu the states of Ecuadar, the port of Guayaquil. In the states of Peru, the:ports of Payta ; Lambayeque ; Huanchaco ; Santa ; Huacho ; Callao ; Pisco ; Islay ; Arica and Y-Quique. In the states of Bolivia, the port of Cobija. In the states of Chili, the ports of Copiapo ; Huasco ; Coquimbo ; and Valparaiso. No additional rate of postage will be levied ttpou letters addressed to the Western Coast of South America for this conveyance. They will continue chargeable with a rate of 2s. when not exceeding half an ounce ; 4s. when not exceed ing an ounce, and 5.3 forth. Newspapers addressed to the states of New Granada, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, will be forwarded free from postage as at present. Newspapers addressed to Chill will be liable to a rate of 4d. each.—General Post-office, March 13, 1846." ERRATHM.—By a mistake the advance in Consols on Friday was printed three per cent. instead of three-eighth& THE NEW DUTIES.—The new scale of duties on the articles contained in Sir Robert Peel's resolutions passed by the House of Commons on Monday evening comes into operation at the London Custom-house on Saturday. On Thursday, Sir Thomas Fremantle, the recently appointed Commissioner of Customs, accompanied by the Hon. G. R. Dawson, paid a visit of inspection to the St. Katherine Dock. The lion. Baronet and his colleague, who were attended by Mr. Bealie landing surveyor, went over the various bonded warehouses, and the baggage warehouse, and made particular inquiries respecting the duties of the various revenue officers, gate-keepers, and others. The Commissioners int end to visit the London Docks, and the docks on the south-side of the river, in succession. HEALTH OF THE Pori. The Limerick Examiner says : " We have seen a letter front Rome, bearing date the 28th of February, from a high ecclesiastical authority, by which we are happy to learn 'that his Holiness, though now in his 82d year, not only enjoys perfect health, but vigour both of mind and body.' This is a direct contradiction to the rumour lately circulated in respect his Holiness's health." Sir Win. C. Codrington, Bart., M.P., in consequence of his indisposition, has p a i red off w i th the H on Mr. Howard, M.P. for Malmesbury, until aft er the Easter recess . A curious order o f th e po li ce was i ss ued at Berlin on the 2d instant. With a view of preventing the diminution of night ingales in their natural state of liberty, it is decreed that everyperson in Prussia who keeps a nightingale in a cage shall pay an annual tax of 10 thalers (40 francs), and that any person putting a nightingale in future into cage, without giving Information to the pollee, WWI 13 tied 31) thaleri. LATEST FROM AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA—NEW YORK MAILS LEFT BEHIND. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The royal mail steam-ship, ; Cambria, Captain Judkins, which left Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d, reached the Mersey this morning. She was anxiously looked for, and great has been the disappointment in consequence of her leaving Boston before the New York mails of the 28th ult. had arrived. There had been a very severe snow storm, and this had delayed the arrival of the mails ; we have, therefore, no New York dates later than the 27th. The mail is only about half as heavy as usual, and the annoyance and inconvenience which will be occasioned to the mercantile community, would, we think, make it a question with Government whether the delay of a few hours will not, in future, be preferable to the disappointment consequent upon leaving the bags behind. It is, assuredly, a ques tion deserving of serious consideration. The Cambria brings 41 passengers, whose names are subjoined. From Boston to Liverpool—Prince Joseph N Bona parte, Mr. A. Mail Hard, Mr. John Giles, Mr. S. Cornell, Mrs. Williams, Rev. Thomas Spencer and lady, Mr. Lewis C. Bannersacht, Mr. H. E. Falk, Mr. T. I). Doubleday, Mr. IL Appold, Mr. Louis Switz-r, Mr. G. Ducker, Mr. R. S. Fellows, Mr. S. Hyde, Mr. W. Creig, Rev. W. Dean, Mr. R. S. Palmer, Mr. C. F. A. licnrick, Mr. A. Borrowman, Mr. N. C. Poor, Mr. ' Semerente Mr. Allan, Mr. Van Virst, Mr. W. Tall, Mr. G. B . Morewood, Mr. G. S. Soren and son, Mr. Birt, Mr. George Morris, Mr. T. F. Smith, Dr. F. If. Gray, Mr. John Wolf, Mr. E. Morton, Mr. E. H. R. Lyman, Mr. M. Fox. From Halifax to Liverpool---Mr. James Bisk, Mr. John Mackay, Mr.E. Tupper, Dr. White, Dr. Alexander, Private Alexander, Rifle Brigade. THE OREGON QUESTION. This important question still occupies the attention of Congress, but the pacific indications are more promi nent. The following summary of the last two days' debate in the senate will show how matters stand at present: — WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25.—There was an interesting debate in the Senate to-day, on the Oregon question, and the character of the late intelligence from England. After Mr. Dickenson had concluded his speech, Mr. Dayton moved that the further discussion of the subject be postponed to Monday fortnight. He did not think that any good could come from a discussion at this time. The character of the late intelligence had impressed him as very amicable, and it was proper to meet it in the same spirit. We could not, in a better manner, meet that amicable disposition than by showing that we were in no hot haste. Mr. Allen said, in regard to the pacific news, of which we had heard so much, men might well differ in opi nion. lie had seen nothing in the language of mini sters, or in that of the press, which afforded any evidence of a change in the designs of England. The British Cabinet was too sagacious to disclose its designs in ad vance; and if we were to gather anything from their declarations, it would be the very reverse of what they professed. But the British Government had had the President's message before them for two months, and they knew what measures were proposed by us. There was no propriety in our taking counssl from the move ments of Great Britain ; and if we now postponed the subject, it would show that we lacked nerve and heart for the work we had undertaken. This subject had now beeline connected with another of greater impor tance—our political relations to other countries, He alluded to the project of a monarchical government, under European guarantee, for Mexico. Mr. Dayton—The senator from Ohio may be right ; the sentiments of the British ministers and press might not be a fair exponent of the designs of the British government. If so, he wished that a little of the same discretion could be manifested her... He did not propose a postponement with a view to shrink from the question, but with a view to more deliberate action. The senate was not now prepared to act, and the question had be come stale. Mr. Cass made some remarks with a view to justify his former inferences as to the position of the British government on this question. Nothing in the Queen's speech or in parliament showed any pacific intenth , n toward the United States, bat the reverse. He was ' astonished at the remark of the government paper (the ' Union) that the news from Great Britain was pacific. Mr. Bele ien was disposed to support the motion, but he agreed that our right to give the notice was indis putable. Mr. Dayton withdrew his motion to postpone. Mr. Colquitt wished to submit an amendment which would express the sense of the Senate that the question was a proper one for negotiation and compromise. Mr. Calhoun said he hoped every senator would come to-morrow, prepared to vote on the amendments, The Senate went into consideration of executive business. WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, FEB. 26 The following is the form of the notice proposed by Mr. Colquitt yesterday, and which, it is believed, meets the views of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Crittenden, and others of bath parties. Upon the adoption of this resolution, it is surmised that Mr. Buchanan will retire from the Cabinet, and that negotiations will be renewed. The following are the joint resolutions : " That notice be given, in terms of the treaty, for abro gating the convention made between Great Britain and the United States on the 20th of October, 1818, and continued by the convention of 1827, immediat-ly after the close of the present session of Congress, unless the President. in his dis cretion, shall consider it prudent to defer it to a later period. Sect 2. And be it further resolved, that it is earnestly de sired that the longstanding controversy respecting limits in the Oregon territory be speedily &Vied by NEGO7'IA TION and COMPROMISE, in order to tranquillise the public mind, and to preserve the friendly relations of the two countries." Mr. Webster, after alluding to the importance of an expression of opinion on this subject, by the Senate, in reference to the interests of the business community, which were suffering by the state of suspense, inquired whether the senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden) had determinded to accept the proposition of the senator from Georgia (Mr. Colquitt). Mr. Crittenden bad determined, he said, to accept the point alone; and he would accept the latter with some qualification. Mr. Crittenden went on to say that what ever might be the occasional p )pular effervescence in this country, or the fervour of debates here, he trusted that it would be found that the Senate would come to a wise and temperate conclusion on this subject. There was a great desire that action should take p.aco to-day, in order that the result may be transmitted by the steamer, but he did not see it s importance. Mr. Webster did not differ a hair's breadth in opinion from the Hon. Senator from Kentucky as to the pro priety of the course that he proposed. He went on to say that the exercise of the treaty tight to give the notice was no just cause of offence, but the circumstances attending it were to be considered. The House accom panied the naked notice with a proposition qualifying it. Some such proposition had been offered here. It seemed to he the sense of the Senate that some qualifi cation ought to be adopted. It was now desirable that we should know theopinion of the Executive Govsrnment as to the effect and use of this notice. The President did not expect war, but how was he to escape it? The question must be settled, and, if so, by negotiation. But what is to be the basis of the negotiation ? What were to be the terms? All that we have from the Govern ment was that they claimed the whole of Oregon or none. He could not understand the position of the Govern ment. It would not treat for anything less than the whole of Oregon, but propose negotiation. Did they expect by negotiation to persuade Great Britain to give us the whole of Oregon? He wished success to the pro ject. There seemed to be a gross incon-iztency in the positions of the Government. If they di t not intend to compromise, the result often predicted by the senator from Michigan must happen. Mr. Webster, in the course of his remarks, said that a majority of the Senate would vote for the two propositions of Mr. Colquitt. Mr. Magnum here said, two thirds will vote tor it. Mr. Breese, Mr. Hannegan, and Mr. Allen opposed the amendment of Mr. Colquitt ; and Mr. Breese de dared that he did not wish the President to negotiate further.—Mr. Allen, in the course of the debate, asserted that the President's views and determination to assert our title to the whole territory up to .34 40 had under gone no change. Mr. Calhoun said, it was now evident, if not before, that the point in controversy was, whether this question should be settled by arms, or by negotiation and com promise. It was the most important question that had ever come before the American people since the revolu tion. He dwelt on the importance of an early expression of the opinion of the Senate upon it. Mr. Cass said the resolutions could not take anything from the constitutional pow 6r of the President. What should we think if the British Parliament should propose a compromise ? What right have we to suppose that the British Government would heed their invitation ? and if she did, would they ever agree to compromise on the 49 ? Sir R. Peel's language was the most peculiar and extraordinary specimen of diplomacy he ever met with. If Sir R. Peel was sincere in his expressions, Ee was bound to recal Mr. Pakenham. He had anticipated difficulty when he saw the President's Message. His fears had increased. Unless Great Britain should make a more liberal offer than she had done, the difficulty would never be sett': d. The Senate adjourned to Un:day, March 2. The Washington correspondent of the New York Advertiser says, " The rumour is current that Mr. Crampton has brought out instructions to Mr. Paken ham, to reopen negotiitions by an offer of the 40th parallel, the whole of the Vancouver's island, and the navigation of the Columbia for twenty years. " It is said that Mr. Polk will not take the responsi bility of accepting- the offer, but will submit it to the Seria,!e for advice." The steam-boat Saladan, from Nashville, i n p ass i ng down the river, came in collision, on the evening of the 13th ult., with the steam-boat Congress, going up, near Pileher's Point. Thirty persons were killed by the col lision or subsequently drowncd. There had been another tragedy at Richmond, be twcen Mr. Ritchie, of the Richmond Enquirer, a son of Father Ritchie, of the Union, and Mr. Hamilton Plea sants, son of the former editor of the Richmond Whig. The cause of the affray arose from some newspaper paragraphs. Several shots were made, and then resort was had to bowie knives. Mr. Pleasants was dreadfully wounded, and was reported to be dead. Another destructive fire had occurred at Vicksburg'', and one at Memphis, Tenessce. NEW YORK MARKET. ASHES.—Pots, 4 dolls. 121 e.; and Pearls, 4 dolls. nit% FLOUR.—Not much business doing. Western is held at 5 dolls. 25c. to 5 dolls. 564 c.; and Southern at 5 dolls. 12ic. to 5 dolls. 62ie. cOTTON.—A firm business doing. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 4,000 bags, all to the trade, and without anychange in prices. The market was steady, but quiet. Shares were in better request, and firmer generally. Messrs. Lamond's public sale of railway shares yester day afternoon, at the Hall of Commerce, was well attended, and a very large business was done, decidedly more cor.ti deuce being shown. There were plenty of buyers, but it is fair to observe, at very low prices. Shares which a few days ago were totally unsaleable, moved off at this auction. The Bank of England, on the six days to the 14th inst., was still augmenting its circulation and bullion, but the other deposits and securities were greatly diminished The features in the present return are briefly these Notes Issued £27,079,270 Increase ... 63,975 Bullion 13,787,2 1 5 Increase ... 11.435 Rest Increase ••• ••• 68,275 Other Deposits ... 17,528,778 Decrease 818,290 7-day and other Bills decrease 49,256 ' Other Securities 22,118,987 Decrease ... 1,123,041 The English Funds have to-day been very steady, Consols at 96% % for transfer, and at 961 4 6 . for Account. The market is vLry quiet. The Exchequer bills have been at 345. to 375. premium. The Foreign Investments are steady likewise, though dull. Spanish Five per Cents., 26 to lA, and the Three per Cents. 36%; Mexican, 31 1 4 to 31 1 . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 60 to 59 3 %. Except that there is rather more doing in Railway Shares, it does not appear that any particular change has occurred in the market. Prices are for the most part well sustained. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 964% 1 4% 96% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. t‘, 1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 7-16 10 7-16 India Bonds. 1,000/. Ditto, under 1,0001. 40 40 Consols for Account • • • • • • • • • • 96%% Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 114 d. 1,0001... 34 37 -- pm. 37 5001... .... 34 37 pm. 37 Ditto, Small .... 34 37 pm. 37 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 1 ( , % 31 34 Portuguese Four per Cents .. 56 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account 26 1 2614 Ditto, Deferred .. 16% 16% DM.), Three per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account . . 36% 36% Dividends on the above payakle in London. French Scrip, 3 per Cent. .. • . .. 55 55% Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60 59% 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% . 95 95 PRICES OF 'NESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES. ONE O'CT.OOK. Bideford and Tavistock 1% % .. • • Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 125 •• .. 125 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2M Bristol and Exeter .. .. 70 .. 8414 . 8434 Buckinghamshire 425. .... % % dis Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 11% % lll4 Ditto, Half Shares .. . 3 Ditto, Extension .. .. 1% . • . . . . . . . . 1 3,4 Cork and Waterford .. 1% 34 Direct Northern .. .. 2%. . . . 2% 2 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .... 4 Eastern Counties .. 141. l's. 20% 21 . • 21 Ditto New .. 8/. 16s. .... 6% 4 p 6% p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. % p p Ditto, ditto; .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. % p p Ditto, York Extension 10s. 1%% 114 East Lincolnshire .. .. 11. y .... 1% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 73 .. • 73 Goole, Doneast., and heftleld, &e. 425. p .... % Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 17 Great North of England . ..100 .... .......... Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... „... 52 Great Western 85 -- Ditto Half Ogres 50 .... 8 1 / 3 83 B3 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 17% •• .. 17'.; Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 32 .......... 32 Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%.... 2% % ........ 234 London and Birmingham ... .103 ....214 21934 ...... 2193 Ditto Fifths 2 .... 24 .......... 24 Lotdm and Blackwall 13s. 4d. • • ..... Ditto New .. 2%.... 4 .......... 4 London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 64% • • • • 64 1 4 London and Croydon .. .. 13/. 15s. 9d. 22 r.. • ... • 21% London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .... % London and South-Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. ...... •• • • 76% Ditto, New . 12%.... 22%•••....... 22% London and York .. .... 3%14.•...... 3 1 4 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • . 2% .... 1% .......... 1% Londonderry and Coleraitie .. .... Lynn and Dereham .. 10 .... .......... 8% Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .. .. 129 .......... 129 Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 12 ........ • . 12 Manchester and Birmingham 40 ... • Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .... •• .; 9% Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .. • • 87%••• • • • • • 7% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 114% p• • .... 1% p ..100 ....144 ••..• • • • . 144 Ditto. New .. .. 18 .... 31 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. .... 43% • . • Ditto, New, Brandling 20 .... 37 • • .... • Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 19% 20 Nortn British .. 20 .... 27 . • ...... • • 27 Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 .... 9 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114 .... 2 V 4% •• • Northamp.,Bedford, &Cambridge ... . • . 6% North Kent and Direct Dover • . .... 2%14 North Staffordshire .. • • 425. •• .. 3%% p.. • • Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .... ....... Ditto. New .. .. 5 .... 8 Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 12% Preston and Wyre .. • • • • 25 .... ......... Ditto, Half Shares • • .. . Rugby and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .... ..... . Scottish Central . 7% .... 14 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 3 2% Shropshire Union .. 425. % % dls )nth Midland 425..... 1 p South and Midlands Junction .. 425..... 1 dis Trent Valley .. 5 .. • • 27; 4 .. Waterfd., Weald., Wick., & Dub. 114 .... .......... York( aad North Midland .. t 0 .... 97 .......... Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 45% Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... 30 31 Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.— 1 •• .. 9% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 .... East Indian .. . ss. .... .......... Grt. :North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16% Great Western Canada .. 3IA .... .......... Luxembourg Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 12% Over Yssel 41. 3s. 4d.... 2% d:s Sambre aud Meuse 6 .... 27 3 dia. 1 p 1 dis 27 12 1 %; 2 3 4 dis 4)6 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 27 •• • ..... 27 London Joint• Stock. • • .. 10 .... ••••• • • • . 13% MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered 3•% 8 •• • . .. • 3% SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. CATTERIUK BRIDGE, 1846. Acceptances for the Revival Handicap. Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 101b—Queen of Tyne, aged, Bst 61b— Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Fitzallen, 4 yrs, 7st 51b— Pedometer, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Little John, Est 101b—Coheiress. 5 yrs, Est 1016—Step and-fetch-it, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Lycurgus, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Eulogy, 5 yrs, sst 31b—Driffield, 3 yrs, sst 61b —Headsman. 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. Nominations for the Tallyho Stakes. Porto-bello, 6 yrs—Magnet, 4 yrs—Hecate, aged—God frey, 5 yrs—What, 6 yrs—Swodale . jack, 6 yrs—Sir Edward, aged. _ _ DONCASTER, 1846.— FRIDAY. M. tch, 5004 200 ft. Half-a• mile. Mr. O'Brien's Tribute, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Hesseltine's Mary Stuart, Bst 31b—both 2 yra old. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1846.— MONDAY. Mr. O'Brien's Tribute, Bst 21b, agst Mi.. Ford's Millwood, Bst 21b.—First half of Ab M.-200/. h ft. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. V. W. H., Tues., Lydiard Plain ; Fri., Edgworth Village Whitecross harrs., Tues., Broughton Farm; Sat., New Ground Turnpike-12. Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hds., Tues., Wes'raw House; Fri., Lee House ; Sat., Biggar Shields-104. Lord Elcho's hds., Mon., Mordington ; Wed., Lintlaw ; Fri., Elmford ; Sat., Polwarth-10i. therstone hds., Mon., Bosworth; Wed., Sutton Park ; Fri., Alvecote Priory; Sat., Three Pots. Duke Beaufoit's hds., Mon., Stanton Park ; Wed., Lower Woods; Thurs., Neston Park; Sat.. Lyneham Green. Norfolk stag hds., Tues., Bawdeswell Bell; Fri., Barford Cock-1 l Baron Rothschild's stag Ms., Mon., Little Horwood ; Thurs., Marsh Hill—l I. Surrey stag hds., Tues., Wormsheath ; Sat., Walton Village. Albrighton hds., Mon„ Himley ; Thurs., Seighford ; Sat., Somerford. Berkshire hds., Tues., Black Bourton Village. Bedale hds., Mon., Sowber Hill; Wed., Tanfield ; Fri., Bellerby. Siimington hds, Tues , Boltby ; Fri., Ashberry House. Lord Southampton's hds., Mon., Fausley Park; Wed. Gayton ; Fri., Maidford ; Sat., Sidston Wi n d m ill . Surrey Union hds., Mon., Harleford House; Thurs., West. wood ; Sat., Effingham Gate. Prtidhoe . and Iferwent hds., Mon., Axwell Park Lodge Fri., Ebehester-10. York and Ainsty hds., Mon.. Strensall ; Tues., Red House; Thurs., Copgrove ; Sat., Melbourne-10i. Mr. Watson's hds., Mon., Clifton; Wed., Angerton; Warkwsrth-102. Mr. Trelawn/s hds., Tues. and Fri., Marley Devon. Tindale hds., Mon., Belsay ; Thurs., Little Whittington —loi. Norfolk harrs., Tues., Trunch ; Sat. (a deer), Fakenham, Crown-10i. Towlescombe harrs., Wed., Dockhill Bridge ; Sat., Hay ford Hall Kennel-10. Mr. Brand's lads., Mon., Colney Heath ; Fri., Warden Cleveland hds., Mon., Kildale ; Thurs , Court Green. Earl Fitzhardinge's hds., Mon., Bailes's Wood; Wed., Down Hatherley ; Thurs., Dumbleton ; Sat., Broadway. F. B. lids., Mon., Halfway House, Helston-road ; Wed., Roskeymer Bridge-10i. Haydon hds., Wed., Altonside Banks; Sat., Carroburn Bridge. _ _ _ Harworth hds., Tues., Coteliff Wood; Thurs., Overdale Bridge ; Sat., Kennels. aikley hda., Mon., Cranfield ; Thurs., Easton Wood; Sat., Payenham. Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Tetswerth ; Fri., Chequers Court. Puckeridge hds., Mon„ Hazel End ; Wed., Measdon Green; Sat., Cumbelow—loi. Pytehley Hunt, Mon., Overatone Village; Tues., Fox Hall; Fri., Nobottle Wood; Sat., Walcot Village. Raby hds., Mon., Winulestone ; Fri., Wiltor.-11. Heythrop hds., Mon., White Oak Green; Fri., South Lawn Lodge. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. CHESTER CUP.-18 to 1 agst Sweetmeat, 22 to 1 agst Clumsy (take 25 to 1), 22 to 1 agst Miss Burns, 25 to 1 agst the Baron (taken), 25 to 1 agst Best Bower, 30 to 1 agst Hope, SO to 1 agst Fitz-Allen, 40 to 1 agst Inheritress, 1,000 to 20 agst Billy Purvis, 1,000 to 20 agst Magnet. DERBY.—Not a bet laid. NORTHAMPTON STAKES.-8 to 1 agA Buttress (taken), 8 Io 1 agst Illorpeth (taken), 8 to 1 agst Godfrey (taken), 8 to I agst Nereus (taken). There were present at her Majesty's Theatre, on Satur day night, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Baron Knesb , ck, the Dukes of Wellington and Montrose, the Marquises of Huntley, Fal mouth, Douro, Palacino, and Granby, the Marchioness of Douro, the E•irls of Malmsbury, Cl are , Falmouth, Lonsdale, Munster, and Harrington, Cons t Kiel tn ansegge, the Countesses of Harrington, Essex, Malniesbury,Egmont, and Beauchamp, their Excellencies Baron ar.:d Baroness Brunnow, Baron Dedel, Baron de Wudoff, Lords Cantilope, Aylmer, Auckland, Afford, W. Graham, Lennox, Seymour, and bundonald, Ladies Free mantle, Wellesley, Pollington, Alford, 11. Webster, Goldsmidt, E. Bruce, Duffrin, Dundonald, Hon. 0. Toler, the Lord and Lady Mayoress, Alderman Johnstone and Lady, Hon Mrs. Pitt, Sir H. Webb, H. Willoughby, 'F. Hare, P. French, W. Abdy, J. Lowther. W. Freemanfle, W. Ball, W. Clay, J. Goldsmidt, A. Clifford R. Vivian, H. Meux, Colonels 'Bar nard, Bowers, Major Buckley, &c, SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. A special meeting of the shareholders in the above line was held on Sat ulday, at the Nine Elms station, Vatishall,for the purpose of giving their sanction to several Bills for branch lines to be made from this line. Mr. Chaplin took the chair at twelve o'clock. The SECRETARY then informed the shareholders that the present meeting was merely a formal one, to get the assent of the shareholders to such Bills as should be laid before them. The sanction of a la; ge body of the shareholders had been substantially obtained at a previous meeting, and tin present formal assent was requ i re d b y t h e stan di ng or d er s ne the House of Commons. The CHAIRMAN said that a great number of the Bills bad already passed the Standing Orders Committee. The SECRETARY then read the following list of Bills, and explained the powers to be obtained in each :- Ist. Bill for amending the Acts relating to the London and South-Western Railway Company, and to authorise the said Company to enter into contracts, and , to complet e arrangements with certain other railway companies. 2d Bill to enable the London and South-Western 11:laical Company to extend their railway to High-street, Southwark , ,and to . the Tham c s i near London-bridge, in the county of Surrey. 34. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Bail" way Company to make a branch railway to Hampton Conn' bridge, in the county of Surrey. 4th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail way Company to make a branch railway to Epsom, in t he county of Surrey. sth. Bill to enable the London and South-Western way Company to make a branch railway to ChertseY an d Egham, in the county of Surrey. 6th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail way Company to make .a branch railway to F arn ham, in "'- county of Surrey, and Alton. in the county of Southampton . 7th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western 10- way Company to make a railway by Whitchuroh and An dovor to Salisbury. Bth. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rat way Company to connect th e i r Bi s h ops t o k e and Saliabnr; branch, with the Wilts, S omerse t, an d W eymout h Rallna:' near Salisbury. 9th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Bail way Company to mak e a ra il wa y f rom t h e Bi s h ops t o ke Salisbury branch of the London and South-Western way at Rornsey, to the Southampton and Dorchester xw e. way at Redbridge, in the county of Southampton. 10th. Bill for making railways from Guilford to Chichi's ter, and from Fare'iam to Portsmouth, with branches t° Petersfield, in the co un ty o f H an t s , an d to Chi c h es t e r lira' bour, in the county of Sussex. I lth. Bill for authorising the sale of the Guilford Jii_„„nt tion Railway, and for e na bli ng th e purc h asers to maintar, the same, and to make an d ma i n t a i n a ra il way t h ere f r olnr, Godalming, and from the London A n d S out h-W estern BA' . way at Fareham to Portstnoutb. 12th. Bill for vesting the Portsmouth Extension of th e Brighton and Chichester Railway in the London and Sout h- WeAern and London and Brighton Railway Coanies. lath. Bill for making a railway from the So m ut p h-West er ' Railway, near Basingstoke, by Salisbury, to Sutton Binglna a 4 in the county of Somerset, w ith a b ranc h t o th e WWI' Yeovil, to be coiled the London, Salisbury, and Ye 3ci Junction Railway. 15th. Bill for making a rail w ay f rom E xe t er to Yeovil, and to West Wilton, to connect the same with D o rchest er ' with branches, to be call e d th e E xe t er , Y eov il, a nd Do t i cheater Railway. 16th. Bill for making a r a il wa y f rom P enzance and Fal mouth to Exeter, to be called the Cornwall and Devon Ce tral Railway. 17th. Bill for making branch railways from the Corn and Devon Central Railway, Hayle, Lelant, St. Austell, a Bodmin. The unanimous assent of the shareholders having b eeil , given to the powers sought fo r i n th e a b ove Bill s , and , 8 ,1, 6 solution empowering the Secretary to a ffix th e seal or Company to them, the meeting separated. ASYLUM FOR DISCHARGER PRISONERS. „ A public meeting was held on S a t ur d ay a t Wi l " s e f Rooms, King-street, St. James's, fur the purpose considering of an appeal to Parliament to carry %, the humane object of establishing national houses of oc c ur pation and shelter for persons discharged frern c e eo tody." The meeting was fixed to take place et " o r o'clock, but for a cons dereble period after that h° lo , there were not more than a dozen persons in the r° ° a . Mr. Sheriff LAURIE having taken the chair, th e , O 'd cretary said he had received several letters of el: : "' from gentlemen who were unable to attend. The CHAIRMAN then a klrewed the meeting. 0 e. 4 it was really dgplorable the state of persons dische • from prisons. He found, by documents he held in ode l hand, that there was 20,0001. a year paid fora m t iet, I prison, but it tailed to e ffe ct an y goo d o bj ec t. n the he knew of nothing that existed calculated to 1 116 1. el crying evil— the suppr e s s i o n o f cr i me committed of persons discharged from prison, who had no Pl ac w al refuge. He unuerstood th a t the G overnmen t vres ing to listen to any useful suggestion that would rein boo r the evil. He had heard it argu e d th a t p rov iding h i ; for criminals would interfere with honest men's T e3 et i• but he would ask, would it not be better to gi v `l e tte minals employment out s ide th an p a y f or their 011 601 ance in a prison ? There w as a b enevo l en t Ch t l e ve in Manchester, a Mr. Wright, who ought to a monument eree.ed to his memory; tha t !hat tleman had actually r ec l a i me d n i ne ty-six 0` four he called the gaol peculation, and milt . de sl of them had returned to c r i me . N ow , if an intl ivi do could do that, he would ask w hy s h ou ld not the State s o, so? He for one would say it w as th e ir duty to e o d to and he trusted that no e ff or t wou ld b e l e ft untri e re . effect so desirable as object. Ile was glad to see P re s sent at the m entre se raze a dignitary of the Ch c n a cl as the Lord Bishop of London, and the Noble Lord (Lord Kent aird). He would now con c lud e and boo place to the Right Rev. Prelate who would we" first resolution. t t e The BLhop of LoenoN then proposed the & s ere st solution. In cluing so he said he t hought that the deal of credit was due' to Mr. Sheriff Laurie, ineio exertions he had made in the cause of humanity., ay was a subj et in which he (the Bishop) took a d'7ol ll terest, as did also the cl e rgy gene r a lly ; but the ye ll of. their avocations did n o t ena bl e th em take the active part in it. He had long been impressed w l a bot necessity of providing for those poor creatures, fae when discharged from prison, had no place of re ,,,, 0 0 0 whatever. He had no doubt but that Governmen t - 6 be, take this subject in ha n d ; b u t even if they did I l e " telt confident that charitable individuals would beoverte to so so themselves. B u t i t was th e d ut y o f the G sbe oli went to do it, and tae consideration of the expen se ' ter PI net weigh for a mo:nent, because it would be be r asp extend large sums in the reclamation of crimina l : 0 e t ° in keeping up l a rg e p-i sons a t an enormou s e f q, the country. Th ere cou ld b e no d ou b t that oi r9 b back the effect of the penal sentences upon prise ° r isb i f hed any but a useful result, for the convict in' t `f . came. out infected w i t h th e mora l p es tilence o ot ee o6 society of the gaol. He h a d atte n d e d at the re nt Prison, and he had the satisfaction of ther e able to :ay that the result of the systex i ss ible enforced hid been attended with the best P: o results ; an 3 the same obs e rvations applieu me std r d .. Parkhur4 Juvenile Prison. But it would ber o g o sirable to have some institution fer the „' - d EP; persons who had committed but one offence, :70 11 ) when discharged, might easily be reclaimed if weci al in time ; but he did not mean to say that those fr iev e ,' offended more than once should not also have t ' rr ecli ° o hand he 2 out to save them from u:timate d es- t ioe He would also be desirous to see a si oiler insti i tu bet the reception of people discharge dfr +in hospi tals' SVI;e. sufficiently recovered to return t their lah° t Tarst these observations he would readily proposet ob i solution. the 114 0 4 Mr. NIONCRTON MILNES, M. P., seconded in time He should have long taken an inte rest en ti r e subjeca but had been repePel from taking' e ll e ret° P e r public part in is by rest, n of what he had bia s 5 41 •• All consieeted the many difficulties by which 1 ' te r er e . round, d. Bet he would not now throw col d v f li by Pie d the benevolent exertions of Mr. Sheriff Let- 1 ; 1 : 002 be o r d tioning them, but whatever they were, ever. ew es et/ . society should 1 nil his aid to remove the diffiZli s on;• o f remedy the evil. He had heard of very Use erica' eeir tions in Beston, and other parts of ekw` sn e o '4 • the replamation of discharged crirniealst results had been most sneers ful, for v e trooltbe unfortunate creatures had been rescued in ti ,. 1 9 ,110 i0 01 3 fearful abyss of crime into which many . ha d I e r b st l country, for want of similar i istitutions. then r contend for it, that the prover ti in of crime• r a . , er y tali b its punishment, should be the first object of T o es ti/ ' iee t and, therefore, the state should riot hesitate b . , e sce" o f such institutions as wouel eff et that sicred an ote rft ec t ebject ; and he had no doubt bit the LegAl,, sue)tot which he was a member, would take tIP t: 1 1 his warmly, and nothing slit uld be wanting 1 1 P to aid the object by every means in his powere me a ny Lord KINNAIRD moved the next resolni esp. 0 little to said he found he had bet n left very 11 pre ,ts upon, by reason of the observatons made b 9 to le'be speakers. There was one point on which he wh ic h 5d an observation, namely, the sour , e freT re was Pi l o"' funds were to be derived for this object. D e e d to to say, as an Englishman, that it only reqet_res,ity.e,e. the English public the usefulness and n e ?. erve arcl,, y i .e , great public work to induce them to cow iv v i s re e dily and liberally with aid to carry it ottt A. be a be ts • tame tnav ship concluded by stating an ins who lie d la ti under his own observation of a crimineeeme 0 50 t he evld e reformed, and who now kept a school. U r • t o t p l the Government t f funds suggested tha Mr. Alderman SIDNEY seconded the e() ta c o:10 1 0 7e, t institutihoZirdesPlutioo: e to said he greatly deplored the state of n the Pr es° tis tic ro ° which prisoners were subjected by tom cis ste „el in r ere tern of prison discipline. He then read stc o ,„s tables to show the decrease of crime es w i, th e ete e tb were reformed. prisoners were taken up and put in clue v est effect that ol eo' o ve resolution, which was to the f the P ct Mr. D. W. WIRE, Under Sheri proP' se e - e eton l/ ene t Sir DE LACY EvANS, M.P.. said this earl asw ,a should he formed to carry out the object._eas su li c i fore, i ,, which he had acquired no informatiob, e 111 3 . would be idle for him to make any ohs. bee ore But it had his entire concurrence, an . d . n " s e ws the ei .,00 Mr. B. B. CABBELL proposed a reso 1 . ! t a _ n the to see it t,ken up by the City aut that subscriptions be entered into to deli* tie d 10 1) of printing, advee &c. reso oes Mr. JAMES ANDERTON seconded „, pr for form shee t spoke of the necessity that existed be horiitiets.o fer the ventilation of the houses of ta c er to A vote of thanks was then pass Laurie, and the meeting separated. . f re f b e e : r c i d ng e joie. abo NAVAL INTELLIGENCE _The Caledonia h: lelceiCi; () o rders to exercise with blank cartridge once e er y o lot hi Oa Monday last she astonished the natives at Tor Pro, 004 ,-, , the Su roUel 0 st fr ,ar- , Anna Sir nt A 7 ll o t o l . ie seamen in ordinary were on to 1 . 0 coo ..el i manoeuvring of the men.—Plymouth Journal. fiche r,„oct on board to inspect, and expressed great satisfaction Tln.; FISHERY. --During die past week th e onie even,6"- of Penzance, Ne :lvn, and 3louaehole, have lead 6and et catches of cod and ling. On Saturdav fie .40 0 ing our market was abundantly supplied with 00? " a ready sale at fair priees..--reuzanct Gazette. one T t: 0 at the th e //cri '4" I loufd a of addres th. got..akitial csect; Z441,4' ti:" ktt '°' ll Pa , n • e t r; Y of at thihi 3 Jur' elect',