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Now ready, in s., with Portraits, 21s. bound, L .B TT E R S 2 vol OF THE KINGS tiO r F ENGLAND. • Now FIRST COLLECTED, from the Originals in Royal Archives, and from other authentic sources, private as well as public. Edited, with an Historical Putroduction and Notes, By J. 0. HALLIWELL, Esq., F.R.S., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in royal Svo., with Portraits, 21s. bound. The SECOND VOLUME of LORD BROUGHAM'S LIVES of MEN of LETTERS and SCIENCE, . • . Who flourished during the Reign of George WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS. . _ _ Comprising Dr. Johnson, Adam Smith (w an analytical view of %Is great work), Lavoisier, Gibbon, SirJ. Banks, and D'Alembert. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued surport and patronage, And to announce that their Public Sales of I.ailway Shares, &c., take place •every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commeree, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, contusing instructions, are respectfully requested t. be Addressed. Al Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and Ildvices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, end the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle -street, London. HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully i nformed that an EXTRA NIGHT wilt take place en THURSD tY NEX r, MAY 7, Whim will be performed (for the first time this Season), Rossini's Opera, entitled, LA GAZZA LADRA. Ninetta, Madame Grisi ; Lucia, Madame Bellini ; Pippo, Sfadlle. Brambilla ; Gianetto, Signor Mario ; Fodesta, Labtache ; Isaac, Signor Dia Fiori ; Fabrizi Vingradito, F,:gnor A. Giubilei ; Fernando Villabello, Signor Fornasari. With a Selection from a favourite OPtRA. In which Madame Castellan, Madlle. Sanchioll, and Macille. Corbari will appear. Also, various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. In which will appear Mdlles Cerito, Louise Taglioni, Lucile Grahn ; NM. St. Leon, Gosselin., Di 'Mattis, and Perrot. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Doniz,tti's Opera, entitled, DON PASQUALE. 2Qerina, madame Grisi ; Dr. Mala . esta, Signor Fornasarl ; E rnesto, tenor Mario ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. Between the Acts of the Opera, the Park scene from the ad mired Ballet of BOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. Eoline, Grahn ; Rubezahl, M. Perrot; Count Edgard, M. Gesselin ; Prince of Silesia, M. Di Mattia. Silesienne, by the Coinhees. Pas de la Fiancee, by Madles. L. Grahn, Moncelet, and Cossan. liazoarka d'Eatase, by M .dl . e. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot • To conclude with the revived Bal:et Divertissemet.t, by M. Perrot, entitled, LE DELIREPEINTRE. Stephan, M. Perrot ; Blanche d'Oviedo, Madlle. L. Grahn ; Mar . sareta, /Mine. Copere. In which will be introduced a New Pas de Trois, by Madllrs. L. Taglioni, Demelisse, and Moncelet ( by . Gosselin); La CastAßolero, by Madlle. L. G liana ram and M. Perrot.composed y ROYAL, ' ILLT RY-LA NE. Will be TH I 8 E Y - e:NING -- performed an Opera Co de 0 . entitled THE CROWN JEWELL Count Ca mpo Mayor, MI:, Weiss ii ' ez 'Hr. Harrison , iss ; Don enrimi ~, • Don Sebastian * D' Aveyro, Mr. D. W. King ; Rebolledo, Mr. Borrani La Catarina, Madame, Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Poole. After which will be produ• ed a New and Original Ballet entitled IMELDA. The Duke, Mons. Adrien ; Count Alberti, M Mathis ; Governor, Mr. T. Matthews ; Fabric o, Mr. W. IL Payne ; Imelda, Madlle. Sall. EtIEATR V; ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING .Wlll be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A ISEGCiAR ON HORSEBACK. Cy mon Foxall, Mr. Wehster; More- Craft, Mr. W. Forret': Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. IL Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dernaann, I.dr. J. Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Rand will perform the Overture, "Edourdo e Christine," the Fantasie, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Cellitrius Waltz ; tho "Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Brunow Polka." To be followed by an Original Farce, called THE IRISH TIGER. Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Howe ; Paddy Rya.), Air. Hudson ; Alderman Marrowlat, Mr. Tilbury ; BiltAtrY; Mr. T. F. Mathews ; jtais,, Miss Telbin ; Nancy, Mrs. Caulfield. After which, an experiment will be tried upon VIE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHANES , on which occasion they will be presented to Vie public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new "Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. s, athews and Miss P. Horton. ATRE UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY- T - he Last Night o f General„ TOM THUMB'S Engagement. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs: F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Dido/ear, and Keeley; Miss Vi liars, Mr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARULE 3IAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and .Hiss L9idlaw. To be fgllowed (for the last Six Nights) by the Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB : or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. Hop 'o My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. 76 conclude with a New and Original Farce, entitled, A FRIEND INDEED THEATr.r. ADELPtiI. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, in Three Acts, called, IN -IDHSTILY AND INDOLENCE ; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Redford ; Rollin, M 9. Smith ; Si_aisenet, Mr. Wright ; ‘lons. Del mare. Mr. Perkin..; Ilatifole, Miss Woolgar ; NW, Miss Webs , er ; Cecile, Mrs. E. Yarnold. After which the Burlesque, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, "The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor ; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND TjUlt WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, ors. Honeybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. X FORD-STREET. THIS EVENING NVIII be performed Sheridan's Play of PIZARRO, with the orig'nal Music. Rolla, Mr. Wallack ; Alonzo, Mr. Murray ; Omzembo, Mr. Cooper ; Pizarro, Mr. Ryder ; High Priest, Mr. Leffler ; Elvira, 31rs. Ternan; Cora Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVER rIsSEMENT. In which Messrs. Gilbert, Nlarshall, and Flesmore ; Miss Ballin and Ml,a Marshall will appear. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The principal characters supported by -lessrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh Murray; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &e. AzILEY'A 11)1.tL A.MI-1111.111,111.1.. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal. Unparalleled attraction. Mr. Leman Itede's New Equestrian Spectacle of " The Arab and Ms steed." • TDB EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE % RAII AND 1113 DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Ta which the whole resources of the Establishmen will be brought lute requisition. New and popular Scenes in the Circle. Double stud, kc. To conclude with the favour Le Drama of the POST LOY OF ST. ACSTLE ; or, The FatarSnowdrift. Clown% to the Circle, Barry, Wallet, and Rochez. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEA rRE. "Ciivat Sue ess of the New Drama of " Laid up in Port," and " The Bride's Journey." Immense attraction and Novelty THIS EVENING Wfil be performel an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; or, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. F vdericks, Saville, Raymond, Tindell, niggle, Searle, Burton ; • Xisa Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD. Characters by Messrs. Tindell, A. Raymond, Saville, Miss Terry, and Mrs. Lee. To conclude with the Melodramatic Specta'le, entitled A TALE OF MYS I ERY. Supported by the whole of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.-NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS, " La gaiete et la sante de I'ame, La tristesse en est le poison." THIS EVENING lIIILLIPPE begs leave to announce that, in consequence of the Triumphant Success that has attended his EASTER ENTER TAT MENTS, they will be repeated every Wednesday and Sa turday Morning. and every Evening until further notice. M. PIIILIAPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot ! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Parts. M. Phillippe will also have the honour of introducing HIS GRANDMOTHER'S CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans forrnltions. The Entertainmeats will be varied by the Dameing of the CHIARINI FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN BROTHERS. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Evening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, 3s.;.Boxes, 25.; :Pit., Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Pr'vate Boxes, 1/. Is., and 10s. 6d. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE. MAY 1. THAMOMETEIt, Lowest, 47; Highest, 60; Noon, 56. BAROMETER. 30.39.—W1ND W.; fine. tIIG/1 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. s`) minutes after 5. I Evening .. 22 minutes after - itZt S (p e i 4C, 'eek 4E , s - * • y Avy - n n 4 LONDON, SATI:E.I)AY, MAY 2, 1846. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Irish Great Western (Dublin and Galway) Railway Bill, and the Midland Great Western of Ireland (Dublin and Mu'linger) Railway Bill, were, after a discussion, respectively read a third time and pased. Lard MONTEAGLE moved the second reading of the Rail- Way Deposits Bill. The Duke of BEAUFORT wished it should be postponed, in consequence of the absence of several Noble Lords who wished to take part in the debate. The second reading was postponed accordingly. In answer to the Bishop of EXETER, it was stated by the LORD CHANCELLOR that the House would not go into Com mittee on the Religious Opinions Relief Bill before Tuesday. On the motion that the order of the day for the House going into Committee on the Railway Dissolutions Bill being read, The Earl of RADNOR protested against the Bill, which was calculated to break up many excellent projects for rail ways, and in all instances to encourage intrigues and gam bling. After a few words from Earl GREY, The Earl of DALHOUSIE said that the Bill bad received the most attentive consideration, and that he believed it would meet the exigencies of the case, and that he should feel it his duty to oppose any amendments which the Noble Earl m ight propose. After speeches from Lord Monteagle, Lord Brougham, Lord Aall_burton , Earl Fit zw illi a m ' and the Marquis of Clan learde, the Rouse Went i n t o Committee on the Bill. After a few atterations ed t . lie Bill passed through Committee, j and the House adjo The SPEAKER took the Chair at rte A latter was read by m r . E . B. course the H ouse _T. —311171 110: o'clock. m s D'BRIEN, complaining of the cuetod Ouse had adopted towards him in ordering him into explanation of. his conduct relative to hid ' rear hiving an u pon railway Committees. No notice was tak en f t ii — l el" e letter, . o P'k./J . .. Int • —TT-- -;:Mr. O'CoNNELL expressed a hope that' the House would allow him to bring the subject forward on Monday. Sir J. OrtAHAM then moved the resumption of the debate on the Irish Coercion Bill. - Mr. P. Sofia coate;ded hats ;Name like thb present . . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING. MAY a, Imo. would inflict the most serious injuries on the people of Ireland. Mr. MAURICE O'Coinizu. opposed the first reading of the Bill. Mr. Cor.caultoux supported the first reading of the Bill, and defended the Irish landlords from the imputations that bad been made against them. Mr. J. O'Brien, Mr. Bellew, the Attorney-General, Mr. H. Grattan, Mr. W. Collett, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. Roche, and other Hon. Members having addressed the House, a divi sion took place, when there appeared-- For the first reading Against it Majority --149 Sir R. PEEL said he proposed to take the second reading of the Bill on the 25th instant. Mr. O'Cotnattx stated that on that occasion he would move for a Select Committee to inquire into agrarian offences in Ireland, with a view to provide some means for their pre- Tention. The ether orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Two o'clock, The Hits in ou o s p eof Commons has, for the fifth time, re cordedion in favour of the justice of the Danish claims. The guardians of the public purse have, for a fifth time, admitted that the debt which these claimants demand, as due to theta from the State is a just debt, :ind one which ought to be liquidated. Will the Government, under these circumstances, continue to refuse to take the necessary steps to carry into effect the repeatedly expressed wishes of the House of Com m3llS ? Sir ROBERT PEEL has always expressed himself PS entertaining the greatest respect for the well-ascer tained opinion of the House of Commons—as willing, nay anxious, as far as possible, to defer to the opinion of that House. In this case the opinion of the House of Commons has been well ascertained, In 1841, the last House of Commons, in spite of the opposition of the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer of that day, decided in favour of these claimants. On Thurs day another House of Commons, in spite of the oppo sition of the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer of the present day, also decided in favour of these claimants. How is it possible to ascertain the opinion of the House of Commons if it has not been effectually ascertained in the present instance ? And, we trust, therefore, that Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Minister who possesses the confidence of the House of Commons, and who has declared over and over again that he would not retain office an hour after he lost that confidence, will see the propriety of at once carrying into effect the well. ascertained opinion of those whose confidence itis his boast that he enjoys. The claimants are under great obligations to Mr. HAWES for the masterly manner in which he brought the subject before the House. His speech was replied to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who commenced his speech by assuring the House " that it was very painful to him to have again to repeat those opinions and those sentiments which he had so often had oecssicn to address to the House on this particular subject." We believe this ex pression of regret on the part of Mr. GOULBURN to have been sincere. It must be painful to a man of Mr. GOULBURN'S high and honourable feelings to find himselt compelled by his official duties to come forward as the opponent of claims which are founded on justice ; and it wa 3 to this feeling of the unsoundness of the cause he was advocatirg that we attribute his ill-judged, and ill-timed, and unjust attack upon Mr. Justice CRESWELL—an attack, more over, infinitely more damaging to the speaker himself than to the object of it ; for if Mr. GOULBURN believed what he insinuated as to the motives of Mr. Justice CRESSWELL in advocating the cause of the Danish claimants, most assuredly Mr. GOULBURN himself was very culpable for advising, as a Minister of the Crown, the elevation of that learned person to the bench. The legal question was argued on behalf of the claimants with great learning by Mr. WATSON. As laymen, it is nut for us to sit in judgment on the legal arguments of men learned in the law, but, judging from appearances, we opine that the legal right of these claimants is clear and undeniable. In the first place, neither the Attorney nor the Solicitor-General were present either during the debate or the division. They had characters as lawyers to lose, and they did not like to risk those characters by arguing against the legality of these claims ; although the Judge-Advo cate, Mr. STUART WORTLEY, was present and voted in the minority, he, too, felt that it would not be quite safe to argue against Mr. WATSON'S view of inter national law, and therefore it was left to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. CARDWELL, to reply to Mr. WATSON. 111 . r. CARDIVtLL made the best fight he could, but in order to support anything like a show of argument, he was obliged to assume many things contrary to fact (such, for instance, as that the claimants had suffered their claims to remain dormant for thirty years, when a reference to the records of his Win Offlee, ..4Yould have shown him that, year ',lfA:eq - 644 'these unfortunate persons had urged this claim at the Treasury from the time when it first ac crued up to the present moment) to leave out of view entirely many known and public transactions (slid:, for instance, as the convention with Denmark of September over riding, as it does, the previous declaration of Den mark in August), and after all it was evident he argued the question solely as a point of official duty, and that he would have been glad to have been spared the task imposed upon him. Not so, how ever, Mr. F. BARING, the only Member not connected with office, who, in the course of the debate, spoke against the claims. It was evident from the eager manner of the Right Honourable Gentleman, that he had not forgotten that the prelude to the downfal of his Ad ministration was the majority against him on this very question in 1841, and it appeared almost as if he had never forgiven the claimants for having beaten him on that occasion. Mr. F. BARING came for ward as a volunteer to the assistance of Mr. CARD WELL, and officiating as a sort of amateur and very un learned Solicitor-General, by his argument— " Made that darker Which was dark enough without." When it is recollected that both the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL had, on former oceasions, given opinions favourable to the claimants, and that they were both absent on the present occa• sion, we think it must be admitted that the silence of the law officers of the Crown is much more effective than the eloquence of Mr. F. BARING, and that there can be no doubt that these claims are as well founded in law as they are in equity and in justice The last Ministry refused to carry into effect the clearly expressed opinions of the last House of Commons in favour of these claimants. In three months that Ministry was out of office. We hope the present Ministry , will not follow their example. This is indeed a remarkable session of Parliament, distinguished for the sound principles of commercial policy, which, broughtforward by the Government, have boen received with the greatest delight by the large majority of our legislators, and of the country at large, distinguished too for the enlightened spirit of liberality and tolerance which has directed the attention of Mem bers of our Senate to the removal of the last remnants of intolerance, th e a b om i na bl e and vexatious penal laws by which our s t atu t e -b oo k h as so l ong been defaced, and the existence of which hesebasyuttcheveueoegnetriabzanht the l e nfotru gr th e e at im b p l i o ous t on the British ,zsrheeeption of, and the tone in Melt, the several me on Thursday spirit manifested introduction. Th e Loan c e :: b een discussed on their moved the second reading of the A ße c l l:Laa toleration, sweeping Bill, a measure which may be termed i r Opinions Relict' away no less than nA t c h t . of universal statutes, by ever y irty different which persons ofshade, Established Chu y rch, wh t i h eh e variety, and sect were oppressed, la the member gossible to sa of the and the Jew, i s Dissenter, the Roman Cat h olic , affected, and it i s hp which i is deserving of the highest praise —the intrinsic excel l ence sure itself, or the tone of high which ran through the entire speech in which i ality rimed to the notice of the House. The existe t n w ee as fintro -minaecienleibeerof the mea sure atrocious and pernicious enactments in the nineteenthabh century is scarcely credible ; true it is, that they had been suff.red to slumber for many years, and mig ht be considered as almost obsolete. Yet, as Lord BROUGHAM well remarked, " they were not with out a pernicious vitality, and might be put into activity at any moment."; A remarkable in ,tance of this was mentioned as having occurred so late as the year 1841, and in which we are at a loss to express our wonder at the audacity of the magistrates by whom such a law was attempted to be enforced, and how they contrived to escape the consequences of the overwhelming flood of popular indignation to which the outrage on every principle of justice, of which they had been guilty, must have given rise. According to the statement of the Noble and Learned Lord (Baotiotwa), in that year, certain persons were taken up and brought before those most excellent justices on a charge of poaching, which could not be substantiated; the men were therefore acquitted, and about to be discharged,, when a brilliant thought flashed on the mind of one of their judges. He asks, Were you at church last Sunday? No, answered the defendants, or the Sunday before that either, and forthwith they are convicted on their own admission, and punished, not for the crime for which they bad been apprehended, end with which they were charged' set as poacher!, but as recusant& The ' • case is sanely conceivable, and yet, Ve6re it not the fact, it would hardly be inentioned gravely in the House of Lords as one which had actually occurred. Most assuredly truth is stronger than fiction ; the only parallel we have heard is a story, some time since facetiously told by Mr. O'CoNNuu, of an Irish jury, who, shortly after the insurrection of 1798, and when an amnesty had been proclaimed for every offence, save that of murder, were trying a prisoner charged with that offence ; a strung case had been made out, and all were look ing for a conviction, when the prisoner pro. duced, as his witness, the man alleged to have been murdered, and for whose assassination he was then actually on trial. The proceeding was, of course, in stantly stopped. The judge said it is unnecessary to say one word ; the prisoner has rebutted the charge in the most satisfactory manner; the issue paper was handed up, and, to the astonishment of all, a verdict of guilty was returned. The judge was astounded, asked was it possible they could understand the decision they had come to—was it not a mistake ? No, my Lord, said the foreman, with a self-satisfied smile, it is quite correct ; he might not have murdered that particular man, but I can assure your Lordship that he stole a very handsome bay mare from myself, and we all knew that he most richly deserved to be hanged, and we therefore, find him guilty. And this good story, at which many a hearty laugh was provoked at the ex pense of the blundering of our Irish brethren, is actually equalled, if not surpassed, by educated gentle men magistrates in England, who more than forty years afterwards adopted a similar course, and with this in addition, that they were filling the situation both of judge and jury, and that there was no presiding officer to correct their error. The earliest of these statutes now proposed to be re pealed was passed so far back as the reign of HENRY M., and, as well as other of the earlier enactments, was levied exclusively against the Jews. By it no mem ber of the Jewish persuasion was permitted to hold lands within the realm. It is true that doubts existed, that many eminent lawyers con ceived that there was nothing in the law which in capacitated Jews from holding land ; but why should any obscurity exist on such a subject? The law should ever be clear and explicit, to be understood by the meanest capacity, that "he who runs may read ;" and no question should be permitted for the refinement of legal subtleties,where the samecould so easily be amended; above all, no remnant of bigotry and intolerance should be permitted to remain a part of our law. Another sta tute requires the wearing of a badge denoting Judaism, and prescribes the form of that badge for males as well as females. Such an Act might suit the times when a Jew could not appear in public without being subjected to the grossest indignities—being spat upon, and buf feted, and his beard plucked—but is not suited to the present era. By some statutes any person attending any place of worship different from the Established Church was subjected, for the firstoffence, to six months' imprisonment, and for the second to twelve months', and for the third, to imprisonment for life. Any mem ber even of the Eastablished Church, who attended any other form of religious worship, was subjected to severe pecuniary penalties and to ecclesiastical censure; nay, though his parish clergyman was a man of a character so depraved that he could not conscientiously sit under his ministry—although he attended religious worship according to the forms of the Established religion twice, nay thrice, on every Sunday, if he did not attend his own parish church, he was liable to the penalty. Again, see the penalties to which our Roman Catholic brethren are subjected. Whoever maintains the spiritual authority of the see of - Rome, fait - efts for the first offence his entire personal property ; for the second, incurs the penalties of prmtninure, shall N . placed out of the protection of the law ; and for the third, is guilty of high treason !! ! They most conscientiously hold this opinion. A declaration, or rather an oath, against it, has been lung abolished, in order to permit them to sit in Parliament, and yet the penalties are still permitted to remain to encumber our statute-book. Well might the LORD CHANCELLOR term it " the abominable statute of recu saucy." Any person importing a bull or document in writing, or any instrument from the POPE, is guilty of high treason, and subject to be executed as a traitor, and to all the fearful consequences following such a convic• Lion, and yet we tolerate the religion. The bishops and priests are recognised, who cannot carry on the duties of their offices, the details of their Church esta blishment, without communication with the PoPE, who cannot be consecrated or appointed save by the same authority. Various other similar statutes still exist, but we are now happy to say they have been grappled with in a spirit of true liberality and enlightenment, and we shall shortly be enabled to utter the proud boast, that no vestige remains of bigotry, intolerance, and super stition, and that our statute-book will be as free from the reproach, will evidence as universal tcleration, as that of any nation in the universe. The accounts from Madrid are of the 23d ult. In the Gazette of that day we find a dispatch from Gene ral CONCHA, dated Orense,April 19th, in which he states that he had, while marching to the relief of that town, heard that the insurgents had retired from before it ; that he should await there the reinforcements and artillery which he ex pected would arrive from Monforte on the 20th ; and that on their arrival he should commence offensive operations against the insurgents. The political chief of the province of Orense, ILDEFONSO FLOREZ DE PARANO, writes to the Minister of the Interior, on the 19th inst., in these terms :—" From a confidential communication I have received, the column of insurgents left, on returning to Vigo, a troop in Ridavaria, for the pur pose of selling the stock of salt, and levying a money -tax. The rest of the province is tranquil." A column of infantry, under the command of Brigadier Soza, and 150 carbineers, commanded by Colonel Blizarts, had arrived at Orense, to reinforce Coxcn.t. Brigadier MATRON has replaced General PUIG SAMPER in the ccm mand of the Corunna expedition. Pura &ALPER, who has resigned, has retired to Betanzos. A captain and a drum major have been arrested at Logrono, for conspiring to at tempt an insurrection. The authorities, who were apprised in time of the plan, preserved tranquiility undisturbed. In consequence of this attempt the Captain General has de clared the whole province in a state of siege, and has issued a proclamation, decreeing " that all pereons, having reached their eighteenth year, no matter what rank, class, condition, or sex they belonged to, who by word or deed should con spire, or cause to conspire, against the Government of her Majesty the QUEEN, should be put to death without any pre vious trial or inquiry." BANDERTO, an officer of carbineers who had joined !RuaTß, has been taken prisoner. While such is the state of things in the north of Spain, the southern provinces are far from tranquil, and it was confidently anticipated in Madrid that are long the Sierra Ronda, in southern Andalusia, would become the theatre of an insurrectionary movement. The Government have suspended the publication of El Clamor Publico and of the Eco del Commercio. 'According to the Espanol several arrests of Pregressistas have taken place at Saragossa. MADRID Boise, APRIL 23.—Three per Cents., 31%. Ex change on London, 37%. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Bordeaux and Cette Railway Bill, without any clause compelling the company to form a branch line to Castres, passed the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 219 to 45. The general discussion on the Western Railroad Bill closed on, Wednesday. The debate on the budget would, it was expected, come on about the 20th of May. _ _ A Bill for. the extension of the fortifications of Toulon had been presented to the Chamber by the Minister of War. LEM= has refused to engage counsel, and the Court has consequently directed M. DUVERGIER, the batonnier of the orderef Advocates, to conduct his defence. There-was a grand review on Tuesday morning at St. Maur, in the Bois de Vincennes. At twelve, the Duke DE NIMOURS and the Prince DI JOINVILLE arrived with a numerous staff. Very shortly afterwards appeared IBRAHIM PACIIA. and his suite, in the Court carriages. In 1841, lettanrm PACIIn sent over to the KING of the FRENCH, as a present, eight or ten remarkably fine Arab horses, and among them the one the Paella rode at the battle of Nezib. On Tuesday, on the field at St. Maur, the Prince found his old war-horse ready caparisoned for him. He mounted his steed with evident gratification, expressing, in animated terms, his gratitude for this mark of attention to him. Tne Duke DE MONTPERSIER was at the head of the sth Regiment of Artillery, to which he has lately been appointed colonel. At five o'clock a grand dinner was given to the Egyptian Prince in the apartments of the Duke DE MONTPINSIEE in the fortress of Vincennes. The Courrier des Etats Unit; states that the French Minis.. try has revoked its determination not to allow American vessels to bring tobacco to France for the supply of the Government. The Courtier says that Mr. KING, the Ame rican Minister in Paris, had protested against the first deci sion, and convinced the Ministry that, however natural it was to desire to give exclusive favour to French vessels, the doing so in the present ease would be a violation of existing treaties between France and the United States. The Presse comments upon this statement in the following terms We are still willing to believe that there is no truth in this news. If it be, however, proved to *the contrary we shall not know how to condemn sufficiently the weakness, and we might add, the ignorance displayed by the French rnment when it purchases w or k ve Go vernment in the affair. What to i b s ace th o e p o sition of ttoheGo- It acts in the quality . of a merchant; If it suits a private trader better said g crt at hat ex h; it up in its own manufactories an it d. m a an fte u rw ra a c rds tures se ae lls a i n t; vats individual might do. i pense, no one has a . rig vessels , lons b a s t he cannot be reproached with a makes a bad bargain, but no contract on his for there has been vi olation of engagement, freight b American vessels shall to import his merchand i se in com Fre pi n ain ch . part that the cheapness of y the preference. be a decisive reason why they shall h ave Every °tie acts in this respect as he thinks /it, and if Its thinkS propet to make a pechitiaty sacrifice by eitiploying Frach , dssOs iti pieleient3 to thbse of gny, dthet nation, no one has any right to Interfere. So mach the worse lot hiht if he makes a bad speculation. There are no treaties in et. istence which can deprive him of the right of so doing. Let the treaty of 1822 be reperused, and it will be seen how ex orbitant are the pretensions put forward by the American Government. For our parts we cannot believe that our Go vernment can have allowed itself to be so easily persuaded that it has been to blame in acting as it has done. This question will doubtless he cleared up, as it requires to be, for if the 'concession has been really made what will be the consequence? The same right has been enforced with regard to England as concerns the transport of coal for our steam-packets and the use of the arsenals. Although England was certainly injured by this measure, she made no remonstrance, judging with reason that there was nothing in it contrary to either the letter or the spirit of the treaty of January 26th, 1826, which was founded on the treaty concluded June 4, 1822, with the United States. The moment, however, that it shall become known that the claim of the United States has been admitted, Eng land will in her turn remonstrate, and what reason can be given for refusing to the latter what has been granted to the former ? None whatever. The French Government will, therefore, deprive our flag of the transport of coals as well as of that of tobacco. It will aggravate the consequences of the treaties of 1822 and 1826, which were previously so disastrous to our maritime interest. It will consent to destroy with its own hands, on an ill-founded claim, the only repa ratory act of which the national flag has been the object since 1830. Such cannot be the fact. We, however, re member that the news given by the Courrier des Etats Unis was mentioned by M. Levavasseur in a recent discussion on the credits for the navy, and yet neither of the Ministers' present contradicted it. It cannot, therefore, be denied, that a great degree of probability is attached to it. It is very desirable that a candid explanation should be given, in order to remove all uncertainty and inform our maritime commerce what it really has to dread or to hope for on the subject." The Albatross, which arrived on Sunday at Toulon from Algiers, brought MORAMED - BEN-ABDALLAH, brother of the famous Bou-MAza, who is sentenced to perpetual imprison ment in France, to which the KING has commuted his punishment from the capital sentence passed upon him by the council of war of the Algiers division. His Royal Highness the Prince of SAXE Commto left Algiers on the 23d instant, on board the Labrador, and reached Toulon on the 25th instant. The Grand Duke COWSTANTINE left Algiers on the morning of the 23d. Nothing authentic was known as to the where abouts of ABD-EL-FADER. The French Finnlsl were a shade better on Wednesday. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 95c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,237 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,0371. 50c.; Havre, 760 f. ; Great Northern, 7651. ; Avignon, 920 f. ; Vier zon, 672 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 6251 ; Boulogne, 497 f. 50e. ; Troyes a , ,tl Montereau, 415 f. ; Basle, 227 f. ; Dieppe, 4651.; Paris and Strasbur.4, 518 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 5421. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c.; Spanish Actives, 32% ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30%. The following are the quotations in the new lines : Lyons and Avignon Demifives, 537 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 502 f. 50c. ; Ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. ; Charleroi, 490 f. LYONS, APEIL 27.—Marseilles and Avignon, 927 f. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,243 f. 755. ; Rosen, 1,040 f. ; Lyons, 576 f. 25c. - - BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Man 30. Boulogne :and Amiens, 12%—Central of Spain, % —Dutch Rhenish, 6N —East Indian, %—Great Northern of France Con stituted, 1514—Louvain and Jemappe, 1% —Luxembourg, 2 % - Namur and Liege, 2—Orleans and Vierson, 17—Orleans and Bor deaux, 1114—Over Yssel, 3 dis.—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 8 1 4 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 514 —Rouen and Bane, 30 1 4 —Sambre and Meuse, 5 % —West Flanders, 2%. The General Steam Navigation Company's favourite mail packet Caledonia, Captain H. W. Gibbs, arrived at Ham burgh on Monday morning last, after a beautiful passage of 47 hours. ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT HECLA.—A letter from Copen hagen of the 16th of April, says :—" The packet which arrived yes terday from Reikavik, in Iceland, has brought us letters from that town of the Sth of March (four days later), which give curious de tails respecting the malady under which the cattle were suffering from having eaten grass, &c., covered with the ashes vomited by Mount Hecla. These ashes (say the letters) act more patticularly on the bones of the animals which have swallowed them. Thus, on the bones of the feet there are formed, in less than twenty-tbur hours, osseous excrescences, of an oblong form, which gradually as sume so formidable a development, that they prevent the beasts from walking ; the same phenomenon is then manifested in the lower jaw, which is at the same time enlarged, and extends in all directions so considerably that it eventually splits in several places: whilst on the teeth of the upper jaw there is formed a species osseous needles, very long and pointed, which take root in the lower jaw, and even traverse it—a phase of the malady which always deter mines a fatal issue. As high winds had prevailed forsome time, the vol canic ashes were scatt ere d t h roug h ou t t h e island; and a great number of cattl e , esp ec i a ll y oxen, cows, and s h ee p, had per ished. It the eruption of Heels (says the letters from Reikavik) is prolonged for two months more, all th e rura l roprietors who nave not enough hay to feed their herds— an d the majority are in this situation—will be obliged either to slaughter their cattle, or to abandon them to certain death on the pastures thus poisoned by the volcanic ashes. The eruption of Mount Hecla was extremely violent. The flames which issued from the three great craters attained a height of 14,000 feet, and their breadth ex cee d e d t h e grea t es t breadth of the river Picersen, the most considerable river in Iceland. The lava had a lread y formed lofty mountains, the volcano, and whi c h h ave b een f oun d at a distance of three-fourths and amongst the masses of pumicestone vomited b y of a mile (a French league and a half); _there were seine which weighed half a ton - (480 kilogrammes French). By the eruption of Ueda, the enormous quantities of snow and ice which hail accumu lated for several years ou the aides of that, mountain have been melted, and partly f a ll en i nto t h e river Ranger), 'which has over flowed its banks several times. The waters of that river, which runs almost at the foot of Mount Heela, and which receives a large por tion of the burning lava, were so hot that every day they cast upon the banks numbers of dead trout, almost half baked ! Every night vivid streaks of the aurora borealis illumined the sky.'' AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING.—The fog was so intense one day last month, that the whole of Trafalgar-square was com pletely concealed from view from 10 a.m. to 3 P.M.—Alman,ack of the Month. EDUCATION BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—It has been announced that a Submarine Electric Telegraph is to be laid down from Dover to Calais. if this great feat is accomplished, we shall have, in addition to electrical eels, a quantity of galvanic soles, and perhaps, an immense assortment of shocking herrings. We shall have salmon amusing themselves by going through a series of won • derful evolutions or the slack wire, and other facetious members of the tinny tribe, hurrying to and Pro Upon the great medium of com munication between France and England It would be awkward if some mischievous old shark should snap the wire in two, just as it might be in the act of conveying some very important piece of intelli gence. lie might eut—sb,ort a royal speech with a . slight effort of - his jaw; or, with Wag of . his tail, abbrevlate the most interesting - announcement.' Our object, hoWever, In alluding to the .-Submarine Electric Telegraph; is for the purpose of recommending that it should be devoted to educational purposes. We are aware- that professors already advertise their readiness to leach "French, comparatively in no time ;" but this language may be acquired in that wonderfully b r ief space of time distinguished as " the twinkling of a bed-post " by the wonderful aid of the Electric Telegraph. Supposing branch wires to be connected with the main line, they could be laid on to all the schools in Eng land, particuiary about the Kentish coast, where the experiment might be tried in the first instance. A French master stationed at the Calais end of the wire could direct his lessons along the line, and the wires laid on to the various schools would communicate to thou all the instruction that the French master mi g ht b e capa bl e o f afford ing.of course, be e q u a lly we lt a d a pted to Two curious .ales have lately tak en pl ace in Paris ; the first was of four shrubs , being of as many different varieties of other st The u d s e a s studies. P s a y a s t r h e m. could, camellias, sold for the sum of lo,ooof. (4001.) at the mere inspection of the drawing representing them ; the other was by M. de Lamar tine, who has sold to the Presse the copyright of a vo'ume of about thirty pages, being the " Youthful Memoirs and Confidences" of the illustrious poet. A small granite pyramid is about to be erected on the spot where Lecomte fired at the King of the French, as a memorial of his Majesty's providential escape from the hands of the assassin. We unierstand the Government has signified its ap proval of the plans which have been submitted for laying down an electric communication between the British and Freiech coasts. o.le of the inventors of the plan has lately inspected the coast tweet' Portland and this vicinity, with a view of ascertainiag its capabilities for the trial of the experiment. —Poole Herald. --• EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—It is calculated that 30,500 persons will have emigrated from Ireland in the present year. Many of them are known to have considerab:e sums of money • but, at only 201. a head, they will withdraw from the small capital of this impoverished country no less an amount than 690.0001.—Dublin Weekly Register. The Marquis of Lansdowne left Paris on Wednesday morning for London. His Lordship bad the honour of dining with the King of the French on Tuesday. STRINan STORY.—On the 7th inst., Joseph Bailey, tt youth about sixteen years of age, son of Henry Bailey, of Shadow Moss, in Northern Etchells, near Liverpool, vomited a living reptile, of the lizard tribe, the body of which was about seven inches. It was the consequence of drinking at a brook, in a field in which he was at work as plough driver, in the autumn of 1844, about eighteen months since. He was aware at the time that while he was hastily drinking he swallowed some object which made him sick, but had no idea that it was anything like what it has ultimately proved to be. From that time his health has gradually retrograded, and he has been subject to fits of vomiting, almost constantly, and growing worse and worse. About two months ago he became unable to follow his employment, and was compelled to quit service and return home. He rapidly went worse, upon which his parents called in two eminent surgeons of Wilmslow. While taking the prescribed medicines lie appeared daily to go worse, his sickness increasing; and at this time he was scarcely able to walk across the room. Upon being seized with a fit of vomiting, he threw up, for three times successively, a thick glutinous matter, and at the fourth time, the reptile made its appearance in his mouth, making a desperate attempt to return down the throat; but, applying his finger, he laid hold of it and threw it on the floor ; and it then ran into the grid hole. In the hurry of the moment, his sister so much crushed and mangled it, that all further inspection was impossible. Since this he has gradually recovered. and there appears no doubt of his ultimate restoration to sound health. A few days ago he was much improved.—Manchester Courier. LONDON YACHT CUM.—The m ,, nthly meeting of Thee first tvme match hb ofw a t s he he s l e d aso o n n , T fo h r ur y lay ts a n t et W e x r l e g e h e tj e in g Hotel,seven Strand. tons was fixed to be sailed for on the 18th June next. Prize, a hand some silver cup and cover. Several gentlenien were bailotted for and elected. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—Last evening this Society held its eighth soiree for the season. The Earl of Devon, .ts distinguished Freadent, who returned yesterday from Ireland, was present, surrounded by a very numerous and fashionable com pany of the members and their families. The musica► visitors were more than usually numerous, and included Madame Dulcken, Made moiselle Schloss, Miss J• ainforth, Miss Dolby, Mss Messent, Miss Richards, Mr. and Madame Macfarren, Mr. Charles Salanian, Mr, Vinceat Wallace, Mr. Kiallmack, Mr. Sloper, Mr. Parish Alvan, Pula, Mr. Richardson, with variations,' on w th ell e m eot a iee c° zt n i Mr. Jarrett, Mr. Goodlaw, Mr. Case, and many N e t or ri e G tiv ra e t m ta a n ,in C t oo r . Cooke,, Mr. Calkin, Mr. Dodds, Mons. Deloffne, Mons. the most striking were a grand quintett of Sphor's, written for accom• othecrstr.sTimmosnit...hTehinsetmmentalpiecerts performed during the evening, panlinents of whirl instruments, and admirably sustained by the flute, cniiasriheinetto,thhoern, and bassoon, and a splendid trio of Beethoven's, for piano, violin, and violoncello, both of which were executed in a most spersed with single songs, duets, and concerted pieces, which were l c a h t a e r hmingly sung, and prelons'ed the evening's entertainment to a concerto T o h n es t e be we o r r a . g f: e d ab a ly th in em ter a,.. audience. i l t , ih a , e y a.t a h h i n e e to be i n . office of eePtv Customs, great gratification of a very numerous and brilliant Riled lin in the . er- General of the a k n i d ng th d e om co , liectors - • -- .....e mean time an official printed notice has been fur aootcahent by the death of Sir W. Boothby, has not yet been direct ing them to m departments make all accounts to the credit of the Customs revenue of all t o h f e th o e ut se po v r e t r s al thr d o e u p g a h rt o 142.1.,r,. JiothwnouCladtmappane,arasf from m e Acti ng this tthat atthe Receiver - Ge neral appointment fbi is r a t h a d e a 2 r i r s a t n u i g e t m . , s e t n a t t s e made st hat •t the the e s subject. tuden t x 1 Government, for the preAent, until the matter be considered by the ESCAP E OF POLISH POLITICAL PRISONERS.--A letter goiewski, Lieut. m ' e lu k ezlnski of the Landwli, , r, the non-commissioned officer lion .z, and the master locksmith Lipinski, four of the principal political prisoners confined in Fort Wingari, have effected their escape. THE A S SASSIN LECoNTE.—" The cell in which Lecornte is cot.flued, at the prison of the Luxembour.r," says the Presse, being " on ' the ground-floor, and consequently damp, he made an application on the subject to the i - resident a the Chamber of Peers, who has Just had him removed to a higher story. Every precaution has been taken to revent his being seen in his new place of confinement. The windows,which were before grated, hays had blinds fixed, so that only the ecessary light is admitted into the room. Lecointe is treated with much kindness. He takes his food egularly, and gives his own orders for his meals." LETTERS OF THE KINGS ENGLAND.— Edited, with OF Notes ' by J. O. HALLIWELL• F.R.S•► Scc.—lt is a circum stance not a little remarkable, that while so many works containing letters of eminent personages have bden given to the world, no attempt has hitherto been made to lay be fore_ the public, in a collected form, those of the Kings of Ev gland, revealing . they do, the thoughts, feelings, and habits, as and recording the adventures and misadventures, the trials . and vicissitudes, related by themselves, of the Sovereigns who have reigned over this country, on the history of which these royal reliques also serve to throw Lvery considerable light. Such precious documents must be deemed records of extraordinary interest and curiosity, ot only by the lover of historic lore, but by every English man, and the present work will doubtless find its way into the libr . arY of the gentleman, and the scholar, forming, as it does, 44 efftll4ll4 • story of Eneand. coppej u ou to Miry i. t.':‘ ,:no.dm _ .ceo n le'. :Q:ntv,tr, 0 1 principals i e rs o MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.' (From The Sun of last Night.) The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Wick ham and Co., was exceedingly well attended, and the prices realised stioiied the improvement that has taken place in this description of security; almost all the lots in their ample catalogue found ready purchasers, and above 3,000 shares were disposed of. We select a few quotations. London and Manchester, Rastrick, 71s.—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat lock, Oft—Goole and Doncaster, 50s.—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 12s. 6d.—East Lincolnshire, 355. 6d.-- Welsh Midlands, 28s.—Goole and Doncaster, 50s.—North Staffordshire, 109 s. 6d —Dutch Rhenish, 1325. 6d.—Man chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 635. 6d.—South Midland, 745. —London acid York, 50s.—Northumberland and Lancashire, 265. Gd.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 255. 6d.— London and Manchester, Remington's, 20s.—Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry, 15s. 6d. There was a considerable busk ess done in Cotton, at Liver pool, yesterday. Sales 6,000 to 7,000 bales. Shares were firm. The following remarks on the dried fruit market, by Mr. R. Witherby, are interesting :—The arrivals of currants since the 28th ult., have been by three vessels 164 butts. 97 carro teels, 164 barrels, and 156 boxes, making the total quantity imported this season into London about 5,700 tons, against 6,050 tons to 30th April, 1845, and 5,500 tons and 6,200 tons to the same period of 1844 and 1843. There have not been any arrivals at Liverpool. The clearances at London from the 23d ult. to the 23d instant, amounting to 590 tons, against 730 tons in the same period of 1845, and 450 tons and 550 tons in 1844 and 1843. At Liverpool they have reached regularly 110 tons per week, against 75 tons per week in April 1845, and 60 tons in 1844 and 1843 respectively. The stock in bond 23d of February last was esti mated at 2,000 Tons. Since which date we have received here 717 butts, 600 carroteels, and 428 barrels, or 2,700 Tons. The deliveries in the same period having been 1,020 tons for home consumption, and 80 tons for shipment, together The Stock in bond 23d inst. may be estimated at 1,600 Tons against 2,800 tons on 30th April, 1845, an 2,400 tons on 30th April, 1844. This article is one of the very few, indeed almost the only one with the exception of raw sugar, which has maintained its ground, and for which there has been a fair demand amidst the general stagnation and depression of trade. Zante and Gulph fruit have been selling at 465. to 475., and fine Patras slowly at 48s. ' • but the operations of the month have not been extensive. The wholesale houses, notwithstanding the reduced stock, do not seem' to have confidence in the article, and buy only for their immediate wants. The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, as are also the trans fer and dividend offices at the Bank of England. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 10% Gibraltar.. • ....... • ... Ditto. at sight • • .... 12 7% Leghorn 30 75 Rotterdam 2U. 12 11 Genoa ...• ..... • ... 26 20 Antwerp .......... .... 25 20 Milan .. • • ............ Hamburg li .... • •Al.B. 14 Altona• ...... ... • • .... - Venice.........• Naples Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 90 Ditto, 3 months... 26 15 Marseilles •, ...... 26 20 80urdeaux............ 26 20 Frankfort on Maine.... 123 Petersburgh, 3 U5......U5...... Berlin ... Palermo, per oz .. 119% Lisbon .. Oporto • ... • ..... ...... 52% Rio Janeiro Bahia ........ ..... Buenos Ayres — New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec.f10...... 10 12 Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 10 13 Madrid .............. 364 Cadiz • • ... : .. .. .. .. 36 4 Philadelphia PRICBS OF BULLION, PEE OZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. .£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5 New Doubloons . 0 0 0 Barcelona ............ 5evi11e.......... ...... New Dollars ••..• • • • 0 0 0 Silver in bars ....... • 0 4 11 FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Aram 27.—At the commencement of the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives to-day the report of the project of law, granting a provisional vote of credit of five millions of francs to the War Department, was brought forward by M. Pirson. The Chamber immediately agreed to this project of law. M. Dell uese being prevented by indisposition from being present at this sitting, M. Verhaegen um-iertook to read to the Chamber some observations of the Hon. Member on the right of dissolving the Chambers, which the programme of Ropier required of the King. 1 he. Chamber of Commerce at Ghent has caused a meeting of the manufacturers of cotton goods to consider of the mea sures to be taken to obtain irom the Government a speedy arrangement of our differences with Holland. At this meet ing it was decided that a petition to this effect should be im mediately signed, and taken to Brussels by a deputation. This deputation came immediately to Brussels and had an audience of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to whom it stated the distressed situation of the branches of manufacture in con sequence of the interruptions of our communications with Holland. The Minister, in reply to the deputation, said, that the negotiations were at that moment far advanced, that lie hoped in a short time he should be able to announce the result, and that he had not lost sight of the interests of the branches of manufactures. A letter from Leipsic says—" Our fair being favoured by fine spring weather, has commenced with great spirit. It is very rarely, in some branches of manufacture, that so much business has been done in so satisfactory a manner in so short a time. Several purchasers have already finished their - business, and are preparing to leave u 3; while, on the other hind, the number of strangers coming to the fair daily in creases, and seems likely to be greater than was ever known." The coal mine of Bontemps, of Tawes, near the citadel. in the commune of Liege, is entirely under water. Happily. all the workmen escaped, one of them having perceived the danger in time to warn his comrades. HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, APRIL 21. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents •• •• ••••••• • • • •• 113 Bank Shares •• .. Anglo-Russian Loan •••••••• •• • • • • • • 107% 107% Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 101 36 101% Ditto Ist series Inscription • • .. Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96 Ditto, in Certificate.. •• • • New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• 89 Ditto Stieglitz • ....... •• • • 88% 873 Spanish New 5 per Cent. ...... • . 173( 17% Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 236 per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent ..... 59 Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.... 81 Atiglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 87 863 Naitional Bank Shares• •••••••• • • • •• • • BELGIAN FUNDS.—BAUSSZIA, APRIL 28. Actual Debt, 236 per Cent •••••••• • • •• - • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .... .• Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent- •• • Ditto Three per Cent..... • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • • Ditto, ditto, 184(1. . ....... ...... 100 Ditto,ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1844. •• .• •• ............ 99% Ditto, 1838 .............. •••• • • • • .... 7434 Ditto of the City, 1832 ........... ..... 100% Ditto, 1843 . • • .. .• 100% Bank of Belgium • ..... . •.„ .......... 900 —Brussels Papers. April 29. DUTCH FllNDS.—AmszzanAst, APRIL 27. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 236 per Cent •• .. 5935 60 PHU°, 3 per Cent ••••••-•• • • • • • •• 71% 721 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent.• • • • • • Amort Syndic. 436 per Cent...... 99x 99% Ditto, 3% per Cent• •• • ••••• • •• 88% HSU Commercial Company, 436 per Cent • • 167% 168 East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • 9336 as Exchange on London, at sight • •• • • 12 32 Two months.. On Hamburgh, at sight •• •• 35 93 Two months.. ••••• • • ...... 35 96 --Dutch Papers. April 28. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Aran. 24. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch, per Cent ••••••• • • • • 97% 96% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent •.• • • • Foreign Exchanges .••••• ,• • • • • ••••• • • • • • Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 25% 6 25% Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 147 3 / 14936 Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months On Paris . Two months. •••••• • • • • • • - -Universal Prussian Gazette. April 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 22. 5 per Cent. Metalliques... • .• 111% 4 per Cent. ditt0...... •............• •• 10036 3 per Cent. ditto— Loan, 1834 •... .:•. •• Ditto, 1839 ..... Bank Shares ........ Esterhazy's Loan RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand •• •• •• ••• • • • 192% Vienna—Milan ..................... 1203( Leghorn • • 104 x Sienna Grosetto ............... - •• •• 93 Oldenburg ....... Pestoja ....... Apenninen • . Perth Bridge ........••••.... 153% 122 •• ......“.••• . 1563 LLOYD'S SHI PPING. LONDON, MAY I.—Wind this day at noon s.w., light breeze. DEAL, APRIL 30.—Wind N. to S.S.W., light.—Arrd. Ocean, China, and sailed for Antwerp ; Enterprise, Leufstachius, Bahia, and sailed for Hamburgh; Commodore, Wright, Jamaica. Bid. Pieter Floritz, Lietzes, Batavia ; Carl and Therese, Schutt, St. Domingo i Norma, Vallesen, Pert Elizabeth ; Juno, Bendixen, New York. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Dryope, Moffatt, Quebec. 51d. Her Majesty's ship Raleigh, westward. OFF SEAFORD, APRIL 29.—Ocean, Carton, far Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Anne Armstrong, Bradley, Bombay ; her Majesty's ship Apollo, Monte Video. PooLE, Aram 30.—Wind W.—Sld.Nymph, Thorner, Newfoundland. OFF PLYMOUTH, APRIL 28. Mary, T. Rundlett, Boston, for Ant werp ; 29, Duke of Bronte, Bradley, China; Euphrates, Madras. FaLstouTn, APRIL 30.—Wind 'variable and light. OFT r ALMOUTIL APRIL 29.—Galatea. Huckfleld, Bahia, for Stet tin ; Vistula, Havannah ; George, New Tail, for Stettin. OFF PENZANCE, APRIL 29.—Nordpolen, Soderberg, Bahia. JERSEY, APRIL 29.—Arrd. Hullo , Defaye, Labrador. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. 29th, Wm. Smile, Primrose, Cuba, and not from the Spanish Main as reported ; 30th, Speed, Laguna ; Leander, Phelan, New Orleans. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 29.—The Nancy packet from Southampton to Weymouth got on shore on the Shingles to-day, but is expected off after throwing ballast overboard. SurGszatarga, APRIL 22.—The brig Sleepless, hence to St. Peters burgh, has returned leaky, having struck the ground in proceeding. BRIDLINGTON, APRIL 30.—The Helen, Leighton, from Sunderland to Stettin, which sunk is the Bay 27th instant, has been towed en to the beach, the cargo having washed out. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. APRIL 30.—The annual general meeting of the members of the squadron is to take place at the Thatched House Tavern, on the 6th of May, when there will be eight candidates ballotted tor. The Commodore's yacht is ordered to be got ready with all possil ie dispatch. We are happy to say that his Lordship continues to in prove in health, and is expected to leave the Royal Yacht Squadrin House for Appuldurcomb, to-morrow. On Monday the cutter yacht Corsair, the property of John Con eve Esq., was launched from Hansen's patent slip. She has been lent for the season to the Marquis of Ormonde. On Tuesday was launched from Mr. Ralsey's yard the cutter yaelit Sultana, for R. C. Naylor, Bsq. The Gondola, building in the same yard, will be launched nest spring tide. Sir Edward Paget has taken - . Egypt House. We are happy to hear he is much improved in health. Sir Bellingh . tm Graham 1145 taken Lord de Grey's house ; Mr. Knight, the Small Pavilion ; Sir Shelly, No. Bath-buildings; C. Deacon, Esq., No. 1 ; Mrs. Wiggins, Sea-view House. Lord Feversham and several other ta , hionables have applied for houses. The Emperor of Russia's yacht, building in White's yard, Is neatly cemplete, as is the Earl of Cardigan's ; the other yachts are net so forward. HOCUSslNG.—Suppose one of these characters wants to borrow ten pounds of you. Were he to ask point blank for the loan, he knows you would peremptorily refuse it. lie therefore tries a little heeessing, administering the medicine according as he esti mates your disposition. If he suppose you to be a vain man, he will open the conversation by praising your pictures, your wine, your wife, your eldest boy, or your last new book. At length, by insidious and delicately-introduced flattery, he awakens your self-esteem in so high a degree, that it completely overwhelms your caution. When he has deadened your acquisitive faculties, and completely fuddled your powers of calculating the chances of ever seeing the money again, he puts the momentous que4tion; in the midst of one of his most superlative bursts of admiration -at which he perceives your eye to kindle with delight, he asks in a tone of well-dissembled in difftrence, "By the by, could you oblige me with the loan of ten pounds?" If you have been effectually hocussed—with probe in stead of laudanum—you ring for your cheek-book, and without delay sign a draught for the amount iz Oen Timm, ,•-••?•• • • • l ~ r~J COURT CIRCULAR, Sir Robert Peel had an audienC., of the Queen yesterday at Bnekingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Exhibi tion of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar-square with a ci.tit yesterday, and was received by the President, Sir Marti:: Archer Shee, and other officers of the Academy, who con ducted the Prince through the different schools. His Royal Highness was attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord George Lennox, Captain Francis Seymour, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. Her Majesty, attended by the Lady in Waiting, Lady Portman, took an airing in an open carriage and four yes terday. Prince Albert was on horseback, and th e E que r r i es in Waiting, Captain Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gordon, attended on horseback. _ . His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited his Grace the Duke of Wellington yesterday at Apsley House. - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the - Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed exercise yesterday iu the pleasure grounds of the Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the French plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite included Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Napier, Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. Colonel uckley has relieved the Hon. Colonel Grey in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; and the Hon. Captain Gordon has relieved Lieut.-Colonel Seymour in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mei ningen, attended by Captain Taylor and Baron de Reitzen• stein, left Marlborough House yesterday afternoon for the Continent. His Serene Highness travelled to Dover by the s ou e a astern Railway, and embarked from Dover attended by the Baron de Icitzenstein. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and the Princess Mary ,t;, , noured the exhibition of the Royal Academy with a visit yesterday. Sir Martin Archer Shee, the President, conducted the illustrious visitors through the schools. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge had a dinner party yesterday at Cambridge House. The company included the Prince and Princess Nicolas Esterhazy, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Earl of Clare, the Earl and Lady Augusta Cadogan, Viscountess Mahon, Lord Forester, Sir George Hamilton, Baron Koller, Mr de Berg, and Count Potocki. A Committee meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding the Palace of Westminster, was held yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The Commissioners present were Viscount Can ning, Lord John Russell, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Hallam ; and the Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Railway Termini had a meeting yesterday. There were present Viscount Can ning, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor, and Sir F. Smith. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. Dispatches were received from the Governor of Sierra Leone yesterday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET, THURSDAY NIGHT, TEN O'CLOCK. ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. Handicap, D. M.—Petit Morceau 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Blackie, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Killi Krankie, 3 yrs, 7st 11b—Breastgirth, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b. • Handicap, A.F.—Collingwood, 3 yrs, Bst 81b—Leaconfield, 3 yrs, Bst 81b—Peasant, 3 yrs, Bst—Tit-bit, 3yrs, Bst Mb, paid. .latch—King Charles, Bst 81b, agst Prospect, 7st 91b. D. 100 h ft. Newmarket Stakes—The following were left in at ten o'clock :—Galata colt, Polecat, lapo, Pyrrhus the First, Mar quis of Cunningham, Sister to Flambeau, Hereof, and the Little Vulgar Boy. . _ LATEST BETTING. NEWMARKET STAKES.-6 to son lago. CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Best Bower 20 to 1 agst Hope 10 to 1 agst Sweetmeat 20 to 1 agst The Magnet 12 to 1 agst Clumsy—taken 20 to 1 agst Corranna 12 to I agst The Baron 22 to 1 agst Inheritress 14 to 1 agst Pedometer—t. 25 to 1 agst Vitula—taken 18 to 1 agst Polish 50 to 1 agst Weatberbit The death of Mr. A. W. Hill, the owner of Sweetmeat, has been reported this evening, on apparently good authority. LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIEI Y. ' A meeting of this Society, on behalf of the Irish Church and the cause of Protestant education in Ireland, was held in the large room„ ,Exeter-hall, yesterday, at eleven o'clock. The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY, who occupied the chair, felled on one of the reverend gentlemen on the platform to read prayers. The CHAIRMAN then said that he had been requested to take -02 e chair as having been connected with the Society for some time ; and O'ougli he would have wished to see another person there more corn pe t en , to discharge its duties, yet he felt interested in the objects of the society. '4e valued a Protestant education, and it gratified him to know that the Society, under the patronage of the Church of England, was constiti:ted to glee such an education to more than 50,0e0 children, and he hoped that It would continue to extends its efforts, and become, under the blessinz of God, increasingly useful. He would refrain from detaining the meeting, and proceeded to call on The SECRETARY, who read the report for the last year. It stated that the receipts of the Society for the year arrnenated to 4;4651., being an increase of more than 1,0001. over the income' feu the previous year ; that 2,450/. had been remitted to the Church }:ducation Society for Ireland ; that the number of schools in connexion with the Society were 1,811, containing 100,755 children, of whom 12,000 were the children of Protestant Dissenters, and 30,000 of Romth , Catholics. Lord SANDON, who moved the first resolution. salt l there were others more competent, but he felt called on by the cotirse of poli tical events to come forward, as he thought every Cetel:lan ought, and especially legislators, to show that they were still warmly concerned in the cause of the Church ; for if legislators, after oppo sition, were compelled to acquiesce in certain events, they wen` , cer tainly called on to Come forward personally and individually, fee:lnga as they must do, that they were led less and less to rely upon Parlia ment or corporate bodies, and more and more on their own endeavour , . The Church of Ireland had suffered mnch, placati often in ctrctunstanami. of temptation —temptations from persecution and from kindness; but. she had continued with a singular unanimity to t old up to them the same grand principles, and he hoped she would long ,aontinue td do so. But it was the duty of individuals now to countensulve her "In her struggles. The Noble Lord, after some further ebserva dons, moved that the report be adopted. The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of CAsHEL said, he ros e talth great pleasure to second the resolution moved by the Noble Loll. H s was gratified at the sympathy expressed by the Noble Lord IL'r the great, the arduous, but important struggle in which the Church' o f ,. Ireland was engaged. It wax a struggle for the grand principles (IL the Reformation, namely, whether instruction, such as would do' good to man, shall be through the Holy Word of God, or, whether, that being pat way, it shall be through the traditions of men.-- (Applause ) He felt himself standing there, the advocate of a prin ciple which, in fidelity to his God and to his fellow-man, he dare , not give up, and whether he stood against persecution, or tried by" kindness, he trusted neither would ever lead him to desert it: There were assemblies, he said, at the present day, In which it would seem strange to advocate the Irish Church, and in whit:',.'' that Church was looked upon as a monstrous thing. It was strange 1;12! that should never have been found out—never , so long as the clergy of the English Church and of the Roman Catholic Churn, met together on the same field of sport, and at the same tai,lO. negleeting the duties of their office. One thing, reported as said by A Noble Lord, astonished WI, that the Church of Ireland robbed the Roman Catholics of propertr that belonged to them. Did they consider that the funds of the Church, and the endowments generally, were a robbery from theft Roman Catholics, because the Archbishops and Bishops appointed' by the Pope once possessed these endowments? If so, then it was as much a robbery in England as in Ireland. He said, that an objection against the Church of Ireland had been originated by a young man, a Member for one of the Irish counties, a fashionable young man, who perhaps did not read the Bible himself, and supposed the Roman Catholics of Ireland had no need of it ; at least, he thought he pleased their clergy when he objected to the Irish Church, because it would not support the Irish Board. His Lordship went at great length into the demerits of the National Board of Education; and read several document`e showing the statistics of the schools conducted under the different syttems, and urged the meeting to support the system of scriptural education. The resolution was put from the chair and carried unanimoMr• Lord LIPPORD, after some remarks confirmatory of the BO' Prelate's statements, moved the second resolution, Rev. Dr. o , ozninvsn, in seconding the resolution, said that three' charges had been made against the Church of Ireland :—that her revenues as ere too large ; that her title to them was founded Gil in justice ; and that the establishment of a Protestant church in Ire land was very impolitic. On the first, he said it ought to be recol le-ted that, in establishing a church, it was necessary to open door for clergymen from every rank in society; it had, therefore, been settled that there should be twelve Episcopal Peers, whose gross income was to be not less than 60,0001. annually, and he was sure that a jury of their peers would not decide that that was too much. The income of all the Protestant clergy in Ireland, wke amounted to two thousand two hundred, was only sent. - thing more than 400,000/,, which would not be more than 2.1( /. to each of those woo were to live as gentlemen in society. Looking to the people, and assuming that out of 1,700,000 Protestants 100,000 belonged to the Church of England, then it would be found that the fluids at the disposal of the Church were equivalent to no more than 10s. each person. Considering the importance of a man's salvation, that amount was surely not too much to be spent towards attaining it. The Rev. Speaker, in discussing the injustice of the title held by the Irish Church to these revenues, begged to correct Mistaken supposition that mothrn xomanism was the same as old Bo manlsm, and that the Protestant Church dated no earlier than the time of the ReiOrMation. The modern Catholic Church pretended to be n reformed islittreh equally as the English Church. The Rev. Gentle man said the Romaoiiite had changed we filith, and retained corrupt forms, the English Church reformed the ceremonies and retained the faith; on that ground of distinction he held the English to be but a development of the ancient church, and, therefore, that the endowments according to all legiti mate and religious jurisprudence properly belonged to thoS• in whose hands they were at present. The Reverend Gentle man then went into the history of Ireland at gre3t length, to show that that country was never in greater alleglance with England than during the supremacy o f the Protestant Church. He sat down with moving the following resolution : That there is abundant reason for thankfulness to God for the' in , mewled success that has attended the exertions of the Loudon' Hibernian Society during the past year, and it is much to be disired that English churchmen should display yet greater interest in the welfare of the Church in Ireland, and use more strenuous and effectual efforts to assist her in the fulfilment of the important duties with which she is entrusted." Lord TEIGNMOUTX in .a spech of come length, moved the next re solution. 0.J.4 "VMS • The Rev. H. 111`2•TEn.E, in seconding it, said, although the proximate view of the subject before them was scriptural education for Ireland , and therefore the speeela of the Rev. Gentleman might seen .irrele vant, 3et as one step behind that proximate view led them to the continuance or non continuance of the Irish Church, it was closely to the point, and he believed that one other step would lead to the question of the existence or non-existence of an Established Church in Britain. On that topic, he thought they ware all indolent and inactive, and though incomparably the greater number, and the stronger, if united, their Church was being gradually invaded and undermine d by the measures of their enemies, and by nothing more certainly than by the national system of education. This brought the Rev. Gentle man to argue against that system, And the exclusion of the Scriptures from Ds schools, which he did with Areat eloquence and amid grea t applause. He concluded with moving-- " That as the Government of this coentry feels itself preclude d from affording any aid to the schools of the Church Educattn i ! Society for Ireland, on the ground that in then: the sacred Scripture , • ate made an essential part of the instruction given to the pupils, i t is a duty incumbent on all Christians to exert themselves to the ut most of their power to supply the means necessary blessings of Scriptural education to the whole of the pc,orer classesthe community." for affording th e A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting separated. [We are always unwilling to speak against any private indiyidttatt but in doing our duty to the public, we never met with a more dis obliging or ungentlemanly person than he who officiated as secretarl for this Society.] DERBY. 3 to 1 agst Sting—t. 13 to 2 agst Sir Tatton Sykes 12 to 1 agst Torn Tullock 33 to 1 agst lago—t 33 to 1 agst Crown Prince-- taken freely 35 to 1 agst Malcolm 40 to 1 agst Peri colt—t. OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Mendicant—t. FRIDAY'S RACES. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and 5 ft only if de clared. A.F. (4 Subs.) lof whom declared. Duke of Richmond's Peasant, 3 yrs, Bst llb Mr. Payne's Collingwood, 3 yrs, Bst 81b 2 Mr. W. S. Stanley's Leaconfield, 3 yrs, Bst Elb 3 Betting.-5 to 4 agst Leaconfield; 6to 4 agst Coiling wood, and 3to 1 against Peasant. Peasant made running, followed by Collingwood, to the T.Y.C. post, where the second place was taken by Leaconfield. In the bottom the three closed, and they raced home almost abreast, Peasant winning by a neck, and Collingwood beating Leaconfield by a head. Run in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Match, 200, h ft, A. F. Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, Bst 31b, beat; Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella, 8s 91b; 6to son Sorella; Alamode made all the running, and won by a length. Run in 2 minutes 28 seconds. Match, 200, 75 ft, T.Y.C. Bst 71b each.—Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob, beat Lord Waterford's Corranna. Betting-5 to 4on Corranna, who made tremendous run ning till half way up the cord; the Cob then challenged, and after a fine race, won by a length. Run in 1 min. 20 sec. The Newmarket Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b, D.M. (20 Subs.) Mr. Gully's ch c Pyrrhus the First (Day) 1 Colonel Anson's lago 2 Lord Exeter's br c by Colwick, out of Galata ...... The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, Mr. Wigram's Heiress, Lord Stradbroke's Polecat, Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of Conyngham, Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau. Betting-11 to 10 apt lago, 3to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First, 6 to 1 agst the Marquis of Conyngham, and 8 to 1 agst Galata. The running for the first quarter of a mile was made by Little Vulgar Boy; it was then taken up by Tag° at a good pace, followed by Marquis of C o ny ng h am , G a l ata co l t, an d Pyrrhus the First. The Marquis was beaten at the cords, and half-way up Pyrrhus the First, joining the favourite, de feated him, after a good race, by half a length; Galata a length from lago. Run in 1 min. 53 sec. Match. 100, h ft. D.M.—Mr. Osbaldeston's King Charles, Bst 81b (F. Butler), beat Sir J. Hawley's Prospect, 7st 91b. Betting-6 to 4on Prospect. Won by a head. Run in 1 min. 58 sec. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each for three and four years-old. D. M. (5 Subs). Lord Orf)rd's Blackie. 3 yrs, 7st 101 b ..................(Sly) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b 2 Mr. Mare's Breastgirth, 5 yrs, 6st 111 b 3 Mr. 0-baldeston's Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, Bst 81b Betting —6 to 5 agst Blackie, 5 to 2 agst Petit Morceau, and 3to 1 agst Ennui. Won easy by a length. Run in 1 min. 51 sec. Match, 200, h ft. D. M.—Lord Maidstone's Torn Tullock, Bst' 41b, agst Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, out of Emilia, Bst. Off by consent. The Cup was not challenged for atthis meeting. CHESTER Cup.—Uu to the close of this meeting nothing had transpired to confirm or disprove the rumour of Mr. Hill's death. SUPPLIES OF FOREIGN MEAT.—The state of the home market in the supply of the staple article of food for our navy and mercantile marine has lately been such as to cause not only much enterprise amongst speculators, but anxiety amongst the Lords of the Admiralty. One of the most important facts connected with the former is the deficiency in quantity as well r,s quality of the Irish meats, owing to the rapid means of transit off irded by means of steam communication making it more to the interest of Irish farmers to transmit their cattle alive to this country titan to let their capital lie dormant in curing the meat. So great has been the late deficiency in quality that the Lords of the Admiralty were com pelled a few weeks ago to issue orders to the Admiralty of the diffe rent stations to purchase supplies of fresh meat to compensate for the deficiency which this has caused in the rations. At the same time the Lords of the Admiralty have not been ioattentive to the means of obtaining an adequate supply from toreigu sources, and for this purpose have given a fair and extended trial to the process of curing by pneumatic pressure, by transmitting samples to the four quarters of the globe, which being returned, were opened a few days since at the Victualling-office at Deptford; but the results were not found sufficiently satisfactory to sanction the general adoption of the principle. A newly patented process is now under course of trial, which is for the purpose of preserving meat in a fresh state for foreign countries, which is equally applicable to fruit and fish, and, if successful, must produce some ver) important results to this country. In all experiments, however, connected with the al ti ration of food for the naval and mercantile marine, the greatest care is required, from the fact of any innovation upon their esta blished mode of life and habits proving very injurious to the health of the seamen. At the same time, the introduction of meat from foreign sources is most important in a commercial point of view; and at a recent meeting of many Members of Parliament and friends of free trade, held in Monument-yard, where specimens of al the de scriptions of foreign food which are now admitted duty free by the new tariff were exhibited, Dr. Bowring very pertinently asked, " Why ~hould there be so many millions who do not tas t t a e ls ant da m y al st . food, or taste it as a luxury, when it can be obtained with sail of Great Britain ? The millions who rejoice in potatoes' v n ed an m im ea a t l f w oo o d uld ta b ea e s t t f im the rt e a nterprise ready for w hn it u h la t t h e e d m i n" the T ir he . re re jo e i e c a in t gs' if thy an co o n f ld pr o e b se ta v i from Australia is only one insta h neeo Legislature has decided upon the im mediate operation as soon .as present causes so much co America and ether place s , i t may be subject of commercial restrgmtiotenese,latineembuannseatatalemdeasttaataedofatawghaiacthiaant. added, is readily bought u p that matter of notorietymany vessels would no t b e a b le ship ping,to as it is a Every cargo of salt meat fromoa its arrival here, for th e use of leave the ports if depen dent al o n e upon the home supply. BURGLARY AND ROBBERY AT PAINGE COMMON, 5 u .,,,,y,—0n Monday, Samuel Keywood, John Wentran, and John Gordon, three " navies, were examined before a magistrate at Croydon, on a charge of breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. John Phiilips, a fat mer, en the border of Painge Common, Surrey, and stealing therefiom one ten and four five pound Bank notes, and also several articles of plate. From the evidence it appeared that between twelve and two o'clock on Thursday night last Mr. Phillips, who is a very eccentric character and lives alone in his house, was awoke by hearing the noise of footsteps on the stairs, and called out lustily, " Who is there?" He had scarcely pronounced the words when three men with their faces blackened entered his bedroom. He asked them what they wanted, they rushed towards his bed, threatened they would kill him if he made the slightest noise, threw the bed-clothes over him, and one of them held him down in the bed while he heard the others " forraging " about the room. The man held him down so tight in the bed that he was nearly suffocated, and in this state he (the prosecuto r ) ca ll e d out to him for God's ' sake to let him have a little air. The man, however, did not relax in his pressure u; mn him until he had heard one of the others, who had been forragiug about, say he h a d f ound something. They, soon after went away, having, however, renewed their threats of killing hint if lie made any noise, or attempted to follow them. Some time atter the old malt ventured to get up, and on examining his bedroom, he found that a tin box, in which he kept his cash and plate, had been broken open, and its contents taken away. Information of the robbery was given to the police, and Sergeant Morton, an active officer of the P division, was employed to trace out the thieves. In the course of his inquiries that officer found that at a late hour of the night of the robbery the prisoners were seen loitering about the house of the prosecutor, and he, in consequence, apprehended them on Saturday night and Sunday morning. On comparing one of the shoes of the prisoner Keyword with some mark on the tin box from which the property had been taken, it answered so exactly that there could be no doubt whatever that the marks on the latter had been Caused by the former. It also appeared that Keyword was no stranger to Phillips's house, as his wife had been in the habit of doing some odd jobs for the old man. The prisoners, who denied the charge, were remanded until Saturday next. BAPTIST MISSIiiNARY Si , CIETY.—The great annual Meeting cf this respectable society was held on Thursday, In Exeter. hall. The chair was taken by Mr. Peto. The ball was full to all :te extent, and ministers from all quarters of the kingdom were present. The highest spirit of liberility animated the assemblage, a large number of subscriptions, varying from 5001. (of which there Were many) to 201. having been handed in. It was, taken altogether, COO Of the most spirited meetings of a religious tharactor on record. LITERA ASStrlaA i lON OF THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. This Association has just issued an "Address to the .tlee ple of Great Britain and Ireland," signed by the Vice- President, Lord Dudley C. Stuart, for the purpose of pro. , duciog a correct impression on the public mind of this king: dom as to the claims of the Polish cause on universal_ sympathy—the sufferings, heroism, and present condition of the Polish nation. The document not only derives jai' portance from the recent and continuing events in Galicia, but it derives a peculiar interest from the fact, that it is th e only address to the people of this empire which the Association has thought it necessary to put fort; since that memorable apn eal to the British people, " trac e; by an immortal hand, that of Thomas Campbell," fourtee° years ago, upon the fi!st institution of the Society. In the present appeal the case of Poland is ably and eloquentV4 although briefly stated, and it is to be trusted that it w 1 :!' meet with the extended circulation and attention to which it is eminently entitled at this critical juncture in the „ affairs, at least, of Eastern Europe. In fact, the paper 13 necessary to enable any one (except very few) in 01 realms to understand the actual position of the Poles , an a their true relation to their oppressors. The following 15 complete but deplorable elucidation of the late atrocio us mysteries in Galicia : scre(i.:e,Cenlrtanylni.c.ifieoatui Government at3o,se rule s e l e. e n i It i st n f6h t h rae e si gn h a a l t ws t u d ab s yr : c )f bt es th bn e y t A ft u me g es t r yn i s a tti n en s ing f d o oi r f l oh ° r /l ids between different clan- , es—such is its policy in Lombardi , G bu a t lic c i i k ) t i . ji) ,- , \ t v h ,:i e re b of the such was it for years in Hungary, such has it always been i° e e t i t u a c ti a o t i e la d l , t i e t e h li i a ; s gs ad p , (: l 7 l - e a d di a ng sv ll t f eni ci.a:: r ei : ' fully contrived for exasperating the teelings of the peasa°_,„"'" against their landlords, and preventing any concert between them. The landlord is invested with great power over 1 05 peasants, and he is not only allowed, but required to exec" cise it. It is the landlord who is called on to collect the taxes, to furnish recruits for the army, to try offences, an d even to inflict on offenders corporal punishment. It is p ssible that, under such a system, abuses should not occur , and even if they did not, that the peasants should Owe any i good will to those uniting in their persons the attributes o f the tax-gatherer, press-gang, and executioner. In ° vei l district there is an officer styied mandatarius, whose duty 1 is to hear appeals from the peasants against their landlord!: and decide their differences. This functionary is appoin teu by Government. Thu., while the landlord is compelled to discharge many of the duties belonging to the executive, 110 ,, to appear fleet s,arily in the light of an oppressor, the rePr,,`" sentative of Government is looked on as a friend a Pr:, rector. The landlords have repeatedly represented to t i " .o Government the necessity of improving the condition of t' o peasants, and placing things on a better footing. and the Diet of Galicia, after much deliberation, agreed on a 1 011 3 for the purpose, which was laid before the Emperor; bu t was not sanctioned. and remained a dead letter." IMPORTATION OF ICE. --Tile arrivals of ice which 111 ; now taking glace from the kingdom of Norway, and which We' 'l O two or three occasions, been noticed in our colum , s do not all, to be entirely confined to the metropolis. A vessel called the DATI,U which arrived at the port of Liverpool et the latter end of the P" - o f week from a port on the coast of Norway, had a cargo consisting., 90 toils ot ; and a vessel called the Triton, from Dram, or Dr c r i t men, also in the kingdom of Norway, arrived at the same Pert ol ,rtta the port of Hull, having 150 tons of the article on board. arrivals of vessels at these northern ports, in addition to ]b en already mentioned as having taken place in the river Thames, It ic , with this curious and novel description of cargo, are very rerlieL4 able, and prove the speculative enterprise in thisterpriseo i f ns t t h a e nc p e eo w pl i e ll of b t e his n c o do otin: i ii t g to be unlimited. Their enterprise amply repaid, for there appears, in cons quence of the mildness, the past winter, to be a great scarcity o f th e article, not on l y in to o " metropolis and its suburbs, b u t th roughout the country. "-.s" supplies are very opportu ne , an d will be a valuable addition to so which have taken place from the distant lakes of North AITIS.„.' which we have m a d e th e su bj ect of a special notice on a former o .v nt • sion, and alluded to the extraordinary thickness of the fiakt ii .. blocks of ice brought f rom that quarter, and of its surprising ness and solidity. ANOTHER COLLISIO N AT SEA.—Late on nd a night, Mr. Black, the Brighton agent of the General Steam lit, vi tal tion 'ompany, was apprised by the Ll o yd's agen t a t E a stbeol:ol, the discovery by so me o f th e pil o t s o f a l arge vesse l i n th e Chs' o f off Beachey Bead, which appeared to have been abandoned bl. to crew, and at th e same ti me reques t e d t o sen d a steam - pac ket 010 tow the vessel into harbour. The Magnet was, accordingly, disPatlal• shortly after midnight, and succeeded in falling in with the n7,,01 It was bound k ee l u pp ermos t, an d p rove d t o b e th e D an ish os'7o. Harriet, trom St. Croix to Copenhagen, laden with sugar and„„o. , It appears that she was run down by th e a e rin ga pat a m o n the,„;deo, of Sunday, but the cr e w were s ave d, an d one of the mates was I .'" A aa at Hastings, and thence proceeded to London. The Magot h ae" Menai were both engaged in towing thevessel westward to Sh?'"tll° Harbour on Wednesday ; and the cliffs were thronged durum' principal part of the day by spectotors of their evolutions. toOlg RAILWAY ROBBERIES. A novel proceeding did' place last week before Mr. Ray, Master of the Court of Con,Z-00.• Pleas, with reference to a Charles Gregory Maynard, who W al o bef' victed with Garratt respecting the railway r o bbery last NoT, e , 001 By a recent Act of Lord Bemoan, the evidence of convictit allowed in courts of law, and actions having been brought " G ott Messrs. Prance, Colard, and Nash, in connexion with thostte the defendant Nash obtained leave from the Secretary of 700 . 5 examine the convicts prior to their leaving England. This ..e2fo , sel . ,, tion of Maynard occupied two days, an was attended by w', Mr. Noggins for the defendants, and Mr. Hawkins for the Ply Mr. T.,oke, short-hand writer, took notes for the G ever nrneil . t .s4 ;0 1 ; result will not be disclosed until the trial, but we undersn a portent disclosures were made. Garratt had been examine ( ' ' Manner before being sent to the colonies. The British Museum closed yesterday afternoon O°P. Friday, th Dukee Bth inst. The of Wellington completed his 77th yes t yesterday, having been born May 1, 1709. 14 ,, rd and Lady Palmerston" left Paris on void. morning for England. Marshal Soult called upon theta „, to pay a farewell visit. Or STATUE OF THE LATE KING CHARLES JOB 0 SwzDEN.—A letter from Munich states that the bronze i i fable i the O ng late King Charles Jelin of Sweden was cast in the. 13: 1 ? 't, belnA 20,1 inst., with every appearance of complete success. 1.,!: es ec to be destined for the city of Norrkoping, and that it vrili in the course of the summer. • . Joel tal PPEDESTRIANISM.—H. Mitchell an d w at Marylebone) ran their match of 150 yards, on lefonle? sov ereinp, Bottom, Jones giving two yards start ; the stake was ten S A h t or ti ti rt e y a ft y e a r rd h s e drew J o n little e s a was a shoulderhsad; a Eventually Jones was the winner by a yard or 0 0, cannot call other than aZdonittar run race Rtdite shoulder ldheor yr ever,