The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

NEW WORK BY DR. CROLY. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo„ A R S T I%J 0 N; THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. By the Rev. G. CROLY, I.L.D. Author of " Salathiel," Sce. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ME FROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 3, PRUCES-STREET, The DIRECTORS hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall due on the sth of APRIL next, that the same must be paid within thirty days from that date. The Premiums are payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, on the Sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the Society, as Members, on the sth of April next, should appear. or lodge their pro posals, at the Office, on or before that day. This Society, for mutual and general assurance, appropriates all Its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own fives for the whole term of life as Members of the Society. Ai abatement of premium has been made at the rate of 45 per cent. for the year end ing 4th April, 1847, under a confident expectation of a continuance of that rate, at least, to all Member. of five years' standing and up wards. RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes-street, Bank, March 18, 1846. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 111 E, SS i lt o S. , RaiLlwAnyAl S°harNe Atl ctionSeeMrs A be L g E to ; thank N th D eir Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TDESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, containing instructions, are respectfully requested t• be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and idvices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, find 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 informed that this Theatre will RE-OPEN THIS EVENING, APRIL 14, When will be performed (for the first time this season), Bellini's Opera, I PIIRITANI. Elvira, Madame Grist (her first appearance this season) ; Axtaro, Signor Mario (his first appeivance this season) ; Riccardo, &gnat wornasari ; Giorgio, Signor Lablache (his first appearance this ?aeon). To conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by Perrot. The music by Signor Pugni, entitled, CATALUNA ; ou, LA FILI.F. DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Wile. Lucile Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Edlles .Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglionl II.M. Gosselin, Bertrand, Di Matta, and Perrot. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. me Nobiiity, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY, APRIL 16, When will be presented Mozart's chef d'ceuvre, DON GIOVANNI. _ _ Donna A nna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioll ; Zerlina, Madame Castellan. Don Giovanni, Signor FOTHUltri Ottavio, Signor Mario ; II Commandatore, Signor Botelli ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the highly successful New Ballet, by Di. Perrot, entitled, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The principal characters by Madlle. L. Grahn, Madlle. P. Stephan and , and Madlle. Taglioni ; M.M. Perro t, Bertrand, DR Mattia, Goeselin 2HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera. entitled THE CRUSADERS, The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. llar rison, Rorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Nisi 11,0111er, and Miss Rainforth. After which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled rzitou.,E ; or, The Desolate island. Principal characters by Madlie. Louise, Madame labile', Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, 31r. T. NI atthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. tOYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING • wll be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren : Sir John Coverdde, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermann, Z,lr. J Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdalf, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Id re. Seymo , tr. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonic," and " La Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and 'Antoinette," Cellaritts Waltz. After which (for the first time) an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHAN ES : on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. Jame: , Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. Mathews, and Bias I'. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Hamby, &c. 1' IIEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. 'Unprecedented Attraction for the Easter Holidays. Re-engagement of GENERAL TOM THUMB ! Who having, on each appearance in the Burlesque of " Hop o' my Thumb," been welcomed with most enthusiastic shouts of ap plause, and excited the astonishment and approbation of ar elegant and delighted auditory, by his almost Incredible Dimi nutive Person and his equally Incredible Mind, the Managemem bas much pleasure in announcing his Performance for every Evening during the Holidays. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama, in Three Acts, called HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Dichtear, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Llidlaw. To c- - niclude with an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOF 0' Y THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. Hop 'o My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes. 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI A New Drama, and a New and V agnificent Burlesque. THIS EVENING 'ill be, presented a New Drama, in Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE ; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedford ;Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sansonet, Mr. Wright ; Mons. Del imare, Mr. Perkins ; Batifole, Miss Woolgar. Nini, Miss Webster ; Cecile, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Burlesque, entitled, PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal charters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Tayl ora c le Paul Be 11 ord, Mr. Mull) ard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Honeybun, Miss Emma Ha,ding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Wit he performed a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The principal characters supported by Messrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh Murray ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &c. After which, the petite oi'nedy, named THE IRISH AMBAS SADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. Collins. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which Messrs. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, Or, yerr ; Miss Taylor. Miss E. Stanley, Mss . Fosbroke, Miss Honne gsc., will appear. AST LI. Y * ROY AL AM P HIT at:ATI:B. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. "atronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert. and the Princess Royal.—Entertainments Extraordinary for thi Holiday Visitors. —First Appearance of the celebrated Clown Wallet, in conjunction w th Barry and N Roches. THIS EVIG Will be performe4 an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle, entitled, THE ARXD AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. The Characters personified by the principa. members of the Company and numerous auxiliaries. New and Popular Scenes in the Circle, by the Foreign and British Professors. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. and c and ope from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at s ix ommence a n t seven o'clock. I)AV IDGE' ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Holiday Attractions, on a scale of Novelty, Talent, and Varle t ) Dever before offered. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Burlesque Spectacle, entitled JA...!E THE GIANT EILLE/t. Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Cowell Lewis, Healop, Williams ; Mesdms. Hughes, M. Glover, &c. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THE TILES ; or, A Night at Greenwich. To be followed by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DER 7,FIAMOIB YAGER ; or, The Fiend on Earth. By the Deulir Family. Tableaux of the Great Indian Victory will be exhibited. T o conclude with a N ew Melodrama, called, THE RATS OF RA d ir CAS'i LE. ROYAL VICTORIA TiIt:ATI:E. The Most powerful and varied rtainment ever offered to the Public THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; CT, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messy F r edericks. Fre d e ricks. Saville, Raymond , Tindell, niggle, Searle, B Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, Pm TER OF THE REGIMENT A f ter which, THE DA UGH ; .; eor gette, Miss Vincent. T o coNclude with a romantic Drama, entitled THE DEVIL'S DEN ; or, '1 he Mint, the Maize, and the M aiden. Supported to the entire strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTi. " La gaiete est la sante de I'ame, La tristesse en est le poison." P2I ILLIPPE, in returning his grateful th anks to his kin( 3 . ratrons, and feeling anxious to merit a continuance of past favo th urs 90 liberally bestowed upon him isy the discerning Public of his great metropolis, bi - !7,s leave to announce that he will Resume ENTERIATz.3IENT at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING, When he will have the honour of introducing an ENTIRE :MANGE in his PERFORMANCE, which has been prepared at a great expense and 13bour. The New Feats and Miraculous Scientith Experiments are of the most extraordinary and astounding 4e• jcription, and must be seen to be-believed. M. PIIALLIPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting r „,,,, ) Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot! rh i s unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed Mons. Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights M. Philippe will introduce in r Paris. 'm e m; the Evening D MOTHER'S CAP, with all its Rapid Transformations. During the F-aster Week there will be a Morning and Evening Perf ormanc e eac2i. Day. The Morning Performance will commence Hyening Performance at a Ist Two o'crock ; quarter to Eight. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is., and lOs. 6d. THE WEATHER.--,SuN OFFICE, APRIL 14. 11:136RMOIETE11, Lowest, 45; Highest. 63; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 29.73. WIND S.E.; morning, fine: afternoon, showery. 'Gri WATER AT LONDON-R ID GET HlS utes after 3 DAY. yoming 24 minutes " 3. Evenaft 42 min n 4 s . .4 N , 4 -.l'' ' ' '‘', V,''•X' . i% sr- ' . - 1 .it.t_ sok , , 'll , -#4113.4. ,- - q' ' ';' . . . i 4 .:4-1 ' %a. -.. ' DR O 1? a .....t.it - '4, : ,- - ... 2) v , i'". 4 %; .. , . s, o N .t s - ._,, ";.- 7 . ' - ,-,,, . - z-- the chief actors : the Ministers were not always compliant to orders—the Cortes even dared raise their voice against the TRAPANI marriage, and the nation, concurring in their views, loudly exclaimed against the project for allying the young QUEEN to a worn-out branch of the Bourbons, and degrading the country by a mercenary ef,mpact formed solely for the selfish purposes of the Qcrwr- Nfaxstn. Then, it appears, the struggle oommenced between CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ. Ministry after Ministry was dissolved and reformed—a second coup d'etat was tried, and patiently submitted to by the people, but all would not do. The war was going on in the:Camarillo as hot as ever—neither of the intriguers would bear an equal near the throne: NAnvaEz confident of his power over the army dared the QUEEN-M.3I'IIER to do her worst, and this spirited woman (for her courage and firmness none can deny) made up her mind and resolved to sacrifice NenvAxz at every risk. The General was beaten by the QUEEN, and after being escorted out of Spain by a detachment of his own dragoons, he reached Bayonne on the 10th, and is now on his road to Paris or Naples. This is the most de cided revolution that has taken place for four years in that devoted country; nay, even the expuhion of ESPARTERO was not so important, for the army at once transferred its allegiance from him to NARVAEZ and a strong body of troops under a skilful general were, always ready to repress counter revolutions. But at present the army is without a leader. Neither CONCHA, nor CURDOVA, nor any of the newly-appointed generals, has any particular influence over it. BRETON, a daring and eruel, but active officer and firm adherent of NAR VAEZ, has been displaced, so has MAZARREDO, and AANZO, and all those who aided the Dictator in main mining his power. The troops, in fact, have lost the 'hiefs in whom they seemed to trust, and are open to he intrigues of NARVAEZ and his cast-off followers—the nost unprincipled adventurers in Spain. It is impossible :o form even a guess of the probable result of such unem 2ected and dangerous complications. About CHRISTINA'S Mans we absolutely know nothing, but what can be ;athered from the statement of parties supposed to be in ter confidence. These, on the whole, are satisfactory. It is said that the Cortes are to be summoned o meet on the 24th inst., that the arbitrary decree ►gainst the liberty of the press is to be recalled, hat a Bill for trial by jury is forthwith to be proposed, o the Chambers, and that a general amnesty is to be )roclaimed for all political offenders, excepting only the C,iarlists. Such results are not unlikely, looking at all he circumstances of the last explosion. NARVAEZ had ?resumed too far on CHRISTINA'S peculiar position and prepossessions; he thought to frighten her into submis don by holding up before her eyes the sabre by which litherto he had ruled Spain—he, in fact, believed he ,vas master, and would submit no longer to female do minion ; but " Sweet is revenge—especially to women ;" Lnd revenge this intriguing and unscrupulous woman .vas resolved to have. She discarded the General, ap jointed ISTURITZ Prime Minister, insisted on the im nediate expulsion of her rival from the Spanish terri tory, and determined to brave every hazard, even the esta ilishment of a constitutional and popular Government, o debar for ever his return. This, indeed, is the only easible view that can be taken of the late nysterious events. She will be a friend of iberty so long as the profession of liberal senti nents suits her views. She will bide her time or another plot. The great, the only enemy at present, is NARVAEZ, and he can be put down only by a uni 'ersal reaction against him throughout the country. The army is a doubtful and dangerous weapon. She :annot even trust to it. Her only resource is in the Fortes and the nation, and these she will pay worship to until the great object of her revenge is accomplished. Let us hope that in this instance good will spring out of evil, and that LOUIS PHILIPPE, who took this woman 'our years ago under his paternal care, for some purpose another, will have the honour, though unwittingly, of establishing constitutional government in Spain. Since the commencement of the great European peace )f the present century, a vast progression has been made n the development of the popular intellect, a greater progression probably than many may imagine. And, looking at the beneficent consequences which have al ready supervened upon the wars which previously deso iated nearly all the civilised nations of this hemisphere, ive cannot but regard that anterior outburst as a kind of !onvulsive prelude to a state of tranquillity peculiarly lusaanising. With those momentous wars, the last vestiges feudalism were dispelled from most of the continental kingdoms ; a moral thunder-storm cleansed the atmo -*re—the political and social atmosphere—of those minciples which had outlived many former revolutions if like tendency, though of lesser effect, and afforded nankind an opportunity of working out their own ad vancement. That opportunity has not been lost, as far tt least as several of the principalities of Europe are !oncerned. And if the labour of regeneration is still my thing but completed, that circumstance is attributable rather to the immensity of the field which had to be traversed, than to any appreciable indolence on the part .sf society itself. Small, however, as the accomplishment ts, in comparison with what has yet to be accomplished, ,he people have made prodigious strides in the way of their improvement. This cannot be denied. The mil lions of our English countrymen are of themselves a sufficient demonstration of the fact. Forty, thirty— nay, less than thirty years ago, religious intolerance was the prevailing characteristic of the bulk of our population ; that intolerance has been scattered to the winds—its doom was sealed with the passing of Ca holic emancipation—it is purged away from every nook Ind corner of our social edifice. Nor is a greater freedom of theological opinion the only boon insured to us during that interval—slavery has been abolished by our Legislature, it has been stigmatised as illegal, and criminal, and unchristian by the language of our statute book. Besides this, a fundamental portion of our Go vernment has been remodeled—the system of represer.- tation in Parliament has been materially modified, and with that alteration many grievous abuses have been annihilated. Other evidences of a more generalised, though of a not less conclusive character, display the progress which the work of regeneration has already tchieved. Our multiplicity of mechanics' institutions, our additional universities and normal schools, our won derful facilities of locomotion, but especially that gradual laxity in our mercantile imposts by which the freedom of commerce has been insured. These and other minor circumstances testify the real and solid benefits which have already, or must eventually accrue to the multi ude through that spirit of advancement, the existence snd indications of which we are now endeavouring to elucidate. It is the omnipresence of this spirit which has caused this to be identified as "an utilitarian age"— s designation which is frequently (and we think erro neously) used in anything but a laudatory sense. Our 4eneration is, therefore, one of improvement ; it has 'flown this in the deeds it has already accomplished, and in the aspirations it is ever endeavouring to realise. Slowly, almost silently, and without anything like osten ;atious parade, the instruments of the popular cause have been labouring forward for the welfare of their common race, animated by the greatness of their object, sus tained by the success of their different efforts, and yet greater id pi y e . I xer exertions o b by commemoratetheir inherent tthe k h n o e Pe e f a ulne w d inss an suspension, probably the temporary but possibly the per manent suspension, of one of the noblest and most powerful of those instruments that we have been induced to cast this retrospective glance at the social conditions of our fellow-countrymen. We must acknowledge we have done so with a mixed feeling of pleasure and regret —pleasure at the great, and we had almost said splendid, achievements of that instrument of good to the popu lace—regret at one amongst the various causes which have led to this suspension of its labours, and which cause we shall particularise hereafter. The instrument to which we allude has long since rendered itself illus. trious—we mean The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ; and it is from an " Address " just issued by the Committee of that Society that we receive intelli gence of its intention to draw its efforts to a conclusion. For some latent but comprehensible reasons individuals have occasionally had the temerity, and we may assur. edly say the ingratitude, to asperse this very laudable institution, and certain obscure portions of the press have recently echoed those imputations: hence we de rive additional pleasure in according praise where it is so justly merited. We would, however, have it particu larly understood that in whatever eulogiums we may utter upon The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know ledge, we are ac t u ated solely by a spontaneous sense o f duty as faithful journalists, and as an organ devoted to mananffakmnoilwyledi; the interests of the people ; and we would moreover re mark in all honesty of feeling that our encomiums upon that Society are as unexaggerated as they are conscien tious. For twenty years d. hast disinterestedly a t s o soci r a o ti m o o n te be th en e striving manfully and yn er d e , by inference , p to assure welfare of the English public, eooakmmognagt theth e extraordinary dissemination o the benefit of the whole ht! 1826, it becomes un million since its establishment in dir calculatihousands on. necessa ry to observe that the intentions of the So ciety have been realise d almost beyen the read at the present time. The bookselling trade vouches Where units read in that t ime, hundreds, nay, t for this—the multiplicity of periodical publications vouches for it; so do the coffee-houses of the reetropo- S&OND EDITION. ettenTlA 1- 4111* -N 4 4*--- LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14 , 1846. The dark veil which has long concealed there f deeds of the Spanish Camarills, Jos, at last, been p moved, and the public been allowed to get a glimpse of the plots which CHRISTINA an d NA lIVA EZ, and their nameless associates, have carried on in the secret re -rnsses of the palace. For a time these two chief con 3pfrators, and they deserve no better epithet, seemed to work cordially together. They came about the same pe.iod from Paris, full of instructions from the Court of 'Tuileries, and ready prepared with gold and 3th er means to boot, to overturn Espawrzao, to seduce :he ar my from its allegiance to the Regent, to upset the !orestitution, And establish a military despotism. In all his, they compi:telY su cceeded, the Cortes were broken IP, new Chambers elected, or rather appointed by the 'M.:gator, and so thoroughly were they purged of inde ,,endent and Liberal Members, that every measure pro posed by the Government was Adopted with little or no ,pposition, and by overwheltoing majorities. Even this state orAbsolutism, however, did not gratify the wishes of THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1846. lis, and the subscription libraries in the provinces. How has this been accomplished? We may safely assert that the first conception and the chief portion of the success of this noble scheme to render the humbler class of the community a thinking class are attributable to the So. citty for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. We say this under all correction, and we say it in all justice. Cheap books had undoubtedly been published before 1826, but, to quote the expressions used in the address, " those books had been accompanied by a deterioration either of print or of matter." The works, however, whether separate or serial, which have been issued by the Soci ety were intended to combine cheapness with excellence of typography, utility of material, and perspicacity of style ; their motto was, "a work need not be bad be- cause it is cheap." We will not say that the publica tions which have appeared under the authority and su perintendence of this Society partake of those qualities. Should any gainsay that such have been the character istics of those serials, the works themselves are their refutation. Time and space would alike pre clude us from individualising the great bulk of publications, instructive and amusing, scientific and literary, historical and miscellaneous, which owe their existence to the industry of the association. Two• however, we must pause to commemorate, " The Penny Cyclopedia," and " The Library of Useful Know ledge." The latter from its having supplied the multitude with " sound treatises on the principles of all branches - _ of human inquiry" at a reduction in price which enabled thousands to revel in realms of thought from which they were hitherto excluded. The former, from its being without any question the noblest effort for the edu cation of the mass ever made in a single production. That " The Library of Useful Knowledge" has entailed individual advantages upon our English community we, ourselves, can avouch; within our own experience men have risen to a great eminence in the scientific world through the fostering influence of those treatises, with out which the persons in question could never have at tained the requisite information. Nor has this " lliffu- sion of Useful Knowledge," through their own instru• - - mentality, been the only benefit accruing from this society; their example has encouraged others to similar efforts in the multiplication of cheap books. On this head the address observes :—" The powerful contribu tors to this great object, who have been taught by the society how to work without the society, may almost be reckoned by the hundred, and there is hardly a country in Europe, from Russia to Spain, which has not seen the society's publications in its own language, and felt their influence on its own system of production." Thus far the efforts of this invaluable institution were re sponded to in the spirit with which they were evolved: but in one particular their endeavours have been unfor- tunately attended with such indifferent success, as, com. bined with other considerations, has induced the commit tee to suspend their hitherto untiring operations. A pro digicus work, a " Biographical Dictionary"—a greater undertaking, possibly than the " Penny Cyclopmdia"— has been attempted, and failed from want of patronage from the public. This is the one amongst the other causes for the suspension of the society to which we have already alluded. Another, and an infinitely more satisfactory reason, has led them to this determination; and here we will gladly transcribe the language of the " Address:"—" The Society's work is done, for its greatest object is achieved—fully, fairly and permanently. The public is supplied with cheap AND good literature to an extent which the most sanguine friend of human improvement could not, in 1826, have hoped to have witnessed in twenty years. The committee congratu late all who feel as they do upon the spirit of improve ment now so actively displayed, and trust that it will not tire until it has achieved the universal education of the people. The time is coming, they trust, when all will act upon what most now see—namely, that knowledge, though it adds power to evil, adds tenfold power to good; when there shall be no part of the community on which this maxim shall not have been verified; and when The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge shall be co-existent with society itself." Surely these sentiments must find an echo in the hearts of all, and afford an universal satisfaction at such reasons being those which cause the retirement of such a body. The words are grateful to us, because they are instinct with philanthropy and hopefulness. Before we terminate our remarks, it would be unjust were we not to individualise one among the most assiduous and earnest of the pro moters of this admirable association. His labours, to vote one of our own observations, have indeed been peculiarly unostentatious, as they have been peculiarly disinterested and peculiarly influential. However parties may regard him as a politician, there is no single individual but what must ac knowledge the great genius of the ex-Chancel lor Lord BaorGnam—that genius, and a brilliant and discursive genius it is, has been devoted, since 1826 up to the present time, to the interests of The Society fur the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and in consequence t the interests of the multitude at large. As the origi nator of the association, Lord BROUGHAn deserves the gratitude of his fellow men, of whatever party in politics, or of whatever sect in religion ; while, as chairman of its Committee, he has laboured for twenty years as nobly and as unswervingly for the good of the people as he did anterior to its formation, when the name of lIENRY BROUGHAM was synonymous with Patriotism. To his care and encouragement the Society owes its chief strength, while bis example has served as an incentive to Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT, the publisher to the Society, and the many eminent men who constituted its Com mittee. They have all emulated each other in the ad mirable scheme which they had undertaken, and which they have fulfilled ; and on this account do they deserve the good-will of their country. We shall not descend to a consideration of those political and sectarian attacks which have been variously levelled at this Society, feel ing them to be most singularly misjudged, and most miserably ungracious. Because a body of men, anxious for the improvement of the million, steer between the sand-banks of religionists and the sunken breakers of party politicians, they are not surely for that reason alone to be branded as the promoters of infidelity and scepticism. The supposition is beyond all common sense. Now, however, that the members of the Society have terminated their labours, their retrospect must be pecu liarly gratifying, for their work is indeed done, " their greatest object is achieved—fully, fairly, and per manently." With something beyond ordinary pleasure we direct attention to a letter, in another column, addressed to ourselves, by Mr. Sheriff LAURIE; and we experience this peculiar degree of satisfaction in so doing, because we are inclined to regard that communication as an augury of an inestimable boon to a helpless class, and inferentially to the entire population of Great Britain. The hearts of philanthropists have been long moved at the consideration that a number of wretched creatures, who are annually released from gaol by the expiration of the time allotted for their imprisonment, are thrown upon the world again without home, patron, or any oc cupation by which they might eke out even the most scanty subsistence, and by this means are driven to com mit still further depredations upon society, to harden themselves to the trade of larceny, and become in the end habitually criminal. This painful reflection has pre sented itself to every one interested in the slightest degree in the moral relationship subsisting between all grades of the English people; it has stood forth, beneath their scru tiny a villanous blotch upon our social system, infectious in its growth, and detrimental to those hopes of ulterior happiness towards which the hearts and imaginations of i ct their e i r t hoelsed teumptations, e u n i n f n p o t r a t t u i on a s t e , w b i t e h i n o g n s t o a n r e e s a i ng gle n l i e n p thrust all are, more or less, direeted. By the heartless manner i a n m i w d s h t waive against the exercise of their former passions, the moral energy of the destitute classes, feeble enough in the hour of its greatest vigour, is reduced to a state of the most deplorable tenuity. They find themselves plunged once more amidst the contamination of their vile haunts —they breathe again that infectious atmosphere which always envelopes the gregarious criminality of a great city—they are possibly goaded on by an ignorant ani mosity towards the law, under whose scourge they have but very recently winced ; everything, in short, tends to confirm their evil habits, to develope yet further their capacity for vice, and to imbue them with such a lawless rage for crime as will irrevocably place them beyond the reach or the influence of redemption. Such is the extent of the evil whose eradication has long been a dim aspiration in the mind of the philan thropist. But unfortunately it has hitherto been only a dim aspiration ; nothing more. So many real and imaginary difficulties have appeared in the way of a thorough and effective reformation, that each man has shrunk back at the multiplicity of the obstacles to be overcome, and contented himself with the formation of a wish. One individual, however, has had the intre pidity as well as the benevolence to press the grievance " home," to probe the matter to the bottom, to hint at its melioration, and to insist upon the necessity of some speedy movement in the proper direction. That man is Mr. Sheriff LAURIE, and the mere mention of his name in connexion with the foregoing facts, forms the noblest panegyric that could be pronounced in his favour. He has striven for some time past in what many conceived, and what some still conceive, to be a hopeless cause ; he bas done so courageously and perseveringly, in spite of every obstacle that lay upon the path—and many of them, be it remarked, were no insignificant obstacles indeed. After these arduous and almost soli- tary exertions, however, it must be a deep gratification to the worthy Sheriff himself to peruse the contents of his printed letter. It must be an assurance that his la bours already look propitious, and that he will reap a plentiful harvest of good if he furthers them yet :labile with similar assiduity. The chief object he has already attained is not unimportant ; it is the formation of a committee : and as a testimony that this com mittee is of an influential character we may, without enumerating the several names, mention that it is com posed of five noblemen, five prelates, the Lord Mayor of London, and two Members of Parliament. Besides this it appears that the example given by the petition forwarded by the committee to the Legislature, impress ing. upon Parliament the necessity for some immediate remedy, has been productive of considerable assistance to the cause, by the subsequent presentation of similar petitions from " almost every corporation in England and Wales." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE has been also enlisted in aid of the unfortunate crimi nals in question, his Royal Highness having promised to support the measure in the Upper House. Some startling facts may be gleaned, moreover, from the letter of Mr. Sheriff LAURIE, facts which serve to illustrate the necessity, f,asibility, and excellence of some alteration like the one proposed, namely the es tablishment of " Houses of Occupation," where the re leased crowds might obtain shelter, moral instruction, food, clothing, and the knowledge of some useful occupation. The necessity is shown in the circumstance that the people of this description who are disgorged from our prisons, average annually thirty thousand in number. The feasibility is demonstrated by the fact that establish ments of a like nature have been already introduced in France, Holland, and Manchester. The excellent con sequences which would result from such an arrangement is proved by statistical reports, such, for ex ample as the one issued from an in , titution of this sort, established in 1840, by Count LEON D'OURCHES, which gives the gratifying assurance that " out of every hundred (of the parties admitted) five only have been afterwards te-convicted." We congratu late :.ter. Sheriff LAURIE on the success with which his benevolent intentions have already been received, and heartily wish him a God speed on his mission of phi lanthropy. The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th inst. The downfal of NARVAEZ is as complete as it was sudden, and he himself is at this moment an exile. It appears that the first act of ISTURITZ, after his appointment as President of the Council on the sth, was to send for NARVAEZ and announce to him the determination of the Government that he should quit Spain, at the same time offering the embassy to Naples, informing him that in the event of his declining it the Government considered it advisable that he should proceed forthwith to France. The embassy was declined, and ill health pleaded as an excuse for remaining at Madrid for the present (he had been blad only the day before) ; this excuse, however, did not avail, and on the nigh t of the 6th be was en route for France under the escort of a body of cavalry. On the 9th he arrived at Burgos, where he was so seriously indisposed that he was obliged to rest awhile from sheer physical inability to continue his journey ; his rest, however, was not of long duration, for on the evening of the 10th he arrived at Bayonne, where he was joined by his Duchess. It was currently reported in Madrid on the 6th that a pronunciumiento had taken place in Gallicia Against the Government. The accounts were supposed to be greatly exaggerated. The next day, however, news arrived in Madrid that the Gallician insurrection had subsided as soon as the fall of NARVAEZ became known ill that province. The Paris Presse gives the following account of the dismissals and appointments which have taken place since the advent of ISTURITZ to office, and concludes with what may be considered the official programme of the new Cabinet : " Four Captains-General had been dismissed—viz., General Mazarredo, Captain-General of Madrid ; Ge neral Bretun, Captain-General of Barcelona ; General Nlanso, of Valencia ; and General Shelly, of Seville. These Captains-General—all creatures and personal friends of General Narvaez—were replaced, General Mazarredo by General Pezuela, General Brecon by Ge • neral Manuel Concha., General Manso by General Jose Concha, brother of the latter. The successor of General Shelly was not known. General Folgosi, Governor of Madrid, and formerly a Carlist Chief, had been super seded by General Cordova, and Colonels Ortega and Calonge had been likewise dismissed. Ortega had been replaced in the command of the Regiment Reina Ga;oernadora by Colonel Turon, who had lost it after t'ne downfal of the Marquis de Miraflores. M. Luygorri. a private friend of General Narvaez, the Un.aer• cretaries of the Foreign and War departments, Messrs. Sartorius and the Marquis de Vistahermosa ; M. Sabater, Political Chief of Madrid; and M. Xavier Quinto, Director- Ge..eral of the Post-office, bad been also deprived of their situations. M. Quinto, after being one of the most sr‘olent revolutionists, had become an ultra-intolerant absolutist. lie had taken au active part in the pronunciamiento of 1840 and in the revolution of 1841, and made himself conspicuous by his fury in de manding the death of Diego Leon. He is said to have been replaced by M. Alvarez Guerra, former director of the Post-office, -an intimate friend of M. Isturitz, and a most moderate and respectable Conservative. The Cortes had be en convoked for the 24th. The decree against the press was repealed, and a new project, re establishing trial by jury, was to be presented. The Ministry was about to publish an amnesty, including men of all parties and ranks, no matter what might have been the circumstances attached to their previous career. The family of Don Carlos was alone to be ex cepted. The Infant Don Enrique had been recalled to Madrid. Our correspondent assures us that it was con templated to restore to Espartero all his titles and deco rations. A similar project had already been attributed to the Miraflores Administration." The regiments of Bourbon and Bailen, under the command of Don JOSE CONCHA, left Madrid for Gallicia, on the 6th. - - - - ---- The royal decree forbidding all time bargains on tle Bolsa, after the 15th of April, appears in the Madrid Gazette of the 6th. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 6.—Three per Cent. for money, 30 ; at thirty days, 30 ; Five per Cent., for money, 204 ; Railroad from Madrid to Aranjuez, 2,080 ; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 125 ; General Assurance, 83 ; Alliance, 70 ; Anchor, 170 ; Gus Company, 160. Exchanges : London, 37i ; Paris, 16 5. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The affairs of Spain are commented on in most of them. The article on Spain which appears in La Presse, the organ of Queen CHRISTINA, we have given elsewhere. Preparations were making at the Palace of the Ely:‘e Bourbon for the reception of IBRAHIM and his suite, who were expected to arrive in Paris on the 24th inst. IBRAHIM will be accompanied by SOLIMAN PACHA, Chief of his staff, and his son, SAUDER BEY ; Colonel IBRA HIM BEY ; Licutenant-Colonel BOUFORT ; NuBAZ, In terpreter ; and KARABET, Secretary. The debate on the naval budget in the Chamber of Deputies, which was to commence on Monday, would, it was expected, have been somewhat stormy. Admiral HERNOTJX, who drew up the report of the Com mittee, is the intimate friend of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, and in the report has reproduced the views which the Prince put forth in his celebrated pamphlet, some two years since, as to the superiority of steam over sailing vessels. The report accordingly recommends a large increase in the grant for steam-vessels, and a corresponding diminution in that for sailing vessels. On the other side M. CHARLES DUPIN and Admiral DE MACKAU, the Minister of Marine, have declared that steamers are quite unfit for regular warfare, and that there ought to be a large increase in the number of fri gates and ships of the line. M. CHARLES DUPIN has published a pamphlet on the subject, from which we extract the following table, showing the number of ships of the line and seamen in the service of France at diffe rent periods : Ships. Seamen. 1680, under Louis XIV. ...... 100 1780, under Louis XVI. ...... 81 less than 100,000 high in F 1814, unde r N apoleon 108 a t most 120.000 1824, und e r L ou i s XVIII .... 53 P 1836, und e r L ou i s Philip e .. 53 1846, as pr o p ose d b y the Philippe... Com mittee Whatever causes of difference may h ave been forehereto hpersonagessubsistingbetween r France, e r d, theyPAW a l p E p ß e S a T r ON to and ha ve certainhee been g .completelyd removrd. His Lordship has been re weittv,e , every where during his recent visit Politi n the utmost cordiality by all parties. He was present with Lord BROUGHAM, on Saturday, at a sitting of the Academie des Sciences, Morales, and was happy b t e o gg r e e d nd t e o r Academy, to an important work ho is preparing, under the title of clues, where Baron C. DUPIN read the introduction "De la Force Exterieure de la Grande Bretagne." him concerning Lord BROUGHAM, who is a corresponding member of the the policy author, he could not agree in the opinions expressed by of England in the affairs of words, that th ta a l t en w t hi o ls f t t h he e Syria, the occupation of Aden, and the question of the sulphur monopoly in the kingdom of Naples. The partisans of postal reform in France have been say, a f y i:l full i n j u a s f t e ice for some time in communication with Mr. ROWLAND HILL, who has afforded them much valuable information. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, ap pointed to exatnine the Western Railroad Bill, had met twice on Saturday. In the morning it heard from the Minister of Public Works the difficulties that had caused the breaking off of the arrangements between the LAFFITTE Company and the two Versailles Companies. The Epoque states, that there was a chance of those difficulties being removed, and of the first arrangement being carried into effect. The Strasburgh Railway Company has purchased the iron-works of the Marquis DE l3oissY, at Vierzon. The Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S, on Sunday, at 83f. 70c. LYONS, APRIL 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 915 f.; Paris and Orleans, 8,230 f.; Rouen, 1,040 f.; Lyons, 575 f.; Vierzon, 678 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 13. "'Bordeaux Toulouse, and Cette (Esp]eta), 2 A — Dutch R henish, s%—East Indian, 14 —Great Western Bengal, 14 —Lyons and Avig non, 2—Namur and Liege, I%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 1111 —Paris and Rouen, 40'4 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 594—Rouen and Havre, 2914. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY) Henry Bishop, a young man, a bricklayer, was charged with committing the following brutal outrage on his wife. The complainant, a young woman, of cleanly and decent appearance, stated that she was living at No. 15, Morton-street, Middlesex Hospital. She had been mar ried to the prisoner about two years, and, before a week had expired he commenced using her in a most brutal and inhuman manner. She was scarcely ever without a black eye, or severe bruises about her person. She had been three times in the hospital from his violence, and, in one instance, her life was placed in imminent danger by his kicking her with dreadful force on the head. His ill usage at length became unbearable, and, about Christmas last, she left him, he having previously sold off all the furniture, and dissipated the produce in drunkenness, to which he was habitually addicted. Her father supplied her with the furniture she had at her present lodgings. Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning last, the defendant, in a state of furious drunk enness, gained entrance to the house, and forcing open the door of her apartment, beat her in a most shameful manner, and broke the chairs, table, crockery, and nearly everything in the place. As he *as leaving the room, lie inflicted a severe kick on her person, as she was lying nearly insensible on the bed. This morning he again came to her place and ill-used her, on which she gave him in charge to the police. Mr. MALTBY asked the defendant what he had to say for himself ? The defendant said he certainly had struck his wife, because she was saucy to him ; but he did not hurt her. Wilks, the gaoler, said the defendant had, a few months ago, been committed from this court for two months to hard labour, for assaulting the complainant. The complainant said such was the fact. Mr. MALTBY ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 51., or undergo two months more imprisonment to hard labour. THE 9th LANCERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sltt,—l read this morning in the Times a paragraph quoted from the Observer headed " The 9th Lancers," stating that there were reports in the military circles that in the late transactions the regiment had wholly disappointed the general expectation, and that the cir cumstance was attributed to the backwardness of one of the superior officers ; and that their readers must be struck with their not having been mentioned in the offi cial accounts. It is much to be regretted that the editor of the Ob server should have pulished a report without making more careful inquiries as to its correctness. There is no report implicating the gallantry or good conduct of the 9th Lancers, and they are honourably mentioned in Sir Hugh Gough's official dispatch, from which I quote : " The demonstration on the enemy's left by the 9th Lancers towards the conclusion of the battle was made in the best order under a sharp cannonade." There certainly is a report abroad that an inquiry into the conduct of one of their superior officers was going on when the last mail left, at the instigation of the officers of the regiment ; but I think it hard that the regiment, who are as fine a regiment as any in the service, and most anxious for distinction, should be im plicated in rumours only affecting an individual, and possibly unfounded.—l amn, sir, your obedient servant, April 13, 1846. DEATH OF A MISER. On Monday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at the King's Arms, Charles-street, City-road, on view of the body of John Jacob Farmer, or John Jacob, about 70 years of age, who died in the workhouse of Vie parish of St. Luke, City-road, from exhaustion, having bee❑ removed there from his lodgings, 6, Powell's-place, City-road, where were found Peruvian and other bonds, with Bank of England notes and gold, to the value of 8,656/. Jt appeared from the evidence, that in the month of Sep tember last the deceased took a room at the above house, in Powell's-place. On Sunday afternoon last, as he had not been seen for some days, information was sent to Mr. Bacon, master of St. Luke's Workhouse, who promptly proceeded to the house, when a policeman was called in, by whom the door of his room was forced open. The deceased was found in bed, apparently in a dying state, and the room exhibited that he (deceased) was in a state of the utmost destitution. A surgeon of the parish immediately saw the deceased, who was sinking from want of the common necessaries. Stimulants were ad ministered, from the effects of which, in about an hour's time, he was so far recovered that he was enabled to be removed to the workhouse. Previously, Mr. Bacon searched the room, upon which he discovered in his watch-fob pocket a 1001. and a 501. Bank of England notes, not endorsed and quite new ; in another pocket 16 sove reigns, and at the head of the bed a roll of papers, which proved to be Brazilian, Spanish, and Peruvian bonds, of the value of 8,4901., scrips of which had been taken off, and the interest on them paid. These had been origi nally received by him. as they had not been endorsed. At the workhouse he was urged to state who were his relatives, but he obstinately refused to make any com munication. He was there attended by Mr. Courtenay, the house surgeon, who was not able to prolong his ex istence but a few hours. From the conversation of the wretched man, it appeared that he was constantly in the practice of depriving himself of the necessaries of life— one of the means by which he thought it possible to sup port life without food, being daily to saturate his body with oil of olives. _ _ _ The inquest was adjourned to Monday next. FIRE IN TOXTETH PARK.—Yesterday morning, be tween the hours of twelve and one o'clock, a fire broke out at the steam flour-mill ocoupied by Mr. Pattison, in Hill-street, Toxteth-park. Several engines from the station, and also the West of England engine, under the command of Mr. .Kelly, were speedily on the ground, and, at the time they reached, the flames were bursting forth with great violence, threatening destruction to the whole of the premises. Through the exertions, however, of Mr. Dowling, Mr. Hewitt, and the fire- brigade, the fire, which lasted about two hours, was completely got under, and was confined to the angle in which it originated. A considerable quantity of flour, some of the machinery, and a portion of the building were completely destroyed. We regret to say that the owner, whose loss is considerable, was uninsured.—Liverpool Paper. Private advices from Valparaiso to the end of January last have come to hand. From Cobija the latest intelligence was, that as no goods could be removed frem that port for the interior before March, sales for Bolivia must be sus pended until that date, or until the embargo was removed. The accounts received from England of the unfavourable result of late shipments of Alpaca wool had materially af fected the value of the article. On the other hand, the fa vourable accounts of the sales of copper kept the prices of ores firm. Shipments were increasing, as the mines had been worked with success. The exchange on England was 45d. ; the price of silver was 10 doll. per mark; dollars were 7 per cent. premium. ALARMING INDICATIONS.-011 Wednesday night, as the smack Maria, laden with flour from Mr. John Norris Russell's mills, in this city, was proceeding on its passage to his bakery establishment in Ennis, it was boarded in the Clare river, at Smith's Island, by a boat manned by nine hands, who, all armed with guns, carried off half of the flour, which was as much as they were able to manage : and, as far as we have learned, no tidings have since been heard of them. This is the first serious outrage upon property, arising from famine—Heaven grant it may be the last ! Limerick Reporter of Friday. STRIKES.—The bricklayers of Birmingham still hold out. Some of the other trades who have struck are negotiat ing with their employers, with a view to an amicable ar rangement of differences. INSTALLATION OF A MILITARY KNIGHT OF WIND SOR.—WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Brevet Major Clarke, on full pay as captain in the 66th Regiment of Foot, appointed one of the Military Knights of Windsor, in the room of the late Captain Donald M'Lachlin, who died in Novem ber last, was installed this morning during divine service at St. George's Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Keats, the canon in resider.ce. The newly. appointed Military Knight, upon being introduced to his stall, was supported by Ensign Lamb and Lieutenant Nantes, the two junior knights in attendance Thd following knights were also pre sent during the ceremony :—Major Moore (the Governor), Lieut. Ragg, Lieut. Allen, Quartermaster Powell, Ensign Lawrence, and Lieut. M'Dermott. Major Clarke, who entered the army in 1808, served in the Peninsula from the following year to the end of the war in 1814, having been in the battles of Oporto, Talavera, Albuhera, Vittoria, Orthes, and Tou louse,•and also at the siege of Badajoz. At the battle of Al buhera he was struck down by a Polish lancer and taken pri soner, but made his escape in a charge of cavalry. The names of between 200 and 300 applicants are on the list for any future vacancies which may occur in the Institution of the Military knights of Windsor, which consist of 18. The Board of Works has approved of public works at Corkaguiny, Kerry, to the amount of 3,5001. The w arrant from the Treasury has been issued for the gra nt of 2:i, for the improvement of Lough Corrib , G alwa y .—Li Chronicle. THE AMERICAN STEAMER.—LIVERPOOL, MONDAY Arricnsoos, FOUR O'CLOCK. — W e are hourly expecting to the port. hear of the steamer Hibernia r bein PROGRESS OF ART. a g r near ton, of Ulverston, the contractor of the mail --(from. Milnthorpe to Whitehaven, has at present a horse . vb g ri g th an iron leg, and, most strange to say, in that state it is a " . f st-rate galloper," a fact which is known to many persons in ". Ulverstone. iron leg had a misfortune about last Whitsuntide, and the iron has been fitted up and fixed on by Mr. Hayton, the blacksmith, of Ulverstone.—Kendal Mercury. MODERN ANTIQUE.—A traveler in Africa is said to have been greatly mystified very lately. He saw in the hand of a fisherman at Tunis a kind of tumulary stone, on which was the following inscription in ancient but well-preserved characters : AN. NOM. DC. CCX. LIVC. ELL. ARIUS IN V. EN TAB. ITP. OL. KA. MET. NONDE CORA YR. The traveller paid the price asked for the curiosity, which at first sight he attributed to the heresiarch Arius. He then submitted it to the learned of the place, but they were puz zled. At this moment a sergeant in the Engineers happened to come up, and, looking at it, exclaimed, "I can read it easily enough." " Pray, do—pray," responded the anxious and archaeological traveller. " `Veil," said the sergeant, learned, if not in the law, at least in such antiquity "it is— ' Anno 1844. Cel'arius inventeit Poikant et non decorabitur.' " (In 1844, Cellarius will invent the Polka, and will not be de corated.) The traveller made a rapid departure, leaving his modern antique behind him. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 9,000 bales, half of which were for export, and on sp:cuhttion. Former rates were supported. Accounts have been received from Launceston and Hobart Town to the 30th November. The colony was slowly recovering from its mone tary difficulties, and it is I even said that the capitalists of New South Wales were already looking out for employment of the surplus funds at their disposal. There had been some diminution of the rob beries and assaults so long committed in various parts of Van Dieman's Land, and this is partly accounted for by the fact ct many "probation" men having been for warded to Sydney, where their services were wanted. In one or two instances, however, these were already sent back as criminals to Hobart Town, lor fresh crimes committed in their new localities. The Hibernia steamer, from Halifax, was hourly ex pected last evening at Liverpool. With the payment of the dividends, the partial re covery from the panic occasioned by the tumble in shares, and the return of deposit-moneys, matters in the City begin now to wear a more favourable appearance, and it is prtsumed that ere long past losses will have been fully ascertained, quietly booked, and although not forgotten, no longer uselessly repined over, for they may act as a salutary warning in future. The English Stocks have been rather more buoyant to days and the settlement of the Consul Account is going off favourably. The continuation is about 4 per cent. to May 28, the next settling day, for which bargains have been made at 964 to 4. Money operations have been effected at 964 to -a. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 245. Bank Stock has realised 236 to 2054, and India Stock 259 to 261. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been 964 to 97. Fur the'Foreiou Investments there is still very little inquiry. The break up of the Narvaez Ministry, much as it is liked, had the effect of depressing prices, because of the uncertainty as to whether his successor can carry on the Government. The Five per Cent. Spanish Bonds have been 244 4, and the Three per Cents., 364 to 4. Portuguese Three per Cents. have realised 584. Grenada are 224. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. are 594 4. Railway Shares are generally firm, though quiet. BRITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. • . .. 206 20534 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95U Yg Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .• 96 %% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96% 97 India Stock • • • • . • .. .. 259 261 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. • • • • Ditto, under 1,0001. Consols for Account, May 28 .. Exchequer Bills. I id. I%d. 1,0001. • • , ... 24 —— pm. 5001. • • • • .... 24 pm. Ditto, Small 24 28 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent • • • • 87% Granada, 1 per Cent. • • .. 22 , A Portuguese Three per Cents. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • .. 24%i Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • .. 5% Ditto, Three per Cent .. • . .. 36 I , ‘ Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. 5 •• •• 8i •• •• to Aberdeen • - Bristol and Exeter Ditto New •• • • .. .. .. .. Caledonian • • .. •• • • • • •• 10 •• .. 7—..• • to 6% Ditto Half Shares .. • • • • • • 2% •• • • I% .. ••to Chester and Holyhead .. 20 ••—IS ex int. to Derby, Galnsborough, & Great Grims. 1% •• .• %•••• to Direct Manchester (Remington's) •• 2% 11i •• .. to % Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • •••• 3% .. •• to Dublin and Galway .• - • • 4 •• • • 1 to Eastern Counties • • • • .• 14/. 16s. Od 21%%.. to 22 Ditto, New • • .. •• 81. 16s. 0d....• 6%% pto Ditto, York Extension • • •• 105... •• 134 .. •• to Edinburgh and Glasgow .• •• 50 ... •• .. to Ditto, Halt Shares •• • • 10 .... 16% .... to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .... 214 to 21 Great North of England •• •• ..100 .... to Ditto, New • • • • ~• • • .. 5 .. • . 5134 to 52 Great Western .. .. • • • • .. 85 .• • .147 .... to Ditto Half Shares -- • • . 50 • • 85 to 86 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. . • 5 .... I 7 4 .. to 17 Ditto, Fifths .• .. • • • • • • 20 .. • . 34 .... to Hull and Selby • • • • • • .. .. 50 •• • • 101 .... to 100 Lancaster and Carlisle .. • • • • 35 .... 48% to Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. • • 2%.... 2% .... to London and Birmingham • • • • ..100 •• • .223!4 225 to 2235 y Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • • • 24 62 Ditto. Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths • • • • • . 2 .... 28%.... to Loudon and Brighton • • • • • • • • 50 .... to 63 Ditto ditto Fifth) • • • • • • • • 20 •• • • 28 .... to London and Croydon • • .. 131. 15s. 9d.....21%%.. to London and South..We.sterti • • 411. 10d. .... 77 .. to 76 Ditto, New .. . • • •• •• 12% •• •. 21% ... to London and York • • • • • • • 2% • ... 1% %.. to Manehater and Leeds • • • • .. 82 •• .. .... to -- Ditto, flail Shares .. • • • • • • 38 .... 55%.... to Manchester and Birmingham .. • • 40 .... .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. .. 4 .... 11% .... to Ditto, Quar.er Shares (It) • • • • 2 9% 5 3j.. to Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 .... 7%...• to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. .... p.. to Midland •• •• •• •• •• ••100 ....144% 146 to 145 Ditto, New .. • • IS 29% .•. to 30 Newcastle and Darlington Junction 25 43% 43 to 443¢ Ditto, New 1 81A •• .. to 8 Newcastle and Berwick • - .. 10 .... 18 17% to 18% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • • 2%.... 1 .. to North British .• • • .. .. 20 .• 24% •.to Ditto, Half Shares • . 6 .... 8 .... to S Ditto, Dalkeith .• • • • . .. 25 .• .. ••to Ditto, ditto • • . • • • • • • • 5 .... .... to North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 425. •• .. 2% p.. to 2'7,p Oxford, WWice;tei•:& Wolverhampton 12%•... 8 .5 %5•• • to Scottish Central .. •• •• •• •• 10 ..•• 13% •• •• to 14 South Midland • •• .• % dls•- to .. 33% . ...• to . 16 . .. 16 to • .. 10 ... 106.... to • .. .. 5 .... .... to 1 South Eastern and Dover . - • Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • • • • Ditto, New, No. 2 South Wales Waterfd., Wexfd., Wicklow, & Dublin I% .... to Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia .... .. to NVelsh Midland .. 2 % •... 1% to West Riding Union .. .. .. .. 42 . 8 - ..... 1% p.. to Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth .. 5 .• .. 34 .. .. to 2% fork and North Midland .. .. .. 50 .... 97 •• .. to Ditto. Extension .. .. .. .. 15 .... 32% .. •to 32 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 12 .... 121 i .. to I)uteh Rhenish • • .. • • .• • • 5 .. 5%94 .. to Great , erthern of France Constituted 5 .... 15 1 A::. • . to - - Jamaica South Midland Jut tc• ion .. 1 I .. to Luxembourg • • • • • • •• • • • • 4 •• • • 1% .• .. to Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. .. 6 .. •• 11 •• to 107. Over Yssel .. • • • • • • • • 4/. 3s. 4d... 3lp dis to Paris and Strasbourg Constituted .. 5 53( .. ••to Rouen and Ilavre • • • • • •• 20 •• • • 29% ••.. to Sambre and Meuse =• • • • • • • • 6 •• • • 3 to Tours and Nantes Constituted .. • . 5 .• • • 6%14 • • to JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster • • • . •• 20 .. • • 26% to MINES Real del Monte, Unregistered • • .. •• .. to LLOYD'S SHIPPINb-(THIS DAY LONDON, APRIL 14.—Wind E., light breeze and fine. TORQUAY ' A P RIL 12.—The Nahant, stranded at Poole Cove, near Berry Head, as reported on the 19th of March, has been floated off and brought into this port, where she is intended to be broken up. LtvzurooL, APRIL f3.—The Friendship, of Dublin, from Rio Nunez to this port, has put into Sierra Leone, with master and all hands, except two, dead from fever. She would fill up and sail for this port about the latter end of February. DEAL, APRIL 13.—Whad S.W.—Arrd. Montrose, Ferguson, Ceylon; Sophia, Sexton, Calcutta; Chanticleer, Papandre, Jamaica; Algonia, Spalding, America. Dovzu, APRIL 13.—Wind S.W.—Sld. George and Mary, Palmer, Boston. FOLKSTONE.—Arrd. Goodwill, of Portsmouth, with loss of bowsprit, quarter stove, &c., having been in contact Orr Poirrsmouni.—Sophie Saxton, Mauritius. FALMOUTH, APRIL 13.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., strong.— Sir Robert Campbell, Baird, Pernambuco. _ _ _ PENZANCE, KPRILI2. —Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hebe, Tobago. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 13.—Wind S.S.W. to S W., moderate. —Arrd. Golden Eagle, Nassau; Frankfield, Mitchell, New Orleans ; Tennessee, Pray, ditto ; Satellite, Bainbridge, Mo bile ; Jessie Oliver, Apalachicola; Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, Philadelphia. StionillAtz, APRIL 12. The Three Brothers, Tripey, for Hontleur, in getting to sea to-day without a pilot, got on shore at the back of the west pier, but was got off and pro ceeded with bowsprit sprung. OFF SCILLY, APRIL 11.—Renown, Wood, Hobart Town. Hum,, APRIL 13.—S1d. Ross, Woolf, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Lord Mu!grave, Leikiss, Mirarnichi ; Endy mion, Corelingley, ditto ; Aurora, Hunter, Quebec ; Lalona, Dennison, ditto; Meteor, Brown, ditto. SYROMNISR, APRIL B.—The Anties, Turner, front Sunder land, arrived here to• day leaky, and has been hauled on the beach to repair. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The following is posted at Lloyd's: 4, The following beacons have been erected on the Turks' s Island for navigati ng th e c h annels leading into the liawk Nest Anchorage : " On Penniston Bay, a pole chequered black and 28 feet long, the top of which is 42 feet above the level of the sea. " On Toney Rock a beacon, 30 feet in height, the top of which is 47 feet above the level of the sea. "On the north end of East Bay a beacon, 22 feet in height, the top of which is 38 feet above the level of the sea. top a " The beacons are square open frames, having at lantern, the frames of which are filled in w ith wood, t h e d the whole painted black. IA ~ " The pole on Penniston Bay, in awlinelwe a idtha the til r been g I t o n t o h n e Toney Rock, bearing N.W. great cut. e e tw w e i e th n t t t h e e s e . a w st . endend of Cotton Bay, bearing__E. a by .. • " The beacon on East Ra,, , the reef and the S. W. lc i-lneaadslibn bearing E. 3' S. - I,i S nearly, leads earc to " The beacon on T . oo b ne_;• R b oc s k, in a line with the nd of Cotton Bay, " All the beari n g s are magnetic. t h e s outhward of th e S.W. bank. (Signed) " EDWARD BARNETT, Captain." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY HAT Mailat36Tiii. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 8/ 3s to 418 s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 8s to 51 16s ; Oat Straw. 11 12s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 145 to 11 165 per load. Supply . but moderate, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 6s to 41 10s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ Ds to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 11148 to 1/ 16s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. WiIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 318 s to 418 s; Clover ditto, 41 8s to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations. STOPPAGE OF MESSRS. LATHAM AND CO.'S BANK. —DovER, APRIL 13.—The greatest consternation was occa sioned at Dover this morning by the announcement on the doors of the banking-house of Latham and Co., that the " business of the bank was suspended." It is feared, from the great number of small depositors, that the loss will be se verely felt by numerous individuals. The immedi a t e cause of the above was on account of the senior partner of the firm (Mr. Henshaw Latham) having died suddenly on Friday morning last, though I am informed the affairs of the bank have long been in an embarrassed state, but which, up to the present moment, has been kept a profo un d secret. It is j almost impossible to form any judgment as to the result, but 10s. in the pound, or more, is confidently spoken of as available fur the creditors. ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—A master of a vc ssel, whose name, for many reasons, we are unwilling to reveal, threw himself into the Mersey, on Wednesday last, with the deter mination to commit self - destruction. He was fortunately rescued from a watery grave by som e men who put off to his assistance in a boat. Disappojutment and domestic dia • quietudes were assigned b . y him as the causes for his com mitting the ra3h act.—L i verpool Albion. THE THEATRES. DRURY-LAN E. The opera of the Crusaders was performed at this theatre last night, for the 34th time, and, from the re ception it met v , ith from a crowded house, it does not seem to have lost one particle of its interest since the first night of its performance. The spirited lessee of this establishment exercised a sound discretion in deter mining on its repetition, in preference to some new Easter offering, as he thereby affords an opportunity to hundreds who visit the metropolis at this joyous season of the year of witnessing the performance of an opera full of histrionic interest, splendid scenery, delightful singing, and enchanting music. On the first night of the performance of this opera we gave it deserved praise, and on a second visit our first impression of its merits are not only strengthened but fortified. We are happy to see that our opinions are those also entertained by the public—if we may be allowed to judge from the best of all criterions, the patrona4e they bestow upon it. The excellent singing of Miss Romer, Miss Rainforth, and Messrs. Harrison, Borrani, and Stretton, called forth loud and continued plaudits. The entertainments of the evening were concluded by the revival of the ce lebrated ballet d'action of I'erouse, or the Desolate Island. The scenery of the piece reflects great credit on Grieve and his assistants ; and the excellent acting of Wieland as Champanze cannot be too highly appreciated ; as an imitator of the monkey species, he is unsurpassed and unsurpassable. We perceive by the bill that it is the intention of the lessee on Thursday next to produce, for the first time at this theatre, Auber's opera of The:Crown Jewels, when the fascinating Thillon will make her first appearance in her original character of Catarina. COVENT-GARDEN. Our old friend Anderson, the " Wizard of the North," commenced here last evening a short season of magic and music, before he quits England o‘i a transatlantic trip. How Jonathan will be astonished at the cannon trick, which the Wizard exhibited for the first time last night! A five-pounder was brought to the front of the stage, loaded with a ball, and fired at Anderson, who stood immediately in front of it, and instead of being shivered to atoms, the invulnerable Wizard caught the ball in his hands. Now we "guess" that the " Yankees" must be " the smartest nation in all creation" if they can " whip" a fellow that catches cannon balls in his hands, and musket balls in his mouth. But hold !—the Oregon question is not yet settled, and the Wizard may teach the " statesmen of the other side the Atlantic the trick, which will enable them to set even the other wizard, Captain Warner, at defiance. Decidedly the Mit.istry should buy up the important secret, and make it their own, and we will answer for it Anderson will be satisfied with a fiftieth part of the sum demanded by Captain Warner. The musical part of the entertain ment consisted of a concert by a band of sixty per formers on Sax horns and cornopeans. Both the music and the magic were excellent of the sort, and excellently performed to the satisfaction of a crowded house. HAYMARKET. As a treat for the Easter folks, Mr. Planche has at this theatre tried an experiment, and, as the event proved,a successful experiment, on the birds of Aristo phanes,in attempting to adapt them to our dramatic climate, and the present season, by giving them new names, new features, new songs, and new tales. The piece opens with a prologue, partly said and partly sung by that sweetest of Nightingales. Miss P. Horton ; and then we have Jackanoxides (Mr. Hudson), and Tomestyleseron (Mr. Caulfield), two Greek " neglected geniuses," who seek the king of the birds (J. Bland), and in a par liament o: birds propose to build a city in the air, mid way between earth and heaven, for the especial use of the birds. The speech of Hudson was very good and full of excellent hits. The interruptions of the Mem bers of the Birds' Parliament were excellent, and the whole was an admirable, and by no means over drawn, parody of the scenes which not unfrequently take place in St. Stephen's Chapel. The scenes with the Poet, the Architect, and the Senator, who each offer their services to the Archon of the Birds, give oc casion for some excellent hits at the follies of the day ; and then we are treated to a bird's-eye view of the city of the birds ; a very fanciful scene, designed by Alfred Crow quill. The last scene is the High Court of Olym pus, a magnificent scene, in which J. Bland, as Jupiter, reads a lecture to the two Athenians on the vanity and presumption of mankind. After which, the curtain falls. Ile piece, which is very short, is carefully written, and sparkles with wit. Some of the passages are excessively piquant. It is scarcely proper to term it a Burlesque ; it is a petite Comedy in verse, interspersed with songs, which are beautifully sung by Miss P. Horton, Mr. Caulfield, and Mr. Hudson, and many of which were deservedly encored. It is put on the stage in the most complete manner, and will no doubt afford amusement to the holiday folks for some time to come. It was pre ceded by Sullivan's excellent comedy, A Beggar on Horseback, which increases in its attraction every night of its representation, and followed by the farce of ?he Irish Post. • The house was crowded. ADELPHI. The frequenters of this theatre were regaled with a more than ordinary dramatic treat yesterday evening. The entertainment commenced with a drama by Mr. E. Stirling, an adaptation from the French, entitled Industry' and Indolence, or the Orphan's Legacy. The plot of the piece was as follows ;—Monsieur Delamere (Mr. Chas. Perkins), a man of broken fortunes, is . he supposed heir to wealthy uncle, who, however, dies b, queathing his pro perty to an only daughter, whose mother is dead, and who has been brought up in ignorance of her parentage. Delamere is made acquainted with the death of his rela tive, and the disposition of his property, by a person named Rollin (Mr. 0. Smith), who, under the pretence of obtaining employment from him, has an interview with hint, and discloses these facts. He also informs him that the heir to his uncle is about to pass through Paris, in which city the scene is laid, and a plan is concocted by which she is way-laid, and an attempt made on her life, which, however, is frustrated by the bravery of a work man in the empoyment of Delamere, Etienne (Mr. Howe), who is remarkable for his industry and probity, and who arrives in time to rescue her from a watery grave, her assassins having flung her into the Seine. Etienne conveys the fair Cecile (Madame Celeste), whom he has thus chivalrously snatched from the jaws of death, to his own humbler dwelling, and discovers in her the embodiment of a fair vision of female beauty which has incessantly haunted him. Her arrival, however, is rather mal apro pos, and leads to no less a circumstance than the breaking off his marriage with a young female in his own station of life, to whom he was affianced. Batifole, (Miss Woolgar),Delamere, and Rollin make several other attempts on the life of the orphan, in which, however, they are equally unsuccessful. Rollin, who turns out to be the next of kin after Cecile, to the wealth which has in• stigated them to the attacks on the orphan's life, sug gests the propriety of attempting to obtain the will, and some other papers of consequence in the possession of Cecile, who, he uuderstands, intends departing from Paris, and stopping at a certain village some miles dis• taut. He finds a ready tool for the prosecution of this nefarious enterprise in the person of Marcel, (Mr. Selby), the brother of Etienne, from whom he differs widely, being as notorious for indolence as the other is for in dustry, which has marred several estimable qualities, and who, induced by a large reward, undertakes the perilous duty. It happens that the brave Etionne ac companies the orphan, and this treacherous design is ard s are gallant deliverer also' defeated. Th e orp h an esta bli s h es h er c l a i m, h er persecutors w t a h r e her detected, hand a n also rend ere d h a ppy, th e slighted Batifole tra ns f err i ng her aff ec ti ons t o an amorous tradesman, San sune t, Wg they are ardently respo n d e d t o; an the han o er sister Ag a tha (,Ad The al a minor rew personages d f h to whom he had long b een attac h e d. ( i d i r s i s M E. re c , ehlbayobtainingplwhom who, in the character of a conjugal The acting of those whose names we h ave ment i oned, as well as of Bedford, lover, rather too much addicted co ns id era bl y to t h e tended to th e b ott l e, k ept the h ouse literally in a roar , success of the piece, which, though not very novel in pl o t, was by no means destitute of merit. Some a the scenes were extremely pathetic, and there was suf ficient incident to give it vitality. The title was rather infelicitous, for the plot of the piece was based on the designs of Rollin and Delamere; and the respective specimens of industry and indolence were only mere agents in working out the piece. In a word, the piece was not formed to illustrate the moral which its title would lead us to suppose. Peter Wilkins was the next piece. This was a revival of an extra-ga• ganza based upon the nursery tale of the same name, with snod neveroubptu,t ouforrrweaarddersinarae more It perhaps, whether we regard the performers or the form. Atessrs. B T e h d e for p d r a in n e d i were sustained by Har rison, and Miss Emma Hardin Colombat the CLVI, sustainedge who, in the part of regal it in with all the mock dignity that belongs The tang -tang and other dances i t n o h e t d t r h a e tna pie a c n e a burlesque were excellently and characteristically ar- PAalluncyhaarrda,ctAeirisssTayl realtatitrutsra.aeinttievde, ar ranged by Mrs. Warrell. Some of the scenes were admirably executed, and reflect considerable merit on the artists, Messrs. Pitt and John stone. Both these pieces were announced for repetition every evening until further notice, which was received entertain D wi itd you loud oemveeer ts applause eenodncyl b ou y ud re a d crowd to ed hc h ea o n u hi e . r wh tie T i r i o: l u e s e T f yee o inZ's f was the same as b e f ore, with the exception of e M na is a s t Woolgar, as Mr s . H oney b un, whose place was ably sup plied by Miss Emma Harding, who is every day de servedly becoming a greater favourite with the public. PRINCE S S' S. The holiday frequenters of this popular place of amusement were presented last night with an entertain ment in which the grave and the gay, the instructive and the entertaining, were served up in judicious propor tions, and with the greatest satisfaction to all parties concerned, if a crowded house and a highly gratified audience are to be taken as indications. The pieers, selected were Hamlet, and a new burlesque, founded on the well-known legend of Peeping Tom of Cow . , n t r y the for mer f or the purpose of bringing out Mr. 71_,',„ready on his ret urn f rom the provinces, and the e#: tier for the especial gratification of that numerous portion of her Majesty's lieges who always expect, on occasions like the present, something appealing more than common' to their sense of the grotesque and humorous. The philosophic Dane, need we say, was most admirably pourtrayed by Mr. Macready, who was enthusiastically applauded throughout, and at the conclusion of the pteoe—walked his brief hour on the stage. After which came the holiday feature of the evening, in the shape of an entirely new grand. serioscomic, aristophanic, opera tical, allegorical, ohorographical, legendary, historical, fairy extravaganza, taken from a well-known legend, entitled Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom of Coventry. The plot is of the simplest character, and adheres, with ona exception, closely to the legend on which the piece professes to be based. It opens with a corps of fairies, presided over by Robin Goodfellow (Miss MeV