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NEW NOVRL. BY THE AUTHOR OF " MOUNT SOREL." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., EMILIA WYNDHAM. By the Author of " TWO OLD MEN'S TALES," " MOUNT SOREL," &c. Renry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-strut. NEW WORK BY MRS. GORE. Just ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., SKETCHES of ENGLISH CHARACTER. sy Mrs. GORE. Author of " Mothers and Daughters," " Tho Dowager," &C. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-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 support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TussnAT and FRIDAY, at One o'clock„ at the Hall of Commerce, rhreadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, cent caning instructions, are respectfullyrequested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day pry to their being offered ;and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE The Nobility, 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'oeuvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioll ; Zerlina, Madame Castellan. Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Don Ottavio, Signer Mario; Il Comrnandatore, Signor Botelli ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. With various Entertainments in the BALLET. In which Madlle. L. Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Madlle. Taglioni, M. Gosselin, 3i. Di Mattia, and M. Perrot will appear. 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. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 11.1.STEtt MONDAY, APRIL 13, Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS, The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. llar rison, Borrani, Honicastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Nis Homer, and Miss Rainforth. Atter which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROITSE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by 31adlle. Louise, Madame Giubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, lir. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. THEATRE. ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ON EASTER MONDAY Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. 11. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermann, Mr. J. Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonie," and " La Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which (for the first time) an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPFIANES : on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. Mathews, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &e. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Easter Entertainment extraordinary for the holiday visitors. The Public are most respectfully apprised that the Summer Season will commence on EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 13, With an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle, replete with gorgeous pageantry, intense incidents, splendid scenic effects, com bining the whole resources of the Dramatic and Equestrian Com panies, aided by the beautiful Stud. New Scenes in the Circle ; with other Entertainments, which will be fully expressed in the hills of the day. Box-ofilce open from eleven till five o'clock.—Tuition in the art of riding daily. THE WEATHER,—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 7. TEERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 55; Noon, 44 BAROMETER, 29.16.—Wimn N.; rain. .IIG WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 0 minutes a ft er l 2. Evening .. 5 minutes after 12 - Nril An, i .e.::- :7 ,, ....4„ ~ ', fat ...,,,,," 1.1 , • fo,, . , / * it ' V .- 14. trr ~.. A X. 4 ,7 -..:3:1 - 413.:2,,..t:„ „,.... - „ or , a 4 , ;: •; '3, , F",,, ' r- 4 ‘---"'", ' W.l 40111 4., r , . • L , aL , F: --... g z i -3 1 .; 4 ,,, # i;,, , \ , 1 A ggi k M AO' . -. " ' ' - ..' •-• — 1 • mo:. ''• '', Le .. , 4.fte•—,.... L. -` a ' , I , g , Ai. . 1,,,,h - . 1W , P T ~ .\,.2. ' N't. 'ii Tw`lt anA3 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1846. The Lords met at Five o'clock, and shortly afterwards The Earl of DALHOUSIE rose to detail to their Lordships the course which it was the intention of the Government to pursue with regard to railway legislation. After going into the past history of railway legislation, the Noble Earl pro ceeded to state the plan proposed by the Government. The statement made by the Noble Earl did not at all differ from that made by Sir ROBERT PEEL last evening on this subject in the House of Commons. He concluded by stating that he should introduce a Bill on the subject shortly after Lord z 126; the matter would be fully discussed. the Government had teat fled that the attention of tance of the subject. He only re e r a t azused to the impor ment had not adopted this course at an e...;;;:f the Govern thought that long since, in the House oft;E::^ 11 ; and he classification of Bills, with a view to priority, ought fo 39 been adopted; and surely some such proposition as this might have been brought forward at an earlier period of the session, +hit wiEnt - nave had something tangible in the shape of a printed Bill, and not nave been sett ;filth% the whole of the recess without any definite document to which parties in terested could appeal, so that they might know w b ' " I were about. He therefore urged erbnn tb. _Noble Earl the necessity of at once gi-eiag- his plan in extenso to the public. Certain limits should be placed upon the powers proposed to be given to shareholders, for parties having a disposition to harrass a competing line, might by purchase obtain an interest, in the rival company, and dissolve it. He hoped all the railway Bills would be stopped for the pre sent. He, for one, would not consent to proceed with a single railway Bill until the Government measure should have been introduced and decided on. Such he understood to be the intention of the Government, and if it were not, he should certainly call upon their Lordships not to take any further steps at present with regard to any particular railway Bill. Great care should be taken so to modify that part of the proposition relating to the consent of the shareholders to dissolve as to secure that those persons petitioning for the dissolution should be bond fide shareholders. Lord KINNAIRD thought the Government had acted wisely in hitherto abstaining from interference with railway com panies. He could, however, have wished that the proposition of the Government had been made a few days earlier, in order that it might have been discussed before the holidays. He suggested whether they might not pass, even before the re cess, a standing order extending the standing order now ap plicable to existing railway companies applying for fresh powers to railway companies applying for new Bills. After a few observations from Lord WHAENCLIFFE and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, and a reply from the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the subject dropped. Their Lordships, on the motion of the Duke of WELLING TON, adjourned to Tuesday, the 21st instant. The SMAIER took the Chair at Four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, a new writ was ordered for Malton, in the room of Mr,CIIILDEas, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. _ _ On the motion of Lord G. SOMERSET, it was agreed that all proceedings on Railway Bills should, after Thursday next, be postponed until Monday, the 27th inst., and that no Railway Bill should be read a third time before that day. On the motion for the consideration of the report on the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Bill, Mr. HUME moved as an amendment that the evidence taken before the Committee on that Bill be printed, and on a division the amendmers was carried by a majority of 8 ; there being for the mo . ion 74, and for the amendment 82. Sir R. PEEL gave notice twat he should to-morrow, if it met with the approval of tin House, move the adjournment for the Easter holidays till Friday week, on which day he proposed to proceed with the Protection of Life and Pro perty (Ireland) Bill, and on the Mond a y following with the Corn Bill, provided the Irish Bill was dispos ed of on Friday ; if, however, it was not, he proposed to give it precedence on Monday. Mr. Wyss then moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the present state of legal education in Ireland, and the means for its further improvement and extension. At the conclusion of the Right Hen. Gentleman's address, the House was counted out. The House of Commons has only two nights for discussion previous to the Easter holidays, so that both the Corn-law Bill and the Bill for the better Protection of Life and Property in Ireland must be stopped in their course for at least a fortnight. Parliament has now been sitting for ten weeks, to a late hour every business night, with a very few exceptions. There has been more talk during that time than during any previous session for years ; the two questions have been fully debated; and though the great majority of the public have made up their minds on both, and are most anxious for a speedy decision, they are obliged to wait still longer, in the most intense anxiety, for a deliverance from their present doubts and difficulties. Trade is paralysed ; the labouring classes already begin to feel the effect, and the best season of the year will thus, in all probability, be lost before the opponents of the Government can make up their minds to let Parliamentary affairs take their usual course. No impartial observer can blame the Government fur this delay. We believe Sir ROBERT PEEL and his colleagues are most anxious to have the corn-law question settled, and could have adopted no other course. It is admitted on all hands that the state of certain Irish counties is frightful, that no man's life or property is secure, and that a general system of assassination prevails unheard-of in civilised countries. The Government would have been only abettors of these horrible and un-English crimes if they had delayed till atter Easter measures for abating the evil, and would justly have incurred public indignation for such apathy. A Bill—whether exactly suited to the purpose or not we cannot say—was passed through the House of Lordq, with very general consent from Whigs as well as Tories, and sent down in due form to the other House. According to universal custom and the recognised regulations of Parliament, a Bill of this character coming from the Upper House is read a first lime without delay, the discussion being taken on the second reading, or some other stage of the Bill. Any other course by which delay could take place would be considered not only as an act of contempt to wards the Lords, but would cast great blame on the Go vernment, who might be justly accused of attending more to their own favourite measures than the peace of Ireland, or the protection of innocent men from the daily plots of assassins. But they have been thwarted, and may be utterly defeated in their views, at least as to any seasonable relief for such crying iniquities, by the advantage which some of the Irish Members have taken of privileges allowed to a minority in the House. The business of Parliament, and the very relief of the starving Irish, are stopped in their course, because Mr. O'CONNELL strongly objects to certain clauses of the Bill, and considers himself therefore justified in resisting it with unyielding hostility at the very thresh hold. Previous to the meeting of Parliament he an nounced.lais intention to depart from a course of policy which he had for some time adopted, and take his seat as usual, in order to assist the Government in carrying their great and benevolent scheme for the abolition of the corn-laws. Whether he has fulfilled his promise we leave our readers to judge. In fact, he and Lord GEORGE BENTINCE are working together, though, we trust, with different purposes, to defeat a measure so urgent and necessary, and so anxiously desired by many millions throughout the United Kingdom. And for what purpose? To mark his hatred of some clauses which could be modified or struck out in Committee. Even admitting that they are not justified except on extraordinary occa sions, and that the liberty of the subject ought always to be one main object in the view of every good legislator, we must bear in mind that this Bill is to be only temporary, and that it is not to be called into ope ration except in cases of great atrocity, and almost a total dissolution of the bonds of society ; and be sides, it is the bounden duty of the innocent to submit for a time to some curtailment of their rights and pri vileges for the good of the community at large. We cannot imagine any infringement of the law of the land half so insupportable as the state of society that prevails in some of the Catholic counties of Ireland. Is assassination, and an utter contempt of law, and justice, and religion, to be suffered to remain unchecked, because a severe remedy may be proposed? Is the main business of the session to be stopped ? Are the protec tionists to be encouraged in their opposition, and the trade of the country to be thrown into utter confusion, because the Government have resolved on strong measures to put down atrocities which are a stain and a disgrace to a Christian community ? An important discussion was raised on Monday by Lord SANDON, with respect to what course the Government was prepared to recommend for the purpose of checking the amount of railway legislation during the present session. The• Member for Liverpool quoted the circulars of mercan tile bodies of high authority, expressive of their greatest apprehensions for the welfare of our trade and com merce, already considerably affected by the conse quences of the railway mania of last year, if steps be ❑ot speedily taken against converting the millions that may be required for the projected railways from float ing into fixed capital. Sir ROBERT PEEL at once recommended the following plan : To pass a Bill as speedily as possible limited to this ob . ject—viz., that a majority holding more than half the stock of, a company should be entitled to represent to Parliament their desire of not proceeding with the Bill, and that thereupon Parliament should refuse their sanc tion to any further proceedings ; that those by whom the scheme was originally proposed should remain re sponsible for all liabilities. And he also thought that it might be desirable that a trustee or official assignee should be appointed to take possession of the pro perty and appropriate it to those who have claims upon it. The known caution of the Premier, and his unrivalled experience and skill, in all matters of finance, impart the greatest weight to any suggestions he may offer, or to any plans he may devise. In the early part of the ses sion he warned Parliament of the commercial derange ment that would be likely to ensue unless some power ful check was imposed in the way of diverting from the industrial and ordinary channels of trade so enormous an amount of capital. He did not at that time meet with the support necessary to carry his plan into exe cution. Having failed in inducing Parliament to put a direct t• heck to the threatened evil, his proposition of Monday, as an indirect means of compassing the same end, is, perhaps, taken altogether, the most reasonable, safe, and fair that could be made. The plan was more ully developed last night in the House :of Lords, the pressure of business in the Commons rendering it im possible to introduce or make any progress with the Bill there at present. We have received numerous communications calling our attention to the various devices adopted by the managers of several of the defunct railway schemes, who are attempting to take advantage of the supposed legal decision in the case of WoOLMER v. TOBY to extort from the allottees contributions varying in amount on the number of shares allotted to them. In our columns and 28th of March we impugned the justice of the veru.,_, ceive it could stasn'anZ the reasons why we did not con („,„ wh - its'oever had De - en - arrtvea gt, nut that the very important questions of law involved therein were reserved for argument before, and the decision of, the full court. Circulars have since been sent, calling attention to that case, by which (as it is said) the legal liability of the several parties to whom shares have been allotted to pay the whole of the deposit on such shares is fully es tablished. They then, although having this power, in their disinterested affection for the allottees, express their readiness to accept a small'sum, which they think parties may be induced to pay rather than go into a court of law to contest the claim, which they state that they are willing to accept in full for all demands if paid before a given day (always fixed before the final decision of WooLmen v. TOBY can possibly be:obtained), by which time, if the sum claimed be not paid, immediate proceedings are to be instituted for the entire demand. Such is the usual course. Sometimes, however, the letter comes from an attorney, who demands a further suns of ss. for his printed or lithographed letter; but all these attempts have been far cast into the shade by one recently adopted in a circular, bearing date the 31st of March (and since also adopted by another company), which purports to contain a leading article of the Times of the 24th of March. They have therein printed all such portions of the above article as appear to be in favour of the demand, but they cautiously omit the part bearing the other way, wherein the case of NOCKELS V. CROSBY, and the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench thereon is cited, and the observation that, " Unless this can be distinguished from WOOLMER V. TOBY, the verdict in the latter is clearly wrong, so far as it went, upon the defendant's liability not being released by the abandonment of the scheme," what can be thought of the conduct of those persons who thus attempt, by garbled quotations, to induce the public to believe that they have an authority in their favour, which, if the entire was given, must appear to bear the other way? Must they not be conscious of the weakness of their cause when they have recourse to such unworthy means? What ever may be the result of the question as to the liability of the allottees, we should consider ourselves unworthy of our position as public journalists, did we not discoun tenance by every means in our power such a proceeding, and expose the trickery by which it is characterised. Our friends are proved in the days of trouble, according to an ancient proverb ; and, acting upon this principle, Ireland may now discover those who sympathise with her suffe r i ngs , an d th ose w h o are i n diff erent to h er misfortunes. Fortunately for humanity, the number of the former infinitely preponderates over the number of the latter. Those must be callous-hearted in deed—those must be impervious to every feeling of benevolence—those must richly merit our execra tion, who can behold the aggregation of cala mities now pressing upon our sister country without some sense of commiseration, without some wish to par ticipate in the development of ameliorative measures. Men who can witness, without a pang of pity, whole districts thrown into confusion by the visitations of famine and disease, by the lamentable squalor and pri vations of their fellow-creatures, cast out into the hedges and ditches, houseless, hopeless, foodless, penny less, would naturally be regarded with detesta tion. Some may imagine that no such individuals can be in existence—that the supposition of such tacit atrocity is but the exaggeration of a morbid fancy. Gladly would we think so ourselves. Hard facts, however, stare us in the face ; and we are reluctantly forced into the knowledge that there are such men amongst us, that they blush not to avow their own heartlessness, and that their cruel indifference to the woes of the human family spring from the basest of all motives —self-interest 1 What are these facts ? Alas ! they are simple enough, and GOD knows they aro painful and degrading enough to our common nature. It actually appears, from our Irish intelligence, that many of the farmers of that unhappy country, far from endeavouring to allay the woes consequent among their neighbours from the scarcity of provisions, have been rendering those woes more grievous and intolerable by keeping back their stores of potatoes and other food in order to extort from their starving countrymen famine prices Surely there is much atrocity in this ! Surely these men de serve the abhorrence of mankind ! At a time when whole parishes are raging with fever, or stricken with other diseases, from the consumption of decayed vege tables, or from an absolute destitution, these persons could look on unmoved, with their premises stocked with provisions, rejoicing within themselves at the prospect of an extortionate payment. They could act thus with the spectacle of extreme want immediately before their eyes, a are striving to afford sust enance . oniuring the more fort unate while the Ministry where it is required, and e with them in their among the Irish to co-operate the official charitable and generou s labours, o: utterly efforts to make up the deficiency would be inefficient. To contrast the matter yet more strongly . while the gallant regiments of Irish, who are hazarding their lives upon the banks of the Sutlej, are subscribing somewhere about eight hundred pounds for the poor of + their native land, a woman in Blackrock, who is in pos session of a large quantity of potatoes, anncunces her resolution not to sell until she can obtain a farthing a-piece for them! When such a villainous want of sympathy is evidenced by people situated in the midst of the calamity—people allied by ties of kindred and country to the victims of starvation—it becomes indeed a most difficult task to assuage the pangs of Ireland. Far from any gratitude being expressed towards the Ministers for endeavouring to diminish the scarcity by the importation of foreign provisions, no sooner is a cargo of Indian corn meal landed at Cork, than a panic seizes the holders of potatoes, and a cry is raised at a public meeting in that city, " that Sir ROBERT PEEL be hanged for bi inging fresh food into the market." To say that this is ungenerous and ungrateful to the last degree, would be an inadequate expression of that thorough and heartfelt abhorrence with which we regard these ignoble Irish malcontents. Such conduct is repugnant to us as mem bers of a civilised community, as Christians, nay, as men. It is a most miserable exhibition of turpitude on the part of those Irish farmers, and will cause every right-think ing mind to rejoice at the disappointment of their avari cious intentions by the arrival of that food which the precautionary policy of the Premier has conveyed across the ocean. In the town of Ballyjamesduff, its wretched inhabitants are so completely without a crumb of nourishment, and so entirely without the means of obtaining any, that, according to a letter received from that neighbourhood, " they had shut themseks up in their dwellings for two days, with the apparent determi nation to conceal their state of want, and abide their dreadful fate I" Yet this is the very time a certain proportion of the farmers were reserving their stock until they could safely require a famine price. Like the gravediggers mentioned by DEVOE during the great plague of London, their trade was to thrive most at the height of the visitation. Madrid journals of the 30th have been received. The capital was tranquil, and all the accounts from the pro vinces were favourable. It would appear that the country is resolved to wait patiently for the result of the late extraordinary Cabinet measures. The Council of State having drawn up a report on the new law relative to time bargains on the Bourse, had submitted it to the Cabinet, who are said to be divided on the subject. On the 30th the Three per Cents. closed at 32 for cash, and 321-16th for the 19th of April. The Fives were not quoted. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, an animated discussion took place on the presentation of se veral petitions from Protestants, complaining of the religi • ous grievances to which they are subjected by the Govern ment and the Catholic Church. They complained that a Protestant congregation cannot assemble for religious purposes without a license from the minister or prefect, which to a certain extent placed them at the mercy of one of these functionaries ; that Protestant pastors aro nut allowed to visit military hospitals regularly, and in deed cannot enter them unless at the special request of the sick soldiers ; and, lastly, of the improper means used by the Catholic clergy to convert children of tender age, and even shut them up in convents. M. GASPARIN supported the prayer of the petitioners, and several leading Members spoke on the occasion—among others, M. ODILON BARROT, M. DUPIN, and M. MARTIN (du Nord) ; but a general feeling seemed to prevail that these religious discussions i❑ the Chamber could lead to no satisfactory result, and the petitions were therefore re ferred to the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice. The Committee on the proposed establishment of trans atlantic packets had drawn up their report, in which they propose the following plan :—That the Government be authorised to treat with one or more oommercial companies, for the establishment of either sailing or steam-packets on four principal lines, namely, to New York, to the West Indies, to Rio Janeiro, and to the Havannah. The departures are to take place from Havre and Marseilles, and the packets to be adapted for sailing, or for steam on the principle of the screw. The rate of sailing to be at least nine miles an hour, and the vessels are not to be allowed to carry more than 200 tons of goods. The distance from Havre to the -West Indies to be done in 20 days, and to Rio Janeiro and the Havannah in 27 days. The accounts from Algiers are more favourable than they have been for some time. The Moniteur Algerein states that the province of Constantine was perfectly pursuing ABD-EL-KADER, and, after a march of three days, had reached the town of 'Lamina, only about a day after the departure of the EMIR, who had taken to the mountains, accompanied by 400 or 500 horsemen. On the 26th of March the Duke D'AUMALE, accompanied by the Prince of SAXE-COBURG and a brilliant staff, entered Blidah towards five in the afternoon. A detachment of cavalry, with a body of spahis, commanded by General COMMAN, went to meet the Prince at the village of Beni- Mered. On the following day they left for Milianab, where the Duke D'AUMALE takes the command of the district. According to a letter in the Presse, fever pre vailed in some of the hospitals to a great extent. I❑ the hospitals in the province of Oran alone 1,000 persons had died during the last three months. The Journal des Debar contains the following details relative to the Western Railroad—that from Paris to Brittany : " The two companies candidates for the Western Railway, the one represented by Messrs. Laffitte and Blount, the other by Messrs. Emile, Pereire, Thurneyssen, and Tarbe de Sablons, have, according to the desire of the Government and of the Committee of the Chamber, come to an under standing. The Committee, it is said, proposes to the Cham ber the concession of the Western Railway to these two com panies, united with branches to both of the Versailles lines, and the concession of the line from Bounieres to Caen to the Company. De Bretenil joined with the companies Laffitte and Athalin. The Western Companies and that of Caen remain, like the railways which they work, completely in. dependent of each other. Of the social capital of the Wes tern Railway, 1414,000 shares will be assigned to the share holders of both the Versailles lines ; the proportion to be settled by an arrangement between the directors of the com panies if the concession be voted by the Chambers. Each share of the right bank Versailles will be received into the Western line for 550 f., and exchanged against four Western shares of 125 f. each, with 50f. returned, representing the value of the shares of the Company. In the same way, each share of the left bank Versailles will be received for 375 f., and ez • changed for three shares of the west line of 125 f. each. Ac cording to this arrangement, both Versailles lines may be immediately incorporated with the Western Company. Questions of detail will be settled by the Minister, and the report presented on Monday or Tuesday." The French Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S on Sunday at 83f. 50c. =ICINESS DONE IN FORF.IiN RAILWAYS AT TIIE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 6. Boulogne and Amiens, 12IA —Dutch Rhenish, by,—East Indian, %—Great Northern of France Constituted, 14%—Great Western Canada, 4—Louvain and Jentappe, I%—Luxembourg, 1 !‘, —Namur and Liege, 2—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%—l'aris and Otrasbourg (Constituted), 5%---Sambre and Meuse, 3%. REPRESENTATION OF MALTON.—A new writ was moved last night for the borough of Malton, in the room of Mr. Childers, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. It is understood that Lord Milton will succeed him. The borough is under the influence of his father, Lord Fitzwilliam. CityO. s y nolne of o t nnt Highnessnote 21n5/.ll.tittoi:tthioßenLiterary t A t l h b c e rt has subscribed Princ e r tuid Scientific balancean o d t. Mechanics' tsb uildg debt, the list of whom already in o ci clnde a s e the names of the Earl of Radnor, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Lord Mayor, Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P. (who originated this subscription), _and 12 other gentlemen. CHAPEL ROYAL, WHlTEUALL.—lhursday next being " Melinda) , Thursday," the annual and aneient ceremony ti connected &c toa ae na sdistri bute accords withmn o the e y , clothes, age t h with the distribution of her Majesty's bounty will . s c t e im i n n her fr of e . Sovereign. This in. Majesty's chapel at Whitehall, where it has been th many poor nmleannyanedenwtuotrinees t o teresting ceremony commences at three o'clock by a procession from the Queen's Almonry-office in Scotland-yard, to the Royal CI p where Divine service is performed, during which the dlstrill a tiol; takes place. GREAT FOOT RACE FOR 201.—0 n Monday the long pending issue between Mountjoy and E. Smith was decided at the Beehive cricket-ground, Walworth. The men were matched to run over one mile of ground, and leap one hundred hurdles, placed at equal distances. The men are first-rate pedestrians, and drew a large number of persons to the race. Smith took the lead. Mount joy made an ineffectual struggle to come up, but ten at the twelfth hurdle, and Smith ran in an easy winner. MISS KELLY'S THEATRE. —Mr. Henry Russell (the American vocalist), whose name has become familiar from the de served popularity of his compositions, concluded his musical enter tainments at the above theatre on Monday evening. The house was very full, and his truly excellent delineation of the music and peculiarities of the negro elieited a just awed of hearty approbation. THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE AT YARMOUTH. Th e coroner has at length reg i s tered the death of the unfortunate crea tures who perished by the falling of the bridge last May. B a t lie did not do so until the Registrar-General threatened him with an action in the Court of Q ueen's Bench. This delay on the part of the coroner is, we believe, attributable to a quarrel between hint and the bench of magistrates, for his fees upon the inquest he held. LECTURE BY A RETURNED .CONVICT.—On Tuesday night last a lecture on the horrors of transportation was delivered in the theatre here by a returned convict. The lecturer, who is a man about forty years of age, appeared in the dress of a Norfolk Island onvict--half grey, half yellow—and gave a painful recital of the manifold miseries to which the trausperted criminal is subjected. The sufferings and hardships th e y endure lie described as being worse than those of absolute s laver y , and to get rid of such a miserable e xi s tence murder and suicid e were frequently committed. The limited attendance showed that the subject was . one in which the people of Ayr took but little interest.—Ayr Advert i ser. AN ALARM.--On Sunday afternoon the officers on duty in thus St. ' Cat h e rine Deck were alarmed by the report of fire arms, Which proceeded from the ship Shepherdess, lying in the basin, and on proceeding to the vessel to inquire the cause, they ascertained that two apprentic4l4 had loaded an old blunderbuss and fired it at a target in the cabin. The windows of the cabin were blown out by the explosion, and considerable damage was done. The foolish lads had closed the doors and stopped up every crevice in the cabin to prevent the noise being heard, and the consequence was, the windows were blown out by the concussion. On searching the apprentice's chest, the offfcers found upwards of two pounds of gun powder, which they seized. The lads have subjected themselves to a penalty of 51. each for taking onpowder into the dock, and it is believed they will Po preitclit44 by this Pick Company M Waruivis to ottioro, #, A SUN LONDON, WEDNESDA Y MORNING, APRIL 8, 1846, PH , COURT CIRCULAR. HAMBURGH MAIL. POSEN, MARCH 25.—The measures of precaution in this city, have been relaxed for some time past, The number of piquets fecNced, and as we hear, ofders given entirely to suppress them, though without exposing the city to the danger of an excess, which is still possible, but wculd cer. taiuly be soon suppressed. It is now also date mined gra dually to withdraw the regiments that have been marched into the Grand Duchy. Thus, then, the history of the con spiracy may be considered as so far terminatscl, yet we can not hope, after the elkileilence of late years, that a satisfac tory state of things will be permanent, since the late events, and the necessary arrests of nobles and clergy haft excited the hatred of the Poles to tha Qoveinrnent and to the Ger mans, such as never was since the province belonged to Russia. It is generally believed here that the: Icing will let mercy take the place of justice, and will mitigate the penal ties incurred by the insurgents as much as possible. MAacit 27.-.... The Warsaw Gazette, received here to-day, announces that the landowner Pantaleon Patoeki was con demned to death, and that the sentence was executed, on the 17th cf this month, at Siedlee. IlittcsLAw, MARCH 27,—0n the 2Gth of this month the sentence pronounced in the Criminal Court on Dr Thenier's pamphlet, "The Reformirtorisehen Bestrebungen . in du Kalolischen Kirehe ;" the sentence is that Dr. ThetEier is not liable to punishment for the contents of this work — that he shall be free from the costs, and that the sequestra tion of the worlc by the police shall be taken off. ST. PETERSBURIIH, MARCH 21.—His Majesty the Em peror set out late on Wednesday evening from St. Peters burgh for Moscow. His Majesty Is accompanied by his Aids-de-camp General Count Orloff and Van Adlerbnrg. CRACOW, MARCH 27.—The Russian camp of 10,000 men is near Afieehow, in the kingdom of Poland, and a body o; 10,000 men is posted in the frontiers of Gallaoia, and another of 10,000 men is to be stationed on the frontiers of Podolia, in the district of Cracow, and In Cracow itself the Russians are forming large magazines. The Russians are daily ex pected in Cracow. IlilariusWieliezkaer set out yesterday evening for Warsaw; this is the best proof of loyalty that he can biro. Via Nara, Menet' 28,—Prince Frederick Schwarzenburg, who is appointed to assist the Governor-General, Arch- Duke Ferdinand, is come to Vienna for some days. He is said to have brought a complete account of the melancholy state of things in Gallacia. While the Freneli Chambers Indulge in angry language re specting the causes of the murders of Polish nobles, and bitterly attack our whole system of Government, and while European journals are disputing pro and con whether the pretended distribution is true or not, the plain statement of a patriotic peasant, which is confirmed in all quarters may perhaps throw the most light on this melancholy episode of the Polish history. A person of distinction, who is every where received with joy by the peasants, asked them why they had not sooner given notice to the magistrates of the arms which were given them by the nobles in every possi ble way, by which they might have prevented the insurrec tion. They answered, if they had done so, the magistrates would not have believed theta. The nobles and their officers would have protested their innocence, and declared the dis tribution of weapons to be a calumny ; and we should have been punished and only have del97ed the rebellion, We, however, informed the magistrates in the month of January that the nobles were arming; but we were not listened to, and we therefore waited, for our own safety, to tee which course things would take. Posnx, Matzen 27.—A private letter from the kingdom of Poland lies before us, which affirms that numerous arrests of nobles have taken place there for some days past. TRIESTE.—The convention between the Austrian Lloyd and the English Government for forwarding the Indian mails, for the space of six months, has lately been altered on account of the uncertainty of the weather in spring, and it is now agreed that the Austrian English mail between Trieste and Alexandria shall not commence on the Ist of April, as was at first determined, but on the Ist of May.— Hamburyh Papers, April 3. IRELAND. THE PROVISION SCARCITY. DUBLIN, APRIL 4.—The following instructive conversa tion is reported as having taken place at a meeting on Tues day of the Cork Poor Relief Committee. That the farmers have in many instances contributed to the prevailing scarcity by holding back their stocks with a view of extorting famine prices there is no reason whatever to doubt, and if, from the precautions taken by Government, they have discovered that they have overshot the mark, few will be found to sympa thize with their disappointment. Why " Peel ought to be hanged" for checkmating these forestallers is a riddle the solution of which must be left to the two enthusiastic gen tletnen who suggested this ignoble termination to the Pre mier's existence Mr. Alumna . said that when it was found that the meal (I n dian corn --.1 ne,,,„„„N ..,. , e ee;‘ , struck the farmers. and he was informed that last Sunday a ou.iuer or them waited upon a gentleman to know whether they should send their produce at once to market. " Mr. G. C. FEATS was told the previous evening that the selling of Indian meal had struck terror into the hearts of the country people, and they were asking advice as to whe ther they should send their produce to market, as they had previously kept it up for high prices. " Mr. CorrEa—Then Peel aught to be hanged for bring ing it here.—(Laughter.) " Mr. CRAIG—He ought to be hanged, whether he did it or let it alone.—(Loud laughter.)" EVICTION OF TENANTRY. Mat The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following :—" A reporter from this establishment proceeded yesterday (Fri day) morning to Gorthore, between Nenagh and Limerick, to witness the eviction of tenantry—or what is technically called the execution of a "habere"—on the property of Mr. Tuthill, where 120 men of the 72d Highlanders, under Captain Pollard, 41 police, under the Sub-Inspector Lewis, of Newport, and several bailiffs, went at an early hour. Our reporter returned at five o'clock, p.m. He informs us that nine poor families were evicted from their tenements. The day was particularly wet, cold, and inclement, more in fact like a mid-winter than a spring day. No re sistance was offered to the executioners of the law. The people in the neighbourhood, lie says, did not expect the visit. Those who were present showed every courtesy and kindness to the military officers and soldiers, who well merited the hospitality manifested fay the poor cottiers, who boiled eggs and gave what refreshment they had to them. The men of the 72d seemed ashamed of this distressing duty. " The names of the persons evicted were :—Patt ick Mara, 4 in family; Patrick Clancy, 9 in family (who showed his receipt to our reporter for his cent up to November); John Fennell, 5 in family ; Denis Brien, 5 in family ; Pat O'Brien, 5 in family; Patrick Clancy, 7 in family; William Merbert, the amount of whose family our reporter was un able to ascertain, but supposes it to be at least 5. In all 39 persons. " Our reporter says that it was generally stated that the tenants had paid the rent up to May, 1845—but of this he had no accurate knowledge. The fact, however, was that Fennell, above-mentioned, had bank-notes for rent in his hands, which were refused—and the day ended by the tenants being put out, the doors of their cabins closed and locked. Our reporter was informed that Mr. Tuthill has fourteen evictions against fourteen other tenants. Our re. porter heard it stated from Mara, above mentioned, that Mr. Tuthill promised them possession again ; but this he does not know of his own knowledge." RE THE APPROACHING CHANGE IN THE CORN-LAWS. —We had, in our journal of yesterday, the opinion of a gentleman, that necessarily will carry great weight with it, in respect to the contemplated change in the corn-laws. We allude to Mr. George Robins, who has taken an early oppor tunity to place his opinion upon record, in his announcement of the Willenhall Hamlet, Manor, and Estate (near 800 acres) of first-rate land, near to the city of Coventry. This, it will be perceived, shows in unmistakeable terms not only his opinion, but the reason that guides him to such a con clusion. In alluding to the safety of landed investments, he enforces his feeling in the following strong and unanswerable terms :—" Hear it all those who incline to be dissatisfied with landed investments, that there is not, nor has there been, an arrear of one guinea during the last ten years;" and as it re gards the general prejudice that has too long existed in re spect of reduced rents, he pointedly rebukes this feeling by the following quaint observation. He says, by way of con clusion, that it affords the writer very great satisfaction to join in, and express a very concurrent opinion (and one that has become an every day assertion now-a-days), that " THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY lIAVE BEEN MUCH MORE FRIGHTENED THAW HURT; a fact which will be demonstrated past misapprehension in a few weeks." We shall watch Mr. Robins's sales, and give to our readers the benefit of the results. THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE.—By THE REv. R. COBEOLD.—THIRD EDITION.—Not only is truth often more wonderful than fiction, but it is always more interesting. The conviction that the facts of a strange eventful history have really happened, and are not the mere creation of the narrator's fancy, adds a tenfold zest to the story; and this very great advantage the history of Mar garet Catchpole has, for its truthful character wins the faith of the reader. The chief incidents are of so extraordinary a nature as abundantly to gratify the most craving appetite for the wonderful and exciting ; the l i terar y execution is such as to satisfy the most criticaltaste taste; and the moral of as serters of poetic the story ought to content the s ternest justice. Much valuable instruction may be derived from the perusal, which the liyely st , le o The previous editions f the narrative renders eminently pleasant and in t e r esting. which the history of Margaret Catchpole has gone through h a ve already established t h e Fork in very high and general estimation ; and it rarely happens that we have the oppor tunity of recommending to the notice of our readers any work of this kind with so much confidence as we do the story of this extraordinary female.—Leeds Intelligencer. We paid a visit to the Adelaide Gallery on Monday evening, to witness the performance of the Bell Harmonists, and we really had no idea that such beautiful harmony could be produced on hand bells. Most of our readers will re member a set of ringers who played at the Adelphi Theatre, some three years back, while under an engagement with Mr. Anderson, the Wizard of the North ; but those parties only performed with one bell in each hand, whereas the party at the Gallery above mentioned have four bells each, or two in each hand, and by following the different notes in succession produce the most delightful harmony. it is very evident they have had it vast deal of praotice, We under stand they are only engaged for a fortnight, as they have to appear in a few days on the continent, where we have no doubt they will be well received by our musical neighbours. ,- CAB ACCIDENT IN Bow-STREET. —Monday evening, shortly after six o'clock, a serious accident occurred at thecoorgribetreeoTf, Bow-street and Long-acre, to Charles Drlscole, a young man years of age. He was running by the side of a cab soliciting a gen tleman to purchase a playbill, when his foot slipped, and he fell tc the gtound. At the moment another cab followed, the horse and wheels of which passed over tidily, inflicting such extensive In. juries that be was removod to the hospital in a most precarious MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAIL WAY. A Special General M e eti ng o f thi s Company was L e la id.17:16.: the in - yesterday at the King's Arm s Hotel, Br minster, at four o ' c lo c k, G. F. Mentz, Es gqe. , 8 chair, for the purpose of consideriag the pr of riot of dissolving the Company, and returning one half o f the deposits to the subscriberg, After the adveatiseraerkt convening th e meet i ng had Inn read, Mr. Hettit.l, the solicitor, on the requisition of the Chairman, read a report to the meeting, which was very lengthy, but the substance of which appears in the course of the e•planations which eusned i n th e course of the meeting. Before going into the veport, it was suggested the atat:e of the several am.- Mr. ...ens, both at Several gell.tiMell wail ) 1:w andin equity, should b t ej aid lore the meeting. the reports, ..toed of not having received Colonel r eolgeSoN said that he was little of an ac e9l"tant., and knew little further than to understand his ~alt-paylist. He thought it would be unfair to load the Chairman and the membars of the Committee with the expenses arising out of the dirty actions brought against them on the part of the Committee, After some altercati on , it was decided that the ques tion respecting the several actions should be answered. In this reply it appeared that only six of the Committee had been made parties to Mr. Parsons' suit in equity. These six had put in their answers; but it was the duty of the plaintiff to serve all the Committee, and until these services hid been made, and the answers put in, the suit could not proceed. 1,0001. had been proffered to the Court of Chancery, to meet Mr. Parsons' claim. With respect to Mr. Doyle's suit, both the charge and the replies were very lengthy, and the Master had allowed a certain time for the purpose, which would expire about the Olst of the present month. Some further conversation ensued, in which several gentlemen appeared desirous that Mr. Parsons' claim should be settled as a preliminary measure, when The CHAIRMAN explained that the Committee had refused to settle this claim because in their corporate capacity they would not do that which they would hesitate to do individually. They were quite ready to meet this claim in a fair way, and submit to reference before the Court of Chancery. This, it appeared from that gentleman's conduct, was not what he desired. Mr. Parsons had brought an action against him individually; that he was prepared to .defend, out of his own resources, and as the company were not to be responsible, they of course could not interfere. Cer tainly he felt assured that he would rather have given a cheque for 5001. than have had anything to do with the concern. The object of the action, commenced by Mr. Parsons, was to recover the loss which Mr. Parsons had sustained upon the 2,000 shares allotted to him, al though the letter of allotment itself had been destroyed by consent. Mr. CRADocR complained that the Committee had taken such a small interest in the concern. Among others, the Chairman had agreed to take a hundred shares, but had only signed for and paid upon 25. Some of the Committee had proposed for 400, and others of them for 100 each, but these gentlemen had taken a much smaller number. The CHAIRMAN explained that he had paid upon 25 shares and was quite ready to take and D?..y on the 100 shares, but the fact was that Mr. Parsons had filed a bill in the Court of Chancery to compel him to take up 300 shares. To this he should demur, but he was quite ready to pay on his 100 shares as soon as Mr. Parsons paid upon his. Mr. CRADOCK Well, then, pass by the Chair man's case and go to that of the other directors, and read a letter requiring the production of the letters of allot ment to the directors. After some conversation the Chairman, who had fre quently expressed his readiness to give the minutes, produced the minute-book, and read a statement of the allotments to the directors, and the payments made by the parties, by which it appeared that the reserves and payments had been made on behalf of six of the directors. By the rest of the provisional committee no application had been made. On the 17th of December it was decided that twenty shares should be the qualifi cation for a directorship, and that a reserve of 300 shares was made for each of the directorships. Much confusion and angry altercation ensued, in which it was alleged that the directors ought to have taken up their 300 shares, but this was met by a declaration on their part that they would take up their shares so soon as the Bill in Chancery was removed. A SHAREHOLDER alleged that he had lost 3s. Id. per share on 200 shares in consequence of the directors not having taken up their shares. Mr. TURNER explained that out of 27,400 shares as many as 23,443 had been allotted to the public, and that the capital had been reduced from 900,000/. to 600,000/., and that the failure of the company was owing to the change of public opinion and not to the deficiency of the provisional committee. Mr. CRADocK wished to know why the amalgamation had not been made ? The CHAIRMAN explained, to the effect that it was Mr. Parsons' own objection which had prevented the allotment of shares in the first instance, and it was only owing to his own determination that any allotment had been made whatever. After the arrangement had been made with Mr. Bethel!, it was discovered that his en gineering was so deficient tkat there was a fall of thir teen feet in one place, and a rise of two feet in another; so that there was no moral possibility of getting through the House. He had himself taken the plans to Mr. Bethel!, and had desired him to explain. Then the arrangement with the Andover line was made ; but here there was a deficiency again; and he believed that if the three companies had been amalgamated, this wee.. nave men one .}r the best lines in the kingdom, and that it would yet be so. But it would have been clearly madness to have gone into Parliament under the circumstances, for the probability was, if they had done so, instead of 30,000 to return to the shareholders, they would have had nothing. Mr. CHANCE and Mr. PAyNE, both of them directors, declared that as soon as Mr. Parsons removed the Chancery suit, they would pay on the remaining 75 shares. Mr. POCOCK, in answer to a question, stated that on receiving the letter of allotment, he immediately re turned the letter to the secretary, and distinctly stated that he would take no more than 25 shares. A SHAREHOLDER—Then you are justified Mr. PococK—l think so. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether the pay ments by the Committee had been made at the same time with those of the other allottees ? Before however this was decided upon, the secretary was requested to read the several letters of the directors, excepting the allotments, by which it appeare d that Mr. Chance had agreed t o take 400 shares, Mr. Oliviera 400, Colonel Ellington 400, Mr. Payne 400, Mr. Williams 425, and Lord Rossmore 425 shares; but of those only 25 shares had been paid upon. Mr. HEALD explained, that by the reduction of the capital to 600,000/., the shares had been reduced to 28,570 in number. Of these, it appeared th a t 23,560 h a d been allott e d, an d 23,443 had been paid upon, leaving only 5,010, and 10 shares reserved, and dividing these by 17, the number of directors, it left 178 shares for each of the directors, and thus set aside practically the original allotment of 400 shares. On further inquiries, it appeared that four of the pro visional committee. Mr. Coape, Mr. Fitzgerald, the Hon. R. Gore, and Mr. Spicer, had each accepted 100 shares, but had paid nothing. • It was afterwards shown that the time of payment by the allottees had been the 9th of October, and the suit commenced by Mr. Parsons began on the 17th of De cember; but it 'was explained that the money paid by the directors was advanced, not as a payment, but for the purpose of meeting the daily expenses. Mr. CHANCE here stated that he wished he had paid upon the 100 shares, and that he was now ready to do so. Another Director stated the same thing. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether Mr. Tur ner had paid upon his 100 shares, to which that gentle man replied that he had never agreed to take more than suggested by Mr. IL BLARE that, with twenty- a five th s e h n are a s n . gg a view to winding up the concern, a committee of the shareholders should be appointed to investigate the af fair, with power to call for all the documents in the pos session of the officials of the Company. This was the more necessary, as it appeared that the chief difficulty arose from the ill feeling existing between the late soli tor of the Company and the present officials, and he thought that the business would be better settled in that way, for he believed that if Mr. Parsons bad been paid the whole of his claim he would have suffered infinitely more in his character than be would gain by any present success in his present suit. The CHAIRMAN stated that his only reason for refus ing such a c o u rse was t h e pro b a bility of having been placed in a false light before and he thought th a t the shareholders the directors in such a position. the C o o u ought h f not Chancery t o e best course he wa s taking the very to relieve ceived that C m o r l . o ß n e L l A J it o E n s rt t s il o l N p e e r x s p i s r t e e s d s ed to th h e is sa s m og e g o o p 3 i t n io i n on. , and con ten to that e ff ec t. dhe wou , the Comm from o fr n a u m s e to a which they were li a bl e, an This being seconded, The CHAIRMAN explained that the motion before the t s h a a i t d t he h e reportat tthis m b e a t r i e n e n e received and not adopted. meeting tait rl eci, li fo wE r AaL n s no subject could be mooted which had not been advertised. After some conversation, Mr. HEALD assentors rateollfrnuswsaen s ndd i d a ttnaendv dissentientsdnt t h et a h, t ea onlyndad optiona p t a h a e ipge o hr r wt i w g saa i is n gs anpul prepared et pmb h au a ar r t eteetdhhl ultimately s l meetingders e th o e ul car riedthe unanimously. tnheea resolution pper ro production hu ca was trieons hoofu i then sticrbiep ,r p e a bt s uu s trend considerabledt theo t othe effect sh adr ieffhe t or h i es iante difference e a s g on uAi ensued as to whether a release should on this payment be granted to the directors for all their past acts, and it was ultimately decided that as the fund to be distributed was 30.000/, and the amount to be distributed was only 20,000/., that such a release would be improper, and Mr. Chance thought that on this point, the solicitor would yield. Mr. R. SPOONER, M.P., was quite ready to meet the shareholders, and act as candidly by them as the direc tors had acted. If there was any charge to make against the directors after the money waa paid, he trusted that it would be brought forward now.—(Hear.) The business mode of doing the thing was to give a receipt on the payment of the money. Further conversation then ensued respecting stamping the scrip, as had been done in the case of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Company, and at last it was settled that a receipt should be given on the payment of the. dividend, and that the payment should oommence within fourteen days from the present day. mr. )31,,A5E desired to press his motion that a Com• mittee of shareholders should be formed, but it was decided that the business of the meeting was concluded, and thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated ; the several members of it appearing re solved to carry Mr. Blake's intention into effect. Cer. tainly this was the most stormy affair of the - kind it has ever been our lot to witness, and was only brought to a cool conclusion by the tact, coolness, and uninterrupted good humour of the Chairman. TOO MODEST BY ' HALF.. The great fault of Young reland is th a t h e i s too modest. H e wants self his de H dearest vind .eiiarice L . His depende nc i es f or powers. ~‘lve objects are never on his own. aeon— sd does not play the braggart on his own he brags of foreigners. He is like a woman who threatens you with what this man or that man will do to you. __ On; time Prince Joinville was to make minced meat of us. Thirty thousand Frenchmen thrown on the Irish coast were to expel the Irish invaders. Now how eN cessively modest it is in an oppressed nation of eight brave millions to hold thirty thousand foreigners essen tial, indispensable to her liberation ! Next Brother Jonathan was looked to as the avenger, and Ireland's battle was to be fought in Orcgcn. Again this is modest to the malus pudor, for if any other third of the kingdom really felt that it had a just cause and a battle to fight, it would full surely fight its battle nearer home, and fight it with its own hands, and trusting only to its own hands, and trusting only to its own right and might. Hampden and Cromwell did not look to foreigners to champion their cause. The Seikhs have been the last hope of too modest Young Ireland. The Notion bees them sweeping us out of India with 200,000 blazing scynaitars ; but, unfortu nately for this cheering and encouraging view, it was hardly published before the arrival of the news of the complete overthrow of the enemy, whose blazing scymi tars are pawned for . the expenses of the war— _ "From the whole facts we arrive at the conclusion that the hopes of the invading army are now very low, and are - wearing lower every day—that Sir H. Hardinge and Sir C. Napier will probably never meet—and that if the people of Lahore and the' protected' states on the Hindoo side of the river make good use of their time, and have ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis, the game is in their hands—that the whole Moslem population of Northern India, who are only waiting for the first raverse that befall the British arms to raise the cry of Deen ! Deen !—the Faith ! the Faith !'—and fall upon their oppressors with all the fury of vengeance hoarded well for thirty years, will clear the way to Bengal with 200,000 blazing scymitars ; that ere twelve months shall have gone round, not the Sutlej only, but the Jumna, and possibly the very Ganges shall be no longer overshadowed by the robber standard of the tyrants of Southern Asia; and that the blood-stained Company —the plagues of the East —the plun derers of Hyderabad—the scourge of the Carnatic—and the poisoners of China, may begin to set their house in order at Calcutta. Allah Bismallah God is great—Amen and. Amen." How really poor in spirit is all this vicarious ven— geance. - It was a song of a certairi Jacobin worthy, that He fled full soon On the Ist of June But lie bade the rest keep fighting. Young Ireland bids the rest keep fighting, not having fled, indeed, for be has not taken the field. He is mar vellously strong, nothing can resist him, and yet he un accounntably submits to what he represents as the most intolerable tyranny, and contents himself with calling on foreigners to go to war for him, or on Indians to revolt, "if they have the ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis." Young Ireland is quite right in not playing the rebel, but Young Ireland should not talk- the rebel which it does not play. The dialogue without the action has the most abasing effect. It i 3 too obtrusively " making the dare not' wait upon would,' like the poor cat in the adage." Ireland has many grievances, but none worth blood shed ; she has many claims, but none to be advanced by bloodshed, or the diabolical desire for it without daring to share in the peril. The redress of Old Ireland's wrongs will come in due course if the malus pudor of Young Ireland do not unfortunately excite feelings calculated to retard it. Young Ireland only wants a little manly pride. He must not be always exaggerating and enlarging on his sores. He must not make out his case worse than it is, so as to make its recreancy to bear it while he is bragging of his potency. He must not count, too, upon the alms of foreign valour for his deliverance. There is no case, no occasion whatever for valour, foreign or indigenous. Nothing is wanted and wanting but a little good sense and right spirit. You have nothing to do with blazing scvmitara— no, nor with blazing shilelaghs either" things much apter for combustion and broil. Let there be an end of the foreign look-out for mischief to England, and let your hopes live 0 0 your own means, not on the loup-de-mer Joinville one day, and a lion of Lahore another who turns out to be pared of his claws by theliiit advices. M the homely old proverb says, " Let eTery herring hanii by its own head, every tub stands on its own botton, and let Young Ireland pluck up a little of the honest pride of independence—independence of foreign aid and self-reliance on righteous means righteously di rected.—Examiner. IRISH PRODUCE. It will be seen from the subjoined list of provision! which have arrived fro m I re l an d at the ports °' London, Liverpool, and Bristol during the past week , and since our last notice on the subject, that the l 0 1: portations from that quarter continue of an extensive and important character. On the 25th the arrivals is the river Thames from the Irish ports consisted of asp quarters of oats, 808 hampers o f b acon, 2 3 1 packages 0 , butter, 604 of lard, 40 of hams, 646 o f por k, a quant ity °' tongues, and various other articles. On the following elf?: the importations comprised 32 packages of hams, 344 VW', ages of bacon, 220 of ma lt, 124 o f b ut t er, 87 of eggs, 129 o' lard, 27 of provisions of diff eren t ki n d s, 20 of pork, 37 °f middles, 62 of rumps, 55 packages of porter, 40 of whisky' and various other produce, including li nen , rags, paper, a nd other merchandise. On the same day 5,724 quarters of oats were imported into Runcorn from the port of Ballina. 01 1" the next day, 1,550 barrels and 1,340 quarters of oats arrive d in the river Thames; and the imports into the port of Bri s i: tol from the sister count r y a t th e same per i od cons i ste d 0, 40 barrels of p or k, 187 firkins and 10 kegs of butter, severy,- . packages of h ams , 282 o f l ar d , 41 sacks of pollard, 18 0 o 1 bacon, 674 barrel s o f oa t s, 5 5 of general provisions, 34 pac k. / ages of whisky, several packages of flour, hams, and variol other articles of minor importance, the produce of that count' :f' On the 28th ult. 2,202 q uar t ers and 867 barrels of oats 1% I!:a imported into the port of Lo n d on . Th e following is the 11 / 1 ' of articles of consumption imported into the port of Li ver" pool from the Irish ports during the last week, being,. frail the 20th to the 26th -ult. inclusive :-2,853 firkins, 14,4 half' firkins, 502 baskets, and 131 boxes of butter ; 98 I „)ags, tons weight, and 2,323 bushels of wheat ; 5,485 sacks sl, 75 tons weight of fl our; 48 t ons we i ght, 130 bags, and 231 barrels of oats; 20 bags, 150 other packages, and 75 l° ° 4 4 weight of oatmeal; 532 s ac k s an d 100 quarters of malt; barrels of beef ; 18 barrels and 14 kegs of general provisio 64 kegs and 157 barrels of pork ; 49 hhds., 9 tierces, 8 ball; and 4 barrels of ham s ; 20 pac k ages o f tongues ; 403 bar r e l 6 of bacon ; 715 boxes and tierces, 59 bales, and 1 other packages of linens and co tt ons ; 98 punchoon: 13 hhds., and 2 other packages of whisky ; 38 cask s '' 70 firkins, and 358 kegs of lard; 60 sacks of farina, and otbt r articles of minor importance. Sev era l vessels arrived the River Thames on Monday, having on bo.- A rd co" lectively, 2,003 packages of b acon, 531 of lard, 3 a, 19 „i• paper, 622 of butter, 187 of f ar i na flour, 849 packages eggs, 63 of malt, 687 sacks of oats, 44 packages of hams, ,7 of general provisions, 62 o f tongues, 695 of pork, 26 of in id tiles, 20 of shoulde rs , 81 packages of mer c h an di se, 72 n linen, in addition to numerous packages of porter, whit'' skins, leather, hides, feathers, yarn, and indeed every o t 11 4? description of food and merchandise of Irish productior too numerous a nature to be further particularised. Fir.uVY the arrivals at thi s port from Ireland on Tuesday, the. 3,1, ult., comp r i se d 1 49 barrels and 20 tierces of pork, 34 packs ages of lard, 465 packages of bacon, 446 firkins and 1 ,4 key 9 of butter, 28 packages of general provisions, 479 r,acksg`, 4 of eggs, 40 hhd s an d 118 kild er ki ns of porter, 135 Pt , loose, and 9 crates of the sam e d escr i ption oC r besides numerous packages of linen s , w hi s k y, and otkeo articles. It will be seen that there is evidently n t falling off in the variety or extent of the differe xi description of provisions furnish e d t o us by the sister l , island, notwithstanding the distr ess and want of 5 0 articles which exist in many parts of the country wl le 5 theythey are produced. We do not !mention these importati on a an view of a political nature at the present time, Wh e the Legislature have the country to which they refer un der their especial deliberation, and when the attention of t he people of this country is so parti cu l ar l y and forcib l y dralo; to the distress existing among th e numerous poor o f tha . t fruitful island, but simply to give a co rrec t an d au th en tic lib§ of them, as affording a subject of peculiar interest and im p portance at this period, in order to show that there is / 3 _", lack of capacity in the soil of the place to produce food, P the extensive exports from all parts of Ireland to this coati' try most abundantly prove, leaving the further consideration of the matter for other parties, to whom th e subject i s o f paramount interest and importance. 3, h 1 rvf.re—o from had i s n o c o e some t°ou r 2 g ,o O o : o d 'c peratt c h b h e o e a s t ,fiosfhwehirni fishermen r a .l : h i e f; varying T Mount's HE F n ß i r g agy l n i nightly realised from 9s. to 13s. per 120. The latter price was °": tamed on the day preceding the sailing of the steamers fo r l e Hayle to Bristol. Many cart-leads (in raaunds) we 'd taken hence to Hayle, and forwarded to the markets Bristol, Bath, &c., and we are informed met a rca uJ sale at remunerating prices. —Hook fish have also r i l e ; very plentiful ; the fishermen at the Quay contt to bring ashore from twenty to forty fifty and even ming' ling and cod p er b oat nightly. On Friday nl°es several boats left the pier and proceeded a mile or two Z e ro ward, and in the evening returned each with the nut 11 : 0 , above stated, and fine r fi s h we never recollect to have $ The lings vary in size from about 121bs. to 601bs. Suc h season for this kind of fish h as no t b een for the l as t forty years. The fisheries of Mount's Bay w ill b e eonsider4,o; enhanced when we shall have a railway to the metrogo,' to fish brought ashore here in the morn i ng may t h en b e sow Billingsgate-market the same day.—PenzemeeVazette. 5 Lord Frederick, Lady A ugus t a, an d t h e Hon. Alias Fitzelarence, have left Etal House for the season. His LordshiPt, for several months been suff er i ng f rom a v i o l ent attack o f g°U at much so, that It was deemed advisable by his medical attend44,ing remove him. Sir David Davies, together with an easy fro t w eeX carriage belonging to the Queen, were sent express to Etal hot whence he to convey the Noble Lord, by eas y j ourneys, to town, vvhen proceeds direct to Winbourne, Dorsetshire. „ L ob The duty on oranges amo un t s to 70,0001. per ao' and on currants to 270,0001. A it ROBBERY ON BOARD PIER MAJESTY'S Snip rr..AFjot GAit.—Whilst the ship was lying at Plymouth, in Septellib . ? r d g old Lieutenant L. C. H. T ongs l ost a gold repeater watch a",ainee brequet chain, the disapp earance of which until lately lies reO: h11 p at wrapped in mystery. It a pp ears th a t on the arrival o f the ; Sheerness In November, two privates of the Royal Marines, 1, , atr Dennis and William Fren c h, obtained forty-eight hours' leave u'ri. sence, during which time th e chain was sold by Dennis for fiv e ii to e lings to Mr. Stigant, pawnb ro k er , a t Ch a th am, and the wet s latte r Watchmaker at Dartford for thirty shillings, and the De disposed of his purchase to a Jew on th e 29th ° f .0111 cember. Through the vigilance of the metropolitan nrcito it was ascertained that the watch case had been the down about three weeks since, and thiti the works o watch had been sold to a Jew in Houndsditch. In conser that e an investigation on board the ship, Lieuten an t T ongs state ° l et suspected the prisoners of having comitaitted the robbery , at o ugh r. v were accordingly given into custody, and on Saturday were _L . ': ss , before the Mayor and magistrates at the Guildhall, Roches.tceer, 4steo geant Kendell, of the A division of the metropolitan poli d ro to P l ,l that if the prisoners were renw,sded he should be _ . 1 0 _ duce the works of the watch, and Lieutenant Tonge said hy t otre,r then be able to identify the remains of his property by til e _ 51 , 0 and maker's name. Sergeant Kendell stated that since th st Boners had been in oustody, Dennis had not only confessed t oe f was the guilty party, but that isa had been concerned. "" Moor robberies, The primers wore accordingly remanded uutil dig next. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night ) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 6,000 bales, including LOCO American, on speculation, all at very full prices. Shares were dull, and without any change for the better. The statement made by Sir Robert Peel last night in the - e Commons, raletive 1$ the intentions of Govern- House • w ith eaavray projects, an 4 the means to be ment connect,- .leabtful projects, has given the fat adopted to wind up ' - the only ha a pe nk t in , g r os p unqualified! satisfactiort In Stock Exchange, but figacing mercial interests . There is ie. and, e e t aP c t ot' L nh a money no,. at no very distant period a vast amouna leaked up, in the shape of railway deposits, will be rre...."_ fl e d into circulation, and that schemes which were brought Into existence during the mania of the months of June, July, August, and September last, will be brought to a termination, and all expenses incurred paid off, and the managing and provisional committee men be eased' from additional responsibilities, and affairs wound up with honour to all parties. Still the details to be fur nished by the Earl of Dalhousie, to be given in the House of Lords this evening, are most eagerly looked for. All parties agree that, by instantly passing resolutions through Parliae merit, upon the topic stated, is the best course . to be adopted, leaving the Bill to take its ordinary course, its principle being of course admitted. There is one great feature in the proposals of Sir Rehert reel which deserve especial notice, and that is, that all promoter* of schemes, whether they have been enabled to go before Parliament er noi, should be held liable to all engineering or other expenses necessarily incurred. There are not any late colonial arrivals announced la the City to-day. The British Securities have been rather flat to-ilay. Con sole for the account have fluctuated only from 9614 for MOney from 9614 %; the Reduced Three per Cents. from 95% to 95%; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 97 1 / s to 9674 ; and Exchequer-bills have ranged from 235. to 2Cs. premium. This evening's Gazette will intimate the amount of surplus revenue to be laid out in the redemption of the debt during the present quarter, The Foreign Stock Exchange list has a vary meagre ap pearance to-day. The only bargains have been in the Brazilian Five per Cents., at 80%; in the Mexican Deferred, at 16 3 / 4 ; in the Portuguese Four per Cents. for the Account, 58 ; and in the Belgic Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at 98, The Shares of lines of railway in operation, and what are considered good scrip, have been in rather better request. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRIC ES. Bank Stock .. .. • • .. .. 207 206 ex div 206 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 9b%% ex div 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 9634 %!G 9 6 34 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 0734 96y, ex div SG% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 6,1860 .. 10 3-16 4ex d 104 Ditto, 30 years. 0, , t. 10, 1849 .. 10 ex dlv 10 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10% 1I Consols for Account • • • • .. .. .. 96% 1 A 96% India Stock for Account .. .. .. .. 2603 y 2624 2624 Exchequer Bills. 14d. lid. 1,0001... .. .... 23 26 pm. 26 6001... .. .... 23 26 pm. 26 Ditto. Small .... 23 26 pm. 26 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN * FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • 80 % 80% Mexican Bonds, 1837, I per Cent • • Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. • • 16 3 i 16% Portuguese Four per Cents Ditto, for the Account Spanish Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, Passive Bonds Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • Ditto, for the Account .. .. • . Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Ceut 98 Dutch Two-anti-a-Half per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates BEITISII FIJIWS. •• •• .--- . • - . • -- USINEgS PAID. DON AT CLOSING E 0/TE O'CLOCK. PRICES, ..1 o 1 ....114 .... PRICES OF RAILWAY SHIRES. Aberdeen .. • llirmingbam and Gloucester.. Briatorand Exeter .. .. 74 -• • • 33 • * .. Ditto New .. .. .. .. .. 5 •• • • • • • • • • • • • • . Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 42 5 . •• - • 1 /tii (113 . •• • • Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. 10 •• • • 71 ,‘ 6 %s ••• • • • Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2% •• • • 1 % ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 2% .• • • 1% %•••• • • • • Chelmsford and Bury .. .. .. 1% •• • • %••••• • • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. .. .. 20 •• • • 17 % 17 li •• • • Cheltenham and Oxford .. .. 2 •• • • 1 ••••• • • • • • Cork and Waterford .. .. .. 1% .•• • ••••• • • • • • Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% ••••—, ' • • ****** • Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2 3 4 .• • • Y. ••••• • • • • • Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5 14 •• • • 3,3 • **** •• • Direct Northern .... .. .. 2% •• • • IN ••••• • • • • • Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .• • • 4 Dublin and Galway .. .. .. 4 •• • • 1 % Eastern Counties ~ .. .. 141. 165.. •.. 20% %21 .. . Ditto New .. .. .. .. $l. 16a.. .• • 6 % P•••• • • • • Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. G/. 1 3 s. 4d. 4p ex div... 4p x d Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .• .. 72 % . • Ditto 4 Shares .. .. .- .. 12% .• .. 17 2 4 .... • * Essex and Suffolk .. .. .. 1% ••• • • %••••• • • • • • 25% Ys Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 •• • 20 '4z h Great North of England . .. 100 .... 211 •.• • 50 SO Ditto, New .. • • • . • • Ditto, New .. .. • ~ „ 1% .... 13% ••• • • • .... 13% Great Western .. • • .. .. 85 ....145 •• • • ...... 145 Ditto Half Shares .. .. .. 50 .• . • 43% •• • • * • 33 % Ditto, Fifths .. .. .. .. 20 •• • • 3 2 % ••••• • • • • • 32 % Guildford, Fareham, & Portemoth Es ••..44 .. .. Hull aid Selby .. .. .. .. SO ••• • ••• • • * Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 12% .. 29% .... ••• • • • Leicester and Bedford 22s. •• • • 14 d l2 . •••• • • • Leicester, Tamworth, &c. ...... 425. •• .. 134 dis. • . Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% •• • • 2 U %•••• • • • • t .. London an i Birminghai . .100 .. 220 .. ••.. • • Ditto Thirds .. .. Ditto Quarters .. .. .. .. 2 .. •• 27% ..... ••• • . Ditto Fifths .. .. .. •.2 .... 24% 24 London aid Brighton .. .. .. 50 •• .. 62% %1i... • • • London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 20% %.•. • • • London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 93;4 .. .. .. .. • • London and South•Wes'em.. 411. 6s. lOd. 76 77 •• .. Dttto, New Consol. Eighths .. 28 ... 44 Ditto, New . .. .. .. 12% . ... 20% %. . 21, London and York .. .. .. .. 2% .... 1 3 / 4 % London, Warwick, & Klddermins. 234 .... • • ... ..... 11 Manchester and Leeds .. .. 62 :. .... .... Ditto, Fifths .. . • .. .. 2 .... 11 .. •• .• .... 11 Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .• .. 75% .. .. .• • ... 7534 Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .... 9 . • ........ Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 ••.• -- • • ........ 6% Manchester, .Buxton, & Matlock 425... p Midland .. ... ~ . . ..100 ....144% .14.5.!4!.. / g l i 42 2 5:::: 2 u . 3i . : :. ::: .: :. :. . 11 ' 1 Newcastle and Darllngt • on junct. 25 .... 43 42% ... 42 1 /- Ditto, Now . • • .. .. 1 ..., 8 „ ..., ....... 7-4 r% Ditto, Now, Brandliug • • • • 25 •• .. 41% . 41% Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 10 .. 1714 17 18 .... is Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 23 / 9 ~ , , 1 4 % ..... 1% North British .. . • • • • • •• 20 •• .. 24% .......: ... 23% Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 3 .... 7% ......... 7% North Staffordshire • • • • • • 42 5. •• .. 1%% p.....: 1 h Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverlirnpti. 12% .... 9 su ... ..... 4 Perth and Inverness • • • . .. 2% ~ „ 1 4 ".. .. 14 Richmond ............. ..., 15 .... ••• • • • 15 Scottish Central . • • • • •• 10 •• .. 13% ... ..... • 1. :1 11 i r r e o;s 1 hi bl re rY U an o d t 113i . r . ulin .! 1 dis. South Midland • • • • • • • • lia . tn . .... South Eastern and Dovor • • • • 33%..., 3 4 i , , ....... 31% Do., New,(do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 13 4, .cs . ye South Wales • • • • • • • • " 5 •• • • 1% 1 Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • 2 .•.. .. „„,, , 14 West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. • ..• lie ,kip . .. ,• 11 ' p Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 234 .... %A ........ 34 York aid North Midland • • • • 50 ~ ~ _ .......... Do. B. aid W. Riditig Exten.• • 1 ~ „ 83i .. „„ .. e % FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Calais, Dunkirk, & West Flanders 2 ~ ~ ____ Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • • 6 .• .. 5% .. _ ~.... 5% East Indian .. • • • • • • • 63 . •• • . 8 1 1 4 .. .... .. % Grt. North. of France Co nstituted 5 .... 144' ..... 14% Great Western Canada • • • • 34 .., , 4 4 Luxembourg .• .. .. •• 4 .. Is / 0... „ ..... 1% Namur and Liege • • • • • • 4 •• • . 1 ,4, .. .. Orleans and Vierzan . • • • • • 1 0 .... 17 .... .... 17 • Paris and Strasbourg Co nstituted g .... 5% ...... .... s; v Sambre and Meuse • • • • • 6 .... 3 , , Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 „ „ 6% .......... Gs h dim CY. b3i P d , s 134 ale 2% 219 b2 l , 27}i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 10 .... 14 ..... MINES. Australasia • • • • " • London Joint-Stock • • Peal del Monte, Unregistered . 3 United Mexican .. • . 28/. 2s. 8 50..." ..... COURSE OF EXCEIANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam .... .. C.F. 12 9! 2 Gibraltar.. .. ~ .... • Ditto, at sight ••• • • • 12 6 Leghorn . Rotterdam .. •... 2 U. 12 10 Genoa ......... . Antwerp ••..•••• • • • • • • 2615 Milan .. •••••••••••• Mamburgh ......M,B. 13 15 % Venice.. .. .. .. _.• Altona • ..... .. .. ••• • • • _ Naples ...... •••• • • • • 39 Y' Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 85 Palermo, per oz 1193¢ Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10 Lisbon.... .... .... Marseilles •••••• • • • • • • 26 15 O p orto 52% Bourdeaux .. .. •••• • • • • 26 15 Rio Janeiro Frankfort on Mains.. • . 122% Bahia Petersburgh, 3 U 5......— New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effee.flo ••• • .. 10 11 Philadelphia - Trieste, ditto.... • ..... 10 11% PRICES 01 7 BULLION, PER 07. Mad tid .............. 36 4 Foreign Gold in bars .. X 3 17 9 ..... ........ 36% Portugal Gold Coin ••3 17 5 Cadiz .. 8i1ba0........ .. ...... New Doubloons ......0 0 0 Barcelona •••••• • • • • • • New Dollars ........ 04 9% Seville.. ...... ........ i Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11 31 ~. 30 75 ... 26 15 LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, APRIL 7.—Wind N.W., fresh breeze and hazy, with a drizzling rail. A jolly boat or gig, keel up, with green bottom, and black from bilge upwards, apparently freshly painted, was seen on the 3d instant, iu lat. 49 N., long. 9 W., by the Countess of Durham, arrived in the Downs. The wreck of a brig, with loss of masts and bulwarks, and bowsprit standing, was passed 22d ult. in lat. 42, long. 30, by the British Isles, arrived off Folkestone. DEAL, APRIL 6.—Wind, A.M., S.W. ; P. M., W.S.W., fresh and squally. And. Daniel Grant, Shaley, Shanghae ; Countess of Durham, M`Laren, Penang; Ithetis, Cass, Calcutta and Demerara; Teeodosia, Irving, Mauritius. Arrd. from the river, Margaretha, Baur, Batavia ; Lord John Russell, Belsey, l'ugwash ; Gentoo, Lakernan, Quebec ; Ocean, Warren, Quebec ; i'rince of Wales, Russell, Constantinople ; Thomas Rowan, Robertson, St. John's. Strom berg, a t TO r Af O Rio t e APRIL Janeiro, with t 6 h of 6. —Wind W.—Arrd. bAerartd, 8, .11e.elaingfors, ARBUOATII.—SId. David Grant, La urence, Montreal. SHIELDS.—giId. Integrity, Herrings, Quebec. STOCKTON.-41d. Sophia, Watson , Q uebec. WAINPLERT, APRIL s.—The growdror , Wri g ht, from Yarmouth to Goole, is on shore at liuttoft, and expec ted to be a total wreck ; part of cargo saved ill a da m aged state. sails, ST. HELENA, FEB. 26.—This island has, during the last few days, been visited by heavy rollers, which have done considerable damage to the shipping. In seven hours thirteen vessels were total wrecks, eleven of which were slavers, and two lying as hulks (the Racket and Cornelia). The harbour is covered with masts, yards, casks, and every other descriptien of wreck. The value of property de stroyed on shore is estimated at 10,0001. The whole of the passage boats are destroyed. The most extraordinary circumstance attend ing this destruction was, that several merchant vessels were at anchor, clear of the rollers, with scarcely a move. There was not a breath of wind; the weather sultry, with occasional showers. NEWPORT, APRIL 6.—Wind VIT.S.W.—SId. Yorkshire Lass, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, APRI L 6 .—W i n d E.N.E.—SId. Luna, Redmond, Gre nada; Fran c i s Y ates, Bosse, La Gua yra ; Ililsberough, Lamb, St. John's, New Bru nsw i ck • Spar t an , Thompson, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Corsair, Dal Halifax ;P. R. C., Ledwick, Cape Breton ; Grog, liriard, Cape Breton ; Renfrewshire, Burns, Quebec ; John, I!esselton, Quebec; Safeguard, Smith, Montreal ; Baron of Bramber, Flinn, Montreal ; St . G eorge, Poo l e , Newfoundland ; Seabird, Lyall, Newfoundland; James Stewart, Laird, .Newfoundland ; Duko, Pitts, Beyront; D'Arcy, Garr i c k, Hamburgh and Valparaiso. Orr LivEsToor..—Arrd. Priscilla and Laurel. BE LFAST.-- Xenophon, Rochester, Quebec. YAamourit, Apart s . — Wind W . — O n th e 3d i n stant was picked up, off Scones Point, the mail I t- horse of a billy-buoy, with " Bri tannia, of Goole," on it. SWANSEA, APRIL 3 . — The Victor i a an d Albert, Gough, which sailed from Dungarvon on the Ist instant, was struck by a heavy sea this morning en the and west of the Smalls, w as hove on her beam - ends , compelled to cut away mainmast to get her upright ; elle was after wards brought into harbour to repair. MUMBLES, APRIL 4.—The Liberty, Davies, from Cardiff to Fal mouth, WRS in contact in the Roads yesterday with the Bell Rock, Rees, and both vessels sustained damage. GRANGEMOUTH, APRIL 3. The Vintage, Anderson, from London, arrived at this port, was in contact last night, off Inclicolm, with it small steamer, supposed to be the Watervvitch, of Leith, which sunk immediately. SUNDERLAND, APRIL s. —The James Haswell, from Hamburgh, is on shore near this port, with damage to bottom. the extensive and valuable library of SALE 0 TILE 1 - • FL T- —IIIRArty, MA.NUfiCRIPTS, &c., OF .1 - BRir"s' —" F.S.A.—On Moada the sale of i the fourth portion of J o hn Britton, Esq., F. 5 . 1 ., the well.known antiquarian, was co mmenced at Mr . Fletcher's Auction-rooms, in Piccadilly . Th i s por tion, which comprises a g reat number of curious and valuable boo k s on antiquities, topography , thpoMgy, including s evera l rare Bibles a nd Prayer-books, is divided into upWards of 2,GOC l ots, compris i ng ma ny thousand volumes. Some of the lots are extremely anion:, Ther2 are several beauti. fully illuminated manuscript s and autographs ;`among the latter is one by Nell Gwynne, to a receipt for 2501., being for a quarter's pension ; one by Prince Rupert, sir Isaac Newton, &c. The sale consisted prineipally of books on architecture 4144 Architectural an tiquitlea, wlllO 1914 fur largo giamf, The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Pi ince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual walks and rides yesterday in the royal pleasure grounds. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Buceleuch, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, and Captain the Hop. ,Tarpei Q. P.4lurkay. The Marchioness 'of Douro has succeeded the Vise Tr) te s Lczlyq. as the • Lady' in Waiting to the Queen. Viscount Sydney has succeeded Lord RiVers as the Lord in Waiting sue to her !! , d . Colonel BerkeleY. Drunininnd has 7 'A Mr R Ormsby Gore as the Groom in Waiting to he r " Majesty. Her'Royal Highness the buchess of Kent visited her Ma jesty tile Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Prusce Ca teicierda, the Neapolitan Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. His Excellency attended the debate in the House of Commons last evening. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official rest' cnce in Downing-street. . _ pispatclies were sent off yetel , ,lay evening, from the Co lonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong. Lady Peel and family left town yesterday for Drayton Manor, StafTordshire.