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TH_E SUN, LON DON, TUESDAY MORNrNti; MARCH 17, iB-rd. MISS PARDOE'S PARDOE'S NEW NOVEL. 1 subject so important and so well-deserving the consideration I Ncw ready at all the Ll'ffaries, in 3 vols. of the House as the famine that was at present existing in CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY WOMAN. rean I d . By I:lh,s PARDOI:. • The subject then dropped. A i.thoress of `, The City of the Sultan," dre. Henry Col Lorn, 13, G3l reat arlboron ! gh-street, Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Lord George 136ntinek, said that since the rept al of the auction and,glass duties, although there had been a falling off in the Excise, there had been an increase in the customs duties. The House then resumed the further consideration of the" Report on the Customs' Resolutions (the Tariff.) On the question of the reduction of the duties on hops. Mr. PLU3IPTRE thought that if any duty was taken off that article it ought to be the Excise duty. Sir R. PEEL could not consent to take off the Excise duty on hops, or retain the high protective duty to which foreign hops had hitherto been subjected. After some diecussi , ,n, the House divided, when there ar peared—for the Government proposition, 91 hopsga it, 44. Mej,rity in favour of the reduction on proposed by Ministers, 47. • Mr. RErrox objected to the Government proposition for the reduction of the duty on straw plait, but would not divide the House upon it. Several other items were agreed to. • On the item for the reduction of the duty on silk being proposed, Mr. G. BANKES moved as au amendment, that the item should be omitted. After a lengthened discussion the House divided, when there appeared for the amendment, 114; against it, 220; majority fur the Government proposition, 106. It was then arranged that the Tariff should be proceeded with to-night. Several Bills were then forwarded a stage. After a conversation , in which Mr. WAKLEY, Sir JAMES GnAnAM, Mr. S. CRAWFORD, and Lord J. RUSSELL took part, the Fever Hospital (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-night. Vie' other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Hrarse adjourned at Twenty Minutes past One o'clock. NEW WORK ON RPSSIA Now ready, in 2 vols. ' small Bvo., w:th a Full-length P ortrait of the Einperor, price 21s. bound, R usSIA UNDER THE AUTOCRAT, NICHOLAS T. BY IVAN GOLOVINE, _ _ A RUSSIAN SUBJECT. " Tirse volumes are to be regarded as the most authentic and copious exposition of Hussi.l and her Government that has yet been given to tile wet ld.—Britannia. Henry Coltenrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALK. ESSiiS. ',AMON!), SMALE, AND V LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Fricluis Vie Public fur their coutitattd support an 4 patronage, awl to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &C., glace every TVEAD.“ and YaivAt, at One o'clock„ at the Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all , avonri, coot lining instructions, are re=pecttlilly requested t. be 6 Aca An Scrip and Share Certificates must. be deposited for exa mination :it least one day previously to their being offered; and ails-ices of results will be torwarded by the first post after the sale, an' the proceed. immediately disposed of according to instructions. offices. or Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Mattel' 17, will be performed (tsar the first thae this Season), Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, ERNA NI. Li Ire, Mad late Parini (her first appearance in this country) ; Jiuy Gomez, r_dgnor Fornas,iri ; Don Carlos, Signor Bencich (his first appearance in this country); Ernani, Signor Castigliano (his first appearance in this country). To conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by M. Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pngni. The Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA ; ,m, LA FILLE DIJ BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdlle. Lucile Gratin, Madame Petit Stephan, Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglioni; 31. M. Gosselin, Bertrand, DI llattia. and Perrot. VcrilFs highly successful Oper a of 'NINO will be repeated forthwith. Madman Castellon is daily expected in town, and will shortly appear. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice, on Friday last, of a me &Al on the 26th instant (next Thursday week), on the state of Ireland. The form of the motion is for the House to re solve itself into a Committee to consider of an address to her MAJESTY on the state of Ireland. The first idea which occurs on hearing of this motion is, that it is likely to em barrass the Government, which embarrassment of the Go vernment may yet have an injurious effect on the pro gress of the pending commercial measures. Such, we have reason to believe, is the view taken of Lord Josire RussELt's Unexpected: notice of motion by many in fluential Members of Parliament who are his supporters. But it would be unwarrantably ignoring all the many proofs which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has given of a uwernunatrou LVL w PEEL'S commercial measures—it would be not only refusing him the confidence due to a statesman of his experience and often 7 proved caution and forbearance, but supposing him capable of the grossest inconsistency, to imagine that after discouraging by every means in his power, and ultimately voting against, Mr. VILLIERS'S amendment for imme diate repeal, he was going himself to make a hostile motion, framed to catch the votes of the protectionists, and so place the Government in a minority on a leading political ques tion, while the fate of the Corn Bill is yet undecided in the Lords. What was Lord JOHN Russatt's reason for voting against Mr. VILLIERS'S amendment, after Sir IL PEEL had declared that, should that amendment be carried against him by a combination of the Protectionists with the Liberal party, he would adopt it? Why, that, though Sir ROBERT PEEL would make it his own, there might be many Peers who had consented to the compromise of three years' delay in the original measure, but would not agree to immediate repeal, and that so by grasping at more, we might lose all in the Upper House. Now, tholigh Lord JOHN RUSSELL were to delr his intended motion on Ireland till after the Corn Bill had gone up from the Commons, and though his defeating the Government on that Motion would notlead Sir RoBEItT PEEL to resign till the Corn Bill bad either become the law of the land, or had been rejected by the Lords (and Sir RuseßT PEEL said as much - in the discussion about foreign books as that he had made up his mind to disregard all defeats and brave ill difficulties till be carried his new tern. Bill and Tariff, or at least as long as he saw any chance of Tli EA Tlt E ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, ianrdtnl, ilorncestle, S. Tones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, 3lts ; Romer, - and Mies Rainforth. After which, a new Fairy &diet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH. it, which Mons. Desplaces, 3ldiles. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. &c., will appear. T.F. - 11LAT it E RD - VA L. HA YMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of OLD HEADS AND YOUNG IM MO; 31 , r. : LiChriflCO fad isrJui l ar ENtiiiVet: JP "' The Band will perform the Overture, " La Rehm d'un Jour," "Antoinette," Callari us Waltz, and the Quadrille, " Le Rol d'Yvetot." After which a New Conic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. bland, .Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. T he fldlowed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHTL -I•INGS. Mr. Colightly, Mr. IluAstone ; Capt. Phohbs, Mr. Tilbury; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Itrhalal ; Mrs. Major Phohbs, Miss P. Hcrton. kiE.ATR iIOYAL, CE 17 IN. TND ER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Appearance in the Regular Drama of the celebrated GENERAL - TOM THUMB ! Tins EVENING The performances will commence with W iTC A AND WARD. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE 'MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss LAdlaw. _ _ _ . . . To he followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en tith.d .110 P 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and h's Seven League 1;oota. In ,hich General Tom Thumb, who is engaged expressly ter this occasion, will have the honour of making his appearance. • To .conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Mesas. A. Wigau, Turner, Bellingham; Misses Arden, Yillats, and Howard. St ells, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2t. ; nallerY, 6d• : • THa*.A.TICE ROYAL, ADEI,PIII. Wondrons saccess and hearty shouts of laughter at the New Farce of " Dal you ever send your Wife to Camberwell ?" TILES i.;VENING Weil ho performed a New Petite Drama, in Two -Acts, called, THE CABIN roy. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, Mr. Paul Bedford; Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Wo‘Agar. Afte77 Avlite.h, a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOU It WIFE. TO CAMBERWELL? Chesterfield Honey bun, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. o. ; Smith; Mrs.Honeybtm, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAM MO A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wrigle, Miss Woolgar. Madame Celgste, &c. will perform. To cowhide with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BIZE.I I •7.FA,;I`. Supported by Mr. I'aul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Wraf,!gar.tzc. r c, EATME, OXFORD-?TM; ET. THIS EVFNEN ~arrying them),—still a defeat of the Government in the Commons, by Lord J. Itt , ssam, on Irish pacy, could not but hive its eff , ct on wavering Peers, and might make all the difference between a majority and a minority for the Corn Bill. We take for granted, therefore, that Lord J. RUSSELL intends no embarrassment of the Government, and will avoid embarrassing them. His motion stands at present . for the 21.ith, but that is probably a merely nominal day: After all the Government may not oppose his me- . lion ; the concord between Lord LINCOLN and . Mr._ Dvarsox, on • the Nottinghamshire hustings, may pre dgure concord - between the two leaders on the great questions of Irish policy. .. Or. if the Government oppose, the protectionists may not support Lord JOHN. Lord JOHN'S views on the. Irish. Church will certainly not come nearer to Sir ROBERT Iz:qt.'s's and Mr. Couvitouses, than will those of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Chat we may say safely. Still the protectionists, as a party, may side with Lord Jons for going into Committee, to enunciate, when there, their own views, in distinct opposi :ion to _those respectively of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL; and the motion is so framed as to give them an opportunity of helping to place the Government in a minority, if they like. But we feel confident that if Lord lons RUSSELL sees danger in his motion, he will steer clear of it; and we would venture to say respect fully to the zealous free-traders who have taken alarm at Lord Joule's notice, "you persisted in an amendment Will be pA*,l,rme,l 4t New Vatle'rille Comedy. entitled, THE POT; 11,:S OF' .1 Ni(l FIT. Duke de Chartres, Mr. J. Vining ; Count d Etrissa,, Mr. Harris ; Pr. Druggendratt, Mr. Compton ; Pierre Mr. C. II athews : W)le. Duval, 3liss E. Honner ; Duchess de Chartres, Madame Vestris. After which, -• a New Comic Drama. entitled MATHEWS' AND CO. Cliaract::rs by. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Wtdtm, Oxborry, and Mss E. Honner. To he followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled, A SPEAKING LIKENESS'. Itaron.,de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. James Vining; Coco, Mr. Compton Manette, 7.lladatne Vestris. To be succeeded by a Conic Scene, cr.lled, TWO IN IHE MORNING. By Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. CoMpton. To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which Messrs. Gilbert, Marshall. Adrien, 3liss Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Melanie Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MAI INEES MYSTERIEUSES. Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distingteshed fam;lic., ai't in order to accommodate the crowds who thsz.k to 'Mond his Morning Performances, M. PHILLI PP M.: will. give his tlrstid Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Mormig., a Two ''clout.. M. Philiippo's moit Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Exper!ments will he repeated every Evening, varied by • the Ainu4ing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, n l the astounding Feats of the American Itrothem—Doors open at a quarter p tat Sec en. to com e:Mee at a quarter before FAuht. 33.; Boxes, 23 : ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Gil. ; Pr•vate Boxes, _ _ 11. lls. 6d. ASTLEY's Kt:IAL I kir....Vrite. ()I Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week but Three of the Winter Season, and of the present brilliant Spectacle, which is acknowledged by the countless throngs of admiring Spectat"rs to surpass all previous efforts, in gorgeous tableaux sikt magnificence of effect.—Splendid Double Band, Stu pendonS Performing Elephants, &c. THIS EVENING Will ha performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF NAG PORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the Whoh of the Csinpiny and beautiful Stud will appear. tri,lfine scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of th , British and Forewn Company. To conclude with THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER. tor immediate repeal against the remonstrances of very many TI-tF. wEAVIER.—StYN OFFICE. MARCH 15. THERMoMETER, Lowest. 47; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 54 BAnomETER, 30.10.—WIND W.N.W. Morning, rainy ; Afternoon, fine. MARCH 16. of your friends,—some of those who remonstrated with you •net with severe rebukes at your hands,—allow to others a little of that freedom of action which you claim for your selves,—if your past services entitled you to some Confidence in your sincerity when you took a course opposed by a large number of your friends, Lord JOHN RUSSELL also, by past forbeara3ce, and by the zealous support which he has hitherto given to the Government, lies establiihed a claim to confidence also ; and you should •at least wait till you see what Lord JOHN . RUtBEI.I. does, and hear what he says, before you _ condemn the step which he has taken." It should be borne in mind, also, that Lord Gamy has giVen a notice in the House of Lords, similar in terms to that of Lord . Joure RUSSELL in the Commons; and there is every _appearance of the two Noble Lords acting in concert. The surprise excited by Lord Joint Russam:s notice on Friday last had hardly time to subside among the Members of the House of Commons, when Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S unex pected proposal of a Bill to mitigate the effects of ad vancing disease in Ireland, excited more seriously startling reflectious. While the protectionists have been consuming weeks and weeks with their holiday speeches, famine, whose existence some of them affected to doubt, has been proving itself by the sad consequence of wide-spreading dieeaeo. The details of disease in Ireland, furnished by the Parliementary paper published on Satur day, are of a nature to excite the most painful and alarming appreheneiove Will they have any effect on protectionist politicians? Wilt it induce them to abstain from further AA+ uction of monsures which they cannot prevent, fur en iarging the supply of food for the famished people of Ire heel? We are unwil:ing at this moment to say a harsh word against Sir R..neenr PEEL'S Government, and have no great pleasure in agreeing with an orator from the protection benches; but we must say with Mr. BANI , ZES, that the advance of disease in - Ireland shows how wrong were those members of the Cabinet who prevented Sir R. Pelee from taking immediate measures in Neveml:er for opening the ports. Compared Stith what might have been done then, the best measures now will be oo late. But what is offered us now let us have as soon as possible, and let . Mr. 13Aeueeee use his eloquence and iefluence with his party to dissuade them from further factious delay. Sir R. PEEL postponed the second reading of the Corn Bill from last night, in order that the tariff might be pro ceeded with and, if rossible, finished. [Since writing the above, Lord JOHN RUSSELL has post poned his motion until after Rester.] We recorded last week with national pride the activity and 'seaman-like work displayed by the officers and crews of the Ships Rodney and Albion, in fittieg out the Bellerophon, et Portsmouth, and the Calcutta, at Devonport. At Portsmouth a rivalry seemed to exist between the different departments in -the dockyard and the officers and seamen on board the Rodney, which e hould do their work quickest and best. On Saturday week the officers and crew were turned over to the Bellerophon, and on Monday they went to work, and on that day the tops and cape were got over, the lower rigging put on together with the topmast, crosstrees, and caps, the mainyards got across—all heavy work, says our Correspondent; next day the rigging was set up, the bowsprit completed, the topgal lant-masts fidded- and rigged, a number of the main and lower deck guns got on board, with many other operations which the common reader cannot understand, and which it is needless further to describe. It is enough to say, that ac cording to the usual calculations all the fittings could not be completed before Saturday, and even then it would be called quick work. What was the result? Had our gallant sea teen or our brave officers become enervated by peace, or less active in their operations by having no enemy to rouse them t ► exerlon ? Quite the contrary. At noon oa Wednes day the. Bellerophon, 78, was anchored at Spithead, all ready fur sea, completely rigged, royal yards acme., sails all bent, three months' provisions on board, guns alt in, in shert, fitted for service, and in condition to go into immediate action with an enemy, powder being only wanting, and that the harbour regulations prevented her from-taking in. The Calcutta, at Devonport, was fitted out with the same rapidity and spirit, for between the two creeei there seemed also to have been a rivalry, and the officers of superior rank at these two sea-ports on the occasion, as well as the in habitants, were alike surprised and delighted to find that Englend can yet the so well that arm which has saved her in every hoer of danger. But foreigners, on reading the aeceutite, will be more than surprised,—they will be struck with aetolii,linient that opera iens, w hi c h .in RU:36ja• or Holland, or France, would have occupied the same number of men for four t:eri flays a least, were accomplished in England in lea than a f,urth part of the time. On looking at feats of which the country has such just reason to boast, it is natural to ar=k what reward and what treatatent should sailors like these rrceive at the Ilan& of eievernment. When they are not wanted II:mild they ha. turned adrift, and heeded over, much against theaeleille to ouranemieee? Should they be paid less than meichent seamen—be subjected to a "severity' of discipline, often needless and injurious to the service, and have mixed Up with tht - m tho refuse of awls and the offecouriLto of C.O people? Should they have forced into their ranks the best GUIN was the only other speaker on that side of the Chamber, of our fishermen along the coasts, as prisoners and slaves, and said that it was the duty of the Chamber to expres.s its ' and be compelled thus to associate with men detained against: opinion on the subject, and censured in the strongest terms • their will, and as fully entitled to their liberty as the first the cruel policy adopted towards Poland. M. GuizoT was noblemen of the land? Such, we blush to state, with the ' the principal•speaker on the occasion, and in order to under eiception of a'retreat in Greenwich Hospital, when maimed stand his remarks we give the following brief ques or worn out in the melee, were the rewards given to tions put to him by the Marquis DE LA ROCIIEJACQUELIN - : the brave defenders of their country, to the men who " For the last fourteen years," said the Marquis, " the two guarded so faithfully the British coasts against all the Chambers had expressed their wishes, had manifested their hostile attacks of Bosupatere, and finally annihilated the formal intention to maintain Polish nationality. He would fleets of France and Spain. Peace certainly has mitigated ask whether those wishes were to be nothing more than an to a certain extent these hardships—we should rather say annual epitaph written on the tomb of the Polish nation ? cruelties, but still much is to be done . ; and naval reform, Had the Government been able to do what had been desired? if we wish to maintain our superiority, is absolutely ne- i He thought not; and felt convinced that the wishes so often cessary. Their pay must be increased as well as their renewed by the two tribunes had been useless.—s.(Murniurs.) pensions ; they must be induced by rewards, not forced by He considered there was some instruction to be gained from violence, - to engage in the service, and on every occasion what was peeing in Poland. Could it be believed that in a when a ship is paid off, or the number in active service re- monarchical Government orders had been given by which a duced, should provision be made that the experienced 1 price of 25f.1utd been offered for the headof every noble, priest, Seaman shall find it his interest to remain in his or landowner that might be brought in. He must protest native country, and still look to it as his home. Only against such horrors, and would now ask the Government a few hundred thousand pounds a-year Would accom- what it had done towards the accomplishment of the wishes, plish all this, yet that is refused, and economy seems fourteen .times repeated by the Chambers? What can it do always, in the most preposterous manner, to be allowed to fulfil them, now that the remnant of the Polish nation was first to attack the defenders of their country—the sailors suffering under a long and painful agony? What measures and soldiers. The pay, and more especially the pensions, would it adopt ? Would it guarantee that the independence are too small ; sufficient • inducement is 'not held out of Craeow shall be respected and. maintained? Would it to respectable men to _engage .in the services, and the guarantee that the action of political vengeance shell not be consequences are • becoming more and more felt every day. eubetituted for that of regular justice? In a word, what The artillery corps cannot be supplied. with., recruits front. has the Government done, what will it do, and what can it Scotland ; soldiers, who it appears are entitled by sense over- do ?" sight to their discharge, for the same reason decline to remain in the army, .and when any large vessel is to be manned the greatest difficulty is found in getting able seamen. The remedy. is • perfectly eimple, and occurs to every man of practical knowledge. "M. Guizot in reply said, among the questions that had been put to him by the honourable Deputy, that on which ho most particularly insisted related to the policy and acts of a foreign Government, and not to those of the French Govern ment. For that reason he should confine himself to the line of conduct he had always adopted in that tribune—to speak of what he knew.—(hear, hear.) If the acts which had been reported were true, he would not hesitate to designate them as deplorable and guilty. To provoke a social overthrow as a defence against a. political danger would be a criminal act. Revolutionists were sometimes guilty of such acts—but 'regular Governments never.—(Approba tieu from the Centres.) From the information which had, however, reached him, he had seen nothing to Con firm the facts of which he spoke, and far from admitting them to be true on the faith of the journals and the cor reopondence which bad been quoted, he should be more in clined to deny them. In order to explain the part *which the peasants of the Grand Duchy of Posen and of Gallicia naa Just been playing, there was no necessity to bring for ward guilty suppositions and hypotheses of prices being placed on the heads of certain patties which the Hon. Dsputy had alluded to. Since the Grand Duchy of Posen and Gallicia have been united, the one to Prussia, and the other to Austria, both those Governments have used their utmost exertions to ameliorate the con dition of the peasants. In• the Grand Duchy of Posen, RS in all the provinces of the monarchy, the Prus sian ,Government had constantly endeavoured to improve the condition of those people, and they had a right to hold land; they had obtained special jurisdictions instead of those under which they htd ben formerly placed. When, there fore, an attempt was made to excite them to join in the revolt, they had refused, because their situation was no.v better than it had ever hitherto been. The same had taken place in Gallicia, where, since the laws of Maria Theresa and Joseph 11., the condition of the peasants had been much ameliorated. That was the true reason which had ir:fiuerced the conduct of the peasants of Gallicia. There was not the slightest necessity to bring forward these odious euppesitions of the setting a price on the heads of the nobles and the clergy; they had stronger motives for their con tiact, in the improved condition in which they had been placed. At the very moment when these events were threat ening, before the results of the insurrection were known, the Austrian Government foresaw all that happened, and it had expressed its tears that a revolution among the peasants would break out simultaneously with another insurrection ; such it feared that fresh difficulties and 'fresh causes of em • barraissment might arrive. This is whet was foreseen by Prince de Metternich, who communicated it to the French Government. The Chamber might form its opi nion on theie assertions. He was not charged to defend front that tribune such or such a foreign Government; but he considered himself celled- Upon to dissipate false ideas and erroneous opinions. Ile might refrain from entering into any further explanation on the subject; but he would tot quit the tribune without explaining the ideas of the Go verntnent.—(ltlear, hear.) It was not. without a deep feeling of grief, and without a serious conviction that his friends and himself had, in 1831, adopted and supported, with regard to Poland, the lint of 'policy which lied been-followed. The Chamber would permit him to remind it of the motives of . their conduct and of their policy—the non-intervention of France in the affairs of Poland. The interest of France called for this policy. They thought that after the revolu tion of July, France should establish her own government, and cover with her buckler not only her own independence but that of those countries which were closely connected with her—Belgium, Switzerland, and Piedmont. The na• tional interest of France imposed this policy on them. An other motive influenced them—the-right of 'nations. France accepted the state of Birope and it a'matter of faith to maintain good relatiOns between its Governments. Such were the motives which in 1831 determined the line of policy to be adopted by France, and they had been too often discussed from that tribune, to make it necessary for him to allude further to them on the present occasion; and now when after sixteen years they were reaping the fruits of their policy—prosperity and security at home, and consideration and dignity abroad—he did not consider it was a moment to abandon it, on motives less grave and less imperious than those which led to its adoption in 1831. This policy im posed on them two duties towards the unfortunate Poles ; the first, was not to hold out to them any illusory or false hopes, and the second, to render them every relief core r atible with the interests of France and with the law of nations. Such had always been their line of conduct, and such it would continue to be; and whilst they remained faithful to this line of duty, they had a right to hope that men, who placed themselves under the protection of France. would not forget the duty imposed on them, not to compro mise the hospitality they received. What would be the feelings of the Chamber, were it to learn • that Abd• en Bader was receiving assistance from a foreign power? Was there any one in that assembly but would feel that the interests of France were thwarted by such a proceeding? He begged the Chamber not to lose sight of those facts, and of' the posi tion in which they placed the Government. He was anxious that those who claimed and obtained the hospitality of France, should find so good a rule for their. conduct. France wi bed to be a place of refuge for misfortune, but not a re sort for conspirators."—(Approbation from the Centres.) The Opposition press, as we have stated, expresses indig nation at this reply. The Cqnstituiionnel, m ore m ild t h an the rest, thus characterises; the Ministry ; ‘ e t t h e e r y sburgh and at 1 .. might be et London a : no longer,ce andquite Absolutists. theyoi AairteiAantSt. as P We ;seal! soon see its effects at home. After this fine defence Of the Austrian Governme n t , M. G uizot replied to the °‘ eons. l°' In .. ! . 1 ° ' T r ai l nr i The} 3 P- Conservativesa Paris, ' o t e Hh second point, that he intended without any reserve to pursue the rile) , of non intervention, and that he con sequently wished to remove all illusory hopes from the Poles ty promising them nothing beyond hospitality. A deep and aiuful emotion penetrated the Chamber at this pitiless declaration." - Simultaneously with :the progression of the Customs and Corn Importation Bill, two official doCUmentd of the utmost interest and importance, bearing, as:they cln,:upon the pre. valence of disease and the scarcity of provisions in Ireland, have been issued, one by our Most gracious Sovengeax, and the other by order of the Commons in. Parliament assembled. And with the publication of these very remarkable papers, the list rags of :hope to which the -most visionary sceptics had clung are for ever scattered to the winds ; the great, haggard truth stands out with hideous prominence before them; the miseries %shies. have been: . isseathsnsa r ive.- ..msed:t the wretched populace et Ireland are not fictitious in ono solitary tittle—not to the extent of a single diseased potato—not to the extent of a single case of dy sentery—not to the extent of a single empty pocket, or -a stomach minus nourishment. On the contrary, the picture: which have been hitherto drawn of Irish destitutb;n and Irish wretchedness pitive to be anything but over-coloured : the oratorical allusions through which the 'English public acquired their first inklings of the moral hniricane brooding Over our sister island. are corroborated by the unanswerable logic of statistics; the.visions which bad been evoked by our statesmen as persuasives to a vast movement, are realised by these numerical figures, and that••with a rhetoric more stirring and niore solemn than could be enunciated by the most accomplished scholiast—the rhetoric of fact ! Never within the limits of any appreciable'record ham Ireland been visited with a more dire accumulation of suffering during u period of confirmed tranquillity then that under which her children are now writhing, without solace and without hope. Committed, for some inscrutable reason, to the spoliation of a vegetable pestilence, without an opportunity of acquiring by additional toil wages enough to compensate for the de ficiency, their frames emaciated by hunger, or burnt up with contagious meladieS, the Irish multitude are plunged into one of those • woful Plights from which extrication is impos sible, unless through the interference of the more fortunate aed less embarrassed among their couCirymo. • We have, how ever, so repeatedly viewed the matter in this par titular light, namely, as an incentive to .the sympathy, the generosity, and the •Justice of Government, that we are fain to believe any further enforcement of thiS point to be super fluous, the more particularly as our -legislators are giving every indication of their anxiety to - administer comfort where it is so urgently required, and and 'descending from the ex pression of , sentiment to the perfoimaece Of acts. Looking, however, at the two documents before us, as patina tions of 'anything that may have appeared like over-precipitation. .en the part of the • Ministry— or rather as direct evidence of the integrity by which their conduct has been guided—they assume a new importance and require a yet closer examination. The one presented by comtnand of her MAJESTY . is-a full exposition of the rapid and gigantic _strides alteedy taken by disease, by way of sequence to the tainted esculents with which the la • bourers had been compelled to ar lie* the' cravings of nature, in defiance Alike of their poisonous qualities and the nausea produced by their . odour and their flavour. From the re ports condensed into this abstract it appeava that each of the four principalities partake, and in a great Measure, of the infections arising exclusively from the murrain, or from . the aetual non-existence of either nutritious or unnutritious provisions. The greatest caution ; -more over, has been observed by the Commission throughout their exertions—epd this circumstance is conspicuous in the care with which the different medical statements have been selected. 'A mere.glance at these eight folio pages will suf fice, in all conscience, to penetrate the moat obdurate with feelings of commisgeration for the sufferers, and with'. a real anxiety •to behold their penury alleviated, and their pangs of body assuaged. Colic, typhus fever, intermittent and low fevers, dysentery of the most violent description, diarrhcsa, and negative indisposition, such as debility and spasmodtcseizures, are rife in almost every district ...throushout the length and breadth of that unhappy land. Only a single county, in fact, in this • mournful catalogue,. has attached to its name the brief, satisfactory and,emphatic corollary—" and that county is CARLOW. That ailments of this acute and contagious character should lee thus prevalent, is, however matter of little astonishment on turning to the other docu ment of which we have already made especial mention— being a return of the average Price of pOtatoes is the various market-towns in. Ireland. Comparing the price of that es sential commodity during the January . of the last five years —a contrast which testifies in many instances the extraordi _ fact, that potatoes are selling in 1646, iu many towns, at more than double the sum re quired during "a corresponding date in 1810 ; that a yet greater number of markets average exactly double that amount; and that the majority shoW o vast increase of price with a correspondingly greater decrease of quality in pota toes at the present season as compared with the seven years precediug. After a perusal of these documents, it. he.zomeslncum bent upon every right-thinking man to strive individually, as•well as in concert with his neighbours, to rurtlier the wishes of the Prime Minister as far as private co operat ion in his measures is concerned : this, in short, is not only incumbent upon us as members of 'a bady politic., it is our solemn.and bOunden duty as men and as Christians. it is, that we are tilled with a more particular anxiety than ever to witness . the proposition that the House form itself into a Committee for the purpose of taking the condition of Ireland into consideration, as. promised by Lord Junx Rus .and the yet earlier movement.of a similar character. as promised by Lord GREY. Sentiment will not suffice any longer—action; action, action is necessary nary Madrid journals of the 7th and.Bth have been received We find no facts in them, but as usual plenty of rumours. Among others; says the Clamor Public°, " A personage be longing to the Government • has received a letter from M. GUIZOT, in which that Minister signifies that, in the event of the. Trapani match not being accomplished, Louis I'm- LIPPE has determined to promote the QuEzst's marriage with the Count Dm MONTIKMOLIN." This . royal marriage appears to have been the cause of the divisions in the Cabinet. It broke up the last, and will probably have the same effect on the present. • All repOrts agree that the existing of iniatry cannot hold long together, and that the QUEEN-MOTHER and NARVAEZ are resolved on another change. It was said that the QUEEN icould, in the course . of the summer, visit • Andalusia. ~ The Government paper, the Journal des Debate, writes in a more sober strain:— " We have just heard the questions addressed to the Go vernment by M. de la Bochejacquelin on the subject of the deplorable events which are taking place in Poland. We not conceal the painful feeling . which has been cau, , ed us by this discu-sion ; the whole Chamber seemed desirous to bring it to an end. To what have the interpolations (,! M. do Larochejacquelin led ? To what could they have led ": For our own part we did not require to hear the noble lan guage of M. cx..,;zwi to be assured that the French Govern ment would fulfil towards the unfortut‘ate Poles all the duties imposed on it by humanity and policy. What more is wished for ? Is it desired that France should interfere in favour of the insurgents of Cracow, and that she should go, arms in hand, to act the par t of the police and of pro pagandism in Gaiticia and in the Dueler of Pesen ? No—the only wise and genfrrous conduct to he tidopted is that pointed out by M. Guizot. You cannot, you will not interfere in favour of the Poles. Do not, then, hold out vain hopes; do not trifle with their heroic maltase ,, . All illusions may be excused in - theM. They are proscribed and exiled; they have lost their country. Nothing can be more natural than that at the slightest moveme nt the y sho uld consider it ready to revive. If they deceive t hemselves, no one has a right to reproach them with an error• for which they pay with their blood. But you — wha t do you desire ? To push th em into dangers which you will not share with them ? To en courage them in enterprises, the success of which ev e n i n your own eyes is but chimerical? We beg pardon of M. Odilon Barrot, hut that would be barbarous conduct, and as contrary to the dignity of France as to the law of nations. We shall not dwell on the details of this discussion, which was, to say the least, inopportune. We shall not recur to the frightful massacres of Tarnow. We choose rather to refer our readers to the speeches of M. Guizot and M. de Castel lan. Discussions do not take place when events are scarcely known—when, perhaps, blood is still flowing. The misfor tune of the Poles is too great, and even in their illusions they deserve too much respect, for their cause to be given over to party dispute. Let it be sufficient for us to state that not a voice was raised, even on the Extreme Left, to call for an armed intervention. The moment will arrive to determine whether the best means to be adopted to pacify Poland will not be to restore to her the remnant of national existence guaranteed by treaties, of which force has deprived her, but to which she is entitled by right." The following are the only other extracts from the papers of interest : " A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the German Journal Franhfort, states that the French Ambassador there, the Count de Flabaut, had used his good offices with the Austrian Government to induct it to show clemency to the insurgents of Cracow, and had to far succeeded as to receive an assur ance that, if they _submitted in proper time, an amnesty should be granted. " A Berlin letter of the Bth, in a Frankfort journal, states that the three protecting Powers will keep up the force which had been sent into the Polish provincee, until the revolt is entirely put down. Prussia, Austria, and Russia will, it adds, act with the greatest leniency to wards the indiv iduals who have been led to take part in the movement, but will adopt the severest measures against the leaders of the revolt. "The National says We have received through a channel on which we can place confidence, news which is very favour able to the insurrection. A division that had advanced into the Carpathian mountains, entered into communication with Hungary; and two important Cotnitats of that. country have risen. The movement continues to penetrate into Lithuania, and presents to , Austria a character so general, that the most extreme measures are taken to prevent the real state of things from being known.' " A letter from Coblentz of the 11th states that the reign ing Duke of Byte Gotha will set out in the course of the month for Spain and Portugal. The King of Naples, it adds, has broken off all negotiation relative to the marriage of the Duke de Trapani with the Queen of Spain, in conse quence of the protests on the subject which have taken place in the Spanish Cortes. - "We learn from Rome, 28th ult., that the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia visited the Pope on that day. The interview was exceedingly cordial, and after the usual cete mtialcil of reception, the Pope and the Grand Duke were closeted for nearly half an hour. At the close of this con ference, to which only the Count de Iloutenieff, the Russian Ambassador, was admitted, the Grand Duke presented the gentlemen of lids suite to his Holiness." The Three per Cents. closed at 1141. sc. ; tke Tire per Costs., 1191. 95e. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,3221. 504 ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Havre, 757 f. 50c.; Great Northers, 7117 f. 50c. ; Mignon, 990 f.; Vierzou, 763 f.; U•rdeaux ' . 676 f. 25c. Boulogne, 522 r. Sec. ; Troyes and Mentereau , 4421. 20e. ; Basle, 247 f. 60c. ; Fampous, 460 e. ; Dieppe , 450 f.; Paris And Stcasioare, 5461. 25c. ; T ours an d Nantes, 475 f. ; farts and Lyons, definitive, 622 f. 53c.; Pas sives, 5%. Spanish Three per Cants., 37% ; Spanish Pas - • - • . . . The following are _thagnotatiene for other - Lyons and Arifloll, definitive, 566 f. 25c. • Bordeaux * and' Cette (Mactenate), NU. ; ILtte (Zspekta), 509 f. ; Viarltael; ti 50c• . . Ou the 7th the Three per Cents. closed at 29% cash, and 293 at 40 days; the Five per Cents. at 21 3 4 for the 30th of April. An interesting discussion took place in the French Cham ber of Deputies, on Friday, on the insurrection of Poland, but, as might have been expected, led to no result. The question was brought forward by the Marquis nn LA ROcHE. JACQiTELIN, .belonging to a family that had displayed the utmost bravery, and made the greatest sacrifices in the cause of legitimacy. Often had the people of the West of France risen: under their guidance against the Govern ments that had occupied the place of the Bourbon dynasty, and in several, if not nearly alt instances, when success was as hopeless as the present unfortunate attempt in Poland. The Marquis, therefore, probably thought he had a right to take the lead on the occasion, but his principles amalga mated ill with those of MM. MAUGtillf, ODILOW BAR ROT, and other Deputies of the Left; from this cause, as well, perhaps, as the conviction that .nothing could be done by the Government, they made but a faint at tempt to force on a discussion. The Marquis DE CAS TELLAN, though agreeing in the policy of non-interventon, and admittng that Prussia sought to benefit the peasants under her rule, complained of the conduct of Austria, which was quite the reverse, for that power sought to keep up a spirit of division between the different classes of the people, the nobles and the clergy on the one hand, and the peasants on the other. He said nothing of the conduct of Bussia; the remarks made by M. ODILON Bannoi were extremely mild, and formed a strong contrast to the violent attacks made on M. GUIZOT by the Opposition journals. He felt convinced beforehand of' the answer that would be given. He would net make any remarks to the contraOictions (alluding to M. Gni toT's speech, given below) given to acts which, for the honour of humanity, he would fain hope might prove un true, but he would ask what had been the result of the wish expressed every session, for the last fifteen years, on behalf of the Polish nation ? Was not, he would ask, thy conduct of the Government a reproach for that wish, so solemnly expressed ? It had been said that the spirit of conquest might lead them too far, but that theory was not at all applicable in the present case. They had suffered sufficiently from the consequences of the treaty of 1815, to be permitted now to claim its execution in favour of rationality without being taxed with being am bitions. • • It had been said. that=their. protest • woula -be vain, but it should however be made. He had faith in Polish na tionality, awl he hopi fin its ultimste.trituurli." M. Kitt. MARSMILLES, Meacn 10.—Marseilleg and Mignon, 995 f.; North ern, 785 f. • • !Joss, Mattcn I2.—Marseilles and Aviinion, 9651: ; Paris and Orleans, I,?2'f. 75c, ; Rotten, 1,0331'. '7sc. ; Lyons, 61$( 75c. ; Vierzon, 740 t. • BCSINESis' DONE IN FORF.IGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 14. Dntch Rhenlsli, 634 -- EiSt Indian, %—Great Northern of France Constituted, —Great Western Canada, 3 —Luxembourg, —Orleans and Bordeaux, 12;i —Oyer Yasel, 2 dis.—Sambre and Meuse, V A . . MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 2.000 to 2.500 b.des, including 350 American for export, and 700 on speculation. The market was steady. There was considerable activity in the Share market, and a good busi ness was done. The Scrips were advancing. The letters and papers delivered this morning from the United States, brought by the Cambria steam vessel, are, upon the whole, considered satisfactory. Great expectations, the mercantile writers say, are entertained that war would be avoided upon the Oregon question, the mere so as the Intel ligence received oat from England of the propositions of the Premier to reduce the tariff so materially, especially in favour of the produce of the republic, continues to be applauded to the echo. From Canada we learn that much interest was felt for the opening of the United Legislature. A change in the Council was fully anticipated. The weather had again become very mild. The ice on the St. Lawrence was just off in the vicinity of, Quebec, b - it the channels opposite were clear—a most extraordinary circumstance—the season of the year _being considered. In all the principal districts of Canada, and other British North American Colonies, the pro jection of railways was a topic of most earnest consideration. In the year 1844 and 1845, it appears from official returns that the number of vessels built at Quebec was 17, of the aggregate tonnage of 11,770 tons. Contrary . to the expectation entertained at the commence ment of business in the English Stock Market this morning, Consols have receded in value. The first impression was that the news from the United States would have lifted up prices. The opening prices were similar to those which were paid on Saturday afternoon, but soon afterwards the Bear party corn• meneed operations, and the result was that for the first transfer to-morrow the quotation of Consols fell to 95%, and for the Account from 96% to 96%. India Stock is quoted at 260, and Exchequer li»illa at 375. premium. There have not been any other prices noted this morning. In the Foreign Stocks there has not been any feature of importance this morning, if we except a rise in the value of Portuguese from 56 to 57. We have not heard of any infor mation from Lisbon to account for this change. Spanish Actives remain at 26 to 26 1 4, and the Three per Cents. at 36%. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been done at 83 ; Mexican at 31%; and Peruvian at 361. The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn ing. ' The accurate list of prices are annexed. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Console Annuities .. .. 9tl ( 93% 96 Bank Stock for Account 211 ConstAs for Account • . • . 96% % % 96 IA India Stock ibr Account .. 260 260 Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001... „ 37 pm . Ditto, Small 34 37 pm. ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 83 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31% Ditto, for the Account .. 31% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. Ditto, for the Account • • • • • • 36% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto. 4 her Cent .. • • .. • • 56% 57 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 26% Ditto, Coupons .. • • • • .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36% • Dividends on the above payable in London. Frelich Itentes, 5 per Cent .. —f. —c. 119 f. —c Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c Dutch Two-and-a-lialf per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. • 95 PRICES OF. RAILWAY SHARES. CLOSING PRICES. 83 31% 3114 36 36% RUSINESS CLOSINTI PAID. DONE AT• PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%.... ...... • • Mimi:lomm and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% Bristol and Exeter .. .. 70 . 83 ........ B3 Ditto New .. 6 .... 9% 10 lO Buckinghamshire 425. .... %-% his.. • . % die Caledonian .. 10 .... 11 14 11 iz Ditto, Half Shares .... 254 2 3 4 Ditto, Extension .... % Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... • • .... • Chuniet and Blythe .. .. 2 .. .• 1% .... Direct Blanchester (Remington's) .... % Direct Manchester (Resnick's) . Direct Northern .. 2%.... 2% 22% Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .... 3 and Galway .. .. 4 .... 2 • • Esslern Counties .. 141. lr:s. .... 21% 21 .... Ditto New 81. 16s. .... Ditto, York I: xtension 105..... I .. East Lincolnshire .. .... Exeter, Yeovil, and DorChester .. 2%.... I Gloue., Aberysf., & Cent. of Wales 11i.... % Goole, Doneast., and hefileld,&e. 42e. % p.. .. Gt. Grimsby, Louth, Horn., &c... 425..... 3i die Great Western • .. 85 ..145 . ... 34 P .... % dis. 145 Ditto, Half Shares .. 5O .... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 16% ..... . Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 Hull and Selby 30 ....101 .... • • .... Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .... .......... Lancaster and Carlisle 35 .... 53 ..... 53 Ditto, New .. 5 .... 9% 1014 .... 104 Leicester and Birmingham 22s. .... dis dis Leicester, Tamworth. &c. .. 42s. ... 1 dis. ........ 1 die Liverpool and Leeds Direct 2sg .... 2% 4 ........ Liverp., - Manch., & Newc. Janet. 214 .... . . London an Birmingham ... .100 ..•.219 . ..... 219 Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... 49% .• • Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 264 ••• • • • Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 33 .. • • London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 834 8% London aid Brighton .. 50 .... 64 63% 644 London and Croydon .. 131. 15e. 9d. 22 21% 22% London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 9%4 . . London and Soutit-Weeent.. 411. 6s. 10d. 77 75% London and York .. .... 3 1 ,E Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 234 • .. 214 ... ........ London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. • • Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 9% Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....130 ..... Ditto; Fifths .. • .. .. 2 .... 12% Ditto Extension 425..... 314 p. Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .......... Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 ...• 124 .......... .. Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... 10 .. • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. I 8 ....•• Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... 1% 54 p...... Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... Midland ..100 ....146 145........ Ditto, New 18 304 ...... Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .......... Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 Ditto, New 1 .. Ditto, New, Brandling .. 20 .• 36 ..... Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 19 1 / n... ..... North British .. 20 .• 27 26% Ditto, Hail Shares .. .. 6 .... to% ..... . Ditto, cariisio Extension .• .. 254%• • • • Ditto, Dalkeith 25 .... 30 ••• • . ..... Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... Ditto, New • • .. 1 13 .. •• • • .... North Kent and Direct Dover .. 254 24 2.. ••• • .. 2 -Norea Staffordshire 425. 3 % p•• ••• 3.4 p Nerthinpton,Bauhury,&Cheithm. 2 .... . oxlil., Worcester, & Wolverhinptu. 1214 .... 1254 % • Perth and Inverness • • .. 254 ...... Portsmouth 1 1 1recti • • • • .. .... 31 4 • ....... • • Preston and Wyre .. • • • • 25. .... 34% •• •• Scottish Central .. . • . 754 .... 144 14 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 3 ........ • . South Devon .. 35 .... 33 ••••• • • .. South Midfand .. • • 4211; •• • 11 4 p.... •• .. South Eaidern and Dovor ..... Do., New (do 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 11 . • ..... Do., New (do. 30/4 .. No. 3. 15 .... 3autll Wales 4........ %•• •• •• •• .... . . . . • i'ean and Dove Valley.. 1%.... Tang. Reading, and lia,ingstoke.. 51y Vale of Neath ~ 2 Waterfil, Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1% .... Welsh "Midland „ 24 Wed Riding Union .. • • .. 425. . 'Cork dad North Midland .. 50 . Ditto. i,carborough Branch .. 25 Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten. . foREIGN . 1:oulogne and Amiens .. 10 .. Dord., Tout., St Cette Mackenzie) 2 .... 2 Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... . Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • 5 .. East Indian . :rt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16%;i .;reat Indian Peninsular .. ss. „ . Brest Western Canada 3 1 ,,y .... 3% .. . . Jersey Luxembourg Madrid and Valentin 2 .... •• Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 12% .... •• .. Sambre and 3lause .. 6 .... .... - - • ..... .• . .. .. .. .. •• •4 ii • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. - London and Westnlimter .. 20 .... 26 1 ,4 27 x.d Provincial of Ireland 25 .......... Real del 'Route, Unregistered —3% • • .• • • •• • United Mexican 281.25. d.. 4 .. •••• • • • • MORGAN'S PATENT.ENVELOPES.—We have been much pleased with the new patent envelope, invented by Mr Morgan, which combines security with neatness and dis patch. The envelope is ready sealed, and is secured by a cemented flap, doubling over one end, over which the stamp may be affixed, thus affording double security and doing away with the trouble of sealing. They are perfectly secure and save.both time and trouble. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT HAVERING. The village of Havering-atte-Bower was, on Sunday, the Ist instant, the scene of a most lamentable occurrence, in the ac cidental death of a little girl in the parochial school, named Emma Vale, who was shot by another child, only four years of age. Soml young men, instead of attending a place of worship, had been violating the Sabbath by shooting small birds with a large pistol, which they left within reach, loaded with a heavy charge of shot, when Vale returning from school ran into a cottage to give part of an apple to the other child, and the latter at the instant taking up the pistol, it went off, and the contents caused the death of the deceased. An inquest was held on the 3d instant before W. H. Clifton, Esq., coroner, who, in suitable terms, repri manded the young men, to whose conduct the death of the poor child is to be attributed, and the jury expressed them selves in the strongest terms of censure at the criminal negligence evinced by them in the transaction.—Chelmsford Chronicle. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch entertained the Earl and Countess Camden, Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn, Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn, Sir Jamee and Lady Graham, the Right Hou. Sydney Herbert, and a distinguished circle at dinner on Saturday, at Montagu House. bACRED liAiLutoNIC SOCIETY.—A selection of an theme and Cathedral music is to be performed on Friday next. The programme comprises specimens of the works of the beet English masters, from the Reformation to 1800. PRINTERS' PENSION SoCIETY.—The Right Honour ahl,a Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart has, upon application made to him by the cominittee of this excellent society, intimated his consent to take the chair at the approaching anniversary dinner in aid of the Minds of the Institution, which is announced to be held at the London avern on the 18th of 31 ay next. ROYAL A RTILLERY.--AVoOLW ICU GARRISON. MAItCH l4.—Major-General Sir Robert Gardiner, K.C.8., will, it is rumoured, sneeeed Lord Bloomfield as commandant of this garrison. THE DRURY-LANE MURDEIL—WiIIiam wicks, who was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to suffer the extreme i e. amity of the law, was 110 t executed yesterday morning, Re was generally expected. It is stated that a strong memorial, coupled with evidence, htY b ten presented to Sir James Graham relative to the previcius state of the convict's mind, and that a searching inquiry upon the subject is at present going on. ALARMING FIRE IN GRACECRUfterf-STRENT.—Yes terday morning between four and five o'clock a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. It. Plant, hosier and outfitter, situate at .No. 6, Grens3church-strect, City. The police, after some trouble, suc ceeded in arousing the inmates, who fortunately made their eskilpe without injury. Engines from the ,Teffery-square end Watling street stations were quickly in attendance, and the supply of water being abundant, the tire was subdued, but the stcek on the premises was in a great measure destroyed, and the building itself much in jured. Upon Mr. Braidwood making au examination of the pre mises, he found that the flames had commenced in five or six differ ent portions of the shop, and that there had apparently been some tar placed on the wall. Mr. Plant, upon searching the cash-box, discovered that a 101. note had been abstracted, as well as some gold. These circumstances appear to leave little doubt that the premises had first been robbed, and afterwards set on tire. The police have set an inquiry on foot, and it is to be hoped that the guilty party will, ere long, be brought to justice. Mr. Plant Is insured in the Sun and Globe fire-offices. • PROPERTY-TAX.—It appears from the return issued on Saturday, that the net amount of property and invorn:.-tax re ceived. ft-the -year.,ending. the sth day of January, 1844, was 5,372,786/. 12a. 001.; 4nd for thip..Filituandiag„tl4,fAlLtliniusrY , 1S 3, '*.303,591/. 16i. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 59; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 29.56. WIND S.W., strong gale and heavy squalls. •i.(;rt WATEI: AT I.ONIION-rsitltt(o , THIS I.AV. Aterninz 23 Fa:nut-fa after 4. Evening .. 40 minutes after 4, AK, : citiip ?xs-. r , .. t'kr , ..4.1 41.1—z •- - - Yi !i , .1 r At It - ..e . ..; t -, - , ...‘„• - •.z04 , -,e7 . , - . Net , it , ; ~,,, , -. a.„ , :•11•2:74,if (...., , ~„....- ,-:-.....,,,,. , 1, --- r. O ,T. . , ;KA ••-',4..",; - k , " , <„ frillt-1111( Int" ONIONT, 'TUESDAY, mAncri 17, 1846. , LORD CIiANCh.I.I.OR took his seat on the Woolsack at 1 ivc o't pf;•i!i.ns were pres, , ntel, among others one by 1.( , r I.;:v>t:Gtl.ll‘l, S?i,u.ned by 37,000 inhabit:n - 0S of Cornwall, the of Dev(..n, in favour of the CornwA and Devon Centrd ing the i my peti tion in fAvour of a railway that he had ever presented in The Earl of CL.tr.F.NtioN gave notice that he should, to morrow, move Al- papers on the sulject of the o,rgon nego tiation ; and their Lordihips adjourned. Tile SFEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. NEVI,LF, took the oath and his seat for Windsor, and Cl:ptaill CARNEGIE for Stafford. Several Raitw.vay Bills were read a second time and ordered to he committed. The order of the clay for the seccnd reading of the Great North and South Wale?, Railway Bill. Was discharged upon the moti-u of Mr. Montts, after a few observations from Sir DE LAC`,." EVANS. Mr. F. Fn7.2rcir prouferl a petition from k clergyman of the Church, complaining of the course pursued by the Bijlinp of I.imilick in the distribution of livings in hi S<< -trial pf.titions were presented for and againat the Go vernmentrneaseres wizh rtspect to the corn laws. Lc" Groilkal llinrisci: presented a petition from Cum berl:mtl, against any alteration in the eorn•lawa. The Noble Lord stated that the petition was signed by every one of the tenanta of the Laird of Netherby, with the exception of one. Sir IZIA;Errr PELL pre9ented a petition from a vast inajo ,i ty of commercial • houses in the city of Loaaco, unnected with the India House, the B ank or E,glan'i, and the corn trade, praying the House to relieve coro.mercial stagnation, by coinir , g to a speedy deter n on Iho queNtio,49 relative to the tariff. L. , rd JOHN RussELL post(amed his motion relative to the state of li . elan.l till after Mr. SMYTiIE, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affair., in an, , wer to a question from Mr. Mo.xe:KT MILN vs, said he had no objection to lay on the table of the Howe a contil , tion of the papers respecting the operations of the Cons:Aar ,Itri-die!i ,, n Act in the Levant. Sir JAm!..s GnAnAm, in answer to a question from Captain Osnotaic:. stated that, it was his inten ion to propose the re newal of the Irish Arms Bill during the present session. Sir R. PEEL, in arc:wer to a question from Mr. SHAW, said that it was his intention, as speedily as possible, to proceed with the Life anti Propt:rty (Ireland) Bill. Mr. Slum 0 . 131:1EN wished to ,snow whether it was in tended bv the Government to real the Fever (Ireland) Bill a second time that night, becaLse if it was, ha trust4i it would not lie read after twelve o'clock. Sir tT.A.mi - ..s GRAHAM aid that such was his intention, and he tiusted that he should be permitted to do so even after twelve o'clock. Mr. I'. 5 , . - .•,norE said that the people of Ireland wanted food and not pltysie, Sir JAmt , , , kIIA3I a , sure the House that ample measures ha‘l beet taken to relieve the I,e2Essitie~ of the peo:,le of Ireland. AI HuME 4all the peoplo of ITheland w.mt el. labour, by whichtn,y might prociare.fo -0, nod did oat &sire to to made e nation of, j !. -tu,.., r Sir J. GRAHAM sat", ilia: it was the intention cif the Covernlnent to pe , ,vide 'not. only lab.tur, but facilities f.r. atalaingTood at - a - clt:ap r the n,0;,.e. cf Ireland. , Aft,:r sumu.9l/;y:K.jtiots IVANtuy au Capt.itin Sir it. PKEI, trits!.a tlia 4 itou-e not flow Lac; lcd into a disetts,4, , n,tl tlitt z , tt ,, :r3ct at Or prt.glit nt(,:tiertt, t..f(t tiiereby przvent titeni Foevolif t ic :sits: the priber,c4R mitie.ratioti 4f the tariff. ais.tt that what the Governmer.t had done ar,d wav doing would not relieve the ptopb:, trawl d, tuaa rIIIL its could 00aZid4 gO COURT CIRCULAR. i DUTCH and FLANDERS ;MAIL. The Queen will hold a Privy Council tomorrow Tus 'Monti, MARCH 10.—The central section of the (Wednesaay) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, at a ' Second Chamber has now drawn up, its preliminary report en quarter he'bre three o'clock. the first book of the penal code. The Queen and Prince Albert walked early yester- MAncit 12.—8 y a resolution of the 11th March the pig day morning in the Royal Gardens. His Royal. High- has granted to Mr. Disk Dronker, of Middelburg, u nder th___e ness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horseback, firm of Dronkers and C.. license to Mid t en iron raitaigy_ from Middelburg, with a branch to Flushing, through the attended by Major- General Sir Edward Bowater • islands of Walcheren and Beveland, crossing the East Scheldt Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince at Woenndrecht, and continued to Berg enopzooni, Breda, Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,. Tilbury, Bois le Due, Helmond, Venlow, and along the righ t were taken airings yesterday afternoon in the garden of i bank Of the Maas to Maestricht, and also to execute the Buckingham Palace. works of the harbour and canals in the island of Waleheren• Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the perform- 1 BRUSSELS, MARCH 13.—The Chamber adopted to - del mime of the Fri•nch Plays with their presence yesterday unanimously (64 Members were present) the project of I& evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess i.f ordering the publication of an official tariff of customs. es- Lord Hon. Miss Devercux. Viscount Hawarden, 'We (the Courrier Illye) we, e right when we spoke yeL terday of a sterial combination which sremea to Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater. Her ir!iarly concluded, to doubt the accuracy of this reel. Royal Ilightiess the DuehPss of Kent also honoured the N ot hi ng i s settled; the cri is does not advance to a so lew French Plays with her presence. Her Royal Highness The Senate will met on Mendaj the 16th." ..,,, was attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George CRACOW.—The Vienna pain rs '' of the 17th March conw, Cooper, Bart. our yesterday's statement. The 800 armed insurgents wi''' The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend- surrendered at discretion to the commander of the Prass!ol ante during dinner at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday troops on the frontiers have been conveyed to the Prusele u evening, and performed the following pieces under the frontiers, . FRONTIERS, GALLICIA, MARCH 4.—The news of the O Overture," Nebuccodonozor."—Verdi. C CU i direction of Mr. Schott : pation of Cracow yesterday, by the Austrian troops, w ith :l:. any resistance, proves sufficiently that the whole re', 0 T.) rolienne—Kochner. tionary movement ici mot with no sympathy in the priPula til ii Cavatina con Corn, " Seperate. 0 figli! Iddio."—Verdi. The immediate consequence of the unhappy attempt _ Waltz, " Galanterie."—Morelli. doubtless be the abolition of the constitution, the forrnauoa Polka, " Posthorn."—Kochner. of a new military Government. It would besides be im „; Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, trans- possible to find in Cracow a sufficient number of perseas IL' acted business yesteray at the Foreign-office. impicated in the revolution to reconstitute the old 69 1 1:1; A deptuation of paper-makers bad an interview with mont. Between thirty and forty priests (most of them, tw• er Sir R , :bert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in said, from Gallicia) have been arrested and conveyed„ O L, Downing-street. • the frontiers to Moradia. Among them are some from 1-11- gorze, who, .when .General Collin retreated from Cr!ine, Colonel . Malcolm had an interview with Mr. Secretary came forward with a more fanatic religioui demonstratio a•, Wadstone yesterday at the Colonial office. Another letter . from Gallicia . says— . " In the engage v ine iicz ts i: The Bishop of London had an interview with the our brave Austrian troops with the insurgents at Ile ~ Chancellor of the*Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. mere' anil Piakorze, six priests were slain, and more than W 0.7 (some of them Dominicans and Franciscans) taken pri 3( jo . Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the They had partly taken arms and partly encouraged the , w , Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India surients. It is difficult to conceive the fanaticism o f t ?..a Colonies. . Samalian clergy, who helped to inflame thy insurree_trei against a Government like that of Austria, _from wht tios LYCEUM THEATRE. have constantly received only benefits. Very asto l2 . revelations on this subject will be made. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARcu 13. ;,,, Money. IT -- Actual Debt, 234 per Cent •• •• •...... 59% !P' I*•itto, 3 per Cent •.• • • • ....... ..... 72% Ditto, 4 per Cent................... 94% -u'l7l .Amort Syndic. 434 per Cent.. Ditto, 334 per Cent................ Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 16434 165 East India Loan, 4 per Cent.... ••• • • • Exchange on London, at sight ........12 /2 Two months... • ..... 12 On Hamburg!), at sight •• • . 35 62 20 Two inonths.• •• • •••.• •••. • • 35 61 —Dutch Papers, March 14. AUSTItIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 7. 5 per Cent. Metalliques.• •• • • •• • • ........ 11234 4 per Cent. ditto . • • • ••• • • • • • ............ 101% 3 per Cent. ditto.. .. • ..... ........ 75 Loan, Is l 3l .... •••• • • • • • • .............. 155 Ditto, 1839 .... .•• • • • •............. 122% . Bank Shares .. • • • • •• • • •• • . 1570 A 'new - burlesque, entitled Hop duly Thvmb, from the prolific pen of Albert Smith, was produced at this theatre last. evening, for the purpose of introducing the renowned General Tom Thumb as an actor. The General, of course, acted the part of the hero, and never before did little man appear so great. The legend is closely followed, as far as regards the adventures of Hop o'my Thumb, albeit King Cole, with his Fiddlers three, and his army of five, is introduced to eke out the plot of the drama. By the by, it is to be regretted that lir. Alb-rt. Smith did not mak• him a President instead of a King. He might have p.iki d some excellent fun at Polk by so doing, f rr worthy King Cole is quite a match for the Presirl nt, in words and ways and mearis. But t., the Gener4 a per son of infinitely more weight (albeit he ouly weighs fifteen pounds) than Mr - President Polk. He is the drama, and therefore is the whole play contained in a nutshell ; or, in the first scene. certain fa=iries bring to Kirg Oberon a nut, which he cracks, and out hops the little great man, in the double capacity of General and Kernel. The story then -goes on "by the book." He is sent with his brothers into the forest. He re • views the King's army of five. He finds the Ogre's shoe, which he ineautiously turns into a careage, and in which he is dragged off by his brothers to the Ogre's castle. He overhears the Ogre's plan tOr murdering himself and.his brothers, and charges the nightcaps for the go!d crowns of the 04re's children. Hi : effects the es cape of himself and bis breihers—has a broadsword cr ni bA a la Hieks - and HughoF, with a jealaus.rustie— robs the ogre of his seven-leagued boots-,rakes the command of the army which is to encounter the Ogre ; Esterhazy's Loan .... •• • . . ........... RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand . • •• . • ...... 1924 doggnitz .• • • • • • • 141 1 ,4 Vienna--Milan . • • • • • • • • • • ............ 1224 Pesti' 106 3 s Sienna .... •• • • ........ ..... ......... 96 (Irosetto Oldenburg •• •• •• •• Ailenninen •• .. —Alheon , •ine Zeltung, March 11. BAIIIII.7Rt-al BORSENBALLE, Mescl 7. Bills. 3 70e ' ustrian 5 per Cents •.. ...... ....... 113 _Ben!;,. Shan: .s ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 1580 1001 Angio-finssian Loan .. Russiatt.sperCunt., ilamb. Certificate. 102 Ditto lst series linceiptien •-• • • • ••• • 103 • • Ditto, hope and Co., 3d and 4th series • . 89% Ditto, in Certificate .• •• • • ••• • • • • • ••• • • New 4' per Cent., Hope and Co. • • ••••• 89% • 7 4 6 , Ditto Stieglitz ••.•• • • • 88 18N Spanish New 5 Per Cent.. •••• • • • • .. 18 is Ditto 3 per Cent .............30 Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt. 214 per ent ••• .. 59% Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • •• • • • • ' Polish New 4 per Cent. 1 oan, 1844.• 79 97 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • National Bank Shares• •••••••• • • • • • • • BEILGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, 31Ascx 1 4 . Actual Debt, 2 ,•4 per Cent • • ••••• .• • • • nothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • • Ditto Three per Cent • . • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • • Ditto,ditto, 1840 .. • • • • • • • • • • BAry Ditto, ditto, 1842 • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • 1 03 , Ditto, 1844. . • • • • • • • • .. • • ........ 0-4 Ditto, lB3B Ditto of the City, 1832 ....... . Ditto, 1843 .• • • . Bank of March ofßei 1 S. • .• •• • . 81 —Brussels4 -- - . and, vrevaituly to going hirth, is shaved to the thee of Larg al Factctam, -by a regular Partiere di qualit,i, sabies forth to fight the Ogre_ to the air of S 1107 la la tromba, and brings him in n prisoner to the i iruid chorus in Norma —4-.ntliog by entering his own carriage and four, with coachmen. footmen, &e., and driving off at the' eI , TVCILIS ; CiII of the piece. He was loudly called for at the fall of the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition amidst the kindest applause. Bouquets were thrown to him from all parts of the house. The Gene ral picked.up as many of th_em as he could carry. and walked off with a load of floweri, enemy V which were individually taller, and, all of which, collectively, were certainly heavier Oat' himself. NAVAL IN PORTB3SOUTII, MAZCII 15.—The Fairy Royal yaelrinbig t ter e Ctimmander R. W. Roberts, left yesterday lo ci t ,„ e t daylight for the river - to refit, which will occupy a . "'" weeks. The Snake, 16, Commander Brown sailed thi s tuotnibilegrell half-past twelve, for the Cape of Good Hope, to Pla ce „ate i ,,' / ; under the orders of Rear-Admiral Dacres,,ConloB,, Chief on that station, for whom she carries di s p atc " —. also takes out a mail fur the Cape. An it r ,g}ie , Scourge, steam bomb-vessel, Command Co''');er Spithead this morning and came into harbour defects. D ept . The Palmella, transport, arrived this morning folll f; ford to embark ttoops for flirciAn service. , 11 , The Constance, 50 gun frigate, on the design 0 f -1 1 , 1 0 ,-,. veyor of the navy, was launched at Pembroke on 4, The following ate the principal dimensions : , , Feet. 1oe" e- A Length Breadth .. . ..... 52 8 . Depth Tonnage 1,288 tons. der e "tlif ~ The Harlequin, 16, Commander Curry , the ~,...arinitesoo Commander Sommerville, and the Childers , 16, edi6ea Pittman, are all progressing most rapidly tower& r i f o ll;1 ter sea. The two former, we are informed, will nut alterations made in tht it armaments which was couteNY on their c, The Alfred and Java,-50-grin doe n frigates, in k here, 0 J being exp slit 'd for the pendant with, a il dispatch,' .1; be ready in a few days. a g °s"' Tile Rifleman steam gun-boat, is nearly ready r out of dock. togrg, The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Lushing,Ten' ett s, o o' ther with the Cyclops, Captain Lapidge, and the latter 11:et° ComMander Maitland, remain at - Spithead , the 4,5 handed. When Captain Smith's paddle-box boats taken off the Retribution on the plea of their nifogglov, the inability of the vesel to carry them, wf o ere. 6 lo o that the woodwork with which the paddle-wh ee l Vet sequently enclosed would have been very i ntieh 1 4 , eat 1 the paddle box boats of Captain Smith's inventit i l, l ll to find .the widen framework actually within llierceore,o, being . as ae the boats! Their remov al, ti, ell pot been a etanirest injustice to the inventor, a s well iron eat Bering the lives of all who go in the lit tesette having at bend the proper means of saving /ire , Vr t /eR of aecident. -Added 'to which, the removal of t o Lion's boats (certainly the most abominablY urea Prod, boats ever built in modern times) has given a o° 4 oo re, nov,l f Territee's, !itch has been claimed burden t', i;l. , st ' the Tarr able of 200 tons inure bu • IZA-:butioul t et 0 0 i PROMOTIONS.. fco 411 Lieutenant. W. E. Tri-cort (1837) to the rara‘ ° 02", - t es' der. This officer entered the service in JanuarY' ally . • t oo line served front that time, 'twenty-one year' ~. for which and other services, inciuding being " a 'stb ° l ll ' ‘ to Admiral Sir C..ogle, Bart., during the tiO 11 1 °_, io g to e off:er's command-in-chief at Portsmouth , and } tray dS'oe same capacity to the late Sir Charles Rowley, If t ee e lv " loss received at the hands of Lord Ellenborelig" 02,0 don he hs ja-tly m erited he ris Lieuten a an s t o S. Hunt (1635) . of the Basilis k otat t eils o l commander:oe .46 biates—E. Wasey (1832), who has been set,eitelleiote' of the Alert sloop, on the coast of Afri ca ; J. `-", e s the Cotlingwood. who has served nearly five Ye,_ 3 ,. r d t ee ' o e , A. H. Douglas (1840), of the Superb, who has iticn of several pi izes when on the coast of Africa; t" i eb; (1840), of the Pluto, on the coast of Ireland } the gste ol itt (1840), of the Vindictive'; W. Perrier (18 4 *. ° t he i t i qe o „ ) ; G. 11 Wale (1842), ot the Cyclops, who waej n it oket t el4 at Alexandria, subsequently in China; and bin' "to b who served in the operations on the coast 0 ' gor , end of the war, as rtidshipman of the Pylades t' rank of lieutenants. ( 1845) : 0° Acting Assistant-Surgeon—W. W. WilJeY o f A of Plymouth Hospi:al, confirmed to t he rani‘ Surgeon. Mr. C. Nowell, to the rank of boatswain. 1 0 1; APPOINTMENTS. .. I'. Lieutenants—J. Bridges, to the Brilliant, I f o der burn, to the Harlequin ; W. ,Walters, to the ,Tferr e e t ' f ; H. D'Aeth, to the Brilliant ;= - G. H. Wale, to t a w o odg Masters—J. Saunders, to the Electra, vic. e „ io t, jured while on duty • F. Edington. to the 1,3 11 "_.. Surgeon—T. 11. H. Thompson, to the 0 1 ' Midshipmen—H. riawk. , v to the Rodney csfert, Maiters' Assistant—W. H. Short, to the t' a , r d ere tA • Naval Cadets—G. E. L. Biseett, to the Chi , r , ache ° field, to the H. C. Wigan, to the GI 0 1111 aa COAST GUARD. I , - to CO 0 , . • Appointments—Lieutenant C. F. CamPts 1 0 o tio station, vice J. Campbell, resigned. fjeadj, Removals—J. &klieg, chief of or . - 11 ' 1 . 0 00 1 7:0 6 ''f to Larne station, vice Slade, R.N., previ‘an"Y geso l , o ro„ Wootwicer, Mama 15. The Monkey jet , le see' Brillion, WNW et Master-Commander W. Bryant, left _ or ders afternoon for Cork, to be placed under the riv" A: 1 1 er aPjiegsot)t.,,sitittc)3manlmmtdina.ty a t that sFtaaitri.,oo.nwit.l soo p o t o h • t er . s: to-day, to Messrs. Penn'ts establishment, t Jas' r, t ie yr° tions made itt her woe ks. d bet the , A trial of speed was recently ma d 6 ve so t y, ri d seam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander M l l e 4rnith ° ° oneDd ,20 ethe7fAorimiceer the three-quarters . per hour. The iron fit! • d, ;be u te 51. 1 Y 4 . s l t ‘ e i a ti t i ni r v i e m ss i t a Lla b st , e a r t heavy, or about four tons more than a‘syeou_ieii pa° brought round to Woolwich to have 11. toted, which increased hers peed to twc . ,.l 4 _ ,, c ' s ' o ed p e . r. the speed of the Princess Alice, and 1 1 1 1 esest.° o -0 1 . 0 0, less. and rendered her mt:re effective _ 0 0,4 'oyx petforined the voyage to Calais in half, and the Princess Alice in cue beer._fuur ho.,:th nut the former the vo y a g e to Ostencl:Lt 1 4* fenv avera ge of the Ooyx has b een found t 6 , the Princess Alic e 12 knots p er hour. 1 8 ',1 3 At "mKsion AND usr. F b • cliAtinlinlltP, .0 d si n e w 01 16 F P " Her Majesty has been graciously eye l eg ;t i the sea pay and harbour pay of third Lc , 66- c ,,,dlP boars, her Alve, , ty's ship shall be increase l_ tro en I.° month and 41. 1 10 e. per month reepectiveiy, "1" ela the 2' - dh inst. Ma./ 95t) The pay of engineers on board her re r ,„ therefore be accordin Ps g to the following ra;ebli'rboar " Ist ciczeß, 12/. (sea pay) red 71. 1 79 . k whe n ott month ; and Bs. (sea pay) per mouth! _ v. 2d vo o f as compensation for the instruction of D'l no atb• (sea pay) and 41. 18s. (harbour pay) P e , per 1 0( , ) w 60. 10e. Csea pay) and 4/. De. (harbour pa'.%)rooleo, h av a l lf ten th l e vi s t e h a in pa t 3 ho w t h r e o n pi t e h r, o e s n t g u in m ee i r s s l a w vi . l e l n be ad r a j i s t r ri v , o, ,vlt o f, " By command of the: Li "To all Capta;ns and Commanders of .::.-•`.'" her M a ea s hips an d ve ...,,_ , - e ireoci t - .. ,_ }_,;( ~t , .. Tho . Bishop of London entertained h" „ r (Kr CbeYalier Bunsen and aselect arch+ to' -atnner. 0 . 1 ; 5 :4 0 1314 VIM "'"L".....untiatql atiapikit3a §i, Jag* P. ~..--!--”,,--... . . ADELPHI. Honour to Mr. Stirling Coyne for writing, honour to the Adelphi management for producing, one of the most glorious farces that has ever been acted. Reader, are you getting plethoric, fat, heavy, and stupid ?—has your medical man prescribed for you wick a view to shake your sides, and to stimulate your absorbents?—do you wish to enjoy yourself, to laugh, to scream for halt an hour ? Go and - see the new Adelphi farce. It is AI. although it is entitled,' Did you ever send your wife to Camberwell? 'A question- as dull as ever counsel put to witness, but the answer 'to which aff,rds matter for in fieite mirth. Mr. Chesterfield Honeybun (Mr. Wright) did send his wife to Camberwell—a wife whom he had Married - Without the consent - of relations—a wife, more-- over, young, pretty (Miss Woolgar acted the part), and jealous ; and during their absence from their tittle, Mrs. Crank (Mrs. F. Matthews). with her baby, takes possessioi of the said attic. Mrs. Crank, imaein ing that the attic is the lodging of her husband, Mr. Isaac Crank (Mr. 0. Sthith), clockmsk'r of Stoke who has Coma. up to London on busines, she leaves her child in the bed, and goes out to seek her husband. Crank, hearing a -child cry, enters the room, and re- cognising his own blessed " baht 9 ," ,4hich he had thought safe- and sound at Stoke P. jis, incautiously becomes jealous. No sooner hay he left than Heneybun enters, and, finding the baby in his bed, and fearing his wFe's jealousy, hides it nehind a the t of drawers: As be leaves, his aunt enters to bring about a reconciliation, fancies it is a juvenile Honeybun, and takes i awae to adopt it. Crank returns, meets Howybun. at:cases him as the se-ducer ot his wife, seiz ,s him by the throat, throws him against the draw. rs, which fall, and, as Honeybun believes, " t.quisbcd" the child. Afraid of being accused of murder he gets out on the roof of the house, and Mrs. Crank emering tired by her walk very quietly fn,conces herself in Hone) bun's bed. Driven in by a shower of rain, Heneyhun finds her there, and at the same time hears his j,,alotts wiFe aseonding the stairs. Faecy Wright in this qumtdary. Words minuet do justice to the rich butt eur with which this scene was given. • The dialogue, what we could catch of it, was pointed, but -the shouts of laughter were so loud, and so continuous that it was impossible to hear two consecutive senteneee. To increase the confusion Crank enters and finds Honeybun on his knees before - Mrs. Crnnk. He imploring her forgiveness for what he (tails. bakeeide ; he is. however, relieved by the entrance- . of . Aunt J,well with the baby, and then it comes out that lives on the- floor below, anti that Mrs. Crank has mistaken the room. The piece ends with a declaration on part of Honeybun of his inten den to seed his wife to Cambekrwell. every night, a prlhiise which, we tieiOt he will for some fifty. night's tea ct)rue. The, n . rtis! , ,L , , baby, and ali were called for at the fall of the euetein, and in this instance moct certainly the honour was richly deserved. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALUS—YEsTERDAy. The Chester Cup betting was corfined to three or four horses, and was limited in amount and importance. Clumsy and Miss Burns were prominently in demand at an improve ment on last ,week's prices, and nut until near the end, to the prejudice of Best Bower, who h•id previously been quoted at 22 to 1., with several friends Whiristone, once a'' st class " favourite, receded to 4t) to 1, and even at that figure was feebly supported. Beyond the advance to Poynter of 40 to 1 there was nothing in the Derby betting to call for a remark ; and the business transacted on the Oaks was coil fined to Kent's lot, and Princess Aiice at the prices mentioned underneath. . CLOSING AVERAGES : WARWICK TRIAL STAKES. 5 to 4 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Burlesque—taken 5 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa—taken NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur—taken 20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Rowland Hill—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Mat quis of Conyngham—t 20 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Thrapston—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Woffencen's Miss Burns—taken CHESTER CUP. 6 to 1 agat Kent's lot--takesi 16 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat —taken 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy—taken 22 to 1 agst Mr, Woffendcm's Miss Burns—taken freely 25 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's Hope 28 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Mermaid—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitz Allen 40 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur • 40 to 1 agst Capt, Peyton's the Magnet 40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Whinstone 10 to I agst Clumsy and Miss Burns—taken 1,000 to 50 agst The Baron and Billy Purvis—taken 300 even between Miss Bums and Billy Purvis DENBY. 22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Let—taken 9 to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—ditto to 100/. 15 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo 25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tillthorpe—t. and aft. uffd. 40 to 1 agst Ramsey's Malcolm 40 to 1 agst Mr. Weatherald's Poynton—taken 1;000 to 20 agst Mr. Ford':. kmi); Fauns—taken 1,000 to 20 'agst Duke of Rictimo,.d's Tugnet—taken OAKS. 5 to 1 agst Kent's L , d-6 to 1 taken freely 16 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Princess Alice-18 to 1 taken freely COURSING. LYTHAM (RIDGWAY AND UNION CLUBS) MEET ING, MARCH I 1 AND 12. _ _ _ The Clifton Cup, for 16 dogs of all ages, was won by Mr. Breeze; Mr. Eden's Emblem raa up. The Ridgway Cu:.), for 16 puppirs, was won by Mr. Ritlg wood's Ravenswood and his Rightliand. The Union Cup, ter 16 dogs of all ages, s'as won by Mr. Eden's Exquisite ; 311.. Craven's Canto ran up. VITAL F,TATISTICS.-Mr. Trait e, in a lecture recently delivered at the Westminster Literary and Scientific Insti tution, observed, in referring to various tables of mor tality exhibited, that as a general rule, the average ago if the gentry far exceeded that of mechanics and labourers, and their faunlies,•perhaps b 7 tit o-fifths ; that, in some instances, so great was the mortalitj., that more than half of a g:v.ni number of children born were dead before reaching th• it fifth year: that while in some of the rural districts the averat:e age, at death, is among the labouring population thirtysthreo years, as in W iitshire, in Bethnal green it is narrowed to sixteen, and in Liverpool to fifteen years. It was natural to inquire whether any common evil or evils could be detected in uniform association with these respective results; and the question was. fully answered hy the fact, that wherever it was found that the duration of life is thus " curtailed of its fair proportions," there are none , o r ver y imperfect !mans, of carrying of impurities; water lies in stagnant pools evolving miasmas ; pure water is R'l article en sc.:ree, that cleatOtess is utterly neglected, and the inhabitants are crowded into close rooms in ill-constructed houses, and in 61'1M:tett cotirti and 'narrow, lanes, where the • genial lartAik.! Gan Over mew. wpolltift 6% p ly 4 1% 1% Islsi 4% 101 174 10 7% I%y 3t 34% 13% 2% 33 14 p 97i.41 4d1,4 !:; tt tr Ot it 3 , It (I 'L4A''• 1p 1 4 qt t tt! .) 4 ti k'i4 ;', l 4 l l l ' N i r t : 04; 11 ()N . - k 4 411Zel: