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T " NEW. NOVEL BY MRS. GORE. Just ready, in 3 vole., post Bvo , DEBT A N T E; or, THE LONDON SEASON. By Mrs. GORE, lather of " Mothers and Daughters." " The Dowager," " Peers and Parvenues," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. r HE TRUE HISTORY and MYSTERY of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN'S CASE—YOUNG IRELAND and " the ?ARTI PRETRE”— The ADVENT of the CORN-BILL to the MUSE of PEERS RATIONALE of JUDICIAL SWEARING—the " BOW•STREET INQUISITION" — In the WEEKLY CHRONICLE of SArranAt and SUNDAY, the 16th and 17th inst., with all the news of the Week. Office, 337 Strand. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS DIRECTORY characterises this journal as the " Ablest" of the " Popular Papers." It says there Is no " Paper contacted with more talent or success," and that "it is especially remarkable, not only fur the great quantity of news it affords, and the admirable arrangement of its matter,—well illustrated by accompanying observations.—but for the ability and variety of its original articles, in the form of leaders and letters. The advantage of this ability is enhanced by its being displayed on other than mete political questions, so that the range of topics is more large and generally interesting. Thus it is worth mentioning, that it was the only paper which, during the late controversy be tween the Press and the Bar, took up the case of the latter, in a series of letters marked by great talent." TO TOURISTS AND SPORTSMEN VISITIN'G THE HIGH LANDS OF SCOTLAND. jr) MACDOUGALL, of the Tartan Warehouse, • Inverness, begs very respectfully to mention that he is now In London, with all the correct and original patterns of Clan Tartans for Ladles' and Children's Dresses and Cloaks, Gentlemen's Dressing Gowns, &c. SCOTTISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE. Our National Ai aidifacture of PLAIDIN GS, now denominated TWEEDS, are decidedly superior to, and are patronised beyond, every other description of Goods hitherto used for Shooting and Wearing Coats, Trousers, and Boy s' wear. The better qualities are rival the English Cassimers, are o nl y about half the price, easily washed, without injuring their appearance. The Brown and Red Heather Mixtures are imitations, and successful ones, of the oompiexion of the Scottish Mountains, when the heather is in leaf and in bloom, all made of the best Wool. A very few handsome. fine Tartan Shawls and Plaids, and very fine White and Coloured Zetland Shawls. Some brown Wool, loch and Shepherd Plaids and Shawls. The L ovat, Glengarry, Athole, Gait , Invereshie, and Richmond Tweeds. and all the different shades and qualities requi site for the other Shooting Grounds—used at deer stalking and grouse shooting. Stout stuff for keepers and gillies. An immense lot of Highland Shepherd Tartans, and Scotch knife for jackets, trousers, &c. D. M'D. has with him a copy of the " Vestiaram Scoticum," from an original MS. formerly belonging to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, the faithful adherent of Queen Mary , which shows the genuine set of all the Clan Tartans. Noblemen and Gentlemen who may wish for the Highland cos tume, may have the same made up, with Highland ornaments, in the most antique form—bonnets, plaids, badges, cockades, &c. High land dresses fbr boys made up. Mr.M`Dougall will be happy to show the correct method of wearing the Highland dress, and the various modes of putting en the Plaid. Mg). will be glad to call with his patterns any time before the 24th May, when he returns to Inverness. A note, addressed to him at 7, New Burlington-street, Regent street, will be attended to, or he may be seen there, front 1 to 4 o'clock, until 24th May. Shooting Boxes furnished. 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 TuasnAT and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, eont instructions, are respectfully requested is be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, an I the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HET. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectinlly in formed that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, MAY 21, When will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, in Four Parts, entitled, I LOMBARDI : ALLA PRIMA cßocarA. With new scenery, dresses, &c.; the scenery by Mr. Marshall, Cr selda, Madame Grisi ; Sofia, Madame Bellini ; Viclinda, Mdlle. Corbari: Oronte, Signor Mario ; Arvin, Signor Corelli ; Pirro, Sig. Botch'; Acciano, Sig. Giubilei ; Pagano, Sig. Fornasari. After which, a DIVERTISSEMENT. Comprising various Dances and Pas de Caractere, by Mdlles. Ccrito, L. Tagiioni, Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and L. Grahn ; M. St. Leon, and M. Perrot. With other Entertainments, combining the talent of lidlles. Cas tellon and Signor Labiache. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement (composed by Didlle. Cerito), entitled LA VIVAND (ERE. Introducing the Redowa, or, Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon. . . Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box enice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY 16, Will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled. I LOMBARDI : ALLA. PRIMA CROCIATA. ariselda, Madame Grisi ; Arrino, Signor Corelli ; Pagano, signor Fornasari ; Viclinda, Mdlle. Corbart ; Pirro, Signor Boteili; Oronte, Signor Mario. . _ To conclude with the admired Ballet of ONDINE. Ondine, Mdlle. Cerito ; Matteo, M. Perrot ; Giannina, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni. In the course of the Ballet will be introduced the admired Fete de la Ilaelonne and U rand Tarantella, by the corps de ballet; the celebrated Pas de Quarte, from "Le Lac des Fees," by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon, supported by Mdlles. Demelisse and Moncelet ; a Pas, by Mdlle. Taglioni ; and the Pas de L'Ombre, by Mdlle. Cerito. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be perforMed TFIE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Berrani; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stratton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. After which, the grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. In which Mdlle. Louise, Mr. A. Webster, lea Sceurs St. Louin, &c., will perform. To conclude with the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROUSE ; or, Th. Desolate Island. Principal characters by Madlle. Louise, Madame Giubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. TELEATR'F: ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be perfermed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren ; Capt. Absolute, Mr. 101 l ; Acres, Mr. Webster ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Brindal ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Lan guish, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. The Band will perform the overture, " Edourdo e Christine," the Fantasie, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Celiarius Waltz ; the "Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Branow Polka." To be succeeded isy an Original Farce, called THE IRISH TIGER. Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Howe ; Paddy Ryan, Jt r. Hudson ; Alderman Nfarrowtat, Mr. Tilbury ; Bilbury, Mr. T. F. Mathews ; Julia, Miss Telbin ; Nancy, Mrs. Caulfield. After which, a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Mr. Golightiy, Mr. Itu,kaone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Nibs P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Another brilliant Triumph ! " Robin Hood and Richard Cceur de Lion" every Evening ; and " The Cricket on the Hearth." THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Farce, entitled, A FRIEND INDEED ! After which, the Comedy of HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Dichlear, and Keeley; Miss Villars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St .rtling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELFHI. THIS EVENING Will be performed a popular Comedy, entitled EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY ; or, Who's to Father Me ? Sam Swipes, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Swipes, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Miss Melrose, Miss Chaplin , Lady ,ranberry, Miss Harding. After which a new and Original Farce, called, WHO DID I f ? or, WHAT'S IN THE WIND ? Vandyke Brown, Mr. Alright ; Ramona Peewit, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by the Burie7.que, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadatone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor ; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Mun) ard, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BRE.LKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford. Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. PRINCESS'S TTIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING WIII be performed Shakspero's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Macreaciy ; lago, Mr. Wallack ; Cassio, Mr. Cooper; Roderigo, Mr. J. Vining; Dcsdec.ona, Mrs. Stirling ; Emilia, Mrs. Ternan. After which, a New B allet, entitled LES CONSCRITS DU VILLAGE. In which Nt!ssrs. Gilbert, Marshall, Flexmore, Harris ; Miss Baffin, Miss Marshall, Sec., will appear. Ts conc:ude with a New Far r ce, called TOOCompto MANY ; COOKGeo rgeS SPOIL THE BROTH. Gregory Ganite, r. n , Mr. Oxberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. ASTLEY'i ROYAL AMPIIITHEATLE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her most gracious Majesty, and their Royal H ghnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, an the Priscess Alice. Uninterrupted career of success of -Ir. Leman Rede's popular Asiatic Spectacle, which is nightly hailed with the most enthusiastic applause. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND tics DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Introducing the double stud, &c. New and popular Scenes of the Hippodrome. First appearance of the astonis• ing French Artiste, Mons. Leonard Houck, aidcd by the British Professors. First Week of a Novel Grotesque BALLET. In which the prin drat Pantomimists of the Establishment will perform. On Monday next, May 18th, M. Lelim Bridges, the famed eques trian, will appear. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six And commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIENTRE Brilliant success of the new Play of " Bianca," received every even• in; with increased approbation. THIS EVEN I tit S.. Will be performed a NeWllay, entitled, BLANCA ; or, The Three Trials. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Maynard, Johnson, Lewis, Cowell, Hes:op, E d g ar ; 31Csdins. H. Vining, Martin, Dale, &c. After which, GYMNASTIC EXERCISES by Ilerr Deulin and Herr Nicole., ss Les Deux Chinois. To be succeeded by the new Ballet of LE POSTILLION ET LE TAMBOUR 3IAJOIt, by the Detain Family. To conclude with TILE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS. " La gaiete est la sante de Pama, La tristesse en est le poison." THIS EVENING M. PI ILLIPPE begs leave to announce that, in consequence of the Triumphant Success that has attended his EASTER E A TER TAINMENTS, they will be repeated every Wednesday and Sa turday Morning. and every Evening until fUrther notice. M. PHILLIPPE will commence tha Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mona. Philippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. M. Philippe will also have the honour of introducing HIS GRANDMOTHER'S CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans- Earmmtions. The Entertainments will be varied by the Dancing of the MARINI FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN BROTHERS. The Morning Pertormance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Evening at a quarter to Eight Buns, as.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery. Gd. Private Boxes, 11. Is., and 10s. il,l Under the Patron= of her Most Gracious Majesty, ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ,11. VIEW of NAPLES, MONDAY ERUPTION H of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION ' of HERCULANEUM an d POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is rev i ve d in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius In the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place; produced under the direction of Mr. Denson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC. BRIDGE of STATUES h as b een constructed, which wi ll be _brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CO NVERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes Many eminent native and foreign musicians. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are On the Most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagod a, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad 's Car will rise to receive him, and bear him to his chrystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen didly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to *low the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Pawling of the Carnivore at flue ; the Pelicans, &c., at half-past in ; Cossert at Az; With. Zruption at dusk. Admission, COMPLETION OF THE STANHOPE MEMOIRS. Now ready, in 3 vols., with numerous illustrations, 31s. 6d. bound, T RAVELS of LADY HESTER STANHOPE. Forming, THE COMPLETION OF HER MEMOIRS. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboroug;i-street. SIR HENRY ELLIS'S NEW WORK. DEDICATED TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. On the 20th hist., 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portraits om Original Paintings, A NEW SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY. Including numerous Royal Letters from Autographs In the British Museum, State Paper Office, &e. With Notes and Illustrations BY SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., 1.R.5., Sec. S.A., &e. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street , Publisher in Ordinary to Her B RITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE. ANNUAL MEETING will be held on Tussnair, the 9th of Jttlle, The when the Right Hon. the President will take the chair at One o'clock. The Members will dine together on the following day, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the President and Council of the Institute, and each member will have the privilege of introducing a friend. The remaining sories of the season will be given on the following Thursdays :—May 28, June 18, and July 2. JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM, Resident Director. RAILWAY SUN. We have many applications for copies of the RAILWAY SUN, and parties who have inclosed postage stamps for sd. are informed that the RAILWAY MAP was only intended for our SUBSCRIBERS, as a com pliment. Each copy having cost us about DOUBLE the PRICE of the PAPER, the price to non-subscribers is NINE PENCE. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 13. FUERMOMETER, Lowest, 41; Highest, 62; Noon, 57. BAROMETER, 29.95.—W1ND N.; fine. WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 24 minutes after 4. I Evening .. 47 minutes after 4. I S'---"17---" '-n- --41 , A , .. a l• •.a ,-, .iii ' r . . II '- .. , • • • 4' -4*.g;511410);:-•,... i'l3lel4ll I_l,l :7 4 ) AUL LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1846. The American Congress, after a discussion of more than four months, remarkable alike for the length and number of the orations delivered by senators and representatives, have at last adopted a moderate and indeed unobjectionable reso lution on the Oregon question. We can see little or no dif ference between the joint resolution and that adopted by the Senate. They both contain the main points that affect this country, and not only omit every offensive term and insinuation, but, with commendable prudence, recommend a speedy and an amicable settlement of the pending differences. The resolution, as amended, is in these words (we omit the expletive terms) :—" With a view that steps be taken for the abrogation of the convention of the 6th August, 1827, and that the attention of the Govern ments of both countries may be more earnestly directed to the adoption of all proper measures for the speedy and amicable adjustment of the difficulties and disputes in respect to the Oregon territory, be it resolved, That the PRESI DENT of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised, at his discretion, to give to the British Government the notice required by its second article for the abrogation of the convention of the 6th of August, 1827." The PRESIDENT, who has been all along bent on giving the notice, will, of course, use the authority thus conferred on him without de lay. By the month of May, 1847, therefore, the joint occu pancy will cease, and, unless a settlement is made previously, a collision between the Hudson's Bay men, and the Americans settled in that quarter, becomes in evitable. At present, we believe, the feeling be tween the parties is anything but good, and considering the numbers and courage of the British settlers, with the support they would receive from the natives, who hate the Americans, there could be no doubt about the first onset. The American Legislature, however, is evidently preparing for such an occurrence, and is passing a Bill for encouraging emigration to Oregon, and virtually for the occupation of the whole territory. Such a mode of commencing a war, we trust, will be avoided. It could decide nothing, and only needlessly inflict sufferings on the in nocent, and add to the irritation of both nations England will act a more noble part, and formally demand , for the last time, a " speedy and amicable adjustment of the difficulties and disputes." She has already given in her ul timatum. Mr. BUCHANAN, the agent of POLK, announced in the last conferences, that he would never consent to sign a treaty having less tha.; the 49th degree of latitude for its basis, and, on that announcement, Mr. PAKENHAM de clined all further correspondence. The American PRE SIDENT knows well that the Government of England cannot accede to this new and insolent demand ; he may also know, if he reads English journals, that neither the Government, nor the Legislature, nor the people, will ac cept any settlement which shall not include the free naviga tion (at least for a certain extent) of the river Columbia for British vessels ; and that the surrender of the Columbia is, to all intents and purposes, the surrender of the whole ter ritory. Mr. BUCHANAN is aware that England can neither accept his terms nor the slightest modification of them short of her last claims. Any proposition for renewing the conferences must come from America, else events must take their natural course. In fact, England has yielded too much already; she has paid a deference to par ties in the United States to which they are not entitled ; she has humoured and cajoled the mob orators, rather than confronted them in that attitude which she was entitled to assume, and the consequence is that, not only on the Oregon question, but on others (and they are many) which are yet to be settled, Pour and his party have risen, and will rise in their demands, without the slightest regard to principle, or to the most solemn admissions made by former negotia tors. England has just saved her honour by taking up a position from which she never can recede, and which was duly announced and accepted unanimously by both Houses of Parliament. " She has rights in Oregon, and she is pre pared to maintain them." It becomes her turn now, therefore, to act ; and, unless POLK offers to give up his claims, which he so unequivocally made to the " whole of Oregon," and to act like a reason able being, England must prepare to defend the territory to which she has just claims—claims, too, admitted by every journalist in France, and by nearly all the intelligent and all the honest citizens throughout the Union. But, as we have repeatedly said, the Oregon question is one of a very secondary consideration. A storm is ready to burst forth in the south which is pregnant with momentous events. A war between Mexico and America may be regarded as certain—they are alike inclined to hostilities. The one impelled by shame and indignation, for having been duped and robbed, and the other by an unquenchable thirst for the conquest of her weak neighbour. The Americans them selves seem to anticipate such a conquest as immediate, and we fear the Mexicans can do little or nothing to stop them. One of the New York journals, rather distinguished too for its moderation, thus adverts to a Mexican war :—" A defeat of the American army on the Rio Grande would almost cause an immediate and voluntary invasion of Mexico; thousands of the western riflemen would rush to the Rio Grande and probably to Mexico." Nothing indeed is more probable except the fact quarter, interests te that peace would not be granted by the United States with outther:cornynession of California and Vera Cruz. The nEk.st and Lor dE 1.81%110 oan: can suffer no more annexations in that it would, therefore, be as well for Lord ABER IOUOR to be prepared for the worst. , l e t t ll e ud t e ( , co ln nsi o d u e r r tcolumnshei t o i f on y s es- 0 ter T d l a te y,fur motion a to se N l v ec h t ic c h w Committee e was last sTeo relat 7r y e S:s n ti t T h n e , case , t a t ht state i p n a ptherosse presented petitions to the Hou night brought forward by Mr. SPOONER, and was nega tived by m • a majority of nine, there being for the motion 125, and against it 134. The principal safeguard of British liberty has ever been found in the feelings of indignation excited in the put li c m i n d whenever an unconstitutional or despotic at tack has been made or attempted on one of their f e ll ow -subjects. Each man makes the case his ow i mag ines what his feelings and his conduct would be werehe placed in similar circumstances; he sympathises with the sufferer, and loudly demands redress for the injuries inflicted, and that such laws may be enacted that for the future there can be no possibility of the recurrence of a like outrage. Many of our most valuable laws have had their origin in private injuries, and we consider it a duty which every man owes to society to bring prominently forward, and to spare no labour, time, or expense, in obtaining the fullest publicity fur his grievances, if they are in their nature such as to affect the community at large. We do net think Mr. SMITH could have patiently submitted to the indignity by which he was assailed; he has acted as becomes a min of spirit'and intelligence, and there is no part of the entire pro ceedings, or of the debate, which we deprecate more strongly than the imputations which have been attempted against his character and conduct in the transaction. Mast insult be ever added to injustice, in order to make it complete? Mr. SPOONER'S motion was brought forward avowedly for the purpose of calling the attention of the House to the state of the law respecting searches made by the Excise, with a view to its amendment, and the Honourable Member proceeded to instance, in the very facts which had occurred in the case of Mr. SMITH, such anomalies be tween the existing state of the law and the boasted privi leges of the Constitution, as would seem sufficient, had they even stood alone and without parallel, to indicate to the Le gislature the absolute necessity, if for consistency sake alone, ofamendingth e law, so as to make it conformable to the con stitutional privileges of the subject, or of making known to the community that, since the days of Br ACKSTOSE; theyluld gone on in dreamy error in supposing that the sanctity and privacy of their homes were sacred and inviolate from the prying espionage of the magistrate, the police, or the excise, though acting solely under the authority of, mayhap, a malicious and lying informer, or, at least, as in the present case, under no better sanction than that of a false and anonymous intimation. We do not presume to impute to the collective wisdom of the nation a want of due con sideration for those national privileges of which they ought to prove themselves the jealous guardians; but we may fairly presume to speculate upon the probable conclusion, in the minds of the multitude, which the division upon this motion is calculated to induce,namely, that the majority of those who . took part in the debate were of opinion, that notwithstanding the facts above referred to, which were not even denied, that the law, as administered by the magistrate, and carried out by the excise, aided by the police force, stands so imma culate and in harmony with those constitutional privileges to which we have drawn attention, as to require no revision, no amendment whatsoever. The principal ground on which the opponents of the inquiry rested their refusal was, that it was admitted that the officer was in fault, and that it was not necessary to the vindication of Ar. SMITH'S character. Now these were by no means sufficient reasons for smothering the inquiry ; it was but one, and by far the least important of the motives which induced the motion. Of course Mr. SMITH must feel very anxious of setti:lg his character right with the House and the, public, but the great object of the in quiry was, what is the state of the law that allows so gross an indignity to be inflicted on any British subject, with a view to its alteration and amendment? Search-warrants should ever be granted with the greatest caution and reluctance. No vague suspicion, no rumour or surmise, should be considered sufficient to enable nay magistrate to sanction a proceeding so subversive of the liberty of the sub ject, so calculated to provoke resistance, to induce a breach of the peace ; but, beyond all, an anonymous letter, the whispered informati,,n of a coward, who is afraid to have his face seen, his name known ; who gives vent to his pestilen tial slander from the concealment of a mask—generally for the gratification of personal malignity—should not for a moment be listened to, should meet with no sanction or support. It is a proceeding wholly repulsive to every English, to every manly feeling. What can be thought of the conduct of the officer who, on such a founda tion, ventured to swear that he,had reason to suspect, and did suspect, that an illicit still was actually concealed on the premises of Mr. SMITH ; or of the magistrate, whose duty it was to inquire into the sufficiency of the grounds for such suspicion before he granted such a warrant? Surely the parties who could commit so grievous an error must be wholly unfit to discharge their relative duties; and surely, likewise, the correction of errors such as these, if they be ad mitted to be errors, by making the law of sufficient force to insure the subject against their repetition, is not one beneath the grave consideration and corrective acts of the legislative assembly. After a protracted silence and an apparent apathy, the Committee for promoting the establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes, gives some indication that it has not altogether abandoned the object for which it was constituted in 1844. Acceding, as we do, to that honest old adage which inculcates the fact of cleanliness being next to godliness, and convinced, as we are, that dirt is the embryo of disease, and that in the habitual slovenliness of the industrious poor is involved the consequence of their demoralisation, we have looked with anxious attention for some evidence that the Committee were really striving to carry out their originally expressed intentions. Whatever appearances might imply, we were still sanguine that this crusade for the promotion of comfort to the population had not been entered upon merely to be forsaken. We are now fully impressed with the conviction that we did not anticipate too muck, and the patient silence which has been displayed in respect to the operations of the Committee are at length compen sated by the ostensible revival of the subject. Upon mature consideration of the difficulties which had to be surmounted, and occasionally the prejudices which had to be removed, we are induced, not only to forego any remonstrance to the members of that Committee upon their procrastination in the development of their plans, but to accord them, on the contrary, the most decided approval for a delay which, if not absolutely necessary, was certainly very advisable. Bis dat quo cito dat is, without doubt, a truism in the ab stract, but so, likewise, is a homelier, though no less applic able saying—" More haste, worse speed." And if either might be assumed as a motto to this explanation, the Committee would unquestionably have selected the latter. The scheme upon which they had entered is regarded by the majority of social economists as an experiment ; and such, in literal reality, it is as far as the metropolis is couceraed. The success which has attended a similar undertaking at Liverpool, though a most encouraging experiment, did not sufficiently corroborate the opinions expressed by the Com mittee. . 4 You may," said these sceptics in the improve ment of the mass, " brag about the surplus capital acquired by such establishments in Lancashire; you may dilate upon the satisfaction to the skin and morals of a mechanic by the application of a clean shirt ; you may swear, if you like, that soap is a panacea of health, dry towels the best preventives of intoxication, and starch a most excellent substitute for a sermon. You may assert all this until you are black in the face, but we tell you that your benevolence will prove of a very unprofitable character, and that wash-tub philan thropists will speedily- inundate the columns of the Gazette. Clean linen and clean faces are very desirable things, no doubt, among ourselves, but with the inhabitants of White chapel, and Brick-lane, and Saffron-hill, a dirty complexion is a much better letter of recommendation. The classes for whose convenience you will be laying down water-pipes and constructing basins have a positive relish for the filth you are anxious to eradicate; they will preserve that preference, and lay out their pence after their old fashion." It is against these discouraging notions that the Committee have to under take the construction of buildings and the opening of esta blishments of a most novel and economical character. By precipitating their plans, or by rushing without forethought into an expenditure, they would hazard the realisation of these forebodings, and by their ill-success at the very outset would bring an admirable system into disrepute. On these accounts, we consider the interval of preparation is not time squandered away, and the forward appearance of the model baths and washhouses at Goulstone-square, is an evidence that, besides maturing their scheme, the Committee have mareialled their army of bricklayers and hodmen. We trust, however, that the labour of dissemi nating a love for cleanliness among the poor, may not be restricted to the crippled capacities of this single Committee, but that the Legislature will come forward, and that speedily, for the encouragement of similar associations. When we see the Government endeavouring in other respects to improve the condition of the populace— giving them a Victoria Park for their recreation, a British Museum for their instruction, and a National Gallery as a means of opening their minds to tile appreciation of art—is it not actually anomalous to observe no eftbrt on the part of our legislators for the removal of the most grievous obstacle to the bodily and mental health of the multitude? How can a labouring man be expected to foster anything like an appetite for intellectual improvement when he returns to a comfortless home, with a proportionate feeling of per sonal discomfort ? His natural resource is the oblivion of the beer-shop. Through the instrumentality of such institutions as the one now rising in Goulstone-square, the very poor would be enabled to wash themselves and their clothing at a charge ridiculously small—a penny fur a cold, and twopence for a hot, bath—and yet, with every human probability of either an equivalent or an increased amount of return upon the monies invested in such establishments. The success which has followed the labours of the Corporation of Liverpool would almost be a sufficient assurance in this regard. Dunng the three years and nine months which their plans have been in operation, no less than 44,115 have washed there upwards of 1,000,000 articles, while, during the first three quarters of their current year, their ex penses have been exceeded by thirty pounds. A si milar prosperity has attended a similar establishment in Glasshouse-yard, near the London Docks, where, during the eleven months of its existence, 25,123, persons have bathed and 31,882 persons have washed there 235,814 articles. The multiplication of such structures would promote the happi ness, the sobriety, the health, and the morality of the people to such an extraordinary extent, that we consider their as sistance and patronage as the bounden duty of the Legisla ture. Whether in au economical, a sanatory, or a religious point of view, the system advocated by the Committee de mends the accordance of Government. The Unive rsa l G erman Gazette, on the authority of a letter from Rome, dated April 27, contradicts the announcement lately made in one of the German papers, that the POPE S about to nominate eight Polish bishops. The relations of the PontificialCourt with Russia are, on the contrary,to be placed on the same footing as two years back. A letter from Soleure, published in the Zurich Gazette, states that all the elections for the Grand Council had, with one exception, terminated in favour of the Liberal party. The following news from the Caucasus appears in the St. Petersburgh Journal. The letter is dated 29th March : " It may be remembered that the powerful and warlike tribe of the Abadsek, formerly so hostile to the Russians, sub sel) t m 3 i , t e t a e r d . to A t e e p u G t n a v ti e 4 rn e m ofe n t t h i i n s J r h i b e e is beginning shortl y t o o t' a t r h n e . p e r at St. Petersburgli, to lay at the foot of the throne the expres sion of their devotedness. Lately several Abadseks arrived at Tiflis, to present themselves to the General-in- Chief. They were the elders lijabatourof and Den zouboyef, the Effendi Abdul-Gamid, and the re presentative of the young warriors of the tribe tiadji-Zoukof. They were much feted, and ap peared greatly delighted with their v i s it, t hi s b e i ng the first time that they had entered a large city. The submission of the Abadseks already exercises a marked influence on the independent tribes of the neighbourhood. On March 10th, the h o e t., n i c e e w l e , b e r l a d t e e r d s of for t h h e i s B ac a t c s h 1 0 1 f b e robberyis, an d Ma- v i o l e nce, arrived at at Stavropol. They demanded leave to su b m i t themselves unco nditionally, and to b e rece i ved amongst the subjects o f R uss ia, with permission t o t ransport v 1 tncmse roup, a locality whic h the y es to the neighbourhood hadtorm o e f rly th i e n s h o a u b r i c t e e s d. oj the On- Accounts from Piedmont and Lombardy represent the position of affairs in the north of Italy as calculated to give great uneasiness to the Austrian Government. The King of Sardinia (CARLO ALBERTO), who, as Prince DE CARIGNAN, was in 1820 one of the Liberal leaders of Italy, if not a pro fessed Carbonaro, but who subseq ue n tl y betrayed the Liberal THE SUN, L01415_0 - N,' FRIDAY - EVENING, MAY 18, 1846. cause, is, it would appear, exhibiting a tendency to revert to his former opinions. The following letter, dated Genoa, 6th May, appears in the Constitutionneh— " A great excitement prevails in this city and throughout the whole of the Sardinian dominio!ls. Several circumstances tending to prove a liberal tendency in the Government, and a difference which has arisen between Sardinia and Austria, have given rise to hopes in the minds not only of th e i n h a bit an t s of this kingdom, but of the other Italian States." . . Letters from Turin state that, on the announcement of an intended review by the KING of the garrison of Tarin, the inhabitants, in their excitement, shouted " Long live CHARLES ALBERT, King of Italy," and that the Austrian Ambassador having taken offence at this, and demanded his passports, the Government, in order to tranquillise him, countermaneed the review, on a plea of a sudden indisposi tion of the Sovereign. Austria is the more alarmed, con tinues the letter, because this excitement has spread to Lom • hardy, and has manifested itself at Bologna, and in Romag nia, where cries of " Long lives CILARLES ALBERT, King of Italy," were also uttered. Preparations are making for celebrating in Genoa, upon a grand scale, the centenuary of the expulsion of the Austrians from that city in 1746. Madrid papers of the 7th have been received. On the 2d an emuete occurred at Malaga. The Impartial reports that dispatches had been received by the Government from the political chief of that city, stating that on the 2d of May, whilst he was walking in the streets, accompanied by a number of officers, a band of men fired upon his party. The colonel of the provincial regiment of Granada was mor tally wounded. In various other parte of the town shots were fired during the day. The authorities, however, had suc ceeded in restoring tranquillity. We learn from the .Heraldo that Runni and the members of the Insurrectionary Junta at Galicia have succeeded in effecting their escape into Portugal. They are at present at Viana. We find in the same journal a contradiction (which we presume may be considered as official) of the rumour that the Government had it in contemplation to dissolve the provincial regiments. A letter from Caraccas, dated 26th March, is published in the Tiempo. It states that a Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Venezuela to the Court of Madrid was about to embark for Spain, and that he was empowered to ratify the treaty of amity and navigation between Spain and Vene zuela, which had been negotiated by M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA. The Three per Cents. were done at 32 9-16 for cash ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando, at 320; and those of Isabel, at 185. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The project of law relative to the Belgian treaty passed the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday by a large majority, as did the Domestic Sugar Bill. The debate on the extraordinary cre dits was continued:on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Cham ber of Deputies, and had not concluded when the post left. In the course of the debate on Wednesday, M. GUIZOT, in reply to M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT, Vin dicated England against the charge of having prevented the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between France and Morocco, and declared that the objections to that treaty had proceeded entirely from the Emperor of MOROCCO himself. A treaty of commerce has been lately concluded between France and Sardinia, on terms so favourable to France as to suggest the idea that the King of SARDINIA had been in duced to make these concessions in consequence of some secret understanding hostile to Austria. It is said, however, that there is no reason to believe that the King of SARDINIA con templates any difference with Austria. Baron D'ANDRE, who arrived in Paris from Turin on Tuesday, was the bearer of the ratification of the treaty by the King of SARDINIA. The squadron, under the command of the Prince DE JOIN VILLE, was to sail from Toulon on the 11th. A species of panic prevailed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday, for which several causes were suggested —one, that the provincial share-markets were glutted and money scarce ; another, that, Sir R. PEEL'S Ministry was again, and this time seriously, nenaced by dislocation ; another, that a colli sion in the Gulf of Mexico between the combined French and British vessels of war on the one side, and the Ame ricans on the other, was imminent. Although the last-men tioned cause was found to rest only on an article in the New York Herald, received six or seven days previously, the gloom that hung upon the market continued until the close of business. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 90c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2401.; Rouen, 1,0271. 50c. ; Havre, 755 f. ; Great Northern, 756 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 905 f. ; Vierzon, 660 f. ; Bordeaux, 617 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 505 f. ; Basle, 2161. 25c. ; Fampoux, 445 f. ; Dieppe, 450 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 505 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 5171. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 537 f. 50c.; Bel gian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 56% ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 31%. The following are the quotations in the new lines :- Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 515 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 506 f. 25c. MARSEILLES.-Marseilles and Avignon, 922 f. 50c. LYONS, MAY 11.-Marseilles and Avignon, 922 f. 50c, ; Paris and Orleans, 1,246 f. 25c. ; Lyons, 560 f. ; Vierzon, 672 f. 50c. ; Northern, 762 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 14. Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), 2—Dutch Rhenish, 7—East Indian, %—Great Northern of France Constituted, 14% —Namur and Liege, 4—Orleans and Bor deaux, 10%— Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7 4—Paris and Stras bourg Constituted, 5 g —Rouen and Havre, 29 IA . HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-dav, to bear appeals. The Peers present were Lord Cottenham, 'Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. LEITII V. YOUNG. The arguments on this part-heard appeal were resumed this morning. The question in the case is one totally devoid of any interest, relating to the construction of a power in a Scotch deed of entail. (The case had not concluded when our Evening Edition went to press.) PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lords present were, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice• Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster. BLUCK v. RApKHAM.-JUDGMENT. Their Lordships' gave judgment to-day in this case, the arguments on wLich were concluded on Wednesday last. Their Lordships' affirmed the Judgment of the Court below with costs. SECON DA RIES'.-CF HIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) ROBERTSON v. HENLEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the Railway Record, to recover of the defendant, who is one of the directors of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company, the sum of 121. 10s., for newspapers sup plied by his order. The defendant pleaded, in abatement, that five other persons being the Managing Committee of the Company, were also liable. Mr. Payne appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Parry for the defendant. _ . The case lasted a considerable time, but the facts were very simple. It appeared that, in September last, the de fendant went to the Railway Record office and requested a paragraph respecting the Company to be inserted, aad at the same time ordered 500 copies of the paper to be sent to the solicitor to the Company, and he wrote the order on the back of his own card. The question raised was, whether the order had been given by the defendant individually, or whether there was anything to lead the plaintiff to suppose he was dealing with the Company. The SECONDARY, in summing up, said that if the jury considered the plaintiff was dealing with the Company, it was incumbent' on the defendant to set out the names of all the parties liable, and not a part, which might leave those parties to plead that others ought to have been sued. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR7\. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice COLT3IAN.) Their Lordships sat at ten o'clock. THE BATTERSEA MURDERS. Eliza Clark, aged 24, was indicted for the wilful murder of Jane Clark, her own child, by throwing her into the river. The poor woman, who seemed exceedingly faint, was ac commodated with a chair. Mr. Ryland was for the prosecution; Mr. Clarkson for the defence. Mr. RYLAND opened the case in a plain and exceedingly temperate address, and then called the following witnesses : Mary Inwood, widow—Knew theprisoner and her husband. They lived in the same house with her. They had a family of three children. The eldest was about seven years of age, the next three years, and the youngest a twelvemonth. The youngest was named Jane. On Friday, the Ist of May, she remained with the prisoner till near midnight, when her husband came home. She said, " Well, old chap, you are lite to - night." He replied, "Get out you b—r, or I'll kill you." They then went in, and the door was shut. She (witness) heard words inside, but could not distinguish what they were. She heard him say again, " You want to carney me over. Get out you b----, I hate you." She saw Mrs. Clarke again at 3ix o'clock on the succeeding morning. She complained that her hus band had tiled to hit her, and had broken the door by the blow he aimed at her. Some time after, she went out, saying she was going to give the children a walk. She then ap peared to be light in her mind. She was a very sober well conducted woman to her children. She said, on going out, " Oh, is not this enough to make any one go and make away with themselves, to think that he could say 'good bye' in the morning, and then come home at night and say ' I hate you.' " Cross-examined by Mr. CLAnKsox—She (the prisoner) did not appear to have been in bed at all on the Friday night. Richard Champ, a tailor, lived at 13 , Wellington - street, Chelsea. He knew the prisoner, her husband, and the three children. The prisoner came to his house on Saturday the 2d of May, about two or three o'clock. She was accompanied by her three children,and she remained about a quarter of an hour. He asked her to return, He she said no, as she might stop where she was go i ng. He asked how Mr. Clark was. She said she did not know, and did not care, for he had been beating her head against the door. She then left, and he found a paper on his bed. Mrs. Inwood was recalled—She was aware that the pri soner was in a state of great distress. She had pawned on the Friday her only flannel petticoat, in order to get food for the children ; and on Saturday morning she had sold the rags out of the bed for a piece of bread for them. Richard Champ cross-examined—When the prisoner was in his house the child commenced to cry. He said, " Poor thing, its a-dry." She shook it, and, when giving it the breast, said, " There's nothing there for you." She had latterly become very negligent. The husband was drunken; and on the day on which this happened he was found drunk. Mr. Baron ALnensoN—Some . say that drunkenness is no crime. See what it produces. Mary Ann Hall was on the bridge, and saw a woman and three children. She set the baby down on the pavement and told the little girl to play with it. She took the little boy up and threw him over the parapet into the river. Then she took up the little baby and threw that over. She then threw the little girl over. She cried out, "Almighty God, Almighty God, save my chil dren !" Sh e th en ran to the other s id e o f the bridge and tried to thr ow h erse l f over. A man com ing over with a van ran up and s ave d h er. James Per r y man, potman at the Ad am and Eve public house, corrob o rat e d the evidence g i ve n by the last wit ness. Several wit nesses were exam i ne d, who merely re capitulated the state ments of those w h o had gone before. Dr. Wansbrough, after stating that he had made a post mortem examination of the body of the infant, said that he had seen the wretched mother whose mind seemed highly excited ; her language was of the most inco herent character. Her tongue was clammy, the lips dry and hard, and she was evidently labouring under high nervous irritation. Her pulse was 180. Cross-examined by Mr. CLAREsoy--There were, too very well-known symptoms of mental aberration to be observed in the prisoner, namely, a "mouring of the mouth" and " bridling of the lips." Congestion of the brain would follow the increased action of the pulse. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The Learned Counsel endeavoured to establish that the prisoner was, at the time she committed this act, in a state of mental aberration, caused by the brutal conduct of her husband, and that therefore she could not be held ac countable for her actions. Mr. Baron ALDERSOX summed up. His Lordship said, that however much this case was calculated to excite their pity and their compassion, they must, before they allowfd these feelings to predominate in their minds, first do an act of justice. They must throw all milder considerations aside, and in the spirit of the oath they had taken, return a verdict upon the strict fact; for they might be sure, that however pious a perjury it might seem to sacrifice justice to mercy, God would judge them for the deceit practised upon themselves, and the injury done to so ciety. There were two questions for them to consider. They had in the first to be convinced that the death of the infant had been caused by the prisoner; and again, they had to consider the state of mind in which the woman was at the time this act was committed. It - , ould not be enough for them, that the woman had been rendered desperate by the wicked con duct of others. She must be proved to have been unconscious of what she was doing. Having thus stated what the law was, he would now direct the attention of the jury to the evidence in the case. The Learned Judge then briefly re capitulated the leading facts, and commented on them in passing, in the most feeling manner; remarking, in reference to the brutal conduct of the husband, that they could scarcely credit that such things could be done in a Christian country. (The Learned Baron was so affected that at times he could with difficulty proceed with his charge.) The jury then retired, and, after an absence of an hour, returned into Court with a verdict of " Not Guilty, on the ground that at the time she committed the act she was of insane mind."—The unfortunate woman then left the bar. NEW Gt. WIT. The Court was occupied throughout the morning with cases of uttering base coin, but none of them possessed any feature of interest beyond the incidents usual to these cases. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a great demand for Cotton at Liverpool yester day, the sales amounting to full 10,000 bags, including 3,000 on speculation and 1,000 for export, at an advance of to 4d. on the quotations of Friday last. The Share Market was dull, and the quotations generally lower. At Messrs. Wickham and Co.'s sale of shares yesterday an advance in the prices was manifest, compared with their last sale. The attendance was better, and the bidding more spirited. The following are a few of the numerous lots that were disposed of:-East Indian, 16s. 6d.-Ambergate, Not tingham, and Boston, 345.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 175.-Northumberland and Lancashire, 235. 6d.-Madrid and Valentia, 215.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 695. 6d. -Grand Union, 153.-York and Carlisle, 30s. 6d.- South Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 605.-Over Yssel, 225. 6d. Accounts from Quebec state :-" We have bad a continu ance of charming weather at Quebec since the 18th instant, such indeed as in ordinary seasons we look for towards the middle of June. To-day the sky is almost unclouded, and notwithstanding a cool breeze from the eastward. the ther mometer marked 60 degrees in the shade at noon. We are happy to learn that the apprehensions regarding the produce of maple sugar this season have proved groundless, and that the quantity made is considerably above the average." From Montreal likewise we are advised that-" Business is beginning to revive here; that there are seven er eight schooners and sloops in part and three steamers. The only thing that looks wintry-like are the heaps of ice on the wharfs and on the shoals in the river. There was ice formed during the night before last. This morning it is warm, ther mometer at noon 55 degrees, and the smoke of clearing land begins to appear to the southward." The committee for the relief of the sufferers by the Quebec fire had received 162,1821. up to April 20, paid 68,7741., had a balance of 93,4081., and had deposited, at 3 per cent. in terest, 73,3711. In repay to some remarks of a correspondent interested in the continuance of the public sales of railway shares, opposed to the system on the presumed ground of want of security, we are advised thus by the selling brokers :-" We were at first disposed to take no notice of the, statements made, as they were inconsistent with the facts, but we beg to state that an auction, conducted as ours is (Messrs. Lamond), affords no greater facilities for the circulation of forged scrip certificates than does the Stock Exchange ; nor do we believe that anything to the same amount of fictitious scrip has passed through our hands as has been dealt in in that market. If this be the case, as we have no doubt the issue of the inquiry now pending respecting the Buckinghamshire scrip will prove, is it not as easy to suppose that forged shares may have been first bought on the Stock Exchange, and then sent to our office, as that they have been bought originally at our auction, and then carried to the Stock Exchange ? Our mode of conducting business is pretty well understood and appreciated by a very numerous and highly respectable connexion." At the East India House this morning the grants to Lords Hardinge and Gough were unanimously confirmed. Consols are not firm this morning. For the Account the prices have ruled from 96% to 96%; and for Money, from 96% to 96 1 ,4. The sales, however, have not been very ex tensive. India Stock was yesterday quoted at 267 ; to-day is only at 264. Exchequer-bills are heavy at 20s. to 235. premium. India Bonds have receded to 295., and Bank Stock to 204%. The Foreign Funds are but in limited request. The only bargains of the day have been in Austrian at 110, in the Brazilian at 82, in Mexican at 32 3 %, in Spanish Passive at 5 1 ,1, in the Dutch Four per Cents. at a fall to 91%, and in the Two-and- a- Half per Cents. at 59%. The Railway Share Market is rather fiat to-day. The official prices are annexed. BRITISH F . UN DS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. 20534 2043 20534 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95 %34 95 34 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% % % 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 97% % k 974 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1660 .. 10% 10 34 India Stock . .. 264 264 India Bonds, 1,0001• - Ditto, wider 1,0001. .. 33 29 p 29 p South Sea Stock .. 10634 10636 Ditto, New Annuities 95 95 Consols for Account •• • • ..96%% 96% Exchequer Bills. 194 d. • I%d. 1,0001... •- .... 21 24 20 23 pm. 20 Ditto. Small - .... 21 24 20 23 pm. 20 booL ~ - .... 21 24 20 23 pm. 25 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 110 110 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • - Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 82 82 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 33 32% 33% Russian Bonds .. • • • • • • - 110 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. - Ditto, for the Account • • .. - 24% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 5%34 534 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. - 42 36 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% 5994 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 2 .. 9% 91% 92% Ditto. Bonds • • • • • • • • • • 91 % 91% BUSIN ESS CLOSING . DONE AT PRICES OF PAID RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. P RICES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% •• • • 1% •• • • .... • . 1 34 Birmingham and Gloucester ..100 .. - 125 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% 24, Bristol and Exeter .......75 • Ditto New .. • • • - .. 5 •_ 10 • ...... 10 Buckinghamshire . • .. 425. •• • • % p p Caledonian .. • • .. 10 .. • • 12% ••••• • .. • • 1236 Ditto, Half Shares .. 234 .... 134 134 Ditto, Extension 234 - •• • Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1% Direct Northern 234 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine .. 2 ' Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 23% 24% • • Ditto New .. 8/. 165..... - • p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. % p.. p Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p 34 p Ditto, York Extension 10s. IA, 2 1% Eastern Union .. .. 25 .. - .......„. Do. Ipswich & Bury St.Edmunds 63% , 5 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% 1%54..,,..,, % Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. % % p...... p Great North of England . ..100 ....219 218........ 18 2 Ditto, New .. . 1% •• .. 14 .• .. Great Western .. 85 - ...... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 173 18 ..•• 18 - Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... - 351 Harwich & Eastern Count. Junct. 2 .... 1 36 1% Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .... 103 ....... :: 103 Ditto, Half .'hares .. • • • • 7 .... 27% . Leicester and Bedford . Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% .... 2% 232 London ant Bir mingham . • .100 .. 22834 229...... 223 Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths 2 25 .... 25 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. .. .. - Ditto, New .. 234 - ..... 4 Ditto, Extension .. • . London and Brighton .. London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22 36 % ........ 22% London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 79% 793¢ Ditto, New . .. • • • 17 % •• •• 30 .. 30 London and York .. . 236 .... 2%34 .. •••• •• 2 34 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 234 .. • • 1% .......... 1% Manchester and Leeds .. . 82 -..........- Ditto, Quarters .. . .. 2 .. 10 %••••• • • . • • 1 oy,i Ditto Extension .. . .. 425. •• • • 3 % %P•• • • • • 3 1 ,4 p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 82 .. •••• • • • • 82 Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 4 .•• • 13 ••••• • • • • • 13 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • 9 % • ..... •.. 5% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. 1% 34 p...... 1% p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 •• • • 1% 2. •• • ... • 2 ..100 - - Ditto, New .. 18 •• • • 33% 33 .... 33 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 ......... Ditto, New . .. I 9% ..... 914 Newcastle and Berwick .. 15 ••.. - .. • . 25% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .... 1%94 •• 194 North British .. 22% .. 3014 293 f x int 29% xin Ditto, Half Shares .. . • • • 8 3¢ .... 12 11% x int.. 11% xin North Kent and Direct Dover • . 234 1% % 134 North Staffordshire .. .. • • 425. 4% % p 4% p Scottish Central .. .. • •• 10 .... 16% . ..... •• .. 16% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 314 ..... 3% Shropshire Union .. 423. die.. •• • • % d le . south Midland .. • • .. • 428..... 134 % p...... 1% South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33 314 403¢ 59% ... • 4036 Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 17% .• •••• •• •• 1334 110., New (do. 151.) No. 4. 234 .... 3% •••• • • • • S sines and Richmond .. ••I•••• - • • • • • • • • 2% South Wales .. 5 •• • • 2 %•••" • • ' • • 3 West Riding Union • • .. 425. • • 3% P. ••• • • • 11 1 .• 34 Wit,beach and St. Ives .• .. • • 2 •• • • "• ' • 1% York and Carlisle .... 1n • • • •••••"• York and North Midland .. 30 • 80 .• • - ••• • . 74 74 •• •• Ditto, Selby .. • • • • • • _ Do. E. and W. Ridi FOREIGN ng Exten.• • RAILWAYS . 1 •• • • 11% I( •..•• • • • • 11% • -. 12% Boulogne and Amiens . • .. .. 12 .... 12 1 4 ........ . _ _ Dutch Rhenish .. • • . .. 5.. • . 8 1 4 •••• •• • • a . ss. .... .......... 14 Luxembour 1% g Kamm and Liege ......6 .... 4 1 4 .. •• •• •• • • 4 1 4 Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. 6 .... 11 ........ • . 11 Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 7 1 / 4 674 . . 5 .. .. 7 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... —•— •• • •• • • Sambre and Meuse .. . .. 8 .... 554 ........ • • 5% Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 ••..536... . .. • • • • 5% West Flanders .•.. .• • 4•••• 2 %•• • • • • • • • • 2% MINES. Brazilian Imperial (issued at bl. p.) 21 .. .. • ....... --• Ditto Macaubas andCocaes •• • . 25 .• . • 934 Real dcl Monte, Unregistered .. —•. .. ...... ... 4 - VISIT OF GENERAL TOM H TUMB TO THE ST. KATHE RINE'S Dock. —Yesterday morning much amusement was caused in the st. Katherine's Dock by the visit of General Torn Thumb. Ile was driven to the dock in a cab, and was smuggled In, unknown to the gatekeepers, by his conductor, who, in the first instance, con veyed him on board the large New York packet Chip Prince Albert, when he went through part of his performance, to the great delight of the crew. One of the sailors, however, gave much offence to the General by taking him up and putting him in his pocket. Ile next vi: ted the packet ship Westminster. It soon became known that the " General" was in the dock, and people flocked from all quarters to catch a glimpse of him. His conductor at last put him under his cloak, and proceeded to the principal entrance, where he wai stopped by a Custom-house officer, who ordered him to throw his cloak aside. Tom Thumb's conductor did so, and exhibited the little fellow, who was allowed to pass duty free, althougk Certtilll7 11 cvatrabaug str- Ude 09i opticilled la Mt uor LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.) LONDON, MAT 15.—Wind, E.N.E., light breeze and cloudy. DEAL, MAY 14.—Wind E.N.E., very strong.—Sld. Claudia, Peale, Bombay. OFF SALCOMEE, MAY 12.—Isis, Batavia; Messenger, New Yerk ; Bethel, Mosher, St. John's, New Brunswick. PLYMOUTH, MAT 14. —Wind E. 1•1 .E.—A rrd. Emma, Weeks, Bahia. BRISTOL, MAY 14.—Wind E.—Arrd. Frederick, St. John's, New Brunswick. NEWPORT, MAY 14.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. 13. Lady S. Stewart, Roper, Quebec. OTT HOLYHEAD, MAY 14.—Duncan, Calcutta. SotrrnAmorf, MAY 13.—S1d. Eagle steamer, West Indies. CLYDE MAT 13.—Wind S., fresh.—Sld. Culdee, Campbell, Bom bay; Nina, Ciillies, Tobago; Pioneer, Fox, Newfoundland. Coax, MAT 12.—Wind W.S.W., light.—Acrd. Sir Henry Parnell, Kerr, Laguna. LEITH RoADs, MAY 12.—Arrd. Douglas, M'Keluiell, St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—The Mary Ann, Cassidy, from Sierra Leone, arrived to-day with loss of sails, foremast, and foretopmast sprung, having experienced a heavy gale last night off Shoreham. Off, Perseverance. HARTLEPOOL, MAY 12.—Sid. Tweedside, Kean, Quebec. HULL, MAY 13.—Sid. Charlotte, Hawkins, Bombay. NxwPoRT, MAY 14.—The schooner Charles Napier, of Southamp ton, in dropping up the river this morning ran against the bridge, and carried away jib-boom and headrails, and is making water. LIVERPOOL, MAY 14.—The Coromandel, from New Orleans to this port, which was on the bar of the Mississippi, got off 11th ult., and was re-loading. The Emerald, bound to this port, was on the bar of the Mississippi I lth ult. A dismasted vessel, supposed to be a barque, was seen on shore on the Isle of Pines 10th ult. The George Anson has been wrecked at Tobasco. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat, coastwise as well as by land carriage and samples, have been on a fair avenge scale, and the stands were tolerably well supplied. The finest parcels of both red and white moved off steadily, at full prices. In all other kinds nest to nothing was doing. The show of Foreign Wheat was not large, yet the sale for it was very heavy, and Monday's quotations were with difficulty supported. In corn under lock we heard of no sales. Barley was a slow inquiry, nevertheless, prices were maintained. Malt came slowly to hand, yet the demand was In a sluggish state. at previous quotations. The Oat trade was dull, yet a fair clearance was effected, at full prices. Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered in value. English Irish ...... Foreign ...• • • Wheat. 4,020 qrs. ARRIVALS. Barley. 2,330 qrs. 6,060 1,670 I Malt, 5,050 qrs. WWI TIMIELD. Oats Flour. 2,540 qrs. 3,880 sks. 1,720 4,360 The supply of Beasts on ether to-day being very extensive —viz., 1,001 head—the demand for that description of stock was in a sluggish_ state, yet Monday's quotations were well supported. From Scotland, we received SOO beasts and 280 sheep ; from Prussia, 34 oxen ; from Germany, 20 ditto ; and from Holland, 125 oxen and cows, together with 50 sheep, in comparatively speaking, middling condition. Al though the numbers of sheep were again on the increase, the mutton trade was firm at full prices. From the Isle of Wight, 250 Lambs came fresh to hand per railway; while from other quarters the receipts were liberal. On the whole, the demand wars firm, at extreme currencies. Calves were in moderate supply, and heavy demand, at late rates. In pigs very little was doing, yet previous quotations were maintained. Milch cows moved off slowly, at from 15/. to 181. each, including their small calf. Sucking calves 18s. to 295.; and quarter old store pigs I6s. to 18s. each. Beasts, 1,001; cows, 123; sheep and lambs, 7,680; calves, 238; pige, 320. NEWGATZ AND MEADENNAZZ. We bad a slow inquiry for each kind of meat. BOROUGH HOP DIARIE.BT. Although the bine, in nearly the whole of the plantations in Kent and Sussex, has progressed very rapidly during the present week, the fly has almost everywhere made its appearance; hence, the de mand here is tolerably steady, and prices are well supported. The supply of Hops on offer is small. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GROUP IV. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual uour this morning. Mr. G. W. Hope in the Chair. THE ALFORD VALLEY LINE. Mr. CRAWFORD opened the case fur the promoters of this Bill which was for making a branch of the Great North of Scotland Rail way up ithe Alford Valley to Charleton. The length of the line, which would accommodate a rich and extensive agricultural district, was 16 mi. es, and the estimate was 100,0001. The line was only opposed by one landowner, who was represented by Mr. Whate- Q. C. The opposition, after a short discussion, was arranged, and ulti mately withdrawn, when the Committee virtually declared the preamble to be proved, subject to the conditions which had been agreed upon between the parties. EASTERN EXTENSION. The next Bill brought under the consideration of the Committee, a as, for making the Raatern Extension of the Great North of Scot land Railway. The line was proposed for accommodating the dis tricts between Dyce to Peterhead and Graizerbing, a distance of 46 miles. The estimate for the line was 400,0001. and the working ex penses were calculated at the rate of 331. per cent. per annum. Mr. Gibb, the engineer of the line, having proved that the engi neering features were highly favourable, a witness residing in the locality of the line, was called to speak to the importance of the line. and to prove that the majority of the inhabitants were favourable to its passing. '[he Committee declared the preamble to have been proved. MORAYSHIRE. The next Bill taken by the Committee was for making the Moray shire Railway from the harbour Lesseymouth up the valley of the Spay, joining the Great North of Scotland Railway at a point near to Eight. Mr. Chinn, the gentleman who laid out the line, proved there were no tunnels, deep cuttings, or engineering difficulties on the line. The line was 23 miles in length, and would cost 63,0001. Witnesses having been called to prove the advantages of the line to the district through which it passed, The Committee declared the preamble to have been proved. This closed the labours of the Committee. GROUP XIII. The Committee met to-day at the usual hour. Sir Wm. Clay, in the chair. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY AND BRANCHES. The case on behalf of the promoters of this company was pro ceeded with, on the assembling of the Committee. Mr. Locke, civil engineer, was re-called and examined on the esti mates for the Caledonian branches. He stated that the estimates for both the Dumfries and Northern branches was 500,0001. The Dumfries branch ,was set dawn at 338,752/. ; and 147,0641. for the Northern branch. These items were for the construction of the branches, 20,0001. was allowed for the stations. The Nithsdale Com pany had estimated their Dumfries and Carlisle line at 33 per cent., but that he thought was an under estimate. He did not think they ought to have put it down at less than that estimated for the Caleionian. There were no engineering difficulties in the construction of these branches. He estimated the working expenses of these branches at 16,0001., on the estimated receipts of 24,0001. The Caledonian Extension, as a conception, was brought before the notice of the Lords' Committee last year. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews —He estimated the Dumfries and Langholme branch of last year at 178,0001. He could not give an estima'e of the Ca edonian Extension. The Kelso branch of this extension had been lost en the standing orders; but the western portion into Ayrshire still remained. The estimates had been made out for the whole, and he had not deducted from the estimates ior what had been thrown out. To Mr. LIDDELL, who appeared for Lord Mansfield, and the Duke of Buccleuch, and Lord Queensberry—The Springfield branch went through Lord Mansfield's property for some extent. It also went for hall a mile through that of the Duke of Buccleuch. There were no very heavy cuttings or embankments, and there would not be much damage done to farm-buildings. A number of occupation roads were crossed, and the line ran for some distance parallel with the turnpike road. The branch went for three miles through Lord Queensberry's property, but the works were about the same as the others. There were no heavy works. There were very few farm buildings on the line of deviation. The works on the Dum fries Branch, through Lord Queensberry's, were of a similar cha racter. Two roads were crossed on a level. On the Duke of Buc cleuch's property on the same branch, very little damage was done to farm buildings. Re-examined—With regard to the first-named branch, the Niths dale Branch went nearly in the same route, and would consequently do as much damage. No damage was done to residential property. It was as feeders to the main line that these branches were most desirable. Mr. COCKBURN said, as the evidence on behalf of these branches was closed, it was necessary they should consider the propriety of hav ing all the lines before them that constituted the whole or perfect scheme on each side. He submitted that no decision should be come to till the whole extension schemes in relation to the two Companies were gone into, and the evidence in support of them taken. The . question mainly depended on whether the Nithsdale line and the Caledonian line could co-exist, and before a lair decision could be come to, it was necessary that not only the Caledonian extension should be heard, but als o t h e case for the North British, Hawick and Carlisle extension. It would save time, as he would not sum up till the whole evidence was gone through. Mr. ANDREWS must decidedly appose the application, as most monstrous. It would be deterring the decision almost indefinitely, as the Caledonian extension would not be ripe till Monday week, the 25th. That was the earliest day in which it could be heard, as it could not be Tead a second time till Monday next, and seven days would have to transpire to allow petitions to be presented. It had been admitted by the agent of the Caledonian scheme at the begin ning of the sitting that the Caledopian extension did not necessarily compete with the Nithsdale scheme; the competition being in reference to the southern branches of the Caledonian scheme. His clients had done every thing to push forward their bill, and had the second reading of it carried through at the earliest day ; whereas the Caledonian Extension had been delayed to the latest minute. There was, therefore, no reason why the Nithsdale Company should be made to suffer by being detained here day by day to watch the pro ceedings which hail no strict relation to their own case. Still less reason was there that the Nithsdale Company should wait until the North British Extension, in which they were not in the least interested, either for or against, was entered upon. He submitted that the application should not be allowed. Mr. TALBOT, on behalf of the petitioning landholders against the Caledonian branches, followed on the same side. He objected to the application on the ground of hardship to his clients, and that the granting of it would mix up a great deal of new matter that had no • thing really to do with the case. Mr. Sergeant BELLASIB, on the part of the North British (Hawick and Carlisle Extension). protested against the delay in relation to his scheme, which was involved in the application. Mr. COCKBURN replied, going over the objections on the other side. The Legislature had granted the Caledonian main line last year, and extensive contracts on the faith of that fiat had been gone into. Now the whole of the lines had a strict relation to the Caledonian scheme. The latter was threatened on the one side by competition with the Nithsdale scheme, and by the North British Extension on the other ; and no just decision in relation to the interests of the Caledonian line could be come to till the whole of these schemes were fully before the Committee. They ought to do so, in order to learn whether the Caledonian line, which had r ceived the solemn sanction of Parliament last year, could exist, in the event of such competing line s being granted, and whether, with . the branches proposed and the Caledonian Extension, the wants o f supplied.asshtohuel should r b a e fti g c r o a f n t the ed country w th a e r e ra or te t d rywould . Ile The room was then clea red for the decision of the Committee. not submitted b e as t the l lapplica t ions) GROUP XLIV. Lord Palmerston took the chair at twelve o'clock, in Room 25 (New Houses of Parliament). The same Members were present as on former occasions. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW— CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION. This Bill, together with the Lancashire and North Yorkshire h (wit which it had been amalgamated), and the York and Carlisle and Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, stood over since Monday, in order that the time might be given for an arrangement between the par ties, as to which of them should form a certain branch from Leyburn to Hawes, which formed part of both schemes. The case of the Liverpool and Manchester was called on at the meeting of tae Committee, and the arrangement of the clau ses occu pied about an hour. N o question of any public interest arose. Some of the clauses were altered and the remainder passed as they 111.004, GROUP LIV, caktinienrn m im(c2Lor.l i s t e t s e e o f a a e r n i t i ti a l n e i d e H. to-day r e a s e t n o t , n e m o r ' . c I, l a eT n h ) liC , seN M 7 a rm r i q °m u u ls of Douro, Viscount Adare, Sir E. Fihner, and Mr. Waddington. The following Bills have been referred to the Committee, viz. : Grand Trunk or Stafford and Peterborough Union, Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent Jute:ion. Trent Valley (Abrewas Branch.) London and Birmiri F ham (Coventry to Nuneaton Extension.) Leicester and Tamworth Junction. Midland (Leicester and Swannington Alteration and Branches.) Midland (Burton-on Trent to Nuneaton and Branch.) Direct Birmingham and Leicester, Leicester and Birmingham and Branch to Coventry. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester. Grand Trunk, or Stafford and Peterborough Union. This Bill was withdrawn, as well as the Leicester and Tainworth Junction. Some difference with respect to the priority of the Bills having arisen between the respective Counsel, The CHAIRMAN said, that the Committee had determined to pro ceed with those Bills which had been read a second time. It was then agreed to give precedence to the Midland, Leicester, and Swannington. The parties, however, not being in readiness to proceed, the Conimittee adjourned till twelve o'clock ou Monday. On Wednesday the Batavier steam-ship, from Rot terdam, arrived at the St. Katherine Dock Steam-packet Wharf, with fifty passengers, fifty oxen, five hundred firkins of butter, aud a large quantity of yeast. The importation of cattle, provisions, and butter trsm 11940 Is Iparsasing sTvi7 HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. SCHWERIN, MAY 7.—His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, accompanied by Baron Von Sell, set out this morning for Italy. His Highness will meet his mother at Vienna, and, after some stay at Milan, and on the lake of Como, will return hof—e through the countries ou the Rhine. HAMBURGII, MAY 9.—We understand that the loan for nine millions of marks, resolved on by the Senate and citizens in July, last year, has been contracted for by the house of S. Neine, of this city, and by the houses Schickler Brothers and E. M. Magnar. in Berlin, under the name of Hamburgischa Staats Premium. AULKIKE, STOCKHOLM, MAY 5.--It is said that a corn• mercial treaty between Sweden and Norway and the Xing dom of the Netherlands is in contemplation, and Baron Wahrendorff, his Majesiy's Chargé d'Affaires at the Courts both of Belgium and the Netherlands, has gone from Brussels to the Hague on this account. COPENHAGEN, MAY Royal Highness the Crown Prince went yesterday evening on board the Aegir steamer, and this morning on board the Gesion frigate. At eleven o'clock this morning the King and suite went in the same steamer to the frigate, which weighed anchor this afternoon, and together with the steamer proceeded northward. COPENHAGEN, MAY 9.—We now learn that the destina tion of the Gesion frigate is to cruise for ten months on the Spanish coast, and to go as far as Madeira. The King re mained on board on the 7th till three o'clock in the after noon, when he left it off Vedbeck, and arrived here on board the Aegir at half-past five o'clock. RIGA, APRIL 9.—Our merchants are in the greatest anxiety. Our harbour of Dunamunde is choked up with sand, by which above 100 ships richly laden are prevented entering Riga, -and a great part of them have already put back, hoisting a black flag. This is a dreadful blow Co our commerce. Th.. Emperor has assigned a million of roubles to provide the means for remedying this misfortune. COPENHAGEN, MAY 7.—The expected visit of the Swedish Royal Family to our Court, gives our politicians ample mat ter for conjecture. At first, only a visit of the young Duke of Upland was announced ; afterwards, however, in conse quence of special invitation, both the Crown Prince and the King of Sweden have resolved to pay a visit to our Court. Now, as the reigning Queen of Sweden, with the Princess of Sweden, who is 16 years of age, will reside in Schonen, hopes are entertained that we may see those acgust members of the Royal Family of Sweden at Copenhagen, which of course, gives full play to political conjectures, in which the re-marriage of Prince Frederick of Hesse, nearly allied to the Danish throne, is not to be overlooked. Immediately after the visit of the Swedish Roy al Family their Majesties will set out for the Duchies, the King will then go for the pur pose of sea• bathing to Fohr. and the Queen to Augustunberg. DRESDZN, MAY s.—Our Government has received a no• tification from B: rlin, that it does not seem advisable to re sume the conferences at Carlsruhe respecting the Zollverein, till the question of the Corn Bill Tariff in England is de cided, and an üblooked delay has taken place in Parliament, and the Bill can hardly be voted in the Upper House before the end of this month. The meeting of the Deputies can hardly take place before the autumn, e-pecially as a wish has been generally expressed not to meet in the heat of the summer. HAMBURGH, MAY 11.—The number of ships of all nations that passed the Sound in April, 1846, was— From the North Sea From the Baltic ... Total 1,817 Of which the English ships were— From the North Sea From the Baltic Total BRussars, MAY 12.—The average price of wheat in the week ending the 9th of May, was 23f. 91c., and that of rye 17f. 44c. per hectolitre. The Journal of Bruges every day inserts in some state ments respecting the distress of Thielt and the environs, which we cannot pass over in silence. Scarcely a day passes without poor little children arriving at Bruges, who wander about the streets of the city, exhausted with fatigue and hunger. They come from Thielt, their parents are dead, or shut up in the Mendicity establishment, or have abandoned them, being unable to support them. These are serious facts; let it be ascertained whether they are correct or not; we wish the latter, but we fear that they are too true.—Brus ids Paper, May 13. HAMBITRGH BORSENHALLE, MAY 12. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents .. Bank Shares •.. Anglo-Russian Loan •• • • •• • • 107 Russian 5 per Cent., Han,. Certificate. 1013 10114 Ditto Ist series Inscription •••• ••• • • • 1023(, Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96 Ditto, in Certificate•—• • • •••• .• • • 96 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •••• .. 894 89 Ditto Stieglitz ••••• • • • • 88% 881,4 Spanish New 5 per Cent . 183 18% Ditto 3 per Cent • • •• ...• •• ••• • • • 29% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2 34 per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• •• 59 Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 81 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .... •. 864 National Bank Shares ...... .......... GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITIITION.—The third annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution was held iyesterday at the Hanover-square Rooms. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the chair, supported by Viscount Ingestre• 'M.P., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., Mr. Vaughan Richards, Q.C., Hon. H. Ashley, &c. &c. &c. His Royal Highness opened the busi ness by observing, that he had much gratification in being in a con dition to acquaint the subscribers that the continued prosperity which had crowned the operations of the society had placed it amongst the leading institutions of the country. Although but in existence three years, upwards of 900 cases had been considered by the ladies' com mittee, and nearly 20,0001. was invested for the benefit of those who ' wished to purchase annuities. A considerable sum had also been received towards the establ , shment of a home for dis engaged governesses. The report read by the honorary secre tary, the Rev. David I,aing, stated that during the past year twelve donations, of the amount of 501. and up wards, had been received ; nearly 300 cases had come be fore the ladies' committee, of which 253 were favourably en tertained, and pecuniary grants to the amount of 4911. had been made to 189. An annuity had been founded, through the benevolent suggestion of the Bishop of Durham, who offered to give 501. towards the said object, if nine others would do the same, thus making alto gether eight permanent annuities. Towards the provident fund the ' amount received and invested now reaches 20,0001. An Act of Incor poration would be applied for during the present session of Parlia ment, to enable the society to hold freehold property, and thus to carry out fully its design. The report added that his Royal.Highnese Prince Albert had become a patron of the institution. According to the financial statement the total receipts towards the provident fund amounted to 13,6851. 3s 10d., and deducting the expenditure, a balance of 960/. 103. 10d. remained. After addresses from Lord Ingestrie and Mr. Bond Cabbell the report was agreed to. A vote of thanks was passed to his Royal Highness, who, having acknowledged the compliment, tt.e meeting dissolved. An election of annuitants next took place, when out of 65 candidates three were chosen. - 'My SHIP IS MY WlFE."—While the St. Nicholas was on her way down the North River, on Saturday, the officers discovered a man far out in the bay, nearly opposite Peekskill, float ing on what subsequently proved to be a boat which had been can sized. As soon as the report that a man in distress was in eight , the captain ordered the pilot to make for him. The St. Nicholas was soon alongside, and a line was thrown to the ferryman (for such the man proved t o be), but instead of seizing the only means of escape, our hero of the boat-bottom began to parley, somewhat as follows : " Hilloa," said the Captain, " dent you want to come a'board " Will ye right my boat and pump her out ?" asked the man in dis• tress. " Why no, my man, we have not time ; but if you will take that line we will haul you a'board." "No ye don't. If I could only get this boat righted, that's all I'd care for." So throwing back the line indignantly, the boatman squatted himself quietly upon his precarious perch and awaited another turn of the wheel of fortune. This steamer was obliged to pass on her course ; the captain, how ever, soon spoke a schooner which was on her way, and requested the master to go to the aid of the boatman, whose situation was really one of danger. The river was very rough, and the sea in the bay was running a great deal too high for comfort or safety. The schooner soon hove-to alongside the beat, but as passengers from the St. N.,could see them, the captain of the schooner and the wrecked boatman were, to all appearances, negotiating. The latter, in all probability, demanding that in return for the privilege of rescuing him, the master of the schooner should pump out his boat.—Yew York Harper. _ _ THE ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM-SHIP DEE.- This splendid vessel, the Dee, one of the Royal West India Mail Steam Company's fleet of steamers, has recently undergone a tho rough fit out, and left Blackwell last evening for Southampton, ready to receive the next West India mail. BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM — The Rev, Samuel Gobat. who has been appointed by his Majesty the King of Prussia to the Bishopric of Jerusalem, vice Dr. Alexander, deceased, is expected to arrive in town in the course of next week, in order to receive cOn secration from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. BLACK AND WHITE TWINS.—Dr. Cunningham re cords, in the Philadelphia Examiner, the case of a negress, who was delivered of twins, one black and the other white. He says, a negro woman, aged about forty-five, after having giving birth to thirteen children during her life, none of which were twins, was, during the last spring, safely delivered of two at one birth, one being black and the other white. He saw. them when they were a few weeks old, and the contrast in colour, hair, &c., was, indeed, striking; s o much so, that four-fifths of those who examined them were of opinion that the negress was not the mother of both, but that some deception was being played ; the mother persisted and still delares them to be her own. Dr. Cunningham remarks on this singular fact, that a black woman may give birth, at one time, to a black child and a mulatto, but the occurrence is extremely rare. A case like that under notice, he considered to be a phenomenon as inexplicable as it is interesting. DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOS. BARKER DEVON, K.C.H. —We have to notice the decease of this Gallant Naval Officer, who died on Tuesday last, at his resid. nee in Devonshire in the 62d year of his age. The deceased had been in the navy more than fertY•fiv ° years. He was Lieutenant of the Dragon in Sir R. Calder's action. While in the command of the Brardrageren, he performed many gal !ant services en the coast of Norway and in the German rivers. 111 1811 he fought a most gallant action with three Danish brigs of the first class, and in 1813 captured two Danish gun-boats while com manding the boats of the Brardrageren and Blazer. Ile commanded the seamen landed to co-operate with the Russian army for the re duction of the fortresses of Blexen and Bremer-Lehe, at the mouth of the Weser in the same year, Subsequently, in 1814, he co operated with the allied army in the river Ems. In 1838 he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gnalphio Order. journey on pedomotive ma chines,man of Bath, and his assistant, went a distance of 87 miles during the day, on and travelled the CHEAP TRAVELLING. —A , hort time since a trades are the invention and construction of a the 6th though t i tz t s i e , cha, curious tr_rn Ri carriages; ufa et ur e r t , they young, is very ingenious. aymed Dawson, i n t hat city, W h o, " The FEu a IL I L ie EZON,"___O n roman feuilleton, in 19th of litareh, ,, "Des raisons de co nvenance," says the modest redact' ton " none decident a ne faire connaitre le nom de l'auteur qt fourinstant L' v E o P I t u °h n Qi l su e volumes, journ al- t - o . ' be l' e li n A t l t announ ced led le l orsque le roman aura did entierement publte." Nevertheless - they feel convinced that the first chapters, by their " variety, and delicate observation of character, °rlginality, will satistY their readers that the unknown author a ppelle en France les marechau x de l3 "de ceux ue q ron 1a li • tterature." W e have no disposition to deny that h title • but he is no marshal of the F 1 e is well deserved, rench li terary army, for in the first. of Ma chapter of "Th e 19 t h Marc h " translation of an old friend—n I we find a French Field-Marshal Master Humphrey .....a r nabY Budge. Long lift 10 ! BIRTHS On the 30th ult., a t Gib raltar, the lady of the Chevalier Longl"" Cowell, Belgian and Ottoman Consul, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Hampton -grove, Surbiton, near Kingsi".". Thames, the lady of Captain F. S. Hamilton, R.A., of a daught"' On the 6th inst., at Lashlake, Thame, awn, Payne, Esq., of a son, still-born. On the 11th inst., at the Lodge, Upper Clapton, the lady of Claria& Salisbury Butler, Es q ., of a daughter.On the 12th i nst., at Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the wife ore. 11 * Esq ,of a son. the wife of Edwar d On the 12th inst., in Bolton-street, Piccadilly, the lady 0(. 7 ° 156 ° Alfred Hardcastle, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 11th MEL at Kingston Church, 'Southampton, Alexander Lewis, Esq., R.N., to Mary Ann, widow of the late Captain J. 1 ' Ilodnett. On the 12th inst., at Maize-hill, Greenwich, Mark William Cain Esq., Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Mary, youngest daughter of the la , * Nana Raine, Esq., Staindrop, Durham. DIED. Roch Vale, near Dartmouth, in the 32d year of his age, the 11 011 * Darcy Godolphin Osborne, fourth son of Lord Godolphin. On the 10th inst., at Walthainstovr, Mrs. Jury, aged 86. 2 On the sth inst., at Penzance, Sarah Anne, the wife of Cal '• - Vernon Anson, R.N. On the 25th ult., at Malta, the Rev. Armitage Forbes, aged 26 ' On the litit inst., at Ilighbury, Mary Ann, wife of Adam Joseph Kopsch, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Oxford, C. Wingfield, Esq., surgeon, aged 59. On the 11th last., at St. Leonard's-on-the-Sea, Charles Worthing ton, Esq. On the 12th inst., at Paington, Devonshire, Captain T. Barker Devon, R.N., K.O H., aged 62. On the 12th inst., in Upper Ileathfield-terrace, Tilrallera - g reCn ' Thomas Pearce Brown, Esq., aged 82. London : Printed and Published by bIIIRDO YOUNG, of Ns. Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, In the Preelses e the IlitY47, in the COW, of miconws, poor, Kir IN 110.