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Preparing for publication, in 2 vols. B vo. , T HE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS. By W. C. TAYLOR, LL.D., Author of Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. MISS PARDOE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY WOMAN. By Miss PARDOB, Autluiress of " The City of the Sultan," &c. iienry COlburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY DR. CROLY. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo,, NT A R S T 0 N; or, THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. By the Rev. G. CROLY, LL.D. Author of " Salathiel," Br..c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo., MEMOIRS By the OF A Countess FEMME INDGETO yIIAMBRE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 31ESSRS. 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, Btc., take place every TUMMY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Ball of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, contilning instructions, are respectfully requested to be dressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa7 mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hair of Commerce. Threadneedl e -street, London HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. !'he Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed That an EXTRA NIGHT, not included in the Subscription, will take place THIS EVENING, APRIL 113, When will be presented Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madam e Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioli ; Zerlina, Madame Castellan. Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Don Ottavio, Signor Mario ; Il Commandatore, Signor Botelli ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the highly successful New Ballet, by M. P erro t, ent, CATARINA ; on, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The prindipal characters by Madlle. L. Grahn, Madlle. P. Stephan, a nd Madlle. Taglloui ; M.M. Perrot, Bertraud, DI Mattia, and THEATRE ROYAL, DILURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Opera, entitled THE CROWN JEWELS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss ; Don Heurique, Mr. Harrison ; Don Sebastian D'Aveyro, Mr. D. W. King ; Reboiledo, Mr. Borrani ; La Catarina, Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Poole. After which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROUSE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by Madlle. Louise, Madame Giubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. TIiEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy - , called; A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei tiermarn, Mr. J. Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, 'Mrs. clover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonie," and " La Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ANISTOPHANES on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by. Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. Jl athews, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unprecedented Attraction for the Easter Holidays. Re-engagement of GENERAL TOM THUMJ•3 I Who having, on each appearance in the Burlesque of •` Hop o' my Thumb," been welcomed with most enthusiastic shouts of ap plause, and excited the astonishment and approbation of an slegant and delighted auditory, by his almost Incredible Dimi nutive Person and his equally Incredible Mind, the Management has much pleasure in announcing his Performance for every Evening during the Holidays. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama, in Three Acts, called HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Didtlear, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mr 3. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. Hop 'o My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. lira conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arde% Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELYIII. A New Drama, and a New and magnificent Burlesque. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, in Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE ; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ssnsonet, Mr. Wright ; Mons. Dellmare, Mr. Perkin 4 ; Batifole, Miss Woolgar ; NMI, Miss Webster ; Cecile, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Burlesque, entitled, PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Iloneybun, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Iloneybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRENCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Wil be performed a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The principal characters supported by Messrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh M array ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &c. After which, the petite Comedy, named THE IRISH AMBAS SADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. Collins. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which Messrs. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, °sherry ; Miss Taylor, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss Honner, &c., will appear. ASTLEr* ROYAL AMPHITHEATF.E. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Priecess Royal.—Entertainments Extraordinary for the Holiday Visitors.—First Appearance of the celebrated Clown Wallet, in conjunction w th Barry and Rochez. TIIIB EVENING Will be performed an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle, entitled, THE ARAB AND HES DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. The Characters personified by the principal members of the Company and numerous auxiliaries. New and Popular Scenes in the Circle, by the Foreign and British Professors. To conclude with a favourite Afterplece. Box-office open float eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Holiday Attractions, on a scale of Novelty, Talent, and Variety never before offered. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New BurleTque Spectacle, entitled JACK 'THE GIANT KILLER. Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Cowell, Lewis, Heslop, Williams ; Mesdms. Hughes, M. Glover, &c. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THE TILES ; or, A Night at Greenwich. To be followed by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DER CHAMOIS YAGER ; or, The Fiend on Earth. By the Deulin Family. A Tableaux of the Great Indian Victory will be exhibited. To conclude with a New Melodrama, called, THE RATS OF RAT CASTLE. ROYAL VItTORIA THEAnZE. The most powerful and varied Entertainment ever offered to the Public I THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; (,r, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. Fredericks, Saville, Raymond, Tindal, }Jiggle, Searle, Burton ; Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, Br.c. After which, THE WHITE CROSS KNIGHT. T,p coeclude wit:a a romantic Drama, entitled THE DEVIL'S DRS ; or, '1 he Mint, the Maize, and the Maiden. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS, " La galete est la sante de fame, La tristesse en est le poison." M. PEILLIPPE, in returning his grateful thanks to his kind l'atrons, and feeling anxious to merit a continuance of past favours, so liberally bestowed upon him by the discerning Public of this great metropolis, bets leave to announce that he will Resume his EN TERTAI MENT at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING, When he will have the honour of introducing an ENTIRE CHANGE in hfs PEIIIIOR.NIANCE, which has been prepared at a great expense and labour. The New Feats and Miraculous Scientific Experiment; are of the mast ekraordinary and astounding de scription, and must be seen to be Mlieved. Nr. HULL [PPE will commence the Entertainment by Lightino. Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Canales by a single Pistol Shotl This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons. Philippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. During the Evening M. Philippe will introduce his GRAND MOTHER'S CAP, with all Its Rapid Transformstions. During the Easter Week there will be a Morning and Evening Performance each Day. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; Evening Performance at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Gd. ; revate Boxes, It. Is., and 10s. Gd. VIEATHEIL—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 16. TUERMONETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 54; Noon, 58. BAROXETER, 30.05. Wimp S.E.; fine sunshiny weather. rilGri WATER AT LONDON-lIRIDLIE THINS DAY. m ern i n z .. 37 minutes after 4.1 Evening .. 57 minutes after 4. ;\ I qjotk' . A , L l 7 hr i t ).N; cf - o 7 54 - • 0 , -'l%-%‘‘ . , - st a , ,Aw•fo . , • • t hvOit— , SECOND EDITION. bitning LONDON, THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1846. One of those advocates of what is falsely called " pro tection to agriculture," and who, after the manner of CROKER, is not very rice about facts, provided only he oan make a temporary impression, put forth a paper some weeks since announcing, as an important disco very, that the real cause of the decline and fall of Rome was the free importation of grain. To this wicked com mercial system he attributed almost every evil with which Italy was afflicted previous to the irruption of the barbarians. It depopulated the rich and ext ensive pains, drove the hardy and independent freemen out of the country, caused the horrible malaria that still infests the Eternal City, and finally so enfeebled and dispirited the cla3s from which the bcst legions were raised, that the mighty empire fell an easy prey to undisciplined hordes of Goths and Vandals. If the premises were correct there might be some foundation for such an ar gument, but the reasoning is all grounded on mere assertion, and the real state of the case requires only to be shown to disprove the momentous conclusions of the writer. In the number of the Edinburgh Review just published there is an article on the subject, which pla ces the question in a true light, and shows that free trade had no more to do with the pestilential vapours of the Campagna, the depopulation of Italy, and the fall of the Roman power, than with the earthquake of Lisbon, or any other great national calamity. Perhaps the facts furnished by the writer might, if f u lly d eve loped, have carried him much f ur th er , and demonstrated th at ' the destruction of the empire was, in fact, caused by the total absence of that very system which has been attributed as the cause of its ruin. But, though the writer does not make full use of his materials, he deserves great credit fur his research and intimate acquaintance with those ancient authors who have adverted to this wonderful and hitherto inexplicable catastrophe. At Rome the cry was not, as in England, for cheap bread, but bread for nothing. When the evils commenced, there was, in fact, no trade in corn. " With respect to the food of the people," says a writer well acquainted with the subject, " it was the constant maxim of the Roman administra tion to provide for their wants by taxes or forced sales; to do everything by itself, and never to rely upon the assistance imported from trade." This was the way in which cor n was i from Sicily and Africa. The operation was entirely n the hands of the despotic and debased Emperors, who plundered the conquered provinces to stop the mouths of the idle, dissolute, and beggarly population of the capital, who gave them corn for n othin g to p revent insurrections and ruined the parent state and the provinces at the same time. The corn was not obtained by purchase, but was levied from certain provinces as tribute, and by the agency of public functionaries conveyed to Rome. The Government, in short, was at no expense whatever. The corn-growers of Sicily, and Lybia, and Egypt, were compelled to furnish a certain number of measures annu • ally; the shipowners were equally compelled to transport it to Ostia without any remuneration except some trifling privileges and exemptions—it was in every respect a system, not of free trade, but robbery committed upon the industrious to keep down the idle and lawless multi tude. At first, or rather for several generations, this destructive practice could have scarcely any perceptible effect upon the agriculture of Italy, for these largesses were confined entirely to the hungry poor, or as SICERO calls them, the "misera ac jejuna plebecula:;" and these in the time of AUGUSTUS did not exceed 200,000 persons, the annual gratuitous supply being only 35,156 quarters, which could scarcely have any perceptible influence on the rest of Italy. The numbers afterwards increased as the power and autho rity of the state diminished. The evil, like most evils when not timely! checked, became greater every day : slaves were manumitted, that their masters might be saved the expense of maintaining them, and latterly, to keep down discontent, the Government were forced to act the part of a commissariat for the majority of the inhabitants, and become responsible to a certain degree for the supply of corn to those who were not inscribed Roman paupers, as well as to the rest of Italy. Every newly conquered province was accordingly burdened with this ruinous tax, and the agriculture, the indus trious population, and products of Italy diminished in proportion as Rome extended her conquests. "More over," says the writer, " the storms of the civil wars had driven great numbers of the small free proprietors, who cultivated the soil by their own labour, from their lands ; and large tracts of country had fallen into the possession of enormously wealthy owners. Upon these estates all the labour was performed by slaves, working by day in chains, and at night shut up in prisons named ergastula. The re sult of this change was, that southern and central Italy, instead of being tilled by a hardy race of active farmers, themselves freemen, and working on their own land, was divided into plantations, cultivated by slave labour. This was the true nature of the change which PLINY considered the ruin of Italy." It will thus be seen that no two systems could be more different than that which prevailed during the latter days of the empire and that which is now proposed by the great measure before Parliament. The article altogether is full of deep interest, as showing the unstable foundation on which the Roman empire rested when luxury and sloth, enormous wealth and extensively spread poverty, prevailed throughout the whole of Italy, when trade was annihilated, and the very wealth and feebleness of the mistress of the world invited the most distant barbarians to rush to her plunder. Toilsome as is the career of an English artisan, it must] afford a peculiar satisfaction to every human heart when that otherwise irksome drudgery can be assuaged by the intervention of some harmless emolient. As night is the sequence of day, as sleep alternates with waking, so, in the natural course of society, should labour be lightened by intervals of recreation. The man who would negative this assertion, and who would maintain the necessity for en hancing the burden of that great mandate under which his fellow-creature is ordained to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, would be scarcely in the pale of humanity. We cannot indeed persuade ourselves that such heartlessness can ever be evinced in a land pervaded by the influences of Christianity and civilisation. We are fain to imagine this, if only from a dread of the debasement of eur species. To any one with true blood flowing through his veins, and a healthy condition of mind, the increased comfort of the poorer and more contemned amongst his countrymen, must be a source of unspeak able pleasure. What matters it whether that increase is produced through the interference of this political party or that political party; what matters it if the path which conducted to it was devious, or the means eccentric ; what matters it, whether the sentiments, instrumental in the realisation of that increase, were old-fashioned or new-fangled, so long as the extension of com fort be real, and its tendency innocent ? Why, common sense would say that the mere externals of the scheme for the improvement of the condition of the mul titude might be as fantastic as the livliest imagination could desire, if their effects were unprejudicial upon society. Even the sticklers against innovations of any kind must allow this—they must acknowledge that the garb in which sentiments are clothed, so long as those sentiments are generous, is of very secondary consideration, if of any consideration at all. In this manner we would have the annual festival of the Birmingham Athenic Institute, held on Tuesday evening, and presided over by Lord J. MANNERS, regarded. We would not interfere with the proper appreciation of that body, by cavilling about the abstract principles of the so-called Young England party, either pro or contra. We would restrict ourselves for the present to the mere consideration of the meeting in question, and the probable consequences of the general establishment of similar institutions. We would simply regard the workman in his capacity for improvement, and draw inferences as to the effects which such improvement would have upon the whole framework of the social system. No one, with a single spark of rationality, will undertake the assertion that toil requires no cessation. All must acquiesce in the opinion that the less fortunate members of the community are more entitled, if pos sible, to moments of relaxation than those who are blessed with a brighter destiny, if merely on the system of compensation. Even the task-master must yield to the conviction that athletic amusements by invigorat ing the body, and literary recreations by expanding the intellect, would ultimately tend to the benefit of his own pocket, by rendering his labourers more willing, saga• cious, and muscular. On these healthy and really noble principles was theßirmingh am Athenic Institute founded, now two years since, and it consequently challenges our most earnest sympathy and our most cordial ap proval. Through its mediation the young artisans of Birmingham obtain access to an excellent library, and with the assistance of other intellectual accessories in sinuate an enlarged spirit into their own minds. By an arrangement equally admirable, their nerves and muscles are strung to a condition of exceeding by field sports and other exercis es : their motto i s an appropriate indication of their object: it is cou c hed in the language of JUVENAL—M ens sane in corpores asn. In every particular we regard this assoc i at i on as likely to forward beyond even the an ti c ip at i on o f its warme:t. advocates the most pure and laudable principles of re generation; and hence we watched its onward movement, its growing in its growth, and its strengthening in its strength, with a sincere and hopeful anxiety. In asmuch as the young and noble chairman has suffused over the institute in its most unpatronised moments the authority of his talents and dignity, we ourselves regard him with a thankful earnestness. There is something eminently benignant in the style of his address on Tuesday last to the working men of Birmingham ; it was coloured with a ge nuine brotherly love, and characterised by a most unaffected simplicity. Lord JOHN MANNERS, through such assemblies as the one in question—through such words as he uttered upon that occasion—and through the still further extension of his well wishes for his fellow-man—cannot fail to ingratiate himself with the people, and to acquire one of the noblcst species of popularity which can be attached to a statesman. One paragraph in his oration we cannot refrain from transcribing ; it is so indicative of the motives by which he himself is actuated, and of those, moreover, upon which the Athenic Institute has been constructed. He first inquires whether the population of this country is to remain inert under their privations, and not struggle for a reasonable release from the coal-pit and the fac tory ? " What ought we to do ?" he exclaims. "To sit still under that senseless clamour, and allow the dull machinery of acquisition, without a wholesome pause or joyous check, to go grinding on year after year, palsy in g . the limbs, c r amping the energies , deadening the affections, darkening the souls of our toiling millions ? No. What have we done ? Why we have shown witho ut parade, with out unnecessarily shocking those prejudices I have alluded to —seizing whatever opportunities were afforded us—that the people of England, who work so hard and so readily, can , stand the trial of a few days' holidays in the course of the year; that a cricket match does not necessarily imply the bowling down of the pillar* of the State ; sad that a village 1 dance need not end in taking off the crown from her Ma jesty's head." Such are his wishes, his intentions, his principles 1 of action in reference to associations like the Athenic Institute ; such are the wishes, intentions, and prin ciples upon which that institute is built up. On this account it is we regard it as worthy not only of applause but also of imitation. A letter from Vienna, which is published in the Swabian Mercury of the 12th, states that Prince CON STANTINE CZARTORYSKI, brother of Prince CZARTORV SKI of Paris, has protested againstihe sequestration of the property of the latter, who, it is added, however, had previously, and as a measure of precaution, transferred his property to the Princess, his wife. The French National, which seems to he the organ of the Polish revolutionists, says, " Our correspondence from Gallicia informs us that the Russian troops are re duced to complete inaction, the soldiers confining them selves to protest the security of tho roads, and the insur gents being now masters of the country, A person from Vienna, connected with the Government, writos that there are at least 20,000 armed individuals who refuse obedience to the orders of the civil and military authorities of the province. Their organization, plans, and mode of rcanceuvring had caused the greatest sur prise to the commander of the troops, and they had in ferred from these circumstances . that the insurgents had able chiefs at their head. To those particulars our cor respondent adds—' I have been assurad that the rural population of Ukraine, having been apprised of the events in Gallicia, had become agitated, not to murder its landlords, but to demand the abolition of forced labour, and quit and crown rents, and thp poaspssion of a portion of the soil. Austria, not knowing the Gauze of the present agitation, imagined that it was rancorously excited by a great power ; but experience will prove to her that it has deeply-rooted natural causes, the irre sistible action of which exercises its influence over up• wards of 20,000,000 serfs." The States of Brunswick, having refused to approve of the Government expenditure for the construction of railways, were dissolved on the Sth. The Duke, in dis solving them, expressed regret that differences should have arisen between the States and the Ministry, but stated his disapproval of their conduct in refusing the means of promoting the prosperity of the country. Madrid papers to the Bth inst. have been received. M. ISTURITZ had not, at that date, succeeded in forming his Ministry, owing to the insuperable objection of bis political friends to take office in a Cabinet of which M. EGANA is a member. M. MoN, who had been again sent for by the QUEEN, had again refused the Ministry of Finance, stating, as his reason, his determination not to enter any Cabinet of which M. EGANA was a mem ber. EGANA is supported by Queen CHRISTINA, who is intriguing fur an Absolutist Ministry; and should ISTURITZ fail in his endeavours to complete a Cabinet, it was supposed that M. DE Vmuma. and Baron DE MEER would be entrusted with the task of forming a Cabinet, in which case the affairs of Spain will be brought to a crisis. "If these gentlemen," says the Madrid corres pondent of La Presse, " should overthrow M. IsTunuz, and form a Cabinet of their own, you may expect to see Spain again plunged into a sanguinary revolution." On the evening of the Bth there was a rumour current in Madrid, that M. GAVERIA, the banker, had accepted the portfolio of finance. According to the Castellano, however, M. ORLANDO had, at the urgent request of the QUEEN; consented to accept the office. Accounts from Gallicia state that the movement at Lugo, which, until the fall of NARVAEZ became known, was spreading in all directions, has been put down. A portion of the revolters had surrendered, and the remainder, under the command of an officer named Sous, had retired by way of Santiago to the frontiers of Portugal, in which country it was supposed they in tended to take refuge. Madrid was tranquil, but rumours were prevalent of disturbances having taken place in Catalonia. No credit, however, was attached to them, and the alarm in the capital was lessening. NARVAEZ, on his arrival at Bayonne, requested and obtained an interview with Don HENRY. The interview was very short. MADRID BOLSA.—The Three per Cents. closed at 301 cash. The Five per Cents. were not quoted. Since writing the above we have received accounts from Madrid to the 12th, on which day ISTURITZ had succeeded in forming his Ministry. MoN is Finance Minister; PIDAL, Minister of the Interior ; and AR MERO, Minister of Marine. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. On Monday General NARVAEZ arrived in Paris, and took up his abode at the Hotel des Ambassadeurs. The papers of Tuesday all comment at considerable length on the discussion which commenced the previous day, in the Chamber of Deputies, on the naval budget. The budget demands'a credit of 93,000,000 f. for supply ing the deficiencies of the present naval force of France. It may be remembered that, last year, the Chamber in serted in the Budget an article, which rendered it obli gatory on the Minister of Marine to present, at the com mencement of the present session, a special and detailed account of the state of the navy in all its branches. Ad miral DE MACKAII faithfully complied with the desire so expressed, and distributed to the Deputies a very com plete statement of the condition of the navy, and of all the matters which are intimately connected with it. But the Minister, not considering that he had thus fully per formed his duty, judged it necessary, in addition, to pre sent a Bill demanding the large credit mentioned above, to supply the deficiencies that existed in the navy; or, in other words, to increase the naval force of the kingdom. The Committee, to which the Bill was sent for examination, looked on the additions to be made in the navy with a different eye from that of the Minister. Taking as its text-book the famous note of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, it came to the conclusion that, considering the progress that steam navigation was at present daily making, it would not be advisable to assign to sailing vessels all the pre eminence that was demanded for them by the Bill. It therefore recommended to reduce from 290 to 229 the number of sailing vessels applied for. This reduction it proposed to divide in this way :-36 ships of the line, of which 24 were to be afloat, and 12 laid up, in place of 44 ; 55 frigates, of which 40 afloat and 45 laid up, in place of 66; and 136 corvettes, brigs, and transports, in place of 180. As to the steamers demanded, the Committee consented to the whole number applied for by the Bill, and even added, in a certain measure, to the amount of moving power. The saving to be effected by these changes would be about 20,000,000 f. Such is the Bill on which the discussion commenced on Monday, and which is to decide on the supremacy, for the present at least, of sailing vessels or steamers for use _ in naval warfare.' The discussion on Monday was not very interesting. On Tuesday the debate was resumed by M. LE3IERCIER, who spoke in favour of the large grant. The Chamber was subsequently addressed by M. HER:soux, the reporter of the Committee, M. JUDELPI, the King's Commissioner, and M. BILLAULT, who warmly advo cated the necessity of keeping up a strong naval force, M. BILLAULT was addressing the Chamber at the hour of post. The papers of all parties are almost all in fa vour cf the enlarged grant. The Ministerial Journal des Debati thus speaks on the sub:ect "We are not of those persona who would wish to urge the country into a war. The policy of peace is that whiclr we shall not cease to recommend to our country, but war may arise in spite of us it is an eventuality that ought to be provided against, and for which it is prudent to be prepared. The honour of France will perhaps commend her to draw one day her valiant and glorious sword from the scabbard. Sup pose, therefore, that a naval war should burst forth ; France mast abdicate, must descend humbly to the rank of secondary nations, or she must have a fleet to place in line on the Atlantic. That is imperatively commanded by the neces• sities of defence. If an armed enemy should threaten our coasts, or menace an attack and a descent on one of our forts, we could not save the honour and the intregity of our terri tory unless we had a fleet to interpose. Fortifications would prove no obstacle ; but the enemy would not dare risk such an attempt if it was aware that a fleet was ready to fall on it and place it between two fires. Napoleon would not have lost Egypt, if the English fleet had not been certain that nothing could prevent the landing of the army which it had oa board. When the hypothesis of a naval war is enter tained, it is natural to suppose France the ally of the second ' ary naval power,. Well then, suppose war declared, and the Danish fleet is blocked up in the Sound, and that of Russia in the Baltic. Interest and honour command us to deliver them, and to unite them to ourselves. How can we do so, if we do not possess a fleet to make battle against the enemy, which will endeavour to bar our passage and prevent this junction? It is proper to insist on this point, because for some time the idea has prevailed that France ought to re nounce completely great naval battles, to adopt a quite different system. The report of the Committee appears to he animated by this much to be regretted notion." The Opposition Constitutionne/ and the Republican National follow on the same side, while the Commerce thus joins in chorus : " The Chamber would be inconsistent with her former acts, would renounce the sentiments which it manifested on nu merous occasions, if it agreed to a reduction in the proper naval force that ought to be kept up. Is it in the present state of things, when all the great questions of foreign policy tend to a decision by sea, when the different nations redouble their efforts to increase their raval power, that we could cut down a force that had been considered indispensable even under the restoration. Such a vote, beside the harm that it would do to our fleet, would have a disastrous moral effect. The world would think that France gives up the idea of being a maritime power, or at least of taking part in the great questions which are in agitation at present." The Courrier Francais is the only paper which seem; to recollect the important fact that ships alone do not THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING, constitute a navy. It does not join in the cry raised by the other journals. On the contrary, it says:— "Of what service can be the immense material which is amassed at the cost of millions in our building-yards? Has our mercantile marine increased to such an extent that we need additional ships of war for their convoy? Have our colonial possessions increased and enlarged insomuch as to render it indispensable that the effective force of our naval stations should be doubled ? Oh, no; our mercantile ma rine is rather lessened than augmented, aud, as to our co lonial possessions, not an inch of land has been added to them fur ten years past Under such circumstances we ask again—of what use will be a new fleet of warships? Pro bably to make pageants on the seas—unless, indeed, they are left to rot in their ports. Again, were such a fleet only useless! But it would not be only useless.- it would be in jurious even to the development of our naval power, It must be manned and armed. Besides, a fleet, as all the world knows, requires a great number of able sailors to man it. To provide these our merchant ships must 14# soppi4 of their best seamen. Is our mercantile navy in a condition to support such a privation? According to M. Gustave Brur,et, one of tlio paiise:i of the decline of our navy is the numerical inpepority p, o4F sr fq, $ p(4 . 0 F t -1 1 ' 1 crews of the abipo of other nations. Thus :77 llle 7 4Y' reckons only one man fow ovary .24, Oh toils i Mo . riA.y. of the United States one man for every '2l tons; navy one man for ever 16 tons; while the French nav y has .op r e man for ' t ea; !tan every 10 tons. hence ariscs a consi dekable di#erenc,a in tlie 7id eonseauently in the eiwgs: for freigtf, 4 ke prudent to iggialv,ate? o still more this aiis;.. of interiority by depriving our meickar4 ships of a greater number Of abio tlian• the . v live been accustomed to supply? Would 'it nOhoe better tp increase our steam-ships, which require' man'y good ni,xii;er t l ao . d t 8•414. p i cil,cliera than good sailors , and re duce rafter than in:;rea;e o - ,4f ily o§ oi.7l4'ari {^ .. M thus, much money would, we beilefe,'beleft ni l the iieeker s i of our tax-payers, and an element of success, too much Want ing to it, would be left to our mercantile navy, by leaving to it its . The probable result of the debate will be, that the steamers and the ships of the line will both be voted, and the Minister of Marine will have given to him more than he asked foe, oe expected. The Government had received the following telegra phic dispatch from Toulon:— " The Russian squadron was in sight off Toulon in the even ing of the 11th ; at half-past six it came to anchor in the rocaist;- , 4d, On the morning of the 12th, the Maritime „Pre,- feet paid a visit to his imperial lirghness the urancl Duke Constantine and to Admiral Lutke. Salutes were exchanged. The sub-prefect, the general commanding the department, and the mayor of Toulon, also went on board the vessel of the prippe. His Imperial ll:gliness, wishing to preserve the incognito that la 1144 . eVeiTwilfare else, that no official honours might be shown to him. The Grand Duke has landed. He went first to the Maritime Prefec ture, and was next to visit the arsenal of Mourillon and Fort Lamalguef. _ Qoprit Kisseleff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, passed through gars fides on the IGtb, ,: f n his way tpl."'-puion: - - - - - . _ . Algiers journals to the ith had been received at Marseilles. Marshal BUGEAUD had been so ill that he was unable to leave Algiers for Oran on the sth, as he had intend!?d. Ann-EL-KADEn, it appears, has again escaped the pursuit of General dfiosue. While all the world supposed he was retiring towards the west, he suddenly re-appeared in the east, and General Jussur had, of course, to retrace his steps in that direction. The nineteen workmen who bad been buried alive iA the tunnel at Conrcelles for ten days, were rescued from their perilous situation at two o'clock on Sunday, The following aro miscellaneous extracts :-- M. Franceise Jean Sevestre, a member of the National Convention for the Department of Ille et Vilaine, died at Tournan on the 6th inst., in the 94th year of his age. M. Sevestre was one of the most energetic members of that anent,. bly. He voted the King's death, and, having been appointed one of the Commissioners of Public Safety, he was charged with the surveillance of the children of Louis XVI,, confined in the Temple. It was he who made the report on the de mise of the Dauphin. M. Sevestre was subsequently at tached as state messenger to the Council of Five Hundred and the Legislative Body; he was banished in 1815, and only returned to France after the revolution of 1830, when the Chamber of Deputies decreed that lie should be paid up all the arrears due to him during his exile, and granted him a pension of 3,600 f. " The venerable M, Dupont de l'Eure ezperieneed on Sem. • day afternoon a very serious indisposition, sapposed at first to be caused by congestion of the brain. An active course of treatment was immediately pursued, which produced a satis factory result, and on Monday he was considered out of danger." The prices at the opening of the Paris Bourse on Tuesday were tolerably firm, but afterwards declined. The Three per Cents. closed at 831. 60e. ; the Five per Cents., 1201. sc. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,226 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 1,0401. ; Havre, 747 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 7671. 50c. ; Avignon, 9181. 75c. ; Vierzon, 672 E 50c. ; Bordeaux, 630 E ; Boulogne, 5101. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4221 50c. ; Basle, 2321. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 528 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 5481. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5801. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30. The following are the quotations in the new lines : Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 5021. 50c. ; ditto (Espe- leta), 510 f. ; ditto Charleroi, 4951. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCKEXCIIANGE, APRIL 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Dutch Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, 1,,c —Great Northern of France Constituted, 14%—Jamaica South Midland Junction, Ili—Luxembourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 1% Over Yssel, dis.—Paris and Orleans, 49 —Paris and Rouen, 4012 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 534—Rouen and Havre, 29% — Sambre and Meuse, 3. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY LONDON, APRIL 16.—Wind S.E., light breeze and fine. CLYDE, API:IL 13.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Mountaineer, Smith, Demerara and Dublin. Sld. Cassandra, St. John's, N.B. DUBLIN, APRIL I4.—Wind S. W.—Sld. Rolla, Quebec ; Britannia, Corkhill, Miramichi. CORK, APRIL 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Amicus, Weary, Mauritius ; Warrior, Davidson, Coquimbo. MARYPORT, APRIL 14.—Wind variable.—Sld. Grace, Wil son, Quebec. TRooN.— Sid. Eliza, Brown, Dalhousie. CROOKHAVEN.—Arrd. Margaret, Heyward, Lagua. LIMERICK.—SId. Norio, Gibson, Quebec. BELFAST, APRIL 14.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Christiana, llenry, Quebec. LOOE, APRIL 13. About twenty pieces of Norway balk timber were washed on shore this morning, supposed to be part of deck load of a Norway barque seen off yesterday with sails much torn. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 15.—The Coromandel and the Stan dard, outward bound, were c n the bar of the Mississippi on the 13th ult. on n st inst., the s!., stern in rn la o t f . 47 lon. 14, by the A CORK, APRIL 13.—1 t blew very heavily all day yesterday and last night. A barque of about 3 to 4woOhiethon,s, of f b n an a d l o if n a e x cl 4 n was aminiecliisi rubbed PORTSMOUTH', APRIL lo.—Wi nd N.E. to W.—Sld. Conte Waldstein, Bradicick, Rio Janeiro. DEAL, APRIL 15.--Wind S.S.W. mod.—Arrd. f r o m th e river Trinandra, Ski nner , C T , bb . A lbe; e d w ary o as u, t' as r b r s is e ' tdup aed this . pert. A D u a s t r r 1 t alcu Calcutta; Newton, Gate, Madeira. in ; OFF PLYMOUTIL—Arrd. New Phoenix, Barton, Jamaica. FALMOETIL - A PR IL 16.--Arrd. Pri ncess R oyal, Tenne, Macao; Eliza, Wylie, Hayti. Sid. Paragon, Symons, Quebec; Freia, Wanberg, Rio Janeiro; Elizabeth, L anev , Q ue b ec; im a British Yeoman, Turner, Alexandria. M em ., the Rio Packet, Harry, for Liverpool, did not sai l yesterday as reported. MARKET NEWS- (THIS DAY.) ______ HAY MILIZEZTa. SMYTTIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 53 to 418 s; Clover ditto, 4l 83 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12a to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 165 per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.-3feadow Hay, 31 5s to 42 103 ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 5/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 128 to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 15s to 11 lis per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3133 to 4183; Clover ditto, 41 5s to 6/; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 148 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT MAIMICTS. Must - lAm, APRIL 15.—We had a fair demand here this morning, at but little variation in prices. Beef, from 3s to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 10d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s tc 4s 8d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, APRIL 14.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6(.1 per 81bs. - Supply moderate and trade firm. CluctilisTErt, APRIL 15.—Prime stock moved off freely at full prices. In other qualities very little was doing. Beef, from 3s to 4s 4d ' • Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 293; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 17s to 20s ; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 16/ to 181 each. SouTHALL, Amur, 15.—Although the supply of stock here to-day was by no means extensive, the general de mand ruled heavy at late rates. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Lamb, 63 to 6s 10d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, APP.ILIS.—Prime Sheep, Calves, and Pigs sold steadily; other kinds of stock slowly, at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Lamb, Gs to 7s; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 185 to 30s ; Quarter -old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Mulch Cows, with their small calf, 161 to 181 each. EIV GATE AND LEADENHALL. Each kind of prime meat was in fair request, at full prices, o B t ib h 9 e , r b si y is t e he ti c ie ar d ca e s.9. mand was in a sluggish state. — Beef , from 2s Gd to 3s 6d ; M u tt on, 3 3 Gd to 4 s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 6d to Gs 8d; Veal, 4s 4(1 to 55 4d; and. Pork, 35 6d to 5s per For t hGENERALd ended AVER 1 1 AGE 6 CORN AVERAGES. from the Returns of the . pectin's in the di f f erent Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. 8P4R,1 madeCES O up F BRITISH CORN WHEAT. I BARLEY.' DAIS. RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE I 5 64 Od 30 i 9d 223 Od I 334 4d 359 ld 33s 8a purr .•• 17 3 Od 83 Od 63 Cd 9s 6d 80 Gd 91 Gd RAIUSGATE AND O STEND .—An a lt era ti on i n t h e route of the p ac k ets beta een this country and Ostend has recently taken p l ace, in consequence of the opening of the branch l ine of the South-Eastern Railway to Rainsgate- The directors o f t h e South-Eastern and Continental Steam . Packet Company, conceiving the passage between Ramsgate and Ostend would prove shorter and more convenient to the public than from Dover to O s tend, have taken oft their vessels from th e l atter port, and placed t h em at R amsgate , which in future will be their station. On Tuesday morning last the first passage was made from Ostend to Ramsgate, by the Que e n o f t h e Belgians. She left Ostend at '2O minutes to 5 o'clock, and arrived at Ramsgate at 9 o'clock, performing the voyage in 4 h ours and 20 m inutes. The passengers had their luggage Conveyed to the Custom-house, cleared, and afterwards taken to the railwa free from expense ; they then proceeded t o L ondon by the 20 y minutes past 10 o'clock train, and arrived a t t h e Bricklaers' Arms at a quarter past 1 rot., thus perfor m i ng the voyage ' and journey from Ostend to London in 8 h ours and 35 minutes, out of which time 1 hour and 20 m i nutes were consumed at Ramsgate, clearing luggage, b rea k fasting, &c. • p , ied in the transit was seven hours and fifteen minutes. }acts speak for themselves • for if the whole distance between be . entered, and the passengers landed O . ;tend and London can a accomplished in little more than eight hours and a half (clearance at the Custom-house In cluded), so that the actual period . occu and as Ramsgate harbour can at all times of the tide . obliged to be taken ashore in boats, it may be predicted that Ramsgate will become the favourite port for embarking and disembarking safely without being Europe. passengers to and from Ostend and northern STEPNEY FAIR.—The business of this fair terminated last night. The number of visitors during the three days was much larger than M any time since its revival. A PRIL 16, 1e46. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very lively, and speculation was active, the sales being 12,000 bales: 5,000 bales were for speculation and export. Prices were decidedly higher.—The Share Market has been very inactive, and prices were lower. Almost hourly are inquiries made in the City, by per sons very deeply interested, as to the period the Legis lature will take to pass through the Railway Relief Bill. The queries upon this subject are th e m ore p ress i ng , as there is anevieis ;it disposition on the pa r t o f th e manag i ng Committees, •of doubtful and bad projects, to keep the power they now h ave over the funds in band, and expected to be realised; and set ting at defiapce the seripholders, determined as many of these parties are to go on with expenses, the great portion of which must hereafter be borne by the p4rtie who have paid their deposits, or are legally liable for their share of the present outl iy. It is, there fore, considered by hundreds of' capitalists and others in the City, and doubtless at Liverooel, . I t - l eotis l 431 : 43t0 t fi ,po efthere, that-0 p' sling if the gmergencyne-the standing orders oUght . to be rescip ed'ip both flop es a Parlianie - t it, sQ that tha Ali! to be introduced after th e Easter recess, should become law at the earlies possible period, or undoubtedly the benefit intended by it will he frittered away. Symptoms of espnyty i l a(f aireed . x r;,e n'qis play i)l liy so3,iii ' 0-11. eOiticra;gl II g- .p,muliftpes in repudiating advertiseptents, ealting op serip holders, to ti ., : r e'i.t eario •srees the disiol-tio; of k ,'-riijects with which they tiae ontiteigd ili f ealigyji. Seeetl 3, are some such par ties Sint ieferilea ti3buYing up scrip indirectly, ata ruin ousl low fizure to present holde7, so se to ovprrqle OF " na and s other meting i tr-iis feef a Ivind np t ~ , . . ti . • at t e first general m.etini to ,e palled under the prep. visions of the intended p e w 'Rill. Tho appointeleidt of ep 't 460 a3signeell to look Into the expenditure of the Managing Committees is not relished at all by nine-tenths of those who have taken the manageepent of fresh railway schemes, stntl hens= it p e i iiite certain that eyefy meat's will 'he 'rgsgrted 'to, with "'the view of defegiting t'e wishes of the great body of those they assume to represent. . . . . There are not any arrivals of importance announced in the City this morning. . The Stock Markets. Inlve been heavy this morning. The fait thia the Government brokers did not purchase yesterday in aid of the Sinking Fund, has led to many remarks, the principal of which is, that Government are husbanding the resources of the country, to fully equipped with cash should a war with the United iitates neeeasavy. Another rumour is, that a squadron is about to sail soon for the Bermudas, there to await further orders. Consols for Money left off yesterday afternoon at 95k, and for the Account at 964. The value of the former has teeday been reduced to 954, and of the latter to 95g. The market has just Wad per cent , and certainly the as pect of the market looks more firm. The amount of business done has been upon the whole considerable to day. But to this remark there is an exception. Ex chequer-bills yesterday were done at 275., pew they are at but • T.S . ,s. prepliv e rn. India Bonds, "on the contrary, were ye`aterday , at Wis., and new they are at 30s. pre mium. The price of Bank Stock has fluctuated from 205 to 206. India Stock has fallen from 2594 to 258. This is the account day in the Foreign Stock Market. If we except t 4 adjgstment of differences, spatieely any p,tim busioesc, of tfiteregt has been trans acted. There have been some transactions in the French Stocks to-day, at improved prices. The Five per Cents. have been taken at 1194, and the Three per Cents. at 83. Spanish Consols have realised 25 ; the partt ig uese Four per Cents., 571.• ; Dutch Twu-and-a-Half per Cents., 591. ; the your per Gents., 924 92 ; and Mexican, 3 The businesss in the Railway Share Market has been on the increase, and the appearance of the market looks better. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the (Metal List.) _ Bank Stock .. • • • • • • 205 % 206 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 94% % Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95 3, %% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 96% 34 54 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 10 3-16 % Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .• 10 Ditto, 30 years, J4ll. 5, 1860 .. 10 7-16 - India Stock .. .. 259% 258 India Bonds, 1,0001. • • • • Ditto, under 1,0001. South Sea Stock .. • • .• • Ditto, New Annuities 95 1 4 Consols for Account • . •.. • • .. 96 95% 96 Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. .• , ... 23 26 15 pm, 5001. .. .... 20 18 pm. Ditto, Small .. .... 26 18 pm, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Gull .. .. 59 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .• 31% Ditto, Ifeferred .• .. • • 16% Portuguese Four per Cent • • • • 57 % Russian Bonds • • • • " • • 110 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .• •- Ditto, for the Account • . .. 25 Ditto, Three per Cent ...... Ditto, for the Account • • • • n 6% % Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent. .. 119 f. 25c. Exchange .. 25f. 80c. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. .. • • 83f. C. Exchange .. 25f. 70c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 5 9%34 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 924% 92 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen • • • • • •• 10 ...... 3% .... to 2% Birthingliam alid Oxford. Junction .. 2 .... 1 34 .... to Bristol and Exeter .. 75 .... to Ditto New .- .. 5 .... 834..., to 94 Bristol and Gloucester .. • . 30 .. 49 .. .to 48 Buckinghamshire .. .• .. • . 425. .. • . % die.. to Caledonian .. • • • • • • 10 .... %.. to Ditto Extension .. • . • . .. 2% ...• 1% .. •.to Chester and Manchester .. .• 425. .. • • 1 1 4 dis to Cornwall and Central Devon' 2% 1% .. • • to Direct Manchester (Remington's) .. 2% ... • h.. to Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 534.... 334 • • to Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 4 33% Eastern Counties .. • • • . 141. 16s. (1d..... 22% .. to Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 81. 16s. 0d..... 7% p.. to Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d... .. % p.. to Ditto, York Extension • • .. 10s. 1%% • . to Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50 .. • • 71 34 .... to Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. % die... to Grand Union (Nottingham ann. Lynn) 1% 34 to Great North of England • . • • • • 100 .• ..215 .• ••to Ditto, New • • • • • • • • .. S .... 51%.... to Great Western • • • • • • • • .. 85 .•..146 .. • . to Ditto Half Shares • • • • • 50 .... 85 .... to 8434 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 17% .•• • to 1631 Hull and Selby .. • • • • • • • . 50 • • ..101 .... to Ditto, Half Shares • • - • • • 7 25 .... to 241/, Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 50 .... to Leicst., Tam.,Bir., & Trent Val. June. 425. .... 14 dls... to 1 dis. Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. .... to London and Birmingham • ..100 —22234 224 to 222 Ditto. Thirds .. • • .. .. 24 .. 614 .... to liitto, Quarter Shares London and Brighton • • • . 50 . •• .. 4 - . .. .. 25 30 p London and Croydon • . .. 13/. 15s. 9d. .... 21 ye M to London and South• Western.. 411. 6a. 10d. .... 763 f .to 7531 Ditto, New • . .. 12% 213 ... to London and York .. • • • . •. • . 1%%% to Ditto, Half Shares • • • • .. 2 .... I g to Lynn and Ely • • • • .. .. 10 .• .. 6% .... to Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ....120 to -- Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 38 55 .... to Ditto, Fifths .. .. 2 .... 10% %.. to Ditto, Sixteenths .. 61,i • ... 9 y .... to Ditto, Extension 421. .... 1%% pto -- Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 .. 76 .. •. to 75% Ditto, Quar.er Shares (It) .. • . 2 ..•. 9%.... to . _ Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. I .... 7 3 ; .... to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. ... M p.. to Midland •• •• •• •• ..100 ....145 146.. to 144 Ditto, New .. • . 18 .... 2934 .• • to 30 1 / 4 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 —.116 .. ••to Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .... 43% .... to 44 Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 1 .... 9 .... to 814 Ditto, New, Brandling .. • • .. 25 .... 43 to Newcastle and Berwick • . • • .. 10 ~ 17% xdto North British .. .• • • .. 20 .... to Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 6 .... .... to 8 Ditto, Carlisle Extension 11A 1% % .. to North Staffordshire .. .. • • .. 425..... 2% P• •to 1 % p Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .... 23 .... to 22% Northampton, Banbury, & Cheltn am . 2 . N •• to Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 123 .... . to 8 Portsmouth Direct .... 214 ...• to Scottish Central .. .• .. 10 .... 13% .. • • to South Midland • .. 425. .... dis to South Eastern and Dover .• 33% 3514 .... to 36 Ditto, New, No. 1 •• .16 . 16%.••• to Ditto, New, No. 3 .. 15 .... 1334 .. • • to South Wales .. .• 5 .... i% to 1 Vale of Neath .. 2 .... Ith34 .. to Welsh Midland .. 234 ... 13, .... to West Riding Union .. pto Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth .. 5 •• 3 .. ••to Varmcuth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... 253 .. •.to York and Carlisle . • .. 1% .... to York and North Midland .. .. 50 •• .. to Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. • . 25 46 .. • • to Ditto, Extension .. 15 .. 32 .. .to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 b .... to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 t o Great Northern of France Constituted 5 14% to Lyons and Avignon .. .. • • .. 2 2 .. •.to Luxembourg .. .. 4 .. .. 1% .... to Namur and Liege .• • • • 4 .. • . 134 .... to Sambre and Meuse •• •• .• 6 .• 234 %•to Tours and Nantes Constituted .. • • 5 •• •• .. • . to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered •• • • 33i .. • • to IMPORT OF GIINPOWDER.—VIGILANCE OP THE Poracie.—The following circumstances have been reported to us :—A gun-smith in this city caused to be shipped from Dublin in one of the steamers a cask, purporting to con tain seeds, and directed to a house in that business here, but which cask in reality contained gunpower. The gun smith showed the letter of advice of shipment to the seeds man, who at once got alarmed, and sent for a policeman, .to wham he read the letter. The "vigilant" policeman said he would report it to his officer, notwithstanding which when the steamer arrived, there was no one on the part of the police to look after and seize so dangerous an importa tion, or give notice to the captain that he had such on board. The consequence was that the gun-smith got possession of the powder, and we believe no further notice has been taken of the matter. We think the public are entitled to demand a strict inquiry into the s e f ac t s; f or , great as is the d 'a " ger re f e shipping gunpowder openly, it must be much enhcew no precautions can be taken, from ignorance of its being on board.— Cork Reporter. SUICIDE OF TWo GIRLS.—A coroner's inquest was held on Thursday last, and another o n the following Satur day, on the bodies of two young females found drowned in the canal, near to Leamington , one of whom had been miss ing for nearly three wi . aks , and the other from the day only preceding that on which her remains were discovered. The latter, named Emma Lewis, daughter of a sawyer in Grove place, was in her sixteenth year, and from the evidence pro duced appeared to have committed the rash act in a state of despondency, from the harsh treatment she experienced in service under a superior domestic, who was severely repri • manded by the Coroner for her unfeeling behaviour. The former unfortunate girl, named Davis, was not quite fifteen years of age, and had lived unhappily with her relatives, who were in a respectable sphere of life, and whom she had suddenly quitted, with an intimation, left in writing, that she would be no more when the same came to their hands. The strictest search having been ineffectually made, hopes were for a long time entertained that her intention - had not been carried into effect, and advertisements, with offers of reward for her restoration, appeared in several of the newspapers. Verdicts of " Temporary insanity" were returned in each case by the jury. This morning (Monday) the body of another female, a native of Germany, who has been for some days missing, was found drowned in the River Leam, and is now awaiting an inquest. The above three deplorable events, occurring successively within so short a period, have occasioned a sensation in the town and neighbourhood of Leamington which will be more easily conceived than de scribe • We observe, by an advertisement in our paper of this day, that Mr. Carter, the Lion King, is exhibiting his Wm moth Horse at Bath, and we have no doubt the good folks of that city will afford him that encouragement he so richly desoryes. CHANCERY—(THIS DAY.) HALL V. LUCK. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case this morning, which came before his Lordship yester day upon a question as to the costs of the appeal. His Lordship was of opinion, under all the circumstances, that there ought to be no costs of the appeal, and ordered accordingly. IN THE MATTER CF DYCE SOMBRE, A LUNATIC. This case stood on the paper for the production of the evidence of the claim of the Baron Solaroil to 15,000 f. His LORDSHIP being satisfied with the evidence, directed the claim to be allowed. IN THE MATTER OF THE PRINCESS BARIATINSKI, A LUNATIC. This case came before the Court upon the petition of the committee of th e l una ti c , p ray i ng an order for the sale of so much stock as would satisfy the last half yearly amount allowed by the Court for the maintenance of the lunatic, Trte Potj made the order as prayed. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LORD WELLESLEY v. THE EARL OF MORNINGTON. It was stated by counsel that an arrangement had been made between the, parties h this cause. The case came ori ginally kiek%)re Lord Langdale on the 28th ult., in the shape qf a ;lotion to restrain the Oarr) ing into execution a contract, by WhiPh the defendant had agreed to sell Mr. Morris B,suO oak trees. An application was made yes terday, on the part of the plaintiff, to make Mr. Morris the defer.daut in the case, which was ordered to stand over till today, in the expectation that an arrangement mc { le, Mr. Morris has consented to give up his contract, which of coure terminates the law pro ceedings in this case, which has excited some little in terest from the rank of the litigants, His Lordship then prcveded to hear the unopposed petitions, of %O - 4h there was a large number on the list. VICE -CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before the VicE - CiteNcEp.mi of ENEILAND.) Rusqui t smut. Mr. STtrawr toped in this case upon motion to dis solye n Injnnction that had been granted by his Honour during the Easter recess, restraining the defendant, who is a public singer, from singing or publishing, or other wise making use of certain songs, some of which had been writteU, and others set to music, by the plaintiff. Among these songs were " Old Fools and Young Ones," " I've been Roaming," and " I'm Afloat," &c, The Learned Counsel was proceeding to read the affidavits on which the application was made, when he was in terrupted by BETIIEII I , who requested that the case might stand over in order that the plaintiff might answer some of the affidavits filed by the defendant yesterday. Mr. STUART at once agreed to postpone the motion, the defendant being anxious that the plaintiff should have the benefits of all that he had " said or sung." The VICE-CM4NO4LLOR said that the present was a case to which the motto of audi alteram parteru most aptly applied.—(Great laughter.) (Before Vice-Chancellor WIORAIki.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF CONGLETON. Mr, liotmLY continued his arguments to-day on the motion for an injunction to restrain the Corporation of Congleton from appointing a Master to the Free Gram mar School of Congleton, and from changing the order of the school ; n? otherwise interfering with it. qUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN v. BARNARD GREGORY. This was a prosecution on an indictment against Bar nard Gregory, editor or the Satilift, for a libel published in that paper on, and affecting thecharacter of the Duke of Brunswick. The Duke, who conducted his own case at the time of the trial, was this morning in Court long before the fitting of their Lordships, and took his place within the bar, the place allotted for the Queen's counsel. He was in communication with his solicitor until their Lordships took their seats upon the bench. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD now entered and took his seat close to the Duke, with whom he exchanged a few words. The Learned Sergeant then rose, and said he was instructed to apply to the Court to have judgment passed upon the defendant, but he now understood that the jury panel was not in Court. _ The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—The judgment is not signed, and the jury panel is not in Court. The case was then postponed for a few days, when the defendant, who was in Court, attended by his so licitor, will be brought up and judgment will be pro nounced. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) ERPE V. FERRERS. In this case Mr. BAusrow, on the part of defendant, moved for a rule to enter up judgment, as in case of a nonsuir. It will be remembered that in the action for breach of promise of marriage, brought by Miss Smith against Earl Ferrers, it was shown that the grandfather of the plaintiff (Mr. Erpe), had advanced 1001., on the supposi tion that he was lending that amount to the noble de fendant. Subsequently an action was brought against Earl Ferrers for the amount, which was set down for trial in the Michaelmas sittings. The case, however, never came before the Court, and hence the present ap plication.—Rule granted. No other motion of public interest came before his Lordship. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) BEYNON V. MARGARET JONES. Mr. V. Williams havingsobtained a rule, calling upon plaintiff to show cause why the order obtained at chambers, before Baron Rolfe, for the liberation of de fendant from custody of the sheriff of Carmarthen, should not be set aside. Mr. GRAY showed cause, and argued at great length in favour of the order. He contended, that there was no difference between the present case, and the common one against husband and wife, in which, as a matter of favour, though notright, the practice usually was to liberate the wife. There was no ground whatever shown for a departure from the usual course. The circumstance of the de fendant having been married before judgment was ob tained, did not abate the action. In the case of King v. Jones, where an application was made of the same nature, the application was made, not on th e groun d of defendant having no separate maintenance, but on the ground of irregularity. The COURT took time to consider. COMMON PLEAS—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) HARRISON V. HAMPSON. Mr. Sergeant MANNING moved for a rule for a new trial in this case, on the ground of misdirection. The case was tried in the last sittings after term, before Mr. Justice Erle, and was an action brought by the Rev. Mr. Harrison, rector of a parish near Taunton, to recover pos session of a piece of land held by the plaintiff; which it was alleged was a portion of the glebe belonging to the rectory. The piece of land was a slip of land alongside of the highway, and had been inclosed about forty-seven years ago. It was originally a waste, and inclosed by a person of the name of Heriot, who also built a cottage on it. It had since passed through the hands of three parties. The possession had been acquiesced in by four successive incumbents of the rectory. A verdict had been given for the defendant, there being no evidence to show that the land was ever considered a part of the gleb?, and the Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Erle), before whom it was tried, having left it to the jury to consider, in the abser.ce of such evidence, and the acquiescence of four successive incumbents in the possession, whether the possession was not good, the Learned Counsel now asked for a rule to show why this verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that as sixty years in such cases was the statute of limitations debarring the re covery of such property, whereas possession had only t b h e e e n previous held lb incumbents d years, 0 a t n atd the al i acquies d e ti e t n e c e t h 6 e f title.—Rule to show cause granted. GAMBLE V. KURTZ. Mr. Sergeant CIIANNEL moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict of the special jury in this case should not be set aside and a new trial granted. The case was tried last term, and occupied three days. It was an action for the infringement of a patent for an improved method of making sulphate of soda and mu riatic acid, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff, to the effect that though the principle was not new, the ap plication of it was. The Learned Gentleman now moved for the defendant.—Rule granted. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow. THIS DAY.) SHERIFFS' COURT.--( (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRCHELL.) TUCKEY V. MAY. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 61. 6s. lid. for goods sold and delivered. The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted, satisfaction, and set-off. uare . for The plaintiff is a grocer in George-street, Portman square wa for makine. an appraisement the plaintiff: An action was brought for the amount, which ac ti on i s ' and the defendant is a surveyor. The satisfac s still pending. . Mr. Tuosras, for the plaintiff, contended that the appraisement, even if the defendant was entitled to charge for it, could not be pleaded in satisfaction, as the work was done previously to the goods being delivered. Mr. HAWKINS admitted that there was a technical dif ficulty as regarded that plea, but he should rely on the other two pleas. He contended that no debt arose on the delivery of the goods, as they were sent in as part payment for the work done by the defendant. Witnesses were called who proved that it was cus tomary for appraisements to be paid for at the time, but that the amount was allowed to stand over at the re quest of the plaintiff, who when he was applied to for the payment of 14/. ss. for defendant, said that he had sent goods to the amount of 6/. 6s. 3d. on account, but he was aware that the defendant was not a licensed ap praiser, and therefore he should refer him to his (plain. tiff's) attorney. The UNDER-SHERIFF suggested that a juror should be withdrawn. Mr. THOMAS said he would agree if the other action was discontinued. Mr. HAWKINS said he would rather take a verdict. Mr. THOMAS then urged that the plaintiff was en titled to be paid for his goods, and the defendant ought to be left to his own remedy. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, in summin g up sa id , that it was not a question for the jury, whether the defendant was licensed or not ; if not, he might be liable to a fine, but at all events, any person employing him was bound to pay. The question therefore was, how much he was entitled to, for he clearly had a right to set up his claim as a set-off. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. • Mr. HAWKINS said, now the case was closed, he was desired by the defendant to state, that the proceedings in the other case would be discontinued, as it was not the defendant's wish to press the plaintiff, but only to protect himself. - - - MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY) A middle-aged female, of superior manners, dressed in deep mourning, who described herself as the widow of an officer in the army, was charged with refusing to quit the house of the Earl of Arundel, No. 11, Carlton terrace. Lord Arundel, who was accommodated with a seat an the bench, stated that the defendant called at his resi dence last evening, and was very importunate to fabtain an interview with him, which was refused. Between nine and ten o'clock this morning she came again, and having gained admission to the hall, positively refused to leave the house, and it was found necessary to call in a police-constable to remove her. Edward Habbage, one of the Earl's domestics, stated that on his opening the door to the defendant this morn ing, she walked into the ball, stating that she wished to see his Lordship; he told her that she would not be per mitted to do so, but she said she must and would insist on having an interview. He endeavoured to persuade her to withdraw from the house quietly, but she per sisted in remaining until she was taken away by the constable to the station-house. Mr. Heal: mots asked the defendant why she did not. leave his Lo - dship's house when required to do so? The defendant said that certain circumstances connected with business of the greatest moment and importance to her rendered her seeing his Lordship indispensable. If the hearing of the case was postponed until she had procured legal advice she should be most willing to go fully into all the circumstances, which would explain her reasons for seeking the interview with his Lordship. As his Lordship bad refused to see her she certainly did insist on remaining in the hall. Mr. HARDWICK said his Lordship had a right to re fuse to see her if ho thought proper. If she had any, claim upon his Lordship she must enforce it in a legal manner. She would not be permitted to intrude herself into a person's house, where she had not the slightest right to be. The defendant said she was without fortune and had not the means of instituting legal proceedings. His Lordship said all he knew of the defendant was from her having, about six years ago, applied to him. for pecuniary assistance, which he afforded her, and had done so several times subsequently. O❑ one occa sion he had called on her at her house, where she was living with her mother. She now appeared to be la bouring under some delusion that she had some con nexion or other wi h his family, for which there was not the slightest foundation. Defendant—Oh ! I'm most anxious to prove that I am not the daughter of Lord Henry Howard. Mr. HAtinwsess said she had better consult her legal adviser, and having obtained from her a promise that she would not go to his Lordship's house again, she was discharged. A• • ••• COMMUNICATION by TELEGRAPH BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. Amidst the many wonderful inventions of modern. days, wherein the faculties of man have overcome diffi culties apparently insurmountable, and made the e}e ments subservient to his power, there are none more wonderful than that now about to be carried out by the establishment of submarine telegraphs, by which an instantaneous communication will be effected between the coast of England and France. The British Go vernm:nt, by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty, and the French Government, by the Minister of the Interior, have granted permission to two gentle men, the projectors of the submarine telegraphs, to lay it down from coast to coast. The site selected is from Cape Grisnez, or from Cape Blancnez on the French side, to the S ou th F ore l and, on the English coast. The soundings between these headlands gradually vary from seven fathoms, near the shore, on either side, to a maxi mute of thirty•seven fathoms in mid-channel. The Lords of the Admiralty have also granted permission to the same gentlemen to lay down a submarine telegraph between Dublin and Holyhead, which is to be car ried on from the latter place to Liverpool and London. The submarine telegraph across the English Channel will, however, be the one first laid down. The materials for this are already undergoing the pro cess of insulation, and are in that state of forwardness which will enable the projectors to have them completed, and placed in position, so that a telegraphic communi cation can be transmitted across the channel about the first week in June. When this is completed an electric telegraph will be established from the coast to Paris, and thence to Marseilles. This telegraph throughout France will be immediately under the direction of the French Government, as, according to the law of 1837, all telegraphic communications through that country are under the absolute control and superintendence of the Minister of the Interior. Upon the completion of the submarine telegraph across the English Channel, it is stated that a similar one, on the most gigantic scale, will be attempted to be formed, under the immediate sanc tion and patronage of the French Administration ; this is no less than that of connecting the shores of Africa with those of Europe by the same instrumentality, thus opening a direct and lightning-like communication be tween Marseilles and Algeria. It has been doubted by several scientific men whether this is practicable, and indeed, whether even the project between the coasts of France and England can be accomplished, but it has been proved by experiments, the most satisfactory in their results, that not only can it be effected, but effected without any considerable difficulty. Certain learned and able men of science asserted that it was impossible to bring steam to such a state of perfection as to make it available' for trans-Atlantic navigation; a few short months have convinced them that the dictum so boldly propounded was altogether fallacious. CAPITAL PUNISIIMENT.—We understand that Mr. W. M. Young, Secretary of the Health and Life Association, in tends proposing the organization of a National Association for the Total Abolition of Capital Punishment, at the forth coming General Conference, which is to be held in Liver pool on the sth of May. The plan of this proposition will also embrace a system of education, as a means of promoting temperance, health, and morality, and thereby preventing crime and disease amongst the lower orders of society. This, therefore, is an excellent opportunity for the friends of humanity, in all parts of the country, to unite their individual influence in one grand effort, to extirpate one of the most heartless and degrading customs of the pre sent day. We most earnestly hope to see this laudable scheme meet with that support and approbation which it so justly deserves. ROWING MATCH AT OXFORD.--A short time since four of the staff crew, consisting of amateurs, challenged to race any four Oxford watermen that could be selected, for 101. aside. The watermen lost no time in accepting the chal lenge, and picked out four of their best men, who were deter mined not to throw a chance away, and went into regular training. The race was fixed for this day, and excited con siderable interest, both on account of the boldness of the challenge and the notoriety of the crews. It being holiday week an immense number of persons were present to witness the match, which took place on the Jois after four o'clock. The distance rowed was from Ifiley to the usual flag-post. The Staff crew won the choice of sides, which was a material point in their favour. Both crews started off well, and kept well together for the Long Bridge, when the watermen shot ahead, and maintained it to the end of the race, winning it by about three boats length. The watermen consisted of— Penn (stroke), R. Barnes, G. Surredge, and G. West (bow), Tims (coxswain). The Stall—Franklin (stroke), Howse, Taylor, Cl al k ( bow), Sturman (coxswain) ODD FELLOWS ANNIVERSARY AT WINDSOR.— WLNDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The first anniversary of the Loyal Windsor Castle Lodge of Odd Fellows was celebrated yester day, by a sumptuous dinner, at the New Inn, at which Colonel Reid, M.P. for the borough, Captain Bulkeley, of the Ist Royal Horse Guards, C. S. Voules, Esq., Geoffrey Pearl, Esq., and upwards of forty of the brethren of the order were present. The chair was taken by John Clode, jun., Esq. When the cloth was removed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk; the "Health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager," who had become the patroness of the Widows and Orphans' Fund of the institution, being drunk with "all the honours." On Colonel Reid's health being drunk, the Gallant Member, in returning thanks, expressed the delight he should always feel to support, by his presence, and by every means in his power, so excellent and praise worthy an institution as the Odd Fellows' Society —a society which was founded upon the purest principles of charity, benevolence, and goodwill to all. Of its merits he could speak from his own personal observation with reference to the excellent conduct of those men, who were members, in the 2d regiment of Life Guards, during the long period he had the honour of being in command. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OP A NOTORIOUS HOUSE BREAKER.—Hunt, the person captured, is well known as the man who was suspected of robbing the residence of Mrs. Dowson, in the neighbourhood of Bungay. He has also beer, according to his own admission when he appeared at our late Quarter Sessions as a witness, brought up either seventeen or eighteen times in custody, on suspicion, or under conviction. He is generally lucky enough to "slip through their fingers," as he terms it, and last week he did so not only figurately, yinoutlihe f w or a c s e, ap o p o re a h e e h n a d r e g d e by of SergeantN r V on il l l : m fo e w n i t s , o b f ut th li e te l r , a a l r l from a hen -roost at Effingham, near Bungay. He was de tained here in custody until the county police took bins in charge ; just as Superintendent Hubberstv and an assistant police-officer were about entering NorwicliCastle, Hunt very good - humouredly bade them good night, and having knocked the officer down, and very seriously injured him in the back and head, ran away at a very rapid rate. He was handcuffed, but being a very powerful and muscular fellow, he contrived either to break his chain or to slip one of his hands through. He bas been recaptured at Effingham, the scene of the rob bery for which he was in custody. In thus returning to his oli haunts he did not show much worldly wisdom ; he has, however, been caught, and will doubtless find that he has played a very hazardous game once too often.— Yarmouth Ohl *nide. SCRIPHOLDERS' MEETING AT NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE.—A meeting of the holders of scrip certificates in the new railway companies, convened by the Newcastle Stock Exchange, was held in the Queen's Head Inn, Newcastle upon-Tyne, on Tuesday afternoon; Mr. Henry Glynn in the chair. Since the advertisement calling the meeting had been issued, the views of the Government with regard to the dis solution of certain companies bad been published; the busi ness was, therefore, confined to the adoption of the following resolution, on the motion of Mr. J. Scott, seconded by Mr. T. Hall :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the measure contemplated by her Majesty's Ministers with re ference to the projected railways, is entitled to their un qualified support; that they also cordially approve of the notice of motion which has been given by George Hudson, Esq., to compel every new company, after obtaining an Act, to call a meeting of the registered proprietors of shares, to determine whether the works shall be proceeded with or not; some such measure being absolutely necessary for the put pose of protecting registered shareholders; and that a peti tion, emb o dyi ng th ese v i ews, b e prepared, and presente d to Parliament." THE YACHT ROHELUS.—This handsome cutter, of thirty-two tons, late the property of Lord Wharncliffe, de ceased, has been purchased by H. Kennard, Esq., a me►nber of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. BILLS OF MORTALITY.—The total number of deaths (exclusive of deaths from violence) registered in the metro politan district for the week endiug 11th April, 1846, is 832, being a diminution as compared with the week preceding of 156. The prevalent diseases appear to have been 1 ivmses of the organs of respiration, the deaths from which were 270, and diseases of the brain and nerves, the deaths from which inn 169,