The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

..."." '. in ch e,stef, it Lough" 3leckburti e contents and of tbe acting en' ) inson and xi. Burke aeros ;nnstruct $ 31ackburth and pa s ' nd Boit°ll miles; du i v i gn oleb )rs, Mes s :, ary sgen'' ) STIOC' a the find' ad the esti' Messrs Bo le ' A complied 'EES. is day, ricld UNCTi, 4 I4 ; ars were re D YORIC) . ed to an be c arte. I the Cb s s c on l Pl i none 0, ig ly to stig a the ti . Mr.Br°*. rAY. s ,' Df this d a petitioo 14 Ileging 11 pp iy to .„, reeks, dun e bar/span", rloucester,,:; eeably to mrsons, 104 tame of li;;A Irawine phancel h 3 DAY') is sitting t 1 M r . Da lt il g raOrM er le , ) poseis istrict I biotin" stable* SantP s u mull Ow 0 ,0 Good ell 141 :: ROYAL SOCIETY. i t tie! Marquis of Northampton, as president of the Royal 1.3,18k1e man third contra - sazionc on Saturday last, at his pCt eatertai l ila The, I.4ic3' on the Terrace, Piccaddly. President, previous to the soirée, gave an elh the R ov I,lmpt to the foll,iwing members of the council il l 4 a‘' Society :—Mr. Geosge Itsimie, Dr. Peter M. s s., I) •S. Hunter Christie, Lie ut.-Colonel Edw. Sabine, r. John 130 stock, bir William Burnett, Dr. C. ksTO'i Mr. B. Donkio, the Very Rev. the Dean f Ely, , 11 ,es3 r ula! Galloway, Mr. L. Horner. Sir John W. Lubbock, ?tf :J o lin Forties Boyle, Dr. Win. Sharpey, Mr. John I _ ll too nt l,„Chas. Wheatstone, and the Rev. Robert W hes, Willis. Lord Wm. Comton, Lord A. Compton, and ,Atni ne " '• Cawley, were also present. ;rive in o ' clock the visitors to the conversazione began to that „quick saccession, and by eleven above 300 fellows hno„. literary society and the leadi members of the 14 4,1 e 4 ongr and . scientific institutions in the metropolis f noble presi tent. The itittral apartments We e re s brilliantlys illuminated, and in the Itli g•r Nme the refreshment-table was supplied with every 4; ~ Yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the 14 ten 7retlis with a visit, the Royal Duke arriving as early qt i t l it i3 g accompanied by Major Stephens. ' 4, enno Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lord sz - • o ur x, Edward Bowater, and Captain Francis in „, , ,!l'as again pleased to be present, and was cordially el 11 py the Marquis of Northampton. His Royal High to not arrive until just before eleven o'clock. S tra ote was extremely well attended, and among the we observed :—His Excellency the French kj:, Am .," Count de St. Aulaire ; his Excellency the Austrian e -s '"°r. Count Dietrichstein ; Baron Koller, Chevalier i kitl „ -I the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Cawdor, Earl Fitz - Earl Spencer, Viscount Hawarden, Viscount 4 3 ' t L ord Calthorpe Viscount Morpeth, Lord Farn -4C1,444i,4 Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Oxford , •lureont, L or d C o l c hester, Lord Crewo, Lord James Le to -Lord Aylmer, Viscount Ingestre, Lord Colville, o rgC Duckett, the Rev. Dr. Whewell, the Very Rev. the itibleopto.,,nestininster, the Venerable Archdeacon Hale, Vice ter. Wigram, Sir John Herschel, Baronet, Sir James 41, 11%r William Middleton, Baronet, Sir Edward Cost, `tete - ' 6l lt Honourable T. D'Encourt, M.P., Sir Thomas elhei t l% Major-General Sir Howard Do u g las, the 711 an• Sir Thomas Cartwright, Sir James Clark Ross, 'N 4 Y De l B h Sir John Croft, Sir Robert H. Inglis, a ec e, elP e l e •' - e Sir Richard Dobson, Sir Richard Westrnacott, i'%,'ard Parry, Sir James elark, Sir Henry Ellis, Sir I. nitai( l , Hon. Captain Ryder Burton, Sir J. J. Hensler , hl - 1 ,. 4 Wilson, Major-General Morrison, M.P., Ma j BP or-G , e -10 Oven, Colonel B on ner, Colonel S, kes, Colonel Lean, tack, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Captain C. ButterfieLi, Stafford O'Brien, M.P., 'At-. Tomline, M.P., Mr. R. itei k u t es , P. Mr. B. Escott, M.P., Mr. Elphinstone; M.P., p'llo c i e,ll P_,. Mr. P. Howard, M.P., Mr. Philips, M.P., Mr liti e ll ll . M.P., Mr. Lockhart, M.P., Sir C. Scaaelore, Sir ns, ut irgh, Mr. C. Wood, M.P., Sir 11. Luslaington, Sir W. 1 , 111 - 's, Sir W. Chatterton, Mr. Dodd, M.P. Sir J. Gardner 10b3`41. Colonel Robinson, Colonel J. Jaason • Doctors / ' lsl lt G r am, Tweeclie, Paltrineri, T. Thomson, J.'Silvestri, t th 4 Gr ay - , Granville, Carpenter, Mantel', Watson, Todd, i tto • ' " tleaeam Webster Lancaster, Henley, Gordon, and te r tl a s r • e more Airy, Wheat tone, R. Forbes, and R. Jones; 7! . 5. H. Millman, J. Hailstone , H . Denham, David William Taylor, J. J. Ellis, J elf. Traherne, T. Hal -1 isri b t ra Wright, John Barlow, Burgess, and Prichard ; Ak e, Captain Swaiby ; Messrs. Landseer, W. bir,tl wih • J. T. Graves, H. Hallam, G. Moro,G. W. Drory, G Pkitc l ej a ne C. Manbv Lefrov, J. S. Bowerbank, Brock- Cliev - e;ton, John Yong Ackerman, G. Angus, M'Rae, Charles Enderby, Henland, G. R. 7q, for Wyndham Pettis, S. H. Powell, W. D. Hag orth,'o,l'ste,r Hellyer, W. J. Donthon, Thomas Wink •.,,,,xt• Brown, T. J. Pettigrew, Bernard Barton. itt: • H. Amyot, Wvon, Davies, Broderip, J. G. 74i t, "s George K. Ward, William Bowman, A. Ma- Amyot, Ayrton, Levesque, R. J. Lane, aigh, G. S. Ellis, Whatmao, Dickinson, T. Irwin, utterfield, Jerdan, J. A. Brandon, E. T. Loseby. i ttu t "7 l :„.Arnott, W. J. Thorns, R. Hunter, A. Elmore, T. T. ttte ut 4 ,;lngston, E. Richardson, Dickens, Bowyer , Poynte r . Ott Q, P. Hutchinson, Carpenter, Beard , Clau det, 'Aro thq Kiernan, May, Mulreadv, S. Bethel], S. Buckine t/et„3lor, J. Noble, Silveetre, Donkin, H. Turner,Courte- Weer, Gravatt, James Rennie, Hall, Boughto., Law, 1 ,4‘ 111 , Spencer, Jeffries, Gould, Ci eswick , Thomas , Cart ht, Stanley, Beverley, Vullamy, Barry, Hudson, Powell, L i klen Y ' r ,Salmon, Moore:Bowman:Hamilton, A. Smith, Mid- Tuson A. Lee, Hart. Newton, J. A. Warre, Lat e ; t rishop, Maclean. ' S H Hall, Hardy, Cockerill, Shaw, itl,',r eitt Y , Dawes, Wearer, Herbert, Munro, Paris, Pratt, • 1 411, . l aYne, Varjon, Meek, G. W. Macenurdo, Doubleday, S cott, Allen, Weld, Sharp, Pocock, &e. ' Fall Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by ' D e ‘ ) t,Phens, retired shortly after eleven o'clock. tit ei e TYal Highness Prince Albert remained until half to., gu, when the illustrious prince was accompanied to Ns al carriage by the Marquis of Northampton. 4 11 l „general company then began to take leave of the Tiee r eeident the nu merous assemblage having separated t after midnight. 4 11 04 11° ,, b1 e Marquie will have his fourth and concluding • ` 4O 3d proximo. MARKET and CITY NEWS. 0 4 E8, CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. 1 114 --In the discount market everything like a pres ettlg,!ternemnpletely disappeared, and notwithstanding the the 4 , 8 that still lie in the Bank of England to the credit t i „ ,erab a , - Nntant- General, trade seems to be relieved from Tmue a ~:LaSarnent, and the subect of railway deposits ceases 14 °Minent topic. The discount firms give their cus 41111:jiktiTa, eiderably less for money than during last month. eel a t e inUs conduct of the Bank of England, in affordinhies g a ccommodation to the commercial classes, has been . tt atai trutnental in producing this favourable condition e , rs. th, rrespondents conl • in no measured terms of the irre am Zeity and absurdit y whic Sb • 't of the Standing Orders u -tom= - Which are accused of want of uniformity in their deci. het. _ If a railway is projected through a district which does ptnnuire the accommod • no opposition company accommodation, and Cl` lol as againstor it, the Bill passes the standing orders as a tes t . of course, however flagrant may be the breaches of k t i co mpliance; but if the district be an important one, iit ry Wn or three rival companies start for it, the most trum ttltv Ftses are raked up, and it not unfrequently occurs that t' eN :2 l considered in one room as frivolous and vexatious & 1 7 1 ; In the aejeining one fatal to the progress of the Bill. s i ll is saki, can be the best illustrated by the case of the lOCRailway,which, after an expenditure of htt:l o ,, ef Union yu • and two years' loss of time, has been thrown out, te ht tl s .. ! the page* in the progress of lithography had con- Wi l .;',and so disagreed with the figures set forth upon it. outsilo,,r these facts are accurately stated or not, we cannot l'lttiet, lsll t we must confess to having heard general corn *heti ‘ l , 3 f the system of enforcing standing orders rigidly ' rpe e i to there are several competing lines, as in that case 4 tittl y eeommodation, traffic, or route, may be imper- S O , "eloped from the circumstance of the exclusion of Rtth tt laure of them by a frivolous point of non-compliance T he e forme of the House. N I ,. Promoters of several of the defunct schemes of railway "te e ` r "v • 1 k - Oeng eringvfollowing up allottees for their proportion .s, but it would seem with very little success, if we eat s o ".g,e from the austere tone of some of the circulars Nrj, `ne different parties. One transmitted by a corres tstrn, et states, that " the Committee have come to the de -11014:Lion of enforcing from those allottees who really i ; the means to ply and refuse, and to post those who ' 4 h u nder the denomination of stags." Net satisfied with lkt:t au. 4 . 1 3' intimation, the attorney whosends a lithographed us 'lleation charges 5s for his letter, and states that un 41as me amount demanded and this fee are paid into hi, kit:ewithin four days from the date specified, the Com -I,4apt at once proceed against defaulters. Law in this „ e uecomes rather. expensive, and a bill of costs would Nit 4 " ell under so speedy a process. We , howe v e r, ho p e 1/ettorleither the attorney nor the promoters will find many A respond to their call. the tt ' r re spondeA states, that baying to make a payment in t~hUntrs through the medium of one of the branches of ,Pee r ; r , 4 k, of England, he took a cheque to the bank counter (i,• and desired it to be remitted. As it was thre tiae b p .' the clerk informed him that it was too late to advis , Neeench on the s ame da y. To make the case stronger, it thatbe added, that the cheque was not drawn on any die- N s h,'tablishment, but on the Bank of Eng lan d i t self. ‘ 9 1)14 , ! I Practice hikb this is hardly consistent with a reg ard ~,•I`6 i t convenience. Pik7eklti actin and g committee of the associated body of West India merchants have just printed their report, g ivin g to ra. „'' particulars of the measures pursue d as best calculated 'elt et ;''lre the cultivation and prosperity of the West India Wtet t l. It appears from this document that since the final pokh, cr eation of the negroes the pro duction of sugar has a , 1 , 1 3' increased from the lowest return of 107,000 tons to ~. 14 "'6 'p ally tons, but vet at the same time great loss has accrued L see ~;,..Proprietors, and others interested in the cultivation ot l e bo u - ,.' t !e , in consequence of the increased expenditure for Nei' &c. The committee express their opinion on the , In th ti!emes of immigratien, and give other information, will no doubt prove acceptable to West India pro. tore and planters at large. A e.—Geore udson, a an reared behind lti'tutter in oNTRA.ST York, with sc g arce H ly two idea m s in his head, was tts motley by some relative or other, and speculated in rail- NY t strip and railway shares, by which means he accumulated tri s _o 4 Wealth, bought estates from Dukes, Lords, s, and ra co 4 0 ,L 1 ' 8 , and latterly he saught and found admission into the 4 114' 34 of Commons as M.P. for Sunderland. He never did, All p r obably never will do, any great thing for his country. fo r ce has done has been for himself, or the rearing of a vast it i 4 t ,The for himself; yet this man had a "testimonial" lately for him, amounting of itself to the enormous sum sterling. Of that amount, nearly 1,0001. was sub til'', for him in this city of Glasgow. We need not speak kb (Aidand Hill or Robert \e apace. But Thomas Waghorn, tiajt s ,; .e officer, has crossed the burning sands of Egypt again 4 4a,• - gain to find out a short route between England and la ' 4 . Whereas that journey, a few years ago, could not tis ) 4c coinplished in less than two, three, four and some ll43 Six months, Thomas Waghorn has succeeded in tre„ Wi ng it open within the space of thirty days. He has With dispatches from the remote quarters of Asia, and sholvered them safely in London within an almost incredibly set Period.r He is - still risking his life to shorten the j0ur ,441,,,,"e is oening up Gaddingcai between millions of . 41 ? j," 111 ,an ace. He i to the grandeur and glory of ter,,, 41 ,n• He enriching its merchants —stretching out na -44,1t01a bounds for their enterprise; and what have the: , x 'si s for him ? There was laid down at the bar of the Royal . .e l t 7 ; lll age, the other day, a subscrip•ion paper for some oss,„ - Thonial " to Thomas Waghorn. It lay there for four lies there still. Some ten or twelve Glasgow firms Ill' i , e , Bl lbscribed in all 701. to it. Blush, ye mammon-wor- Itia C crs of George Hudson ; and let your ears tingle, ye W:rateful reciients of the matchless services of Thomas t! l ' r il If a n Italian actress came to Glasgow, she would • , et ?„, • , . • from " a fashionable and ep pt -iore than that in one night eftlg audience." With these reflections we are almist ° throw down our pen with scorn and inexpressible dis rScotch Reformers' Gazette. ilft b (3l 'ESTY REWARDED.—About four o'clock on Friday ' o lllll 'n, as a porter, in the employ of Messrs. Jennens and ap it ' o aduit-street, was passing up Re ,, ent. street he picked lut e. t iS,'. ll lly -folded piece of paper, which proved to be a ;51. Of h. de shortly afterwards met a gentleman, who inquired 14, 1, 1 % if he had picked up a 5/. note, to which he replied he hei n _and produced it, which the gentleman accepted, barely it p . uwlLedgin it with a nod, but hastily opened it to see if for the note. They then walked up the st-eet together tle l centy or thirty yards, is hen the man addressed the gen *Oiler the saying he thought it was worth a pint of beer, to usl ib , tile liberal gentleman raid nothing ; but to prevent 0pp,;4 40 addressed the second time, he crossed over to the lo,lttte side of ocket the way, evi losing his ste. 1 1 there liT " A .....DVANCE OF WAGES j iners, and lowiti co nnected with the building trades in this town, fol aotie g e— the ample of the trades in Manchester, have given trotneth' f -L .`7 an advance of 6d. per day, which they demand 4 th of April next. be lo • Liston, the once celebrated comedian, is stated to tontiii 3e r i ously ill that slight hopes are entertained of his long V i : 1 2°g on the present scene. %la lbourne recoiv.'d a select circle at dinner ' 14,,, 44114 gulag, including Viscount CA Lad 7 R .411111111er - - THE THEATRES. A new five-act comedy, from the pen of Mr. Sullivan, (who is already favourably known to the public as a dramatic author) was preduced here on Saturday even ing. It is entitled The Beggar on Horseback, and it met wish great and well-de served success. It is a comedy of manners of the present day, and is an exceedingly well built play, and it would be well that all dramatists should b .ar in mind that the artistical construction of the plot of a five act play is an element that conduces more to its success as an acting play, than either smartness of dialogue or variety of incident, or even individuality of character ; not, however, that The Beggar on Horseback is d, ficient in any of these. The dialogue is uniformly smart and well written, and without being forced or strained, is not unfrequently witty. The incidents are well contrived and sufficiently numerous, and the characters of Cymon Foxhall, Morecraft, and Lady Coverdale, are all distinct, and well developed in dividualities. At the commencement of the comedy, we are introduced to Sir John Coverdalo (Mr. Tilbury), a baronet, proud of his ancient pedigree, but deeply in debt—with his estates mortgaged to an old usurer for their full value. By a former marriage he has heal a son, Ernest, (Mr. H. Hell), and a daughter, Selina, (Miss Julia Bennett) ; and the present Lady Coverdale, (Mrs. Glover), rules him and his household not by violence of manner or of language, but by perpetually offering them consolation under any distresses which may chance to befall then ; such consolation consisting of the most ill-natured sarcasm spoke in the most honied tones. The lady sees no way out of their difficulties save by seeking some rich plebien alliance fur their children. To this the proud baronet decidedly objects, and the lady tells him that there is one consolation, they can break up their esLablishment, advertise for a situation for Selina, and procure Ernest an ensigncy in a marching regiment This dialogue is interrupted by the appearance of Ernest, who informs them that, owing to the death, without a will, of the old usurer, to whom their estates are mort gaged, Cymon Foxhall, his nephew, whom they recollect as a vulgar lout, has become his heir, and has arrived in London to take possession of his inheritance. Lady Coverdale immt dtately commences plotting to secure Cymon Foxhall for Selina, and, observing that it would be wall to be civil to the young man, and see what he is like, dispatches Ernest to call upon him. The scene then changes to Foxhall's house, and we are introduced to Cymon Foxhall (Mr. Webster), and his man of basiness, Morecraft (Mr. N. Farren). Cymon Foxhall had been by his late uncle placed in a Manchester-house is the c,ty, but he bad turned out a low lived blackguard, a frequenter of low taverns and low gambling-houses, a tnean-spirited, hypocritical profligate, in one word— a " swell. In his uncle's house was residing an orphan girl, Emmeline '(Mrs. Seymour), whom that uncle had adopted, and to whom it was supposed by every one that the uncle would have left his property. The affections of this girl, with these expectancies, Cymon Foxhall had sought and won ; and albeit his uncle had discarded him, and for four years Cymon Foxhall had been living a disreputable outcast at Boulogne, still her affection for him continued unabated. Previously to his departure for Bonlosne he had managed to intro duce into his uncle's establishment a crony of his own, named Morecraft, a broken-down marker at a billiard table, giving him special injunctions to use every means in his power to prevent the old usurer from making a will ' • and well had those injunctions been obeyed, for we find Cymon in the usurer's house, the undoubted pos sessor of all his wealth. Admirably did Webster dress and play this character. Dressed in a suit of mourning that might have been made by Stultz himself, he eisnaged, by his method of wearing it, to make it appear ing and vulgar. His hat was of the most un xceptionable pattern, but he stuck it on his head with that knowing " jut" on one side, which is one of the eiaracteristics of the " gent," as contralistinguished rocn the gentleman. Ho carried in his hand a cane, the but-end of which he ever and anon struck against the booted part of his right leg, and he pulled up his collar, and pulled down his waistcoat, and in a housand ways showed, that notwithstanding us insolent swagger, and his boastful pride It purse, he was ill at ease, because he was con scious that he had not in his whole composition one atom, the raw material out of which it would be possible .o manufacture a gentleman. In this, their first inter siew, Morecraft details to him the schemes by which tie had been enabled to prevent his uncle from making A will, and Cymon gives Morecraft to understand that now their relative positions are altered. AS orecraft how ever takes the announcement very coolly; and remind. Cymon that he cannot do without him. Cymon then hints at his desire to form a matrimonial alliance with some high family, and Morecraft reminds him of Emme line. Cymon expresses a wish to see her, and Morecrafc sends her to him and leaves them .done. She, all affection, rushes into his arms, He receives her coldly, in a half-swaggering half-sneaking sort of manner, and, in reply to her questions, he says be loves her, and she shall have a house, a carriage, and money, and be just the same as if she were his wife, but that he must marry for rank She rejects his insulting offers with indignation, and determines to leave the house instantly. This scene was acted by Mrs. Seymour with very great spirit. As she quits him, he hears of his invitation to the Coverdales ; and after a short scene between Morecraft and Emme line, we find Cymon, with Sir John and Lady Cover tale, making a regular contract of bargain and sale for the hand of Selina, he having been brought to this pass very soon by the art of Lady Coverdale. At first the Baronet , ems disinclined to the sacrifice, but when Cymon talks of foreclosing the mortgage, he consents ; and on Selina sneering, she is introduced to him, and they are left alone. Cymon at once breaks what he calls the good news to her, and is astounded at her not at once accept ing him. To her cousin, Horace Waldegrave (Mr. tudson), she confides her troubles. The two cousins, of course, discover that they have long loved each other. and determine to take Ernest into their confidence. Ernest himself is desperately in love with a young crea eire whom he had met in the Park, but of whom he !snows nothing, teed to the Park Horace, Ernest, and Se lina proceed. There Ernest beholds his fair incognita who seeks to avoid him. Salina, however, accosts ate. It is Emmeline. The ladies retire together, snd Cymon Foxhall, who is in pursuit of Emmeline, joists, he gentlemen. They threaten him with direful non ,equences if he does not at once resign the hand of Selina, but to all their threats and taunts his only re ly is, " Pay me my mortgage." Selina now joins the party ; she has heard from Emmeline her story, and ex poses the heartless hypocrite in his true colours. At rirst ho attempts to make his habitual swagger tenfold , note insolent, but as Selina proceeds ell his impudence leserts him, and the mean-spirited coward stands con ,essed. He imagines that Morecraft must have betrayed aim, and, vowing vengeance against Morecraft, he sneaks off. Before he takes his departure, however, he turns round and snaps his finger in the faces of his tormentors, significantly reminding them the affair may le off if they will pay him his mortgage. Emmeline comes from her place of concealment, and Morecraft, a-ho is in pursuit of her, enters. Finding her in such good hands he leaves her under the protection of the i'oung people, very mysteriously reminding them that when affairs taecome too complicated for their guidanc le will render them assistance. On his return to Cy non's, that worthy dire eta his footman, Thome, (admirably acted by Mr. Brindal), to summarily . jest Morecraft. Just as the operation is being ,ereormed, ueder the personal inspection of Cymon eimseif, Horace enters, and takes Morecraft into his .ervice—Morecraft and Cymon having each previously, Ear once in their lives, told the truth, in the characters which they respectively give of each other. The fifth act opens at the office of Cymon's lawyer, and there we and Sir John and Cymon, aided by the lawyer, busily egaged in drawing up the settlements for the marriage f Selina. Ernest and Horace join the party, and More craft also quietly walks in and tells them they may save hemselves all further trouble, for that Cymon is not worth sixpence, producing at the same time a document signed by Cymon's, uncle, in which he states that Emme line is his own legitimate child, and, consequently the heiress to all his wealth. Cymon, who has earned from Morecraft that Emmeline has sought refuge at Sir John's, seeks her there, and en leavours, before she can know of what has chanced. to play the penitent, and thus secure her fortune. His suit, however, is indignantly rejected. At this moment the other parties enter and Morecraft explains that the old usurer, knowing the affection which Emmeline bore to Cymon, and being fully convinced of the villainy of the latter, had confided to him the important document, with a strict injunction not to produce it until Cymon should have shown himself in his true colours, and he adds that he had behaved faithfully to the usurer, be cause he was the only man in the world, who had ever ;o eked upon him without one eye "in his own pocket?" Emmeline, the heiress, forgives Sir John his mortgage, makes a handsome settlement on Horace and Selina, pro aides for Morecraft, and gives hers, lf and her fortune to Ernest. Even Cymon is not permitted to arrive at the usual terminus of Beggars on Horseback. Etnmeline pays his debts, and settles an annuity on him, so that all are made so happy that even Lady Coverdale has •io one to whom she can offer consolation. Die applause at the fall of the curtain was enthusiastic, and alt the artistes were called for. Then there were loud calls for the author, who bowed his aelente,vledg lwn,:es:aunsrntactesyetdfperldoafmuuadrnittdrliFppeupAttirtsiu,ospnctoeoenntvihuetehrmyembesaovtnxaeng.neeirn,Tgiihtnaeirnwspihidiemicepehtohwas an - e as ise it too hi g hly. F arren ' s Morecraft istsehsaiebmPicellstisteyfot d'avvre of its sart, and Mrs. Glover acted the clever ' scheming, polished, consoling L a dy C over d a l e as Mrs. Glover alone can act such parts. Of the Cymon of Webster we have already spoken—it is perhaps his greatest part. Brindal, as the footman Thomas, Clark as a horse-jockey, and Bland as a German tailor, were as excellent in their little parts as Webster, and Farren, and Mrs. Glover were in the three great characters of the piece. The comedy is worthy of tho actors, the actors are worthy of the comedy. FRIA CESSES. A drama, entitled The Dreamer, the scene of which is laid in the court of Charles 11., was produced here last evening with sticce;q. The dreamer is a certain Lord G. Dormer (Mr. C. Mathews), a gay young nobleman, who is unfortunately subject to fits of absence of mind. lie is the rival of a certain Count de Florville (Mr. J. Vining), for the love of Lady Clara Bolton (Mrs. Stir ling. The Count concerts a scheme for the abduc tion of elle lady, who is brought to his house which, the Dreamer, mistakng for his own, enters, and, after a quarrel with Florville, meets Lady Clara, who of course imagines that he is the ab ductor, and reproaches him accordingly. This contra temps gives rise to a variety of others, and at last all is explained, and the lovers made happy. This piece will form an amusing addition to the Mathews' repertoire. DROITWICII, SATURDAY EVENING.— Her I.l2jesty the Queen Dowager took her departure from Witley Court tit, lane, for liArlbortugb. Lime, V THE . BUNr L'ONDON ° 2 MON' COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at tended Divine service, yesterday morning, in the private chapel, Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the B.shop of Norwich. Prayers were read by the H. al. and Rev. C. Leslie ieourtenay. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk yesterday. The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visied the Queen, on Saturday, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accus tomed exercise in the royal gardens, en Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert walked on Saturday forenoon in the gardens of the Palace. The Prince afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Major General Sir Edward Bowater. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace onSa tarday included Mrs. M‘Lane, the Lady of t he American Minister, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Devon shire, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Earl and Countess Spen cer, the Bishop of Norwich, Lord George Lennox, the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, and Captain Francis Seymour. The Coldstream Band was in attendance during din ner, and performed the following pieces : Overture, " Le Colporteur" Onslow. Quadrille, " The British Navy" Jullien. Selection from the Cri seders Va!se, " Fleur de Marie" March and Chorus, " Nabuco" Polka, " Jenny Lind's Favourite." Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Palace, and performed the remainder of the evening. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Marquis of Northampton with his company on Satur day evening at his Lordsip's residence in Piccadilly. His Royal Highness was attended by Lord George Lennox, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir Edward Bowater. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, also honoured the Marquis of Northampton with his cempany on Saturday evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Whitley Court, Worcestershire, for the Droitwich statien,at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday morning, attended by the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, the Earl and Countess Howe, Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley, Colonel and Mrs. Corn wall, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir David Davies, and Mr. Bedford. Her Majesty and suite left the station by a special train, and travelled via Bir mingham and Gloucester, and London and Birmingham Railways to the Euston-square terminus, and from thence proceeded in carriages to Marlborough-house, where her Majesty arrrived at five o'clock. Yestarday her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her )yal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Hereford, who took his text from St. John, chap. iii., verse 16. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. Haden, and the lessons by the Rev. J. V. Povah. The anthem was, "Hear my prayer" (Stroud). Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, and Earl Howe. The Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Fanny Cloward, Among the nobility present were the Duke of Beaufort, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Anglesey, Lords Delawarr, Cawdor, Sheffield, St. Ger mans, Cantalupe, Canterbury, Foley, Ernest Bruce, and Ingestre ; Ladies St. Germans, Delawarr, and Ernest Bruce. The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service yester day. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. The Dean of York will preach on Friday next in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, and the Bishop of Ripon will preach on Sunday next. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes terday in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Major Stephens was in waiting on his Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Couper, and Cap tain the Hon. (Tames P. Murray, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge also honoured the performance with her presence. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Buke of Buc cleuch, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secretary Gladstone, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, and the Eart St. Germans. The Council sat two hours. A deputation respecting copper, including Mr. Vi vian, M.P., Mr. Manta, M.P., Viscount Sandon, M.P., and Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation, consisting of Mr. James M'Queen, Dr. B)wring, Mr. Nathaniel Gould, Captain R. Cogan (In dian Navy), Lt.-Colonel W. Henderson, and Mr. Blunt, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Satur day, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a Committee meeting on Saturday. There were present the Bishops of Bangor, Chester, Ely, Hereford, and Oxford, the Earl of Bessborough, the Right Hon. H. Hubhouse, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. A deputation respecting soap, including Mr. Hawes, M.P. ; Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; Mr. Lvall, M.P. ; Mr. Pattison, M.P. ; Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P. ; Viscount Sandon, ALP. ; Sir Howard Douglas, M.l'., Viscount Ebrington, M.P., and Mr. Crawford, had an interview on Saturday, with Sir Robert Peel. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. IMPOR PANT RAILWAY MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND. An important movement is now being made, origi nated by the members of the Stock Exchange in Glasgow, for the purpose of putting a stop to the great majority — upwards of thirty—of the Scottish Railway schemes now before Parliament. The nature of the movement is thus described in the Scottish journals : "At a meeting of the scripholders representing alarge amount of scrip in the numerous Scottish railway com panies, called into existence by the recent mania, it was considered prudent and advisable, under the altered cir cumstances of the country, to adopt measures to put a stop to further expensive proceedings going on in Lon don, and to have many of the schemes, which do not ap pear to be at present required, wound up. From the un saleable state of the various scrips, and the already em barrassed condition of the money market, as well as the unfortunate position in which the country would be placed from the extreme difficulty, if not inability, to meet the unprecedented demand for capital which would immediately and necessarily arise were any considerable numbk-r of the numerous new schemes now before Par liament to obtain Acts, it must be apparent that the steps proposed to be taken will not only be attended with the greatest advantage to all concerned, but to Scotland generally. " Those who approve of such a course are revested immediately to call at No. 45, George-street, Ediniburgh, where they will find petitions for signature to the various committees of the railways which it is proposed should he wound up. For similar purposes is Glasgow—at the writing chambers of William Steele, jun., 6, South Hanover-street. " N.B. Parties residing at a distance may concur in the above measures by forwarding to either of the places above mentioned an authority in the following or similar terms : -7 Slr,—Please subscribe on my behalf, as a holder of shares of the stock of -- Railway, a requisition to the directors for winding up the Company. " I am, &e." The following is the list of the railways to which the above notice applies : Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin ; Ayr and Galloway ; Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir ; Banffshire ; Caledonian Northern Direct ; Caledonian Extension ; Carnwath and West Linton ; Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction ; Deeside Railway ; Dumblane, Donne, and Callander ; Dundee and Forfar Junction ; East of Fife ; Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric ; Edinburgh and Hamilton Di rect ; Edinburgh and Peebles ; Forth and Clyde Junc tion ; Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction; Glas gow and Belfast Union; Glasgow and Dundee Junction, Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow ; Inverness and Elgin ; Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct ; Lanark and Lo thians ; Morayshire ; Perth and Crieff Direct ; Perth and Inverness ; Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc tion; Scottish Southern ; Stirling and Midland ; Stir ling and Dunfermline. THE POTATO DISEASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—As I know that my authority has been exten sively circulated in favour of quick lime as a protection against the consequences of the disease which has pre vailed in the potato crop, and I heard yesterday from the Duke of Rutland that his experiments have not been equally successful, I feel it a duty to society to prevent persons from being misled by the general terms in which I have circulated the result of the experiments conducted here. It is quite true that the lime used here has been in variably successful. But it is the magnesian lime, which abounds in this neighbourhood. In its caustic state it is fatal to vegetation. Barren spots are to be seen in many places on the forest, where limo heaps were placed more than thirty years ago. It is, therefore, easy to account for the effect of this lime in stopping the propagation of this disease. T :nh is,oa stli me therefore, destructive a d r b oc y nt vy t he necessary qualities.eDe e u s k sa e r o y f Rutland I understand to have been the crich lime, which is very pure lime, and h a to account for the difference ; charcoal state rcoalis the qu distinction i te as eff ee tual as the magnesian lime. (Signed) Welbeck, March 18, 1846. SCOTT PORTLAND. We regret to announce the death of Lieut.-Genera , Foveaux, which occurred yesterday. The deceased General's services were of a very useful description, and highly appre ciated. From 1789 to 1810 he belonged to the New South Wales Corps (afterwards the 102 d Regiment); and from 1811 to 1814 he was Inspecting Field Officer at Cork and Waterford, and subsequently Lieutenant -Governor of Norfolk Island and Acting-Governor of New South Wales. His com missions bear the following dates :—Ensign, 26th May, 17:' Lieutenant, sth June, 1789 ; Captain, 6th April, 179 Major, 10th June, 1796 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th April, 1802; Colonel, 4th June, 1811; Major-General, 4th June, 1814 ; and Lieutenant-General, 22d July, 1530.... United servio Gaotte. EV WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCI- • ENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. A public dinner, in aid of the building fund of the City of Westminster Literary, Scientific, and Mecha nics' Institution, took place on Wednesday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. By the report, which was circulated amongst the company, it appeared that, although the institution had been most prosperous in its operations, and the amount of donations most liberal, there was still a debt of 1,2331. remaining on the building in Smith-street. The probability of tho " short-hour" system being speedily adopted in the metropolis seems to have suggested to the active and intelligent committees the necessity of mak ing an effort to liquidate the debt referred to, with the view of providing for the increased demand which it is to be hoped will hereafter be made by the industrious classes for the means of instruction and amusement which mechanics' institutions are so well adapted to impart. 11 The chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at half-past six o'clock, and amongst the numer ous and highly respectable company assembled we ob serve d Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Dean of West minster, the Rev. 11. Milman (Rector of St. Margaret's), Rev. J. Jennings (Rector of :St. John's), Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir De Lev Evans, M.P., C. Hindley, Esq., M.P., Messrs. Broadwood, Major-General Evans, Sir J. C. Wood, and Mr. W. Johnson. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been drunk with all the honours, The LORD Mayo& rose, and called upon the company to drink a bumper to the " Army and Navy," to which Sir DE LACY EvAss responded, and in doing so took occasion to eulogise institutions like that which they were met to support. He observed that they sprung from the people, and were peculiar to the country and the times in which we live. They had tended greatly to promote the intelligence which characterised the people of England, and insured the further intellectual development of all ranks of society.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then gave "The Health of Charles Shaw Lefevre, Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons, and President of the Westminster Institution," which was drunk with warm applause. The CHAIRMAN next gave, " The Vice-Presidents and other officers of the Institution." The Rev. IL MILMAN, in returning thanks, passed a high eulogium on the Westminster Mechanics Institu tion, and at some length expatiated on the benefits it had contorted on the district in which it was situated, and the advantages to be derived from such institutions by the community at large. Institutions of this kind might be made a very great element of peace in a state of so ciety where there were at least sufficient subjects tending to an opposite direction. The LORD MAYOR gave, " The Dean and Chapter of Westminster." Dr. BIICKLAND (Dean of Westminster) returned thanks, and congratulated the meeting en the great extent to which information had of late years spread among the industrious classes, which he attributed very much to the spread of institutions of a kindred character to that which they were now ce'ebrating. The Rev. Gentleman concluded by proposing " Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. C. Hindley, and the other Members of the House of Commons." Lord R. GROSVENOR acknowledged the compliment in a humorous speech, in which he drew an amusing contrast between the House of Commons and its nightly debates, and the Westminster Literary Institution and its weekly lectures. The Secretary, M. W. H. TRAICE, here read a list of the subscriptions at the table, which amounted together to nearly 500/., and included 211. each from the Lord Mayor, Lord R. Grosvenor, and Messrs. Broadwood ; 311. 10s. from the Messrs. Jackson, and several donations of 101., and sums of a smaller amount. The secretary also an nounc,d that Mr. Hindley, M.P., would join thirty other gentlemen in paying the residue of the debt. (This an nouncement was received with every mark of applause, and immediately eleven gentlemen followed Mr. Hind ley's example.) The Lord Mayor's health having been drunk with great enthusiasm, and the other toasts disposed of, the company separated at an early hour, highly pleased with the evening's; entertainment. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. E. Meredith, linendraper, Liverpool—first div. of Is. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.' J. Hulme, paper dealer, Manchester—first div. of Id. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. W. Whiting, landing waiter in her Majestys Customs, Egremont, Chester—second div. of ls. 2d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. W. Haskayne, ship chandler, Liverpool—final div. of 30. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Caze nove, Liverpool. H. Lacey, bookseller, Liverpool—first div. of Is. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. J. H. Shanklin, landing waiter in her Majesty's Customs, Liscard, Chester—second div. of Bd. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove Liverpool. J. 0. Harvey, grocer, Newark, Nottinghamshire—first div. of 3s. 9d. in the pound, on any Friday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-strcet. C. J. Banister, linendraper, Derby, April 11, at one. In the Country. D. Smith, ironmaster, Kings Swinford, Staffordshire, April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—J. Vaile, wine merchant, Cheltenham, April 23, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court-8. Woodroffe, wine merchant, Chep stow, Monmouthshire, April 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—T. Todd, cotton dealer, Manchester, April 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—M. I. Jacobs, tailor, Ashton-under-Lyne, April 15, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court—R. Briggs,cottcn spinner, Ulverstone, Lancashire, April 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. E. Clayton, licensed victualler, Edgeware-road, April 11— D. Hutson, agent, St. Albans, April 11—T. Ellis, boot maker, Wisbech St. Peter's, Cambridgeshire, April 11—D. Wynne, innkeeper, Colwyn, Carnarvonshire, April 14—J. Mann, grocer, Warwick, April 10—C. J. Blunt, civil engi neer, Great mond -street, Queen-square, April 10—G. By ford, wholesale grocer, Liverpool, April 10—J. IL Rand, dealer in glass, Westminster-bridge-road, April 10— IL J. Andrews, apothecary, Plymouth, April 10—F. W. E. Ba randon, merchant, Philoot-lane, April 10—R. Tate, silver smith, Regent -street, April 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Layers and J. Ackland, printers, Bristol—G. Roper, C. Roper, and W. Roper, carpenters, Rath—J. B. Terry and S. Turner, osier dealers, Springfield, Essex—R- Dodsworth and G. Alderson, stock-brokers, York—G. Jordan and J. Webb, straw-hat manufacturers, Luton—E. Wilcock and F. W. Norton, shawl manufacturers, Bolton-le-Moors —R. and H. Banks, butchers, Liverpool—J. Young, 11. Weston, J. Hay ward, and M. Drayson, linendrapers, King's-cross—C. and F. A Magnay, paper-makers, Mill-end-mills, Hertfordshire —J. Younghusband and P. R. Bull, wholesale fancy sta tioners, Providence-row, Finsbury—J. Harrison, C. Lange, T. Carr, and T. Martens, shipbrokers, Stockton (so far as regards T. Carr and T. Marten)—J. Harrison, C. Lange, and T. Carr, shopbrokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (so far as re gards T. Carr)—T. J. Bedborough and G. Jenner, builders, New Windsor—T. K. and G. H. Pulley, porkmen, Lower Marsh, Lambeth—G. Golding and J. B. Smith, joiners, Liverpool—J. and W. Chater, painters, Sunderland—W. Watts and T. Standhy, iron-stone cane ware manufacturers, Swadlincote Pottery, Derby - shire—G. W. Green, S. Mills, and T. Wells, carriage-spring makers, Darlaston, Staffordshire —B. Haigh and J. Milton, engineers, Newton-wood, Cheshire —W. Richard, J. Bell, and J. Findlay, shipwrights, Liver pool—R. Debenham and J. Lanham, li ne ndrapers, Edward street, Portman-tquare—W. M'Naught, R. Pinnington, C. Newsome, J. Dearden, and J. Griffiths, cotton:spinners, Roth dale—W. Simpson and T. R. Hills, stock-brokers, Leeds—S. Rhodes and T. Mountain, joiners, Wakefield —J. Hall, J. Hall, and W. D. Hall, paper manufacturers, Saddleworth. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Thomas Fairbairn, M.D., banker, Edinburgh, March 26, and April 16, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Burness, Edinburgh. William Davison, smith, Glasgow, March 24, and April 14, at two, at the chambers of Messrs. Ferguson and Hall, Glasgow. Sharp and Thompson, calico printers, IVleadowside, Lanark shire, March 25, and April 15, at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Murray and Galloway, Glasgow. John Crombie, baker, Glasgow, March 26, and April 16, at one, at the chambers of Messrs. and Towers, Glasgow. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 20.—Sales have been rather on the increase during the past week, at recent rates, but the amount of business done is still, notwithstanding, only to a limited extent. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 20.—The demand for wool during the present week has been much the same as for some weeks past, and is confined to the supply of the immediate requirements of the manufac turers ; prices are consequently a shade lower. LEEDS.—We have had very dull markets this week at our cloth halls. There was very little done either on Saturday or Tuesday, extent in very low tweeds for the German markets : fin e and m iddle cloths continue dull e en fir b m ut few buy e r s in the town firm, and the stocks are mo during the week , a nd business h as , in consequence , been dull in the warehouse s. B RADFO RD MARKET, THURSDAY. There prices have been report for o d r e r sale ete. this week need only be a mere repetition of that for the last few weeks. The business done in wools i 3 very limited, but prices are firm, as the country dealers are obstinate for present prices. In yarns there is nothing better doir:g. Nearly all is produced to supply merely present demand. For plain piece goods the demand is tolerable, but for fancy pieces there is a miserable trade. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have not had the least signs of eny improvement in our cloth market this week ; indeed, the heaviness has, if any thing, increased, and prices further receded for most descriptions of goods. Nothing can well exceed the prostration of the market, and stocks are accumulating to an inconvenient extent. Even the richest and the most wealthy are becoming anxious sellers. The yarn market is as dull as may be, and we note, if any change at all, that things are in favour of the buyer. BARNSLEY.—We cannot report any decided improve ment in the linen trade of this town, which has been very much depressed since the commencement of the year ; arising, in a great measure, in addition to the various causes in operation at home, from the unsettled state of our relations with America. LEICESTER. —There has been rather a better demand for manufactured goods for the home trade. Shipping orders for the American market have been suspended for the present. Worsted yarns are more in request. The cotton hosiery branch still continues good, espe cially for coloured sorts. Wools are firm ; combing skins and noils obtain good prices, and farmers' lots average 305. per tod.—Leieester Journal. 'B9; =rossammemmizamestmers= ALMACICS.—The ladies patronesses have determined to commence the first set of these aristocratic reunions on the 29th of the ensuing month. The list of ladies patronesses is prociselr the MIS ai list sum. . MARC H 23, ! P 46. lIAMBURGH MAIL. CRACOW, Manx 9.—Perfect tranquillity—that is, what is called tranquillity—now prevails in our city. All possible measures are taken, on the part of the Allied Powers, to re press any idea of resistance to their ordinances. In the city country detachments of military go about and take away what arms they find. The clergy are deeply , implicated in all these affairs. This evening seven waggons, with priso ners, were brought in under a military escort. In the city itself, 172 persons were to-day designated as to be arrested. On the whole 150 have been hitherto arrested. Negotia tions respecting Cracow are going on very actively. Co lonel Van Rohe, of the 10th Regiment, is appointed Com missioner on the part of Russia. ' Many Polish women, whose husbands have baen killed, or have fled, are gone out of their minds.—Silesidn Gazette. CRACOW, Dimwit 11.—The city is for an indefinite time in a state of siege. The Senate is dissolved, and a council of administration appointed instead; which, however, chiefly consists of the members of the Senate. Carriages with prisoners are brought in early; the prisoners think them selves fortunate when the escort is composed of Prussians, by whom they are well treated. The Russians and Austrians are more disliked. Business is at a a stand still, and every thing is very dear. The insurrection of the peasants in Gallicia is said to be spreading. Troops continue to be sent from this city to that country. Travellers affirm that some parts of the province are like a desert ; from the frontiers of Cracow to Lemburgh scarcely a nobleman's residence has been spared.---Bremen Gazette. WARSAW, MARCH 11.—The Warsaw Courier of to-day says,_ "public tranquillity has not b een i n t erru pt e d i n th e slightest degree, and the accounts from the provinces states, that they. too, enjoy undisturbed tranquillity." BERM', MARCh 11.—It is said that remonstrances have been made by the Austian Legation on account of the state ment lately published in the Univ. rsal Russian Gazette that Austrian magistrates in the Polish provinces had induced the peasants, by rewards in money, to take prisoners, or to kill the Polish landowners. People here wondered at the very first how the generally cautious editors of the Universal Prussian Gazette could admit such accounts into its columns. The Universal Prussian Gazette has, we know, published such accounts. VIENNA.—IIIs Ilighness.Prince Metternich had addressed the following circular, dated the 7th of March, to the re presentatives of Austria at the several German Courts. "The latest Vienna journals bring the account of the occu pation ofCracow by our and the Imperial Russian troops, and of the ignominous end of the insurrection in all parts of the republic. If we look back on the events which have been crowded together in the short space of a few days, causing extensive convulsions, and occasioning unspeakable calamities we know not whether to be most astounded at the wicked ness of those who formed the plan, or at the foolhardiness of those who executed it, in total ignorance of the amount of means that they could command, and voluntarily made themselves the victims of hopeless undertakings. The preliminaries of the project were certainly ably contrived. An extensive conspiracy spread over the Austrian and Rus sian frontier of ancient Poland was formed, and the republic of Cracow was chosen as a staple place at the command of the Revolution. Numberless emissaries, sent out by the chiefs of the emigration, who remained in safety, covered these countries, and their insinuations and seductions were listened to by these countrymen, these officers and client s, who are more numerous in the former Polish countries than elsewhere. In the territory of Cracow defective adminis nistrations, and an unsettled agitated state of society, in creased the success of their endeavours. Communist doctrines were propagated among the people with indefatigable activity and in every direction; and the leaders of the movement (who certainly cared little for their own persons about the application of the communist doctrines) indulged the absurd hope of making the masses ready instruments of their revolutionary plan, by holding out the prospect of freeing the peasant from taxes and contributions, the Government should be overthrown, and the utophia of a Polish kingdom should be realised—fancied they should be able to lead the raging waves into the channel which should appear to them the most convenient. But the insanity and utter worth lessness of such plots appeared in the clearest light in Ga lacia. This country has been for nearly eighty years under the Austrian Government, and at the time when it became subject to Austria was in the most wretched old Polish condition. The Austrian laws, especially our admirable Urbarial, were introduced there. Their efforts are manifest. They have inspired the peasantry, the mass of the popula tion with the feeling that the Throne is the power which is the protection of their whole existence. This is what the leading Polish emigrants have overlooked and forgotten— they ascribed their own spirit to the population, in which they were happily mistaken—the Galician peasant cannot understand communist phrases, and Polish nation. ality is odious to him, because it reminds him of his misery. The majority of the preachers at home, and among these peasantry, are their oppressors. When they called on them to rise—when the in surgents, in places where they had assembled in great num hers, attempted to compel the peasants by violence—the move ment they thought to excite turned upon the instigators themselves, many of whom fell victims to the anger of the people, and the others were given up . by the peasants to their natural protectors, the authorities of this province. The movement is now subsiding in all Galicia, which cer tainly cannot be called a revolution, but rather an anti-revo lution. Now that the focus of the revolution in Cracow— where, though no where else, it certainly had the upper hand—is quenched,and the mass of the insurgents in Galicia, where they have failed in their attempts, is put down, it is not probable that the public tranquillity will be further disturbed. It is evident, that after such con vulsions, moral tranquillity cannot be so soon restored to people's minds, and that the task of the Government is not easy. It, however, directs its first attention to this object, and has the more confidence of success as it rests on the broad basis of the Government at Galicia, viz., the faithful attachment of the sound part of the population. I wish you to make use of the present dispatch, in communication with the cabinet, which we decree to make you acquainted with the real state of affairs, and as accurately as possible.—Vienna, 7th March." COPENHAGEN, 13th March.—Some Members of the Fadre lan and of the Copenhagen Post, have been seized for in serting the Polish Insurrection ' which unprivileged papers are not allowed to do, though it has often happened.—Hamburg Papers, 17th March. . PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY RILLS. TUESDAY, MARCH 24. Morecombe Harbour and Railway. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company's Amalgamation. WEDNESDAY ; MARCH 25. London and Birmingham (Leamington Extension and Coventry and Rugby Stations Enlargement). - Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Junction. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Forth and Clyde Navigation Junction. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Wishaw and Coitness Junction. London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir• mingham Companies Amalgamation. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Balloch ney, and Slamannan Junction. Midland (Birmingham Extension). Loudon and Birmingham (Aylesbury Railway Purchase). Midland (Barfield to Elsecar, and other Branches). Leicester and Birmingham. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, & Manchester (Worsborough Branch) Leeds and Thirsk (St. Helen's Branch Deviation). East Coast. Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction. THURSDAY, MARCH 26. Cornwall. Surrey Iron Railway Company Dissolving. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, & South Staffordshire Junction (No. I), Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction (No _ _ 2—CoaltirOokdale Branch). Glasgow Southern Terminal. Scottish Midland Extension. FRIDAY, DIARCII 27. Bristol and Birmingham, and Midlands. St. Alban's, Luton and Dunstable. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS MANCHESTER, MARCH 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tke sales are—Anibergate, Nottingham, and Boston, % dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 114 —Edin burgh and Glasgow, Halves, Sp. —Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, p.—Grand Union, Bs. 6d. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 1 dis.—Derby and Crewe, 2% p. —Liverpool, Ormaklrk, and Preston, see. lid. p.— Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, I% dia.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 34 p.—Northumberland and Lancashire, 1 1 4 dis.—North Staffordshire, S% p. c.—Preston and byre, Halves (B), % p.— Sheffield and Manchester, No. 3,1 N p.—West Riding Union, 2 1 ,4 D. —Leicester and Bedford, % dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle, 7-16 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Stockport, par —Sheffield and Lincoln, 7 p. LEEDS, Matted 21. _ . &rock Excnixos.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 13s. 6d. p —Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 9M p.— Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters (B), 7% p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 15s. dis. —Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2s. 6d. dis. —Ditto, Extensions, 10s. dis.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6 1 ,4 p.— Leeds and Bradford, 46—Leeds and Dewsbury, 5 p.—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 21. 4s.—London and York, 21. 19s.—Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1% p. West Riding Union, 41. 4s.— Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 21s. dia.—Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Esc., 28s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 10s. dis.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Bs. dia.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 265. dis.—Nerthumberland and Lancashire Junction, 255. dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 1 ls. 6d. p.—South Midlands, 17s. 6d p. _ _ _ NAVAL - INTELLIGENCE. Poarsmourn, Fm MAX.—The Cary sfort, 26, Captain Sey mour, left Portland Road?, on the 18th, for Sydney. The Bth (King's Own) Regiment, under the command of Colonel Sir Henry Bayley, G.C.H., and Lieutenant-Colonel Hartley, was inspectxd this afternoon, on Southsea-common, by Major-General tits Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenharn, K.C.8., in command of the south-west district, and Lieutenant- Governor of this garrison. The man were put through the various evolutions by their respective officers in a manner showing the well-skilled officer and practised soldier, and performed theni with a precision and minuteness of detail we never saw surpassed by any regiment in the service. The Gallant General was pleased to express his warm praise at the highly efficient state of the regiment, the excellent order of their movements, the precision of their fire, and their war like and soldierly appearance, before leaving the ground. The Bth now musters 900 strong, which will be increased to 1,000 before leaving on foreign service. It has been reported that the Bth is abut to proceed to India, but we have good authority for stating no troops will proceed from this quarter for India before June. Notices for • tenders far conveying troops to India are not yet issued by the GoVernm en t or P.ast - India Company. CHATHAM, MARCH 20.—The African steam-yessel, J. King I master, arrived here on the 18th instant with reameu from the Trafalgar, flag-ship at Sheerness, for tkee Raleigh, 50 guns, Captain Sir T. Herbert, K.C.8., and r Armed to Sheer ness again the same day, taking the Goodwill lighter in hew, loaded with stores for that dockyard. • The Duck, Savage master, arrived on th e 19th init. with stores from Portsmouth yard. The Cockatrice schooner, fitting for et victualling vessel for the coast of Ireland, is nearly cotuleleted, and is new getting her niasts in place. The Magpie, fitting for a water tank, is masted and nearly completed for service. .S The Teazer Steam-vessel, building—The caulkers have completed caulking this vessel. She is expected to be ready for launching the middle of next April. The Raleigh, 50 gnus, is nearly completed in her rigging. The painters commenced yesterday painting her. She is ex pected to be ready for service next month. Trafalgar another the F e a sft p i dv a .o r r t npo y apiarn o enti f ydnd c oaHa a ckr e ko t ee l tne Hound s ordereds l t i a y nt e o- b %b e . ee e s n ls ee l nlestn building from o she e t r h na i e s t _ D e s a te r oi tcftaooirlanlk d caulk e s and eighteen boys are ordered to be en tered in the rope r y at. this yard. —The retu the rned ,r k otnio.e( E idst a jo g itfe l os e et h‘ E vne t steam-vessel, iNaval peloiSrStoesil to Sheerness e a s f s te a r nd ha C S ' h in a g th c a o m n , v Admiralty She is to be fitted with new boilers. The Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jen kins, went to Greenhithe on Monday to have her compasses adjusted, and subsequently proceeded to Portsmouth where she will be paid in advance, and is expected to serve on the, Mediterranean station The Phoenix steam-vessel, Commander Dennis, will be ready for sea on Sunday. She will be paid advance at Portsmouth. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsey, was taken out of the basin at Woolwich on Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of a great number of naval and military officers, who had visited that fine vessel during the day. She will leave for Greenhithe about the middle of next week. The Mastiff, Master-Commander Thomas, with her tender, the Woodlark, left Woolwich yesterday for Kincardine, on the coast of Scotland, to resume her surveying duties. The Violet steam-vessel, built for the Dover station by Messrs. Ditchbum and Mare, and fitted with engines by Penn, was tried down the river on Tuesday, and her average speed was found to be 14.270 knots per hour. Captain Jerningham has continued his experiments in Woolwich marshes during the :week, with a view of ascer taining the simplest and most effective mode of saving lives from shipwreck, and to-day Lieutenant Knolleart, com mander of the Adder war schooner, belonging to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, attended in the marshes to wit ness them. The mortars were fired at an elevation of 33 de grees, and charged with 12 ounces of powder, which enabled the shot fired to carry a strong rope of Manilla hemp, one inch in circumference, and very elastic, a distance of 320 yards. The Manilla rope was rolled up on this occasion in the manner used by riggers, and the inside end of the ball attached to the shot; the ball was then placed in a tub and run out when fired all clear, and this appeared to be the best plan yet tried. The anchor was also fired, and carried a dis tance of 182 yards, and when it alighted its holding powers were so great that the united strength of twenty men could not bring it home. Yesterday two lines were fired at one time, and carried a distance of 210 yards, and this mode gives great advantages, as on being spliced, those on board and on shore could make an endless rope of them, which would be of great assistance during shipwreck. SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN M'LEOD. The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. Santos, agent for the Peninsular and Oriental Company at Corunna, dated March 12:— " I returned from the wreck of the Great Liverpool on the 10th inst., and have relieved Mr. Baker, from the temporary duty as agent to your company at this place. " The melancholy death of Captain M'Leod, which took place on the morning of the Bth instant, has, as you may well suppose, added greatly to my labours, and, indeed, must plead for my present hasty report, relying upon your indul gence to permit me to furnish snore details when the depar ture of the Queen shall afford 1116 more quiet and leisure. • " Poor Captain ll‘Leod has been, ever since the unfortu nate loss of the Liverpool, in an extremely depressed state, and caused me very serious apprehensions. At five O'clock in the morning I went to the habitation where he, with one of his officers and the doctor, bad been sleeping. I told them to get ready, as everything had been arrrnged by me fur an early start for Corunna. I asked Captain Bl'Leod how he had rested, when he replied that he bad not closed his eyes, went to the window, and agreed with me on our having fine weather for our journey; immediately after he took off his coat and went into his sleeping room, I thought to' wash ; we soon heard a noise, and the landlord coming in to report the same, made us all rush into his room, where we found him weltering in his blood, and his throat cut from ear to ear. All our efforts could --- -- .-. not prevent his expiring within ten minutes, so effectually had the rash act been done. You may well conceive the consternation we were thrown into, but, overcoming my feelings I immediately proceeded to go through everything that was necessary to be done. I sent for the judge, and ar ranged matters for holding an inquest. I interred the body of the unfortunate Captain M'Leod the same evening, and early the next morning set out upon my journey with all the remaining officers and crew." The following additional particulars are contained in a letter from Southampton : . . . • •., . - " I have very little to communicate in connexion with the melancholy death of poor Captain M'Leod, of the Great Liverpool steam-ship. It appears that everything was in readiness to depart from the inhospitable shore on which the remainder of the passengers and crew had been located since the unfortunate wreck, and Captain M'Leod had retired to his room to make preparations for his departure. Iris protracted stay was remarked ; and on one of the party knocking at the door of his room, to an nounce that every person was in readiness, no answer was returned, and after repeated knockings with the same result, the door was opened, when the horrid spectacle of the unfortunate gentleman with his throat cut from ear to ear, presented itself to view. So determined was the suicidal act that life was quite extinct. lie was buried in the village of Cee, where the distressing catastrophe was perpetrated, every one of his fellow sufferers following his remains to the grave with heavy and mournful hearts. " Captain M'Leod was a gentleman of extremely high spirit and honour, and it is not improbable that the severe suffer ings, anxiety, and trials, the loss of the vessel entailed upon him, superinduced the committal of the dreadful deed. " Mrs. M'Leod, with her youthful family (and a prospect of further increase shortly), is resident in Southampton. The distressing intelligence was communicated to her as delicately as possible immediately on the Queen's arrival, but it is impossible to describe the agonising state of mind of this truly unfortunate lady. " Captain M'Leod was a lieutenant in the navy ; his corn- mission bears date the 19th of July, 1823. " The conduct of the natives is described by the passen gers as villanous in the extreme; they openly filched every thing they could lay their hands upn, accompanied in many instances with acts of violence. Even the guards sent by the British Consul at Corunna are, it appears; not exempt from the charge of robbery. Au investigation, it is said, is abort to take place on a charge brought forward against one of these worthies, and, if proved, no doubt the rascal will be shot. _ . _ . _ " The unfortunate 'ship had entirely disappeared; not a vestige of her was to be seen. Occasionally, however, things floated ashore, but they were quickly pounced upon by those ravenous wolves in human shape, and divided amongst them." LOSS of THE GREAT LIVERPOOL PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY. —Some time after the passen gers of the unfortunate steamer, the Great Liverpool, had been safely landed, it occurred to the late Captain M‘Leod that it was possible to save from the wreck a box which had been specially consigned to his care, containing a present to her Majesty from a wealthy, n ative merchant of Bombay. Captain M'Leod, accompanied by the chief officer, Mr. Hamilton, and two of the crew, got on board the steamer, and cut through the deck to the place where the box was deposited, and with great danger and difficulty got it on shore, and from thence it was conveyed with the mail boxes to Corunna, and consigned to the care of the consul, who fearing it might have been damaged by being so long under water, unpacked the box in the presence of the captain and officers. Although it was inclosed in many cases, the water bad penetrated through them to the morocco case, which was richly ornamented with the royal- arms of England. The present consisted of a large sized and richly wrought gold box, an exquisite specimen of Eastern work- manship,„ worthy of Benvenuto ellini; the box was sup ported by four stands in the form of snakes, and it contained several dresses of the most elegant and costly fabric, worked by the needle, and of cobweb texture, but the salt water had penetrated, and the consul's wife had them carefully washed and repacked, and they were transmitted with the mails to Southampton. It was fortunate that the box escaped the clutches of the Spanish brigands, whose infamous conduct has been already described. Just before Captain Dl'Lcod committed suicide, he gave into the charge of the consul a handkerchief containieg gold, with which he had been entrusted, to deliver to a merchant in Loudon, with a special recommendation that it should be forwarded to its destination. The escape of one child was miraculous, and has not yet been mentioned in the accounts published of the disaster. The first boat, it has been stated, was upset in the raging surf, when three persons lost their lives, and a second child was supposed to have been drowned, but when the boat righted the infant was found floating at the bottom, :and was taken on beard the vessel as it was going to pieces ; restora tives were applied, arid the child was saved. The chief officer, Mr. Hamilton, was not on duty at the time when the steamer struck, and is now in town. There were present at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday- night, her Royal Highness the D uc h ess o f K en t, ac companied by Lord and Lady Dalhousie ' Lady Mary H o ward, and the Hon. Captain Murray, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cowper; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and the Baron Koesebeck ; his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge ; the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marchiones s o f Worcester and the Ladies Blanche and Rosa Somerset ; the Duke of Wellington ; the Marquisses of Clanricarde, Huntley, Londonderry, Palacino, and Titch field ; the Marchioness of Douro; the Earls of Falmouth, Lonsdale, Cardigan, and Monster; Count de Noailles ; Vis counts Castlereagh and Cantalupe ; his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow ; 'Lords Brook, Lilford, Duncannon, Laecelles, E. Bruce, and Canter bury • Baron de Brennes and Baron de Kubeck ; Ladies Charles Wellesley, Boyer Smyth, Gage, Goldsmith, Wilson, and Pollington ; Sir Ralph and Lady Howard ; Honourables O'Tolcr, B. Baring' Colonel Fitzgibbon and family, Spencer Cowper, James Johnstone, and Mrs. Dawson Darner and Miss Dawson Darner; Sirs Andrew Barnard, H. Webb, F. French, T. Hare, and H. Willoughby; Colonel Webster; Majors Buckley and Whyte, &c. &c. MAILS TOIL INDIA, VII MARSEILLES. - The next mails for the Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Ceylon, China, &c., rid Marseilles, will be dispatched on the evening of the 24th hut, (to •mMow.) PULL, MARCH 21. STOCK. EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, andßol ton, New, % dis.—North British, Carlisle, 44s.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 26s.—Liverpool and Leeds, 2 s —North Western, 11. 13s.— North Staffordshire, 5/. Os. 6d.—Tean and Dove Valley, lls.—West Riding Union, 4%. YORK, 14fAscn 21. &rocs Excuasas.—The sales are—Leicester and Bedford, 15s. —London and York, 274—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 314—Newcastle and Berwick, 18%—Newcastle and Darlington Extensions, 914—North British, Carlisle 'Extension, 214 —North Staffordshire, 5% —York and North Midland, New (East and West Riding), 9%. GLASGOW, Mara 21. STOCK EXcnawoz.—The sales are British and Irish Union, 41s.—Caledonian, New, 53s.—Caledonian Extension, 31s.—Caledo nian and Ayrshire Junction, 355. 6d.—East Indian Railway, 1 Is. —Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 18s.—Glasgow General Ter minus, 9% —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 25s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 711.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 34s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 40s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 25s.—Scettisk Central, 161 A—South Midland, 565. LEGAL CLAIMS OF FIREMEN.—At Marlborough street Police-court, on Saturday, an important question to housekeepers was disposed of, in reference to the remunera tion firemen are entitled to in cases of a false alarm of fire. Sparks were observed to escape from the chimney of the Wyndham Clubhouse, St. James's-square, and in a short time an engine attended, and it was for this attendance com pensation was demanded. In answer to the claim the steward of the club stated that the kitchen was furnished with a steam engine, and the draft occasioned the sparks to fly out of the chimney; but he denied that there was any occasion for the attendance of the brigade, as no danger was apprehended by the inhabitants. Dir. Hardwick decided that the firemen were entitled to compensation in conse quence of sparks having been seen, but he left the amount to be decided by the parish. THREE CHILDREN RUN OVER: Saturday after noon an accident occurred in the Strand, which had nearly involved the lives of three boys. As Dr. Edlington, of Guildford-street, Russell-square, was proceeding in his car riage along the Strand, and had just turned into Craven street, where the little fellows were running in the road, the horses came so quickly upon them, that before they could manage to retreat, they were knocked down and severely trampled upon, and had it not been for the dexterity of the driver, the wheels must inevitably have passed over them. Assisted by a police-constable, the worthy doctor placed them in the carriage, and at once conveyed them to Charing cross Hospital, where they were put to bed and properly at tended to by Mr. Wesley, the house surgeon. It is no more than justice to add, that no blame whatever is attributable to the servant. The Right lion. the Speaker of the House of Com mons had a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at the Right Hon. Gentleman's house in Eaton-square, when the following noblemen and gentlemen constituted the circle : Viscount Ingestre, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Norreys, Viscount Adare, Lord Hotham, Lord Ossulston, Lord Ren dlesham, Hon. Captain William Fitzmanrice, Hon. William Bagot, Hon. Eliot T. Yorke, Sir John Walsh, Bart., Sir John T. B. Duckworth, Bart., Mr. W. H. Pole Carew, Mr. W. Astell, Mr. R. Sanderton, Mr. Richard Spooner, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Charles Round, Mr. A. S. Waddingtor, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. J. S. Brownrig,g, Mr. Dodd, Mr. W. L. Chute, Mr. J. Stuart, Mr. Broadvroctd, and Captain Gladstone. e'7 THE CORN TRADE. LivEnroot, SAITRDAY.—Thera is a fair quantity of Aour from Ireland this week ; but of other articles thence and coastwise the arrivals are limited. We have had a tole'rablv good demand for wheat, and mare particularly for old, for which vcry full rates have been ob tained. The inferior descriptions of wheat have had little attention. Flour has had a steady nle, and bath • sacks . and barrels maintain late prices. Oats and oatmeal have each commanded a small advance. Barley, beans, and peas, are without alteration in value. Hum., TIITESDAT.—At to-day's market there was a mode• rate supply of wheat from the farmers, and Mark-lane ac-' counts being better, our millers were obliged to give rather more money for good `wheat; secondary sorts ansaleable. In beans, peas, and barley, no alteration. Several samples of oats showing, and rather more money paid._ In Linseed the business passing; is immaterial, and the arrivals are not large. Linseed cakes have been selliug 'lower rates, and more buyers have come forward in conse•- rittenCe. No rapeseeds in the market. Enve calve? arrive more freoly, and Flies are effeeted at full ratt:7 , . Bones are in good demand. Guano tnoves ' odPieCtlVeely at a shade more money. - WAKEFIELD, Fat])Ar.—The supplies of all grahi are m - derate. We bad more business doing in wheat to-day, aid in some instances the fittest qualities made ;rather more mown"; there was also a better inquiry for common sorts. Fitie barley was easy sale, other descriptions in slow ra quest at previous rate.. Beans sold at a slight advance. Oats ;(1. per stone, and Shelling 6d. per load higlien Malt baore, WAMIINGION, IV.EDNESDAY. At the -market the supply of wheat is rather short; prices were about last weelja quotation, with a slight tendency downNVards, Pay 7s. to 7s. 6t1., 78. 9d. and Bs. per 70Ib. Oats (seed) 3s. Bd. to 4s. per 4511). Flour, best seconds, 365. to 365. Meal, 335. to 345. per 240 lb. Of potatoes there were very few at the market, and all were sold at 6d. per load more 'money ; Pink-eyes, 11s. 6d.; Radicals, for seed, were dullbale at 6s. to Bs.. per load of 2551 b: DREADFUL FIRE• FOUR LIVES LOST,• AND SEVERAL PERSON-5' SERIOtSIX INJUREP. fhis morning (Monday), shortly before one o'clock, a fire, attended with fatal consequences to four persons;--father a nd three children,—and serious results to several other parties, broke out upon the premises belonging to Mt. Timpson, chemist, No 77, Crawford-street, Marvlebone. • The dis covery was made by a poli c e man of the D division, whilst passing along his beat. Smoke which he saw issuing from the shop window-shntters convinced him that the building was on fire. Without delay the officer raised an alarm, and after some trouble • succeeded in arousing several of the inmates. Other constables having arrived at the spot, some were sent f or th e fire-engincs and escapes. The Royal Society for the Protection of Life from fire had the escape from Baker;street, Fortnum-square, station very early at the scene. The first thing the conductor of the machine attempted to do was to asce r t a i n if a ll theparties had escaped. Before, however, he had succeeded in affixing the escape to the front of the premises, a female, apparently about forty or forty-five years of age, suddenly approached one of the front windows, and threw herself into the street. She fell partly on her back and head. The poOr creature was picked up, but she was so dreadfully injured that the only thing she could say was, " Oh, my poor children are in the house." This becoming known, the conductor of the escape ran up the machine in the expectation of being enabled to save the .parties in the place. When, however, he had got upon the top of the escape, a sort of explosion occurred in the shop, which 'blew the shutters off, and the flames rushing through set the escape in a blaze. The poor man attempted to slide down the canvas bag, when he fel through the hole made by the action of the fire. Falling upon his head he received a serious, if not fatal, injury to the 1 skull. The female and the man were promptly removed to the hospital. The engines of the brigade from Baker-street, Portman square, King-strcet, and Wells-street stations were early in arriving, and were set to work under the direction o Mr. Staples, the foreman of the district. The County engine from Regent-street, with Mr. Garwood and the com pany's firemen, - followed immediately after, and also the pa rochial engines of St. Marylebone. The mains of the West Middlesex Company afforded an abundant supply of water, and the engines having been set to work, a powerful stream of the antagonist] element was thrown into the blazing build ing, but upwards of an hour elapsed before the firemen suc ceeded in getting the flames extinguished. By tMt period the shop, kitchens, staircase, and the major part of the se cond floor, were destroyed, and the remainder of the premiees seriously damaged by As soon as the building was sufficiently cooled, a number of firemen entered the wreck to search for the parties missing;; Upon entering the second floor a sight of a most distressg character presented itself. In one of the rooms were tote seen the bodies of Mr. Robert Batters and his three children. They wire not much burned, and death appeared to have re sulted from suffocation. They were got out as soon as pos sible, and taken to the house of Mr. Bateman, a surgeon op posite, and afterwards conveyed on the police stretcher to the workhouse. The unfortunate man Batters was the husbrind of the female before spoken of as having jumped out of tilt window. They occupied the second floor. Had it not been for the explosion of something in the silos, which set the escape on fire, it is highly probable that tife whole of the inmates would have been rescued by the machine men. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. NOTTINGHAM, FrapAr.—About five years aaa . a man named John Elinor, a sinker-maker, who, during ffe greater part of his life had resided in Parliament-street, in this town. was induced by a brother who is well off in the world to leave his residence and occupation in - Nottingham, and go and re side near hitn at Codnor Park, for the purpose of managing a public-house, and rendering his brother other services, and soon became habitually melancholy. His wife, to whan this change appears to have been equally distasteful, died about twelve months since, and left him still more me lancholy than he had been previously. A few months since he returned to Nottingham, and was about to talc. up his abode again in the town, when his only daughter died, who had been married to a lace-maker named Smith, and left two children, the oldest of whom was a bill named Elizabeth, aged about twelve years. Smith having married again soon after the death of his first wife, and: his eldest daughter being dissatisfied with her mather in-law, she went to reside with her grandfather, who re- turned with his charge to Codner Pari s i, with the'idea that he could there provide better for her future comfort and wel fare. For a time Elinor was more cheerful in the society of his little granddaughter, but latterly his health failed. He is said to have been constantly tormented with the idea that he should. be left to want in his latter days, if his brother should die before him, and that his little granddaughter, of whom he was very fond, when left alone in the world, would become a prey to the designing, and might spend her days in vice, or suffering from the most abject want. It had bees customary for old John EMI& to visit his brother early on the morning of each day, but timing omitted to do so, at the usual time the latter became alarmed, knowing hie brother's melancholy turn of mind, and that his house ' keeper had left him for a few days ; he, therefore, went to his house, and finding it closed,' and being unable to make any one hear, he bad the door forced open, when it was dis covered that the wretched man had strangled his grand daughter during the night, and that he had then hanged himself. Both were .quite dead. There is no doubt that excessive melancholy in this case terminated in insanity; and an inquest having been held upon the bodies, a verdict to , that effect has been returned. ALARMING FIRE IN CABLE STREET, ST. GEORGE'S. —Last evening (Sunday), between seven and eight o'clock, a fire of somewhat an alarming. character broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. E. Hams, bread and biscuit-baker, situate No. 7, Cable-street, St. George's-in A Pie-East. The flames originated in the basement floor, in Which a cluettitr of shavings for heating the ovens were stored. Owing to the inflammable nature of the contents, very few minutes had elapsed before the fire extended to to saircase. The en gines from Wellelose-square brigade station were remarkably quick in arriving, and they were, by order of Mr. Mackey, the head engineer, instantly set to work, from a good supply of water, furnished by the East London Company. 13,y thi time, however, that the engines could be cal led into re q uig7 tion, the flames had travelled upwards to first, second, and third floors, and had entered the varicalp apartments in the building. Other engines of the LondOil . establishment, with Mr. Superintbndent Braidwood and Mr. Fogo, the foreman of the A district, arrived in rapid succession, and owing to the exertions of all parties, the flames w e re safel y extingtished before ten o'clock, not, however, until very coueiderable da mage bad been done to the furniture, stock in trade, knd premises. FIRE IN TUE BLACKFRIARS-ROAD.—On Saturday night, shortly before twelve o'clock, - a fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. Moreing, a fancy toy-dealer, carry ing en business at 8; Blackfriars-road, near the Rotunda. It commenced in the shop, and when first discovered had' obtained a strong hold. Engines of the Brigade, West of England, and parish stations speedily arrived, and there being ' a good supply of water, the firemen happily succeeded LA preventing the flames from extending beyond the premises in which they originated. The cause of the outbreak could not be traced. STATE OF TEE HOSIERY AND LACE TrunEs.—The making of hose, especially cut-ups and other sl goods, has a shade improved, and most of the w 1 frames in this vicinity are at work. The wrought hose branches have, if anything, a shade improved. The cotton glove trade is still tolerably brisk, though the' bagmen have met with a severe check Ia obtaining the In 111; rubber web, which has been wove on looms in secret ; some of the welt weavers have been injunctioned, and an exple• siln and great confusion has _taken place in consequence; pi t ta hn lo n o g n n , a t n h d ey shirt branch can scarcely be salt as they must now' have the web f rom th e p a t en t ee*, to have in some quarters a little The b e drawer,amend ed, more employment. The silk glove trade still continues pretty good. The manufacture of silk stockings, once the main. support of Nottingham, still keeps declining, and from the bad qualities of the silk used, is likely to further declint. The fancy bobbin net trade is still in a most depressed condition, though we find that in some quarters a few branches are again set going. The warp lace is still in a most depressed state, with the exception of the making wag) jacquard mitts, cloves, and sleeves, which are rather brisk. — Nottingham Review. DETERMINED SUICIDE AT BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE. On Saturday a respectably dressed young man eommitted suicide by jumping off the centre of Blackfriars-bridge. It appears that the deceased was seen walking in a hurried manner towards one of the recesses on the western side of the bridge. He had a cigar in his month, and mounted the stoner seat with great haste, and after looking towards the wat• to the spot which he had just le ft, and then saw hint ranfora minute, he dived in. Several of t he foot p assen w e l struggling violently in the water. An alarm was raised, Rad thnel ir r h e , e the police went off in search of t he bod y with the dra g s, b u t acaft‘e.erredcria.gg T in h g e t ide for nweaasr runningon e hoti downr, the ver ybsodw swift t w a a s t and the general suppositio n is, that the bod y has drifted down below London-bridge. THE MAILS.--SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 22.—The Royal. West Indian mail packet, the Clyde, Capt. Symons, arrived here last evening, and lan ded mails Jacmel, 25th ; Porto Rico , 28th ; Demerara, 19th ; Trin idad , from Jamaica, Feb. 23d ; 20th ; Barbadoes, 24th ; Grenada, 26th ; and St. Thomal's. March 2d. The mails were forwarded to London by the t A.M. train this day. The Clyde bad 35 passengers and 9 dis tressed seamen, and on freight 1,400 dollars, 359 oz. of 1/41- dust, 491 oz. of silver, 16 tierces of coffee, 25 bales of BIM. parilla, 61 cases of saccades, &c. The Royal West Indian packet the Thames was on the Spanish Mail route ; the Rein deer, Demerara; City of Glasgow, on Trinidad route; the Medway,Jamaica ; the Lorn, La Guayra ; Forth, Porto Rico. and Severn, on the Havannah route. STRIKE AMONGST TILE SCOTCH QUARRIERS.-At theh Marylebone vestry, on Saturday, Mr. Freeman, who cogn tracted to supply the parish with 2,000 tons of granite, stalled that he could not fulfil the contract under 600/. loss. This difliculty was imposed upon Me. Freemanby a strike amen the Scotch quarrymen.