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Offices, Mall of Commerce, 'Threadneedle-street, London. • liEr. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madame GRISI has tha honour to acquaint the Nobility, Sub- Scribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, MAY 14, When will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, I LOMBARDI .• ALLA PRIMA CROCIA rA. With new scenery, dresses, fce.; the scenery by Mr. Marshall. Gr:selda, Madame Grist; Sofia, Madame Bellini ; Viclinda, Mdlle. Corbarl; ()route, Signor Mario ; Arvin°, Signor Corelli ; Pirro, Sig. Botelli ; Acciano, Sig. Giubilei ; Pagano, Sig. Fornasari. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which will appear Mdlles. Cerito, L. Taglloni, Lucile Grahn, Moncelet, Cassan, De melisse ; MM. St. Leon and M. Perrot. After which (for this occasion only), Gnecco's Opera Buffa, LA PROVA D'UN OPERA SERIA. Campanone, Signor Lablache ; Fedrico, Signor Corelli ; Griletto, Signor F. Lablache ; Violante, Madame Bellini ; Corilla, Madame Grisi. To conclude with the admired Ballet of ONDINE. Ondine, Mdlle. Cerito ; Matteo, M. Perrot ; Giannina, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be produced (for the first time in this country), Verdi's cele brated Opera, in Four Parts, entitled, I LOMBARDI : ALLA. PRIMA CROCIATA. Griselda, Madame Grid' ; Arvino, Signor Corelli ; Pagano, ignor Fornasari ; Viclinda, Mdlle. Corbari ; Firm, Signor Botelli ; Oronte, Signor Mario. The epoch is that of the first Crusade. The following is the de scription of the incidental scenery : Part First.—Scene of action is Milan, in the 11th Century. Scene 1. Moonlight—Cloisters and church of St. Ambrose, built in the 7th Century. Scene 2. Night—Gallery in the Palace of Polio. Part Second.—Scene of action, Antioch, and its vicinity. Scene 1. Hall in the Palace of Acciano, at Antioch. Scene 2. View of Palestine—The prominence of a sloping mountain. Scene 3. The Interior of the Harem at Antioch. Part Third.—Scene of action, the vicinity of Jerusalem. Scene 1. The Valley of Jehoshaphat—Jerusalem ; Mount Moria, crowned by the celebrated mosque of Omar. Scene 2. Arvino's tent. Scene 3. A grotto on the shores of the Jordan. Part Fourth. —Scene of action continued. Scene 1. A cavern in Palestine. Scene 2. Encampment of the Lombards, near to the sepulchre of Rachael. Last Scene. Arvino's tent. Tableau. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Deshayes, re-arranged in Three Tableaux, by M. Perrot, the Music by M. Costa, entitled ALMA ; ou, LA FILLE DU FEU. The principal characters by Mollies. Cerito, Demelisse, Moncelet, Cassan, L. Taglion: ; MIL St. Leon, Gosselin, Bertrand, and Perrot A New Grand Ballet is in active preparation, and will shortly be produced. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Opera, called MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don ewer de Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. Stretton ; Maritana, Miss Romer ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. Between the first and second Acts of the Opera, will be intro duced a Pas de Bergers, by thirty-six of the celebrated Danseuses, with a Pas Seul, by Fanny Prager ; and between the second and tliird Acts, twenty-four Danseuses Viennoises will execute the famous National Polca Paisans. After which, the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. Duke of Silesia, M. Mathis; Hilarion, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Prince of Cour land, Mr. Howell ; Wilfrid , M. Adrien; Giselle, Mdlle. Sall; Mirtha, Mdlle. Louise; Princess Bathilde, Mdlle. St. Louin ; Bertha, Mrs. Payne ; Principal Willis, Mesdames Adele and Giubilel. During the Ballet will be introduced Le Pas Oriental, by forty eight of the Pupils of Madame Weiss. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren ; Capt. Absolute, Mr. Roll ; Acres, Mr. Webster ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Brindal ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Lan guish, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. The Band will perform the Overture, " Edourdo e Christine," the Fantasle, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz; the " Chatsworth Quadrilles;" and the " Branow Polka." To be succeeded by an Original Farce, called THE IRISH TIGER. Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Howe ; Paddy Ryan, Mr. Hudson ; Alderman Marrowfat, Mr. Tilbury ; Bilbury, Mr. T. F. Mathews ; Julia, Miss Telbin ; Nancy, Mrs. Caulfield. After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHANES ou which occasion they will be presented to tne public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. N athews, and Miss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Another brilliant Triumph I " Robin Hood and Richard Coeur de Lion" every Evening ; and (by express desire) " The C r i c k e t on the Hearth." THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. In which Mrs. Keeley, Miss Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Vining, and Mr. Keeley will perform. __ _ To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain Startling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Pillars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EVENING Will be performed a popular Comedy, entitled EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY ; or, Who's to Father Me ? Sam Swipes, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Swipes, Mrs. F. Matthews; Miss Melrose, Miss Chaplin , Lady Cranberry, Miss Harding. After which n new and Original Farce, called, WHO DID IT ? or, WHAT'S IN THE WIND ? Vandyke Brown, Mr. W right ; Ramona Peewit, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by the 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, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Missliarding, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the favourite Drama of DON CIESAB DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Wallaek ; Maritana. Mrs. Stirling. After which, a NeW DIVERTISSEMENT. In which all the principal dancers will appear. To be flowed by a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The principal characters supported by Messrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh Murray; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, called TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL TILE BROTH. Gregory Granite, Mr. Compton; George, Mr. Gxberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her most gracious Majesty, and their Royal H'ghnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Prbscess Alice. - Uninterrupted career of success of Mr. Leman Rede's popular Asiatic Spectacle, which is nightly hailed with the most enthusiastic applause. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND HIS DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Introducing the double stud, &c. New and popular Scenes of the Hippodrome. First appearance of the astonishing French Artiste, Mons. Leonard Houck, aided by the British Professors. First Week of a Novel Grotesque BALLET. In which the prin cipal Pantomimists of the Establishment will perform. On Monday next, May 18th, M. Lellm Bridges, the famed eques trian, will appear. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Brilliant success of the new Play of 7 Bianca." First appearance of Miss Brentnall, front the Theatre Royal, Bath. THIS EVENINCI Will be performed a New Play, entitled, BIANCA ; or, The Three Trials. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, 3faynard, Johnson, Lewis, Cowell, Heslop, Edgar ; Mesdms. H. Vining, Martin, Daly, &c. After which, GYMNASTIC EXERCISES by Herr Deulin and Herr Nicol°, as Les Deux Chiaois. _ To be follo we d b y a New Ballet, called LA STATUE BLANCHE. Le Tonneau Roulant ; or, Running Tub, by Herr Nicol°. NEW STItA.',IEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIE% AND MAGIC EFFECTS. " La gaiete Oct la sante der La tristesse en est le poison:' THIS EVENING * M. PRILLIPPE bags leave to announce that, ivE l e_ n r e,aTi z ue N n r ce En of . the Triumphant Success that has attended his and ha- TAINMENTS, they will be repeated every tin.clay Morning. and every Evening until further nloetreay M. PHILLIPPE will commence the EntertainmgleenrbisytoLligshutolitig Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a s i n performed . This unique and brilliant Experiment was origin a ll y Mons. Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. by M. Phillippe will also have the honour of introducing HIS GRANDMOTHER'3 CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans formetions. The Entertainments will be varied by the Dancing of the CHIARINI FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN BROTHERS. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Evening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, 3a.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is., and 10s. 6d. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MONDAY, MAY 11. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented• scale of grandeusi the picture being more than twice the size of the former, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place : produced under the direction of Mr. Danson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantlyllluminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. SoUthby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, on to the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him and hear him to his chrystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, Wen' dhily ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeling of the Carnivore at five; the Pelicans, &c., at half-past five ; Conceit at six ; aril the Eruption at dusk. Admission. Is. • THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADES AT MAN e,IIXSTER.—The men are coining in by degrees, and as many as from 700 to 800 have signed the declaration required by the masters, and commenced working again during the past week or ten days. A large number more commenced working yesterday morning, who also signed the declaration. The impression is, that the turn -outs will keep going in, and that ere long the shops will be as full of men as may be required under existing circumstances. The masters have been compelled to form themselves into an association, which it is Intended should extend all over the country, for the purpose of counteracting the dangerous effects of the combination of these general trades unions ; for, unless they be counteracted, the masters think that they will be placed in the humiliating position of having to accede to any, and indeed every, demand which the turn -outs may think proper to make upon them. On the 2d of the present month there were 600 joiners en the strike, upwards of 100 plasterers and Painters, about 40 plumbers, and about 80 or 100 bricklayers; and it Is calculated that there are at the present moment upwards of 200 workmen who are yet out of employ. We have reason to believe that there is not the slightest truth in the rumour that the Hon. Member for Oxford, Mr, Maclean, Inteadl to rosigahla scat in Partial:amt. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 12. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 67; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.—WIND S.E.; fine. li1G1:1 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning minutes after 2. !Evening .. 43 minutes after 2. while she pursues her own schemes, to inflict some injury on France. That malevolent feeling is well represented in the- paragraph respecting the PACHA'S Visit to th, British Court. Her MAJESTY and her Ministers do not invit. the son of MEHKMET Au to England for his own sake, or out of respect to the high qualities of his illustrious father, or as some return for his impartial and generous conduct to wards English merchants, and indeed Englishmen generally. during the Syrian expedition, but solely to serve its own purposes and drive a bargain with his successor for the free passage of British troops through Egypt. And not satisfied with stating that the attempt will be made, M. THIERS con cludes that it will be successful, that France will lose all the expected advantages from the visit of a Prince which the ex-Minister took ender his especial protection, and that jealous England will snatch the prize from her hands. It is hardly necessary to say that England neither has nor can have any such motives. Our gracious QUEEN only gives another proof of her wish to live on the best terms with other Sovereigns, and with that view pays the usual compliment of invitation to the son of one of the most remarkable men of the age. Her Ministers know that the question of transit cannot be set tled by IBRAIII3I PACHA—that any attempt of the kind would excite unfavourable feelings towards England on the part of the present ruler, who will both reign and govern to the last—that the health of IBRAHIM PACHA is of the most un certain tenure—that it is doubtful if he can survive his father—and that new arrangements, as at Lahore, may be necessary, when the hand that reared the Egyptian sovereignty, and has kept it so long together, shall have become cold and helpless. And, besides, we are not cer tain that it is for the interest of England and her Indian possessions that a passage for troops of all nations, through the Isthmus, should be conceded. The expense incurred by sending troops to India by sea may be more than counter-balanced by rendering India liable to the sudden in vasion of European troops by the way of Suez and the Red Sea. After all, why is the scheme opposed by the ex- Minister? Solely because he believes England is bent upon it. France could not in any way suffer by the concession; eome slight return, too, might be made to England for throw ing open the China trade and conferring a great benefit on our neighbours, but M. TRIERS has no sympathy of that kind, and should it be the misfortune of this country to see him again restored to power, she must expect neither favours nor fair play at his hands. The striking characteristic of the British nation is the perfect freedom of discussion enjoyed by our Legislature, our public meetings, and by the press, of fully and fairly commenting upon all matters of general interest which may from day to day arise. It is to this freedom that we owe the abolition of abuses which long were suffered to exist, and which affixed a stain on our Constitution. To this we owe the existence of civil and religious liberty throughout the British dominions, the abolition of rotten boroughs, and the rendering the popular branch of our Legislature what it professed to be—a fair representation of the people. To this we owe the adoption of the principles of free trade, the prostration of monopoly, and the admission of cheap food for the people. None of those great results were obtained ,without many years of anxious discussion, of a prolonged, and apparently hopeles, contest. At first a small, but zealous body, brought forward the abuse, stated it fairly and simply, urged its injustice, and called for its reformation. In almost every in stance their suggestions were received with contumely and their proposals rejected by large numerical majorities. But, though defeated for the moment, they were not dismayed. Again and again they invited discussion, secured a debate; the force of public opinion was enlisted in the struggle, the minority increased, became a mighty and formidable phalanx ; that which at first was feebly whispered, was now thundered within the walls of St. Stephen's till at length truth and justice pre vailed, and bigotry, corruption, monopoly, were swept away in the overwhelming torrent, and such we have no doubt will be the result of the exposure made by Mr. WATSON, on Thursday evening, in bringing forward his mo tion for a Select Committee " to inquire into the nature and extent of the taxation of suitors by the collection of fees in the courts of law and equity, and the application of such fees, and the compensations paid to retired officers of those courts, and into the propriety of the continuance thereof; and particularly to inquire into the orders for compensation made by the Lord Chancellor to the persons filling the office of clerk of the enrolments, comptrollers of hanaper, riding clerks, six clerks, sworn clerks, waiting clerks, and others, under the Act 5 and 6 Vic., c. 103, and to inquire into the nature, duties, and emoluments of those officers before the passing of that Act, and their right to compensation during life and for seven years after the death of such persons." Indeed we have the assurance of the great benefit conferred on the public by the discussion in the speeches made by the Home Secretary and the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government. The former Honourable Gentleman stated, "that if the mo tion had been confined to the introductory part of the motion before the House, namely, for an inqury into the nature and extent,of the taxation of suitors, by the collection of fees in the courts of law and equity, he would have had no objection to the motion, because he considered that an inquiry of that nature might be attended with beneficial results," and rested his opposition chiefly on the fact that Mr. HUME had, in the course of the debate, designated the transaction in reference to which the inquiry was moved for as "the job ofjobs," and that the conduct of the Lord Chancellor might be incul pated. Surely this will not be received as a sufficient excuse for the suppression of the inquiry. He admits that it may be at tended with beneficial results and yet he votes against it—on what principle can this inconsistency be justified? If the conduct of the Noble and Learned Lord was pure and irre proachable, as it was asserted to be, what could he have to fear from investigation? Why should his friends be anxious to smother inquiry —to avoid publicity ? On the contrary, it would alone be a sufficient reason for acceding to the proposi tion. It is impossible after this that Sir JAMES GRAXAM can continue his opposition to the inquiry from which so much good must result. But the speech of Sir R. PEEL contains a far more gratifying announcement. Nothing more able, more powerful, could have been urged in support of Mr. WATSON. The Right Hon. Baronet, with all the force and eloquence so peculiarly his own, says— " Bu t let us put an end to the sale of these offices in future; and let us also ensure a p er i o di ca l i nqu i ry into the fees received by every person, in order that when their amounts reach an extravagant sum, they may be reduced. In some years they were of great magnitude--as in this present year, for instance, by a pressure of business, the amount of fees taken may be exceedingly large. Reduce them ; but, at the same time, keep them sufficiently high to remu nerate men of talent. Let us provide for this inquiry. So much for the future. I think it a scandal to the courts of justice of this country, that this House has abolished sine cures, but that we have sealed our eyes to the legalised con tinuance of these fees, collected in extravagant sums from suitors, because we have had no public clamour for their abrogation. If those sums had been received by a Minister of the Government, or by any one of the clerks of this House, who sit at the table, they would have been taken away; but you have allowed these things to continue, while you have, as I said before, abolished sinecures." • And concludes by assuring the House, " that as far as legis lating for the future on the subjezt, the reformation of these abuses should hare the cordial support of the Government." Were there no other result of the motion than these ad missions and promises, Mr. WATSON may well be proud of the service he has rendered to his country. But we will hope that perseverance on his part will at length be rewarded to the fullest extent. It is not to be conceived that a Bill smuggled through the House of Commons, of the guardians of the public purse, almost sub silentio, which passed through all its stages in one short week, should be considered so bind ing in its nature, so efficacious in its operation, that no re medy can now be obtained. Its injustice may be admitted, the compensation thereby awarded may be so enormous as to be almost incredible; sinecurists may receive sums for subord, nate offices, requiring no knowledge, skill, or education, ex. ceeding in amount the salaries of the learned and laborious judges who preside in those very courts; and shall it be said, that when this crying grievance is exposed, its enormity made manifest, the public indignation aroused, that this hurried legislation was final, and that it cannot now be altered or amended? Certainly not. Under any circumstances the taxation of the suitors of the courts would be unjust and iniquitous. Why should the Legislature tolerate a system so abominable, why should any person, because his fortune or character is made the object of attack, be thereby made the object of special taxation ? Will he not suffer enough in the payment of the large fees necessary for his professional advisers? Is there not anxiety and expense enough attendant on the unfortunate liti gant, without his having to pay those enormous fees, without bearing the whole expense of the judicial staff of the country, nay, further, of the harpies, the drones, who, without rendering any service themselves, are contented to dip their hands into his pocket, and receive ruinous salaries for doing nothing? These things cannot be suffered to con•. tinue--there must be a remedy, and a speedy one, allbrded. It is ridiculous to say that their abolition would increase litigation ; such could not be the case on the part of the defendants, for they are brought into court without their own consent. No matter whether the expense be great or small, they must encounter it; no option is afforded them ; and in the case of a plaintiff; the only person who can be thereby deterred is the poor man, who, although his case may be equitable, may be unable to obtain justice, from the enormous expense attendant on the progress of his claims, and the delays which may be thrown in his way by the skilful wiles of a wealthy antagonist. Is this desirable? should the system be continued for such an object? We think not; and we doubt not that the public will be of a similar opinion. Is it because there has been a long continuance in this shameful waste of the public funds that the proceeding should be tolerated and allowed to remain? We think the gentle men may be well satisfied with impunity for their past offences, in being permitted to retain the large sums heretofore received by them, without being compelled to disgorge their plunder. Is it because, by the most scandalous perversion of every principle of justice, they have been permitted so long to revel in the spoils of the public, that they should now receive an enormous sum fur the abolition of that power? As well might the light fingered gentleman, who made a handsome livelihood from the pockets of his neighbours, inveigh against an improved system of police, and call for compensation because he is no longer indulged in the enjoyment of his pleasing peccadilloes; but even supposing there was any ground for granting such a payment to the sinecurist himself, why should it be ex tended for aeyert years beyond laic life, to lus perowll ferfr "- n .).- , u _le ' Akiiik7* S ma rr. :4,411t,`'W Alk 7:( ;WI' • 47c 4comai lk " .fr•z• . 0 7, .• • ITO ZY SECOND EDITION. THE SUN', LONDON, TUESDAY _EVENING, MAY 12, 1846. representatives? In our innocence, we had always thought that a public salary, or fees taken from the public, were ;ranted in return for services to be rendered, or supposed to ,e rendered, to that public. But here the fortunate sine curie, not satisfied with the large emoluments received during his life, secures a handsome independence for his family after his death. It is like the parish watchcoat de .,cribed by Swzrr, which the constable desired to have after his death made into a petticoat for his wife, a jacket for his son. Our most gallant officers may perish in the service of their country on a well-fought field; their names may be en deared to our recollections by every tie of gratitude, by every sentiment of admiration ; they may have purchased the commission, the possession of which enabled them to risk, to sacrifice their valuable lives, by the expenditure of large sums of money, and that money may have been applied in the public service; they may have left widows and orphans unprotected and destitute, save in the rich inhe ritance of a gallant and honoured name, and yet the nation makes no provision for objects so worthy of their gratitude, their protection; but when the sinecurist at length dies many thousands per annum are to be paid for seven years after his death to his representatives, the tribute of a grateful nation for his condescending to accept at their hands sums sufficient to enable him to roll in pomp and state, and to acquire and hoard up a princely fortune. Shame, shame, that such things should be tolerated, should meet with defenders. Madrid papers to the 4th instant have arrived. The Government have determined to dissolve the Cortes without again calling them together. A circular has been addressed to the different political chiefs on the subject of making up the electoral lists, and it is supposed that the elections will take place in September, and that the new Cortes will be called together in October. Acccording to the Hera&lo, the physicians have recommended sea bath ing for the QUEEN'S health, and her MAJESTY will certainly go to the sea-side towards the end of next month, but whether to the Basque provinces, to Catalonia, or to Anda lusia, had not been determined on. Don ANTONIO ZUMALACARREGUI, who had been Presi dent of the Cortes and Minister during the regency of EsrAu- TEA°, died at Madrid on the 2d. Don ANTONIO was the brother of Don Tomas ZUNALACARREGUI, the celebrated Carlist chieftain. MADRID Boma., MAY 4.—The Three per Cents. were al 32% cash ; Five per Cents. not quoted; Bank of San Fer nando, 310; Bank of Isabella 11., 187. Exchange on Lon don, 37%. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. On Satur day the Central Railway ( Vierzon to Chateauroux) Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies. The railway is to pass through Nevers instead of through Moulins. The Bordeaux and Bayonne Railway Bill, which still remains to be dis cussed, will not, it is thought, pass this session. The fol lowing is a list of the railway Bills which have passed the Chamber :—The Bordeaux and Cette, the Western, the Caen, the Dijon and Mulhau.sen, the St. Dezier and Gray, and Central. In the Chamber of Peers, on Saturday, the discussion on the commercial treaty with Belgium commenced. The fol lowing extract from the Journal des Debats shows the great progress which the sound doctrines of free trade are making in France— " If anything was wanting to prove the progress which the doctrines of commercial liberty are making in the higher and more enlightened regions, assuredly it would be found in the language heard on Saturday in the Chamber of Peers. Count Beugnot showed in an excellent speech the great inte rest that France had in closely allying herself to Belgium, and preventing the latter from identifying herself with Ger many. In this report the Count regards the conventions concluded by France as entirely insufficient. He does not accuse the Government; on the contrary, he acknowledges it to be in advance, on this question, both of the Chambers and country, but he accuses the interested coalitions, which for our part we have always strongly opposed." IBRAHIM PACHA leaves Paris in about a fortnight for London. On this subject the Constitutionnel perpetrates the following amusing bit of absurdity : " The British Cabinet has watched, not without jealousy, the long stay made by Ibrahim Pacha in France. It has therefore intimated to the Cabinet of the Tuileries that it would be glad to receive in its turn the son of Mehemet Ali, and our Government has neglected nothing that could tend to the gratification of this wish, in spite of the repugnance felt by the Egyptian Prince to expose his health, which is hardly re-established, to the intemperature of the English sky ; Ibrahim Pacha will therefore go to London in about a fort night. The British Cabinet, always pre-occupied with the question of the transit across the Isthmus of Suez, will, doubtless, not fail to make use of all the means of seduction in its power with respect to its guest, in order to draw him into their views on the subject. The journey of Ibrahim Pacha in Europe will thus serve more to further the views of England than ours. On his return the Prince will visit Holland and Belgium." The concluding portion of this paragraph contains a clumsily awkward admission. " The journey of IBRAHLM PACHA in Europe will thus serve more to further the views of England than ours." IBRAHIM PACHA then, according to the Constitutionnel, was invited to France only to serve French interests. The PACHA, no doubt, appreciates the cempliment. On Saturday the PACHA dined at the Hotel de 'Ville. The Duke de MONT PZNSIER, who was present, proposed the health of MEISHMET Am, the regenerator of Egypt, and of his son Imts.l.lM PACHA, their illustrious guest. The Egyptian Prince, having returned thanks, proposed the following toast To the King and to the city of Paris, the capital of civilization and the arts, the great monuments and liberal institutions of which do honour to the genius of man, and are the object of univer sal admiration; to his Royal Highness the Duke de MONT PENSIER, who honoured Egypt by his visit, and whose pas sage left indelible recollections among those who had the honour to approach him." The Constitutionnel contains the following in relation to the approaching trial of LEcomra : "An important circumstance had for some time created some difficulty in the affair of the assassin Lecomte. The authorities were not able to discover the history of the gun with which he had committed his crime. The gun is a double-barrelled fowling-piece of excellent quality, though not very splendid in its appearance. In the search made at Lecomte's lodging another dcuble-barrelled fowling-piece was found, which was recognised as the one which he pine rally used when he was a guard in the forest. It was there fore concluded that, as Lecornte had left his gun in Peril, he must have got from a third party, or have bought at the last moment, the gun with which he fired on the King. Lecornte, either to give himself more importance, or from some other motive, had made a great mystery of this question, but the matter is now cleared. It has been ascertained that the gun was sold to Lecomte six years ago by a gun-maker in Puris. He had made use of it at Orleans. It has been recognised by the gun-maker, and by several persons who had seen it in Lecomte's hands. The report of the commission appoit.td by the Court of Peers to draw up the charges will be made on the 18th of the present month. The trial will take place in the beginning of June." The journals have advices from Algiers to the 3d inst., announcing that ABD-EL-KADER, who had for some time past concealed his movements, had suddenly re-entered the Kabyl country, and was in the vicinity of the Jurjura. Owing to this other unexpected irruption, it was behoved that the French columns under Marshal BUGEAUD and the Duke D'AUMALE must again hasten to the east of the pro vince of Algiers. According to the Pr'esse, it was with the greatest reluctance that Queen VICTORIA yielded to the desires of her Ministers to postpone her intended visit to France. It was a fortnight before her consent to the postponement could be obtained. The Univers, the organ of the Jestiits, has a long article describing the progress of the Jesuitii in various parts of the world. It thus alludes to the progreas of the Jesuits in England :—" The zeal of the Order is not less active in England. According to authentic data, 98 Protes tants, instructed and guided by those venerable ecclesiastics, returned to the faith of their fathers in 1843, and in 1844 and 1845, 172 others have imitated their example, and, never theless, nobody in England is thinking of expelling them from the British dominions." The Prince DE JoisviLut arrived at Toulon on the Cth. On Saturday the KING and the Royal Family removed from the Tuileries to the Chateau of Neuilly, where they will reside during the spring. The Three per Cents. were done at Tortoni's at 83f. 95e. BUSINESS DONE LN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, May 11. Boulogne and Amiens, 124—Dutch Rhenish, Gy s —East Indian, Ys—Louvain and Jemappe, —Luxembourg, 2—Namur and Liege, 41 A—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7%—Paris and Rouen, 40A — Sambre and Meuse, 5%. A variety of very charming objects, sculptured in Italy, from beautiful Cararra marble, are to be sold at Robin3's Auction Rooms, on Thursday. We particularly noticed the figures of Diana, Pysche, Cupid, Cleopatra, the Virgin, and Infant Samuel and St. John, as being very fine examples of modern art ; likewiss a noble model of the Warwick Vase, with so me remarkably fine busts ; whilst the chimney pieces, of various forms, covered with the most beautiful sculpture, would adorn a palace, and, as the opportunity to obtain such splendid objects seldom occurs, we have little doubt the present will be well appreciated. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean's visit to America is pro ducing golden results, and were they to repeat their engage ments at all the places where they are solicited to do so, their return to this country would be extended to an indefinite period. T'hey were last heard of at Mobile, from whence they were proceeding to St. Louis. On Monday evening the artillery division of the Hon. Artillery Company, under the command of Captain Iselin, with a demi-battery, , was exercised with cartridge, in the spacious grounds of the lion- Company, Finsbury. The guns were advanced by horses. The various evolutions were well performed, and the firing given with peat steadiness and precision. Sergeant-Major Beard, of the Royal _Artillery, superintends the drills generally, and has been appointed by Captain Iselin drill instructor for the remainder of the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne enter tained a large circle to dinner last evening, at Lansdowne House. The Noble Ziarguis and Marchioness have another dinner party on Friday next_ ThQ Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and family have :arrived at Grosvenor House from Alotcombe Ilouie, Dorsetshire. Lady Lyndhunt will give a grand ball on Monday --- next, in honour of the debut of the lion. Sophia Copley, the youngest daughter of the Lo r d Ch anc ellor. Yesterday afternoon tho Countess of Jersey had a juvenile party In honour of the youthful Prince Paul and Prince Louis Estoril, izy, children of their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy. DEATH OF VISCOUNT HOOD.—We have to record the death of Viscount Hood, who expired on the Bth inst. at his resi dence in Bryicriston-square, at the early age of 38. He was son of the second Viscount, by the daughter of the late Sir Andrew Snape Hammond. Ills Lordship was born In 1808. The first Peer was the celebrated admiral who took part in Itodney's celebrated victory over the Count de Grasse. THE TOVrEß.— Yesterday afternoon the metropolitan police took posnession of the Tower of London for the first time. They have superseded the old ordnance watchmen, and will do duty, day and night, - within the fortress. A station-house has been erected fur the accommodation of one sergeant and thirteen men. THE OUTRAGE IN WESTMINSTER.—Upon inquiry this morning at the Westminster Hospital, it was stated that the Uu• fort‘wate wen:tall, Elizabeth vulio, is going 9arnyclulikkv. ltitninc LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1846 As we yesterday conjectured the debate upon the Corn Im portation Bill was adjourned last night with the general ac quiescence of the Commons. This additional postponement was very naturally to be anticipated for reasons which we have already particularised —any further delay of the settle ment of this measure will now, however, be more than vexa tious, it will be tampering to an unjustifiable extent with the whole commercial relations of the empire. Such a de claration as this originates in no factious anxiety to precipitate a victory which at this present moment is virtually achieved ; it is based upon the unanimous consent of society, upon the hesitation visible during this session in almost every quarter of the country, upon the anxiety of every member of the population, whether manufacturer or agriculturist. It was from being fully impressed with this conviction that the Home Secretary prefaced his elaborate and conclusive speech yesterday evening by expressing his disinclination to occupy the attention of the House, because it was "evidently weary of this protracted discussion !" Never theless, harassed as the representatives must undoubtedly be with so much " lengthened sweetness long drawn out,"—but, especially, the true representatives of the people, the supporters of the Government policy, we rest assured that their patriotic feelings are too ardent to permit of their becoming lethargic at a juncture so propitious to the future prosperity of their fellow-countrymen. They are sufficiently imbued with a repugnance for those enactments which are on the eve of being expunged from the statute-book, they are in spired with sentiments sufficiently exultant at the approaching emancipation of commerce, to merge every feeling of exhaustion at the balderdash uttered night after night by the delinquents below the gangway into one paramount sense of satisfaction at participating in a triumph so bene ficent. With these ideas we feel satisfied every Parlia mentary advocate for free trade is actuated ; the vicinity of those boons for the acquisition of which they have yearned so hopefully and laboured o ,valiantly during so much untoward opposition, is surely an adequate preventative of anything like marks of fatigue. The greater the difficulties, the nobler the consum mation—the more numerous the obstacles, the more agreeable the achievement. There is an axiom in warfare which de clares that whenever cruelty is displayed by the conqueror towards the vanquished troops it is a sure sign that the losing party were at some period of the struggle near being the winners. The converse of this is a proposition, we take it, equally undeniable. And ob serving that, throughout the time which this debate has occupied, the Protectionists have been uniformly treated with the most lenient placidity, that their garrulity has been generously permitted to die away of itself, and that their very acidulated personalities have been re torted sometimes by silence, sometimes by a remon strance, but never by a " counter-blast" of personality, it is clear that the Free-traders felt their superiority from the first moment ; and evincing this knowledge of their superiority at the commencement, it is assuredly not sur prising that they should evidence a great confidence as to the result immediately anterior to its eluci dation. Hence it was Sir JAMES GRAHAM declared over night, "I have a very strong opinion that the measure under consideration will in a very short time become the law of the land." Nor is the fact less mani fest, that the country party have been heaping burning embers upon their own heads by their most illusory and pernicious system of procrastination. Instead of having to compete with bushels, the farmers will now, in all likelihood, have to compete will' whole granaries directly the proposed Acts come into operation ; and for this agreeable difficulty their gratitude is solely due to their pseudo- friends in Parliament. From the delays which these meddling po liticians have caused in the progression of the Corn and Customs' Bill through the Lower House the bonded wheat from foreign countries, which has been accummulating in our seaports in expectation of the reduction of duties, amounts to the enormous quantity of fifteen hundred thousand quarters ! Against this and (as the Home Secretary judiciously observed) against the next harvest the unfortunate pets of the protectionist will have to enter the market—the competition, of course, producing a tem porary but most embarrassing diminution of price. This fact, which was last night ably insisted upon by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, is merely an application of the arguments contained in Mr. COBDEN'S letter to the Tenant-Farmers of Great Britain, deducing from a delay of months what he deduces from a delay of years, an applica tion of those deductions to August or September, which the Honourable Member for Stockport applies to 1839. The Secretary for the Home Department adduces "an enlarged experience," as the primary cause of his con version, from the very obsolete credence in the efficacy and excellence of a protective policy, and a more eligible or ac ceptable reason for such a conversion could not possibly have been advanced. If, in like manner, the Pro tectionists could persist in giving themselves such severe lessons of experience by moving fresh adjournments upon the question, theywould before long delay themselves into free traders. As a specimen of the preposterous style of logic with which these gentlemen have been endeavouring to bolster up their very dilapidated system, we may mention an argu ment which was dragged into the discussion by Mr. MILES, the honest, blundering Member for Somerset. This sagacious legislator actually pro pounded, as proofs of the necessity of protection to agri culture, that wheat is cultivated in Virginia for a hun dred successive years without the application of manure; and again, that there as in Russia an annual accumulation of 28,000,000 quarters of corn over and above their home consumption. Never were facts more unfortunately produced by a protectionist representative ; in pro nouncing them Mr. MILES actually shuttlecocked over to Sir JAMES GRAHAM a most crushing argument against himself. Why, as that Right Hon. Baronet justly inferred, "if those statements were true—if Russia had 28,000,000 Of grain ready at all times for exportation ; and if in America they grow wheat for a century without manure, every attempt to protect this country, every attempt to guard this country, must be worse than useless." A patient analysis—of which, however, they are a l mos t i nvar i a bl y unworthy—would as plainly demonstrate the inefficiency of the thousand similar pieces of absurdity uttered by the followers of the Noble Member for Lynn. Saving tbat it would exceed the etiquette of the House, and be of an unparliamentary character, the opposers of this vast measure would long since have been dispatched to Coventry —so wonderfully old-fashioned and conventional are all their most cherished opinions. As it is, they have nearly "strutted their little hour upon the stage," and those Members who, according to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, never until the present session gave the agricultural interest the "advantage of their eloquence," will be reduced to the necessity of subsid ing into their original obscurity as legislators. For this— though by their departure we lose the cause of considerable merriment—we rejoice. Assured, however, as is the triumph of the free-trade principles upon the division at the third reading, let every individual lover of those princi ples render the majority still more triumphant, than upon the two preceding occasions, by his attendance. Let every supporter of the proposed policy, as lie loves his kind, as he wishes well to humanity, as he is desirous for of his c ountry, and as he is ambitious of the the prosperity title of a philanthropic legisktor, attend in his place at the re sumption of the debate, and enrol his name upon the majority hat. A new and peaceful era is to be commenced; let him partake iu a glory so bloodless and so imperishable! A leading Paris journal, universally admitted to be under the influence of M. TRIERS, and to represent faithfully his political opinions, occasionally puts forth leading articles of such a trifling, contemptible, and juvenile character, that not one leader in a hundred could believe for a moment that thel were the production of the great statesman and historian that once presided over the destinies of France, and is generally regarded as the successor of the present able Minister, when accident, or royal caprice, or some great national question may cause his resignation. Oue of that description has just appeared in the Constitutionnel, Which, though of the very lowest character, bears all the marks of the author of the "Consulate and the Empire." It exhibits his petty jealousies, his unconquerable re pugnance to England, and also a wilful departure from truth, merely to serve a temporary purpose. The British Cabinet, the writer asserts, beholds with a jealous eye the protracted stay of InnAillM Pacira in France, and has signified to the Cabinet of the Tuileries its desire also to receive the son of MEIIE3IET Au. The Prince reluctantly consented to accept the invitation, though lie did so at the risk of injuring his health by the intemperate climate of England. Then the grand object of the British Cabinet is disclosed—namely, the settlement of the question of transit across the Isthmus of Suez ; and in reference to this subject it is said England will use all the powers of se duction at its disposal to convert the PAULI, to its views. "Thus (in order that M. GUIZOT may not escape) the tour of lER.AHLII in Europe will have served more the English than the French interests." This is all in perfect keeping with most of the accounts of sea battles given by TIIIERS, in which he takes every opportunity of lessening the merit of the English, or concealing it altogether, and of attributing to them motives of action so mean and unworthy of a great nation, that the reader feels astonished how they could be imputed to a respectable rival by a man professing to write impartial history. Everything English that M. TRIERS touches he tries to damage. England can do nothing good from honour able motives. She has always some selfish interests to in dulge, and, Am, all, she takes care to use every opportunity, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Live, p ,, 01 ye , ierday we firm, but not animated. Sales, 6,000 to 7,000 bale:, including 1,300 on speculation. Shares improved a little, the market being firm and steady. In consequence of the late forgeries in the Buckingham shire Railway scrip the Share Market has been rather dull, which was evident at the public sale of Messrs. 'Wickham and Co. by the low prices obtained; but, notwithstanding the imputations cast upon these sales by some of our contempo raries, the characters of the gentlemen who conduct this equit able mode of dealing are too well known to suffer by any un just attacks made upon them, and this was clearly evinced by the many and valuable lots of scrip disposed ef. We select a few quotations :—South Midland, 755. 6d.—Belgian Eastern Junetion, 20s.—Wexford, Wate r f or d, an d V a l ent i a, lOs. 6d.—Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, 32s.—London and Croydon, 22/.—Direct Northern, 435. ed.—Newcastle and - Berwick, 20/. ss.—Cornwall and Central Devon, 30s. 6d.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 675. 6d.—North Staf fordshire, 71. ls.—London and York, 465. 6d.—Lon don and Birmingham, Fifths, 251.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, lOs 6d.—North British, Halves, 111. 10s.— Gloucester Aberystwitb, and Central Wales, 7s.—North Kent, 338. 6d.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 245. Bridgewater and Minehead, 13s. 6d.—Reading. Guildford, and Reading, 21s. Gd.—West Riding Union, 102s.—Wave ney Valley, 14s.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 70s.— East Indian, 16s. There are no later arrivals in the City to-day. The pro gress of the Corn Bill seems to engross more attention than anything else. 'The Funds are very steady to-day, but business is very dill. Consols realise 96% for present transfer, and 96 3 / 4 for time. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 235. to 265. Bank Stock is firm, at 205. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 97 3 / 4 to 97%. The propositions for an arrangement of the Mexican De ferred Dett, and the payment also by an issue of new stock of the arrears of dividend on the Active bonds, have had very little effect upon their value, and the quotations are merely nominal. It is certain that the latter part of the scheme is unpalatable, and might be rejected at a general meeting of the bondholders. It is unnecessary at present to enter further into the matter under this head. The nominal price of the Active Mexican Stock has been 32. Chilian Six per Cents. are 96, and Peruvian Bonds for Account bring 39 to 391,4. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 24 3 % %. Russian Stock has been 109% to 110%. Dutch Four per Cents. are 91% to 92%. The Railway Share market has been inactive, but keeps up in nearly all respects. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ... • • • • • • 205 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95%%34 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • . 9634% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97% % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 1034% Consols for Account .• . • .. 96% Exchequer Bills. 131 d. 134 d. 1,000/. .. •. • • • 26 23 pm. Ditto. Small • • .... 26 23 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. • • 96 Dutch 2 34 per Cent., 12 Guil .. 59 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account • . • • 32 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. • • 3934 Russian Bonds .. • • • • • • 110% 109% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. • • 24% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • • • 13 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cent. 55 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 593! Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 923 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen .. . . • • • ••10.. • • • • 5 34 %•• to Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastm Jii. 2%.... .. to Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 •• • • 2%74.. to Buckinghamshire • . .• 425. .. • • % p.. to Caledonian .. • • • • •• 10 .... 12% -... to Ditto Extension .. • • .. 2%.... 2 ••to 1% Cambridge and Oxford .. • • • . • • 1% •• .. .•to Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • 53! •• • • 31 4 34 • • to Direct Northern .. • • • • • • 234 2 to 1% Eastern Counties .• • • 14/. 16s. Od. •• .• 23% 24• to 23% Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d ..... •• .. to Ditto, ditto .. No. 2, 61. 13s. 4d..... 34 p.. to Ditto, York Extension .. • • • • 10s. .. • . .... to 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50 .... ••.. to Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • • • 10 .... 1834 .. to Ditto, New Quarter Shares • • • • 1232 .... 17%. .. to Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. .... 34 p.. to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .... 2434 .... to Great North of England • . • • • .100 .... 21634 .... to I)itto, New .. • • • • • • • . 1% .... 1434 .... to Great Western • • • • .. 85 .... .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 17% .... to Harwich & East. Counties Junction 2 .... 1% .... to Hull and Selby • • • • .. •• 50 —.10334 .. ••to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 7 .... 28 .... to Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth .. 2 .... 1% .... to Leeds and Bradford .. .• 26 .... 55 .. ••to Leeds and Carlisle .. .. • • .. 2% I% .••. to Leicester and Bedford • • .• • • 225. ... • 1 4 dis. to Lelest., Tam., Bir., & Trent Val.Junc. 425. 1 dis... to London - and Birmingham .. • • .. 100 . • 22634 .. to Ditto. Thirds .. .. • • • • - 24 .. • 6234 to— London and Blackwall • • 161. 13s. 4d. .. • • 7% .... to 8 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 2% .. • • 33¢%,. to London and Brighton .. •••-50 .. • . 653 to London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .... 7s . ... to London and South-Western.. 411. Co. 10d. .. 79%..., to Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 17% •• • • 29% .... to 30 London and York .. .. • •. 2% .... .. to London, Salisbury, an d Yeovil .. • • 234 .... 1% .. • • to Lynn and Dereharn • • •• 10 •• • 7 ••to Manchester and Leeds .. • • .. 82 • ..125 .. ••to Ditto, Fifths • • 3 .. • • 12% .... to Manchester and Birmingham .. •• 40 .... .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. • • 4 .... 12% .... to Ditto, Quar.er Shares (11) • • • • 4 .... 12% .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 .... 84 .... to 9 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. . 1%34 pto Manchester and Southampton .. • . 2 2% .... to 2 Midland • • • • • • • • ..100 ....155 ..., to 154 Ditto, New .. • • • . 18 .... 3314 .... to 33 Newcastle and Darlington Junction 25 .. ••to Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 1 .... 10 .... to 9% Newcastle and Berwick • • .• •. 15 .... 25% 26 to 25% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. .... .... to Norfolk .. • • .. • • .. 20 . •••. to Ditto, Tenths .. • • . .. 2 .... 2%.... to Ditto, Extension .. .. • • .. 2 .. • • 1% .. to North British .. .. .. .. • • 22% .... 29% .... to Ditto, Half Shares .. . • 834 .. • . 1134 .. .. to North Kent and Direct Dover • • .. 1 .. to North Staffordshire .. • • • • 420. . 4 361 34 pto Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. . • 234 .. % to Shropshire Union . .. • • 425..... dis. to South Devon .. • • • • • • 35 .... 34 .... to South Midland • .. .. • . 425. .... 11i% pto South Eastern and Dover . • •. • • 3336 .... 40% .... to Ditto, New, No. 1 .. .. • • •16 20 .. ••to Ditto, New, No. 2 .. .. • • • • 10 .. • 1334 .... to Ditto, New, No. 4 .. • • • • 236 ... • 3% to Welsh Midland .. .. • . • • . • 234 .... 134 .... to West Riding Union .. • • • • 425..... 3p• • .. to York and Carlisle .• .. • • • • 2% .... 134 to York and North Midland .. 50 .... • ... to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 11% ~ • • to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens • . • • .. 12 .. • . 12%.... to 12 Bord., Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .. • • 1 .... to 2 Ditto, ditto (Espelete) • • • • • • 2 .. • • 2 .... to Central of Spain .. • • • • • • 2 .... .. • . to Dutch Rhenish .. • • • . • • 5 •. • • 67 , i, 34 •.to - 7 Great Northern of France Constituted 5 .• • . 15 .... to - Lyons and Avignon .. • • • • • • 2 .. • • 2 .. •.to Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .. • • 7% Ti • • to Paris and Strasbourg Constituted .. 5 .... 5% .... to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered .. to LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY Belmont, ew York. S . t John's, LONDON, MAY 12.—Wind S.E., light airs, and flno clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Robert Small, Madras and Calcutta ; Japan, Tuit, Mauritius. Off, May 7, Srea, Godbersen, Pernambuco ; Julius Caesar, Stehn, Tobasco. OFF COWES, 31aT 7.—lsabel Thompson, Heddle, Trinidad. B OF R F IS S T T OL , A 3 L i s A A T N s L I — I E l A v n i — a Ar s I g v o . n t a .r u e t s , h lie A d e r r r k N CASTLETOWN, MAY s.—Sld. Garland, Small, St. John's, N.B. 1 N. B. GLOUCESTER, MAY 9. . —Sld Rover, Forbes, Quebec CM ARARTREN BAY, MAY 9.—Arid. Lady Phillips, Warlow, Pl ctou. LIVERPOOL, MAY 11.—Wind W., fresh —Arrd. Gunga, Greaves, Adelaide, std. Jan. 11 ; Friendship, Johnston, Sierra Leone ; Ara. rninta, Rodgers, Patagonia, sld. Feb. 28, and from Pernambuco Ist ; 'Wilton, Wilson, Laguna ; Belind a, K elly, New Orleans. Sid. 11th, Elizabeth Archer, Cobb, Bombay; Chalco, Monte Video. The Jane Dixon and the Smile, were lost at Patagonia previous to the 28th February ; crews saved. HARTLEPOOL, MAY 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Bth, Thomas and Hannah, Bern , uda ; Mary Rowe, Goble, BermuCa NEWPORT, MAY 11.-51 d. Goodluck, Lecroix, Grenada. COWES, MAY 11.—The Boreas, Block, which arrived yesterday from Jacmel, Is leaky, and is come into the harbour to discharge. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) B.&YMAILSETS. 51 SMITHFIELD. —Meadow Hay, 31 5 s to 41 8s ; Cl over ditt o, 41 5 s to 15s ; Oat Straw, 1112 s to I/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 160 per load. Supply moderate and trade dun. CII3 IBEILLAND.-31eadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 10s; Clover ditto, 4/ 4s to 51 12s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to 11 15s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 17s per load. A fair average supply, and a heavy demand. WHITECRAPEL.-31eadow Hay, 31 3s to 418 s ; Clover ditto, 418 s to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1116 s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. The Lord Mayor went to Spithead, on Sunday morn ing, to view the line-of-battle ships previously to their departure for the Mediterranean. ABOLITION OF PRIMROSE-HILL !Fem.—Yesterday, Sir Peter Laurie called at the Mansion-House for the purpose of stating that he rode on Sunday to the vicinity of Primrose-hill, to ascertain whether the public communication which he considered it his duty to make from the chair of the justice-room, with respect to the fair held every Sunday on Primrose-hill, had produced any effect upon those by whose authority such desecration of the Sabbath could be prevented. He had the greatest satisfaction in mentioning that there was the clearest evidence of the efficacy of the complaint he had made, even during the whole of the day in the neighbourhood, for not one of the roundabouts or swings, or other paraphernalia of a fair, was to be seen, and policemen were stationed on the spot, with peremptory directions to interpose their authority should any such attempt to introdnce the " Bartholomew business" be made. He was indebted to the press for the alaerity and promptitude with which it had afforded its powerful aid on the occasion. PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY.-- Yesterday the thirty-fourth annual general meeting of the supporters of this society (the object of which is to circulate at home and abroad ' prayer -books and all other works of the church) was held in the lower room, Exeter-hall. The Marquis :of Cholmondeley was in the chair. The report set forth that a fifth edition of the liturgy in Chinese had been printed. The Reformation in Germany had called forth the energies of the society, its correspondents in that country having been supplied with copies of the prayer -book and of some of the homilies in the German language; also the Thirty-nine Articles of religion both in German and Latin. The attention of the mana gers of the society was in a great measure directed to the spiritual condition of British seamen, and during the past year no fewer than 3,667 vessels in the port of London had been visited, making a total within the last twenty years of more than 50,000 ships of various ariou kinds. Agents had been stationed at the principal ports of the king dom for the purpose of distributing religious books amongst the crews. WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING COMPANY.—TIIO annual meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the office in Old Bond-street. It appeared from the report, that the north part of the mine had not turned out profitable ; the western part had equalled the expectations, and held out every inducement for in creased operations. The agents recommended another call of 11., without which they would lose 2001. a month. 90,0001. had already been expended on the mine. The directors hoped, by confining their operations to the profitable part of the mine, not only to pay outlay, but to realise a di , idend for the shareholders. Mr. D. Mocatta moved a vote of thanks to the directors, which was seconded by Mr. Commander, when the meeting adjourned. PEDESTRIANISM.—J. Jones (of Marylebone), and George Martin, gave the public a trial of patience, instead of them selves a trial of speed, at Acton Bottom, yesterday. In the first in stance daylight was burnt on the plea that the spectators of the minor race at Ealing (noticed below) might be accommodated ; sub sequently it seemed as though the longest summer's day would be required ere the parties could be brought together. At a few minutes after five the competitors appeared ; and from that time until nearly seven a start could not be effected. Temperance was referee, and we can only pity any Individual in so thankless and unenviable an office. After a couple of score of false starts, Mr. David Williamson, the Superintendent of Police, very properly (his forbearance, and the patience of the assembled multitude being exhausted), ordered the men off the road ; a result which we, in common with hundreds of others, hope will attend these wrangling attempts of competitors, who will not be contented unless oxe or the other can obtain an unfair advantage. The parties meet to-morrow evening to arrange ano,tbhutr meeting. Lambden and Jones—,Thi s race, forjlos gotl. a the-side start could 110 yards, came off at the Old H a t , Ealing, one could not keep it ; at a sh o rt di stance he was two yards in a d r y but at the goal was at th e same d i stance behind Ltunbden. Neither of the men could lay claim to the title of a fast one. Victoria Park is now on every fine Sunday crowded to excess. It was visited, on the lowest estimate, on Sunday se'nnight by upwa r d s o f 25,000 persons. Neat iron' hurdles are placed round the different lawns and plantations, which are very tar advanced. Nearly 30,000 trees and shrubs have Peen planted 111 the tirytinclo, whicil are all In A tidying condition, RAILWAY COM MITTEES 1 'T. TT C k A •.); IMPORT AiN T DECISION. GROUP IV. GREAT NORTH Or SCOTLAND, PERTH AND INVERNESS, AND INVERNESS AND ELGIN. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this Group, reassembled at the usual hour this morning, Air. B. Hope in the chair. The room was densely crowded, owing to this m orn i ng having been appointed by the Committee for giving their decision upon the engineering merits of the Perth and Inverness line. Immediately after the Committee had formed, the room was cleared, and after the Committee had remained in consultation for about half an hour, the parties were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had conic to the following decision : The Committee are of opinion that the preamble of the Perth and Inverness, and the Inverness and Elgin Junction Railroad Bills, are not proved. Tile Committee have come to this conclusion, with reference to the proposed altitude and engineering character of the proposed Perth and Inverness line, as compared with those of any other line of railroad now actually completed and in operation. The Committee, in coming to this conclusion, have not omitted to consider the suggestion that the Perth and Inverness line might be laid with a .double line of rails instead of with a single one, as now projected. The Committee, however, wish it to be understood that they have arrived at this result solely on the present state of experience as to the severe gradients of considerable length over great altitudes, and are not to be taken as giving any opinion against the formation of the Perth and Inverness line, should experience of the working of railways now in progress of formation, or of others of a similar cha racter, support the principle on which the Perth and Inverness is proposed to be constructed. Neither is it the intention of the Com mittee in any way to prejudge the question—whether, if a line be constructed from Aberdeen to Inverness, the northern counties of Scotland are not entitled to the benefit of a second line from Perth to Nairne. Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS wished to know what course the Com. mittee intended to pursue now. The CHAIUMAN stated they intended now to proceed withthe proofs in favour of the Great North of Scotland Bill. Mr. Sergeant BELLAsis begged to state then that the promoters of the Perth and Inverness Railway had evidence to produce in relation to the nature and extent of the traffic which would be accommo dated by .the railway proposed by them, which evidence, in their judgment, would fully justify the engineering peculiarities of the line, and they tendered such evidence to the Committee. Mr. CBACFOED, on the other side, stated that they were prepared with evidence to prove that there was no such traffic. The CnAxamAN said these facts would be noticed in their report to the House. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY applied, to the Committee to be heard on be half of the Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, as a competing line to the Great North of Scotland Railway. He was prepared, he said, to prove that the Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin line, was infinitely su perior to the Great North of Scotland, - The roo n was cleared for considering this request, anti after a short consultation the Committee came to the resolution to hear Mr. Sergeant Murphy if his clients were determined to proceed after the declaration of the Committee in favour of a particular line of railway from Perth to Inverness, being in the route of the Great North of Scotland, but the Committee must call upon Mr. Sergeant Murphy to open his case at once. GROUP XIV. NORTH RENT =STE:CUTS (SOUTH.. EASTERN). The Committee to which this district is referred met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. 30. Present, Mr. Protheroe (chair man), Lord Emlyn, Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr. Grogan. Mr. AUSTIN (on the part of the South-Eastern Company) pro ceeded to call evidence in support of the South-Eastern Branch, through Greenwich• park. Mr. Stephenson stated that the nearest point at which the Green wich branch would approach the Observatory would be 255 yards from it. Has made experiments with reference to the vibration that the trains will cause in passing through the tunnel, and what effect they would have on the astronomical instruments. . _ The CIIAIRMAN said that the Committee were very anxious to hear Mr. Stepherlson's statement with reference to the vibration of the trains, but the main point was, whether the consent of the Admi ralty could be obtained? Should they not consent the Committee would consider the reason they had for withholding their permission. Mr. Auszix said that the Committee would probably excuse his taking the course he was then pursuing, but if the lion. Chairman would recollect he woad find that the Committee had desired to hear more evidence with reference to the line as between Greenwich and Woolwich. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were rather disposed at present to take into consideration the probability of the consent of the Admiralty being given. Still there were other parties to be heard. In fairness to the North Kent their objections should be heard, and the landholders also should have an opportunity of coming before the Committee. If the South-Eastern Company bad the con sent of the Admiralty then they were ready to hear what evidence could be offered, and if they had not the consent of the Admiralty the Committee would deliberate whether it would be worth while to enter upon the inquiry. Mr. AUSTIN said that in obedience to the suggestion of the Com mittee lie had come prepared with full evidence as to the utility of the branch. He would ask the Committee were they prepared to go on if he produced the consent of the Admiralty ? The CHAIRMAN—We are. Mr. AUSTIN said that he had a letter from the Admiralty addressed to the Deputy-Chairman of the South Eastern Company, and was dated the 9th of May, Saturday last. The letter was from the Secretary to the Board of Commissioners, and stated that he was commanded by the Commissioners to state that the opposition to the South-Eastern Greenwich branch would be withdrawn on the understanding that the railway should be carried through the park in a tunnel, and that a clause should be inserted in the Bill giving to the Admiralty the power of regulating the speed and weight of trains passing through such tunnels, and of imposing such penalties as they might think fit for any infraction of the regulations they might lay down. They further wished to make such regulations as they might deem necessary for the purpose of preventing any injurious effect on the astronomical observations at the observatory, of which injuries they were to be the sole judges, and giving them the power of inflicting such penalties for the infraction of such regulations as they might deem necessary, and also, in the event of the continued contravention of those regulations, to stop the trains altogether. The C mules:lAN said that it would be very important to the Com mittee to know the nature of the restrictions to be proposed by the Admiralty. Were the clients of Mr. Austin satisfied that those re gulations would be such as would not injure the traffic; and would Mr. Stephenson be prepared to take that branch as his only line with those regulations? Mr. Stephenson—Quite so. Mr. TALBOT said that he was prepared to prove that the trains could not be worked with safety to the observatory. The Committee here deliberated for a short time, and at length The CRAUIMAN said that the consent of the Admiralty was de. pendent on certain conditions which struck the Committee as very important. The Committee were desirous of aseerts.tututs whst those clauses would be, so that they could be satisfied that they would not Injuriously affect the public interest, or the traffic. The Committee could therefore not proceed until such information had been obtained. _ . ➢lr. AUSTIN said that the Committee could not expect to find any code of regulations contained in those clauses. They would simply contain the power of making regulations. He apprehended that no regulations would be imposed on the line until the Admiralty found that such regulations were necessary, which he believed they would not. The CHAIRMAN said still such information should be obtained, and a sufficient time allowed to do so. The Committee then deliberated, and the Chairman announced that they had reversed their decision, and had determined to proceed at once. Mr. TALBoT said that he was instructed, and he believed correctly, that the consent of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests would oaly be given on such terms as would render the formation of the line of no use. The Committee should adjourn until those terms were known. Mr. CocsnuaN said that he had no doubt of the consent of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, but still they had not got a formal consent. The CHAIRMAN said, that under those circumstances, though it might appear to be vacillating, the Committee would adjourn until such cobsent could be specified and obtained. At the suggestion of Mr. J. O'CoNNELL, The CHAIRMAN inquired whether so much of the evidence could not be gone into as would permit of the objection of the landowner to be heard. The Greenwich portion was but an inch in the yard of road they had to lay down, and the objection to that question might be deferred. The Committee were very anxious to save both time and money to the Companies. Both sides seeming to consider this arrangement as not likely to meet their views, The Committee adjourned until twelve o'clock en Thurada. GROUP XVIII. SOMERSETSHIRE MIDLAND. This Committee resumed its sittings this morning at the usual hour ; Mr. 11. Denison, chairman. Mr. E. Hippesley, Surveyor, of Wells, in Somerset, proved that the line, as laid out on the plans and sections, could not be com pleted within the lines of deviation, or if completed it would be utterly Impracticable to work it, as it would consist of a number of small curves of not more than a quarter of a mile radius. In his cross.exarnination by Mr. SMITH, he admitted that he had not been employed in laying out a railway before he had levelled upon several lines of railways. Mr. Stable corroborated the accuracy of the levels as taken by the previous witnesses. Mr. Ashmead and Mr. Fox gave evidence to the same effect. Mr. Rubbersty—Had estimated that the amount of earth-work ne cessary in the construction of the line would be 1.211.157 cubic yards more than stated by Mr. Hill. The cost of the necessary earth-work would be 125,5411., or about one hundred and twenty per cent. more than Mr. Hill's estimates. Cross-examined by Mr. DEEDES—He had not been on the line. The estimates were made up by his clerks in the office from data furnished to him by the sectiors of the previous witnesses. This witness concluded the case on the part of the promoters. It was then proposed that the further consideration of the case should be adjourned till Thursday next, in order to allow the pro moters to call witnesses to rebut the evidence which had been laid befcre the Committee. The room was then cleared for a division. Upon the parties being called in, The CHATRAIAN informed them that it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that it would be useless to waste the time of the parties, or themselves, in receiving farther evidence, as the Com mittee had come to the conclusion, irrespective of this portion of the evidence, that it would be unwise in thew. to grant the Bill. The preamble of the Bill was, therefore, declared not to be proved. The Committee then adjourned at three o'clock. GROUP XXVIL This Committee reassembled this morning at the usual hour; Sir C. Lemon in the chair. SOUTH MIDI.A.ND. Mr. Upton, a corn-factor from Bedford, was the first witness ex amined this morning. His evidence proved the benefit which the proposed scheme would confer on the town of Bedford and the dis trict generally. He thought this line pr eferable to the competing one, inasmuch as it was so constructed as to be more easily con nected with any southern communication to London. The engineering evidence was then gone into. Mr. Liddell, engineer of the line, e xamined by Mr. MACAULAY, described the course of the line, and stated that it was laid out with a view to the accommodation of the district generally. Wit ness then detailed the curves, gradients, tunnels, cuttings, and em bankments of the two schemes, the result of the comparison being greatly in favour of the South Midland line as regards the construc tion of the works and the consequent saving of expense. He con firmed the evidence of Mr. Stephenson, which we have already re ported. The cross-examination of this witness occupied the remainder of the day, and the Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF LORDS. This Committee reassembled this morning at the customary hour. The first Bill called on was the WILTS, SOMERSET, AND .101:7TIIAMPTON, the standing orders in which case were not allowed to be dispensed with. WARWICK AND WOIWESTER. Not allowed to proceed. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (NEWPORT PAGNEL BRANCHES). Standing orders not dispensed with. PORTSMOUTH HAAB° LTR TIER. Allowed to proceed. BIDEFORD AND TATISTOCK. Not allowed to proceed. WEST RIDING UNION - (No. 2). Allowed to proceed. GREAT WESTERN and WYCOMBE RAILWAY. SPECIAL MEETING (TINS DAY.) A special meeting of the proprietors, she rQ holders, and scripholders of this Company took place this day at e offices of the Company, 449, West Strand, in pursuance of the sessional orders of both Houses of Parliament. Robert Wheeler, .4., in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN stated the objects of ties meeting, and said that the capital of the company was 1 50,0001., divided into 10,000 shares, at 15/. a share, so that the number of shat es present to constitute a meeting should be between three and foi it thousand ; but he had much pleasure in stating that four tho*sa nd two hundred and two a cfcon thesetinuance of the scheme.— (p were aced at his disosal by t hel r proprietors, to vote for Hear, he ar.) The SECRETARY having read the report, 'which stated the prosper ous condition of the Company, resolutions in favour of proceeding with the Lill were put, and carried unanitsie usly. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was than put and carried, and the meeting broke up. The number of shares represented at th.e meeting amounted to five thousand. • .=•••••••a GREAT WESTERN and UXBRIDGE RAILWAY. -(THIS DAY.) A special meeting of the shareholders, proprietors, and scrip holders of this Company took place at the Company's offices, 449, West Strand, to take into consideration wht tther or not it would be advisable to proceed with their Bill at pre, ent before Parliament— the sessional order of both Houses requiring that such meeeting should be held, in order to take the sense of the proprietors upon the subject. The SzcAZTARX haying read the Advertiiiely ent calling the meeting together, The CHAIRMAN (Robert Wheeler, Esq., Of Wycombe, and deputy chairman of the Company) addressed the meeti ng, and briefly ex. p hi nert to t ho n , w hy it Intl becon ,,, nipolrig• t • 1 1+ , ~1 r'7 , ,!!, an:t on a (.Inellll 01 . surplus traffic, the directors were of opinion that nine percent. would be realised upon the capital of the Company. In consequence of the opposition of the London and Oxford Railway their expenses load been considerably increased ; but although he could not pledge him self to the exact amount of the liabilities of the Company, they were estimated at about sixteen shillings a shard.—(Hear, hear.) The capital of the Company was 50,0001., divided into 3,354 shares, and he had entrusted to his ears 1,220 shares, which amounted to more than was requisite legally to constitute the meeting.—(Hear.) The SECItETABY having read the report of the Board of Directors, which set forth the prospects of the Company as most satisfactory, resolutions in favour of continuing the scheme, and of proceeding with the Bill, were carried unanimously by the meeting. The usual vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, and responded to, the meeting separated. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD GOURD. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman llronEs.) STEALINQ OATS.—Tharnas &veil and Thomas Crane, the first a carman and the latter a groom, were charged with stealing a sack and three bushels of oats, the property of Mr. Hanson, the late em ployer of the first mentioned prisoner. The prisoner Savell was defended by Mr. Payne; the prisoner Crane by Mr. Ballantiue. After evidence had been received, and Counsel had spoken, The RECORDER summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty Sentenced to imprisonment for three months in the House of Cor rection, and to be kept to Lard labour. ROBBERY FROM THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—John Tapson, aged 23, a plasterer, and John Beard (the latter of whom had been out on bail), were indicted for stealing a portmanteau, a gown, a pelisse, a watch, and other articles, the property of the Great Western Railway. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin were for the prosecution ; Mr. Bal lantine and Mr. Parry for the prisoners. Mr. CLARKSON opened the case, and detailed the circumstances connected with it, which will be fully understood by a reference to the evidence adduced. The following witnesses were then called : David Williams said that he lived at Brenth, Brecknockshire, and on the 31st of March last they were passengers by the train, which reached the station at Paddington at half-past eight. Ile had a port manteau on the luggage-box, addressed " Miss Williams, passenger." That portmanteau had gone. The contents were principally articles of dress belonging to his daughter, and might amount to 151. Sarah Williams said that she accompanied her father to London, and she had a portmanteau on the luggage box, which was found to be gone on arriving .at the station. Mary Elizabeth Wetherden was residing with her father In Palace New-road, Lambeth. She knew the prisoner Tapson in Cornwall. Their acquaintance was very alight. On the 19th March he called at her father's to give information of her friends in the country, and he asked if they had a spare bed with which they could accommodate him. On March 31st the prisoner said that he would take her little brother to meet two cousins of witness's who were expected by rail way. and ho should bring them home. She had not expected these relatives. Her cousins were named May. She Oa fitness) went out on the same evening, and did not return till a quarter past ten, and she found Mr. Beard down stairs, and in a quarter of an hour Tap son came down. He said that his key would not tit the box, and he would be obliged to cut it open. Beard asked whether his (Tapson's) friends had sent him any cream? Beard said, when he was going away, that he would endeavour to get Tapson into the Old Bailey to hear the trials—(Laughter) —on the next day. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—She had never seen Beard before, and the only other time she saw him was when he was in custody. Beard did not go up stairs at all ; he said, " I wish Tapson would make haste, for I'm in a hurry to go." Edwin Wetherden, a boy of eight years old, had gone out on the morning of the 31st with the prisoner Tapson. The prisoner took him to the Ship public-house, where he changed his coat, and be afterwards took him to Covent-garden Market, were Tapson hired S cab and called upon Mr. Beard, who came away with them. They then went to a beer shop, and afterwards to the Great Western Railway. Witness got sick from the beer he had had in the beer shop. Ile remembered the train coming in, and Beard calling out several time' " May." Mr. Tapson was up higher picking out the portmanteau. Mr. Beard and Mr. Tapson were in sight of each other. lie (witness) was with Tapson, who told him to take hold of the portmanteau a little way. Mr. Tapson took the portmanteau out of one of the railway carriages. It was put into the cab, and they drove to the New Inn, in the Edgeware-road , where they drank something. They then drove to Lambeth, to lde father's house, where the cabman gave the portmanteau to the ser vant, and she put it outside the kitchen door. Mr. Tapson after wards took the portmanteau up stairs. „.. . Elizabeth Curtis, servant to Mr. Wetherden, corroborated the fact that Tapson had returned at night in a cab, bringing a portmanteau with him. Joseph David, constable at the Great Western Railway, saw the prisoners on the platform on the evening of the 31st, accompanied by a little boy. Wm. Aires, shopman to Mr. Polies, pawnbroker, in Westminster road—The prisoner Tapson, on the Ist April, brought a satin dress, valued at 81., a pelisse, &c., and asked 16s. on them. Witness asked him where he lived ? He said at Gravesend, and that a female had given them to him a fortnight ago. When asked why he had come up from Gravesend to pawn them, he said that he had slept the night before in Red Lion-street, and that he had that day accompanied a friend to Charing-cross, and had just stepped over the bridge. Witness told him that he would be justified in de taining the things ; and he sent the boy out for a policeman. The prisoner then left, saying something about "law." He returned again at half-past nine at night, and was given into custody. Police-constable L 52—Took the prisoner Tapson into custody He said he had got the dresses from Miss Cato, St. John's-wood. He could not say more particularly where she lived. He found on searching him 2/. and odd monies, and some duplicates. He found Some papers in his pocket with the address of Mr. Wetherdon and Mr. Beard, and on going to the first-named gentle man's residence he found a portmanteau, which ha d been cut open and rifled, with the exception of one scarf. He after wards went to Mr. Beard's, in Basinghall-street, and took him into custody. Robert Wetherden corroborated the evidence of his daughter, and a shopman to Messrs. Whistler, pawnbrokers, Strand, proved the pledging of several articles of foniale dress with his emploYel l for 6s. Joseph Collard, Superintendent of the Great Western Railway P°: lice, was examined at considerable length by Mr. Clarkson, and 1 11 ! evidence was confirmatory of the previous witnesses. A. statemen t of the evidence taken before the magistrate was put in, and sing , '" laxly enough the prisoner Tapson there admitted that he had taken the portmanteau, but on opening it, did not know what to do with the contents. Mr. Parry and Mr. Ballantine having replied, the Recorder smu 'Tied up, and the Jury re ti re d , b u t h ad not delivered their Verdic t when our report left. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Alderman FAREnnoTiIEII.) John Rogers, aged 20, remanded from last ses,ion, was indicted for feloniously breaking into and entering a building within the cartilage of the dwelling-house of John Hlllyer, and stealing one live fOWIr value one shilling. . _ The young man was surprised as he was leaving the outhouse by a young woman, who called her brother. Several skeleton keys were found on the prisoner, and, on looking into the building, the fowl in question was seen lying dead on the floor, and its heed wrung off. Mr. BALLANTINE, in his defence of the prisoner, contended that the fowl was not alive as stated in the indietment, that there was no evidence that the fowl had been stolen alive. The COMMON SERGEANT observed, that th , z objection was taken on a point of law, which would be perfectly satisfied if the fowl had only been removed a single foot and then kille , :i. It was next to imPag" sible that one could wring off a fowl's Lead while it sat on the perch' and it was at least unusual for fowls to wring their own heads off. e 0. fi, sat apbol lei , stated,e m ;athnaantthde, Mr. BALLANTINE said the point was, whether the fowl had be!,, n stolen alive. It might have been. on the floor as the young °T. entered, and if it had been killed without being lifted from the 13 ° ° " the jury must acquit the prisoner. The CoisioN SERGEANT said it was for the jury to determine the probability of the fowl being killed as the Counsel represented. The prisoner was found Guilty, and as this was not the first ea" viction, he was sentenced to ten years' transportation. William Gay and William APlntosh, two young men, were indicted for stealing two asses. Gay gleaded guilty. John Brown said, he had two asses on Wimbledon Common abo ut the 6th of April last, and missed them on the 7th ; but saw theta I n that h() s e a n m h h a e a e c dramsybtietne accosting the e them,wt w i o h prisoners Gay said i n they B r i S r e l b e h leading and th 3 e i. d i o n n t k os er i s keeping ,jhe t Gay to bring donkeys home. The COI,LMON-SERGEANT directed the Jury to acquit APlntosbr f ,, or t n h o eN t nv til ie e ena p r r dt o h. p e e r j i t tu y ar of yp p e G haa a rd : d . there was no evidence before them that he knew the donkeys w e ' - fothuantdh3el'hlandtOisahihi:idotingueisltatyb, establishing as business as a pork-butcher, and that when he was in a state of comparatiV e . destitution lie met with M'lnto s h on th e day i n question, and 110 before. The COMMON SEBAEANT had no doubt that the prisoner Wlnto&b , who had been convicted several timer; before, had Induced Gay 10 commit the theft, and then to tell the story he had, In order to sal 111`Intosh being transported. As the evidence was, th e j ury co uld come to no other verdict than they bad already given. In consideration of Gay's position he was sentenced only to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. Benjamin Norman and John Paterson were placed at the bar, 111- dieted for stealing a chest of tea, value 121., the property of John Eve: Willian. S. Strutt, carman to the prosecutor, stated that he calle d at the French Horn public house, Crutched-friars, on the Ist of May'. o and left a chest of tea under the care of the prisoner Norman, w,.. was officiating at that time as pot-looy, until he returned. When 1 "' had loaded with some other articled he returned to the French Horer where he was told that a man had called and taken away the char' , and that Norman, who had absconded, helped him away with it. __, John Scott, a porter, was in th e t ap o f the French Horn on the 1!' of May, about one o'clock, when a man whose face lie did not se v . came in and said he was sent for a chest of tea for John Eve_ Norman replied, " I have one here," and assisted to place the chest on his shoulder. After the, man had gone, the host_ef said, " Harry, do you know that man ?" " No," was th; man rsettrualnigeedr,wiathndthe chestsi prisoner's reply, upon which the hostler remarked uP ° wane a th g e ree f d ol , l on his shoulder and called out to the potboy, " Norman, where lA' I take it to?" " Oh, just outside to the cart there," said Norman• vyitloifhigmiv.inglnaawsalortihteiracehetshte to The hostler corroborated the last witness. e st Norman said he was employed by the carm an t o sen d up the eh to him and employed Paterson. After A The jury, after consultation, could not a gree, and retired. ." half an hour's absence they returned, with a verdict of Not Guilty "' reference to each of the prisoners. The Court did not appear to expect the verdict which was returned' Intelligence has been received at Manchester House , announcing the decease of the idarquiqe Davoure, mother 0 the Countess de St. Aulaire, who ex pi red a few days since, at t he ad vanced age of 81. bri , d i& m ad e lake. Alter a smart contest, the fornuir drew ahead, AND yesterday lVi for Li I 2 A O M 3 B O V row G ed ° a " m W at i c N h le'agth h. James a has expressed his inter' L. Lushingtont — B. 3. l 'h om ese ni w tn e ey; ll.- ad know t n . _T o e rt a . triu c m n p E hai vr lt E fi N n ß al A e 3 o r f accloeLarLsEixG-Eb.o—atas' ir a cadetship, to be given to th il tion of presenting the College wlth best pupil in the modern department. u . t 118 one of the vice-presidents of this institution. a sample of new pots' and cli.um, without any trace of If" Yesterday a farmer bro gh - this city,- from diseased seed. Til „.: potatoes are perfectly he thus ti led as an experiment has In Ul ' original blight ; and what • •A, • ed him. Limerick ChroniCe. undeceived toes, grown In his haggar so d u . nd n_ e ar agreeably u death —We have to record the _, DEATH a of theatrical celebrity. Lately he was in the companY of Bologna, Royal Adelphi, Glasgow, bUt within the lest eight or tan the Theatre of years became ii ,, • ~„), to months, the decline Lible, and he gradually S. -- rest. 0 0 FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place 0 Sunday last, in a field near the Marie) , tunnel on the South Dec o 0 Railway, between two " navies," when one of them fell a corP" et or BoLOGNA. the spot, just as h e received a b l ow from his antagonist.—Der°° On the Ilth inst., the tvife o E f s ir ' On the 9th inst., in E t 1 lion. Rhoades,::4i E. Anson, ° Eaton-place, on-p ace, th.s Mrs. Q. son, still-born. 1 3 A 17. 17 J0 1r 1 . in of a son and b f , On the 4th inst., at Stockwell, Mrs. Winterhottom, of a daugb t . er. of On the 4th i nst., at Southsea, the Wife of Dr. Charles 11. Sco t t , a daughter, prematurely born. On the 6th i nst., the lady of Robert see, Esq., of Hollyw „,,d, near Stockport, Cheshire, of a son. On the 7th i nst., at Marlborough, the wife of the Rev. John 3f. Brackenbury, of a son. W. °' On the Bth i nst., at the Avenue, Streatham, the wife o f Sidgwick, Esq., of a daughter. horn , On the Bth inst., at li omerton , t h e w i fe of Abraham me Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., Mrs. John Rawoiings, of a boy. Of ' On the Bth mist ., at St. Anctrew'ri-place, Itegent's-park, the A "' William Forsyth, Esq., of a son. On the 9th inst., at St. John's-wood, the, wife of T. Henry Pl et, jun., Esq., of a daughter. ARIE. On the 2d inst., at St. Mar k' s, K e nn in gton, Thomas Sankey' Ea of of Islington, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Cater, Esq North Brixton. iroOn the 7th inst., John D. Jones, E sq ., o f Q ueen ' s - roa d, rpaist o o l A Louisa Frederica, _eldest daughter of .Tkloritz Schmuck, DK* , same place. DIED. °I On the 17th of March, at Chuprah, wife ingal, Anne Jane, W. M. Dirom, Esq., Hon. Fort Wiliam Civ 11 Service. On the 16th ult., at, Inverness-shire, Miss Cameron Culchenua, sister of the late Sir J. Came ton, K.C.8., aged 79. „. On the sth inst., Mr. E. 11. Hodsoi t, surgeon, of BU rton-UP°' Trent. ed 7°• On the 6th inst., Mr. De Ville, lamp ma nufacturer, strand , ag_,, On the 7th inst., at Weston, near Bath, Aiiss Jane Upton , a g ed ' On the Bth inst., Mr. Thomas Lyne, of Park-place, Sevenoaks. On the Bth inst., Sarah Ann, the SeC>Jl Id daughter of Mr. Geort6' Ellis, of Cumming-street, Pentonvllle. On the Bth inst., in Portland-place, lalington, Ann, the wife of J. White, Esq. On the Bth inst., at Sunbury, Midd les ex , M ar y, wife of John Mitchison, Esq , aged 64. On the 9th Charles Henry, son of M r . W a d sw orth, surgeon , Broad-street, Golden-square. London: Printed and Published by AMR DO YOUNG, of No. 114, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N0.1.1'2, Strand, in the Precia v c"' ? f ,„ Sayoy, in the county of Di Wilma, neisdith 01.1