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PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 9.7. .3 per Cent. Consols Ditto- Reduced 96 ? ,., t Ditto, 4 per cent 5Bll :13 1 ,4 per Gaut. Hoc' :Xi; I Hibernian hank - than New, IMO 97% i City of Dublin Stearn Co. leS! !? 3 1 4 ptr Cent. Debentures 90% National Insurance Co. ...... ... Rank Stock '97 i City Debentures, 4 per cent... 76% Royal Canal Stock 3414 , Ballast OfTtee Debentures, 4 ,ir, nd Canal Stock 9.7% i per cent - MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. , Ar rived. Due 0 America.. ..... ... 0 2 France ....... ..... 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 BuenosAyres 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mealco 0 0 Carthegena...... 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 2 Public , ... ...... 0 0 Jamaica .... ...... 0 0 Sweden 0 2 F.anders 111611 WATER AT LONDON 'SLUDGE 'lO-MOIIIIOW. Morning 0 minutes after O. I Evening 9 7 minutes after 0. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the ELECTION of the REFORM CANDIDATE, J. T. 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" Tell me," says the Spanish proverb, " with whorl you live, and I will tell you, who you are." If the electors of Westminster have any doubt of the sweep ing change which the politics of Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT have undergone, let them apply this test, and they will find that though professing the same princi ples—the Radical principles which he maintained when he set the law at defiance and endangered the peace of the metropolis—he is now a Tory of the first class. Ever since Lord MELBOURNE came into office he has been on the turn. His frequent attendance at Coup, that Court which summoned Sir ROBERT PEEL to form a Tory Government, his total neglect of the liberal constituency which returned him, and his evident wish to support the Tories by withholding his vote, which he had not the manliness to give in accordance with his wishes, can leave no doubt in any rational mind what political opinions he has adopted. If any doubt remains after these demonstrations, the shout of the Tory press on his last exhibition, at least proves that, the Tories have no doubt. He is now enlisted on the side of the Tories, and let all the electors of West minster who wish to see the House of Lords predo minant, the remaining abuses in the State and Church unredressed, and the unfortunate people of Irelawl driven to rebellion by insult added to injustice, coin: forward and support BURDETT. One fact is worth a thousand professions. His bostiF.tv to Mr. O'Cox- NELL and the Irish representatives, the best support ers of the Government, has for the last two year,. ken of the !nest rabid description, and can he coin- Fared only to that violent antipathy which persons ii. a state of hurley hear troxatds those whom, in a 'state t.f health, they rega•.-ded as their best friends. Hi, address to OA electors ofWestminster bears all the mark of a person labouring under a delusion. With the excep iou of his last letter to O'Cos NELL, there never was a production so full of 4icoherent matter written by a per son in his senses " The lion's hide" (why not the a! us of kids ?) the hands of Esau—the voice of Jacob—the Ilriti•sh Cofne-houie, Covent Garden, netzled and stung by pismires, and the fashione.hle pa tristic slang oi complying with the wants and wishes; of the people," are all jumbled together in this extra ordinary effusion. It is lamentable to see such a fallity off' in the conduct of one who made it his pride and boast to advocee the wants and wishes of the peopl2 in opposition to the selfish interests of the boro4l - Aristocracy. The electors of Westminster, however, arc not to be deceived by such incoherent professirms ; and while they look with pity and soirow on his fall, will still show that their opinions are not changed, and that they still adhere to those eternal principles of liberty for which they so often returned 811 FRANCIS BURDETT to Parliament. It is lamentable to observe the ind,ffercnee with -which even the most liberal and enlightened Memberi of the Legi,lature can_ discus* the sufferings of the fi;n chin, no,:r ox Ireland. Human life is made the subject of cold arithmetical calculation ; and as the economists have discovered that the sad remains of a defunct fellow-subject are less valuable than the car cass of an ox, a horse, or any other domestic animal, the policy of preventing the starvation of the indigent poor, under all circumstances, is not only gnestioncd but repudiated. Were the Irish landlords taxed with treating their horses and dogs as they do their tenantry, good Heavens ! what an outcry would be raised from one extremity of Great Britain to the other. Were: it - reported to his MAJESTY that instead of men, women and children, there were in Ireland two miliion three hundred thousand horses, which for seven months in every year were left without pasturage or food of any kind, and that of this number upwards of two-thirds depended wholly for subsistence on what they could pick up in the public highways, what an outcry would be raised in Parliament against the cruelty of the Irish aristocracy But reverse the picture, and the censors of injustice to dumb animals are as mute as mice. Proclaim to the world the appaling fact that upwards of two millions of human beings are for seven months in the year compelled to endure all the horrors of absolute starvation—that two-thirds of them arc without a foot of land in a country where millions of productive acres are lying waste, reserved for pastu rage for deer, horses, and the lordly pleasures of the chace—and the statement is heard with a shrug of the shoulders, and is responded to by a scowl from the privileged aristocrat, and a calculation of the expenses and dangers of a change by the champion of some new-fangled system of political economy. It is im possible to attend for an instant to the progress of our domestic legislation, and to glance at the social state of this country without imbibing feelings and arriving at convictions of the most painful description. In the eyes of the rich and the powerful no object is so unimportant as the misery of the indigent poor. The laws of nature are reversed among us. - There arc few Noblemen in the country half so careful of their tenantry as of their dogs and horses—the great bulk of them are a hundred times more solicitous abotit the progress of education in the stable and the kennel than of instruction in the parish school—and were any person to take the liberty of telling a woman of fashion that the care of an orphan would reflect more credit on her than solicitude about a lap-dog, we doubt not he would be scouted as an uncivilised barbarian, and driven for life without the pale of society. 411Ase c pbspyakons have been suggested to us by the _ Are,,b - at,e-arrttOTipiitipn for the second reading of the letsliPeartaW --1,1) in the House of Commons on y ridgy nlghi; in. tte: 4 ,ourse of which several speeches delivei!er.kas.ll- 4/ arkable for their correct represen- Ysntbik le state of Ireland, as for thei e to the necessity of an immediate change in the social condition of that unhappy coun try. Will it be believed that the Honourable and Learned Member for Kilkenny, than whom no Mem ber of the Legislature is better acquainted. with the _ _ _ _ extent of Irish wretchedness, could address the House on the subject of a Bill intended to remove it in a speech which, according to himself, was neither for nor against the measure then before it ? Will it be imagined, that, after recounting the actual suffer ings of ...his fellow countzymen—after quoting the Report of the Commissior,ers to show that for seven months in the year, upwaxds of two millions of human beings were reduced tct all the horrors of actual star vation in a land caimble, if only tolerably cultivated, of maintaining in abundance four times its present population—the Hon. and Learned Gentleman pro posed. as remedies the impractical schemes of a Repeal of the Union, Emigration to the Canadas, and an Absentee Tax ? Mr. O'CONNELL knows that, how ever desirable in his opinion, there is not the remotest chance of a Repeal of the Union being obtained during the lifetime of the present generation ; and as for a Tax on Absentees, we are very confident that it will never be imposed by a British Parliament. Of the Emigration scheme we do not think more favour ably, though we are aware that the Legislature might be easily brought to support such a proposition. Wherefore should the poor Irishman he driven from his native country to seek for that of which good laws would secure him an abundance at home ? Why banish him to the inhospitable wilds of America, when the wastes of Ireland offer a rich remuneration for his labour ? Mr. O'CoNNELL dislikes experiments, and objects to the proposed Poor-law Bill that it is an experiment. On the same principle he might have objected to every law that ever was promulgated, had he lived at the period when each was first judged necessary for the protection of human liberty. , All laws were first viewed by mankind in the light of experiments ; and the past history of experi mental legislation proves that dangers need hardly ever be anticipated from laws for the protection of the honest but intelligent portion of mankind. But mark the inconsistency of the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's conduct. He opposes the Poor-law as a dan gerous experiment, and he proposes in the same breath to repeal the Union between this country and Ireland ! Is there a politician in the empire who would for an instant balance the possible results of an unsuccessful repeal of the Union against the conse quences of a failure in the working of a Poor-law ? Most assuredly not—not even Mr O'CONNELL him self. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman likewise ex pressed his fears that the tendency of the Poor-law Bill would be to increase Irish wretchedness. Such fears an ticipate a moral impossibility. Taking his own speech as a criterion of Irish distress—and it is a correct one—we believe we may defy any Government to overwhelm a nation with greater calamities not actually produced by fire and sword. We arc even doubtful whether it would not accord more fully with the principles of political humanity to put so many miserable fellow creatures to instant death, than thus to suffer them to linger for years amid the slow tortures of periodicalfa mine, cold, and nakedness, and all the maladies brought on by the want of the first necessaries of life. In saying this much, we would not be understood as charging Mr. O'CoNNELL with culpable indifference to the miseries of his fellow-countrymen. We only blame him for confining himself to the stTgestion of what he must know to be impracticable remedies for an evil of such magnitude, and so frightful in its hourly re-. sult , . The famishing poor—of whom thousands perish annually of diseases brought on by want of sustenance—cry cut incessantly " food ! food !" and the Honourable and Learned Member for Kul • kenny consoles them with an assurance that their w an ts will he relieved when England repeals the Legislativ‘: Union ! This sounds very like moc'eery, and would be so understood if comin;.: from the inoinh of any public man less devoted to the promotion of what he conceived to be for the best interests of his native country than the Honourable and Learned Member for Kilkenny. To the speeches of the several Members who spoke in favour of du) Bill reference is almost unnecessary. That of time Honourable Member for Dundalk was unquestionably the best, becange it repudiated in terms of merited censure the cold-blooded policy of compulsory emigration. As it is agreed on all hands that the season for abstract discussions on the policy or impolicy of Poor-laws is gone by, and that the only thing that remains to be done is to make choice Lf such a system as may best promote the general wel fare, we cannot acquit the Irish Members of greet blame in not 'preferring to the provisions of the present Bill the recommendations embodied in the Third Re port of his MAJESTY'S Commissioners, drawn up by the Right lion, the Chief Remembrancer for Ireland. A Bill framed upon that Report could hardly fail to effect more good for Ireland in one year than the present Bill, however ably carried out, can possibly ac complish in ten. In the former the genius, the feel ings, and' the social habits of the people would have been enlisted on the side of the law ; whereas, in the present, no regard is had to feelings which have be come a religion, and to habits which associations must render inveterate. Nevertheless, the present Bill, bad as it is, will prove an inestimable boon to the poor of Ireland. It will rouse the Aristocracy of that coun try from the selfish lethargy in which they have so long and so ingloriously indulged. It will stir up the people, and by the creation of a strong public opinion—an en gine for the removal of oppression which does not now exist in the interior of Ireland —prepare the way for the many Reforms of which it may be regarded as the necessary precursor. Moreover, the very shock which it will give to a myriad of stagnant abuses will, in the end, prove beneficial to the social and political system of the Sister Kingdom. The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have all been received. On Thursday the Chamber of Depu ties voted the dowry for the Queen of the BELGIANS by an overwhelming majority—there being 239 votes for the dotation, and only 140 against it. The Oppo sition journals loudly exclaim against the prodigality of the Deputies in disposing of the property of their constituents. The Phare of Bayonne of the 25th ult. details the great preparations made by the Carlists to cross the Ebro. The expedition is to consist of 15,000 men, including 1,000 horse. It is to be commanded by the Infante Don SEBASTIAN, who, after effecting a junc tion with CABRERA, is to march upali Madrid. On the other hand, General IRRIBARREN at the head of 10,000 infantry, 800 cavalry, and a numerous train of artillery, is stationed at Lodosa to guard all the pas sages of the river, and General NOGUERAS at the head of a division on the borders of Valencia has or ders to watch the movements of CABRERA, and by no means to suffer him to join the army of the Infante. Letters from Bayonne, of the 25th ult., mention the arrival of the Deputy LUJA N in that city from San Sebastian, on his way to the head-quarters of IRRIB A RREN. When he left San Sebastian, a reinforce ment of 2,000 fine troops had arrived from Passages, and 4,000 more were hourly expected. The weather was then unfavourable, but General EVANS only awaited the landing of the rest of the reinforcement, before again taking the field against the Carlists. Both officers and men were in high spirits, and eager to wipe out the disgrace of their retreat from Hernani. It is rumoured that the Spanish Government has THE FUNDS. made arrangements for retaining such of the British Legion as CaLt he induced to continue in the service of her Catholic MAJESTY, after the expiration of the present term .of their service, on the 10th of June next. The following arc extracts from the Papers : We have a letter from St. Jeart de Luz, of April 24, which says—" The accounts which wd received to-day from Tolosa are of the 23d ; they do not. give us any important intelligence. They had news from the Royal head-quarters of the 22d. " It seems certain that Irribarren and Espartero have re ceived orders to take trp a position on the Ebro, which those Generals are prepar.ng to carry into effect."— Gazette de France, April 29. PARIS, APRIL 2:D.-General Oraa has addressed three ener getic proclernV:tons-to the Army of the Centre • to the in habitants of t'ne kingdoms of Aragon, Murcia, and Valencia ; and to the..NationalGuards of those provinces. A let:er from Saragossa says, that the columns of infantry and envalry, armed by the provincial deputation, had left that to commence its operations. Don Joaquim Ortiz de Ve lasco, member of the provincial deputation of that city, has been appointed, provisionally, political chief of the province. In Barcelona, journals of the 2] st ult. publish the official bulletin of the Governor of Vich, on the action which lately took place at St. Quirse, and precisely at La Cogulera, be tween the provincial battalion of Guadix, and a Carlist force much superior in number. The Queen's troops suffered a check, but it was not so serious as it has been represented. A letter from Perpignan says that the Carlist Chief, Zorilla, has been killed by one of his own people. TheMoniteur Ottoman says :-" Some journals have spoken of a pretended attempt to assassinate the Sultan, of the nature of those which at intervals threaten to stain France with blood. They say that the authors of the attempt were ancient Janis saries, who, notwithstanding their natural repugnance to all modern inventions, are said not to have scrupled to have re course to the air-gun. We are happy to be able to contradict this statement.-Journal du Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 28. Five per Cents., lOrf. 65c. 75c. Sec. Feur per Cents., 93f. flOc. Three per Cents. 78f. 85c. 75c. 60c. Rente cite Naples ' 981. 75c. She. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Spanish Actives, 23 5 ,‘%. Spanish Passives, 5.%%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 100%. Portuguese Three per Cents. 29% EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 251. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40c. Three months, paper, 25f. 22;(,c.; money. 25f. 20c. -Gears iluthentivie. FRENCH FUNDS -PAnts, APRIL 29. Five per Cents., 1061'. &)c. 85c. 70c. 75c. Four per Cent., 96f. 30c. three per Cents., 78f. 70c 63c. Rank Actions, 2,405 f. 2,400 f. hente de Naples, 98f. 7Cc. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Spanish Actives, 2.1%%%%f4, Spanish Passives, 5%. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 29 3 04. EXCDANGP ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40c Three months, paler, 251.22%c. ; money, 25f. 20c -fours Autherzlieue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 106 f. 80e. Three per Cents. 78f. 75c, Bank Actions, 2,4' Of. Rente de Naples, 98f. 90e. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Brussels Bank, 1,390 f. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 47. Portuguese Three per Cents., 29%. Spanish Actives, 2:N. Spanish Passives 5%. New Differes, 8. Miguelites, 11%. Madrid Journals to the 23d uk. announce the res toration of tranquillity in Saragossa, Valencia, and throughout Andalusia. In the capital all was tranquil; and the Cortes bad proceeded to the 28th article of the Constitution, the discussion on which had not com menced up to the date of these arrivals. In the Pro vinces the Captains-General were bestirring themselves against the dangers of another Carlist inundation from the mountains of Biscay. Money was scarce, but MENDIZABAL continued to make the most praise worthy efforts to maintain public credit. Among all classes in the capital an opinion prevailed that the prospects of the QUEEN were brightening ; and that in spite of the intrigues of the Camarillo and the ultra-Republicans, the Constitutionalists would succeed in saving the country without periling its safety by another revolution. Brussels and German Papers have been received this morning. The Archduke Palatine of HuNGARY is so far recovered that no more bulleti►►a of his health will be published. This is the only news in the Ger man Papers, with the exception of accounts of the dreadful state of the weather. From Belgium we have no intelligence of any interest. nr,,,GIAN iUNDS—ISRussr.Ls, APRIL 20 A.,:tual Deht, •.,,,:, par Cent. lin9, , child' Loao, 5 per Cent. lOO Loan or Thirty Millions .... 91 Loan of City, 1532, ; per Cent hi) Society of Coininvree, 4 ~..; per Cent l.lO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Ce:it l3 ) —Brussels Papers, April3o. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViaNsa, Araft.2l. rive per Cents. Metalliques lour per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —..lllgenzeinc Zacturz, April -2 . THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Montreal papers - one day later than the last arrivals have been received, from which we make the subjoined extract : " COMMERCIAL—We understand that a large amount of specie was brought in on Saturday from New York from the Bank, which, we hope, will enable them to afford increased fa cilities to their customers until the season for active business shall have arrived." Canton papers have boon received to the 4th of Jan. We extract the following : Ills MAJESTY'S SUPERINTENDENT.—WC are not aware that anything definite is known as to the probability of Captain Elliot and his staff arriving in Canton. We have heard from Chinese authority, that if he wishes to come up to trade he will be permitted to come; but that if he has any other object he must wait the arrival of orders from Pekin. It is reported by many native; th,t lieu Nactre has again sent in a report to the Emperor, requesting . the abolition of the prohibitions against opium. It i, authenticated that the teamen have said that tho teas of the second spring gathering are superior to the first, because at the first there were too havy rains, which caused the taste of the teas to be thin and poor.' " COMMERCIAL REMARNs.—British Manufacture reports from Nankin state the markets to be overstocked with most description of woollens and piece goods, which naturally check the demand here, and sales arc not readily made at same price. " COTTON.—The demand has been generally dull during the week of the Bombay staple. Not much of good quality now remains, and prices are without alteration. Madras cotton still further depressed. " OPIUM.—We cannot notice any favourable alteration. The Government interference still obstkucting the trade, while the dealer and brokers deem it prudent to remain in their places of coneealrner:S. _ " Exchange steady on London at 4s. 11d. per dollar; Freights to England, 5/. a 5/. ss. per ton." This being the Ist day of May, it is kept as a holiday at the Stock Exchange, the Bank, and Foreign Market, consequently, some jobbers and brokers have assembled on 'Change, and at the various coffee-houses, but as yet we do not hear of any bar gains done of consequence. The accounts from Liverpool are of a favourable nature ; confidence begins to revive there, with a good deal doing in the cotton trade. Some business is doing in Consols at 90H- for the Ac count; in Spanish Active, 211 The payment of the Spanish dividends on the Coupons be ing pat off to June next has greatly disappointed the holders of that stock. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols may be nominally quoted at 901 for the Account, and in the Foreign Securities the only transactions are in Spanish Active Bonds, at 21 a We do not hear that any thing has been doing in the New American paper. The public sales of tea, commenced this morning, are going off very heavy. CARLOW ELECTION.—When the application of the law happens to be in favour of the Liberal side in an Irish election, Liberal Members walk across the House and deter. mine what they have just voted to be law shall not be applied. If any person doubt this assertion let him turn to the proceed ings that took place on Tuesday on the, Carlow Election Ballot. PRINCESS VICTORIA.—In compliance with a very numerously signed requisition, representing all classes of our fellow-citizens, the Mayor of Bath has consented to convene and preside at a public meeting, to be held at the Guildhall on Thursday next, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of erecting in this city a permanent testimonial of respect to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, on her attaining her legal majority, on the 24th of May.—Bath Chronicle. THE FAMILY OP EsTEuriAzY.—The Prince being absent in England, I did not think it proper, although I now know I might have done so without its being consi dered a presumption, to intrude upon the members of the fa mily then at Eisentadt. A servant showed us, with honest pride in regarding its splendour, round the Palace and over the grounds • and although neither our names nor our country were made known, refreshments were laid out for us, of which we merely stopped to partake of an ice and glass of wine each, as we had ordered dinner at the hotel of the adjoining little town. I have since been rebuked by an amiable member of the family, for not making ourselves known ; hospitality being at all times the characteristic of the EsterhazYs. and of the joyous halls of their c e lebrated house.—Austria and the Austrians. It seems that the expelled student O'Beirne is active in his mission. A few days ago he was at Shrewsbury, where he brought forward charges of the most revolting description against the Roman Catholic religion. LIII SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY' 1837 MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. " The Spanish Contest" is an ingenious diatribe on the wrong side of the question. Why does the author insist that the Spanish butcheries commenced with the Constitutional party, when it is well known that the Carlists set the example ? Why, too, does he slur over the Durango decrees, which even the Standard has given up to unmitigated abhorrence? This is not stating the question fairly—a fault of which the author would never have been guilty, could his cause have been sustained by argument. The " World we Live In" is terse and pointed, as usual, but too much tainted with politics. It is easier to abuse O'Connell than to show that he is in the wrong, as respects his present course of conduct towards Ireland. " Trans lations from the Greek Anthology," are from the pen of Mr. Hay. They are rendered with ease and grace. " Medical Attendance, and other Parochials," con tains some sound observations. We have been struck with this trait of rustic character : " I knew one instance of a man who prayed very fervently to live a little longer. He had been a labouring man—and for a labouring man, pretty well to do.' He had never had sickness; was strong, stout, and hale ; of perhaps seventy-two or three years of age. He then had a paralytic attack, and sent for me. He continued in a doubtful state some time. At every visit I paid him, he earnestly prayed, and hoped to be allowed once more to sit in the sun before his cottage-door, and then he would be so thankful, and so good How seldom are these self-formed resolutions of much avail He was able to sit and sun himself at his cottage-door, and often did I sit there with him, and remind him how he had prayed for that as a blessing, and that it had been granted. But by degrees I found him pass from silence to sullenness. I was evidently not a welcome visitor. He was enabled to do more than sun himself at his door—he was able to walk about his little gar den. At length I observed that, as I entered his cottage, he would make his escape at another door. On one occasion his wife, nearly his own age, shut the door by which he would have escaped, purposely, so that he had no help for it, but to seat himself sullenly in his chimney-corner, and endure my presence. I saw him, as he thought unobserved, clench his aged fist at his wife, and put on an expression of imbecile ma lignity. This a little roused the old woman, who told him he was a bad man, and had bad friends—that he had better listen to the parson. This put me on the inquiry ; but first I ques tioned him as to what could be the cause of his change—did he not believe as he formerly did ? He did not know that he did ; all he knew was, that some people believed very differently, and he did not see what great harm he had ever done, and he was not afraid to die. Upon inquiry, I then found that a workman had come out from the neighbouring town, and hav ing work to do at a gentleman's house about a mile off, had taken lodgings within a few doors of this poor cottager. The old woman said he called himself a Sinian ;' and I verily be lieve she thought it meant an encourager of sin; and a' reads a book here,' said she, that nobody can't understand ; but that there's no wicked place for ever and ever; and a pack o' things that ha' turned his senses topsyturvy ; and I knows i can't be good, for he ain't no longer kind like to me.' " The " Secrets of History" is an interesting, wet written account of the Spanish conspiracy against Venice. The subject has been often discussed, but will bear repetition. " Griselden, the Clerk's Tale," is a modernized version of one of Chaucer's best tales. The versification is smooth and spirited, and in places reminds us of some of Leigh Hunt's translations. " Cinderella, a Dramatic Article," is a delightful pa per, one of the best we have lately seen in Blackwood. It is a translation of one of Crabbe's German plays. The " Songs of Beranger," by Alfred Domett, are in geniously rendered. " Despatches of the Duke of Wellington " will be read with avidity by all who take an interest (and who do not ?) in the Peninsular campaigns of our first living hero. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord BROUGHAM, and the Duke of MONTROSE, sat to-day to hear appeals. Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the further arguments in the part-heard case of Austell v. Cham bers, which had not concluded when our reporter left. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole day with hearing exceptions, of no public interest. TAYLOR V. RUNDELL. Upon the application of Mr. KNIGHT, his Honour appointed this case for hearing on Friday next. The question in this case is, whether certain mines in North America, the pro perty of the late Duke of York, passed under a particular grant. The case is one that has made some little noise, and the decision in which is most important to the creditors of the late Duke of York. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) SAXON U. CASTLE ANH ANOTHER. This was an action for an illegal arrest, excluding the word " malicious," upon a warrant of attorney, before the time of payment bad arrived, and for a larger sum than was due. The first plea was not guilty, and the second was that the arrest was not made before the time of payment. The case had been tried before Lord Denman at the Guildhall sittings, and a ver dict had for the plaintiff—damages, 201. A rule for liberty to move an arrest of judgment had been subsequently obtained on the ground that the word " mali cious" should have been averred in the declaration, inasmuch as there had been a misrepresentation to the Master that the costs had been taxed, upon which the Master had made his alloca tion, and the writ was sued out. I Counsel for the plaintiff having been heard against the rule, The COURT was of opinion that there was no ground for a notlsuit or a new trial, but thought the omission of the aver ment of " malicious" in the declaration entitled the defendant to a rule in arrest of judgment. BAIL CO URT. No case came on for hearing in this Court up to the time of our going to press. COMMON PLEAS.-(T HIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco. ) YOUNG V. COLE. This was an action on an assumpsit for money had and re ceived, and for work and labour by commission on the pur chase of Guatamala Bonds. The case was tried at Guildhall before the Lord Chief Justice during the sittings after last Term, when a verdict was had for the plaintiff. Sir F. Pol lock on a former day obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, or a nonsuit entered. Mr. Sergeant WILDE (with whom was Mr. OGLE) now showed cause against the rule. Mr. ROBINSON was heard in reply, and had not concluded his arguments when our reporter left. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, APRIL 30.—Wind W. S. W., strdiig breezes.—Ar- - rived the Hythe, Drayner, and Juliet, Wilson, from Canton ; Mount St. Elphinstone, from Calcutta; Calypso, Wilkinson, Waterlily, Hart, and West Indian, Farmer, from Jamaica ; Michals, from St. Kitts ; Corsair, from Sicily ; Louisa, from Cadiz ; Wave, Edwards, 'from St. Michael's; and Adelaide, from Cork. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Royal George, Coulter, from St. Michael's. Off port the Toronto, Grisewood, from New York. F ALM OUTH, APRIL 28.—Wind N. W., fresh gales and squally. April 29.—Fresh gales and thick weather.—Ar rived the Ganges, Broadhurst, from Calcutta. MARGATE, APRIL 30.—Off port the Dart, Armstrong, from Madeira. DON ER, APRIL 30.—Off port the Johanna, West, Malaga. SWANAGE, APRIL 30.—Arrived the Palermo Packet, from Teneriffe. BRISTOL, APRIL 29.—Arrived the Elizabeth and Mary, from Honduras ; Hornby, Allen, from Barbadoes ; Emerald, Comp licit, from St. John's, N.B. ; and Racer, from St. Michael's. April 28.—A head board, with .‘ Walter" on it, supposed to belong to a vessel of about 100 tons, was picked up the 25th instant off Penzance. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 29.—Wind S. E., moderate.—Arrived the Parthenon, Thomas, and James Lemon, White, from New Orleans; John Ormerod, from Oporto ; Water Witch, from Cephalonia; Pearl, Cove, and Queen, James, from St. Mi chael's ; and Ililde, Frehr, from Wolgast. CLYDE, APRIL 29.—Arrived the Catherine, Hyndman, from Jamaica ; Oriel, Murdock, from Trinidad ; and Bee, Morris, from St. John's, New Brunswick. HOLYHEAD, :APRIL 29.-:--Arrived the Levant, Cundy, from Gallipoly, after being on some rocks and discharging part of her cargo, bound to Liverpool. GLOUCESTER, APRIL 28.—The New Hope, arrived from Burrow, in coming up the Canal, was run into and sunk by a canal boat. NEW YORK, APRIL 10.—The St. Jubilee, of Duxbury, from Liverpool, sprung a leak in lat. 47. long. 44., and foundered. WATERFORD, APRIL 26.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived, the Com modore, Cousens, from London. LONDONDERRY, Aram 26.—Arrived, the America, Mackay, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Sr.rno, Arai E. 26.—Arrived, the Bloom, Laing, from London. LEITH, APRIL 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived, the Tribune, Brown, from Mauritius ; the Prosperity, from Dantzig. The Margaret, Oakley, is wrecked at Madagascar; crew and part of the cargo saved. The Vesta, of Liverpool, was taken and plundered by the natives of Point Clara, river Gaboon, the 28:h of December ; the master shot, the rest of the crew saved. Off Torbay, the Industry, Allwardy, from Lisbon. The Nederlanden, from Amsterdam to Surinam, is on shore wear Calais, and must disharge. THE MARKETS-(THIf? DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of Grain and Flour were consider able, and the trade was heavy for every article. This morn ing the fresh supplies of Wheat, Barley, and Oats are good. The continuation of fine growing weather causes a general dulness in the sale of all descriptions of Corn. The Wheat at market to-day was nearly all of middling quality, and the millers purchased reluctantly ; prices, there fore declined 2s. per quarter from the terms of last Monday. Barley is almost unsaleable, and is further de clined Is. to 2s. per quarter. Beans hardly maintain last quotations. Boiling Pease are firm. Grey Pease are rather cheaper. The transactions in Oats have been to a limited extent in proportion to the supply ; but their former value is supported. The Flour t rade remains very dull, and the top price has been reduced 3s. per sack from last Monday's currency. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old` 'Os. 60s. -White (old) ... 5Ss. 645. --- Red 18.36) 421. 483. Fin" 504. 545.1 - Superli e 545. 565 . White (1836) 445. 501. ---- Fine 525. 563. - Superfine 5Ss. 00s. -Foreign free Rye 34s ais. Barley 245. 263. - Grinding .265. 28s --- Malting 323. 345. Malt 463. 54s - Fine New 565. 583. Beans, Small k new) 37r. 40.. (old) 42.. 4Ss. Tick (new) 3ls :i3s. (old) .... Harrow (new) 345. Ms -- (old) 403.44, Brank 34s. 35.. Oats, Feed —s. —s. New 216.24 s Poland New Vs. 214. Potato , . 275. 265. -- New 0000000 ..••• 245. 253. Scotch as. 303. Irish 17s. Pease, Grey, New 328. 346. - Maple New p4s. 365. -- White 345. 375. - Boilers 375.388 Flour Town ;per sack) 488.52, W,cconds 4t15.515. North Country 40s 42:. Bran ll. 12:. GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK Wheat. Barley. Oat& N'iour. English Irish . - 256 18,310 - Foreign : .120 - 1,5'25 - CAR,RI,VALS OF SMITHFIEL This day's supply was very goo alteration from the prices last qui ) MARKET and the sale was dull at little ted : PRICKS YEA STONE OF 8L I. TO SINK THE OFFALI. ....-- . ---. s. d. to s. el. :a. 4 to s.d Interior Beasts...". ..... 9 6 9 8 Inferior Sheep 3 2 3 4 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 8 8 4 2 Prime large 0xen......... 3 6 3 S Coarso-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 r,irne Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 Large Hogs 2 6 4 2 Crime small ditto 4 8 5 4 Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 S , lckling Calves each .. amb 0.16 0 34 0 Quarter to 7s. old Pig teach) 12 0 20 0 Ls Od. - • SUPPLY AT MARLET. Beasts. i Sheep. Calves. I Pigs 2,564 16,1120 I 200 421 About 200 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 110 up the other northern 411 ads; shout 200 (inct , iding Irish) from the western and midland districts ; about 2000 from Norfolk, Suffhlk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 50 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, Sze. in the neighbourhood of London. NEWOATE AND LEADENH ALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d a 41 ton Beef, inferior 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior ... ...... m iddling ..» 210 3 0 middling.. ...... —.— prime large prime small... ...... 3 8 3 8 Pork, large Veal 3 0 4 4 —small Lamb 58. 4d. to 6s. Bd. 28 3 2 3 2 7. 6 32 4 2 210 4 0 44 4 8 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—ApriI 29. Our farmers brought a small supply of Wheat to this day's market, but the coasting arrivals were considerable, and the whole met a slow sale at a decline of ls. per quarter on the prices of this day se'nnight. The arrivals of Barley far exceed the demand, as many of our maltsters have stocked themselves for the season, and prices are Is. to 2s. per quarter lower Oats were in fair supply, and a free sale at last week's rates. Malt is almost unsaleable, except choice samples, which are in limited demand at our quotations. Beans and Pease meet in quiry and fully support late prices. Flour is a very slow sale at a decline of is. per sack, the supply being very large. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 4l. sss. 513. et;.l --- Norfolk and Suffolk . 546 595. 576. 62.. ---- Berwick and Scotch s —s 57% Foreign _ Ry- e, Norfolk and Suffolk 33,. MU...—. —3. —s. --- Foreign —s. —$ —4. —3. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 30s. 34s —a. —I. ---- Grinding and Feeding 278 298. —s —s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 5lB 568 —B. —s. Beans, Small 3Bs. 415....... —s. —s. -- Tick '37s. 395. —s. —s. Pease, Wl' nte 39s 4,35..... ..-4. —6. ----;• Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... 255. 265. 27s. 30s. ---------. Feed --. Foreign Flour (per s g ack) —B. —5....... 41s. 455. In consequence of the desperate state of the cattle of the upland farmers from the lateness of the season, and the positive want of fodder, the grass parks in the lowlands have been let by auction at rents from 301. to 501. per cent. higher than last year.—Kelso NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is an excellent Number. The articles are, for the most part, light and airy in their character, and there is just sufficient diversity to prevent their beco ming wearisome. The " Gurney Papers" still pur sue their merry course ; but though there are excellent comic bits in the present chapters, they flag in places sadly. " Lunacy in France" contains some curious details, and one affecting anecdote of a mother whose favourite son is-compelled to be domesticated in a mad house. He is educated for a Priest, but his feelings struggle against his " lonely, companioniess lot," and he becomes, in consequence, a raging lunatic. This anecdote is related simply, but with considerable energy. The Phantom Ship" we incline to rank among Captain Marryat's most successful fictions—so far, at least, as it has yet proceeded. The mixture of the wild with the familiar—of romance with reality—pro duces a very vivid effect. We subjoin an extract : " One morning, in the month of October, there was a tap ping with the knuckles at the cottage-door. As this pre caution implied a stranger, Amine obeyed the summons. " I would speak with Master Philip Vanderdecken,' said the stranger, in a half whispering sort of voice. " The party who thus addressed Amine was a little meagre personage, dressed in the garb of the Dutch seamen of the time, with a cap made of badger-skin hanging over his brow. His features were sharp and diminutive, his face of a deadly white, lips 'pale, and his hair of a mixture between red and white. He had very little show of beard—indeed, it was almost difficult to say what his age might be. He might have been a sickly youth early sinking into decrepitude, or an old man, hale in constitution, yet carrying no flesh. But the mcst important feature, and that which immediately riveted the attention of Amine, was the eye of this peculiar personage —for he had but one ; the right eyelid was closed, and the ball within had evidently wasted away ; but his left eye was, for the size of his face and head, of unusual dimensions, very protuberant, clear and watery, and most unpleasant to look upon, being relieved by no fringe of eyelash either above or below it. So remarkable was the feature, that when you looked at the man, you saw his eye and looked at nothing else. It was not a man with one eye, but one eye with a man at tached to it—the body was but the tower of the lighthouse, of no further value, and commanding no further attention, than as the structure which holds up the beacon to the ven topus mariner ; and yet, upon further examination, you would have perceived that the man, although small, was neatly made, with hands very different in texture and colour from those of the common seamen—that his other features, although sharp, were regular, and that there - was an air of superiority even in the obsequious manner of the little personage, and au inde scribable something about his whole appearance which almost impressed you with awe. Amine's dark eyes were for a moment fixed upon the visiter, and she felt a chill at her heart for which she could not account, as she requested that he would walk in. Philip was greatly surprised at th.?. appearance of the stranger, who, as soon as he entered the room, without say ing a word, sat down on the sofa by Philip in the place which Amine had just left. There was something to Philip ominous in this person taking Amine's seat ; all that had passed rushed into his recollection, and be felt that there was a summons fibui his short existence of enjoyment and re pose to a life of future danger, activity, and suffering. What peculiarly struck Philip was, that when the little man sat be side him a sensation of sudden cold ran through his whole frame. The colour fled from Philip's cheek, but he spoke not. For a minute or two there was a silence. The one eyed visiter looked round him, and from the beaufets he ri veted his eye upon the form of Amine, who stood before him ; at last the silence was broken by a sort of giggle on the part of the stranger, which ended in " Philip Vanderdecken—he I he! —Philip Vanderdecken, you don't know me ?' " ' I do not,' replied Philip, in a half angry tone. " The voice of the little man was-must-peculiar—it was a sort of subdued scream, the notes of which sounded in your car long after he had ceased to speak." This anonymous visitor is, of course, the Devil incognito, who, we suspect, will cut a conspicuous figure in the " Phantom Ship." His personal de scription is vividly painted. The " Lover's Lament" is a pleasing Poem. One or two of the ideas are deeply pathetic, and the whole is sweetly versified. In the " Day on the reilgherry Hills" we find an account—which reminds us of some of the graphic descriptions of old Daniel—of a tiger-hunt and bear hunt among the more sequestered mountains and fo rests of India. Had Nimrod been an oriental sports man, he would have detailed his sporting adventures precisely in the free and easy manner of the author before us. We do not imagine that we can give higher praise than this ; for, in his own peculiar line, Nimrod is the first writer of his day. " Flirtation" is livelily written, and some of the sentiments as just as they are poignant. " Scenes in a Country House" are full of light, easy dialogue. In " The Memoir of Miss Landon," justice is done to one of the most accomplished poetesses of the day. The style of this Memoir—very different from Magazine Memoirs in general—is graceful and eloquent. It is eulogistic, but not too much so, and gently deprecates Miss Landon's constant parade of gloom and despair in her Poems. It is never too late," says the writer jthtiy and tersely, it is never too late to despond, and wise people ought not to be in a hurry." Miss Lan don should lay this sentiment to heart, for it is truer than anything in " Romance and Reality." " Better Never than Late" is a clever dramatic piece from the pen of the popular author of " Paul Pry." Ultn in is written in Mr. Poole's best manner. The vited One" is a Ittle sparkling Poem very much in the manner of Haynes Bailey. BENTLEY:',S MISCELLANY. Bentley takes the field in The present Number is the strong forse this month . best we have yet seen. Boz shows off in his best style ; Maginn is critical and learned ; and Ingoldsby versifies; a ig Family Story" in the happiest and most whimsic. ll mak7ller. To begin with " Oliver Twist ;" the " Pick;*bck Papers" will, we suspect, be soon rivalled in popular: V 1 by this clever series of articles ; the characters of which, though only in outline, are superior to any thing we have met with in Captain Marryat's clever, off-hand nouvelletes. Boz has great and ready powers of invention, combined with a felicity of touch that not unfrequently reminds us of the " Citizen of the .1 World." He has no occasion to dig for materi.als ; they are ever ready at command. His Mr. Bumble , the parish beadle, is almost as original a conception as Mr. Pickwick. What can be racier, or display more nice observance of character, than the following dialogue, which takes place between the great parochial dignitary and Mrs. Sowerbery, who has called him in to assist her in reducing to obedience a refractory parish apprentice ? " A'int you trembling while I speak, Sir ?' said Mr. Bumble. " • No,' replied Oliver boldly. 44 Oh, you know, Mr. Bumble, he must be mad,' sail Mrs. Sowerbery, no boy in half his senses could venture to speak so to you.' " It's not madness, Ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after al few minutes of deep meditation, it's meat.' "' What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerbery. " Meat, Ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble with stern em— phasis. You've overfed him, Ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, Ma'am, unbecoming a person of his condition, as the Board, Mrs. Sowerbery, who are prac tical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit either ? It's quite enough that we let 'era have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, Ma'am, this would never have happened.' " The philosophy of this passage is parochial in the highest degree. There can be no mistaking the, speaker, which is the, great charm of dialogue. " Peter Plumbago's Correspondence" works out a lively con ceit with much archness and spirit. The " Youth's Vade Mecum" is a clever piece of versification front the pen of Mr. Whitehead, a gentleman who deserves to be better known than he is. There are few more striking tales in modern literature than his " Confes•- sions of James Wilson." Why does he not follow up the dramatic faculty which he unquestionably pos sesses ? " Nights at Sea" are not so good this month as they have been. But talent, like the tide, must have its ebb and flow. " Shakspeare Papers" is by Dr. Maginn. It is an analysis of the character of Falstaff, and shows much shrewd, subtle discrimina tion. We hope he will next take in hand Rabelais' Panurge, which Shakspeare, we suspect, had in hit eye when he drew " plump Jack," as cannot fail to have struck those who arc familiar with the " Voyage to the Holy Bottle," and the style of bouncing adopted by Pantagruel's " lean liar." The " Squire's Story" is capital. The verse trundles on as lightly and smoothly as a Cambridge tandem on a Newmarket road. " Reflections in a Horse Pond" might have been a posthumous production of Charles Lamb- - The article exhibits throughout much of his quaint, grave humour. FRA ER' S MAGAZINE. There is too much politics in this Number, which otherwise is a good one. The " Greek Fragment lately discovered at Derrinane"—we say nothing of its poli tical bias, but regard it only as a squib—is capital. The lambic metre is preserved with tolerable accuracy throughout, and the doggrel slang in the Greek dialect has an effect irresistibly ludicrous. O'Doherty must be the author of this jeux d'esprit, for we know no other humourist of the day who is capable of it. the solemn exhortation to all Englishmen to look about them— y.,EY Et:TXOT:EITOE iravrEc 'Ayy),ool, rqty ay 61:q9aFr i 7E :WV wro,— before they be destroyed or corrupted by the Pats, who are a nation of mere " brog-trotters" and " shillelagh' bearers" (Bo7reor'rEFvv), is the very sublime of bur' lesque. An " Essay on Originality of Mind," is a pass' able article, from the somewhat antiquated pen of Sir -- Egerton Brydges. An " April Voyage'! contain s some caustic notices of a variety of new publicationO• " Melange from the Notes of an Employe," is an irni" tation of the " World we Live in" of Blackwood, but is scarcely so well executed. The " Fraser Paper s for May" are, as they have always hitherto bee n, of point and fun. We have no space for extracts. . THE DUBLIN MAGAZINE. Sintpkin and Marshall. The " Convicts of Lisnamona," by Mr. Carleto vt_ is continued in this Number. The writer sotu gla every page the depths and shallows of genuine Tri a e ~ feeling. We cannot doubt but the perusal of this w will contribute to direct the attention of his country' men to an author who is not prized half so highly 8 : he deserves. The author of " Hyacinth O'Ga ra ' whose chronicle of " Some doings long ago at C . tit ; raghbeg" we have read with pleasure, is a WI ds with whom—(through the medium of the Da University Magazine be it remembered)—we desire further acquaintance. His shrewdness, and dry l l u ' mour, slightly tinged with sarcasm, are qualities we highly appreciate in the common run of Maga siu ti articles on fanciful or imaginative subjects----val,e brought to bear on the ordinary occurences of life. I ) ; the " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen" Sheridan figu re er again this month. We like the second part rathis better than we did the first, principally because it s. not overloaded with theories and hair-splitting illy tiuctions without differences. The other P a pers ce io sist chiefly of criticisms on works long since noticed 00 • this Journal. As a whole, the present Number isbiest means equal to the last, either in the variety o r interest of its articles. COURT MAGAZINE. Albeit we are the antipodes to the Cou rt in °lir tastes, feelings, and principles, and consider the °P e ; pellativc of this Magazine by no means at tractive , I st we must be just; and being just, we at once a llow t ra " il there is some very pleasant reading in it. The li l te ofy . character, if not of the highest order, is u nl fd to tedly higher than we have before been accustwZriti. see in its pages. The paper on " Contempora r y. et of cism" contains much of truth, although the °Wild the writer in his classification of the various ge ne etii re critics, is evidently enough to raise a stiPe rstru inr that may stand as a sort of monument to his ° Ill : s oa partiality on the ruins of all other pre-existan Contemporary critics. c - " The Observations on Shakespeare ar e usy lel terised by some research and much good sense. m o The has contributed a May-bud, under the title of Belle of the Year ; he gives us some sparklingsrort; written in a spirit which we much a dmire. . 0 oats least attractive pages are the opening ones, for loot; there is a spirited engraving of Lady Aug u , sta se at worth, and a landscape of Raby Ca le, tn.steon tre the Duke of Cleveland. They reflect credit artists. THE MONTHLY MAGAZIN- 6 * 0 • Sherwood and Co. , Our old and familiar acquaintance: Pio ,h the - 4- posi 4 is struggling manfully to regain h is former