The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-25 00:00:00

NOTICE. —LADY . IN Cleat Marlborough-stre e t. HESTER: STANHOPE. The TRAVELS of Itti.tl distinguished Lady, forming the Completion of her ME' AcIRS, narrated by her Physi c i an , w ill be Coady in a few days ; AU those who may desire copies of th e work on the day of public,4i.ton are requested to send their orders immedi rdelY to th eir h°°- ' orellers, to prevent disappointment. Henry C - `siburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbo r ough-street. sionwom..—... ' MRS. GORE'S NEW WORK. RS. GORES SKETCHES of ENGLISH - . MAY NOW BE HAD AT CHARACTER ALLI. THE LIERARIES. In 2 vols., post Bvo., Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NOTICE. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. DUBLIN TO GALWAY. Parties Wko signed the last subscription contract, and holders of scriP. Are informed, that petitions to both Houses of Parliament, " To Stay the progress of the Bill, to cancel the liability of the subscribers 15 the contract, and return to the shareholders the unspent deposits," lie for signature fat the Shareholders' Committee-room, Founders' Lethbary, from 11 to 4 o'clock each day. April 21, 1846. R. THOMPSON, Secretary. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND L&I(OND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &0., take place every Turssnat and FRIDA,T, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerc e , T hreadneedle -street, London, to which place a ll 'kvours, containin g i nstructions, are respectfully requested to be addressed, All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for . e_dxa mination at least o ne d ay previously to their b e i ng offered• '' advises of results will be forwarded by the first pos t after the sale, and the proceeds immeodately disposed of accord in g to instructions. Oitce ; Wall °` CV , :anerce. Threadneedle - str eet, London. NV I L BON'S OPENING N 1 GHT. „„." BON ' S O).TDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, at Ei g ht o'clock. '7e'ILSON begs to announce his FIRST ENTERTAINMENT t 'ae SEASON, in the Music Hall, Store-street, wilcn he Will variety of the SONGS OF SCOTLAND, Some of them for the first time. Pianoforte—Mr. LAND. tart 1.-0 weel may the Boatie row—Of a' the Airts the Wind can blaw—Whe'll buy Caller Herring ?—Hame cam cur gudeman at e'en—Ower the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lea—The Married Man's Lament—Pibroch o' Donald Dhu. Part U.—The Flowers o' the Forest—The Auld School—R'oo'd an' 3.larried an' a' —Auld Joe Nicolson's Bonny Nannie—Get up and be.[ the Door. Private Boxes for Six, 15s. ; for Eight, 11. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madlle. LUCILE GRAHN respectfully informs the Nobility, Sub scribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, APRIL 30, When will be performed (for the first time this season), Doniz Ati's Opera, entitled DO N PASQUALE. Signor Mar ad Norma, Madame GrisiDr. 3la / a ttsta, Signor Fornasari ; Ernesto, In the course Don the E'vening win be revived the Beret Diver tissement, by 31. Perrot, entitled, LE DELIRE D'UN PEI T I RE. Stephano, M. Perr o t ; Blanche d'Oviedo, Madlle. L To gether with 4 Selection from the admired Bailet . , (l C r i ah T n AßlNA ou, LA FILLS DU BANDIT During the Evening various * Dances and Pas de Caracteres by Madlle. L. Grahn, Marine. Taglioni, and M. Pert. r ro To tie followed by th e l as t A ct of V er di' s celebrated Ope ra, entitled, N NO, he Nitats, Signor Fornasari • ' Idaspe, SignorC or t e die lilt;. s O Botelli ; Fenena, Corbari ; Abigail, including 3 TutaschiP, Signor oli. r y y . a t d D e E S . cenem Eoline, To conclude with Selections, the admired Ballet of EOLINE ; ou, Li the D D R Mdlle. Lucile Gratin. Applications for boxes, ;tails, and tickets to be made at the box °nice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVEN!NG Will be performed Rossini's celebrated Opera, entitled, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Resina, Madame Grist ; Il Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Mario ; Bartolo, Signor Lablache ; Basilio, Signor F. Lablache ; Figaro, Signor Fontasari. To conclude with the admired Ballet, by M. Perrot, in Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni, entitled, CATARINA. ; ou, LA FiLLE DU BANDIT. The principal parts sustained by Mdlie. Lucile Grahn and Madame L. Taglioni ; Nf.M. Oosselin, Bertrand, Di Hattie, and Perrot. TIi.iiATREROYA THIS EVENING Will be perfor me d a New Opera, entitled TIIE CRUSADERS The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Rorrani, Hornca.stle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which will be pro,luced a New and Original Ballet, entitled IMELDA. The Duke, Mons. Adrien ; Count Alberti, M. Mathis ; Governor, Mr. T. Matthews ; Fabrico, Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Madlle. Sall. T EA TR E ItOYAL, HAYMARR~;T. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A craft, Mr. R BEGGA ON HORSEBACK. Cyrnon Foxall, Mr. Wehster ; More- W. Farren ; Si r John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Boll; Horace Waidgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermann, J. Bland; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Symph on i c ," th e Fantasle, " Fre Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Cellarlas Waltz ; the " Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Brunow Polka." After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF &RISTOPHANES on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindle, Caulfield, T. F. Niathews, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, I , YeEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unprecedented Attraction for the Easter Holidays. Re-engagement of GENERAL TOM THUMB Great success of the New Comic Drama! THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama, in Three Acts, called HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Diddeiir, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Kis. Reeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARIALE: MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his StvsKi-League Boots. Hop 'n My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Charactes by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stars, Is.; Boxes, 48. : Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEAT RN: RO YA 1., AD ELPII I. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, In Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sansonet, Mr. Wright ; lions. Del 'mare, Mr. Perkins ; Batifole, Miss Woolgar ; Nini, Miss Webster; Cecile, Madame Celeste. Alter which, a New Burlesque, entitled, PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor ; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Honeybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be perform e d 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 THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. Collins ; Isabella, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which Messrs. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, Oxberry ; Miss Taylor, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss Honner, &c., will adpear. ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal.—Extraordinary hit of Mr. Leman Rede's New Equestrian Spectacle, which has been pronounced by the public press to surpass all former produetions. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Original Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Magnificent effects, grand equestrian tableaus, &c. The Scenes hi the Circle will, this present week, prove more than ordinarily brilliant, presenting the whole troop of British end Foreign Professors, aided by the inimitable Clowns, Barry, Wallet, and Rochez. To conclude with a novel Aft erplece. Sex-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at. six and commence at seven o'clock. ",‘ VIMI F.'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. More Novelty ! A New Drama. Great success. Crowded houses. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE 7:13:4; or, the Soldier's Grave. Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Lewis, Heslop, Wil liamson, Mesdms. Vining and Martin will support the principal characters. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THE TILES ; or, A Night at Greenwich. To be followed by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DER CHAMOIS YAGER ; or, The Fiend on Earth. By the Dentin Family. To Conclude with a New Melodrama, called, THE RATS OF RAT CASTLE. ROYAL VICTORIA 'THEATRE. Great Success of the New Drama of "Laid up in Port." THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID IT? IN PORT ; or, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. Fredericks, Saville, Raymond, Tlndell, Higgie, Searle, Burton; Mist Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, THE BRIDE'.; JOURNEY; or, the Escapes of Adelaide of Dresden. In which Miss Vincent will perform. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled THE FACTORY LADS; Wc4lunan's Saturday Ni g h t . In which the whole Company "In c_ELAlcl,‘Ear It E. ~ G . ELTIESi AND MAGIC EFFEC TS. tz.iatztenleer 1a i e de lame, X. PRILLIPPE begs leave to announce tilit in confteuer tile Triumphant Success that has attended his'EA,STE Ina of TAINMENTS, they will be repeated every WedneseilayESlTF-Ra turday Morning, and every Evening until further notice. and 5 - THIS EVENING, M. PIIILLIPP, will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot ! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons. Phllllppe for vwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. M. Philippe will also have the honour of introducing iits GRANDMOTHER'S CAP , with all its laughable and rapid Trans formations. The Entertainments Will be varied by the Dancing of the CHIARENT FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN BROTHERS. . _ The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Kvening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes, It. Is., and 10s. 6d. THE WEATHER—SUE OFFICE, APRIL 25. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest. 55; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 29.98.—W1ND E.; showery. ell°ll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. lifornfrur •• 20 minntea after I. I Evening .. 42 minutes after 1. If9e4- ) 6 c gs •: 7 3; .s , 79 „OS ' k r ? 0 ,a • „ `` " 4 k.l-7,lWl'4icl , SECOND EDITION. g I I I I Utnilt LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1846.. Their Lordships met at. Five o'clock. A somewhat lengthened conversation took place, ort tha which subject Dr. Re e ds of th new ouses of Parliament, in the courte of plan ofventilation, as far as the i-imsse. of Lords was concerned, was acknowledged to be a failure, Their Lordships then adjourned. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. C. WOOD, Lord DALMENY, Mr. B. SCOTT, Sir W. ;:s o . • • . • • CLAUDE HA3/ILTON were sworn at :the 1 415t 4 4 11 . ; .; : ' of the Bridport election, and appointed sl o e en o'clock. hows - \-- ' e ted the House would not adopt its -apart:ANA this , : He had b een t o ld th a t he 11 as Zti c rstl4 itit t iliAter ifi at the present - moment, the niglt i tilt ttie: to tat, he did UOt k1197f the Kr --/-......;., ( -. 1 •-•-• - '2 - / N ; I s• ticular case that was to be made against him. His agent , had been served with ninety-six cases of objection, but ►hat these objections were he could not even surmise. After some short discussion, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the House :had nothing to do with the question—it lay with the Committee. The Committee was then ordered to meet to-morrow at eleven o'clock. coffins and human bones piled up into bonfires, and burnt to make room for a fresh supply of the dead ; he will be told of gravediggers driving their spades into the ground hap-hazard (with injunctions to dig through whatever may intercept their progress), and casting up shovels full of flesh, and hair, and shrouds ; he will even hear of one REUBEN Room, who asserted upon oath that he had at times stood up to his knees in human flesh, stamping with his feet to com press it into a narrow compass; he will read these things and possibly throw the pamphlet aside as an exaggeration —as a fiction. But those disclosures are all true—and more! It is from the hideous character of the facts, and from the terrible consequences which result from those facts, that we derive so much satisfac tion on finding a movement just now reviving for the cor rection or similar abuses in Spafields Burial-ground —a spot notorious for their recurrence. The heart has a spontaneous impulse of joy at intelligence so much in accordance with its better feelings, with its reverence for the dead, and with its affection for the living. Hence do we look forward to the continuation of Mr. MAc- KINNON'S efforts in a cau , e so politic and so venerable, while we are fain to anticipate that ecclesiastical inter ference in its behalf, of which Sir JAMES GRAHAM has spoken with so much confidence. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, were about 6,000 bales, the market closing steadily at a slight decline from Friday last. In Railway Shares there was an improve ment, and more business doing than for some time past. At the public sale of Railway Shares yesterday afternoon, by Messrs. Lomond and Co., there was a good demand, and very fair prices were obtained. The following were the rates for some of the lots :-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. 35.- London and Manchester, Remington's, 195.-North Stafford shire,4/. 55.-W orces t er , H ere f or d, ndon and Bantry, Bs.-Ipswich, Ross, and a C n h d u G rn lo e u t, ces an t d er,l o 9 tstP.e-Bandon Norwich, and Yarmouth, IL 5 5.-Great Eastern and Western, alni.dli‘sii6ddla.-ndC:,rn 11. 8.-Warwick and Worcester, 12s. 6d.- wall and Central De von , 11. 9s. 6d.-South Direct Birmingham and Leicester, 1/.-East Indian, 108.- Louvain a la Sambre, 1/. 5 5.-Bridgewater and Minehead, 18s.-Waveney Valley, 15s. There have not been any arrivals announced from the Colonies to-day. The Bank returns made public last evening show the fol lowing results upon a comparison with its predecessor :- An increase in the notes in circulation of but 1,255/, or to 27,031,510/. An increase in the Rest of 6,69:1, or to 3,359,0841. A decrease in the Public Deposits of 1,013,9471., or to 3,197,029/. A decrease in the other Deposits of 359,0061., or to 17,710,987/. A decrease to 18,736,602/. in the General Securities, but there is a slight increase in the amou n t o f S even - day'sßills in hand. The bullion in store last time was 13,572,027/. Now it is stated at 13,627,170/. Increase, 55,143/. Alto:ther it seems that the position of the Bank of England is gradually becoming more and more favourable. Bank Stock remains at very firm prices. A very firm market has prevailed to-day for the British Securities. Consols for Money have been quoted at 953 to 96%, and for the Account from 96 1 -A to 14. Reduced Annuities arra, however, rather heavy at 95. The New Three-and• a- Quarter per Centss are at 97%. Exchequer bills are rather lower, viz., at 245. premium. Not much business has been done in the Foreign Funds to-day. Brazilian Five per Cents. opened at 82, but are now at 81. , are at 31%; Portuguese at 5814 ; i , s for Account, t at t 51/2 ; and the Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 59 1 % f/ 2. The Railway Share Market is b uoyan t t o -d ay. Th e va l ue th M e ex S i p c a a n n of most of the old Shares are looking up. The latest accu rate prices are annexed FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 9 5 34 95 Ti,?ee. tsar cent. consol s A nnu i t i es .. • • 96 95% 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 9734 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 8, 1860 • • 10% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 • • 10 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. - Ditto, under 1,0001. . • • • . 32 Consols for Account •.• • • 96 Exchequer Bills. I Nd. I%d. 1,000/. - ~.. 27 24 - - pm. 5051 • •• •• •• - •• • • 24 27 - - pin, Ditto, Small •• • 24 27 - - Pm PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 82 81 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • - Ditto, for the Account Portuguese Three per Cents. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. •• •• - Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • • • 8 3 3 4 Dividends on the above pay - able in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59 % Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92 1 t BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester .. 100 125 .. to 1245 a Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 • • l% %.. to - Caledonian .. •• • • • • 10 61/ .... to - Ditto Half Shares .. 2 54 •• • • 134 1 % •. to - Chester and Holyhead .. 2253 2l to - Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% •• • • 1% .. ••to - Direct Manchester (Remington's) • • 1 .... to - Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • .. 3%.. ••to - Direct Northern .. .• .. 234 •• • • INI• • • • to - Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 •• • • 2 1 / .... to - Eastern Counties • • .. 14/. 16s. Od 23%%.. to - Ditto, New • • Si. 16s. Od.• •• • 7%3y pto - Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. I, 61 13s. 4d % P• • to - Ditto, ditto .. No. 2,6/. 13s. p.. to - Ditto, York Exte ns i on • • • • 10s. - Edinburgh and Glasgow .. •• b 0 - to - Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .• 16% .... to - Ditto, New Quarter Shares • • • • 10 - Ely and Huntingdon • .. • • • • 734 ..•• 3% to - Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c. • • 425. •• Ds.• • to - Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .. • • 2334 to - Great Western .. • • 85 -148 •• • • to - Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth • • 2 •• • • 134.... to - Lancaster and Carlisle .. • • • • 40 •• • • 55 34 to - London and Birmingham .. • • • • 100 .• • • - •• .. to - Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 2 - Ditto, Fifths .• 2 •• • • 24 54 •• • • to - London and Illackwaß .. 161. 13$. 4d. •• • • 8% •• .. to - London and Brighton • • •• SO 643454.. to - Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 •• • • 29% .. •to - London and Croydon .. 13/. 153. 9d. •• •• 22%.... to 2254 London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d. • • Ditto, New .. • • 1234.• 2234 %% % to - Ditto, New .. • • .. 10 •• • • 18 .. • . to - London and York .. . 234 •. • . 1%34.. to - Ditto, Half Shares •. • • • • 234 •••• 1% •.. to - Lynn and Ely .. • • .. 10 •• • • 6% .. •• to 7 Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• • • - .. • • to -- Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 • • - Ditto, Extension 425. - Manchester and Birmingham .• •• 40 • • - •••• to - Ditto, Quar.er Shares (II) .. 4 - Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 . • - Midland • .100 •• 146 .... to - Ditto, New • • 18 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby -100 • 118 .... to - Newcastle and Darlington Junction • • 25 - Ditto, New .. •• • • 1... • 9 .. to 8% Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 - Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 19 1 ,E .... to - North British .. • . 20 Ditto, Half Shares .. •• .. 6 .... 834.... to - Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • • • 11% • . 1%.. •to - Northern and Eastern .. .. • • 50 71 .... to - North Staffordshire .. • . • • 425. - Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12 1 / - Portsmouth Direct • • •• • • 3% •- • • 236 •• • • to- Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .. • • 2% .... to - South Devon • • • . .. • . • • .. 3.5 • • - South Midland • .. 425. dis par to 31 dis, South Eastern and Dover .. .. 33 38 •• .. to 3734 Ditto, New, No. 2 .• .. • . .. 10 ... 12 .... to 11% Ditto, New, No. 3 •• • • • • .. 15 15 1 ,E to - South Wales .. .. • • • • • • .. 5 .... 2 .... to 154 Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • .. 2 .... % dis ••to - Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • .. 234 .... .... to - West Riding Union .. • • • • • • 425..... 154 pto - York and North Midland • • • • 50 - .... to - Ditto. Extension • • • • • • .. 15 .... 33 . to - Ditto East and West Riding Extension I .... 934 34 34 to - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish •• • • • • • • .. 5 .. ,• 64 34 .. to - East Indian • • .. •• • • .. ss. ...• 54 ••• •to - Great Northent of France Constituted 5 .... 15% .... to - Louvain and Jemeppe ' • • • • • 4 •• • • to - Madrid and Valentin • • • • • • • • 2 .. • • 1 •• • • to - Namur and Liege • • • • • • •• 4 .. • • 134 .. • • to - Paris and Ot leans • • • • • • • • 20 .... 48N .... to - Rouen and Havre • • • • . .. 20 .... 30% %14to 30 MINES • Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. B. rane, said that th e Government had done all it couldfoCr.thhi relief of the families o f C a ptain Stoddart andCapfetraitne c e e the nolly, and that any further relief must be looped East India Company. 30frn.the SMITHm O'BRlENotionfot wihereehsuedmtpe hntioneowftfhreematdhjtehourneGNoeevdbernldeembLaeetnredt, the Member for Lynn whether,. supposingaup allowport tha t corn measure. su e r. Theberouht w in e te re l t r o el b eh ri d n g d i u n ty a Bill free, Hon. Gentleman, in putting rthmein question, went again at con siderable length proposing p would osl n g to tlhreelpaen,d)p,leanind the state o different parts of that count r y. fwantinatnodth miserye alarming exist c in on g di a t m io o n n i g f Lord G.B i en ti s n h c a k, V. Smith, S DIr. O'Connell, 3 t i a r ff . o p. rd O'Brien, Mr. nnan and Mr. Cobden, having addressed the House, Scrope,Mi. S. O'BRIEN wished to know if the Right Hon. Gen tleman was willing to accept the terms of his offer? Sir R. PEEL said that he had no hesitation in at once say ing that he could not accept them. 11Ir. DISRAELI rose to charge the First Minister of the Crown with cheering an expression in the Hon. Member for Stockport's speech, namely, that the inhabitants of the "towns should rule the country party." The Hon. Gentle man having very warmly adverted to the circumstance, Sir R PEEL said " I totally deny the fact." Mr. MaunicE O'CONNELL moved the adjournment of the House. A warm discussion then arose, as to the previous misun derstanding, in which several Hon. Members joined in stating that Sir Robert Peel did not cheer at the time alleged. Mr. DISRAELI then explained, and apologised for his The adjourned debate having been resumed, Mr. JOHN O'Coxxxu, addressed the House at some length, after which, on the motion of Mr. ArCapanv, the debate was adjourned to Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned. Madrid papers and letters of the lith have been received. The Gazette contains a circular, issued by 31. PIDAL, the Minister of the Interior, authorising all the political chiefs of Spain, in consequence of the " military rebellion' in Galicia, to adopt all the extraordinary measures, such as the procla mation of martial law, that the maintenance of order may require." From the dispatches published in the same Ga zette, it would appear that the QUEEN'S troops had entered the suburbs of Lugo, but that the town itself was still in possession of the insurgents. El Herald() says that CONCHA has taken General IntAnTE prisoner. The rumour, however, wants confirmation. There were likewise rumours of pronuncianiientos haying taken place at Cadiz, Saragossa, and Valencia. They could not, however, be traced to any authentic source. Lord CAMPBELL, who has already distinguished him self so highly by the judicious legal reforms he has in troduced, last night added to his well-merited reputation by moving the second reading of two Bills, viz., the " Deodands Abolition Bill" and the " Death by Acci dent Compensation Bill." A deputation from the authorities and inhabitants of Val ladolid had arrived in Madrid, to beseech her MAJESTY to show mercy to the prisoners taken by General Conctin. in the affair of Astorga. The British Minister, Mr.Bu LAVER, had also interceded for the prisoners, and it was rumoured that the Council had determined in consequence to spare the privates, but to try the officer 3 and sergeants by court martial. It is difficult to conceive why the law relating to deodands has been permitted to remain so long in its present state ; it is one of the relics of the darker ages. The principle on which it was originally founded was, that anything by which human life was destroyed, or its loss was caused, should be forfeited, and its very name " deodand," or a gift to GOD, implies its original object, viz., that its value should he applied in pious uses, for the repose of the soul of the deceased person. When the State no longer recognised such an object the Crown retained the forfeiture for its own use, and in every coroncr's inquest a part of the duty of the jury was to find what was the thing by which the death was caused, and what was its value. For many years it was usual for the jury to assess a nominal SUM as the v,lue of the deodand, but when numerous deaths ensued from railway accidents—many of them resulting from negligence on the part of the servants or officials of the company—the almost obsolete law was revived, for the purpose of inflicting a punishment where no adequate one was in existence, and large sums were assessed as the value of the engine or carriages causing the accident. The magnitude of the fines inflicted induced the parties interested to remove the proceedings into the Court of Queen's Bench, in which they were almost invariably quashed. Mr. WAKLET, who has applied his great ex perience to a subject so peculiarly within his province as one of the coroners for the county of Middlesex, has stated that no benefit whatsoever arose in any instance from deodands under the present law. This being the case it is surely high time that so useless a law should be abrogated. And we are happy to find that by the second Bill, which is intimately con nected with the former, an efficient and valuable enactment will be substituted in its place. Hitherto, by a strange anomaly in the law, although a person could recover pecuniary damages as compen sation for any minor injury he might sustain, caused by the default or neglect of another, yet, if the greatest injury of all was sustained—if death ensued—there was no remedy for his bereaved family, who might in a moment be reduced from comfort and affluence to misery and destitution, without being enabled to obtain any redress from the person by whom so heavy a loss was occasioned. A better state of law exists in Scotland and in all the continental states on this subject. We have lately seen a sum of two thousand pounds awarded to the relatives of a person who met his death by an accident on one of the Scotch railways; and in France, a sum of twenty thousand francs against Monsieur BEAU TALLON, as a compensation for the death of the gentle man who unfortunately fell by his hand in a duel, although he was acquitted of the capital charge ; and we have no hesitation in saying that such decisions were received with approbation by the public. The present state of the law forms an exception to the gt neral rule—that wherever there was a wrong inflicted, the law should give a compensation. The Noble Mover seemed to fear that in the Commons difficulties would be thrown in the way of the Bill passing into a law, from the strength of the railway interest in that House. We cannot think so badly of our Legislators as to sup pose it possible that private interests should be suffered to impede the progress of a measure so just and equitable in itself, and one in favour of which there is so strong a feeling on the part of the public. Several fresh arrests have taken place in Madrid, and the Eco del Commercio has again been seized. General RoNull has, it is said, withdrawn his acceptance of the Governorship of Havannah, and will probably be ap pointed Captain- General of Grenada, in the room of General SAWZ. .. .. 31% .. 58% On the 16th Don FRANCISCO DR PAULA held a grand re. ception in honour of the birthday of his son, Don ENRIQU E. These journals contain no further intelligence on the sub ject of the Ministerial crisis. BIADRID BOLSA, APRIL 17.—Three per Cents., 31% for Cash ; Five per Cents., 20% for Cash ; Exchange on Lon don, 37%. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. LECOMTE was transferred to the Luxembourg prison at sine o'clock on Wednesday. He states that he fired at the KING because his MAJESTY in reply to his petition, on the subject of his pension, had referred him to Count MONTA. LIVET, which he considered as tantamount to a refusal. The Journal des Debats publishes a note which has just been presented by M. DE BOUTENIEFF to the Court of Rome, on the subject of the alleged persecutions of the Ba silian nuns in Minsk. The Russian Government declares that it has caused the most searching inquiry to be made as to the truth of the facts alleged, and it gives the most solemn, formal, and explicit contradiction to all the statements of the person calling herself the Basilian Abbess—statements which are pure fabrications, forming part and parcel of the con spiracy for getting up the insurrection which has recently broken out in the provinces of ancient Poland. This is the note : "Additional information to complete the preceding note on the soi-disant Abbess de Mieczislawska. "Addition the first.—On her arrival in Paris, the woman Mieczislawska began by calling herself abbess of the convent of Kowno, and the Univers observed on this occasion that the Basilian nuns have been established from time imme morial near the village of Kowno. Subsequently the in ventors of this fable must have learned th a t th ere exists no convent of Bazilian nuns either in the town of Kowno or the province bearing that name. It was then that they made Mieczislawska assume the title of abbess of the convent of Minsk, which has j us t as littl e ex i s t ence. I n more precision we will remark that up to the year 1834 there was a con vent of Bazilian nuns at Minsk, but in that year the convent was transformed into an hospital. In exchange, the former convent of the Carmelites at Madgioly, a small town in the same government, district of Villeika, was placed at the dis posal of the Basilian nuns, and they were transferred to Madgioly, with an increase of revenues and other advan tages, amongst which w a s an annua l contribution of 1,500 silver roubles, which the abbess of this convent, Lewehetzka, enjoys to this d a y. All thi s passe d fi ve years before the ' union of the United Greeks with the Church of the State. 1 "Addition 2.—lt has been proved that the Bazilian nuns who had expressed a desire to live with their relations of the ROman Catholic faith continue to be with them, and that not one of them has disappeared. "Addition 3.—The following is an account of the nine convents of Bazilian nuns, with the names of their supe• riors at the time of the union :-2. At Wilna, the Abbess Wichinska ;2. Grodno, Bolkonna ; 3. Vitebsk, Kasimirska 4. Polosk, Koulechauka ; 5. Pinsk, Korewianka; 6. Mad gioly, Lewchetska (this is the person who was abbess of ' Minsk when the convent of that place was transferred to Madgioly in 1834); 7. Orka, Schthepanowska ; 8. Polounce, Tchernikowska ; 9. Woliany, Pechkowska. Of these nine Basilian convents one only has been suppresed since the union namely, that of Wilna, where there were only four nuns, two of whom entered the convent of Woliany, and two that of Polounce. The internal direction of the convents has been preserved by the same superiors and maintained precisely on the same footing as before the union. No change whatever has taken place in the former mode of administration. In the apocry phal interrogatory published by the Univers and the Journal des Dibats, the woman Mieczislawska mentions the co-ope ration of the civil governor of Minsk, Usrakoff, in the mea sures of violence of which the Basilian nuns are said to have been the victims. There is no governor at Minsk of the name of Usrakoff. He has been confounded with the Coun sellor Souchkoff, who has been governor of Minsk since the year 1838, at which time these pretended persecutions are said to have commenced. Now, M. Souchkoff declares in the most positive manner, that during the whole of his go vernment no incident has come to his knowledge of a nature calculated in any way to explain the source of the odious narrative of the woman Mieczislawska; no com plaint or remonstrance on the part of the Basilian nuns has ever been addressed to him ; he has never heard of any complaints of the nature in question ; never, in his fre quent communications with the clergy - of the two religion's, or in his tours of inspection, which have more than once led him to the convents, has he received the slightest indication which could induce him to suppose the existence of abuses. In the same interrogatory, the woman Mieczislawska termi nates her recital, with an eulogium on the Mother-General of the order of Basilian nuns, the Princess Euphrosina Giedy min, descendant of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, aged more than 80. She says—' When the persecution began to rage, she sustained and encouragod the sisters by her example. Being sent into Siberia, she died during the way,' &c. In the first place, we will observe that Basilian nuns have never had a Mother-General of their order in Russia. In the second place, it is positive that the Princess Euphrosina Giedymin, who is brought to life in 1838, died in Rome on the 12th of November, 1239, more than six hundred years ago. We have consulted her genealogy, as also the authors who speak of her. Renowned for her piety, her memory is principally kept up among the Basilian sisters. This single fact, it appears to uN ought to suffice to show the meassire of veracity of all the other assertions of the woman Mieczislawska. St. Petersburgh, March, 1846." At the commencement of the present month we gladly seized an opportunity which enabled us to give a voice to that general sentiment of loathing in the public mind towards the hideous scenes enacted in too many of our London churchyards, and which sentiment, though shrouded by something very like apathy in the parties towards whom we are entitled to look for repa ration, is, we might undertake to avouch, more prevalent and more earnest than possibly any other excited by a social grievance. The op portunity to which we refer was the introduction of a Bill, by Mr. MACKINNON, for the removal of burial from towns, the prosecution of which laudable project has, however, been prevented by the extraordinary pro longation of other discussions in the Lower House. Nothing further has transpired in Parliament in reference to this very important matter, by which additional comments have been either alto gether precluded, or rendered to a considerable extent useless. In this manner an affair involving not only the cleanliness, but the decency ; not only the decency, but the health ; not only the health, but the morals of the populace, has been left in abeyance. The evil is still rife in some of the most dense and populous quarters of this great city, and no effort has been made to alleviate, much less to eradicate, the nuisance. Clear passages are carved through the heart of St. Giles's ; the few tenements still remaining are by that means exposed to a salubrious ventilation ; and by a recent parochial re solution, we observe that it is proposed to root out some of the most infamous dens in the vicinity of West minster Abbey, and transform theneighhourhood into re spectability e pivtr t eso a mv b ae i n t lnh i t taa y ssb tf l ian t ra h t sas i n .a appearance tr i h t il s ehhytoegodo_,irue boctoonotb,hatenetyddhleyiayn: are are eene admirablessceuhrffiav r ec a i e c n t a e tl r l people is regardedin one . The sanatory position of the essential particular, but in another it is forgotten contemned—the homes of the livin g are cared the homes of the dead are treated as though of no inon' whatever. N ow, i f we considered these facts simply e t their politi ca l i n fl uence, they would fully arouseourin in terest, seein g th at a ll philosophic legislators, whether in times of the remotest antiquitr or in lands of the most excessive barbarism, have incorporated with their systems a reverence for the relics of humanity. They knew that any decay of feeling in this regard would tend inevitably to subvert some of the most humanising principles of our common nature. As an evidence of this esteem even for the perishable remains of their fellow-men, we may incidentally mention the costly sarcophagi and perfumed mummies of the Egyptians, the mausoleums which flanked the principal roads of entrance to the Eternal City, the solemn funeral cere monies even of savages, but especially the impressive and beautiful rites of death peculiar to Christianity, Everything conspires to prove that some respect either of heart or of formality is requisite to maintain the com monest sentiments of decency and humanity am ong the people. Experience shows this, so also does reason. But there are other and no less important lights in which the matter can he regarded. Due attention to in terment is necessary for the preservation of bodily health, as well as for the cleanliness and adornment of These things are so manifest in tt•- cm. selves, we have already s o fully ex ' e used their sufficiency in The Sun, and , cie -eumstances of a most harrowing nature have so. adequately demonstrated the truth of such conC l iasions, even within th e bounda The Journal des Dibats states that the Minister of Ma rine has given orders that at each of the Frenck dockyards a ship-of-the-line should be built without delay. This mea sure, says the Debuts is equivalent to keeping five new ships-of-the-line afloat, because it is an easy matter to keep on the slips ships ready for launching. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday, at 83f. 65c.; the Five per Cents, 1201. 10c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2371. 55c. ; Rouen, 1,0401. ; Havre, 7551. ; Great Northern, 768 f. 75c.; Avignon, 925 f. ; Vierzon, 687 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 6271. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 410 f. ; Basle, 230 f.; Fatnpoux, 450 f. ; Dieppe, 457 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 520 f.; Tours and Nantes, 545 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 575 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 75f; Spanish Actives, 32%. The following are the quotations in the new lines :- Lyons and Avi gnon R ailroad (Talabot), 5121. ; ditto (Le cointe), 1061. ; di tto Bordeaux and Cette (Macknzie), 601 f. 50c. I ditto (Espeleta), 507 f. 50c. ; Charleroi, 4951. Lions , APEIL 21.-Marseilles and Avigno n , 8951 .; P ar i s and Orleans, 1,202 f. 500 ; Rouen ' 1,0281. ;Lyons, 5651. lIIJSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN' RAILWAYS AT THE. LONDON STOCK ExCIiANGE, Avail, 24. Boulogne and Amiens, lIN -Dutch Rhenish, 8 1 ,4 E t I dlan, }i -Great Northern of France Constituted, 1554 --- Na as n- Liege, Great Northern and Bordeaux, 1 l- Paris and latraabournrurcaeld stituted, 5% -Rouen and Havre, 30% -Sambre and Mous g e, 5 11- Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%. LLOYD'SSHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 25.—Wind, N.E., sunrise, light breeze, and line clear weather ; 10h. 30m. cloudy; I lh. heavy rain and hail ; at noon, light breeze and One, but cloudy at times. DEAL, APRIL 21.—Wind S.E. to IC moderate.—Arrd. Palmer, and slcl. for Ghent ; Waterwitch, Strugnell, St. Michael's. Arrd. from the River. Ilindostan, Lamb, Bombay ; Tyne, Montreal. Arrd. from the River and and. Duke of Portland, Cubitt, Bombay, LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24.—Wind N.N.E., light breeze.—Arrd. Par land, Smith, New Orleans ; Abagun, Finney, Charleston ; Ranawan, Swaney, Wilmington. SM. 24th, llama. Amicizia, Bassi, Rio Janeiro ; Nel son Pakenh packet, am, Bourne Meadus, , BarNewbadoesfoundl ; Washandington, Wilkie, Staten I s l and; SHIELDS, APRIL 22.—S1d. Walker, Cozon, North America; Hope, MirainichL PENZANCE, APRIL 22.—Tbe schooner Lady of the Lake, repor'ed A IRIL 23. —The Ent erpr i se, Berwick, from London. ‘^- yesterday ashore on Chy andour Beach, came off last tide without ap parent CARDIFF, got off Breaksea P o i n t yesterday morning, and brow. 4- • • the evening. 31t:Ntsr.r.s, APRIL 22.—Th e H ope, I%*''' in in Porthcawl, parted chain and 0- parently has sustaine" HARTLEPOO• Walla,- Talbot tb —vv. on shak - e M hhth water, but ap , Arati, " 2 . 4 l4 fr Card, marked in gilt letters "Sir W. ,„.-- was washed on shore near the Black Itocks, north of this ~ace, on the 20th inst. L — Malabar, Saldanha Bay. SMELLS, APRIL 23.—The Aletander, bf this port, from London- Wlnd derry to St. John's, New Brtlhaivick, with emigrants, is reported to have put back to Ireland, having been dismiloamstued.yo,ffroTi.et•yonlsdloann.d. Aden. BRISTOL, APRIL • OFF N Ew p F O A R L: O A TI I , L2 A 42 p 4 i . Marmon', APRIL 23.—Wind E.—Sld. Fawcett, Sligo and Quebec. our towns. ries of the metropolis, that any amplification of the like arguments would now be superfluous. A pamphlet, very recently published, with the quaint heading of "Burial ground Ince n di ar i sm, " wr i tten b y M r. G . WALKER, an untiri ng advocate for the suppression of interment within cities, will afford any one unacqua i n t e d w ith t h e details of our London churchyards a frightful bird's-eye view of the occurrences enacted in those pernicious nests of decornposition. Jae who is a will shudder over their diem stranger to the facts al record ; he, will hear of CABINET DINNER.—There will be a Cabinet dinner on Wednesday next, but it is uncertain whether the Earl of Aber deen •r the Right lion. William E. Gladstone will give the entertain. ment. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The negotiation for th• Queen Dowager's occupancy of Blenheim Palace, the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, has been broken off. The object her Ma jesty had in visiting Cashiobury, Herts, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Essex, was preliminary to completing an agreement for , renting it for two years; and we can state that yesterday her Ma jesty accepted the terms of the noble owner. HOLLOWAY FAlR.—This pleasure fair will be revived on Monday next, and continue four days. A large portion of the , grMid LB already covered with bovtits and ohms, PrEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1846. Eastern Company were asked to pay the money: The appli cation was made to the solicitor of the company, the person to Whom under the Act the application should be made., but no answer was received, and the application was renewed. In answer to that application a letter Was received from the company's solicitor, stating that he was sorry that the pay ment of the 10,000/. had been delayed, but it had passed the finance committee and board, and a cheque for the amount should be ready on the following Friday. The money was not forthcoming on that day, and another application was made, the answer to which stated that the cheque was ready and would be forwarded. As the money was not forth coming, and as it was necessary that their Lordships—who had waited as long as their duty would permit—should have the money to be applied to the purposes already stated, it became necessary for them to make this application to the Court. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Take a rule. IN RE CHAMBERS V. WILTON. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied to - the - Court to revise certain judgments which had been given by Mr. Chambers to a Mr. Wilton, and also for a writ of scire facies, to make the assignee of Mr. Wilton, under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, a party to those judgments. It appeared that Mr. Wilton had for some years acted as attorney for Mr. Chambers, who was a banker, and against whom a commission of bankruptcy had been issued, and had received four warrants of attorney on which judgment had been entered up. It was iu respect of one of these warrants that the present application was made. One of these war rants was a bond, under a penalty of 3,0001., to indemnify Mr. Wilton against certain costs in an action which was then pending, and also in certain other proceedings involving the validity of the bankruptcy against Mr. Chambers. An other of them was a bond, under a penalty of 10,00 N, to secure 5,000/. by way of gift or gratuity to Mr. Wilton, in respect of certain services which he had performed, and the two other judgments were simply for costs— one for a sum of between 4,000/. and 5,0001., and the other for 3,9601. for costs due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton in certain Chancery proceedings. Judgment was entered on all these warrants, and as they remained unsatisfied, in January, 1837, a rule was obtained calling on Mr. Wilton! to show cause why judgement should not be vacated. - The ground on which the application was made was, that at the time these costs were incurred Mr. Wilton was not an attorney duly qualified to act in that Court, or at the time when the warrants were made. The matter was discussed in that Court, and the rule was made absolute for vacating the judgments, with a qralitication that they were to be referred to the Master to ascertain how much was due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton for money actually paid, and subjecting these warrants to the payment of whatever money might be due upon that ground. The matter was referred to the Master, and it seemed that from 700/. to 800/. were due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton for money paid. After that Mr. Chambers proceeded in Chancery against Mr. Wilton, in order to have that suns still further reduced, and to obtain an order of the Court to ascertain how much of this 700/. was for business done in the Court of Chancery, when Mr. Wilton was duly qualified to practise as an attorney. This question was under a decretal order of the Court referred to a Master, and the result was that instead of 7001., only 1111. was found to be due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton, and accordingly a decree was obtained that on payment of that sum satisfaction should be entered upon the warrants. In the meantime Mr. Wilton had assigned two of these judgments to a gentleman named Greene, who was conse quently interested in these proceedings, and would of course be entitled to some portion of the 1111. Mr. Wilton took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act and a Mr. Sturges was appointed as his assignee. The result was that Mr. Wilton, who was entitled to the pay ment of 111/. before Mr. Chambers could enter or cause to be entered satisfaction on the warrants, ceased to have any inte rest in them, as he had subscribed them to Mr. Greene and to his assignee. Mr. Chambers was perfectly willing to pay the 111/., but could only pay it on satisfaction being entered on ehese judgments. On the other band Mr. Greene was willing to arrange his claims, and Mr. Sturges, the assignee, was willing to cancel the judgments on the receipt of 1111. An application was made by Mr. Chambers some time since to enter up judgment on payment of 1111,but the objection was that it was a proceeding fur the Court of Chancery, and the rule was accordingly discharged. The present applica tion was made on behalf of Mr. Wilton's assignee in order that judgment might be entered up, and the 111/., subject to the claim of Mr. Greene, should be paid to him to distribute amongst the creditors of Mr. Wilton, for he could not obtain the money except on satisfaction being enured. This tran saction took place 15 years ago, and the present application wasmade to revive these judgments and to make Mr. Sturges a party to them. The only question was whether under these circumstances it was necessary to have a rule nisi to show cause, or to serve a rule on Mr. Wilton to enable him to show cause. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—TO avoid any trouble you had better take a rule to show cause. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Baron ALnEnsoN.) SLACK v. FRANCIS. This was an action brought to recover the possession of certain deeds which had been placed in the defendant's hands for the purpose of raising money on a bill, the deeds being placed, as the defendants considered, as a collateral security. The plaintiff, before the money was advanced, changed his intention, and demanded the repossession of the documents, but the defendant Francis refused to deliver them unless he was paid his costs. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of 400/., the payment of which was to be enforced, if the defendant did not give up possession of the deeds. WINTERBURN V. BROOKS AND OTHERS. This was au action brought to recover damages which the plaintiff had sustained, by means of an assault committed, and false imprisonment sustained, at the instance of the defendants. It appeared, from the evidence for the plaintiff, that Mr. Winterburn happened to have a very ill-conducted youth for a son, who was accustumeol to keep very bad company, and on the day in question, the 21st of December last, the son had stolen from his home, to go to his usual haunts, and Mr. Winterburn followed to drive him home. It happened whilst he was administering chastisement with a strap, which was shown to be by no means grievous, Mr. Brooks, a Mr. Wil kinson, and a Mr. Herbert, seized hold of Mr. Winterburn, shook him, and led him by the collar to the station-house. [The Court then rose to enable his Lordship to attend the Crown cases.] BRID PORT ELECTION COM MITTEE.—(THIS DAY.) RETURN OF MR. ROjiltrY, THE LIBERAL CAN DIDATE. The Committee appointed to inquire into the truth of the allegations against the return of Mr. Bailie Cochrane as Par liamentary representative for the borough of Bridport, sat for the first time at eleven o'clock this morning, in No. 2 Committee-room of the House of Commons. The allegations were bribery, treating, and corruption. It may be remem bered that the Honourable Member was returned by a majo rity of one only, and it was stated very generally, at the close of the election, that had it not been for some errors in the polling-books, the majority would have been in favour of Mr. Romilly, the opposing candidate. The Committee consisted of Mr. Charles Wood (chair man), Mr. B. Escott, Sir William Somerville, Lord Claude Hamilton, and Lord Dalmeny. The counsel for the petitioners were Mr. Cockburn, Ser geant Wrangham, and Sergeant Kinglake ; and for the sit ting Member Mr.'Austin and Mr. Sergeant Murphy. The agent for the petitioners was Mr. Coppock, and for the sitting Member Messrs. Vizard and Lemon. Mr. Cochrane was present during the proceedings. The proceedings were opened by the clerk of the Com mittee reading the petition, after which The CHantsresi said—Mr. Cockburn, we have come to the same resolutions which we passed in the case of the Cam bridge Committee. I believe I need not read them over to you. Mr. Couxnunsf—Oh, no • they ought in fact to be taken as the general practice of iarliament. The CHAIRMAN—ExactIy so; it was necessary that we should come to these resolutions for our own guidance. Mr. Ausisx said that those resolutions should in fact be looked upon as the Tidd's Practice for Parliament.— (Laughter ) Mr. Comeliest said, that it then became his duty, on the part of the petitioners, to state the immediate cir cumstances under which the petition was sought to be up held. It was a petition that contained numerous allega tions, and for the purpose of laying before them the case of the petitioners, he might state at once that all the main points would be brought under their consideration. And one of the grounds on which the petitioners sought to set aside the return of Mr. Cochrane, and establish the right of Mr. Romilly to be returned for this election, embraced what was called the general case, and the other resolved itself into a question of scrutiny. Upon the general case the petitioners contended that Mr. Cochrane's return was void in point of law, and ought to be set aside, as well as upon the scrutiny ; and they would show to the Committee r several cases by which Mr. Cochrane had rendered himself disabled and disqualified to be returned to sit in the present session of Parliament. On the scrutiny, they would contend that he ought never to have been re turned, but that Mr. Romilly was entitled to be returned for the borough of Bridport. Now it was always a painful matter to have to enter on what was called the general case, because oae could not do that without more or less implicat ing either the sitting Member himself, or those who bad acted on his behalf—his friends or agents. There was no question about treating in this case. They were prepared to prove that the sitting Meniber, and his agents, had obtained this return by means of corrupt and illegal practices. Now, furthermore, upon the scrutiny they said that several votes had been rendered void by bribery, and they were prepared to prove that that had been done in numerous instances. They were also on the scrutiny prepared to show that the various other grounds which were set forth in detail in the notices which they had served on the opposing party, and which would, therefore, render it unnecessary for him to trouble them by minutely going over those various grounds, were all capable of proof. They contended that votes had been given for Mr. Cochrane which ought not to have been given, and that votes had been withheld which oughtto have been given to Mr. Romilly. Mr. AUSTIN—My Learned Friend talks about a scrutiny, and it will be a great convenience to us if he tells us whether he means to go into the general case, as he calls it, or to go into the scrutiny. The CHAIRMAN—I suppose he will tell us before he has done. Mr. Cocienuax—My Learned Friend's interruption is not regular or usual ; but if he wishes to know I have no hesita tion in telling you, that though I feel it my duty to open the whole case on which I seek to avoid this return, I shall think it right first to proceed with thescrutiny, because I believe that upon that scrutiny I shall be enabled to seat Mr. Romilly, and if so, I. shall then be spared the more painful inquiry into those practices which are charged against Mr. Cochrane. Mr. AUSTIN—My Learned Friend has a right, no doubt, to begin with what part of the case he pleases, but I also have a right to ascertain from my Learned Friend what course he proposes to follow, and I consider it to be my duty to ascer tain from him what that course is. You will observe— The CIIAIRMAN—I think you ought to allow him to go on. Mr. Ausnx—l think not. It is with reference to the con ducting of the case. I understand that my Learned Friend will go into the scrutiny first ; and he has a right to do that no doubt, if he please, or he may take the general case first. If you will just look at this petition, you will find that the bulk of the allegations consists of what is called the general case. With reference to that general case, I beg to say that I am prepared, on the part of Mr. Cochrane, to meet it. But, Sir, with reference to the scrutiny, if we are to be driven into the scrutiny before we go into the general case, then I will tell my Learned Friend, and the Committee, which is of more importance, that at this period of Parliament—that at the time when this session may probably measure the dura tion of the whole Parliament, I do not think it right, on the part of my client, to follow my Learned Friend through a scrutiny which might last to the end of the session itself. It would be a waste of time and an expense which I do not feel the least degree of inclination to advise, and I therefore do not intend to go int o th e scrut i ny at al l. Ido not, in fact, wish to inquire whether Mr. Johnson received alms from the agents of my client, or whether another man received 101. ; and, therefore, if my L earne d F r i end wishes to go in to the scrutiny,he may go on with that if he chooses; but with the general case lam prepared to grapple. I do not, how ever, mean to go into the question of scrutiny. I think, therefore, that you will admit that my interruption is quite pertinent. The CHAIRMAN—Pefectly so. Mr. COCKRUAN said that he hardly understood his position. If he were to strike off two voters unopposed by the other party, that was one thing; but he would certainly prefer fol lowing his own course, as he understood his Learned Friend was not prepared to go into the question of scrutiny. Mr. Auntie did not see any difficulty whatever as to the course to be adopted by his Learned Friend with regard to the question of scrutiny. It was simply whether a man of the name of Skyrocket, or something of that sort—(Laughter) —went and voted for Mr. Romilly, whilst the vote was en tered for Mr. Cochrane. Sergeant Wuissioxase—They ought to rest ore th a t vo t e t o the right owner at once. The CHAIRMAN—Of course, if that is so, he ought to be entered for Romilly. Mr. CO CKBURN—Sergeant Murphy says, the man went up a rocket to vote for Romilly, and came down a Cochrance. Mr. AUSTIN —This is a case in which a scrutiny is most desirable, to inquire into the conduct:of the returning officers. The CHAIRMAN—It is quite clear that we are called upon to enter into a scrutiny. Mr. Cocumnix—l am quite delighted that for the present, at least, I am called upon to go into the question of those per sonal matters to which I have alluded. The CHAIRMAN—YOU had better proceed with the proof about the state of the polling-books. Mr. R. Naylor, chief clerk of the High Court of Chancery, was accordingly called, and having been sworn, was cross examined as follows: Mr. SERGEANT WRANGHAM—DO you produce the polling.. books in this case ?—I do. Do you find the name of William Rockett, cordwainer, in them ?—I do ; his name is placed op posite 273, on the register, and his residence is stated to be South-street: he is put down as having voted for Mr. Cochrane. Is there not something opposite his name, which has been written over ?—Yes; there were some words written opposite his name, but they have been struck out ; I believe the words " not completed" are those which have been struck out. Joseph Welsh was the next witness, and was examined as follows : Do you know Wm. Rockett ?—Perfectly well. He is a voter at Bridport 2—Yes, Sir. Were you present at the time when he came to vote at the last Bridport election ? Yes, Sir. Did you see him come up to vote 2—l saw him come to the polling-booth. Did you see him give his vote ? —Yes : he voted for Mr. Romilly The CHaansms—Was he sober at the time ?--Yes, Do you see him h ere ?—I h ave not seen him here. S ir Sergeant Waasastrast—He is not liere. In cases of this kind voters are parties in the case, and they are no t, there fore, entitled to be ev id ence. H i s ad missions may be evi dence against him, but not for him. As the counsel for Mr. Cochrane had already stated that they were not prepared to defend a scrutiny, the Chairman here ordered the room to be cleared for the purpose of con sulting with his colleagues; and after the lapse of a few minutes the parties were re-admitted, when The CHARMAN said—We have come to the resolution that Mr. Cochrane was not duly elected, and that Mr. Rost* was duly elected, and ought to be returned, and we shall report to the House that the manner in which Mr. Coch rane was returned was by the transfer of Rockett's vote. The case was thus suddenly brought to a conclusion in the space of three-quarters of an hour, and although the form of an inquiry was gone through, and the vote of one person legally disposed of, it was perfectly evident from the whispering of counsel, and the consulta tion of agents, that Mr. Cochrane's party struck their flag, to avoid exposures highly inconvenient. In fact, it was generally reported and believed tha t a more flagrant case of bribery, affecting both principal and agents, has seldom been ready for opening, than the one which timely surrender and arrangement, at the very last moment, pre vented. ever occurred In this Conn- APRIL 23.—Two of the most brutal cases on G try, were perpetrated 0 S 0 T t ofA En; 7t, s h P u a n E t perhaps, cl N a it y r vening last, at Knipe scar, a lone I d H a mpton Grange, iii Washita:iran, on the persons of Miss Elizabeth e and extensive Moot, lying between the village of Ituckthorpe and by four labourers, who were working on the Lancaster and Carlisle Dover, aged thirty-two years, nod her sister Jane, aged seventeen, Railway, named John Smith, Win. Smith, Jack Gloucester, and T. that the mother of Gunner, who have made their escape. It appears , these ladies and their brother carry on a large farm, called the Scar side, near which there is not another dwelling for upwards of a mile and the Misses Dolan live with them. On Sunday last, another sister, who lives at Hacktherpe Hall, was on a visit to see her mother and the family at Scarside farm, and on her return home in the evening, her sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, accompa nied her over a greater part of the moor. On their return, when about half a mile from home, they were met on the moor by the two Smiths, Gloucester, and Gunner, who a'l four commenced most brutal assaults upon them by kicking and beating them in a most unmerciful manner; indeed, one of the Smiths knocked a tooth out of the head of Jane, Witt:dr bon nets and clothes were torn and tattered to pieces. Having done that, they tnrew the two defenceless sisters on the ground, when each of the villains violated their persons. For upwards of two hours they kept the poor girls in this state, all the four having committed the crime three times each. At last they let Jane go, who managed with great difficulty to reach home, leaving her sister - in the hands of the four villains. On getting home she presented a most fearful figure, and having told what had happened, her brother Matthew immediately mounted his horse and galloped off in search of his sister Elizabeth, and the villai ns , on h ear i ng the clattering of the horse's feet, decamped. He at last found her lying on the ground unable to get up, and presenting a most heart-rending spectacle. With great difficulty he succeeded in getting her home about ten o'clock at night. It was before eight o'clock when the villains first attacked them. On leaving the females they proceeded to their lodgings at Little Stuckland, where they remained some time, but early in the morning they decamped. The police are out in all direc tions in search of them, but up to this time (Thursday evening) they have not been apprehended. The respectability of the two females, and the enormity of the crime, have given rise to the greatest de gree of excitement and execration. STEAM AND COMMON SENSE.—Since the Leicester and Norwich coach has been knocked off the road, much dissatisfac tion is expressed at the route the lettersposted east of Holbeach now take in coming to this locality, and vice versa. It can scarcely be believed that a letter having to go only to another town two miles off, i.e. from Whaplode to Holbeach, should have to go the distance of 250 miles ; and so have the letters posted at the intermediate places be tween the latter place and Lynn, to go the same distance ; I.hat should be delivered in two or three hours now take two days. This calls loudly for an alteration, and though . caused .by the increase of steam, waves the necessity of a further increase, anitmust convince every person of the neceasity of A raillray between those piscoo. 7 - 1/Mit &W O. Real del Monte, Unregistered •• •• 3N .... to MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) covzicrT-Gis, RmlN . Although we had large supplies of most articles in season here, the demand ruled steady on the following terms :—Potatoes from 4s to Ss 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 10d to is 8d ; Carrots, 4s to 5s 6d ; Spring Onions, 101 to 2s ; Greens, is 6d t o 2 s 3d ; and Lee k s, 6d to I s 2d per dozen b unc h es . Appl es , i s Gd to 5s ; and Sp i nac h , 4d to 8d per h a lf s i eve . Ne w P otatoes, 2d to Gd per l b ; Wh i te Cabbages, 8d to is 6d ; and Cauliflowers, is to 4s per dozen. Celery, 8d to 2s ; Horseradish, is 6d to 4s ; forded Asparagus, 4s to 6s ; and Rhubarb, 4d to Is 2d per bundle. Oranges, 7s to I4s ; and Lemons, 7s to 12s per hundred ; Sea-kale, Is 31 to 35 ; and Small Salad, 261 per punnet; Turnip Greens, Id to 2d ; and Brocoll Sprouts, 6d to 6d per bushel; Radishes, 4d to 6d per dozen hands ; Coss Lettuces, Id to 2d; and Cucumbers, 2s to 8s each; Straw. berries, 12s per small basket G. Our market was fairly HUN suppli Eß,POßD ed with most articles, which met a Slow inquiry, at but little variation in prices. NEWGATE AND MEADENSAIM. Prime Mutton and Lamb commanded a ready sale at full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6cl; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 6d to 6s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to Is 2d ; and Pork, 3s 6d to 5s per Sibs. Full average supplies of Poultry were on sale, general speaking the demand ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. Turkeys, 4s to Is Gd ; Geese, 4s to 6s ; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; Tame Rabbits, is 6d to is 8d , Wild ditto, 4d to 10d ; Pigeons, 6d to 10d ; Roasting Pigs, 63 to 80 ; and Guinea Fowls, 2s Gd to 3s 6d each; Fowls, Is to 8s ; and Chickens, 3s to 6s per couple. NEWPORT. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 8d to Gs 10d ; Teal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 8s to 15s ;Brills, 3s 3d to 4s 6d ; Cod Fish, 4s to 8s Whitings, 4d to 8d ; Mackarel, 4d to 8d ; Lobsters, Is to 3s 6d ; and Crabs, 8d to 2s 3d each ; Soles, 10d to as Gd per pair ; Smelts, Is Gd to 2s 6.1. and Thames Flounders, is Gd to 2s per dozen ; Salmon, 10d to is 4d; Eels, 4d to Is; and Crimped Scate, 7d to 8d per lb. WHITECRAPEL. Beef, from 2 s 6d to3s 6d ; Mutton, 35 6d to 4s 6d; Lamb, 55 4d to 6s 8d; Veal, 45 4d to 5s 2d; and Pork, 3s 8d to is per 81bs. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 8d to 9d ; of Househeld do., 6d to 8d per 41b5 loaf. HIDE MARKT Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 234 d to 3d ; d . o. 641 b to 721 b, 3d to d; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3%el to 3X d ; do, 801 b to 881 b, 314 d to 3%; do. 881 b to 961 b, 3%d to 4d; do, 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 44d; Calf Skins, 3s 9d to Gs 6d; Horse Hides, 13s; Polled sheep, 4s 6d to 6s Gd ; Halfßreds, 4s to Ss 8d; Downs, 2s to 4s 6d; Lambs, 2s 9d to 4s ; ghearllngs, 6d to 9d. 'KAY MAIRPOSTS. SMITHFIELD,—Meadow Hay, 315 s to 41 Ss; Clover ditto, 4/ Ss to 51 15s; Oat straw, 1/ 12s to I/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 11 145 to 11 lits per load. Trade dull at barely stationary prices. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 10s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 51 14a ; Oat Straw, 11 12s toll 145 ; Wheat Straw, 11 143 to 11 17s Per load. Supply moderate and trade inactive. WarrEcuArzL.—Meadow Hay, 31 55 to 4185; Clover ditto, 41 Se to 61; Oat straw, 1/ 12a to 1/ 145 ; Wheat Straw, 11 145 to 11 163 Per load. Both Hay and Straw met a dull inquiry, at barely lets rotes. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS Lord Langdale, having disposed of several consent portant questions peti tions, proceeded to hear short causes, of which there was a considerable number on the list. rtrvEs V. THE DUKE OF WELLINGToN. . IS DAY.) Mr. TuRNER, who appeared for the defendant in this case, to which there, was a demurrer, said that as some very inn quire a little consideration, had to apply to the Court for a short postponement of the hearing. Mr. KiNsDERSLET, on the of the plaintiff, having con• part P sented, El'A lerE TAY might arise in this case, which would re , His LortnantP directed the cause to stand over till Satur. day, the 2d May. The other proceedings were quite devoid of public interest VICE. ore nA.Y.) (Before Viet-CLin cellor Sir .I,WicitAiuj A 1* PP 'cation was made 671 dividends arising from 581/. Consols, wbi to I!a,e ., ` Vb L ad been invested under 3 Will. IV., an Act en.l;l ti ~_! - Chapter of Durham to ap• propriate 'Wing ie Bishop and see, in and within five property belonging to the axminicatok cdi ainifil . 60 applied. Th e order Was made. _....es of D urham, to the establishment of a college, to be (situ: ...rai a Ly nla th gn e dj' S AIL COURT..._ COURT.-(THIS DAY.) soticit- iffISTERSI RAILWAY copiknitr. Mr. G 0 cause why s g o g N i , ll nano ; before Mr. justice Crii.ERIDGE.) EE,lstern hallway Cdirmanv, tailing on them to pay the Ad . their A ct a mt l) s p o :l i d : u, t ol o odo t the Court j tCaccording issue, fora dit e r e u t l e e d t to to the the Learned Counsel ;teed, that under a clause in the Act of a railway company; called the Brighton and to a clause in Lewesar line, which was to cross the river Itother, near Rye h bour, that missioners for e • L d Ili h Admiral of En xecuting the office of or g . England the sum of 10,000/ , to be at their exclusive control, Company was compelled to pay to the Coin ,for the improvement of th • e river Bother and Rye harbour. The South-Eastern Company, w hi c h was empowered under an Act o f Wi lliam IV.,chap. 75 see med to have been endea vouring to m a k e a branch• in the same direction as the Brighton and Lewes Railway, and a clause was put in their Act empowering them to take in a portion of that railway. That clause was put in their Act under the Acts 8 and 9 Vic to:ia, section 39. The consent of the landowners having been obtained, a certain portion of the Brighton and Lewes line was transferred to the South-Eastern Company, it being that portionliable to the payment of 10,0001. This haying bee i 4Que 04 the gu i 0 yebrgary last, tha 5911tia• COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court, which rose at an early hour, was engaged dur ing its sitting in hearing motions which were of no interest whatever but to the parties concerned. LONDON SESSIONS.-THIS DAY.) (Before the RECORDEI.) The Court sat to-day to hear appeals. AT. CLiMENT DANES I. ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE. In this case the pauper had been the subject of appeal for nearly twenty-one years ; and it was now proposed that the matter should be referred to a barrister, to decide on the settlement. The RECORDER said if it stood over for three months, reflection might bring both sides to their common sense, and the a2peal to years of discretion.—(Laughter.) The pauper was made a perfect shuttlecock. ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH, V. ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE. The pauper in this appeal was a lunatic, and had been confined in a private lunatic asylum. The order for confine ment did not set forth that there was no lunatic asylum for the City. The - RECORDER said that the City was a county of itself. The City could build an asylum, or, under the new Act of Parliament, have one in any adjoining county. The fact ought to have been stated that there was no such asylum in the City. The appeal, therefore, could not be heard. It appeared that both parishes had made themselves liable to indictment, but the matter was arranged. A very lengthened argument took place in several cases as to the time required for giving notice. By the New Poor-law Amendment Act thirty-five days were allowed, but it was contended that was only admitting a different mode of relief by appeal, but did not alter the Act. The COURT decided that it was peremptory that the notice must be given within twenty-one days after tke order was served, and notice of the ground of appeal within fourteen days further. The Court also decided that an appeal could not be entered and respited, but that notice of the intention to apply must be given at the first session, as a matter of course, although it was strenuously urged that it had long been the practice of this and the Middlesex sessions. The Recorder said no practice could be maintained contrary to an Act of Parliament. These decisions were considered of great importance. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIET Y. EXETER HALL. Last evening - a performance of sacred music, consisting of a cantata by Mr. G. Perry, the 114th Psalm by Mendelssohn, and Haydn's Service No. 2, was given by the above society, aided b 7 a powerful chorus, and by the following professionals, via., Miss Dolby, Miss Birch, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Leffler. The cantata, " Belshaszar's Feast," was the principal feature of the evening's entertainment, being the composition of Mr. Perry, who conducted in person. On his entrance and at the conclusion of the oratorio he was much applauded. We have often had occasion to notice the talent of this gentientatti to him the public are Indebted tot the delightful accom paniments to the works of Handel, /lc. I these bear testimony to his being a perfect master of the science. The cantata is a bold and effective composition, abounding with many fine passages. The overture iVaS a flue effort, and elicited much applause. Several beautiful horn Movements are judiciously introduced, particularly in the air "Jerusa lem's walls are forsaken," sung by Leffler. Miss Dolby had a charming recit. and air, "Devoted to thee," which elicited great applause, and *55 encored, Mr, Phillips was in excellent voice, and gave die faCit., "Thy gifts be to thyself" in a most impressive manner. An air also by Lahr, "To gilded shadows," had a violoncello accompaniment, which Mr: Lindley per formed in his usual atd? Mariner; The concluding chorus, "Hear, 0 ye nations," is a itiegtiiiicerit one, but the Amen was too tedious and injured the eff ec t w hi c h i t wand other wise have produced. The whole is capable of improvement ; and althdtigh the choruses ware, in most instances, ad mirably given, and with remarkable precision, yet it bore evidence of the lack of sufficient practice. Men delssohn's 114th Psalm, " Wh en I srae l out of E s gg e t came," commenced the second part. This wa first time of its performance in London, r a f n o d rm:d. Hadithough ekdeedingly difficult, Was very well I) it been given with eight voices, for wtluld hairs been more pleasing ; of se t, society itwas much toe noisy. The Service, which concluded the evening's performance is a truly delig htful one. In and n onr opinion, were those masses more gen e rally known oftener performed, they would become as popular as the oratorios. Ilaydn's oratorio, The Creation is announced for performance on Friday next. " THE Siam" ExrrtEss.—We are indebted to our able and zealous Contemp?rary for an express edition of The Sun, re ceived this morning in Exeter at daybreak, containing the whole of Sir Robert Peel's speech, copies of which, through Mr. Young's liberality, were gratuitously distributed to the bankers, public institutions, &c.— Western Times. NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS.— His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut-Colonel Sey mour, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, honoured with a visit yesterday the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water-colours, in Pall-mall. The royal personages were accom panied by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, and attended by Baron Knesebeck and Mr. E. St. John Mildmay, &c. The Duke of Cambridge came unattended as early.as twelve o'clock. Mr. Warren, the president, and Mr. Fahey, the secretary of the society, conducted the royal par ties through the gallery. THE APPROACHING EXHIBITION.—It is said that the number of architectural drawings sent to the Royal Academy this year is less than has ever been known. This is no doubt occasioned by the engrossing nature of railway work.—The Builder. DARING ROBBERY AT THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY Tzereueus.—On Friday information was received by the police, that on the previous afternoon, about three o'clock, Captain Kelly, of Gosport, while in the waiting-rooms of the Blackwell Terminus, Fenchurch-street, was robbed of a purse, containing four 101, Bank of England notes, a 5/. note, five sovereigns, and some silver. A. MISTAKE OF THE TREBEL—The Gloucester Chroni ek last week, in its account of the assizes, made the following extra ordinary announcement : " and on being retried [by] the Chief BUM I , 9o9tillinf* Ong PAPS* (9 ( 1 1re MAC (9WrifetiMi—n . EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, The Forty-second exhibition of this society, which will be open to the public on Monday, was opened for pirivate view this day, at one o'clock, at the Society's Gallery, 13, Pall-mall East. The number of paintings exhibibiteal is 820. The President of the Society, Copley Fielding, has', as usual, contributed largely to the exhibition. His landscape, No. 70, " Ben Cruachan," seen from the moors above Taynuilt, Argyllshire, is one of the most beautiful specimms of this master in the exhibition. His view, No. 10, " Dunoier, with Minehead Point, Somersetshire," is also an exquisit e little bit of landscape. S. Prout contributes several of his fine architectural pictures. His " Hotel de Ville at Oudenarde, Flanders" (204), is one of those magnificent specimens of architectural drawing that no one but Prout can give us. Among the most eminent of the contributors to the e:lchi. bition is Mr. George Fripp. His picture, No. 3, " Scene ,of the Coast, near Lulworth," is a fine representation of the bold rocky scenery of the Dorsetshire coast, treated in the most artistical manner. No. 66. " The Unwelcome Return," by Cattermole. The return of a knight from the Holy Wars. He has arrived within his own domain, and there is none to welcome him. The trees in this picture are exceedingly beautiful. _ . . No. 58. " Irish Courtship ;" and No. 180. "Irish Reap ers meeting their friends after harvesting in Eng land," by Alfred. Fripp, are both gems of art. The first consists of two figures, the lover and his sweetheart. The anxiety which is expressed in his features while he is pouring the tale of love into her ear, contrasts admirably with the coquettish yet warm-hearted expreNsims of her countenance—it is evident he is pleading his cause before no unfriendly tribunal. The last is a large picture, and the subject is treated in a spirit of reckless joyousness which would not have been unworthy of Wilkie. J. D. Harding gives us a splendid landscape (No: 118), "The range of the highest Alps, taken from the road be tween Como and Lucca, Como in the distance;" and Gusti nean gives us a most brilliant landscape, " Tanfield, York shire." (No. 15). We had marked out several others for no tice in our catalogue, but we must reserve them for another opportunity. NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.—(THIS DAY.) Like the old society, this society opened its annual exhibi tion at the Gallery, 53, Pall-mall, for private view, thie morning, preparatory to the public exhibition on Monday. While the oil painters seemed to have given up even the attempt to paint a picture of a high order of art, the water-colour painters, more particu larly the members of this Society, not only make the attempt, but succeed in it. We have in this exhibition several pic tures of the very highest order of art, and first we would mention, No. 132, "Christ raising from death the daughter of Jairus," by Edward Corbould. This is really a fine picture; the subject is treated with tree artistic feeling. It is true, the expression of the coun tenance of the Saviour is somewhat wanting in majesty, but that is a fault which is common to almost every artist who has treated the subject. The finite can never compre hend or express the infinite. But the expression of the features of the daughter of Jairus is exceedingly beautiful, there is about it that sort of indescribable expression of calm which is produced by pain that has ceased : the deep ' I anxiety of the mother, as kneeling by the side of the bed she watches her child, and the humble adoration of the father who, bowed down by sorrow, partially hides his face in his hands as he kneels, are given in a manner that proves the artist must riot only have been an attentive student of the old masters, but that he has drawn his inspiration from the same source from whence they derived theirs—the study of nature. The grouping is most artistical, the drapery is flowing and well managed, and the colouring brilliant. It is a great picture. No. 166. " The welcome of the boy King Henry into London," is a painting from the cartoon on the same subject by the same artist, which was exhibited at the Art-Union cartoon exibition, and is very brilliant. No. 195. " By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion," H. P. Riviere, is a fine subject finely treated. The expression of grief in the countenances of the women, and of despair and hatred in those of the men, is very fine. The oriental cast of the fea tures is well preserved, and the grouping is admirable. No. 100. " Wickliff Defying the Mendicant Friars," E. IL Wehnert.—" While at Oxford, Wickliff was assailed by severe sickness, and reports were circulated of his approaching death. The mendicant friars, with whom he had for some time been engaged in a sharp controversy, considered this to be a favourable opportunity for obtaining a recantation' of his de clarations against them. A doctor from each of the privi leged orders of beggars, attended by some of the civil autho rities of the city, entered the chamber of Wickliff, detailed the wrongs they had suffered from him, especially by his sermons and other writings ; and as death now appeared near, they concluded he must have feelings of compunction on this account, and therefore expressed a hope that he would not conceal his penitence, butiwould distinctly recall whatever he had said against them. Wickliff listened to their address un moved; but when it was concluded, he started up in his bed, and exclaimed loudly, I shall not die, but live, and shal again declare the evil deeds of the friars.' The appalled doctors hurried fram the room, and the prediction was ful filled." The manner in which this sabject is treated is good. Wickliff, who is rising from his bed, is held, back: by a female in attendance on him ; and who seems terrified at the scene, and fearful lest he should, by his exertion, destroy himselL At the head of the bed stands the leech, prepared to administer some remedy ; and the friars are at the bottom of the bed, retiring in a group. The varied expression of the countenances of the friars is admirable; in some terror prevails, and in others baffled hate and smothered rage. Wickcliff seems a perfect incar nation of mental energy. This picture has but one fault the draperies are not well managed, they are somewhat wrinkly. Aaron Penly gives us :some rich and glowing landscapes which are exceedingly beautiful. When all are so fine, it is really difficult to particularise. And on referring to our catalogue to guide us, we find we have marked all Penly's as excellent. No. 63. " Dutch Ferry on the Meuse," by E. Duncan, is a beautiful bit. No. 54. " A Tiff," by J. Jenkins, is an exceeding clever picture. It is a lovers' quarrel; they are sitting back to back the lady sulky, the gentleman somewhat impatient. He is looking over his shoulder at her, but is evidently prepared to turn his head away the instant she shall look towards him ; of which, however, there seems little probability. There are some exquisite fruit and flower pieces, among which we would particularise No. 37, " Gathered in a hurry,' painted by Mrs. Harrison, as particularly deserving of notice. The lateness of the hour compels us reluctantly to close this hasty notice, and to defer to another opportunity our remarks on many other exquisite specimens of art in this delightful exhibition. AMERICAN PROVISIONS.—The arrivals of flour and various other descriptions of provisions at the ports of London and Liverpool, the latter especially, Atom the United States of America, within the past two or three days, have been of so extensive and im portant a nature as to be worthy of particular notice. The arrival; have been from New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans in particular. THE ARMY.—The Ist division of the 10th Hussars, leave Gravesend for India en Monday next, Th e 2d di v i s i on w ill leave the same place on the Ist and 2d of the ensuing- month ; and the third and last will take their departure on the 6th of May. THE DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN.—His Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to send a donation to the committee for the ball in aid of the funds for the Distressed Needlewomen's Society, which will take place at Willies Rooms, on Friday next, May the let, and requested his name to be added as a patron on the occasion. . FIRE AT BAYSWATER.—Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a fire was digßovered in the upper part of a young ladles' boarding establishment, belonging to the Misses Mathews, situate No. 16, Westbourne-street, in the rear of Hyde Park-gar. dens. Within a few minutes of the alarm being given, the Pad dington parish engine arrived on the spot, and was soon got into the building; shor tly operation, but by this time the fire had got such a arm hold of the arrived, which roof, that it was considered impossible to save ay afterwards, however, fresh eng ines were got to work, and aided by a plentiful supply of water , ill the cour se of all w ko h u e r le an o d f t a h h e al up f p t e h r e d lo o w or er ark p d ar r t ee o f f is totall y ob ll uil y ding Wag Saved, but the Consumed. The fire was found to have orignated from the bond timber which supported the roof, and which came into the kitcben chimney of the WUOInIng shltipipsetdatfreonmfrtohmis house. The loss is estimated at upwards of 8001. Upwards of 7,000 tons of NOVEL IMPORTATION,— sraevpetelmhabvere last. It th ei e ty be tO u L h o a n t do Lo n w ls h th ite of g • and used to beautify the par ks ng sin l c s e lan th° d and gardens of Lendon.—Neto York papr. _ AN IMMENSE SERPENT.—Yeterday's Bhaskur gives the following regarding an enormous serpent captured at Seebpore, across the water :—" A serpent was lying within a jungle, near the turned round upon the hohse of Baboo Rarnruttun folder , when a jackal, believing it dead, made an attack on the body of the ' monster, whereupon the latter its body. This was accidentally witnessed by a man who happened to be on a tree hard b jackal, and in a short while devoured half of y, and who on that raised a cry and collected a number of villagers, by whom the serpent was captured. monster measured 14 cubits in length, and two in circumferenca."— Delhi Gazette. On the 2 1st inst. BIRTHS. a daught er. , in Belgrave-square, Lady Cecilia Des Vasa, of On the 20th inst., at Pope House, Upper Tooting, Mrs. J. De Pariente, of a son. On the 21st inst., the wife of the Rev. A. F. Boucher, of Whom Vicarage, Staffordshire, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Dorking, Surrey, the lady of Heathfleld Young, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., in Cavendish-square, the lady of Herman Stern, Es On q., of a daughter. the 21st inst., at Thurlow Cottage, Lower Norwood, Mrs. W. Nichols, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Clapham, Surrey, the wife of George Heath cote, pf a son. On the 224 inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Townsend Charles Dance, ef a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. S. Searle, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at St. Paul's Church, Bristol, Mr. T. 11. Cramp ton, of Bath, to ➢iiss Bell, of Brnnswick-square. On the 20th inst., at Jersey, at St. Clement's Church, Captain Henry Francis Slater, of the Royal Artillery, to Miss Katherine Walcott, daughter of the late Rev. William Garrett, of the Island of Barbadoes. DIED. At Hastings, most deeply lamented, on April 22d, Frederick Richard Crewe, Esq., aged 22 years, second son of the late Lieutenant- Colonel Crewe, and nephew to Lord Carrington. On the 23d inst., Ann, the wife of Mr. George Shepherd, of the Hampshire Hog, Strand, aged 42. On the 27th of February last, Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland. Military Secretary to the Resident of Hydrabad. On the 17th Inst., Mr. Benjamin Blackman, of HertSmoneenX , Sussex. On the 19th inst., at Exmouth, fthe:Rev. Henry Ward, of Felmere ham, Bedfordshire. On the 21st last., Charles Vayasour, Esq., son Of Sir Edward VIM' sour, Bart., of Hazelwood Hall. London: Printed and Published by YUP,DO'YOUNO, or 0. ,not Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, St ran d, i n the Pre ii of the Savoy, 14 the cOUSity of Kiddloses, filatarday, AP 1846,