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Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed (for the Third Time in this Country) •erdi's celebrated Opera of " NABTJCO," under the title of NINO. With New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. • II inns, Ring of Assyria, Signor Fornasari; Idaspe, Signer Corelli Orotasphe (High Priest of the Temple of Isis), Signor Botelli ; Ab dello (an Officer of the King of Assyria), Signor Daifieri ; Fenena (daughter of Ninus), Madile. Corbari ; Anna (sister of Orotasphe), Madame Bellied ; Abigail (a slave, supposed to be the eldest daughter of Ninus), Madlle. Sanchioli. To conclude with the highly successful Yew Grand Ballet, by M. Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA. ; en, LA FJLLE DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlles. Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglioni ; M.M. Gosselin, Bertrand, Di Mattia, and Perrot. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Ilan rison, liorrani, Horncastie, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH In which Mons. Desplaces, Mdlles. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme Olubilei, &c., will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the POPuTarCoTnedi,entitled MONET. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. Webster, Buckstone, H. Holl, Brindal, Hudson, Stuart, J. Bland, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, &c. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Reine d'un Jour," Quadrille, "Le Roi d'Yvetot," "Czarina Mazourk," and the Waltz, "Love's Serenade." After which a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST, Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. To be followed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL• TANGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton. THE A.TRE ROYAL, LYC E LIM . UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed LUCK'S ALL. Principal characters by Messrs. l)iddear, F. Vining, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Hicks, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. After which, NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Ar,len, Villars, and Howard. To conclude with the new successful Burlesque, enntled THE ENCHANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Firouz Schah of Persia and the 'Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c. ; Mlles. Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, rid. TIThATt:F. EOYAL, ADELPIII Great success of the New Drama of " The Cabin Boy." THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BUT. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, Mr. Paul Bedford; Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Woolgar. Atte: which (for this week only), NORMA. Roßio, Miss Woolgar; 3.. - orina, Mr. Paul Iteciford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR, ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolg,ar, Madame Celeste, Scc. will perform. To conclule with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFA:W. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Ste. PRINCESS'S Tr EA IRE. OXFORD-STIZEET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Z;OrWie Drama, entitled, A SPEAKING LIKENESS. Baron de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. James Vining ; Coco, Mr. Compton ; Manette, Madame Vestris. After which (first time) a New Comic Drama, entitled MATHEWS AND CO. Characters by Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Walton, Oxberry, and Miss E. Honner. To be succeeded by Mr. Charles Mathews's Fare:. of PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclmle with TIIE BRIGAND. • NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and 31A1 INEES 3IYSTERIEUSES. Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who 1102 k to Vtend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Ilornng, it Two o'cloci.. M. Plullippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments Will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amu.ing Per formances of the Chiarinl Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter plat seN en, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s : ; Pit, Is. ; Gallory, 6d. ; Pr . vate Boxes, it. Is., and ld. Ils. 6;11 DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The enormous success attending the Grand Spectacle and the One Hundred Female Warriors is unprecedented. Battle of Moodkce— Glorious Victory. TELLS EVENINCI Will be performed THE SP:A KING'S VOW; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Rogers, Cowell, May nard, Johnson, Lewis, IL slop, Monson; Mcsdms. Vining, Daly, Martin, Miss Glover, and One Hundred Female Warriors. Atter which a new Drama, entitled NORAH CREINA. Cha racters by Messrs. Rogers, Johnson, Lewis; Mdmes. H. Vining and Daly. After which, THE BATTLE OF MOODKEE. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled, THE PASTOR'S DAUGHTER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITiIEATRP: OF ARTS. Fifth Week of the Magnificent Elephantine production, which is nightly hailed by brilliant audiences with the most tremendous applause. Second Week of the Elephantine Tight-rope Dancer. THIS EVENING Will be performed a ' K;;; Drama, ;ntitled THE RAJA OF NAGPORE; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be brought into requisition. Brilliant Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the British and Foreign Company. The whole to conclude with the laughable Farce of ANIMAL MAGNETISM; or, Love and Physic. ROYAL VICTORIA TIINATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed MActiahiTeiriairoLE ; or. the Female norseiStealer. Principal characters by Messrs. Fredericks, Saville, James, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. After which, SHARSPERE'S FESTIVAL ; or, A New Comedy of Errors. Miss Rosalind Arden, Miss Vincent. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of THE SEA; or, The Ocean Child. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 50; Noon, 4$ BAROMETER, 30.48.—W1ND W.N.W., fine. dlOll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 22 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 45 minutes after 12. L ia37lo4t : 4- 6 ,S Co ,441 : • -Aim %', blellut ')1,11L LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1846. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. Various petitions on the subject of the corn-laws were presented. In answer to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY on the sub ,}eat of the alleged persecution of the nuns of Minsk, The Earl of ABERDEEN said he had received an official communication from Russia denying the truth of the rumours in circulation on the subject, and stating that the depositions alleged to have been taken at Rome were gross fabrications. Lord DENMAN then rose to draw their Lordships' attention to the amendments which he proposed in the Irish Pacifica tion Act. He objected to giving the Lord Lieutenant the pov and r thought proclaiming a county for the commi ss i on o f one crime, it would be better to require a requisition from three magistrates preparatory to proclaiming a coun ty. He also obj ec t ed to punishing a person found out of his house after nightfall with transportation for seven years, which in many cases m us t b e transportation for life. He thought imprisonment a He quite grave en oug h for H such an offence. e wished to see a po wer g i ven t o c h ange the venue, but this ought topliae4o made the subject of a general law, applicable to everythe United Kingdom. Then with regard to the 20th clause, providing punishment for persons intimidating witnesses , thought that that also should be made the subject of a general law, applic able to the whole kingdom. Lord BROUGIIAM denied that transportation vr punish ment to be inflicted for a night offence. It was la a necessary that the person should be found to be o u t under auspicious alarY c i rc umstances, and not upon his lawf u l occas i ons, and even if so convicted, the punishment was left to the discretion of the Judge, besides, the being out must take place in a proclaimed district, which gave to every one going out warning that he was to provide evidence that he was out upon his lawful occasions. He thought there was no great anomaly in this enactment, and that unless they held out the tenor of transportation the Act would fail in effect. The Bill was for three years, but if it did not produce tran quility then, it would be their duty to have recourse to more stringent measures. Earl GREY argued against the clause punishing absence from home at night by transportation, as one subjecting every Irish peasant who might desire not to be confined to his mi serable cabin for 16 hours to the punishment of transportation. It was contrary to natural justice, and it would be better to make the possession of weapons, the being disguised, or the being assembled in multitudes, a distinct offence. The case held by the Noble and Learned Lord (Brougham) who had undertaken the advocacy of this clause, required a great deal of bolstering up, and he could not congratulate the Noble and Learned Lord on the success of his advocacy. Lord BROUGHAM explained. The Earl of St. Gsmirass felt obliged to the Lord Chief Justice for stating Lie objections. With regard to the proclamation of a district he thought the proposed measure requiring that the Lord Lieutenant should a not ha ve th e power o f proc l a i m i ng a district unless a crime had b een comm i t t e d t h ere, was rather n a check on the power of the Lord Lieutenant. With regard to the change of venue, he agreed with the Noble and Learned Ia rd, as a l so w i t h regar d to the 20th claus which he would leave out if be were certain of some general measure passing on the subject. Then with regard to the punishment of transporta- Non for absence from home, that had been so ably argued by the Noble and Learned Lord that he would not allude to it further. The misdemeanour itself was one characterised by such different degrees of guilt that he thought the pun ishment ought to be left, as proposed by the Bill, to the discretion of the Judge. The Earl of STRADBROKE thought that persons out at night, not armed, should not be subject to a greater punish ment than imprisonment, and that those found out armed should be subject to transportation. Lord CAXPBELL complained that several of the amend ments introduced on Friday did not appear in the Bill printed, as amended in Committee. He hoped that the sug gestions of the Noble Earl (STRADBROKE) would be adopted. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained that it was understood that the amendments alluded to by his Noble and Learned Friend were intended to be proposed in the report. With regard to the Bill of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, he would give it his hearty support. With regard to the punishment for being out after dark, it was admitted that the punishment ought to be discretionary, and the only question was as to the limit of the discretion. Earl ST. GERMANS explained. After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND, The Marquis of CLANRICAADE declared that he thought some such measure was necessary for the protection of the lives and properties of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland. The Earl of Wic - xLow hoped that, as the Bill was to be postponed to Monday, the interim would be devoted to the reconsideration of the clause inflicting the punishment of transportation on persons found out after sunset. After a few words from Lord Monteagle, and explana tions from the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of St. Germain, Lord Brougham, and Lord Denman, the House adjourned. The SPEAK= took the Chair at Four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. Youwo, a new writ was ordered for Windsor in the room of RALPH NEVILLE, Esq., who has ac cepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. T. DUNCONLBE presented a petition complaining of the mismanagement of the Post-office. Mr. CARDWELL in answer to a question from Dr. Bow- RING, observed that he could not state whether any mea sures had been taken in order to give to the Australian Colonies the benefit of steam navigation. Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention to-morrow to move for the production of various returns illustrative of the commercial policy pursued of late years. Sir G. CLERK, in answer to a question from Sir C. NAPIER, stated that he was unable to say when he should be able to bring forward the Merchant Seamen's Bill. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. O'CoYNELL, said that everything had and would be done by the Government to obviate the impending famine and disease in Ireland, and he believed that in the course the Government had adopted they would be assisted by the proprietors of land and the moneyed gentry of Ireland. If the resolutions that went through Committee on Friday were adopted on the report to-night, Indian corn, buck wheat, and rice would be admitted duty free, and he trusted that that would considerably relieve the wants of the people of Ireland. He trusted that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would not call upon him to enter into the details of the course that was proposed to be adopted by the Government. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. M. GinsoN, said that it was proposed by the Government with respect to all articles in the tariff, immediately upon the passing of the resolutions, to issue a Treasury order that they should be ad mitted immediately upon the lower rate of duty. Mr. GREENE brought up the report on the resolutions agreed to on Friday night, relative to the duties on corn, grain, meal, flour, &c. After a short discussion, in the course of which. Mr. LID DELL stated that it was not his intention to trouble the House any further with respect to the timber duties, Sir R. PEEL stated that the existence of the order of the Treasury, which he proposed to issue with respect to the articles in the tariff on which the duty was to be reduced, would depend upon the Bill on the subject being adopted or rejected by the House. As to maize, buck wheat, and rice, he proposed to issue a Treasury order immediately to admit them at a nominal duty, but that order would be dependent on the fate of the Bill he proposed to introduce founded on the resolutions. Mr. W. MILES would not divide the House upon the reso lution with respect to Indian corn, buck-wheat, and rice, as the Right Hon. Baronet had stated that the order of the Treasury would be dependent upon the fate of the Bill to be introduced upon the subject. Mr. CARDWELL said that there was no ground for sup- Dosing that the introduction of Indian corn would interfere with the interests of the British agriculturists. Mr. NEWDEGATE denied that Indian corn would ever be come a staple article of food in this country. Mr. S. CRAWFORD would like to see even the shilling duty that was to be retained on Indian corn removed. Mr. HuME hoped to see Indian wheat made an article of food where wheat could not be obtained. After some discussion, the ether r esolutions and reports were agreed to, and Bills founded upon them were ordered to be brought in. The House then went into Committee on Customs (the tariff), in the course of which it was arranged that the unop posed resolutions should be taken first, and that the discus • sions on the reeolutions that were opposed, especially those with respect to silk and brandy, should be taken upon the bringing . up of the report on Friday. Mr. Ewaux then moved that modern foreign books should be admitted duty free, upon which a short discussion took place, after which the motion was withdrawn. The other resolutions of the tariff having been gone through, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that there were many articles of manufacture on which it was proposed to put a duty of 10 per cent ; that was all well enough as long as the corn-law lasted, but when it terminated in 1849 he could not see the policy or the justice of continuing that duty. Sir R. PEEL thought the proposal he had made was a fair one, and at the end of three years it was perfectly open to reconsider the question as to the remission of the duty. Mr. T. BARING did not think that by the remission of the duty of 10 per cent. the consumer would obtain the article one farthing cheaper. If these duties were to be removed, resort must bo had to direct taxation upon increase. Air. HU3IE trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would look to direct taxation as the principal means of raising the revenue. Sir R. PEEL said that the reductions that had been made last year with respect to the duty on glass and auctions had saved no less than 50,0001. in salaries to officers. It was his intention to move to-morrow for returns with re spect to wool, flax, and several other articles, in order to illustrate the commercial policy of the country. Mr. HUDSON said, if they adopted a principle it must be carried out to its full extent, and with respect to every in terest. The remaining resolutions were then agreed to, and ordered to be reported on Friday. The House then went into Committee of Supply, and certain votes were taken on account of the army and navy, agreeably to the arrangements made in the early part of the evening. The Metropolitan Buildings (Salaries to Officers) Bill was reported. The Metropolitan Buildings (No. 2.) Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported to-morrow. The Crwicatton. of the EXCHEQUER brought in the Corn Importation Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned. The American President, and those who concur in his opi nions, have the best reasons in the world for interdicting all interference on the part of European powers in the affairs of North America. When thieves lay plots for breaking into a house, or committing highway robberies or any other nefa rious acts injurious to their neighbours, they would willingly forbid the interference of the police if they had the power and the impudence of Mr. POLK ; but, fortunately, the law is too strong for them, and they are compelled therefore to confine themselves to stratagems, and plots, and bribes. Robbers on a grand scale have thus a great advantage over them. Power in the eyes of these gentlemen gives right; they lay claim to privileges and immunities which paltry robbers dare not •put forward in their de fence, they define the laws of nations as suits their purpose, and when the VarrEis, and PUFFENDORBS, and Sams decide against them, they make a new code of their own, and with the most barefaced contempt of justice, morality, and religion, they assert that these laws were made for slaves, for men who meanly submitted to the authority of a king or an emperor, and who therefore never had any correct notions of the great principles of liberty. It was for the free-born sons of the American Republic to dispel these vain delusions, and place international laws as well as internal laws on an entirely new footing. These, in fact, are the very theories inculcated by the new morality at Washington, and the reasons why thy are inculcated, and the objects in view are not one whit better founded, or more honest than the most illegal and widsed schemes of a band of thieves on a small scale. At the preonat moment, more, perhaps, than at any former period, has the American Executive reasons for declaiming against those laws 'which England and France, and every European power, have long held sacred, and re garded as the firmest bond of peace end good order. A grand deeign has been for some time in operation against Mexico. Many of the states belonging to that republic are very conveniently situated for the squatters of North America ; Mexico can make no use of them—she cannot cultivate them nor half people them ; and what is more, she cannot defend them. If America does not occupy them, some other nation will; and as their contiguity fits them so admirably for the Great Republic, and besides her scheme of liberty is so grand, so b eneficent, and so universal in its application, it would be a - wilful rejection of proffered blessings to hesitate one moment, when the proper time arrives, in an nexing the Irbole of the Mexican States to the Northern Union. Fortune has absolutely thrown the whole territory into the lap of America, and the very dissensions, mis management, and wAnt of patriotism, on the part of the Mexicans, only furnish additional arguments to justify the plots now in operation at the capital. The American agents there are not idle, nor L'ave their labours been without fruits. Bribery has been cafried on to a considerable has ex tent,he thre a t s h ave no t b een wA inconsistent,rting, and the quarrelsome, and too lped to throw' oftenr unpatriotic character of the Spanish race, ,that country into a state neighbours. of anarchy approachin g t o di sso l ut ilOn• The new President, P ts its caret AARDES, justly painco a nd la it t i e on pr a o n e d lan t i h a e nefarious conduct of it s - tion, he says, "It was impossi ble for the country to have remained longer is its late discreditable state. Dis- solution threatened the Republie t co:;;:r . : ) n n e ti ig e hbours, by force, i w on as the seized on the territory of Texas; neg lectedere by the Government, openly seprovires, only possible remedy ; the rich lands of j California parE without an Administration, or a mints ry force sufficient to protect them, to the mercy of Ameri In adventurers, who, in imitation of those in Te xas, are prep:tr ing a new usurpation. The quarrels and exigencies of the ditf xtent factions alone re ceived attention from Gove rnment. . year passed since the revolution overthrew a ruinous dictat orship, and nothing has been done to place the institutions on ; a respectable footing. Time has been consumed in useless dis cessions ; indecision and weakness have been the sole characterit lice of the Government. Thus have the United States been er Lcouraged to commit in the face of the world the scandalous r iobery of Texas. Thus have all the resources of the nation b lett wasted, and money for public purposes raised at an exo rbi.tant interest. Thus have factions been encouraged and su t)divrided ; on every side were symptoms of dissolution, and the tuition, in the midst of anarchy and confusion, was daily progressing to its ruin." This is all matter of fact, but it would be impossible to say at present what part the American agents have acted in the scene. They work underground. Can England and Franca look on with apathy in the midst of such scenes? Eighteen hundred and forty-six has dawned upon the Go vernment of Great Britain with a series of phenomena more startling and portentous than have accompanied the WM mencement of many antecedent years. Abroad our position is embarrassed in various directions and by various contin gencies. Among the Asiatic tribes the germs of warfare have been fructified, and, beyond a spectacle of present blood shed, spreads forth * prospect of protracted campaigns and continuous carnage. America, in the opposite direction— whether excited by an unholy lust for aggrandisement or a still more unholy aspiration to cross swords and measure strength with her mother country—intimates both by in sinuation and by overt act her longing to embroil herself with England. In addition to these impending war-blasts, we are afflicted at home with the grim and unmistakeable prognostications of famine, and.the mtdadies which invariably supervene upon that direful visitation. The fetch of starva tion has been recognised among the bleak fens and mountain paths of Ireland : the fever-cloud is settling down above the homesteads of that afflicted country. Simultaneously almost with these occurrences the Spanish Ministry was changed, and by our latest information it appears that Poland has again raised her chained hands to smite the oppressors of her past and present generation ; the dykes of tyranny have been overflowed once more ; the shade of Kosciusxo has gloomed upon the walls of Cracow. Stirred, however, as the public mind is by necessity in consequence of these political convulsions without, and occupied as the Legislature must be from a similar cause ;—a greater revolution than all these, one more vast in its application and more durable in its very essence has been evoked within—an agitation by which the laws of man shall henceforth be made more accordant with the laws of GOD and Nature—an agitation by which the rational portion of creation shall have as ready access to its nourishment as that enjoyed by the irrational—an agitation by which an universal good shall supersede an individual advantage. That agitation has been accom panied, and stirred on, and developed by a combination of occurrences more unforeseen and more memorable than almost any on the Parliamentary records — occurrences which we ourselves, however, have so fully and repeatedlyparticularised, as each transpired in succession, as to require no more at this moment than a casual men tion. Engrossed by topics thus momentous, with reference both to foreign, home, and colonial legislaticn, it is not pos sibly surprising to observe the scanty benefits of a practical cha racter produced by Government during the last few months. And in employing the term Government, we do not mean the Ministry alone, or the Houses of Parliament alone, or the Cabinet Council alone, but Government in its most compre hensive and concrete signification. Its attention, diverted now to the Sutlej, by dispatches penned amidst the smoke of blood and gunpowder ; now to the hovels of Galway, by the catalogue of blighted potato-crops; now to the Oregon, by the testy squabblings and irate announcements of the representatives of the United States ; now to Madrid, by the failing voice of NARVAEZ ; now to dismembered Poland, by the cries of slaves for freedom ; and now again to every section of our English community, by the petitions for free trade, and the petitions for protection (the latter being at a moderate computation the units, and the former the thou sands) :—distracted by these conflicting movements, it is not, we repeat, surprising that Government should be baffled at first into something like dilatoriness or procrastination. There are ample excuses for a first delay—such a delay as may afford full opportunity for reflection. But, beyond a certain limit of time, there is no available palliative for a continuance of that torpor in the Executive department. An over-protracted hesitation on the part of a Government is the most heinous political crime of which it can well be guilty— it is the arch-sin of legislation—it is more pernicious (if pos sible) than over-rashness. It is the key-stone to misgovernment. In the present instance that limitation of time to which we have alluded is fast approaching. Words will not suffice ; when that moment of demarcation arrives, action will be re quisite. Indian warfare and arbitration for Oregon are subjects no more capable of being trifled with by any minc ing measures than is the question of free trade, to the inhabitants of the British Isles themselves, one admitting of a pottering policy. Parliament must neither dream fur a single instant that their discussions upon this clause and upon that clause can continue on their present glib progression, than that the Seikhs and Americans are the most conceding and patient of mortals. Our legis lators must acquire fresh capacity for Parliamentary and practical proceedings; they must be au fait in the march of soldiers as well as in the march of opinion; they must keep pace with the accumulation of exigencies—remembering the vast and petty grievances which have to be rectified both a t home and abroad. Sir ROBERT PEEL has a thorough appre ciation of this necessity: he perceives the duty most incum bent upon himself, upon his colleagues, upon the Imperial Parliament itself: the duty of doing instead of talking. His whole bearing throughout this session proves such to be his conviction ; his abrupt and copious explanations upon the first meeting of that august House; his rapid introduction of the policy proposed for adoption by Government; his observations night after night from the Ministerial benches; nay, his declaration yesterday evening was alone sufficient evidence of the deep root which that opinion has taken in his judgment. The glee displayed upon the latter occasion by the protectionists is, indeed, to ourselves a matter of the most supreme astonishment. These eccen tric gentlemen appeared to have detected some astoundingly invisible cause for exultation in the miniature debate which ensued upon Mr. EWART'S amend ment : they crowed—absolutely crowed with delight at that little interlude to the discussion—that mere episode in the great epic of commercial freedom. What really could excite such manifestations of rejoicing among a party so miserably and irreparably crest-fallen as the agrieulta rists, we cannot in all sober earnestness divine ; for to us, the remarks uttered by the Government officials upon the introduction of that amendment appeared only like another conquest over the monster monopoly. It was a triumph is this respect, that the Ministerial measures will admit of no unnecessary opposition whatever, while, at the same moment, an important announcement with reference to international copyright arose out of the present rejection of Mr. EWART'S suggestion. On this latter account we feel assured that Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD will entertain feelings of thankfulness to the Hon. Member for Dumfries as the unwitting means of eliciting a very pleasant piece of intelligence. That intelli gence came forth as an announcement from Sir GEORGE CLERK, who, while he acknowledged the excellence of some speedy reduction in the tax upon foreign books (as specified in the amendment), objected to the adoption of Mr. EWART'S suggestion, for the following reason :—" At the present mo ment," said the Hon. Member for Stamford, "negotiations are pending on the subject of international copyright between Prussia, France, and this country. Those negotiations have made great progress, and I hope will be soon brought to a satisfactory conclusion; but, by the Hon. Member pressing his motion, the probability of effecting such arrangements will be materially diminished." Mainly, almost exclusively en this score, the amendment of Mr. EWART was pushed to withdrawal; and, nevertheless, the protectionists indulged in acclamations of rapture, as though Government were reced ing from their free-trade policy. Surely these sagacious corn-dealers have regarded the Ministerial opposition with singular obliquity, or they would recognise, instead of any secession from their principles of abolition, an additional expression of their determination to persevere in that glorious labour. Prospects, in fact, are held out by a distinguished member of the Cabinet of a reciprocation, literary as well as commercial, between the principal Euro pean countries—a reciprocation of mental as well as bodily nutriment—a reciprocation of untaxed thoughts as well as of untaxed cattle. And it is for the purpose of ensuring the speedy and permanent settlement of this reciprocation that the amendment in question was rejected. Nevertheless, these CYMONS, the protectionists, rejoiced ! As if, however, to amend any misconception of the inten tion of the Ministry, the Premier made the unequivocal de claration that " neither this nor any other minor difficulty would induce him to relax in his exertions to bring the great question of our commercial policy to a satisfactory con clusion. It was the main object for which at present he should strive." Yet with these syllables ringing in their ears, the pleasantry of the protectionist Members still re• mained undiminished—they had indeed " a par lous pertinacity of fun." Nay, so confirmed was this feeling, that one of the cheifest ornaments of the party actually indulged himself in touches of exultant sarcasm ! The language, however, of Sir ROBERT PEEL is decisive : it proves four great facts in one little sen tence : first, the necessity of immediate action ; secondly, the unconquerable strength of his position as the representative of the popular will ; thirdly, the ultimate victory of free trade for mind as well as for body; and fourthly, the imminence of the present juncture. Madrid papers of the 2d have been received. It appears from these that doubts were entertained whether the QUEEN would give her assent to the new electoral law, which had passed both Chambers by large majorities. Private letters, however, state that everything in respect to this Bill had been satisfactorily arranged, and that her MAJESTY would pass it in the usual form. The Chamber of Deputies had adopted several additional clauses of the Tithe-owners' Bill, which also was considered secure. The Three per Cents. closed at 30% at 59 days, and the Five per Cents. at 21 1 4 for the 30th of April. The insurrection in Poland still forms the principal feature in the Paris papers. Many of the refugee Poles now residing at Paris, to the number, it is said, of three hundred, assem bled at the house of Prince CZARTORYSKI, on Saturday last, and presented to the Prince an address in the name of more than one thousand Poles, in which they offered to that chief the warmest co-operation, and a rigorous obedience to his commands, convinced that this c.,-operation is, above all things, necessary, in order that the emigration may, by its representatives, the more efficaciously associate itself with the heroic struggle which has re-commenced in Poland. The address terminates with a declaration that " the hour for sacrifices having arrived, they offer to their companions in emigration, who do not partake of the opinions propa gated by the society of The Third of May' for several years past, the temporary abandonment of their doctrines and their theories, in order that all the emigrants may be united 2no bond of union, directed by the Prince, and i•iving TIM SUN, LONDON, 1 11 ,UPfiDAY EVENING M,ARTH 10 1 1846. to him their co-operation." The Prince replied by "rendering homage to the heroic rising which had taken place in different points of Poland ; and then declared his resolution to serve it with all his means, which he said would, with the co-operation of the emigrants, undoubtedly increase. It would then be possible to give considerable as sistance to the country, and to obtain for Poland allies, loans, and the universal support of public opinion. He accepted with joy the offer of the co-operation of the Society, and the example of the sacrifice which it had just given. He could not forget that Poland alone could name a chief or a national government. He would continue, in order to serve the cause, to appeal to foreign nations in the name of Poland; but he would be ready to give daily the first example of obedience to the manifestations of the national will." It was agreed at this meeting that a declaration iu the name of the whole body should be published next day (Sunday), expressing sympathy with their countrymen, and entire identity with the movement which had taken place. But if the intelligence in the Frankfort Journal of the 6th inst. is to be credited, the Russians have already struck a terrible blow at the insurrection. The follow ing appears in that paper, dated "Nuremberg, March 4:—A letter from Vienna, of the 28th, states that Government had just received intelligence of the burning of Cracow. The Russians had arrived with such rapidity that the insurgents were unable to oppose any serious resistance, and the Rus sians, in the midst of a terrible bombardment, seized on the town,!? It appears by accounts from Berne to the 4th inst., that political affairs in that quarter were in a very critical state. An extraordinary session of the Grand Council was held on that day, when the report of the Committee on the declara tion signed by M. NEUHAUS and eight other Councillors was taken into consideration, and considering that by such de claration these members had placed themselves in opposition to the positive decisions of the Grand Council, and that such a state of things might have produced injurious consequences to the most:precious interests of the State, the Grand Council decreed as follows : " MM. the Councillors of State, Neuhaus, Weber, Steinhauer, Lecbundgeet, Begler, J. Jaggi, Schmalz, Bandelier, and Dahler shall be deprived of their functions of members of the Executive Council. The Grand Council regrets that the declaration of the Councillors of State, dated January 27, 1840, should have given rise to misunder standings and created a want of confidence. Nevertheless, con sidering the necessity of insuring the maintenance of order and peace, and also of the regular administration in the canton of Berne, and trusting in the loyalty and patriotism of the nine Councillors of State, the Grand Council decrees that nothing further shall be done in this affair. It is also recommended to the Executive Council to hold with firmness the reins of the State, and to watch over the strict and com plete execution of the laws until a new order of things shall have replaced the present authorities." In consequence of all these unfavourable accounts, as well as the depression in the English Funds, and a fabricated rumour of disturbances at Placentia, in Lombardy, the Three per Cents. fell on Sunday to 83f. 80c. BISINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THS LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAHON 9. Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie), 2%- -Ditch Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, %—Great Northern of France Constituted, 15% —Louvain and Jetnappe, 1% —Luxembourg, 2—Namur and Liege, 2% —Orleans and Vierson, 1934—Paris and Orleans. 50 % —Paris and Rouen, 40% —Tours and Nantes Constituted, 7% —West Flanders, . THE DIVISION ON THE Coax-LAws.—After twelve nights' talk, the House of Commons divided on Saturday morning last, the 28th ult., at about three o'clock. By six o'clock the same meriting we had delivered to us, through the courtesy and spirited exertions of the proprietor of The Sun news paper, a copy of that Journal, containing a full report of the debate, and the numbers on division, and which we published in a second edition. The special engine which brought the news, arrived at Cambridge in one hour and twenty-five minutes from Shoreditch. —Cambridge Independent. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIMER. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 5,000 bales, including about 500 American for export. Prices were firm. Shares continued dull, and at heavy rates. Amidst the interest and excitement felt in respect to the Oregon dispute, the chances in favour of a more liberal tariff in the United States seem to attract but little attention. That the subject is of importance to our mercantile cont. munity there are few, however, vho can dispute. The pro posed new tariff is described by a party writing from New York to be u throughout on the ad valorem principle, and, therefore, is much mere simple in its details that the present, which Act is filled with specific and mini mum duties. The greatest defect in the Tariff Act of 1842, next to its highly protective features, is the imperfect man ner in which the duty is levied, and the great difficulty ex perienced in regulating the specific duties. Au ad valorem tariff must be more equal in its operation, provided proper rules exist, in establishing the valuation of property import ed. Under the present Act, the duties levied upon the same aitcles vary at the same port of entry, and the average rate of duty upon some articles is nominally small, whil e th e actual - duty ranges very high. Specific duties create, at all times, a great deal of difficulty, and if the system pre sented by the Secretary of the Treasury, professed no other merit but simplicity, that alone would entitle it to be adopted. The variety of rates of duties levied under the pre sent tariff upon almost the same articles is very great, in some cases specific, and in others ad valorem. A modification of the tariff, aiming at the reduction, and the establishment of the ad valorem principle throughout, must make this Act as near perfect as possible, and give it a permancy never en joyed by any previo us Bill of this character. There is not such a great and general revolution in the duties as antici pated; the average under the new Bill, so far as we are able to judge, will range somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent. The average under the present tariff, according to the impor tations of 1845, was a fraction over 29 per cent." There are no later arrivals to-day with intelligence of in terest. The Funds look decidedly better this morning, and there is a rally of about per cent. in Consols, which for present transfer are 95% to %, and for time, 95 3 A to 96. The trans fer books for the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are now about to close, and they have been marked 97% to 98. Bank Stock is worth 209 to 20912. On Exchequer-bills the premium is 345. to 365. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97% to 98, and the Three per Cents. 95% to 964. The Foreign Investments have been very dull again, though looking somewhat firmer. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 25%, and the Three per Cents. 35% to 35%. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 30% to 314, and Portu guese Four per Cents. 55 1 / 2 to 56. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 97. Shares seem to be bettor supported. in the absanse, how ever, of extensive operations. BRITISH FUNDS. ONR CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. • • • • • • • • • • • • 209% 209% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 953 z 961, A 96% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities ..., 95 ci % 95% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 97% 98 97% 98 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. b, 1860 ..10% 11-16 9-13 10 9-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10%% 10% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10% 5-16 10 5-16 South Sea Stock .. • • • • • • ~ ._ Ditto. Old Annuities _ ~ .. 95 95% Bank Stock for Account • • • • • • • • 210% 210% Consols for Account • • • • • • • • • • 95% 96 95% Exchequer Bills. I%d , I%cl. 1,0001. • • .• •• • • 36 34 —-- pra . 36 Ditto, Small •• • • 34 —— _ pm. 34 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent _ Chilien Bonds, 6 per Cent - ~ . 38 _ Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent •• 31 99 31 Ditto, for the Account _ ~ .. 30 , ~ IA 31% Portuguese Four per Cents .. ._AI " Ditto, for the Account .. .• .• 56 55% 56% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account _ _ „ 2 5„ Ditto, Passive Bonds ~„ _is 25% 3% Ditto, Three per Cent • . • • • • 35% PAID. DONE AT 36 Ditto, for the Account .. „ ~ 357 i 36% Dividends on the above payable In Loudon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 97 97 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 59 58% 58% PRICES or RUSINESS RAILWAY SHARES. CLOSING ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. Caledonian .. .• • • • • 10 1034 11% 11 % Ditto, Half Shares . • • • • • 2 % •• • • 2% Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 2% •• • • 1% Cambridge and Oxford.. • • • • 1 38 •• • • % Chelmsford and Bury .. • • .. 1 Chester and Holyhead .. • • .. 20 .. 20 20 Chester and Manchester .. 425. 1% dis ...... dis Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% 1 _ ........ 1 Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5% _ Direct Northern 2% .. ..... 234 Eastern Counties .. 141. 155. .... 20% % .. 21 Ditto New .• •• 81 . 16 s. •• •• 5 34% P•...•. p Ditto, York Extension .. 105... • • 114 ••.... • • 114 East Lincolnshire .. • • • • 1 4 •• • • 1 % 2 . •••• • • • 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72 •• .• 72 Ditto 36 Shares .. . 12% .... 17%•....... 173 f Edinburgh and Perth • • Goole, Doneast., and iheffield, &e. 425..... 1 • p.. • • .... 4 p Grand Union (Nottingh. k Lynn) 1% Great Eastern and Western .. 2%.... Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .. •. • ..... 16 34 Great North of England . ..100 .. 214 ..... ..... 214 Ditto, New .. • . .. 5 33 ... 33 Great Western .. 85 .. • • ...... 146 Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 80 _ 80 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 153( 1536 Ditto, Fifths _ 20 .. _ 32 32 Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 ••4 36 Hull and Selby .. 50 ....102 Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 .... 51 Ditto New .. _ 5 .. • • 9 ..... Leicester and Bedford .. _ 225. • • •••• • . Liverpool and Leeds Direct _ ...• Liverp., Stanch., & Newc. Junct. 2% • • • • • • London and Birmingham ... .100 ....218 219....,,,, Lo D nd it o t n o a T n h d ir ß ds lackw — au .. _49% 49 ... ... .... Ditto New 3 % • aid Brighton Le D n i d t o to n , Co Ditto ditto Fifths _ .. 20 ••• • 29 _ 29 London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 214 %•••• • • .. 21% g o h n th . s . . . .. 5 4 0 0 . .... ... 62% . 62% . .. . London and Greenwich .. 12/, 155. 4d. London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 7 5 30 763 Ditto, New 12 %. . 22 .. ••• • • 22% London and York ..•• .... 4 • ...... • 3!a Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% • • • 2 ,4 ••••• • • • • ' 2 4 London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. .• • • 1 ,1 • • ... Londonderry and Coleraine .. 7% •• • • 5,1 "•••• • • • ' 6 Lynn and Ely .. 10 .... 10 .. ........ 10 Manchester and Leeds .. _B2 •• • • '""" ••••• • • • • • 131 Ditto, Half Shares .. ..38 .• • • 52 • ..... •' • 59 Ditto, Fi ft hs .. 2 •• • • 11 34 ..... • •... 12 Ditto Extension .. •• 425. .• • • —.. Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 •• • • 11% ••••• • • • • • 1 134 Ditto, Quarte r Shares ( B) .. 2 •• . • 9 14 ••••• • • • • • 9 4 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 42 5 . •• • • 13 4% P• . p Manchester and Southampton . • 2 •• • • 2 ••••• • • • • • 2 , e ,, Midland .. _lOO ....142% ....... • • Ditto, New .. •• _ 18 .... 29% 29 3014 .. 30% Ditto, Birmingham a n d De r b y • 101 .... 113% ••••• • • • • • 113 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 95 43 • • • • • • • • 43 Ditto, New .. • I .. • • 94 •• • ••• • • 94 Newcastle and Berwick . .. 10 .... 18% 18 ,i •• • • 18% North British .. _ 20 .. • • 2 5 ••• • • • •• • 2536 Ditto, Half Shares 6 .. • • 7% 834 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114 .... 1% ••••• • • • • 2 % North Kent and Direct Dover .. .. •. 2% %• • •• 2% North Staffordshire .. 425. •• .. 34 %1 1 •• • • • • 3 % P North Wales • • .. 331 ••• • • . 2% Oxtd.,Worcester, & Wolverlimptn. 12% .... 1 2 4% • ... 13 Perth and Invernes s .. 234.. , • I'/ ••••• • • • • • 1 1 4 Preston and Wyra .. 25 .... 33% 3334 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 2 % • . Shropshire Union .. •• _ 421. .. • • % di s" '•" • • dis. South Midland 42s _ IV,IP• • • • • • 1 p South Eastern and Dovor •.. 33 'A .... Do., New (do. 33/. Gs. 81) No. 2. 10 .. • • 11 4•'• • • • • • • Be., New (do. 15/.) .. No. 4. 214 . Trent Valley .. b .... 274 ••• • • ..... Wateriii., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1 •• • • %••'• • • • • • Welsh Midland .. 1 ••••• • • • • • Wilts, Somerset, and Weym▪ outh 2 v .. 24•••• • • • • • • York and Carlisle .. ..2s .... 1% •• • • • York and North Midltuid 50 ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Half Sh ares 25 4G • •••• • • • • Ditto. Extension •,. •• 30% 20% .• • • Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 •• • • 914 9 ' •••• ' • • FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. lO 1031 1 4 • • • • ' • • • Hord., Tool., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 • • • ••••• ••'• ' • • % (li ,ll/ 219 49 11% 214 27 1 % 2% 1U 46 . 30% Dutch Rhenish .. 5 .... 5% •• • ... 534 East Indian .. 2 • • • ss. •• • • % !! !• •• • • Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15 .... 16 iA Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 Lyons and Avignon .... 2 -- Luxembourg .. 4 .... 1% Namur and Liege .. 4 .... 2% •• Orleans and 'Gera= .. 10 19 19 Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... 11% % West Flanders .. 4 .... ••••• • • • • • 3 % MINES. British Iron .. .. 10 .... 21% •••• • • • • 21 14 . . Real del Monte, Unregistered .. ••• • • • •• • LLOYD'S SHIPPING (THIS DAY). LoxDore, Maw' 10.—Wind at noon S.S.W., light airs and hazy. RAMSGATE, MARCH 9. Sid. Amphitrite, Jenson, Surinam ; Kooplandel, Popken, ditto; Bays, Martinez, Ilavannah; Tarquin, Campeachy. DEAL, MARCH 9.—Wind N.N.W. to N.E., six 1.. m. S.—Sld. Mary Grant, Ascension ; Charlotte, Stafford, St. John's, New Brunswick. Dovga, Maacu 9.—Wind N.—Sld. Neptunus, Matthieson, Bahia. LIVERPOOL, Miami 9.—Wind S.S.E. to W.N.W. Fends, Islay ; Jane and Jessie, Campbell, St. Domingo ; Storm King, Cuba ; Gratitude, Harvey, Savanilla, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, boats, &c., from severe gales ; Wallace, Summen'on, New Orleans; Severn, Cheeper, ditto; Cambridge, Barstow, New York ; Antelope, Clark, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed the out ward bound ready for sea, about fifty sail. The Victoria, M'llethon, bound to this p,rt, was aground on the bar of the Mississippi 4th ult. BRISTOL, MARCH B. The masts, yards, and spars of a vessel of about 500 tons, was passed in lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Eliza Jane, Bowen, arrived here. Kruss.tz, Marten 6.—The greater part of the cargo of the Alice, from St. Domingo, wrecked at Doneughmore, has been saved. Krtansu, Mahal B.—The Leda, of Bristol, which went on shore yesterday, came off to-day, and must discharge to repair. STRANOFORD, MARCH 6.—The William, of Donnaghadee, which drove on shore on Ballyheury beach, 4th inst., has got off, after dis charging her ballast. CONTLERSOY, Masten 4.—The Maria, of Greenoek, drove on shore here to-day, during a heavy gale from the westward. LERWICK, MARCH I.—The Prince of Wales, Lee, ran en shore on the Island of Moss last night, during a fog, and remains. YARMOUTH, MARCH, 7.—The Adelphl, Carr, from Newcastle to Gravesend, in turning up the roads this morning, came in contact with a brig, name unknown, and carried away bar bowsprit, jib boom, and broke her anchor-stock. She was rigged with a temporary bowsprit, and proceeded on her voyage. CLAY, MARCH B.—The sloop Metcalf, Dunn, from Woodbridge to Spalding, got on shore in entering Blakeney harbour, on the 6th inst., but came off the following day without damage. SHIELDS, MARCH 9.—The Derwent, which was on the rocks at Cullercoats, on the 7th instant, was got off at night, after throwing part of cargo overboard, and brought into the harbour without ap parent injury. MARKET NEWS -(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. Suds:.—There has been a fair demand for British Plantation, about 300 hhds having been sold at previous rates. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 6,770 bags Mauritius, 3,764 bags Bengal, 675 bags Madras, 653 bags 53 cases Penang (subject to 14s duty), 218 boxes white, and 921 boxes brown and yellow Havannah. Nearly all the East India found buyers at about previous prices, excepting the white Bengal, which must be quoted again rather cheaper. Only about one-half the Havannah sold at 17s Gd to 21s Gd for low sett brown to good mid yellow, and 27s to 31s for low to 'good mid white, which are about previous rates. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 195 hhds, 61 tierces, 24 bar rels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,183 hhds, 169 tierces, 106 barrels. The stock in the port of London on the 28th ult. was 8,276 hhds, 859 tierces, against 11,370 hhds, 1,285 tierces, at this time last year. COFFEE.-122 casks B. Plantation (chiefly Berbice) and 734 bags Ceylon were offered by auction. Nearly all the British Plantation were taken in, being unclean ; good ord Ceylon partly sold at 48s, one lot 48s 6d ; inferior quality was taken in at 47s to 48s. The stock of British Plantation in the port of London on the 28th ult. was 2,287 hhds 1,816 brie and bags against 3,005 h hds 3,406 brie and bag sat this time last year. Runt.—The quantity landed last week was 306 puncheons 3 hogs heads. There were taken for home consumption 183 puncheons 8 hogsheads, and exported 207 puncheons 19 hogsheads. The stock in the port of London on the 28th ult. was 15,273 puncheons 590 hogs heads against 11,949 puncheons 2,958 hogsheads at this time last year. Rica.-864 bags Java at auction fall sold at 14s 6d to 17s 6d for ord small and broken to good white, being comparatively cheap. SALTPATEE.-353 bags Bengal were taken In above the value, viz, at 26s 6d to 278 for 10 to 7% per cent, refraction. SPICES.--Of 2,237 chests CassiaLignea at auction about three-fourths found buyers at 53s 6d to 63s for good and coarse to good quality (part 21b bundles), which are rather lower rates. TALLOW. - P. Y. C. is 42s 9d percwt. - on - tie spot, and town 45s per cwt. - TEA.—The iarket is quiet, and the deliveries are not quite so large. minnlELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ Ss ; Clover ditto, 41 Ss to 61; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 lis ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Slay, 31 53 to 41 103 ; Clover ditto, 41 8s to Si 158 ; Oat Straw, 11 14a to 1/ 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 163 to 11 per load. A lair average supply and a steady demand. WIIITECHATEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 58 to 41 Ss ; Clover ditto, 41 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s , Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s par load. Both hay and straw moved off steadily, at our quotations. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) IN RE WEBB. Application was made on the part of Thomas Webb, for an in junction to restrain Messrs. Lamont, Tompking, and Junes, from selling, or otherwise disposing of, a cargo of guano, by the Pomona, at Butler's wharf. WIA RLBRO-STREET.-(T HIS DAY.) Mr. Constan'ine W. de Bernardi. residing at No. 21, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, was charged with assaulting John Gray, police constable No. 10 of the C division, under the tol.lowing singular cir cumstances : The complainant stated that lately the housekeepers in Coik-street and the imuie date neighbourhood had mad. - - frequent complaints of females being admitted at a late hour et night to their dwellings by their servants, and about three o'clock this morning he saw a female come out of No. 21. He immediately stopped her, and on knocking at the door of No. 21 it o as opened by the defendant. Ile inquired if he knew the female. The defendant said he di, n( t, and shut the door in his face. The female had stated, when he first stopped her, that she had been taken into the house by a gentleman. Complainant not feeling satisfied that all was right, knocked again, and on the defendant opening the door the female stated that he was the person whe had introduced her into the house. The complainant had at that time his hand just inside the door, when the defendant slammed it too, jamming the complainant's fingers with great violence, and causing him the most excruciating pain. He was unable to extricate his head, and although he repeatedly called to the defendant the doer was kept closed. The female then ran away, and the complainant, with the hand he had at liberty, drew his rattle and sprung it. While doing so the defendant opened the door, and struck him violently' on the neck. He then took him into custody, and while in the passage of the house, the defendant menaced him with his fist, and made use of threatening language. He was in his shirt at the time. The female was brought back by the police, and was then attendance. Mr. MALTBY ordered her to be called, and on presenting herself in the witness-box a general titter ran through the court. She was of very vulgar and ordinary appearance, and at least between 60 and 70 years of age. Her statement fully corroborated that of the complainant. The defendant on being asked what answer he had to make to the charge against him, said he admitted that the constables statement was mainly correct, but it was untrue that he denied any knowledge of the female, in fact, he told the constable, on his first knocking at the door, that it was all right, and it was enough to try the temper of the most peaceably disposed man to be a second time called out of his bed on such a trifling matter. Mr. MALTBY said the constable's statement was substantiated by the female herself, and he should therefore fine the defendant 31., or in default one months' imprisonment. Defendant inquired if 11e could not appeal, and on being answered in the negative paid the tine and was liberated. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee No. 1. The Committee met again this morning at twelve o'clock; Mr. Strutt, chairman. THE NORTH WALES. Mr. JOSEPII PARKES appeared in support of this Bill, which being unopposed, the formal proofs were gone through, and the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. THE mozzcoranz HARBOUR AND RAILWAY. Mr. Sherwood appeared in support of this scheme. The formal proofs were gone into, and the further consideration was postponed, to enable the Committee to consider a notice which they doubted to have been properly inserted in the Gazette. THE SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND SOUTH smarrominsunam (Ne. 1.) Mr. SIIES.WooD appeared for the promoters. The formal proofs were gone through, and the further consideration adjourned. Sub-Committee No. 2. This Committe met to-day a few minutes after twelve o'clock ; present, Sir J. Y. Buller (chairman), Mr. Bell, Mr. Kemble, Mr. Brameton, and Mr. G. Craig. LIVERPOOL AND LEEDS DIRECT. The formal evidence, which had not concluded yesterday, was re sumed, in the course of which it appeared that the estimate of the undertaking was over 1,600,0001. The petitions against the Bill, complaining of non-compliance with the:standing orders, were then considered. The first petition taken was from Mrs. Frances Mary Richardson Kerr, alleging generally inaccuracy in the notices served on her with reference to description of property through which the railway proposed to pass. - The first specific allegation was that in sections 141 to 148 inclu sive, and 18, 19, 13, 104, &c., in the West Riding of York, the pro perty of petitioner was not set forth correctly in the notices served on her. Mr. rAIIICES admitted that there were errors in the notices. This allegation was sustained. The neat allegation was, that the mode in which the property would be affected in the sections in question was not set forth in the schedule. Mr. PARKES objected to this allegation being entered into, inas much as it was included in the preceding allegation. After some discussion the Chairman ordered the room to be cleared. The CHAIRMAN, on our re-asimission, said that the Committee were of opinion that they might proceed with tho allegation, and that they might hear individual cases. The Committee found that the standing orders in this case had not been complied with, inasmuch as the height of the embankments and cuttings where the railway crossed were not stated. It was next alleged that there was an inaccuracy of the same de scription with reference to the section 119, which was marked 117. Evidence having been heard in support of the allegation, the Com mittee found. that in this case the standing orders had Rot been com plied with. The next allegation was that In section 123, in the parish of North Barley, there was a similar inaccuracy, which was abandoned. The next allegation was, that in section 155 the embankment was not set forth, which was sustained. There was a similar allegation with reference to section 116, a train-road marked 110. This allegation was abandoned, as well as some others of a similar character. It was alleged that in the same district, where tunr elling was sub• stituted for open cutting the same was not stated In the schedule. This allegation was sustained. There was a similar allegation with respect to section 35, which was sustained. The next allegation was, that in various parts of the petitioner's property the depth of the cuttings was not set forth. After some discussion between the agents, the Committee found that in this case the standing orders had been complied with. The next allegation was, that in the cross-sections, where the pro posed alterations in the level were to be made, the same were not set forth. Mr. PARKES contended that this was not a case that came uader the standing order. This allegation was sustained. It was next alleged that the radius of the curve of the sixth mile and fifth furlong along the line in the parishof North Barley was not marked correctly. This allegation was not sustained. An allegition to the same effect was admitted. It was next alleged that, on the plan deposited with the 'clerk of the peace, the fences dividing the fields marked sections 154, 155, 158, 165, were not delineated. There was a similar allegation with respect to the section marked 20, a stable adjoining a public road, which was sustained. It was next alleged that the line terminated at the point marked 155, in the township of Wyck, which was sustained. A similar allegation was admitted. Sub-Committee No. 3. This Committee resumed its sitting at the usual hour this morning. Present, Mr. Charles Buller, who was in the chair, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Aldan, and Mr. Stansfield. oxPoRD, WITNEY, AND CRELTENBAII7. Some additional proofs of a formal nature, which were not forth coming at the former sitting of the Committee, were adduced in this case, after which the allegations of the petitioners against the Bill were proceeded w th. Several allegations that the books of reference were incorrect, In as far as they assigned the ownerships of certain fields, closes, and woods, in the parish of Dowdeswell, through which the line is proposed to pass, to parties who had no title in the property, were made out to the satisfaction of the Committee, but the promoters afterwards called a witness to prove that the error, if there were any at all, was attributable to a party who resided In the parish, and whom they employed to supply them with the names of the owners and occupiers of the land in Dowdeswell proposed to be intersected by the line. THE 17TH LANCERS.—A detatebment of this regi ment left Brighton yesterday (Monday) morning, en mute for Not tingham ; the remainder fellow this morning. The Foot Guards have arrived to do Palace duty. The 10th Hussars have succeeded the Lancers, bat they are ordered out to India. An immense number of seals have lately been seen in Dornech Firth. The fishermen predict a successful salmce tilling in C 9ll3 equelle9.-104n VOrvat's Journal. IRELAND. MAYO ELECTION. Castlebar, Saturday Morning. The polling was proceeded with very slowly during the greatest part of yesterday, and one of the booths (the Carra) was closed, only 15 voters haying polled in it. In another (that in which the Gallen freeholders were polled) the num ber of voters given was 22, just two beyond the number re quired to keep it open. The third booth, which included the baronies of Murrisk and Costello, the strongholds of the anti-repeal candidate, would have been also closed for the second time, but for the arrival of the agent of the Marquis of Sligo, with about 40 freeholders, for whom, accompanied by a large military party and three magistrates, he had gone early on Thursday morning to the west. Shortly after their arrival the struggle began anew in the last mentioned booth, and, after a sharp contest, 20 voters were polled in it before 5 o'clock, the hour for closing the booth for the day. At 6 o'clock the assessor declared the state of the poll to be, For M‘Donnell •• ••• ••• For Moore ••• •• .•• ••• Majority for Moore on this day's poll GROSS POLL ON THE FOUR DAYS. For M'Donnell ... 417 For Moore ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 379 Majority for M•Donnell • ...-38 DUBLIN, MARCH 3. ... .......11 LORD CLONCURRY ON COERCION. The Baron Cloncurry, who, whenever th , occasion suits, is second only to Mr. O'Connell in the length and frequency of his contributions to the press literature of the country, has addressed an epistle, embodying his - views upon the Irish Coercion Bill, to his Lordship's organ, the Dublin Evening Post. It runs as follows : " My Dear Sir,—Allow me to say a few words on this Bill, in tended, I fear, as the future means for the government of this unfor tunate country. It was my late, as a magistrate of the county of Kildare, to be obliged to assist in the administration of a law of nearly equal atrocity, some years ag9. The magistrates of that county were, I believe, with very tew exceptions, amongst the most respectable country gentlemen of Ireland —with some prejudices and class feelings, still generous and humane. I will mention one or two circumstances which occurred during the first administration of Lot d Wellesley, not only a great statesman, but a scholar of a most culti vated and enlarged understanding, and a man of experience and humanity, no way inclined to deny or to despise our country. The barony of North Naas happened to be proclaimed sometime about 1823 or 1824 ; it joined the barony of South Salt, in which 1 resided, aid was the only magistrate, but which was not proclaimed; the demesne land of Bishop's-court, where the late Lady Ponsonby re sided, were in my unproclaimed barony, and amongst her lady ship's tenantry was a very respectable man, named Kenny, who rented a large farm. He was employed in haymaking; on a sum mer's evening, and wanting change to pay his men, he left his own nnproclaimed barony, and went to a public-house, a few hundred yards from it, for the purpose of getting it ; the public-house was just within the proclaimed barony of North Naas, and while Kenny was getting the change the police came in and arrested him for being out of his house after sunset, though broad day-light ; he was brought before me, and I immediately bailed him, though I doubted my right to do so. He was tried at the next special sessions of Naas, before a full bench of justices, Mr. George Bennett, the respectable Queen's Counsel, presiding, only one ma gistrate joined me in refusing to convict. Mr. Bennett told me how important it was that the magistrates should act with unanimity— that, strictly speaking, Kenny was from home after sunset, and that if I would preserve the unanimity of the Court he would wait on the Lord-Lieutenant and have Kenny liberated. He did wait on his Ex cellency, but Lord Wellesley, instead of using his prerogative, re probated the verdict of the justices, said it was contrary to the spirit of the law and to coremon sense, and that they must reconsider it. Meantime, Schoales, assistant-barrister, went his circuit to the north of Ireland, and next special sessions did not take place for some weeks. When they did come on, the magistrates refused to alter their verdict, aid poor Kenny remained in gaol, and there he might have stayed, had not his good fortune brought the late Lord Fitzwil liam to Bishop's-court, having lately married Lady Ponsonby—he accompanied me to the Castle, and we obtained the liberation of Kenny. I write this to show what can be done even in a good county. I believe I have accurately stated what occurred, not even sup pressing my own shameful cowardice. Mau (as my friend, Judge Perrin knows) it faut hurler awe les loops. " That event took place many years ago, and I am still ashamed of it. Perhaps I may be incorrect—if so, I am certain Mr. Bennett will kindly set me right. At the same sessions, a tailor, a very old man, was sentenced to transportation for being out of his own dwelling at night. It was proved that, according to the custom of his trade, he was boarding and lodging in the house of an employer, a respectable person. He would - have been acquitted, only some magistrate recollected his having been active in 1798, 25 years before. " By the Coercion Act, a list of the inhabitants of each house is obliged to be posted on the door—the police visit the house and search the beds to see they be properly occupied, an indecency most offea sive to our chaste though poor females. An excellent magistrate, Mr. Arthur Henry, of Lodge Park, suggested to me at the time of the Whig Insurrection Act, to alter that part of the Act, by ordering the police to call for any person suspected to be absent, and non-appear ance to suffice for conviction. Lord Stanley and Lord Melbourne re fused the alteration. " Dear Sir, I mention these anecdotes to show the horrid working of this dreadful law—l could tell of scores of others; but, in im ploring the mercy of the Legislature for a people kept by law for centuries in ignorance and misery, I would not deprecate the severest penalty that can be indicted on the hired assassin, or those guilty of wanton outrage, if fairly convicted before an impartial Jtidge and an honest and discriminating jury and I would have my loved country men to recollect, that the murderer, though he may escape here, and proclaim his innocence to sinners like himself, can neither im pose upon or escape the great and just Judge, before whom, sooner or later, we must all appear. With many apologies for this too long letter,—l am, dear Sir, yours, " (Man URRY." LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mrs. Keeley, owing to sudden indisposition, was unable to perform last night. The Cricket on the Hearth, &c., were consequently postponed. Other performances were substituted. The indisposition was so sudden, that there had not been time to prepare and distribute new bills. Th.re was an uncommonly well••attended house. The audience, very good naturedly, under the circumstances, accepted the alterations. Mr. BEULER'S CONCERT.—,Mr. Betiier is a comic vocalist of considerable repute, and his concert last night, at the Croon and Anchor Tavern, was sufficiently well attended to prove the high estimation in which he is held by his own connexion. Mr. Beuler sang two comic extravaganzas, " Pity pdor Time," and " When Fr:day-street was Polka Mad," the former his own Compo sition, the latter a rifacciarnento founded on one of Jullien's well known polkas. He was loudly applauded and encored. Airs. A. Smith, Misses O'Co.inor and Stewart, Mr. Trenklee, another comic singer, interpreter of Henry kusseu's characteristic pasticcios ; Misses E. Day, Caulfield, and other vocalists, assisted Mr. Beuler on the occasion. With the exception of a fantasia on the concertina, cleverly played by Mr. Sedgewick, the concert was wholly vocal. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR EWAN LLOYD, COLONEL OF THE SEVENTH DaAOOON GoSans.— The demise of this aged officer, which took place on the 4th of the present month, at Verney-hall, Shropshire, places another regiment at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief. The gallant officer had obtained the venerable age of 78, his service having extended to a period of 66 years. He was born in 1768, and was twice Married ; first to the eldest daughter of Benjamin Burton, Esq., of Burton-hall, Ireland; and, secondly, in 1814, to the Dowager Lady Trimlestown, relict of the 14th Lord. He entered the army as Cornet in the 17th Light Dragoons in 1780, then being not more than twelve years of age. His commissions are thus dated :—Cornet, Nov. 25, 1780 ; Lieutenant. Feb. 5, 1787 ; Captain, Oct. 25, 1793 ; Major, Sept. 1, 1795 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Feb. 11, 1799 ; Colonel, Oct. 25, 1809 ; Major-General, Jan. 1, 1812 ; Lieutenant-General, May 21, 1825 ; General, Nov. 23, 1841 ; and Colonel-in-Chief of the 7th Dragoon Guards, now stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, and under orders far India, March 18, 1836. Sir Evan served on regimental full pay from 1780 to 1612, the whole period in the 17th Light Dragoons, and was present with that corps in nearly all the actions and sieges in which it was engaged in India. He also served in South America in 1806 and 1807, and was at the taking of Monte Video and in the ex pedition to Buenos Ayres, during which service the regiment was armed with muskets, and acted as infantry. _ BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM.—The death of the Rev. Dr. Alexander having left this see vacant, it has been filled up by tho appointment of M. Belson, a converted Jew, by the King of Prussia, who holds the right of alternate appointment with the Government of England. Mr. James Spence, of the firm of Spence, Cochrane, and Co., of Water-street, Liverpool, was committed for trial last week, on a charge of embezzling 119 casks of oil, of the value of 2,0001. and upwards: the property of Messrs. Gartside, dyers. Bail was taken for the prisoner, the prisoner himself in 4001., and two others in 2001. each. The Queen has presented a pair of milk-white Cach mere goats, part of a flock sent to her Majesty by the Shah of Persia, to the 23d Welsh Fusiliers, to replace the venerable Cambrian goat which accompanied that gallant regiment, and which lately died at Barbadoes. NEW CLUB,—A large meeting took place on Sunday at Lord Foley's, in Grosvenor-square, to enter into arrangements for the formation of a new club, of which the Duke of Wellington is to be one of the patrons. It appears that some difficulties are yet to be got over before the club can be finally arranged. __ _ The Earl of Auckland entertained at dinner on Satur day last the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Earl and Countess,Grey, Earl of Basborough, Mr. Macaulay, and a select party. DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD' T. HANCOCK. —We have to record the death of the above venerable admiral, who expired on Thursday last at Weymouth. He was one of the oldest officers in the navy, being in his 83d year. In his early career he saw much active service. His commissions were dated as sub joined : lieutenant, 26th August, 1789 ; commander, 4th September, 1800; captain, 25th September, 1806 ; rear-admiral of the blue, 23d November, 1841. _ In an extraordinary consistory, to be convoked on or about the 18th of March at Rome, the Pope will communicate to the cardinals, the state of the negotiations pending between him and the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. A nomination of bishops, among others some Spanish bishops, will take place. News has been received from different legations that soldiers belunging to the Swiss regiments are missing, and no traces of them discovered. No doubt they have been assassinated. At Perusa five carabiniers have been assassinated whilst on duty, and the authorities have not been able to discover the murderers. GREAT FIRE IN NORMANDY. The steamer La Neustrie, which arrived at Havre yesterday, was the bearer of the sad news that a destructive fire had reduced to ashes, on the Tuesday night, the village of Sainte Honorine Dufay, about three leagues from Caen. Notwithstanding the prompt assistance of the fire-bri gade from Caen, sixty houses became the prey of the devouring element ; seven houses alone remained. The fire is said to have broke out at a baker's. CLOSING OF THE FUNDS BOOKS.—The transfer books of the under-mentioned stocks will be shut and re-opened for trans fers at the times mentioned :—Bank Stock, Tuesday, March 10, re open April 14 ; Three and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, Tuesday, March TO, re-open Friday, April 17 ; Reduced i hree per Cent. Annui ties, Tuesday, March 10, re-open Friday, April 17 ; Long Annuities, Tues .ay, March 10, re-open Friday, April 17; Annuities for Terms of Years, Tuesday, March 10, re-open Friday, April 17 ; and the South Sea Annuities, Tuesday, March 10, re-open Friday, April 17. STREET RoßßEßY.—Yesterday, intormation was cir culated throughout the Metropolitan and City police districts, that between twelve and half-past, while Mr. J. Bamber, clerk la the employ of Messrs. Leaf, Barnett, and Co., warehousemen, No. 47, Wood-street, Cheapside, was going from Messrs. Barclay and Co.'s banktng-house, Lombard-street, to Lime-street, his pocket was picked of a pocket-book containing four Bank of England notes, viz.: one for 1001., one fur 501., one for 301.. and one for 101. SUICIDE OF A LONDON MERCHANT AT BRIGHTON.— A gentleman named Lamb, who went down to Brighton from London on Saturday week, and took lodgings in the King's-road, committed suicide yesterday morning. We understand that he arose about half past six o'clock, partly dressed himself, and left his wife in bed, and retired to an ante-room and cut his throat in so dreadful a manner that life was instantaneously extinct. It was expected that an inquest would be held on the body yesterday evening. DEATH OF CY. DAVIS, THE PUGILIST.—Cyrus Davis, many years known as the host of the Plough, in Giltspur-street, and in sporting circles as the conqueror of Abraham Belasco (in 1818), Bushell (1819), and the celebrated Ned Turner, at Orpendon common, on Feb. 18, 1823, died suddenly yesterday morning at his son's, the White Bear, Kennington-common, of disease of the heart, of long standing. ALARMING FIRE IN BREAD-STREET.—Last evening, between eight and nine o'clock, a fire that for upwards of an hour caused great alarm in the City, was discovered raging upon the premises belonging to Messrs Poland and Co., furriers, 52, Bread street, Cbeapside. The premises, which were five stories high, in cluding the basement, were adjoined by the large warehouse, belong ing to Messrs. White, Lupton, and Co. The discovery was made by a young man who, in passing the premises, perceived smoke issuing from the windows. Having raised an alarm, Police-constable Knight instantly repaired to the spot, and very judiciously kept the doors closed until the arrival of the firemeo. The engines from the station in Watling-street were soon drawn out, and on the hose being attached, the door was opened, when an immense body of fire was to be seen burning in the warehouse on the ground floor, and which was mounting most fear fully towards the upper portion of the building. The firemen at once set to work most manfidly, and by pouring a large stream of water upon the flames, they were enabled to keep them at bay until the arrival of more engines. The fire was not subdued until past ten o'clock, and not until damage to a serious amount had been done. The building was likewise very seriously injured. The precise loss cannot be ascertained. Sir William Poland, the brother of one of the partners, was present du - ring the fire. The Cologne Gazette says " The question of the suppression of the navigation dues of the Rhine having been without result as regards the states generally, the Governments of France and Holland have agreed to suppress them in their territories in favour of their respective commerce." SINGULAR ACCIDENT CAUSED BY A DREAM.—On Saturday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a singularaccident, caused by a dream, occurred to a young man named John Pilbrow, residing in Arbour-street, Hackney-road, who was riding asleep in a tilted cart, belonging to his employer, Mr. Snaffel, of Bishopsgate street, when he dreamt that the horse was running aw a y with the cart and was approaching the canal. He suddenly attempted from the alarm caused by his dream, whilst half -asleep, to quit the front of the cart to stop the horse, and his foot slipping he fell under the wheels which passed over his abdomen, inflicting so severe an injury that he is not expected to survive. An infant has been killed and a girl much hurt on the i L n i g ve t r o p p o as ol s a o n v d e ll r l t a h n e oh li e n s e te a r t cwchleisle,bayttrhalgirwllsattoemniiputg thrown off the rails by the safety-guard.—Liverpoo!Aion. B a a l i e lw ve a l y Cr n o e ss ar in E g up. The buffer of the engine struck the infant, and the girl was COACH ACCIDENT.—As the Bedford Tunes coach was,as yesterday, crossing from the City senger, the ground. was riding oti o m n e t w h e as r 00l lest t o finthperoccouarich, Procuring c i t ai h great t an fo r c c e e , upon but he was so stunned by thef hat hi* Anal recovery is deemed very doubtful. ADELPHI THEATRE. A new and most interesting drama, in two acts (- ffcn ! the French), intitled The Cabin Boy, was rr this theatre last evening. The scene is laid in t he ' 'P o of Guadaloupe, where we find the Mademoiselle la t h e Laroche (Miss Woolgar), has been left by her fatla t h e d much in debt. There are two suitors for her h$11; M. Henri (Mr. Braid), a lieutenant in the Fr ench es e%i and M. Vincent (Mr. 0. Smith), a rich planter . is a hard and harsh taskmaster, and is hated bv buss body. In order to secure the hand of the lady:I!! " iv ol up all her father's debts, and then, as the Pr' ll 'l o . creditor, threatens to deprive her of all her property, less she consents to be his bride. She haughtily rele,c,' his suit, and gives up the whole of her property t? 1%; announcing her determination of leaving the islanq si ; Henri. Vincent replies that she cannot leave the ale until her debts are liquidated, but it is urged that, tisot is yet a minor, she is not answerable persoaallot her father's debts. Vincent demands proof the minority ; the ship of Henri is to sail it,i6co, morning—a dreadful storm is raging—the &rustls of her birth is in a neighbouring isl e . Who will "poi on the sea in the fearful storm to seek it? f ix. (Madame Celeste) a eabin-boy—the adopted son e to garette (Mr P. Bedford), an old pilot. vole nt ',, e 110 cross the sea in a canoe. Mademoiselle Larce" e l , t he been kind to his old mother, and gratitude ile,P e rks is brave boy to risk his life in her service. Efe vet go; the midst of the raging storm and thus ends f the act. In the second act, we and that the " le (3 10 6 property of Mademoiselle Laroche has lah e t„ P bolt The pilot has picked up a t sea the hat of a cau':;,tes and the canoe floating capsized. Suddenly Julie to the —he has performed his mission, having swa n s : r od , neighbouring Isle of Dominica, and having .i.Tncest bringing with him the papers whi c h he delivers to " , ,iso The papers prove that she is a minor. But alas! tbeloche prove that she is a slave, being the daughter of L b s er P °: and of an unemancipated mother. Vincent has le o to up to auction and purchases her, the cabin-beY t nc ipste become a slave in her place, so that he will er ° ,t - c ootli" her, but Laroche refuses to emancip ate except o f or ask , for par ties that she will become his wif. She to write a last letter to Henri, and retires for ths,:i c tioi , pose; Vincent rushes forward to drag forth 1115 0 01 but Julien seizing a musket, threatens to shoot bloat upon the spot if he dares to advance. At th'sotaie the pilot enters and recognises in Vincent th e e tc Csr a pirate ship, which has long been a terror to wj u lie o, ribbeen seas. He communicates his discovery to of th e and goes off to give information to the gover l3° ft r t , island. Julien immediately advances to Viece,,,te" Or. him that he knows him as the captain of the Prg repeats to him the pirate's signal. Vincent , u is discovered, offers any sum of money to J lieu ;_;"e11 sti rs permit him to escape. Julien demands the eatandies of Jenny, which he refuses. Henri enters, a n threatens to denounce him to the French offieer e ' bo utll cent then signs the act of emancipation, and is e r a, ' 1 make his escape, when he is arrested by the g i f eeI e . the government, to whom the pilot has converl, formation. Henri and Jenny are united, and all e n : " bat pily. The acting of Madame Celeste, as the cabip 0 was full of energy mid pathos; and Miss We t ' s ,' W i t t . ; Jenny, came out in quite a new character; she w ,,„0 1 57 tifully pathetic—Mrs. Yates, in her best days, „7, 0 10" have acted the character more beautifully.. ''' - fees/' as a curiosity dealer from Paris, was verL o ssr, although he was wanting in the rich Ite c ,t.'" which Wright would have infused into the r d rim; Smith, as Vincent, was the prince of villain* b e n ra le at JO Bedford was the pilot, who not only weathered , "tee the storm—to wit, a storm of applause whenever o ceef, his appearance. The house was crowded, and t h ! P ul , of the piece was decisive. We can promise The I ,4 , lle abi a long and happy voyage, for his - sails will be p o ses the gale of public approbation as long as he e"" continue it. PRINCESS'S THEATR' e db eri hict A new farce, entitled Mathews and Co. , was Pr" 1/ 7 " last evening. It is a smart bustling affair, the sce ivi e at %es o B is laid in a country town, where Mr. Charles otbeto expected to open the theatre, and Mr. Charles Fl A t F og is I v to marry the daughter of an old gentleman resile •Al place. Mathews and his Fitz (acted according to t his Fetch) are so alike, that it is impossible to O rii istiA o one from the other. This resemblance gives rise t ° to pitY' innumerable; and gives Charles Mathews an oPPl o tter's, actor, of exhibiting his marvellous rapidity, both °`,, and of change of (tress, and as author, of s hovilit r y by making hits right and left at everything and e ; u e cce s9 ' ; It is not wonderful, therefore, that the piece wa s „," e O le t Mathews and Co. will drive a roaring trade for s°' come. London: Printed and Publis hed-- by Vl7ll3oolll4l.aAii,op ° o f Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, o. 112, Straeoi:l;ot of the SaYey. In the Couty of hilda tes", 10, 1846. ! ;4,,,D ) , 4 : 4 1 flat:: 1.. SIMI G IN, ~....i i ane , ,ctmt Ilk r., 'irk -Ohl top ) , txlvn va,, °I . our 14 et the provj °l “ J , nf • 4 . tro t : x , tilt 4 wg. 11 •kk i , ort Tlll. . alli e ,; l ' are 4 1 y 1 tn a) f .,,,A1l to a 1,13 direct, 1 / 4 :: i ni ng l)et lhn.Li 1 / . nlia rn Siill, Th tel ) 'tga: 4 ita ktir t ! feot 4, r (1t4 4111 411 tb, t le t T 4,l l, 1 44 :Iteto, It eg Ii calla 441 '3' .1 0 h, for 1t417 40 d o N 1 FRENCH PLAYS. , e fo r it li o • Madame Doche made her second appearanc e 1 c ll l sO rt to w• ; season, last evening, in Asmodee, a character o di Lu ~.„. i de her abundant opportunity, of which she knows ".,., rer' s po, i avail herself, for the graceful display of her l el f f etle 0 30 - talents. It was preceded by L a F emme de W''(2os r - in which Mademoiselle Martellan, as La Femme (16 dins, was admirable. lt 5 T 'O SO f r ' ' REPRESENTATION OF W- 1 ost 01 , WLIDSOR, MONDAY EvENING.—The rtun e e ur the b e , tll O • Neville (who was returned for the borough '!'',0180, " ,;•ille' i election in 18411 was about to receive an aPP eln 'plr.P` O tb ° t hands of the Premier, has just been confirmed. bup o /m et 1 it should be observed, was returned for the bor° u v g ber t ilr ia " Conservative interest," at the period when Sir '° V - or i • was a supporter of the interest of the agriculturistsci 0 fe ,. l' o , ; the present session, however, Mr. Neville has vote lie Ii P J $ t of the free-trade measures" of Sir Robert Peel. twe et " length been reward?d by receiving the apP 6l3 o tlio ' Junior Lord of the Treasury. lies t The following is a copy of Mr. Neville 'S g- & , '. electors, issued this morning : so"'" tlin • "TO TUE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT tr,xcTorts or res pee 1 OF NEW WINDSOR. ___„, gs'ili i f 5 " Gentlemen,-The office of a Lord of the Treaguie to el.'" „, conferred upon me by the Crown, it becomes you r dal 0 0; , presentative. e cond__,,eo o f , " According to my declared intentions I hasten a f eemol,,, , seek at your hands the honour of a seat in the Liouse, ° e feli_ A or a distinction which former electors in the borough, an d t+° ~, , yourselves in the county, have at different periods t O r , several of my name and fami1y...,04 - to 0 (..,:i " Ever since you have entrusted your confidenee.o ~.ce : studied to deserve your approbation ; and the kind Pr 7,43, ' support, se continually tendered since the general 014 ; 0 2 me that my present appeal will not be made in vein? .., t tufs - 60 , i. " During the last few years we have seen agricie es a trade revive, an overflowing Exchequer, and the are ) ,,. ale , I' / ,,,f 1 e , triumphant in the scenes of their former disasters. ' „ o p pe,0 1 ,,g t tration, to whose policy the country is indebted for 5 " 50 ? ‘ ; IP d r results, I have just become a member; but, ra ueb ,,, , to r 1 honourable a position, I value my own independenn e-° •0 1 0 0 ) one day will I retain office, should the acts of Go ve ` - •s l e as from my heart I cannot approve.Dege ° e os' " When the great measures now before the Legislator g el $, cd .. ,01 . law of the land, the remembrance of all differences a ° std j cussions will be soon obliterated by the fresh ellei,,' d C-0 4 j , t which are likely to be infused into our agricultura l - . undertakings. o f tlO,, CO( A " I take this opportunity of thanking all class eS ia ted o7 ,; s o l 'o' tuency, for the manner in which they have apPr e _ c lehs t) ,,,l .- e' yours to forward the prosperity of Windsor and'. e arv - .0 has been and ever shall be my first object to devote S tion to their local interest. " As a sincerely attached member of our Protestant C e lj er " " l o s ' • halt!, eager to promote whatever may tend to her sta- os , an " I shall lose d her usefelness. ctS t l a , no timeln paying my personal resPt aali i soliciting to be placed in the proud p o siti on t o which''' „ "I have the honour to b e , Gentlement,,einokf " Your obliged and faithful ,$ . 7 1 ,.;$ ~n, , 41 RALF ,. i 40 1 C' A g "Windsor, March 9, 1846." . o. ' g od h e Mr. Neville arrived in Windsor last evenilik" . .,eo i v e 4 i",' mence his canvass to-morrow morning. li e. " -- r ere ti 6l llW. his agents, Messrs. Voulles and Martin (who 1 /Z 31.r.' Colonel Reid at the last election in November4, o ' l ig. dl; don (one of Mr. W a lt er ' s l a t e agents ) , and Mr . r n g 0 0 ` . .' The election, in the event o f th e new writ bel or this evening, is expected to take pl ace on Mon d a y 1 day next. too, PEDESTRIANISM.—Yesterday some in ter o tl 7,„ fr° ,,:o t t p4 l°° : races came off at the Beehive-ground, Walviorth ; 0 onlie ~ 0' celebrity of the men who had entered their names o , 0 01 oi l the spectators attracted to the rac e were ve ry Bain! pr 3 0 . 94 6 0 0 0 race was for a silver cup, and was contended for 0 , -, le t,00,0 , nee , * ape ow ground and fifteen hurdles placed at equal dis.l.„ lo e k jell „i e_ was between Martin, Patterson, Fibbing, and Jen al ';ell , ear l ` ro;" Stag). The first heat was won by Martin very clee, „,, g 3 Ol O second. The men having been allowed breathing eves the second heat. Patterson took the lead till me tes fee! when Martin ran by him, cleared the remaining cli to' style, and shot in the winner. 2he time was good. d I,oi os ~j, WORTHING, MARCH B.—Sir Roberta lie Ire Mr. F. Peel, and a daughter of the Premier, arri ve i tenn, e ` t ?fnal day by railway, and immediately proceeded I ''„,,,:sg e "_„,, b e :,,i Di where a suite of apartments had been previously - wt . su- if ot, p o . The arrival of so distinguished a person as the e re5( 1 113 % g lUli . llf known all over the town, and the utmost desire .1 ' cA tcp roo l or those who had never seen the Right Hon. Barene t A t f, an e r oid, o ls l of him. The weather being very fine en Satur"'" g i Ilt e for, e , Robert and his family walked by the sea ,10 ,,a lea ° lo oi",1 0 principal streets cf the town. Sir Robert Peel n e deY B et li p to-morrow morning, but the family will remain s °- „ r veY _,,, 0 , DOVER CLIFFS.—The lioverntneot s' Da , brio P me i portion of the cliff that overhangs the Naval-Ya rd s tate' ~,A' and the cliff has been declared to be in a dangeroe s tran ep 1,1 or how it is to be rendered safe, has not yet ritecid 0 Chronicle. rev e too - Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P., has been f rote in oe sickness in his family from attending to give 1 115 Sena to Sir It. Peel's proposition. h as t th,. 0, 0 0 1 MR. CHARLES MACKAY.—On Friday g oinkfleWal Academicus of the University of Glasgow, by attof the me 4 conferred upon Mr. Charles Mackay, the authorpoetto, i-e -the World," " The Salamandrine," and other of LL.D. P r es_ MATZ!. w ife of' l4° .1 On the sth inst., at Carlton House-terrace, the 0. 10 " ander,jun., of a son. -, re 0 f A lt ' On the 6th inst., at Shooters-hill-road, the w“ Sanderson, of Greenwich, of a detitnter. of 11 6° r ill On the 6th inst., Mrs. B. Bovill, of Wandsworth eon.l, jar s. ' T '. On the 6th bast., in Lower Whiteeross-etreet, i of a daughter. n, V ie Is° On the 6th inst., at Woodlands, Tooting -o ° m ° A 4 Thompson, jun., Esq., of a son. „ r eier re4 o: ? MARRIED. On the 19th ult., at the British Consulate Claloel)Stft lj-4111* OF,: William, son of James Calvert, Esq., of Malta, _...p . Allglry 0' daughter of R. B. Abbott, Esq., of Smyrna. padding t°n 'an Ce ° On the sth inst ,at St. James's Church, - to Dann e ji., ~ Butts, Esq., Captain in the Madras Engineers! _,„, te icl, ", Elizabeth, only daughter of Rear-Admiral Ing" .re, mander-in-Chlef, south-easticoast of AlLleriCa: , __ Ove r.o4 , l : l ;,ir G. - On the 7th inst., at St. George's Church, Ilan of 01 Alexander, Esq., to Mary Agnes, youngest usu. Cayley, Bart., of Brompton, Yorkshire. ar 3 'll Oll- PIED On Monday, at Sheffield. the Rev. .John Will_ o ,v lt ' i f - c e ef I t° " 40 0, On the 27th ult., at Havre-de - Grace , Caroni' roans ' of merson, Esq., merchant, aged 33. t In dies ' 0 s 3 'cs last., at Madras, Efts „„. e d 3 '&0 1 .0 On the 19th of January Infantry, ".° id A'' e wife of Captain Pellowe, of the Native _.„. p it y ,_ a , On the 9th inst., after a severe illness, ~ $ -Lie o o f WV 00 03. . College-street, Petersfleld, Hants, in the 70th friends. tote _ respected by a large and numerous circle o f ~ „ f the 509, On the sth inst., Frances Susannah, relic , ' qu' ire' p ip , Davies, Esq., surgeon, Minories, aged 8 1 . wa gon . ° On the 6th inst., in Cumberland-street, BrY ei . a doght „,, eir relict of the late Richard Baker, Esq. youngest On the 22d ult., at Pisa, Elizabeth, Deane, Esq., of Eastcote House, Ruislip, e .._ of tpe P , i ,,,tai lt On the 24th tilt., at Calais, Frances, the wee . te' Y*7l-iddlesei• _,e, Jew ,,,,. P trott, Rector of Broughton Astley, Leicestersh a n.e ,_ , sct., la .40 On the 27th ult., at Croydon, Charles Lougd 1 ° ....1 D.• , ,-,-,eo,- _„ce in her Majesty's 21st Fusiliers. hropsbire, .. /0 1' On the 4th inst., at Perney Guar ds. 0 00 , Lloyd, K.C.H., Colonel of the 7th Dragoon On the sth inst., in Bridge-street, S ut an t °f "r o r n l P °4 Burbidge, Esq., magistrate and deputy-lie 11_ PoTthwarlc, I . l' ef. gP l ' pea Tl l ocx, oszte4 S3 l , On the sth inst., Ann Eliza, wife ofEdvrar e a of Dover. On the sth inst., at Weymouth, ..,, giclreJli` ill On the 6th inst., at Cheltenham, Arubra , _____-- of So. in c . Rear-Admiral ll ll ,l l f , v(2.,_______,.,