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LITERATURE. T UE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANIVING. By Robert Bell, Author of " The _His tory of Russia," &c. Pew public men have furnished better topics for an interesting biography than George Canning. He was com e of a good family, but brought up in very straitened cir cumstances. His father, who appears to have been one of the most reckless of Irishmen, died in great po verty when he was one year old; his mother who had to shift for herself and her son in the best way she could, took to the stage, and married twice after the death of her first husband, neither marriage being fortunate. The childhood of Canning was passed under the in auspicious guardianship of Mr. Reddish (her second husband) whose disorderly habits excluded the possi bility of moral or intellectual training. The profligacy of his life communicated its reckless tone to his hou-e -hold, and even the material wants of his family were frequently ne e glectel to feed his wants elsewhere. Yet under these inauspicious circumstances the talents of the child attracted notice. Fortunately, they attracted the notice of his uncle, Mr. Stratford Canning, who procured him from a family estate in Ireland an annuity. of 2001., which possibly saved the child from ruin. The history of the youth of this celebrated orator would have been remarkable, independent of the eminence which he afterwards attained, for, though :exposed to the worst example—though his mother for years led the life of a strolling actress, and her vicissitudes and hard ships were of no ordinary kind, her son, from the very dawn of childhood, exhibited the most amiable dispo sitions and a love for Older, moral principle, industry, and- domestic virtues which distinguished him to the last. His lot, too, was cast in a period the most re markable in the history of England for great events and illustrious men. From the commencement of the French revolution, or, rather, the execution of the French king, to his death, in 1827, Mr. Canning was a public cha racter, end engaged more or less in the itnportant transactions that occurred during that long and eventful period. He was admitted by common consent to be the most finished and eloquent debater in Parliament. His Oncluct as foreign secretary, with one remarkable ex ception, met with the admiration of all parties. His connexion with Pitt, Wellesley, Wellington, &c., and his persevering and often successful cppcsition to Fox, and the other great leaders of the Whig party, gave a lustre to his name not equalled by that of any modern orator or statesman. Mr. Bell, therefore, had one of the finest subjects for a biography that could have been selected, and we must say, that he has done it ample justice. His remarks in general are sound, and accord with historical fa cts- His style is chaste, vigorous, and impressive. He rarely displays any strong political bias, and seems anxious to render justice not only to the subject of his memoir but to the great men, his foes as well as his friends, that figured during the war with France. He rarely or never allows the attention to flag, for the dry his tory of factsis constantly enlivened by some little episodes respecting such men as Wilberforce, and Windham, and Sheridan, and Fox, and all told in brief and becoming lan guage. We give a specimen of his style and powers of description from a short account of Canning's manner of speaking and appearance when he began to emerge kite public life. After leaving college he had chambers in Lincoln's Inn, and, like asst young men of the day, was in the habit of attending clubs, where the politics, and especially the crowding events el the French Revolution were discussed. Here is a picture of him in his twenty second year:— "Amongst them was a student of pale and thoughtful Aspect, who brought to the nightly contests unusual f luency and grace of elocution. He, too. along with the rest, had been inspired by the heroic sp4etacle, had Eundered upon its c a us es , and exu lt e d over it s p ros p ec t s . idis head was full of constitutions ; for his studies lay amongst the elementary writers, rather than the special pleaders and form-mongers of the law. And after a Morning of close reading and severe reflection, he would wend his way in the evening to one of these debating rooms, and taking up his place unobserved, watch the vicissitudes of the discussion, noting well its effect upon the miscellaneous listeners; then, seizing upon a moment When the argument failed from lack of resources, or ran into sophistry or exaggeration, he would present himself to the meeting. A figure slight, but of elegant propor tions ; a face poetical in repose, but fluctuating in its expression with every fugitive emotion ; a voice low, clear, and rich in modulation ; and an air of perfect breeding, prepares his heaters for one who possesses superior powers, and is not unconscious of them. He opens calmly—strips his topic of all extraneous matter— distributes it under separate heads—disposes of objec tions with a playful humour—rebukes the dangerous excesses of preceding speakers—carries his auditors through a comelete syllogism—establishes the propo sition with which he set out—and sits down amidst the acclamations of the little senate. Night after night witnesses similar feats ; at length his name gets out; he is talked of, and speculated upon ; and people begin to ask questions about the stripling who has so suddenly sky." appeared amongst the m , as if h e h a d l a d en from the his influence and his eloquence . to bear upon all these masses of resistanqe. He kpt aloof from all personal intercourse with Cathorc delegates, that 11 might sta..d clear of suspicion, and that the platy and Edependence of his motives should be above impeachment. He bOre down these antagonist forces one by one—weakened their powi , rs of hostility, and effectually succeeded in winning over the most influential al.d indispensable opinions. What actual steps he took in the Cabinet cannot be known, but they may be readily surmised. It was quite evident that, under his kfluence, the tone of the Cabinet became slowly liberal:s( d ; and that he had secured the right to propound the Catholic question fix discussion amongst his col agues, and to communicate with his Majesty upon it, whenever he saw fit. To his judicious and unwearied labours in this cause, must be mainly attributed its early settlement. He prepared the way for it; he overcame the greatest obstacle of all, the reluctance of George IV. If he had not done wonders with the servile bigotry of that monarch, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel would have been power less in his hands in 1829." There are scattered throughout the work sketches of some of the leading characters that flourished IA) th e time of Canning, and in general they are drawn fa;rly, and without unnecessary severity. The sketch of Wil berforce is perhaps a little over-coloured, but no one can mistake the original ; and in another place, all honour is done to him for the inestimable services he' rendered to the cause of abJlition " Wilberforce was the Parliamentary apostle of aboli tion. He worked at it day and night, and prayed for it with his daily bread. Honour to him for that, in spite of all his crochetty little ways and eccentricities ! But he was a sad bare to Pitt, always popping in his fears and misgivings at the most inopportune moments ; a sort of philanthropic Paul Pry, pip tually forgetting his umbrella, and hoping he didn't intrude. Nobody ever had such an inobtrusive way of ob!ruding his ad vice upon everybody. No matter what the queStion was, or who the person, or how slight the acquaintance, Wilberforce was sure to find some excuse for a hint or a warning, with such excellent intentions, that it was im possible to give vent to the vexation he occasioned. He had no suspicion of the possibility of doing mischief ; but went blundering on with the most amiable sincerity of purpose, good-naturedly, setting all his friends right, and knocking, his head against everybody's business with a simplicity of character 'Ten which experience was wasted in vain." The character of Lord Liverpool, also, is well de scribed : " In Lord Liverpool, now lost to the public service for ever. Mr. Canning had to mourn the deprivation of a steadfast and honourable personal friend ; the Mr. Jen kinson of Christ Church, whom he remembered so well iii his brown coat and the buttons with the initials of the great orators ; the Lord Ilawkesbury of the young days of Parliamentary strife and experimental diplo macy, who used to make such ' gallant prophecies about the war in France, and whose empty seriousness used to give such offence to George 111. ; and, finally, that Lard Liverpool who, by mere respectability of character, kept together for fifteen years a e!tbinet composed of the most incongruous materials that had probably ever been as sembled. The secret of Lord Liverpool's success in re taining so long a lease of power lay in the fact that he did not possess a single quality calculated to provoke the jealousy or excite the insubordination of his col leagues. His control was purely nominal. Slow, up right, practical—he never interfered with others, an.i was suffered to go on in his track without check or inter ruption. Nobody feared him, nobecly disliked him, nobody doubted his probh.y. His good qualities were all of a negative kind—the safest for a Minister who seeks strength in combination. And this was Lord Li verpool's pre-eminent merit." Before parting with Mr. Bell, we are bound to tell him, that he is guilty of a most unpardonable propnsity, which mars in a great measure his qualities as a biographer.'; We never remember to have seen any book so encumbered with foot-notes as this ; they become ab solutely insufferable. The attention of the reader is eternally distracted from the text to the notes, some times five deep in one page, and occasionally of great length. The first half of the volume, which contains altogether 368 pages, is disfigured by not fewer than 127 notes, independent of references to authorities. This shows tither great carelessness or hurry, or a want of the "bump" of arrangement. Fotir-fifths of them might have been embodied in the text, or omitted altogether. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. By Frederick Von Schlegel. A book of such a world-wide celebrity as this master piece of the great Schlegel, requires no commendation at our hands ; in recommending it to the public we might almost subject ourselves to the imputation of arrogance. Its perusal is as necessary to every one who is desirous of comprehending his position as a member of the human family, as the perusal of Adam Smith's Wealth of' Na tions is to the political economist, Tully to the rhetori cian, or Plato to the moralist. Frederick Schlegel, who here comprises all times, generations, and empires past is his comprehensive retrospect, while he applies their aggregate meaning to the elucidation of the present, was born in 1769, conformed to the Catholic religion in 1805, and expired in 1629. In those simple dates are contained the two outer limits and the most memorable transition of a career which will for, ever and for ever mark that period of German literature as with the star of Adonais. Augustus Schlegel, for his critical acumen, and Frede rick Schlegel, for his analytical subtlety, have no precise parallels or compeers on record. There is an enthusiasm and gusto about the one, and a shrewdness and lucidity about the other, almost peculiar to themselves in the relative branches of their art. hence the two brothers must ever survive the mutations of science, of letters, or of fashion, and be resorted to as authoritative in history and the belles lettres. Mr. Bohn evinces a very admir able discrimination in the selection of reprints for his " Standard Library," nor for the nonce could he possi bly have selected one more acceptable to his subscribers than the " Philosophy of History." Here, for an amount most extravagantly disproportioned to the value of the disquisition, any one may obtain a work encycl..paedic in its character. From its pages alone we may derive a perspicuous knowledge of the gradations of mankind from the darkest periods of antiquity even to the present century—a knowledge by which meny circumstances otherwise mysterious, or utterly in comprehensible, become unfolded to us as links in that sequential chain which has conducted humanity up to its present state of civilisation. More conceivable, more beneficial, and more compatible with revealed religion, than the wonderful theory of Lanark in reference to the bodily development of man, this work traces out the ma turing causes which have mentally ripened the social system, and from the inferences of which philosophy we may acquire some notion of the to be of the mundane futurity. A more glorious or elevated theme for con sideration could scarcely have been selected for the exer cise of genius; nor could it scarcely have been handled with more inimitable sagacity. For its republication in its present compact form, the publisher deserves every encouragement. CDURT CIRCULAR, WINDSOR, TRUE SDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert. with the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, walked in the pleasure grounds, and returned to the Castle in a pony carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimeir, rode out on horseback this forenoon, at tended by Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mein ingen, and attended by the Countess Howe, rode in a pony carriage to Frogmore to-day. His Serene High ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimeir accompanied the Qucen Dowager on horseback. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort rode out in the afternoon in a landau and four. In the next carriage were the Marchioness of Douro, Hon. Miss Murray, and airon de Rei.zenstein. The two Equerries in Waiting, Hon. Colonel Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, were in attendance on horseback. Earl Howe and Sir Andrew Barnard also rode on horseback with the royal party. The liaYahFamily took their walking and pony exer cise in the lionie Park and pleasure-grounds, both in the forenoon and afternoon. The . band of the 2d Life Guards attended during din ner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. His Excellency Baron Dedel, the Netherlands Minis ter, who, since his return to England, has again been seriously indisposed for some time, is much improved in health within the last few days. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hutchinson, the Deputy Chairman of the Stock Exchange, Mr. Norbury, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Mullins, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Termini had a meeting on Wednesday. There were present Viscount Canning, the Right Hon. J. Herries, the Lord Mayor, anti Sir Frederick Smith. The Commissioners had another meeting yesterday. There were present . Via count Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord Mayor, the Right lion. J. Herries, and Sir F. Smith. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial (Bee from the Governor of Gibraltar. Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office for tht , Governors of the West India. Colonies. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The chef d'oeuvre of Mozart, the Shaksrere of music, was performed here last evening, and, as is always the case when the opera affiche announces 11 Don Giovanni, crowds of real lovers of music were assembled at the en- trances lorg before the doors were opened. The opera itself will always draw a crowded audience, and when the cast is as strong, as it was last night it is perhaps the greatest musical treat in the world. With Grisi as Donna Anna, Castellan as Zerlina. Sanchioli as Elvira, Fornasari as the Don, Lablache as Leporello, and Mario as Ottavio, it is a perfect performance of the most perfect opera in the world. The novelty of the evening was the Elvira of Sanchioli. It is the best we have ever seen. She makes a character of that which has been too often re garded as a subordinate part, and in the far-famed trio she was magnificent. The habitu4s of the opera have looked forward with some curiosity to the produc tion of // Don Giovanni, as the crowning test of Belle's abilities as a conductor. It is from the variety of its music, the various and delicate shades of expression which it is necessw y to give to the orchestral accompaniments— in short, from its very perfection as a whole, the most difficult opera to conduct in the world. Balfe last night achieved a perfect triumph; ever:) , delicacy of ex pression, every light and shade of thought and feeling in music was perfectly given. It was evident not only that he had studied, but that he had mastered the score, that he had made it so completely its own that he was enabled to elaborate all its marvellous effects by means of the wonderful orchestra which he has at his corn mind, and which lust night he had so completely in hand that it seemed as one vast instrument of harmony. Balfe's manner of conducting this opera last night leaves nothing to be desired. It has fixed him firmly in his seat. The ballet of Catarina followed, and, albeit, there was no incidental divertissement between the opera and the ballet, none of the variety which has hitherto been the characteristic of the " long Thursdays," yet the house was crowded in every part. His fame at Eton as well as at Oxford, his agreeable manners and literary attainments, soon introduced him to higher society, and made him a great ft.vourite with the Whig party ; but in reality he never declared for them. For aught we know he was as good a Tory at twenty-three as at fifty-seven ; and therefore, though he had associated from accident with the Whigs more than the Tories, there was no dereliction of principle in joining Pitt, who made the first overtures on the sub ject. He entered Parliament in 1793, as member for Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and was soon found of the greatest service in debate. After filling various offices, he was appointed Foreign Secretary on the re tirement of " All the Talents ;" and then he distin. guished himself by one of the most daring, prompt, masterly, and successful acts performed during the war. On the best authority, he had learned that, immediately after the treaty of Tilsit, Bonaparte had resolved to make the king of Denmark yield to his imperious will by joining with *the other northern powers in a mari time attack upon England. No time was to be lost. In a few weeks the powerful and well •appointed fleet of Denmark might have been in the hands of the •French, but Canning anticipa.ed them. An English fleet en tered the Sound. bombarded Copenhagen, and gallantly captured the whole navy of Denmark. A loud outcry was raised against this " atrocious breach of neutrality," this " wholesale piracy," but Canning heard all the charges with the greatest composur e . lie knew he was justified in sending out this expedition, and time would make his justification known to the world. p ouch& in his political confessions, admits that, "by ene of the secret stipulations of the treaty of Tilsit, the Danish fleet was to be placed at the disposal of France," and asserts that on the arrival of the intelligence that the whole of the ships at Copenhagen had surrendered to Admiral Gambier, he never, since the death of Paul, saw the Emperor give himself up to such violent trans ports of passion. But Canning did not learn the secret from Fouchd, nor from any agent of Russia—he learned it from the Prince Regent, to whom it had been com municated by the Regent of Portugal ; and the Foreign Minister nobly kept concealed the source of his intelli gence, notwithstanding every taunt, and reproach, and execration. This was a set-off for the miserable expe dition to Walcheren, the entire blame of which Mr. Bell lays on the shoulders of Castlereagh, to whom we . . - think he shows less fairness and leniency; han to any other public character. Castlereagh was not a whit more to blame than any other member of the Cabinet, who gave his consent to the hazardous undertaking. It was in fact a great national undertaking—a Government measure, and Canning, as well as the rest must come in for his share of the blame, If he was so confident of its ruinous consequences as is reported, he should not have dallied with the Duke of Portland, or the King, or •any other personage —he should have resigned at once, and thereby declared to Castlereagh, as well as the pub lic, his reasons. And, if he did not deserve to be " winged" for concealing his sentiments from a colleague so deeply interested, he deserved his fate richly for sanctioning, by his silence , expedition the most ex pensive, th e worst appoin t ted a 7 and the most di sgrace f u l that ever left the shores of E ng l an d . He paid the penalty, however, to the full amount. He resi gne d hi s appo i ntment as Foreign minister, and was out of The ni office till the close of th e war. rest of' his political life is rapidly but graphically sketched by his bio grapher, and some i nteresting detail.as well as occa sionally new facts, are g i ven in relating his plans a Minister for Foreign Aff a i rs during the invasionn, of, Spain by the French under th e D uke of A his recognition of the South American Republics, ui'enie attacks on the Holy Alliance, and the strange formed againSt him by his old fri en d s when hebeep plots becam e Prime Minister. In one part of th e wor k it is stated as a matter of fact that the appointment of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the command of the army in Portugal was the sole act of Canning. We could almost wish the statement to be unfounded for the sake of Wellington himself. Another statement is here made, which shows how much Wellington and Peel owed to Canning in being able to carry the Catholic Relief Bill: " The sacrifices he made for the sake of this question were great. Office was the least of them. Ile sacrificed for it all prospect of representing in Parliament that university in which he had been educated, the crowning object of all the dreams of his youthful ambition. Every thing was against him on this question ; his own party, th e • litng, the Duke of York, the Premier, the Chan- House of th i e House of Lords ; aud, for many years the C =mons, and .even popular prejudices in England, lie persevered against them all. He brought LIFE AND PONTIFICATE OF LEO THE TENTH. 2 Vols. By Thomas Roscoe. is Lsniffikeeitehnetf;orietgporiz,ndthe mere title of this publication criticism.e b :l eeernor iti e de merits, its beauties and ( I ll ! s t bey merits mayan publicha e i n bdesoalready canvassed so re pheaarstehdlylyt,ertinhaetd) on has confirmed itself in their regard, and the vol umes p le,ht c o o . n tb si e g b n o ed ok , swbiethireasf.avloturis ing and sanctifying estimatior scarcely so much with the learning, of the renowned pontiff, of whose munificence, anadi and influence it is an impartial recorrdnu,ainoTe.avnedngwrainthdetubre dispassionate tone and elegant lan that tile g m e as m ß which that record is couched by the celebrated ho our remarks have to do, as with the excelleneceoeof reprint just issued by Mr. Bohn, in his " Standar3 Library," and at a price which disarms competition. If the publisher perseveres in his really remarkable undertaking, he will ultimately afford the public a series of works as sterling in their merits as they are, under his arrangement of charges, attainable by the multi tude. We are glad to see he purposes issuing a conti nuation of the literary productions of Roscoe, in the shape of his most admirable translations; a circumstance which, of itself, will be no inconsiderable boon to the reading portion of the community. There is much clear ness in the typography, and no little taste in the general embellishment of the " Standard Library"—adjuncts which it would be almost unfair not to mention, as some publications of a somewhat similar tendency are pre cisely the reverse. We can, in all sincerity, congratu late Mr. Bohn on what he has already accomplished for the purpose of supplyin good and cheap literature to the million, and cordially wish the series the prosperity to which it is so ful:y entitled. IMMENSE NATURAL BEEHIVE.—In a cavern on the right bank of the Colorado, about seven miles from Austin, there is an i mmense h i ve of wild bees. The entrance of this cavern is situated in a ledge of limestone, forming the river bank to the Height of about 150 feet from the water's edge. In a warm day a dark stream of bees may be constantly seen winding out from the cavern like a long dark wreath. The stream often appears one or two feet in diameter near the cliff; and gradually spreads out like a fan, growing thinner at a distance from the cavern, until it disappears. The number of bees in this cavern must be greater than the number in a thousand or ten thousand ordinary hives. The bees, it is said, have never swarmed, and it is not improbable that the hive has continued for more than a century to increase year after year in the same ratio that swarms increase. Some of the neighbouring settlers have repeatedly, by blasting the rocks, opened a passage into some of these chambers, and produced by this means many hundred pounds of honey. But the. main deposits are situated too deep is the ledge to be reached' without great difficulty, and perhaps danger. It was esti mated that there are many tons of honey and wax in this immense hive, and if its treasures could be extracted readily, they wouldnoubtless be far more valuable than the contents of any silver or gold mine that adventurers have been, seeking for years in that section.— Tess Telegraph, , I, l' llB c !J]E RUN FOND ON PRIDAY-g7rITTINTI NO. •4 * k— ir . 4 g SPOR TING INTELLIGEN NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING: THURSDAY.—Without boasting of any very decided rbature, the list this afternoon contaited a very satisf,`Le tory amount of sport; and although no special train was required, the company embraced all the fashionables enumerated in our last report, .with the exception of his Royal Highness Prince George of Ctunbridge, and in numbers greatly exceeded the attendance on Monday. The weather was extremely fine, and the races more closely contested than either of the previous days. We submit the usual returns : Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft, if declared, &c., for tour-years-old and up waris. A.F. Mr. Moore's Corranna, aged, Bst ..... .(Nat) 1 Lord Miltown's Colleen Hawn, 4 yrs, 6st 810 2 Mr. Osbaldeston's Sort)lla, 5 yrs, Bst 21 b .... Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren; 4 yr, 6st 101 b Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b Betting-2 to 1 agst Minotaur. 4to 1 agst Corranna, and sto 1 ag.st Colleen !Jswn. Curranna made all the running, and won easy by a length. Sorelia a bad third. Sweepstakes of 100 soya . . each, h ft, fur foals of 1843, out of untried mares ; cults, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 411) . ; thoSe got by untried stallions allowed 31bs. D.lkf. Lord. G. Bentinck's Binnacle (Nat) 1 Duke of Bedford's Paragone ' .......... 2 Colonel Anson's Austrian Betting-2 to lon Paragone, 3to 1 agst Binnacle, and . .5 to A agst Austrian. The running was made by Aus rian, followed by Paragone, Binnacle waiting; they ran without change to the cords, where Austrian declined, and Binnacle went up to Paragone, headed her half way up, and won by a neck. Match-10 0 , h ft, T. Y. C., Duke of Bedford's Captain Pficebus, Bst 10Ib (F. Butler), beat Sir J. Rawley's Fu gitive, 7st Abdale), by a length. Subscription Plate of 501, for three-years-old, 6st 121 b ; four, Bst 71b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st 31h. The winner to be sold. for 300 soy. if den3andt-d, &c. ; D. M. Mr. C. C. Brooke's Khorassan, 6 yrs (Marl ,w) 1 Colonel Anson's Rowland Hill, 4 yrs The following also started, but were not placed : Mr. S. Herbert's Ajax ; Mr. Batsen's ch. f. Potent ; Mr. Greville's Sir Francis ; Mr. R. -Shafto's Sharpshooter; Duke of Bedford's Piet Whitsfoot ; Sir G. Heatlicote's Brother to Valentissimo ; Sir J. Hawley's Prospe et; Duke of Richmond's Peasant, Betting-3 to 1 agst Sir Francis, 4to 1 agst Khoras-' san, 5 to 1 agst Peasant, 6 to 1 agst Ajk7, and 6 to 1 agst Rowland 11111. ": Khorassan took the lead, followed by Sharpshooter. brother to Valentissimo, Sir Francis, and Peasant, this lot maintaining the front to the T. Y. C. post, where Peasant took the third place, the lead still remaining with Khorassan; •Rowland Hill waited to the cords, where he went to the front, and half way up reached Khorassan's head, but alter a gallant struggle was beaten by a neck; Peasant a good third. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for foals of 1843; colts, Bst 7ib; fillies, Bst 41b; the produce of mares that have bred a winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Grand Duke Michael, Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger, to carry 71h extra; those by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, allowed 31b. D.M. (7 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Paragone (31b) (Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Galata Lord Stradbroke's Lynceus 3 Mr. Coombe's f by Glaucus, out of Octave Lord W. Powlett's fby The Saddler, out of Fanehon 5 Betting-7 to 2 agst Paragone, 2to 1 agst Lynceus, 3 to 1 agst the Galata colt, 4 to 1 agat the Octave filly, and 5 to 1 agst the Fanchon filly. The Octave filly took the lead at a good pace, followed by the Galata colt for about a quarter of a mile; the Ga lata colt then took up the running, and carried it on to the cords, where Paragone went up in front, was never afterwards caught, and won cleverly by a length. The Stanhope Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three years-old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst. An.M. Lord Orford's Prussic Acid (Nat) 1 _ . Mr. S. Stanley's Sister to Flambeau Lord Albemarle's Radalphui Mr. Bower's Forget-me-not Betting-7 to 4on Prussic Acid. The Sister to, Flambeau cut out the work at a good pace, the favourite and Radalphus lying about two lengths from her till they were half-way between the Duke's stand and the finish ; the favourite then took up the running, and although swerved against and forced out of her track by the Sister to Flambeau, won by a neck; Rsdulphus a bad third. The Claret Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft, for four-years old colis, 8)t 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. D.I. Mr. Greville's Alarm Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland 2 Betting-7 to 2on Alarm, who made a waiting race of it to the Duke's Stand, where he drew upon Ould Ire land, forced the pace, came eight or ten lengths from the chair, and won by a neck. • Betting—Port Stakes-5 to 2 agst Jerico (the Tur quoise colt), 5 to 2 agst Idas, 2 to 1 agst Miss Elis, 2 to 1 agst Old Englattd. Old England arrived yesterday to run for the Port Stakes. . _ _ DERBY.—The only feature in the betting on this event is the continued advance of Tom Tulloch, 8 to 1, 7 to 1, and, in some instances, 13 to 2 taken, and still a great rush to get on. He has also been backed for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes at 6 to 4. THE LATE EPSON SPRING MEETING. The fund subscribed by the licensed victuallers for the Metropolitan Handicap, won by Chamois,' amounted to 304/. 13a. 2d., of which a bonus of 3001. was paid to Mr. Hook, the owner or the mare; the balance was applied towsrds the expenses of advertising, printing, &c. The subscription for 1847 already amounts to nearly 300/, and several tavernkeepers have signified their intention to devote a per tentage from the sweeps drawn at their houses. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET, THURSDAYNIGHT. ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft. T.Y.C. Discord, 9st—Khorassan, 9st—Pineapple, Bst 121b—Paul tons, Bst—Vaudeville, Bst 11b—Judex, 7st 71b—Colleen Bawn, ist 31b. The Port Stakes—All are scratched except Jericho (the Turquoise colt). Miss Elis, Ides, and Old England. 100 Sovs Stakes—Giselle, Piet Whitefoot, Polecat, an d Polka, are left in. LATEST BETTING. SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.-4 to 1 agst Intrepid (t)-4 to 1 agst Lord Saltoun-8 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne-8 to 1 agtt Giantess. PORT STAKES.-6 to 4 agst Jericho-5 to 2 agst Idas-3 to 1 agst Miss Elis-5 to 1 agst Old England. 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.-6 to 4 agst Toni Tulloch (t)-4 to 1 agst lago. DERBY.-9 to 2 agst Sting-7 to 1 agst Torn Tulloch (t) —l7 to 1 agst Brocardo-20 to 1 agst The Traverser-30 to 1 agst Spithead-30 to 1 agst lago-30 to 1 agst Phenert cus-40 to 1 agst Tugnet (t). CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Borough Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 20 added. One mile and a quarter. Lord Eglinton's Sotades, 3 yrs, 56t 101 b ......(Prince) 1 Colonel Cradock's Jinglepot, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Cook's The Shadow, aged Mr. Meiklam's The Druid, 3 yrs 4 iWon by two lengths. The Post Stakes, for two yrs old, of 50 soya. each. Six furlongs. Mr. Jaques' Dipthong (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Metklam's Delora►ne 2 Mr. E. R. Clark's Bendigo Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, dam by Jerry 4 Mr. Pedley's Pocket Venus Won by a head. The Revival Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. Mr. Headlam named Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs (Lye) 1 Mr. Wharton named Fair Rosamond 2 Mr. L. Fox's Little John, 5 yrs ... 3 Mr. Hargraves's Advice, 5 yrs Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 6 yrs Lord Eglington's Lycurgus, 4 yrs Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, 3 yrs Won by two lengths. The - Filly Stakes of 15 soya. each, h ft, for 3 yrs old. One mile and a half. Mr. Hesseltine's Thalia (Bumby) 1 Lord Zetland's Ada Mr. L. Fox's Hannah Raine Won by half a neck. The Tallyho Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with 15 added. (Gentlemen riders.) Twice round and a distance. Mr. Morritt's Godfrey, 5 yrs (Mr. J. Cookson) 1 Mr. Baker's Porto Bello, 6 vrs ..— ..... 2 Mr. Whitelock's Swodale Jack, 6 yrs The Shorts Sweepstakes of 12 sovs. each, p.p. From the Catterick Turn in. Mr. E. R. Clark's Bendigo (E. Edwards) 1 Mr. W. Scott's Christopher 2 Lord Glasgow's fby Retriever, out of Emilia 3 Miss Birch, Susannah, Eryx, Prince Edward, Cui Bono, and Bit Nibble also started. • ABERGAVENNY RACES—THURSDAY. The Monmouthshire Stakes of five sovs. each, and 401. added by the fund, for horses that have never won a plate or ,-takes, value 501., were won by Mr. T. Parr's ch f Eclat. The Llandilo Selling Stakes were won by Mr. T. Parr's g h Jack Cade. The Monmouthshire Hunt Cup was won by Mr. E. Her bert's ch g Shipmate. The Hunt Hurdle Race was won by Captain Jones's g m Novice, h b. - 2,289 THE SLAVE TRADE.-By accounts from New York, we learn that several American slave-vessels have been cap tured by the United States cruizers on the coast of Africa. The following extract from the official letter of Commander Bell gives a frightful picture of the sufferings of the unfortu nate victims of this diabolical traffic found on board the American barque Pons, of Philadelphia. She had 903 slaves on board :—" As I could not dispatch her the evening of her capture, she kept company with us that night. The next morning I regretted to learn t that 18 had died, and one jumped overboard. So man y dying in so short a time was accou nted for by the captain, in the necessity he had of thrusting below all who were on c: c ck,and closing the hatches when he first fell in with us, in order to escape detection. The vessel had no slave-deck, and upwards of 850 were piled, almost in bulk, on the water-casks below. These were males. About 40 or 50 women were confined in one-half of the round-house cabin on deck ; the other half of the cabin remained for the use of the officers. As the ship appeared to be less than 350 tons, it seemed impossible that one-half could have lived to cross the Atlantic. About 200 filled the spar deck alone, when they were permitted to come up from below, and yet the captain assured me that it was his intention to have taken 400 more on board, if he could have spared the time. The stench from below was E 0 great, that it was impossible to stand more than a few moments near the hatchways. Our men, who went below from curiosity, were forced up sick in a few minutes; then all the hatches were off. What must have ,been the suffer ings of these poor wretches wh en th e h a t c h es were c l ose d! I aminformed that very often in these cases the stronger will strangle the weaker; that this was probably the reason why so many died, or rather were found dead the morning after the capture. None but an eye-witness can form a conception of the :horrors these poor creatures must endure in their transit across the ocean." We understand her Majesty the Queen Dowager has been in treaty for the occupancy of Cashiebury-park, the beautiful seat of the Earl of Essex, near Watford, during the temporary absence of that nobleman on the Continent. The mansion and grounds were fully approved, and the only difficulty was the want of sufficient stabling to accommodate her Majesty's stud. Could her Majesty have obtained a lease of the place for four years certain, we are informed that stabling sufficient for the accommodation of the royal horses would have been erected at her Majesty's cost ; but the Noble Earl not being willing to let the estate for a longer I , eriod than two years, the negotiation has been altogether dropped.—Post. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Good Friday, as the train which leaves Liverpool at 30 minutes after 10 A.M. was pro ceeding at the rate of 35 to 40 miles per hour, when near the Newton Junction, a little boy named Billington, aged four years and nine months, fell out upon the line. This little fellow was in company with his parents, and had been play ing outside the door with the handle, when the latch got turned, and out he fell, and rolled sixteen yards on the line. On their arriving at Parkside, Mr. Fraser, the guard, and Mr. Billington proceeded back to the spot, and found the child alive, not even a bone being broken. The poor creature was picked up immediately on falling, taken into a dwelling house, and medical aid immediately procured. He is much bruised about the head, but is doing as well as can be ex pected.—Miznchester Guardian. PONTYPOOL.—APPALLING AND FATAL ACCIDENT. — On Friday, as a lad named Jones was working at the Rolling Mills of the New British Ironworks, Abersychan, near Pon typool, a sudden gust of wind blew the cap off his head; in endeavouring to catch it he fell, and got entangled in the cogs of the wheel, which was working at the time, and was drawn through and came out on the other side literally torn 1 to atoms. The remains were collected, put in a sheet, and, taken, to his Wheel; house•—Xereford Journal. TREMENDOUS THUNDER. STORM. —On Sunday even ing, about half-past eight o'clock, a terrific thunder -storm commenced, and continued at short intervals for more than an hour, rising first in the south-west, as if over Winchester, progressing on toward Whitchurch, Newbury, Reading, &c. The lightning was exceedingly vivid, and the flashes so con tinuous as o illuminate the thick and dense clouds above. The rain descended in torrents, and continued so until after midnight. On Monday , morning the lowlands were much flooded—the waters rising rapidly. Fanners and graziers were busy in removing their flocks to the high lands. It is much feared great damage will be done by the accumulating waters; but, as yet, we are happy to say no serious accident during the storm has become known to us. FRENCH ROMANCES.--We really begin to believe there is no such person as Abd-el-Kader. Like M. Thiers' Consu late et 1 'Empire, he is nothing better than a clever fiction. Let us ask what proof is there of his existence, further than the bulletins of Marshal Bugeaud ? Take away Abd-el-Kader, and you shoot his horse for ever. Besides, if it is once proved there is no Abd-el-Kader , ther e is an end to all razzias—no more camels, no more sheep captured —no more victories, and, alas! no more glory—and how is a Frenchman to live without glory ? He has been accu,:torned to it all his life. No, Abd-el-Kader is kept alive to tickle the bad.auds. He is the hero of the gobemouches. He is literally one of the " Mysteries of Paris." In a word, he is the Mrs. Harris of France.—Punch. --- ROYAL GARDENS, VARXRALL. -- This fa vour i te p l ace of resort will, we are i nformed, be opened on Whit-Monday for the 120th season, under the same management as last year. It is to be hoped, both for their sake and th at o f t h e 'public, they will have better weather than last year. There was then scarcely a fine night during the wh o l e o f the Yaux hall vcasen. salyarr, lOC S .. ..,sspo, ...,,,T.D., r ' '' LIJNC °. S A. .. ' rict•lß-SnS " colt. i taki (BARNSLEY, vsI.,EYI rli - tD It P.AI-tl` Bit teDY'' ateraei con V OF •• ' T N - I AND, , AND • this s a took '• -- -4 ET ~ IsTRBSS . last \ lA' ' l l - •LBBD, / V/ NDO GS:" . 1 ehola erS "Icommittee, all ;„, a to VIE I .3 °‘j- tt 3tNER'S IN D society too t P lace alien '' B" ' meeting, of IlaT e tiee ~., 4; to ta l " — -3 U- V 011..--• . o f this sc'e l gate-street, ..At a f the ell - eu IV 1., liii a e ate. "Tsai.). d ; ones f the c hant) t , ~) , „ r ue o xv anesdaYl APT eutlyg the bare- The annivt e Lolta°ll,lnita supporters o tienten at the \ vetted evening at th IA ZburY9 W I- " e a ted he rfla m ' ere obienaelt an d ' g e lj u ue of Casa - \ at l'e vi . _ eltis to he a c ern' Ilishops in ?rose. - in - ov ,a by a 5 uere . died Vle! S e B r e.d.ford , w i o f nearly '2OO of t song the no Sin `Count the ,„, einaose gge, resolution to this.m Bates, °I b lir. llo. " s ' were present. 'A, his goys , „_„ c .„ c o unt Is-; Prusila ll ' ing .. " s' 1 seconded 13 9 1 1 „ 40 posed 9, , o f - WA doss' •1 i' F•lc•" 1 `" '' the \ ieelder a lll atoon t was pro Su cooT aing tv, c ross tables were • 1 s r chevalier Bunsen, ts d gll es * -that t an stn a iled b 9 I ' '• en 0 1 3, a t ?ee' brictb'e (in the chair,. ' . e -ther clistinguishe , ay s ay \ upon _ and seconded k • o. be gr , s i y - tlober ae ,3 ( i 'l fi s eren —ter the hun I IA int, A %., the Ha.noyerian Mint, -etereaintnen , and twe ra • tbe the 'best' iu e of which Of , Pe ws- , rust the oa der „ _ . _,.., posu e., raat i oa . Minister, e'tisides several'. ;on to all, - ro batiola- field' ' • of the bal. Pr , ' t lieWST 4 P erg ' • of much aPP ittons To commeCee with the , a ent cf 0 - 1 --- a from antell na alien pneemittee to enter it was one that t . gave. sa isfact. ie i tary batavr a - t. el.ee- which e reporterS s ere-the caterers. as ill a t.. thecou d .lculattn6 R • Royal Chairman spoke in terms td with. great lir. 1 Toe not per Inittt. , i ,,, c ool, el ea d the s l g tl course Messrs. Bathe and Breach w of tht 1 asY' beau- ' but were I vever, ‘"-- ~, Tate, can r vI 01 at any The Duke of Cambridge's own •b/ ' ra al '.' gaw- room 1 t hat they' . aesbiryiethdeby,.._ . .... zuareu _ of NerrlCS• ni. tendance, and during dinner time 1 Aessre• nave sUOVITA LI V immediate the various playa popular and favourite airs t SOV 2I-1- the the Hobbs added to the harmonies of the evening l ' ls th e tiules. lan h .ND e holdcrs .f °l. aa„sfteld sung , A , VO s har l a h i3n . . 1,,r -•.,n an - \ talon tiful glees and songs, with the assistance f .ring ° f . the W 2 S I " . 1 a to Pe .t, Vier \ it, r ace- t: tills s oheree „ s ra s,e kips, ' • ..,, }ramie, Treekey, and Chapman . . •o ' '4lcl l . • v g-uP °, .. reso lution \ shb ' c lings. -guaaefs- On the removal of the cloth, grace having been 0 „ -\ Same " 1 rocee .t, ncaeter Royal Highness h I- tat ° _ proposed the health of k t to stay , s in 1 - -e .. to wee . 0 doubt Prince Albert," taking the the "Quo. - ' \ day, s'L' - ' ,. , - 6. 11 f u rther 1' manehester, ~.., latneu lee.reholaer ,„, Line ars. , Majesty had this: ni ht suhcribed the sum of 1001., wi n Th e 5.-- . c ia l i nSuj ~ . ail u them for To t one._ he (his Royal Highness) had had the pleasure of just payie, '. tad Great the va April boa lven t ip, no calls, and to the treasurer. - ednesday, lines wit pa y up t , This intimation was received with loud bursts of applause, I_ e cew at 01 the archon F ° a and the toast was drunk with enthusiasm. bare b „ li ne , The health of the "Queen Dowager " followed ; after f i„v the s • inevitably el ___------- %UST S• which came that of his Majestythe "Ding of Hanover," :-- 1 Ille-------------- 1/ ki Vt.\ 1111 1,116 .. de -press lll4 and the "Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." on lye - 4 - ' 01 , last- 'eficallau'',nottey was trrzito - ' flora Xra al oe .ll Then followed a toast to the " Foreignnews and tors of this Society." . Sovereigns, protec •• that mo. frhe lost I,re_te_., al, a , nee , , s _ 11 , , t 1 " - tose r b lose. . 4 „, e ut• third of - „ w i ck . It s ut il ,, C. _ 0 _ Toe _,_ The " Army and Navy?' next received all the I ." du either 113 scripht WV sale s 9.1. to the bravery and devotion of the two service :mous due many woof 'nos done ____„ at , o istaw'r_ s nosier. ro / t e .p .- Chevalier BUNSEN then rose, and in proposi s. g the few and 1 1 r"^ - juit et , on , .1, n e ives%_ of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,n- health 1 RAILIV. , c,llesl re d diS. -Iwi ona.c re ; made some 1 , 3f. as ' 9 dis•--DeVl3,Yuntles,l•° _ appropriate remarks upon the institution for the benefit of ' shares, Sastant'°„itto. Quallta which they had met together. He said that this year corn- kV A ots• a. et a e• _Goole* 1 pleted the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of this 11/4 hares, WA I'. LicerP °° , most useful charity ; and in, the course of these forty years ,... .-- a cee e wee the ,tolit 1 .1:01d, -, 3 .....„ 0,„ on there had been only three exceptions where the chair had •-• _ : _,Livetlm„' - '' - ....i,0n not been taken by a duke of the Royal House of Brunswick P• .r. l l ri P. 'Otte, ~e s i, , . A ., 1 ).-- at the anniversary dinners.—(Cheers.) But there was one - clwa tess , a is.. ___Loar_ '')' 118 istaecnc.ter amongst those illustrious personages who had occupied it far 4, 16- ,„ __sew oftner than the other sons of that great and benevolent -aces' 117 " aw e to, George the Third—he meant his Royal Highness the Duke of CambridSe.—(Loud and continued cheering.) • , voadle ater. He that night honoured the meeting of the society for the ,‘ the. tee.... south ninth time with his presence and support, and he (Chevalier t %dine Bunsen') was sure that there could be no peroOns' present who ry and were not impressed with a feeling of gratitude to his Royal Highness for his kindness and Constant attention-to the trans actions of this society, and the sympethy he had shown for its increasing success. He felt confident that he was only expressing the feeling of gratitude which was in all their hearts, when he drank, with the greatest reverence and re spect, the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge.—(Tremendous appl iuse.) The Duke of CAMBRIDGE rose and returned his most sin cere thanks for the honour conferred upon him, and for the great kindness'_ and flattering way in which the toast had been accepted. It was very true tnat this was the ninth time that he had taken the chair at the annual dinner of this be nevolent Society, and he could only say, theme long as it pleased the Almighty to give him health and strength, he 'should be most happy to occupy that position on future occa sions.—(Cheers.) It was very natural that he should wish for the prosperity of this charity, for he had lived so long abroad that he felt a deep desire to assist foreigners in dis tress.—(Hear, hear.) His happy reminescenccs of Germany, where he had lived for so long a time, and met with so much kindness, prompted him to-relieve, not only Germans, but all foreigners requiring assistance.—(Cheers.) With regard to 1 the state of the Society, his Royal Highness observed that he need only refer the company to the report, which gave so clear and concise a statement of what had been done during, the past year that it rendered all further comment unneces sary. At the same time he could not help congratulating the subscribers that they were not going back, but in creasing. Yet they must not, for all that, stop short in their exertions, but, on the contrary, they must strive more and more to increase the value of this institution.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The only point to be regretted (and no blame to the charity) was, that it was found impossible to assist the number of deserving indivi duals who applied for relief, for out of 38 applicants eight only had been elected, for the want of means. How neces sary, then, was it that they should not slacken in their efforts to increase the amount of subscriptions?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was happy to state that this year his Majesty the King of Sweden had sent them the very handsome sum of 1201., and also that a legacy had been left to the society by the late Mr. J., Cole, amounting to 100/.—(Cheers.) Another satisfactory point was that the committee had, in consequence of the larger subscriptions of last year, aug mented the establishment by 15 pensioners, anti they were also enabled to assist more the out-door objects of relief; for those who formerly received only 11., had that sum new in creased to 4/., and so on in proportion to their wants.— (Hear, hear.) In conclusion.his Royal Highness could only add that he should always feel proud to be of service to the institution, and happy to hear of the augmentation - of its funds, and he hoped that the directors might so be enabled to do more than they had hitherto done. He returned his best thanks for the honour that had been done him, and in return drank all their good healths.—(Loud cheers.) After an appropriate glee, with which his Royal Highness seemed very much delighted, The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of the Duke of Wellington, President of the Institution ;" a toast which his Royal Highness said he need only enunciate to secure for it the enthusiastic applause of the whole company. This toast was drunk with the same spirit in which the Duke of Cambridge recommended it, and the cheering was succeeded by the band playing " See the conquering hero comes," which elicited renewed applause. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers ;" for which His Excellency Count KIELMANsEGGE returned thanks, and in doing so, he said that, if he were to express his feel ings on this occasion in an eloquent speech, he should really be before them as he felt, and they 'would see a foreigner in great distress.--(Loud cheers.) The longer he lived in this country, the more he appreciated the merits and value of this benevolent institution ; and, in conclusion, he could only say that he, front the bottom of his heart, wished for " The long existence and prosperity of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress."—(Long and continued applause.) .His Royal Higkness then proposed " The health of the Vice-Presidents," which was duly honoured by the company, and acknowledged by Chevalier Bunsen. The report of the subscriptions received during the evening was here read, by which it appeared that the sum of 1,4514 was paid into the hands of the treasurer, having been col lected by the various stewards, who were indefatigable in their exertions to promote the welfare of the Society. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge then left the room, amidst the cheers of the company, the band striking up " God save the Queen." On the Duke leaving the chair, Chevalier Bunsen took his place, and the proceedings were kept up with the utmost enthusiasm until late in the evening, when the company re tired highly satisfied with the result of their reunion, and inspired with fresh desires for the promotion of the success of this benevolent institution. The following is an extract from the Society's report : "This Society was instituted at the suggestion of a small circle of foreign clergymen, resident in London, in the year 1806. The object is, to grant relief to indigent foreigners here, without distinction of country or religion, especially to those who are not entitled to parochial aid ; and to furnish the means to such as are desirous to return to their own countries. By the bounty of the public hitherto experienced, the Society has been enabled to relieve above 10,000 foreigners of different nations; and to grant annual pensions towards the support of eighty-five individuals, greatly advanced in years, and al most all of whom have spent their lives in improving the commerce and manufactures of this country, without having acquired any legal claim to parish relief, and are now totally disabled by age and infirmity from earning a livelihood or re turning to the places of their nativity. It is not only from wealthy foreigners and their descendants, that the Society hopes fur encouragement; to them, no doubt, a forcible ap peal might be made; but surely Britons, who, of late years particularly have still more than ever merited a comparison with the good Samaritan, will, with their accustomed benefi cence, cherish and support an institution which cannot fail to impart fresh lustre to their national character in every quarter of the globe. One guinea annually constitutes a governor, and ten guineas and upwards a governor for life." Sketch of the Society's sphere of action in the year 1845: Number of pensioners Small regular allowance to aged persons Assisted in returning to their native countries 102 Casual relief afforded in old cases ... 2,053 Ditto ditto in new cases ... 236 STOCK EXCHANGE.— effect upon the London . easy, shares generally rul. Instant, the amount of bust been extensive, though In a To-day transactions have been —Birkenhead, Lancashire, am. inghamshire, tbs.—Caledonial. dis.—Chester and Birkenhead, 201. , 1% p.—Direct Northern. 25/. Shares, . Extensions, F. p.— Grand Junction, 21. ters, New, 27% p. cx d.—Ditto, Eighth Doncaster, % dis.—Huddersaeld and S. and Bury, 5% p.—Ditto, New Shares, 1% Direct, 6s. Ormskirk, and and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 36% p.—Ditto, Fitths, 21% . p.—London 'and Manchester (Ren. and Brighton,' 63-Manchester andßirmingbak. _ _ _ and Leeds, Sixteenths, 9 —Midland Stock, 401. SL castle and Darlington, 45 —North.Staffordshire, 1 e ern, 3s. dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 3% 1. (II), % p.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 1 dis.—Sheffield anc. Quarters, No. 3, ', p. —Shrewsbury,' Oswestry, and Chek. —South Eastern, 3.s4—Ditto, New Halves, j dis. ex Staffordshire, 1 dis.—Tean and Dove Val:ey, I Is. dis.—Wft Union, 265. 641. p.—Llmerick and Waterford, LI dis.—New. Warrenpoint, p.—Dutch Rhenish, %p. MANCHESTER, Arun. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bideford and Tavistock, d s.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, arid Cheshire, 'A p.—Blackburn, Charley, and Liverpool, 1 dis.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Wales, I% dis.—Buckingham and Bletchingly, % dis.—Chelmsford and Bury, % dis.—Derby and Crewe, 114 p.—Eastern Counties, New, 6% p.—Ditto, York Extension, 15-16 p.— East Lancashire, No. 2, 34 p. —Glasgow and Dumfries, 15-16 dis.— Great Eastern and' Western, 1% - dis.—Liverpool and Bury, 5 % p.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 7-16 p.—Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stock port, 13-16 dis.—London and Birmingham, Fifths, 22 p.—London and York, 1% dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, 76—Ditto, Quar ters (A), 7% p.—Ditto, Quarters (11), p. —Ditto, ditto (C), 6% p. —Manchester and Southampton, % dis. Northumberland and Lan cashire, 1 dis.—North Eastern, I% dis.—North Staffordshire, 1% p. —Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), % p.—Shefileld and Manchester, Quarters (No. 3), par—South Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4,9 s. c. dis.—West hiding• Union, 1 3-16. p. • LEEDS, Arum 16. STOCK EXCHANGE..—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 17s. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Extensions, 20s. dis. —Huddersfield and Manchester, 30s.dis.—llitto, Extensions, 4s. dis.— Huddersfield and Sheffield, 214 p. c.—Leeds :and Bradford, 24 % P. — Leeds and Dewsbury, I% 'L.—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 85. p.—London and Portsmouth, 245. dis.—London and York, 275. Gd. dis.—Direct Northern, 245. dis.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 20s. dis.— West Riding Union, 3/. 75 .—Arnbergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 275. 6d. dis. — Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), 17s. 6d. dis.—Chelms ford and Bury, 16s. 6d. dis.—East Lincolnshire, 11s. dis.—Essex and Sugolk, 16s. dis.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 3s. 6d. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, par—Midland and Thirsk Junction, '24s. dis.—North timberland and Lanca , hire Junction, 21s. dis.—North Staffordshire, Is. Gd. p.—North Western, 4s. 6d. dis. HULL, APRIL 16. SToorl EXCHANGE.-The exposure of the doings of the Great North and South Wales and Worcester Committee has added to the desire of scripholders in almost all new schemes to draw them immediately to a close.-The transactions to-day have been numerous, and a large quantity of shares have changed hands. The sales are-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 9-Blackburn Dar wen, ai.d Bolton, 3-North British, Carlisle, 325. 6d.-Zandon and Bantry, 6s. 9d.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 265.-Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, 315 . -Chelmsford and Bury, 10s. 6d.-Derby and Gains borough, 13s. 9d.-East Coast, 19s. 6d.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 95.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, I % -Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 9s. 9d.-Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, 235. 3 d.-Leicester and Tamworth, 1 ,6 dis.-Liverpool and Leeds, 21. Bs.-North Staffordshire, 41. 25.-Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 215.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 225. 6d.-South Midland, ss. dis.-Trent Valley Continuation, 365. SHEFFIELD, Apart IS. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 1 ,4 - Ditto, Extension, I/. Gs.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 155.-East Lincoln shire, I ss. 6d.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 11. 7R.-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, VA-Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, Is.-Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 13s. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Aram 16. STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales are-Leicester and Tamworth, 21s. dis.-South Midland, 3s. 6d. dis. YORK, Aram 16. STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), I%—Leicester and Bedford, 7s.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21. 2s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 17N—New castle and Darlington, Extensions, 611,4—North British, Carlisle Ex tension, 11. 14s.—Welsh Midland, 11. 4s.—York and North Midland, New (Estst and West Riding), 8%. BRISTOi, Aram 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham and Gloucester, 124%—llitto, Quarter Sham (iss. 7% dis.), 3l—Caledonian, Great Western, Quarter Shares, 17%—Midland, New, 30% —North British, 25—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 2%. EDINBURGH, APRIL 14. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales arc-Aberdeen, 21.-Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, U. 45.-Airdrie and Bathgate, V.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10e.-Armagh and Port rush, 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. Bs.-Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir, 11. 103.-Banffshire, 18s.-Belfast and County Down, 21.-British and Irish Union, 2/. Is.-Caledonian, ex new, 111. N.-Ditto, New, I/. 7s. 6d.-Caledonian Extension, 11. 9s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dum barton, 1/. 10s.--Caledonian and Northern Direct, 11. 17s. 6d. - Carnwath and West Linton, IL Is. 6d.-Chelmsford and Bury, 155.- Clydesdale Junction, 121.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 1/. 12s. 6d.- Deeside Railway, 41.-Direct Northern, 11. 103.-llublin and Ennis• killen, 1/. 10s.-Dundee and Arbroath, 391.-Ditto, New, 211.-Dun dee and Forfar Junction, 11. I 65.-Dundee and Perth, 14/. 155.- Ditto, Kinross Extension, 2L-Eastern Counties Extension, IL-East Indian Railway, Bg. 6d.-East of Fife, 11. 55.-East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 1/. 75.-Edinburgh and Batingste, 2/. Os. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 721.-Ditto, Half Shares, 18/. - Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 151.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, andllumbartou. IBs. - Edinburgh and I.eith Atmospheric, 11. 25.- Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 161.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edin burgh and Northern, 3/. 18s.-Ditto, Newport, Is. 6d.-Ditto, Loch gelly, 12s. 31-Edinburgh and Peebles, it. 4s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 2/. 65.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 11 . 103 . - Forth and Clyde Junction, I/. 135.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 701. 10s. -Ditto, New Stock, 241.-Ditto, Quarter ,liares, 171. 10s.-Glasgow Belfast Union, 11. N.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. Is.- Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 14s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 401. 10s.-Glasgow General Terminus, 91. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, Now Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 15s. -Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 11. 10s.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, it. 155.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 11. 95.- Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 2L-Granton Junction, 175. -Great County Down, 11. 10s.-Great North of Scotland, it. 12s. -Great North and South Wales, 9s. 4d.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. -Lanark and Lothians, 21.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 11. Is.- London and Hounsluw, - 1/.-London and Manchester (Bast.), 21. 155 -London and Manchester (Remington's), It. 2s. 61-London and York, I/. 10s.-Ditto Half Shares, 21.-Midland and Eastern Coun ties, 11. Bs.-Morayshire, U.-Newcastle and Berwick, 161. 10s.- Newry and Londonderry, IL 75.--North British, 241. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 81.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 11. 12s.- Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 51. 155.-North Wales, Mineral, 131-Ditto, New, 3/. 55.-Perth arid Crieff Direct, It. 135.-Perth and Inverness, I/. 9s. 6d.-Scottish Central, 131. 10s.-Ditto, New, 51.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 1/. 6s -Scottish Grand Junction, 11.-Scot tish Midland, 51. 155.-Scottish Southern, ii. 13s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, ii. 17s. 6d.-South Midland, 1/. 165.-Stirling and Dunfermline, it. 75.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 45.-Strathearn Junction, U. 2s. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction, 55.-Tean and Dove Valley, 155.-Wishaw and Coltness, 471. 7s. 6d. GLASGOW, APRIL 15. ves. meet dents hitherto large collt tian, Grecia, tiful specimet. process, the in' tablets may be c, cision, and the fin. the means of person were those of Shala. Roubillac, and of mode. Dr. Dalton, and Dr. Bab. Sir Charles Forbes, from t. all admirable likenesses. however, were those of the L morning and evening, in basso tor Thorwaldsen, which were qt. duced by Benvenuto Cellini. The literary works reviewed a eluded a forthcoming publication 0. English artist, Mr. Henry Cook, two years' resi6ence at Rome, made it to the most interesting ape Italy, and brought from thence a rich por. drawings. These have been since lithograp. hand, and are accompanied by letter-press t. English and Italian, from his own pen, proving most interesting and beautiful folio volume. Mr. I Natural History of Man also underwent a critical e. tion • and opened up the whole subject of Eth no l og i ca l ' z which were fully and freely discussed, especially in elt. tion of the great question of the origin of the divers race mankind. In the interval between the music and the literary descriptions, refreshments were served in the saloon, and art appropriate address from the resident director terminated the proceedings of a very varied and agreeable evening. EXHIBITION OF PRINCE ALBERT'S STOCK AT THE DUBLIN AGRICULTURAL SHOW. Sroca Excnarton. —The sales 'are—Aberdeen NlL—Airdrie and Bathgate, 425. —Ayr and Galloway, 31s.—Bridge of Weir, 365. Caledonian, 11,4—Caledonian Extension, 30s.— Caledonian and Ayr shire Junction, 39s.—Caledouian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 295. —Caledonian Direct Northern, 395. Cornwall and Devon Central, 303.—East Indian Railway, Bs. 9d.—Edinburgh and Bathgate, 40s. —Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 198. 6d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 85s.—Edinburgh and Peebles, 29s.—Forth end Clyde Junction, 358.--Glasgow General Terminus, 9/.—Glasgow and Bel fast Union, 30s.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 34s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 28s.— Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 31s.—Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 335.—Glasgow Har bour Grand Junction, 26s.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 28s.—Great North and South Wales, 9s. 6d.—Great North of India, 3s. 6d.—ln- verness and Elgin, 21s.—Kilmstrnock and Ayr Direct, 35s.—Lanark and Lothians, 41s.—Lesmahagow, 42s.—Perth and Inverness, 30s. —Perth and Crieff, 33s.—Scottish Southern, 35s.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 225. Gd. —South Midland, 375. Gd.—StirMig and Dunfermline, 31s. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 47%. WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.—It Will be recol lected that last year his Royal Highness Prince Albert exhibited at the Agricultural Cattle Show, Dublin, a couple of short-horned oxen, fattened upon Flemish Farm, which, although not considered to be entitled to a prize, were very highly commended by the judges. They were very splendi.i animals, having been sold to one of the principal butchers in Dublin for seventy pounds and seventy guineas respectively. This year the Prince again exhibited at the Dublin Show ; the animals being a twin ox and heifer, which were bred in the north, and also fattened upon Flemish Farm. They were conveyed from Slough to Bristol by the Great Western Railway, and there shipped for Dublin, under the care of Mr. Yates, his Royal llighness's bailiff. Her Majesty also exhibited, at the same time, four Cochin- China fowls (three hens and a cock), reared at the royal aviary in the Home Park, under the superintendence of kr. Walter, the Queen's head poulterer. One of the hens, known as " Old Bessy," laid the extraordinary number of 94 eggs during 103 days, previously to its being sent to Ireland. A p.cutiarly constructed cage was made, agreeably to the suggestions of the Prince Consort, by Mr. Weimar), ironmonger, of this town, in which to convey them from Windsor to Dublin, where they arrived perfectly free from injury. A letter arrived at the Castle from Ireland this morning conveying the intelligence that although very fine beasts, the Prince's ox and heifer had not been fortunate enough to have a prize awarded to them. THE FOREIGN MAILS—POST-OFFICE NOTICE. Notice relative to the departure of the foreign mails was yeAterday posted at the Chief Office, St. Martin's-le -Grand. The Peninsular Mails—The next mails for Lisbon, Ma deira, &c., will be dispatched from hence this morning, 17th inst., and will be conveyed by the Pacha from Southampton. West Indies—Mails dispatched this day, 17th inst., and will be conveyed by the Clyde from Southampton. India, &c.—The next mails for Gibraltar, Greece, the lonian Isles, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, aid Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 20th inst., and will be conveyed by the Oriental front Southampton. American—British North-America, Bermuda, United States, &c., dispatched from hence on the evening of to morrow, 18th inst., and will be dispatched by the Cambria from Liverpool. The next mails for India, &c., aid Marseilles, All be dis patched on the evening of the 24th inst. Holland—Mails dispatched by the Columbine on the morn ing of the 18th (to-morrow). Hamburgh—Mails dispatched by the Neptune this even• ing, the 17th inst. Sydney, New South Wales-30th inst. Further detention of the Ferret—Her Majesty's ship Ferret has not yet sailed from Devonport for the Island of Ascension. It is probable she will be•detained for some days longer. - '-' It ---‘,..- 131LSTO1, TIST3RSDA. • t lieu vltice tu ‘,.. mine accidents which have a. e_ yes_taay 1712011111v0 bood for a long time obctirtroud, Le liessrs. Benton and Peto,Groes so:o\s,vleaelaudesiarost;straouoettt.t It appears that at six. o Is. the men who worked at till'e above place came to the 411? for the purpose ot going, to Walt.. bo.. man litge a vim.. Jones, with. s i x others, got into the skip at tau 3 ille a°g • 17', sceade. ;11 f but before doing so daey.were c or overlook.er, 'not to go 'into abctertiall bterv,:o.... 6,0,0,11_1' .: ::>,,,.:), 4 until he went down and saw t avt:te aillli lesit'ell' 111 _ .. , . they reached the bottom they those at the top of the pit no t . to to dae candle into 6 • . 7,,i AOC CUVICP;4I !ttb. :- ''' certain part of the vit until the i - ..,..e tibove toot. ..", the next lot. When at the bo ttom. :`l2amiace;eota- ‘ tunate man would go, in spite, of tt Cox, ''l".2-.‘ yelling a young raan, nam o_x, ..., viva s usva. Pthe serous part of the It candle in the ad 'There beingea.:paele:wadsitattel:iii cr o p air in pit, the moment th. n a terrific explosion took place, which 'killed Jones on the spot, tloa, it Was feared, fatally inured . Cox. The other t segue their five unavailing who were at the bottom. the f. plo,ue , z,rei dread. forts unavailing in trying to restra in a ins the tease of an explosion, went into a safet part of the, Mine, and escaped with a very few slight bruises. At the time the esplosioneto.o.kcyl:cec,ti,tlisnereue were six more men in the skip aese a r was the violence of the explosion, thnatintu'e ' in ' :,i:. were blown nt least fifty )ards into the air. Aou t thero, Ahraliana Atkins, -John. Evans, Enoch Beverton, raid Jos. Vincent, were killed, and the other two so ee vcrely injured that their medical attendant gives little hors of their recovery. The men bad not been to work since Saturday las . o,‘ and during that time 9. great quantity of sulphur ti a collected. The deceased Jones atia Atkin hare each left a w ife and five children to mourn their untimely end; b e fo re L_hefotur; D ir. on tbebodies will take place this evem ue Dir. Philips, coroner. .--------- rragi BUITISiI AND FOREIGT4 INSTITUTE. The seventh soiriieeotrhis Society wan iven last evening, a t e heir g street, and twithstanding the very ransre°;irs'rtitutarac:e.tionsein other quarters, particular y in th musical vial was very fullv attended by large number of the mem\ rs and their 'families. As usual, the ned weith instrumental and vocal music, in. eZueuicilt3i7r.assMeo."-, IST,ll,ousselot, and bliss Steele were par ticnlarly distitlguished. Atter refreshments, which were exhibitions served. in the saloon, a number of interesting were passed under review. a A mong these was a complete set of night signal invente 11r. Itettie, civil engineer, which, .by a variety .of coraYbinations in coloured glasses, transmitting a TriOSt Intense light, of announcements and directions can be made, as erec tly p as by any code of finals used during the day ; and when adopted uy seam. sets, in motion or at anchor, an . dby railroad trains n , g a c t niht, would man; of those frightful acci f boelelnisiz,treby wliircrsOtra life and property have ed• Ther e were also in die rooms a ction of ancient t coin s and. medals, including Y.gyri. n, and ltornan. And to these were _addedsworaecebbeautein , s of eavlr.,,s in ivory, produced 0 -enti.oenaof Islr.rClateveratosna,leb Vt busts at scale, `vi unerring TA ,pied vTiorllis of uncret therefore brought Witt sof moderate fortune. Among the bii Pere and 1111 ton, from the oriials -n ones, those of the late Lord - 'West ngtori; and of living persons or he statue by Sir Francis Chan The most otquisite spear mblematical he relieve., by the Danish Ite equal to anythire 'wing the, eveni: a young, bu 4 who, du • euarsiot As in `folio of tied b esc NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE Lau. 15.—0 n Monday evening the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborougb, accom panied by Admiral Bowles and Captain Brandreth, arrivedat Moorhead's Hotel, where his Lordship held a levee Tuesday morning. After inspecting the Dockyard, his Lordship went on board the Belleisle troop-ship, Capta i n Kingcombe, and s u bsequently visited her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain Sir 11. J. Leek, and her Majesty's ship Albion, 80, Captain N. Lockyer. His Lordship spent two hours on board the latter, and went twice over her. The crew were mustered at divisions, and by the excellent manner in which they performed their duties elicited the admiration of his Lord ship, who appeared highly pleased. In the evening his Lordship, and the other memberss of the Board of Admiralty, dined with the Commander-in- Chief, Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., at the Admiralty house, where the heads of p u bli c d epar t ments, w i t h t h e i r ladies, and the gentry of the neighbourhood were assembled. To-day his Lordship inspects the Royal William Victual ling-yard and the Royal Naval Hospital, and at half-past 6 o'clock gives an official dinner at the hotel. At 9 o'clock the Earl and the other members leave for Exeter, where they sleep, and to-morrow return to town, His Lordship is unaccompanied by a secretary, and his visit here is quite of a routine character. He is very minute in his inquiries, and takes notes himself. The Board do not proceed immediately to inspect the Arsenal at Pembroke as first intended. THE CORN BILL AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS---We have never been amongst those impatient and querulous people whose tempers cannot bear the stoppage or the dila tory progress of the great measures now before the House of Commons. Never having viewed the House of Lords as a body particularly likely to be overcome by a rush and a shout, when it would resist a more deliberate and methodical att ck, our confidence in the final passing of Sir Robert 'Peel's great measures has not been at all shaken by their postponement until after Easter, and the delays experienced and in prospect from the introduction of the Irish Coercion Bill. We believe that the best chance for the ultimate suc cess of the Corn Bill in the House of Peers will be found in giving their Lordships ample time for consideration before they commit themselves by voting upon it. While the con versions from the ranks of monopoly are numerous and im portant, we hear of no deserters from free trade; and it may possibly turn out that Lord George Bentinck and his friends, by the delays which they have interposed to the passing of the Bill in the Commons, have been really engaged in se curing its success in the Lords. We are glad to learn, from a variety of sources, that opinion in well- informed circles in_ London now runs very decidedly in favour of the p . ass t ll o a r the Bill through the Lords. The current estimate majority of about twenty—some say twenty-tfo P of live—has already been secured, witha g f re o a inion whith is r te o; s twenty further concessions, from the change ?,,,ouse.....diran_ taking place amongst Members of the Upp er chestcr Guardian. to n ua t r h d e Oa Sunday Lieutenant Paedrsosonien,etohfintgheflocaotiansgt station at this place, discovered shore. He immediately water a short distance fr v om and s ucceeded in securing five put off with a boat's cre‘ir. A Soper, of the revenue cutter, tubs of foreign spirits.ee ded in securing two tubs of foreign Gertrude, sly® on the same day, all of which have since bspeeirnitsloidigi e t d his hsn iti'atyhe Ciutem-heaSe of the p or t of F 991 rookpaPen THE WAR IN INDIA. We are informed that Lieutenant and Adjutant Wale, son of the late General Sir C. Wale, K.C.8., who in the recent dispatches from India was misnamed Wall, is out of danger from the awful wound he received at the late battle of Aliwal. During the hottest part of the fire he was struck from his horse by a cannon ball, which broke all his left ribs, caus ing a severe laceration of the lungs, and wounding his left arm, under which it passed. h pl e u w nd a e s red carr a i n e d d whenced mitt i scarc e ahreo house e a r h a a y v i o n f g b o e p e e n r t a o n l t s n h a e c a k s r e e t d a a t r be, ya the enemy in his absence) be was taken charge of by the wife of a wounded brother officer, in whose house, and under whose unremitted care, after remaining some days in a hopeless condition, he began and still con tinues to improve. In the former action on the Sutlej, in all of which he was present, Lieutenant Wale hadseveralnarr b o a w tt esc le a o p f e m s, o h o a d v k in ee, g bad a charger killed und er him in the non -hbealll,BtwhhoifehDepeaesmsebderc,leasnd eto ha h vi i n s g si b d a e r w el Kil e e sc s a t p o e nn d i a ng ca th n- e teeth of the batteries of Ferozeshah, on the evening of the 21st ; he had a second charger killed under him while as sisting in the successful struggle to drive the Seikhs from out of their entrenched camp at Ferozeshah, on the morning of the 22d. We have only to hope that this brave young officer may, like his late veteran father, live to count well nigh seventy years since he first fought and bled in the service of his country. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—IMPORTANT REDUCTION IN THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS. —We •have to congratulate our fellow-townsmen on another important re duction which has just been made by the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, in their rate for goods from Birmingham to London. We understand that the charge for the conveyance of hardware and manufac tured goods for any distance over fifty miles is now reduced to 2d. per ton per mile, including locomotive power, and all charges except for collecting and delivery. We are also in formed that the company intend, by a Bill which they have now before Parliament, to propose this as the maximum rate which they shall have the power of charging. The follow ing statement will afford some idea of the effect of a reduc tion in charges on the carriage of goods by railway. It ap pears that in the quarter ending December, 1844, the quan tity of goods carried on the London and Birmingham line was 85,520 tons, the receipts for which were 44,824 E In the corresponding quarter ending December, 1845 (a large lredtuce tion having taken place in the charges in the n inr e s t - e a a ) se th e quantity carried was 129,560 tons, ton nage during the latter quarter the recei p ts sufficient to answer the 44,040 tons on the quarter, but in res p b e e c i t n w l) e f r a t e h e e n e ly nt s i7 ,4B4 or an increase of 6,660 L, scarcely irAr amount of business in creaseddone.From t expenses he 3attotelidd,iavg• Counties Parliamentary paper lating to the National etiesalleerald of yesterday. was printed , ks It appears that savin NAT . IoN d AL co D n gs'-banks Debt and Savings'. enced on the 6th of August, 1817, esbc° l -n e ni 2oth of Nov ra n i n T i . ; l a e c s c t o e n i t a s Y r a e period ember last the gross andcreditedwith sums received a far l dni " fr‘nvi tehnoicdhly • ociet '- i banks WAS 49,276,576/. 16s. Id., and on count of savings account of friendly societies 2,709,3011. 6.3. 4d. ; making a total of 51,985,878 1 . 23.5 d. An account is given of the stock purchased and the money paid. On the 20th of November last the amount of stock standing in the names of the Com missioners on account of savings'-banks and friendly societies was 32,388,6431.195. 4d., besides Exchequer. bills. Military savings'-banks were established in September last, and on the sth of January last the Commissioners had purchased stock for them to 14,944/. 3s. 4d., having received 14,894/. ls. 11d. as deposits from soldiers in a very short period. CONVERSIONS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN Set:alarm—Robert Monteith, yr., of Carstairs, was re ceived into the church on the festival of St. Joseph (19th of March), at Oscott College ; and on the festival of the An nunciation of our Lady (25th of March) his lady was received Margaret, Edinburgh, into the church at the convent of St. Mar on which occasion the inmates of that estab tshment made t customary anututl reuelal of their VAT§.---Tabiet. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Madame Anna Thillon, the most fascina,:ing, beautiful, and accomplished of actresses and singers, made her first appearance for the season here last night, in the character of Catarina, in the opera of The Crown .li.weh. It was in this character that she made her first appearance before an English audience, some two years since, and at once took the town by storm. The b!illiant sparkling music of this opera is exactly suited to Thillon's power ; indeed we know of no other artist who could perf.rna Catarina. Her clear, pure, flexible voice was last night as delightful as ever, and her fioriture wonderful for its delivery, its taste, and the marvellous flexibility of organ which it exhibited. Never did Madame Thillon look more bewitchingly, or sing more delightfully; she was applauded enthusiastically in every scene, and was, of course, called for at the conclusion. Miss Poole was the Diana, and afforded most effi...ient support to the prima donna. The duet, "In the deep ravine," was exquisitely given by these two ladies. The piece has been but upon the stage in the most splendid manner. The dresses of Madame Thillon were superb; and the display of the crown jewels in the last scene was perfectly dazzling. The house was crammed to suffocation, and. the applause throughout was most enthusia,tic. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. A grand concert—a monster concert—took place here last evening. The programme contained a list of no less than thirty piece!, of music, and the performers con sisted of the elite of the vocalists and instrumentalists of the present day. There were Braham, and Crouch, and Weiss, and John Parry, and Miss Birch, aad Miss Dolby, and Mrs. Weiss; and Frederick Chatterton, on the harp ; and Grattan Cooke, on the oboe ; and Kialmark, on the piano ; and Sedgwick, on the con. certina ; and Jarrett, on the horn. The solo on the horn, by this latter gentleman, consisting of variations to the beautiful air Deh Conte, was a perfectly marvel bus performance, for correctness, tone, and delicacy of execution. The veteran Braham sang the splendid song " Never Despair," without accompaniment, and on being encored he gave " Sally in our alley," in his own deliciously exquisite style. This is one of those beautiful morgeaux of the old school that no one living can sing but Braham. It was indeed a treat. Mr. Crouch was deservedly encored in his own Irish ballad. " Kathleen Mavourneen ;" and John Parry convulsed the audience with laughter by his " Young England," for which he substituted " Matrimony," when, as a matter of course, he was encored. The gem of the evening, however, was the ballad " I'm thine, only thine," from the Crusaders, which was given by Miss Birch with such taste, such feeling, such delicacy of intonation, such an exquisite perception of the beauties of the music, and such perfect execution, that it is impossible to i hagine anything more perfect. Miss Birch and Miss Dolby also gave the exquisite finale of the same opera, " Ties of friendship," exquisitely. The fioriture of the two ladies in this beautiful duet was perfectly wonderful. " May fleeting time," from the opera of Maritana, was given with great taste by Mrs. Weiss, whose powerful voice told well in this air. Miss Ellen Lyon, a promhing singer, gave us the " Mocking Bird," accompanied by Sedgwick on the concertina, in a style that reminded us of days of yore, when 'vliss Stephens was wont to sing this song. Our space will not perm't us to do more than merely glance at the merits of the various performers engag,d in this very delightful concert. Suffice it to Fay. that all that was done was well done. The house was crowded to suffocation. Not a seat was unoccupied at the com mencement of the concert, and it was impossible to pro cure a programme, such was the demand. The audience was most attentive. There was no interruption by misplaced cheering, and altho ug h the applause was most enthusiastic it was always judiciously bestowed. We hail the success of such a concert in such a locality, as another proof of the great progress which sound musical taste has made of of his llsevu ccettl eetyual aeoxp : p a iwoe r r s bhi in gmeantetivo England, enrisy I soul-elevating h to o on vd enarnned of t h w t eh e hope edra m proprietorst drama, a a t n t od h success f e osf a di nieter;s. re a p m ea u t se it m a e t nt n s o , i d s is a t l a r n e r pyeruiondd.er NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO Mn WILDERSPIN, THE CHIEF PROMOTER OF INFANT SCROOLs.— Gladly do we re cognise a movement now making in behalf of a true and self sacrificing philanthropist—the object of which movement is to •afford Mr. Wilderspin, the well known disseminator of schemes for the education of children, a means of passing his old age in comfort. He has for many years so associated his name with the formation of infant and normal schools throughout the provinces, that any expatiation upon the be nefits which have accrued to his fellow-countrymen through his unremitting exertions for their welfare, would be more than superfluous. Throughout the continuance of health and capacity Mr. Wilderspin has laboured, as a man only can labour in a labour of love, to promote the social, moral, and intellectual inte , ests of childhood; and he has done this without ostentation in his benevolence, without anv ulterior view apart from the excellence of the cause itself, without indeed attending to any pecuniary compensation (if any thing pecuniary can be considered as compensation for such industry), or without making any provision what ever for his declining years. Should such disinte rested philanthropy go unrequited? Would his contem poraries be acting with common justice if they abandoned a man like this to an indigent obscurity? Would it not be a warning against all future benevolence of a similar character? We are rejciced to think that some individuals are ready to acquiesce in the most rational deductions which can be drawn from these inquiries. In proof of which a tribute has been determined upon, - with secretaries for its promotion situated in Edinburgh, Hull, and Manchester. An address has been issued to this effect, calling upon the million to give some demonstration of their sympathy. "An association," says the address, "already strong, have resolved to seek Mr. iiink Wilderspin in his un r equited and th an kl ess re ti remen t, an d o labours." W e h ave no d ou bt th at t h e appeal w ill not ffer him, unasked by him, a suitable t r ib u t e f or hi s i nva l u • able a t response h su a i t ta i b n l d e ividual g e f n ro e m ros t i h t3 e , public; and a m nd ee s t v we are gladpa‘ withouts t general ingratitude. 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