The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL, Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., PEERS AND PARVENUS , BY MRS. GORE. Authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Banker's Wile," &c. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in vols., 21s. bound, F OURTH EDITION of THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. By ILIOT WARBURTON, Esq. " Remarkable for its colouring power and play of fancy ; its use ful and interesting information."—Quarterly Review. " Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour, are to be found in these volumes."—Spectator. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHAM'S BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and iIIDAY, at One o'clock, at their offices, at the Hall of Commerce, rtireadneedie-street, London, at which place all favours, con t tining instructions, are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, gall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs, W. Har rison, Borrani, Horncastle, 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. r tIsIATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER , or, The Mis takes of a Night. Mr. Hardcastle. Mr. W. Farren ; Young Marlow, Mr. 11. Holl ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Julia Bennett. The Band will perform the Overture, `• La Rene dun Jour," Quadrille, "Le Rol Dyvetot," " 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 LINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Bendel ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KERLEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed LUCK'S ALL. Principal characters by Messrs. Diddear, 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 Arden, Villars, and Howard. To be followed by the original REDO WA WALTZ, by Miss Framp ton and Master Forrest. To conclude with the New Grand Romantic Extravaganz% en titled THE ENCHANTED HORSE • or, Prince Firma Schah of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. P rincipal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, P. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Klnloch, &c.; 51,5-dames dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stall% ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6(1. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING WM b. performed a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Principal characters sustained by Madame Celeste, Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, &c. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic anu Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar. On lid - cad:ly Next will be produced a New Dram, in Two Acts, called. THE CABIN BOY. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON CASAR DE BAZAR. Don Caesar le Basun, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Milne. Duval will appear. After which, THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Wallack ; Trin quet, Mr. Granby; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray; Blanche, Miss Stanley ; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling, To conclude with a New Farce, called TOO MANY COORS SPOIL THE BROTH. Gregory Granite, Mr. Compton ; George, Mr. Oiberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MA.7 INEES MYSTERIEUSES, Two Morning Performances daring the Week. . . At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who flo .1c to attend his Morning Performances, M. PtIILLIPPE will give his Orand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Mornng, gt Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past SeN en, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 21 : ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Sd.; revate Boxes, 11. Is., and 11. 11.. 6a AATLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. The most extraordinary and u;paTi;lielecil , ioY --- elties ever Produced at this Theatre, which nightly command overflowing houses. Mr. Batty has much pleasure in stating that, after great research, he has succeeded in procuring the greatest wonder in the world ; namely, an Elephant who performs the most difficult feats on the Tight Rope without the aid of a Balance Pole. Also, the great performing Elephants in the Spectacle of " The Raja of Nagpore." THIS EVENING Will be performed a is,; , Drama, entitled THE RATA. 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 favourite Farce of ANIMAL MAGNETISM ; or, Love and Physic. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 3. THICRXONZTER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 61; Noon, 56. BAROMETER, 30.02.—W1ND S.W., fine. dIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 10 agnates after 6. I Evening .. 33 minutes alter 6 , Mr. P. BORTHIVICIC seconded the motion. Mr. T. Dtarcomez hoped the Government would oppose the motion. If it was true that forgeries had taken place, the House had nothing to do with it, the parties being amenable to the law elsewhere. He had complained of the system of registration long ago, and he was happy to see gentlemen on the other side of the House had found out its defect. Mr. ADDERLEY supported the motion. Mr. WAKLEY hoped the Hon. Member would not press his motion, and that a Committee would be appointed specifically to consider the subject. Sir R. PERI, did not think it wise or prudent that a Com mittee appointed to inquire into a question of privilege should be instructed to make the inquiries proposed by the Hon. Member. He thought the matter ought to be made the subject of separate inquiry. Mr. R. SPOONER would advise the Hou. Gentleman to withdraw his motion. Sin GEO [.GE GREY trusted an inquiry would be gone into upon the whole question, believing that the Registration Act put voters to the greatest inconvenience. After some observations from Mr. Disraeli, Mr. W. Ellis, Lord Sandon, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. Packe, and several other Members, Mr. C. Butax.* said he did not see any necessity for an inquiry at all ; and if it would be a proper amendment on the motion, he should feel inclined to move that leave be given to the Hon. Member for Staffordshire to bring in that Bill that he had got in his pocket. It was not a question of party, but affected vital interests in the country. Lord INGESTRE thought the Government ought to intro duce some measure to put an end to this crying evil. Mr. C. WOOD had known a good deal of what had taken place with respect to the registration of the West Riding, and he recollected a case where a notice of objection was served upon the uncle of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough, signed by that Hon. Member himself. Mr. Alma-Tn.—What year? Mr. C. WooD could not tell, but it did not matter, for he believed that the person was in that House who served it. He thought inquiry ought to take place upon the subject. Mr. FERRAND said that he did certainly object to the vote of his Hon. Relative, and the reason for his doing so was this. His (Mr. Ferrand's) vote had been objected to for four years, and the person who had objected to it had received for his services a :silver tea-pot, to which his uncle was a subscriber. Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY thought inquiry ought to take place. After some observations from Mr. Bright, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Monckton Milnes. Lord John Russell. Mr. Home, Mr. Aglionby, and Lord Ebrington, Mr. NEwDEGATE withdrew the motion. eoursd), cut off five sigriatuies fc•oiii the enil-Vilie and Pasted them on the first sheet. Now, here is the bead and front of the League offence. Why it would have been no very serious offence if the League agent had written two or three signatures on the first sheet, in order to make the petition presentable. What he did do, though not strictly regular, shows bond fides. We hope the free-trade electors at Cheltenham will mark their representative's conduct on this occasion. They may find many better representatives§ of free-trade principles, unless the lustre of the house of BitniszLaz dims their eyes to all other merits. But we believe that they know Mr. CRAVKW BaannLay, and have made up their minds what to do with him. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, in moving the names of the Com mittee on the Cheltenham petition, denied that he was actuated by any hostilit . y to the Anti-Corn-law League, or any of its Members, especially towards the Hon. Member for Darham, who had moved for a Committee on the game laws. He stated that because the organ of the League had asserted that such motives had actuated him. The House then went into Committee on the Corn Impor tation Resolutions, and the adjourned debate on Mr. VILLIERS' amendment for the total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws was resumed by Mr. G. BANKES.—He would not give his support to any part of the measure of the Government, without it was ac companied by some alterations in the law of settlement. He could not agree to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Capt. HOWARD, although he thought the present a fitting time for the immediate repeal of the cern-laws, considered that the measure of the Government was so valuable that he would not peril it by supporting the amendment of the Hon. Mem ber for Wolverhampton. Sir J. HANJIER would support the Government measure in preference to the amendment, though he was in favour of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and had presented petitions to that effect. Mr. MovFarr would vote for the amendment. The House of Commons have appointed a Committee to inquire into the circumstances of this Cheltenham petition ; and the following Members were last night proposed by Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY as members of the Committee :-- Mr. Craven Berkeley, Mr. Bright, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Ridley Colborne, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Redhead Yorke, Mr. Repton, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Charles Villiers, Major Bereaferd, Lord Worsley, Mr. Baum. We believe there is hardly anything more wanting reform than the mode of appointing public Committees in the House of Commons. We do not say that a worse Committee than the above might not have been nominated; but we say it is , not a fair Committee, as between the League against which a charge is made, and the protection party, into whose hands Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY plays, to make it, and Mr. lizmixt.zy is only consistent in trying to give an advan tage in the nomination of the Committee to the protec tionists. Mr. CRAVEN BELKELEY names himself first according to custom. We do not know whether custom will be further followed by making Mr. C. BERKELEY chairman, but a more unfit chairman we cannot conceive ; and as in this case he has made the charge, he ought not to be chair man. The remaining fourteen Members are taken, seven from the Ministerial and seven from the Opposition side. This looks impartial, but let us go a little further. How are they taken from each side? From the Ministerial side all the seven were in the minority on Friday's division—that all the seven are protectionists. On the Opposition side, one of the seven is Lord WORSLEY, a protec tionist; and as Mr. Ca.tvlat BERKELEY'S sympathies are decidedly with the protection party, we may say that protec tion has nine Members on this Committee, and the League only six. Immediately connected with the League, indeed, are only three Members—Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. &wax, and Mr. VILLIERS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBZ, Mr. COLBORNE, and Mr. REDHEAD YORKE. will, we have no doubt, do their duty as just and honourable men; but still they are not connected with the League, as are the seven Conservative Members os the Committee with the protection party. We go into these particulars to show that if the Committee should gratify Mr. BERKELEY'S inclination, and make a fuss about this trumpery case, all that this Committee may say must not be looked upon as gospel. The League probably are so confident of their integrity that they are willing to leave their case in the hands of a hostile Committee ; but they have very unscrupulous foes to deal with. We matt not conclude our remarks, however, without saying that we are sure Sir R. Ixaus, Mr. BANKES, and Lerd WORSLEY, will be parties to no unjust proceeding; and we understand that Mr. RErrox is a young Member of promise and of in dependence. As for the remaining Tory Members pro posed to be appointed, Mr. Nzwazakrz, Mr. FEERAND, Mr. FORBES MActuratztz, and Major BznEsuronn, we would rather be excused for giving no opinion respecting their political bias. THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORN ENO, MARCH 4, 1848. ,! - appro r tal' and unanimous support in preference to the possibility of acquiring some better measure. The sub ' stance is superior in actuality to the mere shadow of the substance, however much that shadow may become more and more palatable. When human subjects have been re duced and debilitated by long abstinence, pathology shows us the necessity of a gradual nourishment instead of reviving vigour by the sudden application of a hearty meal. Pre cisely on a similar, though more extended, plan should na tions be treated under circumstances so singularly alike. OzwAr was choked by hastily devouring a crust of bread in the pangs of famine ; a certain amount of moral convulsion, might, in like manner for the moment, seize a country on an abrupt introduction of this nature. Many of these considerations have undoubtedly so impressed themselves upon the clear judgment and scrutinising intel lect of Lord Jonx Russuu., as to induce that Right Honourable Member to discountenance the amend ment of Mr. Vlnunns, and to express his deter mination to uphold the Ministerial measure,: in which declaration he spoke with the most decisive emphasis. And on these accounts we ourselves cannot but regard that same amendment as most injudicious, and as like to em barrass still further the wise and rational policy of the present Ministry. We have already more than once insisted upon the necessity of Parliament being more expeditious in its mode of meeting the demands of emergency : we have pointed to Irish poverty, to railway legislation, and dives, other paramount exigencies —exigencies that demand some instant interference; and, as another drag upon the settle ment of these great points, we consider that the amendment of Mr. Irmunts merits the most decided deprecation. Lyons and Avignon, 2---Luxerelsourg, ➢iedr!'l and 'Valentin, I% —Orleans and Bordenaz, 12% —Paris and Roden, 42% —Rated aid laTre, 29%. We understand that the retort of Sir George Clerk's being about to be appointed to a seat in the Council of Calcutta is a mistake, and has originated in the appointment by the East India Directors of Mr. Clerk, an old civil :servant of the Company, and a cousin of Sir George Clerk's, to a seat in She Council. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. £thrning irn 4-4- 6 0 -./.444-„ry.„,, 4 - - LONDON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4, 1846. The LORD Citazicicwas took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. Several petitions were presented on the corn-law question, which gave rise to conversation in which the Earl of HARDWICKE, Lord KINNAIRD, the Marquis of Los- DONDERRY, the Marquis of SAmenusty, and the Duke of IttcrustoND, who denounced the scandalous manner in which the farmers had been treated, and who declared that his only wish for a dissolution of Parliament was, that those Members who have violated their pledges might be taught that the people of England liked honesty. The Noble Duke then attacked Lord KINNAIRD, who had, when raised to the Peerage, not been a free trader. Lord KINNAIRD: No, no. _ _ _ The Duke of RICHMOND declared that Lord GREY'S Go vernment was favourable to protection ; so was Lord MEL BOURNE'S Government, for an Bs. duty was not free trade, and if an appeal was made to the country it would be found that the people were in favour of protection. The Earl of WICKLOW said that up to this time both par ties had been in favour of protection ; the only difference bad been between a fixed duty and a sliding scale, and, therefore, both having changed, there was no reason why the proposal for free trade should be brought forward by one party rather than by another. He considered the League a constitutional body, and they ought to be congratulated on the extraordinary succesi which had attended them during their short-lived existence. Lord BROUGHAM said there was no doubt but that Lord GREY'S Government held by the corn-laws. He admitted that the League was a perfectly legal and constitutional body • but lie said it was unconstitutional, though legal, for any Cody to raise a fund to purchase votes. It was said the League did not do so, but only encouraged people to do so ; but when they collected a quarter of a million it looked very much like helping people to raise the 501., to purchase freeholds. . Lord REDESDALE explained, in relation to the faggot votes in Huntingdonshire, to which he ha,i alluded some time since, that the Duke of BEDFORD was not concerned in the trans action. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose to present a pe tition from the inhabitants of the colony of Van Diemen's Land, complaining of the great number of convicts which had been transported to that island, and which completely demoralised that colony, contrary to the understanding which had been entered into with them at the time they emigrated, and which was that no more convicts should be sent than could be conveniently regulated, and ultimately absorbed into the population of the colony. The Noble Marquis then wont into very voluminous statistical details for the purpose of showing the importance of the colony, and the manner in which the colony was damaged, its progress arrested, and its society demoralised, by the sink and refuse of society being transported there to the amount of 16,000 in three years, which made it impossible to reform the convicts, or to prevent the total demoralisation of the colony. Lord STANLEY said as the petition referred to a period in which he had been connected with colonial affairs be would offer a few observations in relation to its allegations. He admitted that, though somewhat exaggerated, it was in its main statements correct; the great evil being the arrange ment that restricted the transportation of convicts ex clusively to that colony. The petitioners had omitted to state first one great f act, and that was that that which was at imposed as an obligation was felt to be a boon, viz., the assignment of convict labourers to free settlers, by which they received m uc h gain. He believed that, although the in system of assignme n t was objectionable some nevertheless too hastily a b andoned, points, it was Their Lordships weie subsequentl aGd(llressed by the Duke _ RICHMOND, Lord ',MELTON, EL, and the Bishop a OXFORD, and the petition was o rdered ' t E o T ii e on the table. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships ejourned. The House commenced business at Four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. GREENE certain of the standing o rders on railway Bills were suspended with respect t o I Bills entitled to the privileges granted by that resolution of the House on the 7th of July last. Certain railway Bills were read a second time and ordered to be committed. Several petitions were presented for and against the Minis terial measure for free trade. Mr. T. DustcomnE gave notice of his intentions on the 18th, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the hours of labour in factories where machinery was employed. Mr. O'CoNsErd, withdrew his notice of motion for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the criminal law of Ireland. Mr. VELURE') wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether any report was made annually by the Board of Customs to the Govern ment of the amount of wheat destroyed in consequence of being damaged by remaining in the warehouse, owing to the importer being unah!e to p a y th e highl duty, and thereby introduce it into consumption. He asked this question in consequence of being informed that a large quantity of wheat had been lately thrown into the Severn as being unfit for nse. Sir GEOEGE Cr .EZ K sa i d • d that the Board of Customs made no annual report upon the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member, but if what he had stated was the fact there could be no difficulty in ascertaining the grounds under which the grain had been destroyed. Mr. I‘.;EWDECATE then moved, agreeably to the notice he had given, that it be an instruction to the Select d Committee On the petition from Cheltenham that they inquire whe thert forged objections have not been served ) u electors for the northern division of the county of p 1: 11 -c al e rw r Warwick against the claims of the electors to be returned upon the re gister of that division of the county. Mr. G. FINCH preferred the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government to the amendment of the lion. Member for Wolverhampton. Mr. WARD would support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, believing that, in doing so, he did not peril the measure of the Government. Mr. LIDDELL opposed the amendment. Mr. Hurr supported the Government measure. Mr. P. BORTIIWICK would vote against the amendment. Mr. HustE would support the Government measure, and, after he got that, he would try what more he could get. Lord G. BErtriNcx preferred voting for the Govern ment measure to that proposed by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, because before three years had elapsed an appeal must be made to the people, which the protectionists hoped would place them in the arms of victory, and defeat the Government measure altogether. The protectionists were determined to fight the battle from pillar to post, and although they might for a time be driven back, they would rally and gain the good cense. Mr. COBDEN thought it unfortunate that the motion of his Honourable Friend had been brought forward at the present moment, but he believed it was the only time at which, by the rules of the House, he could have brought it forward. He had not heard a single argument urged during the present debate against the imme diate repeal. He believed all the tenant-farmers were in favour of the total and immediate repeal. The Hon. Mem ber for Wolverhampton was justified in bringing forward this proposition by all that had taken place in that House ; and he for one could not see anything that was likely to damage the measure proposed by the Government on the adoption of the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. The Right Honourable Baronet had given no gua rantee that his measure would become law, and such being the case he did not see why those who were for immediate repeal should give up their principles. There were a hundred Gentlemen on the other side, who were ready to adopt any measure, provided they could only put the Government in a minority. He doubted the policy of such a course, because he foresaw dangers and pitfalls for this measure; if it was delayed; he should support the amendment of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Wolver hampton. When the division on this question was over he would support as thoroughly as any man the proposition of the Government. He should feel it to be his duty upon every stage of the measure to be present, in order to give it his support. If the House of Lords would pass this measure, it would restore itself to that situation in the country which it held years ago, when it was said of it, Thank God, we have a House of Lords. Sir T. AcLAND preferred the measure of the Government to the proposition of the Hoa. Member for Wolverhampton Mr. T. DUNCOMRE supported the Government measure, and regretted that his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolver hampton had brought forward his amendment. He had voted for a repeal of the corn-laws long before the Anti-Corn law League was in existence, and however much it might damage him with the gentlemen constituting that body, he felt bound to vote with her Majesty's Ministers. ' The Earl t MARCH was prepared to fight the ghost of the League with the flesh and blood of the protectionist body. The Government, in his opinion, ought in common justice and common honesty to appeal to the people, Mr. HUDBONN supported the proposition of the Govern ment. Colonel SIBTIIORP declared that the agricultural interest or the tenant farmers were in favour of a repeal of the corn laws, or the measures proposed by the Government. Mr. WAKLEY regretted that the Hon. Member for Wolver hampton was determined to divide the House on this ques tion, because it would lead to a supposition out of doors that there was a division on that aide of the House with respect to the Government measure. Lord WORSLEY asserted his belief that the tenant farmers were in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn laws. Mr. NEWDEGATE stated, that from information he had received, he believed the tenant farmers were not favourable to a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. VILLIzas replied shortly, and upon a divaion, his amendment was lost by a majority of 187. The House then resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. Mr. CRAVEN BKEKEREY should go over to the protec tionists. Their cheers seem to be his great ambition, and he seems to have a great desire to fix discredit on the League. After Mr. BistouT's explanation of Monday night, we are in deed astonished that a gentleman, professing to be a friend of free trade, should have made the statement which Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY first made on the subject of the Chelten ham petition, or should have persisted, after the ex- planation, in treating it as a grate case, de manding inquiry. From Mr. CRAVXN BICRKELEY'S Bret statement, the only conclusion to be come to was, that the petition purporting to come from Cheltenham was alto gether a fabrication. The connexion with the League we did not see eren at first. It bore the poet-mark of Man chester, said the Hon. Member ; but it might eo that, and the League know nothing of it ; or it would probably have been a fraud committed by an unworthy servant of that meritorious and public-spirited body. Mr. CRATEN EItRICELEY theatrically repudiated for himself the support of free trade by fraudulent means. What right has he to suppose that Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BBIGHT are not as pure-minded as himself ? To charge the League as Mr. BERKELEY did, with the fraud, as he chose to designate it—for after all it turns out that there was no fraud—shows that the wish to discredit the League must be very strong in the Hon. Member for Chel tenham. What have the League done to incur the wrath of this scion of the lofty house of BERKELEY? Is it Mr. BRIGHT'S crusade against the game-laws, or the progress they have made towards wresting the representation of Gloucestershire from Mr. Gnaiirrucv BURK/LEY, the game law champion? Is it that the manufacturing origin of that great combination is offensive to the pure aristocratic blood which flows in the BERKELEY veins ? If so, we cannot think that Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY has much more reason to be pleased with his new friends, Mr. PERRAND and Mr. PETER BORTHWICIC, than with the free-trade manufacturers. We were sorry to observe, when Mr. Cnavicir BERKELEY first brought forward this Subject on Friday last, that there was every sign of previous con cert with the protectionists—that they loudly called for him when he rose--loudly cheered him, as if prepared for all his points, and that what came by surprise on the Members sit ting or the same side with Mr. BERKELEY, was no news to the protectionists. Mr. CRAVEN BER:ELEY wanted to . now what does this great case of fraud come to ? And - ---- petition was altogetl: peti tion, having been signed at e g r nat h ures were fabricated, and that the make the Howe believe that all the t oax. It turns out that the one of the agents of the Leaa Cheltenham, was transmitted to at Blanchester, that he might i P cu es la e r n i tation, forward it to a Member for Ute r This is sh, ui d inhabitantsbe pre sented t at A th l i e t e mber press ited Cheltenham not caring part probably the sc,e it—that is, having no particular WYiawli e yonourable by their own Member. point with Mr. CRAVEN Ilartx.EsittaeTp.iesiouele Member says it is a very that the Cheltenham petitioners did not Irsceunind3twarhtlheeet petition straight to him. Perhaps it is ; b ut we suspect in consequence is, that the Cheltenham p e t% tioners have no great liking for their Hen. Member. 4. n d his conduct in this business certainly justifies their misgiv ings of him. But to proceed in exploring Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY'S "mare's nest." The League agent at Manchester discovered that the petition, as transmitted to him, had no signatures o 1 the first sheet, on the sheet on which the petition is itseif written. And this would have vitiated the petition, and pre vented its presentation to the House. The League agent, therefore, instead of sending back the petition to Cheltenham to have some signatures there affixed to the i lest sheet (which we admit would hate been the right ' A vote of thanks to the Governor-General, the Comman der-in-Chief, and the officers and soldiers engaged in the battles on the Sutlej, was unanimously passed on Monday by both House' of Parliament. This was only what might have been expected, as a reward, among others, to the skilful generals and the brave troops who on that oc casion gained one of the most remarkable victories ever achieved in India. All the speakers agree on this point, and several of them paid Sir HENRY HARDINGE the highest compliment for the arrangements he had made previous to the battle, and for the promptitude displayed when the most unprovoked and unexpected invasion was made by the Seikh troops. Two Members of the Commons, connected with India, bore ample testimony not only to the peaceable disposition displayed by the Governor-General, but to the consummate ability with which the affair from beginning to end had been conducted. Mr. HOME, who knows the country well, made these remarks :—" If Hon. Members took the map of India and studied the locality in which the events in question had occurred—if they made themselves familiar with the situation, the novel situation, in which the English commanders had been placed, they would see that it had been a matter of utter impossibility, by any skill or any mancenvres, to concentrate the necessary forces in the posi tion in which, if concentrated, they could act with the most effect. Looking to the fact that there were no fords at Roopur to which the British had access, that there was the chance of Loodimiah being attacked and no stations within the distance of seventy miles, he (Mr. HOME) did not think it possible Aat there could have been a better pe sition than that taken up at Umballah." Mr. HOGG'S words are equally favourable to the Governor-General, and opposed to those who assert that he was taken by surprise. "None doubted," said the Honourable Member, "that Sir HENRY HARDINGE'S wishes were for peace. Most truly and ho nourably had he striven to maintain peace, and not less honourably and nobly when he had found that it was, under the circumstances, an impossibility. He (Mr. HoGo) be lieved that in a short time it would be acknowledged that the military manceuvring had been conducted with consum mate skill, and that every available advantage had been seized, promptly and efficiently, by the British commanders." In the House of Lords the same eulogiums were passed, and the fullest justice done to the Governor-General. The Duke of WELLINGTON expressed his most unqualifie4 approbation o the conduct of the troops, and paid a high tribute to his old companion in arms for his cenduct on the occasion. " I wish particularly" said the Duke, "to allude to the conduct of my Gallant Friend the Governor-General, who after he had made all the arrangements appertaining to his duty as Governor-General, such as collecting all the resources of the country for the great contest which was impending, and having made all arrangements for the security of the country, volunteered his services in his rank in the army, in order to give his assistance to the officer commanding-in-chief." This was loudly cheered. The defence of the 62d, which the Noble Duke took up with such warmth, does him the highest credit, and we have no doubt will re- store that celebrated regiment to the high rank which it has so long maintained. But we must refer cur readers to the whole discussion. It was interesting throughout, and will be perused with great satisfaction by the people of this country, and afford some consolation to the numerous families thrown into mourning by the lamentable loss of so many officers and men. Ingenious as are the arguments with which Mr. VILLIERS on Monday night enforced his amendment of the Ministerial measures for abolishing monopoly, we must take leave to doubt the policy of the Honourable Gentleman's present proceeding. No one could yearn more earnestly than our selves for the immediate operation of free trade, no one could more heartily desire the immediate destruction of protection to agriculture with all its insidious and la mentable consequences. Nevertheless, cordially and fully as these aspirations are infused into our heart, we cannot but perceive the danger of struggling for an achievement of objects, in the abstract so desirable ; we cannot but perceive the inconveniences which must re sult from such superfluous efforts; we cannot but perceive that a great and permanent good may be jeopardized, or at least retarded, by endeavours so over-enthusiastic as those of Mr. Vlwine. The danger of such an amendmeet would be that of dismembering a power of which the Premier is the ostensible head—a power constituted by the amal gamation of all the sectional portions of the political world, Whigs, Tories, Radicals, Liberals, and Conservatives —a power more noble in its origin and more independent iu its action than any power to which the legislation of this country has been hitherto submitted. The inconveniences which must undoubtedly arise from such an amendment would be those of rendering a discusaion already very protracted, one of most interminable duration ; of militating against the interests of all classes by withholding from them the boon of coins immediate and practical good ; and, in addition to all this, of sowing discon tent throughout the land by placing all divisions of the com munity in a negative position, by leaving grievances still in action during the continuance of that dilatory de bate, by throwing all parties into a state of the most irksome doubt and uncertainty, tenant-farmers, manufacturers, shop-keepers, merchants, all in short engaged in commerce or personally interested (and who is not?) in the grand question at issue. And, besides all these highly important considerations, a thoroughly excel lent measure would be delayed in its operation, merely for the purpose of fulfilling certain rash engagements, at the risk of embroiling the now acknowledged supporters of Sir ROBERT PEEL; while the coveted prise would, when ob tained, merely be the expeiliting for a very contemptible time an arrangement which by following out that Right Hon. Baronet's preposition would be ensured after a trum pery interval of three years without (comparatively) any further agitation. We call these three years a very " trum pery interval" advisedly, as in the history of nations and the advance of time they constitute but a mere nothing in the aggregate of centuries. As to Mr. VILLIERS ad ducing the irritable exclamation of the protectionists —that they would prefer of the alternatives an immediate to a procrastinated abolition—as to Mr. VII: MIMS adducing this cry as a sound argument in favour of his amendment, the idea is prepoiterous. Everybody must have perceived that those expressions were blurted forth by the agricultural gentlemen merely from the excessive irritation of their feelings; that, in fact, it was only tantamount to a schoolboy wishing to have a promised flogging over at once, and have done with it. Looking upon the i t t h s e p net: m m o u m ch en f t or th th at ePrime i s M in i n a l I s:. e p r: a s c s ti a c g a ti l e p i t u y rp ; proposed d e l ay mere l y as a concession to the protectionists, de os w es hi a le bso a - t lutely nontinal. Colonial grain, vegetables, and cattle, being henceforth offered to be free of all import duties, and foreign articles free in 1849, w h ere possibly can be the utility of striving for any further enactments? It is in truth an ava ricious philanthropy —a very extortionate benevolence indeed As nothing human can be complete and perfect in all its par ticulars, the scheme advanced by Sir ROBERT, and approved by a majority of ninety-seven, has undoubtedly its defi ciencies. Nevertheless, it is surely worthy of unanimous Not merely has curiositybeen satisfied by learning the upshot of the division on Saturday morning,-but it has likewise been gratified by listening to the arguments adduced by Mr.CoenEst before the termination of the discussion. Had not his cou valescence enabled the Hon. Member for Stockport to take (however tardily) some share in the debate, there would have been a manifest hiatus in the proceedings of Parliament upon this enlightened and comprehensive measure. Every one, whether free-trader or protectionist, was naturally anxious to become acquainted with the exact sentiments en tertained at this moment by Mr. COBDEN, because in him they beheld the most influential of all out-of-door political economists ; because in him they beheld, as it were, the mind and the muscle of that great Association which had tended se much to impel the system of abolition to its accomplishment ; because, moreover, in him they beheld the most popular pri vate representative in the House as far as the question at issue was concerned. Besides which, people were the more desi rous of hearing that Honourable Gentleman's voice from the Opposition benches, as to some sceptics his intentions seemed to be problematical ; they clung with despairing avidity to the hope of his impeding Sir ROBERT'S policy by persisting in his demand for an immediate and total repeal of both im port and export duties. It was the last straw at which, in the agonies of their destruction, these satellites of Mr. MILES grasped with spasmodic eagerness and stolid perti nacity. Mr. BRIGHT'S acquiescence with the Premier, and, in addition to this, his impassioned eulogium upon that Right Hon. Baronet, would have satisfied any dispassionate mind as to the intentions of the Hon. Member's colleague. Neverthelem, so blinded with their own perverseness were these self-legislators, that they chuckled audibly in their club-rooms at the stumbling-block preparing for the Prime Minister, quoted the epistle addressed by the Mem ber for Stockport to the tenant-farmers of Great Britain, and revelled in these fallacious notions even in the purlieus of Westminster. On Friday night, however, Mr. Coupes!, as the embodiment of the Anti- Cern-law League, as the symbol of the popular voice and of the popular will, snatched this last phantom of re demption from the reach of the protectionists, and cast them for ever adrift amidst the surge of their own selfish disap pointment. His speech was a condensation of the opinions which have been battling in the Lower House during the pre vious twelve nights: the fallacies which were previously floating about haphazard, without any recognisable shape, were in that oration reduced to a concrete atom, a kind of existent nothingness. He was the political pentagraph with which the mammoth array of argument spreading over the past discussion was reproduced in a clear, sharp, and minia ture epitome. As such Mr. COBDEN'S presence immediately before the Parliamentary tellers were introduced, was frought with extreme utility, since with the assistance of his clearjudg ment the Members were enabled to take a common- sense review of the measure and its consequences directly before recording their vote. Although oppressed with the languor of bodily debility, there is traceable in the manner of the Hon. Member for Stockport, during the utterance of his re marks, a peculiar and sunny cheerfulness, which is alone at tributable to the satisfaction with which he perceived the triumph of the cause for which, through many bitter and protracted troubles, he had been the daring and devoted champion. In the opening of his observations. Mr. COBDEN pointed out, with a steady finger and a laughing lip, the out rageous absurdity of the agricultural gentlemen insisting upon an appeal to the country as a means of insuring the perpetuation of the present pernicious barriers against the introduction of cheap grain ; he avouched the extension of the franchise, as now practised by the League, to be a custom sanctified by five hundred years' duration; and he appealed to their prudence as legislators, to their justice as Christians, to.. their reason as men, to deny the working classes no lon p‘ r ready access to plentiful and wholesome provisions. Compared with the cant, selfishness, and party quibbles of the land proprietors in opposing Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy, the peroration of the Hon. Member's speech has much real beauty and nobleness. He takes a capacious survey of terrestrial exigencies; he insists upon the necessity of allowing the laws of GOD and Nature alone to regulate the supply of nourishment to the populace; and concludes with this simple but emphatic language :—" We have set the world the example in all great improvements. We gave it the representative system ; the rules and regulations of this House have become the models for every delibera tive assembly. We have given the world a free press; we have given it civil and religious freedom, and every insti tution which belongs to liberty and civilisation ; and now we are going to give it another example, greater than all." Depressed as Mr. Compre's energies might have been from indisposition, he has spoken precisely as he should have spoken : he has spoken exactly as the people wanted : he has spoken in accordance with the dignity o f hi s presen t posi tion as present glorious ouegnitorainds Bagacious l eg i s l a t or . Wh en record ing the revolution in commercial policy, the future historian will identify with its acceptance—and that in an especial manner—the name, the words, and the in tellect of RICHARD COBDXN. It is seldom that such victories have to be announced by the journalists--victories achieved not by the shedding of one drop of blood, not by the waving of one single sword, not by the deathful propulsion of cannon balls, but with the peaceful weapon —logic, by the divinest attribute of human nature—our reasoning faculties. When, therefore, we remember that these opinions have been mainly inculcated by one voice, and that voice COBDEN'S ; when gee remember that a vast moral revulsion in the cause of the people has been mainly produced by one man's exercise of rhetorical and argumentative powers --and that man, COBDEN; when we remember that the means of incalculable happiness to posterity as well as to ourselves, have been mainly rescued from monopoly by one bold and vigorous champion—and that champion Comex—surely, for once, even the most bigoted should not become niggard of commendation ; their generous and manly expressions of gratitude should be accorded to Memo]) Comma/ without stint in length or eartnestness. With him all real lovers of their kind unite their largest and warmest sympathies, seeing (as they do) in him a man striv ing for the general good of his fellow creatures, without one solitary motive of a baser kind. Nor was it uninteresting to mark upon that last night of the discussion the recon ciliation which took place between the Premier and the Member for Stockport—men to whom the present grea achievement is mainly, and we may say paramouutly, attri. but able. The accounts from Madrid are to the 23d ult. In the Cham ber of Deputies on that day the Finance Minister brought for ward his new plan of finance. The land-tax introduced by his predecessor he proposed to reduce by 50,000,000 reals. (500,0000 He intended to abolish the tax on house rents, to reduce that on the transmission of property and also on articles consumed in the principal towns. In accordance ith the recommendation of the Committee on the estimates he proposed a saving of 46,000,000 reels out of the expenses of the Ministerial departments, and also some other reduc tions which he believed would be considered satisfactory. He promised to do everything in his power for the creditors of the State. The dividends he said would be religiously paid and the first step in strengthening the credit of the country would be the extinction of the coupons. The state ment was favourably received. It was considered certain that MARTINEZ DE LA Rosa would accept the appointment of Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries. On the 23d the Three per Cent& closed at 32 for cab, and 32 1-16 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22 13-16 for the 10th of March. We find little in the Paris papers that require notice or could interest the En&lish reader. A telegraphic disp a t c h conveyed to Paris by mid-day on Saturday the result of the division on the corn-laws. Extracts are given in the jJurnals from those of Germany, relative to the conspiracies said to have been discovered in Prussian Poland, and threatened dis turbances in Cracow and other places. Russia, Prussia, and Austria were concerting measures to put down any insurrec tion that might be attempted. The following appears as an extract from the Swabian Mirculy :—" It is now evident that the conspiracy recently discovered had its ramifications throughout Eastern Prussia, Posen, Gallicia, and the kind dom of Poland. So hardy were the conspirators, that even after the discovery of the plot they continued t., work at their projects. Russia, Prussia, and Austria are now taking mea sures in concert to prevent the insurrection breaking out. A Prussian army Gf observation is about taking up a position along the frontier line of the kingdom of Poland, as far as Cracow. Several regiments of cavalry and infantry have already marched, and more are following. Troops are to be put in motion In Silesia. Other troops will be marched into Poland and Gallicia." Ono of the Prussian journals states, and indeed that seems to be the general belief, that the conspiracy has been got up solely by the Polish nobility, and that the peo ple appear to take no part in it. On Sunday the French Three per Cents. were done at 85f. EERINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAicit 2. Itoaloguo as& Aadens, 11%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetto (Mackenzie), ]I A -- Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, I%—Great 1. anima Of Franca Coastitated, l 6%—Great Indian Peninsular, %_ • ANIL 4 l V2t f 4.9" 4* * hgl' tr • 'lt ' • • ' Pt' 7t. Her Majesty's Theatre opened last evening for the season, under the same management as last year, but under a new proprietorship. Mr. Lumley is no longer merely the lessee, he is the proprietor of Her Majesty's Theatre, and sincerely do we congratulate the habitues of the Italian Opera on that fact. From the moment that Mr. Lumley became lessee, a change a great and salutary change was observed in the character of the performances. Her Majesty's Theatre became, what it always ought to have been, the first lyrical theatre in Europe, Since Mr. Lumley has become proprietor, as great a change has taken place in the fitting up of the interior of the house. The theatre has been entirely redecorated, and instead of tee pit and the boxes presenting a mere deal mass of white paint, with a small gold ornament in the centre of each panel, they are now painted in encaustic, in medalions from the master-pieces of Raffaelle, Anniable Carracci, Guilio Romano, and from the antique, the spaces between th e medalions be.!ng filled up by he richest arabesque work. The ceiling is an ' imitation of that of the Villa Madonna, which was designed by Raffaelle stud Guilio Romano, to which have been added the Aur,,ra of Guido and the Elements by Albano. The proscenium is most gorgeously, yet at the same time most tastefully, decorated. The boxes have been newly fined with chintz, and the old red curtains and hangings have been removed, and new curtains and hangings of a rich amber satin substituted for them. A new and magnificent cut-glass chandelier, with the lights inside the drops, has been substituted in place of the old one, and altogether the interior of the theatre is perhaps the most magnificent, and at the same time the most tasteful in the world. It is worthy of the aristocracy of a great nation. As we before said, the theatre opened for the season last evening, and shortly before eight o'clock Mr. Belle, the new conductor, took his seat in the orchestra, and was warmly welcomed on his appearance. The opera chosen for the opening was Verdi's Nabueo (produced here under the name of Nino.) There is always some difficulty in unmarvelling the plot of an opera, and therefore we are right glad when the author (as in the present instance) has been kind enough to develop his plot in the introduction to his libretto, which he has done as follows : Diodorus asserts, that Ninus was the first King of Assyria, but it would seem that he confounds him with his father Belus, It is, however, certain that he was one of the most renowned conquerors of Assyria; having, in the space of 17 years, subdued numberless countries from Egypt to India and Ractriana. Many historians, ac cording to Rollin, relate that Ninus made use of the Assyrians to enslave the Babylonians, and it is on this belief, that the following story is founded :—The first act then of Ninus, after having made his triumphal entry into Babylon, is to profane the temple of Isis, and to lead the principal inhabitants of the conquered c'ty, prisoners to Nineveh. Fenena, the daughter of Ninus, is appointed Regent here, during her father's absence, but Abigail, 'a slave and a supposed daughter of Ninus, is intriguing to attain that dignity for herself. Ninus, however, having succeeded in completely subduing the Babylonians, returns in time to frustrate her ambitious designs. But inflated by pride, he at last cannot endure that even a god should be worshipped in prefer ence to him. Heaven, offended by his overweening arrogance, causes him to be struck by a thunderbolt, which reduces him to a state of imbecility. Taking advantage of this Abigail tells him that Fenena has embraced the religion of the Babylonians, and prevails upon him to sign her death -warrant. Nines, overcome by the weight of his Misfortunes, in vain implores pity from the proud, relentless Abigail; she, however, only answers him with reproaches for her abject birth. The auspicious hour at length arrives. Ninus, struck with repentance, invokes the god of his enemies, pardons them, saves his daughter, and once more resumes his royal sceptre. So much for the plot. The cast was as follows : Ninus (King of the Assyrians), Sig. Fornasari; Idaspe, (a de scend. nt of the ancient Kings of Babylon), Sig. Corelli ; Orotaspe, (a Slava, supposed to be the eldest Daughter of Ninus), Signora San chioli; Fenena (Daughter of Ninus), Signora Corbari; an Assyrian Priest, Sig. Giubilei ; Abdallo (an old officer of the King of the As syrians), Sig. Dia Fiori ; Anna (Sister of Orotaspe), Signora Bellini. In the first part the scene takes place in Babylon ; the others in Nineveh. It will be seen, from the above list of the characters, that two ladies, Signora Corbari and Signora Sanchioli, appeared last evening, for the first time, on the boards of her Majesty's Theatre. Signora Corbari possesses a soprano voice of great sweetness; but, as it struck us, of no great power, although on this point it is scarcely possible to form a judgment at present, as it was evident that last night she was dreadfully nervous, and failed to do justice to herself at the commence ment of the opera; but she gathered courage as she pro ceeded, and in the last act she gave the beautiful and deli cate air, "Oh ! dischinso e it firmamento," in the most ex quisite manner imaginable, and was rapturously en cored. Of Signora Sanchioli we can speak without any hesitation, possessing a good person, expressive and beautifnl features, great histrionic powers, pro found musical knowledge, and a voice, which for power, compass, and cultivation, can only be compared to Malibran's. Her's has been the most successful debut at her Majesty's Theatre since the memorable debut of Grisi ; and we hail Signora Sanchioli as the future prima donna assoluta. We bad formed great expectations of Verdi from hearing Eris Ernani last season, and these expectations have been more than realised by his Nino. To the graceful melody of the Italians be unites the profound learning of the Germans; his choruses are full, massive, harmonious as those of Weber or Beethoven ; his melodies are graceful as those of Bellini or Donizetti, without the thinness of the former, or the plagiarism of the latter. Nino is the greatest Italian opera that has been produced since Semiramide. In the character of his genius, Verdi ap proaches nearer Mozart than any other composer; there is the same profound knowledge of orchestral resources, and the same tasteful appropriation of delicate melody.. He has already done great things, but what he has already done will be as nothing in comparison with what he will do, if he devotes himself steadily to his art, and writes as he has hitherto dared, for the purpose of producing an opera that is a work great and complete as a whole, as contradis tinguished from a series of solos, duets, and trios, con cocted to minister to the vanity of certain singers, and connected together by a series of musical common places which have been too often produced, and too often applauded, too, under the name of an opera. The opera of .Nino is a great work—a complete work—so complete that it is almost impossible to particularise or to point out " the gem of the opera," as it is called. The opera itself is " one entire and perfect chrysolite "—a work which, to be duly appreciated, must be heard again and again—a work in which every connoisseur willrevel—unitingasitdoes, the beauties of the Italian and the German schools. We have spoken of the histrionic powers of Signora San chioli. Her acting, as Abigail, the slave Empress, was most artistical ; there was all the pride, the waywardness, the self-will, the decision of the despot, but it was the despot who had been a slave. There was riot the calm dignity of conscious power, but the head long fiery impatience of contradiction of the slave usurper This was a touch of nature, finely conceived, and most artis tically developed. Fornasari's Ninus was very fine—superior even to his Belisario. In the first two acts nothing could exceed the reckless haughtiness and pride of his demeanour in the earlier scenes, until his crown is struck from his head by lightning. His look of horror when this took place, and his subsequent maniac scenes were terrifically true to nature. In the third act his humility to Abigail, as he beseeches her to spare Fenena, was most pathetic; and when at last his reason is restored, and the old man, once more getting possession of his sword, marches at the head of his troops to dethrone the usurper, Fornasari was magnificent—taken as a whole, it is not often that an opera so excellent in itself, and so excellently sup ported throughout, is produced even at Her Majesty's Theatre. The National Anthem having been sung, the new ballet of Catarina was produced, the plot of s% bleb, as circu lated in the theatre, is as follows : This Ballet comprises a passage in the life of the great painter, Salvator Rosa—whose story, like his pictures, is highly picturesque, and has a dreamy distance, affording full scope to the imagination of the observer, and ample latitude for any appropriate supposititious addition. The Italian Painter had a most venturous existence—one moment engaged in a nocturnal duel under the very walls of the Vatican • at another, in open day, at Napl es , h ea di ng a b an d o f ar tistic brethren in the cause of Italian liberty, in the Insurrection of Masaniello, against the Spanish oppressors of the land. But the ha bitual resorts of Salvator Rosa were the glens and fastnesses of the mountains, where he sought congenial inspiration for the composi tion of his pictures;—such a taste had he for this scenery, that it gave rise to the assertion, that he had been himself a brigand —a calumny historians have triumphantly disproved : As the ballet begins, Salvator, in one of his excursions in search of the pictUresque, has fallen into the hands of the brigands ; they are engaged in robbing his person ; over these reckless men his sketches scattered about fail to exercise the same influence Ludovico Ariosto's poetry did in similar circumstances. But soon arrives one, in whose bosom exists a deep and innate admiration for art ; it is Catarina, the daughter of a captain of banditti, who, at her father's death, has inherited his power over the brigands of the mountain, and whose lieutenant and aide-de-camp is Diavolino, a young brigand, full of daring and fertile invention, and secrely in love with his fair captain. Catarina releases Salvator Rosa, and lie feels so deep an interest in her, that he advises her to abandon her dangerous career and follow him to more peaceful scenes. This Catarina refuses, and Salvator retires with deep regret. But soon the mountain fastness where Catarina marshals her chosen body of Amazons, is beleaguered by troops. Catarina and Diavolino fly after a hard conflict, when resistance becomes unavailing—and they take refuge at an inn at the gates of Rome, where they bribe the host to conceal them, and die :rase them In garments of more peaceful aspect. They are hardly tray, stied before the troops arrive with their pri soners; part of the soldiers come in to take refreshment, and are served by Catarina, who soon attracts their attention by her graceful bounding steps, and their boisterous applause excites the curiosity of, the other soldiers without, who ono by one join their comrades. Diavolino avails himself of this op portunity to liberate his companions, at the report of whose flight the soldiers rush out and pursue them. But Cata rina and Diavolino themselves are shortly pursued again ; after various adventures they take refuge, led by Catarina's partiality, in the studio of Salvator, at the very moment he is a prey to regretful reminiscence of the bold mountain beauty. Here, however, they are agaiu traced ; Sal ator strives to save them from their pursuers, but Catarina is ultimately seized and taken to prison. Here Diavo lino, who has escaped, comes to deliver her, bnt devoured by jea lousy, he seeks to enforce the condition of her never seeing ialvator Rosa, whom he swears lie will kill at the first opportunity. Catarina rejects this condition, Diavolino relents—they escape. Then the scene changes to the masqued revels of the Carnival. Here Cata rina joins the mummers disguised as an Enchantress, to warn Sal vator against the designs of his enemy ; her warnings, however, are unavailing. Diavolino attacks Salvator, and is on the point of kill ing him, when Catarina rushes between them—receives the fatal blow destined to her lover, and the ballet concludes with her death. Catarina, chief of the banditti, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn ; Diavolino, her lieutenant, secretly in love with Catarina, M. Perrot ; Salvator Rosa, M. Gosselin ; Florida, betrothed to Salvator, Made. Petit Stephen ; Chief Judge, M. Ve nafra ; Principal Model of Salvator Rosa, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, (her first appearance in this country). In the con. se of the Ballet the following dances : First Tableau.—Pas Strategique, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. New and Original Valse a Cinq Temps, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and M. Perrot. Second Tableau —La Romanesque, Made. Petit Stephen, and M. Perrot,. La Saltarelle.—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and M. Perrot. Third Tableau.—Pas des Modeller, Mdlle. Louise Tag lioni supported by Mdlles. Moncelet, De Mellisse, and Cassan, and Mesdlies. Lamoureux' Tevenau, and Julienne. Fifth Tableau—Pas du Masque, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, supported by Mdlles. Moncelet, De Melisse, and Cassan. La Folio du Carnival —New and Original Grand Galop Final. The pas stratigique is very novel ; Lucille Grahn, as Cata rina, manoeuvres a whole regiment of female musqueteers, who go through the manual and platoon exercise in a manner which would not disgrace a regiment of her Ma jesty's guards. The pas des modeles is very picturesque. Louise Taglioni is an exquisite dancer, in every respect worthy the name which she bears. The ballet is admirably put on the stage, and its success, like that of the opera, was complete:. The house was crowded in every, part. CLOSING THE TRANSFER BOOBS AT THE BANK OP EIGLAWD.—The following notice was issued on Monday at the Bank of England and South Sea House :—" The transfer-books for annui ties due April 15, 1846, will be closed and opened as follows:—Bank E " ek, from Tuesday, March 10, till Tuesday, April 14 ; Three-and-a- Quarter per Cent. Annuities, from Tuesday, March 10, till Friday, April 17 ; Redueed Three per Cent. Annuities, from Tuesday, March 10, till Friday, April 17; Long Annuities, from Tuesday, March 10, till Friday, April 17 ; Annuities for terms of years, from Tuesday, March 10, till Friday, April 17. The transfer•books of Old South Sea Annuities will be closed from Tuesday, the 10th of March, till Friday. the 17th of April." ~. C('URT CI RCULA R.. - His Royal Highnesss Prince Albert, attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater and Dr. Praltorius, left Osborne House, for Hyde, on Monday afternoon, embarking at Meade's Hole, in the Fairy steam yacht, soon after two o'clock. The Prince disembarked at the same place between four and five o'clock. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took a carriage airing on Monday afternoon. Major-General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, was in attendance on horseback. The Countess of Mount Edgeeumbe, ady in Waiting, left Osborne House on Monday, in consequence ef the illness of the Lady Elizabeth Fielding, her mother. The Countess crossed, by steam-packet, to Southampton, and proceeded to London. . . There was no addition to the royal dinner party at Osborne Home p Monday evening. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early prome nade yesterday in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House. The Royal Family were taken on the beach yesterday morning. NI, r Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. Ills Royal Highness the Duxe of Cambridge ♦isited the Royal Duchess on Wednesday at Gloucester House. The Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Ripon had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was rather better yesterday. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commis sioners lonia Reduction of the National Debt, had as interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. Dispatches for the Governor• General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American provinces, were sent off yes terday evening front the Colonial-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1846. Nominations for the Great Metropolitan Stakes, being a bonus of not less than 250 soya., by the subscriptions of the Licensed Victuallers of London and their friends, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; the second horse to receive 50 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the third 25 sovs., last mile and a quarter of the proposed New Derby Course. Discord, aged Lady Anna, 4 yrs Ajax, aged Gannet, 4 yrs Captain Flathooker, aged Master Step.ley, 4 yrs I-am-not-aware, aged Sir Harry (half-bred), 4 yrs Mosque, aged Mongrel, 4 yrs Queen of the Gipsies, 6 yrs A nt i -R epea l er , 4 yrs Bourra Tomacha, 6 yrs Concealment, 4 yrs Doctor Phillimore, 5 yrs Maynooth, 4 yrs Elemi. 5 yrs King Cob, 4 yrs Antler, 5 yrs f by Touchstone, out of Lan- Needful, sy-rs guish, 4 yrs H. by Velocipede, out of Fair b g by Wintonian, out of Jane, 5 yrs Zebra, 3 yrs Lady Charlotte, by Veloci- Killi Krankie, 3 yrs pede, 5 yrs Blackbird. 3 yrs Akbar, 5 yrs Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs Satyr, 5 yrs Muscatel, 3 yrs 1.0r4 Saltoun, 5 yrs Peasant, 3 yrs Pimento, 5 yrs Auricula, 3 yrs Sister to John o7Gaunt, by c. by Touchstone, out of Laura, Rockingham, 5 yrs 3 yrs The Wreck, 4 yrs Lord Ha ry, 3 yrs Lyons, 4 yrs Chamois, 3 yrs Keppel, 4 yrs Buttress, 3 yrs Weatherbit, 4 yrs lc. by Phcenix, out of L'Hiren- F by Sir H ercu l es , ou t or delle, 3 yrs Taglioni, 4 yrs The Warrior, 3 yrs Secutor, 4 yrs Tell, 3 yrs Miss Ellis, 4 yrs Outcast, 3 yrs Clumsy, 4 yrs Cerberus, 3 yrs My Marv, 4 yrs Farthing Candle (l a t e Ch an - Laird o'ackpen, 4 yrs delier) 3 yrs Titmouse, 4 yrs Terrier, 3 yrs Sister to Campunero, 4 yrs Redleg, 3 yrs Carrissima, 4 yrs Astonishment, 3 yrs COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. This Court was specially summoned on Monday, to consider a report of the Sub-Committee, to whom was referred the con sideration of the proposition by the North Kent Railway Company, to continue that railway from its general terminus in Union-street in the Borough, across the Southwark-bridge, to a passenger station in Queen-street-place. From the statements of the report and in a petition from the Railway Company, it appeared that the North Kent Railway is a scheme for snpplying all the towns and important public establishments in the northern parts of that county with rail way communication. The general terminus is proposed to be in the Borough, at the foo►, of Southwark-bridge. to proceed thence, by Peckham, to New-cross, and on to Woolwich, by Charlton, the main line con'inuing by Gravesend. Chatham, Rochester, Faversham, Canterbury, Deal, and Dover, with branches to Maidstone and Sheerness. In addition to the general Bill for these purposes, the Pro visional Committee, it appears, had purchased eonditienally the Southwark-bridge for 300,0001., and had brought in a sup plementary Bill for continuing the railway across the bridge to Queen -street, for the further accommodation of passengers. The Parliamentary Committee of the Corporation, it ap peared from the discussion, had at first agreed to clauses with the Railway Company, by which the bridge was to be kept open for passenger 4 ; that the toll was not to be increased ; and that sufficient accommodation should be provided for the standing of coaches and carts. The Company, by their petition, again offered similar clauses. The Sub-Committee, to which this matter was fur ther referred at the last Court of Common Council, reported that it ought to be opposed, on the ground that it would be inconvenient to the traffic of the streets so to increase the traffic. The discussion that followed was very warm. The prin cipal speakers in support of the general principles of the mea sure, were—Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Laurence, Mr. Wire. Sir Chapman Marshall, Mr. Richard Taylor, and Mr. Anuerton ; and they were principally opposed by Mr. Coruey, Mr. Wall, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Lott. In the course of the discussion it was admitted that the reso lution of the Committee was only affirmed by a majority of one vote, and it was shown that the principle of the measure was the same as that the Court had formerly distinctly sup ported, almost unanimously, not many weeks before with refe rence to the Birmingham Railway and the General Central Terminus proposed by the Direct Manchester. The discus sion lasted nearly four hours, and the opponents of the measure argued that the inconvenience to be experienced in Thames street and Queen. street would be greater than the convenience of passengers being brought to so central a situation. Upon the show of hands the Right Hon. the Lord MAYOR declared the amendment lost, and the recommendation of the sub-Committee was then carried to oppose the Bill, and a petition was read accordingly. The decision appeared to excite great surprise from its ap parent inconsistency with the previous resolutions of the Court. MARKET NE w. S- YESTERDAY tiff -.^.0,4.1C35TA - - SMITHFULD.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 4155; Clover ditto, 41 Ss to 51 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 14s ' • Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, Si 8s to 41 101 ; Clover ditto, 41 4s to 5/ 103 ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 165 ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s per load. Supply limited, and trade arm. wurrEcuAraL.—Meadow Hay, 315 s to 41 8s ; Clover ditto, 41 8s to 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s , Wheat Straw, 11 141 to 1116 s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. C 0,11. ON ULU Suasa.—The market for British Plantation is very heavy, an onl♦ about 120 hhds hays been sold at rather lower prices. The public sales have only offered 486 boxes white, 704 boxes brown and yellow Havannah, and 246 barrels Rio, all of which found buyers (excepting abAtt 200 boxes of the white Havannah) at Ills 6d to 23s 6d for low brown to tine yellow, 241 to 27s for fine to fins ins yellow or low white, 27s to 32s for low soft to good white, being generally about the previous nominal value. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 354 hhds 1 tierce, and there were taken for home consumption 815 hhds 66 tierces 66 barrels. The stock in the same places is 5,733 Wide 398 tierces 84.5 barrels. COFFEE, -211 bales Mocba at auction only partly found buyers, at 43s to 59s for ordinary to middling quality, which are very low prices for the inferior sorts. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 59 puns. There were taken for home consumption 184 puns 11 hhds, and exported 73 puns 50 hhds. The stock in the same Places is 12,051 puns 1,234 hhds. Rica-501 bags Spanish, 220 bags Italian, and 194 bags Penang at auction, was nearly all taken in above the value—viz., at 19s for fine white Spanish, and 16s 6d to 17s for mid white Italian. The Penang sold at 14s 6d for low yellowish white, being comparatively about the value. TaLtow.—P Y C Is 42s 6d to 43s per cwt on the spat, and Town 45s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market Is quiet. (From the London New Price Current of March 3.) SUGAIL—To day there was more activity in the market for West India Muscovado Sugar, considering the small and indifferent show; a fair business was transacted in brown, grey, and yellow sorts, at prices equal to those of Friday. ItaviNED.—To-day several purchases were made in Refined Goods by the home trade, but no improvement in the value took place. Prices further advanced for Bonded Crushed Sugar. ilmarimus.—This afternoon there was more desire mani fested to purchase Mauritius. and two parcels at public sale amounting to 8,825 bags, 91 casks, and 148 barrels were sold at prices thht averaged those of the last auctions. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was purchased with more freedom, and 1,205 bags at auction were sold at steady rates. _ _ FORZION.—To• day there was no public sale • of Foreign Sugar, and privately there was little business transacted in any kind. The Dutch Company's public sale of 40,000 baskets has gone off heavily at a fall in prices of 2s to 5s per cwt. COFFEE.—To-day there was no public sale of any kind of Coffee, and the demand privately was limited for all sorts. Ceylon of good ordinary Native is not to be obtained under 46s per cwt. Tr &.—Today there was less business transacted in Tea, but holders were arm, and common sound Congou for cash was not to be obtained under 9d, low Twankay Is. Id. and common Hyson is. 11d. per Srtxrrs.—The principal feature in the Rum market since this day week has been that of the Government contract for 100,000 gallons, half East and half West India, and the whole has been taken by Messrs. Ruck, Son, and Fenwick, a frac tion under Is. 9d. per gallon proof strength, but the exact price is kept a secret; the contract has decidedly been taken low, and will scarcely pay the contractor. East India is held for the previous currency, but there has been only a limited business transacted. Leeward Islands is not offered upon lower terms, but the demand has been only for small parcels. Jamaica is not offered upon lower terms, but there has been little business transacted. Brandy has liven purchased with caution, and several parcels having arrived merchants have been more inclined to realise, and submitted to lower rates for all descriptions. Geneva is held with firmness, and is wanted. For British Corn Spirits the price is still lOs 6d per gallon net cash, but the demand is still limited. Gin is held for 8s 10d for 22 per cent under proof, and 17 under 9s 4d per gallon ; but the demand has been limited. Hors.—There are few purchasers cf the low and middling de cripqons, but prices do not give way, the supply at market continuing to be moderate. SPICKS.—The demand has fallen off for Nutmegs, and the market having been much better supplied a slight decline in the value has taken place. Holders of Mace are not inclined to further-reduce their prices. Prices keep firm for Pimento, but the demand privately has been only for small parcels. TALLOW.—Prices at present cannot be quoted lower for Russian on the spot, as the stock is small, b. t the town and country demand has been limited for all descriptions. Home made is in better supply. For other sorts of Tallow the de mand has fallen off NEW REGULATIONS AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.— Monday the following regulations took effect at the Judges' Cham bers, before Mr. Justice Crcsswell :--" Original summonses only must be placed on the file; summonses adjourned by the judge will be heard at ten o'clock precisely, according to their numbers on the adjournment Me, and those not on the file previous to the numbers of the day being called, will be placed at the bottom of the general file. Exparte applications (except as mentioned below) will be heard immediately after the adjourned summonses. The summonses of the day-will be called at live minutes past ten o'clock, numbered and heard in their regular order; counsel at one o'clock. The name of the cause to be put on the counsel file, and heard according to num ber. If the' parties are not ready, they will be passed over. Affi davits upon exparte applications (except for orders to he held to bail) must beleft, and the orders applied for the next'day ; such affidavitco be properly endorsed with the names of the parties, the nature of the applications, and the names of time attorneys. All affidavits produced before the Judge must be endorsed and flied." TEE EARL OF MAR. — W e ere authorised to state that i there is not one word of truth in the report that Lord Mar has been seized with apoplexy and not likely to recover. His Lordship never had any such attack, and is in perfect health.—Edinburgh Post. On Monday Mr. Bedford, the Corover, held an inquest in St. Martin's-street, on the body of a newly-born female child, which was found about ten o'clock on Saturday night; by John Dean, ia Leicester-square, under the rails of the incloeure. Verdict, "still born and iadec,ently exposed." LATEST PRICES OF salt IN BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTSE , BANIE S" STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY E LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 3. JOINT-STOCH ZANlCS.____i, paid. ir Name of Cc mpany. Dividend per Amount Annum. hare. Australasia Britsh /s orth American Commercial of London '2olonial • • Loucht and Westminstr London Joint-Stock • Metropolitan Provincial of Ditto, New. • • • •• . National of Ireland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. Ditto, New... Union of Australia.... Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. U. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. INSUNANCE C, Name of Company. Albion ♦lliance Unit. and For. Ditto Marine.. • • • •• Atlas British Commercial Cleriel,Med. & Gen. Life County .............. Crown .............. ...... Economic Life........ Eng. & Scot. Law Europeaa Life • . • • • • Freemasons' .... .• •• Globe GUardian ............ Imperial Fire . • Imperial Life ........ Indemnity Marine.... Law Life. Legal and General Life London Fire ...• • • •• London Ship ........ Marine .. . • ....... • Med. Invlid& Gen. Life National Loan Fund.. National Life. ..... Palladium . Life ...... PMenix •. • Protector Life.... ... Provident Life .. Rock Life • Royal Exchange Sun Fire ........... Ditto Life . . Universal Life .• Dividend per Annum. 31. 105 6 per cent. 4./. per cent, 13s. 6d. pr sh. 7s. per share 51. per cent. 108. 6s. r 5 per ct., i& 30s.bs.i 51. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. and bonus 12s. 11. sh. lc Ls 11. 3s. 10e. 10s. Si. per cent. 4341. per ct . bl. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. p. et. & be. 5/. per cent. 1/. ss. 4s. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. 1/. tie. lON/. pr cut IR CO: Dividexd per Annum. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. Pi/. per cent. 6/. per cent. 6/. per cent. 73¢1. pr cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 6/. per cent. Si. per cent. 7%1. pr cent. 61. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. St. per cent. 5% 1. pr cent. 101. per cent. 61. per cont. 11.10 s. perc. 7s. 6d. p. s. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. Si per cent. DOC; Dividend per Annum. LIST OF SCO' Name of Company. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Commercial Bank .. • • National Bank ...... • • Union Bank of Scotland Western Bank • North of Scotland Bank Clydesdale Bank .. • • Eastern Bank • • • • Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank Jity of Glasgow Bank . Scottish Union Ins. Co. Hercules Insurance Co. Insur. Co. of &Mind. • North British Incur Caledonian Fire Insur Edinburgh Life Insur Edin. & Ulan. Railway Ditto, IA ghares Edin., Leith, & Grantn Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. Glasgw & Greene k Rail. Oisgw & Ganikirk Rail. Dundee& Arbroth Rail. St if tdard Li to Asst.' nice. Name of Company. Commercial •• East and West India 1 61. pr cent. East Country •• . I 1/. per sh. Lmdon ...... St Katharine .........5 per cent. Southampton • • •• • ! 41. per cent. CANALS. Names of Companies. 'Dividendl H per Price.' Annum. Ashtn k Oldh Ashby-d-la-Z' Barnsley.... Basingstoke.. Brknk&Abrg Cromford Dudley...... Derby .. Ellsrpre&Chs, Erewash • • • Forth & Clyde GrandJ unctn: Grand Union Glainorgnsh Gistr & Brkly Grantham .. Huddersfield. Kennt Ee A.vti Lancaster...! Leeds& Livrp Leicester .... Leiestr & Nth : Loughboreglii Do.Lk Fd St Stffrd &Wore Shrewsbury.. Stourbridge Strtfrd on A.v Severn and Wye Rail. Trnt & Mr-1 sey, sh.j Thams &Med Worcstr & 1 Birming.i Wilts it 131 ks Name of Company. Dividend Amount per I of , rod' / 0 Annum. I Share. L ih 4: -- East L0nd0n.......... Grand Junction ...... Kent• Vauxhall ............ West Middlesex Si. 1730 0 0 3/. 104. 41 13 4 2/. 103. 100 co 0 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 01.55. pr cnt. 63 12 9 fY , bit, ilC lio i I)EPARTuRE OF MAILS. —SOUTHAMPT-t Ili• si 0 e,al . The Royal Weet India Mail packet the Trent, CAPT''ocit IV, moorings this day, at 3, P .m., with the South AT„ e r , al l " C 1 1 , s '' Indian Mails, 4t, passengers, 250 bottles of quick't,', - pl i c s alfl' money. - Ihe Oriental Company's steam IMO ."' to-,„ tisil Brookes, will take her departure from the dock„,,' Antra P.M.. taking to Malta the East India and China In' i litotl i , there transhipped by the Iberia for Alexandri a ' p is. 4 Tagus ;will proceed on her voyage to Conatanarsee ' a/A Liverpool, Captain M'Leod, is hourly expected at ill. Or e 4 fi l r i from Alexandria ; she was due on Friday last. ~00.0 CIJERTSRY FAIR, SURREY. --Ort MonaaJ !pi*, was held, the supply of cattle being good, and oh' s/J :oo_s cf.i The stock generally was in much better condition t_; 100 0 ;i00: 1 ,9",.. found at this in riod of the year, and the cattle Vi c , ;I_, o ? seemed indisposed to sell except at their oven Pr' e 141. ,10" . . 1 (re 0..4 .sr. well framed (including the small calf) made 140. V - 51 well bred ditto down calving fetched from 121. to A ats,o o let , oas s r Beasts well fatted realised 4s. per stone, 0 n• ,. -../ao r, N . nil cows made as. per stone. Good heifers sold well._ n d 0 jof oo t! ni pe itiga n k s ion a trg goo ft2s cl osm a . nd t3oB r s e .u ad ts y o. business o s i s n . e 4 as head. hweaasdsioctrkaannsida:etbowds.,..ls7.olL.3,..,o4,44l4 and well bred ditto, 30s. ahead. Couples made '' - irtn"Wwr strong lambs 3.55. to 38s. Good horses At for old' -4 siP Of averaged 201. The supply of pigs was scanty, e n , d ,,ef hogs made is. 6d. per stone, and porkers 45. B .'„rod• 00.01, ° stores 255., and breeding sows front 4.55. to 60S. 8 si - 00. 8 1 40", THE LATH WIGAN ELECTION.- 14 _,,,,i C Of . 1 ifiS CAPTAIN LINDSAY. — Host of our readers are 0 " I , e" pi petition was preeented to the House of Commons..rooftop:Pre, against the return of Captain Lindsay, en t b. ..0 3 ,.. 0 g' ° !a' treating, and other illegal practices. Since the Y lO ,Ol. jo u dereble excitement has prevailed in the borolgn s ....asif 0 00 0 r ill Tories intended to adopt in the matter ; but on ge t rod ° : pi' all doubts were put an end to by the third edition t. nt orl A 00 0 viuus evening, containing an announcement that Il i atil, Il A sb pi signified to the Speaker of the House of Comme nt o r On,70 00 ?" Intention to defend his seat. By the adoptio n t bs 101 , „IS twenty-one days will be allowed to elapse after a, a , or p re y,- order to give any elector who may think Pr ° ,,P n e e , 0 0 100 a r , defending the return of a candidate who 40e " - o ttel g ffleau,,,,,i The 13th of March will, therefore close the ", he N 1 1 1,... roi purpose.—Praton Guardian.— E . is stated In ` at '''.... 0 ".a, ~, dian of Saturday that Mr. W. E. Gladstone wi ll „%itiet e p osoi ll / Vo' that it Is probable he will be returned without elli i - i volt o i ROBBERY AT WINDSoR.—On Situ r itt• 6 00 1. V w og, . Deo _ .0, Mr. Pook's, the Star and Garter Tap, in k"ne a " ar i a a di' E.. ° away, a miller and farmer, living at Win-- -1 ' d , As _f s p tr with several persons, in the tap and tap-par le tnitiol_ .. str_Asel, the a ft ernoon, until he became so complete'," 0 i, tlfiL y s V i 0 1 terly unconscious of " passing events." 1N . ... b . '1118 0 f Enf" -- .,i In A a .° 4 roe, robbed of his purse oontaining four 101. Be" - , i ndl'llls - 4 ,4 0 I' 101. note of the Reading Bank, and between 100 • a the pe 0 1 ,0 and silver. We was also robbed of his watch ( . I: Lc In s od T o tro which his name was engraved), chain. and se of be.t b/ l' Oc iv ss ) of Mr. Westaway being unable from the quan t it y_... p ot/ 0 0 doer had drank during the a ft ernoon to point out u ' i s,l2e/ tote had been plundered, the magistrates told hi ll ' a A ".. et .... V soft . • 00 0 in the matter until he could produce evidence satisfactory nature. it , Iflg l ' a t 'D 1 0 0 0/ 11 LICENSING DAY FOR THE To w-- held - E 04 ;0,,/, day a Court of Licensing Magistrates IT 1 000 0 ' igen e rr, house, Osborne-street, Whitechapel, Josi ah f er DO ' r/ chair, for the purpose of receiving 800 cert Wu of the o f tii ii victuallers in the part of the extensive dist ric ts ~.,,,ion , h e 4 11„,f lets So numerous are the victuallers in this r u: c ; i onc; 4 oB . l . : o ,l2 of Middlesex, that two days are set inntrti e h r t bey ' l s o_SJOr lions and signing their certificates, by irni,c, ne st 0 ce , AP -- 1 4, tain a license at the Excise Court. - 1166 " L ' ttond °- -4 d appohited, ' when the magistrates will be In a Cife' It 'a ...r) VI p." f of the remaining cases. ,,,ANTE""" af.c•' f u [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A G v.--- essen t oso oo :, r VIS . • .1 .... A ASTHMA, OLD COUGHS, AFFECTIONS 0 - 0 .„,..y -'''.., a.- v . ion: r o de o eio Lowar's Prma.—Recently some - •extr* r i Z w ig been made upon various patients stiffe i L h il e oth er i dOld, ii , 0 ',i30 with h t t d h i d s tg re e as st i t i o r n g , a a s e th td m it a y t , ic complaints , " ss , ul ts d ro : isind s o l o._d p o ; o 4l ol, m be of ie. P.' il# To the n u ure p clt e°l l 3l DI less Inc 0. , 601_ 4 were chosen, being considered more or 0 121_ 4 0° 9 , celebrated x stomach, producing pdralguecrionugssytiminputosemic:s. sickness, sfr°creeuneentlYs put under a course of Holloway ' s sevenyfiv t eels. 0, succeeded in the cure of them within „ ....ha le r all druggists, and at Professor Strand, London. commencement, and some even in nlesostitohwasny% ur...:...t, lllirffa. (1 .00 0 " - E On the 31st tilt We ~►ife fW. H• Sherwin, --- ..fi" ~ • o • of a eon. „ ii r tho On the 22d ult., at Sandon Lodge, Begol2VO-r-14 ~e. Willianylktoore, Esq., of a daughter.' v b uj of* P. 0 . - fo th On the 22d ult., Mrs. llackbloch, Den nlar " . yogi 111 ' - Of' On the 22d ult., at Okokampten-terrace, St. T • wife of Barnett Blaef • daughter. . o f MO' Atf On the 25th ult t a t Bay.view, Douglas, Isle - i fer 9 " Captain George Harris Wallace, of a danghter. _., (0 01, „0 , On the 26th ult., at the Rectory House, Old Swl.lter, o rs 50 shire, the lady of the Rev. C. H. Craytard, of a_ 4* 4 ll :yero ol ;ios k On the 26th ult., at Claydon Rouse, Ruclis, baisoolif oi On the 26th ult., on board the barque Eagle, c'' 10 1 lady of Captain IL 1". Sewell, of a son. A art , tb ,., O P On the 2801 ult., in Conduit -street West, 01"1:wit, oi George Douglas, Esq, Captain 2d West India Rst, tolgtioC ;(1 Cnr i° of _ & j est irri; Esq., of Newiate-streot, to tAisann., arrlott, Esq., of Trelleck-terrace, Pfraltco. me 'cap. Petra._ Eat. le 28th ul --------------------- 0 4.' .4 flirf°' 0 On the 28th ult., in the Hamipiftite;l.roao, . low— ~,f_ of v VV., aged 78. „...st dau b pe t er On the Ist inst., at Bright's, Freder ica , Jou— .• lot Davies, Esq. , 000 j, d o 0 On the lit last., in Grove-end -road, St. Johu ''' o' l or r" Reach, Esq., aged 73. . Clari A ii On the Ist inst., at Gravesend, tent, .... ,1 '• gat 4 '' Hall, Brecon. Be 10414' i • On the let inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Georg d eo Southgate, Middlesex, aged 79 At Troy-town, Rochester, Kent, nant Thomas Winter, Royal Marines, Agod s s ' Flefiallt, relict of the lAte ' rl o• London : Printed and Published by 11171W O is tad j i ls , Strand, Printer, at The Sun 01111ce,1‘40. J l2, li ti roia oo4ll' of Me level. is tile county of Xiddlooolc. 4. 1146. 51.14. p ej 41. 121. 11. 10s. 14%1. 7s. 6d. 11. 10s. 341. 101. £ I. d. 40 • 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 MP.A.NISO . Amount of Share. 5. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 e 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100.0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 :1 1 4LIITI Amount of Share. A a. d e 6 I 5 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 :50 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 Amount I r od. of Share. A ...- to s. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 0 :i0 0 0 Names of Companies. ral 4 . 100 100 0 100 100 - 10 n o 0 00 50 0 2 1 0 10 10 2 Iv A b 0 0 100" 0 Au 1 0 0 ?$ 0 19 1 0 a 0 1 1 0 12 la 0 0 0, 50 .41. 0 4 Or 0 ,0 0 I 1 1 1 1 . SIV Monmouthslf Mntgomrysh Macclesfield . Neath • •• • • Nottingham • Peak Forest • Regent's • • • • Rochdale ..• • Shropshire . • Somrset Coal 517 105 60 850 4 tl C°l4ll l:tt E D.4l* ;ten P EI'T f ‘ 4i (14% Corn 41 4 . the' Ot tkers etr 4. or 141'41 ** At ) * Z 441," t xtt ' t 37 41 '4 4 4 t Thi a t k kJ 1 A 4 ,4 (1 ' ~t y, ; ;. l kill*. 4 111 . 1 1tArt a , r 14 )4•241 4 )O2 s T te! r A t , 1.1 1 :, )0 "14 t1 4 111 ‘ " 1.--- - - 1. X I:, 0 50 fi v 0 ii : 0 ; 0 2 10 10 6 0 5 k 0 250 o 2 0 All O ld. 2 ° ° i 0 0 10 0 10 t