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13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. -LADY HESTER STANHOPE The TRAVELS of this distinguished Lady, forming the Completion of her 31EMOIRS, narrated by her Physician, will be Ready iu a few days ; and those who may desire copies of the work on the day of publication are requested to send their orders immedi ately to their boeksellers, to prevent disappointment. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. GORE'S NEW WORK MRS. GORES CH S A K RA E CT E'CIIES --- 4 ENGLISH NAY NOW BE HAD AT ALLL THE LIBRARIES. In 2 vols., post gyo. Richard Bentley. New Burlington-street.: NOTICE. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. DUBLIN TO GALWAY. Parties who signed the last subscription contract, and holders of scrip, are informed, that petitions to both Houses of Parliament. "To stay the progress of the Bill, to cancel the liability of the subscribers to the contract, and return to the shareholders the unspent deposits," lie for signature tat the Shareholders' Committee-room, Founders' Mall-court, Lothbnry, from 11 to 4 o'clock each day. April 21, 1846. R. THOMPSON, Secretary, RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &C., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Ilall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, containing instructions, are respectfully requested to be aldressed. 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, sul the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Mall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. wIL SON'S OPENING NIGHT. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, at Eight o'clock. Mr. WILSON' begs to announce his FIRST ENTERTAINMENT the SEASON, in the Music Hall, Store-street, when he will variety of the SONGS OF SCOTLAND, Some of them for the first time. Planoforte--Mr. LAND. Part 1.-0 weal may the Boatie row—Of a' the Airts the Wind can blaw—Whall buy Caller Herring ?—Hame cam our gudeman at e'en—Over the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Married Man's Lament —Pibroch o' Donald Dhu. Part lle Flowers o' the Forest—The Auld School —Woo'd oaf Married an' a'.—Auld Joe Nicolson's Bonny Nannie—Get up and bar the Door. Private Boxes for Six, 15s. ; for Eight, 11. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madil , . LUCILE GRAHN respectfully informs the Nobility, Sub scribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place en THURSDAY NEXT, APRIL 30, When will be performed (for the first time this season), Donizetti's Opera, entitled DON PASQUALE. - . . Norina, Madame Grisi ; Dr. Mala'e;ta,Si;,nOr Fornasari; Ernesto, Signor Mario ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. In the course of the Evening will be revived the Ballet Diver tissement, by M. Perrot, entitled, LE DELIRE RUN PEINTRE. Stephano, M. Perrot ; Blarulic d'Oviedo, Madile. L. Grahn Together with a Selection from the admired Ballet, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. During the Evening varimit4 Dances and Pas de Caracteres by 3fadlle. L. Gralm, 3ladlle. Taglioni, and M. Perrot. To be followed by the last Act or Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, NINO, Signor Fornassri ; Idaspe, Signor Corelli; Orotasphe, Signor Botelli ; Fenena, Mdlle. Corbari ; Abigail, Mdlle. Sanchioli. To conclude with Se7ections, including the Dryade Scene from the admired Ballet of EOLINE ; ou, LA. DRYADE. Eoline, Mdlle. Lucile Grano. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. REV, litx,lEsTv's THEATRE. IRIS EVEN i NG Will be peribrmed Rosiiai's celebrated Opera, entitled, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosins, Madame Grist ; Ii Conte d'Alinaviva, Signor Mario ; Bartolo, Signor Lablache ; Basilio, Signor F. Lablache ; Figaro, Signor Fornasari. To conclude with the admired Ballet, by M. Perrot, in Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni, entitled, CATARINA. ; on, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. _ _ The principal parts sustained by MOlie. Lucile Grahn and Madame L. Tey,liont ; If.M. Gosselin. Bertrand, Di Ira ttia, and Perrot. THZATICE _ROYAL, DILUitY-LA.N THIS EVENING WM be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Rorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. Ring, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. _ After which will be procured a New and Original Ballet entitled IMELDA. The Duke, llous. Adrien ; Count Alberti, M Mathis ; Governor, Mr. T. Matthews ; Fabric o, Mr. W. H. Payne Imelda, Madlle. Sall. THEATRK POYAL, HAYMiKKET. THIS EVAN-LNG WM be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren : Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei•• dermann, Mr. J Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Symphonie," the Fantasie, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post horn Galop," Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz ; the " Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Brunow Polka." After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHANES ou which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury. Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. Ni athews, and Miis P. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unprecedented Attraction for the Easter Holidays. Re-engagement of GENERAL TOM THUMB ! Great success of the New Comic Drama ! THIS EVENING Theperforrnanees will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama, in Three Acts, called HONOURS AND TRICKS. rrin- Lipid characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Diddear, and Keeley ; MissVillars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and His. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. Hop 'o My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Charactes by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 48. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. F. ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, In Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sansonet, Mr. Wright ; lions. Delamare, Mr. Perkin. ; Batifole, Miss Woolgar ; NW, Miss Webster ; Cecile, Madame Celeste. :liter which, a New Burlesque, entitled, PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor ; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Iloneybun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. lioneybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATER, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The principal characters supported by Messrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh Murray ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, Ike. To conclude with TILE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. Collins ; Isabella, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which Messrs. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, Oxberry ; Miss Taylor, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss Honner, &c., will appear. ASTLE Yi* it° YAL AMP HIT Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal.—Extraordinary hit of Mr. Leman Rede' New Equestrian Spectacle, which has been pronounced by thil public press to surpies all former productions. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Original Asiatic Drama. of THE ARAI! AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates,. Magnificent effects, grand equestrian `tableaus, &c. Th 7, Scenes in the Circle will, this present week, prove more than, 'ordinarily brilliant, presenting the whole troop of British ani Foreign Professors, aided by the inimitable Clowns, Barry, Wallet, and Rochez. To conclude with a novel Afterplec.e. Box-office open from eleven till live o'clock.—Doors open at sl and commence at seven o'clock. DANIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.. More Novelty! A New Drama. Great success. Crowded houses. TTrus EVENINCI Will be performed THE LAS c KISS ; or, the Soldier's Grave.. Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Lewis, Heslop, W,l - Mesdms. Vining and Martin will support the princip pl characters. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, 01 THE TILES ; or, A Night et Greenwich. To be fcllowed by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DElit CHAMOIS YAGER ; or, The Fiend ou Earth. By the Deulin Family. 'I o conclude with a New Melodrama, called, THE RATS O.F RAT CAS ILE. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATIZE. Great Success of the Nev Drama of " Laid up in Port." THIS EVENINi; Will be performed all entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; r, Shark: along Shore. Principal characters by MesP rs. Fredericks, Saville, Raymond, Undell, Iligoie, Searle, Burton ; Silas Vincent, Miss E. Terry, Sm. After which, THE BRIDE' i JOURNEY; or, the Escapes of Adelaide of resden. In which Miss Vincent will pertirm. T,fgonclude with a New Drama, en t itl e d THE FACTORY LADS; or le Workman's Sat ur d a y Night. In which the will appear. whole Comma .y NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CIIA . N . A 1 DL3E-g—ailicaV e LTIES AND MGIC EFFECT.? . t la sante de Fame La triatesse en eat 1 poison." I announce M. PrIILLIPPE b egs l eave ton that, of t.te Triumphant Success th a t hag attended TAI•MENTS, they will be repeated eyery W e d nesday an d tardily Morning, and everyuntil further notice. THIS EVENING, M. PIIILLIPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Can.iles by a single Pistol Shut! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed b y Mons. Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. M. Phillippe will also have the honour of introducing ppt GRANDMOTHER'S CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans ' . ' formations. The Entertainments will be varied by the Dancing of the CHIARINI FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICA' BROTHERS. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Evening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, 31.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, le. ; Gallery, 6d. ; revate Bakes, 11. Is., and 108. td. THE WEATHER.—.SHUN OFFICE, APRIL 24. TUERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest. 54; Noon, 5 BAROMETER. 29.81. WIND E.; last night, rain; this afternoon, showery. ILUA WATER AT LONDON-TtItIDGE THIS DAY. MArning 20 agnate§ after 1. I Evening .. 40 minutes after 1. L :si? A -• f',re % ') * ~.,e4, 7 .-?, , .... ‘..„_=.; ) 7: . ff - 14 ,..,,, \ ,- •L%F.T.-'''', - ; , . " r •-‘lo' ' , ' . i - i - iii. - i , - p, 220 ' iaffrittin LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1846, Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. A somewhat lengthened conversation took place, on the subj!et of the new H ouses of Parliament, in the course of which Dr. Reid's plan of ventilation, as far as the House of Lords was concerned, was acknowledged to be a failure. Their Lordships then adjourned. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. C. WOOD, Lord DALMENY , Mr. B. s t . o . rr, silly. so. m RVILLE, and Lord CLAUDE HAMILTONWere sworn at the table to try the merits of the Bridport election, and app o l uteii to sit to-morrow at eleven o'clock. Mr. B. COCHRANE trusted the House would not adopt its usual course in this case. He had been told that he was charged with bribery, and at the present moment, the night before the Committee was to sit, he did not know the par- any exposition of the inferences which are alone to be drawn from it would be in literal truth a matter of the most complete supererogation. The fair name of our fellow-men are surely not to be trifled away with every idle or partisan whim ; even lAGO esteemed it as more precious than lucre or other mundane rickts ; and it is not surprising that the mem bers of the free-trade committee of Nottingham are aroused at the ruthlessness of such an attempt They may feel satisfied, however, that in the eyes of their dispassionate countrymen they are fully exonerated from the charge by the correspondence just published. on a moonlight night, seized the assassin by the collar. held up his face to the light to see if he was known,'and distinctly recognised his old tenant. There could be no mistake as to the identity in a case of this kind; Sir FRANCIS HOPKINS could have no interest in swearing away the life of an innocent man, and he in the most solemn manner, and with the fullest conviction of the truth of his statement, distinctly de clared on oath that SEERY was the assassin. His evi dence was firmly believed by almost every respectable person in the neighbourhood, and no one whose opinion was unbiassed had any doubt whatever of the man's guilt. The priest SAVAGE, however, took a different view of the case, raised this assassin to the rank of a martyr (without the slightest intention, of course, to encourage other assassins), and has been engaged ever since in collecting subscriptions " for the protec tion and support of the afflicted widow and helpless orphans of the late martyred BRIAN SEERY." These are the terms used by this parish priest in a letter addressed to a Mr. DEVITT, of Limerick, thanking him for the receipt cf 6/. 3s. 3d. towards this patriotic purpose. But that is the least striking part of the letter, and we therefore give what follows, to show the dangerous spirit which animates certain of the lower Irish clergy, and the determi nation to destroy all community and all friendship between Protestants and Catholics. The letter is published in a Dublin paper of Liberal politics, with the words marked in italics as we give them, the underlining, we presume, having been made by SAVAGE himself:—" SEERY was a man of the best character. Six respectable Catholic witnesses proved at the trial that he was nine miles from Rochefort at the hour the attack was made on Sir FRANCIS HOPKINS. The man who actually fired the shot at Sir FRANCIS openly declared his own guilt, but a Protestant baronet having sworn—no doubt conscientiously—that SEERY was the man, a Protestant jury believed the Protestant baronet, an outcry is raised, hang him, hang him,' and he was hanged, having declared with his dying breath that he had neither act, nor part, nor knowledge of the crime." Here we have the loose and unauthenticated saying of the " man who actually fired the shot," according to this priest, placed in the balance with the oath of a gentle man highly respected in the neighbourhood, and the solemn verdict of twelve jurors. It is a well known fact, that ninety-nine out of a hundred of these self-accusa tions of murder are without the slightest foundation, and put forth solely for some temporary purpose, and it is equally well known that one-half of the persons con victed of capital offences on the clearest evidence declare their innocence to the last. But that is a matter of trivial importance compared with the awful consequences of the principles upheld by this Catholic priest, for he distinctly tells the people that SEERY was innocent, that the Protestant baronet had declared a falsehood on oath, and that the Protestant jury were guilty of murder, in condemnihg a man of the "best character," on the evidence of one Protestant, distinctly contradicted by " six respectable Catholic witnesses." According to SAVAGE, no Protestant witness and no Protestant jury ought ever to be believed or trusted when a Catholic is tried. Need we wonder that so many assassins escape, or that so many Protestants are mur dered, when we find such doctrines laid down by a teacher of the people, who, it appears from the accounts of the execution, had the _lower classes of the district around Mullingar so completely under his control, that the whole of them stayed away in order to mark their conviction that this assassin was a "martyr?" A martyr to what cause ? A martyr to the pa triotic and Christian principle of expelling Pro testants from Tipperary by assassination. Need we wonder that Catholic peasants when murder is committed in broad daylight " stand laughing by," and that not one of them will bear evidence against another for crimes the most disgraceful to human na ture, perpetrated against a fellow-creature, merely be, - , cause he is a Protestant, and claims the privilege o occupying his own land? Is the important business of the session to be stopped because a few Irish Members are opposed to any legislative Act for abating such a ruinous and barbarous system? ticular case that was to be made against him. His agent had been served with ninety-six cases cf objection, but what these objections were he could not even surmise. After some short discussion, The ATTOR.NET-GENERAL said the House :had nothing to do with the question—it lay with the Committee. The Committee was then ordered to meet to-morrow at eleven o'clock. ~.......... ____ Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. B. Coch rane, said that the Government had done all it could for the relief of the families of Captain Stoddart and Captain Co nolly, and that any further relief must be looked for to the East India Company. On the motion for the resumption of the adjourned debate on the Customs and Corn Importation Bill, Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN wished to know from the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn whether, supposing the Government were to bring in a Bill proposing to allow corn to be brought into Ireland duty free, he would support that measure. The Hon. Gentleman, in putting the question, went again at con siderable length into the alarming condition of Ireland, and the state of want and misery existing among the people in different parts of that country. Lord G. Bentinck , Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Roche, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. P. Scrope, and Mr. Cobden, having addressed the House, Mr. S. O'BRIEN wished to know if the Right Hon. Gen tleman waswilling to accept the terms of his offer? Sir R. PEEL said that he had no hesitation in at once say ing that he could not accept them. Mr. DISRAELI rose to charge the First Minister of the Crown with cheering an expression in the Hon. Member for Stockport's speech, namely, that the inhabitants of the "towns should rule the country party." The Hon. Gentle man having PAt:EßnicsEaiod,c"olNNtoEtu,allymdoe;leydtthheefaacdtj. man having very warmly adverted to the circumstance, adjournment of the 'base. The Commissioners of the Woods and Forests have at length, we are rejoiced to find, turned their attention to the important subject of the embankment of the Thames. Among the notices given on Thursday in the House of Commons, we find the following, by Mr. J. YOUNG, the Secretary to the Treasury:— " A Bill to empower the Cotninissioners of her Majesty's W oods to fonn a royal park in Battersea-fields, in the county of Surrey." " A Bill to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods to construct an embankrilent and roadway on the north shore of the river Thames, from Battersea -bridge to Vauxhall-bridge, and to build a suspension-bridge over the said river, at or near Chelsea Hospital, with suitable approaches thereto, including a street from Lower Sloane-street to the northern extremity of the bridge." This is excellent as far as it goes. As to the advan tages to be derived from the formation of a park in Bat tersea, we presume there can be but cne opinion ; and the embankment of the Thames from Battersea-bridge to Vauxhall-bridge is a plan which, as the com mencement of a grand series of embanktnents, is deserving of every support. But why do the Commissioners stop at Vauxhall-bridge ? Surely, if the public accommodation requires the em bankment of the Thames from Battersea to Vauxhall, still more urgently does the public accommodation re quire the embankment of the Thames from Vauxhall to Westminster ; and most of all is an embankment re quired from Westminster to London-bridge. Such an embankment would act as an easement to the great tho roughfare from the West-end to the City, via the Strand, Fleet-street, and Cheapside; and let those who entertain the least doubt as to the absolute necessity of some such A warm discussion then arose, as to the previous misun derstanding, in which several Hon. Members joined in stating that Sir Robert Peel did not cheer at the time alleged. Mr. DISRAELI then explained, and apologised for his mistake. The adjourned debate having been resumed, Mr. JOIIN O'CONNZLL addressed the House at some length, after which, on the motion of Mr. M'CARTUY, the debate was aijourned to Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned. The Earl of DALuotsia in the Lords, and Sir R. Paw Lin the Ccmmons, on Thursday brought forward the resolutions of which notices were given on Tuesday evening, and in each case they were received with the most perfect unanimity. Every one seemed to feel the imperative necessity for their adoption, and to acquiesce in the justice of the reasons on which they were founded. easement, attempt to pass through Fleet-street or Cheapside, at any time of the day between the hours of eleven in the morning 'and six in the even ing, and their doubts will have vanished before they shall have persevered in their attempt halt' an hour. Some months since a scheme was propounded for the formation of a company fur making such an em bankment, which should at the same time afford rail way accommodation to the inhabitants of the metropolis. It was stated at the time that the proposed plans met with the approval of the Government, but the November panic affected this, as it did several other less worthy proposals. It was a plan, however, which, if carried out, would have conduced largely to the public accommodation, an I it ought not to be abandoned. As we stated in The Sun of Wednesday evening, the re solutions to be adopted as sessional orders are quite distinct from the Bill of which notice was given previous to the re • cess. The latter provided for the winding-up the affairs of the company snd returning the amount of the deposits, less the fair expenses, to the parties entitled thereto. This can only be done by active measures to be adopted by the shareholders, expressive of their desire of such a result ; but it was manifest that much opposition might be given, and time consumed, before the signatures of the number of persons required by the Bill could be procured, and consequently, though a strong feeling might exist on the part of the shareholders to avail themselves of the provisions of the proposed Bill, the project might still be actively pressed on, and actually receive the final assent of the Legislature before the feelings of the scrip holders could receive an adequate expression. The governing body might, and frequently have, in terests other than, and distinct from, those of the scrip holders. As Lord DALHOUSIE well stated, "there We have read in one of the essayists of the last can tury, that where two politicians of opposite views have been for some time discussing the chae aCter and stabi lity of a Government, if the disputant, who is unfavour able to its continuance, should feel that his different views and arguments have been well challenged and re futed, his dernier resort is, not unfreqaeutly, to take a familiar hold of one of the buttons of his adversary's coat, and sinking his voice into a confidential whisper, to assure him that he has good information of the Pre mier's health being in a most unsatisfactory state. If such a conversation should happen whilst Parliament is not sitting, a few days suffice to set aside the gratuitous assumption ; if it should occur during the session, a few hours establish the same thing. In the mean while the discontented politician has beaten his retreat, rejoicing that whilst his own mind is rank ling with his failure in nut having combined another'. with his own prejudices, ne has, at least, started a presumption, calcu lated to disturb for the moment the triumphant composure of his antagonist. Much in the same way has a morning Contemporary been driven to a miserable expedient. After beating the air for several months with every c,ceivable weapon drawn from the armoury of ancient and exploded prejud:ces, after using up every species of invective, and hurling its missiles in every direction against the Government, to stamp it with the degrading marks of incompetency, treachery, and national suicide, it confidently announces that there is to be an early, if not an immediate, dissolution of Par liament. In cases of galloping consumption there is generally what is known to be a "lightening before death"—the surest sign of the patient being near his end, is the sudden•impression he is under, that his health is fast returning to him. The same delusion has ever taken our Contemporary. He takes it into his head that a state physician can be found to uphold a worn-out constitution by the power of the corn-laws ; that the House of Lords will still find means to prolong life by the continuance of the same stimulating regimen in which it has so long indulged, and without which it is fancied existence must immediately close. Such is the tenacity with which he clings to his own opinion, that he astonishes everybody by the strength of his hopes when they can only recognise the elements of despair. The dying monopolist builds his chance of recovery first upon his belief that aiter July the W higs will be strong enough to check the further progress of Sir R. PEEL as Prime Minister, and next upon the assurance he give s us that the Peers wil reject the Corn-lawßill. We look in vain for any suffla cient grounds for the latter opinion, and, without some specific reasons, we cannot concede the likelihood that the prophecy of a speedy dissolution comes from a quarter better enabled than others to judge of such a contingency. On the contrary, we confess that the vaticinations upon which he yen tnred during the past year do not inspire us with suffi cient confidence to receive implicitly the augury pro mulgated for the future. These are not the times when the House of Lords would willingly repudiate any great measure passed by a powerful majority in the Commons. They tried such a course under Lord GREY'S Govern ment, and were obliged to recoil from the shock that emanated from their inconsiderate policy. Sub sequently they refused their consent to several measures sent up by the Commons ; but then these were measures not of the first magnitude (with the exception of that which provided for the ap propriation of ecclesiastical revenues to secular pur poses), and one and all had only been passed by ma jorities far below the number of placemen having seats in the popular branch of the Legislature. Tne corn law is a measure second to none in its importance. Its necessity is lilt to be so great, that it has effected a revolution in the sentiments of the Premier—a man whose mind is of the highest order, and whose individual interests are bound up with the proprietors of the soil. A similar change has been wrought upon the minds of many other senators. And the conviction is the more' valuable from having been arrived at free from the excitement of candidates upon the hustings. The Duke of WEL LINGTON h a similar convert. His Grace stands aloof from any other influence tave that of a patri tic desire to act for the good of his country. Other Peers, like Lord ESSEX, &c., are daily swelling the ranks of the disciples of free trade. The country at large, as stated by the Minister, has within the last twelve mouths raised its voice in the same cause. That vast associa tion—the League —already confident in the speedy triumph of the great principle it embodied, seems con tent to remain passive. On the other hand, their oppo nents have tried every me ans, and tried them in vain, to turn the scales of public, o pinion by any counter-de monstration. These are matters the House of Peers will not heedlessly rtflect upon, and are to us assurances that their judgment will unite with that of the House of Commons. What the Whigs w ill do in the month o f Jul y , and after honourable the Corn-law Bill s h a ll b e enrolled on the st atute-book, it is not p er h aps so eas y to predict, though th is also has been ma d e su bj ect o f s peculation. Considering , however, to the btahnedyndare supporters tlow givingof the tlae Ministry, in opposition monopoly, it argues the improbabili t y of their hereafter taking a li ne o f pol i cy ten ding politically to strengthen those w h ose di scom f iture is as marked as their news supportare selfi s h and narrow. If these and such hairbrained speculations are the only vouchers for a dissolution, its rumour is a ricketty abortion indeed. Such Members, also, of the House of Peers, as might desire a continuance of the corn•laws, must feel uneasy under the weight of the cumbersome and spurious ar guments by which their ciuse is thus wantonly upheld. If ever they have felt themselves coaxed, flattered, and praised by their auxiliary of the press, awl, in turn, have lent their approving sm il e s, they must already be gin to b e sens ibl e t h at zeal may deg:nerato into indis cretion, and recognise the full force of the adage— " Pessiratun genus initn'etoruin laudeates.", were local interests which influenced them ; there were means of profit during the passing of the Bill, which were not without their weight. Be sides, there was the point of honour, which made them unwilling to give way to rival schemes. The governing bodies, therefore, bad often a sensible interest and a benefit in getting their Bill passed through both Houses of Parliament. It relieved them from a certain weight of responsibility, and enabled them to get the deposits, which, up to that time, remained in the hands of the Accountant-General. It was obvious, therefore, that the governing body had a direct interest in forcing on these Bills, and there could be no doubt that they were doing this contrary to the general wish of the great mass of the shareholders." It is impossible to doubt the truth of this statement, and there can scarcely be a second opinion but that the wish for the dissolution of the several companies is much more universal amongst the scripholders than in the managing committees. The former, too, are scattered in divers and, in many instances, remote parts of the A correspondence, whichis just now published by the Mayor of NOTTINGHAM, and which consists of some half-dozen communications between himself, as chair man of Lord LINCOLN'S election committee, and Mr. T. B. T. HILDIARD, induces us to make some retro spective remarks concerning the recent contest for the representation of South Nottingham. The circum stances to which this correspondence hears refe ' rence, and to which our observations are here applied, are simple enough in themselves ; and the deductions which must necessarily be drawn from them are so obvious, that we shall content ourselves with a mere narration of them, unaccompanied by any indig kingdom, and frequently their interests are so trivial as not to make it worth their while to take the trouble of attending a meeting or sending their proxies ; and they may else be un willing to have it known that they have dabbled in and mixed themselves up in railway speculations, of which so holy a horror now exists, and by which, if generally known, their credit might be seriously injured. For all these reasons the Bill alone might prove insufficient for attaining the end proposed ; and it was wisely consi dered that some active step on the part of the general body of the proprietary should be taken to show that they were still convinced of the prudence, of the advantages of the undertaking, and expressive of their desire for its continued progress. Hence the reso lutions now proposed as sessional orders, and few means could have been devised more equitable, or better cal culated to attain the desired object. They provide for a meeting taking place, of which due notice shall be circulated, wafted on the wings of the press, through all parts of our empire, and that full and sufficient time shall be given to every patty interested to appear, either in person or by deputy, and express his opinion; that such a number shall be present at such a meeting as that the general feeling of the shareholders may be fairly ascertained on the one hand, while on the other it is not so great as to offer any insuperable difficulty to the further progress of any well-digested and desirable project. The proposed Bill varies in some respects from, and is, in our opinion, an improvement on, the plan brought forward before Easter ; it provides that the provisional directors, or governing body, may call a meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of dissolving the company. In the event of their neglecting so to do they were compelled to take such a course, on receiving a requisition, signed by a small body of shareholders for that purpose. Precau tions, similar to those in the resolutions, are to be adopted, for the purpose of securing full publicity to the intended meeting, and a rea -1 sonable time to enable all parties interested to be represented thereat. At this meeting no ques tion but that of the dissolution of the company can be entertained ; there are minor details as to the manner of the election of the chairman, and the taking the sense of the meeting en the question, the constituency to con sist of the actual holders of the shares, and the produc tion of the scrip certificate to be evidence of the right to vote. A further provision is given to enable those who may wish to vote by proxy to deliver their votes before a Master Extraordinary of the Court of Chancery, or a justice of the peace—a very proper regulation, as there may be many persons unwilling to undertake a journey to the place of meet ing, and who might be unwilling to entrust their scrip to parties who could attend, of whom they might have little knowledge. Should a clear majority of the stock be i favour t of represent e d at that, meeting, and that a majority thereof voted a propos i t io nthe eon fo ce r rn wi s n h d o i u n l g d be u pthe affars o in fhe company, ipso facto dissolved. The scale of voting is to be in con formity wi •th the provisions of the Joint-Stock Comp 2 •e Regulations Acts of last sess i on — v i z., every sharet 11 e s r five should each confer a vote; every five shares above ten, and less than 100, should confer an additional vote, and every ten s h ares a b ove 100 an a ddi t i onal vote. Our readers will reco ll ec t t h a t w h en t h e measure was first brought forward we strongly urged in The Sun the necessity of having the right of voting given according to this rule, which had been adopted on mature consideration as the most equitable, as giving their due weight to the small holders, and preventing their wishes from being overruled by those who may have ether interests to consider besides those of the share holders—as, for instance, an existing company to whose lines the proposed one might act as a feeder ; or, on the other hand, might possibly prove a rival. A clear ma jority of the whole stock should give the power of disso• lution, but as it might be impossible to procure such a declaration of opinion, there is a further provision, that in the event of one-third of the whole stock being re presented at a meeting the question of dissolution may be entertained ; and if three-fifths of the stock repre sented at the meeting should be in favour of the dissolu tion, that should be sufficient, and the company dissolled Both plans appear to have been well matured, and we are convinced that they will be received by the country at large with the same unanimity and approbation with which their introduction was last night hailed in both Houses. nant or irate commentaries. We do this solely because we are desirous of presenting our readers with a speci men of the kind of moral (?) force with which a rotten cause is attempted to be bolstered up, and because, more• over, we conceive the facts themselves are the most bitter reproof which can be pronounced against the culpable. A brief but significant episode in the electioneer ing contest of South Nottinghamshire will possibly be remembered by most parties ; it transpired upon the declaration of the state of the poll at Newark, and bore reference more particularly to the opposite candidates. Lord LINCOLN taxed his antagonist with having accused himself or his committee of bribery in canvassing ; be stigmatised this accusation as " a deliberate falsehood," though he did not apply that expression of rebuttal to Mr. lIILDYARD personally, seeing that that gentleman must "of course have stated it on the authority of another ;" he required the announcement of tha authority from his opponent as a gentleman and as a Member for the county ; or, at the least, he re minded him that the enactments against bribery were still open, and inquired if he intended a prosecution ? Mr. HILDYARD in reply, acknowledged having charged (not his Lordship, but) the free-trade committee of Nottingham with the grossest species of corruption; that charge he wished again most distinctly to asse verate ; he was prepared, in fact, to prove by the most incontestible evidence that those free traders had tendered a bribe of 23/. to two of his own constituents, for the purpose of engaging their votes for the opposite interest; at the same time, however, he declined divulging his authority, while he cautiously ab stained from pledging himself to a presecution of the accused committee. This latter evidence of prudence on the part of the newly-elected legislator, nevertheless elicited from the mob of his supporters a valiant decla ration of their resolve to carry out the prosecution. Since that period, up to the present moment, nothing whatever has bean heard of any proceedings, however small, having been taken to substantiate so sweeping and damning an accusation against a large body of re. spectaole gentlemen. Nothing whatever. Not a single whisper of elucidation ; not ono solitary indication of the proofs which had been so loudly and ostentatiously vaunted I The accusation, however, had been uttered A gross, a most heinous, and most despicable crime had been imputed to the free-trade committee of Nottingham. They stood before their fellow men branded with a supposed guilt. Silence, under these peculiar circumstances, was of course impossible; the members of Lord LuscoLN's committee had characters individually to defend, and a character collectively to maintain. These considerations im pelled their chairman, Mr. Tnomas HERBERT, Mayor of Nottingham, to address a communication on the 12th of March to Mr. HILDYARD, inquiring therein if the parti culars of the election proceedings at Newark, above enu merated, and published in the Nottingham Journal, were accurately reported, and it so, requiring Mr. lIILDTARD either " to substantiate the same, or openly to ackowledge that he had been misinformed on the matter," accompany ing this requisition with a most absolute repudiation of the charge as false, both on his own part as chairman, and his colleagues, as members of the free-trade committee. To this letter the lion. Member for Nottingham returns a laconic answer on the 14th March, stating the "re port" in question to be " substantially correct," and declaring that he can perceive no reason for altering his opinions as therein expressed. Two other letters were thereon forwarded by Mr. HERBERT at different times to Mr. HILDY A. RD , " once yon,anl,niitntdhillaae m err;asdds o eiNy, r mror e taeupaotgrnil e :ud i reti rero p euti ern h fnepasg a wruci t sritb i tfil c snlrl aiietoatnlasm.l unwilling denying ehl the Llaiher, seeat truth ,ur,Bo.lg bwtfehe, irlt of hafroaet the hleaeoe t vnnhpvegeeeret present charge," ei h sejtne a hutn r mes g dmtra e sl of Nottingham to his former communication tht rihhea a ei Tet a ::: only explanation it was his intention to make," and which amounts in fact to no explanation whatever. One other letter terminates this epistolary squabble--a letter from the chairman of the free-trade committee, ad dressed to Mr. T. B. T. HILDYARD, and couched in the 1,31 thatht to. h oho a nn e r t . following language: — "In bringing to a close this correspondence, and sub mitting it to the public, in vindication of myself and those who acted with me during the late election, it only remains for me t o express my deep regret th a t you should be so far mistaken in what is due to your recently acquired elevation, to say nothing of your personal character, as to commence your public career with a wretched libel on a respectable portion of yo ur constituents." True to our original announcement, we shall not add to this narrative the addenda of our disgust, or the ap pendix of our indignation. Such additions are super fluous adorned with its divets cha r a cte r istics, that fi th u e ou ta s the moral is already so p ointed in itself, and le; so We know not whether there are many such priests i❑ Ireland as the Rev. J. SAVAGE, of Mullingar, the patron of the murdered martyr and the sainted SEERY ; but if only a few such firebrands are scattered throughout each county, all the mystery of the numerous assassinations that degrade the Irish people may be easily cleared up. This SEERY, it will be remembered, was con victed of attempting to assassinate Sir FRANCIS 1 10PKINS, and convicted on evidence about which there ac t tt own sort to of cannot n be the possibility of a doubt. Tie was hfairarm itb la is nd i . n st t e e w nd a e r d d, v a ic n t d im a , ft h e e rw h a ad rds liv r e e d nt w ed ith a belonging to S u . v a , . ism, who, on being firedat as to Madrid th other entered differences,san Santiago 0 Rome. ep P ol a i i: y ers and letters to the 16th instant have been Ministersreceived, still continuedstate tha that the unadjusted. diff en In nes additionaniorlg the to new e Itit is said that the Ministry are disagreed was troombeoopreudrsutehdat intrigue an regard toat:ieolofouortt to set General SERRANO at the head of the new Ministry, infi w hich M. SALAM kI'ICA would have the portfolio of , nanc " . M. Ismarz ' ' had beea sent for several times by the , ita:Ex, on the 15th and 16th. The Esperanza announces that General VintAwaGA, the Captain-General of Galacia, h ad occupied the place had fled to Vigo and Pentevedra, on the llht, an d that the insurgents who both which lac were in their po3seLsiwa. It is stated that Tll.'! SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 25 , IMO. the Portuguese Govssie - nent have adopted NI tres to pre vent them from receiving succours from that country. El Tiemp) publishes a letter from M. EGANA, in which the worthy nominee of CHRISTINA denies that he is an Abso lutist, and takes credit to himself for having for the last twenty years rendered essential service to the Liberal party. The Eco d.d Comercio says, " It is reported that the whole Ministry has resigned, and an old Minister of Queen CHRIS TINA sent for to form a new Cabinet refused that honour." There was a report of a Ministry under GONZALES Batr°, whilst others talk of PAcitEco, and rumours are afloat that the powers in the highest places were at a loss what course to take. NAnvatz has left Bayonne for Paris, where he was ex pected to arrived on Wednesday. Don ENRIQUE was still at Bayonne. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 16.—Three per Cents., 3074 for Money • Five per Cents., not quoted ; Bank of St. Ferdin and, 280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 130 ; General Assurance, 85 ; Alliance, 160 ; Anchor, 168 ; GasCompauy, 600. Exchanges—London, 37%; Paris, 16 3. The Paris papers of Wednesday have been received. The Journal des Debats publishes the following particulars of th first examination of LECOMTE :-- " At 12 o'clock this day Lecomte was conveyed in a hack ney-coach from the Conciergerie to the prison of the Lux embourg. Ile has been interrogated by the Chancellor and the six Commissioners appointed by the Court. At 5 o'clock Lecomte was brought back to the Conciergerie, the prison of the Luxembourg not being 3 et completed, notwithstand ing the exertions of the operatives, who labour night and day. It is believed, however, that the prison will be ready for his reception to-morrow. Lecomte affects a tranquillity which his features belie, whilst, on the contrary, he appear} to be internally agitated in no small degree. The gun with which the crime was effected was likewise brought to Paris yesterday. Lecomte, in the examination which he under went at Fontainbleau,is said to have exhibited a degree of de jection, which is not in accordance with the energetic character attributed to him. It is now certain that Lecomte a sports man by profession, when committing the crime did not use his own gun, which was found at his lodgings. He procured the gun, which he tired on the day of the crime, by means which will be revealed during the course of the trial." The Journal de Toulouse, of the 18th, subjoins the follow- ing to the publication of the telegraphic dispatch, dated Paris, April 17th, announcing the attempt of the previous day : "The following fact, which appeared at first as insignifi cant, acquires some importance in consequence of the at tempt mentioned in the foregoing telegraphic dispatch. An elevated functionary of our City received three days since a letter dated Paris, the 17th of April, and signed with a fictitious name. In this letter the death of the King was announced." - - - Lord PALmEnwroNhaa recived an autograph letter from the - - - KING, in reply to the one he had addressed to his MAJESTY on the occasion of the attempt of LEcoMTE. His Lordship on Wednesday presided over a meeting of the English resi dents in Paris, assembled for the purpose of drawing up an address to the KING, on his escape. The meeting, which was very fully attended, was held at Lawson's Hotel. Imtartrat PACIIA was expected in Paris o❑ Friday, lie will reside in the Elys6e Bourbon, and during his stay there will give a series of reviews, on a large scale, The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, appointed to examine the Bill for extending the law relating to foreign refugees, have made their report, which gives numerous sta tistical details as to the number and state of the refugees at present in France. The Committee adds, that it availed it self of the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to de mand some explanations relative to the occupation of the free town of Cracow by the troops of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The Minister replied that he was assured the oc cupation was merely a military measure induced by neces sity, and that it would cease with the necessity which gave rise to it. The Epoque, the Ministerial paper, publishes a long ac count of a conspiracy which had been discovered in Greece, to dethrone King Onto, and assassinate COLETTI, which conspiracy it attributes to the machinations of Russia. The conspiracy was to have broken out, according to the Epoque, which probably speaks from the inspiration of M. PISCATORY , on the 6th of April. As to the reliance which is to be placed on this story, we leave our readers to judge when they shall have perused the following extract from the arti cle in question :- "The Government was informed of all that was preparing, but, having no proof, it could not proceed against the con spirators." The Funds remained stationary on the Paris Bourse on Wednes day, and but little business was transacted. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 55c.; the Five per Cents 119 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,228 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,0371. 50c. ; Havre, 7501. ; Great Northern, 763 f. 73e. ; Avignon, 916 f. ?sc. ; Vierzon, 6sot. ; Bordeaux, 625 f. 50e. ; Boulogne, 505 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 420 f. ; Basle, 230 f. ; Dieppe, 457 f. 50c.; Paris and Stras burg, 511 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 541 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 570 f. ; Spanish Tree per Cents., 36% ; ditto Domestic Debt, 30%. The following are the quotations in the new lines :- Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 510 f. ; ditto (Le cointe), 50f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 503 f. ; Charleroi, 495 f. LYONS, APRIL 20.-Marseilles and Avignon, 898 f. 75e. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,203 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,025 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 568 f. 75c. SUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 23. Boulogne and Amiens, 12 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espleta), 2% -Dutch Rhenish, 6 -Great Northern of France Con stituted, 151% -Lyons and Avignon, 2-Luxembourg, 1% -Over Yssel, 31y dis.-Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5%-Sambre and Meuse, 5 -Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%-West Flanders, 2. ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY.—The Right Hon. Lord Ashley will preside at the anniversary festival of the above excel lent society, which is announced for this evening at the Albion Tavern. Ou Tuesday afternoon an infuriated cow escaped from the Liverpool slaughter-houses, and in its furious progress through the streets, tossed a boy from fifteen to twenty feet in the air. Fortunately no bones were broken, and he is not dangerously hurt —Manchester Guardian. OXFORD, APRIL 21.—A formal contradiction has ap peared of the statement that the Duke of Marlborough is about to let Blenheim Palace to the Queen Dowager. The Rev. Mr. Sibthorp is now here on a visit to some of his old college friends. It is said that he has imposed on him self a silence of three years from his usual pulpit minis trations, as a mark of penitential regret for having, in a moment of ill-judged excitement, joined the Romish coin• a anion A monument has been erected at Stoke Church, Berkshire, to the memory of the late Lord Montague. The Earl of Glengall is suffering • from indisposition at his seat, Caher Castle, country Tipperary. Mr. C. B. Hamilton, M.P. for Aylesbury, has been detained at Nice, and prevented attending his Parliamentary duties in London, by a severe attack of fever, from which the honourable gentleman is at present slowly recovering.—Galignara's Messenger. The Right Honourable Richard Lalor Sheil, M.l'., will arrive at his mansion, Eccleston-square, Pimlico, in tha course of the ensuing week, from Madeira, where he has been staying for some months. Captain Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.O 8., left town on Thur.day afternoon, for Portsmouth, to hoist a commodore's broad pendant on board the Queen, 110, as second in command of the Experimental Squadron. PUNISHMENT FOR CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.—A very novel and extraordinary procession took place on Thursday, the 2d instant, at King's Coed, in the parish of Llandenny, near Pontypool. On the morning of that day, Elizabeth, the wife of a farm labourer of the name of Cole, and a farmer residing near, had been found to sin against the seventh commandment.' The husband immediately communicated the knowledge of his rib's infidelity and of his own injury to some !limb, who, upon due deliberation, advised him to seize the aggressor and his paramour, and bind them back to back. This being accomplished, they were placed upon a hurdle, and fas tened to a ladder. They were then mounted upon the shoulders of some lusty rustics, accompanied by about fifty persons, who appeared delighted with the fun. They visited every farm-house in the vil lage, thus elevated—" Sure such a pair was never seen." The farmer and his paramour seemed regardless of the degradation they were undergoing, and appeared quite at ease, the former smoking a pipe. The attendants in the procession imagining that he displayed too much levity and indifference in the situation be had by his indis cretion placed himself, insisted he should no longer indulge in the pleacure he derived from the fumes of the weed, and he Is as reluc tantly compelled to relinquish she solace he experienced from its enjoyment. From ten in the morning till darkness drew a veil over the proceedings were they thus publicly exposed 133 such Lynch law. —Monmouth Merlin. SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE'S ARRIVAL AT ST. PETERS BURGII.—Letters are in town announcing the arrival of Sir Moses and Lady Monteflure and suite at the Russian capital, in the night before the let of April. Tho paragraph, copied from some foreign source, which reported two audiences granted by the Emperor to the no bl e . hearted knight, was at least premature— Voice of Jacob. —-- - - THE 1. ,, ND0N HOSPITAL—The anniv-rsary festival of this hospital took place ou Thursday evening at the London Tavern, ltishopsgate-street. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner, amongst whom were his royal highness the Duko of Cam bridge (in the chair), the Lord Bishop ut Lichfield, Sir William Clay, M.P., William Colton, Esq., David Salomons, Esq., William Davis, Esq., Robert Danbury, Esq., and other munificent patrons of the in stitution. The amount of subscriptions announced was the follow ing : His Royal Highness the Duke of CambrAge, 201., the East and West India Dock Company, 1501. ; H. C. Telly, Esq., 30 guineas ; William Colton, Esq., 101. 10s. ; the London Dock Company, 100/. ; St. liather;oe Dock Company, 211. ; by R. Hanbury, Esq., treasurer, _ . 1681. ; by J. Dityls, Esq., 2771.; by the gentlemen of the Hebrew 2281. 12s. 16.1. ; Sir William Clay, M.P., 51.; Colonel Fox, M.P., 101. ; Thomas Masterman, Esq., 31. P., 30 guineas. The total amount of the collection announced was I,On. Mr. Jones, carver and gilder, of this city, has in his possession a canary bird, gifted with the power of articulating clearly several wori.s. Mr. Jones had the honour of presenting the bird to her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday week, when her 'Majesty expressed herself much pleased with the feathered curiosity.—Huth Chronicle. lEEE " No House' OF NrONDAY.—The names of Mr. Lockhart and Lord John Chichester were by mistake omitted among the list of those present, which appeared in our Tuesday's iiispression. On Thursday morning some thousands of brent geese passed this town, about a mile at sea. There was a continuous stream of them for at least two hours ; and their course was from east to west. Our fishermen say that their passage is indicative of stormy weather. Porpoises were also seen p l an ing about the Chain Pier at the same time.—Brighton Gazette of Thw'sday. ANCIENT HORNS.—A correspondent to a morning paper announces that in excavating the ground at Goulstoee-square , Whitechapel, for the large tank for the first model establishment of public baths and washhouses, the workmen came to a stratum of the horns of cattle, covering an area of at least fifty feet square, and varying from three to four feet in thickness. How, when, and why can this large deposit of horns have been made ? They are gese rally of a large size, and do not appear to have been broken when they were deposited. It most be long since, probably centuries, that they can have been thrown aside in such numbers as valueless. The discovery is au unfortunate one for the committee who are construct ing the baths and washhouses, as it necessarily adds considerably to their expense in making the tank. A SMALL RATIL—On Thursday mornint , a vestry mceting was held in the vestry-room of Christchurch, Illackfriars • road, to make a Minister's rate ; the Hector, the Rev. Mr. Mapleton, in the chair. Mr. Churchwarden Powell said, they were required to pay the Rector the sum of 601, annually ; that last year the rate was made at three-eighths of a penny in the pound, 301. of which remained to be collected. Besides this, there was a balance ill hand ; therefore a rate of one farthing In the pound would be suffi cient for the ensuing rate. Mr. Ho* son then moved, "that a farthing rate be made, which, being agreed to, ten of the inhabitants then signed tile deed, and the rate was declared robe duly made. COMMEMORATD,N OF SFIAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY-- The celebration of this interesting festival took place on Thursday at Stratlord-sn-Avon. A meeting of the Royal Shakspereau Club was held in the morning, Dr. Thomson in the chair. At twelve o'clock a concert of sacred music was given in the Collegiate church for the benefit of the infirmary, and at three o'clock, a dinner got up iu honour tf the occasion by the old club, took place at the Falcon, the landlord of the hotel In the chair. But the great feature of the day was the dinner of the lt•ayal Club at the Sbakspere Rooms, presided over by Charles Wren Hoskyns, Esq., and attended by upwards of a hundred members, among whom were the Mayer of Stratford, Phillips, Esq., )LP., \V. It. Harding, Esq., J. R. West, Esq., H. Granville, Esq., J. B. Freer, Esq., D. Gallon , Esq. , R. J. Alty, Esq., T. Thomson, .D., W. 1). Hunt, Esq., It. Greaves, Esq., D. Rice, Esq., W. C. Lucy, Esq., W. Rusman, Esq., E. D. Ford, Esq., P. F. Flower, Esq., &c,, &C. 114xTR404p/s4 ". Sincipg.—Yesterday morning a woman named Fite, residing at No. 2i, Greer,street, Stepney, com mitted a very singular act of self-destruction. The deceased was the widow of a captain of a merchant ship, who died about three months ago. She had ever since been in a low and desponding state of mind. On Thursday morning her father, a very aged man, whose breakfast was usually prepared by his daughter, missed her on coming down stairs, and on making search for her he found her in the waterbatt in the yard, quits dead. bite had only her nightgown on. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a fair business doing in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, and the sales reached nearly 7,000 bags, nearly all to the trade. Prices were steady. Shares continued to im prove, and a good business was done. The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Wickham was well attended yesterday, and very good price a were obtained, 2,700 shares being purchased :—Cornwall and Central Devon, 308 6d—South Midland, 39s—North Staff .rdshire, 85s— Bridgewater and MinPhead. 19s—Eastern Counties York Extension. 311 6d—.Ditto, 80s—East Indian, lls—London and Manchester (Remington), 18a—Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries, 13s 6d—Goole and Doncaster, 30s—North Kent, 26s—Oxford and Salisbury Direct, 7s—Great Kent Atmospheric, 33s—Midland and Eastern Counties, 19s— Metropolitan Railways Junction, Bs—Louvain and Jemeppe, 25s 6d—South Eastern and Dover, No. 4. 46s—Warwick and Worcester, 15s—Shrewsbury and Birmin4ham, 41s—London and York, 35s—Waveney Valley, 15s—Northumberland and Lancashire, 23s 6d—Northern and Southern Connecting, 17s —Cornwall and Central Devon, 30s 6d. There has been an arrival from Hobart Town, with ad vices of January 10. The colony Was still annoyed in par ticular districts, Prosrer's Plain's, for instance, with small bands of bushrangers, but we are glad to find that the police were more on the alert, and that captures were inure frequent. The war steamer Driver had arrived, en route for New &a land. _ The Stock Market has not undergone much variation, and the quotations are maintained at the advance of yesterday afternoon. Consols realise 96 to 96% for present transfer, and 96% to 93% for time. The premium on Exchequer bills has been up to 255. and 275., and money is certainly easier already on account of the Railway Relief Bill. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 96% to 97%. Bank Stock is steady, at 204% to 205. The Foreign Stock Market, has been very quiescent. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 361: ; to 36% ; Brazil Stock is marked 81 to 82; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent. are 59 1 / 9 . The Share Market has been very firm. The new and old lines are all likely to benefit, it is thought, by the " weed ing," and are certainly much more buoyant this week. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. .. 204 Yi 205 Bank Stock .. CI,O.SING PRICES. 205 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95 95 1 , 4 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% 96 96 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 9714 96% 97% 96% f.ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 % 10 India Bonds, 1,000/. . Ditto, under 1,000/. .. . Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1,0001... 5001. -. Ditto. Small 31 p 96q% 96 1 4 136c1. 27 25 27 pm. 27 27 24 pm. 24 27 24 pm. 24 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 82 82 Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 81 80 Danish, 3 per Cent - • • . • . • . 87• X 87s( Spanish Bondi, 5 per Cent . . _ Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. AA 5% Ditto, Three per Cent .. ~ .. , Ditto for the Account .. .. •. 3P414 36% D;videntla an the above payable in London. . . _ __ __ Dutch Two.antd-a-Half per Cent_ 59% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% PRICES Or RAILWAY SUAREZ. BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. .• • • 10 •• • • 3 •••'• • • • " 3 Birmingham and Glouceiter ..100 ....125 ..... . .. 125 Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425. - .......... 1% dis. Caledonian _ .. 10 .... 6% 66% %% 6% Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1 .......... 1 Ditto, Extension .. 254 - Chester and Holyhead .. •• 227/ - _• • Cork and Waterford .. • . .......... Derby, Gainshoro', & Gt. Grimsby 1% .... Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% 1 Direct M anc hester (ltastrick's) .. 5 3% • ..... Direct Northern .. • • .. .... 1%...... .... Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 Dublin and Galway .• • . .• 4 .... 2 .. Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165... 23 1, ,E %23 23% Ditto New • . • • .. 81. 165... _ 7ti% p • Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. - ... Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2 . 6 /. 13 s. 4 d. 1A Ditto, York Extension 105..... '1 X% Edinburgh and Glasgow • • .. 50 72% Ditto 5.; Shares .. .. • • • • 10 16% _ Ely and Huntingdon 714 Great. North of England . ..100 _ - Ditto, New .. .. • .. .... - Great Western .. 85 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 17% 17 .. Hull and Selby .. .. 20 ....lop% Lordon an Birmingham ..•100 ...•22 3 14 225 Ditto Thirds .. .. 24 61% ...... Ditto Quarters , . .. 2 .. 28% 28 Ditto Fifths .. • • .. 2 London anti Black wall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 2 % •• • • 37 4 4 4 London and Brighton .. 50 .... 64% Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 ... 29% London and Croydon .. 13/. 15a. 9d. 22% . Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... 934._ London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. - Do. Preter. or Privilege .. 18/. 17s. 2d. - London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 'g ..... London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 77 78 Ditto, New . 12% .... 22 1 ,4 .... • ..... London and York .. • • • • • • 2 % •• • • 1 %% • Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 2 % • • • 11 '2%1% ••• • • • Lynn and Ely 10 .... Lynn and Bereham .. 10 .... 6 Manchester and Leeds .. • . .. 82 - Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .... 8% Ditto, Fifths 3 .... 11% % Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. 77% 78 Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 4 .... 12% g Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .... 8% .. Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... par Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... Midland . ..100 ....145 147.... • • Ditto, New 18 .... 30% 31% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 109 ....118% Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 445 i. Newcastle and. Berwick .. .. 10 .... 18% 19 18% North British .. .. 20 .... 25% 26 ...... Ditto, Half Shares .. ... Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • 1% 1% .. . .... • • • Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... 70 North Staffordshire .. • • 425. • 2%% 2 p.... Norwich and Brandon .. .. 18 .... 25 Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 8 1 ,4 8........ Perth and Inverness •• 254 .... ..... Portsmouth Direct .. .• .. 334 .... 32% _ Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 13% 3 4 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% 2% 21,. .... Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1% 1 dis South Devon. .. • . .. 35 .... - South Midland 425..... % dig....... South Eastern and Dovor 33% .... 37 1,1 Do., New (do. 331. 6s. Bd.) No. 2. 10 .. .. 12% . Do., New (do. 30i.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 14% 15 Do.. New (tto. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% 2;1.......... West Riding Union .• .. 425. - Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 2% York and Lancaster .. 2% - ...... York and North 3lidle"id 50 .... 98 97 . Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 461% Ditto. Extension 15 .... 33 •••••••••• Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten. • • 1 •• • . 9% 9 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. • • • • 12 •• • • 1 1 3 4 •. ••• • • • Dutch Rhenish .. , . .. 5 t ••• • •• • • ) 4 • East Indian . ss. _ • Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .. .. 15 % Namur and Liege .. 4 .... 1 ••• • • Orleans and Berdeaux .. 6 .... 1 cry, I l Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... - 554 . . • Revert and Havre .. 20 .... 2934 Sambre and Meuse' .. Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 MINES. P 1% .. 72% .. 16 • ........ 2131;-, 12% 81,E par 11,E 147 31 1 A 11814 45% 18Y(1 8 1 A 1% 70 2 % P 23% - 13% 1 dis. % dis. 37% 12% 1h1) 2% __l% Real del Monte, Unregistered • ... 3 3 4 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amaerpm ....C.F. 1200% -Gibraltar ... 9 ... Ditto at sight • 12,- 7 1 A Leghorn Rotterdard ...... 2 U l2 11 Genoa .... Antwerp ••..•• • • .. 26 20 Milan .. bemburgh ......M.B. 14 Venice...... ...... Altona • • ..... • - 391 P4ris, 3 days'sdghts.. • . 2:") 90 Palermo, per 0z...... , . D tto, 3 months.... 26 15 Lisbon.. Marseilles •••• • • • 26 20 Upon Boardeaux..... . Frankfort on Maine.... 123 lllahia Peteraburgh, 3 Us — Ayras ...... Berlin ............ • . New York, 21 days' sight Vjenna, effec.flo .. Tr:este, ditto.... • • Madrid • . Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 36% Portugal Gal Coin .. 3 17 5 Bilbao.. • • • — , New iioublooas ...... 0 0 0 Barcelona • . ...... New Dollars ........ 0 0 0 Seville.. ......... 30 75 .• . 24 BAc'hts, EiNt5L/VND. (From last Nklit's Gazette.) to Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and tth of Victoria, cap. 32, for tae Week ending on Saturday, the 13th day of April, 1846. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes i55ued........ 27,031,510 Government debt • . 11,015,100 Other securities • . 2,931,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,24,59:3 Silver bullion .... • • 1,780,917 £27,031,510 I £ 27,031,510 M. MARS TALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 23d day of April, 1846. DAN CI NG DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000 i Government securi -3,359,084 ties (including Dead Public deposits (in- Weight Annuity). • 13,957,865 eluding Exchequer, Other securities •• .. 18,73 , 1,602 Commissioners of Notes .......... .... 6,515,990 National Debt, Sav- Gold and silver coin. • 595,660 ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts)• • 3,197,029 Other deposits • • •• • • 17,710,987 Seven day and other 986,017 4 39,806,117 Dated the 23d day of April, 184, £39,806,117 hi. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. LLOYD'S SHI PPIN G. LONDON, APRIL 24.—Wind at noon N.E., light breeze, and hazy. LIVE.RPOOL, APRIL 23.—Wind E.S.E. mod.—Arrd. Blorenge, Banks, Calcutta • loss of bulwark, Ste. , in a g ale. CLYDE, APRIL '22.—Wind N,E.—Arrd. St. John, Richardson, St. John's, New Brunswick; Helena, Morris, Halifax. Sid. Marquis of Hastings, Sabiston, Quebec ; Tay, Langwello, ditto. SUIELDS, Aram 22.—Wind N. - .E.—Shi. Louisa Cassar, Wanks, Rio Janeiro. DEAL, APRIL 23.—Wind E.N.E.--Arrd. 21st, Fanchow, Cronholm, New York, and sailed for Hamburgh; 22d, Carl Gustaf, Lerick, Per nambuco, and sailed for Stockholm ; 23d, Sonde, Wistman, ditto, and sailed for liddewalla ; Eliza, Volkersen, Angostura, and sailed for Hamburgh; Hilgenda Ada, Hendricks, Surinam, and sailed fur Am sterdam ; Apollo, Seldhason, Havannah, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Agatha-Catharina, Omuesson St. Thomas's, and sailed for Copen• liagen; Bestial], Ilaersloop, New Orleans, and sailed, for Amsterdam; Echo, Akerson, Charleston, and sailed for Stettin. Arrd. from the river and shl., 23d, Queen, Davey, Calcutta; John Fleming, Hamli n, Bombay; Annabella, Paterson, Trinidad; Spheroid, Bailile, at. Vin cent; Crusader, Laralestier, Sc. Thomas's. _ I MPROVEMENT S IN THE ClTY.—Wednesday nearly twenty houses in Great Saffron-hill, Saffron-street, and Lilly-street, on the line intended fur the new-street from Farringdon-street to the back of the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, were disposed of by auction, by order of the Clerkenwell Im p rovement Commissioners, and are to be removed for the contemplated alterations. During the last twelve menths the commissioners have been in treaty with the Bishop of Ely and Sir 11. Engletield, Bart., who have estates between the above bites and the Sessions-Louse, to purchase the property, for which th,y have borrowed funds to the anment of aboVi2 60,0001.; bat they Lave not succeeded, and it is expected that a a tbo j l e u c r ot y on t u pi ; us i se h a a t ih v ,de e to decide upon the respective claims. Some houses have been bought by the Commissioners to form a new street into Charles-street, avoid the declivity as veh it :e i l s es in w teld il i lb e e d line into Cow-cross. An effort his been made to restore John Day, jun , the hor e jockey, to his duties on the course, by presenting a memo rial, signed by Lord Palmerston and Lord John Fitzroy, and many gentlemen, to the stewards of the Jockey Club for a remission of the sentence passed by them. An answer has been returned that the stewards of the Jockey Club cannot rescind the sentence pronounced by them on John Day. .I.2RESCZIBING BY TELEGRAPH.—The electric tele graph is far more extensively diffused in America than with us, and is commonly applied to the purposos of the every-day business of life ; but we were not prepared to hear that the personal visits of physicians are dispensed with, electricity answering every end. The Lockport Daily Courier says, early in the l'ot enoon yesterday a gen tleman stepped into the Telegraph office at Buffalo, and desired to have Dr. Stevens, who resides in this village, called into the office, to he wished to have some conversation with him. The Doctor was summoned, when the gentleman at Buffalo said his wife was ill, and desires Dr. Stevens to prescribe for her. The physician obtained a lull and accurate statement of the patient's symptoms and c•ndi tions, and then telegraphed his prescription. It is presumed the pa tient did well, as the local journal stated the Doctor was to have been consulted again in the afternoon If the morning's prescriptions were not elleetual. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, attended by Lady Portman, visited the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Her Ma:estyafteT wards took a carriage drive. The Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Colonel Grey, was in attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.- Colonel Seymour, visted the National Gallery yesterday, and was received by the keeper, Mr. Eastlake. The Prince honoured the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours with a visit in Pall-mall East, and also honoured the exhibition of the New Society of Painters it. Water Colours in Pall-mall, with a visit. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales, Prince Ali fred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took an airing in an open carriage and four, yesterday, acccmparded by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady Port man, Hon. Miss Napier, Lord livron. Hon. Colonel Gray, and Lieutenaut-Colonel Seymour, honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. His Royal ligoness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Ma:esty the Q ueen D owager yesterday at Marlborough House. Their Royal H i ghnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and tile Princess Marv, honoured with a v•sit yes terday foe Exhibiti on o f the New Society of Pal Jters in Water Cob urs in Pall. mall. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge v:sled her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Barclay, M.P. ; Mr. Hunter, from the Mauritius ; Mr. Blythe, Mr. Gurney. Barclay, Mr. A. L. Gower, and Sir J. R. Reid, bad an in terview with Mr. Secretary Gladstone on Thursday at the Colonial-office, A Committee of the Commission for promoting and encou raging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace at West minster had a meeting yesterday, at Gwvdyr House. White hall. There were present, Viscount 'Canning, Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert H. Inglis, and Mr. Hallam. Mr. East lake, the Secretary, was in attendance. A deputation from the Dublin Royal Exchange Stock and Sharebroken' Association had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a spe cial general meeting yesterday. There were present, the Archbishop of Canterbury, thu Bishops of Bangor, Carlisle, Hereford, Rochester, and Worcester. The Bishop of London and Earl Derawarr had interviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispaches were also received yesterday from the Governor of New Zealand. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BURTON CONSTABLE RACES.—WEDNXSDAY. The Gold Cup Stakes of 7 soya each, 2 ft; the second to save his stake; four yrs old, 10st 91b; five, list 71b; six, 12st ; and aged, 12st 21b; mares and geldings allowed albs; winners once 51b, twice 71b extra. Gentlemen riders. Two miles and a half. Mr. W. Baxter's b g by Contest, out of sister to Hamlet, 4 yrs (Captain Broadley) 1 Sir C. Constable na Donna Anna, 6 yrs— a Colonel Thompson's Hamlet, aged 3 Mr. J. D. Robson's Cataract, 6 yrq ... 4 Won very easy. The Farmers' Purse by Subs. of 5 sous. each and 10 added, once round and a distance, was won in two heats by Mr. L. Wright's Erebus, 5 yrs (➢lr. 11. Baxter), beating Aggravator and Father Mathuw. The Drawing Room Stakes of 5 Povs. each, with 30 adde4/ by the town of Hull. One mile and three quarters. Mr. Harland's The Cossack Maid, 3 yrs...(Wintringham) 11. Sir J. Gerard's Quebec, 6 yrs Mr. L. Fox's Little John, 5 yrs The Holderness Handicap of 10 soya. each, with 20 added by the town of Hedon. One mile and three-quarters. Mr. L. Fox's Little John, 5 yrs, Bst (VT. Oates) 1 Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b .... 2 Mr. Raworth'a Kilgram, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b 21 7 4 3% liq 5% 23% 7% P 100 225 DURHAM R ACES.—Tnu RSDAY. The Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added; three , yrs, 63t 101 b ; four, Bst 3113; five, Bst 11Ib ; six, 9st ; mares and geldings allowed 3lbs ; winners of 1001. 51bs. extra.• One mile and a half. 5 Subs. Mr. Arrowsinith's Tractarian, 3 yrs . Mr. Cook's Shadow, aged Mr. G. Salvin's Marian Ramsay, 4 yrs 3; Mr. White'ock's Fair Rosamond, 5 yrs 6 to 4 agst Marian Ramsay, 2 to 1 agst Shadow, and 2 to It against Tractarian. Wo❑ cleverly by half a length. The Maiden Plate of 50/., for three-yrs-old, 7st 51b ; Thu r, Bst SA); five, Bst 101 b ; mares, &c., allowed 31bs. Hea two miles. Mr. Haworth's Robin Burns, 4 yrs Mr. Andrew's Duke of Kent, 4 yrs Mr. Benson's Eleanor, 6 yrs 0 0 0 0 Mr. R. Johnson's br cby Jerry, doy Eboe, 4 yrs 0 0 0 0 Mr. J. Oates' ti cby Giraffe—Thrapston's (1,4 yrs 0 0 0 0 Mr. Willie's Golden Bee, 3 yrs ..... 0 0 0 sdr Mr. Dawson's Fair, Fat, and Forty, 4 yrs Mr. Meiklam's The Parson's Clerk, 4 yrs The first, we presume, was a dead heat, the others we :e well contested. Match-40 sovs., lOst 71b each, two miles, Mr. R. F,toc' dale's Ariel, agst Mr. %Vest's Queen of Hearts, agen. A /lel came in first, but being short of weight the race was gi yen to Queen of Hearts; it is doubtless, however, if a'ne can claim the stake, because she did not pass the post. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Thursday was the third of the long Thursdays, and the first this season of Il Barbiere. Grisi, who has re/cJv ered completely from her recent indisposition, and was in excel lent voice, sung and acted Rosins more delightfully than ever. Mario looked the Count Alm‘viva completely, and sung the music deliciously. Fornasari was as lieit and active as a feather in the Barber, and rattled through the part with the most mercurial spirit ; but the part of the night was th e Bartolo of Lablache. Actors and audience were alike con - vulsed with laughter. His son, F. Lablacb.e, was the Dun Basilio, and he made B as ili o , w hi c h h as * h i t h erto been ri garded as a part scarcely worth notice, quite an i m p or t s ut character in the opera. His manner ogtving the celeb ra t a d "La Calumnia" was admirable. After 11 Barbiere we ha , i a scene from Linda, with Castellan and the young con tral :to, Brambilla, which was very beautifullygiven. In the ballet de partment we had a pas de deux by Louise Taglioniand Per rot, and "La Catania" with Lucille Grahn. The audience as Thursday's audiences always are, were hearty and en thls,• astie in their applause. The house was crowded in every paz t. ADDRESS OF THE BRITISH RE SIDENTS IN PARIS TO THE KING OP TEI FRENCH. A most numerous meeting of British subjects took place, on Wed nesday, in the great room of Lawson's Bedford Hotel, in the Rue St. Honore, Paris, to vote a congratulatory address to King Louis; Philippe, on his late providential escape from assassination. Amongst the gentlemen present we perceived the Duke of Mon trose, Lord Gray of Gray, Lord Decies, Lord Cantalupe, ViscunAt Dillon, the Earl of .Gifford, Barry Baldwin, M.P., Sir J. Dov,Amt, Sir Denham Jephson Norreys, M.P., General Sir Phineas Ryr.i, the Right Hon. Henry Ellis, General Wright, General Sir Ai_eaander Duff, Admiral Honeyman, Lieutenant-Colonel Saunderscm, of th• Grenadier Guards; Colonel Hunter Blair, Captain Co'deer, O'Gorman Mahon; Archdeacon Keating, Archdeacor, Warburton, Rev. F. Saunderson, Captain Hankey, &c. • _ On the proposition of the Right Honourable H. Ellis, seconded by' Colonel Saunderson, the Duke of Montrose was urLanimously re quested to take the chair. The Noble CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, observed that he was deeply sensible of the honour of presiding over:so numerous and respectable a meeting, on the occasion of voting an address to the escape. His majesty w as too deeply be - Xing on his late mira cu l ous loved for kis late danger not to call forth the sincere sympatbY not only of all French people, but of the foreign resident% In Paris. He considered the preservation of his Majesty's life o f. the utmost importance, not only to Franc e , b u t t o the whole of F.arope, as pre senting the best guarantee of the continuance of PeP.ce. Long, there fore, might he held his present high position ! And when at last. in the course of nature, he was called on to depart from this life, might he leave all in order and peace, ready and prepared for his successor. —(Hear, hear.) The Right Honourable H. Erzis then moved that the following ad dress be adopted:— "May it please your Majesty, " We, the undersigned British subjects now in Paris, beg leave to approach your Majesty with the expression of our sincere congra tulations on the providential escape of your Majesty from the atro cious attempt made by a reckless assassin on -your sacred person• Most heartily do we unite with the people of France in recognising. in tile fortunate escape of yew - Male:Ay, the continued protection of Divine Providence ; and we trust that this expression of sympathy and respect, coming from British subjects, may find a favourable ac ceptance with your Majesty, the preservation of whose life we. hi common with your loyal a,d devoted people, feel to be most impor tant it the well-being of France and to the general peace of Europe." This address was then voted by acclamation, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Noble Chairman, the meetiliX separated. The address was in a few minute* signed by several hundred names. THE BRIDPORT ELECTION COMMITTEE. The General Committee of Elections met on Thursday, at o'clock, in Room No. 3, present—Lord Granvi.le Somerset, Mr. Loch, and Mr. W. Patten, to fix the membe►s of a Select Committee for examining the petition presented to the H o use against the return of Mr. Baillie Cochrane for the borough , of Bridport. _ _ The Committee FO appointed is to be constituted as follows , —Mr. C. Wood (chairman), Mr. B. Escott, Sir W. Somer ville, Liprd C. Hamilton, and Lord Dalmeny. These Members will be sworn to-day, and will meet to morrow at eleven o'clock for the dispatch of business, Mr. B. Cochrane, it will be rememhered, carried the repre sentation by the small majority of 1, and after the announce ment of the Mayor it was very confidently stated among the friends had of b / R m o a m d I 13 i 7 p p o p i o i- s b ir o ig ok c s a , ndidate, th at a mis takewilith, if corrected, would have turned the election. atdits is to t n rta T i cio e eeta : l is r do : ,oent p , lii u nal A b vt raeh l aar u a i ar c stf T itet a eo l I t ttdtn i hhh o ° :eee n ß deacov i an n hi dt t forth." sr ` ray S ttnah, a t. e a :fs t m h fmaT i m e enh l , family, ya work ju tleh s ti. justly through object sbg c ja h ehent lac and f cha racterized by the Atheneum as "one of the most splendid pro g s obser observe appearance t that political life. The work is said to be one of the most power ful and interesting that has yet proceeded from the pen of the author of "Salathiel," now better known perhaps, as the Rev- Dr. Croly. LORD FIELDING AND CAPTAIN KENNEDY'S TRAVELa IN ALGERIA.—A popular English work on the subject of Algeria (says th e Athenaum) was much wanted : and we are glad that Viscount Fielding and Captain Kennedy undertook their journey, and that the latter has been so prompt in laying the record of their ramble before the public. Algeria has r remained with the generality of readers a sort of dreamland geasroelreFnentehbntehu: career rososetSufesoArbdladLrei 3fionei eucdorTitlgniifrio mt. m„ d iwa t ee of romance. It is not merely our insular self-occupation, e° sarcastically thrown in our teeth, which has left comparativelY unmoved, while hearing of the frightful waste of human life ill a struggle the end of which is not yet begun; but the uni versal fanfaronade of the French journalists, and of the French people, the strange mixture of anecdotes of " fire, famine, and slaughter," with the Parisian rage for Arab fashions, the realities being all the while beyond our ken* Then Abd el-Rader, with his vanishings, and his re-appe a r" anccs—his energy and his mysterious power—is more l ike the Maugrabin of some Oriental tale of magic than a fie svi and blood adversary, whom disciplined troops go forth fro the Place du Carousel to do battle with. THE NEEDLE TRADE, REDDITCIL—The needle trade , for which this place is so celebrated, has been, and is now, Ia a very distressed state— rr.any of the manufacturers have hr but few orders since Christmas. Worcester Chronicie,j There is no doubt but such is the fact, but it may be as w e ': to state that this important branch of trade is not remove! from England, as many persons have feared, but, by ream/ of the singular advantages possessed by the "Regin.a_. patent, nearly the whole of the manufacture of needles Dr_ been tranferred to Deptford, in Kent, which place is likely 111 , become as famous for needle-making as was once that o _ l , Redditch. By returns made by Mr. Kirby, the patentee,!: Neugate-street, it would appear that the quantity of need y made by this new proccess is upwards of seventy- fi ve th . t sand per diem, and that this number can, if requisite, be t, creased more than tenfold without any enlargement of tn" machinery. Mr. Baron Parke is improving in health, and w ill resume his seat on the bench vine time in the pr e s e nt term.