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THIRD AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now Ready, 1 vol., with Illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound. THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOIE. A SUFFOLK GIRL By the Rev. R. COBBOLD, of Wortharn, Suffolk. "Truth is stranger than fiction. We have here a ♦eritable his tory, with incidents more startling and extraordinary than are to be found in any romance with which we are acquainted."—Norfolk Chronicle. _ . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. Now ready, New Edition, revised, with Two Portraits, and Twelve liumourous Illustrations, by George Cruikshank, price 65., MEMOIRS of GRIMALDI, the CLOWN. Edited by BOZ. With Additions and Notes by CHARLES WHITEHZAD. " This entertaining account of Grimaldi, introducing us to many amusing dramatic incidents and anecdotes, besides chronicling a great de .ti of theatrical intelligence, has been considerably im proved in all these respects by Mr. Whitehead. It ►ill therefore be yet more welcome than it was."—Literary Gazette. 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The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectitlly informed that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place TO-MORROW, Arlin, 16, When will be pr'sented Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioll ; /.erlina, Madame Castellan. Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Don Octavio, Signor Mario ; 11 Commandatore, Signor Baal ; Masetto, signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the highly suecessful New Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The principal characters byMadlle. L. Grahn, Madlle. P. Stephan, and ',Wile. M.M. Perrot, Bertrand, Di Mattia, and Gosselin. t HZATKE HOYA DILUILY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a dew Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS, the principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. liar uorrani, Ronicastle, S. Jones, Weiss, htretton, D. W. King, Homer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled pEitotrAE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by Madlie. Louise, Madame ,lubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. TILEATIr ROYAL, HAYSIAIMET. THIS EVENING 1:)+, performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cy mon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More crat Mr. IV. Farren : Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest c,,verdate, Mr. 11. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermar.n, Ar. J Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Nrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonic," and " LA Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. Atter which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHAN ES : on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, ne* Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson. Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. Mathews, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Ch arac ters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Hamby, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM ("NDEIt THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. unpm'edented Attraction for the Easter Holidays. Re-engagement of GENERAL TOM THUMB ! voko haul: g, on each appearance in the Burlesque of " Hop o' my " Thumb,b e en welcomed with most enthusiastic shouts of ap plause, excited the astonishment and approbation of an l eieg,ant and delighted auditory, by his almost Incredible Dimi nutive Person and his equally Incredible Mind, the Management has much pleasure in announcing his Performance for every Evening during the Holidays. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama, in Three Acts, called HONOURS ND . RI P cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, McNeal - , and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE m A iDF.N. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Liidlaw. To conclude with 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. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. • rir,ATi<Y: ROYAL, ADELPIJI A New Drama, and a New and v agniflcent Burlesque. THIS EVENING Wll he 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 ; S:insonet, Mr. Wright; dons. Del imare. Mr. Perkins; Batifole, Miss Woolgar; Nini, Miss Webs , er ; Cecile, Madame Celeste. After 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 Be Iford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YoCit WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs, 1, ioneybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Macready ; lago, Mr. Wallack ; Cassio, Mr. Cooper; Roderigo, Mr. J. Vining; Desdemona, Mrs. Stirling ; Emilia, Mrs. Ternan. To conclt.tde with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AN!) PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which Messrs. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, Oxberry ; Miss Taylor, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. Fostroke, Miss Horner, &c., will appear. 'sk rZOYAL AMPHITHEATEE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prixcess Royal.—Entertainments Extraordinary for the Holiday Visitors.—First Appearance of the celebrated Clown Wallet, in conjunction w th Barry and Roches. THIS EVENING Will he performed an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle, entitled, THE ARAB AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. The Characters personified by the principal tnembe*s of the Company and numerous auxiliaries. New and l'oeular Scenes in the Circle, by the Foreign and British Professors. To conclude ,with a favourite Afierpiece. Bo,oftee open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at s,..ven o'clock. ~A v Db,E's ROYAL SURREY THEATICE Ii Tiday AitraCtion;,oir li scale of Novelty, Talent, and Variety nevi: before offered. THIS BVENIN6 _ _ . Will be performed a New RurlCSQue Spectacle, entitled JA. THE GIANT KILLER. Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Cowell, Lewis, llcslop, Williams ; Mesdms. Hughes, M. Glover, &c. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THE TILES ; or, A Night at Greenwich. To be follow(d by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DER CHAMOIS YAGER ; or, The Fiend on Earth. By the Dentin Family. A Tab:eaux of the Great Indian Victory will be exhibited. To concaule with a New Melodrama, called, THE RATS OF TtAT CAS. LE. ROYAL VICTORIA TILEATRE. The most powerful and varied Entertainment ever offered to the Public ! THIS EVENING Wirt be performed an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PURT ; t.r, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. Fredericks. Saville, Raymond, Tindell, Higgie, Searle, Burton ; It iss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT ; Georgette, Miss Vincent. To conclude witn a romantic Drama, entitled THE DEVIL'S DEN ; or, the Mint, the Maize, and the Maiden. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CII. :.`iGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS. " La gaiete est la sante de l'ame, i....a.tristesse en est le poison." M. PrIILLIPPE, i:i returning his grateful thanks to his kind Patrons, and feeling anxious to merit a continuance of past favours, go lihernty bestowed ton him by the discerning Public of this great metropolis,- bags leav e to announce that he will Resume his E T ERTAI AL ENT at the above Theatre, THIS EV...N*ISG, Whoa lie will have the honour of introducing an ENTIRE CHANGE in his PERFORMANCE, which has been prepared at a great expense and labour. The New Feats and Miraculous Scientific Experiments are of the must extraordinary and astounding de scription, anti must be •een to be believed. Ni. PHILLIPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting 'two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot ! This unique anti brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons. Philippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. During - the Evening M. Philippe will introduce his GRAND MOTHER'S CAP, with all its Vapid Transformations. Dnring the Easter Week there will be a Morning and Evening Performance each Day. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; Evening Performance at a quarter to Eight. .tats, 3s • Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; vete Boxes, • • IL Is., and 10s. 6d. 141 E WEATHEit.--.SUN OFFICE, APRIL 14. lEERNt)XETER, Lowest, 45; Highest. 63; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 29.73. WIND S.E.; morning, fine: afternoon, showery. ii>ri WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. .. o minutes after 4. I Evening .. 19 minutes after 4 Alfirai 1( nit LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1846. The dark veil which has Ding concealed the deeds of f le Spanish Camarilla, has, at last, been partially re inove,d, and the public been allowed to get a glimpse of the plots which CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ, and their :nameless associates, have carried on in the secret re ...-esses of the palace. For a time these two chief con 31n-ators, and they deserve no better epithet, seemed to wor k cordially together. They came about the same rer i o d from Paris, full of instructions from the Court a the .4nuileries, and ready prepared with gold and 3thet . meat , s to boot, to overturn ESPARTERO, to seduce f r ,. , 121 its allegiance to the R e g ent, to u p set the he army !o „ st i tu tion, Lod establish a military despotism. In all ; ,h;, they wmpletei:v ce suceded, the Cortes were broken or rather appointed by the new Chambers eNted , Dictator, and so thorou;bi f were they purged of inde vendent and Liberal Members, that every measure pro posed by the Government was adopted with little or no 3pposi tion, and by overwhelming majorities. Even this 'tats of absolutism, however, did not gratify the wishes of ;the chief actors : the Ministers were not always >mpliant to orders—the Cortes even dared to raise their voice against the TRAPANI in a,-r:age, and the nation, concurring in their views, I „ I dly exclaimed against the project for allying the y, )ung,QtJE to a worn-out branch of the Bourbons, an d degrading the country by a mercenary compact for v ed solely for the selfish purposes of the gums bicm, *Amt. Then, it appears, the struggle co mmence d betty ten CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ. Ministry after Mini„t ry was dissolved and reformed—a second coup d'itat , was tried, and patiently submitted to by the people, L 'lut.:all would not do. The war was going on in tbe:Cawa. "illa as hot as ever—neither of the intriguers would be ur an equal near the throne: liaavazz confident of hi s pa Off (t). over the army dared the Quitafit-Monica to do her worst, and this spirited woman (for her courage and firmness none can deny) made up her mind and resolved to sacrifice NARVAEZ at every risk. The General was beaten by the QUEEN, and after being escorted out of Spain by a detachment of his own dragoons, he reached Bayonne on the 10th, and is now on his road to Paris or Naples. This is the most de cided revolution that has taken place for four years in that devoted country; nay, even the expul,ion of ESPARTERO was not so important, for the army at once transferred its allegiance from him to NARVAEZ, and a strong body of troops under a skilful general sere always ready to repress counter revolutions. But at present the army is without a leader. Neither CONCHA, nor CoRDOTA, nor any of the newly-appointed generals, has any particular influence over it. BRETON, a daring and cruel, but active officer and firm adherent of NAR vAEz, has been displaced, SO has MAZARREDO, and likisizo, and all those who aided the Dictator in main taining his power. The troops, in fact. have lost the chiefs in whom they seemed to trust, and are open to the intrigues of NARVAEZ and his cast-off followers—the most unprincipled adventurers'in Spain. It is impossible to form even a guess of the probable result of such unex pected and dangerous complications. About CHRISTINA'S plans we absolutely know nothing, but what can be gathered from the statement of parties supposed to be in her confidence. These, on the whole, are satisfactory. It is said that the Cortes are to be summoned to meet on the 24th inst., that the arbitrary decree against the liberty of the press is to be recalled, that a Bill for trial by jury is forthwith to be proposed, to the Chambers, and that a general amnesty is to be proclaimed for all political offenders, excepting only the Carlists. Such results are not unlikely, looking at all the circumstances of the last explosion. NARVAEZ had presumed too far on CHRISTINA'S peculiar position and prepossessions; he thought to frighten her into submis sion by holding up before her eyes the sabre by which hitherto he had ruled Spain—he, in fact, believed he was master, and would submit no longer to female do minion ; but "Sweet is revenge—especially to women ;" and revenge' this intriguing and unscrupulous woman was resolved to have. She discarded the General, ap pointed IsTuurrz Prime Minister, insisted on the im mediate expulsion of her rival from the Spanish terri tory, and determined to brave every hazard, even the esta blishment of a constitutional and popular Government, to debar for ever his return. This, indeed, is the only feasible view that can be taken of the late mysterious events. She will be a friend of liberty so long as the profession of liberal senti ments suits her views. She will bide her time for another plot. The great, the only enemy at present, is NARVAEZ, and he can be put down only by a uni versal reaction against him throughout the country. The army is a doubtful and dangerous weapon. She cannot even trust to it. Her only resource is in the Cortes and the nation, and these she will pay worship to until the great - oßjeet-of her revenge is accomplished. Let us hope that in thstance good will spring out of evil, and that Louis PHILIPPE, who took this woman four years ago under his paternal care, for some purpose or another, will have the honour, though unwittingly, of establishing constitutional government in Spain. With something beyond ordinary pleasure we direct attention to a letter we published yesterday, addressed to ourselves, by Mr. Sheriff LAURIE; and we experience this peculiar degree of satisfUction in so doing, because we are inclined to regard that communication as an augury of an inestimable boon to a helpless class, and inferentially to the entire population of Great Britain. The hearts of philanthropists have been long moved at the consideration that a number of wretched creatures, who are annually released from gaol by the expiration of the time allotted for their imprisonment, are thrown upon the world again without home, patron, or any oc cupation by which they might eke out even the most scanty subsistence, and by this means are driven to com mit still further depredations upon society, to harden themselves to the trade of larceny, and become in the end habitually criminal. This painful reflection has pre sented itself to every one interested in the slightest degree in the moral relationship subsisting between all grades of the English people; it has stood forth, beneath their scru tiny a villanous blotch upon our social system, infectious in its growth, and detrimental to those hopes of ulterior happiness towards which the hearts and imaginations of all are, more or less, directed. By the heartless manner in which these unfortunate beings are again thrust amidst their old temptations, without one single preser vative against the exercise of their former passions, the moral energy of the destitute classes, feeble enough in the hour of its greatest vigour, is reduced to a state of the most deplorable tenuity. They find themselves plunged once more amidst the contamination of their vile haunts —they breathe again that infectious atmosphere which always envelopes the gregarious criminality of a great city—they are possibly goaded on by an ignorant ani mosity towards the law, under whose scourge they have but very recently winced ; everything, in short, tends to confirm their evil habits, to develope yet further their capacity for vice, and to imbue them with such a lawless rage for crime as will irrevocably place them beyond the reach or the influence of redemption. Such is the extent of the evil whose eradication has long been a dim aspiration in the mind of the philan thropist. But unfortunately it has hitherto been only a dim aspiration ; nothing more. So many real and imaginary difficulties have appeared in the way of a thorough and effective reformation, that each man has shrunk back at the multiplicity of the obstacles to be overcome, and contented himself with the formation of a wish. One individual, however, has had the intre pidity as well as the benevolence to press the grievance "home," to probe the matter to the bottom, to hint at its melioration, and to insist upon the necessity of some speedy movement in the proper direction. That man is Mr. Sheriff LAURIE, and the mere mention of his name in connexion with the foregoing facts, forms the noblest panegyric that could be pronounced in his favour. He has striven for some time past in what many conceived, and what some still conceive, to be a hopeless cause ; he has done so courageously and perseveringly, in spite of every obstacle that lay upon the path—and many of them, be it remarked, were no insignificant obstacles indeed. After these arduous and almost soli tary exertions, however, it mast be a deep gratification to the worthy Sheriff himself to peruse the contents of his printed letter. It must be an assurance that his la bours already look propitious, and that he will reap a plentiful harvest of good if he furthers them yet awhile with similar assiduity. The chief object he has already attained is not unimportant ; it is the formation of a committee : and as a testimony that this com mittee is of an influential character we may, without enumerating the several names, mention that it is com posed of five noblemen, five prelates, the Lord Mayor of London, and two Members of Parliament. Besides this it appears that the example given by the petition forwarded by the committee to the Legislature, impress in; upon Parliament the necessity for some immediate remedy, has been productive of considerable assistance to the cause, by the subsequent presentation of similar petitions from "almost every corporation in England and Wales." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE has been also enlisted in aid of the unfortunate crimi nals in question, his Royal Highness having promised to support the measure in the Upper House. Some startling facts may be gleaned, moreover, from the letter of Mr. Sheriff LA.UXXE, facts which serve to illustrate the necessity, feasibility, and excellence of some alteration like the one proposed, namely the es tablishment of " Houses of Occupation," where the re leased crowds might obtain shelter, moral instruction, food, clothing, and the knowledge of some useful occupation. The necessity is shown in the circumstance that the people of this description who are disgorged from our prisons, average annually thirty thousand in number. The feasibility is demonstrated by the fact that establish ments of a like nature have been already introduced in France, Holland, and Manchester. The excellent con sequences which would result from such an arrangement is proved by statistical reports, such, for ex ample as the one issued from an in, titution of this sort, established in 1840, by Count LEON D'Ounans, which gives the gratifying assurance that " out of every hundred (of the parties admitted) five only have been afterwards ,e-convicted." We congratu late :-r. Sheriff LAURIE on the success with which his benevolent intentions have already been received, and heartily wish him a God speed on his mission of phi lanthropy. The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th inst. The downfal of ;gARI,AEZ is as complete as it was sudden, and he himself is at this moment an exile. It appears that the first act of ISTURITZ, after his appointment as President of the Council on the sth, was to send for NARvAEz and announce to him the determination of the Government that he should quit Spain, at the same time offering the embassy to Naples, informing him that in the event of his declining it the Government considered it advisable that be should proceed forthwith to France. The embassy was declined, and ill health pleaded as an excuse for remaining at Madrid for the present (he had been bled only the day before) ; this excuse, however, did not avail, and on the nigh t of the 6 th he was en route for France under the escort of a body of cavalry. On the 9th be arrived at Burgos, where he was so seriously indisposed that he was obliged to rest awhile from sheer physical inability to continue his journey ; his rest, however, was not of long duration, for on the evening of the 10th he arrived at Bayonne, where he was joined by his Duchwss. It was currently reported in Madrid on the 6th that a pronunciamiento had taken place in Gallicia against the Government. The accounts were supposed to be greatly exaggerated. The next day, however, news arrived in Madrid that the Gallician insurrection had subsided as soon as the fall of NARVAEZ became known in that province. The Paris Presse gives the following account of the dismissals and appointments which have taken place since the advent of 11TURITZ to office, and concludes with what may be considered the official programme of the new Cabinet : " Four Captains-General had been dismissed—viz., General Mazarredo, Captain-General of Madrid ; Ge neral Breton, Captain-General of Barcelona ; General Manso, of Valencia ; and General Shelly, of Seville. These Captains-General—all creatures and personal friends of General Narvaez—were replaced, General Mazarredo by General Pezuela, General Breton by Ge neral Manuel Concha, General Manso by General Jose Concha, brother of the latter. The successor of General Shelly was not known. General Folgosi, Governor of Madrid, and formerly a Carlist Chief, had been super seded by General Cordova, and Colonels Ortega and Calonge had been likewise dismissed. Ortega had been replaced in the command of the Regiment Reina Gabernadora by Colonel Turon, who had lost it atter the downfal of the Marquis de Miraflores. M. Loygorri. a private friend of General Narvaez, the Under-Secretaries of the Foreign and War departments, Messrs. Sartorius and the Marquis de Vistahermosa ; M. Sabater, Political Chief of Madrid; and M. Xavier Quinto, Director-General of the Post-office, had been also deprived of their situations. M. Quinto, after being one of the most violent revolutionists, had become an ultra-intolerant absolutist. He had taken an active part in the pronunciamiento of 1840 and in the revolution of 1841, and made himself conspicuous by his fury in de manding the death of Diego Leon. He is said to have been replaced by M. Alvarez Guerra, former director of the Post-office, an intimate friend of M. Isturitz, and a most moderate and respectable Conservative. The Cortes had been convoked for the 24th. The decree against the press. was repealed, and a new project, re establishing trial by jury, was to be presented. The Ministry Ras about to publish an amnesty, including men of all parties and ranks, no matter what might have been the circumstances attached to their previous career. The family of Don Carlos was alone to be ex cepted. The Infant Don Enrique had been recalled to Madrid. Our correspondent assures us that it was eon templated to restore to Espartero all his titles and deco ration-. A similar project had already been attributed to the Miraflores Administration." The regiments of Bourbon and Beilen, under the command of Don JOSE CoNcste, left Madrid for Gallicia on the 6th. The royal decree forbidding all time bargains on tFe Boise, after the 15th of April, appears in the Madrid Gazette of the 6th. MADRID BoLsA, APRIL 6.—Three per Cent. for money, 30 ; at thirty days, 30 ; Five per Cent., for money, 204 ; Railroad from Madrid to Aranjuez, 2,080 ; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 125 ; General Assurance, 83 ; Alliance , 70 ; Anchor, 170 ; Gas Company, 160. Exchanges : London, 37i ; Paris, 16 5. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The affairs of Spain are commented on in most of them. The article on Spain which appears in La Presse, the organ of Queen CHRISTINA, we have given elsewhere. Preparations were making at the Palace of the Elys4e Bourbon for the reception of InuAnist and his suite, who were expected to arrive in Paris on the 24th inst. IBRAHIM will be accompanied by BOLIMAN PACHA, Chief of his staff, and his son, SAUDER BEY ; Colonel IBRA• 11131 BEY ; Lieutenant-Colonel BOUFORT ; NUBAZ, In terpreter ; and KARABET, Secretary. The debate on the naval budget in the Chamber of Deputies, which was to commence on Monday, would, it was expected, have been somewhat stormy. Admiral HERNOUX, who drew up the report of the Com mittee, is the intimate friend of the Prince DE JoinvinLE, and in the report has reproduced the views which the Prince put forth in his celebrated pamphlet, some two years since, as to the superiority of steam over sailing vessels. The report accordingly recommends a large increase in the grant for steam-vessels, and a corresponding diminution in that for sailing vessels. On the other side M. CHARLES DUPIN and Admiral DE MACHAU, the Minister of Marine, have declared that steamers are quite unfit for regular warfare, and that there ought to be a large increase in the number of fri gates and ships of the line. M. CHARLES DUPIN has published a pamphlet on the subject, from which we extract the following table, showing the number of ships of the line and seamen in the service of France at diffe rent periods : Ships. Seamen. 1680, under Louis XIV. 1780, under Louis XVL 1814, under Napoleon 1824, under Louis XVIII 1836, under Louis Philippe... 53 1846, as proposed by the Com- mittee Whatever causes of difference may have been hereto fore subsisting between Lord PALMERSTON and certain high personages in France, they appear to have been completely removed. His Lordship has been re ceived every where during his recent visit with the utmost cordiality by all parties. He was present with Lord BROUGHAM, on Saturday, at a sitting of the Academie des Sciences, Morales, and Politiques, where Baron C. Dun read the introduction to an important work he is preparing, under the title of " De la Force Exterieure de la Grande Bretagne." Lord BROUGHAM, who is a corresponding member of the Academy, begged to say, in a few words, that whilst he was happy to render full justice to the talent of the author, he could not agree in the opinicns expressed by him concerning the policy of England in the affairs of Syria, the occupation of Aden, and the question of the sulphur monopoly in the kingdom of Naples. The partisans of postal reform in France have been for some time in communication with Mr. ROWLAND HILL, who has afforded them much valuable information. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, ap pointed to examitle the Western Railroad Bill, had met twice on Saturday. In the morning it heard from the Minister of Public Works the difficulties that had caused the breaking off of the arrangements between the LAFFITTE Company and the two Versailles Companies. The Epoque states, that there was a chance of those difficulties being removed, and of the first arrangement being carried into effect. The Strasburgh Railway Company has purchased the iron-works of the Marquis DE BOISSY, at Vierzon. The Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S, on Sunday, at 83f. 70c. LYONS, APRIL 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 9151.; Paris and Orleans, 8,230 f.; Rouen, 1,040 f.; Lyons, 575 f.; Vierson, 678 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Antu. 13. "Bordeaux, Tioulause, and Cetts (Espleta), 21A—Dutch Rhenish, s,4—East Indian, y, —Great Western Bengal, i—Lyons and Avig non, 2—Namur and Liege, 134—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11!i—Paris and Rouen, 4034 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5 3 ,4 —Rouen and Havre, 29y, . The General Steam Navigation Company's Steam ship Wilberforce arrived at Blackwall Pier on Monday morn ing, after a fine passage of eighteen hours, from Antwerp. The Aressager of Friday evening states that the Minis ith h e r t of e War, tunnel f on n having ° beenrcene informed w were likely to remain that the r workmen emn inh t buried eir perilous position some days longer, has given orders for a de tachment of sappers to proceed immediately to the spot to assist in the efforts making to extricate them. The same journal has the following from Meaux, dated the 9th : " The position of the workmen has improved since yester day. Provisions are conveyed to them with ease since tho water-course has been cleared, and they have an abundant supply of air, as there are now three ventillators put up. The correspondence of two of these men with their wives show that their courage has not diminished, and that the whole party look forward with confidence to their release. Their health creates no uneasiness. Some serious symptoms, such as bead-ache and swelling of the legs, had manifested themselves, but they appee to have ceased. The first works for their release have been abandoned, as there was danger to the men employed upon them ; the second lateral gallery proceeds at the rate of seven to eight metres per day. The chief engineer, M. Marinet, has sent a note to the men, who are shut out from the light of day, indicating what they may do towards hastening their emancipation. If they follow his instructions they may be extricated on Saturday ( this day); if not their freedom will only be postponed one or two days beyond that time, supposing that no new accident shonld occur." LIVES OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. BY THOMAS ROSCOE, Esq.—The first volume of the above work, which will supply a want long telt in our literature, has just ap peared, printed in a similar form with Alias Strickland's popular "Lives of the Queens." It c )mprises a most in teresting biography of William the Conqueror, full of personal anecdotes, which will be new to the generality of readers, and displaying great historical research and critical taste and judgment. There can be little doubt, to use the words of the prospectus, that "The Lives of the Kings of England will prove a valuable auxiliary to those readers, who, fond of tracing effects up to their true causes, are desirous of ascertaining the real share contributed by each of the British Sovereigns to those results which have con ferred on our country and nation their present proud pre eminence in power, prosperity, freedom, and glory. To such as seek amusement only, they cannot fail to be equally acceptable as a connected record of tke sayings and doings of personages of the very highest renown." STOPPAGE OF MESSRS. LATHAM AND CO.'S BANE. DOVZIL, APRIL 13.—The greatest consternation was occa sioned at Dover this morning by the announcement on the doors of the banking-house of Latham and Co., that the of firm " business of the bank w a s sus p ended " It is feared, fro m the great number of small depositor s, that the loss wil l be se . arf th caus e of t v h e e re a l b v o f v e e l twbaysnounmaecrcoouusn account of the individuals. senior The tn p imme diate er (Mr. Ilenshaw Latham) having died suddenly on Friday morning last, though I am infor med the affairs of the bank have lung been in an embarrassed sta te, but which, u p to the present moment, has been kept a profound secret. It is almost impossible to form any judgment as to the result, but 10s. in the pound, or more, is confidently spoken of as available for the creditors. • 61 41 Vir r 4• A • • r • mos -',("7,t. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 15, 1846. MON:EY and COMMERCIAL NEWS I (Ft sn The San of Last Night ) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 9,000 bales, half of which were for export, and on speculation. Former rates were supported. Accounts have been received from Launceston and Hobart Town to the 30th November. The colony was slowly recovering from its mone tary difficulties, and it is 'even said that the capitalists of New South Wales were already looking out for employment of the surplus funds at their disposal. There had been some diminution of the rob beries and assaults so long committed in various parts of Van I)ieman's Land, and this is partly accounted for by the fact ct many "probation" men having been for warded to Sydney, where their services were wanted. In one or two instances, however, these were already sent back as criminals to Hobart Town, ,or fresh crimes committed in their new lceelitivs. _ _ The Hibernia steamer, from Halifax, was hourly ex pect, d la-t evening at Liverpool. With the payment of the dividends, the partial re covery from the panic occasioned by the tumble in shares, and the return of deposit-moneys, matters in the City begin now to wear a more favourable app,arance, and it is pr, sumed that ere long past losses will have been fully ascei tained, quietly booked, and although not forgotten, no limper uselessly rep ni d over, for they may act as a salutary warning in future. The English Stocks have been rather more buoyant to days and the s ettlement of the Cons o l A ccoun t i s go i ng o ff favourably. The continuation is about 4 per cent. to May 28, the next settling day,for which bsrgains have been made at 96k to it. Money operations have been effected at 96* to K. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 245. Bank Sto,k has realised 236 to 204, and India Stock 259 to 261. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been 96i to 97. the,.Foreign Investments there is still very little inquiry. The break up of the Narvaez Ministry, much as it is liked, had the effect of depressing prices, because of the uncertainty as to whether his successor can carry on the Government. The Five per Cent. Spanish Bends have been 241 and the Three per Cents.. 36* to 1. Portuguese Three per Cents. have realised 584. Grenada are 22k. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. are 59i I. Railway Shares are generally firm, though quiet. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Rank Stock .. .. • • • . .. 206 205% 205% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 95 14 4 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96 1 % 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 960 97 97 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. .5, 1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oat. 10, 1849 India Stock . .. .. .. .. 259 261 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 30 Consols for Account, May 23 96 Exchequer Bills. I%d. 13(d. 1,0001... .... 24 —— pm. 5001... 24 p7a. Ditto, Small 24 21 pm. CLOSING PRICES. 87% 21% 581 4 110 24% 5 % 36% ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Danish, 3 per Cent •. 87 3 4 Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. • • 22 g Portuguese Three per Cents • . • • 58 4 Russian Bonds .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2 4 5% Ditto, Passive Bonds . .. • • 5 % Ditto, Three per Cent .. 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59 % % Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% BUSINESS PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. 10 3 25y Bristol and Exeter .. 71 -- • • •••• • • • • • 7, Ditto New .. 5 .. • • 914 •• • Caledonian .. 10 .• • • 7 6%••• • • • • • 6 % Ditto, llalf Shares .. 2Y4.. • • 1% ••••• • • • • 1 % Chester and Holyhead .. 20 .• .. •18 ex 1nt.... 18% ex int Derby,Direct ii;eLt :%I G ti s ti b ee o ss r tt o ee r ' r , (&( litt G ae sl t it . cw r .s y .) ) 1 .1 7 1 •••• ••• •.. 31 r t ..• ..• • •.• •• •• k's) • Direct Northern .. .. 2% • • ••••• • " • • Dublin and Galway 4 4 .• • • I ••••• • • • • • Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165... 21% •?ii 22 .. - 22% Ditto New .. 8/. 165... • • 6% %p••• • • • 6% p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. • • ... ..... % P Ditto, York Extension 109. .••• 1 4 • • • • ..• •• • 1 1 A Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .•• • ••••• • • • 6 • —,„„ Ditto N. Shares .. 10 .... 1 6 % ••• • • ..... _1 Great G a Great S N s o u r t t h h e r o t f i (I r e a n d England . .) 10 1 0 5 _21% . 2 . 1 . ... 1 Ditto, New .. 5 .... 51 % 52 ••. - • • 0, Great Western .. 85 .• .. 147 14 Ditto, Ralf Shares ............ 85 86 •• • • .... Ditto. Quarter Shares 5 .... 17 LA 17 .. •• .. Ditto, Fifths .. 20 ••• • 34 ••••• • • • • • Hull and Selby .. .. SO 101 100. . Lancaster and Carlisle 35 .... 48 3 ,4 . • ..... Ditto, New Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% •• • • 2 % ••••• • • • • • Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% •• • • " London an Birmingham . .100 .... 223 225 223% 223 % Ditto Thirds .. 24 .• .. 62 ..... 62 Ditto Quarters .. _ 2 .• .• 28 % ••••• • • • • • 28 4 Ditto Fifth5........ 2 24 14 24 1 London and Brighton .. 50 • .. • . Ditto ditto Fifths .. ..20 ••• • 28 ••.. • .... 62% 63 London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 211 , r 4 .. ••.. • 21% London and South-Western.. 411. 65. 10 d. 77 76 .. • • • • Ditto, New . 12%.... 21% •• • • London and York .. 2% .• • • 1 •••• • • • • 1% Manchester and Leeds .. _ 82 .. • • ••• • • Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. 38 •• • • 55 14 • • Ditto. Sixteenths 6% •• • • - ...... •• • • Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 • • • ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 113 • Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .... 934 % .• •• • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .• • • 75% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • %P•••• • • • • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 • •••• • • • • Midland _ ..100 ....144% 146 145.. Ditto, New .- 18 .... 29% 30 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 435, 43 445 .. Ditto, New . 1 .... 8M % Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .• 18 17% 18% • • 1 , Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... l t ,4 .. • • North British .. .. 20 .... 24% .. •• .. 24 Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 _.. 814 8.. 8 Ditto, Dslkeith .. 25 .... — Ditto, ditto .. .. 5 .... ...... • 5% North Staffordshire .. • • 422. •• .. 2% 2 p 214 p Oxfd.,Worcester,& WolverhmPtn. 12% .... 8% ••••• • • • • • 8 % Scottish Central .. • •• 10 .... 13% 14 .. • • 14 South Midland .. .• • 425. .... % dis. •• •• 34 dis. South Eastern and DOYOr • • • • 33% Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 .. 16 •. • • .... • • Do., New (d 0.331. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 10% .. • De., New (do. 151.) • • South Wales .. • • • • • • • • 5 •• .. 1% 1.... •• • • Waterford and Kilkenny • • 8 _ ... Wexford, Waterford, & V alentia 1 % 4 Waterfd., Wextil., & Dub. 1% _ Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • 2 12 •• • . 134 .. West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. Is 4, p. p .. Wilts, Somerset, and IVeyMOUtk 5 3 2 York and North Midland . • .. 50 .„. 97 9; N Ditto, Selby .. • • .. 30 Ditto. Extension • • • • •• 15 •• • . 321 32 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 11% 9 3 4 P iv 4 145 ...... 10% Boulogne and Amiens .. • • • • 12 •• .. 12 Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • • 5 •• •• 5% 3 / 4 5% East Indian .. • • • • • • • ss " •• • ••••• • • • • •yy Jamaica a South Midland j North. dc ofFraneeCons u t n it c u t t in Constituted 5 1 14 16 ,, Luxembourg .. .. 4 ......• I .34 Namut and Liege • • • • • • 4 ••• • . Orleans and Bordeaux • • • • 6 •• • . II 10% 105 3 Over Yssel .. • • • • • • 4/. 3s. 4d.... 3 dis dis Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 „ 5%..... Rouen and Ilavre . • • • • • • ‘, Sambre and Meuse • • • • • •• • • 3 Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 53., JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London • • • • 20 •• • • ....... London and Westminster •• .• 20 .... 26% •. MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. COURSE OF EXCEIANGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam .... .. C.F. 12 10 Gibraltar .. .. .... .. Ditto, at sight . • .... 12 6% Leghorn ........... ~. 30 75 Rotterdam .... .. 2U. 12 10% Genoa ................ 26 20 Antwerp .... .. .... .... 26 20 Milan ........ .... _ ilamburgh .. ..M.B. 13 15% Venice ..... ..... _ .... _ Altona ...... _ ........ Naples .......... _.. 39% Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 2 5 90 Palermo, per oz 119% Ditto, 3 months.. .. .. 26 15 Li5b0n............ Marseilles - ..... • ..... 26 20 Oporto Bourdeaux. Frankfort on Mains_ .. 123 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • _ Buenos Ayres ........ Berlin ... New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec. tlo.. •• .. 10 12 Philadelphia .......... Trieste, ditto. M a d r id .... .• .. .. .. Cadiz 36% Portugal Gold Coin 3J7 5 New Doubloons ... ... 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville.. MANBY'S LIFE PRESERVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—Finding in your paper, of the 11th instant, a letter from Captain Manby, in which he states that he considers his apparatus and mortar (for rescuing sailors from shipwrecked vessels) perfect, and that his plan has not been improved upon, I beg most respectfully to state to Captain Manby, through the medium of your journal, that there are others besides Captain Jerningham who deserve the credit of having improved upon it. I do not mention this from any wish to injure Captain Manby's apparatus in public opinion, but merely to show that it has been improved upon, and that materially. I allude to the plan invented by Lieutenant J. R O'Reilly, who commands the caast guard stationed at Horns.'a. I was formerly a resident there, and had opportunities of seeing the inefficiency of the apparatus invented by Captain Manby when used in the night , and the great difficulty o!' directing a shot with precision during dark ness. Now, in justice to Lieutenant J. R. O'Reilly, I feel myself bound, from the numerous opportunities I have had of witnessing his invention, to state that he has t v r i e r s .. a, b a y nd a th fu a z t e b obviated the difficulty alluded to in the old plan of using the mortar during a dark night. He has succeeded in illuminating the shot belonging to Captain Manby's ap paratus used for pntjecting a line over a vessel in dis tress, being. fired, ' • y in ze r a t n ed s o i l u t t h u e tmh. o e st sh s u izpl w o h c i 4 e in h, tri u v u an t c h e e , light, .sufficient , indeed, to ' distance of several decide,"a s Govern went, and a t e plan be seen at a miles. not come into general use. and g , ives out a most brilliant 'eo n I n t t h a in l k Captain Mangy must allow that the improve. It is not my „ confirmedl aded to is one, at least, deserving of credit, and invention, which the practical experienced men, competent to has been inspected by the Govern- im portant addition from a wat.ry gr ave, wish to take from the merit of the original pproved of, although, as yet, I believe, it has 3, 1846. has been the means of saving numbers Hull, April 1 but merely to point out an to the apparatus for night use. 1 I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS WILSON, M.R.C.S.E. poor man, in th e employ DREADRIL A CCIDENT. Oil Tuesday morning' last a lime-burners at Grays , Essex met with an accident of an appalling nature while engaged attending a thrashing machine at Stafford. '.,. e In unfortunate man alighted from the horses to adjust one of the traces, when his clothes be death at length terminated came entangled in the machinery, and his limbs were dread of Messrs. tifeeson, the extensive fully mutilated ; both legs were cushed and his arms broken, one eye was destroyed, and eve part of the body more or less set iously injured. He I' ry d until the evening, when widow and six children to lament their loss. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. _A master of a sr( seal, whose name, for many reasons, we are unwilling to reveal, threw rescued from a watery himself into the Mersey, on Wednesday' last, with the deter mination to commit self-destruction. He was fortunately flresufferings. He has left a lis assistance in a boat. Disappointment and domestic dis • quietudes were assigned by him as the causes for his com mitting the rash act.—Liverpo o l Albion. , grave by some men who put off to CiIURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took an early morning walk in the ercunds adjoining to the Castle, and afterwards returned in a pony phaeton. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed pony and %lalkingexerciseearly, in the Castle precincts. In the afternoon Prince Albert drove the Queen out in a pony phaeton for some time, attended by the two Equerries, Lieut.. Colonels Grey and Seymour, on horse back. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle this afternoon, to pay a visit to her Majesty and her Royal Consort. There was no addition to the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening Her Royal Highneßs the Duchess of Gloucester vi sited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, attended by Earl Howe, Baron de Reitzenstein, Captain Taylor, and Mr. Bedford, honoured Drury-lane Theatre with their presence on Monday evening. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT. The betting on the great race to come off to-morrow has been extremely dull, only Arthur, Ould Ireland, Wolfdog, Little Vulgar * Boy, and Marquis of Conyngham, having been backed for any amount. A few small investments, however, enable us to submit the following imposing list of prices:— NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur 12 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Corranna—taken 14 to 1 agst Lord Geo. Bentiuck's Marquis of Conyng ham—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Little Vulgar Boy—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Welfdog—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet 20 to 1 agst Energy 22 to 1 agst Alamode 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware—taken 25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Rowland Hill 25 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Emilia filly—taken 25 to 1 agst Colleen Bawn 25 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey 25 to 1 agst Mr. King's Young Lochinvar 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar 25 to 1 agst Chemise. DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting 30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe. Nothing done on the Chester Cup. The following have been or will bs scratched :—lnheritress, Queen blab, Trueboy, lonian, Wood Pigeon, Rowena, Vol au Vent, Lady ‘Vildair, Johnny, Young Lochinvar, Doctor Husband, Ranger, Miss Burns, b h, by Velocipede, out of' Amulet, Hawk,sbury, Merryman, Frill colt, Sir Diggory Diddle, Nike filly, Bretwalda, the Wreck, Anti-Repealer, Devil's Dust, Thrapston, Curiosity, Emilia filly, Joe Lovell, Rosa, Timbria, Soldier's Joy, Muscatel. NEWMARKET RACES-TUESDAY. The late hour at which the racing terminated this afternoon puts it out of our power to devote more than half a dozen lines to introductory matter, and for the reason that the principal event was not decided until within a quarter of an hour of the departure of the coach for the last train, we must reserve any remarks that it may call for until our next parcel. Briefly, there fore, the attractions of the list centred in the Handicap, and the numerous arrivals of visitors of all ranks by the special train, testified that the public took no slight in terest in it. As we purpose to give the usual list of the fashionable arrivals in a future report, it will be sufficient to state here that his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived by the special train and honoured the heath with his presence, and that the show of aristo cratic, fashionable, and general company was quite as large as we had anticipated. The weather was fine, and the sport plentiful enough to satisfy any reasonable appetite. Match, Y.C., 100, h ft, 7st 71b each—Mr. Clifton's Brown Bess received from Sir W. Don's Tribute. Match, 50, First half of Al). M.—Duke of Bedford's Captain Phebus, 4 yrs (Robinson). beat Sir W. Don's Beelzebub, aged, Bst 71b each.-6 to lon Captain Phebus. Won by two lengths. The Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bit 41b. D.M. (5 Subs.) Lord Exeter's cby C 01.% ick, out of Galata...(Mann) 1 Duke of Bedford's Black Cat .5 to 4 on Galata colt, who made all the running, and won easy by a length. Match, 200, h ft. T. Y. C.. Bst 71b each, Duke of Bedford's Lady Constance (Robinson)beat Lord Exeter's f by Troilus, out of Amaryllis ( Vann). 2tol on Lady Constance. Won by a head. Sweeptakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for colts, Bst 71b; A.F. (4 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Paragon... (Robinson) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright Even betting. Paragon made all the running, and won in a cantor by five lengths. The Newmarket Handicap Stakes of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. with 200 added; the second to receive 1001. Clermont Course, about one mile and three-quarters. (132 Subs.; 72 paid.) Mr. Wivram's Kesheng, 4 yrs, 7st (Pettit) 1 Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne, aged, 7st 131 b 2 Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 31b The following also started, but were not placed : Lord Wate-rford's Corranna—Mr. Moore's Wolfdog— Mr. Mare's Event—Sir J. Hawley's Alamode—Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey—Col. Peel's I-am-not-aware—Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland—Mr. Brooke's Captain Flathooker —Lord Albernarle's Beaumont—Lord Exeter's Wee Pet —Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren—Mr. Drinkald's Elemi—Mr. Copeland's Arthur—Lord Milltown's Col leen Bawn—Mr. T. Theobald's Chemise—Mr. Lowther's Lyons—Mr. Coape's Energy—Mr. Gedwin's Dexterous —Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of Conyngham—Lord Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy —Mr. Herbert's c, by Venison, out of Pet—Mr. Jaques's Spur. Betting at starting-6 to 1 agst Marquis of Conyng ham, 7 to 1 agst Arthur, 8 to 1 agst Wolfdog, 10 to 1 agst Corranna, 10 to 1 agst Little Vulgar Boy, 16 to 1 agst Dexterous, 20 to 1 agst Wee Fet, 20 to 1 agst I-am-not-aware, 25 to 1 ag.t Alamode, 25 to 1 agst Chertsey. The winner not named. Won by a length ; the same space between second and third. Match, D.M.-500 sous.. h ft. Alarm, Bst 71b, re ceived forfeit from Miss Whip colt, Bst 11b. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, APRIL 14.—Wind E., light breeze and fine. p /s o - i r a t l e i d an o t o , s t t h r e an l d 9 ld oaft March,ie ciao ' s r ve o b, i e t e ct tni t e T a A fir v o , aßt A eerd p ry n o i ffl L loa l an 2 dd . — , b aTs ro h u re g e ht into this port, where she is intended to be broken up. LIVERPOOL, Arum 13.—The Friendship, of Dublin, from Rio Nunez to this port, has put into Sierra Leone, with master and all hands, except two, dead from fever. She would fill up and sail for this port about the latter end of February. DEAL. APRIL 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Montrose, Ferguson, Ceylon ; Sophia, Sexton, Calcutta ; Chanticleer, Papendre, Jamaica; Algonia, Spalding, America. Dovzu, APRIL 13.—Wind S.W.—Sid. George and Mary, Palmer, Boston. PENZANCE, APRIL 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hebe, Tobago. LIVERPOOL., APRIL 13.—Wind S.S.W. to S W., moderate. —Arrd. Golden Eagle, Nassau; Frankfield, Mitchell, New Orleans ; Tennessee, Pray, ditto; Satellite, Bainbridge, Mo bile ; Jessie Oliver, Apalachicola ; Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, Philadelphia. OFF PoRTSMOUTH.—Sophie, Saxton, Mauritius. FOLKSTONE.—Arrd. Goodwill, of Portsmouth, with loss of bowsprit, quarter stove, &c., having been in contact i.LNIOUTII, APRIL 13.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., strong.— Sir Robert Campbell, Baird, Pernambuco. SHOREHAM, APRIL 12.—The Three Brothers, Tripey, for Honfleur. in getting to sea to-day without a pilot, got on shore at the back of the west pier, but was got off and pro ceeded with bowsprit sprung. OFF SCILLY, APRIL 11.—Renown, Wood, Hobart Town. HULL, APRIL 13.—Sid. Ross, Woolf, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Lord Mulgrave, Leikiss, Miramichi ; Endy mion, Corelingley, ditto ; Aurora, Hunter, Quebec ; Lalona. Dennison, ditto; Meteor, Brown, ditto. STROMNISS, APRIL B.—The Anties, Turner, from Sunder land, arrived here to• day leaky, and has been hauled on the beach to repair. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The following is posted at Lloyd's:— " The following beacons have been erected on the Turks' Island for navigating the channels leading into the H.twk'e Nest Anchorage:— " On Penniston Bay, a pole chequered black and white, 28 feet long, the top of which is 42 feet above the level of the sea. " On Toney Rock a beacon, 30 feet in height, the top of which is 47 feet above the level of the sea. . . • "On the north end of East Baya beacon, 22 feet in height, the top of which is 38 feet above the level of the sea. it The beacons are square open frames, having at the top a lantern, the frames of which are filled in with wood, and the whole painted black. " The pole on Penniston Bay, in a line with the beacon on Toney Rock, bearing N.W. 14 W., leads through the great cut. " The beacon on East Bay, in a line with the east end of Cotton Bay, bearing E. by S., leads between the S.W. end of the reef and the S.W. bank. " The beacon on Tooney Rock, in a line with the W. end of Cotton Bay, bearing . E. by S. S. nearly, leads clear t. the southward of the S.W. bank. " All the bearings are magnetic. (Signed) " EDWARD BARNETT, Captain." EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Renown, Wood, from Van Diemen's Land, off Falmouth, sailed from Launceston December 4 ; Montrose, Ferguson, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed from Colombo December 13 ; Sophia, Saxon, from Mauritius,_iun.tehteEDLs Erskine. sailed January 12, St. Helena , Februar y 23 ; li Smith, from Bengal, off Plymo uth, sailed Dec. 8, St. "teleran; Feb. 26. Arrivals at Launceston —Jane and Henry, Nov. 5 ; all Eli rom za beth Buckham 10 th ; Unio n, 13Ih ; Winchester, 30th, f London; Julia Bth, from Port Philip; Swan, 12th, from Pori Philip; William, 17th, from Sydney; Deborah 24th, from New Zealand ; Minerva, from Portland Bay ; Scout, 27th, from Port Philip. The Elizabeth iluckham, Henry, and Union, were loading for London. Arrivals at Hobart Town—Timbo, Nov. 13, from Adelaide • Highlander and Maguasha, from whaling; Palmyra, from Adelaide; Lowestoft, 20th, from Sydney; Flying Dutch man, 20th; Prince of Denmark, 22d, from whaling; Dundee Merchant, 'lBth, from whaling; Derwent and Eudora, 29th, from London; Wallaby, from whaling. Departures from llobart Town—Royal Archer, Nov. 12, to Adelaide; Waterlily, 18th, to New Zealand; Timbo, 22d, to Adelaide; Scotia, to Sydney. The Jane, Frances, and Cal cutta, were loading for 'London. Departures from Mauritius—Amicus, Jan. 1, to Cork ; Guiana, 2d, to Adelaide; Sophia, 3d, to Arracan; Robarts, 6th, to Rangoon. Arrivals at St. Helena—Elizabeth and Henry, Feb, 2r, from Calcutta to London ; St. Lawrence, from * Bombay to Liverpool ; B:Iton Currency and Blorenge, from Calcutta. Departures from St. Helena—George Armstrong and John O'Gaunt, Feb. 21, to T,i , •Prn , ‘ol THE AMERICAN :7>TE A M k;a. —LI V EItPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FOUR O'CLOCK. —We are hourly expecting to hear of the steamer Hibernia being near the port. THE ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The twelfth annual meeting cf this cornpa.ny was held on the 7th of this month at the company's office in Throgmorton street. Mr. Alderman Farncomb in the chair. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, the report was read, from which it appeared that the annual income of the company was 60,0001., which way progressively increasing—that the accumula tions of the Assurance Fund invested in Government and other real securities, amounted to nearly a quarter of a million, of which sum above 76,5001., being the clear surplus income, after payment of all outgoings and ex penses whatever, was added to the fund within► the last three years ; that the amount realised by dropped and purchased policies within the last twelve months is 11,1761. ss. 6d., and that the number of :policies issued was 5,324. The report was agreed to, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting sepa rated. GREAT NORTH AND SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY. A general meeting of this Company was held yester• day, at the London Tavern, at one o'clock. R. HART, Eq., in opening the proceedings, stated that he bad come up to town, at very great inconvenience, to meet the shareholders, with a view to put the state of the affairs before them, and he was quite ready to afford all the information the directors were possessed of.—(Hear, hear.) In giving this information, he had to state that the amount of the deposits was 64,248/. 10s. ld., out of which there had been paid 1,102/. ss. Bd. for brokers', commission, as well as 20,521/. 12s. ld. for solicitor , ' bills and engineering services. —(Cries of " Shame, shame.") In a ldi_ion to this, there were liabilities still outstanding, to the extent of 6,000/. or 7,0001. Of these liabilities a great portion was for solicitors' charges, and they were so monstrous that he could not but ex press his great surprise and disgust at them, and he for one would most decidedly object to the payment of them. —(Cries of " What are thef:" " Read them.") He (the Chairman) was quits ready to do that, for he might state, once for all, that there was every desire to place all the information which the directors possessed before the meeting. These liabilities, then, consisted of the solicitors' charges. Messrs. Bush and Mullins, 4,8841. 9s. 6d., in addition to 5.041/.155., which they had already received.—(Loud cries of "Shame.") Then there was a charge of 1,0151. 2s. 2d. made by a Mr. Gar dener, a local solicitor, of whom he believed Messrs. Bush and Mullins were the town agents. There was, again, a charge of 3841. 4s. 3d. from a Mr. Lloyd, another solicitor, and still further a charge of 35/." 145., as well as 542/. 19s. Bd., with 37/ 15s. to a per on named Morgan. Then there was a further charge of 21/. 103. for tavern bills in London; in addition to several accounts, of which the particulars hed nut been furnished.—(Loud and repeated cries of " Shame, shame," accompanied the reading of these items.) These were the facts of the case, and they wanted now to ob tain the authority of the shareholders for resisting the payment of these solicitors' bills, and also an agreement for the division of the funds still in hand. A SHAREHOLDER suggested, under the circumstances, that a committee of shareholders should be formed, to which all the papers and documents in the possession of the Company should be referred. Major RICHARDSON objected to this, and stated that. in his opinion, the better plan would be to elect seven auditors—three on the part of the directors, and four on the part of the shareholders—to whcm, as suggested by the gentleman who had just spoken, all the papers and documents of the Company should be submitted; and that on their conclusions an eminent solicitor should be employed to take the affairs and finances of the Com pany in hand. Mr. DAVIS suggested, before taking this course, which appeared acceptable to the meeting, that it would be better to obtain a pledge from the directors that the resolution should be carried out, and recommended that the statement of Mr. Lawrence should be heard. Major RICHARDSON conceived that this pledge had already been given in calling this meeting. Mr. LAWRENCE (chairman of the committee of share holders) wished to remind the meetiisg that he and his brother shareholders had, for nearly two months, been engaged from day to day in investigating the affairs of the Company; and in the course of that investigation they had ascertained that, after the last meeting of the shareholders, when it was agreed that the solicitors of the Company should be dismissed, the bill of those parties had actually increased by 1,200/. Although it was positively understood that the Company should be dissolved, yet the solicitors had proceeded with the Bill before the House of Commons, and it was appointed to be read a second time on the 6th of M arch; but, in con sequence of a petition which had lain at the Hall of Commerce till the last moment, the Bill was ultimately postponed till the 16th, when they had upwards of forty Members ready to speak against it. The Bill was con. sequently withdrawn, and he oelieved it was mainly in consequence of the exposure of the proceedings of this Company that the Bill had been introduced through which the Government intended to protect the public. Since, however, that the business was still going on, the directors had refused to act with them in any way. Now, these were matters which ought to be inquired into, as well as the further circumstance of there having been an issue of 100,000 shares, while only 64,000 shares had been allotted. The accounts had not yet come to hand, but part of the documents had come into their hands. They wanted vouchers for 1,067/. for prelimi nary expenses; 526/. 7s. 2d. for advertising, in addition to 387/. 15s. In the solicitors' bill there was 545/. 11g. sd. for stationery and printing; 312/. 18s. for allot ment—an expense which he could not possibly under stand; and a Ad' more strange item in 876/. 18s. Ild for the expenses of a deputation of directors into Wales, of which 400/. was for the expenses of the solicitors on this journey. It was evident that a sum of 26,0001. had already been spent, and he did think that, for the money which had been lost since the last meeting, they should come to the resolution to stop the Company. The committee of shareholders had taken legal advice upon their proceedings, and had, under the advice of Mr. Pritchard, their own solicitor, been ready to assent to a release of the directors, but to its terms Mr. Pritchard had objected, and it came ultimately to nothing. Now, then, the Company were in a position to take their own course, for he conceived the duties of the committee had closed, and it now remained for the shareholders to act. After much uproar, the CHAIRMAN, in reply to Mr. Lawrence, stated that the directors had always been ready to do all that the committee of shareholders de sired. But it was a matter of great difficulty to dissolve a company, and to this day it was still unsettled whether the directors had any such power. Within three or four days after the adjourned meeting, the solicitors were in structed to lay a case before the Solicitor-General, eiving them authority at the same time to petition the Committee of Standing Orders. The opinion of the So licitor-General was not obtained until about a fortnight afterwards ; indeed, it was from th e 11th of February to the 10th of March ; and it was f or t h e P arliamentary ' expenses, for which Messrs. Bush and Mullins had charged, that he conceived that no payment ought to be made. He had himself come up 150 miles for the very purpose of carrying the resolution into effect, and lie could but express his surprise at the information which he had received on reaching London, that the Bill had in fact been read a first time, and had been reported favourably upon, and was proceeding to the second reading. He had been exceedingly desirous of dissolv ing the Company, but the resolution had been negatived by a majority of four against two. Of one thing subse quent experience had convinced him, viz., that the soli citors ought to have been dismissed. The Chairman was here interrupted by cries of" Ques don," and a reference to the resolution, with great uproar. Mr. HOPCOOD stated that he could assert upon the authority of Mr. C. Haubury, the secretary, that the first balance sheet submitted by the directors had not been prepared by him, and that it was full of the grossest errors, and that the advertisement which intimated that the accounts were all paid was totally false. Throughout the whole of the management there had been the most grievous misdirection. Then, with regard to the sum charged for the deputation into Wales, there was one thing so monstrous that he could not but state it. This was the fact, that some of those directors had taken ladies down with them; and, in one instance, as much as sixteen guineas had been paid for posting home. The CHAIRMAN said that was an imputation so gross that he must demand the name of the party.' This was seconded by the meeting, but Mr. Hopgood refused to give it. Mr. COITRTENAY went into a statement as to the oppo sition which had been offered to the breaking up of the Company. In doing this he exonerated Mr. Robinson, Mr. Russell, the lion. Mr. Howard, and Mr. Hart; from all of whom but the last he had obtained letters to jus tify the proceedings for dissolving the Company, in which the committee of shareholders had been opposed by their counter .statement, got up by the oldsoticito e rs . of the C ompany . Th e di rec tors presentt were,thedifficulty he b . ieved, quite ready to act honourably, but bu was, th a t after the meeting had resolved , the directors not present would have the power of outvoting their orother directors, and he rendering the resolution a nul lity. He objected to t resolution, too, because it would act as a stigma upon the committee, and, it elected AS an auditor, he certainly would not serve. Major expIained RICHARDSON ther from his intentien , for he had been one of th e coral_ nate himself, but his proposiou was made for the pur. pose of binding the directors more closely, Mr. CouRTENAY proposed that the auditors should be ..lected equally by the meeting and the directors, with a referee, who should have power to decide all differences. Mr. LONGMORE, who represented the holders of 02 shares at Caermarthen, wished to know whether, in th,‘ svent of the resolution being passed the directors would act upon it, and submit the boos an d Papers ? Ind, further, what was the amount which they would be able to divide ? The CHAIRMAN was quite ready to do so hims&, but he could not answer for th e ot h er di rectors, With spect to the second q uest i on , t h e directors ware ready r t e o . sufficient s um i n divide I Is. in the pound, retain aand to meet the liabilities, The CHAIRMAN the;} react the resolution proposed I)) Major Richardson, t o t h e e ff ect that auditors should be appointed, four by the committee of shareholders, and three by the directors, to whom all documents, books, and papers should be laid before, includin g t h e applica tions for share s; an d t h at they be instructed to r equire he dir ec t ors to convene a general meeting fur the pur pose of receiving their report. Mr. RICHARDSON then inoyecl his amendment, to which Major Tiip,hardsPe acceded, and i t was pat as after much interruption, and n riginel motion, whi c h, several vague propositi ons f rom diff erent parties, was put to the meeting, when Major Richardson altered his Ilis motion aa s a b ou t t o b e put, as previously stated, steer an alteration by M r . D av i s, but he again as and Mr. C our t ena y' s mot i on, aft( r Mr. is ,i s alter ation, was then bef o r e th e meeting as an amendment. The amendment was carried. It was then moved by Mr. LONGMORE, that such share holders as should be ready to receive the dividend should have the option of doing so, and inquired what course the directors intend( d to pursue? The CHAIRMAN said that while the directors were ready to do justice to the shareholders, they would pro tect themselves. Mr. RUSSELL then again went into the accounts, and in doint , so he observed, that of the large sum of 26,0001., the solicitors' hills w er , 11,1351., the expenses of engineer ing were 10,0001., which, with other expenses entirely beyond control, made the sum of 23,6371, leaving the whole of the sum for which the directors were respon sible 3,000/. He was anxious to get honestly and honourably out of the affair. Mr. Longmore's resolution was put, after an explana tion from the Chairman, to the effect that it would inter fere with the duties of the auditors, and was carried almost unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then sta . ed that he had done his duty in putting the resolution, but he was bound to say, that in his capacity as a director, he could not recommend the board to acviesee in it. Neither could he recommend them to acquiesce in Mr. Davis's motion, fir he con cieved it unfair. He made that statement in order that the 'meeting might not be deceived v,ith false antici pations. It was ultimately agreed that the dividend of 1 ls. should be paid, and a release of the directors signed. Thanks were voted to the Chairman and the Share holder's Committee, an d this most tumultuous assemblage separated. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The post Paschal season has commenced and com menced gloriously. The three- Gris;, Mario, and La blache have returned to us, and appeared last evening in / Put itane. Grisi was in excellent voice, and looked, and acted, and sung delightfully. Never aid she give the delightful polacca, the gem of the first act, " Son vergin v. zz :se," with more exqiesite taste—her fioriture was beautiful exceedingly. Der scene with Ricardo and Giorgio, in the second act, was the very acme of pathos; and the third, the whole burden of which falls upon herself and Mario, was throughout a perfect triumph. Lablache is as great, in every sense of the word, as ever. The mag nificent duet "Sunni la tromba" wa s splendidly given by Lablache and Fornasari, and its repetition was called for with an enthusiasm which was quit e unc h aracter i stic of the usually cold audience of her Majesty's Theatre. Never has so short a space of time worked such an im provement in any artist as the last two seasons have worked in Mario. His voice is not only increased in power, in firmness, and in clearness, but it has also increased in compass. His voce di petto is clear, powerful, and firm, and his voce di testa is as delicate, as beautiful, as flexible, as com pletely under command as the voce di testa of Rubini, but more powerful. It is a perfect instrument perfectly played upon, and Mario is now, take him for all in all, the first tenor in the world. But he is not alone an ac complished musician—he is a great actor ; there is none of that listlessne,s about him which formerly marred some of his best efforts—he is now full of feeling and pathos. His making up is as it always has been admir able, and his Arturo, both as regards music and acting, is perfect. The Ricardo, of Fornasari, was very fine. No thing could be finer than his acting in the grand scena with Lablache, Il rival salver to dei," with which the second aetconcludes. Hatr d, contempt, jealousy, and at length love, pity, and a high sense of honour overcoming all the baser passions, were successfully depicted by the marvel lous expression of the features with which Fornasari is endowed, in such a manner that a series of Daguerro types of this great actor in that scene, would have formed a perfect series of illustrations to Lavater. Neither words nor music were wanting to express the workings of his mind. The face was the mind's mirror ; and re flected every light and shade of passion by which that mind was agitated. But it was not the features alone which expressed the passion, the voice was as expressive as the features—that voice, power ful yet tremulous, betrayed the excess (4' passion which was working within, and which in its working breaks down the strength of the strong man, until he becomes as weak as the infant child—until at length, yielding all to love and honour, he determines to seek a glorious death in the field of battle ; and the scene fini,hes with the magnificent duet " Suoni la tromba," to which we have already alluded. Th e act i ng of Fornasari through out this trying scene i s one of the finest things on the stage. It Is a perfect study, an d must b e seen again and again to be thoroughly appreciated. Grisi, Mario, Lablache, and Fornasari were all called for at the conclusion of the opera, and bouquets innu merable were showered upon the stage, which were col lected by Fornasari and presented to the prima donna. The opera was followed by the ballet of La Catarina. The house was crewded by the eli , e of the fashionable: world long before the rising of the curtain. There wets scarcely a box or a stall unoccupied at the commence ment of the opera, and the pit was crammed. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Our old friend Anderson, the " Wizard of the North ," commenced here on Monday a short season of magic and music, before he quits England or a transatlantic trip. How Jonathan will be astonished at the cann on trick, which the Wizlrd exhibited fo r t h e f i rst time that nic ht! A five-pounder was brought to the front of the stage, loaded with a ball, and fired at Anderson, who stood immediately in front of it, and instead of beinied shivered to atoms, the invulnerable Wizard caught th A ball in his hands. Now we "guess" that the " Yanicer is " must be "the smartest nation in all creation" if they c a n " whip" a fellow that catches cannon balls in his he rids, and musket balls in his mouth. But hold !—the Or egon question is not yet settled, and the Wizard may teach the " statesmen" o f th e other side the Atfams. ,ic the trick, which w ill ena bl e them to set even the other wizard, Captain Warner, at defiance. Dr2cided ly the Ministry s h ou ld b uy up the important secret, and make it their own, an d we will answer for it A'Aderson • will be satisfied with a fiftieth part of the sn'zi demon fled by Captain Warner. The musical part of the en !ertain merit consisted of a concert by a band of sip ;ty per formers on S.,x horns and cornopeans. Both tt le music and the magic were excellent of the sort, and ex cellently performed to the satisfaction of a crowded lions( - POLYTECHNIC INSTITUT:ION. Notwithstanding the fineness of the weath, er on Mon day, which so temptingly invited the hob 'l a y folks of the metropolis to the river ari d t h e fields, this great in stitution'night suppose that the wh o l e population, • was thronged to suc h an excess i sat a stranger had agreed to make thi s t h e scene for t' of a large city a general fete. The number of visit( le celebration of ,rs was, perhaps, greater than upon any f ormer occasic ,n, and there were at least four th ousan d persons at on walls. The admirable lectures of I) , r. Ryan and Pro fessor Bachhoffner attracted % as us+ sals crowded and at catione time within the y it. the least agreeable t en ti ve by audiences, applause. who N fr o e r q uwean,t,l ' ;.estified their gratifi matter of notice during the riay, t.hat whilst the great; variety of curious objects e.:ssplay, id throughout the ex tensive hall and gallerires excited the wonder of the mischievous ore satisfactor; holiday. young and the rustic, there was laot an instance of im pertinent'evous meddlit ig. L in V it D uti E on oGf .s"l,2l.LenLeeEaltndYa Indeed, we have seldom men enjoyed r ye m d 'F. !_._ .. ....__ . ....... This faAvopuriEte niuser aent was, on Monday, visited by several thousand per sons. who manifested the highest statisfaction at the new courses or instruction and entertainment produ.eed for the Easter holi,!ays. In addition to the usual leer e ves upon various departtnente of practical science, nat? trial philo sophy, electricity, and chemistry, there were very inte resting lectures by Mr. Logan on phrenology , Mr. Brook on phonlgraphy, and Major Beniowski 7.5: don artificial memory. The experiments upon NiAr. v' compressed railway were observed with great c' ii'msity, and Mr. Clark's explanation of the structure, 'h a hit s, 84c., of the electrical eels were in the highest (It Igree interesting and satisfactory. Those wone.e rful esreatures have thriven amazingly under Mr. Se,ott's care.. When they were first brought to this coun%ry, two yea rs and a half ago, they measured but twe , 4t .,_ 1. 5 three and twenty-four inches in length ; they have now attained tl to length of four feet nine inches, with the a girth o f e i ght inches, and y are in robust healtn, and possess grea t electrical vigour. The orchestra, undor Mr. St dgwick, is very ' effective; and the excellent voettlist*., Miss Pierce and 2 dr. Binge, of whom we have frequently spoken, with Ateriic ed praise,. continue to be great favourites. The Ohio melodists should be heard 'oy every one w'no wishes to understand what are the beauties, a s w e ll . as the oddities, of negro music. EXHIBITIONS. THE BRITISH MUSED The number of visitors to this national establip;, trent on Monday was 29,896, being an inerew,e of 30 a; compared with Easter Monday last yewr when the lum ber was 15,316. This exllibiti(m, also f ro . * to the NATIONAL GIALLISMY. during Monday by no Dublie, w as atter tried 4>ss than 1 4,r..(00 visitors. Tho 001 the want of space or the smailnes a of the collection t say render this gallery unworthy of being termed natio lel, it nevertheless contains some of the finest and r.n .(38t valuable painting s in the world. The additions are 'm de but slowly, only two during the last year, but tbeT cool upward s o f 7 ,000/. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION. Tho Museum of this institution, which at 8 has, been free to th e public (by member's ticked sr.-11), was times OR this occasio n thrown open to all, w i t h or without tickets, an d the result w ar n to inux of wards of 1,0 , 30 visit ors , i nstead of about 200, fl up as last y( ear. Tho few, additions t o t h e Museum have been corn para ve few, consisti ng c hi efly of some implements o f aver f ro m the Island of Borneo, but the whole seems 'mu eh more extensive, and many articles, previously almost hidden, are now fully display( d since the extension of the build ing, by the annexation of Lord Stuart de Rot.hesay's house, The chief object of attraction is the amnoury, containing arms and armour of all ages and n ations, amongst them a very long gun from the Mary R ose, a. man-of-war, reign of Henry VIII., and which had been, under water 300 years. There are also the swordu, Sco, of Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon Bonaparte, Gvnerall. Wolfe, Lord Nelson, &c., beside numerous Chinese and East Indian arms. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Not yet quite free to the public, as sixpence is still charged, and. though but a small sum to view Henry Vllth's chapel and the whole collection, it we a not pa tronised by more than 500 visitors during Mon day. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Not more than 100 persons paid the twoper ce for full ad mission . to s ounri insignificant portion cathedralnal w ere ne on Monda y, e o f these but a very in.g to pa arnoonr. 4s. 2d., to view th e w h o l e interior of t his noble structure. COLOSSEUM. A large company assembled here on Monday, both morning and evening, to do homage to dr e geni us ofßrad well, and were delighted with the gore ens yes woo