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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 poet after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HER H 111A.JESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that an EXTRA NIGLIT, not included in the Subscription, will t aka place, on CIIURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, When will be performed (for th s occasion only), DonizettPs cele brated Opera, entitled _ _ BELISARIO. Bellisario, ig. Foasi ; Giustinian, Sig. F. Labiache ; Alamlro, Corelli S ; Irene rn , M rl dme. Castellan o ; Antoulna, AWN°. Sanehioli. To he followed by the Divertissement of US BAL SOUi LOUIS XIV. In which Mdlles. Lucile Grahn and Louise Taglioni will appear. In the course of the Evening,, a New Piss de Deux, by Mdlles. Louise Taglioni and Petit Stephan; and the admired Craeavienne, by 3ldlle. Lucile Gralin. After which, the Last Scene of LA SONNAMBULA. Amino, Mad:tine Castellan. With other Entertainments, in which Iltllle. Gaetanlna Brambilla, M. Perrot, &c., will perform. To conclude with (for the first time this season), EOLINE ; ou, La Dryade. Arranged by 31 Perrot, in Three Tableaux. Principal characters by 3ldlle. Lucile Grahn, M. Perrot, Mdme. Petit Stephan, 31. DI Mattis, &c. 11Zr. MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE. ON SATURDAY NEXT, MARCH 28, Will be performed (for the first time this season) Donizettrs cele brated Opera, entitled LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. Linda, Madame Castellon (her first appearance this season) ; Pierotto, Mdlle. Gactanina Brambilla. 'her first appearance in this country) ; Carlo, Signor Corelli , I 1 Marchese di Boistieury, Signor F. Loblache ; I 1 Prefettci del Villagio, Signor Botelli ; Antonio, Signor Fornasari. To conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by M. Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Afdlles. Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglioni ; 31.31. Gorselin, Bertrand, Di Matta, and Perrot. TIIRATitF. ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, 14urdini, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Rosner, and Miss ltainforth. To conclude with a new grand comic Pantomlne, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, iants and Dwarl. Harlequi, 31r. Wieland ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, l Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss hicks and Miss Lonsdale. THRATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will 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 ; Scbnei dermann, Mr. J. Bland; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonie," and " La Seige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which, Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Capt. Absolute, Mr. 11. Holl ; Acres, Mr. Webqer ; bir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Brindal ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Lan guish, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lucy, Mrs. Hurnby. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. TIIE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Night of a New Drama ! GENERAL TOM THUMB having, on each Evening of his ap pearance, been welcomed with most enthusiastic shouts of ap plause, and excited the astonishment and approbation of an elegant 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 till further notice. THIS EVENING The performances will commen e c with PETER JENKINS. In w hi c h Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. A f t er which, a New Extravagiuma, entitled THE MARULE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Mist Laldlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled BOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. In w:tich General Tom Thumb, wile is engaged expressly for this occasion, have the honour of making his appearance. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Rellhigham ; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING win be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, Yr. Pavl Bedford t Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Afterr which, a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Fright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Mrs. Iloneybun, Miss Woolgar. To lA followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright , Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a Sc.!'♦ Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Taylor; and Mrs. Frank Matthews. vRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXfoRD-sTr.EET_ Last Week but One of the celebrated Artiqicl, Madame VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS. THIS EVENING Will be performed a N e w Vaudeville Comedy, entitled, THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. Duke de Chartres, Mr. J. Vining; Count de lirik:sac, Mr. llarris ; Dr. Druggendraft, Mr. Compton ; Pierre I'alliot, Mr. C. Mathews; Mdlle. Duval, Miss E. Homier; Duchess de Chartres, Madame Vestris. To be followed by a. Serio Comic Drama, entitled, A SPEARING LIKENES. Baron de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. James Yining ; Coco, Mr. Con/pint ) ; Manette, Madame Vests. litter which (fourth time) a New Comic Drama, entitled, THE E AMER. Count de Fiprville Mr. James Vining ; Sir Ge or g e DR Dormer, Mr. Charles Mathews Slieldrake, Mr. Wynn; Charles c(lley, Mr. Harris ; Gage, Mr. Osiberry ; Lady Belton, Mrs. Stirling. To he succeeded by a Comic :eerie, called, TWO IN THE MORNING. By Mr. Charles MathewS and Mr. Compton. To cowhide with a DIVERTISSEME In which Messrs. Gilbert, Marshall, Adrien, Miss Miss Marshall, and Mdlls. lielattte Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. L AST WEEK BUT ONE. PHILLTP'E'S gOIREES and MA'l [NEES MYSTERIEUS ES. Two I...forning Performances during the Week. At the urgent am; reiterated solicitations of many illstinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who flock to atOnd his Morning Perfc.mnances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his Grand juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday )Iforning, at Two o'ciook. pouppe's most Popular Deceptions and peculiar Experiments Rill be repeate d every Evening, varied by the Amusing .Per formances oi the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Yeats of the American BrotiZerc — D mi llr at a quarter past Seven, to Coin mance at a (part e: before talls, 3s. ; Boxes, 23 ; P it,La ' ; GaUerY. 6d.; Private Boxes, ls., and 11. lls. sd. RESTRp. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIRT Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. ---- mor reseat at last Week but One before the LTolidays, and of th e tractive Entertainments, which ©the roved fat than shy Novelty yet presented. Performing successful with ate grand Elephantine Ascent up the Giant Staircase. EVENING Will be performed the Grand Spectacle, entitled THE RAJA OF N AopoRE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the Whole .res4urcee of the Establishment will be . es of the Circle, combiningintroduced tke unequalled Feats Magnin'eent Seel: the Britie:l a nd fo,^ e i g n Artistes. e e with the Nove l Military Ballet, entitled The whole i,9 conelu,! DREA3..r TIIE SOLDIEIrg DAVI 1)(E•ci ROYAI. SURREY TBEATRE. 3 7 .ntro dune. Two S e w Pieces, Four Dramas every Evening. itc-..wragemerit of Mr. IL W. Pelhaa., the celebrated Ethiopian .serenader. THIS EVENINg Will be performed a New Drama, entitled jijl;lE LEDEr rd ; or, the City Goldsmith. Supported by Messrs. MOOS, Mayna, Lewis, Morrison, Willlamcon; Madam Vining, Daly, .tk , e. After virhicli, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, TEA WITH ACCT. To be f o llowed by THE MASQUERADE BALL. Sambo Hit cm-hard, Mr. 1,:• W. Pelham. 'Co conclude wit;; THE VAMPIRE, and THE BLIND ROT. Amy DREADFUL ACCWENT—FOUR PERSONS DROWNED. —On the evening of the I:th instant, as a party of people from Knoydart were returning from ALr3aig (where they had been making urchaoes), their boat struck on a suzlk rock. There were nine per sons on board, and the shrieks of thC party on discovering their dangerous situation were fortunately heaiti by a lady at Morar rpusc, in Airoaig. A boat was instantly launciicd. and the servants proceeded to render assistance, but before they had iraehed the spot four persons—two men and two women—had fount a WattrY grave. Other two men had s ucceeded in effecting a landing, but three more were drafting with the boat, sometimes clinging to the keel, and at other timo getting into it when the boat righted, and sitting up to the neck in N - yata with the waves every moment dashing over them. These men weie quite exhausted, but being carried to Morar House, and proper restor,!tives applied, they recovered.—/nrerness Courier. The execution of ilubbard, the man convicted of the znurder of us wire at 'Amer, la lized for the lit of April. THE WEATHER—Suw OFFICE, MARCH 26. rHERMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest, 52; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 29.62.—W1ND W., fine. 111 GB WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Nforning .. 66 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 20 minutes after 1. .4 -Az. • -,J*4 t."6`' , . r ~.• . ORA , Let • •,WlNAl".tlip., i t , 0 Ma; LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1846. The Lords did not sit yesterday. The Commons met at twelve. Several Railway Biils were read a second time without opposition. On the motion that the Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scot tish Central Junction Railway Bill be read a second time, Mr. F. MAtmx moved that it be read a second time that day six months. After a lengthened discussion, the motion for the second reading was carried by a majority of six; the numbers being 40 in favour of the motion, and 36 against it. Mr. F. MAuLx then moved the order of the day for going into Committee on the Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill Sir J. lIVTAGGART opposed the motion. The Mouse was subsequently addressed by Mr. Foaxxs, Mr. P. M. STEWA RT. Mr. B. Darnsox, Mr. HODGSON, Mr. F. MACKENZIE, and Mr, H. DRUMMOND. After which a division took place, when there appeared— For the motion,3o ; against it 18; !majority for the motion, 12. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill, and several of the clauses were carried by very narrow majorities. Ultimately, Mr. Fox Ms ULE intimated that it was not his intention to proceed further with the Bill, and the House resumed. Mr. F. MACKENZIE gave notice that on Friday he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the mode of granting licenses to public houses in Scotland. The House adjourned at Half-past Four o'clock. The Indian mail, put on board the steamer Virago, at Alexandria, on the 9th inst., we regret to state has not yet arrived, and no satisfactory accounts of that vessel had reached Marseilles by the latest intelligence from that quarter. Much anxiety, therefore, prevails for the safety of the passengers and crew, but strong hopes are entertained that the steamer sent out by the Gover nor of Malta to the relief of the Virago, would reach her in time. The news expected by the mail has, how ever, fortunately been anticipated by the Bombay Times, published on the 15th of February, which contains a general order by the Governor-General of India, announc ing the important victory gained by the British forces over the Seikhs at Aliwal, on the 28th January, together with the dispatch of Sir H. SMITH, describing the battle, its results, and the judicious arrangements made for rendering it decisive, and decisive it has been to the fullest expectation. One dispatch, however, is still want ing, namely, that relative to the attack made by the Seikhs on the British troops while Sir HARRY SMITH was forming a junction with Colonel GODBY ; but from all accounts the loss was very small, and the General acted with great prudence in avoiding a general engage ment before the proper opportunity had arrived. Indeed, throughout the whole of the military proceedings, from the 21st to the 28th, be appears to have acted with con summate skill as a commander. He did not rush into battle without preparation or foresight; he submit. ed to the trifling loss of some baggage, but kept the main object in view—the certain and utter defeat of the troops opposed to him. The result, when all the circumstances became known, fully justified this prudent conduct, for he had opposed to him the very beat troops in the Seikh army—namely, those which had been so thoroughly drilled and disciplined under the immediate eye of General AvITABILE, and which were called the " Avitabiles," in honour of this Neapoli tan officer. The General deserves praise, also, for the wise and humane provision made for the relief of the wounded. Owing, says he, to the judicious arrangements of Dr. MUR RAY, field•surgeon, every wounded officer and soldier was placed under cover, and provided for soon after dark, and on the 29th, the day after the battle, the whole of the wounded were moved to Loodianah, for the sake of accommodation and comforts which could not be given them in the field. What will strike:the reader moat, next to this humane conduct, is the admirable order in which the British force was arrayed. They were all properly organised and brigaded on the morning of the 25th, so as to render them manageable in action, and they started for the contest alike prepared to march or fight the enemy at a minute's notice. " The ad vance," says the General, " was steady, my troops well in hand, and if the enemy had anticipated me on tha Jugraon road, I could have fallen upon his centre with advantage." Fortunately, for good generals are also fortunate if we are to believe the Romans, both the ground and the weather were most favourable for his purpose. The scene just previous to the onset is well drawn, and the orderly manner in which the advance was made exhibits in the most striking manner the con fidence of the troops under his command. "As I neared the enemy, the ground became most favourable for the troops to manoeuvre, being open and hard grass land. I ordered the cavalry to take ground to the right and left by brigades, thus displaying the heads of the in fantry columns, and as they reached the hard ground I directed them to deploy into line. Brigadier GODBY'S brigade was in direct echellon to the rear of the right, the Shekawattee Infantry in like manner to the rear of my left, the cavalry in direct echellon on, and well to the rear of both flanks of the infantry. The artillery massed on the right, and centre, and left. After deployment I ob seried the enemy's left to outflank me, I therefore broke into open columns and took ground to my right ; when I had gained sufficient ground, the troops wheeled into line ; there was no dust, the sun shone brightly. The manoeuvres were performed with the celerity and pre cision of the most correct field day. The glistening of the bayonets and swords of this order of battle was most imposing, and the line advanced. Scarcely had it moved forward 150 yards when at ten o'clock the enemy opened a fierce cannonade from his whole line." And to the honour of the native troops, we ought not to omit to state, that, in almost every instance, they rivalled the. European regiments, and had, with the assistance only of one regiment, the glory of defeating the " A vita biles." Upon the left, Brigadier WILSON, with her MAJESTY'S 53d and 30th Native Infantry, equalled in celerity and regularity their comrades on the right, and this brigade was apposed to the " Aieen" troops, called Avitabiles, when the battle was fiercely raging ; and, in another attack, a native corps nobly obeyed orders, rushed among the Avitabile trobps, drove them under a bank, and thus exposed thein to the deadly fire of twelve guns within 300 yard s . But it is needless to give more details. The battle was in every part favourable to the British forces, and that o wing as much to the prudence and skill of the General as to the marked superiority of the troops under his command. Sir HARRY SMITH has well merited the thanks of Parliament and other more substantial honours for one of Cie most decided victories on record, and gained, too, with comparatively small loss of life. Since the above was in type, we have learned with great satisfaction the safe arrival of the India mail and the Virago steamer at Marseilles. Every heart capable o f sympathising in a reverence for liberty—that handmaid of civilisation !—but a few weeks since was stirred to its innermost depths at the news that Poland had once more risen to assert its in. dependence ; that Cracow was taken, and that the troops of its foreign government were driven back in conster nation. Englishmen, generally, could not but sympa thise in this movement ; cognisant of their own felicity in possessing a political constitution essentially free, they could not but commiserate the des tiny of a great nation, and of an illus trious race, subjected to ,the domination of three separate powers of a most despotic character. It is indeed from the inhabitants of Great Britain that the Poles have experienced the most substantial and ser viceable signs of esteem ; during the time of their ap parent reconciliation to the authority of their triple rulers, English oratory, English poetry, and English money have been regularly, if not lavishly, devoted to the solace of the refugees from Poland. Hence it was that on the arrival of the intelligence from Gallicia a yas t majority of the people of this country participated in the feeling of patriotism by which the insurgents were actuated ; and among that majority we confess that we ourselves felt earnestly. O ur sympat h y how ever was imbued rather with sadness than with hope, we could not but p erceive the unfortunate abruptness of the outbreak. The scheme was so crude, there was such a manifest lack of preparation, that we saw only i n t h at prema t ur e ebullition a certainty of greater hardships than had hitherto been inflicted upon that land of martyrs. We appreciated th e g lorious sentiments in which that revoluti on had originated, but w e mourne d the calamitous consequences which must ensue. It would d indeed be cruelty to a ssert that the present is not right time for the emancipation of Poland. Abstract isedly, it is the right t ime ; but p ractically speaking, it not. Without the moat perfect unanimity on their own part he ill ac tion, As well As in thought, anci without either t t., virtual or actual co-operation of other nations, the re storation of freedom to the Poles is totally chimerical. It is an impossibility. The seeds of regeneration must be sown, they must be tended and nourished, and com mence of themselves a secret germination before they can burst from the soil and flourish. A trite philosopher has said " Rome was not built in a day." On the same principle, if the population of Poland aspire to better things, their plans must be gradual and systematic. Otherwise, the hour of their emancipation will not merely be deferred, but more in tolerable miseries will acrue from the failure of each insurrection. On these accounts, and on these accounts alone, we have deeply mourned the recent struggles in Crallicia ; we consider the instigators of the outbreak as unwise and incompetent in the last degree. They pos sessed enthusiasm and patriotism, but they wanted pru dence and tact. Nevertheless, though present suffering may result from these proceedings, we are sanguine that their ultimate effect will prove beneficial. A new victory for Austria, Russia, and Prussia, will only serve to enhance the commiseration of Europe and America towards Poland; the e f fort alone of her people will revive—it has already revived, and will continue to do so—the ano malous position of a territory situated in the centre of the civilised world being a prey to the avarice of three adjacent states, her constitution dismembered, her cities the spoliation of invaders. A sense of this anomaly, a persuasion of its injustice, will never die away among the nations of the earth, until the error is rectified, until Poland is restored to her original place in the chart of Europe. As among the first indications of this consequence of the late doings at Cracow, we hail with real satisfaction a meeting of the friends of Poland, held yesterday evening in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, a report of which meeting a great press of matter unfor tunately obliges us to postpone. That two thousand persons were present, that a working man filled the chair, and that all the speeches were characterised by a fierce hatred of oppression and a cordial sympathy with the Polish insurgents, will be sufficient to show that the assembly was precisely what it should have been, especially as being the representative of the sentiments entertained in this vast metropolis. Occa sionally, perhaps, the holiness of the cause, for the advo cacy of which the parties present had been convened, was tarnished by language too virulent and sweeping ; a blemish in the speakers, which we the more particularly regret, as it was derogatory to the dignity of their theme. For example, the Chairman was rather injudi cious, if not actually blind to propriety, in declaring that the aristocracy of England, en masse, sym pathised in no manner with the grievances of Po land : it was a wholesale condemnation, the inaccu racy of which there are many living witnesses to prove. The vituperation, in like manner, uttered by Mr. FEIRGUS O'CONNOR upon the newspaper press of Great Britain for its " baseness, servility, truckling, cor ruption, and perfidy," was much too comprehensive and violent to forward the cause of liberality in any one particular. But enough of this demonstration in favour of Poland ; it has afforded us much satisfaction, as we confidently regard it merely in the light of a prelimi nary movement. The civil rights of many millions of our fellow-men are too holy, and are too intimately blended by ass cciation with our own, to become a matter of indifference or neglect. Poland, in fact, demands the sympathy of every European race in her present hour of tribulation, and the voice that issues this mandate is the solemn voice of history. That voice tells us, that the gratitude, the succour, the hearts, and the hands of Europe, belong by right to Po land, whenever by her distresses she requires assistance. Never should that glorious achievement of the Polish troops, by which this right has been entailed upon their posterity, be forgotten or disregarded ; nevershould that memorable day be lost sight of; when, in 1683, the auxiliary forces of Poland, under their monarch JoEN SOBIESKI (amounting, with a few German regiments, to merely 70,000 men), routed an army of 200,000 Turks upon the plains of Vienna, and by so doing preserved Austria and the rest of Europe from becoming the dominion of barbarians and infidels. And this victory, be it recollected, was attributable exclusively to the consum mate tact of the Polish Sovereign and the dauntless bearing of his troops ; a fact the more re markable from the simultaneous • pusillanimity of the Austrian Emperor. Within five days Vienna would have been compelled to capitulate, when the continent would have been wholly exposed to the depredations of a lawless body of conquerors: from this calamity were Austria and her sister kingdoms rescued by the genius of SOBIESKI and the valour of his soldiers. Have not the Poles therefore a claim—a won derful and deathless claim—upon the sympathy and succour of every European empire ? And has not ungrateful Austria a dire and unpa ralleled crime to answer for ? Had NAPOLEON but accomplished his views upon the Autocrat, Russia would have been driven into a compromise, Austria and Prussia would have been compelled to concede, and Poland would have been again numbered among the nations of the earth. An issue most emphatically diverse prevented the accomplishment of this grand design, and Poland remains in servitude. The day of retribution must, however, come at last. Patriotism must predominate over tyranny. We have received Madrid journals of the 18th, but their principal contents have been anticipated by the telegraphic dispatches. The Chamber of Deputies met on that day for the last time, according to all appear ances, when Senor NOCEDIL, one of the Secretaries, rose and said :—" The President has directed me to in form the assembly, as his ill state of health will not allow him to address it, that at a late hour in the night he received a communication from the President of the Council of the Ministers, signifying that the Con gress should meet to hear the organisation of the Cabi net and other important communications." The names of the new Ministers were then announced, and after that the following royal decree was read " In virtue of the prerogative conferred upon me by Article 26 of the Constitution, and by the advice of tay Council of Ministers, I have decreed and do decree as fol lows :—The sittings of the Cortes of the present Legislature are prorogued." M. NOCEDAL, then, in the name of the President, declared that the sitting was closed. The deputies then retired. The Gazette, of the same date, publishes a royal degree superseding General CONCHA in the ge neral command of the Basque provinces, by General URBISTONDO, formerly an officer in the Carlist army. General CORTES, one of the chiefs of the War depart ment, had resigned, and ARETA, the political Chief of Madrid, had been dismissed, and replaced by General BILBOA. All the troops in garrison in Madrid had re ceived orders to be night and day under arms, and ready to march out at a moment's notice, in case of any attempt at disturbance. We have given, in another part of The Sun, the manifesto issued by the new Cabinet, and it is quite in keeping with the character of the man who has assumed the dictatorship of Spain. The Funds had risen nearly three per cent. On the 18th the Three per Cents. closed at 31 for cash, and 311 at thirty days ; the Five per Cents. at 22i at thirty days ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando, 255 ; of Isabel, 168. With the exception of an article on the affairs of Spain, in the Journal des Debats, the Paris papers contain little news of importance. That journal and the Illessager appear to be the only papers that had received detailed accounts of the suspension of the Cortes, and the de struction of the freedom of the press, and the manifesto of the new Government; establishing arbitrary power. The great press of other important matter prevents us from giving the article at length, and we therefore con fine ourselves to a brief extract, which shows that this .. Government paper declares strongly against this new system of despotism. We only hope the Court of France and the GUIZOT Ministry will evince a similar spirit:— " The new Ministry formed under the auspices of General Narvaez has inaugurated its accession to power by two acts of the greatest importance, and which show in what a dis astrous path it wishes to lead the country and the young Queen. By a decree of March 17, the Ministry has ordered the indefinite prorogation of the Cortes. This measure will be followed, no person can doubt, by the dissolution of the Congress, which, composed almost entirely of members of the Moderado party, has given so many pledges of prudence and devotedness to the throne and the constitution. This suspension of the Cortes is so much the more inexplicable that it has been pronounced before the vote of the budget for the present year, and before the present Cabinet has ob tained a vote of confidence to collect taxes and contribu tions. The second decree of the new Ministry has an awk o ard analogy with the ordinances of July, 1830. It pro nounces in reality the suspension of the liberty of the press. The new Ministry has, in consequence, been looked on with a general sentiment of uneasiness. and even terror. Madrid, on the evening of the 19th, was tranquil, and order had not been troubled, but there reigned a great agitation in the public mind. The measures which the Government have adopted betray its own disquietudes ; the garrison remains day and night under arms, and several generals and colonels have been already replaced or dismissed. The situa tion is grave for Spain. The Ministry is placed at the head of an ultra and turbulent minority of 40 members, all per sonal friends of General Narvaez, or declared enemies of the constitutional Government. Its first acts have been a fla grant violation of the constitution, and one may say an insult to the convictions and good sense of the country. There is no possible safety for Spain but in the maintenance of the constitution, and with the concurrence of the whole Moderado party, which for four years has shown so much devotedness to the throne, and so much attachment to the constitutional institutions. We hope that this party, so powerful by its number and by its position in the state, will know how, under placeopAß actual res circumstances , ,cßoaoafnudnothtensoentfhDrsioesun eveningke consistent eA to t ilDng m ,iAeitr r us e soo a tnnh i L zdnneuouLualnt announce conduit." d and firm in its prin (e:ifi le f the Their Prince hearrivalir arrivalo f at s I t h h xa a Ed t h e t . h t just been preceded by the return of Marshal &MEAUX), whom they visited immediately after landing. A viclent storm had been raging on the coast, and in some parts of the interior of Algeria, for two days. A telegraphic dispatch from Alilianah announee.d on the 17th that General Josor had fallen suddenly (i ABD-EL-KADER'S camp, not far from Boussada. The ex-Emir had hardly time to escape with a few regular troops. The details are wanting. The Sie.cle states, that the son of the celebrated TuoaLts MooRE, who was serving in the French Fo reign Legion in Africa, died lately in that country, to the universal regret of his regiment. Mme. DE SALVANDY, mother of the Minister of Public instruction, died un Sunday, at Paris, after a long and painful illness. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 84f. 25e,.; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 60c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,315 f. ; Rouen, 1,057 f 50c. ; Havre, 765 f. ; Great Northern, 785 f. ; Avignon, 975 f. ; Yiezron, 715 f. ; Bordeaux, 683 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 525 f. ; Basle, 24 If. 25c. ; Fampoax, 465 f. ; Dieppe, 476 f. ; Paris and Strasbunr, 5.12 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 572 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, definitive, IGlf. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 37% ; Spanish Passives, 51/2. The following are the quotations for other lines Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot). 512 f; ditto (Lecointe), 505 f. ; ditto (Compagnic Meridionale), 502 f. 50c. ; ditto (Definitive), 557 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie). 502 f, 75c. ; ditto, Es peleta, sfifif. ; Charleroy, 454 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK EACHANGE, AlAucii 25. Boulogne and Annetta, 12N—Bordeaux, Tealouse, and Cette (Espel‘ta), 2 —Dutch Rhenish, s%—East Indian, —Great North ern a I , rance Constituted, 15% —Great Western Canada, 4—Lou vain and Jelnappe, 1 r —l.nxerabourg, —Ma•lrid and Valentia, 74 —Namur and Liege, 2% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 124—Sambre and Meuse, 4. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. SAFETY of the OVERLAND MAIL (From the Tithes,) We have received by Extraordinary Express the Paris papers of Wednesday, with a letter from our cor reipondent. The latter announces the safe arrival of the Indian Mail, and consequently of the Virago steamer. There is no news in the Paris papers. A Radical journal, l'Esprit Public, states that en express from Madrid, dated 20th instant, had been received, announc ing the commencement of insurrectionary movements, but our Paris correspondent contradicts it formally, with however, this qualification, that fears for the conse quences of the late coup d'etat of General Narvaez were entertained in the highest quarters in the French capital. The statement above referred to, added to the in genious and alarming inferences of the Bears on the Paris Bourse, from the leading article of the Times of Monday, depressed the Paris Money Market on Wed nesday. Our readers will appreciate the sagacity of the part' es dup::d by those false rumours and inferences The Three per Cen ts. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday at 84f. ; the Five per Cents., 1201. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,297 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,045 f.; Havre, 7571. ac.; Great Northern, 7811.; Avignon, 9561. ; Vierzon, 7001. ; Bordeaux, 672 f. 50c. ; Bou logne, 5251. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4301.; Basle. 240 f. ; Dieppe, 470 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 5381. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 567 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, Go2f. 50c. ; Spanish Actives, 33%; ditto Pas sive, 5%. The following are the quotations In the new lines : -Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talatot), 512 f.; Ditto (Lecomte), 504 f. ; Ditto (Compagnie Me idionale), 5021. 50c. ; Ditto (definitives), 552 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 5021. 75c. ; Ditto (Espeleta), 5091.; Charleroy, 4901. LYONS, Mattel.' 23.-Marseilles and Avignon, 980 f. ; Paris and Or leans, 1,318 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,057 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 7321. sec, HOUSE OF LOttliS -(T HIS DAY.) Their Lordship's sat at ten o'clock this morning to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. THE EARL. OF HOPETOWN V. RAMSAY. arguments in this appeal from the judgment of the Court of Session were commenced, and occupied their Lord ships the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lerd Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inn to• day, and heard lunatic and cause petitions. ARCIIhn V. HUDSON—INJUNCTION. His LORDSHIP gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued berore him about a week since, upon an appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. Upon the hearing of the case we fully stated the facts, and it is there fore, unnecessary to repeat them. His Lordship, after going at considerable length into the case, dismissed the appeal with costs. IN THE MATTER OF DYCE SOMBRE, LUNATIC. Upon this cise, which stands on the paper for hearing, up :n the petition of ii r. I)yce Sombre, to supersede the com mission of lunacy. Mr. WAKEFIELD, who appeared for the petitioner, stated that he felt that he could not properly occupy the time of the Court by opening the petition, as Mr. llyce Sombre had not come within the jurisdication of the Court, he would rather that the petition should be discussed, than proceed with it under such circumsrances. Mr. CALVERT trusted that :the Court would dismiss the petition. The LORD CHANCELLOR declined to do so, considering the circumstances of the case; and after a short conversation, Mr. \VAKEFIELD obtained leave to amend the petition. The LORD CHANCELLOR said an application had been made to him to hear a petition connected with the case in his private room. Looking at the circumstances of the case he had determined to hear nothing with respect to the lunacy in private. Ultimately it was arranged that the petition of the Committee of the estate to which his Lordship referred, and which related to certain jewels, should be hears the first to- morrow. IN THE MATTER OF THE PRINCESS BARIATINSKI, This case came before the Court upon petition praying that certain jewellery belonging to the Princess, which was now deposited in the Bank of England in the name of the Ac countant-General of the Court of Chancery, might be re moved to the office of Mr. Commissioner Barlow, for the convenience of inspection, in order to have a value put upon them by competent judges previous to their sale, ,if such sale should be approved of by the officer of the Court. Ilis LORDSHIP, after a short discussion, made the order. VICE-CHANCERY---(THIS DAY). ( Before the VICE CHANCELLOR Gf ENGLAND.) His HoNouu. took mot ions and cause petitions to-day, none of which possessed any feature of interest. MERCHANTS' AND TRADERS' ASSOCIATION, FOR THE PROSECUTION OP SWINDLERS, AND OTHER PURPOSES, FOR THE PRO TECTION OF TRADE, 101, WOOD-STREET, CireapsinE.—A large party of influential gentlemen, Members of this Association, dined together at the London Tavern yesterday. Sir James Duke, M.P., the Pre sident of the Society, was in the chair. Several excellent addresses were made in the course of the evening, by the President, Solicitor, Secretary, and Members f the Committee, setting forth the advan tages which the subscribers derived from the working of the Associa tion. The funds were stated to be in a prosperous condition, and the Society was represented to be daily increasing. The proceedings of the evening appeared to be highly satisfactory to the members, and there was some excellent singing by Mr. Taylor and his party. The company separated about eleven o'clock. FANCY FAIR UNDER THE RIVER THAMES.—On Mon day, and every day since, the. e has been the novel and interesting scene of a fancy fair in the Thames Tunnel, to commemorate the third anniversar of the opening of this wonderful thoroughfare. On the first day no less than 12,994 persons visited the fair, being 5,009 more than on the first day of last year's fair. The booths and other attractions exhibit taste and spirit ma the part of the owners. MUTILATED LETTERS. WRECK OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.—So saturated and mutilated were the letters and news papers washed from the wreck of the Great Liverpool, that it was with the grea est difficulty the executive officers of the General Post office could make out any of the addresses upon them, and even up to last evening (Wednesday) the whole of them had not been disposed of. As a precautionary measure, and for the purpose of preventing complaints from parties to whom the letters might in any case be delivered, the authorities have had a special stamp struck upon such letters, notifying that such letter or newspaper was "saved from the wreck of the Great Liverpool." LAUNCH OF A NEW IRON STEAM VESSEL.—Yester day, a now iron steam-vessel was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Ditelibuni and Mare, at Blackwell. It was built by those gentlemen for the Norfolk Steam Navigation Company, a proprietary composed of the principal shippers, merchants, and tradesmen resi dent in Yarmouth and Norwich, and their respectives vicinities, be tween which places and London she Is intended to ply, in place of the Ailsa Craig, which vessel has, in conjtuictiEm with the General Steam Navigation Company's vessels, hitherto occupied that station. She is a very handsome vessel, her length overall is 165 feet, extreme breadth 22 feet, the present draught of water only three feet six inches, and when fully laden with cargo, computed to be less than seven feet, so that she will have the advantage of entering and leav ing Yarmouth harbour at any time of tide. LLOYD'S —At a general meeting of the members of Lloyd's, held yesterday, March 25, G. R. Robinson, Esq., in the chair, after the subject of the internal arrangenients of the establieh n:ent was disposed of, a vote of 251. towards the testimonial to Lieut. Waghorn, R.N., to record the sense entertained by the subscribers of the important services rendered to the mercantile interest by the re gular and early receipt of the shipping intelligence from India effected by the energetic and persevering exertions of Mr. Waghorn in originating and establishing the overland communication with that extensive portion of the British empire, was proposed, and unani mously carried. BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES.—In a few days a part of an Act of last session and 9 Victoria, c. 109), relating to games and wagers, will take effect in respect to billiard and bagatelle tables lit other than public-houses. It is provided by the 11th section that from the sth of April next, in the counties of Mid dlesex and Surrey, every house, room, or place kept for public billiard playing, or where a public billiard table, or bagatelle board, or instrument used in any game of the like kind is kept, at which persons are admitted to play, not being under a vietualler's license, shall be licensed under this Act. That every person keeping any such billiard or bagatelle table without being licensed for the house where it is so kept, cud also every person licensed under this Act who shall not, during the continuance of such billiard license, put and keep up the words, " Licensed for billiards," legibly printed, in some conspicuous place near the door and on the outside of the house specified In the license, shall be liable to be proceeded against as the keeper of a common gaining-house ; and be sides any penalty or punishment to which he may be liable, if convicted, of keeping a common gaming-house, shall, on conviction of keeping such unlicensed billiard table, bagatelle board, or other instrument before a magistrate or two justices, be liable to pay such penaltY, net mere than 101., for every day on which such table or board shall be used, or on the discretion of the magistrate or justices, may be committed to the House of Correction, with or with out hard labour, for any time not more than one calendar month, and in default of payment of a fine or costs, the goods of a defendant may be sold. By the 13th section, persons licensed must not allow any person to play at billiards or bagatelle after 1 and before 8 o'clock in the morning, or at any time on Sundays, Christmas -day, or Good Friday, or any public fast or thanksgiving day; and by another see. tion (the 14th) constables and police-officers are empowered to enter the premises as often as they think proper, and if refused, such refusal to be deemed an offence against the tenor of the license. The charge for an annual license is, by the 10th section, fixed at 65., which li cense is granted by justices in session assembled to such persons as in their discretion are fit and proper to keep billiard tables or baga telle boards. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received Gene ral Espartero and the Duchess of Victoria and .Mademoiselle E. Es partero, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, Viscount alorpeth, Lord Glenelg, Lord Harry Vane, Lord and Lady Kirmaird, Lady Ashley, Lord Dunkellen, Colonel Fox, Mr. Rogers, and a select party, to dinner yesterday, at their mansion in Carlton-house-terrace. A small party assembled in the evening, in cluding his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Clanricarde, Lord Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, the lion. Mr. fitanley, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Malniesbury, his Excellency Count Pahlen, Mr. R. Mines, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. C. B. Sheridan, Lir John Cans Ilobhouse, Lord Brougham received at dinner, on Wednesday, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl of Auckland, and Alias Eden, Viscount Goderich, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Mr. and Mrs. A. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and Lady Dillon, and Mrs. J. Townley. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry had a dimmer party oar Wednesday, after 'which the Marchioness had a dansante at Iloldernesse House. The circle invited was very limited. NATIONAL LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.— Last night a public meeting was held in the National Hall, Holborn, T. Wakley, Esq., M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of forming an association having for its objects a "National Land Association," and a " National Building Association." The Chairman described the physical, political, moral, and social benefits that would accrue to the working classes by acquiring, through associations similar to the one proposed that evening, land and a home for themselves and families. Messrs. It. Moore, Hill, Bainbridge, Ireland, and other gentlemen, explained the objects of the Association ; and resolutions favourable to those objects and the formation of the becleo• ~a '" N ng been carried, thatlkS Were voted %9 giv - - and the mooting separated, MONEY and COMMERCIAL YEWS, CITY. QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton. market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very in animate, and the business was decidedly in favour of the buyers, although not at a further decline than %d. per lb. on the rates of Friday last. The sales were 4,000 bales, includ ing 500 American, for export; 200 Pernain and Maranham, at 5 3 / 4 d. to 7d.; 50 Egyptian, at 6 3 / 4 d to 8 1 /0. ; and 50 Sea Island, at 12d. to 15d. per lb. Shares were again dull and declining. It is much to be regretted that our Contemporary, the Times, should continue the line of policy which it thought proper in the first instance to adopt of exciting alarm among the moneyed interests on account of calls upon railways, the plans for which are now under the ordeal of Parlia mentary scrutiny. It ought not to be forgotten that the point taken 'up in the first instance by the leading journal was, that as much as from twenty-five to thirty millions sterling would be locked up as deposits upon new railways projected in the course of last year. The fact turns out to be that from ten to twelve millions have thus been absorbed as yet, which was quietly drawn out of circulation, and lodged with the Accountant General, without any apparent pressure. This tact is admitted. But now, says our Contemporary, considering what may happen hereafter, the calls upon shares that will pass Parliament " threaten a more formi dable evil, since they will not be confined to a few weeks, but will spread over years, as a continued drain on the monetary resources of the country." The fallacy of this hypothesis has over and over again been demonstrated. It is notorious with those who usefully comment upon correct information, that the expenditure upon railways hitherto in this country has tended to improve the con dition of the labourer, and all other grades above him in connexion with railway extension. The millions of money that have already been expended in the formation of railways were brought into operation, and without produc ing the slightest panic in the money market. Nineteen twentieths of the existing lines are profitable invest ments, and how a continuation of so good a system can damage the circulation, or impose difficulties in the way o conducting ether branches of industry or of commerce, is a point which we leave the journal referred to to prove to the satisfaction of well-informed men, who hold a directly contrary opinion. No fact can be more clearly demonstrated than that when new railways have been commenced the circulation of money is immediately extended, and doing benefit not only to the county through which each passes, but also adding to the comforts of the lower classes. It may in true that the prices of the shares of existing lines have been unduly elevated, but this was the natural result of strict confidence in the undertakings, and not a little to be ascribed to the circumstance that a higher rate of interest was obtained for money advanced in their construction than that yielded by the Public Securities. Further accounts have come to hand this morning from the seat of-war on the Sutlej, but only in the main confirmatory of those before obtained. There is every reason to hope that the missing steamer the Virago is safe, though no authenti cated statement has reached the City to-day. The Consol Market has been almost neglected this morn ing. For the Account the current price is 96, and for money from 95 3 / 4 to 96. Exchequer-bills have been taken at from 28s. to 255. premium this morning. Bank Stock for the account has fallen from 211 1 4 to 210. The Foreign Funds have not been dealt in much to-day. The chief changes are a fall in Russian Five per Cents. from 109 to-108. Spanish Five per Cents. for the Account have been offered at 25% for the Account, and the Three per Cents. at 36 3 / 4 . The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 59%, and the Four per Cents. at 94 1 4. The Grenada One per Cent. Bonds have just been taken at 22. The prices of Railway Shares have varied but in a trifling degree from those of yesterday. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% 96 96 Long Annuities, Expire lan. b, 1666 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1160 .. • • 10% Bank Stock for Account .. .. 210 210 Con/Kis for Account 96 96 Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 1 %d. 1,000/. .... 24 28 25 pm. 28 500 T.....— 29 pm. 29 Ditto. Small .... 27 29 psu. 29 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Grenada, 1 per Cent .. 22 22 Russian Bonds .. .. 109 108 106 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account 25% 25% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. 5% Ditto, Three per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 36% 36% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 44 44 Dividends on the above payatle in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59%3 % 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 944 944 BUSINESS PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT CLOSING . RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 2% •• • . 134%.... • ... 1% Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham. 225. .... dis . die. Birmingham and Gloucester..,.loo .......... • 125 Bristol and Exeter .. 75 Ditto New .. . .. 5 .. • • 9 .. • • ...... 9 Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... 1% % dis Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 7% 1 4 7X Ditto, Half Shares .. 2 1% l% Ditto, Extension .... 1% Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 16% .... • • 17% Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. . . . 3 Direct Northern .. 2% .... 1%34 l% Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 534 5% Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 25 34 19% .. 19% Ditto New 81. 165..... 4% 5 1 p.. bl3a p Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 34 1.. .. • 1 East Lincolnshire 114 .... East and West of England .. 1% .... Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72 Ditto 34 Shares 5 .... 12 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234 .. • . 17X 18 Goole, Doneast., and . heffield, &c. 425. % dis dis. Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%.... %......... 34 Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 1634 15% 16% Great North of England . ..100 ....215 Great Western .. 85 —140 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 14% 14 Hull and Selby .. 50 ....100 99 .. • Ditto Shares .. . 1234 Ditto, Halt Shares .. • • • • 7 .... ..... Lancaster and Carlisle .., .. 35 .... • Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... . Leicester and Bedford 225. Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%.... 2 36 1 % • London ant Birmingham . .100 ....217 216 Ditto Thirds .. 16 .... 49% .... • Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 2534 26% Ditto Fifths 2 .... 22% 2314 London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7 3 4 . . Ditto New .. .... 3%.. London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 6134% 60X • Ditto, Consol. Eighths .• .. 40 .... Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .... 27 26% London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 191 London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. London and South• Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. 73 74 ..... . London and York .. 234 14% .... 1 London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 214 .... 134 Manchester and Leeds .. S 2 Ditto, Fifths .. 2 Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. I*s .. •• .. Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .. 10% 11 Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .... 834 .8 34 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 14 p par par Manchester and Southampton. .. 2 .... ... . . 134 Miclla-id ..100 ....141 140.. •• • . 140 Ditto, New .. 18 26 3i 34 27% 2614 27 27 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....113 112 ll2 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 1534 16 North British .. 20 .... 24 23 ...... • • 23 Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 .... 8% 7 7 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 14.... 1 34 X ..... . 1% North Kent and Direct Dover • • 234 .... 134 North Staffordshire • • 425. 2 34 1% p 134 Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .... 22 Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptia. 1234 .... 9% .. .. Perth and Inverness .... 1 Portsmouth Direct .. • • .. 3%.... 234 Rugby and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .. %34 ..... . Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 13 .......... Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .... 1X • . South Midland .. 42s .... 34 34 dis South Staffordshire Junction .. 234 .... 2 South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 3314 . 34% 34 34 Do.. New (do. 331. 63.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. 10% •• .. 10% Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 2 34% 1 3(1.••• 1X Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2%.... .......... Vale of Neath 2 .... 1% . . Warwickshire and London .. 425..... 1 dis. 1... 1 dis. Welsh Midland 2%.... 1 1 4 1........ West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. .• 114 p. •• •• • • 1 34 p Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... .. 24% York and North Midland .. 50 .... 94 .......... - Ditto, Selby .. 30 .... 71% .. • • Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... .......... Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 .... 7% 6% X .... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 12 .... 1234.......... Bord., Toul., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 .... 1 % 2........ Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 2 Dutch Rhenish .. .. .. • • East Indian .. . 58. 3414 ........ Grt. North. of France Constituted S .. . . 15 Luxembourg .. 4 .... I X ..... Namur and Liege .. .. 4 .... 2% 2...... • • Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .. 12 % % Over Yssel .. 41. 3s. 4d.... 3 dis. Sambre and Meuse . .. 6 .... 334 Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 6% .. .• JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 26% MINES. 21G 26N 19% 9% 71 13i .... 1% 2q 13 1% % dis 5% U 15% 1% 12% • .... 3 dis 33i British Iron .. . Real del Youte, Unregistered .. 10 .... 19 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, /dawn 26.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., moderate breeze and cloudy. DEAL, M Jaen 25.—Wind S.W., fresh and squally.—Arrd. Lady of the Lake, Bombay; Matthew Plummer, Bombay; Woodlark, Mauritius; Washington, Mauritius; Janet, Rio Janeiro; 11. S. Radamanthus, and proceeded for Chatham. Arrd. from the River, Lord Auckland, Brown, Hobart Town ; Mary Stewart, Renneck, Cape of Good Ilope ; British Monarch, Prance, Jamaica; Joseph Benne, Foster, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid'. 18th, Pia/lotus, Java. PORTSMOUTH, M.Lacir 25.—Wind W.S.W., squally.—North Star, Crouch, Princes Island. Off port, Emerald, Rio Janeiro. OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, MARCH 22.—Norma, Vallison, Rio Janeiro, for Hainburgh. Bars';or., Marten 25.—Arrd. Wenman, Peters, Buenos Ayres. LIVERPOOL, :Usual 25.—Wind moderate.—Sid. Hamilton, Black, Calcutta ; Denison, King, Antigua.; Alecto, Amoy!, liaxbadoes ; Murray, Hughes, Jamaica; Agnes, Dulker, Nassau; Lapland, Simpson, _lien Orleans ; Avon, Kenny, Halifax ; Jantha, Porter, ditto ; Mersey, Machesh, Quebec ; Britannia, Hamilton, Montreal. TENBT, Mattel' 23. —The Friendship, Fisher, which was on shore at 011ter, is new in the road apparently without damage. roaT TALBOT, MARCH 24.—The Tintern (st.))fromßristol, on shore on the bar, has been got off without damage. from STRANGFORD, MARCH 23. —The Britannia , AP ..P*l.ll T roon to Dublin, and not Naples, as previously reported, on shore near Ballyquenton Point, is discharging her cargo. Drams, MAncit 23.—Arrd. Xarlfa, Barrett, Barbadoes. DUN GAR VON, MARCH 22.—And. lanthe, Hunter, Mauritius. BALLycorroN, MAUCH 22.—Arrd. Canada, Williams, Batavia. MARKICT NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) saY MARICZTS. SMITHFIELD —Meadow nay, 31 3s to 41 Is ; Clover ditto, 4/111 to 61; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1-1 14s ; Wheat straw, 11 14s to 11 ill per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.--Meadow Hay, 31 Is to 41 161; Clover ditto, 41 is to bl ISs ; Oat Straw, 11 12e to 1/ 141; Wheat straw, 11 14s to 11 171 per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish dellIDLId. WHITECHAPIL.—Meadow flay, 313 s to 41 Is; Clover ditto, 41 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, II 14s to 11 lis per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. MEAT 1V1C.1133 ICBM. . _ SOUTHALL, IfIRC;27. 7 iTe had only a moderate supply or Fat Stock on offer to-day yet the demand ruled heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported.—Beef from 2s fid to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 43 t i a is 6d ; Veal, is to is Gd ; and Pork, 4s to 4s ad per albs. ROMFOIte, Maltcu 25.—There was a very sluggish inquiry here this morning, on the following terms:—Beef, from 2s Ed to 41 4d; Mutton, as 8d to 58 6d ; Veal, 5s to is 6d; and Pork, 41 to 4a aid per albs. Suckling Calves, lis to 30s ; Quarter-old Stßre.pige, 16e to 21s ; and Aillch Cows, with their email 0141 f, 161 to 181 each. LEWES, MAacM 24.—Beef, from 56 44 to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 41 to 5s Bd. ; Veal, 5 . t o sg 4d ; and Pork, 4 1 to 4s 6 d per Sibs, Moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. NNWVAT33 AND LZAZIEBTZELTgIii Although the supplies of Meat were by no Meant! WV, the general demand was in a sluggish state, at bitwly itationary prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; 51iett011, 31 Od to 48 Gd; Veal, 41 id to 5s Id; and Perk, as 10d to 5* par CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE /9%ICM Or I.ITIiIE CORN For the Week ended:March 21, 1146, M a d e up f rom the Returns o f the per I Inspecto mperils/rs in t h e e 4. 1 1t er C12121 Cities and Towns ix En g l a nd and We, lei 1 I WHIIT. ERAIp4I(•I 0415• RTE. I REINS. I PEAL PRICE .• 03 ;a 29s 10d 22s Od 33s 10d 34s 4d 33s 4d DUTY... lea Od 9a Od ea Od 9 3 ad $$ et is et RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) --4-- HOUSE 01? LORDS. Their Lordship? Committee met this day at twelve o'clock in the Lord Chancellor's Court. Present—Lord Auckland (chairman), Lord Kinnaird, Lord Sidney, Lord Rossie, and Lord Colville. DUBLIN, DUNDRATIVI, AND ENNISILMULY. In respect to this Bill an agreement was entered into by the counsel for the Bill, Mr. Alexander, Q.C., Mr. Butt, and Mr. Percival Bankes, and the counsel for the Waterford, Wicklow, Wexford, and Dublin Bill (Mr. Cockburn, Q.C.), and that the former Company should make the line to Dundrum ; the other Company to have the use of it on such terms as the Board of Trade may dictate. The line from Dundrum to Enniskerry to be abandoned, and the Company to pledge themselves to come before Parliament next year for an Act to make an extension to the south side of Stephen's Green. The case of Mr. Reid, an opposing landowner, was put off till Monday—that of Lord Palmerston, to-morrow. DUDLIZT AND SANDYIVIOUN T. Their Lordships then proceeded to take evidence in support of the preamble of this Bill. Mr. HATCNELL, for the promoters examined Mr. Rey. nolds, Town Counsellor of Dublin, to prove the advantages of the line to the inhabitants of the city. After hearing some further evidence, of the same tendency, it was arranged between the parties to the several Bills in this Group, namely, the Waterford, Wexford, 'Wicklow, and Dublin, the Dublin and Carlow, the Dublin and Enniskerry, and the Dublin and Sandymoun, that the clauses in the re spective Bills should be amended, and prepared for the Com mittee on Monday. Their Lordships adjourned at two o'clock, till to-morrow, when the case of Lord Palmerston will be gone into. No. 6 Committee assembled for the first time this morn ing, present Lord Kenyon, in the chair, Lord Gage, the Earl of Suffolk. The Committee had before them the Ennis, Limerick, and Killaloe Junction, the Nenagh and Templemore, and the Great Munster Railway. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, who appeared for the Great Mun ster, stated that these Bills were unopposed. The first Bill taken was T2I3C ENNIS, MIDCEILICIst, AND ICITALAIE.O3II jUNCTIOZZ. The capital for this line is 300,0001., upon which a deposit of 25,000/. had been paid. The line will be 23 miles from Ennis to Limerick, and 12i miles frome Limerick to Killaloe. The landowners were all favourably disposed to the line. The line is to be a single line of railway, but powers are taken to make it a double line should the traffic require it. The Bill was passed. N=fAGH AND TDMPLEMORE. The Committee then took this case. Mr. Horn appeared for the promoters. The line was 20 miles in length, and the estimated cost 140,0001. It passed through a coal and mineral 'district and would open up a communication with the south of Ireland. _ _ Mr. John Kempster, the secretary, was examined in favour of the line, and he proved the advantage that it would be to the district through which it is intended to pass. The Bill was passed. GREAT DIUNSTZIL. Mr. Dris.scmitx appeared for this Bill. There WRS no opposition, and the formal proofs having been gone through, the Bill was passed. The Committee then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XII. GLASGOW AND WEST OP SCOTLANI DXSTItICT. The Committee sat at twelve o'clock, in the Common Pleas. Members present—Mr. V. Smith (chairman), Mr. Hamilton, Air. Langston, Mr. D'Eyncourt, and the Hon. W. Fitzmaurice. GLASGOW, /EX x. ra AR,NOC E. AND ZIRDICOSSAN. The consideration of this Bill was resumed. Mr. John Williamson, examined by Mr. Sergeant Bit, LAsis—Witness lived at Edinburgh, and had been employed as mining engineer for thirty-six years. He had been exten sively engaged in making mining surveys, and was well acquainted with this district. The whole course of the line was one mineral field of coal and iron, with the exception of two interruptions, where trap rock intervened. Coal, lime, and iron stone appeared in regular rotation, as the line pro ceeded westward. He had no doubt that iron works would be built, if the proposed line were once opened. Some smelt ing furnaces were then in process of construction at Eglinton, and no doubt lime works and coal-pits would be soon in existence. A ready market would be found for the coal in the valley of the Lavern, as the coal-seams in the neighbour hood of narrhead were nearly exhausted. Cross-examined by Sir PfuLim's—There were a few coals left at Hnrlet, but Mr. Coates's pit was at present drowned, in consequence of the late fire in it, and he ques tio-nedif it would be ever worked again. The Barrbead dis trict was at present supplied from the Busby pits. Glasgow was built upon a continued coal field, but all was required to meet the demand. The iron stone leased on the proposed line by Mr. Dixon, and others, were then being proved, and it was stated to be 45 per cent. of iron. The witness proved certain coal creations, the seams of which varied in depth from twenty inches to six feet. Colonel Mair, of Coldwell, examined by Mr. HILDYARD— The acreage of his estate was about 1,000 acres. Lugton Bridge was in the centre of his estate, and the railway would pass through five or six miles of his property. He was a director and vice-chairman, and he became so from a conviction that it would confer great benefits upon the district. It bad been recently discovered that valuable minerals lay below the surface near Lngt on Bridge. He or his agen ts had ap plications from Mr. Baird, of Gartsherrie ; Mr. Dixon, of Govan; Messrs. Cunningham and Murray, and the Portland Company, to leave the minerals on the district. Other pro prietors had also similar oilers to himself. He had seen pecitnens of the ore, which yielded from 40 to 60 per cent. of iron. Mr. John Mann, nephew to Mr. Dixon, of Govan, and,ma nager et his iron works, said that his uncle had leased 700 acres on the Lugton Water for the sake of its minerals. They had tested the quality of the ore, and foual it of an excellent quality. They found near the surface about three feet of workable ironstone. He considered that this railway was required to develop the mineral resources of the county. Mr. Chapman, partner in the Portland Company, knew that the leases had been taken of some grounds on the Lug ton Water. Mr. W. M'Janett spoke to the great benefit to the town and neighbourhood of Irvine from the construction of the propoed line. The Glasgow and Ayr was, as respected Irvine, most disadvantageous. Mr. Moffat, engineer, and manager of the Androssan rail way and harbour, proved that the harbour was an excellent one, inasmuch as it could accommodate six steam-vessels of the first class with quayage, and forty vessels of from 600 to 1,000 tons, in a wet dock, having twenty feet of water. If the proposed line were constructed it would add greatly to the traffic of the harbour. The witness also corroborated the evidence of previous witnesses, as to the mineral qualities of the district. GROUP XIV. NORTH H.HNT. The Committee on that group of railways met at twelve o'clock. Mr. MEREWETIIIR, after briefly addressing the Com mittee, proceeded to adduce evidence in support of a petition presented against the proposed line by Messrs. Hall, iron founders and machinists in Dartford. Mr. Loftus stated that he is a surveyor, and has surveyed the property and premises of Messrs. Hall. The proposed railway would run quite through Messrs. Hall's premises. Mr. James Snowden stated that he is draughtsman to Messrs. Hall, at Dartford. Has prepared a plan and drawing of the premises. The North Kent line would pass through the foundry attached to them. The moulding-room would also be injured. Cannot say whether, in the event of the moulding-house being destroyed, the Messrs. Hall would be enabled to rebuild it without pulling down some other part of their premises. A long discussion here ensued concerning the correctness of the datum line, as laid down on the plan of Messrs. Hall's foundry, the promoters maintaining that the line would only interfere with a few feet of the outer portion of the foundry, and the counsel fir the petitioners maintaining that the line would encroach so far as to materially interfere with the ope rations of the foundry. TheCisammaar at length intimated that the question would be set at rest by a re-examination of Mr. Vignoles. Mr. Vignoles stated that the line, as it was to be laid down, would make very trifling encroachment, and the pre sent road to the foundry would be very little diverted from its present position. Mr. Cornelius Day, a draughtsman employed by Messrs. Hall, stated that he had been employed 22 years in the fac tory. The new foundry was built in 1825. The works have been continually increasing since he has been there. If one part of the building were removed, the whole of the building would be useless. Messrs. Hall employ from 150 to 200 men. If one of these buildings was remov ed, there is no other place where it could be rebuilt, so as to be of any use. The proposed viaduct along the lane would interfere with the free access to the foundry. The lane is already too narrow. By Mr. TALBOT—Cannot say whether the lane belongs to Messrs. Hall. Believes that it is a public road. The build ing of the viaduct would be a considerable inconvenience, but would not have such an effect AS to cause the workmen to be turned out of employ. Mr. Hawter stated that he was an iron -founder, And has been in the business forty years. Had known Wears. Hall's premises forty-five years. They have gone on increasing for that period. The line as it is proposed would interfere very materially with the carryin on the works. By Mr. TALBOT—Does not know the course of the in tended line, but cutting away part of the foundry would in terfere with the business. The business could be carries en under a viaduct, but it would he a great interference. Mr. Callow also proved the injury that the line would be to the foundry, The factory is beneficial to Dartford, as it employs- great number of hands. The feeling of the in habitants of Dartford is against the proposed line. By Mr. TALBOT—Has been employed for the South-Eastern Railway. Did not give any evidence in favour of the pre sent lino last year. Gave it as his opinion that a railway was oeceseary in Dartford, but did net give any preference to any particular line. Mr. Locke, an engineer, stated that he had made viaducts through foundries in cases similar to the present one, and in each case the premises had not only sustained no damage, but had beep improved. By Mr. MEREWETHER—BeIieved that the space given under the arches of the viaduct will counterbalance any in convenience that might be caused. By Mr. TALtioT—lt is the " most unmitigated moonshine that Mt.% ever uttered " to say that the viaduct would stop the operations of the foundry. Mr. SULNWYN, who appeared in support of a petition presented against the proposed lino by Mr. Stevens, of Peckham, who possessed 220 sores of land, all of which would be al. feeted by the line, then briefly addressed the Committee, and characterised the estimates for the line as insufficient. Mr. Wreakia, a surveyor, produced a plan of Mr. Stevens's property. The formation of the railway would materially in terfere with this property, which is good building land, Mr. Stone, the district surveyor of Camberwell, preyed thet there had been 500 houses built within the parish during the last year. The Rev. Mr. Dailey, the Incumbent of St. Mary Mag dalen, at Camberwell, proved that the embankment of the railway proposed to be erected at Peckham would interfere with the vicarage-house, and also darken the windows of the church. It would also interfere with the road to the church. By Mr. TALBOT—The site of the railway is net between the road and the church. ia T tio h n e w o R u l e el - e be a within bed two by .f r three r L ;a7d N s f T t b h e e e l i h n u e r ct f y a d r e d v . height of the embankment would be 40 feet. Mr. Driver, a surveyor, stated that the railwayw e o v u e l r. 1 t totally ruin the property in the neighbourhood o f ilan park, near ielikea he lives. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. the House of C ommons .) From the Votes and Proceedings of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. Railways and Canals Auialgarnatien,— Committee nominated:—+ Sir George Clerk, Sir George Grey, Mr. Pakington, Mr. E. Denison, Mr. G. Hope, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Patten. The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the MRS ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members : Leeds Central Railway Station—Mr. B. Denison, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Aldem. Kilmarnock and Troon—Lord G. Bentick and Mr. Oswald. Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct—Lord J. Stuart and Mr. Bouverie. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. The following resolutions were reported from this Committal:- 1. That, in the ease of the Wakefleld Improvement petition, the tending orders ought not to be dispensed with. 2. That, in the case of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dlr. pensed,with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 3. That, in the case of the Bull and Lincoln Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed 3 with their Bill on amending ,the plans and sections deposited with the clerks of the peace for the county of the city o 7 Lincoln, so as to make them accord with the plans and sec tions deposited with the clerk of the peace for the parts of Lindsey: and on inserting in figures on the cross sections the present rates of inclination of the pubic carriage roads passed by the railway. 4. That, in the case of the Newport and Piligwenly Waterworks petition, the standing orders aught to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on procuring addi tional subscribers, duly bound according to the provisions of the standing orders, to the amount of 1501. at the least. That the Committees on this and the preceding Bill do examine, in the first place, how far Bush order has been complied with, itlid do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill. Second, third, and fourth fesolutiuns agreed to.—lteport to lie oa the table. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1. Preston and Wyre Harbour and Dock (New Dock and Railway). Preaton and Wyre Harbour and Dock (Lougridge Junction). PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS. 'From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW AND SCOTTISH t ENTRAL RAILWAYS JUNCTION BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " after the Committee ou the Amalgamation of Railways and Canals shall have reported to the House:"—Question put, " That the word ` now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 40. A'Court, Captain Ewart, William Mundy, E. M. Ainsworth, Petor Forbes, Wm. O'Brien, A. Stafford Arkwrlght, G. Fox, S. L. O'Brien, J. BaiMe, William Fuller, A. E. Patten, J. W. Baird, William Gladstone, Captain Polhill, Frederick Bateson, Thomas Gordon, Hon. Capt. Rolleston, Colonel Bodkin, William H. Greene, Thomas Sotheron, T. H. S. Bridgeman, H.. Halsey, T. P. Trollope, Sir J. Buckley, Edmund Borman, Edward Wood, Colonel Busteiid, William JoWife, Sir W. G. H. Wortley, J. S. Christopher, R. A. Kelly, James Cripps, W. Loch, James . TELLE2I.3. Dennistoun, J. Mackenzie, T. Duncan, Lord Drummond; D. Mackenzie, W. F. Egerton, W. I'. Esmonde, Sir T. Al`Taggart, Sir J. MINORITY-NOES; 34. Arbuthaott, Hugh Ebrington, Viscount Pakington, J. S. Baine, Walter Ellice, Edward Palmer, G. Baring, F. T. Elphinstone, H. Stewart, P. M. i ; lackbume, J. I. Escott, Bickham Strickland, Sir G. Boldero, H. G. Goulburn Henry Tailored, H. W. Etouverie, Edward P. Grey, Sir George Thoruely, T. Carew, W. P. Haatie, Archibald Trelawny, J. S. Clerk, Sir G. Hawes, ire,jarnln Wawn, J. T. Colgehoun, John Hope, Sir J. Coote, Sir C. IL Howard, P. H. mums. Cowper, W. F. Johnstone, Hope Mamie, Fox Dickinson, F. E. Lockhart, A. E. Hodgson, K. Duncombe, A. Lockhart, W. TURNPIKE ROADS (SCOTLAND) BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Second Clause (Not to be lawful for justices of the peace to grant to the tacksman of tolls or toll gatherer, or other person situated at any tell bar, any license to sell any wine, ale, spiritous liquors, of provisions) :---Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause to add the words, " at any toll bar within such shire, t-tewartry, or royal burgh respectively :"—Amendmont proposed to the proposed Amend ment, to add the words, `• Provided such toll bar shall be within Ave miles of a house regularly licensed by the justices of any such road:" —Question put, " That the proposed words be added to the proposed Amendment." The Committee divided : MINORITY—AYES, 16. Bowling, Dr. Hawes, B. Walker, Richard Buller, Sir J. Y. Henley, J. W. Wawn, J. T. Denison, J. E. Hodgson, Richard Denison, E. B. Labouchere, Henry TELLM. Dickinson, F. H. O'Brien, A. S. Maule, Fox Ebrington, Viscount Parker, John Stewart, P. M. Grey, Sir G. Thomely, Thomas MAJORITY-,NOES, 18. Arbuthnott, H. Hope, Sir J. Trotter, John Beithe, W. Lockhart, A. E. Williams, W. Baird. William Lockhart, W. Wood, Colonel Buckley, Edmund Mackenzie, T. Wortley, J. S. Deninstoun, J. M'iNeill, Duncan TELLES*. Duncan, Viscount Fatten, J. W. Drummond. ii. H. Forbes, W. 'Frelawny, J. S. Mackenzie, W. F. Proposed words added to the proposed Amendment :—Amend ment, as amended, added to the Clause :—Question put, " That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill." The Committee divided; MINORITY—AYES, 18. Acland, Sir T. Ebrington, Lord Patten, J. W. Bowring, Dr. • Grey, Sir G. Thornely, T. Buller, Sir J. Y. Hawes, Benjamin Walker, Richard Daimenev, Lord Hodgson, R. Wawn, J T. Denison, J. E. Labouchere, Henry MUM. Denison, E. B. O'Brien, A. S. Menlo, Fox Dickinson, F. F. Parker, John Stewart, P. M. MAJORITY-NOES, 19. Arbuthnett, H. Hope, Sir J. Williams, W. Heinle, William Lockhart, A. E. Wood, Colonel Isair,i, William Lockhart, W. W or tl ey , J . S. Buckley, Edmund Mackenzie, T. Dennistoun, John M`Neill, Duncan Traxxxs. Duncan, Viscount Rolleston, Colonel Drummond, H. Estcourt, T. G. Trelawuy, J. N. Mackenzie, W. F, Forbes, William Trotter, John FATAL SHIPWRECK. BRIGHTON, MARCH 25,—The papers of Monday reported the loss of a sloop which had foundered about three miles off Shoreham harbour during the night of Saturday, leaving the mast above water; and added an expression of apprehension. that the whole of the crew had been lost, unless taken off by the Menai steamer, which left the harbour for Dieppe at day break on Sunday Morning. The Menai returned to Brighton this morning, and we now learn that five lives were lost when the vessel foundered, and that only one of the handl escaped, being taken off the rigging, as was conjectured. The vessel turns out to be the Bee, of Goole, bound from Port land to London, with stone for the British Museum- She was a sloop, or billy-boy," and had on board John Johnson, of Nottingly, Yorkshire (the captain), his wife, and. their son, a fine boy of eight y ears o f age , Willi am Allwooa (the mate), James Allen Cole (eeaman), and Frances Noster (an apprentice). The vessel left Portland on Wednesday night, and was off Littleharnpton at two o'clock on Satur. day. The wind was then blowing a brisk gale, which creased in strength up to ten o'clock, when the captain flaw ing himself to the eastward of Newhaven stood westwards in order to make Shoreham harbour. On arriving off the harbour at half-past one o'clock in the morning, he fetal that there was not enough water to admit the vessel, and he therefore cast anchor, with an intention of riding out tb: storm till day-break. Soon after this, however, he faun that the vessel was making water very fast, and he had jueC remarked that he must either slip the chain or get out the boat, when the vessel veered, fell broadside over, and thea gradually filled and went down. The captain and am!, were all engaged with the sails a t th e momen t, an d all wee and except the mate, together with th e cap t a i n 's and child, perished. The mate was at the bowsprit s 6 the moment, clearing the jib, and hearing the woman scream and feeling the ship to be sinking, he let go of the bar sprit, and as the vessel grounded id six fathom water, he was carried into the rigging, and secured himself is al crosstrees. The scream of the wife was the only gotta" that met his ears, except the roaring of the wind and wilW• For two hours he remained in his perilous situation, w10: 0 0 the tide rising, the sea began to break over him, e:n ti be then mounted to the topsail yard, till the Menai., bn the harbour, sent out her boat and released tini from vi bu: perilous situation in a state of th e utmost exhaustion. was treated with the greatest kindless by Captain Gar' man durind the voyage to Dieppe, and back, and subsorlr tion is now being raised tq tend him home to Yorkshire ` From him we learn th at th e captain had another chil d , f oo t years of age, with Its trandmother at Nottingly, who is t"' owner of the vessel. THE lIELGIAN EA S TERN JUNG' TION RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,,—ln the report of the meeting held at the Londot i Tavern yesterday, which appeared in The Sun of last nigl: it is stated that " The m e eti ng s h ort l y a f ter se parated having come to no determination ; but the understanding sad peared to be that the work should go on, as there appeal / to be no legal mode of dissolving the Company." Now, Sir, this is the very reverse of that which took piste" it is true there was some discussion as to whether the CI pany could be dissolved leg a lly, b u t a t l eng th M r. L a Ale the chairman of the committee appointed by the shill!: holders, proposed a resolution for the immediate dissolution which was seconded by Mr. Field, and earned by an ov er whelmiug majority, I trust you will insert thi s contra di ct i on i n your a pap evening, and remain, Sir, your obedient servant, HE I`RY PHILIPPS, Solicitor to the Cornmitteer q , P. S. I refer you for a ce rro b ora ti on o f th e a b ove to report in the Morning Herald of this day. No. 4, Sise-lane, March 26, 1846. r' DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday information wog „t fit. warded to the police of a most daring robbery, committed --_. sitt y th i e n re t h b e ei e n v g e l i b li u n r g s , l 7 B d ai c l a k rr o y f li z ig ng off la t u h d ir n t o e t e es n , co tb a r ts ty , Raresford's, 21, High-street, Marylebone, the thieves effecti o s t ge p el o i c tr k a e n t e o e co e n ar e l coats, and about twenty-eight pair o f t rowsers ; as well ma wr l desk, containing cash, jewell ery, di amond r i ngs, &c. GROWTH OF CORN IN KUSUIA.—Ther e are 13364.; %pa tingenciss against the growth of heavy crops of corn in 110 0il ' it pdO amongst them the severity of the drau g ht, w hi c h upon the stiu at times quite impedes the plough and prevents sowing th ,, e ,,eeta l until the spring, and then the season is so short, th a t th s ralsi"" esti operates against the yield. Of this, in conjuncti on w ith the!'",. to change the grain itself undergoes, from a green and milky rr that of a hard and ripened one, I could hardly have formed th e pt. motest idea, had I not witnessed the fact in my journey ft° of Pstersburgh to Moscow, by examining many of the corn Bela' i rat straw was then perfectly green and the grain in a milky 'ta t tier@ so satisfied did I feel Mat I should quit that part of Russia `oe harvest, that I wrote to England regretting the circumstance l , ',OO ever, to my utter astonishment, on returning the same ro s " ' co t, days afterwards (14th of August, 1642), thousands of acres we re _ r ep, and some carted and thrashed fur seeding the land for the neXt;;Ss which should be put in betl.ro the latter end of that month. notes of u farmer during, an Agricultural Tour. sctfO ,Cl THE SLAVE TRADE.—The following is an 0-- d a, January 23 :—" The mixed commission is held here, and,l, 05 from a letter received from an officer, dated Saint Paul de Les i r er yi t v i e e ss g e r l e ound t h b a e t e h c e e conde mned, This seiZu— but you will hear 00 °104 water on l b s oa a rd n e ig t d r a n too e d believed to have been it when the captain and crew arrive in England, where thelc o rt , much amongw been sent to take their trial. A large steam-vessel sailed , 6 0 0 with the enormous number of 1,700 si ll ' 00 time ago from Congo, f CO board. she was atted out as a slaver in the Brazils, and ele of her speed, her Majesty's cruisers. The escaped, by reason trade is, however, fast dec lining. " altogether illegal, O¢ SOLAR ..`7,POTs.—A group of large spots appea r ed _ ar o the sun's easte rn limb on the 15th Inst. ; they are now " &avow Saturday . centre.— T HE GRAIN TRRDk' IN Post LivErtrooL.—Large of Indian corn have been released from bond in the c o' meted the past week. Several additional cargoes are e.tl" sir_„ Oj shortly. The corn merchants now treat this dose rip a geti grain in their transactions as a free article, the Pr f ,i c ( 7 ls idOt" ti n ned being understood t o i nc l u d e t h e I s. duty. and able importations of buck w h ea t are ex pected, an. 001 tions are in progress f or gr i n di ng i t a t the rice mi lls irbege, 1 has been a great de man d l a t e ly f or certificates. _ io n to may be necessary to explain, are the document,o_ft s per bakers when they lodge flour for export, they "' free frl 2 , mined to release a corresponding quantity of c orn t Pr / e• duty. The certificates are generally sold to dealerl ll „dicat , somewhat below the duty. The demand for the ot . i ota declining stocks, and a necessity for taking grain Oil for conaaraption.—Liverpool i OFFIi I's have just 4 bruary the 15 4traets. The H. not yet ref taissing stear steamer The 't 1 4th, and w "el thig of the 1: the effect th ` ll g of the 15th ; t d did n o t sen d i l 11 rlitet night, 1 ~ " Th l ay before t Qe.151 dispatche la siac eo t n i t o i n nu i a n tio i ' lt binst.,th e 11 0 4 „. gener b - r r ,"nor- Gene' t u an extract in nander-in-( I,)rt trona Ma.! the 30th 1 l victory gt s 7, Ps Under his i , l th forces co iljetheit. By order of Or T he Governor 'l'eople of Inc 11 )' the Coma' "i ° r - Generaf " 4 ultim o , g iv by WEB I t :0 u a 1 • • L„ l)ur- G en€ force CO] (Signs Guverr