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LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW WORK. Just ready, In royal Bvo., with Portraits, The SECOND VOLUME of LORD BROUGHAM ' S LIVES of MEN or LETTERS and SCIENCE, Who flourished during the Reign of George III.; WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS. Comprising Dr. Jo!inson, Adam Smith (w'tli an analytical view of his great work), Lavoisier, Gibbon, SirJ. Banks, and D'Alembert. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marloorough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 9IESSKS. L AMON D, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, Acc., take place every TussDAT and FIUDAT, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, ftireatineedie-street, London, to which place all favours, coot sining instructions, are respectfially requested to be ddressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates most be deposited for exa min Won at least one day previously to their being offered ; and Advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, At'RIL 23, When will be per:ormed (for the first time this season), Rossini's • celebrated Opera, entitled IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, 3fa.!4me Grist ; Bertha, Madame Bellini II Conte d'Alinaviva, Signor Mario ; Bartok), Signor Lablac'oe ; Basiho, Signor F. Lablache ; Figaro, Signor Fornasart. In the course of the Evening, Selections from D...inizettPs Opera , LINDA DI CFIAMOUNI. In which Madarme Castellan and 2dadlle. C. Brambilla will appear. To be followed by various Novelties in the Baltet Department. In which wcll appear L. Grahn, L. Tagilont, Moncelet, De me!isse, Cass in, Madame P. Stephan ; MM. Perrot, Gosselin, Ber trand, and Di Mettle. 2V)pli‘at;ons r boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colon,ade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence A half-pa.A Seven o'clock. HEIL MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW' EVENING, Ann, IS, Will be performed Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioli ; Zerlina,vi. Madame Castella n. Don Giovanni, Si g nor Forhasari ; Don ta Signor Mario; Commandatore, Signor Botch!; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. Between the Acta, a PAS DE TROIS, by Mdlle. L. Taglimii, Madame Petit Stephan, and M. Perrot. To conclude with the admired Ballet efEOLINE ; on, LA DRY ADE. Arranged by 31 Perrot, in Three Tableaux. Eoline, Lucile Gratin ; Rubezahl, M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, Madlle. Petit Stephan ; Prince of Silesia, Di Mattis. In the course of the ballet, Waltze Silessienne by the coryphees of the corps de ballet. Pas de la Fiancee, Madlle. Lucille Grahn ; supported by Moacelet and Madlle. Coisan. Mazourka d'Extase, Mettle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot. Grand Psis de Dryades, by Madlle. Lucile Grahn and the corps de ballet. THEATnE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Opera, entitled TAE CROWN JEWELL Count de Catepo Mayor, Mr. Weiss ; Don Renegue, Mr. Harrison ; Don Sehastian D'Aveyro, Mr. D. W. King; Rebolledo, Mr. Borrani ; La Catarina, Madame Anna Vinton ; Diana, Miss Poole. After the Op,r.i, Mons. Francs Frame, the celebrated Violinist, will make his that appearance in England, and perform two of his roost popular compositions. To conclude with the grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. In which Mdlle. Louise, Mr. A. Webster, lee Smug St. Lotgn, &c., will perform. THEATRICTHIS ROY EVE N AL, HA.YNIARKET. ING - - - wir he performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Fozall, Mr. bsr; More eratt, Mr. W. F.trren Sir John Coverdate, Mr. TlThury; Ernest M Coverdale, r. 11. 11°11; Horace Waidgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnel dermarn, TAr. J Bland; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mr;: Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, 4 ' La Symphonie,7 and "La Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ABISTOPILI NES : on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury. Drindal, Caulfield, T. F. \: athews, and Miss P. Horton. To coaclude whli a New Comic Drama, cared THE IRISH POST. Chsraotero by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury. Mrs. Humby, &c. THY ATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM iTNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unprecedented Attraction for the Easter TOM THU Holid Mß ays. Re-engagement • :P.NF.RAL Who having, on eacii appearance in the Burlesque of " Hop o' my Thumb," 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 during tke THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New and Original Comic Drama. in Three Acts, called HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin t:4,lli characters. by 41essrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Did4ear, awl ir.eeler ; Miss villars, Mr , . A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. finer which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARSHA: MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, • MICA I..ddlaw. To be, followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en • LOP 0' M' THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-Lc:wile Boots. Hop '0 My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Charactes by Messrs. A. 'Wigan, Turner, Bellingham; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. nEATRE ROYAL, ADP:LPL-11 A New Drama, and a New and k' agnificent Burlesque. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, in Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE ; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; S,nsonet, Mr. Wr;zttit ; Mons. Del mare, Mr. Perkin, ; Batifole, 31iss Woolgar ; "Gni, Miss Wcbs: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 Belford, Mr. Mun ard, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Wright: Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs, Honeybun, Miss Emma Harding. THIS THEATRE NI oXFORD-STREET. EVENING Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready ; Edgar, Mr. Waltack; Cord( Ila, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY. In which 3lesars. Walton, Wynn, Compton, Granby, Ozberry ; Miss Taylor, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss llonner, &c., will aopear. ASTLEY'. ROYAL A MPiIITiIEATLE. • Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. 2,o,L'ronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, n i t : the Princess Thiyal.—Entertainments Extraordinary for the B o nd, v Visitors.—First Appeaiance of the celebrated Clown conjunction with Barry and Rochez. THIS EVENING Will he pertt,„nned an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle. ent itled, THE ri RAB AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Eaphrees. The Characters personified by the principal inembe , 's of the Cornp_any and numerous auxiliaries. New and Popular scenes in the Circle, by the Foreign and British Proessors. To conclude with a favottrite Afterpiece. ltox-oftice open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. t A vIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY HIE ATRE. Holiday Attractions, on a scale of Xovelty, Talent, and•Tariety never before offered. THIS EYENIN4 Will, be performed a New Burlesque Spectacle, entitled J..k...1R lANT SILI.ER, Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Cowell, L'.wis, HeAop, Williams ; Mesdms. Hughes, M. Glover, &c. ;.fter which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THK I Tii.ES ; or, Al Night at Greenwich. To i , Et followed by a Grand Ballet of Enchantment, called, DER CHA_MOIS YAGER ; or, The Fiend on Earth. By the Denlin Farnit o. A T:):aeaux of the Gre:it Indian Victory will be e , hiblted. To conclude with a New Melodrama, called, THE RATS OF 7ILA:r ROYAL VICTORIA Tli KATI: E. The most povnrful and varied Entertainment ever offered to the Public TIIIS EVENING Will he Derformed an entirety new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; cr, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. Fredericks. Saville, Raymond, Tindell, Higgie, Searle, Burton ; Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, THE WRITE CROSS KNIGHT. To coeclude with a romantic Drama, entitled THE DEVIL'S DEN ; or, the Mint, the Maize, and the Maiden. Supported by the entire strenqth of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE: NOVELTIES AND M ktilC EFFECTS. " La gaiete eat la sante de l'ame, La tristesse en eat le poison." PTIELLIPPE, in returning his grateful thanks to his kind Patrons, and feelinr, anxious to merit a continuance of past favours, so iiberary - bestowed upon him by the discerning Public of this great metropolis, b..l:s leave to announce that he will Resume his EN T E RTA • MFN T at the above Theatre, THIS EV2 NiNG, When ha will have the honour of introducing an ENTIRE CHA:4OE in h's PERFORMANCE, which has been prepared at a gre.lt expense and labour. The New Feats and Miraculous Scientific , Experiments are of the most extraordinary and astounding de ser;ption, and must be .cen to be believed. M. Pit ILLIPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol .Shot ! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally per formed b y ns phinippe fur upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. drum the Evening M. Phillippe will introduce his GRAND- MoTtip.it's; CAP, with all PR apid Transformstions. During the Easter Week there will be a .Morning and Evening Performance each Day. stalls, 3s .; Boxes,l. t; Ist.: 1,1.aq:11,170.i( (letter;, quarter sd.; to r rEyi vote Boxes, at Two o'clock ; Evening Performance at Performance will comawrao Boxes, j ilt; V"EATHER.—SUN Omer., APRIL 16. THF.AMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 54 ; Noon. 58. BA RoltlETEit; 30.05. WIND S.E.; fine sunshiny weather. LiWI WATER AT LONDON-TIRIDGE THIS DAY. 19 mintitei alter 5. I Evenin , .. 42 minutes after 5 cfl4 , 7 - • • 11 '; „..41e 011- r , 0 r • dab • - 111„1,11,1X -.), „ LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1846. One of those advocates of what is falsely called " pro tketion to agriculture," and who, after the manner of Caomra, is not wry nice about facts, provided only he can make a temporary impression, put forth a paper some weeks since announcing, as an important disco very. that tie r. al cause of the decline and fall of Rome was the flee importation of grain. To this wicked com ,:eaeveial system he attributed almost ev'ry evil with July was afflicted previous to the irruption of the iltli - !)arian3. It depopulated the rich and extensive orio , s, drove the hardy and independent freemen out of thb t-.)u.4ry, caused the horrible malaria that still infests liternAl City, and fLally so entl ebled and dispirited the e i u , s f rw in which the boat legions were raised, that t h e mighty enivire fell an easy prey to undisciplined hordes of Goths and Vandals. If the .premises were correct there might be some foundation for such an ar gument, but the reasoning is all grounded on mere assertion, and the real state of the case requires ot.ly to be shown to disprove the momentous conclusions of the writ,r. In the number of the Edinburgh Review just p t O)lished there is an article on the subject, which places th e question iv_ a true light, and shows that free trade bad no more to do with the peStilential vapours of the Campagla, the depopulation of Italy, and the fall of lathe Roman power, than with the earthquake of Lisbtn, lestruction of the empire was, in fact. caused by the total absence of that very system which has been attributed or any other great national calamity. Perhaps the facts furnished by the writer might, if fully developed, have :tarried him much further, and demonstrated that the as the cause of its ruin. But, though the writer does not make full use of his materials, he deserves great credit for his research and intimate acquaintance with those ancient authors who have adverted to this wonderful and hitherto inexplicable catastrophe. At Rome the cry was not, as in &gland, for cheap bread, but bread for nothing. When the evils commenced, there was, in fact, no trade in corn. " With respect to the food of the people," says a writer well acquainted with the subject, " it was the constant maxim of the Roman administration to provide for their wants by taxes or forced sales; to do everything by itself, and never to rely upon the assistance of trade." This was the way in which corn was imported from Sicily and Africa. The operation was entirely in the hands of the despotic and debased Emperors, who plundered the conquered provinces to stop the mouths of the idle, dissolute, and beggarly population of the capital, who gave them corn for nothing to prevent insurrections and ruined the parert state and the provinces at the same time. The corn was not obtained by purchase, but was levied from certain provinces as tribute, and by the agency of public functionaries conveyed to Rome. The Government, in short, was at no expense whatever. The corn-growers of Sicily, and Lybia, and Egypt, were compelled to furnish a certain number of measures annu • ally; the shipowners were equally compelled to transport it to Ostia without any remuneration except some trifling privileges and exemptions—it was in every respect a system, not of free trade, but rubbery committed upon the industrious to keep down the idle and lawless multi tude. At first, or rather for several generations, this destructive practice could have scarcely any perceptible effect upon the agriculture of Italy. for these largesses were confined entirely to the hungry poor, or as FACER° calls them, the "misera ac jejuna plebecula ;" and these in the time of AUGUSTUS did nut exceed 200,000 persons, the annual gratuitous supply being only 35,156 quarters, which could scarcely have any perceptible influence on the rest of Italy. The numbers afterwards increased as the power and autho rity of the state diminished. The evil, like most evils when not timely; checked, became greater every day : slaves were manumitted, that their masters might be saved the expense of maintaining them, and latterly, to keep down discontent, the Government were forced to act the part of a commissariat for the majority of the tnhabitants, and become responsible to a certain degree for the supply of corn to those who were not inscribed Roman paupers, as well as to the rest of Italy. Every newly conquered province was accordingly burdened with this ruinous tax, and the agriculture, the indus trious population, and products or Italy diminished in preportion as Rome extended her conquests. " More over," says the writer, " the storms of the civil wars had driven great numbers of the small free proprietors. who cultivated the soil by their own labour, from their lands ; and large tracts of country had fallen into the possession of enormously wealthy owners. Upon these estates all the labour was performed by slaves, working by day in chains, and at night shut up in prisons named ergastula. The re sult of this change was, that southern and central Italy, instead of being tilled by a hardy race of active farmers, themselves freemen, and working on their own land, was divided into plantations, cultivated by slave labour. This was the true nature of the change which PLINY considered the ruin of Italy." It will thus be seen that no two systems could be more different than that which prevailed during the lett• r days of the empire and that which is now proposed by the great measure before Parliament. The article altogether is full of deep interest, as showing the unstable foundation on which the Roman empire rested when luxury and sloth, enormous wealth and extensively spread poverty, preiailed throughout the whole of Italy, when trade was annihilated, and the very wealth and feebleness of the mistress of the world invited the most distant barbarians to rush to her plunder. Toilsome as is the career of an English artisan, it must afford a peculiar satisfaction to every human heart w hen that otherwise irksome drudgery can be assuaged by the intervention of some harmless emelient. As night is the sequence of clay, as sleep al.ernates with waking, so, in the natural course of society, should labour be lightened by intervals of recreation. The man who would negative this assertion, and who would maintain the necessity fur en hancing the burden of that great mandate under which his fellow-creature is ordained to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, would be scarcely in the pale of humanity. We cannot indeed persuade ourselves that such heartlessness can ever ht., evinced in a land pervaded by the influences of Christianity and civilisation. We are fain to imagine this, if only from a dread of the debasement of our species. To any one with true blood flowing through his veins, and a healthy condition of mind, the increased comfort of the poorer and more contemned amongst his countrymen, must be a source of unspeak able pleasure. What matters it whether that increase is produced through the interference of this political party or that political party; what matters it if the path which conducted to it was devious, or the means eccentric ; what matters it, whether the sentiments, instrumenlal in the realisation of that increase, were old-fashioned or new- fangled, so long as the extension of com fort be real, and its tendency innocent ? Why, common sense would say that the mere externals of the scheme for the improvement of the condition of the mul titude might be as fantastic as the livli•tst imagination could desire, if their effects were unprejudicial upon society. Even the sticklers against innovations of any kind must allow this—they must acknowledge that the garb in which sentiments are clothed, so long as those sentiments are generous, is of very secondary consideration, if of any consideration at all. In this manner we would have the annual festival of the Birmingham Athenic Institute, held on Tuesday evening, and presided over by Lord J. MANNERS, regarded. We would not interfere with the proper appreciation of that body, by cavilling about the abstract principles of the do-called Young England party, either pro or contra. We would restrict ourselves for the present to the mere consideration of the meeting in question, and the probable consequences of the general establishment of similar institutions. We would simply regard the workman in his capacity for improvement, and draw inferences as to the effects which each improvement would have upon the whole framework of the social ,ystem. No one, with a single spark of rationality, will undertake the assertion that toil requires no cessation. All must acquiesce in the opinion that the less fortunate members of the community are more entitled, if pos sible, to momen i ts of relaxation than those who are blessed with a brighter destiny, if merely on the system f compensation. Even the task-master must yield to •.he conviction that athletic amusements by invigorat ing the body, and literary recreations by expanding the intellect, would ultimately tend to the benefit of his own pocket, by r,ndering his labourers more willing, saga• ,ious, and muscular. On these healthy and really noble principleswas theßirmingham Athenic Institute f.iunded, ow two years since, its sympathyrot and mediation i t s t : c nd o consequently u3m,eonuotnsl most cordial a c r h t a is l l a e n challenges e p i ( p )u rc t v m al: st T ea hr r o n u es g t h Birmingham obtain access to an excellent library, and with the assistance of other intellectual accessories in imitate an enlarged spirit into their own minds. By ati arrangement equally admirable, their nerves and iuuscles are strung to a condition of exceeding vigour by fit ld sports and other exercises : their mott o is in appropriate indica'ion of their object: it is couched in the language of JuvENAL—dens sane in corpore sano. In every particular we regard this association as likely to forward beyond even the anticipation of its warmest . advocates the most pure and laudable principles of re generation; and hence we watched its onward movement, its gr.% ing in its growth, and its strengthening in its strength, with a sincere and hopeful anxiety. In ' asinuch as the young and nob'e chairman has suffused over the institute in its most unpatronised moments the authority of his talents and dignity, we ourselves regard him with a thanktnl earnestness. There is something eminently benignant in the style of his address on Tuesday last to the working me n of Birmingham ; it was coloured with a ge nuine brotherly love, and characteris4 d by a most unaffected simplicity. Lord JOHN bIANNERS, t hrough such assemblies as the on , in question—through such words as he uttered upon that occasion—ar.d through the still further extension of his well wishes fur his fellow-man —cannot fail to ingratiate himself with the people, and to acquire one of the noblest species of popularity ; which can be attached to a statesman. One paragraph in his oration we cannot refrain from eran,cribing ; it is so indicative of the motives by which he him-elf is actuated, and of those, moreover, upon which the Athenic Institute has been constructed. li e irst inquires whether the population of this country is to remain inert under their privations, and not struggle or a reasonable release from the eoal-pit and the fac tory ? " W hat ought we to do ?' he exclaims. "To sit still under that senseless clamour, and allow the dull machinery of acquisition, without a wholesome pause or joyous check, to go grinding on year after year, palsying the limbs, cramping the energie , , deadening the affections, darkening the souls of our toiling millions ? No. What have we done ? Why we have shown without parade, with- out unnecessarily shocking those prejudices I have alluded to —seizing whatever opportunities were afforded us—that the people of England, who work so hard and so readily, can stand the trial of a few days' holidays in the course of the year; that a cricket match does not necessarily imply the bowling down of the pillars of the State ; and that a village dance need nut end in taking off the crown from her Ma jesty's head." Such are his wishes, his intentions, his principles of action in reference to associations like the Athenic Institute ; such are the wishes, intentions, and prin ciples upon which that institute is built up. On this account it is we regard it as worthy not only of applause but also of imitation. A letter from Vienna, which is published in the Swabian Mercury of the 12th, states that Prince CON STANTINE CZARTORYSKI 7 brOthfT Of Prince CZARTOR/ of Paris, has protested against the sequestration of the property of the latter, who, it is added, however, had previously, and as a measure of precaution, transferred his property to the Princess, his wife. The French .National, which seems to be the organ of the Polish revolutionists, says, " Our correspondence from Gallicia informs us that the Russian troops are re duced to complete inaction, the soldiers confining them selves to protest the security of the roads, and the insur gents being now masters of the country. A person from Vienna, connected with the Government, writes that there are at least 20,000 armed individuals who refuse obedience to the orders of the civil and military authorities of the province. Their organization, plans, and mode of manoeuvring had caused the greatest sur prise to the commander of the troops, and they had in ferred from these circumstances that the insurgents had able chiefs at their bead. To those particulars our cor respondent adds- 4 I have been assured that the rural populati( n of Ukraine, having been apprised of the events in Gallicia, had become agitated, not to murder its landlords, but to demand the abolition of forced labour, and quit and crown rents, and the possession of a portion of the soil. Austria, not knowing the cause of the present agitation, imagined that it was rancorously excited by a great power ; but experience will prove to her that it has deeply rooted natural causes, the irre sistible action of which exercises its influence over up• wards of 20,000,000 serfs.'" The States of Brunswick, having refused to approve of the Government expenditure for the construction of railways, were dissolved on the Bth. The Duke, in dii solving them, expressed regret that differences should have arisen between the States and the Ministry, but stated his disapproval of their conduct in refusing the means of promoting the prosperity of the country. Madrid papers to the Bth inst. have been received 'd. ISTURITZ bad not, at that date, succeeded in forming his Ministry, owing to the insuperable objection of his political friends to take office in a Cabinet of which M. EGANA is, a member. M.. Mort, who' had been again sent for by the QUEEN, had again refused the Ministry of Finance, stating, as his reason, his determination not to enter any Cabinet of which M. EGANA. was a mem ber. EGANA is supported by Queen CHRISTINA, who is intriguing for an Absolutist Ministry; and should ISTURITZ fail in his endeavours to complete a Cabinet, it was supposed that M. DE VILUMA and Baron DE MEER would be entrusted with the task of forming a Cabinet, in which case the affairs of Spain will be brought to a crisis. If these gentlemen," says the Madrid corres pondent of La Presse, " should overthrow M. ISTURITZ, and form a Cabinet of their own, you may expect to see Spain again plunged into a sanguinary revolution." On the evening of the Bth there was a rumour current in Madrid, that M. GAVERIA, the banker, had accepted the portfolio of finance. According to the Castellano, towever, M. ORLANDO had, at the urgent request of ,he QUEEN, consented to accept the office. Accounts fro.n Gallicia state that the movement at Lugo, which, until the fall of NAIIVAEZ became known, was spreading in all direction, has bren put down. A portion of the revolters had surrendered, and the remainder, under the command of an officer named SOLIS. had retired by way of Santiago to the frontiers of Portugal, in which country it was supposed they in tended to take refuge. Madrid was tranquil, but rumours were prevalent of disturbances having taken place in Catalonia. No credit, however, was attached to them, and the alarm in the capital was lessening. NARVAEZ, on his arrival at rilyoune, requested and obtained an interview with Don EIENRY. The interview was very short. MADRID ROLSA.—The Three per Cents. closed at 301 cash. The Five per Cents. were not quoted. S . nce writing the above we have received accounts from Madrid to the 12th, on which day ISTURITZ had succeeded in forming his Ministry. Mox is Finance Minister; PIDAL, Minister of the Interior ; and Aa 31Eft0, Minister of Marine. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. On Monday General Naavaez arrived in Paris, and took up his abode at the Hotel des Ambassadeurs. The papers of Tuesday all comment at considerable length on the discussion which commenced the previous day, in the Chamber of Deputies, on the naval budget. The budget demands a credit of 93,000,000 f. for supply ing the deficiencies of the present naval force of France. It may be remembered that, last year, the Chamber in serted in the Budget an article, which rendered it obli gatory on the Minister of Marine to present, at the com mencement of the present session, a special and detailed account of the state of the navy in all its branches. Ad miral DE MaeKatt faithfully complied with the desire so expressed, and distributed to the Deputies a very com plete statement of the condition of the navy, and of all the matters which are intimately connected with it. But the Minister, not considering that he had thus fully per formed his duty, judged it necessary, in addition, to pre sent a Bill demanding the large credit mentioned above, to supply the deficiencies that existed in the navy; or, in other words, to inert ase the naval force of the kingdom. The Committee, to which the Bill was sent for examination, looked on the additions to he made in the navy with a different eye from that of the Minister. Taking as its text-book the famous note of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, it came to the conclusion that, considering the progress that steam navigation was at present daily making, it would not be advisable to assign to sailing vessels all the pre eminence that was demanded for them by the Bill. It therefore reiNunrnended t,o reduce from 290 to 229 the number of sailing vessels applied for. This reduction it proposed to divide in this way :-36 ships of the line, of which 24 were to be afloat, and 12 laid up, in place of 44 ; 55 frigates, of which 40 afloat and 45 laid up, in place of 66; and 136 corvettes, brigs, and transports, in place of 180. As to the steamers demanded, the Committee consented to the whole number applied for by the Bill, and even added, in a certain measure, to the amount of moving power. The saving to be effected by these changes would be about 20.000,0001. Such is the Bill on which the discussion commenced on MondAy, and which is to decide on the supremacy, for the present at least, of •ailing vessels or steamers for use in naval warfare.' The discussion on Monday was not very interesting. On Tuesday the debate was resumed by M. LENERCIER, who spoke in favour of the large grant. The Chamber was subsequently addressed by M. llEare-ux, the reporter of the Committee, M. JUBELIN, the King's C. unmissioner, and M. BILLAULT, who warmly advo cated the necessity of keeping up a strong naval force. M. BILLAULT was addressing the Chamber at the hour ..f poet. The papers of all parties are almost all in fa vour of the enlarged grant. The Ministerial Journal des Debats thus speaks on the sub ect "We are not of those persons who would wish to urge the country into a war. The policy of peace is that which we shall not cease to recommend to our country, but war may arise in spite of us : it is an eventuality that ought to be provided against, and for which it is prudent to be prepared. The honour of France will perhaps commend her to draw one day her valiant and glorious sword from the scabbard. S a p_ pose, therefore, that a naval war should burst forth ; France mast abdicate, must descend humbly to the rank of secondary nations, or she must have a fleet to place in line on the Atlantic. That is imperatively commanded by the neces• sities of defence. If an armed enemy should threaten our coasts, or menace an attack and a descent on one of our forts, ' we could not save the honour and the intregity of our tern tory unless we had a fleet to interpose. Fortifications would prove no obstacle; but the enemy would not dare risk such an attempt if it was aware that a fleet was ready to fall on it and place it between two fires. Napoleon would not 'Live l u st Egypt. if the English fl , et had not be.in certain that nothing could prevent the landing of the army which it had 01 board. When the hypothesis of a naval war is enter tained, it is natural to suppose France the ally of the second ary naval powcm Well then, suppose war declared, and the Danish fleet is blocked up in the Sound, and that of Russia in the Baltic. Interest arid honour comm an d us to d el i ver them, and to unite them to ourselves. How can we do so, if tee do not possess a fleet to make battle against the enemy, which will endeavour to bar our passage aid prevent this junction? It is proper to insist on this point, because for some time the idea has prevailed that France ought to re nounce completely great naval battles, to adopt a quite different system. The report of the Committee appears to be animated by this rnnucih:otnso iatn ltcreiogrentei andtedn theotlim., ' Republica n The o National follow on the sa me side, while the Co mmerce 4* thus joins in chorus : "The Chamber would be inconsistent with her former acts, would renounce the sentiments which it manifested on nu meroul occasions, if it agreed to a reduction in the proper naval force that ought to be ke p t up. Is it in the present state of thing., when all the great questions of foreign policy tent] to a decision by sea, when the itifferent nations redouble their effort 4 to increase their i aval power, that we could cut down a force that had been considered indisisensable even. under the restoration. Such a vote, beside the harm that it would do to our fleet, would have a disastrous moral effect. TRE SUN, LONDON, ritTnA Y IVIORNING, APRIL 17. IP4n. The world wonld think that France gives up the idea of being a maritime power, or at least of taking part in the great clit,stionawhich are in Cgitation at present." The Courrier Francais is the only parr which seems to recollect the imporwnt fact that ships &one do not constitute a navy, It does not join in the cry raised by the other journals. On the contrary, it says:— "Of what service can be the immense material which is amassed at the cost of millions in our building-yards? Has our mercantile marine increased to such an extent that we need additional ships of war for their convoy ? Have our colonial possessions increased and enlarged insomuch as to render it indi , pensable that the effective force of our naval stations should be doubled? Oh, no; our mercantile ma rine is rather lessened than augmented, and, as to our co lonial possessions, not an inch of land has been added to them for ten years past ! Under such circumstances we ask again—of what use will be a new fleet of war-ships? Pro bably to make pageants on the seas—unless, indeed, they are left to rot in their ports. Again, were such a fleet only useless! But it would not be only useless—it would be in jurious even to the development of our naval power. It must be manned and armee. Besides, a fleet, as all the world knows, requires a great number of able sailors to man it. To provide these our merchant ships must be stripped of their best seamen. Is our mercantile navy in a condition to support such a privation? According to M. Gustave Brunet, one of the causes of the decline of our navy is the numerical superiority of our crews as compared with the crews of the ships of other nations. Thus—the Russian navy reckons only one man for every 22 6-10 tons; the navy of the United States one man for every 21 tons; the Austrian navy one man for every 16 tons; while the French navy has one man for less than every 10 tons. Hence aria s a consi derable difference in the expenditure, and consequently in the charge for freight. Would it be prudent to aggravate still more this cause of inferiority by depriving our merchant ships of a greater number of able seamen than they have been accustomed to supply? Would it not be infinitely better to increase our steam-ships, which require many more good engineers and good soldiers than good sailors, and re duce rather than increase our sailing ships of war? Acting thus, much money would, we believe, be left in the pockets of our tax-payers, and an element of success, too much want ing to it, would be left to our mercantile navy, by leaving to it its able seamen." The probable result of the debate will be, that the steamers and the ships of the line will both be voted, and the Minister of Mariue‘will have given to him more than he asked for, or expected. The Government had received the following telegra phic dispatch from Toulon:— " The Russian squadron was in sight off Toulon in the well ing of the 11th ; at half-past six it came to anchor in the roadstead. On the morning of the 12th, the Maritime Pre fect paid a visit to his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine and to Admiral Lutke. Salutes were exchanged. The sub-prefect, the general commanding the department, and the mayor of Toulon, also went on board the vessel of the Prince. His Imperial H;ghness, wishing to preserve the incognito that he has maintained everywhere else, requested that no official honours might be shown to him. The Grand Duke has landed. He went first to the Maritime Prefec ture, and was next to visit the arsenal of Mourillon and Fort Lamalgue." Count Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, passed through Marseilles on the 10th, on his way to Toulon. Algiers journals to the 7th had been received at Nlarseillea. Marshal BUGEAUD had been so ill that he was unable to leave Algiers for Oran on the sth, as be had intended. ABD-EL-KADER, it appears, has again escaped the pursuit of General JUSSUF. While all the world supposed he was retiring towards the west, he suddenly re-appeared in the east, and General JUMP had, of course, to retrace his steps in that direction. The nineteen workmen who had been buried alive in the tunnel at Gmircelles for ten days, were rescued from their perilous situation at two o'clock on Sunday. The following - are miscellaneous extracts :- "M. Francoise Jean Sevestre, a member of the National Convention for the Department of Ille et Vilaine, died at Tournan on the 6th inst., in the 94th year of his age. M. Sevestre was one of the most energetic members of that assem bly. He voted the King's death, and, having been appointed one of the Commissioners of Public Safety, he was charged with the surveillance of the children of Louis XVI., confined in the Temple. It was be who made the report on the de• mise of the Dauphin. M. Sevestre was subsequently at tached as state messenger to the Council of Five Hundred and the Legislative Body; he was banished in 1815, and only returned to France i;f; er the revolution of 1830, when the Chamber of Deputies decreed that he should he paid up all the arrears due to him during his exile, and granted him a pension of 3,600 f. " The venerable M. Dupont de l'Eure experienced on Satin , . day afternoon a very serious indisposition, supposed at first to be caused by congestion of the brain. An active course of treatment was immediately pursued, which produced a satis factory result, and on Monday he was considered out of danger." The prices at the opening of the Paris Bourse :on Tuesday were tolerably firm, but afterwards declined. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 60c.; the Five per Cents., 12Uf. 5c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1, '26f. 25e. ' • Rouen, 1,040 f.; Havre, 7471. 50c.; Great Northern, 7 671 . 50c. ; Avignon, 9181. 75e. ; Vierzon, 672 r. 50c.; Bordeaux, G 301.; Boulogne, 5101.; Troyes and Montereau, 422 f. 50c. ; Basle, 2321. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 523 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 548 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 580 f.; Spanish Domestic Dent, 30. The following are the quotations in the new lines :- Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 502 f. 50e ; ditto (Espe leta), 5101. ; ditto Charleroi, 4951. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 12-Dutch Rhenish, 5% - -East Indian,' -Great Northern of France Constituted, 14; 7 4-Jamaica South Midland Juuctioil, 1% -Luxembourg, IN -Namur and Liege, 1%- Oyer Yssel, 3% dis. - Paris and Orleans, 49-Paris and Rouen, 4054 -Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, SN-Rouen and 'lane, 29N- Sambre and Meuse, 3. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDONAAP:lTTl.3l.l.—wWindinsd.ES..l.,Alrigrdh.t3bitr)euenzteaiannederfitle. Smith, De C ite i r l aTa , and Dublin. Sid. Cassandra, St. John's, N.B. DUBLIN, APRIL 14.—Wind S. W.—Sld. Rolla, Quebec ; Britannia, Corklnll, Miraiiiiehi. Conic, APRIL 13 —Wind S.W.—Arrd. Amicus, Weary, Mauritius ; Warrior, Davidson, Coquimbo. MARYPOIIT, APRIL 14.—Wind variable.—Skl;Grace, Wil-' son, Quebec. TROON.—SId. Eliza, Brown, Dalhousie. CROOKHAVEN.—Arrd. Margaret, Heyward, Lagua. Nerio, Gibson, Quebec. BELFAST, APRIL 14.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Christiana, Henry, Quebec. LOOS, APRIL 13. About twenty pieces of Norway_ balk timber were washed on shore this morning, supposed to be part of deck load of a Norway barque seen off yesterday with sails much torn. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 15.—The Coromandel and the Stan dard, outward bound, were n the bar of the Mississippi on the 13th ult. CORK, APRIL 13.—1 t blew very heavily all day yesterday and last night. A barque of about 3to 400 tons abandoned, name rubbed out, but on the stern of which " of Halifax" was visible, was passed Ist inst., in lat. 47 lon. 14, by the Amiens, Weary, arrived at this part. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind N.E. to W.—Sld. Conte Waldstein, Brailicick, Rio Janeiro. DEAL, APRIL 15.—Wind S.S.W. mod.—Arrd. from the river fit. Australia, Gate, Maulmain; Trinandra, Skinner, Calcutta; Dart, Newton, Madeira. OFF PLYMOUTH —Arril. New Phoenix, Barton, Jamaica. VALmouTir, A arr. 16.—Arrd. Princess Royal, Tenne, Macao; Eliza, y lie, Hayti. Sid. Paragon, Symons, Quebec; Freia, ‘‘'anberg, Rio Janeiro; Elizabeth, Laney, Quebec; British Yeoman, Turner, Alexandria. Mem., the Rio Packet, Harry, for Liverpool, did not sail yesterday as reported. NORTH KENT RAILWAY.—There has just been pub lished, by order of the House of Commons, a statement in support of the partition from the parish of Camberwell against the North Kent Railway Bill. The petitioners, among other reasons against the Bill, urge that it will require the demoti tien of 640 houses in Southwark, Lambeth, and their vicinities, and that it will pass close to several churches and places of worship, and urge that as there has bee n issued a Royal Commis ion to consider the question ~f Metropolitan railways and termini, the North Kent line should be referred to that commissien, a re commendation which is supp o rt e d b y the authority o f Sir R. Peel, who declared, that were ,he Chairman of the Committee of Group 14, he should suspend his judgment en the Metropolitan portion of the North Kent line until that Commission had reported on the sue jest. Various other reasons are urged against the scheme, and the petitioners declare that they are ready to support every material ailegation by the evidence of persons unconnected either with the North Kent Railway or with any of the rival schemes. Wr! 'lsere°. by an advertisement in our paper of this day, that Mr. Carter, the Lion King, is exhibiting his Mam moth Horse at Bath, and we have no doubt the good folks of' that city will afford him that encouragement he so rielil. deserves. ... . . . . IMPROVED TASTE AMONGST THE EAST.ENDEIM The vast advance which the people at the East-end of the town are making in literary taste is a source of frequent con versation in the City. Mr. Charles Kemble read Shakespeare's play of " As you Like it," on Easter Tuesday, to an immense audience at the splendid building in the Commercial-road, called " the Eastern Institution," and, amidst loud cheers, he announced that on Tue,day next he would read the pl a y o f " H a mlet" in the same room , which he considers admirably adapted to the o ccasion. Primer , Seta w are nberg anti suite arriv e d at th e St. Katherin e ' s Wh arf yester d ay m orning, by the General Steam Navigati on • St eam - Siiip Bamboo , after a q uick passage a seventeen hours, from Havre. The pri ce c f potatoes in Ennis is now a per stone, and as n one are offered that are not disea sed, an additionalpenny may be added for w aste. Oatmeal is 24. 3d. a stone, er at th e rate cf ISI. per ton. The Cla re Journal calls on the 11, lief Committ ee o f th e t o wn at once to make an effort to reduce the price of provisions, and says they can easily do so if they ple ase . '1 he greatest distress prevails , the articles of food being alt oget h er out o f the reach of the tradespeople and working classes, moat of whom are unemployed. The same jour na l a l so recommen d s t h e b a k e rs to introduce house hold br ea d i nto the shops.— C ork E xam i ner . An extraordi nary p h eneme non took place on the 13 th ult., at K aro l 1,800 feet hi g h, s i tu.ite d a t the entranze of the defile of Bele. Y, in Hungary. Mount Mormentzee, about oe, suddenly slit in two, an d stopped up the course o f the rive r running through the hollow. The whole country above the place where the earth fell was immediately flooded. Tun MURDER OF M It. Means. —Afar various r. , - mands, the mag i strates h ave decided on committing S heriff and M ddle to Oxford gaol for trial , fo r the wilful murder of '' r . Mold's. The evidence of the accomp lice Skerr y is straightforward and appears very conclusive, and in addi tion th ere are evidence of a circum stantial character strongly corroborativ e o f Skerrv's evidence. It a pp ears that the pri soners murder e d M r. M o bb s b e cause he was watching t hem ; that Sleeves was ne ar at b a nd at the time; t hat he ob j ected to it; th at t h ey robbed Mr. M o bbs after they had beat him c' and pulled hi m o:1' his horse; that on t he following, morning Skerry had s s . o f t h e money; that he was threatened with d ate: if he split ; an d that t h e affair so preyed on Skerry'. - mind that now , at the expira tion of about three years , he " determin e d en telline• all h e knew." We aloe x en ae otnit Mary of Mileo, Office of the number of nesseegers which sailed this' month is full fr .m the Ernig„ratior! Theis, Ener ;,: i . m g , '.. ,0 4. f a .,? 1. , fo!. Quebec, from this port,'' viz —Borneo, 310 ; China, 209 ; Nitdan. 243 • .J ~e Black, 38e: ; Primrose, 361; Nevin, 140; Brunswick, Hornet, 40. peesengers. 'The following ships are vet to sail, and all the berths are engaged :—Governor, 13 L r 77 ya 2 :1 .AFbohrs Sr. . l::1 Ellen s Forestal, Sew . Sarah, and Stadaconda.—Limerick Chronicle. 310NEY at .d COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From Tke San w . Dar Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very lively, and speculation was active, the sales being 12,000 bales: 5,000 bales were for 'peculation and export. Prices were decidedly higher.—The Share Market has been very inactive, and prices were lower. Almost hourly ate inquiries made in the City, by per sons very deeply interested, as to the pen A the Legis lature will take to pass through the Railway Relief Bill. The queries upon this subject are the more pressing, as there is an evident disposition on the part of the managing 70MMitte4S, of doubtful arid bad projects, to keep tte power thy now have over the funds in hand, and expected to be realised; and set ting at defiance the scripholders, determined as many of these parties are to go on with expenses, the great portion of which must hereafter be borne by the parties who have paid their deposits, or are legally liable for their share of the present outl 5. It is, there fore, considered by hundreds of capitalists and others in the City, and doubtless at Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol, and elsewhere, that—so pressing is the emergency—the standing orders ought to he rescinded in both Rouses of Parliament, so that the Bill to be introduced after the ' Esster recess, should become law at the earlies possible period, or undoub•edly the benefit intended by it will he frittered away. Symptoms of pugnacity have already been displayed by some of the managing committees in repudiating advertisement:, cslling on scrip holders to meet and press the dissolution of pre jests with which they have c:ermeated themselves. Secretly are some such par ties just referred to buying up scrip indirectly, eta tuin misty low figare to present heelder, so as to override original and other persons desirous for a wind up, at the first general meeting to be called under the pro visieens of the intended new Bill. The appointment of an " official aisigeee" to look into the expenditure of the Managing Committees is not relished at all by nine-tenths of those who have taken i.he managem , nt of fresh railway schemes, and hence it is quite certain that every means will be resorted to, with the view of defeating the wishes of the great body of those they assume to represent. There are nut any arrivals of importance — ihnouncrd in the City this morning. The Stock Markets have been heavy this morning. The fact that the Government brokers did not purchase yesterday its aid of the Sinking Fund, has led to many remarks, the principal of which is, that Government are husbanding, the resources of the country, to b- full) equipped with cash should a war with the United States be imperatively necessary. Another rumour is, that a squadron is about to sail soon for the Bermudas, there to await further orders. Consols for Money left off yesterday afternoon at 95+, and for the Account at 96+. The value of the former has to-day been reduced to 958, and of the latter to 951. The .earket has just rallied I Or cent , and certainly the as pect of the market looks more firm. The amount of business done has been nem; the whole considerable to day. But to this remark there is an exception. Ex chemer-bills yesterday were done at 27s , now they are at hut• 18s. premium. India Bonds, on the contrary, were yesterday at 255., and new they are at 30s. pre mium. The•"price of Wink Stock has fluctuated from 205 to 206. India Stock has fallen from 259} to 258. Tdis is the account day in the Foreign Stock Market. If se except the adjustment of differences, scarcely any other usiness of interest has been trans acted. There hale been some transactions in the French stocks to-day, at improved prices. The Five per Cents. have been taken at 1191, and the Three per Cents. at 83. Spanish Consols have realised 25 ; the Portuguese Four per Cents., 574 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 59i ; the Four per Cents., 92+ 92 ; and Mexic-,n, 318. The busine.iis in the Railway Share Market has been on the increase, and the iroearance of the market looks bith r. BRITISII FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. 205% 206 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94%14 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95% %% New Three-and-a-Qua - ter per Cent. Anns. 96 %14 Long Annuities, Expire Tan. 1860 .. 10 3-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .• 10 7-16 India Stock .. .. . .. .. 259 y 4 258 India Bonds. 1,0001. .. • • • • • • • • Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 28 30 p South Sea Stock .. • • • CLOSINC. PRICES. 206 944 9544 96% Ditto, New Annuities .. Consols for Account • • • • .. • . Exchequer Bills. 1,000/. • . • • 5001. Ditto. Small 119 f. 26c. 10 7-16 258 30 p .. 95N 95% 96 9514 96 96 116c1. 23 26 18 pm. 21 20 18 18 26 IS 18 ONE O'CLOCK. FOREKIN FUNDS. Chilian Bonds, G per Cent .. Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent .. • Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Gull .• 51 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 % Ditto, Deferred .. .• • • • • 16 % Portuguese Four per Cents • • • • 7 % Russian Bonds .. • • • • •"• 11° Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • Ditto, for the Account • • Ditto, Three per Cent .- Ditto, Passive Bonds .• Ditto, for the Account .. Venezuela rionds, 2 tier Cent Dividends on the above payaide, in tendon. French Rentes, 5 per Cent .. 119 f. 25c. CLOSING PRICES. 96% 511. .. 25 • .. 3614% .. 25f. 80c. 25f. 80c. .. 83f. —c. 83f. —c. .. 25f. 70c. 25f. 70c. 31% 16 57% 110 24% Exchange .. • • French Rentes, 3 i,er Cent Exchange .. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 59% 1 ,(, 59% .. 92 1 A ti 92 92 Burst NESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK: Aberdeen .. .. 10 .... 2 1 ,4 •. 2 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 1 ......... • IIA Briitot and Exeter 75 84 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Ditto New .. .. 5 .... By 2 9U ...... 9 1 A Bristol and Gloucester .. 30 .... 49 48 ........ 48 BucXinghainshire 425. .... ss dis 34 di g Caledonian 10 .... 6N% . Gsti Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 2 1 4 .. ,- lii Chester and Manchester .. .. 425. .. . I • • ' dis.... . 1 1 4 dis Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .. :. 1% ... l% Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .. .. 3 4 7, 9 .. 'Area Manchester (Rastriek's) .• 514 .. .. 314 .. .. .. . 3 ! -,, z Direct Northern .. ••.. .. 2%.... .... „ .::: 14 Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 43% . • ' L'aiterfrCiaintitis - ' .. .. .. 141: Its:... . 22% tic: ,. 2214. Ditto NeW• .'. .. .. .. 8/. 165..... 7% p.. •• • • Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. Gt. 13s. 4d. % p % p Ditto, York Extension .. .. 105..... 1% %...... • • 1% Edinburgh awl Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 71% Ditto % Shares .. .. .. .. 10 . 16% Goole, Doncast., and .Iniftleld,&c. 425..... % dis... •• • • N dis. Grand Union ( Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%.... % Great North of England . ..100 ....21b Ditto, New • • • • .. .. 5 .... 51%. ..... ... 51% Great Western .. • • .. .. 85 ....146 .• • • Ditto, Half Shares .. • . .. 50 .... 85 84% • • Ditto. Quarter Shares .• .. 5 .... 17 q, 16% • • Hull and Selby .. .. .. .. 5.0 ....101 .• •• .• Ditto, Halt hares .. • • 7 .... 25 24% ...... 21% Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 50 .• • ...... 50 Leicester, Tanstvorth. &c. ...... 425. • ... 1% 1 (Bs-- 1 di, Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .... —..••• • • • • • 2% Liverp., Stanch., & Newc. Junct. 2% .... I% • ... ••.• • • 1% London an Birmingham . .100 ...•222 % 224 222.. 222 Ditto Thirds .. • • .. .. 24 .... 614 •••• • • • ... 6114 Ditto Quarters .. • • .. .. 2 .... 28% .... Ditto End's.. • • .. .. 2 .... 24 London cad Brighton .. .. .. 50 •• .. 6214% ...• • • London and Croydon .. .. 137. 15s. 94. 21% is %••• . • • 21 ' London and South- lres'ern.. 411. Os. 10d. 76 % 75 % •• • . 75 Ditto, New . .. .. .. 12 %.... 21% •.. London and York .. .. .. .. 2% .... 1% % 4 Ditto, Half Shares • • .. .. 2% . .. 1% •••.• • • • • Londonderry and Coleraime .. 7% .... .. •••• • • • • Lynn and Ely .. .. .. .. 10 .... 6% ••••.• • • • • Manchester and Leeds .. .. .. 82 ....120 .. . Ditto, I lair Shares .. .. .. 38 .... 55 .. •••• • • • • Ditto, Fifths .. • • •• .. 2 ~ .. In% %...... • • Ditto. Sixteenths .. • . .. 64 •• • • 9 % ••••• • • • • • Ditto Extension .. .. .. 425..... 13413 p.. •• • • Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . .. 76 75% Ditto, Quarter Shares (II) .. 2 .... 9% ... . Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 •• • • 7% •• • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 4p••• • • • • • Midland .. .. ~ .. .. ..100 ....145 146 144.... Ditto. New . .. .. —lB •• • • 29 % 39 % —• • Ditto, Birmingharn7and Derby 106 .... 116 ••..•• • • • • Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 95 .... 43% 44 .. •• .. Ditto, New - . .. .. .. 1 •• • • 9 8 14 •• • ..... Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 25 .• .. 43 ••.••• • • • • Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .• .. 17% a (I• •.. • • North British .. ~ .. .. .. 20 ... • . ••••• • • • •, 7 - W.4 IfiP Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 6 •• • • - Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 •• 1 Ai •••• • • • • lye North Staffordshire 42e. •• .. 21a 1% p.... 1% p Norwich and. Brandon .. .. 18 .... 23 22% 225, Northmpton,Batibury,&Cheithm. 2 .... 3 ....... Ox Id., Worcester, & Wolverhmptu. 12 .... 8 1 4 8........ g Portsmouth I drect .... 24 • • ...... • • 2 1 4 Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 13% •• • • •.. 13% South Midland .. 425..... 1 1i die..... 14 dis. South Eastern awl Door 33 .... 35 !i 36 ...... 36 !Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 .... 161.4 ..... 16 1 4 no., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 13 .... 134 Z.. South Wales .. .. 5 .. 114 1 Vale of Neath .. 2 .... 114 1Q ........ IY6 Welsh Midland 1 West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. •• .. 158 1 / 4 p. p Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 3 ••• • • • .... Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... 253 .••• • • .. 251. ! York and Carlisle 2%.... 14 .. York arts . North Midland . „ „ ldtto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 46 Ditto. Extension .. 15 .. •• 32 • ••• • • • 32 1)o. E. and W. Riding Exten.•• 1 •• • • •••• •• • • 8% 304 17 444 Iq4 43 18zd 8148 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish .. .. • • 5 .• • • 5% Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 14% Irons and Avignon .. • • .. 2 .... 2 .• Luxembourg Namur and Liege .. 4 .... 1 1 4 Park and Orleans .. 20 Paris and Rouen .. • . .. 20 .... •• • Rouen and I lavre .. 20 • • Sambre and 31cuse . 6 .... .. Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... 6% ••••• • • • • • MINES. Brazilian Imperial (issued at M. p.) 21 .. • • ••••• • ' • • • I'dacanbas and Cocaes .... 25 .... 71 •••• • • • • Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 314 ••• • " • 4"' 29 2% 6% RAMSGATE AND OSTEND.—An alteration in the route of the packets between this country and Ostend has recently taken place, in consequence of the opening of the branch line of the South-Eastern Railway to Ramsgate. The directors of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam- Packet Company, conceiving the passage between Ramsgate and Ostend would prove shorter and more convenient to the public than from Dover to Ostend, have taken off their vessel+ from the latter port, and placed them at Ramsgate, which in future will be their station. On Tuesday morning last the first passage was made from Ostend to Ramsgate, by the Quetai of the Belgians. ihe left Ostend at 20 minutes CO 5 o'clock, and arrived at Ramsgate at 9 o'clock, performing the voyage in 4 hours and 20 minutes. The passengers hail their luggage conveyed to the Custom-house, cleared, and afterwards taken to the railway free front expense; they then proceeded to London by the 20 minutes past 10 o'clock train, :And arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms at a quarter past 1 P.M., thus performing the voyage and journey from Ostend to London in 8 hours and 35 minutes, out of which time 1 hour and 20 minutes were consumed at Ramsgate, clearing luggage, breakfasting, &c.; so that the actual period occu pied in the transit was seven hours and fifteen minutes. Facts speak for themselves; fir if the whole distance betweet , 04end and London can be accomplished in little more than eight hours and a half (clearance at the Custom-house In cluded), and as Ramsgate harbour can at all times of the tide he entered, and the passengers landed safely without being t•.) be taken ashore in boats, it may be predicted that Ramsgate will lie,..onte the favourite port - for embarking and disen - ibarking passengers to and from Ostend and northern Europe. AGRICTILTIIIIE.--.-A public meeting took plate at th rown-hail, Macclesfi•.l(l, Tuesday, preliminary to the f;,,- Inrition of au association haviug for its objoct the diffusion ~ f usehil knowledge on Agricultural aull'rets. A sociiity was formed; and a large nuniet of members were enrolled. DUTCH MAIL. TUE HAGUE, APRIL 1 s.—T'ne Stoats Courant of this date publishes a royal message to the Second Chamber of the States-U.mei al, accompanying six projects of law. and an explanatory testimonial presented in the sitting of the Bth of April. These six projects of law are for increasing the secon , l, third, fourth, :end eighth eli.ptar, and the ninth chapter, letter B, of the budget, for the years 1846 and 1847, on account of pensions which are at present assigned on the general fund for civil pensions. ZLERIKZEE, APRIL 10.—We hear that the owners of packet boats between this place and Rotterdam have the intention, as soon as they can obtain permission, to em ploy steam-boats between the towns, which shall leave the ports at the same time as the packets. The emigration to North America frim this town and istinds, appears to be more extensive than we imagined; se% oral families have lately emivrated to that country, and will be shortly followed by several others. BOIS LE Doc, APRIL 11.—The water is rising in an alarming manner, the quays of our port are again over flowed, and if the water rises only a few inches more, it will inundate the houses. About two o'clock this morn ing an immense break was made in the dyke between Orthen and the English mill. It is 200 ells in length, arid becomes larger every moment. The lands of Eupel and Eigen are inundated to such a depth that all prospect of even a moderate harvest on those fruitful hinds is vanished, because it is very probable that all the drains will be choked up with sand, and consequently the best parts of the summer will pass away betore they can be cleared to let the water flow off GRITVE, APRIL 11.—The Meuse again overflows its banks to-day, for the third time. All efforts that have been made to prevent it, have proved fruitless. MAESTRICIIT, APRIL l2.—The continuance of heavy rains has caused the Meuse to rise to such a height, that the steam boats from this place to Liege asd Venloo were obliged to suspend their voyages. Since yesterday, how ever, the water has fallen, and the ships have been able to proceed to the places of their destination. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS. APRIL distribution of the in flammatory pamphlets of which we have spoken, shows that many agents were employed, and much money spent. Thi: distribution was 1:ot confined to Ghent and Brussels, but was made at the same time among the workmen employed on the railway from Liege to Namur. This we know for certain. We are assured besides that copies of the same pamphlet have teen seen at Ande paerde. His Hajesty's Attorney-General went to Ghent on the 12th, in order to cause several persons to be ar- rested. M. Parys, printer at Brus , els, has been , -;et at liberty, because he at once delivered up from whom he received the painphle , which he printed, and by whom he was patd for so doing. In consequence of the declaration of M. I'arys, M. Pellerin, the shoemaker, has been arrested. We have received the following particulars from Ghent, which may be considered as authentic " The author of the pAmphlet is a young man, twenty six) ears of age, named Lahiaux, a rnerehari;'s traveller, who lives at Molenbuk - Saint - Jeon. He went to dis tribitte the pamphlet at Ostend, Brutes, and Ghent, where he was arrested. He had employed the printer Verbbar, who has been arrested at the same time as Limself. " Four other persons of Ghent, to whom Labiaux had given qtrlntities of his pamphlets to be distributed among the people, are also arrested. These six persons, es corted by some gens d'armes, were immediately conveyed from Gent to Brussels by a special trait,. The same train hrottght back !he Attorney-General and the Ver irk,. Commissary of Police at Ghent."—Moniteur Belge, April 14. BRUSSELS, APRIL 14 L'Argane des Flanders con firms the informaTion which has been tran*mittt d to us respecting the arrests which have taken place at Ghent on ~ c ttoutit, of the pamphlet. " Our working ciasses would certainly not have suf fered themselves to he taken in the snare whieh misera ble agitators laid for them. At the head of these agita tors is a person whom the Court of Assize of it:asv rn Flanders has been for some time in search of, and who has hitherto escaped by flight the earth that was made for him. Tilts is Labiaux, a merchant's clerk, who was accused before that Court as accomplice in he fraudulent bankruptcy, imputed to M. Stalins- Vermeulin. of Renaix. lle was arrested yesterday in our city. It was soon afterwards ascertained that he was the author of the trunphlet in question; his own confession has confirmed the suspicions that were enter twined of him. GHENT, APRIL 12.—The Messager de Ghent says— " The appeal to the people which vv:is distributed in im mense numbers in our city on Friday evening, invited the workmen to a general mewing aSa Plan e Yen drc-di. on Easter Mondsky, at 10 o'clock in the morning. At the hour when we are going to press this place is crowded with curious spectators. .All is quiet and it is hoped that the day will pass over without any blameable excesses, the only result of which would be fatal colli- sions, whleh our population, &imp so ca!m, have tit greatest-in!errst to aviid." We , find the fulinwing passage in the Journ'd des Flandres " At the time of our going to press some suspicious looking persons. are beginning to take up the pavements in the Place du Vendredi. We hope that the authorities will promptly interfere to do justice to these wretched disturbers of public tranquillity." The King arrived from his seat at Ardennes, on Saturday afterrloon, at the Palace f Lacken. FUNDS.—Bausiszt.s; APRIL 14. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent _ Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ Loan of Thirty Millions, lour per Cent -• .. Ditto Three per Cent .. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto,lB4o • Ditto, ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1844. ........... .. Ditto, 1836.. .. — Ditto, 1838 ••••••••-•• • • • • • • • • • .. 74% Ditto of the City, 1832 .• •• .• ••• • • • % Ditto, 1843 •• • . ••••• • • ••-••• • • • • • • 10 % Bank of Belgium •• • •• •••• • • • • 905 —Brussels Papers. April 15. DUTCH F UNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Amu, 10. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent... ••••• • • • 60% 60% Ditto, 3 per Cent •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 72% 73 Ditto, 4 per Cent.• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 94 4 95 Amon Syndic, 4,L per Cent-- •• • • 99% 100 Ditto, 3% per Cent.. • Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 167% 168 East India Loan, 4 per Cent-- • • 9414 94 1 4 Exchangeon London, at sight . ••• • • • 12 30 Two months • • .... 12 22 On Ilamburgh, at sight • • 35 75 Two months • •• •• 35 75 -Ditch Papers. April 11. ['RUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, / APRIL Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3% percent . ... ••• • • . 97 96% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent ••• • • • Foreign Exchanges .....• • ..... .......... Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 625 % 6 24% Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. MN 145% Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months ••.•• • • • . 80 1.12 79 11-12 On Paris • .• . Two months. ........ • • • —Universal Prussian Gazette. April 8. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 8. 5 per Cent. Metalliques•• • •• •• • • ••• • • 112 4 per Cent. ditto.. • • • • • • •••• • • • • • • ••• • • • 101 3 per Cent. ditto.. •••.•• • • • • • • • •.• 74h t Loan, 1834 154 Ditto, 1839 ••••••• • • • • • • „ 122 3 4, Bank' Shares ••• • .• . .......... 1560 Esterhazy's Loan ........ RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand .• • . Gloggnitz ••• • • •• • • •• • • • ••• • • • ..... 137 1 4 Vienna—Milan .....Leghorn ••• • • • ... . P 111,4 esth ••• .• ...... ....... 103 1 4 Sienna . ...... 94 95 Oldenburg ........ „ Pestoja ............ Apenninen .......... Pe , th Bridge ........ —Allgememe Zeltung, April 11. .. 98% FRENCH ROMANCES.—We really begin to believe there is no such person as Abd-el-Rader. Like M. Thiers' Consu late et r Empire, he is nothing better than a clever fiction. Let us ask what proof is there of his existence, further than the but rinsof Marshal Bugeaud ? Take away Abd-eIK and you shoot his horse for ever. Besides, if there is no Abd-el-Kader, there is an end d no to it a i l s l once rz - b p .s r o v To a more camels, no more sheep p and, alas! no more L lory—d without glory ? He hasept ben acca turned to it all hi life. alive to tickle the badauds. He is how is more victories, a Frenchman to live k He is literally one of the a e n, s No, Abd-el' Rader is the hero of the gobemouch es . " Mysteries of Paris. Ina word, he is the Mrs. Harris of France.—Punch. e of the b e er bu o; i N n i e si s t s or o s f d t u h r i i s n f g airte i rminated the hree days on Wed nesd. y S TEPNE Y F A NEW Yong. EC . A T I he u T m h was much A at T a l n o y N time s s i t n r c o e l l i e t d s i r n e v t o i v a o l n . auction-rooms p n- s r t o o oms of New York ; I had been in them before, b ut long—l stopped half an hour to-day. These Fates are for goods by wholesale ; and certainly, if any English merchant could have seen the rapidity with which his goods were knocked down at the most arbitrary prices, but rarely, very rarely, good prices, he would be staggered in his desire to send further co-signments. Yorkshire wool len cloths were selling when I went in, and during my stay: I ant no great judge of them, but I should be inclined to say, from what I could judge, that all were so!d at a loss-- and some at a great loss. A nice superfine broad cloth, the colour "invisible green," as it is called, wa s knocked off in about a minute or a minute and a half, at 2 1 4 dollars per yard, and would net about 6s. 9d. to the exporter, as this. price, course. must pay all duties and charges. Other things (woollen) went in proportion, varying from 1 1 % to 2 1 / 2 dollars per yard. They are seldom mote than a minute in knocking down a lot ; and these sales are always under stood to be bona fide, i. e., there is no buying in again. There were ten or a dozen who seemed to have come as buyers, and as many more lookers on. It is impossible to describe in writing the quick volubility of the auctioneer; but the language is something like this :—A fine piece of superfine broad death, gentlemen, invisible green; who will make me a bid for this cloth ?—a beautiful cloth, gentlemen, I want a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid. What shall I say, gentlemen, what shall I say ? O n e d o ll ar and a half is gentlemen —one—one and a half—one and a h a lf —one and a half—only one and a half, gentlemen—going, going, going at one and a half—one dollar sixty cents, one sixty, one sixty, one sixty, one seventy, one seventy-five, one seven-eights, one seven-eights," &c. & ; and so he goes on until, in double quick time, down it comes at two dollars, perhaps. In gthida which are not so expensive, the lots are put up in eight or ten pieces, or gum ter:_, or half cases, &c. ibis auc tion system is much reprobated by the respectable merchants of New York. The British consEgner, nowever, must always remember, that if he waits to sell his goods immediately, the auction-ro ,m is the only place for that purpose—and he must take his chance accordingly • for if once offered fit a!, , •tion, It goods are not to be withdrawn. —Memoir of B. Bradley. En. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Alpert, with the Hereditary Prince of Saxe M. iningen, walked in the pleasure grounds, and returned to the Castle in a pony carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of S,xe w eimeir, rode out on horseback this forenoon, at tended by Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Her Mjesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mein ingen, and attended by the Countess Howe, rode in a pony carriage to Frogmore to-day. His Serene High ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimeir accompanied the Queen Dowager on horst-back. Her Mhjesty and her Royal Consort rode out in the afternoon in a la n d au and four. In the next carriage were the Marchioness of Douro, Hon. Miss Murray, and Baron de Rei•zenstein. The two Equerries in Waiting, 11.41. Colonel Grey and Lieutenant -Colonel Seymour, were in attendance on horseback. Earl Howe and Sir Andrew Barnard also rode en horseback with the royal party. The Royal Family took their walking and pony exer cise in the Home Park and pleasure-grounds, both in the forenoon and afternoon. The band of the 2d Life Guards attended during din ner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. His Excellency Baron 1), del, the Netherlands Minis ter, who, since his return to England, has again been seriously indisposed for some time, is much improved in health within the last few days. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hutchinson, the Deputy Chairman of the Stock Exchange, Mr. Norbury, Nlr. Lawrence, and Mr. Mullins, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Termini had a meeting on Wednesday. There were present Viscount Canning, the Right Hon. J. Herries, the Lord Mayor, and Sir Frederick Smith. The Commissioners had another meeting yesterday. There were present Vis count Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. J. Herries, and Sir F. Smith. Di>patches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. A grand concert—a monster concert—took place here last evening. The programme contained a list of no less than thirty pieces of music, and the performers con sisted iif the elite of the vocal , sts agd instrumentalists of the present day_ There were Braham, and Crouch, and Feiss. and John Parry, and Miss Birch, wad Miss Dolby, and Mrs. Weiss; and Frederick Cbatterton, on the hare ; and Grattan Cooke, on the oboe ; and Ktalmark, on the piano ; and Sedgwick, on the con certina ; and Jarret - , on the horn. The solo on the horn, by this latter gentleman, consisting of variations to the beautiful air Leh Conte, was a per•eccly marvel lous performance, for correctness, tone, and delicacy of execution. The veteran Braham sang the splendid song " Never Despair," without accompaniment, and en being encored he gave " Sally in our alley," in his own delicieusly exquisite style. This is one of those b, aatitul morceaux of the old school that no one living eau sing but Braham. It was indeed a treat. Mr. Crouch was deservedly encored in his own Irish ballad, " Kathleen Mavourneen ;" and John Parry convulsed the audience with laughter by his " Young England," for which he substituted " Matrimony," when, as a matter of course, he was encored. The gem of the evening, however, was the ballad " I'm thine, only thine," from the Crusaders, which was given by Miss Birch with such taste, such feeling, such delicacy of intonation, such an exquisite perception of the beauties of the music, and such perteet execution, that, it is impos-ible to i.eagine anything more perfect. Miss Birch and Miss Dolby also gave the exquisite finale of the same opera, " Ties of friendship," exquisitely. The fioriture of the two ladies in this beauiiful duet was perfectly wonderful. " May fleeting time," from the opera of Maritana, was given with went taste by Mrs. Weiss, whose powertul voice told well in this air. Miss Ellen Lyon, a promising singer, gave us the " Mocking Bird," accompanied by Sedgwick on the concertina, in a style that reminded us of days of , ore, when miss Stephens was wont to sing this song. Our space will not permit us to do more than merely glance at the merits of the variou- performers enenged in this very di lightful concert. Suffice it to say. that all that was done was well done. The house was crowded to suffocation. Not a seas was unoceupii d at the com mencement of the concert, and it was impossible to pro cure a programme, such was ►he demand. The audience was most attentive. There was no interruption by misplaced eh( eying, and although the applause was most enthusiastic it was always judiciously bestowed. We hail the success of such a concert in such a loculi'y, as another proof of the great progress which sound musical taste has made of late years in England, and we hope that the success of this experiment will induce the proprietors of Sadler's Wells, to whom every lover of the drama, and of intel lectual and soul-elevating amusements, is already under such deep obligations, to repeat it at no distant period. SOCIETY OF ARTS. The eleventh ordinary meeting of this society was held en Wednesday evening. Thomas Webster, Esq., M.A:V.P., in the chair. The first communication made was "on Mr. Rand's inventions for the manufacture of metallic collapsable vessels for preserving paints and other matters," by Mr. Carpmael. This invention, cer titiely one of a most important character, is extremely Mr. Rand was led to the invention by the ex treme inconvenience and loss ho suffered, in common with all artists, from the small bladders commonly used it putting up artists' colours ; the moment a portion of the colour confined in them was removed for use, the air introduced itself and the remainder soon became unfit fer use. It rarely occurred that more than half the colour was really used. The use of metallic vessels sug gested themselves to his mind, and after many experi ments, he succeeded in fortnirg metallic tubes, so thin that 'hey should be able to collapse, and in collapsing, should shut out the air. The tubes are made of tin, the 150th of an itch thick, furnished at one extremity with a nozzle and screw -cap, and perfectly closed at the other extremity. The tube is then filled and screwed down. As the fluid which it contains is forced out, th e noftem of the vessel collaps, s. and prt eludes the possi bility of the entrance of the air—in fact, as will be readily understood, the vessel itself always remain: full. These tubes are formed out of solid metal by one blow in the toliowing way. A very small disc of metal is placed into a cylindrical recess of a die, and a punch whose diameter does not exact ly fit the diameter of the di. is forcibly brought down upon it by machinery. By the great force epplit d the soft metal gives way, oozes out as it were, runs up the side of the punch, and so forms the tube. By the same blow the nozzle is formed it s external another machine a screw is formed on external surface. The screw-cap is likewise feel:Bed by a single blow from a third machine. Ttle rough' Hess being taken off in a lathe, the tube, is tilled, and the lower end perfectly closed with 9, pair of plyers• rhe applications of those tubas are 'Already extremely numerous ; thus various sized tubes were exhibited filled with read) -prepared mustard, castor oil, cold cream, butter, essence of anchovies, vo l at il e chemical preparations, perfumes, &c : The specimens of 1 0 "" fumes were extremely beau , tfol. being externally duce: rated with paper covered with gold and coloured figures of flaw, rs, &c. It is almost unnecessary to sal that as the air cannot enter, the contained fluid or sews" fluid cannot by possibility suffer deterioration. The ma' chines by which these tubes were formed, as well as the whole process, were exhibited. A second corntnunl" - tion," On the cotton produced in Honduras and Yucatan. and the practicability of introducing free-labour coda? from Africa and other countr:es into the British market, was read by its author, Mr. J. Banks, so inaudibly that we cannot profess to give even an outline of it. Messrs. E. Illghton, C.E., and Mr. Samuelson We. elected members of the Society. LONDON IN -..TITUTION. The fourth and last Convowalione for the sea: l nti held at this institution on Wednesday evening, The 0 - iendance was as numerous as on former occasions. Th e lecture on the occasion was by E. Cowper, 800, t,,b„ e professor of ma nu f ac t ur i ng ar t at Ki ng ' s College "Y, self-registering instrum e nts." P t r h aps there a r e no struments which more fully exhibit the great trieLl if of science and persevi ranee in the ninetemeti cent than those which were on Wednesday evenie ft descrw e et by the professor. Am .ngst them were the L rh ioniel t , and rain-guage of the Royal Exchange, , a d t he cou p. ing machine of the Bank, both of whi , ch are w e known as to r quire no lengthened deta Three rle • fire' instruments--a pyrometer, a thermoir , . eter, an d ahtrin—we.e exhibited, the action of ti ll of which pended on eleetro-magnetism. The pyrometer c ° 0 mist• dof a metallic bar, which, when it expanded c) ri , certain extent, ma d e connex i on wit' a a voltaic be tte ,oo which, by a mechanism similar to that in the elec_!: .o , telegra p h, struc k a b i 11. I n t h e s • dine way the thereto_ tn.-ter cause d t h e str iki ng o f t h e b ell when the fluid Th e tailled therein had expanded to a certain extent. 4 chf fire-alarm consisted of a small, 14etallic apparatus 0 0 " when heated, act in the say.ie way upon the v oltai c paratus and the electro-rJageetic bell, and . thu . e 1 , 11 ,1 1 notice of danger. The 'other apparatus described , o f 0 . 0 ,1 as the dry gas-meter, ar e more familiar to the F f. er , reader. They were clearly described by Mr. ( ../ i ° l 7 rt r. who, by the aid of models ; diagrams, and . the lac. ments themselves, succee'iled in gratifying his sun of s o ects etion of n s A" c ° i g e s e t a h i e d e o x u c t e i l i n " th t Is P e t i cu larli e the members and 'eisitors, our attention wa..par- onv the Library i b u r t a e r r y e s t t o i g the ob i j i attracted to t h e following :—A mosaic copy the Sir Thomas LAwrenco's portrait of Georg e u o we Fourth. TV 4 i s superb work of art consi , ts lit thousands o f p i eces of various coloured stoniesagtiing, such a wr,y as to give the character of an oi --old to 'represent most correctly every degree of aud v 7, taken shade.. Th e comp l et i on o , suc h a wor k mus t ha 1,0 00 ye ar, of labour ; it is valued at the Taigh sum of 1' guiueas. s ome very fine speci m ens to a0J 03 4 ihe productions of Itlvws. Claudept, Lembo