The Sun. — London, England, 1846-05-27 00:00:00

THE .NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries. MRS. MABERLY ' S "LEONTINE. " In 3 vols. post-Svo. henry Colbnrn, Publisher, 13, Great Xfarlboreugh-strest. • THE OCCULT SCIENCES. Just ready. in Two Vols. Bvo.. T HE PHILOSOPHY OF - MAGIC, PRO DIGIES, and APPARENT MIRACLES. From the French. With Notes and Illustrations, Ry A. T. THOMPSON, M.D. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty'.?' RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. SHALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every Truant and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commeree, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the salo, ant the proceeds Immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor LABLACHE has the honour to iniorni his Friends, Sub scribers to the Opera, and the rublic, that his BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENDTG, MAY 28, When Will be performed (for the first time these two years), Cima rosa's Chef d'(Euvre, in Two Acts, entitled, IL M.A.TRIMONIO SEGItETO. Carolina, Madame Grief ; Fidalma, Madame Sanchioli (her first ap pearance in that character); Elisetta, Madame Castellon ; Paoli no , Signor Mario ; Count Robinson, Signor F. Lablache ; Geronimo Signor Lablache. Between the Acts, a DIVERTISSEMENT, In which will be presented a Grand Pas, by Madlle. L. Grah n (comnd posed by Cass an A her self), supported by Mdlles . Moncelet, Demellsse, a. Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. L. Taglioni and M. Perrot ;and the ad mired Pas Ile Caractere, Cracovienne, by Mdlle. L. Gr,ihn. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Deshayes, re-arranged in Three Tableaux, by M. Perrot, the Music by M. Costa, entitled, ALMA ; ou, La File du Feu. PerePhite, M. Perrot; Balfegor, M. Gosselin ; Emazor, M. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to Com mence at half -past Seven o'clock. THE,kTRE THIS EVEN IN ROYAL, DRU GRY-LANE. Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har r son, g or rem, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, F•tretton, D. W. Ring, • bliss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. Between the first and second Acts of the Opera, will be intro duced- (by general desire) the famous Pas Hongrois, by twenty-four DaTISCUSe 9 Viennoises ; and at the end of the Opera, the Standard Gawp will be executed by forty-eight of the Pupils of Madame Weiss. After which, the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. Duke of Silesia, M. Mathis; liilarion, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Prince of C°ur laud, Mr. Howell ; Wilfrid, M. Adrien ; Giselle, Mdlle. Sall ; Mirtha, !Mlle. Louise; Princess Bathilde, Mdlle. St. Louin ; Bertha, Mrs. Payne; Principal Willis, Mesdames Adele and Giubilei. During the Ballet will be introduced Les Pas des Fleurs, by thirty-six Pupils of Madame Weiss. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Wlil be performed a New Comedy, called MR. PETER PIPER ; or, Found Out at Home. Mr. Peter Piper, Mr. Farren ; Sir C. lalrsex, Mr. Tilbury ; Major Garry Owen, Mr. Hudson ; Facias, Mr. Bu•-kstene ; Mrs. P. Piper, Mrs. Glover ; Busk, Mrs. Hamby. The Band Will perform the Overtures, " Cenerentola," and " Due d'Olonne," the " St. James's Polka," " Philomel Walzer," and the " Chatsworth Quadrilles." After which, the celebrated Comedy of SPEED THE PLOUGH. The principal characters sustained by Messrs. W. Farren, Holl, Stuart, Webster, Brindal, Mathews ; Mrs. Glover, Miss Julia Ben nett, Mrs. Clifford, and 'Miss Telbin. To be followed by the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST. In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Glover, &c., will appear. To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's Farce of A KISS IN THE DARK. Pettibone, Mr. Buckstoae ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Another brilliant Triumph ! " Robin Hood and Richard Coeur de Lion" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Farce, entitled, A FRIEND INDEED. After which a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, Kinloch, and Bellingham ; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, and Miss Forster. To be followed by A MODEL OF A WIFE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Meadows, Turner ; Miss Farebrother and Mrs. Woollidge. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St Tiling; and hitherto Unrevealed ras sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD C(EUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keelcy, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, _Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss I,aidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled THE MEMOIRS OF AN UMBRELLA ; or, The Silent Observer. In which Messrs. Lambert, Howe, Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, R. Ryan, P. Bedford, Selby; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. F. Mathews, &c., will perform. After which a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeyban, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Honeybun, Miss Emma Harding. To be fellowed by the Burle;que, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Hardine, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. PEW liedtord, Mr. Muh•ard, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. PRi NCESS'S TifEATRF, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed '.hakspere's Comedy of AS YOU LIKE IT. Jacques, Mr. Walla& ; Orlaudo, Mr. Murray ; Adam, %Ir. Cooper ; Touch.tone, Mr. Compton ; William, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosalind, Mrs. Stirling ; Audrey, Miss Emma Stanley. After which - a :New Farce, called TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH. Gregory Granite, Mr. Compton ; George, Mr. Oxberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. To- be followed by a ••• ew Ballet, entitled LES CO' SCRITS DU VILLAGE. In which M,ssrs. Gilbert, Marshall, Flexmore, Harris; Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, &c., will appear. To conclude with a New Comedietta, called THE I.OST LETTER Mr. Ardent, Mr. Roxby; Mr. Le Beau, Mr. Oxberry ; Draft, Mr. Bonner; Virginia Mordaunt, Miss Somers. ASTLEY'S IWYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial pEronage of her Mos: Gracious 3fajesty, and their itoyal fUghnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice. Last Week of the present successful spectacle, which must be withdrawn to make way for the Whitsun Holiday Entertainments, " The War in the Punjaub ; or, Our Indian Ticto THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND HIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. With magnifi. ent effects, and introducing the double stud, &c. Thu SCENES of the ARENA will be of the most varied and pleasing description, introducing the new Artistes, whose wondrous performances are nightly crowned with the most enthusiastic applause. The Entertainments will terminate with a new and laughable AirTERI'l EC E. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in stating, that in obedience to the wishes of several of his patrons and heads of families, he has made arrangements to give, during the ensuing holidays, four mid day performances, the first of which will take place on THURS DAY, June 4, and each succeeding ?intraday until the number are complete ; on which occasion the Entertainments will embrace those recently performed by royal command, and so highly eulogised by her most gracious Majesty. The representations a ill commence each day at two o'clock, and terminate at halt-past four. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THE LAST NIGHT.—GREAT ATTRACTION. ' For the BENEFIT of M. PHILLIPPE. TO-MORROW EVENING, THURSDAY, MAY 28, M. PHILLIPPE will repeat his display of Scientific Skill and Modern Magic. Mons. Phillippe has the honour to announce that, on this occasion, he will give, for one night only, a Correct Representation of the FRENCII STATE LOTTERY, which was established in the first French Revolution, continued by Napoleon, and abolished by Louis Philippe. M. Phillippe has, at great expense, procured from Paris the Dresses and Apparatus used at the Drawing of the French Stato Lottery, attended by the French Authorities v when every visitor will have-st thence of obtaining a rill ZE I Stall.% 35.; Boxes, - 25.; Pit and Gallery, is. DAV IDGE'b ROYAL SURREY Tit EATRE. THIS EVENINtI Will he performed a new Drama, entitled FIFTEEN YEARS OF A BRITISII SEAMAN'S LIFE. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop, Haw - kins, Williamson, Edgar, Phelps ; Mesdames.E. Vining,.Martul, Hughes, Daly, Lewis. Vaughan, Neville. After which, LOVERS' QUARRELS. To conclude wi,h TILE GOLDEN FARMER. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSnAT: VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale at grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former. and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her cmaueum and Pompeii took place: produced under the direction of Mr. Damon. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Nigh*. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. The PYRDTECIINIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, aro on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display n novel exhibition will be intro deiced, representing the Descent of Pheehus in the Chariot of the Sun Mona. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receie him, and bear him to his chrystal home. An lllufnhiated Marine Cave, 'and the Glass Conservatory, splen dijily ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling this. visitors to view the matchless colleetion of -Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at five; the Pelicans, &c., at itye ; COneert at six ; and: he Eruption-at dusk. , Adrassion. ts. RAILWAY SUN IS NO W PUBLISHING. PRICE (TO SUBSCRIBERS) SIXPENCE. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 26. THERDIONETER, Lowest, 56; Highest, 70; Noon, 64 BAROMETER, 30.18.—Wiwn N. W. ; fine. HP)ri WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Merlin; •• 7 minutes after 3.1 Evening .. 25 minutes after 3 e tri • _ = 1 - •4 ' 147 *' 4 4 1z . - RPM • . 1 n t %Min Ant LONDON. WEDNESDAY ? MAY 27, 1846. According' to all anticipation the last monopolist battle hen commenced, the Peers have launched boldly into a con sideration of' the great measures of commercial change now awaiting their Lordships' decision, but, above all, the acknow ledged champion of the protectionist party in the Upper House has delivered his philippic against any alteration in our mercantile code. We know not whether to ad mire most the ability or the audacity evinced by Lord STANLEY in the elaborate and monster harangue uttered by him overnight; yet was it melancholy to behold so much talent squandered upon a system, the foundations of which are foolishness, and the existence of which is nothing less than the perpetuation of injustice. The daring of Lord STANLEY'S address consisted in the fact of a nobleman who bad so recently been amember of the Cabinet Council presum ing to adduce to that Right honourable amenably arguments, the refutation of which has long been the pastime of the merest tyro of political economy, arguments as clearly untenable and obsolete as they are in every essential particu lar irrelevant to the circumstances of the matter under dis cussion. The ex-Secretary for the Colonies might as lieve have been in a subterranean trance (like the dervise in the `'Arabian Nights' Entertainments") during the last sixteen years for all the proportional advancement he has made with th e advancement of his age during that interval. He protests against an innovation like the one propounded by the Prime Minister, and he enforces his protestation by—what? By a resort to arguments applicable to the present condition of the tvrohemispheres? By keeping in recollectio n the habitual, poverty of thousands upon thousands ? B y viewing, the relative position of commerce as it is now-a-days, and the consequences which must inevitably result from the mutual mercantile dependence of nations upon each other? Not at all. He battles against the sledge-hammer facts of our free-trade orators with a handful of cobweb! ;he revert , to past generations for his authorities, quotes the wisdom of anti quity for our guidance in 1846, and puts forward the preamble t i a Bill passed during the reign of EDWARD IV. as a decisive reason why the Governm ent of VICTORIA 1. should be actuated by similar principles. The whole gist of the Noble Lord's harangue, the whole secret of his adherence to a protective policy, and of his abhorrence of any contrary system is summed up in his reverence for our ancestors, and his partiality for imitation. Because the agricultural interests were 'hampered by a nominal protection many centuries ago; be cause the Government of this country, and that country, anc the other country have been fatuous and imbecile enough to bind themselves in similar fetters; because an iniquiton , impost has been pe rs i s t e d in during successive ages, until it has Lecome more truly than FALSTAFF— " An aged vice, a grey Iniquity"— it must, as a matter of necessity, continue in the same old-fashioned course without modification in any single par ticalar. In the name of logic and of common sense, are such reasons valid, are they admissible, are they philoso phical? As well might we retails the old be-rutted and be-mudded bridle-paths of our progenitors a, a medium of transit, in preference to macadamised highways and chemins de firs. As well, like wise, might we endeavour to render oil-lamps im mortal after the introduction of coal-gas. When telescopes were first invented it was discovered by cele.-tial observa tions that this globe was part of a system revolving. round the sun. GALILEO declared the truth of the Coper nican theory; the Aristotelians denied his declara tion. Precisely, with a like arrogance, do the opponents of the proposed measure boldly contradict facts with mere words ; they act upon the hypothesis that the belief of all past times is a decisive rebuttal even of ocular, demon - stration to the contrary. " ARISTOTLE says so-and so, in page so-and-so, therefore the earth is sta tionary, and the heavenly bodies move round it," said the Italian peripatetics. " Husxissox says so-and so, in page so-and-so, therefore protection is both advisable and beneficial," say the English monopolists. Not all the unanswerable facts of the free-traders, not all the telescopic revelations of the Copernicans, could convince either to the contrary. Successful experiments repeated again and again are altogether unworthy of consider •tion, though the written opinions of ARISTOTLE and Husseissolg are infallible. As to Lord STANLEY calling the adoption of the proposed mea sure an exile i iment, it is a glaring and impudent fallacy. Those experiments have been tried repeatedly, the principle is now altogether established. Has not the commercial career of Holland been an experiment of free trade ? Were not the reduced tariffs, introduced by the Ministry of which Lord STANLEY was himself a member, so many free-trade experi ments ? And have not these same experiments been so far successful as to render the mercantile position of Holland most prosperous, and to cause in Great Britain the total conversion of our most eminent statesmen ? As suredly, then, Lord STANLEY is somewhat behind time. in saying, " Fiat eaperimentum in corpore pane ;" that re commendation has been followed long since, and the conclu sion at which the experimentalists have arrived is that free trade is requisite in justice, and is necessary for our prospe rity. Obsolete and flimsy, however, as are the arguments adduced by Lord STANLEY, his Lordship has displayed in their utterance much ingenuity and much rashness. The fate of the Ten Hours' Bill was decided by the divi sion on Friday night. A majority of 10 obtained by the Government may be regarded as a virtual defeat, and no prudent Ministry would venture a second time to oppose on their official responsibility a measure which is supported by men of such weight and numbers in the House of Commons which has the general voice of the country in its favour, and is sanctioned by the laws of mercy and justice. We find the leading statesmen of the Whig or Liberal parties voting in the minority, not from any selfish or fac tious purpose, nay possibly with regret that at the present moment they should he found on any division by the side of the Protectionists, but from a firm conviction that the measure is desirable for the safety of the health, morals, and the good conduct of the persons employed in factories, and that the experiment can be made without any mis chievous results. The names of Sir GEORGE GREY, Lord rAL3IERSTON, LOrd , IiANDON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. MA CAULAY, Mr. CHARLES BULLER, and many others that could be adduced, all appear in the list among the " Ayes." Such an accumulation of authority, whether we regard the abilities of the parties, their political station in life, their earnest application to the subject, their practical experience, and theii knowledge of what is called political economy, cannot fail to make a deep impression on the country, and direct the attention of all who have hitherto remained apathetic or neutral to one of the most important questions of the day. In the arguments on the other side we can find nothing de cisive or calculated to make an impression unfavourable to the Bill. They abound in doubts, and fears, and misgiving., for which no reasons are given except the uncertain results of any great change, which might have been used with equal effect against the Catholic question, the Reform Bill, cad in deed all the numerous remarkable measures which have re ceived the sanction of the Legislature within the last 203 ears. Sir R. PEEL seems to admit that he is groping in the dark while he anticipates, at the same time, a voluntary agreement between the masters and the employed. " 1 intreat the House," said he, at the conclusion of his speech, "to post pone taking this irrevocable step, for irrevocable I think it will be, until you have better ground than you have at the present moment for drawing safe conclusions as to the effect of the measure." And the concluding argument of Mr. BRIGHT against the Bill was in our - opinion strongly in it favour. He looks forward, and very justly, to the working of free-trade principles, and the ,abolition of the corn-laws as remedies for many of the sufferings that oppress the operatives —nay, he anticipates that they will work the very cure for which the Bill is intended, that the menu tacturers would become more kindly and gentle t , their labourers, and both would feel the conviction that they could gain by a voluntary arrangement all they could gain by legislation. The speech of Lord J OHN RUSSELL was very brief, but it contained not a few striking arguments, and showed that, under all circumstances, the master manufacturers were the last that should oppose this boon to the working classes. The abolition of the duty on raw cotton had caused them-a saying of not less than thirteen per cent., and Mr. ASHFORD admitted that the tax On corn absorbed the labour of two hours a day, equal to at least fourteen per cent. loss ; and cannot, therefore, the ca pitalist, with this twenty-seven per cent. saving, afford to risk a change which, according to the widest calculation of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, will not endanger his property beyond sixteen per cent.? In the opinion of many it will not en -1 danger it at all. We lean, therefore, to the side of mercy, and encourage the hope that some measure of the kind wilt yet be carried into effect, and that, among other blessings, it will substitute for the present stinted race that fill these great national workshops, men possessing the bodily strength a..d the healthy appearance of Englishmen. One of those extraordinary and lamentable occurrences peculiar to Ireland lately took place at Bird Hill, in the county of Tipperary, when two human beings lost their lives in a resistance to the execution of an habere, under which the sub-sheriff was about to deliver the possession of lands from which the tenants had been ejected for the nen-payment of ren t. The circumstance was chiefly remarkable from the fact that the tenant whose interest had been evicted was of a better class than those who ordinarily are the victims to a similar Process and it strongly exemplifies the deep-rooted antipathy which exists' throughout Ireland to any interference with the soil by driving out the present occupant, when a number of the people can be found readily to undertake au organised re sistance to the execution of a legal process attempted by the sub-sheriff in person, backed by a strong force of military and police, and to persevere in that resistance, although requested to abandon it by the 'very persons on whose behalf it was undertaken, until fatal results had occurred. The case is strongly illustrative also of some of the evils incident to the relationship of landlord and tenant in Ireland which peculiarly attrae:Lefl the attention of the Commission, at the head of wlslch was Lord DEVON, and for which we hope to see ere ions a legislative remedy. the. Goth principal parties in this case were what is termed m Ireland "middlemen"...t persona who take large tracts of land for the*.posand underletting them. They become :numerable for dividingllert t a re rent to the head land e to deal only with one lords, who frequently are glid e t tuftriorn the wants responsible person, and they extort al:: and necessities of the occupiers, who are 3 fr i e7ue the utmost degree of oppression and misery in Y c subjec e tedt° The system has entailed upon the country the mo°sntsignjuuernioceu: consequences, and it has ever been the greatest source of difficulty to persons who have devoted their consideration to the improvements necessary to place the occupation of land in Ireland upon a safe and wholesome footing. Mr. ATKINS, the ejecting landlord himself, held a large tract of land from the proprietor in fee, at a rent very nearly, if not entirely the value. About twelve years since he sublet the arm i t 'n ques tion,sE which contained about 70 acres, t o M r. MA the person recently evicted , at the yearly rent of 21.123 4 t A Li d: per acre. On the farm so obtained it appears that. JIauNSZLL expended his entire capital, amounting to 1,5001. or thereabouts, in erecting a good and substantial dwelling-house and out-offices, and in other permanent improvements, so as to render the farm one of the most perfect in every department, and most desirable throughout the county. In this country, before a farm is let, it is generally placed in good condition, with suitable buildings and offices, and in fact everything necessary for the proper cultivation of the land. In Ireland, however, this is seldom the car ; the person about to enter upon the possession of premises, is freq uentl y obli g ed to devote the greater portion of his available capital to repairs and improvements necessary for the beneficial occupation of the land. He also generally receives it in a worn-out and ex hausted condition, so that much time and expense is neces sary to bring it into good order. From these causes, the capital which would be necessary for the sufficient stocking and cultivation of the farm, is, in many instances, expended, and the tenant becomes unable to manage the entire land, and he again becomes a middleman, subdividing and sub!etting the farm, the whole of which was intended to have been occupied by himself. Such appears to have been the case in the present instance ; for Mr. MansisaLL had no less than fourteen un dertenants to whom he had let portions of the land. Un fortunately he did not retain a sufficient sum in hand to defray the losses incident to a failure of crops, and be con sequently got into arrear of rent. His landlord, being himself a middleman, could not afford to make any allowance for the expenditure which bad taken place, and by which undoubtedly the value of the holding was much increased. He was proceeded against by ejectment, the most objectionable by far of the remedies given to the landlords for the recovery of rent, and which should never be resorted to under any circumstances until there is a failure of every other means..of obtaining payment. The unfortunate tenant who, by being deprived of the land on which he had expended his all, would, with his wife and children, be reduced to a state of beggary, attempted to negotiate for a sum of money ro be paid to him as some compensation for the improved value of the farm ; this was absolutely refused, probably from the circumstance of his immediate landlord being himself a middleman, who could obtain no allowance himself therefore, and the result was that he was so ill-advised, -o mad, as to attempt a resistance to the law, and to barricade the house, and to place a number of persons in it in order to maintain forcible possession. Such an act on his part cannot , be sufficiently reprobated : he was in such a position as to be well aware of its inutility, of the impossibility of its success ; he was however driven to desperation at the idea of the misery and destitution he saw before him, and by these means attempted to extort from the fears of his landlord that which he found , t vain to hope for from his iustice. Such appears the correct view of the unfortunate transaction. Had the recommendation so strongly urged by Lord DEVON'S Commission been carried into execution, and a power given for the registration of such improvements on the lands, mud a provision made that if the tenant should be ejected, or his r ant raised within thirty years, the landlord should be bound -o pay such a sum not exceeding the maximum fixed as the work should then be valued at, we should have been spared this painful and melancholy case ; further indulgence would probably have been accorded to the unfortunate tenant, or, if removed from his holding4te would have had to receive a sum which might enable him to exist until he could turn his attention to some other means of livelihood; but such unfortunately is not the case, and although the report of the Commission to which we have alluded has been übltshed since the month of February, 1845, and the whole of one session and more than half of another has since elapsed, we are still without any legislative measure having been a -en introduced for the purpose of carrying such recommen a ins into effect. We trust that this may be remedied, a d that no such apathy may be persevered in. Every iwnilir case to that of which we have just spoken chides the ,telav, and trumpet-tongued demands an immediate enact ent. We can make every allowance for the great attention e e+sarily devoted by the Government to the vast and im por a it measures of commercial reform introduced within the present session, but these have now practically been carried, and no excuse can be found if measures of such vital im nortance to the peace and tranquillity of Ireland should be longer delayed. The Augshurgh Gazette publishes a letter from a correspondent in Circassia, which states that the news of the Insurrection at Cra cow had produced a great impression among the soldiers of the Caucasus, many of whom had served as officers in the Polish Na tional Army in 1841. and had been farced by Russia to serve in the army of the Caucasus as privates. Count WoaoNzow was very uneasy on the subject, until the intelligence arrived that the insur rection had been suppressed ; for had the insurrection spread to the banks of the Vistula, its effects would have been manifested in the army of the Caucasus. Several Poles had de►erted and joined the Circassian tribes. Madrid papers of the 18th inst. have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. CHRISTINA still continues her intrigues to bring about the Trapani marriage, which It would appear is as opposed to the personal wishes of the Queen ISABELLA as it is to the desires and interests of her subjects. Queen IsasELLA herself is favourably disposed towards the suit of Don ENRIQUB, her cousin, now in exile at Bayonne. MADRID BOLSA, MAY 18.—The Three and Five per Cents. were not quoted at the Bourse, but the first privately sold at 32% % for cash. The shares of the Bank of San Fernando were done at 370, and those of Isabella at 200. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. A motion was brought forward on Saturday in the Chamber of Deputies, the object of which was to ensure the keeping up of relays of post•horses in the neighbourhood of railways by levying a small tax for the purpose on railway passengers. On the assurance of the Minister of Finance that the question was under the considera. tion of the Government, the motion was withdrawn. It is expected that the Chamber of Deputies will rise on the 10th of June. According to the Patrie, there will be a new creation of Peers at the end of the session, which will include the following persons : —Marshal Bugeaud, General Jacqueminot, General Count de Mt y nadier, Count Cornudet, Baron Duprat, Count Emm. de Las Cases, M Barbet, M. Calmin (Director-General of Registration Dues), M. Chutes, M. Debelleyme (President of the Tribunal of the Premiere Instance of the Seine), M. Haile, and M. A. Vigier. The KING returned to Neuilly, from Dreux, on Saturday. Five of the Members of the Committee of Peers on the Western Railroad have declared in favour of the project. Two only voted for its adjournment. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Bordeaux and Bayonne Railway Bill have reported in favour of the grant of 16,000,000 f. demanded by the Government to construct certain portions of the works at the public expense, and have decided that it shall pass through the upper country, instead of the valleys. At Elbeuf a riotous mob assembled on the 23d, in consequence of the setting up a machine to card wool, and destroyed several ma chines and looms. 300 soldiers were sent affront Rouen by rail road to repress the riot. The Three per Cents. were done at Tortoni's on Sunday at 841. 10c. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun','of last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 to 3,500 bales, at steady prices, though the market was by no means buoyant. Egyptian 6d. to 6%d., Surat 2nd., Sea Island 11%d. to 14d., and American 4d. to 5%c1. per lb. Shares were heavy. There have been recently so many arrivals that scarcely any are now due, and we have only continental advices which are of but minor interest compared to what is passing at home. In fact, then in business or out of business seem scarcely to think Just now of anything but the corn-law, and the probable majority for or against, while those of a less political turn of mind have their attention fully occupied by the attractions of Epsom, to allow of attendance at which, according to custom, there will be a horday to-morrow in the produce markets. The English Stock Market is not very fully attended, for the causes above stated, but there is no weakness. On the contrary, we have an im provement of fully 34 per cent., Consols being 96% % for present transfer, and the same for Account. Exchequer-bills have been marked at a fall to 17s. and 125. ; the sales to arrange the Consol Account, and to Bear the Exchequer market, with a view of inducing an enhance ment of the rate of interest, being sufficient to account for the reaction. New Three-end•a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97% to 97%, and the Three per Cents. 953 E %. Bank Stock has advanced to 20534 and 20634. The Foreign Bonds are very passive, and speculation is scarcely thought of. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 3734, being rather flat, and Mexican Actives have not been higher than 3134. The Deferred have been 17% to 17%. Brazil New Stock is worth 82 to 82%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been steady at 59% to 60. The Share Market is quiet this morning, but prices are well sin - - Forted, and even rather firmer generally. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 20634 205 34 20534 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 9534 % 9 5 34 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% ! , ,fi % 96 % New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Alms. 97% % % 97 % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 34 10% India Stock .. .. . .• • • .. .. 26434 2643 Q India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. • • • . .. 28 28 Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. .. .. 28 20 South Sea Stock .. .. .. • • • . .. 10734 10634 Ditto, Old Annuities .. .. .. 9414 94% Ditto, New Annuities .. .. .. 9534 9 5 34 Consols for Account • - • • • • •• . .. 96% % 96% Exchequer Bills. 1% d. 1 % d. 1,0001... .. ' •• • • 12 —— pm. 15 Ditto. Small •• • • 17 pm. 18 Ditto, Advertised •• • • 10 15 10 pm. 15 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ~ —.— Ditto. New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 82% 82 82 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 34 3134 Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. _ 31% Ditto, Deferred .• • • • • • • 1734 % % 1734 Portuguese Four per Cent .. 5634 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. ~ _ 27% Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37% 37 34 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% 60 60 Ditto, for the Account • • • . 60% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 921 A 92 92 PRICES OF BUSINESs CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAID, DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. .. 10 .... 4 ......., 4 Bristol and Gloucester .. 30 .... t 1 5l Buckinghamshire 425. .... % p % p Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 11% 11% Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1% Cambridge and Oxford.. .... ... 94 Derby and Crewe .. • • .. .... 5% 6!g 6 Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) t 3% Direct Northern .. .. • . .... .. Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... Eastern Counties .. 141. 16...... 23% %• • 23% Ditto New .. .. • • .. 8/. 16s ... . 7% p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 . 13s. 41. ........., % p Ditto, ditto, No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %, p 34 p Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 11A Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... /5 . • 75 Ditto IA Shares .. . .. 12 y 6 .. • • 1734 .•••• . • • • 17% Glouc., Aberyst., & Cent. of Wales 1% •• • • ••• . • • ty Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .• • • •• • • 23 % Great North of England . ..100 • • 220 Great Western .. 85 •• .. _ • 147 Guildford, Farcham, & Portsmoth 5 .... 4% Leicester and Bedford .......... 225..... 4 p par par Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% •• • • 2% ••• • • • 2 4 London an' Birmingham . —lOO 228 .... ••• • • • 228 Ditto Quarters -. 2 .... 28% ..... 28% London and Brighton ~ .. 50 ••..65 % • ..... •• • • 65 4 London and Croydon .. 131-15 s. 9d. 22% 22% London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .• • • %•• • • • ... 3 4 London and South• Wes• ern .. 411. Gs. 10d. 79 ••• • • • ••• 79 Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 Ditto, New . 17%•••• 29% .. • Ditto, New .. .. 14 ... • London and York 2%,••. . • • • • • 2% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 2% .. • . 2 ..... 2 Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .... • • Ditto, Fifths .. 3 .... 12% . ..... 1234 Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 80 ••••• • • • • • 80 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • I p••• • .. Midland ..100 ....148 150 148•• 148 Ditto, New 18 30% 31 .. •• • • 32; Midland and Eastern Counties .. 2 ss .. • • • ••• ••• • • • Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 443 s •••• • • • • Ditto, New . 1 .... 9 ••••• • • • • • 9 Ditto, New, Brandling 25 •• .. 44 . Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 •• .. 251 ••••• • • • • • 254 Norfolk .. 20 .... 26 25% . . 25 1 ,4 Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 5 • • • 8 _ ..... •'• ' • North British 22% .... 29% • • - •• • • . 30 Ditto, Half Shares .. 8% .• .• II%•••• • • • • .. 1154 North Staffordshire 425. •• • • 43% ••• • • 434 'p Portsmouth Direct 3% •• • • 3 54 ••••• • • • • • 3 1 4 Scottish Central . .. 10 .... 16% ...... 16% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234. •• • •• • • • • 2% Shropshire Union .. 425. .. • . 1% di5...... 114 die. South Midland 425. •• • • %34 dis is South Eastern and Dovor .. 33 %•• • • ••• • • •• • • 3914 Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 .• .. 17 1 4 ••••• • • • • • 17 1 4 Do., New (do. 151•) .. No. 4. 2 1 4 • . 2% •••• .. • . 2• • 2 3 4 Warwickshire and London . 425. •• • • 14 dig •••• • • • • par Waterford and Kilkenny _ 8 • • 412 Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1% •• • • %••••• • • • • • l re Welsh Midland .. 2% •• • • 1 34 1 16 •••• • • • 1 34 West Riding Union 425. •• .. 2 34 P••• • • • • 2% P York and Lancaster .. .... 1% ••••• • • - • • York and North Midland .. —.........— Ditto, Selby .. .. 30 .... 75 ••••• • • • • • 7 5 Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.— 1 ... 11 1 ,( 11 . l ll FOREIGN* RAILWAYS. East Indian . 53. % • • • • • • • • • • 36 Kamm and Liege .. ..6 _ 4 .. • • •..... 4 Orleans and Viemen ..10 15%.. 15% Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... ••• • • •• • • 5 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered —3% •• • • .• ... 4 THE DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTFSS OF ROTHES. —This estimable Count( ss expired on Thursday last, at her residence near Dorking. The deceased was daughter of Colonel John Camp bell, and was second e fib of George William, 121'; Earl of Bottles, maternal grandfather oft he present Earl. Her Ladyship was mart led to the Earl of Eothes on the 21st August, 1790, but did not have any family by his Lordship. LOSS OF LIFE ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.— DovEn, MoNnAY.—A serious accident took place on the South- Eastern Railway yesterday afternoon. The express train left the tows terminus at a quarter -past three o'clock, with but few pas sengers, comprising, in addl. , ion, to the engine and tender, a luggage van and two carriages. It stopped at Ashford at its proper time, near four o'clock, and on its departure the engine which is num bered 123, appeared in proper working order. On its arriving about midinay between Fluckley and Headcorn, distant from town about 60 miles, and just as it had verged into a cutting, the passengers were startled by a sadden jerk. and an imraediate cloud of dust and smoke enveloping the train. In a few seconds it was brought to a dead supposed, ' scene around too clearly considerable alarm was M s top aßi f a :s i ted amon gst aama told that an accident had h a pp ened. On looking out, tkey discovered that the engine and train had g o t off the line, and the former was lying on its side acros s the rail s , it having struck the bank of the cutting and turned ove r. The vast quantity of steam that was y be th enat passengers.uraiiy e a issuing from the engine, and the ground being strewn with lighted coke, for a time prevented an examination as to the fate of the en gine -driver and fireman . In a few minutes, however, the unfortu nate engineer was discovered under the engine. The poor fellow, we believe, was found alive, but ere he could be extricated, which occu pied some time, life was extinct. It was evident that he had made a struggle to escape, and had caught hold of the safety-valve with both hands, thinking that the engine would remain upright. Over turning, however. he was swung over and the engine fell on him. The stoker was thrown by the concussion on his feet on the siding, miraculously escaping the least injury. The guard was thrown from his seat, and also providentially escaped. None of the passengers were hurt. As soon as possible assistance was procured from Ash ford and Tunbridge, and in the course of a few hours the line was cleared, the passengers being taken on by the next train. The cause of the accident cannot as yet be ascertained, CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS.—The notorious gang of thieves who have for the last twelve mouths infested this neighbourhood have at last, thanks to the vigilance of the Bristol police, been apprehended. Notwithstanding the many robberies these men have committed they have, till now, carried on their ope rations with complete impunity, their ingenuity and cunning com pletely baffling discovery. They were possessed of housebreaking implements made expressly to facilitate their depredations ; among these was apeculiarsort of instrument, with which the thieves cut large round holes in shutters, doors, &c., and thus introduced their hands for the purpose - of drawing back the bolts and fastenings. The names of the parties apprehended are Edward Williams, Abra ham Michael, Charles Ilillborn, Ann Williams, and Louisa Hillborn, charged with being concerned in various robberies, committed in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset. They were brought before the magistrate on Monday week, when, for the purpose of eliciting more information, they were remanded.— ifeen's Bath Journal. THE GRAND Foust" BALL.—From the efforts made by the Ladies Patronesses, as exemplified by the meeting they held on Saturday, the ball bids fair to be one of the most brilliant of the season. Among those present there were the Duchess of Leinster, the Marchioness of Sligo, the Marchioness of Allesbury (in the chair), the Marchioness of Lorn, the Lady Caroline Ashford San ford, the Lady James Stuart, the Hon. Mrs. George Dawson Darner, who announced that various quadrilles costunzie arc already ar ranged, or is progress of being completed. The Lady Allesintry will lead the minuet, and will dance in it with three other stare of the aristocracy. All the Ladies Patronesses are to appear in the fancy dresses worn at the ball of the Court last year ; and the piece of tapestry worked by the ladies of Poland, and presented by them to Lord Dudley Stuart, will also be exhibited on this attractive occasion. DREADFUL FIRE IN LIVERPOOL —About half-past five o'clock yesterday morning a dreaffltil fire broke out at the corner of Slater-street and Wood-street, contiguous to the Music ball, which, for about two hours, crated the greatest alarm among the inhabitants of that neighbourhood, and caused the destruction of property to a very large amount. The premises, which have now to a great extent been reduced to a heap of ruins, were the property of the late Mr. William Calloway, painter and paper-hanging manu facturer, of No. 26, Brownlow-street, who died a few weeks since, and who willed them, we believe, to his widow. They were erected five or six years ago on the site of the old Deaf and Dumb School and Eye and Ear Institution, and formed alto gether a very spacious and elegant building, extending along Slater-street and Wood-street a considerable way, ival being four stories in height from the level of the pavement. The fire seems to have been first discovered in that part of Mr. Callo way's third story which looks into Slater-street, and is on a line with Mr. Hunt's shop, but so rapidly did it extend, that the whole of the upper part of the premises was in a blaze when Mr. Hewitt, with the engines and fire brigade, reached the spot, about ten minutes to Mx o'clock. The flames quickly comraunieated upwards with the fourth story and the roof, and downwards also with Mr. Dreaper's show-room ; and for some time the conflagration threatened the most alarming consequences to the surrounding property. It was eight o'clock before the fire could be said to be completely subdued, and long before that time the entire of the roof Lad fallen in, and the beams and floorings of the second and third stories, as well as the frames and sashes of twenty- six of the windows, hadbeen completely burned away. The loss o f property is heavy.—Liverpool Albion of yesterday. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND MR. W. SMITH O'BRIEN.—The following is the Speaker's reply to the letter addressed to him by Mr. Smith O'Brien , wh ich a pp ea r ed in our paper of yesterday :—" House of Commons, May 25, 1846. Sir--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23d inst., which you desire me to submit to the House in case a motion for your release, subject to the payment of fees, shall be proposed ; and I regret that I cannot, consistently with my duty, comply with your request. I felt myself justified in making the House acquainted with the contents of your former letter, in which you claimed your discharge on the ground of as informality in the proceedings of the House, and raised a question on which the House was called upon to express an opinion; but it is wholly without precedent for the Speaker to be made the organ of communicating to the House the views or opinions of any individual upon a question about to be sub mitted for its consideration, although in form of a protest or remon strance against it on personal grounds.—l have the honour to be your obedientfaithful servant, C. S. LEFEVRE.—W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P.' ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—We under stand the Illuminated Marine Cave, which has occupied that distin guished artist, Mr. Danson, for some weeks, will be added to the other attractions for the Whitsun holidays ; and we advise all holi day folks to pay the gardens a visit while the present wonderful exhibitions are to be seen, for if the managers of that really awful spectacle (the Eruption f Vesuvius) do not make a blow-up in earnest one of these evenings (clever dogs as they are), we are not the editors of The Sun. A. real eruption is a fool to it, besides the trouble of going all the way to Naples to see it. MONDAY'S EDITION OF THE " OBSERVER."—The happy announcement of her most Gracious MaJesty's accouchement appeared in the whole impression of Monday's Observer. Monday edition of the Observer is best adapted For the country and readers abroad. The Observer is printed on the largest sheet allowed to be stamped which contains forty folio columns. TO THE SPORTING WORLD.--SOlO of Bell's Life in London during the past four weeks in May : May 3 ........ .... .... 25.096 May 10 .. May 17 May 24 . , " 25' d 528 Making an average sale e7l/1 publication of twrenty-sh six thonsan s hundred and seventy. B ell ?, Life is regularly publied in time for all the Saturday afternoo n railways- For the most correct reported particulars of the four days' Epsom Races, see Bell's Life, udy next, May 31. A sixpence enclosed to Mr. Clements, iun., Strand, will insure, at a ll napes , f, to art of the Ilitigdom by return of - copy to any P post. - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY PROMISES OF SHARE& LYONS, NAY 22.—Marseilles and Avignon, 906 f. 25c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,2401. ; Vlerzon, 647 f. 50c. ; Northern, 7521. 50C. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Bordeaux, Toalouse, and Cette (Mackenzie), 1 3 4—Ditto (Espeleta), I%—Central of Spain, 1% — Dutch Rhenish, 7% —East Indian, I—Lyons and Avignon, 1% Namur and Liege, 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 104—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6%—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5 LA—Rouen and Havre, 29 IA —Tours and Nantes Constituted, s%—West Flanders, 2. ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, MAY 25.—The de tachment of Royal Artillery under the command of Captain Black wood attended at the carriage department of the Royal Arsenal on Friday and Saturday last to receive Instructions in the mode of car rying the light 6-pounder gnus, 3-pounder guns, four and two sth inch howitzer, and 5%-lnch mortar, which they are to take with them to the Hudson Pay Company's territory. The guns are to be carried en the shoulders of eight or sixteen men to each gun, ac cording to their weight or the difficulties of the ground, and, when possible, will be drawn upon two wheels with a very short axle. The men selected for the duty were medlcally examined to-day, and the Board of Ordnance has very considerately ordered that they shall be allowed io draw an extra sum for winter clothing, as is usual with troops serving in Canada. The guns and stores which they are to take with them are all orders'. to be ready by Thursday next. The returns from the officers on recruiting service fox the last week are treater in number of recruits than during any week since the com mencement of the new regulations. It is contemplated, on the re moval of the Royal Marines from the west square of the Artillery Barrack's, to take off the roofs of the buildings, and raise them ano ther story, to afford greater accommodation for the increase of men to this branch of the service. MR. W. S. O'BRIEN AND THIS LONDON REPEALERS.— Monday morning a deputation from the repeaters of London wasted upon Mr. W. S. O'Brien, to present him rn address, and likewise to obtain a promise to attend a public meeting of the London repealers, to be held at Covent-garden Theatre Immediately after his libera tion, to which the Hon. Gentleman agreed. MARRIAGE t F MR. GORE LANGTON AND LADY ANNA I:1;mA GRENTILLE.—We believe that the marriage of Mr. Gore Langton and Lady Anna Elsa Grenville, only daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, is to take place this week. We are informed that immediately after the solemnization the happy couple will leave Eng land for a short time. The Duke of Buckingham, the Duchess, the Marquis of Chandos, and Lady Anna, left Stowe House for London at the end of last week. The villagers s, eak of the young lady as being a very kind and good one. Sir Hesketi Fleetwood paired off on Friday night in favour of the Short Time Bill with Mr. Mackinnon. JEws' HOSPITAL.—The anniversary festival of this charitable institution, founded for the purpose of supporting the aged poor, and for the education and employment of the youth of both sexes of the Jewish persuasion, took place on Monday in the great room of the London Tavern. In the absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the charity, the treasurer, Hananel De Castro, Esq took the chair,: hupported by J. B, H ea th, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England ; Baron A. De Rothchild ; David Moutons, Esq. ; Edward Goldsinid, Esq. ; the Rev. Dr. Adler, chief rabbi ; Benjamin Cohen, Esq. ; Emanuel Lousada, Esq. ; Martin Fuller, Esq.; Dr. Southw,,od Smith; D. W. Wire, Esq. and upwards of 120 influential friends and patrons of the hospital. luring the eyeing it was stated the total number of persons received into the house was four hundred and nineteen. A number of boys and girls paraded the room, carrying specimens of the various trades to which they are brought up, and the announcement of a subscrip tion to nearly 1,0001. was received with applause. The dinner was peculiar in its kind, consisting principally of the dishes whick are and have been fur ages, favourites with the Jews. THE SURREY DISPENSARY.—The friends and sup porters of this very useful institution dined together on Monday at the Bridge House Hotel, London bridge. The Lord Mayor presided, and was supported by the High Sheriff cf the county, the High Bailiff of Southwark, Mr. Kembie, M.P., Mr. It. Baggalay, treasurer of St. Thonta,'s Hospital, Mr. C. A. Young, and a numerous party of governors of the charity. The chairman, iu proposing the usual loyal toasts, announced the auspicious birth of a princess, and of course the 'ompany, in responding, gave suitable manifestations of their attachment to the Throne. " Prosperity to the Surrey Dispensary," and various other appropriate toasts, were then given and duly ac knowledged. In the course of the evening two reports were read by the secretary, the result of which showed an' amount of 3541. 12s. collected by subscription on behalf of the funds of the institution. It appears that these funds are at present in rather a sinking state, there being a deficiency on the past year of 5061. 16s. 9d., and it was to make up this arrear that the committee of management directed their efforts. From the medical report of the year a fair idea may be formed of the character and usefulness of the institution. By that report it is stated, that 5,646 patients have been admitted to the benefits of the charity during the year, and of these 4,504 have been cures. 154 have been relieved, 216 have gone into hospitals or the country, or been discharged for irregularity, 122 have died, and there are 650 remaining under cure. In 1,915 cases the patients have been at tended at their own houses, and 504 were midwifery cases. The average daily attendance at the Dispensary for medicines, &c., is 200. The dinner, which celebrated the 56th anniversary of he charity, was a very good one fur the price charged, and the arrange tnents altogether were excellent. ROBBERY AT THE LIBRARY OF THE ATHENRUM CLUB. —On Monday information was forwarded to the chief police station, Scotland-yard, of an extensive robbery of valuable books and plates from the library of the Athenfflum. So mysteriously have they been abstracted, that no clue can be gained to the thief or thieves, notwithstanding a reward of 1001. has been offered for their discovery. CONVICTS FOR NORTH AIISTRALIA.—Fifty convicts were brought down the river on Saturday in the Naiad Woolwich Company's packet, and 50 more on Monday in the Witch steam-* packet, and put on board the Maitland, and on the arrival of another hundred convicts they will be conveyed to North Australia. These convicts are mostly from the Model Prison, whete they have been taught useful trades, and will have an opportunity of making them selves useful men in the new convict colony, of which Lieutenant- Colonel Barney, late Commandant of the Royal Engineers, has been appointed Governor. OPERATIVE PAPER-STAINERS.—On Monday a nu merous meeting was held in the School-room. Harp-alley, Tarring- Alan-street, to take into consideration the depressed state of the trade through the measures introduced by softie of their late employers. theaffairs hands move b d a th e e be tierns;:aurePePo°lurttiedon by . fr. Maguire took the Chair. lie felt sorry in being obliged to state of the Union, for, durin g th ese l as t e i g ht wee ks, np war d s of 200 bringing h d e i n funds di nohn o igs f thisioierwe tariff,an remarked, which t3hi from the time of Si r R o b ert Peel . Ballard would reduce the present duty of one shilling to twopence, the mas ters had evinced a great desire to trample the nen under foot, in order to make the journeymen pay for the loss which the master must sustain, in order to compete with French goods. The various resolutions having been moved and carried unanimously, condemna tory of the present system now existing in the trade, the meeting broke up shortly after ten o'clock. DE o'clock —Yesterday, shortly b e f ore three of Mr. Edmonds, situat e d i n Arthur place,thesawmills Golden•lane, St. Luke's, were discovered to be on fire. The Police-constabl e on duty whilst going his rounds proceed e d as usual to inspect the premises, when he saw flames issuing from the roof; he engines of the brigade and a plentiful supply h im oo ul d e , dia wh t i el eh y gave ive an alarm, and the inhabitants of the neighbour the fire was subdued, g r i e de densely populated, hastened to the spot. The and f others were prompt in their attendance, tvheerymcoonstsivdearwabalbelestoek description, w b o il water being obtained, in about two hours In un . til Mr. Edmonds's premises, with a of machinery and satinwood for yeoeers, of as completely destroyed, and the s rs. An adjoining building employed premises reduced to a heap eatoopnoobift, by persons in grindin were supplied with steam-powerc. i.r with its machixery (all of which Mr. Plumber, where a cotton factoomi the contiguous premises of de stroyed. The premises of Mr. Pitzry4 carried on), were also Jared. It is not known how the A orig in ated , soaP-boiler, were also in is very considerable. We understand thrated. The damage done ALARMING FIRES.—On Mond a y are inaared. the hours of six and seven, the premises dlonm.orning, between grocer, situat eat No. 18, Goswell-road, were discoveredgingtoMr. Watson, to be fire. The flames originated in the front shop, and had they en not been so opportunely perceived it is highly probable that the entire building would have been consumed. The engines of the B r i g ade, and the West o f En gland Company,parish, London were early in attendance, and there being a good supply of water furnished by the New River mains, the firemen set to work and suc ceeded in confining the flames to that portion of the building in which they commenced. The greater portion of the stock in trade, however, is destroyed, and the valuable furniture severely damaged by hasty removal. The origin of the fire is un known. Fortunately the proprietor was insured in the Sun Fire office. Late the p receding night a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Thomas Downs, bedstead and cabinet-maker, car tying on business at No. 246, Whitechapel - road. It was caused by a spark flying from a lighted candle amongst some hay in the stables. The engines of the parish and London brigade attended, but owing to the exertions of the police and inmatea the flames were previously subdued, but not before considerable damage had been done to the stabling, the rooms over the same, and G alls he oto the roof. Tre was, likewise, a great quftatity of window glss demolished. Mr. Dowp, was net insured. MORNING-, M'AY 27, 1846 COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager called at Buckingham Palace on Monday, previous to leaving town for Bushy Park, to make inquiry after the health of her Majesty and the infant Princess. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued yesterday morning ; "Buckingham Palace, May 26, 1846, "Nine o'clock a.m. "The Queen has passed an excellent night. " Her Majesty and the Infant Princess are going on favourably. (Signed) " JAMES CLARKE, M.D. "CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D." Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. His Royal Highness rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Capt. Gordon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and Prince George celled yesterday at the Palace, to learn the state of their august relative. The diplomatic corps and the nobility and gentry called during the day at Buckingham Palace, to inquire after the health of her Majesty and the royal infant. Among them were his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Foreign Ambassadors. A Committee-meeting of the:Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England was held yesterday, which was attended by the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Oxford, Ripon, and Worcester, the Earls of Devon and Bes borough, and the Right Hon. H. Hobliouse. The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commission had a meeting yesterday; the Commissioners present were, Vis count Canning, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, Sir F. Smith, and the Lord Mayor. Mi. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday, at his office, Downing-street. Lady Peel and family left town yesterday for Draytcn Manor, Staffordshire. Lord and Lady Hatherton have arrived at Fan ance's Hotel, from Teddesley Park, Staffordshire. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM RACES.- TUESDAY. On the occasion of the Spring Meeting, we described the various improvements in progress at the Grand Stand. In the few weeks that have since elapsed money and labour have been liberally applied in bringing them to a state of completeness, and it is no more than justice to the lessee to state that, in the accommodation he has provided for the public, and the facilities for carrying on the business of the Meeting, increased by the employment of an efficient " staff," he has outstripped our expectations. His expenditure must have been very heavy ; and when it is taken into considera tion that the rent of the Stand, taxes, additions to the stakes, and other expenses, will raise his yearly outgoings to something like 2,0001., it must be obvious that unless he suc ceeds in obtaining the countenance and support of the lead ing men of the turf, his speculation is not likely to turn out a profitable one. Bearing in mind, however, that the horses arc to be saddled in front of the Grand Stand for all the races, and that everything has been done to enable the bet ting men to carry on their business in the enclosure without interruption from the mob, we can scarcely doubt the suc cess of the undertaking. The commencement of the meeting, in respect to sport and weather, was highly favourable, but the attendance in num ber and rank felt short of our anticipations ; in fact, it was confined chiefly to the sporting classes, who having adjourned from an unprofitable rendezvous in the town, re-assembled in the priviledged enclosure, in which they found ample space for betting. Speculation, however, was not by any means brisk on the event of the day ; the Derby was the absorbing topic, and on this the business was of the same variable character that has marked the proceedings at Tattersall's for the last two or three weeks. Sting was once more in favour, rising at one time to 9 to 1, again receding to 16 to 1, and at the close, averaging, as near as we could make out his po sition, 12 to 1. Fancy Boy also advanced, ultimately ob taining the call, and leaving off firm at 6to 1. Pyrrhus the First was in great force, and The Conjuror sprang several points after the race for the Woodcote. Sir Tatton Sykes was " nominal," and the only outsider in anything like force, was Sir Gilbert Heathcote's colt,which was backed to win a large stake at 1000 to 15 and 20. Mendicant was backed for the Oaks at 7 to 2, and Mowerina and Vanish at 6 to 1 each. The racingcommenced, or should have commenced, at two o'clock; but from a want of punctuality not at all creditable to a management which in other respects gave so much scope for commendation, was not brought to a close until nearly half-past six. Much disappointment was expressed on this head, and we have no doubt care will be taken to prevent a similar ground of complaint. We subjoin particulars of the day's sport, and the names of the probable starters for the Derby, their riders, and the latest betting on the course. PROBABLE STARTERS FOR THE DERBY. Riders. Latest betting. Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes . Scott ... .. 20 to I Lord Maidstone's Tom Tulloch Nat or Whitehouse Bto 1 Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First S. Day Mr. Merry's Peri colt Robinson ... 9to 1 General Shubrick's Brocardo Mr. Dawson's Grimston Mr. Wall's Crown Prince Wakefield ... Lord E. Russell's Sting ... not fixed l2 to 1 Mr. E. R. Clark's The Conjuror ... E. Edwards l6 to I—t Mr. Gurney's Cantley Mr. E. Peel's Twig Mr. E. Peel's Spithead ... not fixer __ _ Col. Anson's lake Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser Cartwright ... Sir G. Heathcote's c by Hetman Platoff, out of Nannette ... Chapple Lord Eglinton's Sotades Sir R. Bulkeley's Joinville Lord Chesterfield's Ginger house Mr. Mostyr.'s c by Pbconix, out of L'liirondelle Count Batt hyanv's Tragical... Crouch Mr. T. Powell's 'Holloway Mr. Rnmsay's Malcoltn Robertson ... 50 to 1 Mr. nrinkald's Widred Mr. Harrold's Young Hercules ... Hornsby Mr. Balchin's Sir Edmund .• • • Lord Orford's Blackie Mr. Drake's Bold Archer G. Edwards... The Craven Stakes of 10 soya. each, for three years old, 6st 811); four, Bst 101 b; five, 9st 41b; six and aged, 9st 10lb ; the last mile and a quarter of the proposed New Derby Course. (8 Subs.) Mr. E. Peel's br c Spithead, 3 yrs Mr. E. R. Clarke's ch c The Baron, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Bainbridge's br c Sir Peter Laurie, 3 yrs 3 The following also started, but were no placed : Mr. Waller's Coronation out of Maid of Hampton, 3 yrs; Mr. Forth's ch c Nutleaf, 3 yrs; Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, aged. Betting :-9 to 4 agst The Baron ; 9 to 4 agst Spithead ; and 5 to to 1 agst Aristotle. The Maid of Hampton colt took a good lead at starting, followed by Spitbead, the Baron and Aristotle lying in ad vance of the ruck at their heels. They maintained this forma tion to the road, where the running was taken up by the Baron, Aristotle and Sir Peter Laurie next. No further change occurred till they were half-way up the distance, where Spithead challenged The Baron , and in the last two or three strides won by a head ; Sir Peter Laurie a bad third. Run in 2 min. 26 sec. The NVoodcote Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added by the lessee of the Grand Stand, for two-year-old colts, Bst 61b, and fillies, Bst 31b. It twenty subscribers, the second horse to receive 50 Boys. out of the stakes. T.Y.C. three quarters of a mile. Mr. E. R. Clark's Miles's Boy Lord George Bentinck's Blackcock 2 Lord E. Russell's Eldon Mr. Mostyn's f by Piccaroon, out of her Highness Mr. Clifton's Dromedary Sir G. lleathcote's sister to Bokhara Mr. J. Varrall's hr c by Muley Moloch Betting-6 to 4 agst Blackcock, 3to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's filly, and 4to 1 agst Miles's Boy. No others mentioned. Miles's Boy went away with a good lead, kept it throughout, and won cleverly by a length, the intervals behind the fa vourite being sufficiently marked to enable the judge to place them all. Run in 1 min. 24 sec. _ The Manor Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added by the Lord of the Manor, for three yrs old, 6st ielb ; four, Bst 71b ; five, Bst 121 b ; six and aged, 9st llb ; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs; the second to receive back his stake. Heats, the last mile and a quarter of the proposed New Derby Course. Sir Gilbert Heathcote's ch f Campanile, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. Ramsbottom's Pine Apple, 6 yrs 0 2 Mr. J. Day's br f Miss Slick, 3 yrs .... ..... .... . ...... Mr. Dockeray's Lady Charlottee, 5 yrs Mr. May's Crocus, 6 yrs 0 5 Mr. llobson's Chatham, 4 yrs 0 6 Mr. Mostyn's ch c by Hetman Platoff 3 dr Mr. Jaques's Headsman, 3 yrs 0 dr Count Batthyany's Mustee, 3 yrs Mr. I3ainbridge's The Wreck,4 yrs ... 0 dr Mr. Pratt's Deodara, 4yrs First Heat-5 to 2 agst Miss Slick-4 to 1 against Miss Thomasina—and 5 to 1 each agst Campanile, Pineapple, and the Wreck. Won by a length ; the Hetman Platoff colt a bad third. Second Heat-2 to 1 each against Miss Slick and Cam panile. Won by half a length ! Miss Slick a bad third. The Hooton Stakes of 3 soya. each, with 30 added by the Lord of the Manor ; for three years old, 6st 101 b; four years, Bst 41b; five years, Bst; six years and aged, Bst 121 b; mares, &c., allowed 31b •, the winner to be sold for 150/. Heats, the last mile and a quarter of the proposed new Derby course. (9 Subs.) Mr. Shelley a Titbit, 3 yrs . Mr. Garret's Slipshod, 4 yrs 0 0 2 Mr. Wald's Zela, 5 yrs 0 0 3 Mr. Scott's Mosque, aged Mr. Booth's ch cby Bently, out of Emma, 4 yrs 0 2 5 Mr. Drinkald's Elemi, 5 yrs Sir G. Heathcote's c by Velocipede, dam by Emi lius, 3 yrs 0 dr. Mr. T. Dawson's b f Kiss-me-Quick, 4 yrs ... First heat.-2 to I agst Titbit, sto 2 agst Kiss-me-quick, and sto I each agst Mosque and the Velocipede colt. A dead heat between Titbit and theßentley colt ; Mosque beaten a neck, and nothing else near. Second heat.-5 to 2 agst T 4 to 1 agst Mosque. Won by second and third. Third heat.-5 to 4 on Titbil ASCOT MA ACCEPTANCES FOR itbit, 3 to 1 agst Bentley, and a neck ; the same between the who won by a length. TH RACES. ME ASCOT STAKES. SECOND CLASS. Lightning, 5 yrs, Bst 81bs Pine .apple, 5 yrs, Bst 41bs Rowena, 4 yrs, Bst 4 1 bs Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, Bst 21bs Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs, 7st 121bs Crocus, 6 yrs, 7st 61bs I-am-not-Aware, aged,7st 51ba Languish filly, 4 yrs, Est Blbs Petit Morcean, 4 yrs, Est 71bs Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, Est 21bs Footstool, 3 yrs, Est Lynceus, 3 yrs, sst 111bs Petitioner, 3 yrs, sst 71bs Ohio, 3 yrs, sst Bibs NEWC ASTLE-UPON.TYNE RACES. Acceptances for the Northumberland Plate. The Baroll, 4 yrs , Bst 81bs—Winesour, 6 yrS, Bst 6lbs—Glossy, 6 yre, Bst 41bs — Pag an, aged, Bst albs — M entor, 4 yrs, Bst-Mld- Lothian, 4 yrs, 7st 101bs —Telemachus, 5 yrs, 7st 9lbs—yße, 6sdßt ,oblibus, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Little Hampton, 5 yrs, 7st bibs—Pythia, 4 yrs, 7st Gibs — Th e Roper's Daughte r, a g ed, 7st 41bs—Fancy Boy, 3 rs —Colleen Dawn, 4 yrs, 6st Glbs—Dolo, 3 yrs, Est slbs—Petit MorceaU, 3 yrs, Gst 41bs—Lucy, 4 yrs, 6st—Thersites, 3 yrs, sst 81bs Druid, 3 yrs, Set 71 bs —Tour de Force (sister to Rober t de Gorham), rh e 3 yrs, sst 71bs—Sheraton, 3 yrs, sst 7lbs—Driflleld, 3 yrs, sst 211)8 Fair Star, 3 yrs, s st -- Curiosity , 3 yrs , 4 st 121 bs — SP8r, i2lbs. , 3 Pi, 4st Wolfdog, 4 yrs, 9st Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst Gibs Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 21bs Glossy, 6 yrs,_Bst Agis, 4 irs, ist 51bs Javelin, 4 3 rs, 7st 51bs Columbus, 4 yrs, 7st g by Advocate, 4 yrs, 7st Keppel, 4 yrs, Gst 101bs Astonishment, 3 yrs, sst 9lbs Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, sst 9lbs PEDESTRIANISM. MALLATRATT AND NVEsTtiami. —This trial of sp ee d , distance 125 yard:, came on on Mon lay, we wish we could s a y " Caine eft," at t le inclosed ground of the Old fiat, Ealing. The assemblage comprised a goodly number of the patrons of this branch of manly sports, for the race excited considerable interest, from the provincial reputation of Mallatratt, of Mansfield, and the metropolitan fame of Westhall. Speculation was active, the odds varying curiously, some parties laying out evens, others getting on at sto 4 on Westhall, while the country party, sooner than not be doing, went in at 5 and 6 to 4 on Mallatratt. At a few minutes past six the men bounded from the scratch. Mallatratt was first to settle on his legs, and soon led by a yard, this, by the time 100 yards were covered, was a liberal two yards. Westhall was going on admirable, at and up to the handkerchief he gable I at every stride, till at the close therewas no best at all. If any thing, 3lallatratt's whole person, at the instant of reaching the silken band, was " a thought" in advance, while on the atm. hand, Westhall, by bearing forward, first " briklied " the handkerchief. The referee, rather prematurely, declared Mallatratt to be the winner, but a few seconds of inquiry proved that his dictum was uncalled for, as both umpirespronounced it " a dead heat." The men must accordingly run again, on a day to be agreed on, or appointed by the stakeholder. Mallatratt declared he would not run again for the same stakes; this he must do (accordinct to articles) or forfeit. Perhaps he may be accommodated by their being doubled. Ittcx.►xns (the Shire's Novice) AND YOUNG TURNER.—These men walked seven miles on Monday, at Southall, for I 0/. a-side. Richards toos the lead at starting, and at the end of the first mile was 30 yards in advance. This distance he did not increase, as Turner walked evenly and strongly. In the 511 i and Oth miles Turner sowewhat de creased the interval between himself and his man, bat in the last mile Richards shot out again, and walked in first by between 30 and 40 yards. The winner seemed considerably distressed. Time, one hour and three minutes. THE DERBY, 1846. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Day set on old St. Stephen's shrine, Young England, too, was full of wine: Disraeli's speech was wild. Lord George came out to mischief prone, And show'd his wild Outs were not sown, Tho' sitting on Protection's throne, In argument a child; Forgetting, in the great debate, The corner—Turf—all but the State, He came it rather strong. With Goodwood's Duke and Stanley bold He did a fearful tale unfold Of miseries great and yet untold — Henry Hill said he was wrong. Napoleon of the Turf was he, A withered object now we see, A would-be statesman low. The Purifier of the Ring To Richmond now has lent his sting ; And Stanley will no credit bring— To I:ankes he, too, must bow. Lord George. resume your former sphere ; Elis you vann'd to Doncaster, And settled not a few. When Miles's Boy the Pot put on, You prov'd you were not to be dons, But nail'd ten thousand pounds to one Before the nag should show. Thou glorious starter of a race, Pray quit St. Stephen's, foolish place, Again your post assume ; Away, away, to Epsom hie, You'll welcom'd be by Nat and Lye. As Peel has given you the go-bye, Go calculate with Hume. And then Sir Tutton you must back, For Sting's become a common hack, Th.' Forth boasts of his might. But Lucifer I never trust, And those who 're on him stand it must ; The Sting is gone and in the dust, And something 's not all right. John Day, in spite of Bentinck's Lord, (His son, too, ecarr'd by secret sword) Will make a gallant fight; Gully and Wreford by him stand, And take the veteran by the hand, They'll boldly meet the Goodwood band, And God defend the right ! Bill Scott appears, the boisterous boy, As good as gold—with some alloy, But happy as a prince ; He'll prove to-day he's got his wits, And beat Tom Tullock into fits, And make Lord Maidstone wince. The Fancy Boy is fancied :such : Sim says he'll give the final touch, But Ramsay says —no, no. The Peri colt must win to-day, And bear the wealthy prize away, Whatever other folks may say, And lay the Dawson low. The northern lads are all but sure, For fourteen pounds he gave The Cure, And stript him to the skin. If this be true, then wo betide ; Besides, our Robinson will ride, And floor both Nat and Butler's pride, And must the Derby win. My yarn is spun, my task is done, I cannot have Sir John's Humdrum, The distance tho' he'll stay. Each will have what his fancy likes, In spite of lameness caused by spikes — The winner is Sir Tatton Sykes, The second is John Day. Bicester, May 23. ESAU. TO TtIE EDITOR OF TIIE .SZIN. Stn,—As the fashion is now-a-days to prophecy, just let an old Yorkshire sporting farmer have a touch in. The Con juror and Brocardo will be first and second, if on the square ; and if Brocardo is rods in a .2Y utwith Lit he will be A 1; if in a Maroon bit, he has not a shadow of a chance. Yours, FAIRPLAY. May 24, 184 G. FLANDLRS MAIL. VIENNA, MAY 11.—Three Poles, who fled from Galicia into Hungary, were brought here the day before yesterday with a strong escort, being accused of having seduced many young men to join seditious proceedings. The day before yesterday Lieutenant Field Marshal Von Hess set out for Belgrade, accompanied by 12 officers, one of whom is Count Monte Novo, son of the Duchess of Parma, and of the late Count Neipperg. General Bistolitto, who lately died here at a very advanced age, was buried on the Bth. He became celebrated in the time of Napoleon, and wascaptain of the guard in the Noble Lombard Guard. He distinguished himself in Spain un der Napoleon, as commander of the Italian division, especially by taking Saragossa. He was afterwards under the Viceroy of Italy, and when the kingdom of Italy was broken up, en tered the Austrian service. He remained devotedly attached to the Imperial House, and was universally respected. BOHEMIAN FRONTIERS. MAY 4.—The Saxon Government has remonstrated in Vienna against the decree respecting the German Catholics, in which the regulation that the reli gion of travellers should be stated in their passports has been revoked ; that this is the only concession that could be obtained on the Danube; and often was granted in order not to injure the very extensive commercial intercourse along the frontiers of the Erzgebirge, and especially of Lausatia and Bohemia. The Austrian custom house officers are ex• cessively strict, and books end newspapers are subject to es pedal vigilance. We point out this circumstance at the be ginning of the fine season to parties visiting the Bohemian watering-places, since certain writings of a political or reli- gious tendency are not allowed to pass, even with the notice hitherto usual, " For private use." Such rigour, of course, renders the fOrbidden fruit the more tempting, and smuggling of books is carried on to as great an extent as that of sugar and coffee. VIENNA, MAT 9.—Her Majesty the Empresss of Russia, happily arrived here yesterday. BERLIN, MAY lo.—We are positively informed that a de putation of the citizens of Cracow have been for some days in this city. Count Henry Wodzicki, and M. Leo Bocheneck, the banker, came to Berlin to solicit, in the name of their fellew-citizens, the mediation of the Prussian Government, at this time, which is so decisive for the future fate ofCracow. We repeat the word " mediation " because the citizens of Cracow think that the Austrian civil and military authori ties would be too adverse to them in these melancholy circum stances, so that they would by no means have them to be the sole arbiters of the future fate of Cracow ; they therefore wish for a direct application to the Emperor of Russia to mediate with the Emperor of Austria, that he may have their situation and conduct during the late events ex amined by impartial persons, and that to come to the truth. It is certain•that they were most graciously received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. They had the honour to have several audiences of him, and to present to him a memoir on the subject of their mission. They have already returned to Cracow.—Hamburyh Papers, May 19. There were present at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchoss of Cambridge, and her Royal Highness the Ducess of Gloucester, attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, the Baron Knesebeck, Major Stevens, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay ; his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, and Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, and the Ladies R. and B. Somerset, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador, the Princess Esterhazy, the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the Mar chioness of Douro, the Marquis of Titchfield, the Marquis of Aligo, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marq AS of Ely. the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Dinorben, the Countess of Kinnoul, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Shel burne, the Earl 01 Westmoreland, the Viscount Dupplin, the Viscount and Viscountess Hereford, Viscount Cantalupe, Lord Loftus, Lord Glamis, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Lord and Lady Templemore Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Harry Vane, Lord W. Beresford, Lord Mac donald, Lord Cranstoun and Lady, Lord Gardner, Lady Jodderell, Lord Torrington, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild. REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—One of the men now tionuwcanptain Wilson, Captain hoilifanidiß, Captainraort,hiiaenr en gaged as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway station of at Leamington and Warwick, was, in 1831, mayor of the r Stratford-upon-Avon. effects of his recent accident at Eglinton Castle, Ile Marquis of Waterford has r that place for his seat in Ireland. ' Fink Church, Thread- The large organ of St. B e net s s aturd,,y, for 135 guineas. eeovanerdeLfTinnace tlhefet needle-street, was sold by auction, on had a gnateratp,tagrutyestsonifSthae tur Noble Earl were Sit G. T 3 Lunn, Commander Tindal, Commander T da h y e la E s taartl theof E Admiralty,llibolr.ro b ena among d th i e n for a Minis and not unln The Liverpool,"nnandtell'Bcch.ave been in London as a deputation, the object of whose going tal k 3 h io e n r t e ea 'is i that re M fer r e . i. B . r t a o n: l l l t e i aa M m o is o s r io e n , they had an interview of prolonged cl , l t . • em,ar ; that Sacrotary Gladstone; that he was, as to ual, polite, anal, singularly explicit ; that the talk was intereKlig, gBWyenam"tloeenmidi:,el3: 1:om ad ter, structive, and that the inference drawn from what passed is mi • nor. tant—viz., that the Cabinet are not agreed on the Su that they are not likely to agree, and that a " split is gar luestion, Livnpool Journal. t is inevitable.— The Head Mastership of the Dorchester Grammar School has become vacant by the ret rement Cutler. The election of a successor is to take of the Rev. Ri c h ar d the 30th inst. 0 place next Saturday, WONDERFUL PRESERVATION. — A short time ago a fine springer dog, the property of a tl gen eman at Fernley, near Leeds, by s ome means fell into the shaft of an o d coal pit at Fernley Wood. The depth of the shaft was at least 20 1 yards, re markable that the animal was very littlein 'tired bfali a a nd it is reat a distance. For some time, it is believed, lie remained at t i tie s b o oltoo3 of the shaft, for he wa heard whining a Jay or so ‘ after he fell in by some person who was passing by the top. - Nothing, however, was further heard o f hi m until six or seven days afterwards, when, ' in a very weak and emaciated state, with his head greatly swollen, and his body and limbs very dirty. he crawled his way to his master's house. By the care and attention which were paid to him, he was soon brought round to a state of go d health, , net he Is now as full of life as if he had never suffered any privation. There appears no doubt that this dog wandered about in the old workings of the col liery until he found his way out at the day-hole at Low Wortley, about a mile from the spot where h' first fell in, and thathe hactbeen without food during the whole of the time—at least a week—he was a tenant of a subterranean habitation.—Leak paper. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Poiersmounr, SUNDAY, MAY 24.—We again beg to call the attention of the Lords of the Admiralty to the.subject of their late notice, enforcing the order prohibiting smoking in any other part of a ship than the galley, and even there not after eight o'clock at night. This ill-timed attempt at the curtailment of the comforts of the seaman is already mis chievously operating to the prejudice and injury of the best interests of the navy. If the Admiralty desire to prohibit smoking in the navy entirely (for that is unquestionably the object of the late notice), the remedy is in their own hands. It is not known publicly, perhaps, that the Admiralty ac tually issue to the seamen and marines of the fleet in com mission (monthly) the very tobacco, duty free, against the use of which their order is aimed. If, then, smoking is in jurious to the service, or subversive of that strict discipline which should prevail on board shins, why not strike at the root of the supposed evil, by discontinuing to serve out any mere tobacco ? But what would be the re sult of such an unwarrantable measure? Sir George Cock burn, being the most experienced officer at the Admiralty (but who, by the way, never smoked himself), can perhaps answer the query. Smoking, instead of being prohibited, ought to be encouraged in the navy ; it is beneficial to health, and preventive of many infectious diseases incidental to tropical climates. What does " Philo-Negro" say upon this latter point, in his extract from a letter received from one of the vessels on the coast of Africa engaged in the sup pression of the slave trade :—" We now and then get a spell at the islands, which is a godsend to us, after months of the most killing monotony. We pass the grog and smoke cigars, which last, I really think, keeps off fever—so we think, at least—and is, besides, a pastime and consolation in this infernal heat." But how, if the order is allowed to go forth as imperative, and be as imperat ive ly en f orce d, w ill the heat of the galley be endurable under the "infernal" heat above alluded to ? The bare idea is insufferable, and re volting to humanity. Confining men to the limited space understood as the galley (an area even in a line-of-battle ship which would perhaps accommodate 100, tightly packed) under such circumstances would be nothing short of wilful murder. Tobacco, scalded with vinegar, and into which red hot irons are thrust, is one of the first things thought of for fumigating a vessel to provide against contagion, because it is at once simple, convenient, and generally efficacious. Why, then, elide ivour to curtail, or, in plain terms, prevent the judicious enjoyment of a commodity which yields so much satisfaction to the smoker, and is so eminently beneficial to his health and comfort? Again, with regard to the hour utter which smoking will not be allowed, even in the galley —8 o'clock P.m. This is about the time, of all others, that officers can most conveniently devote to the enjoyment of a ci ar. This part of the order we can easily comprehend ; Sir G. Cockburn having publicly stated "no officer ought to smoke on board ship." How differently do the French act in this matter. On board the ships of " the great nation " the men and officers are encouraged to smoke, and spittoons are placed on the decks fore and aft for their use, and this was the case when Louis Philippe himself was on board, a fact of which we have had ocular demonstration. It is in such apparently little, but in themselves and their results deeply important matters as these, that the services of other nations will ever be better liked than the British; because in the one case the comforts and enjoyments of the men are cared for and consul: ed, whilst in the other they are abused or neglected. Not only arc the men disgusted with such an exhibition of tyranny, but the officers also look upon the order as an unwarrantable infringement of their pleasure, especially the old class, who seek solace in smoke under all their disappointments, from neglected merit, and equally neglected promises of promo tion and employment, and other sources of annoyance and discomfort to which brave men, but without interest or influence, are subjected in the navy. At the Royal Naval School Festival, on Thursday last, Lord Ellenborough, in reply to the proposal of his health by Rear-Admiral the Earl of Cadegan, said, " When I was congratulated by my friends on my appointment to office, l said—wait till 1 have retired from it, and then congratulate me on doing well while there." The Noble First Lord of the Admiralty has given but a sorry sample of his endeavour to do well in promulgating the re cent order upon smoking; all we can therefore hope is, that he will endeavour to do better by immediately rescinding it, together with sundry other equally obnoxious orders which operate to the prejudice of the naval service, and the discon tent and discomfiture of all, or nearly all, who are employed therein, or we fear he will have but few congratulations to be troubled with on his retirement from his present highly responsible position —Times. This being the 27th anniversary of her Majesty's birth day, a royal salute was fired in commemoration of the cir cumstance from the platform battery, at one o'clock, by order of the Lieut.-Governor. 'tile Raleigh get under way at one o'clock this day, and made sail to join the squadron of evolutions. She was paid advance yesterday. The Alfred, 50, was taken out of dock yesterday, and 15 now in the basin, completely ready for the pendant. The Comet steam-vessel, Commander Pretyman, went out to Spithead this morning with a few Marines for the Raleigh. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander M'Donnell , sailed yesterday to resume her protection of the fisheries on the Sussex coast. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, sailed from St. Helena on the 4th ult. for Ascension. The squadron on the Irish station was distributed as follows on the 20th instant :-- At Cove—The Porcupine steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, Com mander-in-Chief; the Tartarus steam-vessel, Captain Wolfe, engaged on surveying service ; the Rhadamanthus steam troop ship, Master-Commander Lean ; and the Dee steam" troop ship, Mast r-Commander Driver; the two latter load ing with meal for the west coast. At Kingstown—The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Fisher. In the Shannon—The Myrmidon iron steam-vessel Lieu tenant-Commander Jenkin. At Galway—The Pluto steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com mander Lane. At Limerick—The Alban steam-troop ship, with provi siian s. At Waterford—The Lucifer steam-vessel, Commander Frazer, surveying. Our Cork correspondent writes—" No tidings of the fleet of evolutions in our waters yet ; neither have we any orders from the Admiralty respecting its arrival here ;" and with regard to the recent appointment of Captain Andrew Drew (1843) to succeed Mr. Breaks as naval store-keeper and Ad miralty agent at the Cape of Good Hope,—" A. captain in the navy to succeed poor Breaks ! I shall expect soon to hoist a lag under such arrangements—not fair play." PROMOTIONS. Mates—H. Parker. W. 11. Hood, F. J. Hornby, and Lord J. Browne, to the rank of lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Commander:—P. H. Dyke, to the Flying Fish, vice Harris, invalided; E. W. Horton, to the Kingfisher, vies Brown ; J. Lunn, to the Virago, vice Otway ; A. Farquhar , to the Royal Naval College, for study. Lieutenants—H. Packer and W. Peel (from the Devasta tion), to the Constance; F. Rooke, to the Devastation. Master—R. Mewl', to the Dido. Surgeon—W. Mayne, M.D., to the Griffon. Chaplain—The Rev. R. P. Powell, to the Belleisle. Assistant-Surgeons—S. Starratt, to the Caledonia; G. x• Nicholas, to tt e Victory. Clerk—G. Sturges!, to the Polyphemus. Master's-Assistant—A. Packs, to the Griffon. Midshipman—G. W. Watson, to the Raleigh. Naval Cadets—G. M. Temple, to the Raleigh ;C. E. Hui ton, to the Agincour,t ; E. Stubbs, to the Collingwood ; T. 1 4. Kingcomb, to the Belleisle. COAST GUARD. Appointments—R. Chambers, to command the Saltburn station, ♦ice Tozer, previously removed ; Lieutenant W 4 Bailey (b), to command a station. THE SHIP TERRIBLE. The following copy of "Report of Captain Ramsay, of the Terrible, relative to her qualifications," has been printed by order of the House of Commons : Her Majesty's steam-ship Terrible, Spithead, Bth April, 1846. Sir,—ln obedience to the orders of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, on Sunday, at two P.M., of the sth inst., I left Greenhithe with the Terrible, and proceeded down the river Thames; at half-past six we anchored at the entrance of Queeen's Channel, as it appeared to me that it would be expedient to ascertain whether our various fittings could be easily and expeditiously removed, and also to try all our guns, as well as those placed in the stern and bow: Early on Monday morning we cleared ship for quarters. 1 caused all the guns with the distant charges and shotted to -be fired once, and the bow and stern gune twice. I have now to report, that the bow and stern guns can be fired with perfect safety. The first time we fired the bow' gun it was six seconds from the line of keel; the second time it was laid geometrically the same as the line of keel, b oth times shotted with distant charges of powder. The concus sion was so slight that there is no reason why the bow gunS should not be fired in the usual routine of exercise. The first time that we fired the stern gun it was laid hori zontally; the second time with a degree and a half eleva tion, distant charge and shotted ; neither time did it occa sion any such damage as would ever prevent us using the stern guns on proper occasions. At the same time, as it ect p hal erf now been ascertained that they can be fired with safety, unless there was some object to be gained, it is pre ferable to use the broadside main-deolt guns. It is hard y necessary to make a remark upon the rest of the main-dl guns, as there is no reason to doubt their being placed . on deck which is every way suited for action. The . sin") ap 're is a sum cient number of men to work them. o Monday at 5 r.sr., and such very short trials. A pears to carry them well, and what we now requi We passed through the Downs Performing the distance witharrived w heretwo hoi i ae boilers, s 9, against A.M. on strong o.ib T uesday, eve b reree zes and a head sea. It tested by long voya g es in an y decided opinion upon time there is reason at present weuld indeed be premature g • advantage could be taken of her s t h he ip q l u ik a e lit t i h es is of would the ' r f e e hq r : r i ri b r l e e sameti sailing qualities; at future trials we shall find the following to expect that after result:— • . abpeppeuatrsoannbeoaasryd ship ph wpeitrhfectitiesesctueranitiy.up. the open sea, where the 1. That, considering the weight . carried, she is fast. 2. That she is at present in good trim, and 200 tons more may - ries the main deck guns well. Her , ngines are excellent, and no t re' o f f or 4s th to e n served Our consumptionthatour present o f coals coals betweena coal qu 43s ir :: e near area a very e i ey n ; Dqouwi quick-burning general .ab nudr will si npgi t hc oe.: t s ub p u er lar da boile b r u s, t w i h t w no a t s at at a a n ll a a v c e la r p ag te e d oh ht tO have Welsh. Their Lordships have also desiredreport particularly me to upon the steering of the Terrible.• ht keel shesteers Going under eight 1 . easily, two men bAg sufficient at thew he e “ above t that she requires three and sometimes four, and grew attention. icmhaYougbe ' At the same ti me it mus t b e reco ll ec t e d that the Terrible.„ is upwards of 1,800 tons; an d w h en a s hip of that size..go_e7 upwards of 11 knots, in all instances I ever heard of it ~.,0 quired four m en a t the wheel. Very likely our ti ller le / short; to that point I shall pay particular attention. ---'• have, &c., (Signed) W. RAMSAY, Captain. Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart., &c., Commander-in - Chief at Portsmouth. CommrssioN OF LUNACY.—A commission cle lunatteu inquirendo was held at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-sqiia ind re , ° :f Saturday, before Mr. Barlow, to inquire into the state a m Major Chilies Harrison Stantland, aged 58, of Dalston, d iddles' s b From the evidence it appeared that the unfortunate gentle Man ibo bachelor, and is possessed of 60,0001., cons i s ting of moneytinnp;43 Funds, houses, shares in the East Lonon Waterworks , S " he was attacked with apoplectic fits, and had been subject to sira. t attacks since that time, which had produced pa ral y sis, and a tp . loss of memory, and ultimately organic disease of the brain, which rendered him incapable of taking; care of himself. One of his &1,. slon , was a belief that his brother, who died eight years since, Alive, and in withholding the s ettlement of his ordinary accounts.. although he had been most punctual beforehand. Major SUM! _;;; was present during the inquiry, and in answer to a question as t property, said he had a " power" of money in the Bank of Engl hut he did not know how much. He was then shown a COPY ° I newspaper, and asked to read it, when he missed several lines,edr: otherwise made such confusion that • the jury returnectd la . ° A " That Major Charles Harrison Staniland was of unsounlnina, had been so since the 20th of May, 1845." THE •~