The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-18 00:00:00

R OYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. THIS EVENING, and every evening daring the week, Introductory ADDRESS, by Mr. Albany Brown. After which, a new soene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'a ROOM. With THB SWIM COTTAGE. To be followed by tke Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement of ARLEOHINO FORTUNATO, with the Frolics of Saltarello and Pierrot. To conclude with the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES FU- RIOSO. In the course of each Representation, a selection of Music will be performed, including the Royal Marionette Quadrilles, by M. Bosisio, and the Royal Marionette Polka, by Mr. T. Browne, composed ex pressly for this Theatre. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. A Morning Performance on Saturday next. Doors to open at Half-past Two, and commence at Three o'clock. I n ac ti ve preparation, an en ti re ly new version of the Grand :astern Spectacle of ALADDIN ; or, The Wonderful Lamp, which will shortly be produced with all the vast resources of this small establishment. Private Boxes and Stalls to be lisA at the Box-office of the Theatre, and of all the principal Librarians. TaBATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B Webster, Sole LesseeEVE sink! Man ager, Old Bromptoa. G, THIS NW Will Ile performed WOMAN'S HEART. The Marquis of Albritazi, Mr. Vaudenhoff ; An giolo, Mr. Barry Sulivaia ; the Lady Giulia Miss A . Vbaing Isolina, Miss Vandenhoff. To be followed by THE SERIOUS FA3IILT. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lassee, Mr. B. Webster ; DirEVEecNING, tress, Madame Celeate. THIS Will be performed THE WRECK ASHORE. After which, DID YOV EVER SEND TOUR WIFE TO CAM BERWELL? To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheim, Mr. Butler; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitz william. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET , Under the Management of Mr. C. Keels, HIS EVEINING, Will be performed the CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal eharacters by Messrs. C. Kean, A. Wigan, Ryder, J. Chester, J „.„',, Vinta g , Meadows, F. Cooke, Everett , and W heatleigh ; Misses 4- . 411 Pe, Murray, Robertson, Vivash, Daly, and C. Leclereq. To conclude with TILE HONEYMOON. ROYAL LYCE (Jai THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestrlS. THIS EVENDIG, Will be performed TIIR GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews , R. RozbY, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Horn, and Misa 31. Oliver. To conclude with A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled THE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horneastle, Butler, and Vernon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. '.;dessee and Manager. Mr. W. Farnm. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE RIVALS. With the FAST COACH. To conclude with PLOTS FOR PETTICOATS. Frank Finish, Mr. Hoskins. PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. New Pieae. A Ra;ged School—Revival of Behind the Scenes. Roars of Laughter at Matrimonial PrOSpeetWsCS, and My Lover the Captain. THIS EVENING. Will be performed MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTUSES. After which, THE RAGGED SCHOOL. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Rogers, Attwood ; Misses Sanders, Maskell, and Mrs. SeToy lb. be followed by MY LOVER THE CAPTAIN. To conelude with BEHIND THE SCENES. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, is. privatees Or, c,,i.oea and a Hall each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under Patronage of her Al Maleafy and his Royal Highness Pnce bert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. THIS EVENLNG, Will be performed a new Grand Spectacle, entitled TANCRED or. The Triumph of the Crusaders. From the pen of J. Kingdom, Esq., which has been some months in preparation, and In the pro duction of which neither cost nor pains have been spared. After which, the second week of the most wonderful Artists, the NICOLO FAMILY, who will introduce their admired Enter tainments. To be followed by Ratty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena. To conclude with (by particular desire) BLUE BEARD. vt:lteti to La bad at the Lox-office from Eleven till Four daily. stage Manager. Mr. T. Thompson. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T4ll PAY .—Morning 44 min. after 12 Evening 6 min after 1 To-Vous:ow—Morning 27 rain. fatter 1 1 Evening 47 min after 1 THE WEAI OFYICIt, MARCH 18. THRRSIOMET.:IS., TN TUE i:9I.IADII. 45 --highest since neon yesterday, 34 -.lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day, at woe. BartosticrE.R, 30'34. WIND N.B. —coll breeze and dull weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following plates at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stat i ons are arranged in order of latitude. Prorsaorrria—Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. Poora—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Elesmiaa—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. SOUTHAMPTON—Wind N.E., strong breeze—overcast. FoulzsroffF.—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. To - snaziDGE—Wind N.F.. gentle breeze—overcast. GREE.NW ICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze— overcast. SwngDosr—Wind E., light airs—overcast. COLCHESTER—Wind N.W., strong breeze—overcast. HoLYTIZAD Calm— overcast. LaiscasTEß—Wind N.W., calm—overcast. DAR LlNGTON— .. t'iind N.N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. ThiarrocK—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Thy returns from the followinsr places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock :- 11fhwxciaa—Wind E., calm—overcast. lima-HEAD—Calm—overcast. Suer— VV" ind E., cala overcast. Bzerrock—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Obreninit 5'..1." LONDON, THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1852. Anything which promises, in the slightest degree, to revive the long-neglected question of Educational Reform in the Legislature, secures to itself, on the instant, our most cordial approbation. It was, con sequently, with peculiar pleasure that we observed even the cursory and incidental debate which took place yesterday in the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. BROTBERTON, for the second reading of the Bill relating to the free schools of Salford and Manchester. Thanks to the prompt in terposition of the Hon. and Right Hon. Gentlemen, respectively, o f Sh e ffi e ld an d M anc h es t er , th e re consideration of the measure alluded to was postponed for ES month, the matter being referred meanwhile to the judgment of a Select Committee. Aware that the proposed enactment would go so far as to secure the establishment of the novel principle of supp or ti ng free schools not only for secular education but for religious teaching in all the various forms of Catholicis m , P rotestantism, and Dis sent, the public, we feel assured, must be perfectly well satisfied with the course adopted in the present instance by Mr. ROEBUCK and ea r. m umm GIBSO'. There are so many i nterests thatterests w inv e ol e v a e n d n i o n t the subject of yester day afternoon but experience a sens e of exul tation .. that a Bill which was, technically .pea king, Private i n i ts character was not perm itted to pass hu rr i edly through ha Parliament, so ti t the country might afterwards have been subjected to the an noying consequenc es of a perilous principle or an inconvenient precedent. Therefore, it was that—we repeat aga in—we felt re joiced at proceedings which tende d, however slightly, to advance one of the noblest objects in the way of popular improvement ever opened up to the mind of a great people by the holiest lights of civilization. Education is, perhaps, of ail boons the one most essen tial as a preliminary to the various social and political reforms needed by the population. It would manifestly be the most effectual preparation to a wider extension of the franchise. It would qualify those we are desirous of seeing admitted to the privilege of elec tors tor the proper discharge o f the duties devolving upon the recipients of the rights of suffrage. It would prevent the possibility of anything like danger resulting from the diffusion of the prerogatives of citizenship ; and would, through that very circum stance, disarm of a somewhat formidable argum en t those do-nothing or (still worse) retrogressive poli ticians who are, ao s-a-days, perpetually babbling about the peril of any change going far towards the establishment of the principle; of universal suffrage. Educate the masses, and in proportion as you educate them admit them class by class into the exercise of the sacred rights of tree citizens. Develop© the minds of the people, and then graesuelly and progressively develope, in their hands the power which they would then be enabled to wield to the advantage of the en tire community. Meanwhile, of course, we would g l a dly witness the triumph of those interests which e v e n in the pr esent state of th e popu l ar intellect could no t but aid in spread ing the m eans o f h app i ness throughout society—eiabilitatinSa whil e so d o i ng, al l that is really a d mi rable and worthy of preservation in the framework of the Constitution. We would see, for example, the more equal distribution of the electoral districSs. We wo uld see the b ene fit s in separable from the ballot y ielded up at last to the eager possession of the multitude. les e would see, by these m eans , the residue of t he Pocket-b oroug h s left by the First Parliamentary Refo rm Bi l l destroyed by the Second, and witness at 4_,-f 1 :t) - .4 x.v... \ ,de . • .- , * , !.1-•,- 1:12 C4,--iLt-----.4...;:°' ..--• ~,- 1 di- $' ' 7 - r . ('-e7 ... ' - t , .. is - I , • . _.. THE SUN, the same time the removal of all fur ther inducements to the bribery and corrup tion recently found to be so painfully and even terri bly rife in electioneering. We would see the sanitary movement of late years completed by the adoption of measures, such as would secure for the people the blessings of wholesome water, of sufficient drainage, of proper ventilation, of extramural cemeteries, and extramural slaughter-houses —advantages inevitably leading to an enormous and appreciable diminu tion in the general mortality. Having obtained reforms thus reasonable and comprehensive, we would then see the long-desired and long-despised cause of national education triumphant over all existing diffi. culties—difficulties not the least formidable of which arise from the diversity of the religious opinions of the population. Such constitute the merest outline of the social and political improvements for the de velopment of which we are more especially solicitous. That ultimately these reforms must be secured is by this time, we conceive, rendered altogether indis putable. The genius of the age requires them, and against its mandates no power on earth can pre vail. It is for these changes in particular, therefore, that we look with eagerness and anxiety to our suc cessive Governments. Because Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Cabinet would not accord them to the demands of the population it was destroyed, and it was because of this very fact that we exulted in its destruction. There is a possibility that Lord DERBY'S Ministry may, in bidding for the popularity essential for its very existence, yield some, at least, of those reforms—legal reforms, sanitary reforms, and even educational reforms—thereby effecting more (unin tentionally) for the interests of the democracy than the so-called Reformers constituting the bulk of the late do-nothing Administration. It is from our hopes in this direction that we have been disposed to await calmly the unfolding of the policy of the present Government. From the late Cabinet we could look for nothing in the way of real, social, or political improvement. From its successor there was, and still is, just the chance that the people may reap some advantages from the neces sity of its position, as above indicated. By tarrying for the result we are wasting no more time than we should actually have wasted in expecting, vainly expecting, a com prehensive and adequate series of reforms from Lord JOHN and his colleagues. Besides, the Whigs are more likely to prove themselves practical Reformers now that they are once more in Opposition—urging the wants of the age more and more strenuously upon our existing admistrators—men who must strive to secure to themselves popularity, and who can only secure to themselves popularity by taking the initiative in reforms such as the legal, the sanitary, and the educational. By so doing they will alune enable themselves to be tolerated even for a while in the offices of the Government : and to us it matters little whether the advantages ref erred to come from the hand of Whig, Radical, or Conservative, so long as they do come, and, by coming, work out the sublime problem of progressive civilization. We have never been the advocat es of coercion, of any restrictions upon the libertiets of the people, or undue interference with the administration of the law. We, however, willingly admit that occasions may arise when, for the preservation of order and tranquillity, and the bestowing of that protection which it is the duty of the State to afford to every citizen, stringent and extraordina:l, powers should be conferred on the executive, for the prevention of crime and the fitting vindicati on o f t h e ma j es t y of the law. If it should b Q shown that a deep-seated and organized conspiracy exists in any district that unlawful confederacies are in the habit of carrying on their nefarious pro ceedings with impunity, that thexe has practically been a failure of justice, it is essential that a strin gent and searching inquiry should 'be instituted into the causes that have led to such an untoward state of affairs, with a view to their speedy removal, and the establishment of a better order of things. It signifies little what might be the nature of these causes, whe ther the peasantry were induced. to abstain from coming forward in the cause of order, through the fear of the consequences which might happen to them selves or families if they incurred the displea sure of the fearful confederation, or whether the same result was produced through sympathy with the ob jects of the sanguinary band. The effects in either case would be the same, and there, ould be an equal necessity of providing L an adequate remedy for the wide-spread and formidable evils. In whatever way, then, we re g ard the subject, whatever may be the influences :in operation, we must distinctly and unequivocall.:7 admit that the ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland has made out an ample case for the appointment -ctf the Committee for which he moved on Tuesday evening. The mo tion was temperately and ably br ought forward. It was not framed for the purpose of obtaining tempo rary popularity on his accession to office. The Right Honourable Gentleman had long before given notice of his intention of applying .for such a Com mittee. He had conferred with the ex-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 'had conformed to his views, and Sir GEORGE GREY, with a just and proper appreciation of the abilities. of Mr. NAPIER, had decided on leaving the matter in his hands and offering no opposition to the motion- It was a hand some tribute of respect to such an (ypponent to confide to his charge the important duty of :tarrying into prac tical operation one of the most urgent: recommendations contained in the Speech from the TI - trone. It was,how ever,.fully merited, and one that we's equally honour able to both parties. Whatever d ifferences might exist between Whig and Tory, .erotectionist and Free-trader, there would be an equal. anxiety amongst all for a due and sound administrat;inn of the law—a perfect and complete security for life, liberty, and property. - It is admitted on every side that The great want of Ireland is the introduction of capital sufficient to develop its extraordinary natural capabilities. Bat capitalists are a sensitive race ; they will not incur risk, no matter how great may be the temptation in other respect. A safe 3 per cent. will be preferred to a doubtful 30 per cent., although the hazard may be amply covered by 2 or 3 per cent. of that amount. The only reason. why English capital has not hitherto found its way into Ireland, may be found in the agrarian outirttges that have been reported. A single murder, s etch as that of Mr. BATEMAN, may have nipped the most promising speculations in the bud, and occasioned a marked depreciation in the properties offered: for sale under the auspices of the Encumbered :Estates Com mission. If we ask how it is that eligibly e l'entastanced lands held in fee, -and with an uni mpeachable title, are disposed of for less than ha half i their actual twelve years' value , or, n other words,. for eleven or purchase, we are told that no man, how ever pure his motives or guarded his conduct, can be considered safe from the machinati erns of riband ism. Any real or fan c iedl be sufficient to a member of the t err ible association viil e sufficient to call down a frightful retribution. The party will be placed on trial before a sanguinary and o pportunity and j ury unscrupulous tribunal. He can ,know n othing of the n a ture of the o f offering the charge, nor is there any explanations that mi g ht sa tisfy even the bloodthirsty accords the attentively Vehm-gericht ist en The s e c r e a m n t o s d t e h r a n t c m re e d m e b n e c r e s, to and;t h r stoamethealnacoosmt of members, statements that some of our metropolitan magistraeo s do to those of policemen. Unless some champion should unex pectedly arise the matter is a foregone con elusion. Th e charge is preferred, the evidence of th s accuser i s heard, and as the party implicated has n e. opportunity of clearing the matter, which he might v, rith due notice be easily enabled to rebut, and as 0(1 gentlemen (Ribandmen) present generally stiic;k together with edifying unanimity, acquit t.%15 are of rare occurrence. The verdict then is brought in, the sentence is pronounced in a tone of awful levity and the exec:u tioners are selected by lot, if volunteers anxious to distinguish themselves (! do not step forward in ;31nindance. But it is not merely among the .less wealthy classes that the organization has spro ad. It has entered into the jury-bor. And when we find that jurymen have, after returning their was diet, rushed forward to exchange greetings and shale, s hands with the discharged prisoners on whom the: t , have been sitting, and whose life or death has been dependent on their decision, and that the liberated cr i,i na i has LONDON, boasted of the outrage for which he could no longer be responsible, we must acknowledge the necessity of • change. In calling for a Committee of Inquiry, rather then Introducing measures under the Ministerial sanction, the Irish ATTORNEY-GENERAL has acted fairly and consistently. It is, of all others, a matter in which the Government for the time being should; sharel the: responsibility with a judiciously selected Committee, and we are quite convinced that the subject has not been thus referred for the purpose of being shelved, as was too fre quently the habit of the Whig Ministry, but that it is intended to have a really searching inquiry, and to bring forward measures calculated to carry the sug gestions of the Committee into practical execution. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The MOniteur publishes a decree for the re-organi zation of the order of the Legion of Honour. The members are to swear fidelity to the PRESIDENT of the Republic. The Constitutionnel announces that the budget of 1852 will be published in the Moniteur of to. clay (Thursday). It states that the salaries of the "high functionaries of state, such as ministers,l bishops (sic), ambassadors, magistrates, and prefects, will be found raised to what they had been before the reductions made by the Provisional Government. Ministers are to have 100,000 f. aayear. The Minister of War and the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be allowed 130,0001. a-year. Chief judges and procureurs generaux, from 20,000 f. to 14,000 f. The President of the Cour de Cessation and Procureur-General, 30,000 f." The same journal contains an article in justification of the Orleans confiscationidecrees. The signature thereto is that of GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, formerly editor of the Epoque, Ministeral organ of M. DUCHATEL, and ultra-devoted partisan of the Orleans family. The Bishop of ORLEANS has deolined the functions of member of the Superior Council of Instruction. The election of M. CARNOT, the opposition candi date for Paris, is denounced by the Pays as a Socialist manifestation, showing that the party is not yet put down and would, on the least encouragement being given, raise its head. The Siecle, on the contrary, claims for the bourgeoisie the merit of the victory : , " A few Republicans in the Corps Legislatif would not have signified anything one way or the other. We only desired that France and Europe should know the actual opinions of the capital, and that the free manifestations of these opinions by enlightening the Government might induce it to give up a system of severities which is not in accordance with our times, and to replace it by measures of conciliation and pacification." Adding, in the words of Scrip ture, " man does not live by bread alone," but re quires such satisfaction of his moral wants as liberty alone can give. Count WALEWSKI, the French Ambassador to the Court of England, whose recent arrival in Paris gave rise to some absurd speculations in an English journal, was to leave yesterday to return to his post. The mortal remains of Marshal MARINIONT are, says the Presse, to be brought to France, and deposited in a vault which he caused to be prepared in the Church of S!. Vorles, at Chatillon-sur- Seine, the village in which he was born. The election for Lyons has been again adjourned. The Government candidate had been returned for Nantes. The opposition candidate was in the majo rity at Lisle. The Government candidate is in the majority at Arras. The Debuts again attacks the conversion of the Five per Cents. It dwells strongly on the fact of the division of the Rentes amongst very small holders, for if the million who hold Ihis stock, Five per Cent., ventures to say that upwards of eight-tenths (indeed, it says nearly 900,000) receive only 5001. or less. As a consequence it argues that a panic must follow, calculated to shake public credit. Another argument is that a fall of 3f, or 4f. would compromise the ope ration, and it would not require a very extraordinary event in the present state or the public mind to bring down the Funds below par. Then, as regards the saving to the country, it 'contends that it cannot be so great, because hospitals, public establishments, and communes or towns, have investments in stock, and their incomes must be made up in some other way. To this add necessary diminution of private expendi ture, and what will the stato gain ? Conversion might, it concludes, have been effocted under the monarchy, when the Five per Cents. were at 1251., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1061., but at pre sent it considers the measure totally unjustifiable. Oa the other hand the Constitutionnel says, that al though a distinct office has been opened for receiving applications for ranboursement, not a single demand has yet been made. The Assemblie Nationale states, that the hospitals and other charitable institutions are preparing petitions ag sinst the reduction of in come, which must follow the conversion of the Five per Cents. On the English newspapers there is now an in creased postage charge (12c.), but they do arrive in Paris as usual in due course ; so that the notion that they would be prohibited turns out to be erroneous, people having been misled by the wording of the de cree on the press, which, with respect to foreign journals, read rather ambiguously. The Bourse was heavy, except for railway shares, which all rose. The Five per Cents. opened at 1001. 50c., fell to 100 f. 10e., rose subsequently to 100 f. 60c., and closed at 100 f. 55c. for the end of the month; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents-, closed at 100 f. 750.; the Three per Cents. closed at 69f. 95c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,190 f.; Rouen, 707 f. 50c.; Havre, 277 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 6471. 50c.; Avignon, 262 f. 50c.; Vier zon, 565 f.; Basle, 2321. 50c.; Bordeaux, 565 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 550 f.; Tours and Nantes, 342 f. 50c; Paris , and Lyons, 600 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EX CHANGE, MARCH 17. - - Boulogne and Amiens, 12% —Dutch Rhenish, 4',4—Great Indian Peninsula, 4 3 / 4 —Luxembourg, 3q—Namur and Liege, 6 3 / 4 —Northern of France, 21 1 /,—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12 9 —Paris and Strasbourg, 21%—Rouen and Havre, 11 1 ~— Tours and Nantes, 10%. SPAIN. concerning the relations of the laws of the Israelities, is abrogated. " The President shall refer the project of law to the Commission of Public Law, in order that the uncertainty subsisting in the present state of affairs may terminate as speedily as possible." The Council of the Bourgeoisie of Bremen [have passed a resolution against the decree of the Senate suspending and displacing the pastor BunoN from his ecclesiastical duties, which it declares to be invalid on account of its being passed without the concur rence of the bourgeoisie, and also an infringement of the rights guaranteed to religious communities. The resolution was carried by 150 votes against 31, and ordered to be communicated to the Senate. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 12th instant. The Hera/do states, on the authority of a respect able correspondent, that a letter, dated Feb. 14, had been received from the Savannah, communicating the fact that another expedition was preparing in the United States for the invasion of Cuba. MADRID BOLSA: MARCH 12.—Three per Cents. 39k; Exchange on London, 50 70. GERMANY. The EMPEROR arrived in Vienna from Trieste, in perfect health, on the evening of the 12th. The steam► navigation established between Galatz and Odessa now joins the Austrian line at Galatz, whereby the journey from Vienna to Odessa can now be performed without stopping at the junction stations. _ _ _ The French Ambassador, M. DE LA COUR, has had a conference with the Ministerial President, in which the foreign policy of the PRESIDENT of the French Republic formed the topic of conversation. The con viction has been hitherto cherished at Vienna that the policy of Louis NAPOLEON will remain peaceable, and the communications made by M. DE LA COUR in this respect, particularly in reference to England, have confirmed the Government in this conviction. If, as M. DE LA Conn asserts, a reduction is to be made in the army, it is thought the same will take place in Austria, and that too on a more extended scale. Railways, Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stoar Valley Birkenh., Lan., & Cheah ;inc.,L late 331.65. ad.. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., sOl. 8;251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. Bristol and Exeter.• .. Caledonian • • • • • • Cheater and Holyhead .. Dublin and Belfast Janet. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee, Perth, and Aber leen Junction .. Paid. 17%, 100 Do., New .. East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • •• Do, (181. E. ac . II.) .. Er.stern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares •• Do. do. do. .. Do. de., B & C shares Eact Lancashire .. • • De. New quarters • • East & West India Docks and Birrn. June. .. & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West. Great Northern • . • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct.' Great ,outhern and Western, Ireland .• Great Western Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do_ thirds • . • . Lancashire and Yorkahire Do. quarter stares .. Do. fifths . „. Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blac.kwall London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters • • 100 all 1 13 4 100 100 100 De. fifth; .. Do. 101. sh., 114.8c13 (c) London and S.-Western . 100 42% DO. ROW 501. Do. now 401. .. Blanchester, Buxton, and Matlock •. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincelnshire .. Do. Manchester and, Lincoln Union .. Midland Do. /31rming Pc Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and C arlisle •• De. quarter shares .. Newmarket Newport, Aborgavenny, and Ilereford •• Norfolk Do. New 201. shares • • Northern Counties Union North British.. • • • • North Devon . . • . • • North Staffordshire .. North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West. June. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrews. & Binh., Class A Do. Class 8.. .. Shrews. & Hereford., Old Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Halves .. • • • • Do. Oswestry • • onropshire Union •• Do:, A, 13, C, D, fully paid up at per cent • • south Devon • • .. • • South-Eastern •• South Wales • • loath Yorksh. and River Dun .• .. • • • . Shell., /loth., and Goole, tiouth Division Stirling andDenfermllne, Stockton and Hartlepool Taff Vale .. Thames Haven Dock and Railway . %'ale of Neath .. • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford an 4 Limerick Waterford, Wax., Wick.' 4nd Dublin .. West Cornwall • • .. West London York, Newc., is Berwick Ditto and Newcastiel Extension Ditto G.N.E. purchase York sad North Midiandi LINES; L: 4 2 0 100 100 4714 The Weiner Zeitung says the intelligence inserted in the New Prussian Gazette of a proposal made by Austria to the French PRESIDENT for the occupation of Belgium, Switzerland, and Sardinia, is an inven tion as slanderous as it is scandalous, and which can only be accounted for by the well-known character of the individuals from it whom!proceeds. In the sitting of the Second Chamber of Wurtem burg on the Bth, the Deputy SOSKIND, before proceed ing to the order of the day„ gave a lamentable picture of the misery which prevails in the country, and pro posed to the Chamber to vote an address to the KING, praying his MAJESTY to reduce the civil list by 200,000 florins. Mr. SCHRODER, on the same side, considered the proposition very opportune, but thought that it should be :referred to the commission of finance.—Adopted. The Councillor of State, Von LINDEN, communi cated towards the close of the sitting a project of law, and expressed himself in the following terms : —The difference of opinion which subsists between the Government and the First Chamber, on the one hand, and the Second Chamber, on the other, makes it imperative upon us to prevent that this divergency of opinion should any longer depend upon uncertain theories. It is evident that the Government are no neverbound toGo vernment been recognised as obligatory in their totality. In n 8 a project of law. Its only aim is to introduce into tothe legislation of the country that which accordin g ado p ts the t c i o o n n s to be goodfun d amen tal law appears to it The Chamber will consequence an d t h useful. Governmentt l German understand that the Govern ment attaches much inlP° rtance to a prompt discus sion and adoption of thi s pr o ject t of law. The project is conceived in the follow i n g In order to put a stop t ever y oenis : r uncertainty in public gra law, in regar d to the ob liory character of the funda mental laws, we ordain as f ollows:_ which the a federal reso lution h e; Tn u e se empire, can not be obligatory o n individ ual states. "2. The ordonnan ce of he s th of October, r f s uu th d e am character entul l lams, :)81 to laws 1851, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1852. THE SHARE MARKETS 131LITIREE SLAILW.E.Tri3. Nominal Prices. 12% to 13 5% —5% Business done to-day. 12% 12 12% 9)4 10 12)4-1130. x.d 16 —l7 x.d 89 —9O 18 36 —. IN 20% —2 1 t 17 —l6 4. x.d 5% 7 % 19% 21% 5% -6% 3% -4% 2% -3% 8% -8% 53 -6 8 % % % 3% -4% 17 .- 17% 49 -50 ii —99 x.dl 4% 5 4 17X % 28 x.d 19% 20% x.d 6% —6% 14% 14% x.d 34 34% x.d 87% —87% 74 —77 x.d 7 —8 p x.d 72% —72% x.di 41. x.d 16 —l7 .:I%= 7z% 19X 20 x.d % 14 U x.d 87% % 95% 96% 118 —llB% 396 — 3% P. 2% —3 p. 1 34 86% 87 7% —7 dia. 6 —5% dis. sir -2% 33% - 34% 2 30 -32 7%- tli 5 434 dig, 30 a 2 11 1034 die. 83( 8 dig. 8 7 Lis. 8% —B% Ws. • —X P 1N 17% 16% 1 6 9% —9% x.d 93 —9% 6% 6% 4 3 die. 14 —l6 7 8 10 —l2 31( 3 d. 16),,j 10, x.n l 20% 20% 31 —B2 z.d 12 dls. 1 dis x.d 150 - 151 • • 7 - 6 (I 3% - 44 16% - 174 5M -4% its. 17% 18 3 ( 7% 6%d. 3% —..3 d. 22% 2334 PIZZO) P 72% % 72 7% % 96% 96 116% % % 25% 96 2% 87 $G 83% 34 61% 64 % 62 34 31% Agua Fria ............ Anglo Californian ...... Asturian ...... Australian Australian Freehold • • Ave Maria ... •••• • • • Blaenarvon Iron & Coal British Australian Gold British Iron .... • • • • • • • • Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Culaba Do. St. John del Rey • • Cobro Copper • .... .• • Copiapo • .... • • • Eng. & Australian Copper 7% fi % % 174 3 L % % 164 le General... • • • • • Gold Mountain •• •• •• Great Polgooth ........ Mexican& S. American Nouveau M0nde........ Santiago do Cuba ...... Tin Croft .. • • • • • • .. • • • • United Meal can.... .... West Mariposa ........ 16% x.n 20% % s.d ,33 % 32% x.d la 17% 12% 13 1 .6.2.11. Australasia .... •• • • • • •• British North America.. Colonial Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. De. New .. •••• • • •• National of Ireland Oriental Bank Corporat. I Provincial of Ireland.... Union of Australia .. Do. New ............ Union of London ...... Union of Madrid MI: Canada ..........7. 7. - i Eastern Steam .... .. I Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam ...... rWe cannot be answer will not be influenced by ?aid. 13/.58. 2434 all 15 40 14 5 all Leasing Business Railways. Companies. Paid. Notable Prices' done to-ilay. Bcdf. & Bletch ley .. • • Lon. & N.W. all —• • Birming.: & Ox ford Junction, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 29 —3O Do., without a guarantee .. De .. • • all 28 —29 Wolver., & Dudley, gua ranteed •• Do .. all 29 —3O Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • • • all 28 —29 Bucklnghamsh. Lon. & N.W. all 17% —lB Clydesdale June Caledonian all 45 —47 E. Lin., Guar. 6 Der Cent. •. G. Northern all 85 —36 Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 22% 3 4 p Ilartlepl Dock r Yak, New.,l and Railway L and tier. all Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 107 109 L ° L LD' -} D r d n v l o o e s . a ns!rdi. Brad. h Ga r e Shares a re.ne Shares D D S l)° .Eastern Midland. all a laall 1 2 2: : 6 : 4 03 : 34 1 1 .7 11 2 25 : 13 52 : 0 34 : 1 % x.i 4 mDpiendorec..Cl6ecesarnpbter:or6,oepan.n.cekt B N Dth o o rf ck o t lk ..a. allitu ll Dar N. & East, 6 per Cent. E. Counties • all Do., 5 per cent. Do._ .. • • all 59 61 Do. New •• Do • • • • all Preston and s L. & N.W. w yro ..t &La.& Y. Pal 44 46 x.d Do. % Shares ADo .. • • 11 8% —9 % p Lti Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern • • all 22 3334 Roy. & Hitchin G. N orthern 61,i 834 _,22 )i Do. Shop. Ex.. DO •• •• all 8% —B% Filet, Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lanc. & York 18 11 6 Sweourthnrt.lTSgaltana.ff.6orpde.s.r. li sth r. o, 3l .3, 'C p lean 9 ar. all % Do. do. .. Do .. • • 25 29 .- 80 Do. do. .. Do •• • • all .. Wilts &Somers, Gt. Western 1013 94 BIZAJZZ2. Railways. Paid. :Nominal Prices. Busbies, dome to-day. Aberdeen 1' % dia. dia. Aberdeen. No. 2, 7 pr. et. 2% • 8 34 x.d Caledonian 101 • • • • 10 8% —B% x.d Cheater and llolyhead .. all 17 17% x.d 1736 17 Dund. Per. & Aber. June. all b x.d Eastaang.( 3l . 10s.) 6p. c. all 3 —3% Do., (51.) 7 per cent... an _ Eastern Counties Exton., 5 per cent. No. 1 .. a u 1 3fi p pm Do. No. 2 au D3•New 6p. cent. Stook 10 12% 12 % % 12% pm Eastern Union, Scalp guaran. 6 per cent. .. a u 12% 12 % 1)0., 101. Deben. Share, all East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. all .. E. &W. York. June. sths all • • Edin. Per. &Dun. 51 p.ct. all • Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. 100 .• CR. Northern, 5 per sent. all 14% 14% D0.,5 p. c. Redeem. Scrip 6% 1 p Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. . 8 x.d Gt. western (Barks and Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) 6 —•• p. Gt. West., fixed 4% p. et. 100 .. Do.. do. .. .. • 80 Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. 5 1 36 1 dia. 'AI Do. 6 per et. Stock .. 100 .• Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.. •. 13 .. p Do., do. . • No.. 2 17 1)o., CO • • No. 3 5 Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 .. p London, Brighton, and S. Coast, guar. S per tt. 100 .. Do. pref., b p et. 5k,1851 100 Do., Cony. 5 p. et. 1852 all Do. now guar., 6 per ct. 100 Lon. & N. West. (Cov. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. 13% Loudon &S.-W., uow .. 5 236 Z •gyP. London. & Ennis., % Sha all 11 —l2 Blanch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. stirs., No. 1 all 11 11% Do. now, 101. .. • • all 12% 12 % Do., 61. .. .• P Midland Con. 6p. a. stock' 100 • • —• • Do. Cones!. Bristol & naming., 6 per cent.• • 100 136 188 Do., Erewash Valley. 100 .. —• • Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. .. 100 .• •• Do., Preference •• 5 % % dis• Norrolk Extension • . all 18 —l9 Da. guar. 5% per cent. ail d Do., Waveney Valley 2 1 134 5% % 6 North British • • .. b 5 -9% Oxf. Wor. &Pol. 151.6 p.c 10 % — Par o% shrew..&Bir., new guar. all 10 Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. 15% 164 W. Min.) 8 per cent. 12% 13 % x.d x.d South Dovon all South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. 10 3 2 dis.x.d South Yorks., 4p. ct.gd. 20 Stock. & Dart., guar. 5 all • • —• • P. et. until 1 July , 1 856 Waterford and Kilkenny , 3 6 per cent, .. • _••• York, Nowc., and Derw.. all 153( —l6 15% Gt. N • at E• Put" 5 8% —.4 Do. • • • h midland y or k arid Sort,. 10 1 -- 9 % LL and s. r- - TORMIGN. Boulogne an _ d Ami e ns—.tr i.; all 12% 13 Centra l of r • • -c •. , all 22 22% Demerara Du t c h uheniah -• •• 8 3% 3% dis. Eaß t. 18 • 27i, —. p . Do. do. • do. •• 20 Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. p. Louvain ala Sambre .. 7 ,, 7s p. Luxembourg .. 13 Ditto (Railway) % Do.; 10 3 3 % 34 Ditto (Canal) • • 2 Maria Antonia . 1716 s 8d Ditto, Nev; • Namur and Liege • • all Northern of France .. 21 %21% % Orleans and Bord eaux .. 11 16 d. 13 3. % Paris and Lyons .. .• 6 any 4 34 p 1 0 3( ?aria and Orleans all 46 —4B Paris and lionen .. all 27 —2B Paris and Strasbotpg 18 2134 21% 21 Ronan and Havre 11 11 % 113( Sambre and Meuse •• all 4 4 36 SLlndrew's &Quelac.(A) 2 .. Tours and Nantes .. • • 17 634 —6% di& 1134. 54 Tonrnay, Jurbise, Lan don, and Ilasselt • • all , _ Wait ilauder: 8 % 1%""9% ICEL: 82 %Me for thi Interested 1% ._. 3% Nominal 1} - I%p !'; tilts. dis par y i dis par 134 2 1 13( `iB —28% 30 —Bl 4 - 5 - % 9% —lO% 1 par % p all I%p 9 3% 4 1 % 10% 6 —7 P 7 10 —ll all 2% —2% 1 Adis. par arson's Creek, 13,. STOCE BANKS all 38 —39% 50 47% —49 25 1134 12% 20 24 25% 10 18% —17% 20 2934 30 35 •• •• 17N - 17 30 -31 M x.(l 42% - 43 15% - 16% 35 - 36% 3 - 8 34 14,‘ - 15% A.NEOI7B. 48 - 49% Busineus t•-•-daY 2% 114 % 214 2734 28)›i 80 —Bl 26 —2B 79 8054 le errors of the Official Lists, anl 1 correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. ____ _ The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 6,000 bales, all to the trade. Maceio and Ma ranham were *d., and Pernam and Egyptian id. per lb. higher. Americans without alteration, but good staple at sd. to 51d. were more plentiful. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 200 Pernam and Maranham at 54d. to 6id., 300 Egyptian at 61d. to 9d., and 1,500 Surat at 3i , d. to 41d. per lb.—The Share Market was very buoyant, and a large business was, done, in London, Midland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire Eastern Counties, and Caledonian, at higher prices. The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 425. sd. per quarter. The Mexican mail has arrived, and brings 1,500,000 dollars, of which 74,000 dollars are for the dividends. From Jamaica the accounts are to the 9th ult., and they stated that Mr. Franklin had presented a proposi tion, that iin order to meet the deficiency in the revenue it was necessary to levy an additional tax on corn, meal, and tobacco, and reducing the drawbacks. The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The duties to be levied under the provisions of this Bill are as under:— Ale, beer, porter, cider, and perry per ton 135.; bread or biscuit, per cwt. ls.; butter, cheese, and lard Is.; tea, per lb. ls.; wheat, in grain,[per bushel Bd.; flour (wheat), per barrel 2s; meal or rather flour, not wheat, per barrel Is.; tobacco, manufactured, for every lb. weight, 2d.; segars, per every 1001. value, 201.; spirits for cordials, per gallon, Is.; carriages, clocks and watches, drays, preserved fish and meats, in tins, fi,h oil, perfumery, plate, preserved cocoa nut oil, soup, and vegetables one per cent.; wines in bulk or bottled, per tun 11. lOs. 5d.; unenumerated articles one per cent. No drawback allowed under this Act. The Amsterdam Bourse was very animated on the 16th inst., but sellers of Dutch Stock appeared, and a decline ensued. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 60g. The Act for issuing paper money was agreed to by a large majority. A comparative statement of the tonnage of shipping , employed in the foreign trade, entered inwards and cleared outwards, has been completed for the year 1851. It gives the amount of British entered inwards at 4,388,245, which shows a decrease, as compared with the year 1849, of 2,130 tons. The amount of the foreign tonnage also entered inwards was 2,599,988, being an increase over the year 1849 of 919,4)94 tons. Cleared outwards the British tonnage was 4,147,007 having exceeded the clearances of 1849 by 3:84,825. The foreign tonnage also cleared outwards was 2,336,137, showing an increase of 670,411 tons over the foreign outward tonnage of 1849. A.t the meeting of the Bank of England proprietors, a dividend at the rate of four per cent. for the half-year, free of income-tax, was declared, and the net profits for the six months to February 28 were stated at .546,572 1 .: The dividend being an increase -3i per cent. having been paid on the last occasion—will have to ballotted for on the 23d instant. The question of the abundance of money came under discussion, and the amount in the Bank coffers this day was stated by a proprietor to be twenty millions sterling. It has been currently stated in the Stock Exchange that the Bank of England would reduce its rate of discount this morning, but no announcement on the subject has been. made up to the hour of our writing. The meeting of dissentient Spanish Bondholders has just been held, and passed a resolution to meet the ex pen,ses incurred, and it is understood that the committee will nominally continue. The English Funds are very steady at full prices, but there is not much doing, and the highest rates of yester day are not attained. Consols have been 98i for Money and Account. Exchequer-bills are still 655. to 685., and India Bonds 735. to 765. premium. Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a consider able extent again, and at high prices. Buenos Ayres have risen to 78 and 81. Equador are firm at 5. Gre- nada Deferred are quoted 101 to -a, and Mexican 32* to . l i• .Peruvian have risen to 105 k, and 106 for the Ac tive, and to 60 for the Deferred. Venezuela Stock i s 4 ,3/, a rise of i. Spanish Three per Cents. have improved to 421 i, and the Certificates to 191 :I. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 921, and the Two-and -a-Half per Cent. Dutch Bonds have advanced to 614. Portuguese Four per Cents. are quiet at 344• Sardinian Bonds have been at 93 to 93k. Railway Shares have been rather fluctuating. They opened a little weaker, but have since rallied. French lines are much the same. Gold Mine Shares are steady, but not brisk. The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under:— 1852. 1851. Great Western £14,404 £13,533 North-Western South -Western ... 8,482 8,800 Brighton Midland South• Eastern North Stafford .........• 4,840 4,739 Caledonian ............ Great Northern ........ • 10,539 7,656 Lancashire and Yorkshire York and North Midl and QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ... - ... ... 981 Ditto Account, April 13 ... ... 984 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols All/lE. India Stock — Do. Bonds, 1000 / , Consols for Account . 98%14 ExchNuer Bills. I tAd. 65 f,B p 1,000/. . . 65 68 p 500/. 65 68 p Small - PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE 78 81 Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. .• , O'CLOCK' Equador Bonds .. .............. ... ..... 0 .... -•• Grenada, Ph per Cent. ... 24 10% 5 04 Do. Ex Dec. Coupons 184 . 9 . ......... Ditto Deferred .... . ~: ......... •••... 321 A Mexican Bonds, 1846, 3 per ...... 32 1 A N j Ditto Account ............ ._ ....... 32% Ditto, Smal l --- . n .. t ... ••• Peruvian Bonds, 5 Per e ......... 05 6 51 Ditto Account . Do. Deferred GO 59 5 , er Cent Port uguese Bonds, 5 p Ditto 4 per Cent. - Ditto for the Account ..... R uss ian Bonds, 18 22 , 5 per Cent-, -- 4 Ditto 4% per Cent.. ...... - 1 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. '''' Ditto for the Account 'Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o ..a --- Ditto Passive Bonds. ...-1,45 Spanish Bonds, 3 per C en t. . ...... .. 425 Ditto, Ditto, New Deferr e d l9l 5 / 2 . 4 1 1 % Spanish Corn. Cert. Coup. no t f unded.,, 2% per cent Venezuela Bonds Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 ,4 per Cent Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 18,—Wind at noon E., light breeze and dull cloudy weather. LIVERPOOL, MARCH IL—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Go vernor, Laguna; Cambria, Charleston. Sld. Harold, Calcutta; Hants, Africa; Condor, Guatemala; Christina, Carnoll, Buenos .Ayres; Rhondda, Buenos Ayres; New York, New York; Sarah, G. Hyde, New York. QUEENSTOWN, MARCII 16.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Chal lenger, Callao. NEW YORE, M ARc u 2.—The Constantine, f rom Havre, which got on shore on Hog Island, 11th Feb., broke up on the 28th; nearly the whole of her cargo had been got out. PEAL, MARCH 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Metta Ca therioa, Porto Rico. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 17.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Trent steamer, West Indies. JERSEY, MARCH 16.—Wind E.—Arrd. C. T. Sutton, Rio Janeiro. N E WPORT, MARCH 17.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Forest Queen, New Orleans; Windsor Castle, New Orleans. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 17.—Wind N.—Sld. Elbe, Havannah. FAILURE.—The Liverpool advices announce the suspension of Messrs. M. Retemayer and Co. Their trans actions were rather considerable, but the amount of their liabilities has not been stated. ITALY. On the 14th the Chamber of Deputies at Turin passed the law for the fortifications of Casale. The Minister of Justice presented to the Chamber a treaty of commerce between the PRINCE PRESIDENT of France and the King )f SARDINIA. LATEST FROM PARIS. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The Aloniteur publishes the estimates for 1852. The State expenditure is calculated at 1,430,363,244 francs; the receipts at 1,449,413,604. The import duties on fermented liquors are reduced by half, and those on liquors sold by retail raised by half. The war estimates are augmented by 7,000,000 francs ; those of the navy by 12,000,000 francs. The extraordinary works are augmented by 14,000,000 francs.—iimes. WEST INDIA and MEXICAN MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 9 A.M. IN The Great Western bad just arrived with the West India and Mexican mails. Her dates are:—Chagres, Feb. 10th; Jamaica, 10th ; Demerara, 11th ; Vera Cruz and St. Thomas, 25th, Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 1,525,708 dolls., 117, 173 dolls, in s il v er, and 408,535 dolls. in gold. The bpecie and bullion on account of Mexican Dividends amounts to 74,151 dolls. Amongst her passengers is Mr. Thornton, secretary of legation to the Mexican embassy, from Mexico, where quiet reigned, The revolutionary movement of the northern frontier had been quelled. Congress at Mexico was deliberating on the reduction of the tariff. When the Great Western arrived at the Gulf, on the 18th of February, eleven vessels were lying wrecked, from the northern gales in January last. Th e y were totall y , abandoned, and wer e f as t breaking up. The on l y Bri tish vessel am ongst them was t h e Susan Green. The general Government bad it und er consideration w hether or not t h e customs d e p a rtment should be leased out on a farmi ng pr i nc i p l e. The plan it was thought would be adopted. A shockin g murder took place on board the British schooner Cynthia, between Tabasco and Campeachy, the master being the victim, and the murderer a Mexican, from the latter port. The Great Western got out to St. Thomas in sixteen days. The Great Western came home in consequence of some slight derangement of her machinery. Th e M e d wa y wa s gone to the Gulf. T to h p e r e o x v e e HAymARKET T HEATRE. white. Magic, a comic two act opera , com posed by Signor Biletta, was produced with p erfect succ ess last ev en ing, at this theatre. The mus ic is p leasin g , taste principal artistes, M r . ful, sparkli ng , an d effective, and a produ ction m ore likely cupto io p n ul o a n r theendparetfloefctitvhee h a s been rarely gi ven . Harrison, Mr. Weiss, and Miss L. Fyne, was admirable, the orchestra unexceptionable, arid the manner in which the piece was put on the stage most creditable to the ma nagement. The plot is of light construction. The Cuunt de Mericourt (Mr. Weiss), a dissipated noble man of the Regency period, disguises himself as a con juror and fortuno.teller, and by the éclat of his magic manages to induce a rich heiress, Coralie (Miss L. Pyne), to pay him a professional visit. Once in his power, he throws off his conjuring robes, and is begin ning to make rather violent love to the young lady, when she is rescued by Colonel Laval (Mr. Harrison), a dissipated old acquaintance of Mericourt, whom he has employed as a confederate, and who turns out to be an old lover and cousin of Coralie, from whom, h owever , bad courses have long separated him. A rescue bursting ing in at the same inoment, Mericourt turns the tables upon his quondam confederate, by denouncing him a s th e wizard and the conjuror, and thus getting him hauled off to prison. In the second act, however, we find him at liberty, and Coralie preparing for her marriage with Mericourt, which is stopped by the simple process of Laval informing the bridegroom that the bride is penni less under a newly-discovered will. Mericourt thereon declares off, and Laval proving of course the rightful heir, Coralie, without more ado, transfers her hand and heart to her old adorer. Several of the morceaux are very telling—" pic turesque," if we may use the expression. Of these we may specify a romance, " Gone are the merry days," and " Ah, since the sun," by Mr. Harrison; " How merry is morning," by Mr. Weiss, and the exquisite duet, " 'Tis in change that we are charming," by Miss Pyne and the former gentleman. White Magic is just the sort of opera for the English boards, nothing pon derous or somniferous, nothing to give the longeurs, nor, on the other hand, aught of the namby-pamby flimsy texture. Signor Biletta has accurately hit the taste of such of the public as have any ear for music, and the hearty applause with which he was greete d on th e ter mination of the piece may be taken as the seal of a po pularity not likely soon to fade. Mr. Webster made his re-appearance, after a short trip to Paris, in his popular role in the Man of Law. The house was very fully attended, as it richly deserves to be when such delightful productions are presented as the opera of White Magic. LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. The second of the series of these concerts took place last evening. The large hall was densely filled, and the entertainment went off with the utmost spirit. Braham sang gloriously, and the enthusiasm of the audience was boundless. Mr. T. Harding, in an air from Il Pirata, Mr. Henry Smith , in " M an the Life-boat" the Misses B by Mr. Tedder, and " What a thing is Love, ' Heart, by Miss Rose B ra h am ( t h e t wo l a tt e r "Queenrough ofamMe rry Gipsies," my in Macfarren's duet, " Two songs from Mr. Ho war d Glover's opera of Aminta), and "Through the Woo ds, " by Miss Alleyne, were warmly e ncored. Mr. Brandt , who has been lately suffering u nder severe illness , gave a barcarole, by Balfe, with a " freedom, taste, and power of voice which made us regret that he confined himself to a single appearance in the evening. Mr. Leffier's fine voice was heard to much advantage in " The Battle of H o h en li n d en ," an d a s o n g from Aminta. The gem of the evening was, to our mind, Rossini's chorale " Charity," sung by the entire company of ladies. It Was deliciously executed, and should dfigare egain,in Mr. Sta mmers ' programm es. M. Alexandre Billet's performance of Moschelle's beautiful fantasia, the " Recollections of Ireland," was a de lightful treat in the instrumental department. In several cases where an encore was elicited the recipients of the honour contented themselves with mutely ac knowledging the token of public favour, therein evincing a commendable propriety which we wish were universally in vogue. Mr. Stammers most judiciously announces in his affiches, that . should the encores inconveniently pro longminuted at half-past eleven o'clock, even though the pro gramme should not be compl e t e d. A " recall" compli ments without exhausting the artist, an " encore too frequently bores both the artist and a very considerable portion of the audience. THE CONTRACT FOR THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. TO THE ENToiz OF THE SUN. _The writer . of the article in The f yester- SIR, "justified in saying" that the ten albsove service by the projeeted Eastern Company was lower than that of the P Scidaet e eyr n a i lli n ut s at u l i ei a ans r v i ra n att d tih°h O een riental steam Navigation Company. There never was a grosser mierepresentation, and I beg to ask why, instead of spreading such misrepresentations by means of the public press, the parties interested do not at once have copies of the respective tenders moved for to be laid before the House of Commons, when I feel "justified in saying" that it will be shown that by the acceptance of the tender of the Peninsular and Oriental Company instead of that of the projected company about one million sterling of the money of the public has been saved, and a prompt and efficient execution of the same FAIR PLAY AND NO FAVOUR. am, Sir, your obedient servant , secured. London, March 18, 1852. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The sixty-ninth anniversary festival of this benevolent and edn. cational society was celebrated yesterday evening at a pub lic dinner at the London Tavern. For three or four years, in consequence of distress in Ireland, and of other excep tional circumstances, the annual dinners of this most excel lent society, which used to be as regular as a Lord Mayor's day, have been suspended; and as was to be expected, therefore, on this renewed reunion, the attendance was un wontedly numerous. The " Benevolent Society of St. Pa trick" has included amongst its supporters, and has always hitherto congregated at its public dinners, all the most emi nent of our :public men, of all parties, Englishmen and Irishmen, officially connected with Ireland; and on this occasion the company collected was, as heretofore, repre sentative of every var i e ty o f political opinion—the objects of the society, essenti a lly educational, and applying to the im migrant Irish inhabitants of London of all creeds, naturally concentrating the support of al sections of Irishmen resident in the English metropolis. The Duke of Newcastle, who, when Earl of Lincoln, was Secretary for Ireland, was a warm supporter of this society, occupied the chair. Among the distinguished company present were—The Earl of Lanes borough, Sir J. E. Tennent, M.P., Rev. Mr. Mahoney, Mr. E. G. Hallewell, M.P., Colonel Dunne, M.P., Mr. J. Reynolds, M.P., Sir R. Howard, M.P., Mr. Napier, MY. , and Mr. Whiteside, M.P. The toasts were of the routine character ; and the sp eec h e s, in proposing and responding to them, offered no point s ca lling for record. The subscriptions nh announced amounted to 6601. The conviviality, w these festivals are cel e brated, prevailed throu g evening. h r out the DEATH or S IR JAMES FITZGERALD MAKON, BART.—This Hon. Baronet died at Rawmarsh Rectory, Yorkshire, on Thursd a y, in his 40 th year. He was the second son of the fi r st baronet by his t hird wife, daughter of the Right Hon. James Fitzgerald, of Inch Cronan, count y Clare. THE CAPE MAIL.—PLyNI OUTE4 MARCH 17 . —The General Screw Steam Shipping C om p an y 's mail p acket Hel lespont, Captain Watts, sailed yesterdaydafternoon with the snails fo s r he ty a L l e ar o g ne e , u t I ;V e i r n o c f en p t, aBBe a u n ge t r h ai e Cape of Good 16 2-3 126 MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY-' 4.1.12 1'41.331EN` .41. L., The general demand w 33 exceedingly heavy, at barely stationary prices. Beet, from 25 2d to 3s 2d; Mutton, 25 6 , 1 to 3,8 d; Vord, 35 2d to 4 s 2d; Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. HAY MARIL TS. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 2/ 123 to 31 18; Od; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4l 7s; and Straw, 114 i to 1/ 9s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 4105 Od; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 4145; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 105 per load. Supply good, and trade tolerably firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 125 to 31 18s Od; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 8s; and Straw, 1/4s to 119; per load. Trade dull, at late rates. MEAT in.artiunrs. SOUTHALL, MARCH 17.—T0-day's market was well supplied with fat stock, in which only a limited business wan transacted, as follows:—Bnf, from 2s 6d to 3s sd; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 48 Od; Pork, 3s Od to 3s 8d per Blbs, to sink the offals. RONFORD, MARCH 17. The general demand has ruled heavy, and prices have had a downward tendency• —Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 33 Od to 4s 4d; Veal, 3a 4d to 49; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Sibs. Quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 19s each. LEWES, MARCH 16.—Very little business has been transacted to-day, yet prices have ruled steady. Beef, from 2s led to 3s led; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Pork , 35 to 3s 6d per Sibs. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 1 , 1852, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors iu the different Cities and Towns in England and Miley' per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT. ' I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I "A°. •rd PRICE .. I 428 10d 30s 5d 19s 9d I 30s 5d I 30s Id I 298 • DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. RYE. I BEANS. " A ,. 9 :1 13 03( Is Od is Od Is Od is Od Is u QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 107,374 ; Barley, 60,072; Oats, 25,581 ; Rye, 114 ; 9,362; Peas, 1,888 quarters. BANK OF ENGLAND—(THISDA Y )" The ordinary halt-yearly general meeting of the p ro priotors of :Bank Stock was h e ld thi s day a t the 130 ' ; Mr. Thomson Hankey, Go vernor o f th e Bank, in tbe chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having b een read and confirmed, e The GOVERNOR said they h a d me t accor ding to the bye-laws to declare a dividend, an d h e h a d to inform Ll T Court that the net profits of the half-year ending the 2Sto February last amounted to 546,572/ , being 7,616 4 les° than the preceding half-year. The rest on the 28th February last amounted to 3,604,186/.-(Hear, be ar " ) He had also to inform the Court that the court of direc tors proposed that a dividend of 4 per cent. should of made, if the court of proprietors should think fit , o atc) i the interest and profits of the half-year ending the 28 4 E of February last,- without any deductions on acco unt ineome-tax.---(Cheers.) After the payment of the Pr o li ; posed dividend of 4 per cent. the rest would stand e. 3,022,070/., being 9,295/. more than the rest of the e°''d responding period of last year.-(Hear, hear.) li e e llti e f now only to proposerthe question, that the divides' - 4 per cent. be (lectured and paid free of income - ta x ' he Mr. DE WINTON had much plea s ure in seconding t-a proposition. It was highly cr e dit a bl e to the Goeernerci that, hampered as they were by old-fashioned rules a 0 customs, they were enabled to recommend so larg e , he • dividend when money was at so low a rate in ` e , i . market. He would have opposed an additional qua the per cent. if it had been proposed, because he thought 1", - , balance left should be allowed to accumulate unti l t ja rg h e a a ve o u n t e. lea l s n t next dividend was declared, when he hoped they v °°° • h w a o v u e l would s soonlu i n the vaults, and at hisp presentro prophecy h e i c n y thadhe possession turned ''l t . ni u t f c corrects for .. _t a b e S 2 " o l: o t o ens om be o r t 1849, he said thef iot a IC amounted to that large sum. The GOVERNOR-Not quite. Mr. De WINTON-Well, they h a d no t only that , b u i, a very large unemployed capital in unemployed notes about 13000,000/. That pr e sent e d a f a ir ground for calling upon the Governor and directors to el; ploy a portion of the unemployed capital for the benr eo of the proprietors. It might be employed after ti t t . manner of private and joint-stock banks and billbro ker % without fixing either a minimum or maximum ra te 0 : 5 discount, in discounting bills, according to their nature and goodness. Ho thought money ought to be lent °' Consols, Exchequer-bills, and other Government sec !: rities, and also on debentures in some railways of tu t highest character.-(" Oh , " and " No.") He did nOw wish to trench upon their 3,000,000/, rest until they kn e f what the Government intended to do on the tat 0 _ August, 1855, when notice might be given to terminat e the Bank's charter. It such notice were received the G° l ; vernment would have to pay them 11,015,10 0 /. ick i° they lent to the country at 3 per cent. It was robins extraordinary that though the Bank had so fassY t , vantages, it did not realise more than 4 per gent , , whereas joint-stock banks yielded as much as 6 an u eee ; per cent. He did not find fault with the directors, '1 cause, as he said before, they were trammeled by 0 0 4 forms and regulations. It was impossible to ha Thomson :; able man at the head of their affairs than Mr.,,eAe ,: Hankey, and he was sure no ono was more disposecihauld'it . ; t , that gentleman to give a larger dividend if he f' the r" in his power. The rumoured redundancy a ° __ e a 0 precious metals in the country had crea ted a bo g i l er .. f , sensation.-(Hear, hear.) He had been for sixty years, and he spoke from long dundan e Y ,; 1 when he said he believed there would be no i re eh. ) The .- of gold until the whole world was full.-(A leub A frica, ; resources of the greater part of Europe, Asia , e , 03 '01 and Australia, had yet to be developed; 0 0 l' e h i e wo rld depend upon it that any redundancy of gold in t There"' 3 ( would be used for that purpose sooner or lat i rr ' i i,ted in experience fore, if too great an accumulation of gob , e he found', • England, a field for its employment would so on rodn et °I Gold might now be treated like cotton as a P to with America, and if that country could not suPP l Y wo uld di- - gold the exportation of British man ufacture s e _ the fp minish. He consider e d th e grea t use of gold te e;' atten of ~ cility it afforded for c i rcu l a tion and for the regll'e,sdo to exchanges. He hoped no attempt would be 1 7. 0un try tamper with the currency, for he believed the u lo p. s would not be satisfi e d w i t h a l ess sum than 3 1 . 7 ' for an ounce of gold. Mr. COOKE congrat u l a t e d the prop r i e t o rs on th© r° beenPßet: perity of the bank. That prosperity had not a Lseen ey •: tained by means of commercial distress , or c apita l panic, but by judiciously employing their large ur for legitimate purposes. The resolution was then put and carried. : th e A PROPRIETOR remarked that the rest included.a , to securities held by the Bank, and he sh ould be glad n,__ir know if they had been calculated according to the market or their cost price? e the Ban The GOVERNOR said it was the prac tice o. bear.) to value the securities at the cost price.-(Hea r, d est He had now to inform the Court that as the dividen ld ceeded that which was paid last half year, it and ss r necessary to go to a ballet on the proposition; . a ir, (Islear.) to the 23d inst., at 11 o'clock in the forenoon : put, was that purpose he should move that the court be adjour o Mr. DE WINTON, before that motion •was n: been published since claimed stock or dividends had glad o know when another desirous of asking a question. No publication of u 1843, and ho should be leet,(tlear, hear.) publication was likely to be Munclatmed dividends were The GOVERNOR publiahed in Consequenc e o f the fixed time. They were formerly puelialiedsaatiidceert tails intervals, but without aril üblished at intervals of seven or that they s hould he P . r 1835 one of h' ors ,; passing of an Not of Prarliament in 1816, which required k that the publication shouldtake lane ' p , _ consequen f ce c o o l o ; ... , , i , eight years; but in the se se , is predecess in office uncle annually' Hretellmlire.vredatftihseant in n as th in e question put t of the Bank at a ;4 moue, w h o was Governor House 43 the • 1 and subsequently a statement of the unclii.ner ~1 time,stock and dividends was published annually for seven ° eig ht c ons( cutive y ears down to 1843. About that tiniec°°; ,:s, sieera bl e frauds took place in the Batik by parti es wb were c onnected with the Fletcher forgeries, a nd in ce° „ s ,, e ; quen ce of that transacti on an d others of a similar oay i ;d . f it was not expedient t o cont i nue t h e system w h e ic e h e one " r prevailed up to that period. It was felt that se: e ; rola any protection to the public in giving '• °•°r 'on Lion to parties who might not require it, the affording by led to a practice of extortion which was gOt lif i ! rcte individuals, who were but one degree remove d ode r-- common swindlers, and who were in the habit of 11 ,, for taking to recover unclaimed stock and dividennanon those who might happen to have a title to the r rp c , ove reci their being presented with a large share of the re C° de, property, or receiving in advance a substantial o a nl' r d, publicate ration. So far, therefore, from the publicatio!i _ m il s ': is ing the public any protection or information , it 7 ort ioa point of fact, a serious injury to the honest y e ov a of mankind ; and it wass discontinued, upoSt n s in derstanding that the authorities of the Bank , _ c c:, to deed they were, would be always ,7_ ll ,tios afford everybody, and anybody, every possible int..r,deoda t i 'n their power upon the subject of unclaimed s_i_ v o l on es and stock. For this purpose the Chief A? o _° u ne elicl office' of the Bank was at all times open to. Governor and and .if that source of inquiry failed, th su t•i ply the was edways happy and ready to P ees eer• public ,'s ith every species of information in hisfronds e r n e eo; In conses'enerinn, of Parliassi eat was passed, at the instance f his rl the censor, of the previous f o r . . 0 , 5 8 ' Pre sJe ene ble- e cessor, Mr , Cotton, when in the chair, which .a on tbi, Governme tie to give all necessary intormatio_■ 'te ed and a that le Act it was propose-, 4,0 by the pre erisions of that ,hed in with matter, thi sough the agency of the Bank of Engine , t could be m ade t i t Bank where' searches and inquiriesdnde and stock, but ie distinct d. e pertinent should be established reference to. the unclaimed dtvie to put that Acimt, rested enti rely with the Government force, as it Comp had no control vtll s ioce, The Bank of England, now e j a pseis ese oi having over it, bu I a sufficient interval w.as not a o the Court of Directors Yi d ' be it was pal eeei into a • aw, be done , 11° 0 1 ar p lsory but a perruissiveteyer something ought now to . ‘ee .• opinion tl eat . with ."' dop aet ost happy to communicate should b. 3 m The ,f th er on the subject. cellor oft he Exchequ . h the authoritY L ee se; meat cool i only be establish* d wit tee ite "P` the who would have to guano . e _ ~. Governmi frtt, the proprietors tnl iite rf 1 and he could assure really n° fre t° Court e if Directors had , • s information isi(eed whatever in withholding _tni ears t he tivc onit t3i r the public, , for, at the end of te t t' ryred to the C s pa - f dividends t ir td strck were tra h n e s t_.....ational Debt ;tit boo , he Reduction of t Di stoners for t, fterwards breng oe o f a of the sum were a Leeeet iatt er, i n any portion' upon the sii"" e e e eeree see s into the Bat k accounts, I order of th e - e r the es `" a claim, it was only done )y . -501 oe one of the Commissioners t throng ° his capacity, a 4 1 Debt and no le air duction of the Nation(' , high , / n the house. that he held i the ex dentition Was Put nor Mr. DE W INToN said 1 P - Or was then over tlsfectory. for the ajourninr-nta te the g The moon ,hich thaeks were v ie carried, afters ce . e e ,,., terns • easted ind the pro Laub 1 and directors. I ti l t 9,11 tae