The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

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Pi cam e )srcel° ooco l4 ,g° voile N d 1 03 " o ith' 0 , ighg 7 0 0 ill 11 56 00 0 r ip oi , ed tl 311if e° OIY P riC43. 41 per q ui " :te*h t , o iscel too. . r . 6 grO ile ag Yrobil is to.- . 0 0 t Pre vi te al tbeal le , d quite for ioqairl e d Dur cbss blind fr o ' 'or experh Ds door ° f `f mo ved ° reflood to OA stetwY' w oe WO a hr limi ts &" ha sp 0 ricer 3010, 601 W 63'5 Ind 2 2• all, 00 IBS 0, • 19 0 00 • 2 1, go • 2S. ?6s 339 2 90 44/ • ,31 0 $ll 280 1 64 344 6 01 38 0 aos rn olk 300 DO . b f w ipe b 0 ) soriletd, ir d° ln oll ato o. Per T 6 ....., to ; 00 608 t° es 70, 0 06 705 t° 4 ...- 8 t° /0 ... 0 tO A „A to A .. ....4 t° A ..8 ,O .. ..„0 tO Di ill le BS IC !€ • in all ,es• bi S I en t, E S st ' 6 ;l Olds' clt s to eigl i o bead; 2,07' 0 ,0 0 00 0 45 4; 345 , :i tho itf %lc. pig s. 0. .-- ,•• ...... e• ..... I tho For Albs. to a. d. tp s. d. a. d. to s. d Inferior Besets-- 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep ...• 2 .6 2 8 Second quality .... 2 6 210 Second qual. Sheep 210 3 2 Prime largo Oxen.. 3 0 3 2 Coarse-vveolledditta 2 3 4 Prime Scots • • .... 3 2 3 4 Southdown Wetter 3 6 3 8 Largo coarse Calves 210 • 3 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Pr me small ditto .. 3 3 4 0 Large Hogs 2 6 3 4 Suckling Calves .•19 0 23 0 Small Porkers .... 3 6 3 8 Lambs •• • • •• • • 4 2 5 4 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT tr:RF.T. I Sher•r. i Calves. I 25,150 231 FOREIGN SUrPLY. I Sheep. ! Calves. I I 860 1 t 6 Beasts. 4,193 Pigs. 3:5 3easts 350 Pigs. & Statement and Comparison of the. Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, May 12, 1851, and thi#, day, Monday, May 10, 1d62. Per Blbs., to sink the oflals. May 12, 1851. s. d. a. d. May 10,1852, s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts .... ... 2 4to 2 6 - 2 2to 2 4 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 2 8 210 2 6 210 7 : • ••• Prime large Oxen .. ... ... 3 0 3 2 3 0 3 2 :' Prime Scots, &c. .. ... ... ... 3 4 3 63 2 3 4 ~, Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 2 8•2 11 2 6 2 8 " 11. ''' Second quality ditto ... ... ... 3 o' . 3 2 2 10 3 2 5 41 a Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 4 3 6 3 2 3 4 p. 4 Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 5 6 5 8 3 6 3 8 4 6 5 6 4 2 5 4 Large coarse Calves ... ... ... 3 0 3 41 210 3 6 Prime small ditto ... ... ... 3 6 3 10 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs .. ~. ... ... ... 2 8 3 4 2 6 3 4 Small Porkers ... ..• ... ... 3 6 3 8 3 6 3 8 'Beasts ... ... .. ... ... 4,718 4 , 193 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 29,230 25,540 Calves ... .. ... ..• ... 2;8 231 —Beasts, 3,579; s, Pigs .. "" ••• • • • 41() 365 SUPPLIES ON SALE, MAY 13, 185 "i" . 7 Shop and Lambs, 25,070; Calves, 177; Pigs, MAY 14, 1849--Beasts, 3,002; Sheep and Lambs, 21,020; Calves, .80; Pigs, 2'lo. NEWG.A.TE AND 2, EADENTSALL. For the time of year, full average supplies of country. killed meat have been received tip to these markets since Monday last; whilst the general quality has proved good. With meat slaughtered in the metropolis we have been fairly supplied.. On the whole, the general demand is steady, on the following terms:— At per stone by the carcase. a. d. to s. d. Beef, inferiOr.• 2 0 2 2 , Mutton, inferior • • middling •• •• 2 4 2 6 I middling.. primelarge 2 5 I---- prime •• .-- prime small.. 210 3 2 Pork,lsrgo.• ••.• • • Wal.• •• •• .• ••.• 2 8 810 small .• ••• • • • Lunt:444od to 5J 21. SEEDS. The late heavy imports or Linseed having checked the demand, prices are with difficulty supported. Good Calcutta has changed hands at 44s 6d to 45s 6d, and Bombay 465. East India for shipment to the end of August has realized 423 delivered here. Good clean St. • Petersburgh may be quoted at 40a, and Archangel 32s 6i per quarter. Rapeseed is held at 39s for East India. - Fine Clover and Canary, as well as Cakes, support last week's currency. ■. 0. to a. (1. 24 2 6 2 8 2 10 30 3 6 2 4 2 10 30 3 6 Carraway •• •• •• •• 33s 36s Coriander • • •••• •• 15s 19s Hempseed, per quarter 32s 85s Linseed, Eng• Sowing•• Ns 60s Crushing •• ••.. •• 45s 485 Baltic •• .. 42s 45s Odessa •• •• •• • • 41s 48s Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English .• . 81 Os 81 109 Foreign, per ton 71 10s 8110 Rape Cakes, pr ton 415 s 41 10e Rageseed,New, pr Ist 2110 s 2310% TurnlP•Whlte, Per bush. 8s to Ile Swede .. • • ...... 103 12s Mustard, Brown.. • ... 8s 9s White, new • .....5s Od 630 d Tares,Winter ..43 6d 5130 d Spring • • 6d 5s Od, Canary. per quarter .. 39c 42s Rye grass .• •• • • ... 283 35s Clover, Red Eng. (cwt.) 423 563 c _White •• •• 42s Ms Foreign Red.. •• .. 44s 523 • White.... 4:a 563 • Trefoil .. • . .......... 213 2bs WOOL The next series of Colonial Wool sales will com mence on the 20th inst. By private contract a steady busi lieu is doing, at extreme quotations. List week's im ports into London were extensive, viz., 7 bales from .... 11 "g - Kong, 1,337 from Bombay, 2,650 fro m Al g oa zay, 18 from Buenos Ayres, 2 ; 800 from Sydney, 496 from Port Beaufort, 12 from Antwep, 96 from Taganrog, 12 . 0 from the Cape, 84 from Monte Video, 125 from - Atogador, and 3,110 from Adelaide. TALLOW. Although the amount of business doing in our market is by no means extensive, the demand is steady, and priers are from 34 to 6(1 per cwt higher than on Mon day last. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 36s 6d; and for forward delivery 37s 8d per cwt. Town Tallow 36a per cwt net cash; Reugh Fat 2s 0/(1 per Sibs. The deliveries last week were 1,375 casks; the imports, 1,618 ditto. ' Rr r . ;~ " (14 te ' Q : l slXct :r 41119:1,, 444 I , ‘ k t)3 4()Zd. !NI • z - ;"%tißr it,;;, I 1 3 711. 1: 3 ti 48at 111 .ti 1848. 1,1, a , ren sl4tek 018 clay ...• 8.383 1849. 1850. 1851. . <4 , 'I" 478 d Old ''•,`•• ' , t 9 rfs Price of • •. t '• to Os Od • ; 14. ' 1 4 9 Delivery last week ... 1,207. Ditto from June 1.. • . 96,012 Arrivals last week • • 1,723 7 ▪ Ittlh bitto from June 1 ... 96,295 41Q/1 Price of Town •• •••• 49s Od ts.:f• s s 23,645 23,616 134,748 385 3d 375 Od 38 s3l to to 050 d to 050(11 388 6,1 1,272 1.738 891 94,279 90,743 68,641 100 273 1,130 110,392 90,578 97,641 39s 6d j 38s Od 39s 6d 48,139 365 6d to 0 5 01 1,375 100,105 1,618 106,810 389 9d A.LOYD'S SHIPPING-- THIS DAY.) t: .! LONDON, MAY 10.—Wind at noon S. to S.W., mode , A.Tirl."*Peo.474ellilLubaretLa and cloudy. MAY B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. San Do , 'lslve-t a — El i • ~s ti,„•- WA; Castellino, Benin. KINGBTowN, MAY B.—Wind W.—Arrd. Latiriston, • New City of Cork, and Alice, Barbadoes. QUEENSTOWN, MAY B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Eliza bath Moore, Patricksen, Colija; Village Girl, Pata gonia; Shannon, Davies, Callao; Trust, Messervey, Barbadoes; St. Lawrence, Strayer, New Orleans; Duna, Duncan, Odessa. Sid. Mary, Sc. John's, New Brunswick; Ferias, Alexandria. OFF CAPE CLEAR, MAY 7.—Arrd. Clarice, St. Lucia. • DEAL, MAY B.—Wind W.S.W. ; P.M. N.W. ; 9. W.S.W.—Arrd. Anna and Caroline, Alexandria; Tri dent, Pet ersen , J ama i ca; M erma id, L es li e , Phil a dephia; Narragansett and Christiana, New York; Violet, St. Micbael's; Packfield, Smith, Callao; Argus, Wrang, Gonarves ; Steel, U recht ; Catharines Johanna ' and David Scharfinors, H on d uras . A rr d. f rom th e River Seringapatam, Bombay; Index, May, St. Kitt's; Lady Hilton and Johanna, Barbadoes ; Kingston, Cowie, Quebec. Std. Behring, Boston; Abergeldie, Hong- Kong; Sir Bevois, Sidney, New South Wales. LIVERPOOL, MAY 8 AND 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. nib bort, Crisp, B uenos Ayres; Leviathan, Odell, Ja ' m ai"; John Davies, Hughes, New Orleans; Heroine • and Rosev ean , St. Michael's; Ida , and Petrel, Bonny; Byron, Crockett, Paraiba; Catharine Hayes, Para; Agnes, Surinam • Princess Royal, - Coffey, Laguna ; Ocean - Star, Lord, New Orleans; Charles Sprague, , Pike, Mobile; Tyringbam, Virginia; Snake, St. Mi chael's; Plantagenet and Regard, Alexandria; Countess 1 % of- Sandon, Bombay; Sirius, Patagonia; Bianca, Brown. 2 'Demerara ; Woodland Castle, Barclay, Barbadoes; Sarah. Havannah; Peter Foulkes, Carter, Laguna; Bri tt% e. tish Princess, Oregon ; Lord Elgin and Charles 1: *et - Chalmer, New Orleans; Gleccairn, Mobile; Marion, Brown,Savannah; General Wiltshire, Strachan, Charles r~s as - ton; Sarah Louisa, M'Lcllan, Baltimore; Columbia, sea - _Etapire State, Jacob A. Westervelt, Robins, Constel :4"; l eLbtition, Empire, and Henry Clay, New York; America, —steamer, Boston. 9th. The Jane, from ArdrOssan -li .to -Boston, has f oun d ere d o ff Nantucket; crew ta,_cor to • , %, arrived •at St. John's, New Brunswick. Th e C,.7 lti 'Lt`la • • Kate, from St. J o h n ' s, - N ew Brunswick to this 4 ;7_ port, which, was aband one d by all her crew, except four men, to the eastward of George's Bank, has been towed into New York, Off port, Otomoco, New laS • Orleans; Importer, Apalachicola ; Tispuls, Mortimer, ef „' Smyrna. Sid. President, Boston; Emma, Newfound. s; land • Australia, Victoria; Marcia, Calcutta ; Africa • Ac`i steamer, Huguenot, and John Stuart, New York; Sesos .l Halifax: Glenlyon, Quebec. t -- . PORTSMOUTH, MAY 8 AND 9.—Wind W . .7-Arrd. Franc , ' Cromlick, Monte Video. POOLE, MAY 9.—Wind W.—SIJ. Brothers, New : • - :t • foundland. ` • • PLYMOUTH, MAY 9 —Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hawk of • , - steamer, and Griffin steamer, Constantinople. FALMOUTH, MAY 8 AND 9.—Wind W. to W.S.W., • •• • fresh breeze.—Arrd. Bacon Way, Bahia; Delphin, - Alexandria. BRISTOL, MAY B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Wee 'Attie, Roberts, Rio Grande. it 36'10 Y,t ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, APRIL 26.—The Jane Duffus, from Ardrossan to Boston, went down at sea, on the lith of April , about 70 mike east of Nantucket; •f• - • t crew saved. )1 , GALATZ, APRIL 26.—The Leonidas, Greek brig, 4ekt.: 44 , from Coustantinopis to thi s port, with goods froth 4,2 1 England and Marseilles, wa s wreel:cd and b ro k en up ' at Lubina last week. LONDON, BRIGHTON, ANI.) RAILWAY. COAST Traf f ic—Week ending May 8, 1852 'Traffic—Week ending May 10, 1851 r ` r ` .76 1 8 - Total, of the half-year, to this date, 1852 16g g lO 14 ; TOW of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 16014 2 Total number of Passengers—Week tuft.. 5 - - - May B,ls - 52 ... 57,104 - Passengers ... ...£7,246 19, 0. ;Goode _ 2,529 2 g • . • • W 1% 4 . +44,',114. Total ... £9,776 1` 8 - Totil miles open, 1852, 178 1 4 ; ditto, 1851, 173%. London Terminus, May 10, 1852. `,,,, Tun DABISHt SUCCHIMION.—We are happy to state .that thersecend and final conference for the regulation of the successionAtf.the',Danish throne was held at the Foreign office on Saturday, when a treaty, in which the young Duke of 'Glucksburg was formally recognised as t heir presumPtiVe to the CrAwn of Denmark and its dependelicies, was signed by the representatives of the great European Powers' who Signed the ,protocol of August the' 2d, 1850, on the same subject, as well as by the Prustian Minister, who was not present 'at the signature of that protocol.—Times. - • • Dr. Hume, of Liverpool; mentioned at , the meeting. Of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, on Thursday evening, as a curious fact, that a fentleman 'in Liverpool was trove vrearing the watch worn by_King Charles 11. in 1645. The Magdalena, a new steam-ship, intended for the West India mail service, is at present 'in the Huskisson • dock, Liverpool, where She is being overhauled.. She was built in London, but her engines were fitted in the Clyde. The tonnage of the Magdalena is about 2,000. ~,~ ~a~~ 4 r~.~ ; ;.. ~j'~.~ ~ 3 e 11. ;2 // 'didac2 010 I VIACOLTNTESS PALMBESTON'S ASITNISLT.--ViSCOUDt and, Visceentess Pelnierston entertained at dinner s on Satur- OVI . 'day evening, at their- mansion in Carlton-gardens, :the "I‘ 1 9 , TP°,4 oMarchioness of Ailesbury, the Countess: Frances Waldo '4Qll ''.:grave. and Mr. Harcourt; M.P., the Earl and Counteas 1,, Cowper, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesburyr nut Lord Elphinstone, Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. J 1 Cbarteri,s, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, and Mr. Henry Bitighath Baring, M.P. The Noble t 'alt " Viscountess afterwards had a "reception,' which was at-' „ tended by a very numerous circle of the fashionable world. , •• fi t His Grace the Dille& of Wellington honotired the reunion, with his presence. • - One of the twenty-two colliers'who perished in the explosion at Hebburn on Thursday wage named Bruksbank, ' l4 ; aged , twenty-six. He married a widow three months-.ago with three children. She has been four times married,-and ;.11 41 , ! 4 .9ve't L.P.* qn Au z ,y j,n ~tfa ~~~~~ , 'f had lost three of her busbands by explosions. " ' The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. John Stuart. 14# jun., of Lincoln's Inn ' barrister-at-law (son of Mr. - John Stuart,..Q.C. , Member for Newark ) , to hissocretary -41-__Chicil the 14,443 9( Al 4 WAWA* - ' ' _. a 4 k"). iPII V 8 S 7l 13-16 404 3K ►: ;„ 4/6, THE 2 IS DA )r.) --- -V I CE -C A (Before ll-N va C ae E . Chancellor PARKER,) T ra. l !Kr: a.) e. RIVAL OPERA 110U6sES.____ LUMLEY V. WAGNER. I The arguments in this case were resumes thiapeapng by Mr. ITISLOP CLA.RIKE, who fouowel fir, - Bacon - in support of the injunction. After insisting on the flieta that the letters of the Wagners to De. Becher peened that they had, all along, considered him as tlieiretig'ent, and had fully concurred in all his arrangements to procure Mdlle. Johanna an engegement in Lou don, the Learned Counsel proceeded to argue from the probabilities of the case, that it was not possible for Mr. Lumley to have accepted any contract with Mdllo. Wegner except it contained a chine prohibiting her from singing at any other house but her Majesvie Theatre. Without that aiipulation the ,value of her fl.t?'' vices would have betn, considerable' diminished. For this reason Dr. Wicher, having fully diecussed the matter with the Wagners, and having no &Alba oh it:I:toe:lout:let: y r compliance, had f e l t hiniself fully justified in adding this clam° to the agreemeht 'after it bad been mistake ; an d, moreovie; wiih this clause inserted, the contract had been received and accepted by the Wagners. With respect .:.to the Bth clause, coil raining the stipulation 113 to the pre-pa tit of the 3001., he contended , that time was not the essence of the contract, and that the payment of the 3001. was not a condition or precedent. He thought it was quite clear that, by the law of, this country, if the motley were paid at any time before the commence ment of the contract, it was quite sufficient. That, too, he contended was also the law of foreign countries. Dr. Celquohon, an L.L.D. of leleidelberga_veleo was well tic._ n u n a n i n i t a e w dwith f G the erm any had Prussian law, bad a nd him, and hada the ' l c il d o se wi s t u h bm th i 6 tt i e c d 6nl tO .:' payment of the that according to the law of Prussia Madlie . Wagner had g a i o v o e / n . wasan opiniont on t l t t to e n e p ff e e e c a t e ' d t e h n a t t , at d e, ' not the, power of determining' The contract by notarial protest on the nonpayment of the money. With reglad.. to the extension of the time of , payment from the 15th of. March to the ad of April, and the force whickhad been attached to the translation of the particle des, he con sidered that of very slight importance,ai the real mean ing, of the sentence was to desire Mr. Ltimloy, if he sent the money on the 15th of March, to send it to Berlin, where the Wagners were then; and if on the 2d of April, to Hamburgh, where they should be. With regard to the law the Learned Counsel cited Mr. Justice Stant and other ' authorities to show that the - law of cor4ra4ta, was to be governed by the law of the: place where the contract was to' be performed, and not of the place ' where the contract was made. Witkregard to the al legations made in Mr. Lumley's bill ;against MreeGye s e he contended that they were perfectly proved even by Mr. Gye's own affidavits, and that it was owing to Mr. Gye'a conduct that this litigation had been produced, and he hoped that -ate . ; public would learn to saddle the consequences of it not upon,: her, but upon those whose desire to make money, and to crusts naivete had produced this complicated litigation:s Mr. BETHELL replied on ;the whole Case. He said that he did not intend to add fr es h matter to this case, but he thought that a contrast of the arguments used on the other side and those used by him - would lead to the' following conclusions—that the agreement with Lumley had been - unfairly obtained, that the prohibits r 9 article was not added by the authorization of the Wagners—that they remonstrated against the article, and that their remonstrances were smhthered by the assurances of Dr. Basher—that there was a default of payment, or of readiness of pay ment , 'ef the money sti pulated to be paid to the Wavers before the obligation . of performance of their contract Dr. arose' Bacher's , • own affidavits, he thought, showed that all through the transaction he had been acting as - the paid agent of Lumley, and while putting on the appearance of and impartial mediator between the perties;'er, in fact,, rather of a siacere friend of Madlle. Wagner, atrkio& to obtain for her a favourable engagement in Loudon and Vienna. It was evident that_the first impressthn'bf the Wagners had been in favour of Mr. Gye, but the misrepresentations, the_delusire prcniiises, and the false appearances which Dr. Becher had made use of had induced them to listen to 'the offers of Mr. Lumley. Then, with regerd to the :addition of the prObibition, it was clear that Dr. Backer had no ti••''l thoritY from the Wagners to add it e except his own asser tion of the fact, and without some further proof, gre Lumley ought not to have taken his addition of it fer, Paris unknown to them, as an evidence of their adle4 - ; fence. Bit it was contended that if even this were the case the silent acquiescence ; of the Wagners in the contract with the additional article, was sufficient to render -it binding on' them. WhY, they - never ceased to protest against this clause, and it was only by repeated assurances 'on the part of 1 Dr. Becher that they were prevented frem taking posi tive measures to get rid of the contractailtogether. The argument of acquiescence was entirely neutralised by the facts as stated in the affidavits and by the conduct of the Wagners. But even if this .acquiescence were al- lowed, it could only ho used to ,the extent of being a shield of defence to Mr. Lumley egainst any proceeck,. ings of thu Wegners, and could not be used by him as a weapon of offtnce against .them. It must be remembered that in granting this injunction; without sufficient grounds, as he contended had not.been brought forward in this case, the Court would be adjudi cating this case before an opportunity had been afforded of right being done. Suppose for a moment that the scales of evidence were equally balanced in this matter, the Court must, of aecessity, turn to that side on which the antecedents of probability relied; and he contended that here that argument rested entirely with his clients. With regard to the proof which was attempted to have been brought forward by Dr. Bather's affidavit, that Mademoiselle Wagner had written an express accep tance of the altered contracts, and with reference too to what they had heard of the word " contracts" being in the plural, he had an affidavit from Madlle. Jobanna stating that the expressions which she had used were in reference to the contract made by Dr. Becher for her, with M. Roqueplan, of Paris, duplicate copies of which had been forwarded to her, and that he had not at that time received the altered contract wish Lumley. With regard to the second pert of the case, the payment of the money, the facts were pretty nearly all undisputed, with the exception .of 'the letter of the 9th of March. It - was, - - without doubt, that a sti pulation for the pre payment of 1 a sum of money was usually , made as a snit of caution -Lumley, and a preparatory,., guarantee of , ;such expensis as might be incurred by the - artiste.. It , wbuld be, there fore, to talk of it as not being a precedent condition ~ which it was not absolutely necessary Ito fulfil. Time was, of necessity, an, essential conditions because here , they were talking of the season, and, if it *ere in the will of the manegement to.dispense - with.ther accessary pay ment of this caution-money, an unfortunate artiste, en gaged abroad with the ' :safe-guardeiof this cau tion-money, might, on , arriving, +are, find it repudiated and himself involved in -Expenses for which he would not be able to receive remuneration. Now it was. not contradicted that the - money was not paid, and the only evidence given. of it* being. offered was the letter of the 9th March. Now there was ene faat Which could not fail to strike every one, and that was, that whereas Lumley had sworn that Becher had in hishande money of his (Lumley's) up to the 9th of March,_l3Acher himself had not confirmed the statement in any:_viay by his affi davit. Supposing, however, that Becher had written ,such a letter, and had obtained sufficienttmoney of Lum ley in his hands ; that would not have: dispensed with any further attempts onahe parted lire Lumley to pay this money, and would not .have 'been auffieient of itself to enable him to set up a plea , at iawahat he had dis charged ,his part in that contract..l But it was: requisite for Mr. - Lumley to e proVe not only that he had furnished. Becher with the 3001. on the 9th March, but he must prove too that he had kept him furnished. with it down to the time Of the notarial protest having been made. No such statement was made, and it was impossible to arrive ai the conclusion that Becher ever had the money ready to pay at any time between the 9th of March and thtenotartal protest. Then Bacher's whole conduct at Hamburgh was nothing more than a demonstration of his connexion with Lumley. Looking at the circumstances, 'no man would be able to doubt that no offer of the money was made before the 15th of April, the very day when Mitinha: joined Lumley a.t Hamburgh. :±S UN: alt `shbula tieufe, - the °Curt, - which would be constantly iteuld - be quite ready and willing to render them tlid.sissistateef in' its power. With these obr,erva -ti-ons tfe - dismissed - theurto - th - e - dischurge of their duties. Th e grand,.jury then retired, and a few minutes after- Wards, 607eral true 'been returned into Court, the,trials_werc_at onc_3,proceedtd with, MA R 1.13 R.©'-$T . RE E r—('l' HIS DAY.) IRISH VAGRANTS.;--About twenty men, women, and ;cbildten, of t he lower order of Irish, in a most wretched and squalid condition, were brought before Mr. Bingham , 'chlirged with begging of and:annoying a. cumber of. 'ladies, and gentlemen at the entrance of the Catholic ,chatiel; Sutton-street, Soho. The ofiScer of the chapel said the whole of the per sons at the bar were on Sunday moring in Suttor. street, and from frequent complaints which had been made by the cengregatioo, he ordyred them to move err, which_ they did, but as soon as his back was ;turned they came hack and punned their avocations with the greatest assiduity, the women and men lurk ing hie the deorweys adjlcent, while their children fol• lowed the ladies and gentlemen as they were leaving the chepel. - The officer . procured the assistance of a Couple" of" pol;eemen, anti they were all lodged in the station". - Money, varying in sums from Od. to is. 6d., was found upon them: The whole of the prisoners most stoutly denied having begged of any one. They bad been to mass, and were on their return home when they were taken into cus tody. The whole lot here set up such a howl as to dis turb the business of the Court for about ten minutes; and when order was restored, Mr. Brecnem said the defendants were the last, per sons who otreht to be begging at the doors of a chapel, for it was well known that the congregation gave most liberally, to the priest for the relief of the faithful poor in the neighbourhood of such c hapel; and the reverend gentleinan no doubt distributed such gifts to the deserv ing poor of, whom be had a personal knowledge. If the defendants were in distress, they knew there was a re lieving .officer _in every parish, and it was their ditty to have gone to one of them. Ile (Mr. Bingham) thou sent the men and women for seven days eacb, and directed the children to be taken to the workhouse. LONDON, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE WESTERN OF FRANCE. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Thursday, May 6, in one of the large rooms belonging to the Paris terminus, at the ' flarriere du Maine, M. Rivet, the president, in the chair, and with him were the following. directorss—The Duke de Noailles, M. de. r Este a M. Gervais, M. Jabe Peto,,M.P., Mr. Geacte M.P., Mr. Mangles, M.P., Mr. G. Glynn, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Blount, Mr. Bimeee,- , The report stated that the decree authorizing the con stitaitien of the company was signed on the 27th of January, and the board of directors were nominated on the 29th of February last By the law of the 13th of May, 1851,--it was decided that the-Western line should have two entries into Paris formed by the two Ver sailles Una, and that the Western Company should con strucethe jenetion of the two Versailles linos at Viro flay, a goods' yard at the Batignolles in Paris, and a paSsenger station in'the Rue.. St. Lazare, and it made a treaty pith the St Germain Company in July, 1851, t o execute those works for name of 4300,000 f. (172,0001) A: dispute afterwards arose between the two companies as to, the time in which the works ought to be-eXecuted, a law suit ensued, and it ultimately settleclabythe.Western Company agreeing to hand over, at par, to the St. Germain'e Company the amount of the sum claimed by it in debentures of I,ooof. each, at ,5 per cent interest, reimbursable in ,52 years at the rate of 1,250 f. each, and - in addition a eum of 110,000 f. for the world executed. At the same time it was agreed that the weiterm Company should take possession of the Right Bank_Line on the lot efJely as soon as the junc tion lino at- Virofity should be finished. The, treaty with ibe Right Bank Company would be carried out in accordance with the terms of the concessiott,, As to the. Left Bank Company, it was -decidA that ti fixed sum per annum should be paid to the proprietors for the line. Negotietions as to the aitiount were still pending. The law of 'concession to the,Western Company had done all that was possible to compensate for tho' charge of two entraeco lines into Paris, one on each lei h sroti a aoo i ctaikso :ngtaionvtde:nionraedttover.ouvrapnn returned.. pay side of t 00r : ,1 4 :7 0Q0e f . 0 os 1 r e t fr(. without 42 C 80. .0 0 P e c p oo n a oi ; n; n y )yf oaTtrothhtwehufioes fixed keeedii obligation periods, n from Versailles to by the Government in about four years from the present time. ,113 - 6 State had to exi cute the 'other sections on the conditions of the lam of 1842, that is, it had to fur nish the, gr ,, yqcl and execute the works of art and earth works, while the company had only to lay down the construct the stations, and provide the working stock. ,The btate also guaranteed an interest of 4 per cent. on the capital, :`and finally nettled at long dates the debt of the Left Bank Company. In return for what the Western Company are to pay they.have obtained the concessionef a line of 366 kilometres (229 miles) in length, which is so far productive that the sections already open wil'uld suffice, not only to pay all those charges, but to give a handsome return for the capital of the sharehol oers. The cost of the portion already at work amounts to 25,000,0001. (1,000,0J0/), the whole of which sum the State had given up to the concessionnaires. The com pany had received from the State on January 10 the section from Chartres to La Loupe, fled would open it to the public in September next at the latest ; the expense of the permanent way on this section would be 200,000 f. (8,0001,) less than the estimate. There was every pro bability at present that the sum Of 43,000,000 f. (1,720,0001.) for a single line of rails would .not be ex ceeded. With regard to the receipts on the section to Chartres, a distance of 55 miles, the report states that they have steadily increased since its opening. In 1850 they averaged 21,814 f. per kilometre ; in 1851, 25,984 f.; and in 1852, it was calculated they would average 29 503 f. (1,1800 per kilometre. It is estimated that when the section to La Loupe is opened the receipts of the veer will amount to 4,000,000 f. (160,0000 The expenses incurred anterior to the formation of the (tom -16,8924), is to be repaid (3,6500 per annum . f ' (3 2( r " t h f e r services. .Bight paid no before the provi b l ithntoodeerfienpiotretswhaerrees. parsed itt ; o a n i tt f h ec amounting ooncthe allowedi concessionaires, natheii t tr o : dc4, must and2cuo,s3tt 0 2 O r s aeso u 10 uoanimously. 0 ELD M.P, in moving a vo te o f e n e s ct i n c h o e n f c o o r n n v i i e t r y te w d thanks r t the directors,. stated that a re ptr,t4bnutt-o inclined to' hink that it would be greater, w and h that im i ; turn of -10-pegPrrceLesEnidrteinhtada'nbdeen. promised in the prosper ke f u t r h n e t s p h r e e d se b n y t the sin report hahi k io h e m w u. c a s intaining_ the good under the sweat guarantees for ma osiiital, both French and Eegi . ishi m r ed , were ferd t he t ki n standing which now existed el a nd the meeting separated. The resolution wws _came b e tween France and Eng land.—(Applause.) .... --- ~.,---. CORN WALL. T he renewe d e ff ort t o construct this l i n e, b y which the important districts of Cornwal l, and especially t he vain able western p or t of Falmouth will b e connected by rail-- way andnieetriortelegraph w ith the Gre a t Western Lines; and the Land's-end be Ilndr L f•T, .. - rcatter of great national importance. ,la fflit',6;-o,ovveVai, bv the i,mtneuse reduotion in the.cost in instant commanication with or c i'' L il bemade r small a s readyllevelop E ,d on ons ructton we line can Cdinpatatiteiy, and for which contractors have already offered tuders; And when the extraordinary traffic al re I. 11 4 e —eyelid the Cornwall,' be taken into account, there d es 1:1Iq, appear to be any reasonable grounds for dOubt the West Cornwall line, a dissected in theAsser - lion, that when . completed it will yield a fur per tentage to the original holders of shares in the Cornwall Company, and' to. those ;vita may now invest, at the,diSCOunt ofl'ercd by, the prospectus , n ot leas than EiX per 'c en t, , I c he importarca of increasing our national defences at the least possible cost to the nation, is undeniable, and if a rupture with France were unfortunately to occur, the pert of Falmouth will be regarded as of vast importance for the landing of the mails, and as the resort of our Mercantile navy, by which they would be saved, to so large tinextent, from the risk of Channel navigation. It may.-therefnre, be fairly expected that every facility will be afforded by the Covernment for encouraging its completion, and-that at this time:of superabundance of money the public will be inclitied to invest their capital in an undertaking which promises so satisfactory. a result. - : . BIRCH AND BROOMSTICKS. , Were - .you- ever young?,-Of course you were, and made yCiir first triumph betore family friends by trot ting, full speed, into the midif of little Session's muslin frienilskitstrideia!brOCtiistick, and had at least a_ hundred kisses from dear old Granny, who sat in the'coreer, and kowed it was vulgar to trot broomsticks indoors, while -she-secretly loved you all the more for it. There-; too, 2weivgle 914 Captain, in his scull-cap; and barnacles, and purple nose, Who gloried in a romp, and yet, for fear of Offifidlnethe young ladies, suffered innumerable pangs 1 wtietki - be saik " Charley, you're a naughty boy, sir!" NVol,_that time has gone into the land of memory, and the 'broomstick is the only talisman to summon its pie tUres.to the present. The broomstick went the way of all toys petted. to-day, burnt to-morrow; and to avenge the degradation inflicted upon it then, its and, came baCk to us at sehool;inflictieg stripes, and, in the com pound of foolscap and - tickled birch, torturing the iiffeetions as well as the flesh, and making youth's sea son of song and. .sunghine one of wailings and tears. The pickled biro 7 .-how barharous is itself, and still more barbarous mita frequent and untanned use, marking Wye the phases t'f the teacher's temper than the dul ness of the .pupil's mind. . Stupid old, doctrine! to ima gine' that :what the mind was incapable of • grasping *iiild , he..beaten into the body—that to Make an impres adepte-a lots as ;la ° ele ment AtingiY t d .j.:rt on the'mercery; blood must trickle , from the skin: wtlii - thatlithe-isTast also, and 'memory seems to ba the old sottish, s 10 W even those barbaritie's • and when we catch sight of the modern cime i sp • and st3cegesti . t of education in the place of used by men who have i „, ; „ ; .„, ~._. Jai e7wten,we see that, we sometimes . of pain, while the cane is ;things vv — e 7 t i;rL,hava sadly: degenerated since we x school, for to us now the pickled birch is thing mere prose, of pr y, it, be the p oetr y: . a —Elith Cook'i J ° owned. _re o f sugar -candy at the highest. 4IGIIp IN TAIRD-CEASS CARRIAGES.--A petition Is. 411 ,course ` or signature .at Newcastle and North Shields, entreating Alio Rouse of Commons to interfere and compel the York, N - ewcastic, and Berwick Railway Company to put lights in their third-class carriages.l MUNIFICENT LEGACY.-The treasurer of the Royal Ortho pxdic Hospital for the Cure of D e f orm i t i es, Blooms buTy-squars, has just received the munificent sum of 5001, being a bequest to the funds of the institution by the late •Alezalld9r AlEtCkellzie, Euq, V p ir THE JUDGMENT. _ ANer the conclusion of Mr. BETHEU:sireply, His HONOUR gave judgment. decidibK that the con -tract "was a; bindihg-bontrict, and had been accepted as s uch with the Pio r hibitoiil l etttibse contOned in it by Xixllle. Wagner; and that Mr, Lumley had committed no breach of it (A full report will appear in a leer . otkakeag 1-Nse*Lasion' C°o°4l)Ultc°Tu--;;C:i4:111S-11---'IYI) h May T jext .._. -------__ mon Sergeant, Aldertneen ,en a: C th e a ntral,Criminal Court were . arnconsba.and Moon, and the :Pb2eureiffdet,hait6tem:drendinh:ybtrhftherespeetive d,puti es ' Lord a M nd ay e o m r, . the C . 061: bIT proceeded to charge The grand jury having who Ta pannelled, The I,,earnedAn d3lo.l fs! ) the calendar lool4d, R ifflanit t it contained from at tending by the death l"3 :l 9 them, in the absence of Lbo rhd.er, iw s proverrted Common Sergeant said he w as gi n faarer,pin-law. The Mary .1 , 15 3 c 7 ;!' was, comparatively speaking. light,,, t° " 11 / over it he was prepared to assure thee * t ir iG g no case whaver involving any legal , d jority of the cases were of the ord "-File ma there were two or three of a somewhat serious iP cir p ' 1:4" For instance,' there was s case : in which .'a Youn a g ractr* i, probable that was charged vii!‘h , the,. murder of his par ent . N2 nl w ll i l might arise in the course of theinquir,riliat at the tin e but although of the committal of the offecce,the-prisopor was in such ahe s t a teW ef 3 7nfatmcionnsd cl t s o‘ o re f n w d h e a r t i te ui Zt r : d i—" Ciktgp 4 insanity might be a defence in law ,to ashargo of tour whichltbq wand jury could der, yet it was not•a mat ter rauatc:4l3erefore return a take cognizance , of, and. they to dispoie tree bill, and :team it for the .13 , 44410 1 7 of the case. There was spottier case, of murder, but it gh did not appear likely that it wouldgiye ris e to a question of that nature thou h extenuating circumstances , involvedt ere uligt4 be son* in- the case, bot,here again they .must leave those circumstances to be investigated in open a child under ten y c n o a u t rt. There was also a case of a bomewbat fidtfol are, in which a surgeon was accused, of having abused the offence bad been :op: i a tt g e e d, that the child was an assenting ' assenting party, but that was no defence in law, and if and it • w in i i b g e h t t h t e u ir rn d o u u ty t they were reasonably! satibfied that! to return a true bill a other case i n the calendar the accused. , There was no ~.... ~ L , ,.L e 09 r callin g for any,fu i tther remark; but, WI .14 ta Urao of thttik_inquirip tiny legalitiffl , MONDAY EV_ENING, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Ernani was performed. _ for the first tithe this season, ' on Saturday night, Madlle. Cruvelli being the Elvira; Ernani; Ferlotti, King Carlos; and Belletti, Ruy Gomz. The opening air, "M' e &Ice il veto in genue," was exquisitely war bled by Ctuvelli; the " No, crudeli," she gave with tho utmost dramatic power, and ,in the concerted music at the close of the act her fresh pure voice told superbly, the exhortation to Ernani to fly (" ya, un accent() tradire ti v pao"): being delivered with an intensity of tenderness seldOsn (Attend. The duct in tho second act went deliciously, and is the sub s, queut scene of pleading and sorrori, Cruvelli was very effective. But it is in the laq act that she has full scope for her power in the duet " Fine al aospird," interrupted by the fatal signal, and in the terrible finale; here she' magnificently - asserted her reputation. Henceforth Elvira may be ranked among Cruvelli's triumphF it is a new proof of the resolute will as well as of the genins of our young prima donna, who is nobly sustaining the fortunes of her Majesty's Theatre,. and drawing around 'her a succession of andiences, diffi cult as they are distinguished. Belle:Ws Ruy Gomez is a master-piece both of singing and acting. Ile lias corn.; pletely identified himself with the character of the re vengeful old man, and his denunciations told out with terrible povirer. The " Infelice, 13 tuo credcvi" was given with exquisite pathos. Caliolari's Ernani is one of his best characters, and on Saturday he sang through- out with a spirit and energy, and with his habitual finish and delicacy, and in the .passages with Elvira he, exerted himself most loyally to give tae fullest effect to the united eff,rt. Ferlotti's King Carlos is a highly cteditable performance. He gave the music with evident care, and frequently evinced real lyrical power. His " make was perfect. Madlle. Guy Stephan added to the attractions of the evening by a n ew pas of unusual brilliancy, and th e pretty little d i vert i ss ement, Le k ete des RoSieres, was givsn with as much éclat as on the first night. Mdlle. Cruvelli's appearance in Norina (Don . Pasquale) has been delayed a few . nights longer than was originally intended, h er i n di s position having inter- fered with the rehearsals, but it is now anno unced for lharsday neit. . _ MR. W. REA's pinsT CONCERT* Tbe new Beethoven Rooms were completely filled at this gentleman's first performance of classieal chamber music, which took place on Friday evening, and Which embraced . the follovving selection: PART I.—Sonsita in F, pianoforte and vio- - lin, Messrs. Rea and Dando, Beglioveb.' Song, " Agatha," Mrs. R. Lim- pus . ...... . . ..... Fugues in F minor and inajor Han del. Prelude ,and Fugue in 11 _flat minor Bach. song, Mr. G. Perr en W. Rea. Seventeen variatio ns ser i eusea Mendelssohn. PART H.—Sonata in E, pianof orte an d v i e - lin, Messrs. Rea and Dando, Bach. Cavatina, "Di Placer," Miss Stabbach ... . .... .. . . Pianoforte sonata in A minor 'Mozart. Song, 6 ‘ Rose softly blooming," LialPus •••••••.•••• Pianoforte sonata, Op. 57, in F minor . . ... ... ... The sonatas for puinoforte and violin were played with considerable neatness and prevision ; and the lively scherzo to that of Beethoven was encor e d. The fugues of Handel and Bach were also beautifully performed by Mr. Rea, and the variations of Mendelssohn displayed still further bis powers of execution and dramatic effect. The pianoforte sonata of Mozart is quite a gem from the beginning to the end, and was played with remark able brilliance of finger And with a delicate sppreciation of the delicious phrases with which it abounds. Beeth oven's " Sonata appassionaaa," which concluded the concert, was a.great performance,- and a worthy climax to the pianoforte compositions. that preceded it. This sonata embodies some of Beethoven's grandeat inspira tions, and Mr. Rea, who seemed to be thoroughly im bued with the profound sentiments of the wonderful composer, played it to perfection to a most enthusiastic audience. The songs received their due share of ap proval. One of them, the composition of Mr. Rea, is of a highly classical and original description, in which the voice and pianoforte are equally prominent and im portant, and the harmonic combinations exceedingly graceul. A second concert is announced for Friday evening, June 4. • PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. POSTAGE LABEL STAMPS.—This Committee, consist ing of Mr. Muutz, chairman; Mr. Grogan, Mr. Geacb, Mr. Corn ewa ll Lewis, Mr. Rich, Mr. Mo wa tt, Sir J. Tyrell, Marquis Chandos, Lord A. P a g e t, Mr. 3. Greene, Mr. Ormsby Gore, and Mr. Hodgson, met on Friday, and again on Saturday, to further consider their first report on the subject of a machine for perforating postage stamps, and as - to whether it is desirable to bring the same into public use; end also with reference to the present system of gumming, engraving, and print ing the postage stamps, or Qui - en's heads, of which some 60,000,000 have examined are annually issu ed. The . Committee examtned Professor Cowper, Mr. Coe , the engravers of the Bank of - England, the contracters and printers of the stamps, the supervisor of them, and Secretary of Inland Revenues The majority of these gentlemen have concurred in the conclusion that the present system is the best that can be adopted, and have declared that the stamps cannot be successfully imitated. At the close of their inquiry the Committee called for the produc tion of successfully imitated specimens, tho result of fer tuitous discovery, not by the antistatic process, and not issued by the Post-office, nor sent through it, which went to negative the assertion of these witnesses. The witness producing the specimens stated that devices had been introduced into the stamps, to meet the result of this discovery, and when the Committee thought fit to ask for an unconditional disclosure of the disco very, the witness respectfully declined. The Com mittee deeming that it might be done in that way, then had recourse to the anastatio process to ascertain whether postage stamps could be produced by it, and it appears that postage stamps printed in red ink, by that process, passed daring last week through the Pont-office without being detected by the authorities. Whether any permission was given for the purpose is not known, but the-utterance of the same under the Stamp Act is declared to he a transportable f offence; and it is understood that, availing th emselves° this information, the the present system as bad. The Committee are at issue Committee that, to report agai nst as to whether they shall recommend in their report some 4,0001. tothe patentee of the perf or ating . machine out right, or give him aPpointment in theiala nd revenue to superintend --e application of ilia pro cess. The Committee have bed th their. attention drawn to some beautifully simple and inexpensive methods for detaching Postage stamps, that the progress of mechanical unity since the Perforating principle in 1847 was first proposed has prod uced, but ha e not yet gone intothem: LANCASHIRE AND y eaxmium RAILwA L--Ou Friday the preamble of this company's Bill tor reg ulatin g their capital was proved. . Railway (for preambles a l so of the North-Western (for regulation of capital and ower to provide steam boats), of the York, Newcastle -and Berwick Railway (deviation of Bishop Auckland ' Branch), and From:, Yeovil, and Weymouth (N o , 1) Railway, were declared proved. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WcLVERHAMPTON BAIL' WAY.—The exam i ners of the House have reported that in the case of this com pany's petition for additional pro vision in their Bill for deviations in KingsWinford and Dudley, and for extension of time, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. • LONDON CORPO RATION BILL, The examosers a'so report that in the ease of the Company of Makers of Playing Cards to b e heard against this Bill the stand ing orders ought not to be dispensed with, but that in the case of the to c om p an y they may be. The petitions of the Salters' Company and of the To examiners bacco Pipe Makers' Company have been referred'lo the . PRIVATE BILLS._T h© Speaker has directed that ia all cases in -which the Queen's consent is necessary to any Bill, the Parliamentary agents shall give notice thereof to the clerki of the Private Bill Office, and a notice of such consent being required is to be inserted by them with the n aine of the Bill on the list of private business for each day, ELECTORAL FA CTS . the.auttior of the <4 Parliamentary. t nentary. Companion," and other -------------tbisTitle Mr. Dod, standard, works of a like a work a va luable publication, well issued a most va ajlatures has just Pf t ed for wensive use at the sent period. It is pre pass, furnishes a ready , e lv a uie, within a moderate corn controversies, instituting eont;ls for' solving doubts, settling occasional prophecy Palisons, or even making •an to Parliament. For respectinginstance, the places returning Members forth the local political bistoryaoreeng other features it sets United Kingdom ; the nature of the fevery constituency in .the Whether consisting of freemen or freeholders, franchise in each place, and lot, or occupiers of 10/, h ouses reeholders, payers of scot are contrasted, both as to structure ; the' registered electors and in 1842; tlie ,electioneerin_ . n _a ti n e d numbers at present p g I a Ile e lace is detailed both as to the Da prevailing in each and taxation of property a st and the constituency resent;p the prevailing.; trades and occupations are uency is recorded; the these politicians who-would enfranehis stated for the use of lation under the new census is recorded classes; the popu who would regulate the representation b , for the use of those Members have been set forth, as a 3: aeriesnumbers; the noted interesting to every class ; and the poi f or electoral facts ,years are carefully recorded, 8 ° as to enable the last twenty judge for himself with respect to the results ° every man to ing election. The whole, says the author, • of the impend of nearly 100 volumes, and of ninre tha a twentyincludes the cream wag collections.--/Iforning Chronicle. years' pri- THE ROYAL INFIRMARY FoR, DIS EASES CrIEST.—The thirty-ighth anniversary of the OF THE wary for Asthma, Consumption, and other Royal Diseaseslnr of the Chest, was celebrated on Saturday b y a di don Tavern. The Earl of Shaftesbury prnensgeadt the Lon supported by nearly 100 . of the friends of the institution.andwas Subscriptions —among which appeared the names of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 10L, and the Earl of Ripon, —to the amount of nearly 400/. were announced. COMBINATION OF MECHANICS AND L ITERARY Ixstrres.-- - Th e committee charged by th e Societ y m Arts w ith attempting the accom p lishmen t of this el! ct have rec eived from a larg e p ro p ortion of th e institutions, both prov i nc ial and metropo litan, informa tion of' the most ' encou raging nature in the form of replies to queries issued by the c ommittee. In orderto define the basi s o f future operation s, a co nference is to be he ld at the society's hous e , i n the Adel P ts ' on Tuesday, the 18th inst., between the represntatives of the insti tut i o ns and the council of the society. Th e b f aro is of Lansdowne has co nsented to preside, an d a large nnnib u er of delegates have been formally appointed to attend as the representatives of the institutions. It is intended that the conference shall be followed by a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern, at which the Earl of Carlisle will take the chair. Mr. Alexander Grey is appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Trinidad. Mr. W. Bradley and Mr. Edmund Cox are appointed members of the Legislative Council. of New South Wales- A woman was sold in Nottingham market-place, a few days since, by her husband for a shilling, including a new rope,yelgo pixpeace, which was attacked to h er near. MAY 10, 1852. A_AIERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer America, Captain Shannon, arrived here this ;morning at three o'clock, bringing the usual mails and 51 passengers, but no specie. The America left Boston on the 28th nit., and Halifax on the : - ,oth. During two or three days of her voyage she attained a very high rate of speed, and the whole voyage has been accomplished in about ten days ten hours, in cluding calling and stay at Halifax. The news by this arrival is three days later from New York than that brought by the Hermann, bat does not possess much interest. The proceedings in Congress were unimportant. There had been no' later arrival from California, and the quartz mining schemes had been somewhat checked. A New York paper says : " We have seen a private letter from a respectable gentleman who has been for the past two years in Cali fornia, engaged in testing quartz veins. He says that not one in ten o!. these veins contains any gold whatever; that of those that do contain gold, not one in ten con tains an average of one quarter of a cent to a pound of rock, and not one in fifty an average of a cent to th e pound;C and short of this few veins will, ho says, pay more than the expense of working." It has been ascertained that the damage done to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will amount to about 80,000 dolls., and that it will take three months to repair the injury. Komath was in the state of Massachusetts, and had addressed large audiences at Springfield and also at Northampton he is far from being so popular as on his first arrival. At Northampton he addressed a large audience in the old Northampton Church, but his speech was a very poor one, much of it being the same as the one delivered at Springfield. A portion of it was also in bad taste, and gave offence to many citizens. He said that the American people possessed all the elements of greatness, but that they did not act as A great nation. He came out virtually against the Maine liquor law. The people were disappointed with his eloquence. The admission was by Hun garian bonds, for which purpose 500 dollars' worth were sold. Many perions, however, were admitted free. Jenny Lind (Mrs. Goldschmidt) and her hus band were present. She attracted nearly as much attention as Kossuth. The death of John Young, late Assistant United. States Treasurer of the 'port of New York, and formerly governor of the state of New York, is an nounced. BOSTON, APRIL 24.—0 n Wednesday last a piece of board was picked up at Scaconnet, Nantucket, from which it is supposed that the British barque Jane Duffus, Thomson, from Ardrossan, March 9, for Boston, with 400 tons of pig iron and 35 tons of coal, has been wrecked near Nantucket during the late gale, and proba bly all the crew lost. IMMENSE ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS AT WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN 3L4 ILS. SOUTHAMPTON, 6ATtiRDAY.—LThe Royal ME.ii Com pany's steam•ship commandtld by Lieutemmt P. liast, R.N., with the West India and 141 . xican mails, strived this morning. The Medway experienced fine weather during - the Tame home, and has made a very good passage. We regret to announce that Ltcutelizint South, the Admiralv agent in charge of the unile, died on the 6:h instant. The latest dates brought by the Medway Are as fol lowsr-e-Vera Cruz, Aprit 7; Tampico, April 6; Chagres, April 9; Certhagena, April 11; Jamaica April 14; De merara, April 14; Trinidad, April 15; liarbadoce, April 16; Grenada, April 15; Porto Rico, April 17; St. Thomas, April 20; Fayal, fay 1; Antigua, April 18; Santa Martha, March 30; Grey Town, April 4. The freight brought by the :Medway was 1,464;235 dollars on me:chant.' account, 40 ; 742 dollars for the Mexicau dividends, 535 scrolls of cochineal, 34 serene Jalapa, S 2 serons of indigo, 21 bales of sarsaparilla, and a large numbsr of packages of suedric ineludieg vanilla, Indiarubber, girger, sticeedes, &c. She brought 158 passengers. amcnerst them being the Hon. Edward Thompson and Wiliam Girod, Eiq., two of the delegeees appointed to the British people on be half of Jamaica. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee, with the English mails of the 17th of March, arrived at Jamaica on the 13th of April. By this arrival we have our usual files of Jamaica papers to the 14th of April, but they are principally filled with the accounts of public meetings relative to the distressed state of the island. IRS Excellency the Governor. Sir Charles Grey, is seriously indisposed at the Pinnacle , in S t . C atherine ' s mountains, his Excel lency's country residence, and Drs. Turner, Bowerbank, and Brooks have been called in to attend his Excel lency. The nature of his illness has not transpired. The Bishop of Jamaica, accompanied by the Rev. Duncan Campbell, his Lordship's secretary, left Port Royal on the 13th ult., i n h er Majesty'e steamer, Rosa mond, for Honduras and Nassau, N.P. THE Smeteapox.—There is no abatement whateVer of the disease in the island, but the deaths are few in pro portion to the number of sufferers, and have not ex ceeded eight or ten per week. Our accounts from St. James's, Hanover, and Westmoreland are favourable, and we trust that all other parishes in the island may be spared the calainity of a visitation similar to that which was experienced from cholera. • THE CARNIVAL IN HAVANNAH.—The carnival passed off quietly, and without incident. There was the usual number of public and private bal masques, but less mas querading in the streets than in former years. The time is gone by when the better part of the population here took part in the three days festival, and consequently their observance is on the wane. The carnival in Ha vannah now has little amusing or interesting to even a stranger: MEstroo.—The state of Mexico was said to be far from satisfactory. The.. government of General Arista was extremely unpopular, and another revolution was much feared. The Government was without money, and the Congress would not supply any. The amount for the January dividend had been scraped together with much difficulty.. It was said that a rupture with the United States was more than probable, in consequence of the refusal of the Government to carry out the Te huantepec Railway treaty. On the whole, the accounts are very unfavourable, and must affect the value of Mexican stock. nATTI.—A serious disturbance has occurred here, and a great number of arrests had taken place; and during last, week fourteen of the ringleaders were shot. A Consul-General appointed by the French Government having arrived at St. Thomas's in one of the British mail steamers, a French steamer was dispatched from Mar tinique to convey him to Port-au-Prince, and his Excel lency having arrived at that port placed himself in im mediate communication with the Government, and we aro glad to state that, through his intercession, the lives of many persons wh o h a d b een condemned' to death were ultimately spared. Intercession for the 'pardon of these prisoners had been heretofore made by the British and Spanish Consuls, but without effect. Emperor Soulouque is to be crowned on Sunday, the 18th inst., which ceremony is to take place with great pomp. . ' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer.) KINGSTON, JAMAICA, APRIL 13. The business tratasseted in this market since our issue of the 27th ult. has been of the ordinary character. With 'little inducements offering for speculative pur chases, either as regards reduction of prices, or antici pations of a permament revival of trade, dealers have simply confined their operations to the supply of their immediate wants. Stocks generally have been RA eiently ample to meet the ordinary demand, and prices have .scarcely fluctuated from our last quotations. We notice an increased dullness in the articles of sugar and rum, supplies of which are increasing in Kingston, whilst the inducements to speculate become daily less apparent. Of pimento there is very little at market. Coffee is being brought in rather freely by the small settlers. We found it necessary some numbers back to allude to the circumstances of large deficiencies having been discovered in the weights of several parcels of pork im ported into this market. More recently those deficien cies were found to extend to other articles, and the con signees of several parcels of herrings and mackerel were obliged to make allowances off the prices at which the articles were originally sold, proportionate to the extent of deficiency. It has again been brought under our notice that a re cent receipt of mackerel has been found to contain some 201 b. less in each barrel than the correct weight. We believe we may state with confidence that an effort is about being made by the dealers at Kingston to arrest the nefarious and deliberately dishonest system dis closed in the foregoing remarks, by obtaining some legislative enactment which will authorise the seizure and confiscation of all descriptions of goods which shall have been put up, like the articles above alluded to, with the view to defraud the honest trader. The duties on tobacco were reduced on the 31st nit. as follows, in accordance with the provisions of the first Import Duty Bill of the last session. The tariff, with this exception, remains unaltered. Tobacco, manufactured, per 1001. value and further per lb. weight Tobacco, Cavendish, and unmenufactnred, per 100 lb. value and further per lb. weight Cigars, per 1001. value 5O 0 0 and further per lb. weight Tobacco is in very limited inquiry. The stock of Ca vendish is exceedingly heavy, and beyond the ordinary demand. Freights —Tonnage is abundant, but employment offers very slowly. • Exchanges.- - On London—Colonial Bank-90 days, I- per cent. p r am, ; 60 days, 1 l a' cent. ; 30 d a y s , per cent. Jamaica Ba nk-90 days, par ; 60 days, per cent. prem. ; 30 days, 1 per coat. ST. LOUIS. (From the St. Louis Republican, April 20.) By the following table it will be seen that from April 20, 1851, to April 1, 1852, there have been counted at the quarantine ground nearly 14,000 immigrants who have passed to our city. The immigration hither is not at all exaggerated; the figures may, on the contrary, fall short of the actual facts, as the clerks and com manders of certain boats, occasionally fearing to become amenable to the laws for carrying more passengers, ac cording to their.tonnage, than is allowed, underrate their numbers:— Immigrants. Sick. Died. 1851—April (from 20th) 750 18 0 iTki , May ... ... 1,315 39 3 ,+,,,; -June .... ... 1,990 89 5 July . „ ... 574 8 4 August ••• 233 7 0 September ..• 38 7 0 October , ... 361 '2 1 November , ... 2,125 4 2 December ... 1,315 6 2 1852—January ... 1,139 7 1 -February ... ' 1,461 .10 2 March ... 2,501 9 0 Total 13,802 206 20 Of the above number of"iMmigants, 4,296 were tem porarily detained at quarantine, and 9,506 passed on to the city. _ • Those under the head of dead above were corpses from boats. Dr. Leavenworth is unable to give the number who have died at Quarantine Station. No list of sick or deaths, it appears, was kept until after the 13th of June—only in round numbers those who were taken from boats. These, it - is probable, where the small6i number of the sick really here. From statements of attendants during parts of May and June, the morta lity at the island must have been exceedingly great. Since the 13th of June there were but 34 deaths, exclu sive of those occurring among the patients who were sent to•theCity Hospital while the island was overflowed. The small number of arrivals during the summer months may be attributed to the fear atioong the emigrants of landing at New Orleans during the sickly season. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORE, APRIL 27.—Asiies—Sales were made of 50 brls. pots, at dolls. 5 to dolls. 5 061, and pearls at dolls. 6 314 per 1001bs. Breadstuffs—Flour moved to the extent cf 6,500 brls. State, Southern, and Western ; ordinary, at Dormer rates; fancy Genessee, at dolls. 4 811 to dolls. 5 061; fancy Ohio, at dolls. 5 061 to dolls. 5 18 . 1; extra Ohio, at dolls. 5 181 to dolls, 5 56k; and extra Genessee, at dolls. 5 184 to dolls. 5 871. per brl. There were 200 brls. Jersey and Brandy wine meal taken, at dolls. 3 25 and dolls. 3 50; while in rye flour, wheat, or barley, nothing additional was done. Domestic oats fell to 37ie. to 4 lc., and were in slow request. Rye ruled firm, 2,000 busbulg bringing 76e.; as did also corn, of which there were 13,000 bushels mixed and yellow Southern bought, at 650. to 65ic., and 66c. to 67c. ' Coffee—Excepting the disposal of 150 bags St. Do mingo, at 7ic., we have nothing to report. Copper—Yellow metal continued steady, though quiet, at 18c. per lb. Cotton—The speculative tendency of the rnatket continues without abatement, the sales to-day being about 3,500 bales, at full and extreme previous prices, with a reduced amount on sale—exhibiting an advance of lc. to lie. in the week on good qualities. The excess in receipts now amounts to 385,000 bales. The increase in exports to Great Britain is 222,000 bales; France, 75,000; other foreign ports, 49,000. Total increase in exportsi 346;000 bales. EXCIIANGES.—There has been a large demand for ex change on London and Paris, and the rates for both have advanced. On London the bulk of operations have been at 91 to 91 per cent, and on Paris, 5 20 to 5.181. MARKETS REPORTED BY TELEGRAPH. CHARLESTON, APRIL 24.—Cotton is in good de mand, and the market firm at full prices. 1,407 baits have sold. NEw ORLEANS, APRIL 24 —Cotton—Sales to-day, 5,000 bales, at very full priers. The exports to•doy have been 14,000 bales. FURTIIER FROII MEXICO, &c. BALTIMORE, APRIL 26.—The southern mail as late as due is through from New Oileans. The papers contain some further items of Mexican news of. interest. A report was very prevalent in Mexico that a pronun ciamento had been made in Vera Cruz, but - it origi nated entirely in the fears of such an event, produced by the excitement at Vera Cruz, on the 'tariff subject. Go vernment evidently became alarmed, and by the energetic remonstrances from Vera Cruz and Tampico the effect is seen in the re-establishment of the old tariff at Matanaoros. _ _ _ An important commercial prder relative to Port Car men has been published. It provides that vessels coming from foreign ports, after having discharged cargoes at Vera Cruz, may proceed to Carmen, load with dyewood, return to Vera Cruz, and receive passengers without being obliged , to pay tonnage duties twice in the latter port. A Bill had been introduced in Congress extending for ten years the right granted to the.city of 'Tampico of imposing a tax of a bit a barrel on imported foreign front. It is said that' the Ministry of War had been oared to General La Vega and that as soon as his acceptance is . received Senor Bibles, the present Minister, will resign. THE PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND LEGISLA TURE PROROGUED. ST. JOHN'S, N. 8., APRIL 25.—The Legislature of Prince Edward's Island was prorogued on the 3d inst. Thirty-six Acts were passed during the session; among them an Act to provide for the careof idiots, &c., and for the encouragement of education. (From the New York Herald.) IMPORTANT FROM CUBA—RECALL OF GE NERAL CONCHA, AND ARRIVAL OF HIS SUCCESSOR. Wo received on Friday some rather important infor mation of the passing history of the island of Cuba. The sudden and unexpected retrieval of the able, ,distin guished, and honest General Concha, throug h the in fluence of the combined intrigues Originating in Madrid and Savannah, has thrown much light o n the subject of the evils under which Cuba has been labouring for many years past. From thence it seems that for several years back the governing coterie of Savannah, consisting of Catalans and slave traders, have been the agents, and under the influence of Queen Christina of Spain, and have maintained themselves by that ifluence, not only against the honest intentions and patriotic endeavours of General Concha, but against ell others who wish to re concile the difference between the Creole inhabitants and the Spanish Government. • • A purer and nobler man never set his foot in autho rity on the island of. Cuba than the late governor. li e has been sacrificed to avarice, to barbarity, to corruption ' and to the intrigues . between the slinave- trade . of Cuba and the agents o f Queen Christina . -_,----_ FRENCH PLATS, ST. JAME S 'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince, Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hop. Mi ss Seymour, Lord Polwarth, Lord Charles . Fitzroy, and colonel onoured the Highnesslay with their preserice on Pridar Gordon,' Her Royal the . Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary of Cambi•yLlge, attended by the Countess of Suffield and the Baron Knesebeck, also honoured the French Plays with their presence. There were also present g, the Earl of Shelburne, q in uis of Normanhy, Marquis the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Countess Wald . egrave, Lady Villiers, the Wilson, Bon. Jaw(' L il a n d e y r Gibson, Mr. Edward Mr. Henry Baring, Mrs. Guidon, Eofa Countess G Stafford, n d v ief: Lady 0: ' an ! , a d. h Lya a oL u r dlc::t:Le Coke, Kaye,r d ili, C rm. nai Milner Islacdonald, Hon. James Ellis, Hon. Mr. Vivian, Hon. John s Dir. Normau Illacdottald, Ilr. Edward L'll Mr. jun, Bco. Ice , AFAnOddrotiep3shfiulls ss ei Oj3Q all 1 g, h , ROYAL ARTILLERY: WOOLWICII, MAY B.—The officers of the Royal Re ciment of Artillery gave a grand ball cn Thursday night last, which was attended by about 500 of the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, and the dancing was kept up with great spirit to the music of the excellent band of the Royal Artillery until a late hour on the fol lowing morning. The whole of the Royal Artillery in the garrison as sembled on Wednesday last, and went through their evolutions in light marching order, and all the troops in the garrison will assemble shortly after nine o'clock on Thursday next, the 13th inst., ineludivg the Woolwich division of Chelsea Pensioners, that day havin g m b , decided upon for the celebration of her jesteen ya birthday. The sanction of her Majesty's G6verninent has been obtained for an augmentation of te Bo w s d l A atr r i t b il u le te ry d a o s f 1,000 men and 135 horses, w hich are follows: 35 g unnors, 11 drivers, To he Royal horse Art iller y , t and 35 horses. To the battalions, 954 gunners and drivers. To the batteries, 100 horses. TUE wooLwica DIVISION (,F CHELSEA I'ENSIONER3. The following divisional orders have been issued c—. • " Woolwich, May The Woolwich division of enrolled pensioners will assemble on Thursday, the 13th inst., at a quarter before nin • c o'clock A . f for the celebration of h er M ajesty's , birthday. " Nos. 'I and 2 companies will receive their clothing, &c., on Monday, the 10th instant, the unemployed men from 10 to 1 . o'clock, the e m pl oyed from 5 to 7 o'clock. m Nos. 3 and 4 companies, buglers, drummers fifers, will receive their clothing, ece on Tu Xs' and ay, the 1 1th instant , the unemployed from 1 . 0 to 1 o'clock, fled t he employed from 5 to 7 o'clock. When the men assemble to receive their clothing they will bring with them the necessaries ordered by' the Secretary at War. .4 The one-half of the enrolment money will be paid on the, Queen's birthday, and the other half at the ter mination of the spring drill. " No. 1 company will assemble for drill on Tuesday, the 18th, and Wednesday, the I9th. " No. 2 company on Thursday, the 20th, and Friday, the 21st. " No. 3 company on Saturday, the 22d, and Monday, the 24th. " No. 4 company on:Tuesday, the 25th, and Wednes day, the 26th. " The whole force will assemble for battalion drill on Thursday, the 27th, Friday, the 28th, S a t ur day, the 29th, Monday, the 31st o f Wednesday, the 2d of Alay, Tuesday, the Ist, and line) and will assemble at 8 o'clock." TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION THIS MORNING:-: — One of the most extensive fires that has occurred in the borough of Southwark fora considerable period broke out about one o'clock in the large seed factory belonging to Messrs. Hay man and Co., situate in what is termed the Grove, a tract of ground of vast dimensions, and literally covered - with fac tories. The building in which the disaster commenced was separated from another of equal size, belonging to Messrs. Yates, by a v er y narrow pathway, w hil s t the extensive ironfoundry of Messrs. Austin flanked one end of the first. named property. Nearly a dozen powerftf engines arrived almost simultaneously; b u t the fire, comparatively 'unre strained at - any point, continued to spread. Hoverer, half-past two all d anger o f an y extension of emischief was over, extin guished for some h ours . So great was the cro wd over, but th ere seeme d no c h anc e of•getiing w th a t about 100 constables and I ns pector Townsend were required to keep them out of danger. PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT. ~ _ gold from the Alla} rat= --The son of a Liver pool gentleman, writing . home he succeeded in getting diggings, states that in so' w ee ksate of 31. per ounce. would 1501 b. of gold, which, at the r ,00/. a•week ,— Liverpool be worth 7,2001. sterling, .or .. ". 4 AfercurY, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (corriNuEn ON BroN , A t .N h 'D e T w e E n D an N t ES it n ig A h v 1 WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On ednesday t: D ic A 5 T lend) Bill was th rown out on the second reading by 167 W t )(Ire to 37 ; than which no other kind of conclusion can be expected, till the principle is more clearly defined and more cautiously lissitsd then at present On Thersdey the debate cn the Militia Bill was re sumed in Corninifto. The determination of the Govern ment to retain the coinpufsury clauses (which impose the ballot in case of the required number failing to be raised by voluntary enlistment) hangs only by a single thread; which might have been fractured on Thursday night, by a lit:le concentration upon the point. The Government has consented to make these clauses inope rative until the commencement of the new year. What then would it have to lose, by leaving them to be en acted, if foued necessary, by the new Parliament? Surely a railiainent with t`.e facts of the necessity before it, tees: be better able to judge than a Parliament acting in the svay it prep'nece j ; and if the thing is then f oun d necessary, mesh better able to pass the measure. Whet the Government wend have to gain, is plain enough. It would gain the riddance of an unpopular proceeding for the present., and quash half the resistance of the public to its Bill.: For the fact, whether rightly cr wrongly, is, that the public cares very little about the men who enlist for money, or what is mime quently to be done to them, compared with its anxiety upon the possible results of taking its friends and re leaves by force from their civil occupations, and sub jecting them to punishment in the awkward squads of a local militia: regiment. A time for pressing this point will be, when the subject is raised of the liability of Local Militiamen to corporal punishment under the Mutiny Act. The Secretary for the Home Department intimated when the point was touched upon, that such punishment was a matter hardly coming within the compass of probability. The best way of parrying which, would he to call to life the pamphlets, not without decorations by the wood-engraver's art, wherein was set forth the tragedy (oculis suhjecta fidelibus as the ancients have it) of tee Local Militiamen who were punished by the lash under the superintendence of the German Legion, and for commenting too sharply upon which, William Cobbett for a considerable space was doomed to walk the night, and day too, in purgatory of durance vile. A popular dwelling upon this subject, would as suredly drive out the compulsory clauses. On the same night the Property Tax Bill was read a second time and committed. There is a manifest move ment in Parliamentary opinion, hostile to indirect taxa tion; which if th e people, mean i ng t h ere b y th e nume rous and W or ki ng Classes, had the genius to take up, it might lead them to "something to their advantage." One important circumstance in the debate resulting, was that the Ch ancellor of the Exchequer took the second occasion, t o L protest against anything he had said upon the Budget being interpreted h s e in ,e, ivoehnai event cif f rthough engagementtheh coming elections p u tti ng i t within not to restor e th e C orn reach. Fo , he La avoided using t h e term " Corn genuine con s t ruct i on of what ' be t s al s 'd was l t lis e party sense and press him inopp ort unely, —that is to say, for them selves, but not for oth ers . If he could have been let alone, he would have gone to the electioes with such in ferences as men might have chosen to draw from his speech upon the Budget. If any in their weakness bad inferred, that all contest was at an end, and there was no reason why one man should not be elected as well as another if he made as fair a show, it would have been a severe judg e w h o would have found iu this much for which he could be blamed. But his party have driven him from this ground. They have demanded that he should come forward, not once but repeatedly, and say distinctly, " Ladies and gentle men, we are bound to give notice, that we mean to restore the Corn Laws, or else pay ourselves in some other way, so soon as you at the elections shall have given us the power. We beg you to make no mistake ou this. We present ourselves at the elections, under promise to re store the Corn Laws if you will only let us." It is to be hoped this fairness on one side, will be met by equal in telligence en the other. At this moment, there is hardly a constituency where somebody is not canvassing under something very much like an error on this subject. It is of high importance, that this should be corrected; and the reiterated decla ration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is perhaps the best remedy that can be put in by way of cure. On Friday, on the motion for goiug into Committee on the Bill, a desultory debate ensued on all imeginablo subjects. One of the most important results, was that the Protectionists took a third occasion for declaring their immovable determination to restore the Corn Laws, or impose such substitute as their power should admit, when they had tried the fortune of the Elections. Of course they did not use the term " Cern Laws;" but they said the thing in so unmistakeable a way, that any man ought to be driven to market between two hampers of greecs, who acts under the slightest mis apprehension of what it is they intend. They declare with all the energy of virtue, that their honour, their word, their respectability, are engaged to the full re storation of all they defended when in opposition, and that nothing can excuse their leaving:a hoof of it behind, except the failure of power. Their " Mystery-man" the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in the situa tion of a squadron-officer who is ridden over by his men behind him. He would have conducted the affair more quietly; but his followers insist on marching to surprise your post with trumpets sounding. And yet for all this, you will see there are men who will be deceived, or will pretend to be. in Committee the hon. member for Manchester raised e most effective debate upon the punishments to be inflicted on Militiamen. If there is among your as socia tea a dread and disinclination to the ballot, I re pest the intimation that it may be thrown out if they will take the trouble of directing public attention to the Cobbett case. Do you see clearly what the question hangs by? The Government says, "W o have agreed the ballot shall not come into operation before next year, and that is all the ssme as if we left it to be enacted by Parliament next year." You will reply (for lam sure you will), that it is not all the same; that there is a wide difference between enacting a bad thing now at guess, and leaving it to be enacted, if found inevitable, by a Parliament which shall have the case before its eyes. blight you not as well be asked to vote the expenses of a European war eieht months hence? And is not the ready answer, that it is quite enough if Parliament votes them when the eight months are over? The effect of voting the ballot note, is to secure the power. There are tenfold chances of a thing being put in execu tion, when a vote has paFsed for it. Therefore stick to the suegestion given, and you will find the ballot will be left for the next Parliament. The Bill for Ale to Electors, was refused a reading by 77 to 61. It is worth observin g , how snu g l y this Bi ll was wra pped up in the printed proceedings of the Hou se , Generalcalied osni,maonßyi,l! would suppose that either malt or hops were in it. It is lay under the this.. of "County Elections Bill." . Nobody to legalize what barren h ,t o y f na a rd should have been thrown out v,it a good sign, that , on . the t ev iv e i strong expressions of aversion by the House. I am , Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD ItEVORMER. BlaCkheath, May 10,1852. 1-Acielr STATION. Ott oaflDlderh•ae ~ t 9 solicit the Lid of The "Very Re a l, pier cia l i a r : s s: ri T c ( 7:7 i a ) r o t w A r .. , N i n r: s t r € e t , Friday a deputation welted on the E arl breakwater h i 3 cifi a - t Go vernment for the construction et the port of Galway. object°, the plan, the estimate, .. Ur. Daly explained the proposed undertaking, and then and the advantages of the sections ot the pier -and t real; exhibited several plans and supported by. Mr. Edainn • " s A titer. He was followed and M.P. The Earl of Der! ti .la Flaherty and Mr. Revn av 1 Ws, vantageous the ' , n reply, said that., however a proposed wee , at :id view f , ie must, on the part of it might be in a kcal point of as an imperial question, and Government, consider it solely be considered, aster all, itsview it in regard to what must meut of a Transatlantic ultimate objects—the establish- Now th 3 commiesione packet station in the west of Ireland. two ports et tl'e r6 to inquire into this question had se lectedmerit—ualway, and . _western coast cf Ireland, as of equal could not, l'°Ynes on the Shannon. The Govern ment of these therefore , consent to any grant for the im provement which of them pO9. ports, until they had first ascertained station, with due • possessed the greatest advantages for a packet consideration, of course, to the expenditure that would be required to render those advantages available. With the vi •ew of ascertaining this, the Govern ment had de termined to scud th ree nava l ollicers, upon whose knowledge and impartiality they could place full reliance, to report Upon the relati ve a d van t ages o f the two ports — Galway and "Dies. When he had that report before him he would be prepared to give an answer to the prayer of the petition pre sented by the deputation. But the deputation would, he trusted, hilly understand that he did not, at ' , resent, pledge the Government to anything beyond the appointment of the Commission of Inquiry he had mentioned, Mr. O'Flaherty, on the part of the deputation, expressed their readiness to abide the result of any inquiry into the merits of the Bay of Galway, and gratefully acknowledged the kindness with which they bad been received.—Telegrapk. Advices have been received from Australia to the 24th of January, being a fortnight later than those by the India mail. They contain no consecutive intelligence, but it appears that news had just arrived of the discovery of gold i n N ew Zealand, in the island of Waiheki, about 15 miles east of Auckland. The Deputy-Governer was stated to have sailed for the spot for the purpose of collecting information and specimens, and further details were expected in the course of a few days. From the New South Wales mines the reports seem to be very favourable, and abun dant ipstances of individual success continue to be cited, while according to the last accounts received at Sydney, the yield at I'ort Philip (Victoria), notwithstanding the wart of meter, was almost equal to any former experi ence. The price of gold has slightly recovered, the quota tion, being 635. to 635. 9d. per ounce. The Oriental had sailed for London on the 20th of January, with 19,150 ounces, and the Catherine Jamieson, on the 22d, with 4,291 ounces. The total export from Syd ne y bad now reached 702,895!. Mr. Hargraves had left on a new journey of disco very to the northward, and would probablyexplore the whole country as far as Moreton Bay. The import market had shown more steadiness, stocks' f several descriptions of con stumble goods being ligt. the wool trade there had been no great activity, and prices would be regulated ahnolt entirely by the statements from England. The present ac counts are yid 'Valparaiso, at which port there had been an arrival from Sydney, with dates as late as Feb. 1. THE MURDER OF 14014 D Noaßulty.—A soldier of the 67th depot, quartered at Dover Heights Barracks, while confined at the guard-house on Monday eight last, contested to the sergeant of the g uard bein g the murderer of th e l ate Lord Norburv, in Ireland, same 10 years s i nce, in his par e . The man stated that h e a b et th at noon day, no in blean, and gave a detailed account of the murder (which ' e unfortunate ' the sergeant ver y p ro perly committed u pre sence of two men of the gnard); and to writing in the l oca lity in which ;he murder way as he comes from the bability of the truth of his d perpetrated, there is a pro entered the army after a missions. He adds that he were committing the deed. immediately Communic ations forwarded by Major Deverill, the commanding officer of t the civil authorities, the 67th, t o th e Horse Guards and in the , and the man is now in very close con finementard-house, at the Western Heights , await ing the results of inquiries which have been set on foot. Our Superintendent et Police, Mr. Ceram, has forwarded a copy of the depositions of . the sergeant and men, as well as a full descri lion , Jo .of the prisoner, to the (Ala Corami:slattat or.. t lice, Utdilin,.-Pover Citroitick. , iiiiti. , 4--1 [ IA 21 3 3 A 41 59. )4 5 2 42 1 76 .11)