The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

MRS. BRAY'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols. post B vo. , T RIALS OF DOMESTIC LIFE. By MRS. BRAY. Author of " The White Floods," " Trelawny," &c. 'Henry Colburn, publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Under the PATROIiAGB of HER MAJESTY, and R.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. The QUEEN having graciously sanctioned a NIGHT'S PER FORMANCE at her Majesty's Theatre, for the BENEFIT of the DISTRESSED ARTISANS of the hETROPOLIS, an EXTRA NIGHT will be given on THURSDAY next, March 23. A list of the Patrons, and full details of the Entertainments on this occasion, will be published forthwith. Applications for foxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office of the Theatre. ILIZ MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-IdOENOW EVENING, Will be partrmed (for the first time in this country) Yerdi's new Opera, entitled ATTILA. The principal characters :—Odabella, 3ldlle. Soils Cruvelli ; Fo rest°, Sig. Gardont ; Esio, Sig. Cuzzani ; 171dino, Sig. Guidi; Leone, Sig. Solari ; and Attila, Sig. Belletti. The Scenery by Mr, C. Marshall. The dresses by Miss Bradley and Mr. Whales, under the superintendence of Mdme. Copero. To eon:dude with the highly successful P allet, in Fear Tableaus, entitled FIORITA, et la Reine des Elfridec, The music by Sig. Pug - ni ; the scenery by Mr. C. Marshall ; the appointments by Mr. Bradwell ; the costumes by 311ss Bradley and Nr. Whales, under the superintendence of Madame Copere. Prins i pal parts by Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mesdlls. Esther Autundon, The venot, Julienne, Lamoreux, Jrany, and Mdllo. Marie Taglioni ; MM. Dor, Venefra, Gouriet, and Di Mettle. Applications for Boxes, stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. Doors open at kalf-past Swan, the Opera to commences at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURT-LANIA. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. THIS EVENING, Various acts of EQUITATION GYMNASTIC EXERCISES, &c., &e., by the entire Troupe. To conclude with TILE QUADRILLE of the FOUR QUARTERS of the GLOBE, by thefollowing Ladles and Gentlemen :—lSLesdlis. Coraline, Mathilde, Docos, Florentine —Messieurs Loisset, Lambert, 'locos, and Gautier. Poore open at half-Past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. Second price, fladf-past Nine. TELEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Us Icr the Management of Mr. NING, B. Webster, sole Lessee. TIIIS EV,E wlll be performed Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Characters by Messrs. Farren, Tilbury, 11. Farrell, Keeley, Brindal ; Mrs. Glover, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Mrs. Nisbett. After which, SWEETHEARTS and WIVES. To conclude with the Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. Sta;e Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Ralf-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction o; Madame Celesta. 'FILLS EVENING Will be performed TZE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. To be tollowed by a new and original Farce, entitled OUR NA TIONA L DEFENCES ; or, the Cockshot Yeomanry. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford. Sanders ; Ma came Celeste, Miss Emma Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. 're conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Muuyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Cksoi)rt will perform. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. rire open at Hall-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Uader the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will ho performed a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A iSAD JUDGE. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN ISRA Null. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hall, Harley, Ker ridge, Madame Vestris, Niles K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamera. To conclude with a new Piece, entitled DONE ON L'OTH SIDES. ese Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Fit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. lie halt-price to any part of the house. 21 , e ',Kew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, trom Ten till Six. The Interior of the llon.se has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. adwell of the Colosseum. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33., OA Bond-street. THIS EVENING The Entertainments will commence at Eight •'clock with Mazere's popular Com,dy of LE JE LINE MAItI. Oscar, M. Mon taland. To conclude with LN rEcHE AUX BEAU PERES. Dorothee, Madlle. Nathalle. Boxes and Stalls may be obtahrd at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. P RINC ESS'S THE ATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland. place. MR. MACREADY AND MISS FANNY KEMBLE. TH IA EVENING, Will be performed KING LEAR. After which a new Interlude called MAMMON and GAMMON. To conclude with the Musical Piece of " NO." Sir George Doubt- All, Mr. Bodda ; Commodore Hurricaxe, Mr. ; Maria, Miss E. Stanley. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2e. ; Gallery, Is. STRAND THEATRE. NEW MANAGEMENT. GREAT ATTRACTION.-OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING Tt'.e perfbrmances will commence with Donlzetti's Opera, THE - DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Tonio, Mr. D. King; Ser geant Sulpizio, Mr. Berrani; Ortensio, Mr. It. Romer; Spontins, Mr. H. Horncastle ; Marla, Miss Poole. .Ater which a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, by Ai dile. Louise Blanche, Miss Cushnie, and Mr. W. Smidt. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, called TILE GRUMM LESES ; or, A Rehearsal Rehearsed. Nicholas Nickleby, Mr. Summers ; Mr. Lenville, Mr. Oxberry ; Sallie, Miss J. Coleman; Mrs. Cruirmileo, Mrs. L. Rede. 'the whole to conclude wish the Farce of THE LOST LETTER. Principal characters by Messrs. Oxberry, Horacaetle, Miss Jame Coleman, and Mm. L. Redo. Private Zoxes, 11. Is. ; Boxes, 41. ; Stalls, Is. ; Pit, 25. ; Gal lery, Is. half-price at „Klee o'clock. ♦cting and Stage Manager, Mr. Oxberry. XOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mn.s F. Davidge, ti;. 1, DAyidge-terrace,Keisingten-read, Surrey. THIS EVENING. Will be performed VENICE PRESERVED. Pierre, Mr. T. Evans ; Jaffler, Mr. Elphiastone ; Belvidera, Mrs. R. Gordon. After which a Serie* of Tableaux Vivans of the la.:e REVOLU TION IN PARIS. To be followed by FEMALE POACHERS. John Meadows, Mr. %V. J. Hammond. To conclude with ICINGS RICHARD YE THIRD. • Boxes 2a. ; Pit Is. ; Gallery, 6(1. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Fourth Week of the New Gorgeous lipeetaele. THIS EVENING, The New Gorgeous Spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS, with all its splendid appointments, kc. To be followed by, and the evening's entertainments to terminate with A GRAND EQUESTRIAN FETE, in which the Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes will appear each evening in their peculiar %rid iacomparable Feats and brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Box-ofilce open from 11 till 5. Stage Maaager, Mr. W. West. THE TIIIRD EDITIONS TII E S UN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. : E WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, MARCH 17. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 37. BAROMETER, 29.37.—W1ND S.S.E.; much rain. tit..ii WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. mornin;.. 58 minutes after 11. j Evening .. • minutes after 0, - " A. • 4 1 \V 110t. 'ee :t< l I 17 11111 - - inning ..-Z-'3llllt LONDON, FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1648. Unhappily for the poorer classes of England, the benevolent projeets of Lord ASHLEY are generally impracticable, because they are conceived in a spirit of exaggerated munificence. In striving to benefit his fellow-creatures with a superabounding generosity the noble representative of Bath very frequently fails in his endeavour, and actually tends to retard their amelioration when he is most solicitous to secure their happiness. This circumstance has been illustrated throughout the whole of his political career—it has rendered many of his aspirations visionary, and much of his patriotism useless—it has been his vice as a statesman, and his virtue as a philanthropist. We never recollect an occasion upon which this fact re ceived a snore positive illustration than it slid in the House of Commons, yesterday evening. Lord ASHLEY then and there brought before Parliament a series of resolutions based upon the voluminous evi dence obtained in 1844 before the Medical Relief Committee. Those resolutions were intended by him to counteract a variety of evils pressing every day most heavily upon the humbler ranks of the commu nity—they were resolutions such as could alone have been originated by a man profoundly anxious to scatter blessings over the land through the medium of a benign and beneficent legislation. Each one of them is creditable to the Noble representative of Bath in as far as the spontaneous promptings of his heart are concerned ; but inasmuch as they are altogether beyond the capabilities of Government, they say very little indeed for the correctness of his judgment. One after another these resolutions were laid before the Com mons—four of them were rejected in succession, and ~• . in consequence the remaind er were w ithd rawn —th e 1, " , ---.- • Noble Lord despairing of the fulfilment of any one , ..-- -- , -:i of his Anticipations. -:-7 - -r- r: • 'pion o bear in remembrance th e e l oquen t an d .F..',----.:,‘_. - a a r ii r , peech delivered on the sth of June, 1847, C;c : -..,, t.."1- :- . ) in theAomber of Peers, by the Count DE A10NT1\,..4.-k \,.. 4 . -k umusiuri-an oration in which that gifted Nobleman J . 3 8 THE SUN, LONDON disp ayed an astonishing industry and an exquisite ambition for benevolence—will examine, with peculiar interest, the kindred sentiments enun ciated last night in the House of Commons in regard to the reforms which are proved to be easels -621 for the furtherance of the medical profession. Those sentiments, moreover, were expressed yester day by a congenial spirit—by a man congenial in disposition, in station, and in popularity, if not in age, in religion, and in intellectual acquirements. It is not impossible to give a very abbreviated cata logue of the different propositions laid before Parlia ment by Lord ASHLRY, all of them having reference to the necessities of the impoverished population, and some of them casting an inferential obloquy upon the present mode of affording assistance to the unfortunate. Lord ASHLEY at the ♦ery com mencement appals the economic sensibilities of Par liament, by propounding a scheme of obstetric bene volence, such as would necessitate a magnificent disbursement. He suggests that Government should gratuitously provide all the aids of midwifery, wherever they may be demanded from the parochial authorities ! Another of the resolutions proposed by the Noble Lord, the Member for Bath, was for the appointment of a competent Medical Inspector in each district to which an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner had been already attached ! Here was another splendid opportunity for an increased expenditure ! here was a de lightfully extravagant way of forwarding the sanitary movement—a way so simple in its com plexity—and so seductive in its costliness Nay, but exclaims Lord ASHLEY, there are no less than 3,000 poor-law medical officers who have already been ap pointed, and surely it were desirable to preserve a supervision over a body numerically so extensive, and to whose discretion are entrusted such onerous responsibilities. Granted; and it were equally desirable to have an army of Government railway inspectors posted at every station on every railway in the United Kingdom for the purpose of watching over the safety of her MAJesar's lieges, and preventing the possibi lity of an accident. But the expense !—in each case, the expense ! There are a variety of plans which would be especially desirable in the different departments of the Legislature, against the adoption of which the pecuniary involvements of the empire are clamorous ; and it is precisely because Lord ASHLEY has not at tempted to render the national prudence compatible with the national benevolence, that his resolutions of yesterday evening proved so entirely unsuccessful. What the country requires is not so much the balm of an obstetric innovation, or the syrup of a well-natured appointment. The community wants rather tonics and detergents, than balsams and opiates : it wants the improvement of drainage and the better purification of its abodes, both in regard to light, water, and ventilation. It was principally from the pre-occupation of the minds of our Legislators by a conviction of the existence of these sanitary wants, that a more serious at tention was not devoted last night to the beneficent propositions of Lord ASHLEY, and that the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Chief Commissioner of the Poor-law was permitted to waive off his assailants with such inimitable non chalance. Let Mr. CHARLES BULLIR, however, be prepared for the worst. He has yet to say his catechism. We were among those who sympathised most ar dently in the great contest for reform, we were among those who exulted most heartily in the result of that great struggle—nevertheless, we are at times almost inclined to doubt the existence of the events which we witnessed at that period, and, more espe cially, to doubt the reality of the triumph in which we then rejoiced. We can with difficulty believe in the events of '32 when we witness the abuses which yet exist in '4B. For example, how can we credit the efficacy of " reform" when we listen to a petition such as that presented b y Mr. Woos) ? The Hon. and Learned Member for Oxford has presented a petition to the House of Commons from the independent electors of the borough of Stamford. And what is the prayer of that petition ? The electors solicit the protection of the House of Com mons, or, if not, their own " disfranchisement 1' Is it astonishing, then, that we are incredulous as to the benefits of reform ? Is it astonishing, then, that we ask of what avail was that mighty struggle which agitated the whole nation with one universal and simultaneous impulse—which triumphantly re-in stated a defeated Ministry in office—which shook the House of Peers to its very foundation, and which finally overspread these kingdoms with hope and exultation, and led the friends of the people to be lieve that the people's liberties were secure, and a fitting representation assured to them ? Either those expectations and assurances were extremely falla cious, or the prayer of the electors of Stamford is incomprehensible. Either the disfranchisement of Old Sarum was utterly fruitless and ineffectual, or the necessity for the disfranchisement of Stamford is a delusion. We would fain believe in the latter alternative ; we would fain believe that the electors of Stamford have no sufficient grounds for putting forward their petition. Mew stands the case ? What are the reasons which they allege ? The electors of Stamford assert that a member of the House of Peers, the Marquis of EXETER, ex ercises " undue influence " in their election of representatives to serve in Parliament for their borough, thereby " violating the law and the consti tution." In proof of this assertion it is added, that in the recent election all those tenants of the Noble Marquis who refused to vote in accordance with his wishes received forthwith " notice to quit," and in corroboration of this assertion it is, furthermore, stated that some houses are already deserted and shut up, and that numerous tenants are about to " quit and deliver up possession" at Lady-day. Such is the case made out by the electors of Stamford, but as we have al ready said, we desire to disbelieve it. Is it not possible that the Marquis of EMEITER . has, in some way or other (though how is not very conceivable) been subjected to misrepresentation ? We must acknowledge, however, that most certainly our " wish is father to the thought." One thing, nevertheless, is certain. It is due to the Marquis of EXETER, if these reports be false—it is due to the inhabitants of Stamford, if these reports be true—and it is due to truth and justice, and to the enfranchised electors of the whole three kingdoms, whether the reports be false or true, that the matter should be fully inves tigated, and the facts clearly ascertained. In pur suance of this most equitable design the Hon. and Learned Member for Oxford gave notice last night that he should on Thursday, the 30th March, move for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the affair. Consequently to the careful scrutiny and consideration of the Committee we must, for the present, entrust the matter; we shall await the result of their deliberation with no inconsiderable impa tience and anxiety. Their decision will be neither insignificant ner unimportant, for it concerns, not merely the election at the borough of Stamford, but it must affect elections at very many boroughs in the three kingdoms. That Peers do influence the return of Members of the Lower House is undeniable, but that legally and rightfully they should not exercise such an influence is equally undeniable. Let it not be urged by way of excuse, ;that, in acting as Lord Exs-ratt is said to have acted, for example, they merely " do what they like with their own." We defy any one to substantiate such an assertion. When the landlord summons his tenant to give his vote as authoritatively as he calls upon him to pay his rent, does he only demand " his own ?" When the landlord orders his tenant to violate his conscience as carelessly as he would tell him to plough a piece of ground, does he only dispose of what is "his own?" \Vhen the landlord summarily ejects his tenant from his domicile for his non-performance of terms which were not in " the bond," does he only, again we ask it, does he only do mhat he likes with his own ?'' Justly may we call them terms "not in the bond," f or as truly as the "one drop o f Christian blood" was not included in " the pound of flesh" treated of in Shy lock's bond, so surely is the free will and con science of a British subject not to be disposed of by any act of agreement which the ambition of a landlord could suggest, or the servility of a tenant be disposed to comply with. Liberty of conscience is not to he regarded as rent, the non-surrender of which must necessitate the tenant's dismissal. But it is late in the day to dilate on such subjects now ; their truth is too obvious to require demonstration, and, what is more, their truth is too universally admitted to require enforcement. That that truth must not only be admitted, but acted upon, and that, too, right speedily, is indubitable. We had hoped to have seen it acted upon fifteen years ago, but fifteen years have passed, and yet the houses of Stamford are made tenantless! Let there be no more such delays. When the Committee . of inquiry shall have decided as to the facts of the recent proceedings at Stamford, then, if the decision concur with the state ment of the electors, let the enfranchised citizens of the whole kingdom combine to emulate the con duct of the ejected tenants of Stamford—those " Village Hampdens that with dauntless breast The petty tyrant of their fields withstood.' Let them combine in resolving to exercise the uncon trolled use of their elective franchise, and to resist alike every attempt at corruption or intimidation. Then will they be entitled to elect a House of Par liament worthy and willing to be their fit represen tatives. Such a proceeding, undoubtedly, will not fail, if all else do, in demonstrating to those who are yet in ignorance the real differences and distinctions which exist between meum and tuum. We venture to hope, moreover, that there really are few landlords in the habit of acting as Lord EXETER is said to do ; if there be, we can only offer for them one wish. In the lengthened debates which took place in the House of Lords on the eventful question of passing the Reform Bill, it happened on one occasion, when the Reformers were in a minority, that the house did not separate until the light of morning made itself visible. On observing it, Lord GREY, still sanguine, though for the time defeated, expressed an earnest hope that, in like manner, the light of day might ere long break in upon their Lordships' minds. Similar is the wish we form for all illiberal land lords ; let us hope that it may be as speedily realised as was that of the Reforming Minister. Letters from Berlin, of the 15th instant, state the intelligence of the late events in Paris reached the Emperor of Russi.► on the Ist instant, by means of the telegraph established on the line between Warsaw and Petersburgh. The French papers which arrived in that capital in due course on the 3d were stopped at the Post-office, while the Gazette of St. Peters burgh announced that its daily publication would cease until the 7th instant. This sudden suspension of the official journal struck every one with conster nation ; but, in the mean time, the members of the nobility and foreign residents succeeded in learning the details of the Revolution from their friends in the different embassies. In this way the whole city was gradually informed as to what had occurred at Paris, and, as may readily be imagined, was thrown into a state of the greatest private excitement. LOLA MOTE attempted to enter Munich on the 9th inst., dressed in male attire. She was discovered, arrested, and sent to Lindau under escort. The Elector of HESSE CASSEL has acceded to all the demands of the people. It is said that disturbances have broken out in Hanover. The German Gazette of Heidelberg of the 13th instant publishes an address from several citizens, in viting all the members of the German Constitutional States, ancient or modern, to assemble at Frankfort on-the-Maine, on the 30th inst., to deliberate on the bases of a German national representation adopted at a meeting of the members of the states held recently in that city. The Cologne Gazette of the 15th instant contains the following statement : " The accounts from Vienna, which are to the 10th inst., add but little to what we are already in possession of. The general agitation and mistrust had not di minished. The pubic in the provinces were not less terrified. Shopkeepers had been enjoined to receive bank notes as caih. It was added that the Government would exchange them immodiateiy for specie, but even this promise could not induce the shopkeepers to take bank notes in exchange for their goods. It is said that Prince Metternich is indisposed." The Patric: of the Eth instant states, the new Nea politan Ministry is composed as follows :—Prinee Cariati, President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Wimspear, Minister of War ; Sa varese, the Interior; Cianciulli, Agriculture and Commerce ; Cacale, Justice ; Guisa, Public Works. A letter from Milan, dated the 9th, mentioned the diffusion of a report in that city that the Court of Vienna had sent its ultimatum to the Cabinet of Turin, with an intimation that if it were not accepted on or before the 20th it would declare war against Sardinia. The Governor of Milan has replied to the Central Congregation. Some of the concessions demanded he rejects, and others he refers to a commission—an indefinite adjournment, which has caused general dis satisfaction. This refusal of demands so moderate and legitimate will give the Italians some idea of what they may expect from Austria. The Alba, Dth instant, announces that Monsignor COCLE, ex-Confessor to the King of NAPLES, has been arrested at Castellamare. Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have been received. In the Senate the discussion on the Bill for giving to the Ministers dictatorial power had been brought to a close. MADRID BOMA, Afeacet 10.—The Three per Cents. were done at 25i at 30 days; the Five per Cents. at 14i for cash; the Debt without Interest at si; and the Coupons at 10 for paper. REVOLUTION WURTEMBURG. A peasant's war has broken out in Germany. The castles of Niederstetten Oehringen, two signorial residences of the Princes of Hohenlohe, have been burnt to the ground. Nor have the boors respected the ancient castle of Jaxthausen, on the Jaxt, which for centuries has been in the possession of the BERLICHINGEN family, and has been immortalized by GOJTJJE, by his description of its defence by iron fisted GoTz. The village belonging to it also has been reduced to ashes. The castle of Assumstadt, the family residence of the Barons of ELLRIOIIBHAU• SEN, and the castle of Sohwaiggern, the residence of Count NEirrinta, son-in-law of the King of Wria- TEMBURG, have been razed to the ground. The lives of the inhabitants have been spared. The stewards of the castles in question were compelled to throw the archives into the flames with their own hands ; and some men of education are evidently in the ranks of the peasants, as the device of the Hohenlohes, ex jiammis orior, was ironically changed into exilamtnis morior. Two thousand men have been ordered, in all haste, from Ludwisburg and Heilbronn, to quell thia insur rection. LINCOLN ELECTION. FINAL CLOSE OF TIIE POLL, FOUIL O'CLOCK. llobhouse Iluaz fray —...,„ Majority for Hobhouse 53 ST. PATRICK'S DAL—This, the lrth of March, being the day consecrated to the patron saint of Ireland, was celebrated in those quarters of the metropolis where the lower classes from the Sister Island locate, with fun and feasting; while in many of the Catholic churches solemn mass and service was performed by the resident priests. At St. Patrick's Chapel, Soho, high mass was conducted by Dr. Wiseman. A very considerable number of the worshippers wore the emblem of the Trinity, the three-leaved shamrock. NEWCASTLE, WEDNESDAT NIGHT.--This evening a preliminary meeting of Mr. T. E. Hesdlam's consti tuents was hold in Wilkie's Temperance Hotel, New castle, when motions in condemnation of his vote against Mr. Horsman's and Mr. Hume's motions on the income tax were passed. His vote in favour of the window-tax was also strongly condemned. It was resolved that a public meeting of the electors should be 'ailed to pro nounce upon Mr. Ileadlam's conduct. - LORD HA RDINGE.—This distinguished nobleman yesterday, at an early hour, visited his Grace the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had a lengthened inter- Vie'''. He subsequently visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the President of the India Board, and other members of the Government. The Noble and Gallant Officer also had a number of congratulatory visits paid him by members of the nobility and corps diplomatipie. DEATH Or SIR RICHARD HUNTER, M.D.—This gentleman died yesterday, at his residence in Great Stanhope street, Mayfair, after a lingering illness. He was formerly a member of the medical profession. In 1841 ho filled the office of Sheriff of Sussex. FRIDAY EVENING, MARC' 17, 1848 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Bank of France has been compelled to suspend cash payments, and is authorised to issue inconver tible notes of 100 f. each. The following letter from the Governor of the Bank to the Minister of Finances, with the decree of the Provisional Government founded thereon, appeared in the lifoniteur of yes terday : " The Provisional Government has this day received the following letter:— "' The Governor of the Bank of France to the Minister Secretary of State of the Finances. " Paris, March 15. " Monsieur le Ministre,—l have had the honour of giving you an account, day by day, of the operations of the Bank. You have been pleased to appreciate the efforts which it has made to support the transactions of commerce and the public credit. From the 22d of Fe bruary to the 15th of March, that is to say, in fifteen business days, the Bank has discounted in Paris the sum of one hundred and ten millions. Of the one hundred and twenty-five millions which it owed to the Treasury it has paid seventy millions. We do not include in that sum eleven millions placed at the disposal of the Treasury in different banks, to meet the urgent necessities of the public service in the depart ments of the Var, Bouches de Rhone, Gard Herault, ke. Besides this, the Bank has discounted 43,000,000 f. in the towns in which it has branches, and it has also supported the trade of Angoulenae, Bescancon, Caen, Mulhausen, Strasburg, Sze. By diseounts at Paris it has endea voured to prevent the suspension of payments in the departmental banks of Rouen, Havre, Lille, and Orleans. The Bank of Marseilles has been aided by the branch at Montpellier. The promptitude and the largeness of these operations of the Bank gave us the hope of over coming the crisis, and we flattered ourselves with that hope till this day. We should probably have succeeded, but for the extraordinary and exaggerated demands occasioned by fear. In the interval between the 26th of February and the evening of tho 14th of March the amount of cash in the Bank coffers in Paris diminished from 140 millions to seventy millions—that is to say seventy mil lions. This morning the panic declared itself. The holders of notes presented themselves in crowds at the Bank. New counters were opened to facilitate the ac celerated operations. More than ten millions have been paid in cash. There only remains at Paris this evening fifty-nine Trillions. To-morrow tho crowd will be still greater; and in a few days the Bank will be entirely un provided with specie. In these grave circumstances, we are obliged to have recourse to your vigilant and ener getic solicitude, and to that of the Government. •" The Council General of the Bank, deliberating on this state of affairs, has directed me to submit to you the proposition to demand of the Provisional Government the following dispositions:— "' Until further orders, notes of the Bank of France and of its branches, shall be reputed legal money. The Bank of France will not be bound to reimburse them in cash. "' The Bank of France is authorised to issue notes of two hundred francs. The maximum of the total circu lation of the Bank of France and its branches cannot exceed three hundred and fifty millions. " The Bank of France will publish every eight days its situation in the Illoniteur.' "Receive, sir, the assurance, &e. D'ARGOU T. (ApproTed.) " F. ARAGO, DUPONT (de I'Eure), GARNIER PAGES, A. CREMIEUX, MARIE." Upon this follows the decree : "DECREE. " The Provisional Government, having taken notice of the deliberation of the Bank of France of this day, and considering, &c., &c., " Decrees-- " Art. 1. From the ♦ery day of the publication of the present decree, notes of the Bank of France shall be re ceived as legal money by the publio offices and by private "Art. 2. Until further orders, the Bank is freed from the obligation to reimburse its notes with specie. " Art. 3. In no case can the emissions of the Bank of France exceed 350 millions. _ _ _ " Art. 4. To facilitate the circulation, the Bank of France is authorised to issue notes which cannot be under 100 f. " Art. 5. The dispositions of the present decree apply to all the branches which the Bank has established in the departments. " Art. 6. The Bank of France will publish every eight dap its situation in the Moniteur. " Done at Paris, in the Council of Government, the 15th of March, 1648. " The members of the Provisional Government:— " DUPONT (do l'Eure), FLOCON, MARRAST, ALBERT (Ouvrier), LAIIARTINE, LEDRU ROLLIN, CRE3IIEUX, MARIS, LOUIS BLANC, ABACO, GABBIER PAGES. " The Secretary.Geueral of the Provisional Govern ment, " PAGNERE." The panic has been increased by the ill-judged circular of M. LEDAU ROLLIN o❑ the subject of the elections. He has not yet resigned the Ministry of the Interior, although there is every probability that ere long the public indignation will drive him from his post. Already have his colleagues been com pelled to disavow the doctrines propagated in his circular. Yesterday a deputation of the Republican Club for the liberty 'of elections waited upon the Provisional Government, to inform it of the alarm created in the public mind by the circular of the Minister of the Interior. The club declared that the terms of that circular had created serious fears that the Provisional Go vernment di4 not sufficiently respect the liberty of the citizens in the choice which they were soon to have to make for their representa tives in the National Assembly. M. LAMANTINE replied at considerable length. In the course of his remarks, he said— '• The Provisional Government has not directed any one to speak in its name to the nation, and especially to speak a language superior to the law.—(Bravo, bravo.) That right it has given to no one, for it did not wish to take it upon itself at the moment when, by the acclama tions of the people, it assumed temporarily the painful position which it occupies. It did not wish it. It did not do it. It will never do it. Believe this from the naraes of the men who compose it. Be certain that, before many days elapse, the Provisional Government itself will speak, in order that whatever may be is the terms of that document, though there was certainly no thing in its intention to hart or to disquiet the liberty and the conscienco of the country, may be explained, commented, re-established by the voice of the entire Government itself.—{Acclamations, and cries of Lamartine 1') Say rather, Vive le Gouvernoment tout entier !' for this is not my idea alone, it is that of the entire Government, and not of the Minister himself." A Member of the Deputation " We accept it as such." M. LAMARTINE—" Citizens, of all the dogmas which have survived the overturning of thrones and empires which we have been witnesses of during the last half century, there is but one dogma which we regard as sacred and imperishable—that of national sovereignty. —(Bravo.) On that national sovereignty we will never make any attempt ourselves, nor will we ever permit an attempt to be made on it in our name or in yours. The Provisional Government rejoices, be assured, that you have come as the exponents of true and free republican sentiment, to demand an explanation of the conduct it intends to pursue in these elections, from which the Re publican Government is freely to issue. And here I do not speak to you in my own name, but a few hours ago a council of the Government entertained this question, and it was there unanimously decided that the Go vernment were bound by truth, by nature, by respect for the national sovereignty, not to inter fere, directly er indirectly, in the elections. — (Cheers.) That as individuals—for none of us, when we accepted the Government, forfeited our rights as citizens —we will propagate in every way amongst our friends our own opinions; but that as a Government, armed with any share of the public influence ' we would blush at the reproaches which we h a d u tt e red against the Govern ment which . preceded us for corruption, if in place of the corruption whose infamies had given rise to the Republic, we u se d th a t ot h er corruption, the worst of all corruptions—the corruption of intimidation and moral oppression of the conscience. No; the Republic must come out, shall come out, free and pure. " I desire, we all desire, that this should re-echo in the public opinion of Paris and of France. We desire that public opinion should be re-assured, and should not take in an alarming sense some words wrongly inter preted in the documents of the Ministers, who attach their signatures often in haste. Know then and say it to those who await you, that the entire Government feels the necessity of re-assuring the public mind now by this conversation with you, and soon again by a public pro clamation, a proclamation which shall contain liberal, moral, conservative principles, securing the rights and interests of every citizen without exception. " You wish that the Republic and liberty should mean one and the same thing, otherwise the Republic would be a lie, we wish it a truth. We wish to found a Re public which shall be the model of modern Governments, and not the imitation of the faults and misfortunes of a former time. We adopt the glories of that time, we re pudiate its anarchies and its wrongs. Assist is to found and defend such a Republic. Vote according to your consciences ; and if, as I have no doubt those are, the consciences of good citizens, the Republic will be esta blished by your votes, as it has already been founded by the arms of Paris." The deputation retired amidst reiterated cries of Vive LAMARTINE," " Viva le Gouvernement Provi sionaire," " Vive la Republique." KRERATRY, an old and staunch Republican, who was appointed by the Provisional Government a Councillor of State, has sent in his resignation, giving as his reason for so doing the conscientious objection which he entertains to the violent, tyran nical, anti -republican, and retrograde principles enunciated by MM. LEDItU ROLLIN and CAVA(); in their respective circulars. Great dissatisfaction has been produced among the National Guards of Paris by the decree of the Pro visional Government for the fusion of the Grenadier and Light Infantry companies with the centre com panies, and for the mixing up the National Guards as one body for the election of their officers, instead of suffering, as heretofore, each company to choose its own. Several of them presented themselves at the Hotel de "Ville, and handed in a protest against the decree of the Provisional Government, threaten ing that if the decree were not withdrawn they would come armed and enforce its repeal. The Go vernment immediately issued a decree postponing the election of officers from the lath to the tad of March, in order, says the National, " to give itself time fully to consider the bearings of the situation in which it is placed, and to examine, however there may be, any foundation for the protests which have been presented to it." The postponement of the elections, however, did not satisfy the National Guard, and yesterday the grenadiers and light companies went en masse to pro test against the order for their fusion with the centre companies. Great crowds of the people assembled, and the grenadiers were hooted occasionally, but no collision took place. On arriving at the Hotel de Ville, an employe of the Government appeared, and informed the National Guard that the Government had resolved that the order of which they complained should not be carried into effect, and that the com panies should not be broken up, but should form the nucleus of larger companies, which became necessary in consequence of the increased number of citizens, who, since the revolution, had inscribed themselves in the National Guards. At the same time they were informed that the delegates of the National Guards would be received by the Provisional Government at four o'clock. This declaration being considered satis factory, the whole of the companies retired. The number of National Guards present was between four and five thousand. The Moniteur publishes the following : " REPORT OF THE MINISTER. OP FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE TITLES TO BE GIVEN TO THE DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE REPUBLIC. " Republican and democratic governments have no need, in their diplomatic relations with foreign powers, of the prestige of titles, of any great display of pre eminence at foreign courts. The moral authority of their agents abroad is in the name of the nation which they represent. Their display consists in simplicity, their rank is in their title ; their dignity is in the re spect which they inspire, and in the respect which they testify to the governments and nations to which they are sent. The French Republic cannot too soon bring back to these principles the system of diplomatic re presentation. The uniform simplification of the titles of its agents ought to be, at the same time, a charac. teristie sign of its republican nature, and a measure of economy, by the reduction of the salaries ap proptiated to these high superfluities of the diplo matic body. A small number of uniform, modest, and clear titles, significative of the forms and orders of functions of our agents abroad, are all that are required to characterise our diplomacy. Sufficient salaries, but confined to strict necessity and propriety, will be given; and thus a great economy will be effected. The amount of this rernunc,ration, the bases of which are being es tablished at present, shall be restricted in such a manner as to reduce the budget of foreign affairs, without injur ing the service of the republic; but if a popular govern ment ought to be ecconomical, a democratic government ought not to accept services for nothing; for it would thus render the highest political functions of the republic the monopoly of the aristocracy of fortune. The republic wishes to be served and represented abroad by all the citizens worthy to perso nify it, and capable to serve it, without ac ceptation of rank, profession, or fortune. Under a democratic government every career is open to every one. In consequence the title is suppressed, except in such exceptional cases as it should suit the republic to give to its representative a more general and more solemn character, as, for instance, for the signature of a Euro pean treaty, or to represent the Republic at a congress. 'rho foreign agents of the Republic will be henceforward —l, Envoys Extraordinary, Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Republic ; 2, Charges d'AffAires ; 3, Secretaries of Legation ; 4, Diplomatic Aspirants, who will replace the Attaches, the paid Attaches, and the indemnity receiving Attachiis at present existing. This class of Toun g diplomatic pupils will receive a salary of encou etagement from the State, merely to aid such families as destine their sons to the diplomatic career, and to render all diplomatic employments really accessible to the republican democracy which we are founding on equality. " LAMARTINE." The National Guards intend to petition for the dismissal of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, who seems inclined to "drive liberty mad, in order to disgust the world with her." It is said, that on Wednesday, when his colleagues in Council assembled refused to assent to certain of his propositions, ho threatened to call in the people assembled in the court, and coerce the Government, whereupon M. GARNIHR PAGZS drew a pistol from his pocket, and declared that he would blow LEDRU ROLLIN's brains out if he stirred from the spot, whereupon M. LEDRU ROLLIN consented to have his proposition negatived. It might be almost surmised that M. LEDRU RoLux was an absolutist at heart, who was engaged to do all in his power to em barrass and thwart the Provisional Government, in order to render a republic hateful, and to bring about a restoration. The decree authorising the suspension of cash pay ments by the Bank had partially restored confidence, and a considerable rise in rentea and railway share 3 took place yesterday. The Moniteur publishes the following debtor and creditor account furnished by the Bank of France, and made up at the close of business on Wednesday, the 15th inst.:— " DEBTOR. Francs. Cents. Capital ... ... ... .. 67,900,000 0 Reserve . ... ... ... 10,000,000 0 Reserve in landed property ... 4,000 000 0 Bank-notes in circulation ... 263,604,250 0 Ditto of branch banks ... ... 9,800,000 0 Ditto to order ... ... ... 2,035,262 10 Treasury account current creditor 42,255,092 03 Sundry accounts current ... 81,617,659 59 Receipts payable at sight 1,861,000 0 Bills re-discounted ... ... 728,692 37 Dividends payable ... ... 423,444 25 Sundry expenses ... ... 2,177,298 29 Algiers Bank ••• ... ... 1,069,097 19 Draughts of branch banks payable 732,278 49 Sundries 29,601 27 ••• ••• ••• 488,243,675 58 " CREDITOR. Francs. Cents. Cash in coins and ingots ... 59,543,509 38 Cash in branch banks ... 64,300,000 0 Commercial bills, due 16th inst.... 5,676,199 11 Commercial bills discounted ... 252,645,351 87 Ditto of branch banks ... 50,732,269 46 Advanced on ingots ... ... 3,050,600 0 Ditto on French Government 'se- cavities ... ... ... ... 13,203,482 90 Due by branch banks ... ... 9,800,000 0 Government security in reserve ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto available ... ... ... 12,660,197 89 Hotel and furniture of the bank ... 4,000,000 0 Interest in the Bank of Algiers ... 1,000,000 0 Bills unpaid ... ... ••• 524,747 56 Amount of Government Stock sold to Russia unpaid ... ... 1,107,389 31 Expenses of the establishment ... 280,976 10 Sundries ... ... ... ... 18,962 0 488,243,675 58 " Certified, Paris, 15th March, 1848. " The Governor of the Bank of France, " D'ARG OUT." The crusade against foreign workmen still con tinues, and at llavre the masters have been threatened that unless they dismiss all English workmen, their manufactories will be demolished. Throughout all Normandy suspension of employment is universal, and the greatest distress prevails. BOURSE—PARIS, TUURSDAY, MARCH 16. THREH o'CLocic..—The decree of the Provisional Government relative to the Bank of France had the effect of producing a better state of feeling at the Bourse. The shares of the Bank opened at 1,500 t, went up to 1,600 f., then fell at once to 1,400 f., and closed at 1,450 f, or 150 f. better than the preceding day. These four quotations were all that were given in the official list. The Three per Cents. opened at 25f. and closed at 50E, or 4f. better. Fives opened at 71f., were done as high as 731'. 50c., and closed all 73f., also 4f. better. At the money changers, all day, when any de mand was made to obtain silver for a Bank of France note, the reply was invariably, "We have no change!" If the price was asked for changing, the answer was, " Oh, as usual, only 15c." But if the domandant de clared that he must absolutely have change at any !sacri fice, silver could be found for 100 f. on each note of 1,000 f. e t n he e sumrtl securitiesgiven 890 f.; are City o fori t aof s being o hig Paris 9ool'.her g BondsAtu7 ra tef. the csau o ßo nce a a Bourse o e t tll,°olo:syfb.eg.i general a a Orleans are £Ol. higher, at 740 f .; M arse il les 50f. L at y 3 o o n o s, e; and Northern, Bordeaux,. sf rd 3 e 3 aux .: 4001., 2921. 500 , and 205 f. Very little business done. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Alestcia 16. Boulogne and Amiens, 4% —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 6—Northern of France, 2 1 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 1 3 1—Paris and Lyons, I—Paris and Orleans, 25 —Paris and Rouen, 13 1 / 2 —Rouen and Havre, 7IA. THE COLLIERS. - -Yesterday a deputation from the general body of miners waited upon Mr. Dixon's workers, and, we understand, succeeded in inducing them to strike work till an arrangement should be come to between the men and their employers.—North British Mail. RELIEF or POOR.—Yesterday the rector and churehwar&ns of St. Sepulchre, Snow-hill, distributed meat, bread, coals, flannel, and money to two hundred indigent families at the parochial church. And, on Wed neseay, the Grocer's Company distributed at their Hall in the Poultry 1001. to the poor. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. Since Monday the supply of English Wheat fresh up for our market, coastwise and by land carriage, has been very moderate, and from the damp state of the weather greatly out of condition. Seleoted parcels of both red and white were in steady request to-day at full prices, but the middling and interior kinds were a slow inquiry. For dry foreign wheats there was an im proved demand, and seine of the holders re fused to sell except at higher rates. The busi ness doing, however, was by no means extensive. Malting Barley was rum, but grinding and distilling sorts were somewhat neglected. In prices, we have no change to notice. Malt was in moderate request, and prices were well supported i❑ every instance. Beans, Yeas, and Indian Corn, ♦ery dull. Fine Flour was held at extreme currencies. The top price of English was 46s per 2801hs. Wkoat. 3,340 qrs. English ...... Irish... Foreign .• •• •. Oats. I Fleur 5,260 qrs. I 4,430 sits. 4,200 I -- 11,140 DIED. At Bedford, Mr. Richard Francis, aged 66. On the 10th Inst., at Brighton, Emily Catherine, the youngest daughter of Sir James ltivett Carnac, Bart. On the llth inst., at Adam-street, Adelphi, Francis Naab, Esq., aged On the 13th inst., Benjamia Currey, Esq., of Old Palaces yard, aged 62. On the 18th inst., at St. Leonard's Cottage, near Exeter, Charles John Lawson, Esq. On the 13th inst., Mr. T. Cooke, of Hereford, aged 61. On the 15th inst., Sarah Sophia, the wife of William Henry Bodkin, Esq., of Mansfidd-street, Cavendish-square, bar tister-at-lms- , aged 55. ARRIVALS. Bailey. 5,4211 qrs. 50 I 1,280 I Malt, 5,960 qrs. In to day's market the supply of Beasts was moderate, and of fair average quality. The primcst Scots, Devons, &c., commanded a steady sale, at fully Mon day's quotations. All other breeds were a slow in quiry, yet prices were supported. The show of foreign stock was small, viz., 164 Oxen and Cows, 282 Sheep, and 45 Calves. With Sheep we were again scantily supplied. On the whole, the Mutton trade was firm, without alteration in the currencies. Prime small Calves sold at very full prices, Otherwise, the Veal trade was in a sluggish state. In Pigs comparatively little busi ness was transacted at late figures. Milch Cows were dull at from 14110 s to 17110 s each, including their small calf. Per Sibs. ti sink the •ffal. a. d. to s. d. , Inferior Boasts— 3 4 3 6 second quality 3 8 3 10 Prime lar&e Oxen 4 0 4 2 Prime Scote ',Argo coarse Calves 4 0 4 Prime small ditto Stickling Calves 2O 4 29 • Inferior sheep .. 3 10 4 0 s. d. to s. d. Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 8 5 2 Southdown Welker it 4 5 6 Ditto out or the wool Large hogs •• • 4 I 4 6 Small Porkers • ... 4 & b 0 Quarter old rigs .. 1I I 25 0 Lambs ••• • • ... •.0 SUPPLY AT Beasts. I Sheep. 984 2,96 MARKET. I CA. lves. 128 i Pip's. 320 NIGIFTGATE 41)5rD X.l .a.D=2711/11.M. The general demand was in a very sluggish state on the following terms:— At per ewe by the Carcase. to s. d. e. d. to s. .1. iteef,iiferior...•.. 3• 3 2 linttsia, iaferier •• 3 8 3IS - middling •• 3 2 3 4 middling.. 4 0 4 4 - prime largo .• 3 II 3 5 prime small .. 3 8 311 tart, largo •••••• • • 3 8 4 4 Yeal.• ••.••••• •• • • 4• a 01.-- ..... 4 6 b e Lamb. Os Oct to Oct Od. BOROUGH HOP IVI.A.P.H.ET.. The show of really tine Hops to-day was very small; wevertheless, the demand for them was in a very slug gish state at barely last week's quotations. In old and inferior parcels so little was doing that prices were al most nominal. New Hops:—Sussex Pockets, 21 Its to 3/ 4s; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 to 31 7s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 315 s to 5/ 8s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market has been dull fur most sorts, and prices aro lower. The sales of West India have been very limited. 11 EFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 53s to 538 6d per cwt on the spot. EAST INDIA. —At auction 6,262 bags Bengal went 6d to is lower ; fine grainy, 45s to 48s, and ord 35s to 373; Benares fin© sound white, 43s to 445, and low, 38s to 39s ; Alidras, 2,943 bags was also at barely previous rates ; fine soft brown, 29s ; and mid yellow, 30s ptr cwt. FORElGN.—Havmnnah, 1,691 bags only partly sold at 39s to 41s for low yellow to good, and low brown to good yellow was taken in at 37s 6d to 41s per cwt. Santa Martha realised 49s to 518 6d for good and fine white. Pernambuco was taken in at 37s 6d to 39s 6d for low to good brown. COFFEE.—The market for West India has been dull. Good ord Ceylon 32s t) 32s 6d per cwt. Plantation has been 3s lower; mid bold greyiBh, 47s ; and fine ord, 37s to 395. Mocha, Rio, and other descriptions hare been dull. _ _ Coco.a.—Trinidad has been taken in at 43s to 48s per cwt.. SPlCES.—Pimento has been sold at 40 to 4kd per lb, and East India Ginger at 16s to 21s 6d. Pepper has been quiet. EicE.—Bengal, 2,132 bags, about half found buyers, good bold white at Us. Carolina was taken in at 23s to 23s 6d per cwt. SALTPBTRE.-591 bags were taken in at 32s 6d to 33s Gd per cwt for 54 to 121 lbs retraction. Rust.—East India has been at Is 9d per gallon for proof, and Leewards at is 10d to Is 101 d per lb. Js maica good fair 4a per gallon for 30 per cent overproof. TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been 50s 6d per cwt on the spot, and 46s for the last three months, THA.—At the public sales but a small proportion has found buyers. Common Congou and Twankay id per lb lower, and Imperial and Gunpowder 2d lower. liyson ♦ery difficult of sale. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in the Old Hall, Lin- Collie Inn. ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. MUNRO. Mr. BOLT, at the sitting of the Court, applied to his Lordship in this case to stay the decree pronounced by the Vice• Chancellor Knight Bruce the day before yes terday, dismissing the trustees of the Scotch Church, in St. Peter's-square, Manchester, and declaring that the Rev. Mr. Munro having ceased to belong to the Estab lished Church of Scotland, ought no longer to be minister of that church. The ground on which the Learned Counsel made the application was, that the parties having appealed from the judgment of the Court below to his Lordship, would be prevented obtaining the benefit of that appeal, unless the execution of the decree was stayed until that appeal was heard, inasmuch as it would have the effect of pre. venting Mr. Munro preaching in the church on Sun day next, and thereby disperse a congregation of nearly 1,000 persons. Mr. J. RUSSELL opposed the application. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought he ought to stay the execution of the decree until the appeal was heard, considering that it would be highly unjust in hini to allow one congregation to be tamed out of the church, and another placed in its room, when if, after hearing the appeal, he should decide against the judgment of the Court below, and thereby have to replace the congregatio❑ which had been removed. Two of the relators, as he had been informed, were still communicants of Mr. Munro's, and such being the case, he thought the incon venience of allowing matters to go on as they were at present until the appeal was heard, was inconsiderable when compared with the inconvenience of removing Mr. Munro and his congregation, and having again to re place them, if he thought the judgment of the Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce incorrect. The decree must therefore be stayed until the hearing of the appeal. WARD V. WARD. His Lordship was occupied the remainder of the day with hearing the further arguments in this case in his private room. Nothing of any interest occurred in the other Equity Courts. BANKRUPTC Y.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner IloLrtoYD.) THE GENERAL MARATIIME INSURANCE CONPANY, IN RE STREALFIELD. This bankrupt was described as an underwriter in Cornhill, and one of the directors of the General Alara time Insurance Company. His IloNouu now gave judgment on a claim made to prove for the sum of 2001., on an insurance on the ship Cumberland. The insurance described the company as above, and the names of the directors appeared in the margin, and the insurance policy was signed by three of the directors, bankrupt not being one. A loss occurred, and a claim was sent in to the company which was compounded for the above sum; but the com pany not being in a condition to pay, the claim was put in against the private estate of Mr. Strealfield, who had declared himself bankrupt. It was contended that his estate was not liable, and the policy ought to have set forth the names of the underwriters, instead of which they were described generally as "The General Maritime Insurance Company." His Honour referred at great length to the Acta referring to sea insurances. By the sth aid 6th George 1., c. 18, it was enacted that no corporation, society, or company should grant in surances, except the Royal Exchange Insurance Com pany and the London Assurance Company, but private persons might assure, and the 35th George 111., c. 83, required their names to be inserted in the policy, but by the sth George IV., c. 114, former Acts were repealed, allowing societies or companies to effect insurances. The first question, therefore, was whether the description of all the parties partners was not embodied in the title of the company under which they carried on business. His Honour consider it was, and the proof ought to be admitted. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) This Court did not sit to-day. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and County Ma -)gistrates.) Tin LATE RIOTS AT THE WEST-END. , --John Stith, aged 18, and Thomas Reid, aged 86, were indicted for having unlawfully, and riotously assembled, with divers other persons unknown, to disturb the peace of our Lady the Queen, in York-street, Strutton ground, and other parts of Westminster, on the 6th of March last. Several polico-coPstables proved that on the evening of Monday, the filth instant, the neighbourhood of Chapel-street and the Broadway, Westminster, was " invaded" by a riotous mob, who broke lamps and shop-windows, and in some instances broke into and plundered shops. The prisoners took a coaspicuoas part in the tumult. They were found Guilty. John Prendergast, aged 20, was also indicted for the riot, and further, for violently assaulting certain con stables of police. James Burham, a policeman of the A division, saw th e prisoner taking a very active part in the riot; when the witness went towards him, the prisoner threw at him a large, rough piece of wood, which missed him, and struck Police-sergeant Butler in the face. He was with difficulty taken into custody. Sergeant Butler confirmed the testimony of Burham. The prisoner was found Guilty. .lohn Connell was indicted for a similar offence, and the police witnesses produced a large stick, which they said the prisoner was brandishing when they took him London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, A No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Friday, March 17, le4B. into custody, and the knob of which was still stuck-ful of pieces of lamp-glass. The prisoner, who received an excellent character from several witnesses, declared that he took no part in the riot. He was going to are his mother in that: neighbour hood from his place of work in Ludgate-hits, when he accidentally mixed with the crowd. The sticilt produced had just been thrown at his feet, and he was stooping to take it up when the police arrested him. Re was found Guilty. The next prisoners charged with rioting, George foxes and William Lewis, were respectivelj • of the ages of 15 and 16. The prisoners were a part; of a mob which disturbed the peace of Knightsbridge and Grosvenor place, and the police in endeavouring to disperse them were seriously assaulted. John Green, 78 B, produced a piece of lead with which he was struck by Jones, and a crow-bar which he took from Lewis. His truncheon was broken with a blow aimed at his head, which was cut open, and he was wi th difficulty saved from further injury by his , brother pn . lawmen, The prisoners were convicted. John White, aged 18, and Charles Tothili„ aged 20, were indicted for the same riot, and its, is further offences of assault and larceny. It wa s proved that the prisoners acted as ringleaders to the toe h in the Broad Sanctuary, Tuthill-street, and other parts of Westminster, in the evening of the 6th. Tuthill was the person who, it will be rem embered, raised the cry, "To arms," and in the she op of Mrs- Davey, baker, in Tuthill-street, said, " We sh all bare bread, or a.- shall have your blood." epaulettes, and acted as commander in theT,thtacite wore epaulettes, upon the baker's shop. From the shop of Mr. Branston In the Broadway, they distributed to the mob four bushels of bread, and threatened to "have the lives" of the foreman and of Mr. Branston's niece, because 'they would not produce wore bread. They were Bound Guilty. These concluded the cases of the so-called Trafalgar' square rioters of the 6th of March, and all the prisoners were then placed at the bar to receive their se aitences. The ASPIESTANT-JUDGH said—You have art been con victed of riots and assaults, all arising out o f the same transaction, which was of the most serious character. Except for,the very happy state of the country rt this time, in which, thank God! every class unites except such as yourselves, in obedience to the laws, and in respect for the Government of the country—l do not mean for the Ministers of the day, but for the established order and constitution of the country; and when, by the blessing of God, we have a Sovereign at the head of the state who unites, by her virtues, the love of all in her person --except for this happy state of the country, you would every one of you be sentenced to a very severe punier meat, and for this reason the object of punishment IS twofold; first, to look to the offence in itself, and, secondly, as a warning to others. We want no such effect as this latter in your case, as the whole country holds in contempt such wretched attempts as your' (which everywhere but here must be looked upon with ridicule) to imitate the unhappy revolu tion, which has just taken place ix another country, and of which they are already beginning to taste the bitter fruits, and of which they will have tasted enough before the term of your punishment shall have expired. Notwithstanding these considerations, the Court cannot pass over your conduct without severe punishment. The Learned JUDGE then sentenced the prisoners severally to the following terms, addressing each of them impressively on the part which he had taken:---- White, as the ringleader, six months, with hard labour, for the riot and assault, and an additional siZ months, with hard labour, for the bread stealing ; Tuthill, as less guilty in the leading, to three months, with hard labour, for the riot and assault, and six months, with hard labour, fur the larceny ; Reid six months, with hard labour ; the boys Jones and Lewis to three months, with hard labour ; Connell, on account of his previous good conduct, to one month, without labour ; Prendergast three months and hard labour. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Harris, was charged with stealing a cask of vinegar, the property of Messrs. Tyers and Smith, ♦inegar merchants, High-street, Borough. Mr. Smith stated, that the prisoner formerly dealt with the firm, and that on the previous afternoon he came and said, that he had an order for half a hogshead of vinegar for a Mr. Williams, and that it was to be sent to the Grapes public-house, in Locks-fields, where it would be paid for. Witness sent it there, but neither money or vinegar came back. The porter said he took the cask to the Grapes, where he saw the prisoner, who helped him to carry it into the house. The prisoner then asked him to go to the " Catherine Wheel," in Union-street, where he would pay him, and give him an empty cask. On the way the prisoner gave him the slip, and returned to the " Grapes," when he took away the vinegar, and conveyed it to some stables in Surrey-row. A policeman proved having found the vinegar in the place last mentioned, and afterwards apprehended the prisoner. The landlord of the Grapes said that about ten minutes after the prisoner and porter loft his house the former returned with another man, and carried away the vi negar. The prisoner, in defence, said ho was direeted to give the order for the ♦inegar by a Mr. Williams, of Clapham, and that it was to have been paid for. He added that he had several respectable persons in attendance to speak to his character. Mr. SEOLER said he should commit th• prisoner for trial, and that his witnesses might be of advantage to him there. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) The Dundalk Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Lord Harry Vane in the chair. Atter some further discussion the room was cleared, and the Committee having consulted together for a short time, strangers were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN said, he had to state that it bad been unanimously decided by the Committee that the sitting Member was not disqualified as an alien from holding his seat in the House of Commons. Mr. Sergeant KIDIGLAILE then took the objection that the sitting Member was not entitled to retain his seat on the ground that he neglected to make a declaration of his qualification when it was demanded of him in ac cordance with the provisions of the statute. AYLESBURY. The Aylesbury Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Mr. R. Palmer in the chair. .__ Mr. Thomas Sharman, the proprietor of the New Bell Inn, at Aylesbury, proved that, by the direction of Mr. Bull, drink and refreshments were supplied at his house to a number of Mr. Deering's supporters, wbo were principally tenants of the Duke of Buckingham. The bill for these refreshments, which was made out in the name of the Marquis of Chandos, who was occa sionally present at the entertainments, amounted to about 131. 155., and was delivered to Mr. Bull. BEWDLEY. The Bewdley Election Committee met again this morning; Mr. Wrightson, in the chair. The evidence on both sides having closed, Mr. Sergeant WnAsonest summed up on behalf of Sir Thomas Winnington. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN FROM ARSENlC.—Yesterday an inquest, adjourned from Sa turday last, was resumed before Mr. Carter, at the King's Arms, It oupell-street, as to the death of Emma Whintle, aged twenty, who died from the effects of a large quantity of arsenic. The father of the deceased is a working silversmith, living at 11, Roupell-street, and she was employed in the straw-bonnet business, in Hatfield-street, adjoining. On Wednesday last she went home, and had her supper with her family, as usual, having first taken two pills. She slept with ono of her sisters, who heard her get up in the night, when she was very hick. In the morning she got np again, appeared very ill, and jell down dead. Mr. Brady, surgeon, in the Blackfriars-road was called in, and having analysed the contents of the k tome!), discovered in it a considerable quantity of arsenic, which had evi dently caused her death. Her father and family being wholly unable to account for it, the inquiry was again adjourned, to obtain, if possible, some further evidence. Stays were quite unknown in Russia until Peter the Great danced with some of the Hanoverian ladies on his journey to I'omeraiia. Quite astounded, the monarch exclaimed to his suite after the ball," What confound edly hard bones these German women have." PROTECTION Or I'Vomßw.—A deputation from the committee of tho Associate Institution had interviews yesterday with Lord Campbell and the Lord Bishop of Oxford, on the Bill for the suppression of trading in se duction and prostitution, about to be submitted to the House of Lords. BIRTMS. On Ulf 14th nit., at Bermuda, the lady of Major Daw n:lure, 42d Royal Highlanders, of a daughter, still-born. On the 22d ult., at Oporto, the lady of Arthur Hunt, Esq., •f a son. On the 12th inst., at Greenbank, St. George's-in-the-East, the wife of Mr. Mark J. Temkins, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at St. Thomas's-square, Hackney, Mrs. Ohrly, of a daughter. On tie 13th inst., in, Mornington-road, Regent's•park, the wife of John Blakeney, Esq., of a daughter. On the 14th inst., the lady of Louis Cohen, Esq., of South street, Finsbury, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Farnborough, Kent, Mrs. John Woodhams Fox, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Hardingstone, near Northampton, the wife of J. Wing, Esq., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., in Endsleigh-street, the wife of Ambrose Moore, Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Clapham-common, Mrs. E. Tamer of a eon. MA RItIAD. On the 14th Wet., at St. George's, Hanover-square, W. L. Dunn, Est, to liannah, youngest daughter •f the late J. Hewson, Esq., Norfolk. i