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he would not be a party to giving to a new secs Dissenters power to regulate his Church, because h.) be lieved that that Church was as much an integral part o: the constitution as Magna Cliarta or the Bill of Righte, —(Hear, hear.) It was because he believed hi Church to be an integral pert of the constitution tlin he would not consent to admit into that assembly a se of men to make laws and enact regulations for an estab lishm , 2nt with which they had avowedly no sympathy ce feeling in common. With reference to the proposition of his Hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham, he con curred entirely with its principle, but, as a question of expediency, he would recommend his Hon. Friend to withdraw it, and reserve his strength for the division oi the main question. Mr. ADDERLEY expressed his regret that the Hoe. Baronet the Member for Oxford University had waste(' so much good feeling on the speech of the Hon. Memb, for Leicester, a speech which had been listened to by th 4 House with sentiments of unmixed disapprobation. — (Hear, hear.) With reference to the measure before th , House, he believed that public feeling was entirely against it, and he regretted that that opinion seemed t , have so little influence on the deliberations of Parlia ment. He could net understand how a people wle everywhere repudiated a common nationality could eve, be expected to fuse or amalgamate with the people this country. The case of the Jews of Damascus woule be fresh in the recollection of the House. That hod) when persecuted applied for assistance, not to anj of the Christian princes of Europe, but to the leaders of their own nation—the Rothschilds and Monteflores. The only case in favour of the Bill was that a Jew had been returned for the City 0: London; but that was in his mind no sufficient ground for passing this measure. Of all constituencies none was perhaps more amenable to the influence of wealth than that of London, and it might easily be conceiver: that to that influence the return which had occasioned the introduction of the Bill was in some degree owing. He hoped the House would reject the measure, because he feared that its passing would give rise to a feeling in the country that in these changes they were influenced rather by an indifference to religion than by a spirit of impartiality.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. GORING would not trouble the House to divide on his amendment, which was withdrawn, and The House went into Committee on the Bill. Clauses 1 to 5 were agreed to. On clause - 5 being read, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY proposed to add words which should prevent Jews being appointed to " any office in the gift or appointment of her Majesty, her heirs or successors, to which the appointment or recommendation to any office or preferment whatever in the United Church of England and Ireland. or in the Church of Scotland may belong." He did not object to some offices in the State being filled with Jews, but it would be a most anomal els thin,g• that a Jets should have any power over the Established Church. And as the Bill stood there was nothing to prevent Baron Rothschild becoming Prime Minister, and thins having in his hands the appointment of the Bishops, and the whole control of the Church of England. Sir J. WALSh seconded the amendment, and hoped his Hon. Friend would take the sense of the Committee against it. Und er t h e Bi ll as it stood, a Jew would not be eligible to hold the office of Lord Chancellor, and, on the same principle, he should be ineligible to the office of Prime Minister—an office to which pertained a far greater amount of ecclesiastical patronage than that of the Lord Chancellor. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that all the ar guments which were urged in support of this amendment had been urged against the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. It was a mistake to suppose that a Jew could not, as the law stood, held ecclesiastical patronage ; he was fully competent to do so, and there was no occasion whatever for introducing further legislation on the sub ject. He hoped the amendment would not be pressed. Mr. BANKES argued that, if the Great Seal could not be held by a Jew, on account of the patronage of ecclesiastical benefices, the same exclusion ought to ap ply to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Control (who had large eccle siastical patronage in India), and the Colonial Secretary, who were all on the same footing. It was no answer to him to quote th e 10 G eorge IV. (th e Roman Catholic Relief Act), because he did not concur in that measure, and would not consent to its being made a precedent for other innovations. Mr. REYNOLDS asked why the Jew was excluded from the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland? If this was done because the Roman Catholics were excluded from this office, he would observe that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had not the patron age of a single living. An injustice . having been committed towards the Roman Catholics in this respect, why should the injustice be indorsed on the back of the Jew?—(Laughter) He would support the omission of the word " Ireland " from the clause, other wise it would be a justification of the exclusion of the Roman Catholics for ever from that office. On the bringing up of the report he would move this amend ment. After a few words from Mr. ANSTEY, Mr. GARDNER contended that the private patronage of the Church of England was a great disgrace to it. Lord J. RUSSELL said he understood the object of the amendment to be to take away, not the power of appointment, but of recommendation to any benefice. In the Roman Catholic Relief Bill there was no such restriction; and, in fact, there was no office to which the rower of recommending positively belonged. The highest recommendation, that of the Ministry, had fre quently been exercised by Secretaries of State and the Lords Privy Seal; but there was no one to whom it be longed of right. Therefore it appeared to him that the amendment was unnecessary. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said it was a fact, and a great fact, that the Prime Minister did appoint all the bishops whatever might be the right to do so. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 99 Against it ...... 196 Majority 94 - - Sir R. INGLIS proposed at the end of section 6, page 4, to add these words, "Or judge of any of her Ma jesty's courts of law, or member of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council." He objected to any measure which would place in the Privy Council persons who could not .give her Majesty sound advice in her double Capacity as head of the State and head of the Church. ne also objected to giving the Jew power to decide Christian causes between Christian men. Col. SIBTHORP seconded the amendment. Under this Bill a Jew might become Speaker of the House, and in that case, bow could he join in the usual prayer with which business was commenced? The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority Tho clause was then agreed to, as were the remaining clauses. Mr. C. ANSTEY moved the following clauso: " And whereas no alteration of right can or ought to be made in any matter belonging to the doctrines or disci pline of any religious communion save with the full and free consent and concurrence of the proper ecclesiastical authority, and according to the laws and usages of ouch communion: be it therefore enacted, that from and atter the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for Parlia ment to make any enactment for changing or altering any matter belonging to the doctrine or discipline of the United Church of England and Ireland, or to the doc trine or discipline of the Church of Scotland, save with the full and free consent and concurrence of the said Churches respectively, such concurrence to be signified i❑ the case of the said United Church of England and Ireland by vote of the convocation or convocations of the said United Church, and in the case of the staid Churchof Scotland by vote of the General Assembly of the said Church and not otherwise." Mr. HILDYARD asked if it %ere competent to move this clause? The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative, and the matter consequently fell to the ground. The preamble was then agreed to, and The CHAIRMAN put the question, that "I report this Bill without amendments to the House." Mr. LAW said he should move as an amendment, that the Chairman' leave the chair on Friday.—(Laughter.) Mr. LAW (angrily)—l mean, that this Bill be not now reported.—(Renewed laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—The question is, that "I report this Bill without amendments to the House." Do you divide? Mr. LAW—Yes. The CHAlRMAN—Strangers must withdraw. Sir R. H. INGLIS hoped that the Right Hon. Gen tlemen would not divide. Mr. LAW said, all he desired was to insure that this Bill should receive full consideration at a period when the termination of the assizes and sessions enabled all the Members of the House to be present at the discus sion. If he could have the assurance that this measure, which he felt assured would hereafter be execrated by the people—(oh)—which he felt would be the first step to the extinction of the Christian character of this coun try—(oh, oh)—if he could have the assurance that the measure would! have a fair consideration hereafter, he would now withdraw his amendment.—(Loud cries of " Divide," " Oh," and laughter.) Those cries were not consistent with peaceful measures, and he would not be put down by clamour.—((;roans.) Lord J. RUSSELL understood from the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford that he wished the third reading not to take place until Monday next. He had had some difficulty in agreeing to that arrangement, but considering that his Hon. Friend always united the most conscientious:opposition to the most courteous bearing— (Loud cries of " Hear, hear")—he had come to the resolution of agreeing to that propse.l. With respect to the argument or the Right lion. Gentleman opposite that the third readingought to be postponed in order that Members might have an opportunity of remaining in the country—(Laughter) —he could only say, that if the Right Hon..Csentleman considered it necessary for the interests of the Church to force the house to a divi sion, he should only regret that the care of the interests of the Church had devolved upon such hands.—(Loud and reiterated cheers.) Mr. F. MACKENZIE, as a consistent opponent of the Bill, thought it would not be consistent with usage to divide the House on this occasion. Mr. LAW, under such circumstances, I.'ollll withdraw his amendment.—(llcar, hear.) On the llolse resuming, Lord J. RUSSELL wished to say that, although he had not considered the course pursued by the Right 'ion. Gentleman very discreet or wise, he had not, in what he ha I sail, intended any persona! nflection. The Bi 1 was then reported. OiZ!)%IZ, OF !;U:'INE'S, Lord J RUSs:EI,t, th;tt tlcxt it "" his intent 'es t- ni-ve -1 the a t and Ten s it 1;m, f itl 141 - M11: It 1 ,, Select Co tunittee. In the t'vent of tliat Bill not being opposed, he should ou that day Wove the further pro .: , • • ceeding with the He o: 'Towns instead, °flaking it on Monday next. Mr. CARDWELL had understood it to have been arranged in the early T art of the evening, that the Health of Towns Bill should not be , taken until the large towns had had an opportunity of considering its pro visions. . Lord MORPETH sail Ws Noble Friend (Loid J. Russell) had no:, been in the House when that arrange ment was made, but he entirely concurred in it, and the Bill would accorling'y not be taken on Friday next — probably not until Friday week.—(Hear. hear.) DISTILLING FROM SUGAR BILL. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER, the House went into Committee upon this Bill. Mr. P. MILES took some objection to the Bill, but The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER depre cated discussion on this stage, and recommended the opposition should be reserved for the third reading. Mr. KERSHAW complained that Members could not understand what was going on.—(Laughter.) There was a sort of conversation across the table, and suspi cions were begotten that all was not quite straightfor ward.—(Renewed laughter.) The Bill passed through Committee and was ordered to be reported. The House resumed. ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved the third reading of this Bill. Mr. ELLIOT—I move as an amendment that it be read a third time this day six months. The House divided, when there appeared— Ayes Noes Majority —44 On our return to the House, W AWN was speaking. He said he opposed the Bill upon this principl e , that Members petitioned against had canvassed other Members to vote upon this Bill.— (Laughter.) It was a fact that could not be disputed, and as an independent Member he must enter a strong protest against a Bill carried by such means. The 81l was then read a third time and passed. SOUTH SHIELDS PETITION. Mr. WAWN moved that the petition of the inhabit ants of South Shields on the subject of custom-house faeilities, &c. (presented 31st March) be printed with the votes; but the motion having been opposed by Mr. Thornely on the ground that the Committee on public petitions had ordered it to be printed, was put and ne gatived. WOODS AND FORESTS AND LAND REVENUES. On the motion of Viscount I)UNCAN a Select Com mittee was nominated on woods, forests, and land reve nues:—Viscount Duncan, Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Pusey Sir E. H. Inglis, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Langston, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. Trelawny, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. H. Drum mond, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. J. Wi!son, Mr. Monsell, and Mr. J. Locke. ELECTION OATHS. Mir. BERESF0111) moved. " That it be referred to the Committee on Election Oaths to inquire into the le gality of oaths, otherwise than those authorised in such cases which have been sworn to by Protestant Members of this House, on taking their oaths ;" observing that the Member for Cork (Mr. E. B. Roche), who was a Protestant, had taken the oath prescribed for Roman Catholics. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL thought the motion badly worded and almost inexplicable, and hoped that in the absence of the Hon. Member for Cork it would not be pressed. After a few words from Sir G. GREY, objecting to the vagueness of the motion, it was withdrawn. The House adjourned at One o'clock. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION. The meeting adjourned from Liverpool on Thursday week took place at Birmingham on Saturday. As on the former occasion, not a single member of the Great Western directory was present. Mr. P. H. Muntz oc cupied the chair, and at the commencement of the proceedings a letter from Messrs. Hunt, of Whitehall, solicitors to the Great Western Company, was read to the meeting. The letter chiefly referred to technical differences between the solicitors of the two companies, and was intended to defend the Great Western Company from alleged aspersions contained in Mr. Dobie's report, in which a hope was expressed that it may not yet be too late to accommodate matters. Mr. DOBIE begged to state, with regard to certain disputed points, that when the two counsel met it was undersood that all propositions made were without pre judice. After the meeting at which the negotiations between Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Rolt were discussed, he (Mr. Dobia) felt it to be his duty to see Sir Fitzroy, and he (Mr. Dobie) then asked him, " Have the Birming ham and Oxford Company drawn back or failed to perform any engagement into which they have entered through you as their representative ?" Sir Fitzroy replied most distinctly " No," adding " I entered into no engagement, and, in agreeing to propose the secret ar ticle, I told Mr. Rolt, that although I felt convinced of the good faith of Mr. Mosley and other principal share holders, it was no use shutting our eyes to the fact that the North-Western, the Hudson lines,' and, in fact, all the important lines in the north of iEngland, will con tinue to oppose the broad gauge wedge getting into that part of the country." The CHAIRMAN stated that he had been in communi tion with the directors of the Great Western Railway Company, and they assured him that they were anxious to carry out the agreement in all its integrity, and he fully believed that such were their wishes and intentions. There was no doubt that the coupons were to be given independent of the con tingencies with respect to the obtainment of the broad gauge, but it was impossible to forget the means which had been adopted to defeat that which was the known object of the Great Western Company in purchasing the line. A long and desultory conversation ensued upon the terms and effect of the agreement of 1846. There was nothing new in the argument; all parties expressed a wish for its literal fulfilment, but still no nearer approach was made to an amicable arrangement. Ma. NEWBERY (of Manchester) asked—Suppose the Great Western Company obtain an Act for confirming the sale of the Birmingham and Oxford line, but fail in obtaining the broad guage clause, will they, notwith standing, issue the coupons ? The CHAIRMAN entertained no doubt upon the subject. Mr. MozLEY suggested that the coupons pending the Bills now before Parliament and present negotiations, should be placed in the hands of a third honourable party, to be delivered upon the completion of the agree ment. This view was supported by Mr. ALSTON ; and ulti. mately, a petitioh having been read, resolutions upon the motion of Mr. Mozley were adopted, for petitioning both Houses against the Bill for conferring additional powers on the Great Western Railway Company with reference to an agreement of the 12th day of November, 1846, for the purchase by them of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railways against the Bill for enabling the Great Western Railway Company to construct a loop line from the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway through Leamington, and for other purposes, and to withdraw certain words in the sth, 6th, 12th, and 14th clauses of the Birmingham and Oxford J unction Railway Bill, relating to the Great Western Company, and their claim to become purchasers of the said junction railway, and authorizing Messrs. Dobie, Colemore, and Beale to appear as agents on behalf of this company before the committees. It is almost unnecessary to say that the chairman refus(d to put the resolution, and they were consequently submitted by Mr. Mozley, and by him declared to be carried. This, as well as the special meeting was then adjourned until the 11th of April. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, API:IL 3. _ STocx EXCHANGE.-The market to-day has been very dull, end prices continue to manitest a declining tendency. The sales are-Chester and Holyhead, 14s. 9d. ex int.- Cornwall, 2s. 1-10 d. ex int.-Eastern Counties, Perpetual 5 per cent., No. 2,3 s. 4d. ex int.-Newcastle and Carlisle, 60s. ex. div.-Ditto, Quarters, 15s. ex div.-Ditto, New Quarters (black), 15s. ex div.-Ditto, New 1001. Shares ( black), 60s. ex div.-Ditto, New 1001. Shares (red), 3s. 10 1 ,0. ex div.-Scottish Midland, 7s. 10d.-Ditto, Thew, 4s. -Belfast and County Down, 4s. hi. ex int.-Londonderry and Coleraine, 13s. 7d. ex - int.-Londonderry and Ennis killen, 3s. 2d. ex int.-Midland Great Western, 13s. 7d. ex int.-Ditto, Halves, 3s. ex int.-Waterford and Kilkenny, si. 3d. ex int.-Demerara, 2s. 7d. ex int.-Sambre and Meuse, ss. 10d. ex int. MANCHESTER, Amu. 3. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6 9.16 dis.—L ancas hi re an d Yorkshire, 32/. Shares, 7 1 4 die.—Ditto (\Vest Riding Union), n. dis.—London and North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (C), 2 1 A p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 5 dis.—North British, Thirds, dis.—North Staffordshire, 2X 3 dis.—Sotith-Ea.stern and Dover, No 4, 3 , 4 dis. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 545. 3d. dis.—Nurth Staffordshire, 435. 9d. dii.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4% dia.—Ditto, (B), tits. 3d. dis. BRISTOL, Aram 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market at present appears to have of improvem en t. T he sales were—Great vter (aarters,2 l / 2 dia.—Ditto, 17/. Share s , 134 dis. les n i o i, sign AIRS. ARMYTAGE ; OR, FEMALE DOMINATION. Mrs. Gore, in her preface to the new edition o f t hi s clever work, which has just been published, in " Colbu rn ' s Standard Novels," states, that the Duchesse d e P raslin was reading " Mrs. Arrnytage" on the night of her as sassination, and that the volume stained with her blood was put in evidence at the Chamber of Peers, and assumes that the affecting incident may have served to revive an interest in favour of the boolq but, as the Examiner justly observes, " it needed nothing to revive its interest but the recollection of its early admirers, and the greater accessibility of the form in which it now appears. It is a book with an excellent purpose, most discreetly worked out." The Quarterly Review, just published, we observe, also alludes to the Praslin incident, and to the book as " that delicate specimen of Mrs. Gore's skill." The husbands of England certainly ought to raise a monu ment to the writer. [ADVERTISEMENTI—SCORBUTIC Humouus, RING Nvoniu, AND ALL CUTANEOUS DISEASES MAY BE CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Numbers of the human race are subject to diseases of the :kin, and nothing tends to increase the virulence of such complaints so much as impurity of the blood, which generates ill health, and if this is not corrected, the constitution soon becomes undermined,. ultimately terminating in disorders that are incurable. Let those, therefore, who are so affected, seek speedy relict' by using 1.1 ,, 110\v0,v',; Pills and Oint ment. These medicines coinbi arc ;!!1 intalliblo cure fur the most inveterate di f t>>e skit!, and are equally etficacioni fur oil wound, , , titwouri, and unnatural swellings. Sold by all druggists, and at Pro fessor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London. TIIE - UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON. We have received New York papers to the 15th ult., being four days later, by the packet-ship John R. Skiddy, Captain Luke, which arrived at Liverpool this afternoon. She left New York on the 15th, up to which time the Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria had not arrived there. The Mexican treaty we find given at full length. The main points are the same as we have previously been enabled to publish, but it may be interesting to state in the exact words some of its principal features• Article five provides that— " The boundary lines between the two republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite to the mouth of the Rio Grande, other wise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of the deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea ; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico ; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso), to its western termination ; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila (or if it should not in tersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same); thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean. " Art. 6. The vessels and citicons of the United States shall, in all time, have a free and uninterrupted passage by the Gulf of California, and by the river Colorado, be low its confluence with the'Gila, to and from their pos sessions situated north of the boundary lino defined in the preceding article; it being understood that this pas sage is to be by navigating the Gulf of California and the river Colorado; and - not by land, without the express consent of the Mexican Government. " Art. 12. In consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States, as defined in the firth article of the present treaty, the Government of the United States engages to pay that of the Mexican Re public the sum of fifteen millions of dollars, in the one or other of the two modes below specified. " The Mexican Government shall, at the time of ratifying this treaty, declare which of these two modes of payment it prefers; and the mode so elected by it shall be conformed to by that of the United States." The first mode having been rejected, the second, as follows, is adopted:-- " Second mode of payment Immediately after this treaty shall have been duly ratified by the Government of the Mexican republic, the sum of 3,000,000 of dollars shall be paid to the said Government by that of the United States, at the city of Mexico, in the gold or silver coin of Mexico. The remaining 12,000,000 of dollars shall be paid at the same place, and in the same coin, in annual instalments of 3,000,000 of dollars each, together with interest on the same at the rate of 6 per centum per annum. This interest shall begin to run upon the whole sum of 12,000,000 from the day of the ratification of the present treaty by the Mexican Government, and the first of the instal ments shall be paid at the expiration of one year from the same day; together with each annual instalment as it falls due; the whole interest accruing on such in stalment from the beginning shall also be paid. " Art. 13. The United' States engage, moreover, to assume and pay to the claimants all the amounts now due to them, and those hereafter to becomo due, by reason of the claims already liquidated and decided against the Mexican Republic, under the conventions between the two Republics severally concluded on the Ilth day of April, 1839, and on the 30th day of January 1843; so that the Mexican Government shall be abso lutely exempt for the future from all expense whatever on account of said claims. " Art. 23. This treaty shall be ratified by the Presi dent of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and by the President of the Mexican Republic, with the previous approbation of its general Congress; and the ratifica tions shall be exchanged in the city of Washington, in four months from the date of the signature thereof, or sooner if practicable. " In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentia ries, have signed this treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement; and have hereunto affixed our seals re spectively. Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Gua dalupe Hidalgo, on the 2d day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1848. _ " N. P. TRIST (L.S.) " LUIS G. CUEVAS (L.S.) " BERNARDO CONTO (L.S.) " MIG. ATRISTAIN (L.S.)" Senator Sevier has been appointed commissioner, and was to proceed to Mexico immediately with the treaty for its final ratification. MEXICO. We have received New Orleans papers to the 7th inst. They bring information that there had been several arrivals from Vera Cruz, bringing dates to the 3d March. We learn that the train which left Vera Cruz, under the command of Captain Briscoe, for Orizaba, had been met and attacked by a large body of guerillas, at least 400 men. After sustaining the attack for some time, an express was dispatched to Vera Cruz to inform Gene - rai Twiggs of the condition of the command, and to solicit Aids Upon the arrival of the express, General Twiggs im mediately detached three•companies of cavalry on this service. This force advanced on the road to Orizaba as far as San Diego, but not coming up with Briscoe, they re turned, supposing he had been enabled to sustain himself and push on to Orizaba. A later arrival states that Captain Briscoe bad a despe rate fight with the guerillas, at a place called Matagorda. The guerillas were totally routed. Their loss was con siderable. A strong body of cavalry and infantry was detached by Geueral Twiggs, on the 21st ult., from Vera Cruz, to clear the roads entirely of the pillaging bodies of gue rillas which infested them. The Free American, of the 2d of March, states that an express had just arrived from the city of Mexico, with the important intelligence that an armistice of two months had been agreed upon between General Butler and the Mexican Commissioners. EXTENSIVE FAILURE._ BALTIMORE, MARCH 14. Messrs. Gambrell, Carroll, and Co., proprietors of three extensive cotton factories near Baltimore, have failed. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The operations in State Stocks were rather light this morning. United States Sixes advanced 1, and Penn sylvania Fives, 1; Treasury Notes opened at 103, and closed at the second board at 102. A large amount of business was done in Fancy Stocks—Harlem Railroad closed at yesterday's prices; Long Island Railroad fell off and Reading Railroad 1. Money continues in request at 1 per cent, per month. Nothing has been done in Foreign Exchanges since the departure of the steamer; we therefore continue our old quotations. Cotton—Holders are very firm, and in some instances an advance of* cent. per pound has been obtained; this has had a tendency to check operations. The sales of the last three days amount to 3,400 bales. Flour, &c.—We have no alteration to notice in the market. Michigan brings 6 dells. 371 c. to 6 dolls. 50c.; pure Genesee, 6 dolls. 62ic.; common southern, 6 dolls. 25e. to 6 dolls. 37ic. Corn meal is dull, and could be bought at 2 dolls. 44c. to 2 dolls. 50c. 3.000 bushels common southern corn sold at 50c.; 6,000 bushels New Orleans, at 50c.; 10,000 bushels mixed lots, 52c. to 53e.; 3,000 bushels Genesee wheat, .1 doll. 50c.; Ohio wheat, 1 doll. 42c. Northern oats are in fair re quest at 48c. to 49c. Seeds are rather dull. 100 barrels, tierces, &c., of flax seed sold at 1 doll. 42c. per bushel, packages extra. Provisions have not undergone any material altera tion. 100 barrels mess pork sold at 10 dolls. 50c. Prime pork is held at 9 dolls. 25c. to 9 dolls. 50c. Beet is dull; country mess, .9 dolls. to 9 dolls. 50c.; prime, 5 dolls. 12ic. to 5 dolls. 50c. Lard is in fair request at Bic. to 81c. in kegs, and Vlc. to Bc. in barrels. Whisky remains inactive at 22c. to 23c. in drudge casks and barrels. Sales of mackerel have been made from the recent ar rivals at 9 dolls, to 9 dolls. 50c., for No. 1, 5 &Alp. 37ic. • for No. 2, and 5 dolls. for No. 3. Hides—Sales of 6,000 Rio Grande have been made at 9ic. . _ - Ashes are dull. Pots, 5 dolls. 94c.; pearls, 8 dolls. FOREIGN EXCIIANGES. Exchango on London 7/ Paris 17 Arnsterditn -- - 4Ol 401 17 liamburgh! 351 35i ,t Bremen 7Bi 78i THE BRAZILS. FALMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Her Majesty's packet Seagull, Lieutenant Lewis commander, arrived here this morning from the Brazils with the mails. She left Rio on the 10th of February, calling off Pernambuco on the 25th following, and brings a small freight and the following passengers :—Mr. and Mrs. Nuttall and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gallop, Mr. Muter, Mr. Baudinot, Mr. W. Jordan, a miner's widow and two children, and one miner. Messrs. Butterworth and Edmit (passengers) died on the voyage —the former on the 15th of February, and the latter on the 2d of March. On the departure of the picket the Brazilian Ministers were said to have ten dered their resignations, but the Emperor being absent in the provinces, nothing definite was know on the sub ject. The following is from the Mercantile Journal of the 9th of February, under the head of " Exports:"- 6 , Coffee—A fair amount of bbeeunsinpersinsciwpaaislyddoinreect(t!dn good, having the value of those sorts j i t n : e n r su e la a lir s l3 id r);(. s ar O nad t n o .cill l is r rt e Y is, whilst other descriptions were almost negb cted. At the close of the month, atter the receipt of unfavourable intelligence from Europe and the United States, the market was generally flat. The principal purchases were for the United States and the north of Europe. The comparative destination of coffee exported in January,lSl7 and 1848, respectively, showed (1(1 , 1 , a!=(' to be 1, IS-1 bags in 1848. " 0:1 r:,egli• the decri a.,:ewa `..9 caSCS, and on hide; th. , psii(!d. 6 ' Foi• the prcvious to the packet's sailing, the coffee market was active, the sales having amounted to fully 40,000 bass fur the Uuited States, north of Europe, and Mediterranean: Prices continued as they were at the close of the month, but inquiry for the lower ship, ping qualities had rather increased. There was no particular feature in the sugar market. In the money market discOunts ruled 71 - to 8 per cent Exchanges had declined. Upon London about 60,0001 were passed at 274 to 274; upon Paris, 300,000 francs, at 340 to 348 reis; and H am b urg h, 40,000 mares, at 630 reis. Stock continued s t ea dy, been sold at 871. 87 to 88; provincial had BANK OF FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following statement of the situation of the Bank of France up to the evening of the 30th of March :-- ASSETS. .„ Cash and ingots ... 55,070,565 24... Cash at the branch banks :.: •,„ 46,998,605 00 Bills due this day 12,926 212 71 Bills becoming due i n P ar i s, o f w hi c h theßi3ll6s'3inBst,h6o73braarneofhrobmanks.. 51, 619 , 3 82 36 brat!!!2,693,200 00 b an ks 245,766,092 60 Advances in coin and ingots ... ••• Advances on publi c secur i t i es o f France 12,443,482 90 Due from the branch banks on their notes in circulation . ... „. 14,699,750 00 Rentes of the reserve fund ••• 10,000,000 00 Rentes of dispos a bl e funds :•• ••• 11,660,197 89 Hotel and furnit ure o f t h e bank.. -• 4,000,000 00 Interest in the branch bank at Algiers 1,000,000 00 Interest in the National Discount Bank 200,200 00 Bills protested ... ... ... .. 2,963,821 79 Russia yetof administration i received n .... .. :: : Bills arising from the sale of Rentes to Expenses 994,436 04 341,962 21 Sundries ... 26,583 95 ••• ••• ••• ••• Advances to the State on Bons du Tresor of the Republic ..• .•. • 50,000,000 00 526,404,292 69 DEBTS AND OBLIGATIONS. Capital ... ... 67,900, 000 00 ... ... Reserve fund ... ... ... 10,000,000 00 Reserve immobiliire ... .., 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in c i rcu l at i on ::: ... 285,780,100 00 ... Ditto of the branch bank ... ... 14,699,750 00 Ditto to order (post bills) ..„ .., 2,222,515 60 Account current with Treasury ... 58,336,375 64 Various accounts current ... ... 75,791,318 35 Bills payable at sight ~ 1,756,000 00 Re discounts of the last . half-year ... 728,692 37 Dividends unpaid ... ... ... 320,669 25 Discounts, interest, and expenses ••• 2,848,442 87 Branch Bank of Algi ers , sum no t y e t employed in the Treasury bonds ... 1,086,203 62 Branch Bank drafts to be paid . 797,782 15 Sundries ... . . ... ... ... 138,412 27 526,404,292 69 OUTRAGE on a BRITISH SUBJECT IN TRIPOLI. A letter from Malta gives the following particulars of a daring outrage committed by the Bey of Tripoli on a British subject:— Mr. Moses Benjamin, a Gibraltar Jew, holding the office of American Chancellor at Tripoli, has occupied for many years past a garden in the outskirts of the town. On the night of the 7th March, the chief of the Menchiyi p( lice (under pretence that there were Turkish women concealed in it) broke into Mr. Benjamin's house, and seized upon the in mates and carried them to prison. The prisoners consisted of Mr. Balensi, a British subject, a native of Gibraltar, and of two Arabs in the service of Mr. Benjamin. Next day they were arraigned before the Pacha in full divan, and were sentenced by him to receive the bastinado, which they accordingly got in spite of their protestations that they were under the British flag; for every appeal made by the prisoners to be delivered over to their consul they received a double stroke of the stick. We are ignorant what steps Mr. Crowe, the British Consul, has taken in this affair; but one thing is very certain that:unless the Pacha be severely punished for his audacity and outrageous conduct, Europeans will not be able to live any longer in Barbary. We hear that his Excellency pretends he was not aware of these people being British subjects at the time of their receiving the bastinado; a pretty excuse indeed to make, when the chief of the police, who seized and conducted the prisoners before him, had long been personally acquainted with them, and had often visited at Mr. Benjamin's garden—when, in stead of administering summary punishment, as he usually , does in cases of natives, he brought the case before the Pacha; evidently proving by so doing that he himself was not competent to judge the case; when the Pacha's interpreter, who was the medium of communication between the prisoners and the Pacha, knew them to be under foreign protection, and no doubt informed his Excellency of the fact; when the Pacha himself, previous to bastinadoing them, had made in quiries of the head of the Jews as to the nationality of Mr. Balensi; and when, not a month ago, an Austrian subject having been illegally bastinadoed by the cheik of Imsellata, and the Austrian Consul having demanded redress for this gross violatio❑ of existing treaties. His Excellency could not plead ignorance, in the present instance, of the nature and existence of such treaties; and knowing them, he ought not to have inflicted pu nishment even upon a Turk, without first ascertaining whether he were really an Ottoman subject or not, much more so when one of the prisoners (Mr. Balensi) stood before him dressed in the European costume. As matters now stand, the Pacha may with impunity send his emissaries to seize even upon a eonsul; have him well bastinadoed, then make a thousand apologies, and swear it was all a mistake. What makes the foregoing caso still stronger, is, that no woman whatever was found in Mr. Benjamin's house, nor have any been punished for having been there. The case, therefore, appears to be one of spite against Mr. Crowe, the British Consul, and was no doubt purposely contrived so as to lower the character of Euro peans in the eyes of the natives. The British and Ame rican Ambassadors at Constantinople must take speedy and energetic measures for redeeming the honour of their flags and the faith of treaties in the Barbary States. FORGING A CHEQUE. A painful sensation has been created in this city during the past week by the discovery of a forgery to a large amount, committed by a clerk in the employ of Messrs. A. and S. Henry and Co., the eminent mer chants of Tork-street. The circumstances appear to be these:— On Wednesday evening, Francis Naughten, the clerk alluded to, went to the Manchester Branch Bank of England, and tendered a cheque on that bank for 3,4501. 17s. Mr. Balfour the cashier, knowing Naugh ten, did not hesitate to cash the cheque, which was dated the 29th of March, and signed, "A. and S. Henry and C 0.," and banded him the amount accordingly. It appears that a very short time after this, on the same morning, the same indi individual wen to Sir B en j am i n Heywood and Co.s bank, and tendering three 500/. notes, wishe d to have an order upon a fi rm i n Liverpoo l f o r the amount. E lis was refused. Naughten, it is stated, th en went to Messrs. Cunliffe and Co.'s bank, and made a sim ilar request. His y out h (Naughten b e i ng only twenty years of age) and the amount exciting sus p icion, he was asked w h ere he obtaine d t h e notes. He answered coolly th at they formed pa rt of a cheque he bad just got cas h e d at the Branch B an k of England. A messenger, how ever, was sent to t h e Branch Bank of England, to wh om Mr. Balfour sa id he had just cashed the cheque , as stated, and that it was all right. S usp i c i on being stil l e ntertained, a message was se n t to Messrs. Henry ' s warehouse, and the individual w ant i ng the order was t o ld to call again. He did not retur n , and as was surmised, the cheque being proved to be a forgery, information was sent to the police-station at the Town-hall. An officer im mediately went to th e Vi ctor i a s tation, and ascer tained that a person answer i ng the description of Naughten had left Man c h es t er b u t a short time befor e by train for Liverpool, accompanied by two young men whom he had been in th e h a bit of associ atin g w ith. Captain Willis, the chief constable, th en dis p atche d officers to communicate with Mr. B eswick, ch ief superintendent, who was then at Liverpool, attending the assizes, and a vigorous search was made there by Mr. Beswick, Inspectors McMulle n, Ma y bur y , an d Buckley, and other officers, who succee ded in obt aining information which, it is confidently expected, will le a d to the apprehension of the guilty pa rties. One o f the young men has, indeed; been app rehended alr eady on suspicion or being an accessory after the fact. Hi s name is John Parnell. He is rather a respectable young man, and was one of the candidates fur the office of inspectors of weights and measures, vacated by been together on Mr. Fell. It appears that they took a sum of 1,9001. with y h , a li ve aughten, Liverpool. Wednesday them in notes, which are known to have been changed in probably more so than his two companions, for in the course of the di-covert' that they had given him the he made the • .. . he knew not %hither. the slip, and gone Upon this he returned to Manchester by the last train, and was at once taken into custody by the detective officers. The night, t h ree drinking are sa i f d r freely, Oa Friday morning, he was brought up at the Bor ough Court, before Mr. Jackson and Mr. Watkin, when Mr. Beswick having briefly stated the Circumstances of the case, called Mr. Balfour, w h o proved the payment of the cheque. . Mr. WM. Robinson Johnson, one of the partners in the firm of Messrs. Henry and Co., stated that his firm kept an account at the B ran ch Bank of England, and that he himself wrote many of the cheques out; that the writing in the cheque in question was very like his, but that it was forged; an d that the cheque had never been paid from their house. Mr. Beswicle said he had further evidence against the prisoner, but at present he did not think • it prudent to go further into the case; he therefore applied for a remand till Monday, when be expected to have the other parties also in custody. The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Monday. —Manchester Examiner. I MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.— C IkTU AM, A PRIL 3. On Saturday, the Ist instant, the depot of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers was detached from the 'Wales ; th e strength of provisional battalion. It was then f ormed into a four company depot, it having bee n att ached to the battalion for fifteen years; the regiment having left this garrison i t I l i the e d e) year ot consistslB3 sioned officers. Yesterday their arms and accoutrements were served out to them, and this morning their route 3 for of N 347 Southne unexpectedly came for their immediate march to Canter bury, and they left in two divisions, under command o f 11lajor the Hon. C. It. Saville West, with C apta i n F . G . Ainslie, Captain Alfred Andrews, Captain Duncan n; n , including non-commis . Fraser, Lieutenant F. Rine., Second Lieutenant Thomas F. Hobbs, for Olt city. The two following officers are on lc eve:--Lieutenant A. G. Shaw and Lieutenant Wil liam Savage. The regiment is expected, in May next, from India.' THE MAGAZINES. ~~. -- BLACKWOOD. _ Several of the contributions for April are particu larly apposite. Those in reference to the revolu tionary movements on the Continent are of course imbued with the high Conservative characteristic of the political sympathies of Blackwood. With the historical chapter on the " Fall of the Throne of the Barricades" we, of course, entertain scarcely two sentiments of coincidence. The writer sarcastically observes of the members of the Provisional Govern ment, that " they have adopted the ideas of Ro bespierre without his blood,—the visions of Rousseau without his profligacy." Well so : it is true. Hap pily, the first Republican Government of the France of 1848 have adopted those ideas and those visions, and as happily they have repudiated that blood and that profligacy. We say "happily" advisedly, for the ideas of Robespierre were at the outset of his political career such as would, if properly sustained, enforced, and promulgated, have ensured the happiness of society, for they were inspired by those very visions of Rousseau which were clothed , with the beauty of truth and benevolence. Of this man—Maximilian Robespierre —it has been most bravely and eloquently said—" There is a design in his life, and that design is vast—the reign of reason by the medium of democracy. There is a momentum, and that mo mentum is divine—it was a thirst after truth and justice in the laws. There is an action and that action is meritorious—it was the struggle for life and death against vice, lying, and despotism. There is a devotion, and this devotion is as constant and absolute as an antique immolation—it was the sacrifice of himself, his youth, his repose, his happiness, his ambition, his life, his memory, and his work. Finally, there is a means, and that means is, in turn, execrable or legitimate—it is ppu larity." The inspired lips from which these thrilling words of vindication have emanated are the lips of Alphonse de Lamartine (see his .Histoire des Girondins, Tome VIII., Liv. 61.), of that poetic, but exact historian, who loves the visions of Rousseau, while he execrates his profligacy, who reveres the lofty aspirations of the republican Robespierre, while he loathes and abhors the stupendous crimes of the Monster Dictator, and who now, as the leader, the orator, and the statesman of the Third Revolution, will be enabled to realise those visions by virtue, and to proclaim those ideas with dignity. Again, we say, happily, the Provisional Government "have adopted the ideas of Robespierre without his blood— the visions of Rousseau without his profligacy." "How we got possession of the Tuileries,' a fantastic paper, half banter, half earnest, half historic, and half fictitious, penned in seven burlesque chapters, is one of the most delightfully impertinent effusions we ever recollect perusing. It is quite an insult to one's un derstanding from the first sentence to the last— violating, as it does (intentionally), all the pos sibilities of time, place and circumstance. Through out it is remarkable for an air of ridiculous extravagance. We have literary tidbit. It opens w Mr. Cobden, as one who has " borne the banner of regeneration from the Baltic to the shores of the thoroughly a gmhlaygor magnificent td sneer it a s a a t assertionßosp horus," that never n a ed unrevolutionary epoch" than the present. (The aconsnarrator is, we must remark in parenthesis, the illus trious Dunshunner.) Lord Minto is not spared by ly a moret his peaceful eaoreeipuortei o reported our Rabellais of Maga, who, in allusion to the Lord Privy Seal, speaks of " the good feeling which seemed to prevail between the British unaccredited Minister and the scum of the Ausonian population." Dun shunner encounters M. Alexandre Dumas in Paris, under the assumed title of Monte Christo ; and therefore he reveals in a laughable manner the secret of the intellectual fruitfulness of the illustrious feuilletonist. The revelation is so rich in its way that we must transcribe it. Le voila! "For some years (says Monte Christo) I have paid the utmost attention to the science of animal magnetism, an art which undoubtedly lay at the foundation of the an cient Chaldean lore, and which, though now revived, has been debased by the artifices and quackery of knaves. I need not go into details. After long search, I have suc ceeded in finding a being which, in its dormant or spiritual state, has an entire affinity with my own. When awake, you would suppose Leontine Deschap penes to be a mere ordinary though rather interesting female, endowed certainly with a miraculous sensibi lity for music, but not otherwise in any way remark able. But, when asleep, she becomes as it were the counterpart or reflex of myself. Every thought which passes through my bosom simultaneously arises in hers. Ido not need even to utter the words. By some miraculous process, these present themselves as vividly to her as if I had bestowed the utmost labour upon composition. I have but to throw her into a magnetic sleep, and my literary product for the day is secured. I go forth through Paris, mingle in society, appear idle and insouciant; and yet all the while the ideal person ages of my tale are passing over the mirror of my mind, and performing their allotted duty. I have reached such perfection in the art, that I can compose two or even three romances at once. I return towards evening and the❑ I find Leontine, pale indeed and exhausted, but with a vast pile of manuscript before her, which contains the faithful transcript of my thoughts. Now, perhaps, you will cease to wonder at an apparent ferti lity, which, I am aware, has challenged the admiration and astonishment of Europe." If we are to believe our delightful Ebony, the cause of the Revolution of February was a freak on the part of Dumas, and the Albert ouvrier, who figures so conspicuously in the Provisional overn meat as an artizan-statesman is none other than my Lord Brougham in disguise! Here is the descrip tion of M. Albert, and we ask if there can be any mistake that the sketch is intended for any other per son than the Noble Lord of Cannes and Brougham Hall ? " The individual thus accosted (namely as M. Albert) was of middle height, advanced age, and very plainly dressed. lie wore a rusty gray surtout, trousers of plaid check, and the lower part of his countenance was buried in the folds of a black cravat. The features were remarkable ; and, somehow or other, I thought that I had seen them before. The small grey eyes rolled rest lessly beneath their shaggy pent-house ; the cheek bones were remarkably prominent ; a deep furrow was cut on either side of the mouth ; and the nose, which was of a singular conformation, seemed endowed with spontaneous life, and performed a series of extraor dinary mechanical revolutions. Altogether the appear ance of the man impressed me with the idea of strong ill-regulated energy, and of that restless activity which is emphatically the mother of mischief." The really Simon Pure will be rather surprised to find that, as Mrs. Malaprop says, he is two gentlemen in one. " The Caxtons—a Family Picture," in six chapters, is one of the most beautiful magazine tales published for a considerable time. Augustine Caxton is a fine, manly, original, and right natural creation ; he might have been fathered by Laurence Sterne, for the character is conceived in that spirit of racy and spontaneous wit which is the charm of "Tristram Shandy." The little episode about a flowerpot, in the fourth chapter, is exquisitely told. "A German Ditty" is a pretty chinking rhyme—nothing more; and the two sonnets on the back of .the same leaf are indifferent. "My Route into Canada" is the second instalment of a descriptive contribution, and is fol lowed by an agreeable narrative of "The Conquest of Naples, by the brother of St. Louis." " Travelling in Taffyland". would be welcome, if only for the in genious catalogue at the close, entitled Triads for Travellers. The other article in the number for ; April, viz., " Life and Times of Lord Hardwicke," ,is a clever criticism, or rather epitome of the bio graphy, by Mr. George Harris. BENTLEY. We have in this number of Bentley three narratives of the events of the French Revolution of February. The beat is written -by an American lady, the next best by our old friend the Flaneur, and is illustrated with a life-like portrait of M. Guizot ; and the other is a very lady's-maik like account by Mrs. Romer, who seems never to have recovered from an agony of horror since her ears were startled by the ter rible vox popzili, "dive la'Republique," and her nerves were shocked by the dreadful sight of " nine fierce-looking individuals in blouses, who visited her domicile in search of arms." She says, however, " To do them justice they behaved with much civility, and on fin.ding that their search was fruitless, and that neither pistol, gun, nor sabre formed any part of female belongings, they quietly departed, with many apologies for the trouble they had given." The following anecdote of the flight of the King is new. We cordially re-echo the answer of the stub born Republican : " The - royal pair deicended to the garden of the Tuileries, which they traversed in the direction of the pont tournant, .preceded Eby the Duke of Montpensier, who endeavoured to prevent the crowd from pressing too rudely upon his father. A few National Guards, and one or two Deputies, accompanied them, one of whom, indignant at seeing the crowd keep their hats on in the King's presence, exclaimed, ' Messieurs, decouvrez vous in presence du noir- 4 11 n'y a plus de Roil' was the answer. 'Alons, si vous ne respectez plus le Roi, respectez au moins le malheur,' was indignantly urged by the speaker. Et le crime done?' was all that could be extracted from the stubborn Republican.' With all her love for Louis Philippe, over whose fall she tells us she shed tears, Mrs. Romer is compelled to admit that there was something ignoble in the "Precipitate flight of the Royal Family, who de parted with such haste and in such disorder that the sauve qui peut' instinct appears to have scared away from them every other sentiment for the moment, and the young: princesses were left to make the best of their way out of the tumult, unaided by their husbands. The Parisian population have already instituted a comparison between the flight of the last Bourbon sovereign in 1830, and that of Le Roi des Frangais in 1848, which fully expresses the estimation in which they hold the latter: they say, Nous avons renvo3 Charles Dix a Coup de cannon; et nous avons chaste Louis Philippe _ . a coup de piedsl" tier narrative closes with the following well deserved tribute to M. Lamartine, whose portrait illustrates this paper : " Undoubtedly the mass of public opinion goes with, , and supports the Government; and above all, pays tribute to the devotedness, intelligence, and loyalty of its bright est ornament, Monsieur de _Lamartine. His courage in resisting the recent demand of the combatants of the bar ricades to change the national colours, and substitute the red flag of revolt adopted by them on the late occasion for the tricolor, consecrated by so many glorious memo ries, was absolutely sublime; and big attitude, words, and demeanour,- when the bayonets of tile ru ffianly de peputation were pointed at his breast and crossed over his head, Were characterised by a noble calei worthy of the greatest heroes of antiquity." " Are there Those who Read the Future," is a tale from ' the pen of the Gaol Chaplain, which will be devoured by all lovers of the marvellous, while the lovers of adventure, and the admirers of true courage, will read with feelings of intense interest the " Narrative of the 'Wreck of the Archduke Charles." " Captain Spike" is brought to a conclusion. The old pirate Spike dies of his wounds, and Mulford and his pretty wife Rose take Jack Tier with them to New York, where they are all living happily. Professor Creasy gives us the fourth of " The Six Decisive Battles of the World, viz., Arminius's Victory over the Roman Legions under Varus." The other articles are all of the average merit. _ NEW MONTHLY. Cordially do we welcome back to us an old fa vourite, Co - lburn's New Monthly—endeared to us by the editorial labours of Sir Bulwer Lytton, of poor Theodore Hook, and of dear Thomas Hood. The magazine still flourishes under the editorship of William Harrison Ainswortb, and what we princi pally regret in his editorship is that he abstains from adorning its pages with his own contributions. Al though we can sympathise in no respect with the political 'predilections of the New .Month'y, we re cognise in the advocacy of them no inconsiderable ability, and, consequently, are disposed to treat with Some sort of respect ideas which . would otherwise have provoked our unmitigated derision. For in stance, in the opening paper. for April—a miniature biography of M. Guizot—we find it seriously main• tained that the Government of Louis Philippe has, been during the last seventeen years "mild and pa triotic," while the subsequent pages go to pronounce the character of Guizot' immaculate, not only as an historian but as. a statesman. He!—the man of Ghent !—the peculator in the affair Petit !—the con niver at the odious and despotic enactments of 18341 He, immaculate forsooth! Still the writer shows throughout that he is a man of education, a man, moreover, of an education that has biassed his judg ment. In allusion to his remark upon the character of Guizot we are fain, with all respect, to quote the couplet of Lord Byron-- " If Captains the remark or Critics make, They too lie also—under a mistake!" At page 39G there is a melancholy blunder in allu sion to the venerable mother of the ex-President of the Council. She is spoken of as one who " still fires"—when scarcely could the page have been dry from the press, when Madame Guizot was • lying dead in the residence of her son at Brompton. Charles Rowcroft continues his amusing serial of " Tick; or, Memoirs of an Old Eton Boy." The auction scene is capital. " The Richest Commoner in England" also progresses —the tone of it is riante. Prince Metternich, as well as Guizot, receives many compliments from a contributor to the New Monthly —a contributor who appears to take a delight in be coming the Panegyrist of such outcasts of Govern 4, Revolutionary Paris" is a chapter conceived in a violent anti-democratic spirit ; nevertheless it deserves a 'very thoughtful consideration. The lite rary criticisms in the magazine are impartial, varied, and entertaining. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting. The Countess de Neuilly paid a private visit to her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed pony and walking exercise yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing yesterday in the royal gardens. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday evening, at Buckingham Palace. The Countess de Neuilly visited her Royal Highness phe Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Cla irence House, St James's. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, on Sunday, at Cambridge House. The Military Secretary to the.Comrnander-in-Chief had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing- street. Mr. John Lefevre had an interview with the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord and Lady John Russell and family arrived at their residence in Chesham-place yesterday from Rich mond Park. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. Lord John Russell paid a complimentary visit to his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia yesterday, at the residence of the Legation, on Carlton-house terrace. His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse also honoured the Prince with a visit yesterday morning. 'llia Prince took equestrian exercise in the afternoon, horses having been provided from the royal stab'es. His Royal Highness dined last evening with his Excel lency Chevalier Bunsen. The Hon. Julian Fane, son of the Earl of Westmoreland, had the honour of joining the party. In the evening the Prince, with the members of his ;suite, honoured the equestrian performances at Drury lane Theatre with his presence. The following paid complimentary visits to his Royal Highness during yesterday and Sunday :—Lord Dudlck Stuart, the Dean of Westminster, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Rev. A. Waulbaum (chaplain to the Prussian Legation), the Dowager Lady Clinton, Sir Frederick Adam, Mr. Langley, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir Francis Palgrave, Captain Howard Vyse (Royal Horse Guards), Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. J. Marengford, Sir George Walker, Hon. Julian Fane, Hon. H. Fitzroy, Mr. R. C. Legh, Mr. Culling Smith, Dr. Meyer, &e. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. GRANDY HANDICAP. i to 2 agst Mr. Blake's Ballinafad 3 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Peep-o'-day Boy—taken 7 to 2 agst Lord Stanley's Bowstring METROPOLITAN %HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Cracow, 3 yrs, sst 61b — taken and afterwards offered 7 to 1 agst Lord Lonsdale's Jericho, 6 yrs, 9st— ; take 15 to 2 10 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Marquis of Conyngham, 5 yrs, Est 71b 10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 3 yrs, sst 31b —taken and aft, rwards offered 11 to 1 agst Capt. Barnes's Tufthunter, 4 yrs, 7st 61b —taken 13 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, 6 yrs, Sat 71b—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. H. Johnstone's Snuff-box, 3 yrs, sst 71b 15 to 1 agst Count Bathyany's Gannet, 6 yrs, 7st lib 20 to 1 agst Mr. Nevin's Blackbird, 5 yrs, Bst 21b 20 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Remembrancer, 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib 20 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Sister to Zgis, 4 yrs, 7st 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, Bst 121 b 25 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 4 yrs, 7st 2lb 's Walmg a t e -b ar Wi thout, 25 to 1 agst Mr. Verity 4 yrs, 7st 61b 30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme, 5 yrs, Est 10lb 30 to 1 agst Mr. Nices Moscow, 5 yrs, Est 121 b Cracow was in general demand, and in a very short time became first favourite, notwithstanding Jericho' s friends mustered in considerable force. Tufthunter, Glen Saddel, Lady Wildair, and Gannet had some sup porters, but were not backed to any extent. Rat-trap was out of the betting, and the investments on the horses quoted at 20 to 1 and upwards were in such small sums that we have some hesitation in placing prices against them. Alboni was scratched at twenty minutes past three o'clock. It is thought that there will be about 25 starters. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Blaze—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcateher—taken CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle, 4 yrs, Bst 61b —take 25 to 1 25 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Cracow, 3 yrs, 4st 71b —taken and offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Keleshea, 4 yrs, 6st 91b—t 40 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Peep-o'-day Boy, 4 yrs, ist—taken 4,000 to 60 agst Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First, 5 yrs, 8)t 121 b—taken There were not a dozen bets laid. DERBY. 9to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—take 9i to 1 10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice 10 to 1 agst Mr. Payne s Gl en dower —take 11 to 1 16 to 1 agst Mr. Me,tyn's Loadstono 25 to 1 agst Major Pitt's Fern 40 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Sesostris—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. E. Nunn's The Fowler—talon 's Eagle's Plume —taken 2,000 to 40 agst Sir J. 13. Mill's Deerstalker—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Wrcford's Whitstone Prices at ton; Sur -1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Saudrord's The Sheriff 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton s* T ot he in fo od w o k u r r, iv t The favourites remain at nearly the same liTaleled e r l a o t o h k e e r dupon which they were last quoted from Northbamp Alice,ast ll third however , favourite.a at I,ooo's to 20 and 25. freely TIIB GENTLEMAN..AT.•ARIII9.--A paragraph has teen in circulation for some time, stating that the corps of Gent!men- at-Arms, or, as they were formerly called, Gentlemen Pensioners, was to be remodelled, and that all persons in any way connected with trade or commercial pursuits were to bo excluded from the corps, which is to be in future called the Queen's Royal Body Guard. This report is as mischievous as it is untrue, and we are authorised to state that it is without the slightest foundation. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEATH OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON THM EAST INDIA AND CHINA STATION.—Rear-Admiral of the White Samuel Hood Inglefield, C. 8., died at Bombay vn the 24th of February, as stated, inour Indiap inte,l - yesterday._ Rear-Admiral Inglefield was lieutenantof the Theseus, 74 guns, at the defence of St., Jean d'Acre in 1799; and . subsequent operations in Egypt; he commanded the Hunter and Bacchante, 20-gun sloops, in the West Indies, and in the latter captured the French brig-of war Griffon. In the Thedalus at the capture of Lamana and two privateers in 1808. --Gazetted 1799, 1808.-- His commissions were dated as follows:—Lieutenant, 26th of July, 1798; Commander, 7th of January, 1802; Cap tain, 6th of October. 1807; Rear-Admire), 2:id of "IsTie vember,lB-11. He was nominated a CoMpanion - of the )3ath on the 18th of April. 1839. He :was appointed - Ganimander-in-Chief on the south-east coast of Ameriia (River Plata) station on the sth of March, 1845, - and prceeNled from Spithead in her Majesty's ship Vernon,. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the East India and China station cn the 24th of June, 1846, and aas succeeded in -the River Flitta_hy Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., in the 50-gun frigate Raleigh. By this unexpected fatality Rear-Admiral of the Mu" Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., commanding the ChannQ fleet, becomes Rear-Admiral of the White; and Captain Sir Joshua Ricketts Rowley, Bart.- (1812), becomes Rear-Admiral of the Blue, leaving Captain Alexander Renton Sharpe (1813) the next on the Captains' List to obtain flag rear. • . Commodore James Ilanway Plumridge of the Cam brian, 36 guns, has hoisted his pendant as Commander in-Chief on the China station, until a successor to Rear- Admiral inglefield is appointed by the Admiralty, and arrives out uptin the ,station. The Vernon, 50 gun frigate, which carried the late Commander-in- Chief's flag, has been found — so rotten and damaged by having taken the ground, that she will be broken up at Botiabay„ Her captain, officers, end crew will rig and navigate tEe new line ot. battle ship Meanee, 80 guns, built at Bom bay, to England. S UPE HANN UATION OF WARRANT OFFICERS Orders were received from the Admiralty, on-Thurs day morning last, for the superannuation of the following warrant officers belonging to the ordinary at Ports tmouth, on the several sums per annum affixed to each of their names:— - - Boatswains—John Smith (c), 701., John Casley 581., Robert Mackenzie 601., John Smith (b) 60/, William Warren 50/., John Brown 501., - Wm. Evendon 504,T0a. Williams 401., Thomas. Beavis, 60/., Edward Aldridge 50/ , Lawrence Ogan, 50/., James Rolls 20/., Richard Brown 201. . Carpenters—Mat. Hogan 651., Barth. Adams 55L. John W. Cordes 40/., Robert Mathews 651., Edward Crouch 501, John King 35/., Henry Holmes 401. Gunners—Robert Watson 70/., James Strachan 55/., E. Bromley 701., . Benjamin Salmon 651., E. Roberts 501., Stephen Hobbs 351, John Evans 26/., Edw.,Bydder 35/. PLYMOUTH. APRIL 2.—The Havannah, 22, arrived in the Sound from Portsmouth at an early hour this morning. " The new Port Admiral, Sir William Hall Gagq, G.C.H., will hoist his flag, white at the main, on board the san Josef, in Hamoaze, as Commander-in-Chief at Pevonport, about Monday, the 17th instant. The pre iminary arrangements for succession between Sir Wil liam and the present Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir 'John West, K.C.8., are being made. The Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, saile'd for South America on Friday, taking mails to Madeiro, Rio ilaneiro,,Rio Plate, and. Valparaiso. The sloop Star, 6, Commander Riley,fwas paid advance pf wages on Friday, and sailed yesterday for the coast of Africa, taking mails to the Western Islands, Care de 'Nerds, Sierra Leone, and Ascension. Sevin volunteers of the Plymouth Division of the Royal Marines, fdr service at the Island of Ascension, embarked on board the Star for a passage. The brig Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander Rivers, arrived here from Portsmouth on Friday. She will be paid off all standing, and fitted similar to the Rolla, at ; Portsmouth, an d b e attac h e d to the San Josef, for the exercise of the naval apprentices. Mess's. Rigby, of London, have taken the contracts in he dockyard for the execution of the work in the de partment of the Director of Works, and begun to enter men on Thursday last. The contractor, by desire of the Admiralty, is to give the preference to the hired men lately w rg h t d s i e h r a e r g e d s . On charged F , ri a d n a d y evening 40 10 joiners ss and eight smiths, will be discharged on the Bth inst. ROYAL MAnnvEs.—Captain Walsh, second Lieute nants Sutherland and Elliot, with a detachment of two sergeants, two corporals, and 179 privates, of the Ply mouth division; Captain Mitchell, four sergeants, tour corporals, two drummers, and one private, of the Wool 'vich division, are ready to embark on board of the Bir kenhead, for service in the squadron at Cork, as super bumeries, for wages and victuals. Major Delacombe, having been invalided from her Majesty's ship Constance has been granted two months' leave of absence for th 3 benefit of his health. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 2.—There is no political news in the provincial papers received this morning, but the Meaghers and Mitchells of Dublin, with their army of " pikemen" and " rifles," appear to have succeeded in stirring up the bile of the Ulster men, and in raising it to a high state of activity. Their resolve—if any they have formed—must now evidently be to fight for repeal, not only against the Saxon soldier, but the Irish Protes tant, and this also without even a distant promise of assistance from the revolutionary Government of France. An edition of the Freeman's Journal, published last night, seeks to establish that the alleged manufactse of pikes in Dublin is all a plot of the police, sanc tioned by the Government, to make out a case against the " people!" They found this conclusion on certain ,oceurrences- at Henry-street Police-office. Rifle practlbe is said to be in practice in dll parts of the town; but there is no faith to be placed in these ru mours, vl.hich are grossly exaggerated. The Rifle Club of Limerick commenced practice on Thursday. In firing at the target, "Here's for Claren itlon," or " Sir Henry Hardinge," was the cry of those who took aim. The Roscrea police are stated to have seized a lot of pikeheads and poles in that town. An armed party attacked the house of a farmer named O'Donnell, residing at Kilcreedy, county of Limerick, on Wednesday night. They demanded money for powder and ball, which being refused, they fired a shot through one of the windows. They then suceeeded in obtaining IL The mansion-house of the Rev. Mr. Brophy, of Ros naclonan, Queen's County, was maliciously fired and destroyed on last Saturday night week. On the follow ing night a large plantation, containing 700 trees, the property of George Rae, Esq., was also maliciously fired and destroyed, near his residence at Lorn Park, between Roscrea and Templemore. The Limerick Chronicle states that withdrawals of de posits from the savings' bank of that town do not at present exeeed the average of this season of the year, when money is wanted for emigrant and farming pur- poses. There are two men to b© hanged at Nenagh for mur der on the 22d inst. The Countess of Durham, Rowlands, mast e r, sa il e d on Thursday from Waterford for New York, with lio passengers, all respectable, comfortable looking farmers. She is the first spring ship from that port. Fifty vessels have arrived at Limerick within the last three days, fifteen of them with Indian corn. On Friday last, by the magistrates at Limerick Petit Sessions, informations were ordered against Richard Gleeson, of Drotnbanna, for having six leaden balls, and a quantity of powder in his possession, contrary to the provisions of the recent statute. Constable Kean summoned Thomas - Meehan, of same place, for-having three pistols, a powder-horn, and shot-pouch; also John Griffith, for having a gun ; Michael M-Inery, for having powder and shot ; and Owen M-earthy, for having a gun, &c. These parties having received a 'good character, :Is peaceable persons, the cases were left open, to afford them an opportunity of obtaining licenses. It is said that Government has made arrangements for supplying the well-disposed inhabitants of the large towns with arms and ammunition, should the necessity arise for such a proceeding. One count in the indictment to be preferred against Messrs. Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and Mitchell, charees them, under the 37th George 111., Ist Victoria, 91, with endeavouring to seduce her Msjesty's forces from their allegiance—in this case (if convicted) they would incur the punishment of transportation for their natural lives. MORE ARRIVALS OF TROOPS. Two companies of Sappers and Miners arrived from Portsmouth yesterday evening , at Kingstown. The y left by the seven o'clock t rain for Dublin; but, in eon _ of the scarcity atrcit they of Westland-row baorsracultd-rrooow were terminus t i ll compelledhs c a q lie e s e tt o remain o'clock , when the establish ment closes for the night. • Two war steam ers are ex p ected to re ach Kingstown morrow. is the House list o f G overnors and Di gland for the y ear ensu ing:— r T ec h t e , r follo wing of t h e Bank of En James i‘FloorrriGs,oEvesrcin.,ors. Governor. Henry James Prescott, Esq , Deputy-Governor. For areetori. q. Gorge *Thomas Barin g , E s Alfred Latham, sq. , *Henry Wollaston Blake, *orge Lyv,ll, ju E n., Esq. Esq. *Thomas Masterman, Esq. Edward Henry Chapman *Alexander Matheson, Esq. Esq. Humphrey St. John Mild- Witham Cotton, Esq may, E-q. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Gorge Wade Norman, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, E,q ;John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Kirkulan Daniel liodgson,lJames Paulson, Esq.. Esq. Sir John Henry 'Jelly, Bart. Henry Lancelot Holland, Thomasilliam T Chahrolemsp S s m on i , I) t ' E E Esq. W John Gellibrand Hubbard,l and Alderman. ss, Thomas Mathias weguelio, ThomasNeWman Eig. CharlesFrederickfluth,EsqlFraneis Wilson, Esq. N.B. Those gentlemen against whose names an asterisk is placed ,are new candidates for the direction. The election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 11th of April, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 12th of April, from Ten o'clock in the forenoon till, Four in the afternoon. LOUIS PnILIPPE.—It has been erroneously stated in some journals, that, among other places, Airlie Castle has'beeti - put at the service of the ex-King of the French. We have the best authority for mentioning, that not Airlie Castle, in Perthshire, but Cortachy Castle, inFor farshire, was offered to his Majesty; and with the amplest acknowledgments of gratitude declined on the part of the ex-King.—Edinburgh Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 848.