The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-23 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool again, yesterday, Was rather heavy, and prioes were nearly *d. per lb. lower than on Friday last. American sorts were de clining. Sales, 3,500 bales. American realised 441 to Ced. per lb. Railway shares were better, but with a very limited business d ,ing. Great interest is still attached to the commercial ad ♦ices from abroad. Each day a hope is held out that confidence will immediately revive, but, as the sequel proves, with very little reason. Indeed it is in the nature of things that nearly every trader of consideration must suspend payment, where such radical changes are efftcted, and the Government itself is embarrassed for means. The warehousemen, the metal mer chants, the magazins de nouveautes, the bankers, and the manufacturers, all appear to suffer alike; and, until political security is felt, money will be jea lousy hoarded even by those who have to spire. Still it is in the power of the Provisional Government to do much, and their zeal and energy none can dis pute. A highly gratifying circumstance too is the moral Courage exhibited, and the co-operation afforded,lby M. Rothschild, a course of proceeding which, under cir cumstances, is deserving of the warmest praise. With respect to the general advices received from Germany, there appears to be but one opinion in the City. viz., that the respective sovereigns are needlessly humiliating themselves rather than make bold and une quivocal concessions to the just demands of their people, and this is, indeed, the only source of anxiety, procras tination being the precursor perhaps of greater political convulsions. A very interesting meeting has been held to-day, that of the Canada Company which has been in useful operation for a long series of years, and has proved, in the most decided sense, worthy of the confidence of the classes whom it is intended to benefit, viz., those least provided for in the mother country. The operations of the company have received a most impor tant extension by the 'leasing of land, upon the excellent principle of allowing the tenant to pay by instalments hich in ten years will entitle him to the possession of the property unencumbered with rent, and, in fact, ren dering him an independent landowner. This leaves him the use of his small means at starting for the cultivation of his land, and materially promotes both his comfort and success. The Canada Company has leased for a term of ten years no less than 306,872 acres, at an annual rent of 11,100/. The tenantry of the Canada Company appear to be the happiest in British North America, and their social advancement keeps pace with their worldly prosperity. The six weeks' average price of Wheat established the present duty on foreign at 7s. 6d. per quarter. The Funds are again extremely buoyant, and appa rently wholly insensible to any present influence from abroad, or even to money sales of stock, so desirous are the Bears to close their accounts, although in many in stances predicting lower values again ere long. Consols have ranged from 824 to 834 for transfer, and from 82i to 331 for April. Exchequer-bills have risen to 30s. premium, and India Bonds under 1,000/. are I ls. to 15s. premium. Bank Stock for account has been 190 to 192. The Foreign Market is favourably influenced by the advance in Consols, but with very limited dealings. Spanish Five per Cents. have been marked 124 to 124, and the Three per Cents. 224. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been at 15. Brazilian Small are 704. Mex ican Bonds are 144 is Dutch Four per Cents. have been 61f to and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 58. There is more favour shown to Railway Shares, espe cially, the French lines, which have decidedly rallied in price. ONE CLOSING phi,EB OF URITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICESI 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 827 83% 82 3 / 4 83% 83 82%4 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,000/. . ....... 11 15 p 15 p South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities sank Stock for Account 192 190 192 192 Consols for Account 83 83% 82X 83 1 4 83 83 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. March ... 29 26 30 p 30 p 1,0001. June 3O p 30 p 5001. March ~ 5001. June 2B 30 p 80 p Small, March Small, June ... 26 30 p 30 p CCM CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. I RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small .•. 70% 70% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 68 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 14 % 3 /4 14% Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto 3 Der Cent l5 l/ 15% Ditto, 4 per Cent. l5 14Z Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ..... ........ Ditto, Account . - 223 / 4 Venezuela Bonds, 21- A i per Cent l 9 l/ 19 1 ,! Ditto, Deferred 5% 5% Dividends on the above payble in London. Belgian 4% per Cent .... 58 58 Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. ... 41 3 / 4 42 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 61 61% % 61% MICE:3 OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILW AY SIIARES. AT ONB O'CLOCK. rnicEs. Aberdeen 5O Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junetion 3 1 1..... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% — Belfast & County Down 11% Birmingham and Ox- ford Junction .... ... 20 Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stonr Valley 10?. 14 e... ... . .••• Birkoahead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jung.... 7N...• ... . ... ..... . Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter B5 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire... 121. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. ._:3: 4 — Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 - Chester and Holyhead 37%...... Ditto, Preference l2 ...... 114 . Clarence Do. lat Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Governmentt Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast Junc. 25 Dundalk & Enniskillen 17% — East Anglia, 251., L. & _ E. and L. and 1....•• 25 •••••• Do., 18/., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 31. 10s. ...... 3% Eastern Counties........ 20 Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1-- 6/. 13s. 4d.... par Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... .. Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters ... 12% — Do., New Eastern Union ... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Ditto, Thirds .......135.4d.. • Do. (guar.6 percent.) 10 Ditto, ditto - ••• East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 3 3 A...... East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... • Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% -...., Edinburgh and Northern 25 . - Ditto, New.. 3, i - Ditto, Newport l2 - Ditto, ditto, New 2 1A..... - Exeter,Yeoyil, & Dorch. 2% - Ditto, New - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle - 6s. 8d.... - Gl a sgow,Kilmar., & Ayr DO - .... Ditto, New ... ..... .... 40 - .. Do. Preference Consol. 15 - • ....... • ••• Great Northern Do., London and York 2 1 % - Great South. and West. ( Ireland) G re at North of England.lo o ...... 221 Ditto, New, 40! a Ditto, New, 301......... 30 - Ditto. New, 15 /... ...... 6% ..... - •.. - Great Western 9O ... .. 32 90 Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... 51 ..• ... 51 Ditto, 1 4 Shares - - Ditto, Fifths 2O - - Ditto, New 171.- ...- 9%..... 8 Huddersfield and Manch. 24 - Ditto, Thirds - Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 9 7 1% Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 48 Ditto, IA Shares - Ipswich & Bury - St. Edm 17% ...... 4 3 %4 Do., do., and Norwich 15 - Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2% - Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 - Ditto, Thirds - Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do. Quarter Shares... 14% _ Do. Fifths... ...... ...... 9 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 - Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/.45...... - ... ...... .• Do. Liverp. and Bury 33 ...... - Ditto 1 4 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 - 69 1 A 511/2 ~ i• 7 1 ,E 3 , . WWI Do.(Wakefield,Ponte tract, and Goole) ~. big.) Do.(W.RidingUnion)4/. 2 5...... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares ( A)... 9 - Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, ice.— 42%...... Do., Balt* Shares l7 i i‘ . ... Do., (blue) Scrip Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 / .' 2 — .......«...... Liverpool, Crosby and ;Southport . .... 2 Liverp., 111 anchester, and Newcastle Junction... 2'/ .; ~. 136 die. London & Black wa11...13/. No. 2 . 136.4 d. Do. New, No. 2 . .... - ......... Do. Extension . 17% London, Brighton, and South C0a5t......... 50 Do. Coneol. Eighths. 40 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 Do. Pref. Con. b per ct. 50 .. _ Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — ....._,, Ditto, Preference... 18' 17s 2d — ...... .., London and N. Western 100 126 128 Do. Quarters (L. & B.) 22 Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths .. 2 Do 40/.Shares(L.Di.) 20 — Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7 21% 13% 4 dis 25 97 1 A 46 a.% sc i 19 ... 1?.8 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7% Do. 10 7 . M. St B.) C. 1 ....• Lou +. & IN stern 5O 45 44 46..... Do, Now LW. ... ..... 37 1 ,4.. .. Do. New 401 . 30 Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto .. .... ... 40 Ditto, Thirds .81.65. 8d.... 3% dis.. 3 3/ dis. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Lonclonderry&G leraine 27%. — ......• -- Londonderry and Ennis klien 25 ...... ... ..... .... ... Lowestoft (4 per et.) Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 3 ..... blaiwliester,Buxton.and Matlock . 3 ...... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 71 ,4.••••• Ditto, New 101. Pref... 7%.••••• Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ... ... 7 Ditto ditto .• 4% Ditto Sheffield • and Lincolnshire 7%••• ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 121,4 --— Do. Man. &Lin.ljnion 41.25 Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... Midlan ... 100 ...... 99% :,-1 1 ; 100 lOO Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., F.Ol. Shares. .. 15 ... Do. Birm., and Derby 100 - D... Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ll5 ... Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 36 Ditto, ditto ..... .. 11/. 3s. 6d... ..... — Midlnd,Leieest.lk Swan- nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ...... Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Do. Quarters 25 Newmrk et &Chestertord 18 1 / 4_ — Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 ...... . ....... .. Newry, Warrenpoint, a nd Rostrevor l5 - .. ........ •• Norfolk 100 Do. New 201. Do. Extension Do. Guaranteed 5 1 / 2 pe. 5 Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk • Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British ... .... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 12%..... 9 ... 9 Do. Quarters SL /5 3%•• Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 2 00000 ••• North & South-Western 2 ...... North Staffordshire lO ...... 8% North Wales North Western. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 40 ... 2O %xi 2o%x, Reading, Guildford, and R e i ga t e Royston and Hitchin ... 1% Scottish Central Scottish Midland 22% . .... Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 5 Shrewsbury and Birm... 7 Ditto ditto. Class B. 4 shrew ;bury & Chester (N( W. Min.) ........ 16 .0. or. ,• _ Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 — .. ••........•• Ditto Oswestry ...... 14 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref 6 ...... ..• .... ...... Shrewsbury and Heretd 2 ...... Shropshire Union - South Devon... — Do. Preference - 4••• •••• •••• ...... South Staffordshire...... 4 South Eastern & Dover. 335 ...... 235 %% xd ... 235¢ xd Do., No. 1 24 Do., Nc.2. Do., N 0.3 ............. 20 ...... - ........ Do., No. 4 South Wales ... ........ 18 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 3 — Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 6 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ........... 17 1 / x Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13%...... --- .. Waterford and Limerick 40 — W aterf d,Wxfrd,W icklw, and Dublin - W est Cornwall 6 ... .. -. Whitehaven & Furness 10 ...... Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 7 - Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ........ ........ 30 York, Newcastle, and B e rwick. Do. Original New and ... Berwick .. ... Do. Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. ..... ... 10 ..... Do. U.N E.Preference 8 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference ...... 1 0 Do. E a s t and W est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... PA — Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 16 Central of Spain .. Ceylon , is.. Demerara 7 , 1 / 2.- . Dendro Valley... 4 Direct Bombay and Ai adras Dutch Rhenish ......... 7 ... .. yi....... East Indian...... Great Indian Peninsular ss. ... .. Italian and Austrian.... 4 Jam sica S. 311d.J unction 1 Louvain Ila Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon -..-, -Er Madrid and Valentis." 2 ..... Namur and Liege ...... 16 ... .. 2% 3 4 Northern of France...... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux 6 ...... ...« ...... Over Yssel 4/ 8s 4d...... Paris and Lyons ....... .. 10 ... " 2 .... . Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen ... ..... 20 Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 ..• •• .......• Rotten and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. 5 Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 ...... •••• Tours and Nantes ... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt 16 West Flanders 61 ,4 8 1 ,4 5 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY LONDON, MARCH 22. Wind S.S.W., fresh breeze, and cloudy weather. DEAL, MARCH 23.—Wind S.S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Prestoa, Norlin, Brazil, for Gothemburg. Arrd. from the River, Lord Petre, Mauritius; Viscountess Canning, Cape Coast Castle; Malcolm, Barbadoes ; Robert, St. Kitts; Albion, Jamaica; Jane Inness, Jamaica. Sid. Sunflower, Honduras; Olive, St. John's, New Bruns wick. LivanrooL, MARCH 22.—Wind S.—Arrd. 21, Ivan hoe, Edwards, New York. 22. Josiah Quincy, Howes, Mobile; Sandwich, Turner, Savanilla. Sid. England's Queen, Shanghai; Lascar, Batavia; Hydaspes, Calcutta; Duke of Wellington, Calcutta; Asia, Demerara; Chro nometer, Vera Cruz; Chippewa and Independence, New ' Orleans: Camillus, Savannah; Harkaway, Baltimore; Henry Clay, New Yolk ; Rappahannack, New York; Rio Grande, New York; Fingal, New York. LANCASTER.—SaiIed, Sarah Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick. BRISTOL, MARCH 21.—A barque, laden with cotton, partly dismasted, and abandoned with fore part burnt, was pasied lat. 45, long. 15, by the Prometheus, arrived here. HARWICII, Mattel' 22.—The Aginoria, Shields, to London, was assisted in today leaky, having been on shore on the Gunfleet Sand. HULL, MARCH 21.—Sailed True Love, Davis's Straits; Lord Gambier, ditto. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 21.—Sailed William Hutt, Jamaica. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 21.—Sailed Lamorna, St, John's, New Brunswick , SHIELDS, MARCH 20.—Sailed Brutus, France and America; Britannia, Brest and Quebec ; Borneo, Mar seilles. ' DuNDEE 20.—Put back, Georgiana, Leslie for Callao, leaky. BELFAST, MARCH 20.—Sailed Arab, Philadelphia. CORK, MARCH 20.—The Consort, Lyle, of and from Philadelphia to Limerick, was towed in here this morn ing, with loss of bowsprit, sails, &c., deck swept, and part of cargo thrown overboard, pad another part damaged, having experienced a hurricane on the 11th inst., in lat. 52, long. 16. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN ~ o r the Week enciPcl March 28, 11148, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors la the different Cities alit Towns in Eagland aid Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. IDAILST.I OATS. I BEANS. TEAS. PRICE • . 150 s CI 305 Sd 20s 4d 285 6d 363 2t 395 10d DLTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WIIEIT. I BARLE Y. OAT/I. RYE. I BEANS. I THAB. 7s Ott 2s 6d 2s 6d 1 25 6d 25 6d I s 64 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. SOUTIiALL, MARCH 22.—Our market was but mode rately supplied with fat stock, yet the demand waa in a sluggish state, and in some instances the quotations had A downward tendency. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s Sd per Slbs., to sink the offals. ROMFORD, MARCH 22.—Prime Mutton was in good request at full prices, otherwise the trade was heavy. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 45 8d per Bibs. Mitch Cows, with small Calves, 141 to 17/ ss; and Quarter-old Store Pigs, IS. to 24s each. LEWES, MAncrt 21.—Beef, from 8s 6d to 4s 4d; , Mutton, 3s 6d to 53 2d; and Veal, 4s 2d to 4s Sd per Bibs. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. NEV7GATE AND IBADENELAZ.L. The market was tolerably steady to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mut ton, 3s 8.1 to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 8s 8d Ito 5s per Sibs. by the carcase. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2115 s to 31 15s; Clover, ditto, 31 153 to 41 158 ; and, &raw, 11 25 to 11 THE SUN, LONDON,' THURgDAY EVE NING, MARCH 23, 1848. 8s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 151 to 4l 12s; and Straw, 114 s to 11 8, per load. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 14s to 31 15s; Clover ditto, 31 15s to 41155; and Straw, 11 3s to 1/ 8- per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. COAL MARK E' - DIA 62 1 A 8 3 / 4 %.--YESTERDAY. Davison'sWest Hartley 15s OlgBswell Hasting's Hartley lss Odlnetton New Pelton Main .. ... 13s Gd Keepier New Tantleld 135 Od Russell's Hats' Ord's Redkeugh South Pontop Tanfield Moor .... ..... 14s Od Kelloe Tanfield Moor Butes... 125 6d , Adelaide Tees Wall's End, Sze. Cownden Tees ... Framwell Gate l4e Od Seymour Tees Hedley Marton Wharnclitre Eden Main. lse 03 Howard's)W. H. Noth. 15s Od Belmont lss 6d Sidney's Hartley Bell East Hetton 7 1 ,4 j 4% 4t/2 HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appenls. The Peers present were the Lord Chancell,r, Lord Campbell, the Earl Dclawarr, and the Earl of Sheffield. STIRLING V. MOREY. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from the decision of the Court of Session, in Scotland, occu pied their Lordships the whole morning. The argu ments in behalf of the appellant are not yet concluded; and we, therefore, refrain from entering into the parti culars of the case until the arguments are in a more advanced stage. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY. - - (Before Mr. PUCKLE, Chairman.) James Cannon was brought up on an indictment, charging him with having, on the 16th of February last assaulted two police constables in the discharge of their duty. - The prisoner was a chimney-sweeper by trade, and had been employed in that capacity by Mrs. Clayton, of Peacoek-street, Newington, to sweep the chimneys of her house. Having finished his duties he received pay ment for the same upon terms previously agreed upon. Prisoner, however, demanded a larger sum, and being refused payment of his demand, went out into a back. yard, and obtained a large stick, armed with which he entered the house, and flourishing it about in a most threatening manner, proceeded to break the windows of the house. In consequence of his violent conduct the police were sent for to take him into custody, and it was upon the road to the station house that the assault in question took place. Mr. Clark appeared for the Commissioners of Police, who prosecuted in this case. The prisoner was unde- fended. Mrs. Clayton stated that she had employed the pri senor upon the day in question, and upon her refusal to pay him for some work which against her wish he had done to the copper flue, he behaved in a most violent m anner, stating that he would do ten pounds' worth of damage to the house, and that he would not leave until he was paid, and that if she sent for one, two, or even three policemen, they should never take him into cus tody. She sent for two policemen, who arrived and took him into custody. After they left the house in company with the prisoner, he threw down his soot-bag, knocked down one of the policemen, jumped upon him, and swore violently that he would not go with them to the station- house. Elias Jones, a carpenter, said that he was in the tap room when the prisoner came in with a stick, and, addressing Clayton, the landlord of the house, said to him " Will you give me half a-crown to break your windows." The answer to this question was in the ne gative. Prisoner then said, " Will you give me half-a crown to let it alone." This demand being also refused, the prisoner then proceeded to break several panes of glass. Upon the arrival of the police, prisoner said, "You will not take me, nor the whole of your force." Police-constable Avery, 155 L, stated that he, in company with police constable Taylor, 154 P, took the prisoner into custody, and that, upon their way to the station-house, the prisoner violently assaulted them both. From the effects of the injuries received from the prisoner he had been confined for some days to his bed, and had not since been able to walk a beat ; he attended at the station-house, at present, as a reserve. The conduct of the prisoner was so violent that it re quired six men to take him into custody. Police-constable Taylor, 154 P, corroborated the statements of the previous witness, and stated that the prisoner had said, on his way to the station-house, " that now the game was begun, he would have the life of him, witness, and be hung for some of the b force." Mr. Flower, surgeon to the P division, stated that ho had attended Taylor from the time of the attack up to the present time; be found that he was ruptured, and otherwise severely injured, a large number of bruises being visible upon various parts of his person. It would be a long time before he would be able to resume his duties, and it was very probable that throughout the remainder of his life he would feel severely the effects of his injuries upon the slightest exertion. The prisoner declined to call any witnesses to cha racter. It was proved that upon upwards of twenty different occasions the prisoner had been either fined or imprisoned for violent assaults upon the police. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' bard labour at the House of Correction, Brixton, and at the expiration of that period to enter into sureties, himself in 20/., and two others in 101. each, to keep the peace for twelve months towards all her Majesty's subjects, but more particularly towards the officers of the police force. COMMISSION ET IS OF SEWERS. (Tif [S DAY.) The Commissioners in, t to-day at ten o'clock, in 23 Committee-room, House of Commons; Lord Morgyth in the chair. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Win. Weston was charged with stealing a quantity of water-closet basins and pumps from the shop of Messrs. Milligan and Turner, in Chancery-lane. It appeared that the prisoner entered Messrs. Milli gan and Turner's shop last evening, and exhibiting an order signed by Mr. Kirk, a solicitor, took possession and removed the stock of the shop to a sale room. This seizure was made on the part of Mr. Themes Milligan, the father of Mr. Milligan, one of the prosecutors, on an agreement of which he alleged the latter had committed a breach. Mr. HILL said that it was impossible for him to treat a case like this as a felony. A solicitor's clerk, who appeared for the prosecution, inquired what was to be done with the property? It was now in the possession cf the police. Mr. HALL said that as far as he was concerned, the property might remain where it was, and the claimants might get it how they could. It was for the police to consider to whom they would give it up, and he would not interfere with them. The prisoner was discharged, and the parties left the court. ISTARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY, lane Johnson, a woman possessed of at least a dozen aliases, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with havin7, obtained the sum of 5/. from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, under false and fraudulent re presentations. William Horsford, the active and intelligent officer in the employ of the Mendicity Society, said, in consequence of a description he received from the servants of the Duke of Cambridge, ho went to a house in Old Pye-street, West minster, last night. He went up stairs into the first floor front room, where he saw the prisoner. He said, " Mrs. Johnson, I want you for obtaining 51. from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, and you must go with me." She replied, "If I am to go, I must." On their way to Cambridge House, he told her that there were several other cases against her for a similar offence. The prisoner then told him that she was the person who had got the money, but she should not have gone there had not her husband been ill. He then told her that she had obtained 21. from a Mr. Thomas, in the City, and the like sum from a Captain Shaw, residing near Hyde Psi k-gate. He then asked her who was with her when she received the money ? She said, " Long Jack," and she had given him a sove reign of the money. Witness then took her to Cam bridge House, where she was identified by his Royal Highness's footman. Major Baron Knesebeck, Equerry to his Royal High ness, said—About the 15th inst. the prisoner came to his room at Cambridge House, with a petition stating that her mother was a dairy •woman at Barnes, and that six of her coda had been poisoned by some evil-disposed persons. The petition bore the names of the Rev. Mr Reeves, the rector of Mortlake; Mr. Penrhyn, one the county magistrates, and several other persons we. .newn to witness. Ho laid the petition before his Roya. Highness, and by his command gave the prisoner Si. He mentioned to her that the Duke thought it a very distressing case, and was very sorry that ho could not give a more liberal subscription. The prisoner then expressed her gratitude, and left the house. In conse quence of another petition witness received on the following day from Kingston, he went to Mortlake, and found that the petition was a fabrication, and the names all forgeries, and . that such a circumstance as that: described by the prisoner had never happened at or near Barnes. On his return to town, witness im mediately forwarded a description of the prisoner to the Mendicity Society. John Pratt, footman to his loyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, identified the prisoner as the woman he showed into Baron Knesebeck's room. The prisoner admitted the charge, and urged i in ex tenuation of the offence, that her husband was ill, and that she had four children to support. Mr. BINGHAM committed her to the House of Correc tion for three months. DA/LING ROBBERT.—A robbery of a most daring kind took place on the morning of the 22d instant, on the premises of Messrs. James Murray and Co., the chronometer watchmaker, 30, Corobill. The thieves having obtained entrance to the second fiat ; which is used as a manufactory, carried off a largo quantity of unfinished work, consisting of gold and silver cases, &c., amounting in value to some hundred pounds, and although the foreman sleeps on the premises, with so little noise was it managed that he knew nothing of it until the morning. STRIKE AMONG TIIE MASONS AT LINCOLN.—The stonemasons at work in Lincoln have struck for an ad vance of wages. They have been paid 245. per week up to this time, and now they want 275. per week, which sum they have been receiving at the Corn Exchange building. We hear the masters are willing to give their best workmen the amount required, but they refuse to work unless all are paid the same.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. ORDN , LNCE SURVEY. The following report Was read:— " Understanding that. the Ordnance survey of West minster is now sufficient ly advanced to permit the need ful steps to be taken f - 7 r ascertaining the subterraceous levels connected with tl le branch and main sewerage, so that the information collected may be added to the block plan, a measure ess'eut ial to the future arrangement of the general drainage :; we recommend that at least three properly quali bee persons, such as may be ob tained among the sc ppers and miners who have been employed on the ordnance survey, and who having served their time in that corps have now quitted it, should be engaged for this duty, and that under them the number of labourer requisite be employed, so that the works be completed. without loss of time. (Signed) "IL DE LA. BECHE. _ " EDWIN CHADWICK." The report was adopted. A second report was then recd :—" Having re ceived a communication from Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, to the effect that the minor area fi:st recom mended to be surveyed for the block plan of London had been so nearly completed that it would lm desirable to have the next muior area to be surveyed pointed out, we have to repeat, that seeing the great advintages of ascertaining the relative levels of a considerable natural area for drainage purposes, so that all works constructed, particularly in tke iower ground, should have reference to a comprehensive ,system at once effective and less costly ; we have requested Lieut.-Colonel Hall to pro ceed with an adjoining p3rtion of ground where this re quisite object can be attained. The new minor area consists of a district comprised within the limits men tioned in the accompanying document, and when com pleted will afford data of great importance for the imme diate consideration of the drainage applicable to a large part of London. Without this knowledge works carried on within the low district of Westminster might want that reference to a general system which is so important, and money be expended upon them, which, however justifiable as respects that low ground alone, might be injudiciously spent as regards a proper and general system of works. "H. E. DE LA. BECHE. "EDWIN CHADWICIL" The following is the document referred to : " The second area proposed for the extension of the ordnance survey of the metropolis consists of the district immediately adjoining to the northward of the first area, now nearly completed, and is botinded by the river from Westminster-bridge to Waterloo-bridge, Wellington street, and Tottenham-court-road, on the east; the New road, Grand Junction-road, and the Uxbridge-road, on the north; the Queen's-road, Kensington-gardens, and thence to the westernmost portion of the first area on the west." . The report was agreed to. BALANCE - SHEET. The following balance-sheet was presented, showing the state of cash this day:—Balance in the hands of the treasurers, 21st March, 16,626/. 10s. 4d.; cheques to be drawn, 4,8341. 10s. Bd.; leaving a balance of 11,7911. 19s. Bd. in the hands of the treasurers. The balance-sheet was adopted, and the various cheques recommended draw❑ and signed. The following propositions from the surveyors were agreed to:— WESTMINSTER. The sewers in Keppeistreet, Chelsea, to be taken into charge, and that parties be called upon to drain into it; 470 feet of sewer to be built in Dean-street, Soho, con ditionally, at a cost of about 4001.; the sewers in Yeo man's-row, Chelsea, to be lowered, at a cost of 301.; 130 feet of sewer to be built in Bedfordbury, at a cost of 331• ; 200 feet of sewer to be built in Burwood Mews, Padding ton, at a cost of 451. In some of these cases defective sewers had been built, and required altering or extending, HOLBORN AND FINSBURY. 200 feet of drain to be built in Reeves's Mews, Hor ton, at a cost of 601. The General Purposes Committee was empowered to put urgent and important works in hand, and directed to report their nature to the succeeding Court. The special thanks of the Court were given to Mr. Anderson, for a report which he had furnished. Half the number of "flushing men" were ordered to be discharged in a week, in consequence of a great quantity of soil having been recently remi;ved, so as to render their further services unnecessary. They were to be reimbursed for " a second pair of boots, which they have purchased out of their own funds." SEWERS NORTH OF THE THAMES. A report was read to the effect that recently 90,000 tons of soil had been removed from 60 miles of sewerage north of the Thames. A COMMISSIONER said it was an ascertained fact that the average duration of life bad been much greater of late in the locality.—(Laughter.) Might not this in some measure be traced to the labours of the Cbmmission? The CLERK said the Sewer Commissioners in that part of the metropolis had been abolished, PETITIONS. A resolution,on the motion of Mr. flerroN, was adopted to the effect that no petition be considered at the Courts unless it shall have been in the hands of the clerk three days, except in cases of emergency. Gully-flaps were ordered to be fixed, where necessary, at the public cost. Some general and routine business having been trans acted, the Court rose. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The arrival of the packet enables us to continue our interesting details of the movements of the above squadron from our last dates : " Feb. 22.—The Canopus's ship's company were landed on the south side, under arms, and inspected by Sir C. Napier. They went through several manoeuvres, under th• command of their gallant captain, Moresby, which reflected much credit on the officers and crew. The marching and firing were perfect. -.• " 23d.—The Howe's ship's company landed for in spection, under arms, and went through several mili tary manoeuvres, firing, &c., under the command of Sir J. Stirling, when Sir Charles Napier expressed himself perfectly satisfied with their performances. The Dragon returned to her former anchorage from Passo d'Arcos, where she had been exercising great guns, &c. 24th.—The Queen's ship's company was to be inspected on shore, but, when all ready, the order was annulled in consequence of bad weather. " 25th.—A fresh gale from S.W. Squadron struck lower yards and topmasts. Canopus first. " 26th and 27th.—Still blowing hard from the S.W. " 28th.—Wind W.N.W. ; squadron sent up lower yards and topmasts ; Canopus first, then St. Vin cent, Amphion, and Queen. Howe did not join in the manoeuvre, being refitted and preparing ca bins, &c , for the reception of the Queen Dowager on her return voyage at the latter end of March. The Amphion steamed down the river and anchored below Belem. _ PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedinpv of the House of COIII77W7tS. ) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolution was reported from the above Committee:— That in the case of the Plymouth Great Western Dock Act Amendneent Bill petition, for dispensing with so much of standing order, No. 127, as requires that the matters therein required to be proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Railways, should be so proved previously to the application to Parliament, such portion of the said standing order ought to be dispensed with: — That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on proving to the Committee on the Bill that, since their application to Parliament, they have proved to the satis faction of the said Commissioners, that the payments and expenditure required by the said ord,r, were in fact made before such application—R , Fo!ution agreed to. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The tollowinr , ' 'Railway Bills are ordered to be read a second time OnMonday, March 27: Dundee and Pet th (Tay Crossing) Edinburgh and Northern Keltyhcad, and Glener,,•ig Branchez, &c.) Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle upn-T3ne June tion (Abandonment of the It tilway, sud Dissolution of the Company). Edinburgh and Bathgate (Extension and Deviation). Glasgow, Airdrie, and Mot klunds Junction (Central Junction Branch). IRELAND. SWEARING OF THE INFORMATIONS. DUBLIN, MATICII 21, FOUR o'CLOCK, P.M.—Soon after hree o'clock, Mr. Kemmis, Crown solicitor, attended before the magistrates of the Head Police-office, to prefer informations against Mr. William Smith O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Thomas Meagher, of Waterford, and Mr. John Mitchell, editor of the United Irishman newspaper, for sedition. Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher are charged with uttering seditious speeches at the Music Hall, on the night of the 15th instant, and Mr. Mitchell with the publication of a seditious libel in the United Irishman. In all there were lour informationa sworn: two by Mr. Kemmis, the Crown solicitor, one by Mr. Hodgens, the Government reporter (setting forth the speeches spoken at the Music Hall on the 15th); and one by Mr. Vernon, comptroller of the Stamp-of ce, proving the proprietor ship of the United Irishman. The magistrates have issued warrants against the three gentlemen named. It is stated that further prosecutions are contemplated. Mr. Hatchell, the Solicitor-General, leaves town for London this evening. DUBLIN POLICE COURT—WEDNESDAY. (From the Evening Mail of last night.) Messrs. Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and Mitchell attended at the police-office to-day, in pursuance of notice served on them, for the purpose of entering into bail to attend the Court of Queen's Beach and stand their trial, the two former for having on the 15th of March inst. delivered . sp eec h es ca l c ulated to excite u nlawful opposition to her Majesty's Government, and the latter for having published in the United Irishman articles of a like tendency. The three gentlemen were escorted by a large body of their admirers, who loudly cheered them. Mr. Kemmis, the Crown Solicitor, attended officially on behalf of the Government, but the defendants had no counsel. On the Magistrate saying he was ready to receive bail, Messrs. Maurice and John O'Connell tendered it for Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Meagher. Mr. O'Brien thanked Messrs. O'Connell, but said he had come prepared with sureties. The Magistrate then addressed Mr. Mitchell, and said that from the gravity of the charge preferred against him by the . Attorney-General, ho would be required to give hail in person for 2001., and in two sureties for 100/. each. The Magistrate also informed Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher of the charges against them. Sureties were tendered, to which the Crown did not object. They then proceeded to Dolier-street, when the three gentlemen delivered short inflammatory speeches to be tween 4,000 and 5,000 persons, after which the mob dispersed, and the large body of police which were in attendance were marched back to their barracks. Our Liverpool agent adds--" I am informed that Mr. O'Brien arrived in Liverpool this morning per mail boat en route for Paris." Yesterday all the troops stationed at the different pub lic offices were removed to their barracks, it being con sidered that the recent display of military force had produced the desired effect. The 43d are to arrive from South Wales to-morrow. DUBLIN FUNDS, WEDNESDAY.—Three per Cent. Con sols, Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 8 - Three-and-a-Half, 81k. o' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GRAND MILITARY STEEPLECHASE AT WAR WICK.--WEDNEsDAY. The Welter Stakes of 10 sovubss. e ach, h ft, 13 s t 71b eac h. (7 S.) L'eut. Alleyne's Liverpool ... (Captain D'Arcy) 1 Lieut.-Col. Shirley's Pioneer ..• •.. Captain Warrener's Ju venile ... ' 3 The Veteran Stakes of 15 sous. each, &e.; the second to receive 301., and the third to save his stake; 12st each; winners extra. Three miles. (47 Subs.) Captain W. Peel's Chandler (141 b extra) (Owner) 1 Lord Strathmore's St. Leger ... ••• 2 The following also start ed :—Mr. Baker's Heart of Oak, Captain Price s Brenda, Captain Madock's Re pealer, Mr. Robertson's Confidence, and Captain Sco bell's The Prize. Betting-5 to 4 and 6to 5 agst Chandler, 2to 1 agst St. Leger, 5 to 1 agst Repealer, and 7 to 1 agst Brenda. Won cleverly by half a length, after a good race. Match, 100 soya. Two miles, over six hurdles. Mr. Fenwick's Pullaway ••• ••• (Officer) 1 Mr. Smart's Joe Scott .•• ••• ••• ... 2 Betting-3 to lon Pu llawa y . Won eas y , Joe Scott refusing the last hurdle but one. The Beaten Handicap of 5 sous. each, p. p. Once round and a dis. (3 Subs.) Captain Harvey's Lunatic ••• ..• BIBURY RACES — WEDNESDAY. The Bibury Stakes of 15 SOTS. each, and 50 added, Two miles. Mr. Pearce na Linkboy,:4 yrs, llst 71b (Mr. Pearce\ Sir C Cockeroll's Logic, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 71b Mr. Knowles's Craubrook, 5 yrs, list 71b Won by a neck walked over MONMOUTH COUNTY ELECTION.—The High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, Mr. E. IL Phillips, h as given the usual notice that on Friday . next, march 24, he will pro ceed to the -ilection of a knight to serve in Parliament, in the place of Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset, deceased. The election will take place at the shire hall, in Monmouth, at ten o'clock. Rumours are rife that a free trader will appear in the field, to oppose the elec tion of Captain Edward Somerset. LYCEUM THEATRE. " 29th —The A mphion went to sea under steam ; she is to make another trial of the screw and return to Lisbon again. Mr. Dinners, the inspecting engi neer, is gone in her to make the trial. She after wards put back and anchored down the river. " March I.—The Amphiea went on her trial cruise. At nine, A.M. signal was made—' Admiral will inspect Canopus, and captains of ships to inspect the ships, next junior at quarters,' annulling Howe. The whole of the bulkheads were knocked down in all the ships, when furniture and everything from all the cabins, &c., were sent below, thereby clearing all the guns, when the time different ships reported by signal 'ready' was—Scourge, 33 minutes ; Queen, 38 ; St. Vincent, 41 ; Dragon, 45 ; Canopus, 56. During this time the Admiral hoisted his flag in the Canopus. Signal was next made to fire stern guns, which was accordingly done (knocking all the windows to pieces) as follows :—Canopus, 8 minutes ; Scourge, 15 ; St. Vincent, 16; Queen, 17 ; Dragon, 30. The signal was then made to ship spare til lers,' which was done in the following order.— Scourge, 7 minutes; St. Vincent, 8 ; Dragon, 8 minutes, 40 seconds ; Queen, 21 minutes ; Canopus, 25. At noon the Admiral left the Canopus ; the flag was again shifted to the St. Vincent, when the Ad miral paid her a visit to see all char. Hard gales, which continued all day on the 2d. "6th.—The Amphion returnedfrom her cruise, the sores having answered very well since Mr. Dinnen's alteration. The crew of the Queen landed again, and were inspected by the Admiral, under arms, who was highly gratified with their exercise under the orders of Captain Bruce. The Jupiter packet broke down, and put into Corunna. The Montrose, which vessel should have been at Lisbon on the sth, arrived to-day bringing the mail that was in the Jupiter and other intelligence, of the French Revolution particularly, which had been previously communicated by the Madrid, but only in a casual way. Immediately after the Admiral read his dispatches the fleet was ordered to bend sails and prepare for sea—the Queen to go to the Mediterranean ; the Howe, Scourge, and Comet, to remain at Lisbon ; the Jackal, to go to Madeira to take the Queen-Dowager the news, and receive her Majesty's commands about returning to England. " 7th.—The Jackal left for Madeira. Commander Hector Loring, of the Howe, died ; Lieutenant William Moorsom, of the St. Vincent, is appointed to the vacancy ; Lieutenant Lloyd of the Dragon, goes to the St. Vincent, vice Moorsom ; and Mr. Smith, mate of the Canopus, is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. " B.—The St. Vincent, the Canopus, the Amphion, and the Dragon sailed to-day for Cork. The Howe, the Scourge, and the Comet remain in the Tagus." The Hercules, Master-Commander Robert Fulton, arrived this morning from Sheerness. The Prince Regent, 92, Captain Martin, and the Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, were inspected this morning by the Commander-in-Chief. The former will be paid in advance to-morrow ; the latter received advance this afternoon, and sails this evening for Plymouth. The Carysfort, 26, Captain G. H. Seymour, is proceeding with her dismantling, in order to be paid off. The treasure she brought, amounting to up wards of 58 tons of silver specie, was conveyed to London on Saturday, by the London. Brighton, and South Coast Railway, in charge of Captain Sayer, the freight agent, and Mr. Sutton, superintendent of the Portsmouth department of the railway. The steam-sloop Devastation, off Great Popo, has taken four slave vessels within one month—two at anchor off Cape Lopes, one on the coast, and one at sea. The squadron generally was healthy. The slave traffic was as brisk as ever. Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes and squally weather. APPOINTMENTS. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 20.—Edward W. Prit chard, assistant-surgeon, to the Calypso; Alex ander Scotland, second-class engineer, to ale Columba ; George Crichton, second-class as sistant-engineer, to the Redwing; W. B. Robinson. inspector of shipwrights, to Chatham ; R. P. Chap man, assistant-surgeon, to the Shearwater ; W. R. Cockburn, assistant-surgeon, to the Torch ; Thomas. B. Legh and John Sewel, midshipmen, to the Pluto ; Alfred R. Smith, naval cadet, to the Vernon. DEATH Or TICE-ADMIRAL WARREN. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—This bravo and benevolent flag officer died this morning at his seat, East Cosham, Hants, in his 72d year, leaving a widow, one daughter and two sons (the elder of the latter being Captain Richard L. Warren, in command of the corvette Trin comalee, of 26 guns, on the West India station; and the younger being Lieutenant Warren, now on his pas sage home in her Majesty's frigate Fox, from the East Indies), to moura his invaluable loss. The deceased officer entered the naval service of his country in the year 1789; subsequently served in the Argo, 44-gun frigate, in the West Indies and Mediterranean; he com manded the :Melpomene, 38 gun frigate, in 1809; on the 233 of May, in which year, when lying at anchor in the Great Belt, off Owee Island, and nearly be calmed, he discovered several large boats standing towards him. The frigate was cleared for action, and at eleven o'clock P.M. commented firing upon the enemy, consisting of twenty Danish gun-boats. A light breeze springing up, the Melpomene cut and made sail to close with her opponents, and the gun-boats retreat ing, a running action continued until lb. 15m. a.m., when the enemy succeeded in getting out of gun-shot. In this action the frigate suffered severely in her rig ging and sails, and had fire men killed and twenty-nine wounded. Ho commanded the Spartiate, 74 gun-ship, in the Tagus, in the squadron of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, during the eventful period of Don John's es cape from Portugal to the Brazils; subsequently he was Commander-in-Chief on the Cape of Good Hope and Western African station in the Isis, 50-gun frigate, from 1831 to 1833. His last appointment was Rear• Admiral Superintendent of I)evonport Dockyard. Admiral Warren was the son of Dr. Warren, one of the physi cians of his late Majesty, George 111., and brother of the late celebrated Dr. Warren. As a man of profound judgment and sound opinion upon naval affairs he had no superior, as was evidenced to a certain extent in the anxiety of the Minto and the present Bcard of Ad miralty to have him as a member of their body; but he declined prudentially the distinguished post, owing to a paramount inclination to preside effi ciently over his domestic circle, and from bodily infirmity. li e was recently offered the com mand-in-chief of the Devonport or Plymouth stations, but declined from the above reasons. The good old Admiral was in tolerably sound health up to the hour of retiring to bed, on Tuesday night, at half-past eleven, when he complained of pains in the back and loins ; ho gradually got worse, when Dr. Stewart, the eminent practical physician of Portsmouth (tke Admi ral's medical attendant), was sent for, and promptly arrived and ministered to the temporal wants of his gallant patient, but without success ; nature was tired of her burden, and gave way under the pressure. The beloved old sailor died at half-past six this morning. By the demise of Vice-Admiral Warren, Rear-Admiral John Surman Carden becomes Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; and Captain Sir Augustus William James Clif ford,Bart. (1812), Usher of the Black Rod to the House of Lords, becomes Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Her Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 92 guns, Captain W. F. Martin, will sail from Portsmouth for the Cove of Cork, and place herself under the orders of Rear-Ad miral Mackay at daylight this morning. The Wellesley, 72, bearing Vice-Admiral the Earl D'undonald, Commander-in-Chief on the West Indian station, will leave Plymouth this morning. in pursuance of Post-office notice, for Bermuda. P ROMO TlONS.—Lieutenant J. A. Macdonald ( t 827), in command of the Spitfire steam sloop in the Mediter ranean, to the rank of Commander; Lieutenant William King Hall (1841), first Lieutenant of the Vindictive flag-ship in the West Indies, who brought home the Growler steam &oop, recently from that station, to the rank of Commander ; Lieut. George Henry Gardner (184 0 ), first Lieutenant of the Sidon steam frigate, to the rank of Commander. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. Commander C. J. P. Glynn (184 a) to the Triton steam sloop at Woolwich; Lieute nant Commander James Smart (1826) to the Seagull packet at Falmouth; Lieutenant C. S. Forbes to the Asia, 84, flag ship in the Pacific; Acting Assistant- Surgeon G. J. Bunks to t he R o y al Hos p ital, Stone house ; 'Midshipman C. J. Bullock to the Enterprise discovery ship at Blackwell. Masters Assistants—ll. G. Swainson to the Ha 'wallah corvette at Portsmouth ; S. J. 11. Searle to the San Josel flag ship at Plymouth. Naval Cadets—W. Samwell, to the Amphion, screw frigate, at Cork ; C. P. Alingham to the Ganges, at Sheerness ;A. Smith, to the St. Vincent, flag-ship of Rear-Admired Napier, at Cork ; C. D. Davis, to the Canopus, 84, at Cork. The Happy Family, which was produced at this theatre last evening, alt:eit it is supported by the whole strength of the company, did not progress very happily, nor does it hold out any great promise of a lengthened existence. The idea of the piece (for plot there is none) may be told in a few words. A retired auctioneer and amateur sportsman, hight Christopher Catlin (Mr. Charles Ma thews), a retired hosier and amateur fisherman, answerirg to the name of Lionel Linnet, and acted by Mr. Buckstone, and a gormandizing old fellow, one Daniel Doggins, acted by Mr. Granby, all married men, agree that themselves and their wives shall have a common establishment at Harmony Hall, and a bachelor gentleman ard amateur huntsman, one Benjamin Buzzard, acted by Harley, is admitted as a member of the society. The ladies quarrel from the very first. and their example is soon followed by the gentlemen and these'quarrellings, which might have furnished fad for laughter for one short act, are continued through two long acts, which play for two mortal hours. At the conclusion, although the applause predominated, there was some hissing distinctly audible, and the success of the piece may be con• sidered as anything but c stain. For this un toward result the author has only himself to blame. The piece was cast with the whole strength of the company. Madame Vestris , M rs . Stirling, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. C. Jones, Charli s Mathews, Harley, Buckstone, and Frank Matthews, were all in it, and ali exerted themselves to the utmost. The scenery, too, by Beverly, was superb. Nothing could exceed the beauty of the exterior of Harmony Hall; it was a gem of art. The very fact that the success of a piece so supported, and so put upon the stage, could have been for a moment doubtful, speaks volumes. ,The house was exceedingly well attended. EAST INDIA HOUSE. ;Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.: PRINCE METTERNICH. The last beam of the old system has given way or to speak more respectfully of so experienced a states man, Prince Metternich has been compelled to retire from a contest which he can no longer wage with the world, or even with the public opinion of the pacific in habitants of Lower Austria. Of the illustrious Ministers, who have lived in the long and secure administration of one of the greatest empires of the earth, none ever retained that high and responsible position amidst events of such infinite mag nitude and variety, or with so unlimited a control, as Clement, Prince of Metternich. Indeed, whilst the changes and perils of the most extraordinary half century i❑ the history of mankind have rolled to and fro upon the tides of time, the spectacle of that old :nail, whose reign commenced when our fathers were oung men, seated in immutable decrepitude at his wonted seat, seemed the sole remaining thing of an age that is past, and was itself the empire in the eyes of a younger race. That, too, is gone—the oldest Minister of the oldest Court has b.-en driven from office—even the Cabinet of Austria must be renewed. Prince Metternich was born at Coblentz on the 15th of May, 1773, of an ancient house, which had in former ages given more than one Elector to the Archbishoprics of Mayence and of Treves, and of a father who served with some distinction in the diplomacy of Austria. He entered early into the service of the empire, and filled some office of ceremony at the coronation of Leopold 11. Ills diplomatic career commenced at the Congrets of ltastadt, and he rose in it with such rapidity, that in 1806, after the conclusion of the peace of Presburg, lie was selected for the important post of MP.. triaq Ambassador in Paris. Upon the declaiV lion of war in 1809 his departure was impeded until a short time before the battle of Wagrana, but he hastened to join the Imperial Court, which had taken refuge at the fortress of Comoru in Hungary. Three days after that memorable defeat Count Stadler retired from the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Metternich was selected to succeed him in that high office, and he conducted the negotiation with Chain pagny which purchased a respite for the empire at the price of an Archduchess. Metternich completed the work he had begun, and conducted the second Em press of the French to Paris. If anything can aggra vate the humiliation of that transaction, it is the con viction which the Court of Austria must even then have had, that this sacrifice was made in vain. The young Minister seems indeed to have had no sympathy with those wiser and :more patriotic statesmen of Northern Germany, who were at that time preparing the regeneration of their country by a thorough reform of its social condition. The task of Stein and llardenberg was one not to be attempted by a Metternich. But he knew Napoleon ; he hated the representative of the French revolution ; he distrusted his insatiable ambition ; he alternately endeavoured to check and to resist it ; his most cherished friend and adviser was Gents, the mortal enemy of France ; and the decisive impulse given by Metternich to the policy of Austria in the parley of Dresden and the conferences of Prague, was the inevitable signal of the Emperor Napoleon's downfal. The 10th of August, 1813, had been assigned as the period within which France might accede to the liberal offers of the Three Powers. That fatal ,hour passed by, and Count Metternich spent the selfsame night in framing the Austrian declaration of war. A month later the grand alliance was signed at Toplitz, and before October had closed the Emperor Francis raised him to the dignity of a Prince of the Empire upon the field of Leipzic. Toe great and rapid. events of the last few months have completed the dissolution of that system in which and for which Prince Metternich lived. The accession of Pius IX. to the Papal throne shook to its centre the ascendancy of Austria in Italy, and the feeble attempt at an act of vigour in Ferrara roused the indignation, not only of Italy, but of Europe. The cause of Italian reform prospered. One by one the Courts which had existed for twenty-fire years upon Prince Metternich'. favour, and those most nearly connected with the Impe rial family, crept into the sunshine of popularity, and at length Naples itself sealed by a bloodless revolution the principle of constitutional Government. From that moment the whole Italian policy of the Austrian Cabinet was confined to the defence of Lombardy. Meanwhile in its own provinces formidable traces occurred of that spirit which the atrocious massacres of Galicia had not quelled; and the empire seemed drifting before the storm. At that moment—it was but yesterday—the earth opened and engulphed the monarchy of . France. The whole of Europe was rent by the convulsion. A life of new perils begins, and Prince Metternich is warned by an unwonted disturbance in the very streets and suburbs of Vienna to relinquish a power which neither his age nor his principles enable him to sustain. In the course of his long life, of all stetesmen who occupy a prominent rank in political history none has ever enjoyed a power more undisturbed by outward perils. Prince Metternich has had to fear neither the caprices of a master, nor the intrigues of rivals, nor, till now, the reaction of popular discontent ; and the proverbial instability of Ministerial office was converted for him hit° a seat hardly less secure than the throne of the Curs. After forty years of this unlimited sway he leaves an empire by so much in arresr of the rest of Europe—impoverished in its finances—divided in its provinces—and not obscurely threatened in its most important possessions ; for whilst he has been opposing an incessant and im moderate resistance to those influences which he regarded As present evils, he has allowed all the future calamities which can threaten a state to accumulate in the horizon. Posterity, more enlightened hereafter by the ultimate consequences of his policy, will judge him with greater .evcrity than his contemporaries; for there was about his person, whilst he lived, a singular dignity of manner e-hich might be mistal:( n for greatness. The servile defer ence which had so long been paid him in the society of Vienna, and his conventional position amongst the Cabi nets of Europe, had inflated his personal pretensions far oeyoed his actual rank or his real eminence, and men at last paid to his age the respect they would willingly have refused to his character. Yet it would be unjust to deny to Prince Metternich the distinction of a high bred statesman—he is the last of his class or order, sprung from a family which preserved at the time of his birth the strict traditions of the German aristocracy, trained in the ideas most hostile to those of the age in which lie was destined to act, and exercised by forty years of absolate power. That is a combination of cir aemstances which the world will not probably behold again.— Times. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. G. TuomrsoN withdrew his motion of which he had given notice, respecting the suppression of certain papers in the case of the Raja of Sattara. THE AMEERS OF SINDE. Colonel Thcx.ENsox then brought forward the follow ing motion That as it appears from the printed papers laid before the Court of Proprietors, and from other authentic sources, that there is no act of the British Government by which its reputation for good faith and clemency has been more deeply sullied than by the unprovoked inva sion of the Principality of Sinde, followed by the de thronement and expatriation of its hereditary rulers, it is the opinion of this Court that every constitutional means should be persevered in with the view of obtaining for those deeply injured and still exiled Princes that in demnity to which their unmerited sufferings, and the valuable aid which they so long rendered to the British Government in the season of distress so justly entitle them." The Hon. Proprietor began to read a written speech of apparently formidable dimensions, until informed by the Chairman that this was irregular. lie then (using his written speech by way of note) entered into a statement, occupying more than two hours, of matters connected with the deposition of the A meers of Sinde, embracing transactions with the Schah of Persia and with Runjeet Singh ; replying to the charges preferred against the Ameers, and reading a variety of testimonies in favour of the character of those Princes, who, he argued, had been treated with harshness and injustice. Attempts were made in vain to abridge the speech of the lion. Proprietor, and by the time he concluded there were not more than three or four Proprietors remaining in the Court. 'When the question was put, not one of them would second the motion, which consequently fell to the ground, and the Court adjourned. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. I CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 22.—At a congregation this day the following degree was conferred : Master of Arts—John Henry Coward, Pembroke College. At the same Congregation, the following graces were offered to the Senate:- 1. To confirm the report of the Syndicate appointed May 5, 1847, to consider whether any satisfactory plan can be devised for increasing the pecuniary resources of the University. 2. The Library Syndicate having represented to the Vice,Chancellor the great inconvenience arising from the coatinued occupation of the east room of the public library by the Fitzwilliam collection, and Mr. Cockerel having reported that by the 25th inst. the Fi!zwilliarn Museum will be prepared for its reception, according tw the grace of the Senate passed on the 14th Dec. last: To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Down ing College, the Regius Professor of Physic, Professor Willis, Mr. Power of Clare Hall, Mr. Merivale, of St. John's College, Mr. Thompson of Trinity College, and Mr. A. Long of King's College, a Syndicate to super intend the removal of the collection, and to place it in the Museum, availing themselves of such professional assistance as may be required. 3. To allow Mr. Edleston to take from the University Library the MSS. marked Dd. IX. 46, Dd. IX. 67, and Dd IX. 68, under the usual bond . 4. To raise the salary of Mr. Breen, the senior assistant at the Observatory, from 701. to 801. per an. num, in conformity with the recommendation of the Observatory Syndicate. 5. To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to submit to the Master in Chancery the name of Dr. Phelps instead of that of Dr. Graham for insertion in a new deed of trust for Mr Ilobson's estates. The first grace was non.placeted in the Black-hood House, and ultimately thrown out; the numbers were— Placet 29 Non-placet 45 The adoption of the report (printed at the date of its publication), was consequently negatived. The other graces passed. OxFoRD, MARCH 22.—The Curators of the Taylor Institution intend to proceed to the nomination of a Professor of Modern European Languages on that foun dation in the ensuing Michaelmas Term. Candidates may send their names with testimonials until the Ist of October to the Registrar of the University, Oxford. B. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor. 1 Wadham College, March 21. The Professor of Poetry will deliver his terminal lec ture at the Clarendon on Thursday, March 30, at two o'clock. FORGERY OF BANS Or ENGLAND NOTES.—The public must be on their guard against a very well executed forgery of a 51. Bank of England note, which is now in circulation. The watermark is perfect, though, perhaps, rather more strongly developed than in the genuine note. They are numbered r 50,395; dated 16th February, 1846 ; apparently issued from the branch Bank of England at Manchester, and are signed H. Hogden." So well has the forgery been executed, that one of these notes was paid into a bank in Liver pool; by the bankers it was paid to a firm, who again paid it to a foreign mercantile house; and it was only upon the note being presented to the Bank of England in London that the forgery was discovered. The only fault that we could find with the forgery was the in completeness of the figure of Britannia in the left hand upper corner. Other notes, one of which is in the pos session of the police, of the same date, and evidently from the same plate, are in circulation. It will be well to examine the letters, number, and date of every 51. note taken, and to refuse any agreeing to the above description.—Liverpool Mercury. RUMOURED RESIDENCE Or LOUIS PHILIPPE IN LANCASHIRE.—For the last fortnight rumours have reached us of the probability that Louis Philippe would eventually take up his residence in this county, at Dux bury Park, near C horle y . We now find the matter publicly alluded to . The Preston filet says- 4, It is not improbable but that the ex King may come into this neighbourhood. He is, we believe, in treaty for Dux bury Park, near Chorley. It will be recollected that the late Mr. Frank Hall Standish, at his death, left many of his best pictures to Louis Philippe, who, in return, made some exceedingly splendid presents to the present Mr. Standish (the owner of Duxbury). This gentleman, we understand, is to visit Claremont to-day (Saturday l as t), when it is not unlikely but that arrangements may be made for his ex-Majesty occupying Duxbury Park." —Manchester Couritr. ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—The vessel Robert Small, arrived in the docks from Calcutta, Madras, and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought from the second-mentioned place ten boxes of specie, consigned to an eminent firm in the metropolis. TAKE CARR OF YOUR POCK E TS.—A Congress of all the German Sovereigns is, it is said, about to be held at Dresden.—Punch. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—The recruiting party at In verness, under the command of Major Greenwood, C. 8., is ordered to join at head quarters at Wooleich this week, that the company may be.filled up to the usual strength. Liajor Greenwood's c opany served for a long period in China, and when them remainder of it re turned home, about three weeks ago, under the com mand of Lieutenant Pattison, it did not muster above 20 strong, several gunners having been invalided every year without sending others to fill up their places. The men:of the Royal Sappers and Miners continued to enjoy a very fair share of health in China. MUNIFICENT LEG ACY.—The late Miss Catherine Wood has bequeathed a munificent legacy of 1,000/, to the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlarge. meat, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels. STATISTICS OF PRUSSIA, The pre s ent situation of Prussia, and her importance amongst the States of Germany, as well as the great political influence she has exercised, particularly since the establiAment of the Zollverein, make her an object of considerable interest at this moment; a few statistical facts connected with her condition may not, therefore, be unacceptable to our readers. In 1804, the population of Prussia was 10,023,900, giving an average of 84 to the English square mile. In 1332, by changes of territory and natural increase in the interval, the population had increased to 13,038,960, giving a density of 116 to the square mile. In 1842, the rpulation had reached 15,471,765, with a density of 144 to the square mile. Whilst the increase has been going on in the number of the population, the area of the kingdom had actually diminished since 1805 by one-tenth, in consequence of exchanges of territory; but in these exchanges Prussia had acquired the rich and industrious provinces on the Rhine, now the most im portant part of the Prussian dominions. It is calculated that the arable land in Prussia in 1805 produced 44,000,000 scheffels of grain (wheat and rye) of 801 b. That in 1831 the produce was 58,000,000; and in 1841, 68,000,000 scheffels. The growth of the population within these periods had been as lin 1805, 1 3-10ths in 1831, and in 1843. The produce or grain had advanced in a greater ratio, being as 1 in 1805, 11 in 1831, and 1 2.3ds in 1841. The number of head of cattle was as follows: Black Cattle. Calves. Sheep. Pigs. 1805 4,856,068...1,923,932_10,394,428-2,437,044 1831 4,446,368... —11,751,603-1,736,004 1842 The annual consumption of grain per head of the po pulation (in which may also be included potatoes) is cal culated to have been nearly four scheffels, or 320 lbs.; of meal, in 1805, 33 82-100 lbs.; in 1831, 34 74-100 lbs.; and in 1842, 35 14-100 lbs. The consumption of beer and spirits appears to have been on the increase, and was calculated in 1842 to be 13 11-100 quarto per head of the former, and 5 93.180 quarts of the latter. The external trade of Prussia being included in the Zoilverein, it would be difficult to extract any certain Fate with regard to its precise amount ; but in all re spects there appears to have been a steady progress, though not a rapid one, in material improvement within the present century, throughout the Prussian territory. There can be little doubt but that the measures of im provement which will result from the changes now about to be introduced into the action of the Govern ment on a population so sedate and instructed as the Prussians generally are, will be productive of the best effect, and conducive to a more rapid progress in com merce and civilization than has hitherto been exhibited. THE Bisnor OF AIANCHESTER.—The new diocesan of Manchester entered upon his ministerial duties on Sunday morning last, his Lor dshi p having ordained young men so early a s from seven till nine o'clock. On Monday evening he attended the annual meeting of the Manchester branch of the Church Mis sionary Society, and i n the course of a brief but inter esting speech on behalf of the objects of the society, he said—" I must simply and truthfully assure you I feel most deeply grateful for all that I have seen and heard since I first came among you. Most deeply, most heartily do I pray that the connexion, thus com menced between us, may be lone and happily main tained—maintained, my dear and Christian friends, not to the aggrandisement and welfare of myself or you. but to the last and greatest and dearest aggrandisement w hich Christian people and Christian ministers must ever most deeply sympathise with—the well-being of our fellow-creatures, the extension of the truths of our church, and the glory of our God."—(Cheers.) QUICK WORK AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The transformation of our national theatre into a circus for French horse-riders was effected with much skill, under the direction of a practised architect in these matters, in a singularly short time. The pit has been covered over to the level of the st./ge, and a circle formed, partly OA the stage and partly over th e p it, while the rest of the stage, to a considerable extent backwards, is occupied by rising seats sufficient to contain a large audience, and an orchestra is constructed high up at the back, from under which the performers, bipeds and quadrupeds, enter the arena. The front of the dress-circle, against which the last row of spectators in the pit necessarily lean, is boarded up and covered with red cloth. Shoring to a considerable extent was of course required, under both stage and pit, yet the whole of the work was aocom plished in the short space of five days, b Messrs. Soward and Son, of Tottenham-couri-road.— B uilder.