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

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool again, esterday, Was rather heavy, and prices were nearly . per lb. lower than on Friday last. American sorts were de clining. Sales, 3,500 bales. American realised 44d. to sd. per lb. Railway shares were better, but with a very limited business doing. Great interest is still attached to the commercial ad vices 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 effected, and the Government itself is embarrassed for means. The warehousemen, the metal mer chants, the 'magaxins 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 spare. 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,'by 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 gad 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 which 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- Tautly wholly insensible to any present influence from abroad, or even to money sales of stock, so desirous are the Bears to close their account; although in many in stances predicting lower values again ere long. Consols have ranged from 1124 to 831 for transfer, and from 821 to $3l for April. Exchequer-bills have risen to 30s. premium, and India Bonds under 1,0001. are Ils. 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. 22k. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been at 15. Brazilian Small are 704. Mex ican Bonds are 144 4. Dutch Four per Cents. have been 64 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. 1111011111•1 E ONE CLOSING rutuS or BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ritlcEsi S per Cent. Consols Annuities 82% 83% 82% an 83 82% India Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,000/................ 11 15 p 15 p South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities .80% 80% Sank Stock for Account ... ..... 192 190 192 192 Consols for Account ....• ... 83 83% 82% 83 1 ‘ $3 83 exchequer Bills. 3d. 1.000/. March ...... 29 26 30 p 30 p 1,600/. June 3O p 30 p 5001. March .. 5001. June ... ... 28 30 p 30 p Small. March Small, June .... 26 30 p 30 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN !ENDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, Small 70% 70% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — 68 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 14 % 34 14% Ditto. Account ... ...... ..... 14% Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto 3 per Cent... ' 15% 15% Ditto, 4 per Cent .. 15 14 3 / 4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account ...... ......... , Ditto. Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ..... ........ Ditto, Account . — 223/ Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent 19% 19 1 ,( Ditto, Deferred 5% 5% Dividends on the above payble in London. Belgian 4 1 ,4 per Cent 5B 58 Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 4 1 34 42 Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 61 61% % 61% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 5O ...... ......... ...... Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 3 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 Stour Valley 101. 14a... ... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno.... 7 3 4 — ... . ........ Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter B5 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire... 121. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. 3 3 / 4 ...... ..., Ditto,Clydeadale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... Ditto, Preference l2 Clarence Do. lit Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 21 Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 25 .Dundalk & Enniskillen 17% East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 181., E. &H. 18 Do., 31. 10s. ...... 31 , 4 3 IA 2 3 1 / i ...... 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 ... 23 ...... •• Eastern Union ... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,E — Ditto, Third5........135.4d.. I)o. (guar.6 percent.) 10 Ditto, ditto East Lancashire Ditto, New ...... 15 Ditto, New Quarters ni East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 — ...... . •• Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh and Northern 26 — Ditto, New 3N Ditto, Newport l2 Ditto, ditto, New 2 14. .... Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% Ditto, New Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New ... ..... .... 40 Do. Preference Consol. 15 Great Northern Do., London and York 2 1 ,4...... Great South. and West. ( Ireland) ... 3 7 1,4...... 18 Great NOrth of England .100 ......221 ... ••••• Ditto, New, 40/ 5 — Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New, 15/ 6 1,4..... .... ..... ...... Great Western 9O 92 90 Ditto, IA Shares 5O Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 171....... 9 1 ,x..... $ Huddersfield and Manch. 24 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 48 Ditto, 1 / 4 . Shares Ipswich& Bury St. Edm. 17% 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, 1 / 4 Shares Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 ,4 — ... — Do. Fifths... ......... ... 9 Do. Sixteenths 6 l /4 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/.45...... Do. Liverp. and Bury 38 Ditto 1 ,4 (late Hud dersfield and Shoff.) 33 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract, and Goole) ... SO Do. (W. Riding Union)4/. 25... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. 1 % Shares (A)... 9 Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, isc.... 421. 2 ...... Do., Half Shares l7 Do., (blue) Scrip 2 ......, Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 ,4 — 1110.•••••• LiYerpoel, Crosby and Southport ..., 2 Li v erp., Manchester, and Newcastle Junction... 2%...... Loudon & Black wa11...13/. 68.8 d.... Do. New, No. 2 5 /.138.4d.... ...... l7l dis. Do. Extension . ...... 17% — London, Brighton. and South Coast 50 ...... ... 3C Do. Consol. Eighths. 40 ...... 19 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 .... Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ... _ ...... _ Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 London and Greenwich 1 2 / 1 5s 4d — ... ...... ....• Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17s 2d London and N. Western 100 126 128 ll,B Do. Quarters (L. & B.) 22 ...... - Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 7 7 •• •••.•• Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 20 — Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7% —. 1 4 ft re 141, LoNnol44; Do. 10/. ( M.. & B.) B N..... Do. 10 , . (M. & B.) C 1 Lon !. & W..Ptern 5O ..... 45 44!,4 46 46 i M/. Do. Now 407 T Comol.) 50 39 Jo. _en the (Consoi. 1 ~ Ditto ditto .. .... .... 40 -.. 3l Ditto, Thirds .81.65. 8d.... 3:5i dis 3 3 /4 die. London, Salisbury, ar4d Yeovil ~,,...,... ........ 1%•••••• •-•• Londonderry&G.leraint- 27% Londonderry and Etuais kllen 25 •••••• ..''' ••• ••••• ••••• -- Lowestoft (4 per et.) Ditto (6 per ct.) - ...... 54 •••OA • • - Manc•leiter.Buaton,and 38 1 /, Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire —IOO Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3) : .. Ditto, New 101. Pref... 7 , :i l — Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ........ 7 Ditto ditto ........... 4% — •••••• •••• ..• -- Ditto Sheffield arid ..... OMB Do., GrimslY Dock,.. Do. Man. ZLin. Union 41.2 s — Manchest. & Southampt. 2% ...... -. Midlan ‘ 1 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo - Do., do., 501. Shares... 15 ... .. 9 1 4 9% Do. 13irm., and Derbyloo D ..Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per 0.-100 ll5 ...... ......... 115 Mid hid, Brist. &Glocstr. 36 Ditto, ditto ..... —MU 6d... Midlnd,Leicest.& Swan nington, 3 per ct.guar.loo ...... Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastleand Carlisle...loo - Do. Quarters 25 .... Newmrk et & Chesterford 18 th Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 • ....• Newry and Enniskillen 7 - Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 15 Norfolk . 4 ......... ...100 Do. New 20/. .. Do. Extension Do. Guaranteed stkpc. 5 _ -, Do. Scrip, 1847, Noith of Norfolk.... 2 ... Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 - ......... •••••• - North British ... .... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 1 2 1,4...... 9 , ... 9 Do. Quarters 5 th 3%.. Do. Extension 6 4•••••• -- •••• •••• ..... •••• _. ___ Ditt , Thirds 2 -- ••• — North & South-Western 2 ...... ....... North staffordshire lO ...." 8%. 8 34 North Wales North Western. 6 - •.. op ••••...•• - Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton ...... 40 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% Scottish Central Scottish Midland 22%...... -- . .... ..... .... Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, . . mud Goole ... ..• 5 Shrewsbury and Birra... 7 ...... ... ... ..... Ditto ditto, Class B. 4 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ... l6 — - Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ........ Ditto Oswestry ...... 14 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 6 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 Shropshire Union South Devon... 4O ...... Do. Preference South Staffordshire 4 ....,. ...... .... ••• South Eastern & Dover 33%.,.... 23% % % xd ... 23% zd Do., No. 1 24 - Do~ Nc. 2. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 20 ...... .. ..... . . Do., No. 4 South Wales ... 18 ...... 6 3% ........... 4 , , , 2 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 3 — Swans. & Loughor & Ca- moron's SUL. Coal. ... 6 ••• .• 000000 •.. Taw Yale Extension ... 4 ..... Timms Haven Dock and Railway ..... ...... 17 1 ,E Vale of Neath ... .. . 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 ,y.. — .. — Waterford and Limerick 40 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, _ ' and Dublin W est Cornwall hitehaven & Furuess 10 - Windsor, Staines, and South Western..... Wilts, Somerset,& Way- mouth York, Newcastle, and _ _ _ Berwick .... . 25 294 30 ... ...... 30 Do. Orginal New and Berwick .. ...... ...... 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. ..... ... 10 Do. G.N E.Preference 8 ...... 8 t York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and NV est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. - Boulogne and Amien5... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) . JG _ . - Central of Spain •.. 2 .•-• - ••• aaaaa ••.•• .....• Ceylon Demerara 000 ••• 7% - Dendre Valley... Direct Bombay and Madras ss. . ... Dutch Rhenish .....«.. 7 ..... 1 / Y ......... 1 ,4 t /2 i East Indian l l4 — . ... . Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Austrian.... 4 Joinsica S. Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ila Sambre ... 6 - Luxembourg.... 7 Lyons and Avignon 5 .... • ... Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... Namur and Liege l6 ... .. 2% 3 4 Northern of France...... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux 6 ...... ... .. ...... Over Yesel 413 s 4d...... Paris and Lyons lO ..... 2 .... . ......... 2 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ........ 20 Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 5 .... a Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes.-- .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- _ _ den, and Hasselt ..... 16 West Flanders 8W..... 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. Prestos, Norlin, Brazil, for Gothamburg. Arrd. from the River, Lord Petre, Mauritius; Viscountess Canning, Cape Coast Castle; Malcolm, Barbadoes ; Robert, St. Kitts; Albion, Jamaica; Jane Inness, Jamaica. Sld. Sunflower, Honduras; Olive, St. John's, Now Bruns wick. LIVERPOOL, MAricli 22.—Wind S.—Arrd. 21, Ivan hoe, Edwards, New York. 22, Josiah Quincy, Howes, Mobile; Sandwich, Turner, Savanilla. Sld. 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 York ; Rappahannack, New York; Rio Grande, New York; Fingal, New York. LANCASTER.—SaiIed, Sarah Ann, St. John's, Now Brunswick. BRISTOL, MARCH 21.—A barque, laden with cotton, partly dismasted, and abandoned with fore part burnt, was passed lat. 45, long. 15, by the Prometheus, arrived here. HARlvicit, MARCH 22.—The Aginoria, Shields, to London, was assisted in te•dsy leaky, having been on shore on the Gunfleet Sand. HULL, MARCH 21.—Sailed True Love, Straits; Lord Gambier, ditto. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 21.—Sailed William Hutt, Jamaica. __ SUNDERLAND, MARCH 21.—Sailed Latnorna, St. John's, New Brunswick. • SHIELDS, MARCH 20.—Sailed Brutus, Franco and America; Britannia, Brest and Quebec ; Borneo, Mar seilles. DUNDEE, MARCH 20.—Put back, Georgiana, Leslie for Callao, leaky. BELFAST, MARCH 20.—Sailed Arab, Philadelphia. GoaL, MARCH 20.—The Consort, Lyle, of mad from Philadelphia to Limerick, was towed in here this morn. ing, with loss of bowsprit, sails, Ex., deck swept, and part of cargo thrown overboard, and another part damaged, having experienced a hurricane on the 11th inst., in lat. 52, long. 16. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGB PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended liareh 23, 1848, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Esgland and Wales per Inlp.rial Quarter. WHEAT. I 1 1111.1 T. OATS. ITI. UAW/. I PIA/. ['RICE .. SOs 4d 30s Sd 20s 4d Id lus Sit 59s 104 t DUTIES ON FOREICE COIN. WHEAT. BALLET. I OAT§. ITC BEANS. I PEAL 7s Od Ys 6d 21 61 Is 6 d ls 6(1 2 3 64 MARKET NEWS.,-(THIS DAY.) MEAT 2VCARKIITS. SOUTHALL, MAncn 22. Our market was but mode rately eupplied with tat stock, yet the demand was in a sluggish state, and in some instances the quotations► had a downward tendency. Beef from 3s 4d to 41 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d; Veal, 42 to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s Ed per Blbs., to sink the oflals. ROMFORD, M►ECU 22.—Prime Mutton was in good request at full prices, otherwise the trade was heavy. Beef from 3s 4d to 41 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s Sd per 81bs. Mulch Cows, with small Calves, 141 to 171 Ss; and Quarter•old Store Pigs, 181 to 24s each. LENTEN, MARCH 21.—Beef, from 3s 6d to 43 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d; and Veal, 41 ld to 4s Sd per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. 84 per load. Both flay and Straw moved off slowly, at the above quotations. COMBERLAND.—Meadow Ilay, 21 13s to 31 15 ; Clover ditto, 31 15i to 4/ 12A; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 8, per load. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. WIIITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 14s to 31 153; Clover ditto, 3l 15s to 41 15s; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 118 s per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. NEV7GATE ILZWD IiMILDENUALL. The market was tolerably steady to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 24 10d to Si 8d; Mut ton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 59; and Pork, 8a 8d to 5s per Elba. by the carcase. EAT M. RUTS. ►SMITYFIELD. -- Meadow Hay, 2115 s to 81 153; Clo►er, 'lino, Si 15e to 41 15e ; and. Straw, 11 2s to 11 COAL MARKE' '.-.-YESTERDAY. Darison'sWestHartley 15s Od Haswell , l6s 9,1 Hasting's Hartley lss Od Hetton ... l6s 61 New Pelton Main .. New Tanfield l3s Od Russell's Hates ...... 16s Od Ord's Redkeugh South Pontop —.... 12s Od Hudson's Hartlepool l4s 9d Tanfield Moor .... ..... 14e Od Kelloe Tanfield Moor Butes... 12, 6d Adelaide Tees Wall's End, &c. Cow nden Tees ... Framwell Gate .... ..... 14i Od Seymour Tees ...... Iledley ........ ...... .. 148 6d! West Cornforth .... Harton IVharncliffe Eden Main. lss 0 , .' Howard'sff. H. Netll. 15s Od Belmont lss 6d SidneN 's Hartley Bell East Hett'm HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, the Earl Delawarr, 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. Pcrclux, 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 soner upon the day in question, and upon her refusal to pay him for some work whic h against her wish he had done to the copper flue, he behaved in a most violent manner, 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 halts 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 Rot 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 come 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 he had attended Taylor from the time of the attack up to the present time; he 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 mouths' hard labour at the House of Correction, Brixton, and at the expiration of that period to enter into sureties, himself in 201, and two others in 101. each, to keep the peace for twelvo months towards all her Majesty's subjects, but more particularly towards the officers of the police force. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Wm. 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. Themas Milligan, the lather of Mr. Milligan, ono of theTrosecuters, on an agreement of which. he alleged the latter had committed a breach. Mr. HALL 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 ^f the police. Mr. lieu, 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. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY) Jane Johnson, a woman possessed of at least a dozen aliases, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having obtained the sum of rit. from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, under false and fraudulent re presentations. William Horsford, the active• and intelligent officer i in the employ of the Mendicity Society, said, in consequence of a desci iption he received' from the servants of the Doke of Cambridge, he went to a house in Old rye -street, West minster, last night. He went up et. irs 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 D u ,lce of Cam bridge, and you must go with me." She "If I um to go, I must." On their way to Cambridge House, he told her that there were several other c %sea against her for a similar offence. The prisoner th e a told him that she was the person who had got the mon. 'ty, but she should not have gone there had not her husban, d been ill. He then told her that she had obtained 2/. ft.( an a Mr. Thomas, in the City, and the like sum from a Captain Shaw, residing near Hyde Palk-gate. Ile th en asked her who was with her when she received tho money ? She said, " Long Jack," and she had given him 4 sove reign of the money. Witness then took her 1,0 Cam bridge House, where she was identified by his Royal Highness's footman. Major Baron Knesebeck, Equerry to his Roy 0.1 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, a nd that six of her cows had been poisoned by some evil•d: isposed persons. The petition bore the names of the rtt v. Mr. ,Reeves, the rector of Mortlake; Mr. Penrhya, one of the county magistrates, and several other pets o: as well ;known to witness. He laid the petition before bit • Royal 'Highness, and by his command gave the prit c nner 5/. He mentioned to her that the Duke thought it a very distressing case, and was very sorry that he c mid not give a more liberal subscription. The prison er 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 Moi 'flake, and found that the petition was a fabrication, al 3ct the names all forgeries, and that such a circumstattc e as that: described by the prisoner had never hap p. fined 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 Royal Highness the I hike of Cambridge, identified the prisoner as the woma n he showed into Baron Knesebeck's room. The prisoner admitted the charge, and urged it t ex tenuation of the offence, that her husband was ill, and that she had four children to support. Mr. BINGIIAM committed her to the House of C or rec. tion for three months. DARING ROBBERY.—A robbery of a most dt Ting kind took place on the morning of the 22d instant, on the premises of Messrs. James Murra,y and Co , the chronometer watchmaker, 30, Cornhill. The th. ivies having obtained entrance to the second fist, whit k is used as a manufactory, carried off a large quantit - 7 of unfinished work, consisting of gold and silver casea,:ctc amounting in value to some hundred pouustis„ an I although the foreman sleeps on the premises, with a o little noise was it managed that he knew nothing of it until the morning. STRIKE AMONG THE MASONS AT LINCOLN.— 21.76 stonemasons at work in Lincoln have struck for a, 1 ad vance of wages. They have been paid 245. per we-ok up to this time, and now they want 275 per week, v In sum they have been receiving at the Corn Exch: tame building. We hear the masters are willing to give t best workmen the amount required, but they re 'use to work unless all are paid the same.—Lincolns, Vire Chronicle. 4 dis 281,4 7% 7% a.. .... 3: % THURSDA* EVE N I NG, MARCH iiB, COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. (THIS DAY.) The Commissioners met to-day at ten o'clock, in 23 Committee-room, House of Commons; Lord Morpeth in the chair. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON. PORTSMOUT IT, MONDAY.—The arrival of the packet enables us to continue our interesting details of the movtments of the above squadron from our last dates : " Feb. 22. —The Canopus's ship's company were landtid on the south side, under arms, and inspected by Sir C. Napier. They went through several maneeuvres, under the command of their gallant captain, Moresby, which reflected much credit on the officers and crew. The marching and firing were perfect. " 23i.—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 Pesso d'Arcos, where she had been exercising great guns, &c. 1- 24th.—The Queen's ship's company was to be inspected en shore, but, when all seedy, 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. " 29th —The Amphion went to sea under steam ; she is to make another trial of the screw and return to Lisbon again. Mr. Dinnen, 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 Amphion 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 clear. Hard gales, which continued all day on the 2d. "6th.—The Amphion returned:from her cruise, the screw 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 Ja ckal, 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.—Ed ward W. Prit chard, assistant-surgeon, to the Calypso; Alex ander Scotland, second-class engineer, to the 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 OF VICE-ADMIRAL WARREN. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—This brave and benevolent flag officer died this morning at his seat, East Coshatn, 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 mourn 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 23d of May, in which year, when lying at anchor in the Great Belt, off Ocoee 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. commenced 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 Ih. 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 five men killed and twenty-nine wounded. He commanded the Spartiate, 74 gun-ship, in the Tagus, in the squadron of Admiral Sir Pultenoy 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)evonpnrt Dockyard. Admiral Warren was the son of Dr. Warren, one of the physi- cians of his late Majesty, George 111., and brother of late celebrated 1)r. W arren. 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 Board 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. lie 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 ; he 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'►► ship Prince Regent, 92 guns, Captain W.F. Mart►n, 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 Dundonald, Commander-in-Chief on the West Indian station, will leave Plymouth this morning, in pursuance of Post-office notice, for Bermuda. Paomonons.—Lieutenant J. A. Macdonald (1827), 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 sloop, recently from that station, to the rank of Commander ; Lieut. George Henry Gardner (1842), first Lieutenant of the Sidon steam frigate, to the rank of Commander. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. Commander C. J. P. Glynn (1842) 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. Banks to the Royal Hospital, Stone house ; Midshipman C. J. Bullock to the Enterprise discovery ship at Blackwall. Masters' Assistants—H. G. Swainson to the Ha vannah corvette at Portsmouth ; S. J. 11. Searle to the San Josef flan- ship at Plymouth. Naval Cadets—W. Samwell, to the Amphion, screw friffate, at Cork ; C. P. Alingham to the Ganges, at Sheerness ; A. Smith, to the St. Vincent, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Napier, at Cork ; C. D. Davis, to the Canopus, 84, at Cork. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comm,ns.) '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 Amendment 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 ihe 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 order, were in fact made before such application—Resolution agreed to. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are ordered to be read a second time on Monday, March 27: Dundee and Perth (Tay Crossing). Edinburgh and Northern Itowc3bie, KeltPit ad, and Glenereig Branches, !Lc.) Liverpool, Manchester and Neweastle•upon-T)ne June Lion (Abandonment of the Railway, and Dissolution of the Company). Edinburgh and Bathgate (Extension and Deviation). Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction (Central Junction Branch). ORDNANCE SURVEY. The following report was read:— " Understanding that the Ordnance survey of West minster is now sufficiently advanced to permit the need ful steps to be taken for ascertaining the subterraneous levels connected with the branch and main sewerage, so that the information collected may be added to the block plan, a measure essential to the future arrangement of the general drainatze ; we recommend that at least three properly qualified persons, such as may be ob tained among the sappers and miners who have been employed on the ordnance survey, and who having served their time in that c , rps have now quitted it, should be engaged for this duty, and that under them the number of labourers requisite be employed, so that the works be completed without loss of time. (Signed) " II DE LA BECHE. " EDWIN CHADWICK." The report was adopted. A second report was then read :—" Having re ceived a eommunication from Lieutenant Colonel Hall, to the Effect that the minor area first recom mended to be surveyed for the block plan of London had been so nearly completed that it would be desirable to have the next minor area to be surveyed pointed out, we have to repeat, that seeing the great advantages of ascertaining the relative levels of a considerable natural area for drainage purposes, so that all works construc•ed, particularly in the lower ground, should have reference to a comprehensive system at once effective and less costly ; we have request( d Lieut.-Colonel Hall to pro ceed with an adjoining portion 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 carrit d 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 CHADWICK." 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 bounded 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-rcad, Kensington-gardens, and thence to the westernmost portion of the first Bretton 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 drawn and signed. The following propositions from the surveyors were agreed to WESTMINSTER. The sewers in Keppel-street, 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 30/.; 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 45/. In some of these cases defective sewers had been built, and required altering or extending. HOLBORN AND FINSBERY. 200 feet of drain to be built in Reeves's Mews, Hor ton, at a cost of 60/. 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 removed, 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 had been much greater of late in the locality.—(Laughter.) Might not this in some measure be traced to the labours of the Commission? The CLERK said tho Sewer Commissioners in that part of the metropolis had been abolished, PETITIONS. A resolution,on the motion of Mr. HsrroN, 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 neoessary, at the publiu cost. Some general and routine business having been trans acted, the Court rose. IRELAND. SWEARING OF THE INFORMATIONS. DUBLIN, MARCLI 21, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M.—Soon after three o'clock, Mr. Kemmis, Crown solicitor, attended before the magistrates of the Head Police-office, to prefer informations against Mr. William Smith O'Brien, ALP., 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 tour informations sw,trit: 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-office, proving the proprietor ship of the Un i ted 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—WXDNESDAY. (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 speeches calculated to excite unlawful 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. liensmis, the Crown Solicitor, attended officially on behalf of the Government, bet 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 bad 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, he would be required to give bail in person for 2001., and in two sureties for 1001. 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 thee 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 tddered 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 sole, BU4, Three-and-s-Quarter per Cent. Stock, S 1 f, Three-and-a-Hal t, 8l SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GRAND MILITARY STEEPLECHASE AT WAR WICK.-WEDNERDAY. The Welter Stakes of 10 so y!. ea ch , h ft, 13 s t 71b eac h. (7 Subs.) _ Lieut. Alleyne's Liverpool ... (Captain D'Arcy) 1 Lieut.-Col. Shirley's Pioneer Captain Warrener's Juveni le ... z 3 The Veteran Stakes of 15 sovs. each, &c.; 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 (14Ib extra) (Owner) 1 Lord Strathmore's St. Leger ... 2 The following also started:—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. Butting-5 to 4 and 6to 5 agst Chandler, 2to 1 agat 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 •-• ••• (011iver) 1 _ Mr. Smart's Joe Scott ... ••• ... ... 2 Betting-3 to lon Pulla wa y . Won easy, Joe Scott rofusing the last hurdle but one. The Beaten Llaadicap of 5 sovs• each, p. p. Once round and a dis. (3 Subs.) Captain Harvey's Lunatic ... walked over 818 LT RY RACES. — WEDNENDAY. Tll Bibury Stakes Tw os miles. sevs. each, and 50 add e d. Mr. Pearce na Linkboy,,4 yrs, list 71b (Mr. Pearce) 1 Sir C Coekerell's Logic, 4 yrs, 11st 71b 2 Mr. Knowles's Craubrook, 5 yra, 1 lst 71b 3 Won by a neck. MONMOUTH COUNTY ELECTION.--The High Sheriff of Monmouthchire, Mr. E. 11. Phillips, has given the usual notice :hat oa Friday . next, march 24, he will pro .ceed to the election of a knight to serve in Parliament, in vil.e 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.- ' lion of Captain Edward Somerset. LYCEUM THEATRE. The Happy Family, which was produced at this theatre last evening, albeit 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, bight 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 and 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:qmirrellings, which might have furnished feed 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 o.?.rtain. For this un toward result the author has only himself to blame. The piece was east with the whole strength -of the company. Madame Yestris, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. C. Jones, Charles Mathews, Harley, Buckstone, and Frank Matthews, were all in it, and all 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.) THE RAJA OF BATTARA. Mr. G. THOMPSON 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 DICKENSON then brought forward the follow ing motio❑ " 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. Ho 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 Ameers 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, be argued, had been treated with harshness and injustice. Attempts were made in vain to abridge the speech of the Hon. 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. CLMBRIDGE, MAncu 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 offer€d 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. The Library Syndicate having represented to the Vice-Chancellor the great inconvenience arising from the continued occupation of the east room of the public library by the Fttzwilliam collection, and Mr. Cockerell having reported that by the 25th inst. the Fitzvvilliam Museum will be prepared for its reception, according to 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 SOL per an num, in conformity with the recommendation of the Obserwatory 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 Hobson's estates. The first grace was non-placeted in the Black-hood House, and ultimately thrown out; the numbers were— Placet 29 Non-plaeet 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 Institutio❑ intend to proceed to the nomination of a Professor of Modern European Languages on that foun dation in the ensuing Michaelmas Term. Candidates may tend their names with testimonials until the Ist of October to the Registrar of the University, Oxford. B. P. SYMONS, Vice• Chancellor. 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 BANE OF ENGLAND NOTBS.—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 L 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 Si. note taken, and to refuse any agreeing to the above description.—Liverpool Mercury. RUMOURED RESIDENCE OF 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 Chorley. We now find the matter publicly alluded to. The Preston Pilot says—" It is not improbable but that the ex Kin g ma y com e into this neighbourhood. He is, wo believe, in treaty for Dux bury Park, near Chorley. It will be recollected that cue 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 last), when it is not unlikely but that arrangements may be made for his ex-Majesty occupying Duxbury Park." —Manchester Courier. ARRIVAL SPECIE.—The OF SPECH—The vessel Robert Small, arrived in the dock s f rom C a l cu tta, 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. TALE CARE OF TOUR POCKETS. -- 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 Woolwich this week, that the company may be filled up to the usual strength. Major Greenwood's company served for a long period in China, and when the remainder of it re turned home, about three weeks ago, under the com mand of Lieutenant Mattison, 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 LEGACY.—The late Miss Catherine Wood has bequeathed a munificent legacy of 1,0001, to the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlarge. meat, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels. ...„.,. ~.,...,v 4 ::,.., , PRINCE MEI 11,RN I ~ - . 7. ,-:, -- 1 - ....:, ..> • ) The last beam of the old bysteui has give4oov,-,#r_,,, 2., - 4 f) to speak more respectfully of so experienced\a"-„..6.,: , ~......i man, Plir.ce Metternich - has been compellid te-41;:itleJr---,-• frrrn a contest which he can no longer wag.W44 ‘ ol ---- ", -- J world, or even with the public opinion of the pacilleintSia a . jor habitants of Lower Austria. Of the illustrious Ministers, who have lived in tha 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, cr with so unlimited a control, as Clement, Prince of Metternich. Indeed, whilst the changes and perils of the most extraordinary half century in the history of mankind have rolled to and fro upon the tides of time, the spectacle of that old man, whose reign commenced when our fathers were still young 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 young , r race. That, too, is gone—the oldest Minister of the oldest Court has been driven from office—even the Cabinet of Austria must be renewed. Prince Metternich was born at Cublentz 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 a ith 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 H. His diplomatic career commenced at the Congress of Rastadr, and he rose in it with such rapidity, that iu 1806, after the conclusion of the peace of Freeburg, he was selected for the important post of Aus trian Ambassador in Paris. Upon the declara tion of war in 1809 his departure was impeded until a short time before the battle of Wagram, but he hastened to join the Imperial Court, which had taken refuge at the fortress of Comoru in Hungary. Three da3s after that memorable defeat Count Stadion 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 Hardenberg 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 Gentz, 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. Vie great and rapid events of the last few months hate 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 ♦igour 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'e 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 l►fe, of all statesmen 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 into a seat hardly less secure than the throne of the Caesars. After forty years of this unlimited sway he leaves an empire by so much in arrear 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 iu the horizon. Posterity, more enlightened hereafter by the ultimate consequences of his policy, will judge him with greater severity than his contemporaries; for there was about his person, whilst he lived, a singular dignity of manner which might be mistaken 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 beyond 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 clans 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 he was destined to act, and exercised by forty years of absolute power. That is a combination of cir cumstances which the world will not probably behold again.— Tunes. STATISTICS OF PRUSSIA, The present situation of Prussia, and her importance amongst the States of Germany, as well as the great political influence she has exercised, particularly since the establishment of the Zollverein, make her an object of considerable interest at this moment; a few statistical facts connected with her cendition 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 1832, 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 vpuiation had reached 15,471,785, 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 maculated that the arable land in Prussia in 1805 produced 44,000,000 scheffels of grain (wheat and rye)of SOib. 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 1 in 1843. The produce of grain had advanced in a greater ratio, being as lin 1805, 1 in 1831, and 1 2-3,13 in 1841. The number of head of cattle was as follows: Black Cattle. Calves. Sheep. Pigs. 1805 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 quarts per head of the former, and 5 93-100 quarts of the latter. The external trade of Prussia being included in the Zollverein, it would be difficult to extract any certain eats 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 introdueed 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. TuE Btsnor or MANCHESTER.—The new dioc esan of Manchester entered upon his ministerial duties on Sunday morning last, his Lordship having ordained several young men so early as 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 in 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 moat 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 long and h app il y 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 which 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 THRATRE.—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 stage, and a circle formed, partly on the stage and partly over the pit , while the rest of the stage, to a considerable extent backwards, is occu pi e d by rising seats sufficient to contain a large au di ence , an d 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 considerable extent was of course required, under both stage and pit, yet the whole of the work was accom plished in the short space of five days, by_ Messrs. Soward and Son, of Tottenham-court-road. — wilder. hk ■ i i