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The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect- Stilly Informed that On TUESDAY EVENING, Will be presented Bellini's Opera of NORMA. Polllo, Signor Gardoni ; °roves°, Signor Lablache ; Norma, Mdlle. Parotli ; Adalgisa, Madame Giuliani. To conclude with (the Sasnery by Mr. Charles Marshall) the cele brated Ballet, entitled LB DIBBLE A QUATRE. In which will appear Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi Meilie 3laric Taglioni, and Mine. Petit Stephan, I Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, M. Paul Taglion', M. Charles, M. Louis D'Or ; Thevenot, Julien, Lamoureux, and Aussandon. An entirely new grand Ballet, by M. Taglioni, is in active prepa ration, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. MDLLE. JENNY LIND. M, zart's Opera, Il Flauto Magic,. It is respectably announced that a Grind EVENING, CLASSIC 31.1.1SICAL ENTERTAIN MENT will take place in the Great Theatre oil 9 - 111JRSDAY EVENING, the 12 h of April, with lull Orchestra , Choru s, &c., an 3 comprising the whole of Mozart's celebrated Opera, IL FLA.UTO MAGICO. Principal Artistes—Mdlle. Jenny Lind, Mdlle. Casolani, Mdlle. Polonio, Miss A. Williams, Miss M. Williams, Madame Giuliani, Eignor Gardoul, Signor Bordas, Signor Bartolini (of the Italian Opera, Paris, his first appearance), Signor Arnold', Signor Coletti, Signor Ilelletti, Signor F. Lablache, and Signor Lablache. C and uctor, Mr. Bat le. Subscribers wishing to avail themselves of the privilege of this yerfermance in the subscription are respectfully requested to com inunicate their wishes to Mr. Nugent, Box-office, before Satur day, the 7th instant, until which day their Boxes and Stalls will be retained. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Half-past Seven, Concert to commence at Eight. T fiLA TR E SO Y AL, HA YMAItil E. I'. Mr. B. Webster, Selo Lessee and Manager. Old Bromptos. On MONDAY EVENING Will be performed THE BRIGAND. Characters by Messrs. H. Vandenhoff, Rogers, Howe, Wallack ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss P. Horton. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND , To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SEILLINGS. THEATRE , ROYAL. ADELPIII. Under the direction 01 Madame Celeste. O. MONDAY EVENING Will be performed THE IIOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullcnford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which, WHO LIVES AT No. 9 ? Characters by Messrs. Wright and Worrell, and Miss Chaplin. To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith Ariel, Miss E. Chaplin. PRINCESS'S TREAD:F.:. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. On MONDAY EYENING, Will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera, entitled LUCIA DI L A MME RMOOR. After which, a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOCREDDIN AND TILE FAIR PERSIAN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHE.A.TRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Uader the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, dtc. This Theatre will Re-open on Easter Monday with a Grand Eques trian Spectacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFORNIA ; or, the Horse of the Ocean. Boat-office open from Eleven till Five. St we Manav Pr , Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti , cited by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 7. TII'IOIO2IETER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 57; Noon, 51 BAROMETER, 29.45. The Barometer, with the sun upon it, yesterday afternoon stood as high as 77. WIND S.S.E.—moderate breeze, and dull hazy weather, with rain. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDog. T an DAY 49 min. after 1 i Evening. 6 min. after 2 TO...MORROW—Morning, 25 min. after 2 I Evening, 42 rain. after 2 . i4_044. d • liOS' DIE 4 V iltilillit ;7)Atilt LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1849. Every sincere Reformer will rejoice at the pro spective return of Mr. ROEBUCK to Parliament. His exclusion from the House of Commons has been a disgrace to that constituency which he served so faithfully, and to which his great abilities had im parted distinction. His absence from the Legislature has afforded a painful evidence of the ungrateful treatment received from the principal electors of Somersetshire. his brilliant qualities as a debater, pay, the very flaws and blemishes of his temperament, have been missed from the discussions of the popular Assembly. We have looked in vain for that constitutional petulance which had so often evoked animation from the most torpid, as the glance of the steel draws the flash from the pebble. We have sighed fur that acidity of sar casm which was corrective of all crudities of debate, for that asperity of manner which provoked the most ambiguous to an explanation, and for that perpetual sparkle of indignation which agitated the proceedings of our representatives into a kind of intellectual effer vescence. All these bitter but beneficial qualities were the characteristics of Mr. ROEBUCK, and with his temporary withdrawal from the scene of conten tion their peculiar advantage became conspicuous. Everybody felt that the very bitterness of these qua lities constituted as it were the tonic of the House of Commons. _ _ _ The absence of such a man from the Legislature I could not fail to do otherwise than leave a percep tible hiatus in the list of its chief ornaments. His return to that arena, in which his taunts had fired new passion, and infused new rigour into the struggles of the oratorical gladiators, could not but he most eagerly anticipated. The population at large desired to witness again the movements of one who, for seventeen years, had never proved himself averse to exertion. The Radical Reformers, in particular, were distressed at the continued and compulsory quiescence of one who had ever evinced his assi• duity in the advancement of their most cherished principles. And yet borough after borough became vacant and Member after Member was elected, and still Mr. ROEBUCK was not recognised among the distinguished men sitting in the Lower House at Westminster. At length, when the Session of 1849 has progressed as far as the Easter recess, a consti tuency demands the honour of declaring JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK. to be its representative. That constituency is Sheffield. We would contrast the name of Sheffield with the names of Bath and of Edinburgh—as we would contrast a consistent and intelligent borough with boroughs vacillating in opinion and ungrateful in character. In answer to the requisition spontaneously forwarded to London by some of the principal inhabitants of Sheffield, Mr. ROEBUCK has fully unfolded the sentiments with which he regards till present epoch in our career as an empire. " The present," says he, " I cannot help thinking a very critical period, and that much will depend on the guidance of our political affairs of the coming few months, for the future well-being of our industrious people. If a really free trade be esta blished—if an honest reform in our expenditure be adopted—if our financial system be put upon a ra tional basis—then I think we may be sanguine of success. If all these things be delayed or de ferred, very serious evils will inevitably follow." Those are the decisive views with which this emi nent Reformer will re-enter the House of C ommons —views indicative of no diminution of his energies, and of no decrease in his enthusiasm. Whatever the Rev. S. D. WADDY may say to the contrary, th e respect entertained during so many years towards the ex-Member for Bath has in no respect evaporated. The good opinion of the multitude for the integrity of Mr. Roznycx has not that exquisite volatility which THE SUN, can be affected by the heat of personalities or by the reiteration of libellous aspersions. Among the hints thrown out by the eminent candi date for the suffrages of the people of Sheffield, it is significant to find as about the most conspicuous the one having reference to what he calls the reform of the Reform Act. That reform, the reform of our system of representation—a reform second only in imminence to th• reform of our Financial Arrange ments--must inevitably take place in the end. In the furtherance of that great undertaking the indus try, the ardour, and the capacities of Mr. ROEBUCK will be of incalculable value. For these, and for a multitude of similar reasons, we are rejoiced to observe the course adventured upon by the constituency of Sheffield, a course honourable alike to itself and its candidate, and by the completion of which the High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands will leave in his place a worthy successor, while the Reformers of England will have restored to themselves one of their most useful and estimable advocates. Let the Liberal electors proceed to the fulfilment of our expectations, in spite of the yelps of a blood hound opposition, and they will have counterbalanced the sectarian ingratitude of Bath by the generous determination of Sheffield. Canada is again restive. Whatever the Colonial Secretary may assert to the contrary, whatever the Prime Minister may say to corroborate his state ment, whatever dispatches may be received from the Governor—the fact is glaring that there has arisen once more a decided feeling of disaffection towards the mother country on the part of the Canadians. And this time the disaffection is not restricted to aminority, or even to a majority, of the population; it has in fected the representative Chamber of the Canadian Legislature. The import of this disturbance is variously estimated. Those who happen to be gifted with a more sanguine temperament regard the occur rences now taking place at Quebec and Montreal as merely temporary ebullitions of popular excitement to be allayed by the official sugar-plums at the dis posal of Lord ELGIN. Others, who are habitually disposed to look at such matters under their darkest aspect, already begin to foresee the renewal of the calamities which supervened upon the evil adminis tration of NORTH, and to predict a second disruption of our American dependencies as disastrous as that which led to the establishment of the Republican Government of the United States. Without taking either of these extreme views, it would be ridiculous to conceal from ourselves the conviction that the affairs of the two Canadas have latterly assumed a very alarming appearance. Something decisive must be done by her MAJESTY'S Ministers not only towards the conciliation of our colonists among themselves, but towards the recon ciliation of those colonists with the supreme Govern ment. It is out of all question that these melancholy embarrassments should continue to be of periodical recurrence. The stability of the whole empire is dependent upon the preservation of a proper feeling throughout its constituent portions. Great Britain signifies a vast deal more than these islands of Eng land, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. It indicates in one compact title the gigantic monarchy whose con stitutional Sovereign is VICTORIA, and whose domi nions are at once insular, peninsular, and continental —extending into the heart of Asia as far as the Himalayas; into the depths of the Mediterranean, by Gibraltar and Valetta, as far as Corfu ; into southern Africa as far as the Bosjesmans ; into the forest re cesses of America as low down as the haunts of the Cbippeways, and into its polar regions as high up as the Sound of Wolstenholm. It embraces in Aus tralia alone a fifth continent 1,700 miles from north to south and 2,400 miles from east to west. In its single possession of Hindostan it numbers no less than 100,000,000 of Asiatics as subjects. In the east it has islands of spice and in the west islands of sugar. On the confines of the Arctic Circle it has acres of timber untouched by the hatchet. Within the circumference of the Antarctic Circle it has leagues of whale fisheries unpierced by the harpoon. In such scattered territories the races are not less diversified than the religions. The study of the population of the British empire would furnish examples of almost every tribe of the human species to the ethnologist, and of almost every creed ever conceived by the imagination of man to the moral philosopher. Its subjects are composed of negroes and white men, mulattoes and redskins, Malays and Caucassians, Cinghalese and Mongolians. And the aomage of these various specimens of humanity are respectively offered to BRAHMA, to VISHNU, to ALLAH, and to the INCARNATE WORD who, one , housand eight hundred and fifty years back, was crucified in the suburbs of Jerusalem. To secure the consolidation of this stupendous empire is the first object of the patriotism of England, and the first aim of her statesmen. But to anticipate any thing beyond its gradual dismemberment would he the very extreme of absurdity, if our colonial administration is to perpetuate that calamitous policy which leads to nothing but perpetual quarrels and perpetual reconciliations. For these bickerings are not temporary evils ; they lead inevitably in the end to estrangement, and that es trangement inevitably leads to disruption. Of this we have had sufficient experience—if only in the foundation of an independent democracy at Washing con. So certain, indeed, is the consequence we have mentioned, that we might, in the majority of cases, go the length of hazarding a prediction, but that the inscrutable mysteries of futurity baffle even the saga city of the most prophetic. " Pruclens futuri tempiris exitum nccte premit lltus; Rid( tque, si mortalis ultra Fas trepidat." Common prudence, however, is alone necessary to guard against the realisation of these forebodings ; and if precautionary measures are essential in other departments of the public service, they are more than ever essential in that department which is presided over by the Colonial Secretary. Canada is no Cerberus. It is not to be conciliated by a mere sop. Its interests and our interests mus t be identified if we wish to preserve it for ever to ourselves. How is this to be accomplished ? The solution of the problem—difficult though it may appear—is very far from being out of the reach of discovery. Many, we know, regard it as about an equivalent to the squaring of the circle. We look at it other wise. The difficulty exists in the first place in the Canadas, and the means of removing that diffi culty i 3 there too. There is never a bane, says the old saw, but the antidote is within a stone's throw. the dockleaf grows in the shadow of the stinging nettle. In brief—the means of reconciling Canada to England, and of binding the colony to the mother country inextricably, is discoverable in Canada itself, in its riches both mineral and agricultural, in its ports and rivers, its soil and its climate. Canada has the material in abundance ; England has the intelli gence and vigour which is alone wanting to work that material. Let England and Canada but once see this and the result will be to their com mon advantage. Let England see that she has within herself an amount of strength and ability immeasurably beyond her own requirements— an amount of strength and ability that as things at present remain are literally running to waste—and she will no longer continue indolent while rebellion is ripening in North America. Let Canada see that she possesses a treasure in grain, and fruit, and metal, and timber, infinitely beyond her own use—a trea sure that is, in like manner, running to waste within her boundaries—and she will no longer be disposed to pick a suicidal quarrel with the power alone competent to aid her in working out her develop. went.'* And as to the method of working out that development—listen to the remarks of one who has studied well the resources and capabilities of the two Canadas:—" Completeness of communication," says Lieutenant SYNGE in his admirable pamphlet on * Upon this point it has already been observed, by the late gifted Charles Buller —whose untimely decease can not be too often or too earnestly deplored—" In your colonies," said he, addressing himself to the House of Commons, "in your colonies you have vast tracts of most fertile land wanting only capital and labour to cover them with abundant harvests; and, from want of that capital and labour, wasting their productive ener gies in nourishing weeds, or, at least, in giving shelter and sustenance to beasts. When I ask you to colonise, what do I ask you to do but to carry the superfluity of one part of our country to repair the deficiency of the other; to cultivate the desert, by applying to it the means that lie idle hare: in one simple word, to convey the plough to the field, the workman to his work, the hungry to his food?"—Quoted in the number of the Edinburgh Review just published. Art. " Colonies and Coloniza• tiers," page 529. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1849. British North America, " including facility, rapidity, and security, is, indeed, the true secret of the develop ment of a country."—(P. 8.) Lieut. SYNGE is tho roughly acquainted with the geographical and geologi cal peculiarities of the colony, he has studied the country with the scrutinizing and appreciative eye of an officer in the Royal Engineers—and he pronounces himself decidedly in favour of the feasibility of opening such lines of traffic as shall render the com munication throughout those dominions complete. The advance," he says, " may be made by canal, by railroad, or by a mixed route."—(P. 14.) If so— then assuredly the railroad would be preferable, as coming within his former requirements of rapidity, and security, and facility, much better than the canal, or the mixed route. Canal-barges would hardly keep pace with steam-engines; and railroads are not gene rally liable to be frozen. Every one of the argu ments employed by Lieutenant MILLINGTON SYNGE go far to enforce the scheme to which we have already more than once referred, as having been propounded by Major CARMICHAEL SMYTH—the scheme of constructing a gigantic arterial railway run ing across North America from Frazer's River to Halifax, and thereby connecting together the Pacific and the Atlantic. No doubt the project is bold—so bold as at first sight to appear almost extravagant. But bolder things have been done under more discouraging circumstances, and without a fraction of the recompense in comparison. Many shrug their shoulders, very likely, at the suggestion, and feel disposed to cry out with AUSTIN CAXTON, " Pshaw !" and " Paine !" But the Spanish children pointed after COLUMBUS in the streets of Madrid, calling him the " mad Italian," because he dreamed of discovering land further west than the Canaries ! Major CARMICHAEL SMYTH can afford to exult in the privilege of bearing a kindred derision to that lavished by the Castilians upon the glorious CHRISTOPHER. Yet the daydream of a trunk railway between the Pacific and the Atlantic would seem to have awakened the attention of people as little gifted with imagina tion as fur-traders. From the communications pub lished by ourselves in another column, it would appear that the Hudson's Bay Company are disposed to afford the scheme their countenance. That fact, we doubt not, will go a great way towards its advancement, if it do not actually bring about its realisation. It will show that the motion can influence more than intellectual specula. tors—that it has the attraction of £ s. d. as well as the fascination of a poetical vision. The subject, in fact, is one so peculiarly calculated to arrest the at tention of every one interested in the prosperity of our North American possessions as to force itself upon public consideration. And appearing precisely at this moment, it holds out a means for the tran quillization of the turmoil already beginning to re vive in the Canadas. It proffers the very boon for which the mother country bas been so long aspiring. It reveals the chain that may bind our dependencies in North America to Great Britain for ever, and with those dependencies all the rest of the colonies hanging on to the gorgeous skirts of the empire. Once carried out, the stupendous possessions of England though distributed over both hemispheres, would be permanently compacted together—our fleets would more than ever hold dominion over the seas commanding both hemispheres —the hidden resources of the northern continent of America, of New Zealand, and of Australia, would be suddenly called to light—the necessity of an overland route across Europe (liable at any moment tc inter ruption) would be removed, the route across the new world being more direct and rapid—indolent crime would be compelled to toil, in the persons of the con vict labourers, for the nourishment and emolument of industrious virtue—the east and the west, barbarism and civilization, the fruitful regions of spice and vege tation, and the cities of workshops and factories would be confronted, face to face, through the intervention of steam power—Canada would be pacified, England would be enriched, and the British empire con solidated. Will this prove a gorgeous daydream or a magnifi cent reality ? We leave Time to decide. We have latterly been favoured with opinions by Members of that louse which is usually least prone to express strong views on litigated points that do not strictly come under their legislatorial authority. Harsh condemnation of men struggling under adverse fortune has not hitherto been a characteristic of the British House of Peers, and we are glad to see the protests made by Lords LANSDOWNE, FITZWILLIAM, and HARROWBY against the precedent. That the al lusions to possible causes of suffering amongst the exiled Poles are founded upon purely imaginary data, has been proved to the satisraction of the country which contributes to their relief and to Europe, which has hitherto admired its generosity. It is not easy to clear up accusations against the Hungarians who are engaged in a similar struggle for liberty to that of the Poles, because no party in this country, as far as we are aware, has lent them any aid, or even maintains any correspondence with them. But as an attempt has been made to prejudice public opinion by representing the corps in Transylvania commanded by General BEM as having transgressed the laws of humanity in their proceedings, it may be well to call attention to a quotation from the Alge meine Zeitung, of the 28th of March. It states— " The traces of fire, blood, and robbery, which the Wallachians left at Zslatbna and Enyed, will be more difficult to efface than those which the Hungarian rebel army, under 8, , m, left in their march throughout the whole country."—( Transylvanian Messenger, published in Garman, at Hermannstadt.) This testimony, from an unwilling witness (as the term rebels applied to the Hungarians shows), seems to make the accusation raised against General BEM to be as illusory as that prefered by Lord EGLINTON against his poor countrymen in England. Nobly has the heroic BEM earned the glorious decoration of the cross of Louis KOSSUTH ! His sword is cutting to pieces the legionaries of the two the great despotisms of Austria and Russia—those two gigant ic united empires fo i rce required he all con t r e est str o en f gth wh a o n s d e strategy of the Emperor NAPOLEON at Austerlitz. The bulletins from the Hungarian C o mmander-in-Chief—which ' • interesting documents will be found given exclusively by ourselves in another column—show again for the nine hun dred and ninety-ninth time that the statements made in the reactionary journals, both • this country and on the continent, are utterly devoid of accuracy—that they are, in fact, from beginning to end misstatements, or, if the phrase must out at last, lies, and no white lies either, but lies of Cimmerian blackness. Instead of BEM having taken Hermanstadt merely for the sake of abandoning it immediately afterwards —as has been impudently proclaimed by the Minis terial papers of Germany, and as impudently repeated by the Tory papers of England—it will be seen that Hermanstadt was captured on the 11th inst., and that on the 16th, the date of the latest intelligence, it was still in the possession of the Hungarians. It will be perceived, moreover, from these memorable bulletins, that General BENI has proceeded further than could by any chance have been anticipated—that on the 15th, the anniversary of the great day when Hungary first awoke from her sleep of dependence, he entirely routed the Imperial army of his antagonists, driving the Russian auxiliaries across the frontiers into Wal lachia, and compelling the Austrian Generals PUCH. NER, GNESER, JOVICH, and PFEROMANN to fly before his victorious soldiers. Now we ask any man not posi• tively deranged by the animosities of faction, whether these repeated disproofs of t as he to astsehertions proceedings made by the of reactionary newspapers , Hungary, do not justify the public in henceforth discrediting their most solemn asseverations as to the progress of the arms of Austria ? Let it be remembered that between the seat of war and ourselves there intervene the German dominions of FRANCIS JOSEPH—that all the first news from Hungary passes through Vienna before it reaches the western shores of Europe—that the interest of the assailing powers is to hide its reverses and to assert its advancement and know ing from experience that the Viennese organs are marvellous adepts at distorting facts into fables, defeats into victories, and so forth, the public will, hereafter, we doubt not, give a proportionate credence to the Germanized, Tory-trumpeted dis patches received from the battle-fields of Hungary. The truth is, as we have stated, that Hermanstadt: is in the possession of the patriots—that BEJ has, gained another triumph—that the Russo-Austrian forces have Leen driven helter-tlielter into Wallachia. We find the following paragraph in our excellent contemporary the Cork Examiner, of Wednesday : " VALENTIA. HARBOUR.—WO are credibly informed that Captain Wolfe, R.N., late of the surveying vessel Tartarus, has been ordered to survey Valentia Harbour and the adjacent coast. If this be with a view of esta blishing a Transatlantic packet station in that quarter, which it looks very like—we are satisfied that it should be somewhere in Ireland; but we know that the best nau tical judges both in America and in this country are against this locality ; therefore we again call the atten tion of our fellow-citizens to this important question." It may be all very well for the worthy citizens of Cork to wish for a Transatlantic station to be esta blished at their spacious and commodious port; but the question for the Government is not a local, but a national one. It was but the other day that even the modest people of Limerick wanted the doubtful waters of the Shannon to be honoured with the pa tronage of the Government and the prospective com mercial monopoly of both sides of the Atlantic! With such patriots public utility ought to yield to private interest ; but with the Government we sus pect that the public advantage in its widest and most beneficial range ought to be the leading principle in coming to a decision on such an important sub ject. If Ireland is to be raised from her pre sent low condition, it must be done not by patronising localities which are already independent of Govern ment support. Cork and Limerick can stand on their own good legs, but not so the children of the barren shores on the far west and south-west of Ireland—a wilderness teeming with popu lation, but destitute of every comfort. Surely this is the more deplorable when nature holds out such cheering prospects for improving the condition of the people by the exercise of energies now wasted in fruitless condolence or indolent repining. The support given by Government to the comple- I tion of railways through Ireland will tend greatly to ameliorate the condition of that country, by facilitat ing a more ready access to the numerous noble bays and i An nt dh n a f t e l u oa nr packetag l a b n a d r b b o r u o ra stationsd which b aby e omf aßdeaneithert abound ry along asa t h indicated Be e coasts And e hav eb ny the late enterprising the (wohr i capacious it country might eva in bthoa att quarter u a remotert well-protected erw oh periodua—rl d b R harbour m m r ae m o t :f gb N e V o p t Lieutenant n o present wilderness into a fruitful and pros fia' i p i either of the places named for a packet stet region. Wherever commerce resorts riches follow in its train, and Government will do wisely by fixing on being nearer the oceanfor departure, and most desir able as harbours of refuge for mercantile vessels as well as look• outports for ships of war. rol)eeooirnmr,tothuai aaaess RUSH'S TRIAL AND THE ELEC- TRIO TELEGRAPH. Our readers are well aware that The Sun made great exertions to lay before the public a report of the trial of this remarkable criminal up to half-past six o'clock each day, which was published in our Seven o'Clock Edition. By the aid of the Electric Telegraph our reporter at Norwich was enabled to dispatch his notes from the Castle at half-past six each day of the trial, which were just as invariably published in the late edition of The Sun half an hour after, the distance from Norwich Castle to the The Sun office being nearly 130 miles I Such was the facility of intercourse and the skill of the gentlemen selected by the Electric Telegraph Company to attend at Norwich during the trial—Mr. Raymond, the superintendent, and Mr. Sech, the gentleman at Shoreditch—that our reports, averaging from thirty to forty lines, were sent up in from a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes, or just as fast as our reporter, an extremely rapid writer, could prepare each slip of his copy. The verdict was at The Sun office in twenty minutes after delivered from the mouth of the foreman of the jury, notwithstanding the difficulty of getting out of the court frem the crowd, no t only inside but around its doors, and the difficulty and danger of threading which was at the time in full swing. the mysterious windings and dense crowd of a fair, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the French papers of yesterday. M. PROUDHON has escaped from Paris, and is now in Belgium. The Peuple, however, continues its war of scandal against the PRESIDENT. That journal on Wednesday accused the PRESIDENT of having kept back the telegraphic dispatches announcing the defeat making which the P RESIDENT s h are d . eg lu of CHARLES ALBERT, for the p urpose o f g i v i ng to M. Ac HILLS FOULD, to Nyhom . sot ecosmpemeuulnaitcioatnesdotnhetmhe, aßnou(rpsep,oirntutnhie pr tyo ofit fm s No doubt the Peuple will be again prosecuted for this calumny. The has t otTi followin g "communi ca ti on " on the Pr ease mission esse of Gi " The facts which led to the resignation of the Abbe Gioberti are generally known. The question was the military occupation of Tuscany for the purpose of re-es • tablishing the Grand Duke Leopold on his throne. Being authorised to do so by Charles Albert, the Able Gioberti offered the armed aid of Piedmont to the Grand Duke. This latter had already accepted this offer, when opposed th e realisa tionthe colleagues p r o o f j e t h c e t L c t o b ia l c i e formally ived b y the President of the Council, and so led to the resignation of this latter. We can state that the arrival of the Abbe Gioberti at Paris is precisely connecttd with the project of inter vention in Tuscany. The Pinelli Ministry appears con vinced that the manifesto published by the Radical Cabi net of Turin, when the armistice was denounced, was a snare set for the King to arrive at the political dismem berment of the Sardinian monarchy. In declaring, in the face of Europe, that the old treaties were no longer in force in the eyes of King Charles Albert, and that the treaties of 1815 had been imposed on Italy, the Ratizzi Ministry aimed at leading to the revival of the protest which the delegates of the Republic of Genoa had repeatedly brought forward before the Congress of Vienna, against the incorporation of their country with Piedmont. What is passing at present at Genoa gives some weight to these suspicions. The revolutionary fever, after having agitated Tuscany and Romagna, threatens to come to a head in the states of the King of Sardinia. Genoa ie on the point of detaching itself from the rest of the monarchy, and to proclaim the re-establishment of the Ligurian Republic. In this state of things the new Ministry has deemed it opportune, ' in order to better guarantee the integrity of the Sardi nian monarchy, to adopt the plan of intervention con ceived by the Abbe Gioberti. Meanwhile the Able has been charged to smooth down, by the aid of French influence, the difficulties which the plan might meet with in its execution. These difficulties are of a delicate nature. When the Court of Vienna learned the inten tions of Charles Albert under the Gioberti Ministry, it existing cc lf the faculty of acting according asserted ttrheeartiiegshatsssu •tseo r f ed re i r t v o r y si e o r n T a u ad scan su y7d e e s c s l i a o r n ing wh o ic a h t whilst reserving to 1 . to circumstances, in order to delead its in that country, it could not recogn ise Albert the right to intervene directly or indirectly. The pri c nt h e a re rls s interests in in Kopienrg deplorable situation in which the Piedmoatese army happens to be at present does not admit of the possi bility of its intervening in Tuscany, in spite of Aus tria. On the other hand, it appears urgent to the pre sent Sardinian Government that the revolution should be put down in Central Italy, in order that the ultra Sardinian party i n States Piedmont, a I y sufficiently tried by the already should not find a point of sup port there, and so succeed in completely overturning the disasters of the war . I n or der, therefore, to conciliate the rights and p retens i ons o f Austria, with the impe ead rious interests of the Sardinian monarchy, the Abl 6 Gioberti has come to demand for his plan of interven tion the adhesion and moral co-operation of the French Cabinet. As to what regards the present disposition of Austria, relative to the new King of Sardinia, we know with the young gwooodf t s h o e urc 2 e ith th u at t. M , a a t rs s ha o l y ß el a s d , etzky, during his spontaneously declared that be had received from i V ifniro i iti e er: n gr ; a l i a se the most positive instructions to avoid every thing that could humiliate the Royal dignity in Pied mont, and, on the contrary, to afford all his assistance iu consolidating monarchical ideas. It is said, besides, that the old Marshal entertains quite a paternal affec tion for the young Queen, whom he has known from her childhood at Milan. The desire of not speaking but with full knowledge has caused us to pass over in silence a fact which appears to have sot the imagination of certain journals at work. The fact is, the arrival at Paris of M. de Hubner, secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria. M. de Hubner having been presented to the President of the French Republic by M. Drouyn de ' Lhuys, the day alter the French Government had learned the defeat of the Piedmontese army, inductions altogether gratuitous were drawn from this fortuitous coincidence. If we are well informed, the extraordinary mission with which M. de Hubner is charged by his So vereign to the French Cabinet extends to the great ques tions which at this moment fix the attention of the Ca binets of Europe. The Court of Vienna appears to have wished, by the organ of M. de l'ltibner, to expose and de velope frankly the principles which have served as the constant basis of the foreign policy of the Imperial Government, since the formation of the Schwartzenberg- Stadion Cabinet, for the double object of showing that, if Austria is decided to maintain intact the rights gua ranteed to her by public treaties, she does not intend to attack any liberty legally acquired, and still less to pre vent the regular and pacific development of liberal ideas, under the inspiration of which the Constitution granted by the Emperor Francis Joseph was promulgated." The Debats publishes a letter from Florence, which states that it is the general opinion there that M. Guaastazzr, who has been appointed Dictator, will 1 'make use of the powers conferred upon him to reed j the Grand Duke, and thereby preclude the necessity of foreign intervention. M. GUEBRAZZI is on bad terms with the Republicans. We" read in the -11foniteur— " The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, after having considered the opinion expressed by the Chamber cf Commerce and the Consulting Chambers of Arts and Manufactures, has just decided that foreign articles are not to be admitted this year to the Exhibition of In dustry. Ninety chambers had sent in answers to the questions addressed to them—twenty-eight in favour of admission, and forty-two against it. Twenty others had simply akked fur a postponement to a better op portunity." The Minister of Public Works has published a notice in the Zttoniteur, declaring that, having re ceived a vast number of demands from workmen to he admitted to take part in the Government works, he is obliged to refuse interfering in the matter personally, as the Government, in order to give employment to as many workmen as possible, has already done everything that the credits ellowtd by the Assembly could pthsibly permit. Any demands ought, therefere, to be made not to him, but to the contractors of Government works, or to the Prefect of the department where Government works, nut contracted for, are going on. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have arrived. A treaty of commerce has been concluded between Spain and Persia. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 31. Five per Cents., 10I; Three per Cents., 2.24 for Account. Exchange on London, 49 95. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. ANSWER OF THE KING TO THE FRANK- FORT DEPUTATION. The Prussian Staats Anzeiger of the 4th instant gives the following account of the reception of the Frankfort deputation of the KING'S answer to their Address : " BERLIN, APRIL 3.—At twelve o'clock this day his Majesty received the deputation from the Frankfort Parliament in the Knights' Hall. His Majesty was surrounded by the Princes of the blood Royal a►;d the Ministers. The deputation having been introduced by Count Brandenburg, M. Simson, President of the Ger man National Assembly, read the following address:— " The Legislative German National Assembly, which was convoked in the spring of the last year by the unanimous consent of the Princes of the nations of Germany, for the purpose of constituting the German Administration, did, on the 28th of January this year, 1849, after the promulgation of the German Imperial Constitution, adopted after two readings, confer the hereditary Imperial dignity founded therein upon your Majesty. " It has hereby expressed the firm conviction that the Princes and nations of Germany will, in magnanimous and patriotic agreement with the German National As• sembly, use all their energy to carry out the resolution adopted by it. "It has resolved respectfully to invite the elected Emperor, by deputation, to accept the dignity which has fallen upon him on the basis of the constitution. "To carry out this measure, the President of the German National Assembly, and 32 of its members, hereby wait upon your Majesty, with the respectful confidence that your Majesty will be pleased to accede to the enthusiastic expectations of our fatherland, which has selected your Majesty to be the refuge and protec tion of its unity and power, as supreme head of the em pire, and respond to this request by a gracious ac quiescence." I could not pursue the' enemy further, bit the bridge is built, and I hope that in three or four days I shall be able to take Kronstadt, and it will be easy to bring back to legal order the Wallcchian bands which still disturb, in some places, the security of the ccuntry. If I tak e Kronstadt I shall direct a part of my army upon Hungary. BEM." It will be seen fr om th ese b u ll et i ns that" ihe account of General BEM'S having abandoned Hermanstait, after having occupied it for a few hours, and plundered it, is as untrue as most of the intelligence furnished by our con temporaries respecting the war in Hungary. 13Em took Hermandstadt on the 11th, and the fore. going bulletins (on the authenticity of which implicit reliance may be placed), show that on the 16th he was still in possession of that important town. The extracts we have alrealy given from a German paper, published in Hermanstadt, prove that the statement of his having plundered it is equally unfounded. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. RENEWAL OF nosTILI rms. lIAMBURGII, APRIL 4. Reports are current on the Exchange, Lrought by travellers from Flens burg, that the Danes have commenced hostilities by having landed on the Sundewitt, near Diippell, yesterday, about 10,000 strong, and driven the Holstein contingent before them towards Graven steM, where another body is said to have landed also. Some 16 wounded had been conveyed into Flens burg, and others killed reported. It was &so said that the Danes, about 16,000 strong, had crossed the Konigsau, and the patriot and insurgent troops had equally retired before them towards Hadersleben. The refusal of the King of PRUSSIA to accept the Imperial Crown of Germany for the present is also known here, and has by no means given satisfaction. ITALY. The Paris Presse of yesterday publishes a letter from Genoa, which thus describes the state of the city : ‘-‘ The aenerale is now beating in every part of the town, and firing is heard on all sides. General Mar mora has, it is said, entered by the Faubourg St. Martin. and the revolutionists are preparing to stop his passage. They will not sueceed. General Marmora is not a man to retire, and the Republicans of Italy have not shown themselves willing to stand before a fire of musketry. All the English are embarking in haste, and the English Consul gives protection to any one who demands it. This movement of the Genoese is rrgarded by some as likely to lead to serious complications. One thing, how ever, must be remarked, that the leaders of it are neither numerous in their followers, nor are they men of capacity and influence. It is a party who lost character by their conduct in the late war, and they now revolt, and fire on their countrymen, who desire to restore order." The King of SARDINIA has appointed his brother, the Prince DE CARIGNAN, Commander of the National Guards of the kingdom. General ROMARINI, who is confined in the citadel of Turin, has offered to make important revelations if his life is spared. _ _ It is said that RADETZKY has consented that the fortress of Alessandria shall not be occupied by Aus trian troops. At the sitting of the Roman Constituent on the 27th, in answer to interpellations, the Minister of War said that every citizen was a soldier, and those between eighteen and thirty-six were amenable to active service; that the army was under the command of Colonel MEZZACAPA till the arrival of certain foreign officers; that 30,000 guns had been ordered in France, and 9,600 elsewhere, which it was hoped would soon be received; that a manufactory for arms was established, and that three large military depots were about to be formed at Rome, Bologna, and Ancona; and that the Government was prepared to engage heartily and effectually in the war. in a few days (he added) the union between Rome and Tus cany would be effected. MARKET NbWs.—( THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Our market was seasonably well supplied with both Fruit and Vegetables, especially the latter. Tho at tendance of buyers being extensive, the general de mand was steady, at fully last week's quotations. Fruit—Pine-apples (Queen's), 5s to 7s; foreign Grapes (black and white), is to is 6d; and hot-house Grapes, 16s to 11 Is per lb; Apples, 4s to 6s per bushel; ditto Eating, 4s to 6s per halt sieve; Pears, 18s to 21s per half sieve; Lemons, 5s to 10s: and Oranges, 8s to 14s per 100; Chesnuts, 2to 4s per peck. Vegetables—Spinach, Is 9d to 2s per junk; Horseradish, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; and Celery, 9d to is per bundle; Asparagus, 2s to 3s 6d per 100; Onions, 2s to 2a 9d; and Ash-leaved Kidney Pota toes 6s to 8s per bushel; Cape Brocoli, 9s to 12s per dozen bundles; Mushrooms, 8d to is per pottle; Endive, is to Is 3d per score; Savoy Cabbages, 7d to 9d per dozen; Turnips, is 3d to is 9d; Carrots, 2s Gd to 4s; and Greens, 2s to 3s 6d per dozen bunches; Parsley, 2s to 3s per half sieve ; Forced Sea Kail 8d to is per punnet ; Cucumbers, 5s to 7s per brace ; Rhubarb, 5s to 9s per dozen bundles ; 11. et-root, is to is 3d per .Dozen ; Brussels Sprouts, is to is 6d per half sieve; Parsnips, 61 to 9d per dozen ; Cornish hite Brocoli, Is to 2s per dozen; Turtiip Greens, Gd to 8,1 per bushel; Leeks, 8J to is per dozen bunches; New Potatoes, 8d to Is per lb; French Beans, 3s to 3s 6d per 100; Radishes, Sd per dozen hands; Red Cabbages, 2s to 3s Gd per dozen; Shallots, 4d per lb. ZirEIVJ AND LEAD Mt Z.Z. . POULTRY—Turkeys, 4s 6d to Ss 6d; Geese, Gs to 8s; Ducks, 3s to 4s ; Tame Rabbits, is 2d to 2s ; Will ditto, 7d to is ; Pigeons, 7d to ls; and Roasting Pigs, 5s to 8s 61 each; Surrey Fowls, 9s to 14a ; ditto Chickens, 6s to 8s; and Barn-door Fowls, 4s to 7s per couple; English Eggs, 5s 6d to 65 6d; and French ditto. 5s to 6s per 100. Fresh Butter, lld to is 3d per lb. GAME.—Hares, 2s to 3s ; Woodcocks, 3s to 4s; Snipes, 10d to is 6d; Teal, 9d to is; Wild Ducks, 2s to 2s Gd; Widgeons, is to is 6d; and Plovers, 6d to Is each. NEWPORT. Bea from 2s 6d to 3s; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d; Lamb, 5s 10d to 68 8d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per Sibs. His MAJESTY replied in the following words : " The message of which you are the bearers has moved me deeply; it has fixed my eye upon the King of Kings, and upon the sacred and responsible duties im posed upon me as the King of my people, and as one of the mightiest of the German Princes. "This glance, gentlemen, gives clearness to the un derstanding, and plainly indicates the line of conduct. " In the resolution of the German National Assembly, which you, gentlemen, present to me, I recognise the voice of the Representatives of the German nation. This call gives me a claim, the value of which I know how to estimate. It demands of me, if I follow it, immense sacrifice ; it imposes upon me the most oner ous duties. " The German National A.lsembly has selected me before others for the consolidation of the unity and strength of Germany. I honour its confidence, and beg you to express my thanks for the same. lam ready to prove by deed that those men were nut mistaken whose confidence in me was founded upon my devotion, my faithfulness, my love to our common fatherland. " But, gentleman, I should not justify their confidence —I should not respond to the sentiments of the Ger man people—l should not establish the union of Ger many, were I, in violation of the most sacred rights, and of my former express and solemn assurance, to form a resolution without the full concurrence of the Crowned Heads, the Princes, and the free cities of Ger many, which must have the most decided results upo❑ them, and upon the German nations governed by them. It therefore remains for the Governments of the several German states to consider, in common deliberation, whether the Constitution be adapted to individual states, as well as to the whole—whether the rights assigned to me will enable me to guide the destinies of the vast Ger• man fatherland, and realise the expectations of its people, with that strong hand which so high a calling demands. "Of this, however, Germany may rest assured, and you, gentlemen, may publish it throughout the length and breadth of the land, if Germany stands in need of the shield and sword of Prussia against foes at home or abroad, I will not be wanting even without a call. I will follow the path of my house and my people, the path of German honour and faithfulness." _ his MAJESTY then requested President Sixsox to introduce to him individually the members of the de putation, and had a long conversation with them. The whole deputation has been invited to dine with his MAJESTY to-day at Charlottenburg. This answer appears to have given great dissatis faction to the Prussian people. In the Second Chamber, M. VINCKE proposed a motion of urgency to the following effect : " In consideration that the answer which the Ministry has advised his Majesty to return to the deputation of the Frankfort Assembly, and which has been received by them, is not in accordance with the address voted by the lion. Chamber in its sitting of yesterday, and is cal culated to produce the greatest dangers to Germany, the Chamber resolves to name a committee to draw up an address to his Majesty in reference to that answer, in which the opinion of the Chamber on the present po sition of the country will be expressed." The " urgency" of the motion was voted unani mously. It was supported by VON ARNIM, MARTENS, and VON BEUGHEM. The sitting was adjourned for a quarter of an hour while the commission was chosen in the bureaux. The Chamber afterwards adopted an address to the ICING (founded on the proposition of M. DE VINCKR) praying that his MAJESTY would accept the Imperial Crown of Germany which was offered to him by the National Assembly of Frankfort. Count BRANDEN• BURGH, President of the Council, declared that the Government would be always devoted to maintaining the liberty and unity of Germany, and that it beheld in the resolution of the Frankfort Assembly a proof of its advance in essential progress; but it is thought that the rights of the respective Governments ought to be respected, and that the resolution adopted at Frankfort should be deemed obligatory on those alone who accepted it spontaneously. He added that the Government would do all in its power to induce those Governments to be of one opinion on the subject. The First Chamber has likewise adopted an address, counselling the KING to accept the Imperial Crown offered to him. AUSTRIA. The rumour of the entrance of 40,000 Russians into Translyvania is confirmed. BULLETINS OF GENERAL BEM. " Head-quarters, Hermanstadt, March 15. " I had the honour to announce to you in my dis patch of the 13th, that I had sent a detachment to the Rothenturm Pay, to cut off the enemy's com munication with Wallachia. This detachment could not advance, as the Austrians wese in the neighbour- hood, in the village of Frek, which rendered it possible for them to attack my detachment in case of my ad- vance. But lam going to alter my object by a detour in the mountains, and I shall be able to take up a position in this pass, and drive the enemy before me to Kronstadt, whence he will find it difficult to cross the mountains in case he should wish to escape to Wallachia. " I commence this military operation to-day. The pri soners of distinction whom we have taken are Colonel Kopet, of the Dragoons, Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Berger and Major Teichbert. The capture of Her manstadt had a very favourable effect for our cause. We receive arms from all quarters, and the enemy's resources are failing him. "BEM." " Rothenturm Pass, 16th March. " My orders of yesterday to force the Russians to evacuate the pass of Rothenturm have been crowned by a complete success. The Russians have been driven at eleven o'clock in the evening from their very strong position. It was not possible to celebrate in a more glorious manner the 15th of March, the anniversary of the day on which the national liberty of Hungary received a new birth. To day the Rus sians evacuated the pass in a precipitated flight, and the Austrian Generals Puckner, Gneser, Pferomann, and Jovich, together with three companies, fled along with the Russians, into Wallachia. after I had m y se lf reconnoitered, I took every possible measure that the Russians might not again be able to enter the Pass. I have sent a part of my army in pursuit of the A us t r i ans, w h o retire in disorder* to wards Kronstadt. Their chief force is at Fogarasch ; the rear-guard has just quitted Frek. As it was (necessary to construct a bridge over the Alutts * Theso Atutriana are commanded by General St halter. WEITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 2d to 2s 10d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Lamb, 5s 4d to 63 6d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s to 4s per Bibs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 4s to 12s; Cod Fish, 3s to 10s; Haddocks, 4d to 6d; Whitings, 4d to 6d; Mackerel, Sd to Ild; Lob sters, Is 9d to 3s ; and Crabs, 6d to 2s each; Soles, 6,1 to 2s 3d per pair; Eels, 6d to is Id, and Salmon, 1s Id to is 5d per lb; Thames Flounders, is to is 6d, a id Smelts, is to is 6d per dozen; Oysters, 15s to 24s per bushel; Saltfish, 2d to 5d per lb. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 6id to 7d; of Household ditto, 5d to 6d per 41bs loaf. BIDE MARKET. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 10; ditto, 641 b to 721 b, lid to 14.1; ditto, 721 b to 80Ib, qd to 2il; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 2id to 24d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, V i d to 3d; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3d to 3-id; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, to 4d; Calf Skins, each, 5s to 5s 6d; Lambs Skins, Is 6d to 2s ld; Horse llides, 7s 6d; Polled Sheep, 5s 6d to 6: 8d; Kent and Half breds, 5s to 5s 8d; Downs, 4s to 53 4d; Shearlings, 6d. EtAir IVIIIMICETS. SMITIIFIELD. — Meadow Hay, 21 lO s to 31 178; Clover ditto, 3/ to 41 17s ; and Straw, 11 7s to 1/ lls per load. Trado dull, at drooping prices. CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 108 to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 3/ to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 12s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WurrEcRAPEL. Meadow hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 18s Clover ditto, 31 to 5/; and Straw, 11 7s to 1/ 11. per load. Supply go o d, an d tra d e dull. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. ) LONDON, APRIL 7.—Wind S.S.E., moderate breeze and dull hazy weather with rain. BELYAST, APRIL 4.—The Fanny, Liggett, from Ayr to Rimeo with pig iron, sprang a leak off the Mull of Galloway, and made for Belfast Lough, and was aban doned off the Copeland Isles, when she immediately sank; crew saved and arrived at Bangor. STORNOWAY, APRIL 3.—The Marquis of Stafford steamer from Glasgow to this port, struck on a sunken rock off the island of Eigha, 27th ult., but sustained very little damage. TORBAY, APRIL 4.—A quantity of wreck, consisting of spars, rigging and sails, supposed to have belonged to the Harmonia, towed into Plymouth, a dismasted dere lect 31st ult., was picked up 2d inst., and landed here this morning. DEAL, APRIL 6.—Wind S. to E.S.E.—Arrd. let, Dankbaaekeid, Potts, Rotterdam, for New Yolk; 2d, Harmonic, Brown, Rio Janeiro, for Rotterdam; 3d, Heinrich, Grieve, La Guayra, for Bremen, 6th, Scott, Shutter, Shanghae; Erf Prinses Van Orange, Ilalsehort, Soanabaya, for Rotterdam. Arrived from the River, Margaret Rait, Ellrigton, Quebec; Asia, Mills, ditto; Constance of Mulgrave, Constance, Ditto. Arrd. from the River and s ld ., Richard Dart, Potter, New Zealand ; Countess of &afield, Least, Hong Kong; Elizabeth, Brown, Quebec; Camden, Oliver, ditto; Tier. cules, L'ghttoot, ditto. Sid., sth, Douglas, Que bec. IfLYTH, APRIL 4.—Part of a brig's lower mast, broken off 38 feet from the top, with part of top and eight feet of topmasts painted blue, and white above the top, also a lower yard, painted black, 44 feet long, came on shore near this place 30th ult. LYNN, APRIL 5 —The Robert Lowe, of Cork, from Dublin, arrived hcro to-day, having struek en a wreck between the Woolpack and Barnham Flats. MILFORD, APRIL s.—The Shannon, Bolger, from Llanelly to Wicklow, sprung a leak yesterday off Caldy Island, and was run on shore in Sandy Haven Bay this morning in a sinking state; part of cargo discharged. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 4.—Sld. Vezilia, Buenos AN res. 5, England's Queen, Shanghai; Glencairn, ditto; Len d in, Valparaiso; S raphina, Rio Janeiro; Astoria, New Orleans; Alfred, Mobile; Munition, New York; Caleb Grinashaw ' ditto; John R. Skiddy, ditt o; J ane Duffers, Halfax;Goliall, St. John's, N. 8.; Coromandel, ditto; Bacchus, Prince Elward's Island; Margaret Pollock, Quebec; Barbara, ciao; Alexander, Newfound land; Morton, ditto. 6, Iy.urkon, Vera Cruz; North Star, Philadelphia; Andrew Foster, New York; El Do rado, Sla.en Island; Ada, St. Andrew's, N. B.; Corsair, Halifax; Adept, Quebec; Cambrian, Newfoundland. POIVISHOUTII, Arm s.—Wind W.S.W. to S,-6, S.E.-5, Ski., Sir Joha Falstaff, Quebec. 6, Deli a ' ditto. OFF THE WIGIIT, APRIL 3.—City of London, Mau ritius; Francisco, Baltimore for Amsterdam. OFF DUNGEMESS, APRIL 3.—Mary Warming, St. Croix for Copenhagen. LIVERPOOL. APRIL s.—The Albert, steam-tug, hav ing the Mars, from Ramsey, Isle of Man, in tow, was run into at 2.20 Ant. , this day, outside the N.W. light ship, by the Ann Grant, from Apalachicola, which swept the steamer's deck, with her bowsprit, carrying away t, funnel, boats, &c. The Mars and Ann Grant were subsequently seen in contact, by the Albert, which returned to Liverpool without her tow ; both vessels have since arrived here. 6.—Wind S.—Arrd. 4. Ashland, Rice, Apalachicola. 5. Camillus, Deme rara; Brewer, Staples, Mobile; Ann Grant, Apalachi cola; Caledonia, Mills, New Orleans; Scotland, Kelos, Charleston; Shannon, Cudlam, New York. Off port, 5. Asia, Antilles. 6. John Dugdule, Meg Merriles,'Argyra. YOGI:MAL,. APRIL 3.—The Sicilian vessel on shore at the entrance of the river, is the Etna, Trapani, of Catania, and not the Cathanis Frabaneia, as before reported. LONDON SE:- bIONS—(THIS DAY.) (liet ore the RECORDER, LORD DIAIOR, and Aldermen.) The only but laid before the Grand Jury was one for assault, which was found, but the defendant traversed. KEEPING A DISORDERLY llOUSE.—Charbs Smith, of 14, Crown -court, Fleet-street, was convicted of keeping a house of ill fame. It was proved that he has kept it for two years. - Mr. Stephen*, Secretary to the Society for the Sup pression of Vice in the patishes of St. Dunstan and St. Bride's, proved giving the defendant notice, but he per sisted in keeping the house open. The RECORDER sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 25/, and to find two sureties in 251. each to keep the peace for two years, and also to enter into recognizancea to the same effect in thzi sum of 1001. The Court then broke up. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Catherine Parker, housemaid at the Tavistock Hotel, having been on Saturday last committed for trial upon one charge of stealing a 5/. Bank of England note from the portmanteau of a gentleman staying at the hotel, was now placed at the bar, before Mr. Henry, being re manded on a charge of stealing another Si. note from the portmanteau of Mr. Palmer, of Mag dalene College, Oxford, on Friday, the 16th of March last, at the same hotel. It was proved very fully that the note in question was lent to his friend and fellow colleague, Mr. Saunderson, on Thursday, the 15th, on their arrival at the Tavistock, from Oxford. Afterwards the latter gentleman gave Mr. Palmer his purse to keep for him, and it was locked up in the port manteau. The purse thec contained the five-pound Bank of England note borrowed from Mr. Palmer, two pro vincial notes for five pounds each, and several sovereigns, but the owner could not now swear how many. Next day he asked for his purse, and in his presence Mr. Palmer attempted to open the portmanteau, but could not, and was convinced that the lock had been tampered with. It was then opened by a Smith, and on examining the purse he found that the Bank of England note and sovereigns had been abstracted. The provincial notes were untouched. After a good deal of evidence to complete the link, a gentleman from Messrs. Stay and Mantle's, Leicester square, proved that the prisoner changed the note in their house in the course of the Friday, and that she gave a fictitious address. The magistrate committed her for trial. SPORTING TELIAGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER —FRIDAY. NEWMARKET lIANDICAP.-5 to 2 agat Fernhill-4 to 1 agst Canezou-6 to 1 agst Tisiphone. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-3 to 1 agst Nunnykirk (taken)-4 to 1 agst Honeycomb -7 to 1 agst Uriel-7 to 1 agst Indus. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-6 to 1 agst Lugar (taken) 7to 1 agst Canezou (taken)-8 to 1 agst Do-the• Boys (taken)-12 to 1 agst Flatcatcher-14 to 1 agst Dacia -18 to 1 agst Maid of Lyme (taken). CHESTER CUP.-13 to 1 agst Joc-o'-Sot-15 to 1 agst Chanticleer-16 to 1 agst Halo-18 to 1 agst Dacia (take 20 to 1)-20 to 1 agst Loupgarou-30 to 1 agst Rathmines (taken)-35 to 1 agst John Cosser. DERBY.-3 to 1 ag st Flying D u t c h man -6 t o agst Tadmor-10 to lagst Nunnykirk (taken)-13 to 1 agst Honeycomb-14 to 1 agst Vanguard (taken)- 20 to 1 asst Oster.ey-25 to l agst Indus. _ Lugar, Cam zou, and Do-the-Boys were in great force for the Metropolitan, and Vanguard for the Derby, but very little was done upon anything for the other events. fIUNTIN6 API-'OIN-TMENTS. Her Majesty's stag hds., Mon., at Stoke Common',' Wed., at Beacon field-11. Mr. Farquharson's hds., Mon., at Milborne St. An drew-11. Mr. Drax's hds., Mon., at the King's Arms, Charlton Horethorne; Thurs, at Holnest Kennel. The B. V. hds., Tues. at Stoke Wood; Fri., at Houghton Wood-11i. The Warwickshire hds., Tues., at Hay Wood; Thurs., at Aleester. The Ilerrford,hire hds., Tues., at Ruckhall--101. Mr. Giles's hds., Mon., at Ashton Ingham; Fri., at Newent Wood. '1 he Duk,, of Beaufort's lids., Mon , at Siston; Wed., at Hood Ashton-101. A meeting or the Jockey Club will be held on Tues day next, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee app , inted to consider the plans for improving the race and exercise ground, and also for taking into consideration a reduced scale of entrances for plates. DIALOUUE ON THE NEWMARKET HANDICAP. The beaks have put down sweeps, Tom, Then bet we will, says Jack, The prophets now must tell us, The horse that we're to back. There's a Handicap next week, At Newmarket to be run, And if you would a winner be, • Read " Horsepick in The Sun." Ten da3s ego he said, Fernhill Northampton race would win I follow'd his advice, and made A pocket full of tin. For Tuesday at Newmarket, Thus reads his prophecy, " Though many run, I'd speak Of only the first three. CANEzou will beat Fernhill, Frank Butler wins the race, And it you want a third, Why; Hornpipe claims that place I Yours, &c. HORSEPICK. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.—The sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Sultan, Captai❑ George Brooks, has just arrived here, with ship letter begs of the following dates, vthich were her days of sailing:—Constantinople, March 21; Smyrna, March 23; Malta, March 27; Gibraltar, April 1. The Sultan has experienced very boisterous weather during the voyage. On the 30th ult. she shipped a sea which injured four of her crew. She brings eleven pas sengers, and the following on freight:-221 bags of valonca, 5 cases of tobacco, 565 boxes of raisins, S quarter-casks of wine. 95 cases of sponge, 59 cases of opium, 7 boxes of gum, 116 packages of silk, 214 bales of goats' hair, 2 cases of otto, 15 drums of scamony, 8 tubs of leeches, 46 bales of carpets, 4 bales of cotton yarn, 6S pckages of sundries, and 98 packages of specie, value about 100,000/. The Sultan brings the following shipping intelli gcnce:77 _ _ Her Majesty's ship Tartarus was at Constantinople. On the 26th ult. hex Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 120, sailed hum Malta fur Palermo. The Master of the Earl of Auckland (arrived at Malta on the 27th ult.) reported that in lat. 35 deg. 47 mitt. N., and long. 17 deg. 36 min. E., his vessel struck on an urAcnonn rock, and immediately became very leaky, and filled the tore compartment of the vessel with water. The Earl of Auckland was taken into the great harbour of Valetta, and run on the mud for repairs. The rock was supposed to be the Marsa Scirocco Shoals, at the east end of Malta. Her Majesty's steamer Janus was at Gibraltar. The Indus, from Southampton, with the outward East India and China mails of the 20th ult., arrived at Gib. raltur on the 26th, and proceeded to Malta and Alex andria. The British brig Duchess of Leinster, from Alex andria for Cork, put into Gibraltar, having been thrown upon her beam-ends, shifted cargo, &c. The Stokesley, from Al exandria for Cork, put back to Gibraltar . on the 31 s t w i t h pumps choked. The schooner Ajax was also d amaged. The brig Ann, o f North Shields, went on shore near Algeciras on the 27th ult. On the Ist instant, the brig Amelia Hill, of Dundee, was in the bay diicharging her cargo, having driven on the 28th ultimo, with both anchors a-bead, and struck heavily on the quarantine ground. A Sar dinian barque had also dragged her anchors, and fouled the English brig Crescent, carrying away her bowsprit and h_remait, nod doing her other injury. A Spanish schooner from Havannah had taken into Gibrt_ liar the captain, his wife, and crew o f t h e Ameri can barque Verona, bound from Newport t o N ew Or leans, laden with railway iron, which vessel was fallen in with in a sinking state. The Neapolitan barque Sumatra had arrived at Gibral tar from Sumatra and St. Helena, having left the latter place on the 27th January, and reported that on the day of her sailing a British war steamer had brought in a 13razillau saver, which she had captured on the coast of Attica. A few (lays previously a Brazilian steamer, with 1.200 slaves on board, was also captured and taken into St. Helena by u British cruiser. The slaves were landed and were to be re shipped for the West Indies so soon as vessels could be procured. The steamer was taken fr.( m thence immediately atter landing the slaves. Ou 31st Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted as fol low:—London, 90 days' date, 49.1 ; Paris, sf. 29 c .; Marseilles, sf. 3-le. ; Geroa, sf. 32e.; at eight days' sight on Madrid, l die.; Cadiz, Valencia, and Barce lona, par.; Malega, no paper; evilie, dis.; Alicante, dis.; Spanish pillar dollars, . per cent. premium. The Sultan spoke the following ships:—Barque Mar garet, or. 27th ult., off the east end of Goza, steering N.%V. O. 30th Match a line-of-battle ship 35 miles west of Algiers, steering to th e eastwar d, suppose d to b e her Majesty's: ship Caledonia. On 31st the schooner Guide, in lat. 36 deg. 30 min. long., 2 deg. 30 min. W., going %%este tad. On the sth of April a screw steamer, off Cape Mot; d. go, supposed to be the Dumbarton You , h. On the 3d the steamer Euxine; and on the 6th the Madrid. PORTSMOUTH, 10 A.M.—Arrived, this morning, her Majesty's ship 6t. Vincent, Rear-Admiral Oa Charles Napier, ; to be paid off. I