The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-18 00:00:00

TO CORRESPON DENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. Trill LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,00 C/., in 80,000 Shares, of 25/. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Oflizes of the Company, 13a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap i cation to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T HE LOTTERY of MARRIAGE. A NOVEL. By MRS. TROLLOPE. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Third Appearance of Mdlle. PARODI. Third Appearance this Season of signor LABLACIM The Nobility, subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect folly !Banned that On SATURDAY NEXT, Will be presented Bellini's Opera of NORM.A. PeMons, Signor Gardoni; Oreveso, Signor Lablache ; Norma, Mdlle. ?arodi ; Ldalgisa, Madame Giuliani. To conclude with (the Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall) an en tirely NOW grand Ballet, by M. Tagßoni, entitled ELECTRA ; or, The Lost Pleia‘le. Appllaations for Boxes, Stills, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Half-past Seven, Concert to commence at Eight. ST. JAMES'S THE A T RE. Season 1949. rs.Excu PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The PerfOIIIIAFICOS will commence at Half-past Seen o'clock with LA DOUBLE ECHELLE. To conclude with LE DOMINO NOIR. Lord Elfort, M. Chateaulbrt ; Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horace, M. Con ierc ; Gil Perez, M. Buguet ; Angels, Jldlle. Charton ; Brigitte, Mdlle. Martial ; Crsule, Mcllie. Morel ; Jacinthe, Madame Mancini ; Ciertrade, Mdlle. ♦igny. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • • • • • ~ 6s. ed. Pit • • .. . 33. Od. Amphitheatre .. • • • - 2s. Od. Pubseriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. T REATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. A. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptoa. THiz , F,VENIV• Will be performed THE BRIGAND. Characters by Messrs. H. Vandenhoff, Rogers, Howe, Wallack ; Mrs. L. 5. Buckingham, and. Miss I'. Horton. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHLNI.. To be followed by THE hOUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. TUEAfRIL ROYAL. ADELPIII. ender the direction oslame celeste. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, 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. Tip oonclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith Ariel, Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCIATM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestr ta. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma•hews. THIS EVENING Will ),e performed a new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. Afiler which, a new Piece entitled HOLD TOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. T. couclade with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No lialf-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the public eNery day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENIN(4, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled - THE HEART OF MID LOTHIAN. To conclude with a new grand Extrayagenze, entitled NOURRD DIN AND niE FAIR PERSIAN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. 'Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queea, his Royal HighleU Prince Albert, Ste. The new grand Easter Spectacle unprecedentedly successful. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA ; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conclude with on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, THE DUMB DRIVER ; and the Farce of THE SECRET on the al ternate Evenings. ;oz.-office open from Eleven till Fivo. , Azze Manazer. Mr. W. West. tATF.A.THER.--.SUN OFFICE, APRIL 17. At about four o'clock this afternoon the sky became suddenly overcast, and we had a heavy fall of snow. At first it came down in small flakes, with the rapidity of a whirlwind, sharp and intensely cold; in about a quarter of an hour the flakes increased in size and density, presenting all the appearance of a regular snow storm. The street; and houses were soon covered with snow. Along the Strand it was rather amusing to see the numerous omnibuses meeting each other all arrayed in white, the drivers seeming evidently proud of their new and unexpected livery. The horses, too, trotted as if there was something smart in the wind, for the snow was swimming in full and rapid glory all above and around them. It was indeed a novel and sudden change both to man an I beast. In the c airse of the afternoon this sky clewed up, and thi tail of the winter season bids fair to usher in fine and genial weather. The thermometer went down to 28. The barom , .ter showed ❑o change. A gentleman, who left Cambridge in the afternocn, informs us that it snowed during the whole of his journey to London. APRIL 18. TX RIIMoMETZi., Lowest, 25 iii:tht-st 42; "foon, 44. BAROMETER, 29.95 ; rapidly going up. WIND 13. W.—Dull, c id weatla: , r; snow twice during the night, with a bitter cold N.E. wind, and brilliant stars. A t;it a • r LONDON tit, Tani DAY —Morning, 51 min. after 9 I Evening, 27 rain. after 10 To-Molacmr— nang, 3 :nu . titer 11 EveTdin ,36 min. after 11 . 50,1 WSJ • /4, 4 • 11Rort • „ r1V;,,,(4,, • ientn~ ~at~ LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1849. With more than ordinary feelings of exultation we refer our readers to the intelligence contained in the voluminous dispatches published in extenso in another part of this evening's impression—by which it will be seen that the rebellion of the Seikhs and the Affghans was entirely conquered on the 21st of February, in the great victory of Goojrat. Since the morning at Plessey, when 60,000 men under the Nabob SURAJAH DOWLAH were routed, with the loss of all their baggage and ammunition, no more decisive battle has been fought between the Asiatics and Europeans. At Goojrat a larger number of antagonists fled before our victorious soldiers than on the occasion to which we have alluded—for the insurgents under the combined direction of RAJA SHERE SINGH, and his father SIRDAR CHUTTUR SINGH, amounted to 60,000 men, exclusive of the auxiliaries from Affghanistan, commanded by AKRAII. KELL'S, the son of the Ameer DOST Mk* HOMMED. Over these formidable enemies, the grand army, which had already measured swords with them in the disastrous skirmishes at Ramnuggur, and in the sanguinary engagement at Chillianwallab, ob tained one of the most extraordinary successes re counted even in the annals of our military achievements in Hindostan. All recollection of the dubious and even sinister commencement of the campaign has been obliterated by this complete and overwhelming advantage. The reverses of our brave Sepovs and of one of our most cele brated cavalry regiments have been forgotten in the glory of their recent proceedings and in those evi dences of stubborn valour and unflinching resolution which materially aided in the overthrow and dis persion of their assailants. His Excellency the Bight Honourable the Commander-in-Chief retires from his splendid but awful r espons ibi lit i es in the ;ulness of that renown which he has nobly earned with the keenness of his heroic 'word and with his ripened abilities as a military tactitian. The premature condemnation pronounced against him as a Captain —a condemnation in which it may not be forgotten that we refrained from participating—has been magni ficently falsified : insomuch that the remembrance of the famous days of Sobraon and Ferozepore assumes a secondary interest to the triumphant catastrophe of Goojrat. While, however, the achievement of the 21st of February is virtually a crown of laurels to Lord GOUGH, while the credit of that decisive victory is in the very first instnaee attributable to the scientific precision and the skilfel contrivance of his arrangements —it must not be c-rerlooked that those in a subordinate position to the veteran Leader ably seconded hi m i n the following out of his ideas, and by the obedient cele rity with which they carried his commands into execution. s It is quite impossible for me," says the Commander-in-Chief, in his dispatch to the Governor- General, "sufficiently to express my admiration of the gallant and steady conduct of the officers and men, as well Native as European, upon this occasion." Among the other divisions of his army, Lord Govan particularly makes allusion to the services performed by the cavalry and artillery. The " determined front" with which " the 14th Light Dra goons completely overawed the enemy," he de clares to have " contributed much to the success of the day." To that " splendid arm, the artillery," commanded by Brigadier-General TENNANT, he ex presses himself as "indeed grateful," and proclaims with a generous enthusiasm, that to its irresistible power he is " mainly indebted for the glorious victory of Goojrat." Nor were the distinguished officers at I the head of the various divisions less fortunate in eliciting from the Commander-in-Chief those abrupt phrases of commendation which drop like precious unguents upon physical suffering and mental anxiety —compensating with a few golden syllables all the toils and harassments of a campaign. With the cor diality befitting his valiant nature, Lord GOUGH dis tributes his eulogiurns to his " tried and gallant" second in command Major-General Sir JOSEPH THACKWELL, to Major-General Sir WALTER GILBERT, Major-General Winn', to Brigadier-Gene rals DUNDAS and CAMPBELL, to the Adjutant-General Colonel GRANT, and the Quartermaster -General Lieu tenant-Colonel GARDEN, to the Judge- Advo cate-General Lieutenant-Colonel BIRCH, and the Field-Surgeon, Dr. Mlltals, as well as to many other officers of the general staff of the army, of the general staff of her MAJESTY'S service, and of the staff personally attendant upon himself during the period of the engagement. Although we have, un happily, reason to mourn for the loss upon this memorable occasion of five British officers killed and twenty-four wounded, together with between seven and eight hundred non-commissioned officers and privates killed, wounded, and missing —we have cause to rejoice over the circumstance that the victory thus dearly purchased has proved in every particular so overpowering as to promise the rapid and permanent settlement of the countries lately in a state of revolt—countries already, in effect, united to our gigantic dominions in Hin dostan. Besides the total dispersion of the 60,000 insurgents, with a loss to them in killed and wounded as yet altogether impossible to estimate, our heroic army has gained possession of fifty-seven out of the fifty-nine pieces of artillery brought to bear against our troops at the commence ment of the battle by the forces under the RAJA and the SIRDAR. The trophies of Gooj rat, as enumerated by the Commander-in-Chief him• self, are no less than these numerous guns, hitherto the principal strength of the enemy, " his camp, his baggage, his magazines, and vast stores of ammuni tion !" As a terrible reprisal for the events of Ram nuggur and Chillianwallah, there appears to have been on the side of the conquerors no quarter, no mercy, no merely partial efforts of any kind whatever. Every thing was done bravely, earnestly, and determinedly— by cavalry, by infantry, and by artillery—by officers, by non-commissioned officers, and by privates—by the native troops, as well as by the European soldiers. An examination of the important documents pub lished by ourselves elsewhere will thoroughly unfold the character of the operations of the great pitched battle at Goojrat, from the moment when the Seikh guns first opened their fire across the nullas, until the last brilliant movement by which those nullas were cleared, the batteries carried, the camp captured, the villages stormed, and the enemy routed in every direction. It will, likewise, be perceived from those dispatches, how terrific was the vengeance of the English horsemen who pursued the fugitives, without drawing bridle, to a dis tance of twelve miles beyond the outskirts of the field of battle, strewing the ground with the bodies of the dead and wounded, and returning to the camp by ten o'clock at night, after being no less than ' fifteen hours in the saddle. Beyond what we have already recounted, it will likewise be observed that no exertion was spared to improve the fruits of the victory, by dispatching that distinguished soldier Sir WALTER. GILBERT in pursuit of the flying ranks of the Seikhs and Affghans, with a force which was to be gradually augmented to sixteen thousand men flushed with succes=, and inflamed with ani mosity. By the latest information we learn that these veterans had crossed the Jhelum, a river re nowned in ancient history as the Hydaspes—that they had traversed the Bukreealah piss without an encounter—and that, on the 3:1 of March, they had taken possession of the strong fortress of }Maras. Everything indicates the immediate termination o f a campaign so inauspiciously commenced but so glo- riously consummated. Everything augurs that the command of Lord GouGet closes not only with the victory of Goojrat but with the annexation of the Punjaub and Affghanistan to our other territories in Hindostan ; and ti at the command of Sir CHARLES NAPIER will begin at a period the best calculated to forward that great Captain's projects for the more perfect organization of the British Indian army. To hesitate for one moment as to what sheuld be the re sult of the campaign of which Goojrat is the most brilliant achievement, would 1 e insanity. That the line of the northern frontier can be safely marked out at the Indus is as impossible as that our frontier can be continued without danger of a perpetual renewal of hostilities at the Sutlej. Even the vast and fruitful province of the Punjaub would be insufficient to preserve us from the perfidy of the Dooranee barbarians. The line of demarcation must stretch upwards to the skirts of Caubul, to the base of the Indian Caucasus. Other wise, Peace will be only another name for Truce, and a treaty of amity will continue to be nothing better than a specious and rather dubious pledge of an ar mistice. After what has transpired the Punjaub will not be sufficient—we must have Affghanistan. The Navigation Bill, as amended, is to be con sidered in Committee to-morrow evening, and it is hoped that the third reading may be taken on Monday, and that it may then be disposed of, so far, at least, as the representative branch of the Legisla ture is concerned. We can scarcely supppose that the Lords will consider it fitting to reject or mutilate a► measure so intimately connected with the trade and commerce of the country, and attempt to maintain a maritime code based upon the obsolete principles of monopoly and protection, and opposed to the general tenor of all modern legislation. Their Lordships have little personal connexion with shipping or ship owners—they have no private interests at stake. There is, therefore, no analogy between the present measure and that for the repeal of the corn-laws, on which occasion a serious collision between " the Houses" might reasonably hare been anticipated. The danger was, however, happily averted. The supreme will of the nation—testified by a large and decisive majority of the popular representatives—was fully recognised, and the House of Peers evinced a wise and prudent discretion, in avoiding a contact which under any circumstances must have proved deeply injurious to the community at large. We trust that a similar discretion may be exercised in the present instance— that no differences may arise between those great assemblies to disturb the harmony that should ever exist between them, a harmony which is of such vital importance to the nation. It is obviously the interest of all parties that the question should be settled without any unnecessary delay. Nothing can be more injurious to any interest whatsoever than any doubt as to the laws by which it is to be regulated. Bad laws are better than uncertain laws, which paralyze activity and check enterprise. Shipping forms no exception in this respect, to the general rule. What new speculations will be entered into, when all is doubt and uncertainty as to tile future rate of freights, the position and liabilities of shipowners, and the amount of competition to which they may be exposed at the very period when their contracts and engagements may have to be performed ? If, then, those laws are to be modified in any degree, it is ex ceedingly desirable that the question should be dis posed of as speedily as possible; that it should be set at rest for many years to come—we say for many years, for we confess we place but little confidence in the doctrine of " finality," or in the possibility of permanent legislation on any subject whatever. The matter can no longer be argued on economical grounds. No reason can be adduced why that pro tection which has been withdrawn from commodities, should still be extended to the vessels in which those commodities are borne from port to port—why it should be d en i e d to producers o f any c l as s, and al lowed to carriers. The same injurious consequences will result from restrictions affecting shipping that were 59 painfully consp i cuous w i t h res p ec t to corn and provisions, and the happy results of the free-trade enact ments may be done away with or neutralized by the stringency of the navigation code. England can never become the storehouse of the world so long as a short-sighted and impolitic mono poly is sanctioned in the carrying trade. We cannot suppose that other nations will not follow the example we set them, that they will permit our vessels to resort freely to their ports, our seamen to enter into a fair and generous competition with their own, while we maintain an exclusive system, imposing the most vexatious restrictions on their commerce. We must expect that a full measure of reciprocity will be ac corded, that our own selfish enactments will be returned with full, aye, most usurious interest. We are, therefore, conferring no real benefit on our shipowners or seamen by the maintenance of this most impolitic code; on the contrary, we are prevent ing them from entering into that general competition which we cannot help thinking would prove most advantageous. What have we to fear from this competition ? Is there less capital or enterprise among our shipowners —less skill and industry among our shipbuilders— less activity, courage, or hardihood among our sailors ? Are Englishmen so inferior that they must succumb to every rival, and shrink from the contest whenever they may be compelled to enter into it on equal terms, when deprived of the 'vantage ground afforded by Legislative enactments in their favour ? We do not think so humbly of our countrymen—we do not shudder at the gloomy vaticinations that have been uttered by the supporters of the present system—at the prophetic forewarnings of impending ruin, of decaying ports, and of abandoned dockyards. Our shipping interests have not, in fact, been very prosperous under the Navigation Laws. Relying on the principle of protection, they have not endeavoured to command that success which they vainly supposed was insured to them by the exclusion of all rivalry. Many glaring defects unquestionably exist that must be remedied, when a " clear stage and no favour" is all that can be hoped for. Masters and mates of vessels must be duly qualified for the important duties they are willing to undertake—greater activity must be perceptible on every side—the business must not be performed in a slovenly i or careless manner—the sailors must not exhibit a mutinous or disobedient spirit, or abandon themselves to drunkenness or dissi pation in their leisure moments. Do not let it be supposed that we assert this to be the case with all our masters, mates, or seamen. Happily we have many, very many good men, brave skilful, intelligent, and temperate, in every class, and such men will be prosperous under every equit able regulation ; but where fair emulation is allowed, the tone and character of the entire body will be materially elevated and improved. Good-for-no thing and worthless men will not be accepted, when there are abundant materials from which to select the crews. THE SUN, LONDON, IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—The Royal Dublin Society's Cattle Show was held this day. Stock ex hibited was of the most splendid description far sur vissing in appearance those shown at any previous exhibition. There was a further improvement in the tone of our corn market to-day. Wheat was 6d. to is., bar ley and oats 3d. to 6d. dearer ; Indian corn fully 23. to 2s. 6d. dearer, and a largo demand for the county ; white wheat, 265. to 275. ; red wheat, 225. to 265.; barley, 13s. to 17s. 6d.; oats, 103. 6d. to 181.; oat meal, per cwt., I Is. to 135.; second flour, 14s. to 18s.; Indian corn, 32a. to 36;.; Indian corn meal, 9s. to 10s. The weather has been extremely un , easonable bore; in fact, we are in the midst of a second winter. This forenoon there was a sheep fall of snow, which recom menced at three Ex., and is now falling. The cold is intense. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) THE JOINT STOCK WINDING-UP ACT-THE ♦GRICUL- TURAL CATTLE INSURANCE COMPANY. This case stood in the paper to-day for judgment, but his Lordship on taking his seat this morning said that h e h a d not been able sufficiently to consider the affidavits, and he would, therefore, postpone giving judgment till to-morrow. THE JOINT-STOCK WINDING UP ACT-THE L , ,NDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY COMPANY (REMINGMN'S LINE).—JUDGMENT. The LORD CIIANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before him a few days since upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, dis missing a petition with costs, which had been presented under the Winding-up Act for the dissolution of the com pany. His Lordship said that the principal ques tion in the case was whether the company came within the meaning of the Winding-up Act, and he was clearly of opinion the company came within the mean ing of the Act, and the prayer of the petition must therefore be granted. The result of this decision is to reverse the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. TEMPEST V. THE NOR:III-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The further arguments in this part heard appeal motion occupied the Court the remainder of the nwrning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls was occupied the whole morning with petitions and causes of no general interest. VICE-CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CIIANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) Causes and farther directions of no interest occupied his Honour the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) MS Honour was occupied the whole morning with balk rupt petitions._ (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRA3t.) LUCAS V. JAMES.—JUDG3tENT. His HONOUR gave judgment in this case, in which the bill was filed for the purpose of compelling the specific per formance of an agreement to take the lease of a house. His Honour, after going at considerable length into the case, ordered the bill to be dismissed with costs. WILKINSON V. GODS ON.-J II DGMENT. His Howourl also gave judgment iti this case, in which the only question was, whether an objection taken for want of parties was good. His Honour decided that it was, and al lowed the objection. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr, Justice ERLE.) the is w trustee as TIIE UNION DANK.— KEEMER V. LAURIE A ND OTHER S. This p P e e n t s e a r t u a n u r f i u e r , the injury the plaintiff had sustained in consequence cf the a o n f the a e ti o U nn againstion Bank, the t o recover defendant, c S o Sir improper payment by them of a bill for 42%. Ws., which he (the plaintiff) had accepted. It was an action brought by a customer against his banker. It appeared the t the bill was made payable at the bank, in whose hands he had but 21/. 4s , and as he had given no notice of dishonour, and as the bank be lieved the plaintiff had a sufficient sum iu their hands to meet the bill it was paid After it had been paid a clerk from the bank called upon the plaintiff to receive instructions with respect to the bill. lie told him not to pay it—it was an ac commodation bill, and it was t o hi s i nterest that the drawer should become a bankrupt. Th e c l erk did not say it had been paid,out and avail. t sitting at London, directed a verdict for the defendants. Mr. CrtowDEß now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the groun d that the defendant had no authority to pay the bill; indeed it was most important to the plaintiff that it should not be paid. lie held that no banker ought to pay a bill unless authority was distinctly given by the customer to do so. Indeed the defendants bad stepped out of their way, as they had only a small fund in their hands ; and if they chose to advance the money, they did so upon their own re sponsibility and at their own risk. The COLTILT was of opinion that the plaintiff bad been guilty of great negligence in not giving the defendants notice that he wished the bill to be dishonoured. The making of the bill payable at the bank was a clear authority for its payment. It was a common practice for bankers to pay the cheques of creditable parties when their accounts were over drawn of being injured . If he was inju re d, should complain drawn • and it seemed strange that a parson thus accommo datedit was his own fault. Rule refused. SECONDARIES".-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary Parr= ) SURSIDGE V. ELLIS. This was an action to recvver the sum of 191. 15s. on a bill of exchange, and for goods sold and delivered. The defendant put in pleas denying the acceptance, and also that he was indebted, but no evidence was given in support of the pleas ; but the defendant's attorney was pre sent to watch the proceedings,. p in order to aply to the Court above to deprive the plaintiff of costs, the debt being under 291. The Learned SECONDARY said he had nothing to do with that question. A verdict was then given for the amount claimed. This was the only cause on the list. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT FROM WINDSOR CASTLE FOE THE SEASON.—Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Royal, Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, the Equerry and Maids of Honour, and Major-General Bowles, Master of the Household, ar rived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon from Windsor Castle. The Royal cortege consisted of five carriages, and the escort from the Castle to the Slough station consisted of a Lieutenant's party of the 2d Life Guards, and that from the Paddington terminus to the Palace was furnished by the 11th Hussars. Prince Albert returns to town this evening from Brocklesby Hall. MEETING OF THE IRISH REPRESENTATIVES THIS DAY IN DOWNING-STREET.—This morning, at eleven o'clock, pursuant to a circular from Lord John Russell, a considerable number of Irish Members of Parliament assembled at the Noble Premier's official residence, for the purpose of hearing an important communication from his Lordship relative to, it is understood, the Rate in Aid Bill. The interview with the Noble Premier lasted about an hour, after which most of the Members proceeded to the morning sitting of the Heu.te of Commons. CRICKET IX GLOUCESTERSIIIRL—Lord Redesdsle, whose love of manly sports is well known, has caused a meadow of about 16 acres at Moreton-in-Marsh to be levelled add thoroughly drained for the use of a cricket club is tho own of formation there. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1849 , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. PUBLIC ROADS BILL. Petitions against this Bill were presented by Mr. Fuller, Sir H. Halford, and an Hon. Member from places in Gloucestershire and Whiltshire; Lord Henry Bentinck, Mr. Brotherton, and Lord Brooke, from a number of places in Warwickshire; Mr. W. Patten and an Hon. Member from places in Chester and Carmarthen shire; Captain Egerton, from places in Wiltshire and Cheshire; and Mr. Muntz, from the Birmingham Canal Company. MARRIAGE BILL. Colonel BERESFORD presented a petition from Essex against this Bill. ARBITRATION. Mr. EVANS presented a petition from a place in Pembrokeshire in favour of arbitration instead of war. PETITIONS. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Ross shire against Sunday travelling. Colonel SALWEY presented a petition from Stoney Stratford praying that all international disputes might be settled by arbitration. Captain GORDON presented a petition from Aber deen against the Registration Bill. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bris tol against the Public Roads Bill, Mr. WADDINGTON presented several petitions from various places to the same effect. Mr. M. GIBSON presented four petitions from Man chester, and one from Bury, praying for a general sys tem of secular education. Mr. W. EVANS presented petitions from Derby and several other places in favour of the Public Roads Bill. Mr. PACKE presented petitions from Ashby-de-la- Zouch, and other places in Leicestershire, against the Public Roads Bill. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee against the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Liver pool, praying for an alteration in the Passengers Bill. Mr. HEADLAM presented petitions from Newcastle upon-Tyne, praying that international disputes might be settled by arbitration; also a petition from the same place for the abolition of slavery. Mr. E. ELLICE presented petitions from Warwick against the Public Roads Bill• Mr. SOTHERON presented petitions from Devizes to the same effect. Mr. B. DENISON presented similar petitions from various places in the West Riding. General LYGON presented a petition to the same effect. Sir J. PAYINGTON presented similar petitions from Worcestershire. Mr. SPOONER presented seventeen petitions from places in Warwickshire, and ten from places in Worces tershire, all against the Roads Bill, and praying that it might not pass into a law. Mr. HOPE presented petitions to the same effect. Mr. CHAPLIN presented a petition to the same effect from Salisbury. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a large number of si milar petitions from places in Devonshire. Mr. HUME presented several petitions from places in Scotland against the Marriage Bill. Mr. GODSON presented twelve petitions from places in Worcestershire against the Roads Bill. Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from Brad ford against the Roads Bill. Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a petition, signed by the Mayor of Bristol, to the same effect, and several like_petitions from Warwickshire. _ _ _ _ Mr. AGLIONBY preeenteda petition from the El ders of Staple's Inn against the attorney's certificate duty. Mr. COBDEN presented a number of petitions from places in the West Riding against the Roads Bill. DROPPED NOTICES OF MOTION AND ORDERS. The Dropped Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day were reappointed. ROAD BILL. On the question that the order of the day for the se cond reading of this Bill be now read, Mr. PUSEY objected to the motion, and moved that another order be read. Government had Mondays and Fridays, and this week Thursday was granted to them; and if they were allowed to place their Bills first on the orders for Wednesday, independent Members had no chance whatever of bringing forward their measures at all, unless it wer e a t two o'clock in the morning, after a Government night, when their attempting to do so was invariably objected to. New he had an important Bill on the orders for to-day, but it was was quite hopeless fur him to expect to bring it on if this Roads Bill were proceeded with, and he therefore felt that he had a right to make the motion he had done, however troublesome or inconvenient it might be to Govern ment.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON perfectly agreed with what had fallen from the Bon. Gentleman, and had great pleasure in seconding his motion.—(Hear.) Now that the Go vernment has deferred the Bill, there can be no doubt shortly there will be an attempt made to take every Thursday for the Government, and he did think that independent Members of the House ought not to be de prived of the few privileges which they now possessed. After a few words from Mr. B. DENISON, who la boured under some misapprehension respecting the na ture of the Bill, in which he was corrected by several Him. Members around Sir G. GREY said that he certainly thought that it was not right that even if Government measures were placed upon the paper at all for Wednesday that they should not take precedence of the other orders of the day in which independent Members of the House were Imerested.—(Hear, hear.) It was c e rt a i n ly true t h at there might be measures of importance in the hands of private 'Members which should take precedence of others of less consequence, but as a rule that which had been made a genera! order should not be departed from. In Bills to which there had b on no opp os i t i on no diff i culty could possibly arise, but i . a a case like this, where there had been considerable dissent expressed, he thought the better course would be to come to some decision one way it the other, if not to-day, at least at a very early period. Mr. WILSON PATTEN was very anxious to enforce upon the Government the necessity of lea v i ng Wednes day inviolate for pi-Iva:6 , business, and as there was evi dently some difficulty in the way, he recommended his Hon. Friend to withdraw the Bill now before the House. After some words of explanation from Mr. FUMY and Sir G. GREY, SOTIIERON recommended that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee. —(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. HERBERT thought, that as this Bill was a matter which largely interested the public, a fair dis eat- sion of the matter ought to be held. Mr. HUAIE most sincerely trusted that the order of the day for leaving Wednesday entirely open to the business transacted by private Members would not be in fringed. With respect to the Bill now before the House, he thought that it was imperatively necessary that they should come to some decision. Mr. DISRAELI protested most earnestly against the doctr:ne which had been thrown out the other night with respect to this Bill. The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department had pro pounded that the Government were not responsible for the principle and details of any Bills which bad been in troduced by independent Members, but afterwards adopted by themselves.—(Hear, hear.) Against this he must most earnestly protest. —(seer, hear.) The Bill now before the House came precisely under that category. Sir G. GREY and Mr. LABOUCHRRE both declared against any , disclamation of liability. Mr. DISRAELI—But that was the principle broadly laid out, and which ought not in any way to be en tertained. The SPEAKER then put the motion that the order of the day for the second leading of the but was in terrupted by i Mr. PUSEY, who said that the object of his motion was to set aside the second reading altogether. The SPEAKER explained that it had been perfectly competent for the Hon. Member to move an amendment on the motion for passing to the orders of the day, but he had not done so, and he (the Sepaker) had con sequentlyput the second reading of the Bill. Mr. BUSBY, on the suggestion of several Hon. Mem bers, then moved that the second reading of the Bill should be taken after the other orders of the day. After a few words from Sir C. DOUGLAS, Mr. PUSEY withdrew his amendment, and Mr. BECKET DENISON rose to move another amendment, to the effect that the Bill be read this day six months, [LEFT SPEAKING.] _ ,-- - RAIL WA y _ SHAKE mARKETS. BRISTOL, APaiL 17. STOCK Excudigoa. — The share market has been very dull to - day. The transactions w hi ch took place wore at pr i ces prev i ous l y quoted, and scarcely differin g Great Western, Quarters, $% dis.—Midland Stock, 7 6 . LIVERPOOL, Aran, 17. Svoci Excluimx.—The Share Market was tame to - day, and prices from those of yesterday. The sales are— lower. The sales are —Caledonian, 25%—East L ancas hi re, 1 7 % Lancashire and Yo r k s h ire, Fifths, 3% dis.—Ditto, Halves (late Preston and Wyre), No. 1, 37 c.—Great Nos kern, 9 dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 4W I P.—Midland, 753—Ditt o Ilalves, 9% dis.—South-E astern and Dover (N o. 4), 7—Y or k , New castle, and Derwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent, till .1850, 1% c. WS- _ _ MANCHESTER, Aran 17. ST•ot EXuIIANGE.—The sales are—Leeds, Fifths, 3 13-16—Man. chestar and BirMingham (C), Quarters, 3 3-16 p.—Midland, 73 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2% ex div.—Dever (No. 4), 7 1-16— Huddersfield, Thirds, 9 3 ,6—Eastern Counties, 814—North Stafford. shire, 3% c. Arau, 16. Sr•olt EXCIIANox —The busine-s transacted to-day was as fol lows :—Leeds and Bradford, 100 U North British, Halves, 6-- Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, North Division, guaranteed 5 per cent, gh NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Aran, 17. STOCK Excitelicx.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to day has been as follows : —Caledonian, Preference, 10 1 A ex in-- Maryport and Carlisle, 30—North British, Preference, 225. ARTIFICIAL FECUNDATION OF OTSTERS.—It is generally admitted that the sexes are united in the oyster. From observations which M. Quatrefages has made for some years past, he has been led to adopt a different opinion. Most of the oyster banks of the Manche, the working of which affords a livelihood to the inhabitants in the neighbouring village, were for a time abandoned in consequence of their unproductive ness; but by means of artificial fecundation the oysters have rapidly increased. For this purpose, it is necessary to place the spawn upon the bottom of th• oyster ground in order to avoid the losses that are occasionally inevit able from the currents and waves. The fecundation must be carried on in vessels containing a large quan tity of water, conveyed afterwards by means of pipes plunged deeply into all the parts of the h, , d that h ave i n former times been most productive.—Medical HULL, APRIL 17.—The Anne and Elizabeth, Barker, which sailed hence 12th inst., sank the following morning, after Mpg i G9lltAct With :clamor; Grew WO. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 4,000 bales, and comprised about 3,500 American, at ald. to 6id, ; 100 Egyptian, at 6id. to 7d. ; and 750 Surats, at 34d. to 3id. The market closed heavily, and prices had a downward tendency.—Railway shares were dull. The Continental malls have arrived rather irregularly, but the political news is again of much importance, and the feel ing in the City, with respect to the atrocities committed in Sicily, is one of unfeigned regret. Every one asks where such horrors are to stop ? The funds at Amsterdam on the 16th instant were rather feebler, and not much was done in Dutch Bonds. Spanish Three per Cents. and Portuguese Four per Cents. were in re • quest, and Peruvian steady. It was reported at the Vienna Bourse on the 11th, that the Austrians had been successful at Waitzen, and the Funds rose 1 per cent., but on the 13th inst. the Magyars were stated to have triumphed, and the consequence was a reaction of 2 per cent. In bills of exchange there was not generally much doing, but drafts on Genoa were higher and in demand. Bank &hares had been done at 1,130. Money was rather dear. The most important arrival to-day is from the East In dies, and the political accounts have excited a very favour able impression. A careful consideration of the mer cantile letters induces us to give the opinion that they also are, upon the whole, satisfactory. It is true that at Calcutta: the imports of Manchester fabrics had been rather heavy, and that in consequence prices de clined, holders not being disposed to keep back supplies, which, if they did, would, it was expected, bring about a rally. Glasgow manufactures were in a better position, and at Bom bay, although the holidays had interfered with business, there was a large and satisfactory trade doing in piece goods. For exports there was at both the Presidencies a good in quiry, and freights had an upward tendency. So far this is rather against the European importer, because the prices of most staples rule very low here, but we must remember that the Indians will purchase our manufactures in proportion 'as they get remunerating prices for their pro ducts. At Calcutta the rate of exchange was rather tend ing upwards, but at Bombay there was a decline. This seems the natural effect of the imports being larger at one place than the other. Accounts from Ceylon, dated the 15th March, state "The past four weeks have been a period of anxiety to most of our planting friends, especially to these whose properties are placed at a low elevation. Until within the last few days not a shower had fallen in the central Province since the middle of November, and to those who are acquainted with the Weeds of a crop upon the coffee bush, and a drought of this duration following, it is hardly necessary for us to address any explanation. That nearly all estates will be considerably thrown back by the protracted dry season, and very many sailer greatly in the quality and quantity of the next crop, few amongst us will, we believe, be prepared to deny. As regards operations upon coffee estates, these have ibien confined mostly to weeding and removing the last remains of the crops of 1848. The sound of the axe is now unheard, and piling and burning are rapidly becoming obsolete terms. Economy is the order of the day, and although the advices of the Home Markets brought us by the last mail did much towards dispelling the previous gloom, the island is 'still tar from being in a sound position, and anxiety continues to be felt on all hands. That most shippers are greatly in advance of their operations as compared with last "year, we think few will question, we know many who have already nearly got rid of their crops for the season, and on the whole we cannot believe that their are yet to be shipped 102,000 cwts. which there should be to bring up the exports of this quality to those of 1847-8. All our letters of the last few days speak encouragingly of the change effected by the recent falls of rain throughout the Central Province. They have come most opportunely—another fortnight of drought would have ruined some thousands of acres of coffee which will now be just saved. From China we hear of trade being rather dull, owing to the doubt about the opening of the Canton gates. The Corn Market in Mark- lane is firm this morning, the arrivals of foreign being fair. There is an absence of country buyers. There is a flatness pervading still the English Stock Market, although the favourable Indian news caused the market to open well at 92 for Consols for Money, and 92 to 1 / $ for Time. Since there have been sales at 91% j for Transfer. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 91% Bank Stock has been marked 193% to 194. Exchequer-bills have been 445. to 475. promium. The value of Consols at the hour of our writing is again rather better, being 92 to %. In the Foreign Market very few bargains have been d one . Spanish Five per Cent. Stock is 17 to 1 / 2 , and the Three per Cent. 32 1 4 to %. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 29. Mexican have realised 28 without the Coupons. Grenada are 18 1 4. Messrs. Baring, the agents, have announced a dividend on the latter. Dutch Two-and- a-Half per Cents. are no minally 49% to 50%. The Railway Share Market is without any important alte ration, but rather in favour of buyers. Eastern Counties are very depressed. The dividend will be 2s. 6(1. to 2s. 9d., not yet decided which, we believe; and would have been mine, but for the necessity of laying aside part of the earnings, in order to meet charges that should have been made upon the revenue of former quarters. Great economy will be necessary to bring the line into a sound posi tion ; and a satisfactory dividend cannot be ex pected tor some time, although the borrowing powers of the company will p ro b a bly b e b roug ht into op erat i on t o clear off some engagements which cannot fairly be charged at once up on t h e i ncome. Th e great error h as b een i n increasing the divide n d s f ormer l y , but the line may be im proved. As a whole the report will read badly, we are told, but gives hopes of the future. A a n 13.R111311 FUNDS Tu IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( - From the Official List.) Bank Stock 193% 194 a per Cent. Redu ce d A nnu i t i es 3 per . 92 91%% New 3 1 4 per Cent. ..... 91%% nor,g S A D 0.30 Years, Expire O c t. 10, 1859 B% 8 5 - 16 Console for Account ... e:xchaquer Bills. cL March. June. 1,000/. 'RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Exp. jnn s sth, 1860— 8 9-16 8 Equador Bonds 4 Grenada, 1 per Cent. 18 1 4 Do. Deferred krexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent...... 28 ex Coupons. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o 17 1 4 Venezuela Bonds . Ditto Deferred ... Dividends on the above payable in London. DONr, IN RAILWAY 511,114Ei AT ONE O'CLOCk, RAILWAY& rein. PER. Susan. ,lierdten Ditto, Preference .. airmingham,Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . 15 1 ,1..... to aledonian 5O ..... 25 7 / 8 1 4... to theater and H01yhead......... 50 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., and L. & D Ditto, 18/., E. & H lB ...... Ditto, 3!. 105., E. & H... 3% 2% to Eastern Counties .... Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Great Northern .;t. South. & West. (Ireland) 45 Great North of England 100 ......235 Ditto, New 404 -. 40 Ditto, ditto Ditto, New 301 ' ... 30 ... 69 1 4...... to Ditto, New 15/...... ...... 14 ireat Western 100 - Ditto, Quarter Shares - Do. New 171 ... dull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ...... 49 1 / Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O .....100 IA to Leeds and Thirsk Do., New London & Blackwall ......... 12 1 / s SV / 2... to Lond., Bright., &South Coast 50 De. Guaranteedsper Cent. 9 . De. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... 52 Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 London & North Weetern.....loo ... ..131 ',2 to 132 DI. New Quarters .ondon and :-.. W astern....... 50 .. a anchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ... .. 11 Midland lOO .... 754 75 to 75% Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent 100 122%%... to —. North Staffordshire... t)xiord, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildtd., & Reigate 12% .. Scottish Central hrewsbury and Birmingham 11 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 11irewsnury and Cheater (Nor. W . 'alin. ) South Eastern Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. G. N. E. Pun. or Pref. 8 ... .. 6% 1 ,4 to York and North Midland .. 50 41% 40% to 41 Ditto East and W est Riding Extension .. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 8 5 / 8 .,... to East Indian Paris and l rieans... Paris & Strasbourg .. .. ..... 10 Rouen and Havre COURSE OF Amsterdam •• •• 12 27¢ Ditto, at eight • • l2 1 Rotterdam .... ••.. •• 12 3 Antwerp.• 25 75 Ilamburgh •111.8. 13123¢ Paris, 3 clPys'sight .. • • 25 40 Ditto, 3 months 25 65 tlarseilles .... •. • • . 25 65 80urdeaux......... • 25 65 Frankfort on Maine 12134 retersburgh, Sil. Rble••• 36 Vienna, effec. flo •••• • • 11 33 Trieste, ditto.. • 11 34 Madrid •• .. • 48% Cadiz •• •••••••• . •• • • 49% Bilbao.. • • •• • ' EXCHANGE. Gibraltar.... • • • ..... • • Leghorn 33 50 Genoa • • • . • • .. 26 20 31ilan • ............ . Venice. gapies •.. • • 40% Palermo, per0z........ 111; Messina ..... ........ 119% Lisbon..... • • • 53% Oporto ••....• • .. • • 53% Rio Janeiro • .. • • Buenos Ayres ..... •• New York, 21 days'sight -- Philadelphia .. . • ... -- PRICES OP BULLION, PER 02 Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Cuin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10% Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11% Barcelona • •• ...• •• • • Seville.. •••••••• •• . LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 18.—Wind at noon N.N.W., moderate breeze acd fine. OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 14.—Richard Cobden, Bahia, for Antwerp. OFF THE START, Arm!. 12.—Svea, Anderson, Bahia, for Gothenburg. 14th, Fanchon, Nilsen, ditto, for Stockholm. LEITH, APRIL 17.—The Nurge, of Tonsberg, Honfleur to Norway, sunk 28th ult., in lat. 57, long. 5 E. ; crew saved, The Lady Alice sl oo p, i n wor ki ng out of Helmsdale, 13th instant, was driven on the East Bank, but was got off with damage, after discharging. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.—Arrd. Free Trader Wade, Calcutta; John Thomas Carr, Goldburry, Macao, sld. 11th Feb. Sarsfield, Mibbert, St. Domingo; Swiss Boy, Mallen, Cardenas, with cotton from the London, wrecked at Cuba, 0 port, West Lothian, Cliilian. Arrd. City of Lincoln, Poole, New Orleans; Looclianah, Dillimore, Mobile ; Mer sey, 11•Donalci, Apalachicola. Ski. Thereea Jane, Marau ham ; Aberdeen, New York ; British Merchant, Quebec; Nestor, Newfoundland ; Hammond, ditto ; St. George, ditto. EX 1101j113, Ana. 15.-51 d. Springflvwor, Quebec. YARMOUTH ROADS, APRIL 14.—Arrd. Henry Benness, Sunderland, for Newhaven, leaky, and sld. 16th inst., with four extra hands. HULL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. 16th, Orion, Bro derib, Liverpool, for Hamburgb, having been ordered off the Elbe by a Danish frigate. DUBLIN, APRIL 15.—Wind N.W.—Sld. 14th, Start, Miramichi. 15th, Perseverance, Quebec. DEAL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—Arrd. Thomas Worthington, Thellit, Mauritius; Abcona, New Orleans. Arrd. from the river and sld. Blue Bell, Wilson, Algoa Bay; Palmyra, Croab, Demerara; Reliance, Doane, Trini dad ; Malcolm, M'Farlane, St. Vincent. DOVER, APRIL 17.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Unica Ilija, Astigria, Havannah ; Dos Hermanos, Garracina, Malaga, both for Hamburgh, put in owing to the blockade. HASTINGS, APRIL 16.—A sunken sloop, with topmast head out of water, with a vane marked A. E., was passed 14th inst., by the Fairy, Piper, of this port. KINGSTOWN, APRIL 15.—A wreck was passed yesterday, by the City of Limerick steamer, drifting from the shore between Wicklow Head and the Arklow Bank light ship. WAINFLEET, Good Intent, Grit'sely, of and from Boston, for Goole, came on shore at Skegness this morning; cargo discharging, when it is expected she will be got off. YAnmotrryr, APRIL 17.—The Ffiends schooner, of Goole, came into the harbour to-day, dismasted. LYNN, APRIL 16.—The Elizabeth, Dutch galliot, Nelson, arrived here to-day, with loss of mizen mast, bulwarks, &c., and beams started, having been in contact yesterday, off Foulness Light, with the Sicily. The Triton, Bennett, of this port, was in contact off Flamborough Head, 13th inst., and damaged her upper works. WARRENPOINT, APRIL 16.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Royalist, Quebec; Agnes and Ann, ditto. NEwnY, APRIL 12.—S1d. Royalist, Quebec. DONEGAL, APRIL 14.—S1d. Clare, New York. CARDIFF, APRIL 17.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. Canton, Port land, United States. NEWPORT, APRU, 17.—S1d. Juno, Portsmouth, United States. GUERNSEY, APRIL 12,—S1d. Rolla, St. John's, New foundland. PENZANCE, APRIL N.—Arrd. John and Ed ward, Melhuish, Charleston ; Doris (steamer), liamburgh for Liverpool, short of coals. EsimoirTH, APRIL 17.—Wind N., strong.—Arrd., 16th, Marquis of Hastings, Sabiston, Sierra Leone. Off port, Pacific, Mauritius. OFF ST. MAWFS, APRIL 14.—Jeannette, Porto Rico. Prxmourkr, APRIL 17.—Wind N.— Arrd. Argos, Poso dilli, Havannah, for Hamburgh ; Sonaretta, Johansen, Porto Rico, for Copenhagen. Sld. Ava, Quebec. ,Off port, Salacia, Webster, Calcutta; Sirius, Mulder, Batavia, for Amsterdam; Neptune,Vespersman, Galveston, for Antwerp; General Har rison, Meade, Mobile, for Rotterdam. _ SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 17.—Arrd. Washington (steamer), Hood, 13remen. Sld. Avon (steamer), West Indies; Iberia (steamer), Gibraltar. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY `• _The quantity bf English Wheat on offer in to-day's market was very small, but of fair average quality. The few selected, land. carriage samples were speedily cleared off, at a trifle more money, the value of the middling and inferior kinds being firmly susported. From abroad, 8,790 quarters of Wheat have come to hand this week. All descriptions ruled steady, at the extreme rates of Monday. Floating cargoes were held for is more money. We had a very moderate quantity of Barley on offer, the sale for which was firm, at full currencies. There was a better inquiry for Malt, but we have no improvement to notice in its value. Oats were in moderate supply, and steady request, at very full prices. Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn were the turn dearer. The top price of the best Town-made Flour was 44s per 280 lbs. Barrelled parcels were Is higher. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. English •• •• •• Scotch ...... 1ri5h......... Foreign .. •• .. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour. 680 qrs. I 1,140 qrs. I 5,530 qrs. I,l7oskr 19,530 -- 8,790 I 2,970 Malt, 2,650 qrs. 3307 5 40T7G/3 BOP MARKET. Very fine hops—which are extremely scarce, are held for more money. The middling and interior kinds move off slowly at late rates. Sussex Pockets, 214 d to 2/ 18s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 3/ 8s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 315 s to 61 15s per cwt. 'VVIIXTECIIAPEL. The general demand was tolerable steady at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 2d to Ss 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d; Veal, as 4d to 4s; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs by the carcase. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL, APRIL 17. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states—Our farmers brought a very moderate supply of wheat to-day, and were asking a smart advance upon the current rates of last week. This checked business, millers generally being indisposed to follow a great advance, and consequently the actual transac tions were limited, at 25 to 3s ever last week's top sales. A good many foreign samples were withdrawn, or offered at rates above the ideas of buyers. Business was restricted to im mediate wants at an advance of 2s to- 3s per qr. The Lest descriptions of malting barley are is dearer, and grinding qualities are generally held for more money. Beans are fully 2s dearer this week, and no low•sellers now on the market. More inquiry for both oats and peas at full rates, but not many offering. The business in linseed has been at about is per qr advance—the noted import is from Memel. Cakes are not so good to buy at our currency. Nothing to report in rape seed, and rape cakes are worth about the following quotations. For cattle bones the market is firm. The following are the present prices of grain : Wheat, English, red 42 to 46 Do. white 44 48 Dant zie and Ko nigsberg 4B 50 Pomeranian and Hauiburgh . 42 48 Danish, Holstein, & Friesland Russian and Odessa 40 44 Oats, English Do. f)anish... ....... Do. Friesland l6 18 Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Barley, malting 24 26 Do. grinding 2O 22 Beans 2B 32, Do. foreign S. S. 25 30 24 116 39 41 34 39 35 37 32 35 Per ton. Linseed cakes, Hull 71 5 s Od Do. fine foreign Do. inferior foreign 5/ Os Rapeseed 261 to 301 Rape cakes B2s 6d Tares, English ......00s —00 s Do ; foreign 20s —26 s Guano 6l to 91 108 Bones, do 92s 6d to 00s Od Rye meal 6/ IPSWICH, Aran 17. Peas, white and yel. Do. grey Linseed, Black Sea. Do. Petersburgh Do. Riga & Arcbngl. Do. Konigsberg .... We had an improvement in the wheat trade to-day, and prices advanced 9,s per quarter. Barley, oats, beans, and peas are each rather dearer. Flour a more ready sale. No varia tion in the price of malt. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 415 to 49s Beans Barley .... Oats l7s to 21s Malt .. . . Rye AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 14, 1849. Wheat, . l,lBO quarters at 43 5 . 3d . Barley Oats Beans... . 24 „ 295. 2d. Peas ........... • lO „ 30s. Od. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 17.—Our arrivals from Ireland and coastwise during the week have been very trifling. From foreign ports also the supplies are on a more limited scale than for some time past. Our exports in the same time continue to show a gradual increase, and comprise 1,948 quarters of wheat, 9,199 barrels of flour, and 21,167 quarters of Indian corn. The trade has been extremely brisk, and wheat, barrel flour, and Indian corn have met with a free sale, at an advance of 3d per 701 b, Is. per barrel, and 3s per quarter. Barley, beans, and peas have also been in more request, and were the turn dearer. Oats and oatmeal have not attracted much at tention. The weather has been cold and unseasonable, and this morning we have had a fall of snow. At this day's market, with a good attendance of the town and country dealers, only a moderate business was done in wheat, at an advance of 3d to 44 per 701 b, on prices of this day week. Oats were lid per 451 b, and oatmeal is per load dearer. In barley and peas no alteration can be noticed; but beans brought 1 s per quarter more money. Barrel flour was held at 25s per barrel, which checked sales, and a reduction of 6d per barrel was submitted to towards the close of the market with. out leading to much business. Sack flour was not in much request, but an improvement o f Is per sack must be noted. The smart advance we experienced during the week for Indian corn was not well maintained, and 33s 6d per quarter for fine yellow, and 32s per quarter for white must be considered the extreme quotation. Yellow Indian meal realised 15s per barrel. LEEDS Aram 17.—We have had a small arrival of wheat to-day, which, in consequence of the Baltic ports being block aded, must be quoted 2s per quarter dearer than this day se'nnight. Barley, oats, and beans are rather dearer, but we do not think it necessary to alter quotations. DALKEITII MEAL MARKET, APRIL 16.—The following are the prices at this day's market:— Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. 27s Od 26s 6d 26s 3d Barleynteal, per ditto ... 20s Od —s Od —s Od Peasemcal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot barley ... 24s 6d —s Od —s Od There were 97 bags of oatmeal, 8 of barleymeal, and 5 of pot-barley at this day's market. Oatmeal up on the top 6d per bag, and on the second quality 9d; barleyrneal also obtained an advance of 6d per bag over last week's rates; pot barley same as last week. Sales ready. ' CORK, APRIL 16.—Flour—Firsts 1450 d to 1456 d; extra 15 ; seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households 10s to 12s ; thirds Ss to 1)s per cwt. Oatmeal Ils to lls 6d ; Indian meal So to 8s 3d ; wii.at meal, lOs 6d to lls per cwt. Indian corn 7110 s Od to 8/ po:- ton. Bran 41 to 4155 per ton. Hay - Farmers 12s to 40s; average 38s ; dealers 41s to 48s ; average 00s Od per ton. Str aw—f. antlers 3s Od to 32s Od ; average 00s ; dealers 345 Od to 00s Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61d; household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 10d per lb. Coals—Newport 16s; Lydney 175 ; Landore 16s ; Best Neath Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 65 Od per imperial gal lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to bid; veal hid to 7d ; pork 4d to 54d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. Hops 6/ lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 71 to Si; Valonia 141 to 001; French 71; English 71 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone. Hemp 351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 198; red ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ' • Newfoundland -10/ 108 to 121 per ton. Timber—N ew Memel 4/ 10s; old scarce; red pine 3/ Iss ; yellow pine 31 per ton ; deals, first quality, 20/ ;second quality 171 per 120. Hid es —M ar ket 10s to 16s; salted i 115 to 1 6spert w ; hi c t a e lf i s o k d in t s o 2d to market2 s t i d n ; ionsd t 2 o cl 2 t o o d ; 2- 46 d u p a e n r o l — b. Potatoes, Guano— Peruvian, ,10 E /I g O g s s ; , 4s to 4 Ichaboes 2d per 9/ per nd hundred. re T d. ar A rchangel 185 per barrel. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 3, 1849. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Levee at St. Jame's Palace on Wednesday, the 2d of May next, at two o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 3. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Drawing-rooms at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Thursday, 26th April instant ; Saturday, 19th May next, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day ; and Thursday, 31st May next. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in their col lars, at the Drawing-room, en the 19th of May next. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 5. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John Tate Holland promoted to First Lieutemnt, vice Jhrnes Splaine bowman, cashiered by sentence of a Court martial. WHITE [TALL, Aritm 2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Anthony Atkin son, of Beverley, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Moser Eztraudinttry iu the Iligh Cvurt vf Chacery, WHITEHALL, Arum 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Sketch. ley, of Horneastle, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court 01 Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Alfred Henry Maude Goodeve, wine merchant, Gar lick-hill, , Upper Thames-street, to surrender April 27, at half past twelve, and June 1, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Tripp, Adelaide-place, London-bridge. Daniel Smith and Frederick Daniel Smith, whole sale dry-salters, Bevor-lane, Hammersmith, April 24, at eleven, and June 1, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street; Young, Vallings, and Young, Saint Mildred's court, Poultry. Richard Cross, horse-slaughterer, Union-street, Lis son-grove, April 27, at twelve, and June 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bknkruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Field, Finchley. John Loustan, wine -merchant, Crutched Friars, April 24, at half-past twelve, and Ma►y 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Wilson, Furnival's Inn. Charles Mayhew, hosier and lawman, Ebury-street, Pimlico, April 25, at hair past eleven, and May 26, '4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street; Robin- son, Ironmonger-lane. _ _ Matthew Ton Tibbe tt, innliceper, Farcett, Cambridge, April 26, and May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bank • ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman -street build ing; Chidley, solicitor, Basinghall-street. William Tomlinson, victualled, Salford, May 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hob son, official assignee, Manchester ; Mourilyan and Ros well, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn; Leming and Rich ardson, Manchester. John Wiggins, bookseller, Greenwich, April 27, and May 26, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basingball street; Bristow and Tarrant, Bond-court, Walbrook. John Owen, farmer, Trefnarmay, Montgomeryshire, April 30, and May 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Ches ter, Staple Inn; Brabner and Son, Liverpool. Thomas Wright, grocer, Longton, Staffordshire, April 26 and May 24, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy , official assignee, Birmingham; Young, Longton; Smith, Birmingham. • James Ashworth, woollen manufacturer, Nunhills, Lancashire, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Atkinson, Saunders, and - Atkinson, Manchester. Henry Gore, plumber, Cheltenham, May 1 and 25, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, -1 official assignee, Bristol; Bromley and Co., Gray's Inn; Ches-hyre, Cheltenham. James Harris, hatter, Weymouth, April 6, at one, and May 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Arden, Weymouth; Lambert, Exeter; Bridges and Mason, Red Lion. square. Charles Beasley, mercer and draper, Bristol, April 27 and May 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Sale, Worthington, . and Shipman, Manchester ; Leman and Ilumphrys, Bristol. John Winder and Richard Fisher, merchants Liver pool, May 1 and 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; llolme • and Co., Now Inn ' • Booker, Li ve rpo o l. Benjamin Wright, innkeeper, Coalbrookdale, Shrop shire, May 1 and 29, at ten, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gordon, Shrewsbury; Hodgson, Birmingham. George Barras, wine and spirit merchant, Newcastle- , upon-Tyne, April 26 and May 7, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle•upon-Tyne ; Bowlby, Newcastle • upon-Tyne; Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby, Old Fish street. James Wild, licensed victualler, Brecon, May 1 and 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Trehern and White, Barge- yard. chambers, Bucklersbury ; Sabine, Bristol. John Jones, innkeeper, Holyhead, April 30 and May • 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Sweeting and Burn, South ampton-buildings; Lloyd, Roberts, and Co., Carnarvon; 3 Curry and Statham, Liverpool. George Ellins, salt manufacturer, Droitwicb, Wor- , cestershire, May 1 and 29, at ten, at the Birmingham ' District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Jones, Worcester; Smith, Birmingham. Lemuel Gulliver Groves, horse dealer, Charlton Marshall, Dorsetahire, April 26, at one, and May 3 0 , at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernamany official assignee, Exeter; Rawlins, Wimborne Minster; Fincham, Blandford; Ewards and Peake, New Palace' yard, Westminster; Stogdon, Exeter. NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Arrogant, 46, Captain Fitzroy, was docked this morning, to be examined, 10 01 the extreme end of her screw shaft was found to be defec tive. This vessel has been reported "ready for sea," whereas some vital parts of her machinery are at Blackheath. Serr part of her small engine gear broke when on trial last week, in consequence of cast iron having been used for its con: struction in lieu of wrought. The vessel was to have startea for Cork tomorrow, but here she is in dock, and whether she will he trusted out in the present defective state of the screw-shaft before mentioned at once, or remain in dock to repair damages for about a month, we are at present unin formed. All that can be done for her will be done by Mr. Murray, the Superintendent-Engineer, who will go the length of putting to sea in her present state, if necessary. The pay-books of the St. Vincent, 120, Captain C. Dacres, were returned from the Admiralty yesterday, but bwing, It 1 is said, to some very serious errors made by the Somerset - • house officials, had to be sent back again last night for cor rection. As no further work can be found for the men to perform, the ship being untwisted, her hold clean swept so a whitewashed, and stores all returned, general leave has been granted to-day for 48 hours, by the expiration of which time it is hoped the pay.books may be again returned correct. The gentlemen whose carelessness or ignorance has occasionen, this inconvenience and expense would look rather foolish 11 they had to , make good the loss. A number of convicts from the hulks at this port were pit! on board the Randolph this morning, and that vessel got under way immediately for Cowes. The Penelope steam .frigate and the Polyphemus steara sloop were placed in the steam-basin. Wind N. W., fresh breezes and squally, with snow Showell. WOOLWICH, APRIL 17.—1 t having been decided that the Basilisk should have a preliminary trial, in order to ascertain the working of her engines previous to her trial of speed, and other qualities, with the Niger steam-vessel, the former left Woolich this morning -at 6.30 A.M., in charge of Lieute • nant Robertson, assistant to Captain Austin, C. 8., and having ox board Captain Halsted, R.N. several of the officers study', isg steam at the factory at Woolwich, Mr. Humphries, Wei Engineer at Woolwich Dockyard; Mr. Casey, engineer 10 , Captain Austin's department; and Mr. Miller, of the firm 0 ' Miller, Ravenhill, and Co. the constructors of her engines. The Basilisk, on starting from her moorings, made 17.6 row; lutions per minute, having 6 feet stroke, and her draught et water being 14 feet 8 inches forward, and 15 feet 10 inches' aft. The true speed of the vessel, as ascertained by folf, runs made between the N or e an d M ouse light-vessels, lot 10.598 knots per hour ; the m ean revo l u ti ons o f t h e ens ine: being 18.6, or nearly the full contract number, which is le. During the whole of the trial, from the time the Basilisk left Woolwich until 'her return, the engines had not all bearing, but in every . respect worked as sa tisfactorily as 1 they had been years in the service. The engines are of 400 horse power, on the same principle as those fitted by • the same firm in the Bombay and Ganges steam-vesselt with the air pumps between the cylinders on an inclined plane, which were patented by Mr. Miller, and ar e now generally used in steam-vessels. The engine-beams ar ° not fixed to the deck, as they used to be, detached plate! only being fixed to the deck, and the beams of the engine' secured in such a manner as to yield in the event of the vessel touching the ground or straining so as to be liable to injure engines fixed on the usual plan. One of How's soli' nometers has been put up in the engine-ro om , to show th e degree of density of the salt w a t er i n the boilers; the pull is very simple, being merely to have a common hydrometer, with a graduating scale cal cu l ate d f or water at 20U degre e : of heat, 1,32 d being the designation of pure salt water, sun up to 4-32ds, denoting when it cannot be used without en crusting the boilers. The Basilisk has all her guns and a quantity of shot on board. Her armament consists of 1 10-inch gun of 1 68 pounder g un o f 95 cwt. mounted on pivot slides and carriages, and 4 32-po un d er guns of 42cwt. each. She re turned to Woolwich o f a quarter-past s i x o ' clock r.M ., A fter a very satisfactory t r i a l. 84cwt..! THE FRENCH GALLEYS.-According to the static' tical returns of the Bagnes, lately distributed to the Members of the National Assembly, the galley slaves, confined on the Ist of January, 1848 , i n the Bagne of Toulon amounted to 3,911 ; in that of Brest, 1° 2,997; and in that of Rochfort, to 1,045—in all, 7,9 53 ' Of these 7,456 were natives of France and the French colonies, and 497 foreigners. 166 were from 16 1° 20 years of age, 2,246 from 21 to 30, 2,461 from 31 „ to , 40, 1,937 fro m 41 to 50, 862 from 51 to 60, and 27 ' from 61 to 69. 4,700 were unmarried, 760 were mar ried, with children ; 656 married, with o ne child; 1,359 married, with several children; 165 widower s ' without children; 133 widowers, with one child; and 1 80 with several children. 4,326 could neither read not write, 2,813 read or wrote imperfectly, 695 rea d and wrote well, and 119 had received some education. 39 had learned to write since their admission into th e Bagne. The professions which supplied the greatest numbers of convicts were—the gardeners and agricul tural classes, 1,254; bootmakers, shoemakers, an d cob' biers, 266; carpenters, wheelwrights, &c., 174; earrneT coachmen, and postilions, 123 ; na il ers, smiths, &c., 19u servants, 248; cabinet workmen, &c., 187; field labourer s ' 1,082. Among the galley slaves belonging to 431 classes were 10 medical men, 5 brewers, 3 actors, clergymen, 3 public functionaries, 2 literary men, lawyers, &c. CANADIAN CHURNING.—In Canada, butter is churned by the agency of a dog. The machine is worke d much on the sam e p r i nc i p l e as a treadmill, and is exceed' ingly disliked by the poor dog. Goats are sometinles made to perform the same service. On the 14th inst., at Guy's, the Wife of Dr. Gull, of daughter. On the 13th inst., at Beaum on t- s t reet, M rs. Hamp t o n ► fo a daughter. On the 13 . h inst, at Llanblethian•cottage, near Co% bridge, Glamorganshire, the w if e o f Bi rt J enner, Esq., ° a son. MARRIED. On the bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, M r : Donald Chrish o l m , o f I nverness, to Se rah Tenbrocke Deeble, eldest daughter of the late Mr. E. R. Deeble, of London._, DIED. are, On the 18th inst., in George-street, Portman-squ Camilla, relict of th e late John Underwood, Esq., Me mber of the Medical Board, Alitdrai, aged :3. On the 12th inst.. at Bath, Lucy Atherton, wife of CaPt lllll Cracknell. London Printed and Publishtd by PrILTRDO 0" U ;1, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at eke Sun Office, Nc'• n t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cOtUlli Middlesex, Wednesday, April 18, 1849. 1