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Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition last night from merchants of Bombay, complainincs, of the loss they suffer by the Chinese war, and praying for vigorous hostilities to bring the war to a conclusion. Lord ASHBURTON required the Government to state its decision on the subject of the treaty with China. Viscount MELBOURNE said it would be prema ture to form a conclusion on the information the Ministers had at present. The Duke of WELLINGTON assured the Minis ters that all the mischief arose from their not having followed his advice, and having made war with a reduced establishment. Whoever may be in fault, it is plain that the war is not terminated to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of Bombay. The• Earl of GLENGALL having announced his intention of calling their Lordships' attention to the falsification of the Poor-law returns, the Marquis of NORMANBY deprecated the intention, by announcing that Mr. STANLEY, the person blamed, had resigned his situation. The Earl of HADDINGTON inquired whether the intention of appointing Mr. CANDLISH to a Professorship at Edinburgh had been finally abandoned. The Marquis of NORMANBY declined to state how he should act, till the legal question concern inc, Mr. CANDLISH was decided ; and he re f use d to be taunted by the Duke of ABERDEEN into immedhrtely filling up the vacancy. F.arl FITZWILLIAM, on presenting several pe titions for the repeal of the Corn-laws, drew their Lordships' attention to the declining state of the revenue, and assured their Lordships that they must have a property tax. We are inclined to agree with the Noble Earl. It is im possible to keep up our present large establish ments, and pay the national debt and the bread tax. The industry of the country has too many idlers to feed in luxury. The Earls of WARWICK and STANHOPE, and Lord ASHBURTON, were of a different opinion. 'One said,we could go on without a property tax ; the second, that the prohibitory system was bene fical to the county; and the third, that the Report of the Import Duties Committee was shallow, vague, and partial. The Earl of STANHOPE announced his inten tion of moving to reject the Poor-law Amend ment Bill, should it be sent up from the Com mons. Their Lordships adjourned at Seven o'Clock. Again in the Commons, the chief business was the Irish franchise and registration question. At an early hour the House was crowded, and on the motion of Lord MORPET H went into a Com mittee on his Bill. The Noble Lord addressed the House at some length in support of the motion, that the second clause stand part of the Bill. He showed that the valuation was not so uncertain as it had been stated, and concluded an able speech by reminding the Tories that they had formerly resisted the just claims of the Irish till they had been forced to con cede, and he looked forward to the time when, in spite of their present opposition, they would gladly adopt some such principle as that con tained in the clause. Lord STANLEY made a heavy and conffised speech against the Bill. He was a little suc cessful at first in exciting the applause of his .. f . .. .. . itoilmtalking of the Govern men t b r i ng i ng ti - 1- - ' z"" asure of which they knew not the 71, - - - -,' -c7 'eitki. :: - . Y„ could not calculate the results, l i \ i .-' '---wilith "4. gc\ v reckless statesmanship. What fi. - a Ina*d-1:14 s would be suppressed if states r,- men neve r eared any but those of which they • ! - could accurate) , foresee all their consequences. - ' With the exception of this hit against all stateS- Inanship, - :if which the very ignorant Tories ' Z.-. - . '' --- A ''''' 'o.: , d) :r- - . .; .0 , ~,, q.• , , -_-.. v." ' ~°‘ -, e tg`,.NY,lt,".o4"lbk 1 1 `- ; - ,-',' ' . Ar."' k` , e. it . , et t b or 4,, N.:..i, • - -,4, 'l'' r N. 0 .1, ' J \ ' ir t ip\rs - '",,. - ,-',--" -. •.6 , •'.Y. 1 i V gtt ,§Uit laughed, the Noble Lord's speech was notwelcome to his friends, and did no harm to his opponents. He seems to be as much in the dark about the beneficial interest now as he was in 1832, when the poor reporter of the Mirror so grievously misunderstood him. He thought he had done well, too, when he attempted to show that under the Bill there would be 450 qualified tenements, and it was because it would give an extensive franchise to the Irish that he opposed it. The Noble Lord avowed himself to be the enemy of the liberties of the people, and by the same reasoning he demonstrated that his opponents were their friends. We have heard Lord STANLEY make many speeches, but we never heard him make a worse or a more blundering speech. Mr. C. WOOD defended his consistency and the consistency of Lord HOWICK, by attempting to show that the proposed 201. occupancy fran chise would have added to the constituency, and that the leasehold franchise would destroy it. He opposed the clause because it continued the leasehold franchise. He and Lord HOWICK have an odd way of showing their love to Ireland. Mr. HUME explained why he should vote for the clause, and showed Mr. WOOD and Lord HowlcK that they who declared that the Tories would allow no good measures t 3 be passed for Ireland ought also to vote for it. They were deaf, we believe, to his admonitions. Mr. O'CONNELL made a short, neat speech, in which he pointed out, for the especial use of the Ministers and the people of Ireland, that Lord STANLEY had said—though his saying was an exaggeration—that the Bill would give a very large constituency to Ireland. After some shuffling talk by Lord STANLEY about beneficial interest, and a kind of promise on his part that if the constituency were much narrowed he should be ready to adopt the occupancy clause of Lcrd HOWICK, and a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to the effect that he did not understand what the Noble Lord meant, nor why the Tories opposed the clause, the Committee divided, and the Ministers were defeated by a majority of 11. For the clause, 289; against it, 300. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then announced that it was fruitless to continue the discussion on the Bill, and moved that the Chairman report progress. Sir R. PEEL defended himself from the charge of not having explained the ground of his oppo sition to the Bill. He most distinctly accused Lord J. RUSSELL of being the enemy of Ireland, because he raised his proposed franchise from Si. to Si., which was what the Tories did in the case of the Municipal Bill. The Right Honourable Baronet forgot that the Tories did that wan tonly, and for the purpose of inflicting an injury, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL raised his pro position in order to get something fbr the Irish. He knew lie could not carry the 5/. and he pro posed 8/. as the next best thing he was likely to obtain for them. The astuteness of Sir ROBERT PEEL is far greater than his sincerity. The House shortly after resumed, and ad journed. The Ministerial Bill is now at an end, the Ministers haVe come to the point which we recommended them to jump to on Tuesday, and had they then stopped the Bill they would have saved themselves front the mortificat►on of this additional defeat, and from the taunts of Sir R. PEEL. We are heartily glad that the worthless discussion is at an end. We presume that Lord STANLEY will now try to carry forward his Bill; but he cannot succeed, and the attempt will only give rise to angry, useless talk. There remains the question what are the Irish to do to protect their liberties from the assaults of the Irish landlords and the Imperial Parlia ment. We wish that every Irishman could have been present in the House of Commons during the debate; and, were that possible, when they had witnessed the unseemly manner in which the debate was conducted, the groans with which the speakers were greeted, the ob vious impatience of the Tories to go to dinner,—when they had witnessed what we witnessed, they would have returned home resolved to appeal to anybody, but not to the mob called the House of Commons. They would reflect that it is for the people to decide who shall make laws for them, and no other power. "The question," they would say, "who shall be our representatives, and how we shall ' choose them, is a question fbr our decision and not yours. You are the chosen, the deputed, and have no right to prescribe how we shall choose, or whom we shall depute. You exceed your power by attempting to enfranchise or disfran chise us. We were made freemen by na ture, and we will not be made slaves by you." If the Irish were to so re resolve, it could surprise no man. If they were all to say, " The Union was accomplished by an authority which we disown, a Parliament which was not elected by us,—we have tried it for a long period, and, as it is not good of itself, we will have a revision of the contract," we could not blame them. Like all compacts, the Union, to be lasting, must be founded in justice, which is not the case with the present Union between Ireland and England. We could not find space yesterday to express our deep regret at the election of. Mr. WALTER for Nottingham; not that we have any enmity to Mr. WALTER, but we had a high opinion of Nottingham, which has, we think, disgraced itself by the election. A gentleman, as far as we know, every way worthy of their support, offered himself on the broad principles of abolition of the Corn-laws, Freedom of Religion, Extension of the Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot. They have re jected him, and chosen a gentleman who is a de clared friend to the Corn-law, an enemy toFreedom of Religion, for he is a staunch friend to the Church, and who laughs at Extension of the Suffrage and Vote by Ballot as vain theories. The electors of Nottingham have lent their aid to bolster up those monopolies which are the sinews of the Tory strength and the ruin of the country. If they should continue to suffer from want of trade, if starvation should still haunt them, they will henceforth have to add to their physical sufferings the poignant regret of self-accusa tion. They have inflicted the injury on them selves. We are grieved at their want of know ledge, and their disregard of principle. Mr. WALTER is an active, zealous man, but he ap peared at Nottingham as the champion of a party and principles which are opposed to the prosperity of Nottingham, and it was a disgrace to the electors to choose him. We mourn over the lost character of Nottingham. The Tories represent the division of Monday night as one of principle. Thus the Times, em bodying the observations of the most distin guished speakers on the point at issue, stated— But in truth, it is of little consequence what may be the exact amount of Lord Howick's amendment, verbally consi• dered, inasmuch as it was distinctly understood during the debate, and upon the division, by the admission of all p ar ti es, that the point u n d er consideration was really a question of principle —no less a principle than whether property should be the future basis of the qualification of voters in Ireland— Whether a tenant who did not possess a clear beneficial interest all the ch aar ie bri f oa o to ve t r h a e nPI above his rent and other outgoi ngs , s h ou ld b e ent i t l ed sp me ea ntr r y , ofrnanbcohthisesidesTohfitshewas House.the takenvieswirß.Peel by it s ta ai mi d, s 0t h : t He c opinion e to an od n ab s considered abstract this sr t e h us e nol N uu st o ei o b n leLr of that thismd' s erke am i nodee—enud,p,mare, Resolved,tcy o to be t t a t nh n oa - tt to to he the constitutcoenty franchise." the franchise, but that the pro fi t o f s h e l and ought u But with all deference to the Times, to the Tories, and the Whigs, it is quite impossible that any such point could be at issue between the Whigs and Tories, as whether prope r t y should be the future basis of the qualification of in Ireland. The Whigs acknowledge the prin ciple of property as the basis of representation as well as the Tories, and would shrink with ter ror from acknowledging the opposite principle They prove this by their Bill, which requires not mere occupancy but rating to the poor at a certain sum, and the possession of a lease. The way the Times and Sir R. PEEL put the question implies that the Ministers were the advocates of the noble principle of population exclu sively as the basis of representation, not the de grading and servile principle of wealth, or what a part of the population possesses. That question has never yet been brought to an issue between the two aristocratic parties ; that is the question at issue between the Chartists and both parties ; and the Whigs are as stanch defenders of the right of property to be exclusively represented as the Tories. The statement of the point at issue is incorrect, and it is so put to gloss over the miserable party disputes which the gentle men of the House of Commons dignify with the name of the business of the nation. But as the Tories put the question —represent ing themselves as the great and exclusive defend ers of the principle of pelf against population, of the superiority of the clod on which man treads to man himself—it becomes a most in- TR E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1841. structive lesson for those who have been beguiled into believing that the Tories are the friends of the people, by the Tory assertion that " if capi tal and -poverty be let alone, capital will make poverty its slave." While they say that, they are fighting, as they avow, for the purpose of giving political power to capital, or keeping politi cal polfer in its hands, to the utter exclusion of poverty, in order that capital may do its will on poverty unrestrained by any laws but those of its own making, which it cunningly substitutes for the laws of GOD. Their gross and grievous inconsistency may perhaps be accounted for by some blindness to the consequences of their own assertions and principles, or it may be referred to arrant and wilful hypocrisy ; but on either principle they proclaim themselves the dire ene mies of popular rights, and the champions of the abominable principle that the work of man's hand is more worthy of estimation than man himself. The Tories contend that property is to be represented and man not. But while they give this great power into the hands of the capitalists, or into the hands of men of property, they seem to look to some regula tions to be made by capital which will prevent it encroaching on poverty. They first invest capital with unlimited power over labour, by placing legislation exclusively in the hands of the former, and then they expect that it will make laws to restrain its own wishes and desires. They remind us of the Right Hon. Gentleman referred to by Mr. BURKE in his speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill : That is, he would appoint the old offenders to correct the old offences ; and he would render the vicious and the foolish wise and virtuous by salutary regulations. He would appoint the wolf at, a guar.tian of the sheep , but he has invented a cu rious muzzle, by which this protecting wolf shall not be able to open his jaws above an inch or two at the utmost. Thus his work is finished. Mr. BURKE was not disposed, like Tory Jour nalists, to place the power of controlling abuses in the hands of those to serve whose interest they originate. He added— But I tell the Right Hon. Gentleman that controlled depra vity is not innocence, and that it is not the labour of delin quency in chains that will correct abuses. Will those gentlemen of the direction animadvert on the partners of their own guilt? Never did a serious plan of amendment of any old tyrannical establishment propose the authors and abettors of abuses as the reformers of them. Our Tories, however, would confine the power of restraining the tyranny of capital in the hands of capital itself. We accuse them less of malig nancy than ignorance. They are led astray by false analogies, by a reference to words instead of things, and they deem themselves to be main taining a principle while they are perpetuating an abuse. They say, in common with many Whigs, that property has always been the prin ciple of representation in England, and they only propose to preserve the principle of the Constitution. Let us grant that property has, if not always, for a long period been the sign of representation ; but then let us look at the circumstances of so_ ciety when it was established, and at the present circumstances of society, and we may discover whether it were reasonable then and reasonable now. When this principle of our Constitution was established, society consisted mainly of four classes, the great barons or landowners, the smaller franklins, the landowners—serfs, and free inhabitants of towns. To give the serfs the fran chise, would have been absurd ; the barons had it by right of their swords or as a feudal privilege ; and as the serfs did not own property, and, above all, not property in land, the possession of• that was held to be the sign of a freeman. The franchise, then, was not conferred on. the property, but the property was held to be a sign of freedom, and freedom was en dowed with the franchise. We deny, there fore, that property was the original principle of representation, it was freedom ; but, as in other cases, the sign of freedom, property, has become of more importance than the thing signi fied ; and freedom is trampled under foot that property may be exalted. A princiae similar to that which made our ancestors assume property as the test of free dom in the counties, operated in making them select the residents of towns, or the freemen of corporations, as voters. They were emphatically enfranchised and emancipated as compared to the landlords' serfs, and it was not the possession of a 101. house, or a house of any size, that gave the man a vote, but his quality of a freeman, contributing to the burdens of the town. We maintain, therefore, in opposition to the assertion that property has always been the basis of our representation, that it was not property, it was freedom, (as con tradistinguished from serfdom), of which the possession of property was an in fallible sign. The Tories are very fond of adhering to the wisdom of our ancestors. We wish they would adhere to it according to the spirit, which giveth life, not according to the letter, which killeth. At present serfdom is abolished. We are all equally free. Property, instead of now being a sign of freedom, is a sign of power and oppres sion. It enslaves poverty. Our ancestors, who acted on circumstances, and were not bound, as we are, by the dead words of their predecessors, were theyin oursituation,would infallibly establish the representation on the basis of population, with a view of enabling poverty to resist being enslaved by capital. Our Tories all talk about it, and yet insist, like the Times, on capital and property being exclusively represented. Nay, they resist every attempt to give a re presentative to the present race of freemen as a violation of the wisdom of our ancestors. Want of modesty in a woman is not half so offensive as a wanton display of party or na tional prejudices by a Judge on the bench. In civil cases this is sufficiently disgusting ; in criminal trials it is absolutely revolting. Without any wish to palliate the dreadful crime of which three Irishmen were capitally convicted at the Glasgow Assizes, on Friday, we call the atten tion of our readers to some remarks made on the occasion by the Lord Justice Clerk, the chief Criminal Judge in Scotland. Before quoting the words, it may be proper to mention a strange feature of the trial. Three or four accomplices were examined, and the evidence was considered conclusive, whereupon the public prosecutor simply asked a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners, on an intimation being made by Mr PATRICK ROBERTSON, the Counsel for the un happy men, that he would not avail himself of the privilege of addressing the Jury in their behalf; but leave their case in the hands of the Court and Jury. This certainly was a strange departure from the English practice, and from what, hitherto, we believed was the universal practice in Scotland. When three of the principal wit nesses were accomplices, and to a certain extent guilty of the crime which they were called to prove against their countrymen, there were sufficient grounds at all events for the Counsel addressing the Jury, without throwing up his briefs, and deckling the fate of the men at once. Lord MONCRIEFF summed up very fairly, but, possibly owing to the circumstance mentioned, judged it prudent to make the following- re marks:- 4 , These men are strangers in our country ; they are of a different religion from us ; and I dare say it may be in their imaginations that they are not in safe hands with us ; but they know little either of the judicial seat here, or of a a British Jury, or a Scotti,h J ury especially, if they think there is the slightest chance that th ey shall no t 1:e dealt with with our ownreilrnigpi on.rtiality as if they were of our own country, of Possibly this is true, but pr e j u di ce often gives a bias to the judgment; and no man could con sider himself fairly tried if his juror s were imbued e " with such sentiments as those which seemed to guide the Lord Justice Clerk. The following are his remarks, the first part of which certainly is sufficiently intelligible—the other reminds us of a character drawn by SHAKSPEARE " It is a crime," said his Lordship, " I am happy to say, ve ry rare ineeed in this part of her Majesty's dominions, but it is crime by no means rare in another part of her ,Majesty's dorm_ mons, from which these three prisoners have lately issued; and I am too much afraid that the brutal conduct they see exhibited in so many counties of that cwuntry, and the many eicapes from justice there, have encouraged them to enter into this most foul and deliberate murder, and to carry it into execution. But atrocious as the crime is, the more unexampled as it is in this country, the more necessary is it that it should be repressed with the arm of the law. The Jury have done their duty in regard to this case ; and; painful as that duty is, it only rernain4 for us to do bur duty to the country, in order to deter others fr.,m crimes of a simi;ar description in all time coming." This was pronounced in Glasgow—in a place notorious for the most alarming combination that ever existed, for murders but a short time back that made the blood run cold, and possibly in the presence of Sheriff ALI SON, who, in his evidence before the Cont mittee of the House of Commons, drew such a frightful picture of society in that very di: trict which the charitable and Right honourable DAVID BOYLE would hold up as a model to the Irish people. Has his Lordship forgotten, too, the murder of Mr. ASIITON—have his prejudices blinded him to the notorious fact, that a number of Englishmen bargained to murder, and did mur der, a fellow-creature for the price of 101., and expiated the horrible crime on the gallows ? Some of the workmen employed by this manu facturer had vowed vengeance against him for some cause like that which led to the death of GREEN; but, in place of committing the murder themselves, they hired a man of the name of GARSIDE, and two of the name of IllosLLv, brothers, to perpetrate the foul crime, which was ultimately discovered by one of the MOSLEYS. This man appeared in the witness box, and gave evidence which consigned his brother to au ignominious death. Did the maligned Irish ever commit such mercenary, cold-blooded murders as this, or was Dublin ever so disgraced as Lon don has been within the last few years by tra gical deeds, one-half of which, as the Lord Jus tice Clerk says, have escaped the strong arm of the law? A Judge who can thus malign a whole nation, and encourage dangerous prejudices against his fellow-subjects, is not fit to sit on the Bench; and Irishmen may therefore say with truth, that, in tome instances at least, they have no chance of being dealt with in Scotland as they would be dealt with in their own country, or among men of their own religion. The sudden death of General HARRISON, who had been nursed in the cradle of the great American Revolution, and who throughout an honourable life boldly supported as a soldier, a citizen, and a chief magistrate, the principles of Government consecrated by that Revolution, has naturally produced an impression of deep sorrow throughout the United States. If General HARRISON was not what is commonly called a great man, he was at least a good one—a man who regarded political power as a trust in which only villains trafficked to advance their own in terests, or those of their friends. He had not, like the majority of modern statesmen, two consciences, one for his GOD and him self; the other for his country. The bitterest of General HARRISON'S opponents never denied him the merit of being an honest, self-denying man, who dreaded nothing so much as the growth of an aristocracy either of wealth or of political influence, and whose policy, had he lived, would have been directed to the putting it out of the power of any future President, by the help of a corrupt majority in Congress, to overturn or undermine the free Constitution of the United States. This course, it will be re membered, the late PRESIDENT indicated to Congress in his inaugural address, only delivered thirty days before his death. The alarming crisis at which the financial state of the country arrived under the Presidency of Mr. VAN BUREN, and to which the sub-Treasury and banking policy of that Magistrate was supposed greatly to contribute, naturally directs all eyes to General H ARRISON'S 'successor, Mr. JOHN TYLER, who, as Vice-President, succeeds ex-officio, by the lamented death of his chief, to the direction of the government of the United States. That gentleman has lost no time in publishing an address to his fellow-citizens, setting forth his principles, a copy of which will be found in another column. We profess our inability to comprehend in what sense strictly to understand it. President TYLER does not profess much admiration for the political principles of his predecessor, and holds out no pledge to carry on the Government in the spirit which he had intended. He agrees with General HAR RISON in thinking that a constant vigilance should be exercised to prevent the growth of unconstitutional power in the hands of the Pre sident; and he condemns sinecures and national debts. But while he is for dividing the sword and the purse, SD that one hand may not grasp both, he is likewise for increasing the navy, and for putting the country more upon a war footing than he finds it. About banking and currency he is silent, although these are by far the most important questions which can occupy the atten tion of the American Government. Some of his expressions are singularly infelicitous, as where he says, " Freedom of opinion will be to lerated.' There are countries where freedom of speech is not allowed, but we should like to hear of the region in which the freedom of thought is not tolerated to those capable of thinking. Before thought has found a tongue it is as much opinion as after it has been shouted by a thOusand mobs ; but to assume the right of tolerating it at so early a stage is to assume a function to which human authority is not compe tent. But if by opinion the PRESIDENT means the voice of the Republic, how is it that he dare to propose tolerating that of which he himself is but the creature ? Such language, as we said be fore, is very infelicitous. CLAY, WEBSTER, and FORSYTH will consult the dignity of the high office of President of the first Republic in the world, by affording Mr. TYLER their literary as sistance in the discharge of his present arduous duties. • We are not here attempting to prejudge the career of the new President. His address fur nishes no materials from which we can draw other than " most lame and impotent conclu sions." But, among his countrymen, he enjoys a high reputation for honesty and talent. We haye not space for the extracts to this effect, which we might glean from the American papers_ of every political hue, now before us ; and' therefore, we shall only quote the following ex tract, from a letter dated New York, April the 10th, addressed to a Contemporary : By the Constitution of the United States, the successorship devolves upon the Vice-President, John Tyler, of Virginia. In many respects his . political opinions differed widely from those of General Harrison, and of the party by which he was elected. 'Mr. Tyler is a Virginian, of the state-rights party, di,posed to construe the Constitution strictly, and opposed to a national bank, a tariff, and the prosecution of internal im provements, by the General Government. He is alto opposed to the exercise of the veto power by the chief ma gistrate, and believes in the right of the Feople to instruct their public servants in the policy which they shall pur sue. He is a man of unbending integrity and unsullied honour, and would refute to exercise any poser placed in his hands in a manner adverse to the wishes of those from whom he received it. During the canvass for the Presidency, many important questions were before the people, on which General Harrison was fully committed. He was tin'Terstood to be friendly to the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, to a moderate tariff, to the re. peal of the sub-treasury, arid to a national bank. His opi. mons on these subjects are assumed to have been approved by the people in his elevation to the Presidency. To this extent, therefore, President Tyler will doubtless consider himself in structed by the people, and called upon to carry out their will. if a national bank should be chartered by the next Congress, he will doubtless give it, h'is assent. He has already given in dication of his intention to pursue the policy of his predeces sor, by retaining all the Members of his Cabinet, and exhi biting a general acquiescence in all his arrangements. On all new topics, undoubtedly, President Tyler will I.e guided to some extent by his own peculiar politic a l doctrines and views of the Constitution. Our Virginia Presi dents have always been the most popular and successful in their administration. Of ten Pi esidents—Washington, Jeffer son, Madison, and Monroe, were natives of Virginia, a n d served two terms of four years elch ; the two Adamses, from Massachusetts, father and son, and Van Buren, from New York, served one term each, and failed of a re-election ; Ge neral Jackson, from Tennessee, south-west of Virginia, en joyed the common popularity of our southern Presidents, and served two terms. Harrison and Tyler were both natives of Virginia, and both pledged to the one-term principle. On this ground Mr. Tyler will not be a candidate for re-election; but I have no doubt that his administration will be as strong and popular as that of any one of his Virginian predecessors. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all been received. The Government is disgracing itself by its prosecutions of the Press. As tLe September laws, allow Ministers to prosecute journalists without the inconvenient formality of an appeal to the honesty of a Jury, convictions ale no longer doubtful. On Tuesday the responsible Editor of the National was tried for publishing letters recommending a subscription to defray the flue of 10,000 francs levied on that paper by the Chamber of Peers, and for this very harm less proceeding the Court of Correctional Police sentenced him to pay another fine of 500 francs and suffer a month's imprisonment ! The Gazette de France is also to be tried without a Jury on the absurd charge of publishing an incorrect re port of the trial of La France, which was ac_ quitted by a Jury ! These prosecutions are o frivolous and vexatious that no person can mis take the object of them. We lament that a Govern ment, of which M. GUIZOT is a Member, should have recourse to such pitiful shifts for the pur pose of stifling public opinion. The September laws are a disgrace to France, and their invoca tion a disgrace to any Ministry, much more to the Liberal Cabinet to whose sober good sense Europe is indebted for the tranquillity which it now en jo ws. The following news from French Africa is the most important in the Frerc:i Journals : THE FRENCH BUDGET.—The Commission of the Budget of 1842 has unanimously declared itself against, keeping up the additional regiments that M. Thiers organised; still maly members of the Commission didnot think that Ministtrs tight to be forced to dissolve these regiments by a vote of the Cham ber, but that the Ministry should be left to ittelt to carry into eff •ct, at the proper per.od, the unanimous wish of the Com mission. 'l he Corminisson proposes a reduction of thirty-seven mil lions of francs on the war estimate of 1842 ; the cavalry to be reduced from 54,000 to 48,000. Three and a half of expenditure for engineering and fortifications—the greater part in Algeria—is stuck out by the Commission. Four m•ll.ons are struck off the general services of the Ministries. The re • ductions propos& d by the Commission on the Government esti • mates amount to forty-one millions of francs. The expenditure of 1842 would thus be fixed at 1,275,453,340 francs. The re venue is estimated at 1,160.516,942 francs. The fleficit on the three years is 929,000,000 francs, to be met in part by the loans, in p ,rt by other re• ources. Count De Villele left Paris for Toulouse on Tuesday morning. Hear-Admiral Alass.eu De ( lerval, who succeeds M. Dupotet in the command of the French naval station on the coast of the Brazils, had hoisted his flag in the fr gate Gloire, at Brest. The Chamber of Peers adopted on Wednesday the Customs Tariff Bill, without any modification, by a majority of 97 against 3. AFRICA. BONA.—The mail from Constantine arrived on the Bth, with news which has producedan extraordinary sensation here The following are the particulars which we have learnt : On the morning of the 2d of April, General Negrier had cau,ed eight Arabs to be beheaded who hi , d been condemned to neath for assassinating some French soldiers. Great terror prevailed in the city. The Arabs were cond coned and exe cuted, as our letters inform us, within 24 h iurs. But the most extraordinary fact is without contradiction, the condemnation athe famous lien-Aissa, Knight of the Legion of Honour, to 2() years' hard labour, having been accused and convicted of coining base money. This important chief is named the " Ser pent of the Desert," and whose son was sent to Paris soon after the taking of Constantine, has been degraded and sent to Toulon, where he is to undergo his punishment. His heard has been shaved, a punishment a hundred times more painful to an Arab than 20 years' imprisonment and hard labour. The operation took place in presence of an immense crowd, and in thii state the prisoner was conducted through the city. It was reported at Toulon, on the 23d, that the Etna, which brought this news, had Ben Aissa on board. Our Correspon dent cannot answer for the fact, not having had time to inquire into its truth. We have letters from Algiers of the 20th instant. General Bugeaud had made every arrangement that (except bad weather) noth,ng might. delay the departure of the expedition, fixed at first for the 2lst, then put off to the 22d, and which may be yet further delayed if the rain should not cease. It was ge nerally believed at Algiers, on the ground of news froin the interior, that the revictualling of Alilianah would give occa sion to some important action between our troops and the Arabs. It is said that the Emir is collecting a considerable force at that point.—Le Commerce. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28. t Jut Highest Lowest Last Prier Price. Pricv. Price french 5 oer Cents ll5 65 ... 113 P 5 .. 113 40 ... 113 40 4 per Cents ll9 '25 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 3 per Cents 79 10 . 7 S 10 ... 79 05 ... 79 05 R - wlt of r ranee 3190 ...3190 ...3185 ...3185 Litlitte 8 .ri's I,liool. St ares- 110 ...less „JCS() ...IN) 5,000 f. Stares 5157 50 ...5157 5 , 1 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 aelgian Rank 1841.. Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan 1 1 ,1% ... 1 I% ... 10 , i , { 2 ... 101% Apan 1F h Acme 2 4 ,, ... 24Y. ... 24% ... 2 4 , pi Pasllle 5% ; t ... t % ... 5 ,, ... 5% Nleapolvai . Roman 11AILWA1 =C4 SHARES. ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 St. Germain Versailles.R. R 1167 1 0 ... 367 50 ... 567 50 ... 307 50 L. 13 237 5 , 1 . 24 5 , / ...:36 25 ... 131 25 Rouen urleous • • Ytr.isburg .o Bale •437 37 50 ... 750 . 2.)7 50 • The Madrid Papers received are of the 21st inst., but they contain no news of the least mo ment. Those who were for the sole Regency of ESPARTERO were spreading the most absurd rumours of the arrival of CABRERA in Spain. On the Bourse the Fives were at 26 for cash and_ 261 at 60 days. SERVILITY OF TILE LIBERAL PREss.-For years the conduct of the priesthood in thwarting the removal of burial places from the midst of the population has been a matter of complaint. Had they discountenanced burying in churchyard the practice must have been discontinued; but they have claimed a property in mortality, and have rethsed to allow decent interment Beyond the churchyard, unless a sum was paid to them. No sooner, however, does the Bishop of London intimate, on the part of the priest. hood, that their opposition to burying the dead out of large towns may be got over, by a due con sideration, than some journals, called Liberal, instead of feeling their indignation renewed at the scandalous conduct of the clergy, break out into a fulsome strain of eulogy, and cannot enough admire the wisdom of the Bishop of London. Can the continued arrogance of the priesthood surprise us, when such is the truth less servility of the press. Traitors are worse than open enemies, and Liberal journals which thus pander to the pride of the clergy, betray the best interests of the people. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 29:—Wlesalesto day are 2,500 bales. No alteration whatever to notice in prices. Nothing done in expo•t or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 29.—The following are the transactions :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 374 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 274 ; Grand Junction. 209,i- ; Great Western, New Shares. 64 5s ; London and South Western Si. Shares, 21 • Manchester and Birmingham, 25k; North Midland, 79 ; South Western and Dover, 184. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL. 29.—The state of the Share market does not improve :—London and South Western, 581 ; Ditto, Tenths, 445. ; Great Western, 95 ; Half Ditto, ti4l ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10; Union Bank, 8. The Lyra packet has arrived from the West Indies, with mails, and a freight of 6001. Sailed from St. Thomas, on the 24th of March, Hayti, the 29th March, with Jamaica papers to the 24th of March. Extracts vt id be found in another part of the paper. The Hamburgh mail of the 27th April has arrived, with pa pers of the same date, bringing the exchange upon London 13 5, • Gold, 429 ; Metalliques, 107 1 / ;_Bank Shares, 1,665. . ~ BOURSE OF Alits.rEanwm, APRIL 27.—The natioti al funds have a tendency to a decline without any apparent cause. Ar doin's is equally lower in price ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cents., 99 7-16; Ardoin's, 20h. TAE FUNDS. All attention at present is turned towards the forthcoming Budget this evening; in the interim the British Funds con tinue inactive. Consols opened at 90a for the Account; Money. 89I f 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 171 ; India Stock, 254 25.5 ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as they left off; Spanish Active, 23* A ; Deferred, 124 ; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese, 34i ; Three per Cents., 20i %; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 2212 23 ; Mexican, 29 1 /, 30 ; Dutch Twe- and-a-Half per Cents., 52a a; Five per Cents , 994 a. SHARES.—Great Western, 30 31A prem. ; New, 15 1 . prem. ; London and Biighton, 1 * dis. ; Blackwell, 51 ; HirminAam, 70 72 prem. PRICES OF SHARES THIS, DAY AT ONE. - .... RAILWAYS. P. id. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London atid Brighton London and Birmingham Ditto New London and South Western 3Si .. to Midland Counties Ditto Shares York and North Midland HALF-PAST ONE. Consols are a shade better than In the early part of the morning. 90i for the Account ; Money, 90A. No business of any consequence has been done up to the present time. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem.; Bank Stock, 169, rather lower ; India stock, 2531, also lower; India Bonds, 4 2 prem., ditto. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 233; Portuguese; 341; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52i; Five per Cents., 99 1 / 2 . In the above Market we have only to notice four quo tations. all of Aich are lower. In Shares scarcely anything doing, but they are rather better. Great Western, flfil s . ; Ditto, New. 654 ; Ditto, Fifth., In London and Brighton, 484 ; London and Bir mingham, :62; York and North Midland, 63i. QUARTER 7'o THREE. Consols, Account, 90A 4 ; Mexican, 293 ; Portuguese, 34 to ; Spanish, 233 I. HER MAJESTY'S TH EATRE.—Olello was played last night to about the thinnest and coldest house that we have • ecn at this period of the season. Otello had Teen announced for Tuesday, and Grisi (if we mistake not) was to have been Desdemona, whi real it was Madame Viardot wh was in possession of the part last night. 'I he latter, as our rcarl'rs may remember, made her debut in it at her Majesty's Theatre, and might reasonably wish to resume a character in which her vocal powers were first revealed to the English musical world. Pauline Garcia's execution was all that could be expected from a young cantatrice, whose phy.ical strength has, unfortunately, not kept pace with her vocal and dramatic improvements. Of Rubini's (Mello:and Tamburini's lago it is almost nee Bless to say anything, after the praise we have so frequently had occasion to bestow upon them. Her Majesty, who honoured the Opera with her presence, arrived towards the close of the first act of Otello, having, if we mistake not, been preceded by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Princess of Leiningen. From the numbers who left the theatre before the Diable Amoureux made his appearance, we conclude that he must have played to fewer admirers than ever. COPtNHAGEN, APRIL 23.—The health of Lis Royal Highness the Crown Prince is daily improving. ANALYSIS OF LAST NIGHT'S D VISION. Voted for Morpeth's Clause ...... . 291 Against Twenty-two Pairs Absent Liberals Absent Tories 4 Speaker Chairman, R. Bernal LIBERALS. Byng, Hon. G. S. Campbell, Sir J. Cave, Otwav Chapman, Sir H. L Cavend.sh, u. H. chiehester, J. P. B. Crawley, S. Davies, Colonel Duke Sir James Ltwall, It. Fenton, John Hurst, R. H. O'Codnor Don pryme, Roche: Sit D. Spencer, Hon. F. Shelburne, Earl of Stanley, Hon. W. Tancred, H. W. Townley, R. G. Vivian, Major C. Walker, C. A. PAI ABSENT L Barron, H. W. Basset, John Benett, John Berkeley, H n. C. Donkm; Sir Rufane Fitzgibbon, Hon It. Hallybin ton, Lord D. Heatheote, Sir G. TORIES. Maidstone, Lord Wynn, C. W. Burdett, Sir F. Colquhoun, J. C. Ashley, Hon. H. Copeland, W. Davenport, J. Leland. 'l'. D DIA, Q. Peel, Colonel.s. Houldsworth, T. Acland, Sir 'l'. D. Jenkins, Sir R. Pemberton, Thomas Corry, Right Hon. H. Vernon, Granville Jones, Wilson Liddell, H. I'. Kelly, Fitzroy Bagge, W. Williams, T. P. Kerr, D. IBERALS. Heathcotc, G. J. Jervis, Swynfen Langton, Col. G. Dialler, John Scholetield, J. Turner, William Wakley, Thomas ABSENT TORIES. Chapman, A. Miles, W. Goddard, Ambrose I ?dollyPenny T. G. LIBERALS WHO VOTED WITH THE TORIES. Atn,worth, Peter k widen, J. I Howirk, Lord Wood, C. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY•) MEUX AND OTHE , S V. SMITH AND OTHERS. This was an appli•ation to the Court, on behalf of the plain tiffs, to have an order, mule in this case by the Master of the Rolls in March last, discharg..d. '1 he plaintiffs had obtained from the Master of the Rolls an order to strike out of a cause pending the names of Messrs. Segur, Evans, and Co., as defendants in that cause. They afterwards found that in obtaining that order they had com mitted a mistake, and in consequence applied to the Vice-Chan ullor to have the Master's order set aide, and the Vice-Chan cellor directed the plaintiffs to bring their motion to his Lord ship's Court. The Loup CttANcELLoa'directed the plaintiffs to be al, lowed to amend their b,ll, on payment of the costs of the motion. Some cases of appeal were then brought befo•e the Court which poi , essed no lea:tire of general interest whatever, and occupied the Curt to the time of its rising, at shortly after One o'Clock. VICE-CHANCE R.Y.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the Vice Chancellor was engaged all the morn ing hearing unopposed petitions and short causes. SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) BUCKLEY AND SON V. TKOWTON. This was an action to recover the sum of 9SI. 15s. 91, due from the defendant, upon three bills of exchange, for goods supplied. The action was undefended, and a verdict passed for the plaintiffs, for the full amount. INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY. The Learned Commissioners Messrs. Reynolds and Bowen were occupied during the morning with hearing bail cases and unopposed applications, none of which possessed the slightest features of public interest. BOW 7 STItEET.---(THIS_ DAY.) Werner Cathray, a very fashionably-dressed young man, was put forward, charged by a young man, of the name of Reynolds, with having violently assaulted him as he was passing along the Strand last evening. It appeared that the complainant and two other young men were going along the Strand, and were about to turn in to Norfolk-street, when they encountered the prisoner, who pushed against them, and , a slight scuffle ensued between the prisoner and complainant, during which the prisoner struck the complainant a violent blow on the head with a stick, by which a severe wound was inflicted, and the complainant was con veyed, bleeding profusely, to a surgeon, where he had the wound dressed. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that the complainant and his friends pushed violently against him, and in the heat of the moment he struck the complainant. _ The Magistrate said he would give the prisoner an opportu nity of remunerating the complainant for the injury he had received, and he would then consider, in the course of the day, whether he should inflict any further punishment on the prisoner. THE MARK' TS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There were a few arrivals of English Grain, a fair quantity of Irish Oats, and Foreign Wheat. The weather being consi dered very favourable to the crops, there was very little busi ness transacted in any kind of Grain, and prices remained as last reported. Flour trade very dud. COLONIAL MARKET. The produce markets were in a dull state to-day, and the limited business done- privately was at barely former rates. The public sales went off quietly. The imports were light. SMITHFIELD. The supply of Cattle was but moderate, the demand dull, and wi•hout alter.utuu Of Mutton our suPply was plentifnl ; the, demand by no mean] gond Of Veal, Lamb, and Pork, our sup t ly was large, and the demand but middling. Beasts, 461 ; Sheep and Lambs, 5,680; Pigs. 456 ; Calves, 203. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Lamb, 6s. to 6s. Bd. TALLOW MARKET. A fair demand prevailed to-day for P. Y. Candle on the spot, and prices were fair at 475. 6d. to 475. 9d. per cwt. TEA MARKET. The biddings were languid at the public sales to-day, but full prices were paid for Black Tea. Green sorts were mostly taken in at former prices. CHARTIST SCHOOLS. TO MR. WILLIAM LOVETT. DEAR. Si 11,—If the saying of Dr. Johnson be a correct one, " That he never knew he had struck a hard blow unless there was a rebound," you have no reason to regret the personalities so unjustly heaped upon you by some unthinking and physical force Chartists; for their uncourteous conduct has not only excited a closer investigation into your plan for accomplishing the siews of the Charter by public opinion, and moral and educational means ; but that very investigation will, in the minis of rational democrats, discredit the outrage of violent men, and render them and their frantic behaviour alike objects of commiseration and avoidance with the convulsions of expir ing insanity. I give my adhesion to the great outline and general principle of your plan, because it offers to the working classes the choice whether they will have their families educated by themselves in freedom or by the State in slavery. You seize the present critical time for the working classes to commence your system before any Whig or Tory Government, under any pretext, can dictate a sectarian one, and compel them to educate their chil dren according to Act of Parliament regulations. I think if you can establis h a " Trades' Hall" in London, as a preliminary fulcrum whereon to place your lever for the elevation of the working classes to their rightful station in society, all other details might be amicably arranged hereafter, but certain it is, that if the principles of democracy, as set forth in the Charter could be obtained, they never can be permanently secured until the people are rendered compe tent (by some system analagous to your own) to appreciate their inestimable qualities. With the highest respect for your independent and patriotic character, I am, your's truly, ARTHUR S. WADE, D.D. GERMAN OPERA. We were enchanted last night by a performance of Mozart's Zauberfiote, exquisite in almost all its parts. This opera it has been of late the fashion to underrate, not only in this coun try, but by a certain set in Germany ; for even in that land of . melody and correct musical taste, the modern Italian school of music has its disciples, and these, we are told, consider Mo. zart passe, and no longer to be admired, with the exception, perhaps, of Don Juan and one or two others of his composi tions. These critics condemn the Zauberflote more particu larly; but the experience of last night, the exquisite perform ance of the opera, arid the enthusiastic reception it met with, om a well-filled house, should go far to prove, first, that the detractors from Mozart's merits are in the wrong ; and secondly, that their numbers are not great in London. We never wit nessed a more continuous, judicious, and enthusiastic applause bestowed on any performance than Staudigl, Haitzinger, Mel 'tiger, and Fruhling, Heinefetter, and Schumann, earned last night. Indeed we may say truly, that with the exception of one part we never heard the opera better performedeven inGermany. Had Mr. Schumann numbered among his company one lady of adequate voice and talent to do justice to the character of Astrafiammante, to the music written by Mozart for this part, which requires a very soprano of great compass, last night's performance would have been faultless. We could not but regret that both the great and beautiful bravuras be longing to this part we: e, for want of an adequate performer, necessarily omitted. The leaving out the music was a great loss, and the insignificance of the Queen of Night understood only by those who find an allegory in the confused story of Sa rastro, Tamino, and Pamina, to represent the evil principle at war with the good, deprived the plot, if plot there be, of even the little coherence that might otherwise be found in it. Where all was so exquisite, it is difficult to find any one piece more worthy of notice than the rest hut to us the air of Sarastro, " 0 ! Isis and Osiris," with the chorus belong ing to it, the terzett between .`arastro, Tamino and !'amine, " Soil ich d ch Theurer nicht mehrsehen !" appeared the gems of greatest price. The overture, the duet well kncwn in England as the " Manly Heart," and the charming scene be tween Papigeno and his Papagena, in which Madame Schumann excelled, were encored. We must not omit to state as a fact highly honourable to the singers, and worthy of imitation, that they adhered most strictly to the music set down for them by their great composer. We heard no note which was not incontestably Mozart's, and if we observed that Madame Heinefetter added two little embellishments on the word Creatur in her first duet with Papageno, we are willing to believe that these were omitted by the si gers we. had heard be''ore. At the fall of the curtain the audience called for the principal singers, and Staudigl Hail zinger and Heinefetter ap peared to receive a final cheer of thanks, which must have highly gratified them, for it seemed a unanimous expression of delight. ANNIVERSARIES.—This day, the 30th of Al rit, is the anniversary of the battle of Fontenot' in 1745, ar:d als3 of the death of George Farquhar, the celebrated dramatist. He was born at Londonderry, in Ire'and, in 1678. His first dramatic piece, called Love in a Bottle, was produced in his 20th year, and wvs attended with much success. Hi s last was the Beaux Stratagem, which had a great run, in the midst of which he died, in 1707. The 30th of April is like wise commemorable as the day on which the Edict of Nantes was signed, in 1.598. QUICK PASSAGE.—The General Steatn Navi gation Company's steam-ship Count ess of Lous dale, Captain P. S. Strsnack, that brought Tuesday's mail from Hamburgh, landed her passengers in London this morning at six o'clock, being only 47 hours from the time she left Hamhurgh. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND DINNER.—The anniversary festival of the Covrrit-garden Theatrical Fund was held yesterday at Freemasons' Hall, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge presiding in the chair. His Royal Highness in the course of the evening was joined by the Marquis of Normanby, who pleaded public duty as his apology for not arriving earlier ; and at the Vice-President's table we also noticed Sir Richard Onslow, Captain Forbes, and one or two more patron/3 of the drium,tic art. EVENING EDITION• COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. of Chek:b Effendi, the Turki,h Ambassador, had an auileu ee her Majesty to deliver a letter. M. de Mavrocordato, the Grecian Minister, had an audience of the Queen to take leave. General A'ava, the Spanish Minister, had an audience 0 - her Majesty to take leave. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscounth' Palmerston, G. C.B ,lier Majesty's Principal Secretary. kb State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chessit , ter, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Lord 3 , 11 Waiting ; and Sir Fred. Stovin, Groom in Waiting. ._s i r Alter having had audience of the Queen the Spanish Milis';'t ter and the Grecian Minister were presented to his Royal ness Prince Albert by Viscount Palmerston. His Royal Highness Prince Albert received addresses c't ' congratulation yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace INS': the following places and public bodies:— From the Legislative Assembly of St. Christopher, on his Royal Highness's marria2e, presented by Mr. Colquhoun. From the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in England, on the birth of the Princess Royal, presented by the Re., Alexander Munro, Moderator of the Synod of the Presbyte rian Church in England in connection with the Church Scotland, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Ralph, Rev. Alexander:, Murdoch, Rev. John Park, Rev. Hugh Campbell, Rev: Sawers, Rev. John Watson, Rev. William Grant, Rev. .101 0 Gardner, Rev. Alexander Rcnnison, and the Rev. Charley' Forbes Buchan. From st. Alban's, presented by the Mayor. From Sunderland, presented by a deputation. From the Corporation of Reading ; also from the Inhal* tants of Heading, presented by,M r. Rickford the Mayor, accvali l panied by the Rev. George Hulme, Major, and Chaplain, and; Mr. Mandy, Town Clerk for the Corporation, and accom partied by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M.P., the Rev. S. man Yates, and Air. H. F. Letchworth for the Inhabitants. From Great Yarmouth, presented by a Deputation. From the Vestry of St. Marylebone, presented by Mr . Waymouth. 'From Guilford, presented by the Mayor. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was attended by Lord R. Grosvenor, Groom of the stole, Mr. G. E. Anson, 'treasurer , Lord G. Lennon, Gentleman in waiting, Captain Francis &ey mour, Groom in waiting, Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in wait ing, a .d Colonel Godwin, Gentleman Usher in waiting. :A Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the. Queen yeal: terday. • Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an alt ing yestei day morning in a carriage and tour. The Ru s an Ministi r and the iiaroness Brunow visited their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen yes' terday afternoon at ,titickingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Leiningen, took , an airing yesterday afternoon in an open landau and four., Colonel Bouverie attended her Majesty on horseback. Princc. Albert and the Prince of Leiningen rode out on horseback at, the same time. . _ Her M ,jesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Lady C. Cocks, Lord Byron, Sir Frederic k' Stoven, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel Bouverier honoured the Italian Opep. with their presence last e vening. The Royal dinner at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening included their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester, and the Duke of Cambridge. .I heir Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Leiningen, Archbishop of York, the Duke of Wellington, Lady A. P i ' Dawson, Lady C. Legge, Baroness Spaeth, Earl of Uxbridge , Lord Iturghersh, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord G. Lennox, 1 ,° 14 Major Stevens. 'I he Coldstream Band attended during dinner. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent received Ad dresses of Congratulation on the Birth of the Princess Royal , yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's, from the following 'towns and public bodies : From the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Borough of St. Alban's—presented by the Mayor, se comnanied by the Earl of Listowel, M.P., and Mr. Musketf, M. P. From the Vestry of St. Marylebone—presented by Messrf• Waymouth and Daniell. From the Inhabitants of the Borough of Great Yarmouth , county Norfolk ; also front the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur' gesses of the Borough of Great Yarmouth—presented by t he Mayor and a Deputation. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was attended 14, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Lady in Waiting, and Colon s : Cowper, C. 8., First Equerry and Comptroller of her Roy's' Highness's Household. 'I he Prince of Leiningen visited the Duchess of Kent ”°. terday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by most of the Ministets• The Council sat an hour and a half. A Deputation from Manchester on the Import Duties, con' sisting of Mr. Robert Hyde Greg, Mr. John B. Smith , M r ' Robert Gardner, and Mr. Henry Ashworth, had an interviel with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. d A Deputation from Liverpool headed by Lord Sandon Mr. Cresswell, had an interview with Lord John Russell yes' terday at the Colonial-office on the subject of the I' Poor-law. A Deputation of the Rectifying Distillers of London, el: sisting of Messrs. James Lys Seager, Henry Pigeon, W. d Browning, William Nicholson, John Gaitskell, Bishop , Hodges, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Lzen e " quer, in Downing-street. A Deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce st. Liverpool, in support of a revision of the Import Duties, e.°°_ sisting of Messrs. N. Roskell, Thomas Todd, and Willia!fs Maury ; and a Deputation from the Town of Liverpn!:shn. support of a revision of the Import Duties, consisting of * co y J. Horaby, Richard Harrison, William Earle, and yter- Harrison, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne r day, at his official residence in Downing-street. I ill" Mr. Flood, the Vestry Clerk of St. Marylebone, had H o m e terview yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby at the Office, and delivered an Address to her Majesty from the Rite payers of that Parish against the Poor-law Bill. A Deputation of Glass-makers, headed by Messrs. Thorn° Hawkcs, M.P., Oswald, M.P., Benjamin Hawes, Lleo" jamin Wood, and Scholefield, M.P., and including Messrs. Rice Harrison, John Christie, and Apsley Pellattiki an interview with Mr. Labouchere yesterday at the Ofliaa thil Board of Trade. Mr. W. Barron, M.P., and Colonel Anson, had intervio" yesterday with Viscount Mtlhourne in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of the Honduras, vrere're' ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. A Deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool—consisting of Messrs. J. flornby, R. Harrisou. W. Earle, H. Harrison, N. Roskell, T. Todd, and W. Maur'' , had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer 02 Wedne,day, in support of a revision of the Import Duties. SPORT fN(i INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRS C SPRING MEETING. (FURTHER PARTICULARS OF WEDNESDAY'S RACES, Sce' Handicap. —The Thebes colt made the running, followed b e the Corsair and the Genius, to the Ab. Al. bottom, where th Cors dr gave up, and the Genius joined the Thebes colt the latter was Leaded halfway up the ropes, and beaten cleverly 11 alength. The Corsair and Belissima were third and fourth , and Jeff y last. Sweepstakes of 200 Sovs. each.—The Nob made all th e running, Palaemon waiting till the last moment, when h,..e made his rush, but with only a negative effect, as the j_uclg' decision was a " dead heat." The consequence of this ra ce will be seen on referring to our Derby quotations. The .Dl°'' arrived only on Saturday last from Ireland. B. C. Plate.—Ramadan ran in front by himself till halfwni between the turn of the lands and the Duke's Stand; he 01 1 then passed by Fitzroy and James, the former having the lead and keeping it without difficulty to the end. l'he other races do not call for details. Previous to the races several lots of blood stock were putts? for sale, but only three (from Mr. Walker's stud) sold, viz., 6 yearling colt by Velocipede, out of Gipsey, 225 gs ; a yearlint filly by Emilius, out of Francesca, 220 gs ; and a yearling filly by Emilius, out of Emineh, 46 gs ; nearly all the otbe f lots Iv, re bought in. The Cup was not challenged for this meeting. ARRIVALS.—The following names have been added to th e list since our report on Monday :—Duke of Bedford, Marqu'', of Exeter, Lords Maidstone, G. Bentinck, Orford, Villiers Godolphin ; Sir C. Cockerell, Hon. J. Villiers, Hon. 11 ' Rous, Mr. Etwall, Mr. Knox, &c. THURSDAY. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas for 4 yrs old,9st. 81b., 5 Oh lOst 71b., 6 yrs and aged, lOst. 121 b. R. C Duke of Rutland's Flambeau, a yrs Mr. Treen's Fitzroy, 4 yrs Mr. Beresford's Bob Peel, 4 yrs uttarhu—dle::icil Whistle ... (Robinson) i .... -- 4 Mr. Tyson's Epirus, aged .- 5 Duke of Beaufort's Cambyses, 4 yrs Betting-2 to 1 against Flambeau; 3to 1 against Fitzxoy ; 7 to 2 against. Epirus, and 4 to 1 against Bob Peel ; w'O' by a length. The 1,000 Guinea Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs. ea ch ' h ft, for 3 yrs old fillies, Bst 71b, D. M. 19 Subs. 1 11r. Batson's ch f Potentia, by Plenipotentiary Duke of Grafton's ch f Florence, by Langar Air. Osbaldeston's The Queen of Beauty Mr. Payne's ch Australia - • . Lord Exeter's Syria Betting-6 to 4 agst Potentia, and 6to 4 agst Flereoc' Won by two lengths. Mr. Byng's Garry Owen, Bst 411) - ( Nat) beat Duke of 15e . „°,, fort's Assa.sin, Bst 71b ; T. Y. C. ; 100, h ft, sto 2 on 6" Owen. Won by ten lengths. NEWMARKET, THURSDAY Nicfl l • NEWMARKET STAKES. .• •=O .-. 2 to 1 agst Mona colt • s . 7 to 2 agst Young Quo Minus . 9 to 2 agst Wahab—taken 4305 tt 00 1 agstag, s t Knight 5 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot 8 to 1 agst Revel Revel has been scratched since the betting closed. THE D EASY* 7 to 1 agst Ralph aaa a gsgg g as s tt t m ß y o aatn l bit i_e arincsi c iof 9to I age Coronation - 7: h _ ta k en 1 1 3 0 9 : t o o ° 14 to 1 ag.;t Prinfr_ s 25 to 1 agst Sir lin Duke of Wellington t oten , ... Knightsbridge 33 to 1 111 • Joachim 40 to 1 ag s t Mustapha 1000 to 10 agst Eringo 1000 to 10 agst Er sign —taken w oo to 10 agst Ne B us Portsoken 10 5 0 ° 0 to 115agag' THE OAKS. 6to I agst Potentia taken Before the races Lampoon and Ghtsznee were backed 8 to 1 each, and Floren e at 9 to 1. EGLINTON PARK RACES —WEngnsnalr. , A The Westerh a ll C up St a k es o f 10 sovs. each, with 100 !aw e ' . Two miles and a half. Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 4 yrs ........(Capt. Campbell)Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor, aged . .......... 3 Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab, aged .•.......... The T wo yrs old Stakes of 20 sovs. each. Halt' a m ile. Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera ( Noble) •:.; Lord E g linton's c by Velocipede, out of Queen Batlitheba Three others were not placed. f, The Philorth Handicap of 15 sovs. each , 10 ft, and 5 only, i &c. Mile and half. N 1 Hon. Mr. Sandiland's Nubian , aged ... ( Ca p t. Richardson/ 2 Mr. Fairlie's Zobrab, aged Lord Waterford's Hackfall, 6 yrs Lord Eglinton's Zoroaster, 5 yrs ... •-•••„. Match —Mr. Hope Johnstone's The Returned beat ''" Lamb's Pilot. nin e ' Sweepstakes of 15 soya , each , 10 ft., with 50 added. One 1 Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost, 6 yrs .. ...... (Capt. Richardson) Lord Saltoun nd Assagia, 3 yrs ... _ c y. The Atalanl a Challenge Whip , add ed to a Handica p of 5 w each. Quarter of a mile. Lady Eglinton's Zoroaster, 5 yrs . (Capt. Richardson) 9 Mrs. Fairlie's Orion, aged... 5 Mrs. Fairlie's Crinoline, 4 yrs d . The Blythwood Handicap of 10 soya. each, and 50 nro miles. i tole) g Mr. Ramsay's Neptune, 4 yr —(NoL Lord Eglintore's Dr. Canis, 4 yr, isa.e•or I! 'en? ####### EVE: OPENIN (F For some tie ill alive with c: line from hould t p sent a•lin, hundreds Accordit %malting after ii ;he Railway C Joseph Ball, se These gentlert ti they stet ▪ e trip was pH "nt. The da /Durable fur at INre at work "en' nerve al their pledge to eh the 21st. e 'We have be iroin Sir F. before our res. getory, and th Compliment pa hirable mantic railway :—_ " Six —I Directors of th this day report Council of Tr. the opening of tided the am thlijibe then c kaKing know of the line, iter in which difficulties he 1 this Railway. (Signed ' 1 Joseph B: On Tuesda, 4 12t1 announce daY. the shop townspeople h We verily bel there never / Place than the announcing bringing ou of the illu breathing fi viaduct at tl greatest int upon the ru gloom of 11 duce a sum transit, boy alarm to pr, change, an, arriving at little time, but the tatc - was that of station at ( hour and I: making the * happiest tr the party to make II _ for all we beard but evil star I station, ws foot to tl disappeare which he taking eat cause, he off after tb doubt in t ing, howc and had t who asked hurried 13 train ? laden, anc unoccupie who sisbt little difl and whict surmount at four in five, havit minutes, with pass the day c number 4 sever be for the tr body in c The ti papers fr doings a thereupc mated el tion of L bad not business Sir J came up House, choicest and his amid me the gue terttine respond and La , tore," Trade table. bridge. 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