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riIED3 LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2.000,00C1., in 80,000 Shares, of 25/. each. Preliminary Deposit, is. 6d. per Share Pro sntuses and information may be obtained at the Tempo- Orticza of the Company, Caurion-row, Westminster, on ap licatlon to G. F. HOWE, Hon. See., pro tern. THIS DAY, In 3 Vols., daily Svo., with Portraits from ori4,lnal Painting's, Mr. Er-Iol' WARtURTON'4 . RUPERT and the CAVALIERS. New Burlington-straet, May 5, 1849. HER iI'AJE STY'S THEATRE. Madlle. ALBONI. It is respectfully announced that Madlle. ALBONI will RE APPEAR oa SATURDAY neat, May 12, In ono of her favourite characters. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE MADLLE. JENNY LL.,TD. The Last of the Series. The Subscribers are most respectfully informed that THIS EVEBING will be given as a Subscription Night, on which occasion Macille JENNY LIND will appear as ALICE, in Meyerbeer's Opera ILOBELTO IL DIAVOLO, with various Entertainments in the Bal let Department. Appneatens for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Office„ Ope: a Colonnade. Doors op r at Half-past Seven, Concert to commence at Eight. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual, price 10s. dd. each, QT. JAMES'S THEATRE Season 1849. FEEXCTI PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. TO-3101TROW EVENING rut Performances wilt commence at Fialf-past Seven o'clock with LE BAL D'OUVRIERS. To conclude with LE PRE AUX CLERCS. Mergy, M. Octave; Comminge, M. Couderc ; Isabelle, Mdlle. Charton. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in :Mewed expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis 11.0n are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • 6s. Od. Pit .. .• .. 33. Od. Amphitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od. Subscriptions 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. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3fARICE f. Mr. B. Wsbeter, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. Tins EVEN IN Will be performed an entirely new Comedy, entitled RUNAWAY HUSBANDS. Characters by Messrs. llowe, Vandenhoff, and Buckstone: - Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which a CLtssical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND, To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. THEAPRX ROYAL, ADRIA - 111. Cnder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Hf 3 LAST LEGS. After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slather, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Redford. EOYAL LYCk.f.TM TIIEA Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sob: Lessee. Mr. Cherie. Ma' he b. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new comic Drama, called THE HUSBAND OF MY WIFE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, F. 31atthews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss IL Gilbert, and Miss Connor. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and, Madame Vestris. To coaciade with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New 140 x-office, No. 2, Wellingto7.street, is open to the public ..very day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATt:.E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be presented a new Domestic Opera, entitled THE BLIND SISTER ; or, the Mountain Farm. After which, Manes. W. and A. Neruda and their brother Victwr will perform on the Violin, Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled SOURED .DIN AND VILE FAIR PERSIAN. AsTLEY'zs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince filbert, &c. In active preparation, and will be produced at Whitsuntide a new grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJEKAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. The new grand Easter Spectacle unprecedentedly successful. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fltzball, 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 drat Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. State Manazer, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAT 10. THER2IO.IIETE3, Lowest, 40; Highest, 48; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 2.9.95. WIND W.N.W.—dull and showery. thGH wATtat AT LONDON timll,flE. Tats DAY , nrning, 39 min. after 3 1 Eveniag, 55 min. after 3 To-Moscow—lforning, 11 rnin. atter 4 Evealne, 26 min. after 4 4-11 , _ l' ‘ .:„ :-.1 \ 4„ , !,-• '4 7 O,T a'. • 4,4 4. . li ; '' f. ~., - 4 r • 110' 4 ' ,R O , _ IS. ..... • ' etrenina LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1849. On Thursday, the 24th of May, the all-important question of the Ballot will be again submitted to the consideration of the Commons by the Hon. Gen - tleman the representative of the city of Bristol. As the day is fast approaching, we would bring the matter conspicuously to the - recollection of all the honest Radical Reformers in the House, and would most earnestly commend them to be in readiness for the occasion. The eminent necessity of their attend ance during that sitting cannot by any possibility be exaggerated. Unless they recognise this fact they have altogether failed to appreciate the value and efficacy of the Ballot. It is out of the question to suppose that any sincere promoter of the cause of our national advancement can perceive the real advan tages flowing from the Ballot, and yet be in the smallest particular guilty of remissness in its ad vocacy. Is it imagined that the endeavour to push the Billet through Parliament must inevitably prove futile because of the strength of the opposition so long raised against it by the aristocratic influences in the Legislature ? Is it maintained that all exertion is useless because of the fewness of those who are seriously solicitous to substitute the urn for the polling-booths ? Away with such preposterous pusillanimity while we have on record the achieve ments of a handful of gallant Reformers in defiance of an apparently overwhelming host of adversaries Remember how CHARLES VILLIERS was derided on the commencement of his labours for the abolition of the Corn-laws Remember how DANIEL O'CON• NELL was laughed to scorn at the period of the Clare election ! And yet Protection was, after all, abolished ! and the Catholics were ultimately emancipated ! If the motion for the adoption of the system of secret voting has been again and again re jected, the motion for the removal of the import du ties on foreign corn and provisions was, time after time, negatived by appalling majorities. And yet the taxes levied upon our importations of grain have been dissipated into thin air, and the policy recom mended by ADAM SMITH has been constitutionally rendered the policy of the Government. Even the navigation-laws are yielding to the force of reiterated assaults, and the impassive Lords remain deaf to the impassioned adjurations of STANLEY. Nothing can resist the rational demands of the people SO long as those demands are made rationally through the medium of the representa tives. This should of itself be sufficient to impress the minds of our Legislators with a sense of their awful responsibilities. It should be enough to con vince them that they have been elected by their respective constituencies for some nobler end than that of dalA dling over Committees, or sauntering down to an entertaining discussion, or devouring devilled ones at 13ELLAmy's, or getting themselves dubbed M.P. just as any coxcomb of letters was wont to purchase degrees in the once venal universities in the north of Scotland. Of all the exertions in behalf of reform there is not one so honourable, both to the representatives and to the represented, as that made in behalf of the Ballot. And why ? Simply because it is intended and calculated to place both the one and the other in a higher and more unimpeachable position. It is said, until the very repetition of the objection has become nauseous, that the system of the Ballot is un-English, that its enforcement would inevitably lower the moral stature of those possessed of the elective franchise. To this we would at once briefly and bluntly respond, that the electors of England are the best conservators of their own dignity—that all they ask is the privilege of employing themselves what is employed every day by their representatives in their clubs and other p;entlenzardg establishments. We would inquire, moreover, in return, which of the two proceedings is the more " honourable?" To declare for this candidate or that candidate, according to the bent of your political sympathies, by writing his name on a slip of paper, and dropping that slip of paper into the urn of election ?—or to gratify a personal grudge by stabbing the reputation of an acquaintance in the dark, as is done any time a new candidate is black-balled in the fashionable club houses of the West end? And yet the former is all that is required by the multitude ; and the latter is meanwhile practised by the very men who protest against the system of secret voting at elections of knights and burgesses—as dishonest, furtive, and emphatically un-English ! Surely this is the most barefaced in stance of what is called class-legislation ; surely it is the most impudent mode of p•:rading the variance of precept and example before the mass of the popula tion. As to imagine that the people will much longer submit to this most transparent attempt to gull them, it is altogether absurd. The electors of England are not quite the dunderheaded blockheads the aristocratic faction of Conservatives appear to mistake them for. " They know a hawk from a handsaw," whether the wind be in the north-north-east, or whether old 2Eolus evinces an inclination to box the compass. What ever the second-hand boroughmongers—and by the second-hand boroughmongers, we mean nothing less than the whole of the upholders of the plan of voting through the polling-booths—whatever these persons may think to the contrary, the constituencies of the United Kingdom will not much longer consent to the domination of the aristocrats over the holders of the elective franchise. During last session, it will not be forgotten, that the division upon the question of the Ballot resulted in a majority in its favour. The majority was not more than five, it is true,—but not to have a minority in a House of one hundred and sixty-seven Members was something! A letter, moreover, from the Hon. Representative of Stroud announced on the following morning that he was only prevented by accident from voting among the supporters of Mr. BERKELEY. This time we doubt not but that Mr. POULETT SCRAPE will be punctual ; and we earnestly hope that his brother Reformers will, in like manner, be guilty of no remissness. Let the division on Thurs day, the 24th of May, 1849, be a confirmation of the division on Thursday, the Bth of August, 1848! Any step forward, however small, is better tha❑ retro gression. Obvious as the truth is, let not its force be overlooked through indifference. Let the pro moters of radical reform emulate the earnestness of the Honourable HENRY BERKELEY, who will bring forward the motion, and of Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, who has arranged, we believe, to second it. To the Honourable Member for Bristol we were indebted last year for one of the most sensible speeches of the session. To the Hon. Member for Macclesfield we doubt not we shall have reason to feel under obligation for those new arguments in favour of theßallot which he, more immediately, perhaps, than any other man in the Commons, is, from his position, peculiarly qualified to advance. Let the Radical Reformers in the Legislature bear this consideration fully in mind, that in reference to the Ballot there is no reason what ever for discouragement, but that, on the contrary, there is every cause for being sanguine as to the re sult of the division. That is, of course, if they be only true to their colours ! There was an observation—a very truthful obser vation—made at the dinner at the Albion the other day, which is rendered peculiarly significant when we remember that it fell from the lips of M. GuizoT. In referring to the principle of supporting charities by voluntary contributions, the ex-Minister of France took occasion to remark that in the present day, " amid those dreadful storms by which the whole civilized world is now shaken, and which tend every where to rouse the poor against the rich—the suffer ing part against the prospering part of mankind," he considered it " more than ever important to ad here to so excellent a practice." The sentiment is worthy of the Astutio of former days, " before the brain had reasoned out the heart." Perhaps in mak ing that observation, M. GUIZOT only referred to the subject of the moment, voluntary donations— " liberty in charity," as he appropriately called it. But let us take his words in a general sense, and their truth will appear hardly so remarkable as their strange significance, coming from one who has learned that truth by a stern experience. "It is now more than ever important to adhere to so excellent a practice," says M. Gutzor—that is, the prac tice of giving instead of refusing—of giving voluntarily rather than necessitating recourse to violence. Imagine M. GUIZOT enunciating such a principle in January or February, 1848 ! Imagine him then advising his royal Master " to ad here to so excellent a practice," and, by adopting the voluntary principle, to ensure "the permanent triumph of civilization over destruction, and of social life over social death." Had such advice been tendered and acted upon in Paris in 1848, it would not have been uttered in London in 1849, and if it had been pronounced by GUIZOT the Minister, most assuredly it had never have fallen from GUIZOT the Exile. If we might venture to believe the words intended in their largest sense (but unhappily we cannot credit such an hypothesis), then, indeed, experience would have worked marvels, and Guzzor would be a con vert to the doctrine of his opponents. For this " ex cellent practice " is just what we have all along been so strenuously contending for. This, in fact, is the true means of insuring " the triumph of civili zation over destruction, and of social life over social death"—this, the voluntary principle. The volun tary recognition by the governors of the claims of the governed—the voluntary accordance of popular rights—the voluntary redressing of the grievances of the wronged—the voluntary attention to the popular wants, and the voluntary deference to the popular will, on the part of the high and powerful,--this voluntary principle is indeed, especially in such " dreadful storms" as M. GUIZOT spoke of, the only plank by which monarchs and ministers can escape shipwreck. Had the voluntary principle prevailed fif teen months ago in high places in Paris, the French would have had their Reform banquets and their reforms also, LOUIS PHILIPPE might still be on his throne, and M. GUIZOT in his bureau. It has hap pened otherwise. The recognition of the excellence of the voluntary principle came too late to serve the speaker, it came from the fallen minister and the lonely exile. This fact sufficiently " points the moral." It is a lesson worth conning, it is an example not to be disregarded. Let us trust it will make many converts to the voluntary principle. In this country that principle is occasionally, at rare intervals, acted upon. Our Ministers and Parlia ments do not always wait for the irresistible " pressure from without." They sometimes, induced by an imperceptible necessity, or convinced by some overwhelming influence, do adopt the voluntary principle. Thus it was, for example, the famous abolition of the corn-laws was so tardily, but so triumphantly achieved. But turning from the past to contemplate the future—and unless it makes us wiser fur the future, of what avail is the study of the past? of what avail are such lessons as that just taught us by M. Gutzor ?—looking to the future, what a long list we see before us of urgent claims awaiting recognition, and grievous wrongs awaiting redress ; and the thought forces itself upon us, how speedily these might be redressed and recognised by a generous adoption of the voluntary principle. "Wait a little longer" is an admirable maxim on the lips of the wronged and the suffering; it stimulates their patience, and inspires them with hope, but when uttered in high places it becomes a mockery and an insult—its virtuous efficacy is gone. " Wait a little longer " is an admirable " voice from the crowd," but unfortunately it is too often heard in places where the " voluntary principle " should find advocates. " Wait a little longer " is the cold reply so continually vouchsafed to the claimants for some popular boon. Whether it be a c r y for financial or Parliamentary reform—whether it be a plea for education for the ignorant—for relief for the over taxed—for the professional man who bears the heavy burthen, while the man of property is comparatively untouched—for the poor woman, who pays the same tax for her wretched sloe-leaves as the countess for the " finest gunpowder" whether we ask for free ventilation for the poisonous garret and the suffocating cellar—" social life instead of social death ;"—whether it be for these or a hundred other as necessary reforms that the popular voice is raised, the answer is the same—the same from the Minister in Downing -street or the majority in St. Stephen's—" Wait a little longer." How infinitely better for all parties would it be if for once—" on this occasion only"—the Liberal Ministers and the popular representatives of England took a lesson from M. GuizoT, and adopted the " voluntary" principle. Let them believe him, for he has paid dearly for the lesson—" it is an excellent practice," and it is " now more than ever important to adhere to it." THE FRENCH REPUI3LIC We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur pubihhes the fullowifig telegraphic dispatches from Italy:— Tile Government has received from General OLT DINOT the following telegraphic dispatch, sent from Marseilles the 7th, at half-past seven o'clock in the evening :-- "Palo, May 4. " The 3d brigade has disembarked. The head quarters are at Palo, with the 2d brigade. The Ist is at Polidoro, within six leagues of Rome." The Government has also received the following telegraphic dispatches : " Turin, May 4. "Lyons, May 6. "THE MINISTER OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. "Radetzky left Milan yesterday for Malghera. lie has given orders for the entry of 27,000 men into Ro magna and Tuscany, who are already o❑ their march. Three battalions have been sent from Trieste to occupy Ancona." " Turin, May 3. " Lyons, May 4. "There left Mila❑ on the Ist 6,090 men for Ferrara. The rumour is that they are to enter Bologna. Other troops have left for Tuscany. The garrison of Milan is reduced to 5,000 men." _ _ _ " Leghorn, May 5. " THE CONSUL-GENERAL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The Austrians entered Lucca this morning. They are expected this evening at Pisa." " Gaeta, April 30. "THE MINISTER OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. "The King of Naples entered the States of the Church yesterday at the head of 5,000 men. The King was re ceived at Terracina with acclamations of the people, crying Vivo Pius IX.' The flotilla has disembarked at Terracina. Some sailors and soldiers have gone to ward; Porto-di-Anzo." The PRESIDENT of the Republic has addressed the following letter to General OUDINOT. It was pub lished in the semi-official Patrie of Tuesday evening. " My dear General,—The telegraphic news, announc ing the unforeseen resistance which you have met with under the walls of Rome, has greatly grieved me. I bad hoped, as you know, that the inhabitants of Rome, open ing their eyes to evidence, would receive with eagerness an army which had arrived there to accomplish a friendly and disinterested mission. This has not been the case. Our soldiers have been received as enemies. Our mili tary honour is engaged. I will not suffer it to be assailed. Reinforcements shall not be wanting to you. Tell your soldiers that I appreciate their bravery, and take part in what they endure; and that they may always rely on my support and my gratitude. Receive, my dear General, the assurance of my sentiments of high esteem, " Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE." This letter, it will be perCeived, is countersigned by no Minister, and it is moreover written in open defiance of the decision of the National Assembly, This letter, like the letter to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, has been written, it is said, not by the Prince himself but by one of the Ministers, for the purpose of compromising the PRESIDENT, so as to facilitate the return of the Bourbons. As we have before remarked, M. DE FALLOUX does credit to his Jesuit instructors. His brother, the Abbe DE FALLOUX, who has for some time past been in triguing at Rome for the restoration of the POPE and the Inquisition, has been expelled from the city, having been discovered in treasonable communication with the foreign reactionaries. In commenting on this most ill-judged letter the National says— " Such, then, is the reply of the President of the Re public to the vote of the Assembly; this is the attention he pays to the will of the Representatives of the nation; this is how he shows his respect for the Constitution. " We must confess we had difficulty in believing what we said. At this moment even, the defiance hurled by the first functionary of the Republic against the sove reign power appears to us unintelligible. The direct and personal intervention of M. Louis Bonaparte in a question which was the subject of dis cussion between his Cabinet would be a fact sufficiently grave, but when that interference is manifested after a decisive and final vote, which has constitutionally put an end to the discussion, what is to be thought of it ? It is without the countersign of any one of his Ministers that M. Louis Bonaparte has pro mised reinforcements to General Oudinot. But is he ignorant that he has not the right to order a single company to advance a step ? If he has not himself read the Constitution to which he has sworn, has he no one near him who could have reminded him of the bearing of his oath ? What is to be understood by this ? Is it in case of need he will dispense with the assent of his Ministers, ai he would appear to wish to dispense with the authorisation of the Assembly ? All this requires explanations, and they cannot be given too promptly. "It is not our wish to make use of irritating expres sions in a discussion which may lead to incalculable consequences. We impose silence on the indignant feel ings of our heart. It is coolly and legally that we now discuss the matter ; we shall not, therefore, express the suspicions which have arisen in our minds at the events which have been for some time passing before our eyes. But we are convinced that the Assembly, carefully watchful of its rights and of its dignity, will not permit with impunity any attack on the Constitution, from what I ever quarter it may be directed. It is its duty to defend it, and this duty it will fulfil, convinced as it is of bav ingthe support of the nation." 'The National Assembly on Tuesday rejected the proposition of the Committee on the budget for the reduction of the army by 75,000 men. The Ministry may thank Generals CAVAIGNAC, BEDEALT, and M. DE LAMARTINE for their preserva tion from defeat on this occasion. They all four spoke against the proposition for reduction. In re turn the Ministers, through their Electoral Com mittee of the Club of the Rue de Poictiers, scold and bully the electors of Paris for Laving in the prelhni- nary - scrutiny returned the names of these gentlemen, together with those of MX. DUFAURE and MARIE at the head of the list of candi dates for the Department of the Seine. This conduct on the part of the Electoral Committee proves the truth of the assertion we made some time since, that the names of General CA-. VAIGNAC and his friends had been proposed originally by the Committee solely with the intention of deceiv ing. We trust the electors of France will in every instance exercise their own judgment as to every can didate, and not suffer any club or any newspaper to dictate to them a list to be voted as a whole. At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday the subject of the PRESIDENT'S letter to General OUDINoT was brought forward by M. GREYY, in reply to whom M. ODILON BARROT stated that, though the letter in question was not the act of the Cabinet, he and his colleagues were ready to assume the whole responsibility of it. He declared that the object of the letter was merely to express sympathy with the army, and that it was not intended as the inaugura tion of a policy contrary to that of the Assembly. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which M. LEDRU Rows made a violent attack on the Ministers and the PRESIDENT. He declared the letter to be an insolent defiance of the National Assembly and a violation of the constitution. Ultimately the debate on the subject was adjourned on the motion of M. GREVY and M. FAVRE, in consequence of M. ODILON BARROT having announced that M. LESSEPS, the late Minister at Madrid, had been sent by the Govern ment as an envoy to Rome, to express to the Roman people the wishes of the Assembly, as expressed by the vote of Monday, which showed that the Govern ment did not intend to oppose the Assembly. It was rumoured in the Assembly that the Mi nistry had received a telegraphic dispatch announcing the entry of both the French and the Neapolitan troops into itome. BOURSE.—PArus, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. THREE o'CLoca.—The Funds having rise❑ yesterday, on a report, which has since been contradicted, of the entry of the French troops into Rome, the improvement has vanished. To-day, the Five per Cent. Rentes opened at fully per cent. below the closing prices of yesterday, and continued weak all day. The other public Stocks and Railway Shares wero also weak, and the business done was exceedingly limited. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 30; ditto (90 days), 25 17. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Northern of France, Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1414—Orlaans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 22 Paris and Stras bourg, 4 1 A—Rouen and Havre, 10V,—Tours and Nantes, 3%. i r H . E gUNr , LONDO N, TliIT ft SDAY :g VENIN G, MA Y 16, IMO,. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. SAXON Y. Intelligence has been received from Dresden to the 3d instant. The following additional &talk of the circum stances attending the insurrection will be read with interest : The hostile disposition manifested by a portion of the people had induced the Government to take extraordinary measures. At one o'clock A.M. several detachments of infantry entered the palace; six can non were placed in the cavalry barracks, which were flanked by infantry; other cannon were placed at the arsenal. The artillerymen marched behind their guns, and were received with shouts by the people, who crowded the bridge. All the entrances of the palace were closed, and the people gathered round them. The people began to obstruct the passages of the streets. The delegates of the city formed a committee of public safety ; the people broke open the church doors and sounded the toesin. The Communal Guard got under arms. The people proceeded to attack the arsenal, but the regi ment of Prince ALBERT fired three times on them. Five were killed, and many wounded. The people then took possession of the Hotel de Ville, and dis played the tricoloured flag from the balcony, amid cries for vengeance. Stones were thrown at the windows of the Royal palace. At five o'clock four cannon were placed before the Royal palace, at tended by bodies of light cavalry. The Communal Guard was fired upon by the troops, and several persons were killed. The pavements were torn up, and barricades formed as high as the first floor windows. Stones were strewed in the streets to prevent the cavalry from act ing. The people then attacked the arsenal once more, but a cannon was discharged from the inside upon them, killing many of them. The committee of public safety declared its sitting permanent. The people demanded arms from the committee. Dr. MiNiiwiTz, Lieutenant-General HEINTZE, and others addressed them from the balcony, and exhorted them to patience, promising them arms and ammunition. The committee sent a deputation to the KING, who received them with emotion, but refused to listen to them. A kind of provisional government was then fnoormleodn.g€: 0 .T:sentaNms undertook the direction of the revolt. The old city and some of the suburbs were in the hands of the masses by seven o'clock. They spoke With slight inGteerrvinalasnythebufit call ed ring continue n f t n r u a e d r o e n p ü b b o l i t c h o. sides all night. At three in the morning, on the sth, the combat recommenced at Schlosgassee. The German Reform, in its evening edition of May 5, says the people were successful in retaining possession of what they had taken. The KING and Royal Family had fled to Konigstein. The Provi sional Government had addressed a proclamation to the people, calling on them to fight bravely, and to defend their newly-acquired liberty. A truce had been entered into between the troops and the revolu tionary Government, by which the latter are left in quiet possession of their power. DRESDEN, MAY 4.—Schiener, Heabner, and Todt, who have constituted themselves into a Provisional Government, have issued a proclamation, stating that by the flight of the King and the Ministry the king dom is left without government, which will be administered by them in the name of the Saxon nation. They demand the most strict obedience from all, and state that they will send Parlia mentaries to the troops, desiring them to sub mit to the decrees of the Provisional Government. They address the soldiers, calling upon them to maintain the laws and defend the rights of the country, which are now in danger. The King also has issued a proclamation to the Saxon nation in which the speaks of his readiness to sacrifice all to the wishes of his people, and is ready to do se in the present instance. But that so long as the great States of Germany, so long as Prussia hesitates to recognise and accept the German Constitution as propounded by Frankfort, it can scarcely be expected that Saxony should give in her adhesion ; that the Prussian Government has called upon the National Assembly to propound another ;constitution, and has expressed the hope that t desired unity of amicable t a l n ieSaxo Saxon ur arrangementoverninent on will be sidebe ente redwill no into; t b e back ward tha do the shall have ac knowledgediGmeoirmedainayte,laynsdtatoh Saxonywill the German Constitution, inmaintaining the greatly same. will return to King concludes that, during his his capital as soon as possible, and on his absence, the Government will be carried by stating that he with out interruption.datfosorthsoaorindads This proclamation is countersigned by Ferdinand Zschinsky.—Dresden Papers. The Prussian troops arrived at Dresden on the sth, and it is said that on the 6th a telegraphic dispatch was received at Berlin, announcing the suppression of the insurrection. AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND RUSSIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 3d May gives the fol lowing official report :—" 60,000 Russians, with the full complement of artillery, divided into three co• lumns, each consisting of 20,000 men, have already marched by the passes of Rodenthurm and Tomos, through the duchy of Bukowina and Boganostampi into Transylvania. The Imperial Austrian Colonel DORSNER, assisted by four other Austrian officers, has been appointed leader of the Russian columns. Colonel DORSNER is then to organize the boundary troops. He is invested with full powers to nominate all superior officers, including captains. At 10kna, on the frontier of Transylvania, a Turkish reserve corps of 40,000 men has stationed itself in conjunction with the Austrians. At Brody 50,000 Russians are posted, at Tomashow 40,000, and at Micholwitz, on the Gallician boundary, another body of 40,000 men. Eight reserve battalions are to march thither and occupy an encampment, where they are to be actively disciplined in martial exer cises. Lastly, six battalions, 1,200 cavalry, and 15 rifle brigades, in the Austrian service, are forthwith to go to Hungary. Baron VON HAMMERSTEIN, cavalry general, is to remain at Lemberg, where an encampment is to be formed of one jager, and ten infantry battalions, and one regiment of hussars. It appears from this that the number of troops which are to operate directly and indirectly against Hungary amounts to 236,000 men. General WaLDE N has issued a summons for the immediate formation of a rifle brigade, from his head-quarters at Hungarian-Altenburg. But if Austria is supported by Russia, Hungary has also her allies. General BEM has issued a pro clamation calling upon the Poles to assemble beneath the national standard, and form an alliance with Hungary, and Poland in one week will be up and doing. Large bodi es o f young men are daily leaving Posen to join their friends in Gallicia, who are pre pared to raise the standard of independence. A corps d'armee of 60,000 Hungarians have taken possession of the pass of Jablunka, and are by this time co operating with the Polish army of independence. The Hungarians have taken Raab, and are close upon Presburg, the only Hungarian town of consequence (with the exception of Buda) at present in possession of the Austrians. In Buda a Croatian garrison is located, their communications are cut off, and it is save Pesth fro force. mbombardmen The bombardment that they are not only to attackedby anoverwhelming army ofJELLacnicii has been completely de stroyed near Peterwaradin,!and,theßan;himself is a:fugi tive. Gen. BEM has complete possession of the Bannat, and is prepared to oppose the entrance of the Russians into Transylvania. He has addressed a letter to FUAD EFFENDI, commissary of the Porte in the Da nube principalities. The object of the note is to reclaim certain funds taken by the Austrians out of Transylvania, some belonging to the Saxon nation, others the property of private individuals. These BEM demands in behalf of the Hungarian nation. He then courts the alliance of the Porte with the Hun garian Government, and solicits protection for the Hungarian subjects in Wallachia. In conclusion, he adds the protest of the citizens of Hermanstadt against any interference on the part of the Russians, as they are perfectly contented with the present Government. The road to Vienna and Olmutz is open to the Hungarian army under DEMBINSKI and GEORGI ; the Czechs and Germans, since the intervention of the Russian s , are not disinclined to make common cause with the Magyars, who may possibly be in possession of the capital of the empire and of the person of the EMPEROR before the arrival of his Muscovite de fenders. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. The Espana says, the Cortes will be prorogued on the 24th May. MADRID BOLSA, MAT 4.—Three per Cents., 25i paper; Four per Cents., 10k paper; Coupons, 7 paper; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 82 paper, 84 money. Exchange on London, 50 55 paper. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—Yesterday evening the mem bers of this society met at their rooms in John. street (Charles Barry, Esq., ILA., in the chair), when Mr. Digby Wyatt read a most interesting paper on metal work, and the artistic designs of whibh it is capable. The paper was illustrated by drawings, and some rich specimens of manufacture in gold, silver, bronze, iron, and other metals. Mr. Wyatt, in a very lucid manner, defined the principle of each metal, and showed the uses to which it might be applied. At the conclusion of the lecturer's address an interesting conversation ensued, and a vote of thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyatt, the proceedings terminated. The attendance of scientific gentlemen was very numerous. SERVANTS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.—On Wed nesday next, the 16th inst., a large meeting of the patrons and friends of this institution is to take place at the Hanover-square Rooms. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is to preside. All the tickets have been applied for. VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP OF TDB COUNTY PALA TINE OF LANCASTER.—We understand that Lord Camp bell, the Chancellor of the Bushy of Lancaster, has con ferred the appointment of the Vice-Chancellorship of the County Palatine, which office is in his gift, and vacant by the demise of Mr. Twiss, upon Mr. Wood, Q.C., one of the Members for the city of Oxford,,lifornipg Paper. PRUSSIA. We have received intelligence from Berlin of the Bth. BESSERMA N N, the Envoy from Frankfort, was still in Berlin. He had had a short interview with Count BRANDENBURGII, but had not been admitted to the presence of the KING. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, MAY B.—The Staats Courantcontains the programme of the inauguration of the KING, which will take place at the new church at Amster dam on the 12th of May. On the previous evening his MAJESTY Will make his solemn entry into that city on horseback. On the 13th public prayers Will be put up in all the churches throughout the king dom for the DIVINE blessing upon the new reign. It is said that immediately after his inauguration it is his MAJESTY'S intention to take up his residence for some time at the palace of Lod. A great number of English, French, Holstein, Hanoverian, Spanish, and Swedish vessels, destined for the different ports of Germany, and which are prevented by the Danish blockade from continuing their voyogp, are at this moment in the roadstead be fore Delftzyl. DIVORCE BETWEEN PRINCE ALBERT OF PRUSSIA AND PRINCESS MARIANNA OF THE NETHERLANDS. We are authorised to state that the consequence of the divorce recently pronounced at Berlin between the illustrious persons is not so disadvantageous to ne Princess as was at first apprehended, and that the three children of this marriage are to be under the charge of the Princess, their mother. Their Royal Highnesses have just arrived at Amsterdam. ROTTERDAM, MAY 7.—We regret to say that the cholera has again made its appearance here ; many cases have occurred, but there has as yet been no official returns published. It is of a very malignant character, and many of the cases have proved fatal. —llandlesbad, May 8. The First Chamber of the States General has ad journed its sittings till the 16th of May. The Second Chamber is still discussing the various articles of the fundamental law. The article under debate at its last sitting was the reduction of the salaries of the chief officers of the supreme court. Mr. Deputy Godefroi has signified his intention to bring forward an amendment to-morrow, whereby the whole of that article will be omitted. After discussing that question it is probable that the Second Chamber also will adjourn, the presence of the members being indispensable, at the ap proaching inauguration of the KING on the 12th. Dutch Papers, May 8. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. We stated some time since that General GRABBE, aide-de camp of the Emperor of RUSSIA., had pro ceeded to Constantinople on a special mission of importance. The Journal des Debuts publishes a letter from Constantinople, which gives some curious details relative to the General's mission. "The General," says the Debats, " was the bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor to the Sultan. The Czar hopes thus to obtain by direct intervention what he could not obtain from the Turkish Ministry —a special intervention between Russia and the Porte. The Emperor in his letter draws a dis tinction between the Sultan and his Government. He flatters the former, and accuses the latter of obeying foreign influence and interested councils, by opposing the propositions of Russia—propositions, morever, contrary to the rights of the Porte, opposed to those of Europe, and consecrated by the treaties of 1841 ; nevertheless the universal opinion at Constantinople is, that Russia will finally obtain her ends. By signing the above treaties Russia deprived herself of the right of forming a special convention with the Porte. In a conference with General Grabbe, the British Ambassador, Sir Stratford Canning, is said to have demanded, in very firm language, the observance of the treaty of 1841. Lord Palmerston's unlucky remark, 'that this was a ques ti )n to be settled between Russia and Turkey,' has dis couraged the Porte and weakened the influence of the English Ambassador. General Aupick, the French Ambassador, has received instructions to act i❑ concert with Sir Stratford Canning. " In the first audience ' - given to the Russian diploma tist, the Sultan is reported to have given a dignified but conciliatory reply, avoiding a breach with Isis Govern ment, which as yet he seems resolved to support. But unless energetically supported by the English and French Ambassadors, it is feared he will finally give in to Russia." ITAL Y. Accounts from Rome of the 29th April state that several French soldiers had refused to advance against Rome, saying, "1\70218 ne sommes pas soldats du Pape," and that several of them had joined the Romans. GARIBALDI and ATIZZENNA are entrusted with the defence of Rome. Care has been taken by the Roman Government to ensure the safety of the English and French who are domiciled in the city. The Nazione of Turin of the sth announces that the Council of War have condemned General RAMO RINO to death. The Austrians under WimrrEN have entered Tus cany. An Austrian corps under ASPRE has been directed to invade the states of the Roman Republic. The Milan Gazette announces the departure, on the 3d instant, of Marshal RADETZKY, with a numerous staff, for the purpose of inspecting the Austrian and Italian troops in Lombardo-Venetia. It is re ported he has gone to direct the siege of Venice. On the 26th ult. a French steamer, having on board a French Admiral and an English Ambassador, arrived at Venice. It was reported that she brought the intelligence that hostilities would cease on the part of Austria both by sea and land. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool closed firmly yester day, and prices were rather higher, particularly for Surat, which was 1-16 d. to d. per lb. higher. The sales were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, in cluding 300 American for export, and 1,500 on specula tion. About 5,000 to 6,000 American realised aid. to 6id.; 700 Pernaws and Maranhams 411 to sid.; 100 Bahia 411. to 5d.; 400 Surats 3,1. to 3td.; and 100 Sea Island Sid. to 10d. Railway Shares continue in the same dull state, and the quotations were again rather lower. The sales of Wheat in the provincial markets, which regulate the averages, were last week 77,427 quarters. The six weeks' average is exactly 455. Although some difference of opinion may exist in re gard to an extension of banking facilitities, and pre eminently against the existing Restriction Bill, it is not upon the question of limited liability for shareholders that most parties are inclined to dispute. The public at large, the takers of bank notes, regard with especial satisfaction the individual security that they enjoy in consequence of every shareholder being liable, oecause there is a strong motive in that case that such share holder should carefully watch over the management of the concern, or elect with great discrimination others who would do so. The motion made in Parliament for an alteration is, therefore, not popular in the City, though we believe that the intentions of the mover are scarcely understood, and that he does not propose sweep ing changes. The condition of our Colonial trade is of much interest upon the eve of an alteration in the navigation laws, the more so, as in the event of the transition causing a tem porary diversion of the channels of business, we are cer tain to hear of distress and decay. In 1848 there was a falling off in the importation of most articles into Canada, owing to the excessive imports of 1847, and it is evident that for its export business the colony needs some stimulus. The imports of many articles were principally through the ports of the United States; and the receipts of teas, m anu f acture d tobacco, coffee, and salt, by this way, were greater than by sea. We see nothing in these returns showing any im provement in the import trade of Canada. According to the value of goods entered, paying ad valorem duty, there has been a very great falling off in this pill of the foreign trade of the country. The inland importa tion has fallen off, compared with the previous year, so far as the quantity of the articles ( , numerated were con. cerned, but there appears to have been, in 1848, an in crease in the value of goods imported, paying ad valorem duties. The aggregate importation in 1848 was, how ever, much less in value than in 1847, as appears by the annexed statement:— ..,,TALUE OF GOODS IMPORTED INTO CANADA. 7 Goods payin g s p ec ifi c duties ....£1,082, 184 9 1848 03 £892,978 Ditto a d va l orem duties 2,712,944 2,065,820 Total currency ......... .£3,795,847 £2.958.798 This shows a f a lli ng off in one year of 837,0491., equal to nearly 25 per cent., the bulk of which was of goods paying ad valorem duties. The movement in exports, including, Ashes, Butter, Beef, Barley, and Grain for the year 1848, compared with the previous years (leaving out 1847, that tieing an ex traordinary year for shipments of breadstuffi, in conse quence of the famine in Europe) appears to have been limited. It will be seen that the shipments of flour in 1848 were less than in any previous year since 1843, and of wheat and corn less than any year since 1848. Ashes have fallen off largely, the exports in 1848 having been less than in any of the previous eleven years. With respect to the Timber trade of British North America in 1848, it was much less active than in 1845 and 1846, and compares more favourably with 1847 than with either of the two previous years. The bulk of these shipments was to Great Britain, and the returns of the Board of Trade in England show a reduced importation of Timber from the colonies. The conclusion we arrive at in analyzing these official statements is, that both the direct import and export trade of Canada is by no means in a prosperous condition. " The Provincial Government and the imperial Go vernment," observes an American writer, " are making, great efforts to improve and increase the trade and com merce of the Canadas; the first by modifying the tariff, and the second by modifications in the navigation laws." The Directors of the National Provincial Bank of England, at their meeting this day exhibited a very satisfactory report, and declared a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum. Thenet profits for 1848 were 28,8061. 10s. 5d., and the undivided profits on the 31st December, 1848, were 91,0871. is. 7d. Th e report was agreed to unani mo usly. The reports from the Continental Money Markets notice no prominent changes, but flatness was the gene ral characteristic. In the English Stock Market the monthly account is being arranged today, and some heavy bull accounts have had to be closed, or carried over upon rather onerous terms, the jobbers not much liking the present aspect of affairs abroad. Consols have been as low as 90.1, and are now 91* to 914. The New Thma-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 904 to 90g. Bank Stock is nominally 192 to 194. Exchequer-bills are 435. to 48s. premium. Foreign Stocks suffer with our own fund s . Mexican have been 30i to 31; Spanish Three per Cents., 33* to 324 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., about 28. to 29 Dutcji Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 491 to 49g. Shares are heavy, as the prices annexed will show. The Eastern Co un ti es meet i ng i s t h e great attraction. trrt O'CLOCK. übo , iNG PRTO}7K OF BRIT SH FIIND.3. PRICES Rank Stock l94n 3., , e, Cent. Rednaed Anna ...... .. 89 1 /I A N 89N, 3 p er Cidit. Consols Annuities 9l % 1 4 90 3 4 91 1 / 8 91 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Ann 5....... . 9 0 3 4 14 % 90% LongAnns. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8% India Stock 545 245 India Bonds, 1 1 0004 Ditto under 1,0001. . ....... .- 70 68 p 68 p Consols for Account June 1291 1'5% 91 91% 90% 91% 91 1 / 2 1,000/. June 45 48 p 48 p 5001. June Small. June PRICES OF FORERIti FUNDS ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — 17 x d Luexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 1.0% 30% Ditto, Account, Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, Account _ 28% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 .. , Ditto, Account 17% Ditto, Passive Ditto Deferred 9 l /2 9 1 / 2 Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — 24 Ditto, Deferred ••• 7 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49 1 / 2 7414% 49 3 / 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 76% 77 1 / 8 76% PRICES OF 'BUSINESS DONE CLOSING ' RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen ... 50 Do. Preference .... 4%...... 4% Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... ... 1% Kin Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Caledonian Chester and Holyhead... 50 ...... 16 Dublin and Belfast June. 37 1 / 2 ...... East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 18/., E. & 11.... 18 ...... 1 3 / 4 ...... 1 3 / 4 Eastern Comities........ 20 ...... 7% 1 / 2 3 / 4 ...... ... 73 / 4 Last Lincolnshire ...... 25 Great Northern - ...... 10 1 , 3 Do., - 1 / 2 A Deferred ... 121,4 4j/..... 4 56 Do., 4B 6 per Cent... 7 1 / 2 5 l /4 % 5% Do. Extension 21...... 11/ 2 l l /2 ';rest South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ...... 232 Great Western 100 ..... 77 76 Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares Ditto, 14 Shares Ditto, New 1'71... ..... 15 ... .. 9 104 9% Hull and Selby ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 48 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths 6% O6 4% Do. Thirds l5 ..... ••• 4 3 / 4 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent.. Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 ..... 3% 3 Leeds and Bradford London &Blackwall 12% 4%% 4 3 /4 London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O 361% 35 7 4 36% 36 36% London and N. Western 100 125 125 1 / 2 126... 127 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 9 3 / 4 1 /2 9% Ditto• Fifths....... .. 2 ..... - ••• 7 Loncl• &S. Western...... 50 ......33 33% 33 33% 33 1 ,4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Midland ... .. .100 ... .64 65 63% Do., do., 501. Shares , .. 25 ... .. 12 1 4... .. ........ Do.Consol•Bristol and Birming., 6 per et.... 100 ......122 1 / 2 ... ....... Norfolk ........ ...... -.100 ...... • ••• •• Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 — North Staffordshire l 7 l /2 l2 11% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Shrewsbury and Birm... 11 South Eastern Do., Scrip No 4 York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... .. Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York and North Midland. 50 .. Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- Vierzon ) Northern of France...... 13 Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 • . •••••• •• 31 Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 22 21% Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 Rouen and Havre Tours and Nantes ll ...... ••• JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock. 63 3 / 4 12M 17 3 4 11% 154 63 / 4 101/4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 10.—Wind this day at noon W.N.W., light breeze and dull cloudy weather. DEAL, Mir 9.—Wind N. to N.W.—Arrd. 2d, Jubi lee, Amy, Cape Coast Castle; Anna Margaretta, New Orleans for Christiana. 9th, James Stewart, Kinney South Seas; Malcolm, Pernambuco; Cornoro, Havannah. Arrd. from the River and dd., Ann Best, Cheyne, River Plate; James Dean, Hart, Honduras. DUNGENESS ROADS, MAY B.—Arrd. India, Batavia for Batavia; Active, Rio Grande for Copenhagen; Maria, Havannah for Antwerp. M ARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) NEWGATEI AND ILEADENHALL. These markets were tolerably steady to-day, at full prices. Beef, from 2s to 38; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d • Veal, 3s 2d to 4s ; an d P or k , 3s 2d to 4s per Sib s by the carcase. HAY MA PLICE:TS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 3/ 103 to 41 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to it 103 per load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. CU3IBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 128 to 4/ Os ; Clover ditto, 3/ 103 to 4/ - 15 s -; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 103 per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly at the above quotations. WHITEcHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 41 03 ; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 17s;• and Straw, 1/63 to 11 103 per load. A full ave rage supp l y, an d a sluggish demand. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, MAY 9.—There was a slight improvement in the general demand to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 61. to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 38 8d; Lamb, 53 to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3310 d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ItomFonn, MAY 9.—Prime Beasts .and Sheep sold freely, at improved currencies. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 38 8d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 6s; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s; a nd P or k , 3 s 4 d to 4s per 81bs.uckling Calves, 18s to 265; quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Milch Cows, wi t h t h e i r sma ll Calf, 13to 171 each. HAILSHABI, MAY 9.—Our market Kas tolerably firm this morning, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 33 to 38 10d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 6d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, MAY B.—We had a steady market, at full rates of currency. Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d; Lamb, 5s to is 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 33 10d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, MAY 9.—Prime Beasts and Sheep sold at improved currencies. The value of other kinds of stock was fairly supported. Beet, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb. 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 245; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 13/ to 161103 each. CORN AVERAGES, GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended May 3, 1849, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wake per Imperial Quarter. I witxs.T.l BARLEY.' OATS. I RTE. I BEA.NS. I PEAS. PRICE .. 46s 9d 28s lid 175 6d 25s 4d 29s 8d 3Us Id DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. 1 OATS. I SYS. I BEANS. PEAS. Is Od Is Od Is Od is Od is Od lis Od IN RE WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN AND OTHERS. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) WRIT OF ERROR. This was the day appointed by their Lordships to hear the arguments in support of she writ of error brought at the instance of Mr. Wm. Smith O'Brien, to set aside the conviction of the jury and the sen tence of the Court thereupon, before whom the pri soner was tried in Ireland in September last. - The Lord Chancellor, accompanied by the principal judges, took his seat in front of the woolsack a few minutes after ten o'clock. The Judges present, be sides the Lord Chancellor, were the Lord Chief Justice Wilde, Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Wigbtman, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Justice Williams ; Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Kenyon, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Wicklow, and the Bishop of Manchester. Sir Lucius O'Brien, the prisoner's brother, was present during the proceedings. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., Mr. Napier, Q.C., and Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Q.C. (both of the Irish bar), appeared as counsel for the appellants ; and the Attorney-General for England, the Attorney-General for Ireland, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Welsby repre sented the Crown. Sir FITZROY KELLY intimated to their Lordships that the course which he proposed to pursue was that himself and his Learned Friends who were with him would first address their Lordships in support of the writ of error, that then the counsel for the Crown should be heard, and afterwards that the counsel for the appellants should be heard in reply. He had been informed that the counsel for the Crown would insist upon having the right to a general reply, but he objected to that right, and would contend that they were not entitled to such general reply. How ever, it would be the proper time to discuss that point when the counsel for the Crown came forward to claim the right for which they contended. The LORD CHANCELLOR requested to be informed if Sir F. Kelly spoke with the concurrence of the counsel for the other prisoners. Sir P. KELLY replied that he did. Lord CAMPBELL said, the course proposed to be pursued met with his entire concurrence, but it was to be borne in mind that it was in consequence of the EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.IO (Westminster Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. PLATT and Special Jurors.) rli ej Verdicts were agr ee d to b y t h e consent of thersia in the following Revenue cases:—" Attorney-Gen e ; fog Smith," for 1001.; " Attorney-General v. Lowest 1001.; "Attorney-General v. Brown," for 1001. ATTORNEY GENERAL V. BIRD. This was an intormation to recover 'penalties I°l smuggling a quantity of tobacco at Plymouth. if The facts alleged in th e i n f ormat i on were cles r o , proved, and at the conclusitm of the case for the CroW4 Mr. Martin, who aeared for the d e fendant, aband oo ' the defence, and th e jury found a verdict for 1601. 10/. SHERIFFSc......I7—rIS DA S ( ' ) (Bet ore Mr. Under - Sheriff BuacHELL.) h t SO A LARGE DEBT.—This was an act i on brougP recover the sum of 6631. 3s. Bd., for money lent. 0 01 The defendant suffered judgment to go by default , a verdict was given for the amount. PALMER V. HAYWARD. OP WRITING TOO "LARGE." —ThiS Was an IICOOh• ,1 bill of exchange for 161. 3s. Bd. Defendant denied bis acceptance. of di' A witness was called t o p rove the handwriting boll feadant, and said that he believed it to be so, but 11° 00 signed his name " v e ry l arge " —a great deal large r lie usually wrote. 1 , off The Learned UND ER -S HERIFF sa i d it was for ta,pcs to say, whether any doubt arose through the differ ° in the size of the letters. The jury found f or t h e plaintiff "usual charges It TAYLOR V. SHIEL, I It ill The plaintiff i s a b ootma k er, and defendant a ardef her Majesty's Mint. The action was brought to r ec : 0 1(1. 181. on a bill o f exc h ange, and 161. for goods 'OO The acceptance was proved, but the delivery o f f 21. different articles was on l y proved to the amount ° 19,. 2d. d l The witness said th e c h arges were those us charged. LI The UNDER-SHERIFF said the charges usualiyeb a Of were unreasonable. It was not a question whethe r e rt not they were " usual," but whether they were sonable. ' The witness said that they were of the two ra t unreasonable, being rather under price. l ye The Learned UND ER -S HERIFF sa i d that was oi.-- „, 4 0 case, according to the evidence of witnesses. The jury found for 20/. 19s. 2d. and interest on the GOOCH V. SHOREDITCH. PLEADINGS FOR THE ;„ POOR.—Th e plaintiff A- ow action is a book s ell er , i n G reat Ruseell•streett sought to recover 2001. a d vanced on a fourth share '- work called the " Pleadings for the Poor." I er Mr. CORRIE, for th e p l a i nt i ff, said that a dery had TbO had been put in by defendant, and overruled. pi simple q uest i on was, therefore, as to amount, 813 the demurrer was frivolous, he hoped the jury We give interest at the rate of Si. per cent. I The UNDER-S HERIFF told the jury they cow.- A g irl any amount of interest, not exceeding the 5/ per ° " t , The jury found for the amount claimed and inter° CRIMINAL UU LD COUI?7'. —(THIS DO' ) (Before Mr. J us ti ce O COLTMAN and Mr. Justice 11)5# TESON.) James Mills, 23, a pri va t e i n t h e Fusilier GuardS, indicted for feloniously uttering an order for the o e . t h very of good s , we ll k now i ng it to be forged, and ..h l/1 0 . intent to defraud Ch ar l es J ames. Mr. O'Brien Ply" cu ted. 0 1$ It appeared fro m th e ev id ence that the prosecutor 1e grocer and cheet , emonger in the New-cut, and ed s : ,; l l 25th of April, the pr isoner , w h o was in his mil"iecl dress, went to his sh o p an d sa id t h at h e had been del the by the commanding officer to engage him to stIPPlf left fl ink battalion of the Fusilier Guards with groee r pl and he then gave him an order for a large quanti t l t he goods of different descripti o n s , an d at t h e reques t 01 ot prose - tutor the prisoner put hi s name to the PO t he upon which the list of articles were written, and left or shop. In about three quarters of an hour b e i t lt .r turned, and said that ther e was some mistake "off regard to the other ord er , b ut he had 13,0a5 brought him the proper or d er , s i gned by Serge;d Wlntosh, who had authority to order the g required for the regiment, and he then produeeu order, apparently, signed by that p erson . The P ro si i re cutor then took the prison er to a public-house, to b r e. him some refreshment, an d th e l atter told im ; n t h* member that it was through hi m h e h ad o b ta i n eu d b e order, and ask e d him t o g i ve hi m something, on sin handed the prisoner a half.erown. The prisoner ago went away, but came back in a s h or t t i me , and said $ he had given the half-crown to the cooks of the ment, and he wanted another half-crown for bin 3 „ 6 ,til The prosecutor declined to give any more money ' o p• he was paid for the goods ; and at this moment ash e urt man to another grocer in the neighbourhood, %, °3 pri' and told him his master wished to see him. The e. soner upon hearing this ran off, and it turned out, - lhe inquiry, that the whole translation was a trick ° n ds part of the prisoner either to get possession of then oot or else a bonus for introducin g so good a trade, 0 2 bed several other grocer s i n t h e same neighbourhoo d been served in a similar manner. sa ft einl; The prisoner mad e no d efence, and the jut,' '* - 1, 0 2$ returned a verdict o f G u il ty, h e was sentence d to be ,` to hard labour for six months. YORK, THURS DAY M ORNING .— (B r ELscTitrc - TELEGRA PH.) —An i n q ues t was h e ld yes terday noon, at the Burtonst o n e A rms , Clift on , before ,"- Wood, the cor o ner, on th e b o d y of Mr. Nic ols°ll which was dis co v ere d i n t h e river Ouse on Tuesdfi, fi night. It appeared frana the evidence that the deceas e . was last seen at nine o'clock on Tuesday evening , " t to n ing by the side of the river, and when found at lult, o'clock was in a standing position in the water, c1,.0 dead. The jury returned a vet d'ct of " Foun d drownea The recent news from Hungary teach us yer i lf t plainly that when the Vienna papers speak of the 1 0 " victory" of the Imperial troops they just loan. Pa " reverse."—Puppet Show. understanding between the counsel, and not by any rule or: regulation of the House that that course WV to be followed. Sir F. KELLY said, he had the honour to sPP eti r t before their Lordships in support of the writ of eat!, in the case of William Smith O'Brien and others. ; I t was a writ of error upon the judgment of the C°ll oo of Queen's Bench. There were four ( bjections , a which he submitted that the judgment sh °111 : be reversed. The first objection Was, t h ere by the caption it did not appear that ed was any jurisdiction in the three L eall t :d Judges, before whom the prisoners were tried trod convicted, and that, on the contrary, upon the re a legal construction of that instrument, it ap l e f ft w i,. that those Learned Judges had no jurie wc- ot The second objection, which was, perhaps, them r i, important, was that the plea pleaded by th e l e d, soners, to which the Attorney-General demur L lo was held bad en the d emurrer , an d t h e d emu rrer " bt, allowed. The eff ec t o f th a t p l ea was to c l a i m a rif, on the part of the pri soners , t o h ave a copy of the in d i ct 8 1 ; ment delivered to the m a cer t a i n t i me b e fore the tr i and he (Sir F. Kelly) contended that that deniurla ought to have bee n overru l e d . Thirdly, he sh ell y submit that by an Irish A c t o f Parliament, coinreltif called Poyning's A c t, th e o ff ence of levying ere against the Queen, with which the prisoners vi 0 f charged, was not an offence within the meaningwo the statute of Edward th e Thi r d , upon w hi c h he To, indicted, that offence ha v i ng b een comm itt e d in : bi t land. He had to submit that the indictment je os respect was informal and insufficient, and thet ed , that ground the j u d gmen t s h ould b e rever s e , Fourthly, there was a p o i n t i n regard to a cheellentbe on the part of the prisoners to one e` ble jurors ; but he would not for the present trq ec . their Lordships with any observations on that ( Po. tion. First, then, he had to submit to their P ° oo ships that the caption not only showed that ther e f o re no jurisdiction in those three Learned Judges b O lB whom the prisoners w ere t r i e d, b ut t h at the the caption taken together, and considered ur, ° bets principles of true legal cons t ruct i on, showed t rt of was no jurisdiction. He contended, in suPr fti le this proposition, that as in the commission e : e 4; 00 1 persons were appointed to try the appellants, Wit to specifying that a certain number of them We re form a quorum, or be empowered to try the prise" n y the three Judges who tried the prisoners being 1 - 0, a portion of those authorised by the conuni ss ;e ° ll could not act without the others, and therefore f l o p, they had not, under the commission, any juris dic- he With respect to the second objection—namely, tit , ther a copy of the i n di c t ment and a li st o f t he P ek nesses should have been delivered to the prisoll "tie before the provisions o f th e statute o f A nne , ten "tie before the trial, the Learned Counsel referred to statute of Edward 111., which defined wh e . t ,.tel treason, and the Act o f Willi am 111 ., which ch." - , ot a copy of the indictment to be given to the pr ls : a certain time before the trial, and the statill e ol Anne, which directed that a list of the witnesse s of a copy of the indictment should be delivered to t o prisoner at the same time, ten days before iv trial. All these were E ng li s h Acts of 04 liament. Then came the 36th George t ot which made certain offences treason, del were not treason before ; for instance, dit compassing to levy war aga i nst t h e Queen -Ito also declared to be t reason t h ose of f ences whie, "ee already treason before ; as for example, the I'o, passing the death of the Queen. By the 57 Ge ° „ n it that Act was perp e t ua t e d, an d b y the 4th seebwoce was declared th a t a ll persons i n di cted for any °, to e 0, made treason by th a t A ct or d eclared to be tre-sed should have th e benefit of the A c t s o f Willhu li t hst Anne. A questi on m i g ht h ave ar i sen whether b e Act applied to Ir e l an d a f ter t h e union, but he 'the F. Kelly) contended that that was set at rest hi tio i 11th Victoria, cap. 12, w hi c h , a f ter repealing' rilicti offences within th e p rece di ng A cts, except those w' ro . related to the Queen's death, declared that all alga visions of the former Acts should extend to Relent' pis contended that the prisoner had been put 1 1 1? °11 t , tbs trial without having any o f t h e pr i v il eges w hic" law allowed him. .„01 The Learned Cou n s e l was pursu i ng the argil' when we went to press. Wit h The small spac e on eac h s id e t h e b ar was Bile-were a number of well-dressed people, some of wholn,: t bst ladies; and a l a dy, an aunt of the prisoner, teg-,,iei with a little b o y w h om we took to be his son, oc cu r one of the reserved seats. 4%