The Sun. — London, England, 1849-03-26 00:00:00

r srl LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,00 CL, in 80,000 Shares, of 25/. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Sharo Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offices of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster. on ap 0/cation to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " RED ROVER," &c. On Wednesday will be published, in 3 vols. post Sao. , T H SEA LIONS; Or, THE LOST SEALERS. By J. FENIMORE COOPER. Author of " The Pilot," "Jack O'Lantern," "Pathfinder," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, A NEW ROMANCE. Just ready, in 3 vols., L AD Y ALICE A NOVEL. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. OF GREEN CLOTH. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Maitcs 23, 1849. Notice is hereby given, that the Carriages proceedingto her Majes ty's Drawing-room on THURSDAY, the 29th March, are to fall into line and come down the left-hand side of St. James's-street, enter at the Iron-gate nearest the Palace, set down at the Arcade, turn round, aad go out by the Iron-gate nearest Marlborough House, to wait in St. James's-square. When called , they are to pass from the Square through Charles-street, into Regent• street and Jennyn street, come down St. James's-street as before, take up, and go away through Pall-mall. BOARD No Hackney Carriages will be admitted within the Gates.. For all Persons having the privilege of the Entree, Tickets will be delivered at the Bcard of Green Cloth, on TUESDAY next, from Eleven till Three o'clock : their Carriages are to pass through Constitution Hill Gate into St. James's Park : those belonging to the Ambassadors and Foreign Minis ters are to set down at the Ambassadors' Entrance in Marlborough-court, at the east end of St. James's Palace, and wait there till called. Those belonging to the Cabinet Ministers and Great Officers of State are to set down in the Middle of the Court, and wait there. The Carriages of all other Persons having the Entrée are likewise to set doN% n in the Middle Court, and wait in Stable-yard, or St. James's-park, till called. They are then to take tip in the same order as they hed set down, and pass away up St. James's-street. No carriage will be admitted with company a second time with the same ticket ; to prevent which it must be produced at Constitu tion Hill Gate, and stable Yard Gate also, where a corner of it will be torn off by the marshalmen in attendance ; and no persen can be allowed the privilege of the entrée by any other approach to the palace than as above directed. _ FORTESCUE, Lord Steward. )TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. MDLLE. LIND. It is respectfully announced that a Series of SIX CONCERTS will be given at Her Majesty's Theatre, comprising the following Operas:—The Flauto Magico of Mozart; Oberon, Der Freyscbutz, and Euryanthe, of Weber; La Nectate and Fernand Cortex of Spentini ; and Fidelio of Beethoven; which will be sung by Mdlle. Lind and the principal Singers of the Establishment, accompanied by a full Orchestra and Chorus. The dates and particulars will be duly announced. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that they will have the option of including any number of these Concerts in their Season's Subscription. The First Concert will take place on Thursday, April 19. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and Use Public, are respectfully informed that TO-MORROW EVENING. Will be presented Verdi's Opera of ERNANI. Elvlra, 111(111e. Giuliani; Carlo V., Signer Gardoni ; Ray Gomez, Signor Balletti ; Ernani, Signor Bordas. To conclude with (tb. S...inery by Mr. Charles Marshall) the cele. brated Ballet, entitled . LB DIABLE A QUATRE. Ia Nr.dch will appear Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, I Mdlle Marie Taglioni, and lime. Petit Stephan, Mille. Carolina Rosati, Y. Paul Taglion!, M. Ch,..qes, M. Louis D'Or; Md lles. Thevenot dallen, Lamoureux, and A,,.: randon. Applications for Boxes,4t ails, aad Tickets to be made at the Box• •trice, Opera Colonnade. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1849. FREXCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seren o'clock with LE MERE DE FAMILLE. To conclude with LES DIAMANS DE L. COURONNE. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in. ensued expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis• Ilion are determined as follows: Boxes .. Pit .. Amphitheatre ss. Od. 33. Od. 2s. Od. Subscription; for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams% St. James's-street ; 31r. Andrew?, New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. i'LILATI*Y LO YAL. HAYMARK Ur. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EYENING, Will be performed OTHELLO. Othello, air. C. Kea"; lago, Mr, J. Wallack ; Desdemona, Mrs. C. Kean ; Emilia, Miss Laura Ad dison. After whick, the now Farce, entitled SEPARATE MAIN. TENANCE. To conclude with THE TRUMPETER'S WEDDING. Charac ters by Messrs. Bland, _Caulfield Keeley ; Miss P. Horton, and Mrs. L. S. Buckingham. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Cadet the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVEN( Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which, a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. The principal characters by Mr. Manyard, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss Turner. ROTAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madsuma Watts. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Ma.he ws. THIS EVENINO, Kill Do performed A PEEiiaitiokTlON. After which, a new 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 be followed by BOX AND COX. To-conclude witha new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. Dress ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. NO half-price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Virellir.gtoc. , street, is open to the public ..eery , :ay, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Alanager. THIS EVENING, Wlll be performed the celebrated Opera of TIIE STREN. After wktch, M. KLARE will execute most extraordinary feats Dexterity ami Elegance on Le Globe Roulant. To conclude with a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD. YELLOW. Characters by Messrs. Charles Braham, Weiss, Honey, C. Fisher; Miss Poole, Miss G. Smithson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs. Weiss, and Miss E. Stanley. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal nightieSs Prince Albert, &c. The greatest triumph e , er witnessed within the walls of the Am phitheatre has been achieved by the celebrated American Equestrian Young Hernanlez, whose unparalleled feats have nightly called forth expre.sions of wonder amounting to enthusiasm, and gained for him the title of the first rider in the world. THIS EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled CORASCO ; or, the Warriors Steed. After which the double Tight-ropes. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which Young Hernandez will appear, supported by the fret Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. THE DUMB DRIVER; en alternate Evenings, the Faace of MRS. WII I f E. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. , ;tage Manager, Mr. W. West. I tit. 1V Al ' OFFICE, ALutcli 25. TH.RNIONITER, Lowest, 27; Highest, 41; Noon, 36 BAROMITER, 29.95; mercury going down, with signs of change. WIND variable, blowing fresh and cold from N.B. to E.S.E., with thick hazy weather, and plenty of scud; slight snow during the night and morning. MARCIE 26. ToznalowEizz, Lowost, 32; Highe3t, 36, Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 29.95. WIND N.N.E.—cold breeze, with slight fall of sleet. &DOH WATER AT LONDON lirttlit4. Tars I)AY \fr , rnmr, 1 mix. after 3 I Eveninz. 19 min. after 3 To-Moaaow—]Morning, 92 min. after 3 I Evening, 1 fain. after 4 4-4 9 ? • Ilk 41 * VU.4 44,, 1 4 2 ds tA th t J r- • . q..,r• 23 ' ;,, 916 0140;1141 Ulte LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 26 1849. It will be observed from the report from the Com mittee of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, published by ourselves in another part of this evening's impression, that the Government have considered themselves bound to recommend to her MAJaSTY, and that her MAJESTY has been graciously . pleased to approve of certain molifications of the conditions in the draft of the grant of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company. The nature of these amendments may be perceived in three mi nutes by a glance through the document to which we have referred. We are induced to direct public atten , tion to thi9 supplementary proceeding of the Ad ministration, not because we recognise any very remarkable improvement in these corrections of a 1 blundpr that roust be ever viewed us altogether deplorable, but because we consider the very fact of this additional report being regarded as necessary as perhaps the most striking tet timony that could have been afforded of the shameful precipitation of the Government. So hastily was this splendid island juggled into the pos.ession of the fur-traders that the members of the Cabicet find it already incumbent upon them, in order to stop the clamour of the people, and to evade the investi gations of PurliAment, to patch and cobble the draft grant into a shape such as may not be a Vagrant indication of its having been Added t o th e monster an emanation frt m jobbery, blunder of the grant it3elf,ts likehere appear to o t o ffs h h o a;e s s routed forth smaller blunder el EIVSP 1 #.1.--, --- - i-2.loso l khe greed of the Company, the Government !VW \,' i. t il,. equate provision for the mode of adminis -*,424 ,_ -31 R ' ~,.. ice in the future management of that in `ft '',.-• _' r4, 1 " . ` 411 : ► -slot). Nor were there any sufficient gua , - 4 . r the retention of land to the Crown for ~,..„., • .. ruction of such docks or harbours as might s, at be land to be necessary. Neither was there any solid security for the prevention of such wholesale and THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, p 849 extravagant bartering away of the soil, of the timber, and of the coal, on the part of the Hudson's Bay Company as would, by the time their reign in Van couver's Island had expired, have frittered away the best portions and products of the colony to the ad vantage of adventurers, to the detriment of the inte rests of the nation, and to the crammingof the exchequer of this vast fur-trading, barbarous, desolating, depo pulating, and dominion-absorbing association of in triguers and speculators. By a preposterous expression used in the report from the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, it is pretended to convey to the imagination of the more sanguine members of the community that the Fur Company have serious intentions of colonizing Vancouver's Island, now that that island has passed into their possession. As if the terrible experience derived from their long and despotic sway over their continental territories in North America had not been enough to show that the sole aim of the association is to preserve the savage condition of the forests and jungles, to prevent the possibility of clearings, to wither every nascent set tlement into a miserable group of log huts, and by that means to stimulate the growth and propagation of the wild animals who thrive into furry maturity in the thickets inaccessible to civilized man, and imper vious to all save the practised hunter. " Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar," but certainly never doubt that the Hudson's Bay Company will retard the progress of civilization. They are pledged to it. Civilization—and coloniza tion is the medium necessary for the diffusion of civilization—must, in their estimation, be " put down," as inexorably as Alderman 'CUTE would have " put down " suicide—if he could ! Unfortunately, the Company has a larger capacity for carry ing out its crotchets than that possessed by the Alderman. It bolds supreme sway over dominions which in Europe would constitute the extent of a magnificent empire. They are almost irresponsible, too, if we may judge from the impunity with which they have gone on in their evil course, cherishing the savage animals and exterminating the colonists. They look westwards across the waves of Juan de Fuca, and they see there on the verge of the Pacific an island almost equal in its dimensions to England. They gain audacity from their previous immunity from retribution, and seize the whole Quadra with the connivance of the Government. Thereupon this Government, when called upon to render an account of this melancholy example of family legislation, pretend, forsooth, that it is the intention of the Hudson's Bay Company to promote emigration :to Vancouver's Island. The in tention I—as if it were even the policy of the fur traders to act thus I Every additional consideration only proves more and more the folly, and more than the folly, the culpability, of the recent grant of so large and singularly situated a colony into the hands of so self interested and barbarising an association. Every day, as it reveals more clearly the importance of holding an outlet to our colonial riches on the western shores of North America, increases our regret fur the loss of the only part of our transatlantic posses sions that could be said to command the billows of the Pacific. We say the loss—for the transference of the island to the Hudson's Bay Company for so pro• tracted an interval is tantamount to its actual loss— seeing that by the time their period of do mination shall have expired, the Americans will have so far progressed in California, through the medium of the noble harbour of San Francisco, that any competition on our part, in that direction, would seem by that time little short of insanity. And all this, be it remembered—thanks to the avarice of the Company and the complicity of the Government ! Much might be said in exposure of the blunder of this deplorable proceeding, but nothing► that could by any possibility be remarked would equal in force the self-condemnation of the Government. The report to which we have here directed the attention of the country is the moat severe exposure of the whole transaction that has yet occurred. It discloses in a glaring light the dangers and losses which the Ministry have rendered the nation liable to by their precipitation. There is a strong and widely-diffused feeling throughout the entire country for the speedy removal of the technical difficulties that attend the transfer of real property, and for the establishment of what Mr. JAMES STEWART, the eminent conveyancer, happily termed a " free trade in land." The Hon. and witty Member for Buckinghamshire, in enumerating the various burdens that fall exclusively on the owners of real property, omitted to notice one of the most onerous, which operates perhaps more injuriously ,ban any of those to which he directed the attention of Parliament. He made no allusion to the present state of the law or to the existing practice with re spect thereto—by which persons are prevented from dealing freely with their estates—by disposing of, or charging the same freely and without restriction. The local rates of which he complained so loudly, most be levied in some form. If not defrayed by the different districts, they must fall upon the Consolidated Fund. These are necessary evils that must be submitted to in some shape or other. If the ratepayers are prejudiced to a certain extent, the community in general at least derive some benefit If the local taxation is unduly increased, the general revenue is improved pro tanto. But it is altogether different with respect to the grievance to which we refer. There is no possible advantage to be derived by any class whatever—not even by the lawyers, who are supposed, as a body, to be the opponents of any change or simplification of the existing system. 'We say as a body,jor there are, indeed, many, very many honourable exceptions; many of the most pro found and skilful jurists who have assumed the most prominent position among legal reformers—who feel that they can materially serve the general public without, in any degree, injuring the professions of which they are themselves some of the brightest or naments. It is a most mistaken and fallacious opinion that the adoption of an improved system, the aboli tion ef the retrospective deductions of title, would really injure the profession. There would un doubtedly be "smaller profits " on each transaction ; but there would be " quicker returns." The number of sales on mortgages would be increased to such an extent as to far more than compensate for the diminished bills of costs in each particular case. Eighteen or twenty per cent. on the purchase money would CO longer be swallowed up in preparing the abstract of title, and making a valid and effectual conveyance to the purchaser, who would still, riot withstanding the searching and enormously expen sive investigation that had taken place, be exposed to at least the possibility of being at any moment de prived of the property which he had acquired at the cost, perhaps, of the savings of his entire life—and ho to a certainty would have again to encounter the same tedious and vexatious delays, the same inordi nate costs that partially prohibit almost every dealing with real property. If full and perfect security, and, if we may use the expression, " marketability" of title could be attained, the demand for real estates would increase to such an extent as to materially improve their value—to lead to a great increase in the num ber of sales, and, as a necessary u sn e s s consequence, to the amou n t o f pro f essional b therewith. It mi g ht f a i r l y b e in coconnexion ion estimated that lands would sell for, at least, five years' purchase more than at present; while, if the con veyancer made but the fifth part of the profits on each transfer, he would have at least ten times the quantity of business, and his professional income would be at least doubled by the introduction of an improved system. The Hon. Member for West Surrey deserves the highest credit for having grappled with this monster nuisance. If he can succeed in cleansing the Augean stable—in removing the cumbrous technicalities that have arisen during a long succession of ages—in sim plifying the law of real property, he will, indeed, have earned for himself the cordial thanks of every well-wisher of his country. He has already succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the House of Commons to the principle of his measure. He has carried the second reading despite the Government opposition, and we trust that he will meet with equal success in preventing his Bill from being frittered away and diluted in Committee. The general feeling of the nation is in his favour, and if he persevere boldly and resolutely, and refuse every compromise that may be offered, his exertions must eventually be crowned with well-merited success. We are happy to find that the speech delivered on the 7th instant by the Honourable Gentleman in the House of Commons, on the occasion of the second reading of the Bill, has been republished. We would most earnestly invite the public attention to this lucid End able statement, and to the examples cited by Mr.: DRUMMOND in support of his views. He has mentioned the case of " a property which sold for 12,0001., on which the cost of sale amounted to 2,0001., or about seventeen per cent. on the purchase money; another which sold for 5001., on which the costs amounted to 1241., or 25 per cent. ; a third in which the property sold for 1501., and the costs were 501., or 33 per cent. ; and a fourth in which the property sold for 6201, and the costs of sale amounted to 2001., being about 33 per cent. also"—and he has capped the climax by referring (in a note) to a case in which the purchase-money for a small property was 301., and the expenses 45Z., or one hundred and fifty per cent. Surely no further proof is necessary in sup port of the assertion of the Committee of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, that " small properties cannot be dealt with except as arti cles of luxury ;" that " the proprietor is debarred from selling, and the poor man from buying, by the expense of the transfer ;" that "retrospective titles are not merely a legal inconvenience, but a great social evil." That evil will now we trust be remedied. When there is a general register of titles established, as proposed by the lion. Member for West Surrey, coupled with a judicious system of insurance of titles, as suggested by the Legal Title Insurance Company, to whose admirable project we have al ready directed the public attention, the delays and expenses that have heretofore attended the transfer of real property will be reduced within reasonable limits. There will be many inducements to small capitalists to invest their money in the purchase of land, the nation will obtain that most valuable class —a body of small proprietors—where each man cul tivates his own land for his own benefit; and the value of the landed property of the country will be increased by no less than five years' purchase, or more than 400,000,0001. sterling. These indeed would be advantages worth obtaining, and yet the nation is deprived thereof by the operation of laws formed by assemblies of landowners, to their own serious prejudice. We again wish all possible success to Mr. llaummorm in the important and arduous duty he has undertaken. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. The PRESIDENT of the Republic has sent the fol lowing communication to the journals : " The President of the Republic daily receives from different parts of France, and particularly from the de partments of the Meurthe and the Vosges, letters re questing him to indicate candidates for the Legislative Assembly, or committees with whom the electors may correspond. Thanking the different persons who have addressed themselves to him for their confidence, the President declares that he is a perfect stranger to all electoral committees, and that he cannot designate any candidate for the suffrages of the electors. Penetrated with a sense of his duties, he cannot, as President of the Republic, exercise any influence, direct or indirect, over the elections." The National Assembly on Saturday reduced the Budget of the Minister of Public Works by 13,750,000 francs, notwithstanding the opposition of the Ministry, who on this occasion received the assistance of M. DUFADRE. In the sitting of Saturday the law for the suppres sion of clubs, as amended by the committee, passed the second reading. The law as amended does little more than abolish the name of club for public meet ings, for the discussion of political subjects ,which have not the character imputed to clubs by the present law will be permitted. According to the present law, a club is an organized body, having a president, vice presidents, and secretaries, the meetings of which are periodical and public, and the debates of which extend to any and all political questions which its members may from time to time propose. The meetings which this law permits, if the society be public, must not be periodical, nor must the so ciety be permanently organi ze d. I n a wor d, th e in tention of the law is to tolerate occasional public meetings, which may be convoked for especial pur poses, which purposes must be duly announced and previously notified to the police. But the law also permits the existence of associations regularly orga nized, with periodical meetings ; the public not to be admitted, but the number of members of the associa tion to be unlimited. These societies may discuss political subjects. They must, however, notify their organization, presidents, secretaries, &c., to the police, the agent of which may be present. The measure will be all but inoperative, as all measures of a similar nature which are not tyrannical must necessarily be. It was pleasant to contemplate the puzzle of the Ministers when called on to define a club, and to show in what it differed from an association, during the discussion on the Bill as originally proposed by M. LEON FAUCHER. The Bill ran thus :—" Clubs are interdicted." " A definition," said M. ODILON BAR ROT, "is demanded for these words, Clubs are inter dicted,' but there are things which have no need to be defined, and this is one of them. How can any one mistake the meaning of the words ? A club is a tribune of incessant provocations —a club is a place where lessons in revolution are given." The Assem. bly, however, was not satisfied with this lucid Minis terial explanation, and M. ODILON BARROT was reminded, that when M. GUIZOT Ibrbade the banquet, for the forbidding of which he was im peached by M. ODILON BARROT, M. GUIZOT had declared that the banquets were "tribunes of incessant provocations—places where lessons in revolutions were given"—whereupon M. ODILON BARROT, who, according to the Presse, " has become more a Guizotist than M. Guizoz himself," tried back, and drew the following not very comprehen sible distinction between legal and illegal meet ings : •' If the meeting is adjourned, and then assembles again, it assumes the character of permanence, and becomes a club. A meeting, consequently, is allowable when it is not permanent. But suppose that there are as many declarations as meetings —suppose that permanency be arrived at by means of successive declarations—in that case it must be allowed that it would be easy to elude the law.—(Approbation on the Right; murmurs on the Loft.) When meetings assume a character of perma nency, they degenerate into clubs; they become known by their calumnies, by their vengeance.—(Murmurs on the Left.)" _ This second attempt, which bears a marvellous re semblance to the late CHARLES MATHEWS'S defini tion of metaphysics, was as unsatisfactory to the Assembly as the first ; whereupon M. ODILON BARROT declared that the interpretation of the mean ing of the law must be left to the decision of the Judges—a conclusion with which the Assembly was by no means satisfied, and accordingly they have tacked on twenty. seven additional articles to the one article of the law as originally proposed, by which the law is so modified that the name alone of club is proscribed. The troops were all under arms in Paris yesterday, and General CHANGARNIER was, as the Americans would say, " particular spry and active" in galloping about in all directions. There was, however, no attempt made to disturb the public peace. The only appearance of anything like a crowd being on the Place Maubert and the Place Notre Dame, where some persons were assembled singing " Vive NAro- Ll ON .i' The Si&le, which is considered as one of the organs of the Ministry, has the following important article on the war in Italy : " The Republic is not responsible for the events of the struggle undertaken against its advice, at an hour which is not of its own determining, on conditions which it has not accepted, and even in contempt, it must be said, of the negotiations which, in concert with Great Britain, it had so loyally followed. If an unfortunate day, which Heaven forefend, should bring Radetzky to Turin, war would not ipso facto break out between France and Austria, as it is in Piedmont erroneously supposed. Under such circumstances the French Cabi net would certainly have to take counsel as to the means of preserving Piedmontese nationality, but the army of the Republic would not necessarily be obliged to cross t r a t s rhy b e e 1 tloi armistice; had t he he most himself,b but e vhe he has the Alps. The entry of Marshal Radetzky would cer patatrtionaveloykceandta,ivoaenn, d b e t e h n at denouncedacocncehwithoutaremon strances been of France and England. He is menaced with being turned at once on the Ticino and on the Po; to prevent the danger which is pressing on him he momen tarily invades the country of his enemy, which is not con. trary to military usages or necessities. In order that there be no doubt on the subject in Piedmont, we shall repeat the cases of war which the Republic may lay down to the rest of Europe. They would be, according to the unanimous opinion of France, the establishment of the Russians either in Prussia, in Hungary, or in the northern provinces of the Ottoman empire, or the ' Lary action of the Russian fleet either in the Dardanelles or the Adriatic. There did exist another series of cases belli regarding Austria, such as the entry of her troops into Piedmont, Tuscany, or the Roman States; but these three causes have been annulled by the declaration of war which has just been made. The Piedmontese, the Tuscans, and the Romagnols attack the Austrians; and the latter in defence, or by way of reprisals, cross the Ticino, the Appenines, or enter Fer rara. It is a right with which the Italian aggression has most inopportunely invested them, and which during the war no one has a right to contest; the Republic, hiss titan any one, for it is in contPmpt of her notes and of her counsels that the Italians have signified at Tunic, at Vienna, and at London, that they have recommenced the war. We insist in the clearest manner on this deli cate su.bject. There is a vast party at Turin, at Genoa, at Florence, and at Rome, who want to force the hands of the French Government. Messrs. Batezzi, Boft, Guerrazzi, and Mazziui, in this pain other instances, de ceive themselves totally. Had the Republic believed it to be politic to advise Piedmont to go to war, there would now be French divisions at Suza, at Genoa, and at Venice, but we believe the very. contrary—still we can not but advise the Italians to act now with courae. France would rejoice in their victories, and would not de sert them should they bo defeated. Marshal Radctzky is not yet at Turin. He has promised his soldiers that after two battles he will be there. All battles, however, are not like that of Custoza, as Gorto, Peschiera, and Vallegio can testify." It was stated in some of the journals that M. GUIZOT had arrived in Paris on Friday, and that he intended to stand as a candidate for Calvados. The Journal des Debats of Sunday, contradicting this statement, say s that M. GUIZOT does not intend to quit London for the next two months. The club of the Rue de Poitiers has determined not to support the candidateship of any of the mem. bars of the last Cabinet of LOUIS PHILIPPE. It is rumoured that M. LEON FAUCHER is about to retire from the Ministry of the Interior. and that he will be succeeded by either M. DUFAURE or M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE. M. BLIN DE Bounnow, the celebrated Legitimatist Deputy, died on Friday night of cholera. It is said that M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUI.(ONT has ' been also at tacked by the same malady. The Moniteur du Soir says that the French Go vernment has received positive information that the difficulties which arose between Turkey and Russia have been arranged, and that there is no longer any risk of war between those two states. The Nouvelliste of Marseilles of the 19th ays : "An Attach 4 of the Austrian Embassy at Paris arrived this morning at Marseilles, and in a few hours afterwards embarked for Naples. His mission is said to be connected with active negotiations going on between the King of Naples and the Cabinet of Vienna." We hear nothing new direct from Toulon respect ing the projected expedition, but the Nouvelliste of Marseilles; of the 20th, says : " The steam flotilla assembled at Toulon for the ex pedition to Rome has completed its preparations; the importance attached to which by the maritime prefect is so great, that the departure of the Post-office steamer for Africa has been suspended, in order not to deprive our naval forces of a valuable reinforcement in case of urgency. Troops are still marching towards our town as well as towards Toulon. We believe, however, we may affirm that events have greatly modified the first resolution of our Government, and induced it to sus pend its projected intervention in Central Italy. The concentration in this part of France of a division of the army of the Alps is, therefore, it seems, only kept up as a measure of prudence, and to guard against even t s." The French Five per Cents. were done somewhat higher on Sunday in the Passage de l'Opera than on the previous day. After some variations, they closed at 83f. 20c. This improvement was attributed to the fact that the Bill to close the clubs had been read a second time. E.:USINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, illAncu 24. Boulogne and Amiens, B.74—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3% —Paris and Rouen, 204—Rouen and Havre, 11. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. The Clamor Public° says that the expedition for Italy will sail from Barcelona the beginning of next month. MADRID BOLSA, MARCU 20.—Five per Cents., 10i paper ; Three per Cents., 22. Exchange on London, 50. GE TVI A N AND mE NORTHERN STATES, AUSTRIA. VIENNA.—The Wiener Zeitung of the 20th contains the 29th army bulletin. The general correspondence says that, according to intelligence from Pesth and Cracow, the Russian frontier army, which daily receives new reinforce ments, will cross the frontier, and form the garri son of all the cities not only of Hungary but of those of the entire monarchy, in cluding those of Vienna. By this arrangement all the Austrian troops will be disposable, and will be sent to reinforce the armies in Hungary and Italy. The first serious attack upon Comorn was to take place on the 20th, and the operations against Sardinia were to commence at the same time. The Augsburg Zeitung says, that according to letters from the frontier of Moldavia, dated the 6th, not only have. the Russians of Transylvania received a reinforcement of 8,000 men, but a Russian corps stationed at the frontiers of Bakowine is waiting to enter that country. General BEM has received considerable reinforce ments, and is threatening Hermanstadt for the third time. The corps of Malkowski, commanded by URBAN, has been obliged to make a retrograde movement to the frontier of Bakowine, and to give up to the Hun garians the city of . of Bist r it z . The Wiener Ze i tung of the 18th contains an offi cial announcement of the renunciation of the armistice by the King of SARDINIA. The Breslauer Zeztung contains a Magyar corre spondence of the lath, according to which Prince SCHWARIZRNBERG and Baron VON KIIRECK are gone to Pesth to assist at a Council upon the bank-note question. The Hungarians had left Szolnok again, after they had destroyed the railroad as far as Czegled. JELLACHICH, who had removed his head quarters to Kekskemet, had been beaten at Jassbering, and the same day retreated to Ofen. The Pesth paper, Figyelmizo, also states that the BAN had returned, on the 13th, from his expe di t i on to K ekskemet. The diasch is said to have been taken by the Im perialists, and the Hungarians driven out of Schas burg. The German Gazette of the 20th states that a sort of Committee of Public Safety, which was formed some time ago by the Diet of Croatia, at the same time that JELLAcuicu was declared Dictator, has resolved, notwithstandin g the granting of the Con stitution for the whole e m pi re o f Austr i a, to con tinue to exerciseits powers, and to insist that the Diet shall meet at the period to which it was origi nally adjourned. PRUSSIA. In the sitting of the Second Chamber on the 23d, the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the Address were carried, as proposed by the Committee, against several amendments moved by the Opposition. The fourth paragraph pledges the Chamber to a careful consi deration of the several organic laws that had been published since November in the form of decrees; the fifth recognised the services and fidelity of the army in the same terms employed in the KING'S Speech. The Constitutionelle Zeitung has a letter from Dantzic, stating that some riots took place in that city on the 18th inst., the anniversary of the Prussian Revolution. Several persons have been arrested in Berlin for attempting to create disturbances. SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN. SCHLES WIG MARCH 20.—To•day th e N at i ona l Assembly, taking into consideration a letter addressed on the 14th to the general administration of the two duchies by the President of the Council of the Minister of the Empire, adopted the following reso lution :—" In case the general administration of the duchies shall give in its resignation, a new adminis tration shall be formed, composed of M. BESELEN, and Count REVENTLOW, who shall choose a third member from the assembly." It is hoped that there will be a prolongation of the armistice, and that a durable peacp will be concluded. It is thought th e blockad e an nounce d b y the Danish Government for the 27th, will not take place, and that the Prussian troops will not set out till further orders. PROLONGATION OF THE ARMISTICE. Official intelligence was received at Hanover on the 20th that the armistice with Denmark was pro longed to the 15th of April.—. Hanover Paper. This intelligence is confirmed by the Cassel Gazette, which says—" That a telegraphic dispatch was received on the 15th of March, at six in the even ing, that the armistice was prolonged to the 15th of April, with the additional clause, by the desire of Denmark." The German Reforme, of the 20th of March, writ ing on the same subject, says That although the equipment of the Prussian troops destined for the Duchies continues to be carried on, their de parture for the present is delayed ; the blockade of the Schleswig-Holstein harbours, though not actually withdrawn, will be, probably, not carried into effect ; the temporary prolongation of the armistice may pro bably be regarded as the harbinger of a permanent peace. The Hamburgh Borsenhalle, of the 21st, contains a letter from the Baltic Journal, which says that two ship s were in sight on the 19th, at Swiumunde, which were recognised as a Danish man-of- war and a cutter ; and th at on t h e morn i ng o f the 19th a n o th er ship of the line was signalled, but the flag could not be discerned. The Frankfort Journal questions the generally rumoured report of an alliance between Austria, , Russia, and. Denmark, whereby the possession of Schleswig i s secure d to t h e l atter power , an d th a t o f Prussian Silesia to Austria. A courier passed through Hamburgh on the nth from Copenhagen to London, bearing the consent of the Danish. Government to the protocol for peace, ar. ranged in London between the negotiators of the two parties. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament met on the 221, when the vote was taken on M. EISENSTUCH'S motion that the Assembly proceed forthwith to vote on the several paragraphs of the Constitution, without allowing any further amendments to be moved, and that the vote on the 3d paragraph—which relates to the head of the empire—shall be taken last. M. EISENSTUCH wished to withdraw his motion in favour of or.e proposed by M. HECHSCHER, but the Assembly refused to allow him. The vote was taken on M. EisErts-rucu's motion, which was carried (himself voting against it) by a majority of 282 to 246. The remaining orders of the day having been dis posed of, the President of the Assembly intimated that he had a communication to make to it from M. VON GAGERN :—" M. VON GAGERN intimates that all the Ministers, the Secretaries of State included, have tendered their resignations to the Vicar of the Empire, and that his Imperial Highness, after ma turely considering the reasons they as3igne'd for taking such a step, has accepted their resignations. The ex-Ministers will continue to discharge the rou tine duties of their respective offices till their succes sors are appointed." The Assembly then adjourned till next day. It is said the Archduke JOHN has rent for M. DE VYDENBURG, who voted with the Prussian party, and M. KERCHGENNER, who voted on the other side. The second reading of the law on the Constitutio❑ is fixed for the 24th. The Gazette Allemande approves of the resolution of the Ministry, seeing that the Anarchists and the Austrians have the power to hinder the passing of the Constitution, and that they intend to use it to render permanent the present uncertain state of affairs. THE NETHERLANDS. THE HAGUE, MARCH 23.—His Majesty William 111. has issued the following proclamation on his as cent to the throne : " We William 111., by the Grace of God King of the Netherla❑ds, Prince of Orange Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, &c. My welt beloved countrymen and subjects of every rank and every condition, Called to the throne by the death of my august father, whose memory is so justly dear, I deeply feel the importance of the task which devolves upon me. " In firm reliance upon God, and filled with confidence in my people, who are so devotedly attached to my house, I take into my hands the reins of government. "It is my first act to issue this solemn declaration in my residentiary city, although a sacred and melancholy duty calls me elsewhere without delay. " William I. accepted the sovereign power, which was to be carried out according to a constitution. " William 11., in concert with the national Represen tatives, modified the fundamental law according to the requirements of the times. It is my mission, in the same spirit, to give the fun damental law its complete force. " For the accomplishment of this mission, I confidently depend upon the Lithful concurrence of ail the constitu tional powers. " I retain in their present functions all the officers of state, all the officers of the army and navy, ani the com munal guard, whatever be their r4nk or station. " Men of the Netherlands, remain faithful to the motto of your aucestors, Union is strength,' and strive with me for that liberty - by submission to the laws. We desire and command that the present decree be promulgated at a public and solemn audience of the iligh Court of the Netherlands, at the provincial courts and tribunal of the circuits, and that it be further affixed, ac cording to usage, in all public places, and inserted in the official journal. " Done ut the Hague, March 21, 1849. (Signed) " WILLIAM, (Countersigned) " The Minister of Marine, J. C. RISK. " The Minister of Justice, D. DONYER C URTIUS. " The Minister for Foreign Affairs, LIGHTENVELT. " The Minister of the Interior, J. M. DE KE3IPENAER " The Minister of War, POET. " The Minister of Finance, VON BOSSE. " The Minister of the Colonies, G. L. BAUD." After the completion of the above fr2t, his MA JESTY quitted the Hague at ten o'clock at night for Tilburg, whence he returned on the morning of the 23d. After his return, his MAJESTY issued a royal mandate, calling upon all the people of the Nether lands of all denominations to unite in public prayer on Sunday, for the special blessing of DIVINE Pao- VIDENCE upon the reign just commenced.—Staats Courant, March 24. BLOCKADE OF BERNBURG. HALLE, 1114t.aca 19.—The disturbances at Bern burg cause a great deal of sensation here. It would appear that the commotion, which was caused by the entrance of the troops, was not a popular movement, but that it was a deep-laid plan, in which some high persons are implicated. The city is now in a state of blockade. In a pro clamation the rainis:,er of state says that the military of this place were attacked and fired upon in the discharge of their duties, and the civic authorities are incapable of securing the necessary respect for the laws, wherefor the city of Bernburg and the village of %Valdau are declared in a state of siege.— Cologne Gazette, March 23. ITALY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 21st March con ains the following official announcement of the com mencement of hostilities between CHARLES ALBERT and RADETZXY " NoVARRA, MARCH 20, AT NIGHT.—The King, at Trecate, has crossed the Tesino at the head of the army, after a brief reconnoisance of the ground by the sharp shooters. The passage was not disputed. The head quarters are still at Trecate. It is said that the Austrian troops and baggage waggons precipitately fell back on Milan by the road of Basto Arsizio. Our troops are greatly excited. In their bivouac the soldiers are conti nually singing in chorus and shouting Vive le Roi.' VOGHERA, MARCH 20, AT NIGHT.—The enemy have attacked the bridge of Mazzanacosti. Our soldiers de fended the bridge firmly, and at night, for greater secu rity, the bridge was broken down, and the boats drawn over to our side, where they lie under the protection of two batteries of Lombard artillery. It is said that two soldiers have been killed, and about 20 others wounded; on the other side of the Po are seen Austrian troops of all arms, who have not hitherto attempted to cross over. This news is confirmed by a telegraphic dispatch re ceived this morning from Alexandria." Private letters from the seat of war add the follow ing particulars : " On the morning of the 20th the Piedmontese head quarters was at Novarra. General Chrzonowski had there concentrated a force of 50,000 men. These troops, massed in close columns on the extreme frontier, re ceived orders before noon to march by San Marino upon Buffatora and Magenta. The Austrian outposts, on perceiving this offensive movement, fell back on Ma genta, exchanging merely some shots with the Sardinian tirailleurs. At the moment when the courier left Turin the army of General Chrzonowski was only se parated from the Austrian army by the narrow space of a league, which was occupied by the respective outposts. Marshal Radetzky had, on the 19th, only concentrated a force of aboat 25,000 men at Magenta; but all the other divisions were coming up by forced marches on the same point. " The situation of the two armies was, according tdthe latest accounts, this: four Piedmontese divisions had passed the Tesino at Novarra i❑ the evening of the 20th. On the following day an Austrian corps d'arntee crossed the Tesino at Vigevano, where it met with some slight re sistance, but having received reinforcements pushed on to Mortara. This corps el'arreee would therefore be between the four divisions with the King, and which are supposed to be marching by the Novarra road on Milan, and the other divisions remaining upon the Tesino on the side of Pavia. The probability is the Piedmontese troops would have recrossed the Tesino, and that the battle may take place in the plains of Verecil." It is said that RADETZRY has received reinforce ments from the King of BAVARIA. Letters from Turin, of the 21st of March, state the law for the maintenance of public security had been passed that day by the Chamber, by a majority of 77 to 88. The Minister of Public Instruction left Turin on the 20th, for the head quarters of the KING, where he is to act as commissioner. A letter from Trecarte of the 20th says :-- " The tri-colour floats over the land of Lombardy. The, passage of the Buffatora has been effected. The Duke of Genoa has his head-quarters at Magenta. The passage of the Tesino was not disputed. The Suisse of Berne of the 20th instant, says : " We have already announced the measures taken in the, Tesino for covering our frontier on the side of Lombardy. It is also known that the Federal Council has decided for the moment upon sending a Thurgo vian battalion into the Tesino. We have now to make known the instructions given by the Federal Commissary to the Commandant of the Tesino battalion, Councillor of State, Rusca, which the Federal Council has approved, and which have been published officially:-1. The battalion No. 25, called into the service of the Confederation, and placed under its command, is destined to be the safeguard of the integrity and the inviolability of the Swiss territory, and to watch over the neutrality of Switzerland.-2. It will occupy principally that part of the Swiss frontier adjoining Lombardy, which is most exposed to danger, that is to say, the district of Mendisio.—.3. It will repel with force every attempt of an armed body to cross the frontier next to Lombardy; neither will it permit on the side of Swit zerlaral persons not having the right to do so to cross the frontier into Lombardy, armed or not.-4. It will con sequently exercise a surveillance principally over the Italian refugees who may wish to make an invasion into the territory of Lombardy, and carefully prevent refu gees from approaching the frontier.-5. It will also take care that no arms be conveyed from Switzerland into Lombardy. -6. Everything which in the course of this war might be regarded as a hostite demonstration against either of the belligereut powers must be carefully avoided." In the sitting of the Roman Constituent, on the 15th instant, a law was passed for sending sixty De puties to the Italian Constituent, such Deputies to be chosen by the people from among the tw:mbers Roman Constituent. On the 14th the provisional military governor of Parma DEGENFIELD, issued a decree, by which, in consequence of his departure, a commission of go vernment is created, composed of Baron SoL DATI, Count NASALLI, and Count RUG ARLIC. In the course of the day the National Guard occupied all the posts, and a proclamation was issued, informing the inhabitants that the municipality had assumed the government of the city, and named a provisional dele gate of public security, in the person of Dr. CAVAG NARI, and a deputy delegate, in the person of M. TAGLIAJACCUI. The Austrians passed the Po at Brescello, marching towards Casalinaggiore. The Tuscan Government has published a procla mation informing the Tuscans that the armistice has been broken, and calling upon Tuscany to do her duty. The only feature worth noticing in this docu ment is that, although expressing cordial feelings towards Piedmont, is does not mention the name of CHARLES ALBERT. SICILY. _ - - Intelligence has been received from Palermo to the 15th of March. The squadrons of the mediating Powers arrived there on the 6th with the ultimatum, which way transmitted by the two Admirals to the Provisional Government. The following is the official letter of Admiral BAUDIN " On Board the French Republican Ship Friedland, Paler►no, March 7. " The undersigned Vice. Admiral, commanding in chief the naval force of the French Republic in the Mediter ranean, has the honour to transmit to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sicily the following documents : " 1. A certified copy of a letter addressed by M. de Rayneval, Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic to his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, to the Vice-Admiral Baudin, dated Naples, 3d March. " 2. A certified copy of a note of the date of the 28th of February last, addressed by the Prince De Satriuo to M. De Rayneval. " 3. Two printed copies of a proclamation of his Ma jesty King Ferdinand 11., dated Gaeta, 28th Feb. last. " In nine days, six months will have elapsed since the Vice• Admirals commanding in chief the naval forces of France and England in the Mediterranean, moved by a feeling of Christian compassion for the calamities of every kind which decimated the town of Messina, and which at that time threatened to extend rapidly throughout the whole of Si cily, undertook upon their personal responsibility to oppose the continuation of hostilities by the Neapolitan army. During this time the Governments of France and Great Britain, approving the conduct of their respective admirals, and animated with a common feeling of good will towards Sicily, have interposed to procure between this country and the kingdom of Naples a reconciliation advantageous to the two nations, and which might ensure to Sicily a free constitution, such as she anxiously wished for for many years. The efforts of the two mediating powers have been crowned with success. They have ob tained from his Majesty King Ferdinand 11. an act which guarantees to Sicily the basis of the constitution of 1812, with a separate parliament, a separate govern ment, of which all the posts shall be exclusively filled by Sicilians. Theso advantages are accompanied with a formal promise to forget all the faults and all the poli tical errors committed in the last Sicilian revolution. It appears, then, that the Governments of France and Great Britain consider that from this time no serious obstacle presents itself to the renewal of those ties between Sicily and the king dom of Naples, which for a long period of time have united the two countries under one and the same monarchy. The undersigned Vice-Admiral has, there fore, been charged, conjointly with Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Commander-in-Chief of the force of her Britannic Majesty in the Mediterranean, to transmit to the Sicilian Government the conditions of a project of reconciliation, and of a new union between the two countries. He forms the hope that these conditions, which he considers as perfectly reasonable and honour able, will be accepted; and that instead of again having recourse to arms and engaging in an unequal and uncer tain contest with the Neapolitan forces, Sicily will has ten to accept with joy the benefit of the institutions which are offered to her, without the cost henceforward of a single drop of blood or a single tear. " The undersigned entreats the Sicilian Minister for Foreign Affairs to accept the assurance of his high consideration. (Signed) " C. BAUDIN. " To his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sicily, at Palermo." The terms, as might have been expected, were re fused. The occupation of the fortresses by Neapolitan troops is particularly objected to ; besides, from the well-known faithlessness of the character of FERDI NAND, no one will trust either his word or his oath. The Sicilians say he is acting in concert with Russia, and whatever terms they might accept, he would violate the instant he got quiet possession of the island. On the 13th notices were posted up all over Palermo, announcing alevy enmasse, decreed by the Parliament; all men, from 18 to 30, are included, but excepting ".,4 sons," marrivi men, and widowers with families. All are to be requested to serve, but these last may decline. Volunteers are promised prefer ment. The Sicilians are well prepared for the contest. In Palermo alone they have 16,000 regular troops, besides the National Guard, and as the National Guard have been constantly drilled and disciplined for the last twelve months, they are now become effective soldiers. They have, moreover, a large force of French recruits, and a Ger man Legion of 7,000 men to be called the Republican German Guard has, according to the German Gazette, been organized by the Society of "Aide-toi," for the defence of the liberties of Sicily. The Island is per fectly tranquil, and all the merchants agree in de claring that the trade of the island has never been so prosperous as it has during the twelve months that the Provisional Government has had the direction of affairs. Three spies were taken on the morning of the 12th —one dressed as a priest, had a letter concealed under the collar of his coat, giving directions for marching a Neapolitan army from Messina to Palermo. They are to be shot. The Ministry has undergone a modification :—DI MARCO takes the Portfolio of Public Works and Instruction, and he will take the Finances ad interim, CALVI, Public Worship and Justice; STABILE, War and Marine ; TORREARSA and KART!, who ought to have accepted the Finances, have successively retired. A foundry for casting cannon has been established. A quarter of the National Guard will be mobilised during the war. Every Sicilian, from 18 to 30 years is a soldier. MANSION •MOUSE.—On Saturday evening the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress entertained at dinner a party of about 40 Members of the House of Commons, and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel preached yester day forenoon (for the first time since his secession), in the National Scotch Church, Regent-square, in place of the pastor, Rev. James Hamilton, who was too unwell to officiate. THE DX-ROYAL FAMILY OP FRANCE.—The Count and Countess de Neuilly are about to leave Claremont for a short period, and proceed to St. Leonards-on-Sea, the sir of that watering place having been recommended for the ex-Queen, whose health, although much better than it has been for some time past, is still very delicate. The Queen of the Belgians is still on a visit to her illus trious parents; but her Majesty is expected to return to the Continent early in the present week. The Prince de Joinville, the Duke de Nemours, and the Duke d'Aumale, with their consorts and youthful families, are all staying at Claremont. The Royal exiles take fre quent exercise, but confine themselves chiefly to the Claremont domain and its immediate neighbourhood. The ex-King and Queen occasionally receive visits from distinguished French Noblemen, and the calls of our own aristocracy at Claremont are frequent. The suite of the ex-Royal Family at present consists of General Dumas, General Count Friant, the Count d'Houdot, and the Marquise de Dolomieux. The Count de Jarnac is ix frequent attendance on the illustrious exiles. INDISPOSITION OF LORD J. RUSSELL.—We regret to learn that the absence of Lord J. Russell in the House of Commons on Friday last arose from a severe cold, from which ho is at the present time suffering. - Yester day his Lordship was somewhat better, but at the request of his medical attendants he will for a few days remain confined to his residence. The Cabinet Council sum moned for this day at noon will take place at his Lord ship's private residence in Chesham-place, instead of at Downing-street, owing to the indisposition of the Premier. THE BOMBAY AT BLACICIVALL.—The steamer Bombay, at Blackwall, has not the Sicilian flag flying, nor, as we are informed, had she ever the colours of that country hoisted on board. She was lying off Blackwall on Saturday evening, with the flag of the Oricntal Steam Navigation Company at the fore-top gallant -mast head. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset received a select circle to dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Park-lane. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury had a grand dinner on Saturday, at the family residence in Arlington -street. His Excellency Admiral de Cecille gave a sump tuous entertainment on Saturday at the French embassy, in Manchester-square. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received a select party to dinner on Saturday last, at their residence in Carlton-gardens. Her Ladyship subsequently opened her salons for the reception of a fashionable circle. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Princess of Parma, at tended by the Countess Lopez, the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess Colloredo, his Excellency the Swedi.h . Minister and BaroLess Rehausen, his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Reventlow and the Countess Hilda Reventlow, Count Rosen, and many of the corps diploma tique were present, and among the general company were many of the most distinguished of our nobility. The family of Mr. Jerdan, the editor of the Literary Gazette, have been thrown into much distress by thu death, on Tuesday last, of Mr. John Eggar, of Bentley (the father of Mrs. Jerdan), at the advanced ago of 94 of mortification resulting from th e bi te of a dow Mrs.' Jerdan was with her vener a bl e parent at the time. of the accident, and remained in attendance upon .him until his death. MONE Y and CO WiIiERCIAL NE WS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was Trio, without any alteration in prices. The sales coin' orisA about 2,500 bales American, at aid. to 8/d.; 30 Ezvptiari, at 54c1. to 60.; arid 300 Surats, at 3,-fd. to 3/d. per lb.—ln Rai' Suarrs there was very little doing, and prices had a further downward tendency. Accounts of October 17, including letters and papers, by a'direct arrival from Adelaide, South Australia, stale that the strike among the Burra Burro, miners appeared to be in some measure justified by circumstances. The company had declared large dividends, and the working men felt the more aggrievi d at a reduction of their wages. It was hoped that an amicable arrange' ment would be come to. Efforts were making to es' tablish a smelting company in Van Diemen's Land , where there was a good supply of coal with other vantages. It is stated from Hobart Town that Sir William Denison had prohibited the employees in the Survey Depart , nent from dabbling in laud purchases , glaring instances of forestalling which occurred at land sale having been brought under the Governors notice. Accounts from Brussels state that a republican plot had been discovered there, and that 12 persons bad been arrested i❑ consequence. After the banquet 11 1 3- pointed to be held on Sunday (last) night at eleven o'clock, the gas works were to have been seized and the town thi own into a state of darkness, while the Prod° and the royal palace were to have been fired, so that during the general confusion, the conspirators hoped to accomplish their object. No intelligence has yet been received of the Dee steamer, with the West Indian and Mexican mails. In an interesting statement upon the dried fruit trade, compiled by Messrs. Witheby and Hanson, we have the following:— " The total consumption of currants, in the United Kingdom, in 1848, as per Board of Trade reports, was 19,025 tons, or 2,440 tons more than 1847, and 1,06 0 more tha❑ i❑ 1846. There is perhaps no other article (? 11 record, the consumption of which has doubled itself 1 0 this country within seven years. Such, however, has been the case with currants. In 1840 the prices at 775. to 809., or 100 per cent. higher than at present, only 8,250 tolls were consumed in this country; in 1841, 9,500 tons; In 1844, with prices reduced to 455. and 485., 14,200 tons; and last year, 19,000, or exactly double the quantity that was consumed seven years ago. From the nature of the clearances at this port during the first eleven weeks of this year, and from the general state of the country, it is possible that the consumption of 1849 will be not far short of 21,000 toss. At the high duty of 225.21. currants in 1843, pro I uced a revenue of 296,0001 ; in 1848, tour years atter the reduction to 155., they pro duced 300,0001. Nut only has our population been benefited by the use of a cheap and wholesome article , our shipping interest by the additional tonnage env ployed in its transit, and our docks and wharfs, by the acquisition of so many thousand toss of merchandise , but it is evident, from the surprising increase of late years in the exports of British goods to Greece, that the cultivation of such vast tracts of land has greatly en riched that rising country, and that therefore the benefit has been mutual." The English Stock Market has been extremely quiet to-day, and there is a disposition to await further ia: telligence from Italy, a battle having been expected almost hourly at the d ste of the last accounts sent off. Consols have been 91/1 for transfer, and 911 for account. Bank Stock has been firm at 198. Exche quer-bills have realised 375. to 405., and India Bonds 48s. to 51s. premium. At present Consols are abou t 911 /, and 911 The Foreign Securities are in tolerable favour. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 161 ;to 17, and the Three per Cents. 30 to 1. Portuguese Four par Cents' have been quoted 271 to 28. A further important move ment has occurred in Peruvian Stock, which now stands at the very advanced price of 68 to 6'J—the opening value this morning was but 634! Mexican Stock is still rather flat, being 311 to 311. Buenos Ayre: realises 39 to 401. Grenada Deferred are 34. Russian Stock has been A G 1041. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 83 ; and Dutch Four per Cents. 79. The Railway Share Market has been inactive, 101 in some respects looks rather firmer. It would be t°l much to say, however, that there has been any decide d change. O';E • I , ' r;;; ; viT•ll)4 LOOK 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9IV/i India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,000/. ...... 48 51 p Bank Stock for Account, l9B Console for Account 9114304 India Stock for Account — x chequer Bills. 14d. & 2d. 1.000/. March 1,0001. June 5001. Marsh 5001. June Small, March Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS cLosINO, ritietP 91 36 P 31 P 39 P 401 3 39 P 37 2 cLog l4° ?IWO' rirazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent 39% 39 39 Ditto, Account . ... Grenada Boads, 1 per Cent. — 18Y4 Ditto Deferred 3% 34 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 3 1 14 31 Ditto, Account 3I IA %!4 30% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Centa — -- Ditto, Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent D: ', At ONE O'CLOCK. —'itto, Account ............ ......... 28 2 7 % 27% Eussian Bonds ... S panish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 16% % 3 16 5 / 1 Ditto, Passive 29 Ditto 3 per Cent 3 0 1% Ditto, Account 3O BO Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 414 per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 79 rE ICES OF ;<AILWA Y SHARES. P AID. A lly S O I N N E E S O S , C D L 0 0 0 C p fk r o B c ; * 17, 1 k berdeen 2,‘ Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, 14 and Eastern Junction 2M l/4 '' paid, or with a guaran. 20 25Y% 3Li Caledonian ...... ..... 50 Do. New 101. P r ef lO ...,.. 11 1 4 ...... .. .... • 117,•• 9 1 Chester and Holyhead SO Ditto, Preference Dublin and Belfast J une . 35 'test Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Eastern Counties... .... 20 ...... 9 3 / 4 % 9 Do. New Guaranteed 04 6 per Cent. ... Ditto, Extension, 5 per 1 3 Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... 1 4 p P Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13 8 . 4d... 1 4 p ...., East Lancashire 13 5 4 Ditto, New - ..... ...... 11 4 Great Northern Do., i B 6 per Cent... 71 Do. Extension 2% ...... . 1 1 /$ Treat South. and West 35 (Ireland) ... , / k -;reat North of England.loo ......232 94',1 Great Western 100 ... 95 ... Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... r d Do. Fifths.. ... 10 3 / 4 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 4 Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 Leeds and Bradford 5 London & Blackwall 12% ._...... ........ London, Brighton, and South Coast SO •• ........ 36 ••• Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. ... ...... 5 _.63i Lou:lon and N. WAitern 100 ..... 133% 134% ...... 1 334 0 4 Ditto, New Quart ers .. 7 284 Do. Snw 50/. ... ..... 42%.. .. 28 1 / 2 ...... ..... ••• Do., New Scrip, 1848, Prof. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per 5 1 1 Cent, on Calls ...... 5 ...... Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 - Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Midland ...... ........ ...100 .. .... Do., do., 1;01. Shares... 25 ... . North British ........ ... 25 ...... 14 1 % ex.div l 4 l/e ' ci Ditto, Halves .. ex.div 6 14 I' d Ditto, Thirds .... -.. 8 1 4 .. .. 4% ex div. ..• 4 % 1 ' North Staffordshire 1734 14% .. I4SI Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ....... 50 Reading, Guildford, an d Reigate .. Shrewsbury and Birm... 10 - Ditto ditto, Class B. 6 Shropshire Union So ith Eastern 33% 23% ex. div..... 79 I ork, Newcastle, and Berwick. - ............ 25 Do. Original New and 13 ,, rwick - ...... ... Do. Newcastle E Kten, 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... -- 7 A; 72 1C,,. - 1: A.,-1.! North Midland 50 ........... 2 43 1 : .... ..... :::::: .. Do. East and Westßid ing Extension FO REIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens-. 20 ...... 8 5 ,{ ...... . ........ Namur and Liege ........... Northern of France l3 ...... 10%..... 1..?::1:l Rouenaindßol e aux.. 2 7 0 ..._ .....3A 4 ...... * R f o r e s n a andno s antesHavre2l4.. ...... 20 9 ...... ..... ::: ....... MIN - United gexican .. 28 ES. (-' ...... . JOINT STOCK BANKS,. ......•• London & Westminster. 20 ..... 24 National of 1re1and...... 22%, ...... 19 ... .•-•• ..... . 24% 17% HER MAJESTT'S THEATRE. —When her Mgtjes t Y Theatre was decorated in 1846, we spoke of the work. at some length, as one of the most successful and effective of its kind, and we gave praise to Mr. Johnson, the Th 'ij chitect by whom it was designed, and to Mr. Mex sb i a d g and Mr. Sang, by whom it was carried out. It still b°,`;; li its good place in estimation, and viewing it a few nigh t since we were more than ever impressed with the slh / c :, cess with which a peat desideratum had been obtaini a namely, unity with variety. While the eye and mind an t , constant occupation in the always varied groups, rued% lions, and Itaffa e ll esques di sp l aye d, t h ere i s a meet and congruity about the whole which is particular l y satisfying and admirable.—Builder. At the battle of Moodkee an European serving i l / the Seikh army was surr oun d e d at t h e capture o f on e the enemy's guns. Ile lifted up his hands and erieut " Spare tne! for lam one of the old 44th." He WSJ mediately shot down. This circumstance correspone; with the report that there are th ree men o f t h at regiment with a detachment of Althans in the Seikh camp-01 t' Jhelum. 51P 198IJ --., 7814 22% s 84 i•V 34 20 10 3 4 214 Ys New[ Passe main( appal Du Cybe CA there, FA derat, Bard) of Lo Batas Nacti 25,87 The met.] assig ered Bugg spec , TJ assist Sw bona, NE Lad, BR Hulk Th Flow Fres] shire coast Whes Rye-: had mar tion mus othf othf sit t keej the , LL Mi Bark &fait may and heal the Turr Muse Tare Can, Rye Cloy Tref best rate exo 2/ 4 and