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IIE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (rroTisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capita!, 2,000,00C1., in 80,000 Shares, of 257. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share. Proftpectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Otll:.es of the Company, 13A, Cannon row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern. NEW' NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T UE LOTTERY EL of MARRIAGE. A NOV By MRS. TROfILOPE. Henry Colbarn, Pub!lshQr, 13. Great Mirlborough-street. OYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY. I l i t The I...mien Board et' the Society in Scotland for fropagating chr. i-tian Knowledge —The ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this Char, ty (having been postponed to meet the conven'ence of Noble. mcn L id Gentlemen connected with and attendin; the " f.COTCII NAT :O\IAL GATHERING") will be Lelebrated at the FREE on MA . Olfg ' HALL, Great Queen-street, Lincol2s-inn-delds, WED • ESVAY, the 27th of Juce, 1849. His Grace the' Duke of ARGYLL, President of the Scottish Board, will take the Chair ; When it is contln;intly anticipated that this disting,uished and pa triotic Nobleman Will be numerous l y supported by all those who are i n terested in the proverity of this great Nat ional Charity. Particu lars in future advertiaftments• CHARLES \tACKIE, Secretary. FIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that Madlle. JENNY LINT) bad Intended to take leave of the Subscribers a having PublicTiesSees o f late f Concerts at her Majesty 's Theatre ; but, itlyric been urged t performance, he W ould not be equally a cceptable as a c om p has generously consented to suspend her intention of retiring from the ;cage, and to appear In a series of Performances, in lieu of such Concerts, commencing on VICRSDAY, April 26 (which will be then I to a Subscription Night), on which occasion she will appear in the character of A.MINA, in Beliini's Opera, LA SONN.I3IBULA. She will Also appear on SATURDAY, April 28, as LUCIA, in Doni setta's Opera, LUCIA DE LAINIMEXMOOR. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect fully informed that TO-31011ROW EVENING, Will be presented Lit SONNAMBULA. To conclude with (the Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall) an en. firely new grand Ballet, by M. Taglioni, entitled ELECTRA ; or, The Lost Plelade. A pplicatiens for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. ernes,. Opel a Colonnade. Seven, Concert to co mmence at Eight. Doors or , r at Half-past JAMES'S THE AT RE. Season 1549. TKEI(CIi PLAYS and OPERA COMIQIEE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven •'clock with HEUR ET MALHEUR. To conclude with Georges, Mons. Octsta. e ; Anna, Mdlie. Charton ; Jenny, Mdlle. Guichard. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the In creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined 13 follows: Boxes .. • • .. 6s. Od. Pit • • .. •• 3s. 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, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIN, WIN be performed THE BRIGAND. Characters by Messrs. H. Tandenhoff, Rogers, Howe, Wallack ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss P. Horton. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entlt'ed THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FITE SHILLINGS. THEATRE ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE 110 P 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, WIIO LIVES AT No. 9? Characters by Messrs. Wright and.Worrell, and Miss Chaplin. To cenelude with a Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jerem , ati - Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. ROYAL LYCI.UM THEATRE. Under the Manage cent of Madame Vestris. Sols Lessee, Mr. Chatle , ; Ma' he WS. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. After which, a new Piece entitled HOLD YOUR. TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil bert, Miss Jahe Coleman, and Madame Yestris. To conclude with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Poxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pdt, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No lialf-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. I, Wellington , street, is open to the wiry day, from Tf,n till Six._ PRINCESS'S T HEAT it Mr. J. 31. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MM LOTHIAN. To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED DIN AND IRE FAIR PrAtSIAN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronaze of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal. Highness Prince Albert, &c. The new grand Easter ipectaele unprecedentedly successful. THIS EVENING, The percormance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzhall, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an Inimitable dispiay •f SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will . appear. To conclude with TIIE LONDON CARRIER. Box-ofilee open rrom Eleven till Fear. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 'No communication cm be attended to unless authenti' cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. TUE WEATLIER.—SuN OFT. CE, APRIL 25. TITERNOMIZTErt, Lowest, 43; Hielest, 50, Noon, 55, BAROMETER, 29.81. Wpm S.W.—hazy, with occasional 111 GB WATti: AT LONDON BRIDGE. T rim D A T ~ .rninz, 17 min. after 3 Evenin-, 38 min. after 3 To •Moaaow—Morning, 0 min. after 4 I Evening, 24 min. after 4 4 " re' . , ( „ AI! ; 4 " lc ' 4 ' • • t • •mr • AO 4 • • • ,NA. ,•1 01 7,4 -, • - - • kntnu stn E.~' LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1849. an officer who, eight or nine years ago, was a boy in England, who only eight years ago received his ap pointment as Lieutenant, and who has subse quently assisted in every action in India, in one of which he was wounded. Alluding to the' praises bestowed upon the rising star of our Eastern empire by the Lord President of the Council, his Grace the Duke of IVELLINGTox de clared that he entirely concurred in the observations of the Noble Marquis as to the conduct of Major EDWARDES and the other youthful officers engaged in the late transactions. "My Lords," exclaimed the Duke, with all the earnestness of genuine admira tion, "these officers did their duty with advantage to the public, with honour to themselves, and have im mortalised themselves by their conduct." Im mediately afterwards the great military autho_ rity of the age pronounced these emphatic syl lables—" It is impossible, my Lords, to speak in too high terms of Major EDWARDES and the other gentlemen engaged in those services." Nothing is wanting to testify to Lord GOUGE' and his heroic companions in arms the approbation of a grate ful country. Their splendid deeds of valour have been acknowledged by the Company, by the Parlia ment, and by the Administration. Their glory has been proclaimed by the Duke of WELLINGTON, by the Prime Minister, by the President of the Council, by the President of the Board of Controul, by the Leaders of the Opposition in both Houses (Lord STANLEY in the Lords, and the Marquis of GRANBY in the Commons), by the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL, and by other distinguished members of the Legislature. All that is now required is the practical confirmation of these tokens of national gratitude by the display of a discriminative munificence by the SOVEREIGN. Not even Mr. BANKES who, as the representative of that party which considers it would be most de- sirable that Manchester and all our great towns should be levelled with the ground, feels it his duty to come forward as the champion of every traitor Sovereign who indulges in the amusement of bom barding his capital ; not even Mr. BANKES, we should suppose, can now venture to defend the proceedings of General FILANGIERI, or to deny that the atrocities committed by the Neapolitan soldiers under his command at Catania were such as cannot be paryl leled in the annals of civilized warfare. The Neapo litans " massacred thousands of the peaceful inhabi tants after the troops had retired from the city; neither age nor sex was spared. 'Wrecked villages and smoking houses marked the route of Neapolitans and Swiss for miles along the coast. The troops under FILANGIERI pushed forward, firing the houses as they advanced, burning those within, and killing those without. Still the Neapolitans continued the burning until at length the whole principal street was on fire, and when all further resistance had ceased, the cathedral, the uni versity, the HOSPITAL, and most of the palaces and public buildings were in flames. The ill• fated survivors of this once noble city were given over to the tender mercies of the conquerors, and a general pillage ensued, which lasted from the dawn of the 7th inst, until the afternoon of the Bth, during which time burning and destruction of life and property `•ere carried to the most fearful and wanton excesc, espe- cial:y on the ith, when the most atrocious massacres were committed, and neither age nor sex was spared by the unbridled soldiery." After the perpetration of these frightful atrocities, who can place any reliance on the solemn assurances of FILANGIERI or his promise-violating master? They both declared that the war should be conducted according to the practice of civilized nations, and that the rights of humanity should be observed. The per- petration of these atrocities abundantly absolves the British and French Admirals from any pledges they have given FILANGIERI and the King of NAPLES; and if, after the perpetration of the hor rors of Messina, " the voice of humanity imperatively called for some expedient to prevent a repetition of such devsatation at other points," much more loudly does the voice of humanity and justic e call upon the English Government to interfere now that the horrors of Messina have been incalculably surpassed by the unheard-of atrocities perpetrated by the organized band of thieves and assassins, the drilled Lazzaroni whom FILANGIEXI and his master have trained to plunder and incendiarism, to rape and murder ! If the interference of England and France to compel a cessation of hostilities in Septem ber last was right, the abstinence from such inter ference at the present moment must be wrong. The Sicilians occupy precisely the same position with To-day the Overland Mail leaves England for Hindostan. It will convey to the northern portion of our Oriental dominions the gratifying intelligence of the thanks yesterday voted to the conquerors of Moult in and the victors of Goojerit by three great as,emblies—by the Court of Proprietors in Leaden hall-street, and by both Houses of the Imperial Parliament. Those expressions of the national gra titude to the heroic soldiers who havz., gained the late glorious campaign in the Punjaub were uttered thout any reservation whatever by the Lords, the Commons, and the Indian Stockholders. Even the con scientious opponents of war—those humane gentlemen who are fascinated by the beautiful but utopian doc trine of " arbitration"—abstained from any indecorous attempt to detract from the unanimity or to diminish the earnestness of the panegyrics pronounced upon his Excellency the Governor General, upon the Right Hon. the veteran Commander in -Chief, upon Sir jOSEPII TRACK WELL, upon Sir WALTER GILBERT, upon Major-General WILLIAM WEisu, as well as upon tha several officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, under their command, both native and European. It was felt that the gallantry, the skill, and the fortitude exhibited by every one who had been engaged'in the late transactions north of the Sutlej had entitled them to the cordial and unconditional felici tations of their countrymen. It was perceived that the two most conspicuous achievements of the cam-. paign were so important in their character, and so brilliant in their execution, as to be numbered hence forth amongst the most glorious events in our Asiatic history. The seizure of Moultan is an enter prise so remarkable as to vie with the capture of the 'Sogdian Rock by ALEXANDER. The battle of Goojerat is worthy of being ranked as the crowning triumph of the brave old warrior who has served his country faithfully and nobly during more than half a century—who has dictated terms to the Celestial EMPEROR —who has planted the banners of England on the vanquished shores of China whose sword has so often proved victo rious, and especially on the memorable occasions at Sobraon and Ferozepore. In the taking of Moultan, it should be remembered that our troops were suc cessful notwithstanding the almost impreg nable nature of the fortifi ca ti ons, in spite and it en f the formidable abilities of the redoubtable of ch.f tain MooLaaJ. In the victoryGoojerat,a more over, it should not be forgotten th a t the grand army under Lord Gouou, numbering only 25,000 men, were disproportionately opposed by upward s of 60,000 antagonists. Neither should it be lost sight of that those antagonists were the coalition of the two most warlike nations on the Asiatic continent, th e Seikhs and the Affghans. While the meeds of commendation were awarded without stint to the conquerors of the Punjaub by the most distinguished members of both the Legislative Chambers at Westminster, we were rejoiced to observe that a very express and particular panegyric wasreserved for the young officer by whose precocious abilities and heroic daring the recent rebellion was first re pelled. The extraordinary genius for military enter prise displayed by that soldier whose name' is already chronicled among the illustrious, obtained the homage due to his parts and his patriotism. The House of Lords was forcibly reminded last evening, by the Marquis of LAABDOWNE, that Major EDWARDES is avowedly, "to maintain French interests in Italy." Has not England also interests to maintain ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE declared the other day, and it was with shame we heard him make the declara tion, that we had only a few steam- boats in the Sicilian waters for the protection of British subjects and British commerce, but they were not to interfere between the belligerents. For the protection of British commerce, forsooth ! How can British com merce be carried on with Sicily, if all her ports are destroyed by FILANGIEBI ? HOW, for years to come, can Messina or Catania carry on commerce ? The interest of Great Britain, to put the question on no higher ground, commands immediate interference to prevent the further destruction of Sicilian ports, and to force from the King of NAPLES ample com pensation for British property destroyed at Messina by the bombardment which took place, without notice, in September last. if France is justified in interfer ing in Rome to protect French interests, and to maintain French influence, then is it the duty of England to interfere in Sicily to protect English interests, and to maintain English influence. And let it not be said that the maintenance of English influence in Sicily is a matter of no consequence. We felt the advantage during the whole of the last war of having Sicily as an ally. Had Sicily been, instead of an ally, an enemy, NELSON could never have fought the battle of the Nile. There has been for years past, on the part of the free nations of western Europe a jealousy—and by no means a cause less jealousy—of the increase of the power of Russia, more particularly of the presence of a Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. The King of NAPLES is at this moment acting under the influence and by the assistance of the Emperor of RUSSIA. He is as completely under the command of the Emperor of RUSSIA as is the HErMAN of the Cossacks; for Russia, Austria, and Naples are bound up together in an in timate alliance, and should the King of NAPLES suc ceed in conquering Sicily, all the ports of that island will be, in case of war, open to the Russian fleet and closed against the British. The independence of Sicily guarantees the frcedom of the Mediterranean to all the nations of the world, but Sicily, under the domination of the King of NAPLES, is the outpost of Russia, and means—British communication overland with India cut oft; and the Levant a Russian lake. As we observed yesterday, the third reading of the Navigation Bill was carried in the Commons, after an animated debate, by a decisive majority of 61. The Protectionist party, it will be remarked, offered the most determined opposition to any pro gress in free-trade principles, and clung to the last vestiges of monopoly with a zeal and devotion wor thy of a better cause. They had abstained from contesting any of the details of the measure in Committee, being resolved to exhibit their hostility to the entire Bill in the strongest point of view. It was manifestly the champ de bataille on sshich they staked their entire strength, being anxious, if pos sible, to render the majority in the Commons so slight as to justify the rejection of the Bill by the Lords. In this, however, they have totally and entirely failed. Public opinion has been too clearly and unequivo• cally manifested on the question. No doubt can remain as to what must be the result of a " collision between the Houses." The success of the measure may, perhaps, be retarded for a brief period, but it cannot possibly be averted. 'The nation, to which a free and unfettered trade in goods and commodities has been granted, will not be satisfied to continue a monopoly of the right of carriage to any class or interest. It has been solemnly decided that hence• forth impost shall be levied for the purpose of revenue only, .and not of protection, and Par- liament will not stultify itself by sanctioning a "principle" in one respect, while it legislates in another instance on totally different and conflicting grounds. Why should we be anxious "to buy in the cheapest and to sell in the dearest market" if we neutralise these advantages, and deprive ourselves of the inestimable blessings within our reach, by con tinuing narrow and short-sighted enactments, founded chiefly on hostility towards another nation, and perhaps partly on the exploded doctrine that the national wealth was increased in proportion to the poverty of other countries, which should therefore be injured in every possible manner. A. fair and gene rous emulation, an honourable and manly competition, that desires a clear stage and no favour, is now re- garded as the rule by which our dealings should be regulated, and we will abide by that just and equit able principle, and act fairly and honestly towards the entire world. regard to Naples, and to England and France, which Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in his lucid and powerful they did at that moment. They are still in their address, placed the question in the clearest light, and right. We may be told of what is commonly, but distinctly exhibited the injurious results of the navi most improperly, called " the mediation" which has gatien code, under the various Acts (more than 140 since taken place, and of the rejection of the terms in number) that had from time to time been passed offered by the " Mediating Powers." That so called since the introduction of the more stringent enact mediation was, in fact, no mediation at all. There ments during the Protectorate. On each of the were no Sicilian Plenipotentiaries present at the grounds argued by Mr. WALPOLE—" the historical," conferences, the Sicilians were never heard, and that " the economical," and " the national"—the Right is not, properly speaking, a mediation in which only Hon. Baronet proved that these laws had not been one side is heard; neither can that be called a decision productive - of those beneficial results erroneously of the mediating Powers, which is in fact merely a ascribed to them—that England bad flourished despite, proposition made by one of the belligerents to another, and not in consequence thereof. The almost con of which a neutral Power undertakes to be the bearer. temporaneous authorities of ROGER Coax and Sir Had Sicily been represented at those conferences, and Jossan CHILD, who wrote shortly after the pe i had the Sicilian Government refused to ratify the riod when these restrictive laws were enacted, terms agreed to by the Sicilian Plenipotentiaries, then showed that their immediate effect was "to drive indeed the mediating puwers might have been justified British shipping out of the trade both of Russia and in' withdrawing from further interference, but such Greenland"—" to destroy our Baltic trade and greatly was not the case. And let it not be said that Sicily to dimini,h our general trade ;" while Sir MATTHEW was not to be considered in the light of an independent DECKER, with half a century's additional experience state ; so far as England and France were concerned, of their working, said that, " although the object o f she was clearly an independent slate. They had the law was to increase the number of our seamen acknowledged and saluted her flag, they had been the and to add to our shipping, it produced exactly oppo bearers of an offer from the Sicilian nation to the site effects"—" that it had greatly diminished the Duke of GENOA of the Crown of Sicily. How then tonnage of our shipping, as well as the number of our can they pretsnd t) deny the independence of Sicily ? seamen, while at the same time, through advanced Had the Duke of GENOA accepted the offer, he would rates, great injury had been done to the interests of have been at the time of the conferences King of the country ;" while the authority of ADAM SMITH SICILY, and the mediating Powers would not surely —so happily termed by the Right Hon. Gentleman have ventured to hold conferences with the Ministers " the NEWTON of political economists"—is no of the King of NAPLES on matters affecting the rights less decisive. Although that profound reasoner (as of the King of SICILY without the presence of a Si- we have already repeatedly pointed out) was induced, cilian Plenipotentiary. It is clear, therefore, that in one part of his great work, to support the ex- Sicily occupies, in relation to the mediating Powers, elusive system on the principle " that defence is of precisely the same position which she occupied in the much greater importance than opulence"—an opinion month of September last ; we therefore, in the name that has been so triumphantly adduced by the Pro of humanity, call upon the English and French Go- tectionists—he, at the same time, and almost in the vernments to at once interfere for the purpose of same paragraph, showed that he was fully alive to stopping the perpetration of these horrors, and of their injurious effects to trade and commerce, and forcing FILANGIERI to conduct his operations according their deteriorating influences upon the national to the rules of war observed among civilized nations. wealth, and that "we sold less dearly and bought The claims of Sicily, however, upon England are of a more dearly" in consequence. But, even on the point still stronger character. It was under the mediation of " national defence," the great economist does not of England that the old Sicilian constitution was at all times maintain the same opinion ; and in a reformed in 1812, and the new constitution was subsequent part of his work he more than doubts guaranteed by Great Britain to the Sicilian people ; whether these laws had really the effect of "strength and at that time, be it recollected, the Sicilian people ening our national defences." He says-- remained faithful to the British alliance and expelled " England, it must be observed, was a great trading the invading army of M u itAT, to whom the Sicilian country—her mercantile capital was very great, and Bourbon King, FERDINAND, the grandfather of the liktely only b blc r o e m eh the still A e t o e f a greater and gre greater every d es t s d h a e y d present FERDINAND, would have betrayed the British n tl?e o m n o y nopoly of t the colony Navigation trade, but before that trade troops in the island. The duty of Great Britain to was very considerable. In the Dutch war, during the protect Sicily in the enjoyment of her constitutional government of Cromwell, her navy was superior to that rights is so manifest, that in 1814, Sir IV. A'Couser, o n fi g o ( I ) I f a t n h d e ; r a e r n in of t c ha h t ar w le h s ic l h l bt.;oskweasouatt least equal,berrf the British Minister at Palermo, declared in the name not superior, to g the united navies of France and Hol of his nation, that Great Britain could not refuse, at land. Its superiority, perhaps, would scarce appear the invitation of the Sicilian nation , to declare herself greater in the present times, at least, if the Dutch navy was to bear the same proportion to the Dutch corn the protectress of the constitution of 1812; and again, coerce now which it did then. But this great of the 6th September, 1816, when the King o f naval power, could not in either of these wars be owing to t u r s in t g for the m efidrs and,t of themo Though h the before pl en NAPLES began tampe rin g with the Sicilian constitu. gh lion, Lord CASTL EREAGH, writin g to Sir W. A'COURT, of that Actthat of Navigati on. Acthad been m Dt i j the breaking out of the second it had been enacted by says, " His Royal Highness ( the PRINCE REGENT), le g al authorit y , y et no p art of it could have had time to although contrary to his desire, will feel it his duty to produce any considerable effect; and, least of all, that interfere, should he ha ve the mortification to perceive part of it which established the exclusive trade to the co that any attempt should be made so to reduce the It cannot surely be asserted that the writer of the privileges of the Sicilian nation as to expose the Go- opinions above cited considered the maintenance of vernment of England to the reproach of having these laws essential to the safety of the country. contributed in Sicily to such a change of system as While, however, we would abolish every exclusive shall ultimately lessen the liberty and the happiness of privilege, we agree most fully with the Hon. Member its inhabitants, as compared with their previous situ- for Glasgow, that every restriction and impediment ation." On that occasion the King of NAPLES solemnly that now injuriously affect the shipping interests , bound hi mse lf t o G reat Britain, among other matter, s hould be also removed. Every ow ner sho uld , as Mr. never to levy a n y t axes i n Sicily beyondth e perms- r IuACGREGO R truly remarked, "be at liberty to man nent flotation fix e d a t 1 , 847 ,687 ounces (an ounce is 10s. British) per annu m , w i t h out the consent his ship in whatever way he thoug ht most advan tageous to himself. The stamp dutie s on insurances, ' of the Sicilian Parliament. Th a t prov i s i on has beenvio lated.oughttualli o g t o o f b B e r tbi togethersoh whiehSir w. the Taxes to an amount infinitely dotation hare been levied without calling Sicilian Parliament, and thus, thatcharter with parties, the v ships should cease; and the light-house dues should exceeding th fished bills o f; lading,all i interference and rfer ence A'COIJRT declared, and which the King of NAPL be put on the same footing with the United admitted, would be a case calling for the interfer-s- States of America." The timber duties, that act so ence of Great Britain has arisen. So much for the prejudicially to the British shipbuilder, should be right —now as to the policy of interference. M. either wholly or partially repealed, and then, indeed, we should have no cause to shrink from a fair and ODILON BARROT 1105 interfered in the affairs of Rome, opeu com petition with other nations. If the Protec- tionists had directed their efforts to these points, they would have fully succeeded, and the British shipowners, although not unduly favoured, would at least be freed from all the disadvantages and impedi ments with which they now have to contend. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 25.—Wind N.W., light breeze and • fine, but cloudy. DEAL, APRIL 24.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. City Of Glisgow, Brown, Calcutta; Agnes, Fox, Trinidad. Arrd. from the river and sid. Miranda, Molted, Barba does; Walker, Cokton, Quebec. bid. Helen Mary, Singapore; Portley, Quebec. OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 24.—Merwerle (Dutch trans port), Curacoa for Helvoet. GUERNSEY, APRIL 21.—The Active, bound to New foundland, which got on Castle Comet Rocks 19th inst., was partly discharg , ri yesterday, and warped into the harbour, where she is discharging the remainder of her cargo; she has lost her keel, has her fore foot broken, and her bottom is supposed to be considerably damaged. LEITH, APRIL 23.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Mayflower, (Zoe,* c. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N. to S.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Ringdove, Bombay, and sailed for Plymouth; British Queen, Stables, Cardiff for Cronstadt, with loss of bulwarks, sails split, upper works strained ; and making water. Off port, Kilblain, Shaw, China. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Rock shirts, Mc Leary, Savannah; Curl Emil, Utrichsen, St. Croix; Clutha, Langster, Charleston. 24 , h, Pendia, James, Baltimore. Sid. Hebe, Thompson, Demerara; Sarah Birkett, Proddon, Port-au-Prince; American Lass, Newfoundland. Off port, Charlotte, Hottinguer. Columbus, Isaac Wright, Jamestown, Sea, Roscius, London, Ann Henderson, General Sale, John Bull, Wi nifred, Colonist, Earl Harwood, Viceroy, Helen, Eliza Killick, North Carolina, Mary Imrie, Themis, Holywood, Ann, Dumfries. ARDROSGAN, APRIL 21.—Sid. Warner, St. John's, Newfoundland. SUNDERLAND, APRIL 23.—Wind S.—Arrd. Effort, Moulmein. Sid. Wave, Quebec, Swan, ditto; Mary and Dorothy, ditto. HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 22.—Wind E. to S.—Sid. Par thian, Batavia; Caledonia, Valparaiso. COWES, APRIL 24.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Leontine, Arlaan, Batavia; Bolivar, Hager°, Cindad Bolivar, both for Bremen; Dane, Forster, Porto Rico for Bremen. 23d, the Bolivar, from Cindad Bolivar to Bremen, rut in here this evening, and the master reports having been chased in the Channel yesterday by a Danish brig of war, probably th. Ocean, which sailed hence 21st SCARBOROUGH, APRIL 24.—The George and Mary (sloop), of and for Boston from Stockton, was struck by lightning off Robin Hood's Bay last night, and set on fire, when the crew abandoned her, and at three o'clock this morning they saw her go down. HASTINGS, APRIL 24.—Wind N.—Arrd. Camper down, Cumberland, Calcutta ; Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON, A PRIL 24.—Arrd. Jupiter steamer, left Gibraltar 15th, Cadiz 16th, Lisbon 19th, Oporto 20th, and Vigo 21st. FALMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. 23.1, Christian VIII., Nielsea, Batavia, for Hamburgh ; Emelie, Buster, ditto, fur Altona; Lord Stanley, Peters, Bom bay; Commercial, Henderson, Samarang; Sophia, An dersen, Rio Janeiro, for Harnburgh; Mina, Lenau, ditto; George Ann, Brown, Pernambuco; Courier, Havighorst, Buenos Ayres, for Bremen ; Christian, Taggenbreck, Maranham, for Hamburgh. 24th, Broad Oak, Shelford, Bahia; Sophia El , aabeth, Jorgan, Rio Janeiro, for Ham burgh; Adeline, Spland, ditto; Cheetak, Cook, Per nambuco. Off port, Actif, Ekrnan, Rio Janeiro. The Rose brig, from Newcastle, for St. John's, New Brunswick, with foremast, bowsprit, and main top-mast carried away in a gale of the .6th inst., was spoken 15Ji inst. in lat. 49 N., lon. 13 W., and on her return to the Channel by the Isabel, from Antigua, bound to Liverpool, which put in here to-day with foremast car ried away, bowsprit, main and mizen top-masts, top of yards, boats, &c. on the 19th inst., while lying to under a close reefed main top sail. OFF SWANAGE, APRlL.—Australasia, Cornell, Hobart Town. LIMERICK, APRIL 23.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sid. Con ' gress, Quebec; 22d, Quebec packet New York, John Hawkes, Boston; Fame, Quebec; Thetis, ditto. NEWRY, APRIL 23.—Wind N.—Sid. Seraphine, New York. SHIELDS, APRIL 24.—Wind S.W.—Sld. 23d, August Adolph, New York; Olinda, Point de Falle. WEXFORD BAY, APRIL 23.—Arrd. Native, Doyle, Norfolk V. CASTLETOWN, APRIL 21.—S1d. Vixen, Boston, Unitcd States. BRISTOL, APRIL 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Feliza, Smith, Trinidad. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. A limited supply of English Wheat has been received up to our market since Monday. The show of samples of both red and white was small, yet it was quite ade quate to the wants of the buyers. All kinds met a slow inquiry. In prices, however, we have no change to notice. Only 1,100 quarters of foreign Wheat have come to hand since Saturday. Sdected qualities sold to a fair extent, at full currencies; but the middling and inferior kinds were the turn in favour of the millers. Scarcely any Barley was on offer. Malting samples were held for more money. Grinding and distilling sorts were quite as dear. There was only a moderato. in quiry for Malt ; nevertheless last week's quotations wero tairly supported. Very few Oats were on the Market. On the whole the trade was in a sluggish state, at un altered prices. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour, as on Monday. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 960 qrs. I -- qrs. I I,l7o_qrs. IGOT) 1,203 Flour. •90 ski. English ...... Scotch .. •• • • 1ri5h......... Foreign .. "too Malt, 370 qrs. 1102ZOUGH BOP DTALILICET. Fine Hops are in steady request, and a trifle dearer than last week. In all other kinds scarcely any business is doing. The market is by no means heavily supplied. —Sussex pockets, per ewt, 21 4s to 21 18 s; W ea ld o f Kent, ditto, 21 12s to 318 s; Mid and East Kent, ditto, 31 6s to 61 17s. WIIITECHAPEL. For each kind of Meat the demand was excessively heavy, at drooping prices. Beef, from 2s to 3s; Mutton, 2s 4d to 33 2d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 51 10d; Veal, 33 to 4s; and Pork, 3s to 4s per Sibs. by the carcase. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before toe ASSITANT JUDGE ) Elizabeth ilunday, a married woman, 40 years of age. was indicted for picking the pocket of John Frederick Haynes, of a purse. The prosecutor, on t h e even i ng of the Bth inst., was returning to town along the Bayswater road,to on the Park side of the way, when he wa s accos t e d him, until he push e d h e r off istcpat by the prisoner, who, notwithstanding. his i n di gnan t re - Pu es, force Persi c at d feeling i n clinging pursued the prisoner, and after a sharp run of seventy yards, he overtook her and ga7e her into custody. The prisoner's counsel severely cross-examined the witness, to draw from him a corruborati ,n of the pri soner's defeneo at the station-house, which implied a charge of immorality against him. This he Bolen - ; 1y repelled, and the Assistant Judge gravely reproved the counsel (afterwards) for repeating the imputation in his address to the jury. She was Mind Guilty, and the Jud ge , comment i ng upon the additional criminality of the defence set up, sentenced her to six months'imprisonment and hard labour. MARLBRO'-STRE L:T—( THIS DAY.) Margaret Callaghan and Maria Williams, two women of repulsive appearance, were brought before Mr. Hard. wick, charged with creating a disturbance, and breaking three squares of glass, at the soup kitchen in Ham yard, W indmill-street. Mr. James Ettershank, the superintendent of the in stitution in Ham-yard, stated, that last night, about half past nine -o clock the prisoners applied for admission for the night. As the place was full witness told them to go to St. James's workhouse. •They refnsed to leave the place, and became so violent and abusive that witness was obliged to send for a constable to take fhem away. Just as the constable was coming down the yard the prisoners broke three squares of glass. Witness then gave them in charge. The prisoners, who did not attempt to deny the charge, were committed to the House of Correction for 21 days, with hard labour. Mr. George Ponsloe, a timber merchant, residing at 336, Oxford-street, was charged with a cowardly assault upon a female named Elizabeth Baxter. The assault having been proved, Mr. HARDWICK fined him 4/. The money was immediately paid. A number of Irish ♦agrants were brought up, in cus tody of the mendicity officers, charged with begging in Regent-street. _ _ Xs it was proved that they were old offenders, Mr. HARDWICK committed each of them for 21 days to the House of Correction. VISIT OF HER, MAJESTY TO TIIE LYCEUM.—We understand that it is the intention of her Majesty and Prince Albert to honour the performances at the Royal Lyceum Theatre with their presence this evening. SPANNING THE GLODE.—An American merchant bound for Ceylon, left New York on the 4th instant, in the Canada mail steamer, and arrived in Liverpool on the morning of the 19th. After transacting some business in Liverpool and London, he arrived at Southampton by the day mail train on the 20th, and irnmedately embarked on board the Ripon Steam( r, which was preparing to start for Alexandria with the LL:ian mail. This gentleman will reach his destination on the 15th June. Thus he will have travelled from the United States to China, a distance of nearly 15,000 miles, in seventy two days! In a little more than two months he will have travelled the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterraneau, Red and China Seas, called at Eng. land, Gibraltar, and Malta, in Europe; Alexandria and Suez, in Africa ; and Aden, Ceylon, Penaeg, Singa pore, and Hong-Kong, in Asia. With the exception of passing through England and Egypt, the whole of his journey will have be en p er f orme d by w ater, in British ships. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's servants never recollect a passenger for China who had been so recently in America, and it will probably be, for length and rapidity, the most extraordinary voyage ever per- Orme d. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. ' CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a quiet market for cotton at Liverpool yesterday; the sales were estimated at 4,000 bales, in cluding 1,000 for export and on speculation. Prices re main as -quoted on Friday.—Bailway Shares were again depressed. The letters and papers by the steamer from the West Indies were delivered after business hours yesterday afternoon, and their contents generally are much of the tenor to which we have for some time past been accustomed. The seasons in many of the colonies were rather favourable, and so far there is good promise of the next crops; while even money matters were in Jamaica and other places not so bad as might be supposed. The Bunk of Jamaica bad declared a dividend of three per cent. for the half-year, and appeared to be doing well, dtspite the competition of the island cheques, which being issued by Government had displaced Bank paper. The Planters' Bank, which is being wound up, would meet all demands, but whe ther the shareholders will save anything from the wreck may he admitted as doubtful In order to bring ae colony into a healthy condition, its government must be conducted on more economical principles, and for this we shall soon see all parties agitating with one accord. Cape of Good Hope accounts of February 21 repre sent affairs on the frontier as being quiet. There had been rules and regulations made public for the settle ment of the Fingocs and other coloured inhabitants in the new district of Victoria, and they reflect credit on the inhabitants. The accounts from Germany state that the Schleswig- Holstein troops had entered Jutland. The report of the Amsterdam Stock Market states that prices were without any material alteration. The Dutch paptrs contradict the report that the Limburg contingent had been called upon to march to Holstein. Great complaints are made in the City that the River Plate question is still unsettled, and the apathy and want of tact displayed by the French and English Govern ments is constantly and warmly commented on. Upon the subject of the dried fruit trade in London, we have the following remarks by Messrs. Witherby and Hanson;—" On presenting last month the Board of Trade returns for 1848, we stated that the consumption of currants in 1849 might possibly reach 21,000 tons, or 2,000 tons more than that of 1848. But as there is already an increase of 600 tons in the London delivery alone during the first 15 it eeks of 1849, it seems likely that the year's consumption in the United Kingdom will much exceed our expectations, and at the close of the present season, allowing for further direct supplies, we shall not have much more fruit on hand than existed in tcptember last. Several circumstances concur to favour this opinion, but particularly the expectation that, owing to the destructive effects of the late frosts, our reduced stock of raisins will be expended much sooner than seemed likely to be the case a month ago ; and therefore that currants will be in more demand than usual during autumn. More over, the direct shipments to Holland and Germany having been nearly 2,000 tons less than those of last year, we may expect, if there be a cessation of hosti lities in Germany, the continental demand to revive, and to take off some of the fruit which, but for the un settled state of the continent, would have been shipped thither direct." In Mark-lane to-day only a moderate business is doing in Corn, and at barely Monday's prices. There was a trifling decline yesterday afternoon in the terms upon which bills were negotiated on Frank fort, but the rates. on Paris were higher, and on most of the other continental cities firm. It cannot be expected that there should be much doing just now in the ex changes, and some predict an exportation of bullion when affairs abroad become more settled. The Money Market is exceedingly easy at present, and the three or four hundred thousand pounds in specie sent to America had not the least effect in enhancing the terms for advances. Perhaps the abstraction of one or two millions might occasion some change, but assuredly it would not bring about a pressure. Loans upon stock for a month or two have been made as low as 14 to 1/ per cent. per annum, and four months' bills of the highest class are said to have been negotiated at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum, or even cheaper. 'l'he Funds opened:well this morning, Consols realising 92 to j, and the market has preserved an appearance of tolerable buoyancy, although the intelligence from Den mark is not altogether favourable. People seem now to regard the chance of this power protracting the struggle against Germany as being very small, and on that ground scarcely believe that the struggle can be much longer protracted. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 91i 4, and the Three per Cents. 904'. Bank Stock is worth 193 k. Exchequer-bills have been 455. to 48s. prem., and ludia Bonds 693. to 70s. prem. The Mexican Government is stated to hare trans mitted through Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh bills to the amount of 65,000 dollsrs towards the dividend, and the report sent home by Mr. Robertson is also said to be favourable. We have, however, nothing official up to this hour. An extensive business has been done in Mexican Bonds at 1 per cent, rise, the quotations from 301 4, having advanced t o 311 4. E qua d o r hav e been 44 ; and Grenada Deterred 34. Buenos Ayres have been quoted 39, and Chilian 91 to 92. Peruvian, nominally, are 65 to 67. Russian Stock has been firm at 105/, and _French Three per Cents. have been quoted 56, with the exchange at 25 35. Railway Shares, though not brisk, have been rather fluctuating. Caledonian have been in favour, and are again higher. Midland have receded. North Western and Great Western are much the same, and also Brigh ton, &c. St. John del Rey Mine shares are rather , higher. ... ONE CLOSI G N a •r; ti tile vit ITISF - 1 FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES sink Stock 3 . er Cent. Reduced A , :tis ...... .4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 91 7 / s 92 1 i 92 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns LlngAnns.to expireJan.1860 Ditto, 38 years, Oct. 10,1859 India Bondi, 1,0001. ....... ...... Ditto under 1,0091, Consols for Account...... 92_9 2 1 4. 92 F.xchequer Bills. 1 1 Ad. & 2d. ,- 1,000/. June 45 48 p 48 p 5001. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUND& omm CLOSINt , O'CLOCK. Title FS. 78% Prazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent 39 Chilion Bonds 6 per Cent.... Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 — Equador Bonds Grenada Boieds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred 37( i 3" , &texican, 5 per Cent. 1846 ...... Ditto, Account, with Coupons 30% 31 30 '% fix 30% Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, AccOunt 29 29 Russian Bonds ... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1340. Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 33 Dividends on the above payable in London. French, 3 per Cent Exchange Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent .... 84 83 1 4 rIIICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN i RA. tI.WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Bristol and Exete- 9O ... .. 58 xd %itzkingtilmthire ... 161. 4s. Cite lonian - East Anglia, 251., L. & E. ;end L. and D...... 25 Do., 18/., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 31. 10s. Eastern Comities....... 20 ...... 84 1 4. Do. New,GuaA perct. 10 ...... 11% 11 Do. North. & Eastern 50 Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... ... ._. _._ _ . a . Edinburgh nd Glasgow 50 ..-.. 42 ........ ... .. Great Northern Do., ' > . Z A Deferred ... 12%...... 5 ... .. treat North of England.loo ......234% 234 235 235 Great Western 100 Ditto, 1,4 Shares 5O ...... 46 Ditto, IA Shares Ditto, Fifths ..... Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 12% 12% Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 41% 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... - Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Do. Thirds ....... ....... 15 ..... 6 % I Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent..... lO ...... Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO% .. .....- ... 1001 London, Brighton, and South C0a5t......... 50 Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. London and N. Western 100 132 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 Lowl. &S. Western 50 ...... •.... — Ditto, Thirds 10.135.4d.... 4% die 4% die Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cont. on Calls Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Midland ... ...100 —73 72% 73 1 4 72 73 72 Do., do., 601. Shares... 25 ... .. 15 14 1 , Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 12 3 14 ... ....... .... 1'23 1 4 North British ........ ... 25 ......... ..... 14 ~i Ditto, Halves .. North Staffordshire 17% 13% 1”, Shrewsbury and Birm... 11 Stinth Eastern Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales 33 ...... 14 ... ..... Vork, Newcastle, and Berwick. ... - 25 ..... 2 91 , Do. Newcastle Elton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... .. 6 Yar'.: 4n4 North Midland 50 ..... 40% 39% Ditto, Preference lO Do. East tt lid West Rid iag Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- Vierzon) East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 10s. Namur and Liege . 20 ... .. Northern of France l 3 Paris and Rouen 2O ... 22 /4... ... ........ Rouen and Havre MINES. Brazilian Imperial Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ....„ 11 1 %% . ••• ..... •• JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 4% Union of Amtralia -25 ...... .-I ........ -""' 2 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF T UESD AY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. Sarah Wileke, Fore-street, Capplegate, wholesale milliner, May 17, ut half past one—J. Connell, East India-road, Poplar, timber merchant, May 17, at eleven —J. Whitmore, Strand, newsuaper proprietor, May 17, at two—W. Wilson, Fenchurch-street, City, and Lime house, merchant, May 17, at one. In the Country. 11. Hodgkins, Birmingham, shoemaker, at the Court, Birmingham, May 29, at ten—G. T. Rullason, Birming ham, glass dealer, at the Court, Birminghwo, May 20, at ten—T. Ryland and W. L. Ryland, 13irminghana, Britannia metal workers, at the Court, Birmingham, May 22, at ten— C. H. Huskinson, Birmingham, licnlsed victualler, at the Court, Birmingham, May 29, ut ten— A. M. Paterson, J. Walker, J. Boydell, and C. B. T. Roper, Kingswincord, Stail,rdshire, ironfounders, May 29, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—l). Bolten, Kingston-upon-Hull, corn merchant, May 16, at half past ten, at the Town. hall, Kingston-upon-Hull. PAYMENT 01? 151VIDEND. J. B. Montcfior.., Nicholas-Lne, City, merchant, 55., on Wednesday, April 25, or any succet ding Wednesday, be twet n the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court. Basinghall.street. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES, At the Court, Bisingliall-street. T. White, Coraill, chemist and druggist, Mrty 16, at half-past twelve—J. De Levante, Wood-street, City, shirt-tucker, May 16, at eleven—P. Thompson, sen., Osnaburg-place, New-road, and Commercial-road, carpenter and builder, May 16, at twelve—J. Bad cock, East llsley, Buckinghamshire, draper and grocer, May 17, at twelve—J. Hawkens, Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, builder, May 15, at two. In the Country. W. Hammerton, Kingston-upon-Hull, Haman, May 16, at half-past ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull —T. Thompson, Manchester, merchant, May 17, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Miles, Worcester, stock and share broker, May 24, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—ll. Newton, Northfi .Id, Worcestershire, butcher, May 19, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, May 15. W . . Bedells, Leicester, paper and general dealer— G. A. Cawse, Claremont -terrace, Prince of Wales-road, Ilampstead-road, builder—J. M. Manny, Liverpool, stock and share broker—R. W. Smiles, Blackburn, bookseller—J. Carter, Liverpool, merchant—J. Pod more, Wolstanton,.Staffordshire, grocer—D. Boit, Bris tol, share broker—T. Barker, Breams-buildings, Chan cery-lane, perfumer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Hoyle, G. Hardman, and C. F. Wilton, Rosendale, Lancashire, and Oporto merchants—U. Hoyle, G. Hard man, and H. Howarth, Rosendale, Lancashire and Lisbon, merchants—T. Wilson and W. Wilson, Bristol, linen drapers—J. Goodman and C. Taylor, Great Marlbo rough-street, Regent-street, tailors—T. 11. Clarke and S. J. Fill, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, ship chandlers—G. J. Bailey and R. Clarke, Macclesfield, wood turners—J. Walkling and W. Wheatley, New Brentford, Middlesex, dealers is earthenware—Mary Walker and J. Wager, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, linen and woollen drapers—P. R. Hoffe and J. Lush, Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, brewers and maltsters—G. M'Connal and C. Ritchie, Liverpool, commission and forwarding agents—W. Wright and J. Derrington, Rotherham, Yorkshire, cabinet makers—J. B. Ronchetti and C. J. Ronchotti, jun., Manchester, opticians—R. Bradley and W. E. Parker, Manchester, stock and share brokers—E. Butcher and T. Gee, Bristol, wholesale grocers—E. Thoinewill and W. Gretton, Burton-upon-Trent, iron masters—J. Bourdillon, J. Bourdillon, jun., and S. Bour dillon, Great Winchester-street, attorneys (so far as re gards J. Bourdillon)—E. Whitfield and W. Smyth, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, surgeons—J. P. Schilizzi and T. M. Balli, Liverpool, merchants—J. Swai❑ and J. Graveson, Ashton-under-Lyne, lime and coal dealers— J. B. Walmsley, W. T. Walmsley, and C. E. Walmsley, Marple; Cheshire, cotton spinners (so far as regards J. B. Walmsley)—W. Marshall and T. Marshall, Re gent-street, hosiers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Thomas Caldwell, Norwich, commission agent. Francis Ignatius Lovett, Norwich, hairdresser. William White, Cardiff, butcher. Francis Bates, Harborough Magna, Warwickshire, farmer. William Houston Boynes, Staindrop, Durham, land sur veyor. Thomas Batchelor, WooLicot, Warwickshire, agricul tural labourer. Charles Henry Nicholls, Rhyl, Flintshire. Thomas Colley, Shelton, Staff )rdshire, joiner. Charles Goodall, Newcastle-upon-Lyme. Thomas White, Horocastle, Lincolnshire, tailor. Richard Bennett, Yeolmbridge, Devonshire, blacksmith. David Pepper, Liverpool, grocer. William Hyde, Bootle, Lancashire, engineer. Joseph Hardwick, Liverpool, bookseller. John William Mills, North Shields, joiner. Richard Rutter, Wolstanton, Staffordshire, journeyman miller. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. T. Crawford, Glasgow, machine, tool, rivet, and bolt manufacturer, to meet within the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Ap_6l27, and May 18, at two. . . J. Groves, Inverne ss, auctioneer, to meet within the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, April 28, and May 19, at two. - , J. Walker, Coatbridge,,grocer and victualler, to meet within the Waverley Tavern, Glasgow, April 27, and May 28; at one. A. ➢lorrison, Stannergate, near Dundee, to meet with in the Royal Hotel, Dundee, May 2, and May 23, at one. THE FRENCH NAVY. (From the .Journal des Debuts.) The budget of the Marine is about to be discussed two or thr2e days hence. In:, he fever icr savings, more or less prudent, more or less reasonable, wht,h seems to govern the last anxieties of the Assembly, we may tok whether the navy will find any mercy before this ardour —too blind to allow of any mistake for a❑ electoral watchword. We do not hope as much, but wo would at least prevent the throwing overboard of the very thing required to steady the ship during the storm, and to save the most precious part of its freght—the crew. The considerable reductions demanded by the com- mission aro of two kinds, like the two great divisions of the department, viz., personal and material. Nobody in France can have yet forgotten the sponta neous acclamations of the country, the press, and, above all, the Chamber, unanimously voting, after two eloquent speeches from MM. do Lamartine and Thicrs, the sub vention of 93,000,000 demanded in 1846 by P.I. de blackau, then Minister of Marine, for the increase of the natdriel of the fleet. That credit, distributel over a period of seven years, is not yet exhausted. We can understand its applica tion being postponed—we can understand the reduction for a time of every expense not indispensable to the materiel, and the limitation of the expenditure for a short time to the urgent necessities of reparation and replacing, in order to prevent the decline or decay of the immense property of our arsenals. We admit, in a word, that the navy, like all other branches of the public service, ought to bear its shire of the sacrifices which the country is obliged to impose on itself, even in op [coition to its moat legitimate and most manifest 53 m pathies. But if, although with regret, we suffer judgment to pass on this head, we do net think that the personnel can be subjected to the same sacrifice, because we are convinced that it would be striking cur navy—one of the glories and one of the essential forces of the country — to the very heart. We will only here allude to the mi litary tied navigating personnel—the vital and real force of the fleet; and a simple comparison will suffice to show that the actual staff of our naval officers cannot be re duced without rendering the ordinary service of the state of peace perfectly crushing and overpowering, if nut immediately impossible. The English navy includes 4,700 officers, and the French 1,600. In the English navy the proportion of the officers to the total number of ships is in the ratio of 7 to 1; in France it is only 4:!-, to 1; that is to say, that if for any contingency whatsoever you were required to arm your fleet, however reduced at this present moment, you would not hare—far from it—the necessary per sonnel in officers. You would not have one left for the harbour service; not one would have time to be ill or to take a day's rest! Can it then be necessary to repeat, in order to prove how tenderly this state of the naval staff requires to be treated, the lessons which our history has only taught us too dearly? The spontaneous creation of naval offi cers cannot he decreed like their instantaneous suppres sion, by abruptly terminating their career before the regular time for the sake of an insignificant saving— less than 300,0001., if the retiring pensions that must b e allowed them be taken into thelaccount. Would the Republic, for the second time, attach its name to the most afflicting reminiscences of our naval annals? It one day believed that men—brave, no doubt, but who had not gained their epaulettes by the hierarchial instruction indispensable to special corps, might replace the officers formed and grown gray on board our squadron; it intrusted its ships to them— and the navy of France has not yet repaired its disasters; and she has required more than thirty years of peace, military or scientific expeditions, active naviga tion and serious studies, more and more exacting, to re-construct a navy worthy of her, not by the number, but by the acknowledged merit of its officers. Need we insist further . .? Will a beggarly saving be allowed to destroy the laborious past, the certain future, of the French navy? We cannot believe it. D.I. Charles Unpin has shown with his usual talent, in figures rigorously exact, the little reason and the im mense danger of the radical reforms demanded in the naval personnel. The support of M. Dupin has never been wanting to the navy. It is to be regretted that representative admirals, removed from Paris for the ser vice of the Republic, have not been able to q uit their posts for a day to come and defend, with their authority and experience, their arm thus attacked, perhaps with more passion than justice, and more levity than con viction. We hope, however, that the naval officers, in de fault of their natural defenders in an assembly too few in number or too timid, will meet with men who most know and app., ciate them, for they know their lives and their devotion, and if the school to which they belong is an easy and speedy affair; we allude to the generals of the African army, of which our navy has, so to speak, formed part for the last 19 years, and whose testimony it ought not to fear invoking. dti e still hope that the navy will be deh.nded with energy on this same question by the represen tatives of the seaports in what concerns the effective of the seamen and the masters, any reduction of whom, at the moment when our maritime com merce is far from having recovered its activity, would be a saving at once disastrous and cruel. We even venture to rely on the support of all men of any prudence, with out any referenco to opinion, The National ,Assembly will not destroy in a few seconds, by an ill considered vote, the irr par:.ble work of ages—the fruit of the trea sures and the blood of France. IRELAND. DErBLII,T, TUEsDAT.—The accounts from cll parts of the western provinces are really deplorable. In addi tion to the other evils which have fallen upon that doomed district the cholera, we understand, is making fearful ravogts among the poor, who are dying by scores in their wretched buis, and even on the road side, where in many instances the Mks have ben left for whale days without the rites of burial. That this, unhap pily, is no exaggerated picture may be gathered from the testimony of the Rev. James Anderson, the Protes tant It,etor of Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, aid chaplain of the workhouse there, who, in a letter ad dressed to the Prime Minister, dilates with much force upon the appalling scenes - oljuisery by which he is bur - rounded. TEE MITCHEL FUND.—Tho list accounts of Mr. Mitchel's health heir g, according to the Home Secr e ta r y, extremely unfavourable, a fresh stimulus appours to be given to the interest telt on bel;a11 of the unhappy man's wife and children. Mr. Richard O'Gorman, sen., the secretary of the fund, acknowledges this morning the receipt of subscriptions to the amount of 621. 10s., 314 of which was contribut, d by one of the Dublin wards, and 30/. by the town of Kilkenny. TUE FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 90i; Three and•a Quarter per Cent. Stock, 9 t ; Bank Stock, 193; Hibernian Bank Shares, 2 t ; Dublin and Belfast June. tion Railway, 94; Waterford and Limerick, 10i ALLEGED FICTITioUS APPREN- TIGESIIIP. Last week memorials were presented to the master, wardens, and court of assistants of the Vintners' Com pany of the City of London, charging a member of the court with having been concerned in a case of appren ticeship rendered fictitious and nominal by non-servi tude, for the purpose of obtaining and using the privi leges of the company. One of the memorials stated that by charter the freemen of the company of vint ners were entitled to certain privileges, and amongst others to keep wine taverns, and to sell by retail and wholesale all sorts of wine drank in their dwellings, and that admission to the freedom by servitude can be only obtained upon testimony of the master that the party applying served the full term of seven years, without fraud or deceit. That on the 6th of April, 1842, a lad who resided with his father was bound apprentice to a tradesman who was a vintner to serve for seven years; that he continued to live with his father during the seven years, without ever having attended to the trade of his master, and that he intend( d to apply to be admitted to the freedom by ser vitude of the company, upon the ground of his having duly served his apprenticeship under inden ture; which the memorialists consider to be contrary to the charter and to the rules and cus toms of the company, and in direct violation of the terms of the indenture of apprenticeship. The memorial concluded with submitting that the applicant for the freedom was not entitled, acd requesting that the court would examine witnesses on the subject, and that admission be not granted until such evidence should be heard. The second memorial which gene rally complains of a serious abuse of the privileges of the company, " that of fictitious apprenticeship by non-servitude," connived at by freemen of the com pany for it valuable consideration, states that such a practice deprhe el the inland revenue of the mer chant's annual wine license of 101. 10s. and the licensed victualler's annual retail wino license of 21. 2s. ; that the putting down by the strong arm of the law, carried out by the Excise authori ties in conjunction with the company, " the old prac tice, of freemen lending their names for a valuable con• sideration," by fining both lender and borrower in heavy penalties, -had carped many ingenious or artful persons to adopt this mode of fictitious apprenticeships by non-servitude. That the memorialists recommend that an oath or some stringent system of tests be adopted, so that the candidates for the freedom of the company, as well as their masters, prove to the satisfaction of the court the just and legitimate performance of their ser vitudes according to their respective indentures of ap prenticeship, or that some periodical visitation take place during apprenticeship at the business premises of the master, in confirmation of the servitude, either by their beadle or by some officer appointed by the court. We aro given to understand that the memorialists sus pect the matter of the memorials, which have been re ferred to a committee of privileges, and will be discussed with closed doors, and that neither the memorialists nor their solicitor will be allowed to be present. It is sup posed that there are above 300 fictitious apprenticeships at the present time. Ia I'B3l the court was thrown open for the examination of 16 cases of freemen of the com pany, charged with having lent their names for a valuable consideration; and in one of these cases a wealthy wine merchant in the neighbourhood of Tower•street, a free man of the company, was convicted of having lent his name to the keeper of that notorious den of villany the Finish, in James-street, Covent-garden, and suspended from the enjoyment of the privileges of the company for six months. 71 p 92 - 6p 32 3 % 2 1 4 8 1 / i 3 11 19% 10% 38 2214 16% 6 1 ; 4 33 3 / 4 814 14 1 4 22 IA 111% riOri3 MDttion NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Mach—Maynooth beat Bedlam. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each. D.M. ••• •• Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each. D.M. Rochester Te tator Sobraon Flambeau colt Handicap of 20 :ova. each. A.F. Collingwood • • ... ... Pell Melt ... ... ... ••• ... Match—Retail beat Legerdemain. Sweepstakes of 50 sm. each. D. I. (3 subs.) Sotterley Justice ••• ••• Plato of 501. D.M. Susan Lovell ... Queen Mary ... CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWER3.—Yesterday a meeting of the Commissioners took place in Guildhall; Mr. Deputy Peacock presided. After a motion by Mr. Deputy Lake, who complained of the state of the car ge way in Leadenhall -street, had been agreed to, the surveyor put in the report on the practice of turning the contents of cesspools int ) the sewers, which was read, and ordered to be entered on the journals, and a motion by :11r. Blake, on the same subject, was agreed to unani mou-ly. Mr. Dew, the chief clerk, then read the report as to the supply of wa.er, which, after some observa tions from Mr. Deputy Stacy and Mr. Blake, was also ordered to be entered on the journals. A number of tenders for the cleansing of the streets of the City were then received, and it was determined to refer the subject to the General Purposes Committee. Mr. Deputy Godson brought the subject of the whalebone boiling in Aldersgate-street before the meeting, which, after some discussion, was, on the motion of Mr. Harrison, ordered to be referred to the Committee of Health. A communi cation from the secretary of the Great Central Gas Company was read, and ordered to be referred to the General Purposes Committee. Annexed to the letter was a document, said to be of much importance, but which was not read, and the Court adjourned without deciding whether or n o t it s h ould b e published. NEWFOUNDLAND AND COLONIAL SCHOOL SOCIETY. —The annual meeting of the friends of this society was held yesterday at Exeter Hall, and was presided over by the Marquis of Cholmondeley (in the absence of Lord Bexley, whose advanced age prevented his attending). The noble chairman, having pointed out the great duty incumbent on a country so favoured as ours to diffuse the blessings of religious education among our dependencies, called on the secretary to read the report. That docu• went showed an increase in the number of children in connexion with the schools of the society at St. John's over that of last year, the present number being 160, and the daily average attendance being 150. The subscrip tions raised in St. John's had also increased from 691. in 1847-8, to 781. in 1848-9. In other stations there had been a falling off, owing to the decrease of means, especially in Bona Vista and harbour Grace, where two schools, which had existed for nearly 25 years, had been closed, although 100 children were receiving instruction in them. The Bishop of Newfoundl an d, i n writing to the Arch bishop of Canterbury, complained of the want of teachers there, and promised salaries of from 801. to 1001. per an num to those who were sent out. The home receipts of the society during the year had decreased 9201., their amount being 1,6541. They had received 1,459/. from abroad. The expenditure was 3,3971., lea ving a def i c i t of 2931. Unless the prosperity of the society was re stored, other schools must be closed, and the society would cease. Among those who addressed the meeting in support of the usual resolutions were the Rev. A. Hewitt, the Rev. H. Stowell, the Rev. J. N. G. Armitage, the Rev. D. Wilson, and the Rev. C. B. Gribble. The proceedings terminated with a vote ef thanks to the Noble Chairman. BIRTHS. On the 20th inst., at Dublin, the lady of Captain J. W. Sit 4th Regiment, of a son . m At h P utney, on the 21st inst., the wife of A. F. Bainbridge, Esq., of a (laughter. On the 21st inst., at Stamford-hill, Mrs. W. Tucker, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Upper Tooting, the wife of F. Clarke, Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., at West-end, Hampstead, the wife of the Rev. R. C. W. Collins, of a son. MARRIED. At the Episcopal Chapel, Dingwall, on the 20th inst., George W. H. Ross, Esq., of Cromarty, Lieutenant tad Highlanders, to Adelaide Lucy, third daughter of Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tulloch, Ross-shire. DiED. On the 22d in t., at Bathford-house, near Bath, James Bannatyne, Esq., eldest son of the late Major-General Ban natyne, of the Bombay Service. On the 2:2d inst., aged Bi, Lady Gurney, the widow of the late Sir John Gurney, one of the Ifarons of the Exchequer. On the 26th ii;st., at Grosvenor. square, Southampton, 11. Spooner, Esq , aged 71. On the list inst., at Brompton, Margwet, the wife of J. WooJ, Esq., Ltudoun-vill as , St. J o h n ' s - woo d . _ _ _ London Printoil and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Bliddlelex, Wednesday, April 25, 1819. ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 ~r