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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Of whom may be had, in Sys. price Sixpence. Mr. MACAULAY'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS at Glasgow. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Wile. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect telly Informed that _ TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be presented LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Edgardo, gig. Garden]. To conclude with (the Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall) an en. Only aew grand !toilet, by M. Taglioni, entitled ELHCTRA ; or, The Lost Pleiade. Applicat!ens for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. office, Ope: a Colonnade. Doors or. r at Half-put Seven, Concert to commence at Eight. T. JAMES'S THEATRE.' QT. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQIIE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with LE DOMINO NOIR. Lord Elfort, M. Chateaufort ; Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horace, M. Coadere ; Gil Perez, M. Buguet ; Angele, Mdlle. Charton ; Brigitte, Mdlle. Martial ; Ursule, Mdlle. Morel ; Jaciathe, Madame Mancini ; Gertrude, Mdlle. Tigny. . To conclude with LA PANIER FLEURI. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: — Boxes .. • • 65 Od. Pit• • • • • • •• 33. Od. Amphitheatre .. .• • .. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live. TTIEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET. Mr. E. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. TH' EVENIN‘,. Will be performed DON O.ESIR DE BAZAN. Don Calsar, Mr. J. Wallack. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND. To coacludo with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE gIIILLINGS. THEATRZ ROYAL. ADELPIIL Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Man yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which, WHO LIVES AT No. 9? Characters by Messrs. Wright and Worrell, and Miss Chaplin. To conclude with a Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. ROYAL LYCEUM TREAT KE. Under the Ilanagemest of 3lad.une VeStrlS. Foie Lessee, Mr. Charlei Ma' he AB. TILLS 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 11. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To coacludo with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Boxes, 55.; A7pper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Pox-office, No. 2, Wellingto:2- street, is open to the public evEry lay, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TII EAT 1.; Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and ‘tanager. TIIIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MID LOTHIAN. To corrlude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED DIN AND Ulu; FAIR Piq:SIAN. ASTLET , i ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Crider the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The new grand Easter Spectacle unprecedentedly successful. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be tollowed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To ssmelude with TiIE LONDON CARRIER. Box-oleo open from Eleven till Your. •Atace Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPON DENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHEIL—SUN OFF!CE, APRIL 27. nintMOMETEA, Lowest, 37; Highest, 56; Noon, 57, BAROMETER, 29.88. WIND S.W.—fine sunshiny weather. WA rrat AT LONDON I"..itilMe.. TEM DAY 43 min. after 4 1 Evenin^, min. after A To-Mositow—Morning, 35 min. after 5 I Evening, 0' rain. after ',, i' , ri= 4 ,:-: - -,:t • ' , 1- ...., " • - ' . Rte. ..% 0.,.' ' r.mo !A ' " iiiiii r 1 , 1 i.k.-- ' a k,; ,, . , , . , r ft je _ Inn 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1849. Three important Bills relating to Ireland were, last night, introduced in the House of Commons, while the Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords, brought forward another measure, the utility of which has long been recognised. The mischievous results of the existing leasehold tenure of lands in Ireland have been commented on by every writer on Irish sub jects. The greater portion of the lands in that country are held under leases, for what are termed "lives renewable for ever." This tenure has proved a fertile source of litigation between the nominal landlords, who have no real reversion in the lands, and but little beneficial interest be yond the reserved rent and the tenants. The former were anxious to take advantage of any errors that might have been committed by the latter which might disentitle them to the benefit or the covenants for perpetual renewal, and this anxiety was increased by their legal advisers, fur the cost of a suit for renewal generally fell upon the plaintiff, who applied for a specific performance of the agreement. The lands were neglected in the interim, neither party being willin g to expend money on the improve ment of lands that might eventually turn out to be the property of others. The doubtful character of the ' title was thus exceedingly in jurious to all partiik r -Ao the landlord, to the tenant, and still more so to the labouring population of the vicinity, who were deprived of the employ. nr4,,lv'hich they might otherwise reasonably have elpected, and who were thus forced to look for main tenance to the poor-rates, in place of earning their own support by their honest industry. Lord COT.. TENHAM has, however, at length, in accordance with the recommendation of Lord DEVON'S Commission, brought forward a measure by which the tenant will be enabled to convert these leaseholds, renewable for ever, into fee-farm grants, by securing a fair rentak.to the head landlords thereout ; and there were few subjects relating to Ireland, on which legislation was more urgently required. In the House of Commons, the Premier brought forward a 13111 to amend the Acts passed for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland. His Lordship brings forward this measure 'ell VI- . • nment responsibility, and without wait ' -- 1 ,;ice . 4 4 " . 1 "q• .rt of the Select Com mittee which had Isle - -,-4 tt - • • ' . ,:;: . i . , y . .to inquire into the subject. We have filt.-4 1 4.4,." 1 ". at considerable length to the Mini ',' t' • t'''' 1 ,. . dations to that Committee, which 4 . 0 .." ; . ti. • " _ t:,! ' 1:1 10 , 8 of the De Vii meow. We Dab 47 14 11 therefore, shortly state that its principal features shall be a maximum of five shillings in the pound, on each separate electoral division—that any balance is to be provided for by a rate, not exceeding 2s.in the amount pound, on the entire union in which that electoral that can be district is situated. The highest therefore levied, even on the w orst circumstanced land, will be seven shilling s in the pound. Any f ur ther surplus must, of course, be pro vided far eitl..er by a national rate in aid or from the Cemeolidated Fund. There are other minor alterations. which are, generally speaking, steps in the right direction. The Poor-law Commissioners are to be empowered to settle past liabilities in certain unions, so as to enable them to start fairly, without being crushed by the weight of arrears that could never be levied, and which would only have , the effect of preventing the cultivation of lands that were heavily in arrear for poor-rate. The landlord is to be empowered to deduct the proportionate amount of poor-rate that he may be required to pay from jointures and rent-charges created under family settlements. The manner in which the rate has hitherto been divided between the landlord and tenant is also to be modified, and henceforward the tenant cannot under any circumstances deduct more than one-half the rate from the landlord. And, in order to encourage improvements, no re-valuations are to take place for a period of seven years. These are the main features of the present Bill, it being intended that other provisions connected with the subject, which are at present under consideration, shall be made the objects of special legislation. By far the most important, however, of the con templated enactments is the Bill to facilitate the sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, which was brought forward in a most clear and lucid speech by the Solicitor-General. The Right Honourable Gentleman candidly admitted that the Act of last session had proved a complete failure, that its chief provisions had been found wholly ineffectual up to the present time. The forms of ,the various proceed ings also entailed considerable expense on the unfor tunate proprietors, whose embarrassments were already sufficiently onerous, without the addition of enormous costs to absorb the trifling balances that might remain for their use, after satisfaction of the various charges and incumbrances affecting their former properties. Any [trifling alterations could scarcely remove the adnitted grievances, 5o long as the rules of the Court of Chancery were strictly adhered to. Nothing would prove really effectual that did not confer on every purchaser a Parlia mentary title, constituting a completely nett, root of title. This view, we are happy to say, the Ministers have adopted, and an enlarged and comprehensive measure has indeed been brought forward, consti tuting a new tribunal, which shall be fettered by no petty rules, but may deal with the properties en trusted to its charge on purely equitable principles such as those by which we might suppose the Court of Chancery to be influenced on its first creation, before a series of precedents had arisen to control the discretion and restrict the power of the presiding judge. A Commission is to be formed consisting of three paid Commissioners, with a secre tary, who should follow the course formerly pursued by the Commissioners appointed to distribute the 20,000,0001. compensation to the owners of West Indian estates. That they should frame a set of rules for their own guidance, to be submitted to the Privy Council in Ireland; and when sanctioned by it, to have the same power as if enacted by Par liament ; and they should be empowered from time to time to alter and vary these rules. They are not, however, to make any rules by which fees of any description should be levied. This is indeed an important restriction, by which many serious objections to the Commission will be obviated. These Commissioners may deal with every applica tion that may be submitted to them within three years from the date of their appointment. The period will, however, be probably extended for two years in addition. These Commissioners will be in vested with all the powers of the Court of Chan cery with respect to the production of evidence. Their decision will be final and unimpeachable. Upon application of an owner or incumbrancer, they will be authorised, after such preliminary inquiries as they my deem expedient, to proceed to a sale of the property in such manner, and in such portions, as they may think proper. The conveyance will be made in a sh)rt and cheap form, similar to that now adopted in the conveyance of Crown lands, and it will vest the property in the pur chaser, giving him a clear title against all the world. He will have no difficulty in obtaining the lands, for something similar to a writ of possession will be is sued. He will thus get the lands he may have con tracted for with a clear, and simple, and, above all, an imperishable title. The purchas3 money will be paid into the Bank of Ireland, to be distributed among , he parties who may establish their claims with re spect thereto. This is indeed what was required for Ireland— what we have so often insisted on, and what Sir ROBERT PEEL more recently advocated. We con gratulate the Government on having, even at the eleventh hour, cast aside the trammels by which their good intentions were neutralised and rendered of but little effect. At length they have brought forward a measure suited to the emergency, and its beneficial results will be speedily perceptible in the amelioration of the social conditioa of Ireland, which will no longer constitute the chief difficulty of the Cabinet for the time being. The Solicitor-General also brought forward another Bill, granting additional powers to persons having estates for life, or other limited interests, to grant leases of the lands which were for the time being wholly vested in them. This will also be pro ductive of the most beneficial results throughout the entire country. Denmark would appear to be losing ground before the flagitious but victorious Prussians. At least such would seem to be the result of the second cam paign in Jutland, according to the statements made in the German newspapers. We rather suspect, how ever, that true prudence suggests to us the propriety of receiving those statements cum grano salis. Re membering the sort of ministerial filtration which the intelligence from Hungary has all along been subjected to on its passage through Vienna, we can not but conceive to ourselves the possibility, just the bare possibility, that the accounts from Schleswig are, by the contrivance of the Berlin Cabinet, passed through precisely such another official colander. Knowing the heroism of the Danish forces, bearing in mind the untramelled position of the Danish Government, and recollecting the amplitude of the resources and the elasticity of the character of the Danish SOVEREIGN, we cannot but look with doubt upon the dispatches received at intervals from the seat of war—recounting the interminable triumphs of the invaders and the continual misfortunes of the defenders of the Northern Peninsula. Impressed with a conviction that- these narratives are in most instances garbled, and in several altogether erroneous, it is with peculiar satisfaction that we observe, from an announcement made in the columns of the Ber lingsche Zeitung, that it is the intention of the Admi nistration at Copenhagen to publish henceforth, in extenso, the reports of the Danish commanders imme diately on their• arrival in the Danish metropolis. By this arrangement all further misapprehension will be rendered impossible ; for the comparison of the conflicting accounts furnished by the belligerents themselves will enable every sagacious mind to arrive I I at a rapid and accurate conclusion. Taking for granted the correctness of the informa tion received via Hamburgh, it would assuredly appear to those who are unacquainted with the relative strength of the hostile Governments, that the army of his MAJEST Y of Denmark has no very auspicious prospect in reference to its struggle with his daring and formidable an tagonists. The latest intelligence recounts the progressive advance northwards of the German assailants and of their auxiliaries, the rebel band of the Schleswig-Holsteiners. Under the command of Gen. VON BONIN the aggressors have not only passed the Eider, but have even crossed the waters of the Skod borg. They have passed onwards from Flensburg to Apenrade, from Apenrade to Hadersley, from Ha dersley to Kolding ; and at Kolding, the frontier town of North Jutland; situated at the extremity of the Fiord of Dreyens, the belligerents appear to have, on the morning of the 20th inst., crossed swords, and to have contended with enthusiasm for the mastery. Of Course th a Prussian authorities assume the glory of the victory tot 'hems& yes—asserting not merely that their soldiers rem wet% upon the field of battle, but that Kolding was in flames, and that the Danes were retreating in precipitate confusion on Veile and Friedericia. Yet, eve' A ftccgrdi.ng to their own statement, the troops of iireneral BONIN have suffered severely in the ferocious struggle, which commenced shortly after daybreak and did not terminate until night fall. IN) enhance the importance of the battle, it is observe( 1, in the Borsenhalle accounts, that the courier who ha, 1 arrived with the information had perceived a glow up on the horizon from the blazing city of Kold ing, even when he was as far removed from the con , flagration as Apenrade. From all this it may be L imagined that the game of war is already up with the Danish SOVEREIGN. Seeing that his German antagonists have traversed the whole of the Scandi navian duchy of Schleswig, have taken and destroyed the city of Kolding, and have carried the disasters of the campaign yet further into his dominions—it may be conceived that nothing further remains to the KING but to throw down his sword and submit to the dictation of terms by the Cabinet at Berlin. Far from it. The resources of Denmark are too copious in their extent and too extraordinary in their character to.render any such pusillanimous proceeding necessary. The very successes of the Prussians and Schleswig-Holsteiners will only tend to facilitate the Danish efforts at retaliation. Let the conquerors march onwards, in the blind delight of their victories, towards the sound of the Ager and the cape of the Skew—and so surely as they do, they will taste the bitterness of their ultimate discomfiture. With a naval force like that at his disposal, the King of DENMARK might set almost half-a dozen such expe ditions at defiance. Isolated from any direct attack upon his capital and his most important dominions— possessing an impregnable stronghold in the islands of Zeeland and Funen, of JEroe and Langeland, of Falster and Moen, of Taasinge and Laaland—the Danish MONARCH would always retain at his command the means of wreaking upon any German enemy a frightful and disastrous vengeance. By blockading the ports, by harassing the invaders of his peninsular provinces, and by cutting them off from the continent in the event of their ad vancing rashly upon the extremities of Jutland, he would be enabled to strangle the energies of an as sailant otherwise of vastly superior vigour. Any attack upon Denmark on the side of Germany must always be a venture of the most hazardous and perilous description, seeing that the aggressors would, throughout the whole of the campaign, be liable at any moment to be assaulted in any direction. The insular strength of Denmark would provide the de fenders with a secure and unapproachable magazine of danger. The surrounding waves of the Baltic and of the German ocean, together with the deep and in tricate indentations made along the entire coast of Jutland by its fiords or estuaries, would jeopardize tke fortune of the invaders even in the hour of their greatest apparent advantage, by placing them in a situation in which they might very readily he surrounded. We are consequently very far indeed from viewing the Danish army as one in any very alarming extremity. On the contrary, there are ample reasons for considering its iniquitous assailants as very dangerously situated. The atrocity of the war made by Prussia and other German principalities upon Denmark—a war not second in infamy even to that declared by Naples upon Sicily, or of that proclaimed by Austria upon the Hungarians—imparts to the cause of the Danes a sanctity which must inevitably tend to its ulterior success. Any adverse conclusion to the campaign, any conclusion which would enhance the dominions of Germany by the spoliation of Denmark, would be a blot upon the reputation of England (were she to look on unconcernedly at such atrocious robbery), which nothing could ever obliterate. That Lord PALMERSTON will permit the fame of Great Britain to be tarnished in this manner, we do not for one moment anticipate. His temperament is too chivalrous to admit of the possi bility of his beholding the dismemberment of an ancient and honourable ally, without stretching forth a finger of assistance, or raising one cry of indigna nation. His judgment is too keen and sagacious not to recognise the atrocity of the conduct of Germany in claiming to herself a duchy to which she has not the faintest ves'ige of a right. Upon the chart of the world is branded the infamy of the whole transaction on the part of Prussia in ktttrs as venerable very nearly as the science of geography. Under the southern boundaries of Schleswig, along the southern bank: of the Eider, within the northern frontiers of Holstein, there is, in every large map of Europe pub lished during the last two or three centuries, this old Latin line : " Eydera Germani terminus ImperiC In defiance of that solemn assurance that Schleswig and Holstvin are separate and not identical, in defiance of the records of history and of the im memorial rights of Denmark, Prussia has led a robber-army across the limits of Jutland. And why ? Because the adventure was " convenient." The war is strictly a guerre de convenance—a thing as execrable in its way as a marriage de convenance. To prevent any loss accruing to our noble ally Den mark in consequence of this lawless aggression of Prussia upon Jutland is a solemn duty devolving upon England—a duty in which our national honour is seriously concerned. We give elsewhere a letter from Mr. BaowN, M.I" for Tewkesbury, on the practical mode of carrying out Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan in Ireland. Mr. BROWN is the author of the pamphlet on reproduc tive measures for Ireland, called " Irish Wants and Practical Remedies," which has had so much influence with the Cabinet on the Irish railway question. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Path papers of yesterday. The Moniteur contains the following announce ment : s a g " e A t t h e r l o e u g g r a h ph n i c ay d o i s n p n a e tc o h f having a announce leon uon d a p t a h r e te p aosh his way to Pari s , w i t h out conge ' M Po Napoleon Bonaparte is considered as h ar i ng resigned, and has been deprived of his functions, by a resolution of the President of the Cou Ministry ne il fMi nt ater succeeds. ' betwee n to Republic, rhe plan token of to- day a reactionary y ina admiration ; it is to create dissensions the PRESIDENT of the Republic and hi s relations, so as to completely isolate him in order th e b e tt er t o b e enabled to overthrow him and restore the BOURBONS. If LOUIS NAPOLEON is so aristocrat-ridden as to con sent to be the warming pan of his ci- devant gaoler, or so dull as not to perceive the guet a pens laid for him, it is satisfactory to know that there are others of the BONAPARTE famil y who more resemble the EMPEROR in acuteness, in spirit, and in democratic feeling. At -,APOLEO7I BONAPARTE has, it is said, protested against the suicidal intervention of France in the affairs of Rome. The National Assembly has refused to grant to M. DELAMARRE the permission which he asked to pro secute M. LEDRU ROLLIN. The French Mediterranean fleet has received orders to rendezvous at Ajaccio, in order to be ready to pro ceed to any part of Italy where its presence may be required. The Journal des Debuts announces that M. Boss LE COMTE, the French Minister at Turin, has been instructed by his Government to encourage the King of S&RDINIA to reject the terms of peace attempted to be enforced by Marshal RADETZIET. It adds that orders have been forwarde I to the Sardinian Admiral, ALBINI, to remain in the Adriatic until the existing difficulties shall have been removed. A preparatory electoral meeting took place at Lizieux on Wednesday—M. TARGET had 246 votes, M. GUIZOT only 67. PARIS BOURSE.—MURSDAY, APRIL 26. TIEREE o'CLocK.—The news from Italy and from Sicily had a very farouraSle effect on the Money Mar ket to-day; the rise in the Five per Cents. being nearly 1 per cent. above yesterday's closing prices. A slight improvement was evident in Railway shares. The new Loan for the city of Paris was taken to-day by MM. Pe_:het-llethomas and Co., at 1,105 f. 40c. per obligation of I,ooof. each. There wr.s only one other competitor. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 321, money; ditto (90 days), 25 20, money. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE , APRIL 2C. East Indian, 3N—Great Indian Peninsula, 47i —Tours and Nantes, 3%. DEATH OF THE REV. DR. 111.1ACDOITA.LD.-4V6 re gret to announce the death of the Rev. Dr. Macdonald, minister of the Free Church at Urquhart, in the barony of Ferintosh, Ross-shire. He expired on Monday even• ing, the 16th instant, in the seventieth year of his age. About two months since he sustained a slight bruise on one of his feet, caused by the pressure of a tight boot, and the wound being neglected, mortification en sued. Early amputation might have averted the calamity, but this t is he w d a i s age not s:o r s e y s t o e r a t d ed ,a t n o d ; te a r o, m d in a a ft t e e r d fv4atrairys._alitertrynaa .. nen Courier. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1840. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived. The Royal troops have experienced a complete rout from the Carlists under CABRERA, at the vil. lage of Ardepol. It appears that CONCHA had for some time past been endeavouring to bribe the 'CRIS TANTS to submit, and at length the armistice had been agreed on, and was to be signed at Ardepd, where the bribe was to be paid. The troops of the QUEEN, two thousand strong, were lodged in one part of the village, and the Carlist forces in the other. On a sudden CABRERA appeared at the head of a body of his guides, and, at the cry of " Viva CAnLos VI." up and at them. The Carlists rose, and opened a murderous fire upon the QUEEN'S troops, of whom a great slaughter took place. One hundred and twenty prisoners were taken, among whom, it is said, is Brigadier MANZANO, who was made prisoner some months before by AIARsAL, and exchanged. Colenel ROTALDE, who had directed the convention, is among the wounded. The surprise took place at night. The situation of the village is said to be vary suitaMe for an aratbh of the kind. The whole of the QUEEN'S troops would have fallen into CABEERA'S hands if the Centralist's Chiefs BEL LERA and BALRICH had consented to take part, as CABRERA proposed. Scruples as to the delicacy of CABRERA'S scheme, however, kept these Chiefs back; they declared that they would never gain by treason, but in fair and open fight. The Carlists defend the transaction by averring_ that they are merely paying off the accumulated treasons by which their Chiefs have fallen into the hands of the Captain-General CONCHA. Senor Mora has resigned all his offices in conse• quence of the insults to which he has been subjected by NARVAEZ, on account of the ill success of his negotiations for effecting a reconciliation with Eng land. NARYAEZ is also greatly annoyed at the exclu sion of SOTTO MAYOR from the conferences held in Paris between the English Ambassador and the French Government, on the subject of th e C o unt DR M ON TEMOLIN. There was a " scene" in the Cortes, on the 20th, on account of the false intelli gence, systematically circulated by the Government, from Catalonia. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 21.—Three per Cents., 24 3.16 account; after Bolsa, 24i cash, 241 paper. Five per Cents. 104 paper; after Bolsa, 1011 cash. Passives, 4 paper ; after Boles, 3y i cash. Coupons, 61 :cash. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 78 paper. Treasury bills, 68i 69 cash. Exchange on London, 50. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Austrians have been again defeated in a great battle, and W ELDEN, " t h e b est genera l i n t h e Aus trian service," as he has been called, has not been more successful against the Magyars than was his predecessor. On the 20th WELDEN concentrated all his forces, withdrawing even the garrison from Pesth, and from the camp in the neighbourhood of Ofen, for the purpose of making a general combined attack upon the Hun g arian forces, ‘VELDEN attacking them in front, and JELLACHICH and SCFILICIE taking them in flank and rear ; this grand combined attack took place cn the 20th and 21st at Gran, and ended in the complete defeat of WELDEN. The Ober-Zeitung says that the Austrians were driven back with the loss of 20 guns and 2,000 prisoners, and that they have been compelled to raise the siege of Comorn. Lord Pozisoriar has left Vienna for London. PRUSSIA. In the second Chamber,—onthC23i, BURCIIER put an interpellation to the Ministry on the subject of the negotiations goi ng on i n L on d on w ith Denmark, which elicited the following explanation : " Count Arnim-1 shall not follow the previous speaker through his preliminary reasoning or ultimate conclusions, but shall limit myself to declaring, that I know of no d ou bl e nego tiation—of no nego tiation save that carried on in London ; and second, to explaining the mistake of our consul. general. At the time when the termination of the armistice was pro• nounced the negotiations were in progress, but as it was foreseen that peace could Rot be concluded before the expiration of the armistice, a prolongation was proposed until the 15th, and was to have been agreed to under the form of a protocol, the signature of which was delayed however. At length I received a telegraphic dispatch (dates are not mentioned by Count Arnim, but it must hays been on the 26th March), stating that the Central Government assented to a prolongation conditionally. At the same time I also received official information that Denmark also assented. I thereupon instantly forwarded the two notices to our consul-general in London. I did not know until later that the armistice had been de nounced, nor did I obtain knowledge of the consul general's circular until the 28th. I have reason to be. Here,' added Count Arnim, that no losses have taken place in conscq'ience of the rn;atake complained of.' " DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The town of bolding has been taken by the Schles wig -Holstein troops, after a smart resistance on the part of the Danish garrison. Fighting continued for many hours in the streets before the town was eva cuated by the Danes. The lo , s in killed and wounded is not given. On the 19th of April the head-quarters of General Born's were advanced from Hadersleben to Christianfeld. The outposts of the two armies came into collision between Woesild and Bolding. A letter from Altona, of the 23d, gives the following account of the affair : " The second division of 'lagers and 9th battalion of Infantry pushed on to Kolding, without waiting for artillery or cavalry. The first obstacle that opposed their progress was a barricade thrown up in front of the houses outside the town. They drove back the Danes over the bridge, where they found shelter behind ano ther row of barricades. These were stormed at the point of the bayonet, and the entrance into tie town cleared. The small garrison of Kilding defended itself valiant'y in the streets, but was finally compelled to fall back in the direction of the fortress of Priedericia." The Hamburgh Papers of the 24th contain no furs ther intelligence from Kolding, except that the city has suffered much from fire. The German troops are in quiet undisputed possession, but it does not appear what is likely to be the next movement. The Nuremberg Zeitung, in an article dated London, the 20th, asserts as positive that steps have been taken to induce LEOPOLD, KING of the BELGUNS, to act the part of mediator. Whether or not be will accept this c ffice is not yet known. An article from London, in the Wiener Zeitung, says that the merchants of the Metropolis are pre paring a petition to Lord PALMERSTON, praying for the removal of the blockade of the German harbours. The merchants and traders are greatly inconvenienced by this blockade. Yesterday a Netherlands vessel from Marseilles was about to enter the harbour of Tra ven m unde, when the Danish war-steamer, the Geiser, signalled her to strike her colours. This command not being instantly complied with a shot was fired over the vessel, and consequently did no damage. Several vessels are lying at anchor. The harbour of rillau was blockaded on the 20th, the commander of the Danish brig of war, the St. Croix, which is appointed to discharge that office, having previously sent notice to the consuls of all the neutral harbours. CUXHAVEN, APRIL 23. The English mail steamer which run into Cuxhaven last night was overtaken by the Danish war-ships ; it reported having seen three frigates and a corvette in the Elbe. Yesterday a jolly: boat went from this port to the Danish Government, ships, the D the Dutch aeish blockade, and t o a s t a t eme nt fro-n that Government refer from refusing to ack now l e d ge the Danish blockade. HAMBURGA, APRIL 23.—Yesterday the Russian which earin i g s : ai d d isp to at eer to Secretary of Legation, Von NICOLAT, son of the late Russian Ambassador in Copenhagen, passed through Hamburgh, an his route from London to Copenhagen, bearing dispatches, the purport of which is said to be the recommencement of negotiations for peace. - ALTONA, APRIL 23.—Kolding is now completely occupied by three battalions and two squadrons of the avant guard—the foreposts are stationed at Van derup. The. Danes, it must be acknowledged, fought manfully ; they are now assembling in large numbers on the heights beyond Kolding. ITALY. The reaction is triumphant at Florence, and the latest news from Leghorn announces the embarkation of the Republican Chiefs, and the approach of the Tuscan reactionary troops to that city. AVEZZANA has arrived in Rome, for which city the Legion of GARIBALDI is in full march, to protect it against the French. Should the French enter Rome, the Provisional Government will retire to Ancona. The Sardinian fleet is in the Venetian waters. SICILY. The News from Naples is that. the Government of palermo has offered to surrender on such terms as Admiral BAUDIN can procure for them. We do not believe a word of this intelligence. It comes from Naples, a most suspicious source, and it speaks of Admiral BAUDIN as though he were at Palermo, the fact being that Admiral BAUDIN is at Ajaccio. THE RAILWAY VIADUCT.— The extension of th e line of the Dund ee an d Perth Railway to the General Terminus by a viaduct behind Marshal-place is now in active progress in three or four different I laces. The masonry for sustaining the arches—which will likely be iron ones—aercss James-street and Scott-street, as well as the retaining walls of the embankment or mound betwixt these localities, are already nearly finished; and on other portions of the ground, even within Mr. Mount's old wood-yard, the work goes on rapidly. With the same rate at which the job is presently pushed, there can be lit t l e d ou b t t h at, by th e en d o f summer, the whole . of th e D un d ee an d, P er th li ne w ill b e com plete from vertiscr. the ode end to the other--Perthshire Ad- MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market eit Liverpool yesterday was steady, and prices were firm. The sales were 6,000 lisle's. 500 of which were taken on speculation. Rail way Shares were in less demand, at rather lower prices. The report upon the affairs of the Eastern Counties Railway corroborates the outline given yesterday under this head, and we have only to add that the statement excites unusual interest, and lively discussion, although the condition of the market does not indicate this, the fall as yet being only 10s. per share; ina-much as the mere speculators have already sold to a sufficient extent, and the report has not been out sufficiently long to judge of the course that will be pursued by the public, in sending in their shares for sale. It would appear that at least half a million sterling, in addition to the exist ing capital, must be raised in order to complete the branch lines, and compete with the Great Northern, and that last liabilities will have to be cleared off before the capital account can be made up. 'Aced this latter task will occupy the parties appointed during the next month or two. Provision must be made to relay parts of the line within the next two years, and this will either trench uron dividt ude, upoii tresh ea; ital, or upon new leans. A balance of less than 7,000/. remains over from last hell year's takinss, and meny extra expense's must be met this half year, so that upon the whole" the prospect is exceedingly discouraging. There are later advices from New York, and they again iJlude to an easier state of the Money market, partly in anticipation of Lullion receipts from Europe. The markets for produce are drooping. The Hamburgh mail, just arrived, advises no alte ration on Tuesday last in the rate of exchange on Lon don, or in the value of money. The blockade by the Danish ships was becoming more effectual at the different German ports. The second report of the Leipsic fair is favourable. A large number of buyers were present, and they seemed disposed to operate freely, though with some caution. Zollverein fabrics seemed relatively to have rather a bit ter sale than English piece goods. Perhaps on the whole it may be said that the fair was scarcely so active as had been expected. The Amsterdam Bourse on Wednesday was without any marked alteration. Spanish Bonds were more offered. The further information contained in the Mexican correspondence sent by Mr. W. Parish Robertson, will be exceedingly gratifying to the bondholders, and really justifies the hope that the stock, at a fair price, will be come an eligible security for the investment of a portion of surplus means, where parties are blessed with more than they can well employ. The establishment of a National Bank is one great object to be accomplished, and Messrs. Schneider are requested to make exer tions to pay a whole dividend, and which no dou'st they shortly will do. The Government of Mexico has presented a project of law stipulating that the bud get shall be reformed, that the annual expenditure shall not exceed 7,000,000 dollars, that the debt shall not be augmented, nor the interest capitalised, and that the United States' indemnity money and other resources shall be placed at the disposal of a board of credit, to carry out the contemplated objects. Such a disposition to be honest has for a long time not been exhibited by any foreign state. The Funds are very steady to day, with rather less money business doing. Consols have been 92 to 92k, being now 92 to f. Bank Stock has realised 192} to 194. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 91f to f. Exchequer-bills are 445. to 475. premium. In the Foreign Market Mexican Bonds are firm at 31f to 32 with the coupsns. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 281-. Brazil Stock has been 79i. Dutch Two. and s• Hall per Cents are 50i ~. Shares are all very heavy to-day. ONE CLO:-I,G ritt Et , or sltiTtelii FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bonk Stock 31.er Cent. Reduced Anne ...... 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 92% 92 92 3 per Cent. Annuities,l726 °O% 90% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus...-. . 9 1%%A% 91% ,ongAnns. to expirz:Jan.lB6o -16 8 9-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 34 8 3 / 4 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0001... Consols for Account 9 2 1 %s 92 92% 92% ~ xchequer Bills. 1 1 ,ycl. & 20.. 1,0001. June ..... ........... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS crxE CLosuN O'c LOCK. PRICES Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 78 78 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — , t 7 Equador Bonds ~Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — 18% Ditto, Deferred 3% 3 % Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 ...... Ditto, Account, with Coupons 32% 31% 311 ,4 Ditto ex Coupons 291 Ditto, Account . 2 9 3/ 29% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 65 65 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent. 2 83 28 3 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — Ditto Deferred 7 l /2 714 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 5 0 1,4 % 5034 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 77% 77% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSINI, riAILWAY SHARES. AT OM. O'CLOCK. PRICES. ‘.berdeen ' 5O Do. Preference Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, er with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarastee 20 ... 231 . L' uckingliamshire ... 16/. 4s. .:aleclonisn Do. Quarters ... 12% 6 %%... ........ 6% 'hester and Holyhead... 50 Eastern Cousties... ..... 20 ......8 B.j 7% 8 7% 7% Do. New, Gua. 6 perct. 10 Do. North. & Eastern 50 Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ...... ......... Do. New East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Treat. Northern - ...... 10% .4 reat North of England 100 ...-233% 235 235 Ditto, New ,15/ l4 .. .. ....- ......... 33 1 / 2 Great Western 100 ...... 93%. 94% Ditto, 1,, Shares Ditto, 1,4 Shares 1_0:Won, Brighton. and South Coast 5O ..... 38% Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... •••• .• - D tto, Preference .. . 20 London and N. Western 100 .131 130 l3O Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 7%... ... 7% Lens. & St. Western 50 .... 36 Ditto, Thirds l6/.135.4d.... nanzheater.lluxtOn,and Mat10ck....... .. 4% — lslidland ...-. .......100... ..... 68 69% 66% 66% Do., do., Mi. Shares .. 25 ... .. 1 3 % % ... 13 Di i.Consol. Bristol and Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 ~.... — N rfolk .. ..... 100 - 37 Do. New 201. .. ls North British .......... 25 .... , Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 8 1 4 .. .. 4 ... North Staffordshire l 7 l /2 1334 l3 *3 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Shropshire Umon South Er.stern ... ...... .. 33% .. Do., N 0.2. .. Do., Registered No. 4 10 South Wales 33iff ...... It .............. 14 Wear Valley 6 per Cent Guaranteed ... ... Do. do. do. ... 25 fork, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... ...... 25 ..... 22 1 4 3 / 4 1 4.. Do Newcastle E sten. 20 Do. G.N.&Preference 8 .... .. 5% % 5% York and North Midland 50 ..... 37% 37 ... Ditte, Preference Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. tioulcigne and Amiens... 20 East Indian ...... Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...,.. 5% .. ......... ... 5% Namur and Liege Northern of France-- 13 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... .... ...... Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 MINES. Australian.... 6% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia LLOYD'S SHII'PING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 27.—Wind this day at noon S.W., moderate bretz- and tine clear weather. SCARBOROUGH, APRIL 25. The Mandingt, from Hartlepool, has put in hero leaky, having been on Whitby Reck. MONTROSE, APRIL 24.—The August, Adolph, New castle, to New York, has put into this port very leaky, and will have to discharge part of her cargo. SHEERNESS, APRIL 25.—The loren Lucie, Tarragona to London, which got upon the Main, on the 2 1st inst., has got off alter discharging part of her cargo, which is being reshipped; neither ship nor cargo has received any damage. DEAL, APRIL 26.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Sir Edward Paget, Sydney. New South Wales; Newport, Africa; Broederstouw, Kunst, Batavia for Rotterdam; Mace don, Edwards, Madras; Valiant (brig), Spanish Main; British Tar, Fret-man, Jamaica; Caroline, Tyler, ditto. Arrd. from the river Ferizepore. Masterton, Bombay; Helen, Taylor, Bahia. LivEkpuoL, APRIL 26.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. 25th, Hannibal, Gardner, Bombay ; Mountaineer, Williams, Savannah; Romulas, Bruce, Charleston ; Susquehanna, Danley,t Philadelphia ; De Witt Clinton, Funk, New York ; Gertrude, Sherman, New York ; 26th, William Prowse, Ward, Whampoa ; Gardyne, Arica ; Fanny, High, Valparaiso; Antilla, Pearce, Buenos Ayres; Mal colm, Malcolm, Paraiba ; Melford, Davies, Barbadoes ; Vera, Porto Rico ; Fanny, Appleby, St. Domingo ; Dagger, Morris, Jamaica ; Pollock, M'lntyre, New Orleans ; W. 11. Herbeek, Shinn, New Orleans ; Ann, Dashwood, New Orleans ; Euxine, Livingstone, New Orleans ; Venilia, Frink, N ew O r leans ; Greenock, Walker, Mobile ; Grampi an , G ra h am , Mobile ; Jane, Crowell, Mobile ; Lady Milson, Hayes, Mobile ; Ashburton, Bunting, New York, left Bth inst, Arrd. Enterprise, Funk, New York; Victoria, Wattington, ditto; E. G., Hartshorne, ditto. Sld., Serafin, Havanna; Sir John Beresford, ditto; Josephine, New York; Cor nelia, ditto; Swiss Boy, Boston; Richard Cobden, Sr, John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Midas, Maranham; Governor, Jamaica; Agincourt, Enchantres, St. Law rence. A large •brig, with painted portr, was seen ashore on the Orange lieye 2161 ult. Mauritius ; Idas, Rodway, BElize. Sid. Favourite, Quette. WATERFORD, APRIL 24.—Wind S.W. to W.N.W.— Sid. Llnee, Forrli.inl, New York. DUBLIN, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—S!O. M.Lihter, New York. CLYDE, APRIL 25. Arrd. Marrnion, M`Pherson, Trinidad; Unicorn, kl•Farlane, ditto. MUMBLES, APRIL 26.—Wind'W.S.W.—Arrd. John Bartlett, Woodward, Adelaide, South Australia. BRISTOL, APRIL 26.—V ind W.N.W.—Sid. Lucy, Blrbadoes. OFF THE START, APRIL 24.—Lady Sale, Brewcr, Shanghai and Singapore. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Although the arrivals of English Wheat for our market during the present week, as well as fresh up to day, have been very moderate, they have exceeded the demand. The show of samples of bo'h red and white this morning was small; yet, as the country markets come lower, and the weather has become more season• able, the demand for all descliptiors was heavy, sit a fall in the pi ices Alouday of from is to 2s lr r gum ter, without th cling a clearanc,, The tot4l import or fore . gn 11 i.eat has built uniy 7,590 quarters, from the Baltic. All kinds were a very dull inquiry, and the quotations receded Is to 2s per quar ter. In floating cargoes, scarcely a transaction took place. The finest Saale Barley moved off steadily ut full prices. Grinding anti distilling sorts w (re somewhat easier to purchase. In Malt very few sales took place. In its value, however, we have no change to notice. Oats, the supply of which was short, moved off slowly at late rates. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour dull, at barely stationary prices. ARRIVALS TIM WEEK. 1 Wheat. Barley. i Oats. 1 Flour. 1,950 qrs. 90 qrs. 1 I,GBO qrs. 1 I,2loskr. 7,! . .90 ---- 18 : 0 I 17 6 7 0 1 0 0 11 --- - Malt, 1,530 qrs. SIVIXTEMIELD. The supply of Beasts on sale in to-day's market was limited as to number, but of full average quality. The weather having become milder, and the attendance of buyers being small, the beef trade was excessively heavy, at a further decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The extreme value of the beet Scots was only 3s 4d per 81bs. Sheep—the number of which was seasonably good—moved off slowly, at barely Monday's reduction in value. In Lambs, next to nothing was doing, and prices declined, from 2d to, in some instances 4d per Blbs. The best Down Lambs sold with difficulty at 5s 10d per 81bs. Calves met a very dull inquiry, on somewhat easier terms. The Pork trade was exces sively heavy, at drooping currencies. Mulch Cows were almost nominal in value. They were quoted at from 131 lOs to 17115 s each, including their small Calf. English ...... Scotch ...... 1ri5h......... Foreign ...... Per albs. to ;ink the offal. I. d. to s. d. s. (1. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 2 0 2 4 Second qual. Sheep 210 3 4 Izecond quality -... 2 6 2 8 Coarse-woolleuditto 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen.. 210 3 0 Southdown Nether 310 4 0 Prime Scots .. ••.. 3 2 3 4 Ditto eut of the wool 3 2 3 4 Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 6 Large Hogs ...• •• 3 2 3 8 ['rime small ditto .. 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers .... 310 4 2 suckling Calves ..18 0 27 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0 Inferior Sheep .• • 2 6 2 8 Lambs .....• .... 410 510 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pies. 7,010 241 230 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. 45 290 69 NEV7GATE AND LEADENNAMIL. Scarcely any business was transacted in tht se markets, and the quotations had a downwexd tendency. Beasts. 605 At per stone by the Carcase. $. 11. to s. d. d. to s. d. tieel,inferior ••• • .. 110 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 2 2 2 6 middling 2 4 2 6 1 middling.. 2 8 210 primelarge .. 2 8 210 prime .. •• 3 0 3 2 prime small .. 210 3 0 j Pork, large.— ••• • 3 0 3 6 Veal• •••.•••• • • • • • 2 0 4 0 small .. .• 3 8 4 2 _ _ Lamb. 4i 8d to ba Sd. BOROTIGII BOP 11111.1t/LET. We have had a very steady demand for the finest Hops, during the present week, at a trifle more money. All other kinds are a dull sate, at barely stationary prices. The market is bare of Hops of last year's growth, which are selling on the knowing terms:- -Sussex pockets, 21 65 to 313. i; Weald of Kent, ditto, 21 12s to 3/ 10s; Mid and East Kent, ditto, 3/ 6s to 61 17s per cwt. C LONIAM. SUGAR.—At the public sales there has been a mode rate quantity of British Plantation offered, and generally firm prices have been obtained. Barbadoes has even been 63 higher in some cases; fine yellow, 4ls to 41s 6d; mid to good, 39i to 40s 6d per cwt. REFINED —Good brown grocery lumps have been sold at 50s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—About 15,000 bags Mauritius have been sold by auction, and at rather fuller prices for re finery sorts, though i❑ some cases cheaper for grocery kinds. Fine yellow4os to 42s 6d,10w to mid 36. 6d to 38s,fine brown 36s 6d, and mid and good grey 38s to 39s 61 Bengal, about 5,000 bags has been sold at full rates; low to good white Benares 39s 6] to 425, strong yellow 41s 6] to 43s 6d, white 47s 6d to 48s 6d, and brown 30s 6d to 345. Madras, 500 bags, partly found buyers at 33s t') 33s 6d for low soft yellow, and at 32s 6d forord brown. Penang, 2,905 bags, went at little cheaper, soft white 39s to 41s, yellow 338 to 365, and brown 29s to 33s per cwt. FOREION.—The market h as b een rat h er h eavy. COFFLE.-There has been more British Plantation offered, and buyers have rather held back. Mid Ja maica, Las been sold at 60s to 635; mid and good mid colony 55s to 60s; fine and fine line ord 39s 6d to 41s; and good ord, 30s to 365; Native Ceylon has realised full prices; oid 30s to 30s 6d, and good ord 31s to 325; Plantation low mid and mid brought 453 to 51s; fine fine ord 413 to 435; Pea Berry, SOs 61 to Sls; and 52s for mid; East India has realist , d 26s 6d to 27s for c 'm elon Padang; Mysore, good ord greenish mixed has been taken in at 335 to 31s per cwt. COCOA.—There has not been much doing. RICE.—The lower kinds of Bengal have been rather steady, but there is no great alteration in other kinds. Mid white rather brokrn 9s; good white 103 to lOs 6d. Arracan has realised 6s 91to 7s per cwt. PEARL SAGO.-485 bags sold at 14s to 19s, and 465 bags Sago Flour at 178 to 17s 61. SPICES.—BIack Pepper has been taken in nt 2d for some piircelB, but light grey has realised 2id per lb, hite sid to 6d for mid to good, being rather dearer. Nutmegs 2s 5d to 3s 3d, and Mace 2s 4d to 2s 5d per lb. SALTPETRE.—CuIcutta has been sold at 6d to is de cline. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been at 38s 9d to 39s per owt on the spot. Tua.-::--The more current prices recently have bee❑ lately, for Congou ord to good ord 71d to 81d, Pekoe kind Is 6d to la 10J, Souchoag good ord to but mid 71d to Is, Twankay good ord to but mid 6d to 7d, Canton kind 314 to sd, Hyson good ord 10d to Is, and Gun powder is 6d to 4s 6d per lb. Within the last three or four weeks the arrivals of Tea in Londo❑ have been large, the imports this year to the 16th inst. being 19,598,00011a5. against only 14,188,0001b5. to the same date in 1848. The deliveries in London this year have been 11,575,0001b5, a slight in• crease, and the stock is much the same as in April, 1848, viz., 36,933,000 lbs. The simultaneous arrival of so large a proportion of the year's imports, although, looking forward a few mouths, probably without permanent i. fluence, could not fail to cause a serious temporary depression; thus Congou, the total import of which is little like to be in excess, has, in common with all descript►ons, declined in value the last month; for this probably no better reason can be assigned than the disposition of some importers to realise, which must ever be ex pected. Nvw that arrivals are less numeroas it is probable the trade will shortly evidence a feeling of returning confidence in the maintenance of prices. In Green Teas some extent of business has been done during the last three weeks, at constantly declining prices; we have now reached so low a point for good and fine qualities of Imperial, Gunpowder, and Young Hyson (the latter especially), that we can but think some reaction probable. The import will, without doubt, be considerable, but the excess will be mainly of a quality to displace Twankay and common Ilyson. GREEN FRUIT.—The market has improved for Oranges, and as the stock is limited, and tbe shipments from the Azores are nearly finished, a further advance in the price may be expected. A cargo, ex Gazelle, from St. Michael, sold at public sale by Keeling and Hunt, went at prices averaging 2s. per box advance. Lisbon have advanced in proportion. Barcelona Nuts a shilling per bag lower. Black Span al 454. Lemons are dull of saie, warm we a ther being required for the con sumption. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sweepstakes of 50 sore. each. Last three quarters of R. M. Calque Chadlington Maid filly... Match-13 eauvale beat Cervus. _ Match—Mabratta beat Canada filly. Handicap for three and four yrs old. D. M. Keraun Cambric Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. Winner to be sold for 501. Slashing Alice ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Evasion filly ... ... ... ... 2 The Newmarket Stakes of 50 sovs. each, Ecc. Vatican ... ... ... ... .. 1 Sobraon ... 2 Sidney ... .•• ••• ... ... ... 3 Won cleverly. Sweepstakes of 10 sore. e:lch. Winner to be sold for 1001. Susan Lovell .. .• • ••• Sir Peter Lauri© Match—Uriel beat Big Jerry. SECONDARIES'.--(T111S DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) BURTON V. WINTER—NOTARIAL CHARGES. The plaintiffs in this action ore ironmongers in Ox ford-street, and the action was brought to recover the sum a 131. 3s. Cd. on a bill of exchange. The defendant had pleaded that he did not accept, but a summons had been taken out, and a judge's ord--r obtained, compe lli ng him to admit the handwriting. Th aro was a claim for noting and interest. The Learned SECONDARY said he could not allow the noting as part of' the verdict, but it would Lo doubt be allowed on the taxation of co.it3. The defendant's Attorney submitted that the action should hare been brought iu the Wulf) , Court. The Learned SECONDARY said he had only to act on the judge's order, and let the case go to the jury. A verdict was then given for 13/. One of the jury said he always thought that the notarial memorandum on the bill entitled a plaintiff to recover for the noting. The Learned SECONDARY said it did when judgment went by default, but not where there had boen a plea, and the Judge's order directing the admission to be made did not alter the case in that respect. Where a plea was put in it was necessary to adduce evidence ag to the charges. There were four cases in the list, but no parties in the other cases were present. The Learned SECONDARY said he regretted he could not discharge the jury, ter although on writs of trial the parties were obliged to be in attendance at the sit ting of tho Court, writs of inquiry might, according to the practice, be executed at any time between eleven Rnd one, and the jury must be detained till the latter hour unless the attorneys appeared bt fore that time. After waiting an hour, a messenger who had been sent to the attorneys returned and seid they did not in- tend to attend to day. The jury were then discharged. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Any one who I:,ki chanced to pass up ti,e Haymarket yest, rday evening, eetween fire end six, would have at. once perceive d that Jenny Lind had returned to the stage. Nothing short of such an occurrence could have assembled, at teat early hour, such crowds of seekers for admission tat the pit and gallery doors of Her Ma jesty's Theatre. There were at that thne—that is to say, nearly two hours before the time fixed for opening the doors—at least twice as many persons assembled as the pit and gallery could eccornmodate. The c rowd continued to increase every minute, until the time fixed for the opening of the doors, and th en the crush-- we rem: mber th crush on the memorable 4th May, 1847, when Jenny made her Mat in the character of Alice; we remember the many subsequent crushes on every Jenny Lind night for the last two seasons, but never have we experienced such a crush as that of last night. The Sonnanibula was the opera chosen for the °cession, and when Jenny Lind appeared as Amine, looking the simple, artless, warmhearted country maiden, as she alone can look it, the whole house " rose " at her, se Kean was wont to say; never was there such a—recep • thin is not the word, it was the cordial meeting of friends rather than a dramatic reception;--such a warm-hearted welcome—such a burst of almost affectionate enthusiasm as that with which she was greeted. She seemed deeply affected, ' and her lips moved tremulously as though to give ex pression to her acknowledgments. To dilate upon her performances of Amine would be, indeed, " to gild re fined gold." She is far and away the very best Amine that has ever appeared, and Amine. is one of the very best of her characters, and the character she has the most frequently repeated in this country, and never did she surpass, we doubt whether she ever equalled, her performance of last evening. The scene with the Count was a charming piece of rustic coquerry, a most fascinating mixture of simplicity and timidity, and the concluding scenes were masterpieces of pathos. She was in excellent voice, and sung the music de liciously. The finale was a glorious triumph ; ate seemed to revel in her daring flights, and to create dif ficulties only to show how easily she could overcome them. She was called for at the conclusion of the first act, a compliment richly merited by the exquisitely beautiful manner in which she had rendered the sone nambulist scene, and three times at the conclusion of the opera, when she was again greeted with the waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and bouquets a Poison were showeeed on her. But it is not alone as the anniversary of the return of Jenny Lind to the stage that the 26th April will be henceforth celebrated in the operatic annals of Eng' land. It will also be remembered as the anniversary of the debut of on., who, if we are not very much mistaken, is destined, at no distant period, to take his station as the first tenor of the Italian stage, Signor Calzolati, who was the Elvino of the evening. Since the debut of Rubini, we haie had no tenor who has at once taken his place so indisputably in the front rank as has Signor Calzolari. Calzolari is a young man, exceedingly good looking, with a good stage figure, and a voice such as few tenors passers, with all the sweetness and purity of Gardoni or Mario, with all the flexibility of Rubini, and he has greater power than either, and the purity and sweetness of the tone is not at all diminished by the exercise of that power. The compass of his voice must be very great, for he sang the whole of the music of Elvino without having apparently reached the compass of his re gister, either in the upper or lower tones. His falsetto if falsetto it can be called, is very beautiful—we say, if falsetto it can be called, because, unlike the generality 0 I tenors, his is a perfect voice, and rises se fairly note by note, that it is almost DO . possible to discover where the chest notes end and the head notes begin ; above ell things, we admire in Signor Calzolari, his exceeding re' verence for his author; he sings the music as it le written, doing his best to develope the beauties of his author, oven to the total abnegation of 3 6 : We have never heard th e " T utto sc i o lto" more deliciously given —not even by R u bins, and the "Ah ! perele" was a perfect triumph of ex' pression, sweetness, and of execution, and eel rewarded with a rapturous encore. The Elvin() of Signor Calzolari is superior to that of either Gat doni or Mario, and we cordially congratu late Mr. Lumley on havirg secured his services. He was called for at the conclusion of the opera, and wee led on by Jenny Lind. Bsllet•i was the Count Rodolphe, the best Count that we have seen of late years. The "Vi rarviso" was splendidly rendered. The opera of the Sonnambula has never beea so strongly cast o e so perfectly represented as a whole in this country as it was last evening at Her Majesty's Theatre. Her iMajesty, l'rince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent honoured the performance with their presence. The Royal suite included the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, Lord By ron, Colon( I Buckley , and Colonel See wour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Her Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box was occupied • by their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Elise sad Arnelie of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, his Serene High ness the Prince Ernest of Hesse I'hilippstahl, bU Serene Highness the Prince William of Hesse Phi lippstahl, the Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, the Countess of Erbach Schonberg, and the Honourable Miss Mitchell. His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of Syracus), attended by the Chevalier Colonna, also visited the theatre. Amongst the company were—His Grace the Duke of Wellington and Ludy Charles Wellesley, Prince Petrels, his Excel' lency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnolre Mdlle. Olga de Lechner and Mdlle. de Brunnow, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess of Celloredo, his Excellency th e Neapolitan Ambassador, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and suite, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Mitza Effendi, his Excellency the Portuguese Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess or Le( di and Miss Lane Fox, Baron de Betimes, the Marquis ot Huntley, the Marquis of Clanricarde, th Marquis tenn i Marchioness of Sligo, the Countess of Wi e lton, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Liverpool, the Berl of Fal mouth, the Berl of Aboyne, the Countess of Lichfield and Lady Harriet Anson, the Earl Granville, the Count Wiedenbruck, Prince Maglioni, Comte and Countess de Kersen, Baron de Kenturth, the Viscount and Iris countess Seaham, the Viscount Anson, the Viscount Cantilupe, Baron de Koller, the Right lion. Viscount Hardiege, Lord Wiliam Lennox, Lord George Lennox , Lady W. Powlett, Lord Manners, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, and Miss Somerset , Lord Leveson Gower, Lady Alicia Paulet, Mr. and Lady Augusta Wentworth, Lady Paulet, Led/ Rivets Careen, Lady Frankland Lewis, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Ch ar l es W e ll esley, Lord de Burghs Lady Lesford, Lord Ossulston, the Honourable Captain Grey, the Hon. Francis Egerton, the lion. E. Lascellee, General the Her. H. Cavendish and party, the lion. Mrs. Gore, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lade' Barrett lennard, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Douglas, Sir John Bayley, Bart., and Lady Bayley, Major-General Sir Alexander Wood ford, Bart., Sir Will oug hb y J ones, Bart., Lady and the Muses Woodword, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Bart., and Lady Thesiger, Sir John Lowther, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Major General Sir Andrew Bar nate', Bart., jr Felix Booth, Bare, Sir Henry Metal Bart., Sir Frederick Trench, Bart., M.P., Sir John . Jervis, Bart., and Lady Jervis, Miss Wentworth , Mr. S. Wentworth, Mrs. John Stanley, Mr. George Ed ward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir Charles Pigot, Bart., and Lady Bigot, Mr. Sturt, M.P., Mr. 0. Morgan, M,P, Mr. H. Baring, M.P., Captain Crawley, Major Buckley, Mrs. Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Mr. Montague Gore, M.P., filial Hind, the Misses Fenton, Mr. Reynolds, General Mead, Mrs. and the Misses Mead, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mrs. Dennistoun, Admiral Deere, Mr. Martyn, 'Capt. Corry. Colonel Wildman, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. William Rose, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Colonel Phillips, Mrs. Paul, Mr. J. Sandford, Miss Farrar, Captain Owen, Mr. and Miss Ewing, Mr. Dodd, M.P., and Mr s . D o dd, Miss Saunders, &c. BIRTHS, At Thurloe-square, on the 20th inst., the lady of Lieute nant-Colonel Warren, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Kelly, Devonshire, the wife of Arthur Kelly, Esq., of a daughter. On the 24th inst, at Sumlridge, Kent, the wife of the /Ur° George B. Lewis, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at Camden-road•villas, Mrs. Kemp, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Iver, Bucks, the wife of John B• Walker, Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., at Addiscombe• house, Croydon, the lady of Captain the llon. Robert Ilandeock, of a son. MARRIED. At Florence, on the 9th inst., Captain Henry John CO4" rington, C. 8., of the Royal Navy, second Boa of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G. 0.8., to Helen Jane, daughter of C. Webb Smith, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service. On the 24th in t., at Stonehouse, Devon, Susanna, th e second dau g ht er o f t h e late Lieutenant-General Williams, to James Williams Esq., of Knol le-hill, near Bristol. DIED. • On the 21st inst., at Green-hill, Allerton, near Liverpool Samuel J. Clegg, Esq , aged 78. On the 10th inst., at Islington, Mr. G. Rutland, u pwards of fifty years of the Bank of England, aged 72. On the 21st inst., David Wright, of Warwick-street, Vaux" hall-bridge-road, aged 46. On the 2 . :d inst., at Stranraer-place, Aleson, relict of the late Hugh Biers, Esq., aged 75. On the 19th inst., Jonathan Austin, Esq formerly Of Ipswich, aged 81. On the 20th it at., at Litchborongh, aged 98, Ann, widow of the late Thomas Grant, Esq. _ London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUliGt No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11 2 ,3 " Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avo y, i n th e 00 untr Middletex, Friday, April 27, 18199