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The celebrated Robert Houdin begs to announce that his Fare well Performances in this country will positively terminate on Sa turday, April 28. Ili, foaal performances will be arranged as follows ; THIS EVENING, TO-MORROW, FRIDAY , 27 (DAY PERFORMANCE), and SATURDAY,. 28, being his Last Appearance, owing to the commencement of his engagement at the Theatre St. Hubert, };ruxelles. In order to perpetuate an agreeable souvenir of his t ments experi to this country, none but the most popular and the most surprising will be executed on these farewell occasions, whilst the tribution from the Corm d'Abondance will be made with extended liberality and profusion. D oo rs open each Evening at Eight o'clock. Boxes, 4s. Pit , 29.; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tizkets for this extraordinary Entertainment may be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. KATRE ROYAL, LIArMAR,ET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENTN , Will be performed the Comedy of TOWN and COUNTRY. Cha racters by Messrs. J. Wallack, Wigan, Keeley, Buckstone, and Wob oter ; Miss B. Horton, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Glover. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled TIIE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND. To coucludo with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE gIiILLINGS. ' THEATER ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mon yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Nis. 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 ; Airs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss W oolgar. ROYAL LYCEUM Under the Management of Madame WAWA. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mahe ,as. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. After which. a new Piece entitled HOLD YOUR.elle TONGUE. H Cha- Tee ters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Pars ; Miss . Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Boxes, 4s. ;Pit, 2 s. ; Gallery, Is. No D re ss Boxes, 55.; Upper half-Price to any part of the house. The -New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington• street, is open to the public ..very day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEAT Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be oerforrned a new Opara, entitled FRANCESCA. DOIIIA. To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED DIN AND "lIIE FAIR A.6TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. racier the Patronage of her - Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &C. The new grand Easter spectacle unprecedentediy successful. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fltzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an inimitatle display of SCENES IN TIIE CIRCLE, in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will,appear. To conclude with THE LONDON CARRIER. Box-otrlee open from Eleven till Four Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPON DENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti. cited by the name and address of the writer. Rojected communications cannot be returned. TUE WEATHER. —SUN OFF:CE, APRIL 26. TazamosETtrt, Lowest, 45; HiOwst, 56; Num, 52 BAROMETER, 29.82. WIND W.S.W.—fine. ii,t,it A - ATV:B.A.T LONDON 15ic1D.4e.. Tilts DAY Morning, 0 min. after 4 Evenlng, 21 min. after 4 To-lio naoir—,4ornmg, 46 min. after 4 I ET(Saill7 9 min. aster 5 4 ' c ..- .. 4... AR: I.- 1, ' k , \11':t)5.,-; \ . 4 7.t1 , -:-S -,. 5 - . 4 , - ~...:,...-... 4-7 f, N,dt , ,, ,-fr I f, z „,,nt av~ . : ..... 44. ,...4 " . ' :.•—'67;ittel e'l j i*trap g a'ATAT. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1849 e _ Cant has gained the day in Parliament. One bun Bred and thirty-one of our Representatives have negatived the Bill by which the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Honiton has been striving to beat down the sanctimonious insolence of the Sabbata rians. There is, consequently, as we intimated only the other evening, no further doubt as to the neces sity of a hand to hand encounter with these arrant humbugs, the religionists. After a little sharpshoot ing in the way of sundry petitions up to the Le gislature, after the succession of skirmishes between the belligerents on the occasion of the first and second readings, they have eventually thrown aside the weapons suitable for a more distant encounter, and closed upon each other, foot to foot, knee to knee, for the settlement of their very serious differ ences. Now that we have lost, for the time being, the measure introduced to the Commons by Mr. LOCKE, we are only -the more eager to accept the gauge of battle, and we do so cordially on the simple understanding that there shall be No Quarter ! When we had last the gratification of express ing our opinion upon this moot question as to Sue day travelling, we avowed at once that the saints of Scotland would very soon drive the vast majority of the population of the United Kingdom to the alter native of riot in the streets, or of submission to their ignorant domination. They are fulfilling our pre diction faster than we had anticipated. For we looked to the Imperial Parliament for the prevention of such a calamitous alternative, and the Parliament has merely shown itself to be infected by the prevailing hypocrisy. As to the choice of the multitude, there is not the shidow of a moment's hesitation. Submission to the decrees of a wretched minority of fanatics is altogether out of the question. As well expect the English people to revive the age of the Roundheads. To state the ease distinctly in little more than half-a dozen syllables—the; population will not submit to the dictation of a contemptible squad of psalm-singers, whatever a few whining petitioners may say to the contrary, in spite of that very clerical layman Mr. 'Pins PEMBERTON PLUMPTRE, and in defiance of an accidental superiority on the part of the Sabbatarian voters in the Commons House of Parliament. The fanatics in the present instance are the aggressors, and they must abide the consequence of their aggres aiOn. They are endeavouring to cram their very corruptible sanctity down the throats of the multi tude, and they must not feel surprised if, in retalia tion, or rather in self-defence, the multitude hurl back their impudenee in their teeth—with a slight accompaniment t Theirs is the provocation—theirs b e , the consequence. We can promise them no s ympathy. Not a jot. Their tyrannical affectation of morality has removed them for ever beyond the reach of our condolence. A few words as to the absurdity, not to say the in decency, of their late proceedings. •• • • Within the present week it would appear that a deputation from Newcastle - on - Tyne waited upon the Home Secretary for the purpose of urging upon the Govern ment the necessity of opposing the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for Honiton—this highly moral deputation consisting of the Rev. LEWIS PARGE, of one Mr. GEORGE BELL, and of a most extraordinary functionary, the Reverend T. BAYLEE, designated in the Court Circular as Secretary to the London fOrd s -day Society. The Country Lord's-day being of course quite a different sort of an affair altogether ! All that we can make out of the official character of this same dignitary being, that he bears some relation to the great civic authority at the Mane sign-house, the LORD MAYoit being the only ~e 1, „4 4 4 44" 1 - Lord n e know of, a nd the London le!MrallYi meaning, of course, the ninth of r• - ZNE f As to ; the moral of the deputation, (Z 11 4.0 ii; .4 1 * whit h this Rev. T. ,13.A.r.Lzg occupied / 0 4 0 4it' ! .p.v4 , _ - _ - • : L...„ _ ) q-'.' .tv .ri '--- s THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1849. such a very conspicuous position, as Secretary of the London Lord's-day Society, it is merely neces sary to remind the public that the principal mem bers of the deputation were from Newcastle, to disclose the religious hypocrisy of the whole tran saction. From Newcastle ! where so many wretched beings, not less benighted in soul than in body, are kept toiling like beasts of burden underground in the coal pits, without any regerd to the recurrence of the Sabbath, or of the Sunday, from Christmas to Christ mas. It is the parable of the mote and the beam realised. Get you back to your districts of collieries you Reverend and Ir-reverend members of the New castle Deputation, and render your own neighbour hood reputable before you presume to come preaching your mock morality to the population of the three Kingdoms ! Cleanse your own consciences before you arrogate to yourselves the right of purifying the lives of the general community ! Remove from yourselves the odium of your own short-comings before you have the insolence to foist your own spurious doctrines of sanctity upon the mass of an in telligent empire ! Think not that in the middle of the nineteenth century the million can swallow a species of cant so gross, that at the very sight of it the soul of SURFACE would have sickened and the stomach of CANTWELL have revolted. Thank GOD the time for superstitution has gone by, and not all the galvanic experiments of the Sabbatarian conspi racy can lead to its resuscitation. Majorities of nine may be gained in the House of Commons, but the people are, nevertheless, not to be deceived by peti tions, or humbugged by deputations, or bamboozled by the sophistical arguments of the sanctimonious. It is maintained that by carrying such a measure as the one rejected last evening, the Legislature would be doing violence to the consciences of the religionists. As if those religionists were not a most paltry minority ! And as if by conceding to their requirements we should not be doing most grievous violence to the vast majority—their anta gonists! Again, it is insisted that the prevention of travelling on the Sundays is essential for the regenera tion of the community, although the criminal returns prove that vice and depravity are fourteen per cent. greater in Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Eslinburghshire, than in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Middlesex 1 It is declared by the Sabbatarians that their aim is the prevention of the desecration of Sun days by the diminution of labour. And yet in the face ef this it is demonstrated by unanswerable sta tistics that the stopping of the line between Glasgow and Edinburgh has conduced to a very demoralizing consumption of malt liquors and ardent spirits on days that might otherwise have been innocently em ployed in rambling through the fields and between the hedgerows ! It is shown, moreover, by the most i simple calculations that the system of obstructing the lines of the Scottish railways on Sundays, instead of diminishing the manual labour of the inhabitants of Scotland, has tended materially to its increase— stage-coaches, postchaises, flies, cabs, steam-boats, hacks, gigs, and other conveyances, being called into requisition, besides the guards, stokers, engine drivers, gatekeepers, and pointsmen required in con nexion with the working of the mail-trains. Mr. LOCKE himself declared yesterday, on the floor of the Commons, that while on the same occasion the pas sengers arriving by the Caledonian Railway only employed five cabs, he himself had, on Easter Sun day, seen in waiting at four churches in the Lothian road, in Edinburgh, thirty-one two-horse carriages, thirteen one-horse carriages, and one hundred and forty-nine cabs ! So much for the consistency, the truth, the decency of these highly moral sticklers for periodical sobriety. So much for their precepts, and so much, just so much and no more, for their example! Out of the sixteen railways intersecting the shires of Scotland it would seem that at the present moment eight are working and eight are not working passenger trains alung their lines on Sundays—the former moiety comprising an extent of 280 and the latter an extent of 240 miles. Taking the distinction between these companies given to them by the Hon. Member for the city of Dublin, the reasoning is inevitable, that while the 1,623,000 persons who travelled by the irreligious railways " were driving at a railway pace to a place that shall be nameless," the 1,572,000 persons who journeyed within the same interval along- the religious railways were going at an equally smart pace along the path leading directly to salvation. Or, following out the supplemental argument of Mr. RErNOLDS, the logic of which is impassable, if the thing be looked upon as culpable in one quarter, and is not culpable in another, then, morality must be regarded as a mere conventionality, and sin must be looked upon as geographical. In conclusion, we earn these fanatical pretenders to godliness from the prosecution of their endeavour to obstruct the railways throughout Scotland ; and we earnestly put to them the simple, but touching and beautiful application of that expression of a great poet, which was yesterday repeated by the Hon. Gentleman the Representative of Honiton (notwithstanding its being so hackneyed by quota tion)—we put it to them whether they will not elevate the hearts, and purify the morals, and in crease the religious fervour of the working classes by enabling them to pass on their only day of leisure from the fetid impurities of our large manufacturing towns into the green lanes and meadows, there to commune with the CIIZATOR through his creations, and to assistance. The; unfortunate gentleman treated the supposition of his unsoundness of mind as a palpable I absurdity; :he considered the charge as unworthy of a serious defence. The result may easily be anti cipated. He was declared a lunatic, of unsound mind, incapable of taking charge of his own affairs, and he remained for some time a prisoner, under the strictest .surveillance. The circumstances of the case, however, attracted the attention of a gentleman who had filled an important situation at Delhi, where for six years he had been in constant official and social communication with the BEGUM ; and he lost not a moment in directing the attention of the East India Company to the case. On the 19th August, 1843, shortly after the jury had returned their verdict, Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN forwarded a communica tion to the Board of Directors, in which, in the clearest and most satisfactory manner, he demonstrated that the jury might have arrived at an erroneous conclusion, and he submitted, that under the entire circumstances of the case " immediate steps should be taken fur the pur pose of obtaining justice, or, if it should prove, on a full and proper investigation that, contrary to his belief, justice had already been done, of satisfying the minds of all persons, both in this country and in India, and in other parts of the world, who might take the same general views of the case, which he himself had taken." These disinterested exertions, so highly honourable to Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, were, however, ren dered unavailing, by the escape of Mr. DYCE SOMBRE from the durance to which he had been subjected. The unfortunate gentleman fled to France, to enjoy that liberty which was denied to him in England. He was net, however, suffered to remain unmolested ; an application was made to the French Government to surrender him as an escaped lunatic, that he might again be subjected to the strictest incarceration in a mad-house, where he had committed the highest offence known to " keeper law," and where his treat ment would in consequence have probably been of the harshest character. This attempt was, however, defeated. The French authorities refused to sur render Mr. SOMBRE without being fully satisfied as to his actual condition, and it was accordingly re ferred to some of the most eminent physicians to in quire and report on the state of his mind. These gentlemen, after a close and searching investigation, stated their opinion to be that he was of perfectly sound mind, able to govern his own affairs. He was, therefore, freed from all personal coercion, so long as he was satisfied to remain out of England; but he was left without means or resources, notwithstanding the large fortune that was accumu lating for the benefit of his successors, or next of kin, in the English Court of Chancery. Being anxious, however, to obtain additional evidences as to his sanity Mr. SOMBRE travelled to St. Petersburgb, where he obtained a similar certificate from ten of the most distinguished medical men of the Russian metropolis—a certificate which was further confirmed by Belgian physicians, whose opinions were taken on the subject. Armed with such powerful testimony, Mr.lSolaux, in January, 1846, presented a second petition to the Court of Chancery for a supersedeas of the Commis sion of Lunacy (that which had previously been filed having been rejected by Lord LYNDHURST). Drs. BRIGHT and SOUTHEY were appointel to examine and report on his condition, he being secured by the order of the Court against any attack upon his per sonal liberty pending the examination. These learned gentlemen differed from the physicians of Paris, of St. Petersburgh, and of Belgium. They reported that it would be unsafe to himself and others to withdraw from him the protection (Y) of the Court of Chancery. They, however, recom mended that, as he seemed "perfectly to understand the nature and extent of his property," his allowance should be enlarged, and the payments made with greater punctuality, and that any small debts he might have contracted should also be discharged. Subsequent petitions v, ere presented and various examinations held. After a searching examination at Brighton, in August, 1847, the same Drs. BRIGHT ar d SOUTHEY reported that they " were bound to admit that they were unable to elicit any positive delusions," though, at the same time, they regretted to add that they " felt no confidence that he was entirely free from such delusions." They also added this remarkable pas- sage : " So far as respects the management of property, we en tertain no doubt of his competency to take care of it, and we think that if he were entrust:d with the iurplus of his unappropriated income, one great cause of uneasiness would be removed; for there seems mu doubt that much painful feeling has rankled in Mr. Dyce Sombre's mind from the reduction of his allowance to an amount so much below the rate of ,expenditure at which he for merly lived." Ilere, then, a gentleman, who had been pronounced by the most eminent professional men of France, of Russia, and of Belgium to ba of perfectly sound mind and competent to conduct his own affairs, from whom the doctors selected by the LORD CHANCEL LOR were unable to elicit any positive delusions, about whose perfect competency with respect to the management of property they entertained no doubt whatsoever, is still branded as a lunatic—obliged to remain an exile from the land of his adoption, and deprived of that perfect liberty of action which is the right of every free-born man, soley because those " skilful persons" could " feel no confidence that he was entirely free from such delusions." If this be indeed the rule, we can scarcely conceive ss hat evidence would be sufficient to satisfy such fastidious gentlemen; nothing could be detected to indicate unsoundness of mind, or the existence of delusion ; but a lurking suspicion remained behind, and therefore he was still deprived of his natural liberty, and of the control and management of his princely fortune. We should like to see the manner in which the judge of a criminal tribunal would receive such evidence if it were set up as a defence to a capital charge. It was, however, sufficient to retain the " alleged lunatic" within the meshes of the Court of Chancery. Other petitions were subsequently pre sented, to which our space will not enable us to allude more fully, but with no better result. Doctors BRIGHT and SOUTHEY could not be convinced of the removal of delusions, and till they were satisfied no thing could be done. At length a final effort was resolved on. Doctors PARIS, President of the Col lege of Physicians ; MAYO; Sir ALEXANDER MORI SON, Physician to Bethlehem Hospital, and to the Surry County Lunatic Asylum ; COPELAND ; FER GUSON, Physician to the QUEEN; and COSTELLO, the talented proprietor of the Wyke House Lunatic Asylum, were requested to examine the mental state of Mr. DYCE SOMBRE in the month of December last, and after the strictest scrutiny and repeated examinations of the patient, and consultations with each other, these gentlemen arrived at the unanimous conclusion that Mr. SOMBRE was of "sound mind, and competent to manage his person and property." A petition was accordingly presented founded on this report, and verified by the affidavits not only of those six eminent physicians, but of many other gen tlemen well acquainted with Oriental habits and pecu liarities, which fully explained the nature of the ' opinions that had been characterised as delusions. The decision of the Court was given on Friday, as we have already stated, and we have seen - with what result. The petition was dismissed, no further appeal to a jury was granted. Even protection to reside in England was not allowed, nor was he permitted to appear before the Master either personally or by his solicitor and counsel in the inquiries, and on the taking of the accounts respecting the management, care, and appli cation of his real and personal estate and effects — this reasonable request being rejected, although Drs. BRIGHT and SOUTHEY, in whom the most implicit confidence was reposed by the Loan CHANCELLOR, " could entertain no doubt as to his competency with respect to the management of property." These are facts worthy of notice, facts that indi cate the necessity of an immediate alteration in the law of lunacy, and the extension of the benefit of " trial by jury" to those who are alleged to be labouring under mental delusion. One of the most gratifying festivities in which the present Administration has taken any conspicuous part must assuredly have been the sumptuous banquet given yesterday evening, at the Alansion-house, to the members of her MAJESTY'S Government, by the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR. Every circumstance united to enhance the satisfaction of the statesmen entertained at the hospitable board of the first Magistrate of the capital. In the LORD MAYOR of London they met one who had 19123 " Look from nature up to nature's God!' There are many peculiarities about the case of Mr. DYCE SOMBRE (to which we alluded at some length yesterday) which invest it with a deep and melan choly interest. Burn in an eastern clime—brought up and educated in the seclusion of a Zenana, as the adopted child of an independent sovereign—embued with every Asiatic prejudice and habit—he was at an early age entrusted with almost despotic power. To his hands the BEGUM delivered over the administra tion of her kingdom and revenues, and he exercised the regal functions as an Indian monarch for several years, until the death of the BEGUN( ' in 1836, at which time he was in the 27th year of his age. Al- though he did not succeed to the throne of the BEGUM he was left in the uncontrolled possession and enjoy ment of a princely fortune, and, as her sob repre sentative, entitled to all her claims, or fancied claims, against the East India Company. Shortly afterwards he abandoned his native land for ever, and made England the land of his adoption. To its highly lauded hospitality he entrusted his liberty and his fortune. He became an English citizen, and was even selected to fill the position of one of the representatives of the people. In order to connect more closely his connexion with his adopted country, he determined to marry an English lady, and although clearly warned that his previous education and habits wholly disqualified him for such an alliance—which, from his peculiar notions, founded on Asiatic customs, must inevitably lead to a disaitrous result—ho unfortunately persisted in the intention, and his marriage with the Hon. Miss JER VIS, daughter of Lord ST. VINCENT, was shortly afterwards solemnized. It soon became but too pain fully apparent that the predictions that had been uttered respecting the contemplated union were fully verified. Mr. DYCE SOMBRE soon exhibited great irritability and jealousy of disposition ; he could not bear to see his wife mingling freely in society. His Asiatic prejudices taught him to con sider as crimes of the deepest dye acts which to an European would appear to be perfectly harmless, or at least venial. It is but natural to suppose that his orders were not received and acted on with that slavish submission, which he might have considered the duty of a wife, and which, undoubtedly, they would have received from a female accustomed to the discipline of a harem and to Oriental usages. His anger was influenced to the utmost degree, arid his writ conduet became so extravagant, that the certificates of two " skilf u l p ersons " were rea dil y o bt a i n ed, and Mr. DYCE S OMBER was, i n t h e mont h o f M arc h, 18 43, consigned t o c l ose custody at Hanover L o d ge, St. James's Park, where he w as d e t a i ne d f or four month s furtherll;enfotrheeantnyonthof July ee followin g ing were a insti tuted.lunatic° inquirendo was sued ou t of the Court Chancery, the large fortune o f Mr. SOMBRE of ren dering such a proceeding necessary, Th e case was s ubmitted to a jury ; able counsel appeared, on behalf of the petitioners, the parties who insti tuted the proceedings, while Mr. DYCE SOMBR E , to whom the results of the investigation were of such ' vital importance, Was wholly without professional struggled with them in the Legislature for the Idvancetnent of the great cause of reform, for the in troduction of every liberal measure, and for the pre vention of that reaction which is continually tending to raise the aristocratic opposition from the zero of Conservatism to the fever heat of Toryism. With the Prime Minister, more over, the welcome awarded to himself and to his colleagues by the Chief of the Corporation of the metropolis must always be a peculil.r source of pleasure—for in visiting the LORD MAyou of London he is visiting the head of that great city whose inha bitants have thrice elected him as their representative. Among the most interesting speeches delivered last evening at the civic banquet to the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN will be found those of the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR himself, those of the Premier, of the Foreign Secretary, of the Lord High Chancellor, of the Right Hon. the Speeker of the House of Commons, of General WEMYSS, of Sir FRANCIS BARING, of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and of his Excellency the French Ambassador. While suffused, of course, with that glowing cordiality which is the character istic of after-dinner eloquence, these speeches are, in an unusual manner, marked by their sincerity, their simplicity, and their pervading manliness. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. • The National publishes the following address, re commending the Republicans to follow the:example of the Monarchists, and merge all minor differences for the purpose of uniting their forces so as to make head against the reaction at the approaching election : The appeal to a fusion between the different shades of the Republican party on the eve of the elections, must, if it be heard and understood, be attended with conse quences which will outlive the circumstances which ren dered it necessary. Unceasingly in a state of struggle under monarchical regimes, constantly in a minority in official regions, the Republican opinion, at length vic torious in February, has found itself unskilful in per forming that part which has been so eagerly filled for the last half a century by Royalists of all shades. The men of the revolution, excellent for the combat, are perhaps wanting in ability to turn the victory to account. And, nevertheless, what difficulties have been overcome! what dangers removed! what misfortunes spared to the coun try! By the force of patrotism, of courage, of devoted ness in the Provisional Government, which is now die daieed and insulted by those who then servilely caressed it—in that Provisional Government, so calumniated, a government was organized. And, inestimable advan tage! thanks to the prudent energy of the heads of the State, France entire, assembled for the first time in electoral committees, was able freely and peaceably to choose the citizens to whom she would confide the task of founding. the Constitution of the country. " Once the Assembly was united the tack of the Go vernors of the 24th of February was accomplished, and they withdrew. Up to that time, however separated they might be on certain points of policy, they had fully comprehended that those divisions of opinion—those private dissentients should disappear before the great interests confided to their vigilant solicitude. On the union of all the Memb e rs of the Provisional Govern ment depended the future weltare of the Republic. The 4th of May arrived, and found them as united as on the evening of the 24th February, at the Hotel eu Ville—as they also were on the list of electors for Paris in April. " Who then thought of monarchical reaction? Call to mind the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly, and the unanimous cry which saluted the Repubiic. What was attempted to overthrow this fertile land, which promised such fruitful harvests to democracy? The 15th of May, in the first place; and at a later pe riod the events of June. From those two fatal epochs dates the resurrection of our enemios, the successive de velopment of reactionary ideas and the present state of things—three monarchies closely leagued against the Republic, and conspiring its speedy fall. " It is the tradition of the Provisional Government so unfortunately broken that we would wish to again bind together; it is to reconstitute the great Republican party, and with it to realise the hopes of progress which have been too soon abandoned; it is in a word to con tinue the interrupted work of the revolution of February that we warmly recommend the fusion of all the shades of Republican opinion. " As to the ii.fluence which that fusion might exercise on the approaching elections, or as to whether it might tend to the success of any particular fraction more or less ultra of that party we are but slightly anxious to know. Principles alone command our attention, and awaken our Uneasiness; and when called on to choose between two individuals, the one obscure, and the other shining, we should reserve our preference for the can didate who should evince the greatest probity and de votedness towards the Republic. "Limited to the reactional struggle, the union, which we foil w up in concert with a great number of commit tees in the departments, will only perform a portion of its part. The elections are the immediate occasion, if not the cause, but the object is more distant. It is for Republican opinions to re sumo the situation which they held from the 25th of February to the 15th of May, and to rally round it those num-roes elements which it had achieved, but which reaction aided, it man.-t be con fessed by our own divisions, has nearly detached from the common centre. "In this manner will be re-constructed the great de mocratic party to whom belongs social direction, because it alone protects legitimate interests, and realises practi cable reform ; because in it alone is to be found that in telligent force which guarantees order in the present, and that sympathetic will which unceasingly seeks for pro gress in the future." The Assembly was engaged during the whole of Tuesday in discussing the Bill of General LAMORI CIERE, for the organisation of the army. The plan proposed by the General is most ingenious, and pro ceeds upon the principle that every adult male owes military service to the State, while at the same time it does away with conscription. Ile proposes that every person who does not choose to serve as a soldier shall go to a general bounty f lay a certain sum, in the nature of a property tax, a u n ed dt , ha tb t t b h e e sudmivsidseodpaaindiesnhg those wh o serve . Th e all effect of this would be always to keep the army filled with veteran and disciplined troops. The Minister at War proposed that the measure should be referred to the Council of State, which would be, in fact, reject ing it. They were opposed by General CAVAIGNAC, u d d b e y O t It h tn e M dl e l and on a division the Ministry were defeated by 374 to 235. The Presse seems sorely puzzled how to decide be tween the " communication from the Austrian Go vernment,accounts oldtheneeE T p i vzi whichge K d h y pigheaded anddoempdu bc concludes obstinacy i n sTurin c h " Whatever may be said of the imperious; and fantastic character of old Radetzky, it is impossible that his go vernment, no matter what may be the splendour of his services, can thus give him a car te blanche, and consent, by retarding the definitive pacification of Italy, to de prive itself of the battalions now on the Tessino, so much required iu another quarter." Had the Presse recollected the existence of the for gery and false intelligence department in the Austrian Chancery, it would have suspected the parentage of the " communication," alid have distrusted it accordingly. IVs can readily conceive that Lord ABERDEEN might accept an Austrian "communication'' as an article of faith, but M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN is neither a Sir Oracle nor a dotard, and we are surprised that ahteyah:l htaaytnrda Govern mentnt tyranny y e he should take Austrian communications for gospel. There is very little probability of the success of M. GuizoT at Calvados. The Count DE JARNAC has started for the Pas de Calais as the Louis Philippist candidate. If a candidate in the SOPHY DAWES and TESTE interest could stand a chance in any depart. ment, it would certainly be in the Pas de Calais, the sanctuary of wounded stags and lame ducks, the moral Botany Bay of the English pseudo-aristocracy. The police are constantly interfering with the electoral meetings in Paris, dispersing all those which are not favourable to the claims of the reactionary candidates. PARIS BOURSE.—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25. TISREE o'CLocia,—The Funds have been firm to-day, with a tendency to a rise, but without any remarkable incident. The only news current was with respect to the entry of the Russians into Gallicia, which is not con firmed. Foreign Stocks and Railwuy Shares were also firm. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 32. i, money; ditto (90 days), 25 20, money. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 25. Boulogne and Amiens, Pi—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 7 2 East Indian, 34 —Great Indian Pen insula, 5 /. g —Namur and Liege, 8% —Northern of France, H.—. Paris and Rouen, 22; a —Paris and Strasbourg, 11%. SPAIN. Madrid journal s o f th e 20th have arrived. . . It is said that the Spanish Government has deter. mined to send 10,000 men to re-establish the POPE, NARVAEZ is to take the command of the expedition. with CORDOVA as second in command. It is said that the Carlist band of the Tristanys has been defeated at Igualda. MADRID BoLBA, APRIL 20.—The Five per CentP., 101 paper; Three per Cents., 24 1-16 for account. Ex change on Loudon, 50 money. GIBRALTAR. On the 14th inst. the Governor and the members of the board of health decreed that all vessels ar riving from the coast of Barbary are to be admitted to free pratique. Prior to this date, vessels arriving from the Black Sea, Constantinople, the Levant, Alexandria, &c., could not get pratique. They are now to be admitted to free pratique, after three days' quarantine, and in all other respects are to be placed • on the same footing as at Malta. The expensive syst e m of placing health guards astern of vessels from the Levant is now done away with, provided that they anchor northward from the Samarang in the quarantine ground. In consequence of a dispute with the Governor of Tangier, the French Consul-General arrived in Gibraltar Bay, in the French war-steamer Eclaireur, ea the 14th ilia., with tkis family. It appears that the neglect of a Moorish servant of the French consul catred great loss to n neighbouring Moor, f%r which the Governor imprisoned him. The cuosul protested rgaimit this, on the plea that, being in his his pay, he as entitled to prot( ction as a -Fr ench subjcct, and struck his flag-staff, ordering his vice consuls to do the same. The French subjects are placed under the protection of the British consul , :!e. The Governor, Sir 11. Gardner, paid an official visit to the Governor of Algesiras on tie 12th. GERIVIA Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. An autograph letter from the King of PRUSSIA in reply to the Schwartzenburg note, was received at Olmutz on the 19th. The 11.1iniiters were imme di-Ably sent for from Vienna. The Hungarians have again defeated the Austrians at Gran. _ _ A letter from Limburgh of the 11th says— " Orders have at length been given at St. Peters burgh, in reply to the demand of Austria, that the Russian trcops shall go against the insurgent Magyars ersembliA in Transylvania. Russia has promised the assistance of 20,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, and 24 pieces of artillery under the command of the Russian Lieutenant-General Von Moller, a brave Livonian. The Russian corps is immediately to occupy the Transylvanian frontier, and will soon commence opera tions, till the proposed attack shall have been carried in the district lying between the south, west, and north of the Theiss." PRUSSIA. We have received Berlin papers to the 22d. The schism between the Chambers and the Ministry on the subject of the acceptance of the Frankfort Con stitution is so profound that either a change of Minis try or a dissolution is inevitable. The Chamber has passed the following resolution in reference to the Frankfort Constitution by a majority of 175 to 159. This article runs thus :—" The Chamber declares that it, on its part, acknowledges as legally valid the Constitution, such as it was completed and resolved upon at the second reading by the National Assem bly ; and, moreover, expresses a conviction that no alteration of the said Constitution can take place unless in the manner pointed out in the same." WIRTEMBURG. On the 22d there was an extraordinary meeting of the Second Chamber at Stuttgart], at which the President read the answer of the KING to the Address of the Chamber on the German question. In this answer the KING said the National Assembly of Frankfort had made a Constitution, but had not com pleted it. The "King of PRUSSIA had not acknow ledged it, and had refused the Imperial Crown. How then could they call on him to acknowledge that which did not exist ? He assured them he would in due time acknowledge all the Constitution, with the exception of the question of the sovereignty. He would not submit to the house of Hohenzollern. But if all the other German Powers should acknow ledge it, then he would make the sacrifice also, though most unwillingly. If they forced him by revolt to act contrary to his opinions, he should be at liberty to revoke his acts when free from restraint. He would have submitted to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, had he been elected, as that would be for the good of the country. He had no difference with his tvlinistry, except that relating to the period of his making his declaration. The majority of the people were well disposed ; it was only a few factious who were cre ating the disturbance. He regretted that the States were not in accord with the Government on this question. The deputation having pressed on the KING that any further delay to acknowledge the Constitution would compromise the tranquillity of the country, he replied, "Very well. We shall see. I have acted ac cording to my conscience and my cenviction." The Chamber then passed the following resolution, by a majority of 46 votes against 23 : " The Chamber demands that the Constitution of the empire bs recognised as the law in Wirtemberg, and that all citizens be bound to obey it, and that every attack on it he considered as a crime." The KING is acting at the instigation of Austria, a certain M. KLINDWORTH, who was an old "reporter of conversations" to M. Guizor, according to the Revue Retrospective, being the organ of communica tion between the King of WIRTEMBURG and the great European reactionary conspiracy. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES The Cologne Gazette of the 22d publishes a letter from Altona, of the 21st, which says— "We have received positive intelligence from Apen rade that yesterday morning a brigade of Schleswig- Holstein troops entered Jutland. It was composed of the Ist Jdger corps, the 9th and 10th battalions of infantry, besides the usual complement of artillery and cavalry. The Danish war has, therefore, reached a new stage. At this place no less than ten temporary hospitals have begn arranged. Smelting furnaces have been erected on various points of the Eckernforde banks, i❑ order to give the Danes a warm reception if they should venture upon another attack here. Yesterday a Danish ship-of-the line was seen from the heights of Eekern forde, cruising a ,- )out." 'The Specter Gazette says that, before the resump tion of hostilities between Denmark and Germany, Russia renewed its protest against the entrance of German troops into Jutland. It is stated, in a letter from Flensburg, of the 17th, that two battalions of the troops from Schles wig-Holstein had crossed the frontier of Jutland. The Borsenhalle of the 21st says that the blockade is again in vigour. Several, vessels, among them three English and two Dutch, have run in safety into the harbour of Dantzic on the 18th ; in the course of the day, however, a Danish cutter, brig, and frigate appeared, and opposed the • entrance of four other vessels, which were obliged to keep aloof from the harbour, and change their course. Several vessels have been brought into the harbour of Copenhagen. An official announcement from Konigsberg, of the 17th, says—" Although our harbour was declared in a state of blockade on the 12th, no Danish ships of the line have appeared in sight of Pillau up to this hour. English vessels have arrived here, free from all molestation, both yesterday and to-day." Admiral Baron HoLszEN, of the Danish navy, died at Copenhagen on the 16th, aged 92. He had been President of the Admiralty for 47 years, and retired from the service only lest year. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, APRIL 23.—NETIIERLANDS NAVIGA TION DUES IN GREAT BRITAIN.—Last year the Netherlands Consul-General in London made com plaints to the Board of Trade relative to the obliga tion upon the Netherlands vessels, by the Trinity house of Newcastle, to take pilots on board and pay them in the navigation of the river Tees-;--an obliga tion to which British vessels were not subject. This appeared also to be in direct opposition to the treaty concluded between the Netherlands and Great Britain in 1837. The representation of the Nether lands Consul was submitted to her MAJESTY'S Go vernment, which immediately gave orders b the Trinity House of Newcastle to place the Netherlands vessels on the-same footing as the British. Some time having necessarily elapsed between the giving of the order and the carrying out of the measure, the British Government has very nobly consented to de fray all the expenses of pilotage which have been caused meanwhile. A report has been in general circulation, thrt the commander of Bois le Due had received orders for the Limburg contingent to be ready to march for Schleswig-Holstein at a moment's notice. This occasioned great dissatisfaction there ; and the fact that the King of the NETHERLANDS had openly become the enemy of the King of DENMARK was severely commented upon. The Rotterdam Courant, however, denies this statement. Dutch Papers, April 24. sun:: to a compromise. Trio 7- , presentatives and tri umvirs SA ear it in 'l,e mono of God ',tot th•:: pif,p!, - -. The , country F,h4ii 13 , • StiV&A. ' Another decree of the Ata'nibly dechirts the Po to be a Latonal river. • The CorAituent A sr,r tribly of Rome det,rrnincd on the 15th to r,ct in cone( it with the triumvirate. At Leghorn a r epuldican cormnission has been added to ti» municipality to watch over the peace of the city till more exact intelligence is received from Florence. The Commi*sioners are—SEccia, CONTE,SSINA, fIT)d ROTTA. The tr , Anquiiiity of the city hed not been disturbed. The Tuscan Minister of Foreign Affairs has invited Prince JosErn PONIATOWSKI to resumed his func tions as ambassador to England, France, and Belgium. The Neapolitan journals announce the surrender of Syracuse. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. We have received advices from New York this morning, to the 7th instant inclusive, by the ship Gut Mannering. the accounts are comparatively satisfactory, but from Canada we have no later news. The reported divisions in the Cabinet are now questioned. The Secretary (Clayton) would pro bably assume the office of Minister to London, vice Mr. Bancroft. The commercial accounts announce the receipt of telegraphic accounts hence by the Niagara on the morning of the 7th. The New York money market was gradually softening, and the quotation of ex change comes at 105 to 106} per cent., but since the steamer's departure no transactions of importance had occurred. The cotton market had been dull, and quotations had receded an eighth to a quarter of a cent. per pound since the mail's departure. The sales of the week were 5,350 bales, and New Orleans fair was quoted 7:3-c. to Bc. The flour market was greatly depressed, and prices had rapidly and materially declined since the 3d. The fall had been 12k cents on the better, and nearly 37} cents on the lower grades. There were no transactions for England. In wheat there had been seine little export demand. Transactions in iron were suspended, waiting the Niagara's news, the effect of which on all the markets had not transpired. 200 tons Gartsherrie Scotch pig sold on the 6th at 24 dolls., 24 days. In oils, Linseed was dull, the sales were con fined to a few lots, English at 59 to 60 cents. In freights there were engagements of beef and pork to London at ss. 6d. to 6s. Tobacco at 3s. for boxes, and 3s. 6d. for tierces. Packet rates for flour were 2s. Charges—Advices of the 27th March had been received by the steamer Northerner. She had little specie. Advices from Hayti of the 15th of March state that the rival armies were expected to meet about the Ist of April, when a decisive battle would probably take place. The quotations of the United States Loan Five per Cents., 1853, was 974 to 98. New Orleans dates of the 13th ult. state that freights were scarce, and little had been done. Pork to London 7s. CAPE I.)F GOOD HOPE. Accounts of the 15th of February state that the country was quiet. ITALY. In the sitting of the 14th of the Roman Constituent Assembly, Mazzini ascended the tribune, and an nounced to the Assembly the change of government that had taken place at Florence. He added that as soon as the triumvirate could obtain further information, the Assembly would be apprised of it. He then observed that 'this event did not materially change the position. of Rome; it would only be necessary to act with redou bled energy ; that the triumvirate consequently pro posed to the Assembly to proclaim the levy en masse, to renew the oath they had taken at the beginning of the session, namely to uphold the republican principle by every means, and to publish a proclamation approv ing beforehand all measures the triumvirs might deem it expedient to take, and declaring that two millions of free men are sufficiently strong to oppose resistance to internal reaction and external enemies. The whole Assembly at these words rose unanimously, and swore to maintain the Republic. Mazaini then, i. the name of the triumvirs, proposed a law, declaring the price of salt to be reduced to a baiocco (4 centimes) a pound. The triumvir Armellini then proposed that all the landed property of the State should be immediately destined to be par celled out into small portions for the advantage of the public and of agriculture. This measure, he said, would for ever attach the : people to the Re public. This proposal was received with applause. A Commission was then named to take into con sideration the proclamation proposed by the Govern ment. The Commission soon returned and read the following proclamation, which was adopted : "In consequence of the late events which have taken place place in Italy, th e R oma n Constituent Assembly declares as follows:—The Roman Republic , t he as y lum and bul warkof Italigi liberty, will t witter give way not OIL- IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In addition to the other calamities which have fallen upon the western provinces, is to he added the fearful spread of pestilence. Accounts reached town this day which state that the chulera is rapidly thinning the peasantry in Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, and that it has also broken out in great virulence in the workhouse of Ballinasloe, in the county Galway. A letter from the latter town, dared last night, says— " The greatest consternation has prevailed here since morning in consequence of the appearance of cholera in one of the auxiliary workhouses, with which the town is crowded. Up to the present time we understand there have been no less than 87 cases, of which 22 have already proved fatal. The disease has now broke out in another of these workhouses, where 12 cases have already occurred, and two deaths. We - fear that humanly speaking there is every probability of the malady committing fearful ravages in this town, there being no less than 16 auxiliary houses crowded wi►h paupers." Extract from a letter dated Ballinasloe 24th April : —"I regret to have to tell you that the cholera has made its appearance here, and the town is in a fright ful state this morning. There were upwards of twenty new cases of cholera this morning. I hear more since ; there were several deaths last night through the town, and in the vicinity persons are ly ing dead, and no one to bury them.' [ - MUSE Of LORD`.-(THIS DAY The Home sat to day to hear appeals. The Peers pre:-:ent were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. ARCHBOLD V. THE COMMISSIONERS or CHARITABLE TRUSTS IN IRELAND. The further arguments in this part heard appeal from the decision of the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland were resumed this morning and occupied ' their Lordships the whole day. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland by his decree dismissed the appellant from the management, as trustee, of the property of the late Matthew Shee, of Waterford. By a will, dated in 1832, Matthew Shee had, after giving various legacies, appointed the appellant trustee for the pur poses of the will • and fur those purposes, and subject to the trusts, had vested in him certain estates in the counties of Waterford, Kilkenny, and Wexferd. For some time the trusts of the will appeared to have been, in fact, discharged by Mrs. Elizabeth Shee, the re siduary legatee and executrix of the testator, the ap pellant having during that time been resident abroad. Mrs. Shee died in December, 1844, and the appellant then returned to Ireland and took on himself the exe cution of the trusts. The respondents afterwards filed a bill against him, praying that he might be removed from his p)st of trustee, on the grounds of absence from Ireland, and other matters, which, they alleged, disqualified him for the due discharge of the duties imposed upon him. The Lord Chancellor had made a decree in accordance with the prayer of this bill, and hence this appeal. The arguments had not con cluded when our Afternoon Edition went to press. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY. The Master of the Rolls heard motions to-day,but no case of any interest came before his Lordship during the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COM PANY V. SMITH. A motion in this case for an injunction to restrain the defendant Smith from bringing an action to re cover compensation from th© company,. for damage done to his property by the construction of their railway across Bartholomew-street, Birmingham, occupied the Court the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His HONOUR heard motions to-day, but no case calling for a special report came before the Court during the morning. (Before the Vice. .Chancellor WIGRAM.) MUTTON V. THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This case stood on the paper for judgment to-day, but his honour, on taking his seat, stated that he was not quite prepared, and would therefore postpone giving it till to-morrow. The Court then heard motions. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) lIESSRB. BROADWOOD V. ASHTON. This action was tried before the Chief Baron at the last sittings after term, at Westminster, when a verdict was found for the plaintiffs for 281. Mr. WILLES, in pursuance of leave reserved, now moved to enter a nonsuit. The plaintiffs are brewers, and the defendant was a clerk in their employ, whose duty it was, with others, to keep the books of the firm. The action was upo❑ the case, and the counts set forth that the plaintiffs gave the defendant the custody of certain goods and chattels, viz., certain pieces of money, amounting to 281., to be returned upon request, and that, through his improper conduct and neglect, the said goods and chattels were lost to the plaintiffs. It appeared that a number of collectors were employed by the firm to receive payment of accounts from the customers, upon which they were allowed a commission, and that it was their duty to account for the monies they re ceived during the week, and to pay them to the cashier every Saturday. It appeared also that the collectors were in the habit, somet►mes, of leaving sums of money in the hands of the clerks, and coming next morning and paying them to the cashier, whose duty alune it was to receive money. On the 10th of December, 1847, a collector, named Kinnersly, came to the office, in the evening, with 281., the amount in question, and wished one of the clerks to take care of it. The defendant volunteered his services, and the sum was handed to him, but on the following morning it was missing. There was no imputation whatever upon the character of the defendant, but the dishonesty of another clerk was suspected. Mr. WILLES submitted that from the circumstance of the defendant not having anything to do with the re ceipt of money, end merely taking custody of it for the convenience of the collector who was to receive it hack again and pay it to the cashier, that the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover against him. The Court granted a rule. POST-OFFICE.—NOTICB.—Mount Bellew, County Galway, Ireland, having been constituted a post town, money orders will in future be issued and pa►d at that office. . MIDDLESEX S3','SSIONS. (TUN DA Y.) (Before the ASSISTANT- JUDGES.) TDE CASINOS - Charles Wolf, Thomas Ottey, Richcrd Pridmore, George Ilainsley, and Albert Leonard, were indicted for carryitg on musical and entertni:llnents in the building known as SavTe llouse, Leice:Aer.quare. It tlppeared that there was in this indictment, which was dated the 3,1 Jan., 1849, some informality, in consequence of which it w%s withdrawn. Charles Wolf, Th , tnas Ottey, acrd George Anners ley or Ilainsley, were called upon another indict ment, dated the 2d of February, 1849, in which the name of Albert Leonard did not appear, as in the previous one. Mecsrs. Wolf, Ottey and Annersley presented themselves at the bar, but Mr. Pridmore did not appear._ PARRY, on the part of the four defendants, addressed the Court, and said he hoped the parties would not be called upon to plead to this indictment, as it was very well known to his Learned Friends, Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the prosecution, that the portion of the house in Leicester square which had been called by the name of " Wal halla" was shut up after Easter Monday, and had not since been opened for any purposes such as alleged in th.. indictment, that was to say, music snd dancing. The place had been since in the possession of an American gentleman, who applied it to the purpose of exhibiting views upon the river Mississippi, in which he did not suppose he was offending against the laws of England. Under the circumstances, the Learned Gentleman submitted that there was no oc casion to call upon any of the defendants to plead to this indictment, as they were quite ready to enter into satisfactory recognizances, as they had expected would be the result of those negotiations which had been going on from time to time since February last. With respect to Mr. Pridmore, who was (as we understood the Learned Gentleman) the proprietor of the place formerly celebrated for the exhibition of Mits Linwood's pictures in needlework, he was not aware that he was violating any law when he opened the tame apartments under the name of the Walhalla. That defendant was a gentleman of great respectability, and he did not wish to plead guilty to any indictment which implied such a charge as that of keeping a disorderly house ; and he hoped that his entering into any required recognizances, would satisfy all the legitimate purposes of the pro secution. The other three defendants were ready to plead. They were respectable persons, and had not been conscious of committing any offence ; nor indeed did he (Mr. Parry) think they had offended against any law whatever. They were ready to enter into recognizances. Mr. CLARKSON said that the prosecution was promoted by Stowell against those who per formed music and dancing without license, and it was promoted at the instance of those who were licensed for those kinds of entertainment. The prosecutor was ready to go on to trial, unless the defendants would consent to fulfil the terms which had been proposed to them in the several ne gotiations that had taken place. Neither he nor his. friend, Mr. Bodkin, who appeared with him, was in structed to call for anything like punishment, but he did not think that under the circumstances, and after all that had passed, the prosecutor should be expected to take off his hat, Pnd make a bow to the defendants, thanking them for at last renewing their recognia ances, and putting off the case sine die, without any more definite conclusion. Mr. PARRY said that there was one action for penalties against the defendants already, besides the proceedings here. Mr. Lewis said that the action was in his hands. If that were so, the defendants would he satisfied, hut they thought they were in the hands of dishonourable persons. The ASSISTANT- JUDGE said that he himself would be bail for Mr. Lewis. With respect to the Act under which these proceedings were instituted, he must say that he did not think its nature was rightly understood. If the case went on to trial, he should have to enter into the bearings of the Act more in detail. But at present he should say that there was one important effect of the Act which rendered its repeal absolutely necessary, and that was that, if it were enforced, every person who gave or performed in a morning concert w as liable to an indictment, and to an action for penalties. Such a law was wholly incompatible with the present circumstances_ of society, but whilst it remained in force even the admirable and amiable Jenny Lind might be indited, and those who engaged her in the morning concerts might be charged in that court, under the Act in question, as keepers of disorderly houses. It was expressly declared inditable by the Act for any person to give a public concert before five o'clock in the afternoon. This law could not re main. It was ultimately agreed that the case should stand over upon fresh recognizances to Thursday, the 24th of May, with the understanding that an arrangement will be come to in the meantime to the satisfaction of the prosecutor. LAURENT'S CASINO, ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. Emile Laurent and James Ellis, were called o n an indictment similar to the preceding, but after a short conversation, this case also was put off on a like un derstanding. THE ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.— Thomas Harwood, David Martin, and Charles Bender, were indicted under the same Act, for giving musical entertain ments, viz., those of the negro ringers or serenaders, at the Literary and Scientific Institution, in White chapel. In this case also, Mr. Parry appeared for the defendants. He stated that the matter had been arranged. The defendants were discharged upon their own recognizances. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sweepstakes. T.Y.C. Birdcatcher colt ... ... ... ... Dromedary c01t... ... ... ... ... ... Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each. T.Y.C. St. Ann Chicot ••• 1 ••• LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DA LONDON, APRIL 26.—Wind this day at noon N.W., light breeze and dull hazy weather. FALMou TH, APRIL 25.—Wind N.W. to N.—Arra. 23d, Courier, Ilavighoist, Buenos Ayres, for Brrnirn ; 24th, Rose, Mc Kinky, Baltimore; Emelie, Normans , Port au Prince, fur flamburgh ; George, Store, Lima; Ingcborg, llundewadt, Rio Janeiro; Francis Lord, Now' lan, Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp; Auguste Beothe, Grill, La Guayra, for Hamburgh. Off port, Agricola , Bell, Sydney, New South Wales; sultana, Langford, Port Philip; Vigilant, St. Domingo. YARMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Part of a book, containing receipts for seamen's register tickets, was picked up on Caistor Beach, last evening, supposed to belong to the John and Ann of Sunderland, as that name, with Joseph Uaxt, r, as master, appears on the receipts. MONTROSE, APRIL 3,—The Phoenix (schooner) , from Sunderland, got in contact with the suspension' bridge this day, lost masts and anchors, and was carried • by the tide down the river, below the lighthouse, where she now lies on the Annot. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 25.—The Indus (steamer) , Soy, has returned to this port to•day, after towing the Po/anger (steamer) through the Downs, and leaving her in charge of two steamers. STOCKTON, APRIL 25.—Wind W.—Sid. 24th, Zephyr, Quebec. BELFAST, APRIL 24.—Wind S.—Arrd. 22d, Lin* Turney, Barbadoes; Henry Shelton, Long, Baltimore , United States. CLYDE, APRIL 24.—Arrd. Elias Ann, Savannah; Rob the Ranter, Park, Rouen. Ski. Queen, Calcutta ; Springhill, Quebec: MILFORD, APRIL 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Gentoo , Moulmein. COWES, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Experiment , Alinger, Buenos Ayres; Julius,. New Orleans. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 24th, Arco, Clark, Guayaquil, for Hamburgh; Princess Alice, Hunter, Rio Grande, from Bristol. Sld. 25th, Nevi Liverpool, Port Philip. FowEY, APRIL 24.—Wind N.W., thick.—Arrd.An s t Autzen, Valparaiso. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Elios Norman, Shanghai; Anna Henderson, Coull, Cal' cutta; General Sale, White, ditto; John Bull, Crawford, ditto; Winifred, Christie, ditto ; Mary Imrie, Boyd' ditto ; Earl of Harewood, Atkins, Madras' Sea, Low:: son, Callao ; Monarch, Percival, Buenos Ayres, to" 18th Feb.; Ann, Johnstone, Maranham, sld.llth nitLena' Redman, St. Domingo; Millman, Wheeler, Cuba; wood, Vickers, Havannah; Viceroy, M'Mahon, I s le" Orleans, with loss of foremast, &c. ; Rockaway. 13°5 worth, New Orleans; J. P. Whitney, Glidden dit to; Canada, Guthrie, ditto; Themis, Leighton, ditto; River' dale, Mnswell, ditto. Off port, Gardyne. Ar i c a' Malcolm, 'Paraiba; Enterprise, Susquehanna; Hannibal, De Witt Clinton, Midas, Greenock, Toidy Milton, Emm a Graham, Ashburton, Pollock, Fanny, William Provvset Jane. Arrd. Manchester, Mobile; Sardinia, Crocker, I ‘ l° bile ; Lord Wellington, Mobile; Wakefield, Forbes, Mobile; Colonist, lleron, Savannah; Charlotte, Ayleg, Savannah; North Caroline, Drummond, Charleston; Helen, M'Culloch, Charleston; Princess Alice, Charleston; Albion, Wylie, Charleston; Helen, Bl'a,°_, w ' Philadelphia ; Hottinguer, Barsley New York ; ut ) 1 : lumbus, M'Cowan , New York; Isaac Wright; Mars ha New York ; Jamestown, Trask, New York; S ea ' Barstow, New York; Roecius, Eldridge, New I r " ; . London, Hebard, New York ; R. C. Winthrop, KtinNvi e b ; Boston; Pilgrim, St. John's, New Brunswick, for t_o Clyde, leaky. Sld. dEolus, New York ; Shannon. IsTe York; Osceola. New York. DOVER, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Unica Asttquaia, Havanna!), and sailed fur Hamburgh ; " line, Sanholz, St. Domingo, and sailed for Rotterdam. OFF CORK, APRIL 23.—Carnatic, New Orleans. o. CASTLETOWN, APRIL 21. Sid. Vixen, B°3t United States. SWANSEA, APRIL 25,—Wind N.-61(1. Walla° Prince Edward's Island.