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e speeches which he had heard, especially that the Chairman, which ought to be printed in let ra of gold, not only for its eloquence, but for the onest indignation which it showed to the great and noble slanderer to whom reference had bean made, he was induced to think that their cause was not palling in that room, that it was not palling where the battle was being fought on the frontiers of Russia—a battle which did not involve the interest of one particular nation, but the cause of freedom throughout the world.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Smith concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Duchess of Kent and other distinguished ladies, for their services rendered on the occasion of the ball at Guildhall.—(Hear.) The motion having been seconded by Mr. CARTER, was unanimously carried. Sir H. WILLIAMSON, Bart., M.P., proposed a similar vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London, and to several of the civic functionaries. Mr. GEORGE DERING, in seconding it, made some observations with reference to the conduct of Lord Eglinton, stating that he thought they ought to soften the asperity of their condemnation of his Lordship, who was but a young man, brought up in all the lu x ury and ease inseperable from his s tation, and whe might have made the attack without due consideration or fore thought, upon information which designing persons had given to hem. Mr. EDMOND BEALEs proposed a vote of thanks to the artists who had generously lent their aid on behalf of the Poles. He thought it the especial duty of that association to enter their protest against the unjust and uncalled for attack which had been made in both Houses of Parliament, and he entirely concurred in the obser vations of their Noble Chairman upon that subject. He said that during the revolutions on the continent the Poles in this country were desirous of going over there to recover their nationality, and the association would most gladly have furnished them with means to carry out what they considered a very natural and meritorious desire, but on the proposal being made to the Government, and although they were informed that the Poles wishedto relinquish all further claim to the support of the Brit ish public, they intimated to the association that they did not consider it consistent with their amica ble relations with Russia that any large body of Poles should leave this country, and, in fact, gave a positive denial to the a ppli ca tion.—(Hear.) The Poles were, therefore, com pelled either to quit this country in a state of absolute penury or to continue here against the warmest and most cherished wishes of their heart. He could hardly conceive that, under such circumstances, any attempt would be made in the House of Commons to discontinue the grant, lout he deeply, regretted to find among the foremost who opposed it the leaders of what was called the liberal party in this country.—(Hear, hear.) Some, however, by the word liberal meant freedom for them selves and slavery for others. lie could not attri bute the opposition entirely to ignorance, for it was well known that for a Polish refugee to return to Russia would be to meet with instant death.—(Hear.) It might be, however, that on some future occasion those gentlemen would endeavour to make amends for the future.— (Hear.) He would remind them that whilst they were sitting there shouts might be rending the air for the victory of the Hungarians, led on by a man whom they were proud in having assisted, and who some day, he trusted, would,fight as:gallantly in the defence of his own brave country.—(Hear.) If they wished to work out their own rights and emancipation, they must restore the nationality of Poland, for there would be no peace in the world so long as the Poles had no other vocation than that of using their swords, and they were very sharp and keen, wherever a contest was going on in a neigh bouring country.—(Cheers.) The motion was seconded by Mr. EDWARD JOHN STONE an l carried. Mr. T. C. BANYIELD moved a vote of thanks to the No ble Chairman, which was seconded by Colonel Savaxe, and unanimously carried. Lieutenant CHARLES SZULCZEWSRI proposed, in highly flattering terms, a vote of thanks to Mr. W. L. Birkbeck, honorary secretary to the association, which motion was seconded by Mr. N. F. ZARA. After an acknowledgment from Mr. BIRKBECE, the meeting separated. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. (FROM 011 R OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HAMBURGH, MAY 1. The grand battle with which the German papers have managed to gull the credulous public here, who have only one way of thinking, and cannot brook any truth, however right and fair, has after all turned out to be a very sorry affair. The accounts at the onset given in the patriotic journals—not one of which but is well greased in the Augustenburg intriguing interest here— have assumed a very different tone in regard to the loss incurred on the occasion of that presumed victory at Colding; in which, had the Danish General, Von Bulow, but allowed his troops to have acted in the same spirit throughout the whole affair as they did at the com mencement, every different result had followed. The loss on the Danish side has been officially pub lished, under the authority of the medical staff, and consists in 300 men killed and wounded—among these only eight of the Danish Hussars of t he . Royal Guard killed,l and sixteen wounded (after d riving the Holstein Infantry before them, and with the aid of two companies of Jogers, taking some entrenchments on the mainland), instead of having been completely dispersed, and losing an immense number of prisoners, according to the German pretended reports. On; the side of the Germans, the loss has been admitted, in an ac count of the correspondent of the Hamburgh J.Vachrzch ten, from Schleswig, to have been about 700 men. And General Bonin in his official bulletin names 1,000 on both :Ades at a rough guess, rather under the mark than above it, beyond doubt. The tender conscience of the Insurgent Government of the Duchies will not admit the true account appearing ; on the contrary, they are ashamed of the enormous loss of human li'e, which their evil deeds will have to answer for to the families of these victims of their ingratitude towards Denmark. The cries and lamentations, however, of the parents, the widows, and orphans of those fallen will ultimately relish them, and offended justice will overtake the in trigues of the Augustenburg princely beggars with vengeance sooner or later. In short, people are now anxious to know what reason they have for withholding: the: truth," and, bad as the affair if, they arc desirous of knowing what has been the posi tive loss. They reason, however, is plain. They do not wish the great Fatherland to know that the Danes are sufficiently patriotic and heroic in their defence of Schleswig, and the justice of the claim of their King. They have all along used their utmost endeavours to make their friends believe (which they have, how ever, most signally failed in (Ling) that the native Schelswig regiments, in the Danish service, hare no in clination to fight against the German Holstein party, and in some instances have even gone so far as to throw down their arms. The following is a specimen of the dirty mode of aiding and abetting their insurgent cause, and is totally unworthy of a great and mighty would-be-united Fatherland : Arnorg the many false reports which the German papers have recently been filled with, there is one which states that, during the action near Colding, the 13th battalion of infantry threw away their arms, and turned, with seventeen cf their officers, to surrender themselves prisoners of war. As this battalion in part consists of men from Schleswig, this falsehood is not without sig nification, and this was not much relieved by the fol lowing correction, which again states, that the 13th battalion, it is true, did not lay down its arms, yet the flight of the same so hastily, gave occasion for the report in question. The truth however is, that the brave 13th battalion was during this action stationed at the island of Alsen, and took no part whatever in it; n•r has there ,been any Danish officer, as yet, officially known to have been taken prisoner on this occasion. This fact will tend fully to convince the friends of the great Fatherland, and others, how little good faith can be placed in these Hamburgh-Holstein reports. General Prittwitz has his headquarters at Christianfeld, and is said to 'Lave promised his troops, consisting of about 18,000 men concentrated thereabouts, to give them a turn into Jutland, which is some four mites from the spot they occupy. It is said that he has been espe cially requested by the King his master, who employed, him last year in Berlin, to fire upon the insurgents in his defence, to mercifully cause to be spared those who are in arms against his former friend, the King of Den mark; and otherwise to aid them in their insurrec tionary conduct against his troops. The King of Prussia even goes further, from what General von Prittwitz is reported to have said of him, viz., that the Holstein in surgents were brave men, in having fought so well against their rightful Sovereign, and deserve to be spared from the due inflictions of Danish loyalty. Berlin, and General Prittwitz, on the lath of March, 11148—and Hadersleben, and Prittwita, in front of the Prussian artny on the 28th of April, 1849, ought to be recorded in the books of European history, in bloody letters, that when the young princely ideas of future sovereigns begin to be taught how to in wardly digest" they may well " read, mark, learn, and digest" this instance of Prussian polioy. Insurgents shot down by dozens at Berlin by P r u ss ia n soldiers in 1848, and applauded by the same General (who posi tively ordered them to be so shot down at this period) for fighting the royal troops of Denmark in their at temps to protect their own King against similar insur gents in 1849. 0 tempora, 0 mores ! There are various rumours of negotiation for peace; but no solid foundation can be discover e d. It i s a l so said the blockade is to be removed upon neutral vessels, yet nothing is certain. D e n mar k pl aye d, in the beg inning of the contest, too generous a game to snit German-Holstein trickery, to their own loss. It is scarcely to be supposed that the Danish Govern ment will continue this game any more until she knows their schemes better. The complaints now made of the Ineffectual mode of carrying out the blockade of the Elbe and the Weser are all'absurd; and none of those making the complaints are at all acquainted with the laws and the nature of such a blockade, much as they may learn hereafter, and thus grow wiser. There is no news of any skirmishin g to-day from the war department in the Duchies. The troops are cooling themselves a little. They are considered, however, h ere t o b e idli ng t h e i r precious t i me away , if s omet hi ng i s not daily reported in the fighting line, to f ee d t h e greedy anxiety for such information on the Ham burgh Excha nge , w h ere num bers are seen smok i ng cigars all day long, having no thing to sell in the shape of goods, a n d paper w i ll not go down without in the discount markets. Things look queer, and the visages of the people correspondingly so —sallow and smoky in the extreme. THE NBW EDITION OF 44 BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE," revised and corrected throughout to the pre sent time, from the personal communications of the nobility, &c., in one vol., with 1,500 engra vings of arms, &c., is pub lished this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had of all booksellers. Also just published, the Supplement to Burke's History of the Landed Gentry of England, Scot land, and Ireland," in one vol., with an Index, comprising references to all the individuate (upwards of 100,000) men good In 114, R ork. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENI.VG, MAY s, 1849. RELEASE OF LADY HORATIO WESTON. We have been favoured witl:Jibe following communi cations relating to the imprisonment and release of Lady Horatia Weston:— _ . HER MAJESTY S CONSUL•GENERAL IN WALLACHIA. Mr. Coiquhoun presents his compliments to Lord Dudley Stuart, and beg 3 to forward a letter which he received yesterday from Transylvania, whither Mr. Coiquhoun had occasion to send a confidential person to reclaim Lady Horatio Weston, who has been shut up in the fortress of Karlsbonrg for some months. Lady Horatio reached Bucharest in safety yesterday, having met with every attention from General Bern, who re quested Mr. Colqnhonn's messenger to forward the en closed letter for Lord Dudley Stuart, which Mr. Coiqu houn has now the honour of doing.—Bucharest, 16th April, 1849. TO LORD DUDLEY _COUTT3_ STUART, Y.P. My Lord,—Many events have taken place since I quitted London. After a stay of two months in Paris, where I knocked at every door of the Government, and was answered only by vague observations, I returned to Galicia, my native country, to see into its present state. There I perceived that the clemency of the Austrian Government was but feigned, and that it awaited only a favourable opportunity to crush again the new-born liberty and nationality of Poland. To come to a thorough knowledge of the state of things, and with a view to serve my country, I repaired to Vienna, where I arrived a few days after the revolution, and after the departure of the Emperor, its result. Invited by the National Guard of Vienna, I accepted the command of that corps, which unfortunately never exceeded in number 10,000 men. However, the chances seemed to be in our favour ; the Hungarians had beaten and put to flight the Austrian troops, who sought for safety under the walls of Vienna. If the Hungarian army had then pursued them we should have completely destroyed them, and might have then fallen upon the troops under Windischgratz, and beaten them also ; in which case it would have been easy for us to have brought back the Emperor from Olmutz to "Vienna. The matter would then have been settled, and the constitutional regime established. Bat the Hungarian army was commanded by men devoted to the Austrian camarilla. The march of the army was retarded under various pretexts, and thus time was given to the Austrianforces to concentrate about Vienna, and to crush it before the attack had been made. It was only the day when Vienna, weakly defended by the na tional guards, fell under the murderous fire of the Austrian troops, that the Hungarian army advanced to Schwehat, four leagues from Vienna. The Austrians were enabled to bring up all their forces to repulse the Hungarians, who, having become at length aware of the treachery of their generals and superior officers, drove them away, and arrived, headed alone by young officers, promoted to command on the spur of the occasion. Repulsed by the enemy, the Hungarian army re-crossed the frontier, and took up a position at Presburg. I was fortunate in being able to quit Vienna, and to ar rive in disguise at Presburg. Having offered any services to the Hungarian Government, the honour was conferred on me of commanding the army which was to reconquer Tran sylvania. Between eighteen and twenty thousand Austrian troops, with their generals, which the Camarilla had em ployed to kindle and keep alive a civil war, performed their task throughout that country, called to their aid the Rus sians (ten thousand of whom came from Wallachia), and occupied the frontier towns of Hermanstadt and Kronstadt. This armed intervention of a foreign Power checked for a moment my progress. However, this state of things did not last long, and I was fortunate enough to beat both, to drive them entirely out of Transylvania, and to restore liberty to that unfortunate country. Such is the state of things at this moment. You can well imagine what pleasure I feel when fate puts it into my power to thrash (etriller) the Muscovites. I hope that after having put things in order in this coun try, I may be able to pass into Hungary, and there to assist in expelling or destroying the army of Windischgratz. Oar successes are not doubtful ones, our army is effective and numerous—more than 100,003 men, well armed and ani mated with an excellent spirit, may be brought together and directed against the Austrian army. Inferior in num ber, and surrounded by a hostile population, my arrival with an army well disciplined and accustomed to fighting will, I hope, give a mortal blow to the army of Windisch gratz. I do not write to our dear Szulczewski, nor to any other of my friends, for I have been unfortunate enough to lose one of the fingers of my right hand by a bullet, and from which I am still suffering; but I embrace them all most cordially. I believe it will be interesting to Mr. Young to learn that though another wound has increased my bodily sufferings, though my leg is not as yet completely cured, and that, since my leaving London, no more splinters have issued from it, I can walk without a cane, and ride on horseback. I flatter myself that I may be able to take an active part in the grand operations that are now in preparation for the present year. Please to accept, my Lord, the expression of my greatest esteem and of my highest consideration. (Signed)—The General-in-Chief of the Hungarian Army in Transylvania, BEA Mulenbach, April 4, 1849. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.—FRIDAY. The Wirrel Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 30 added. T.Y.C. (6 subs.) Mr. W. Jones's Lady Barbara, 3 yrs... Mr. B. Steward's Wilmot, 2 yrs ... Mr. Green's Countess of Albemarle, 2 yrs... 0 5t02 on Countess of Albemarle. Won by half a length. The favourite ran against a post and threw her rider. Run in 1 min. 25 sec. The Cestrian Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 50 added, for three yrs-olds. One mile and three-quarters. (31 subs ) Mr. Mostyn's cby Colwick, out of Concertina (Marlow) Mr. Pedley's Fellow Commoner ... ... 2 Mr. W. Jones's Magician. ... 3 Mr. Murland's Batwing ... ... 0 Lord Cliflen's Flycatcher filly ... ... 0 Lord Chesterfield's Ferule 0 2 to 1 agst Magician, and 3 to 1 each agst Fellow Com moner and Concertina colt. Won by half a neck ; nothing near the first two. Run in 3 min. 24 sec. The Cheshire Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and only 5, &c., with 50 added. One mile and three furlongs. Mr. Green's Maid of my Soul, 4st. 61b. (including 51b. extra) ... ...(Fenn) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, Bst. 61b. 5 to 4 on Maid of my Soul. Won by a head. Run in 2 min. 45 sec. The Free Handicap of 10 soya. each, with 50 added. Seven furlongs (25 subs.) Mr. J. Shepherd's Post-tempore, 3 yrs, Est (Charlton) 1 Mr. Worthington's Sharston, 6 yrs, Bst 2 ••• Mr. Drinkald's Thornhill, 3 yrs, sst 51b The following also ran :—Deerstalker, 4 yrs, 7st 51b; Ribaldry, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Wbizgig, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b; Cheap side, 5 yrs, 6st I llb ; Energy, aged, Est 91b : Clairvoyance, 4 yrs, 6st 71b ; Primrose, 4 yrs, Est 71b ; Cigarette, 3 yrs, bst 111 b ; Lady Barbara, 3 yrs, 4st 111 b ; The Alp, 3 yrs, sst 11b. Betting.-2 to 1 agst Ribaldry, 4to 1 agst Post-tempore, 5 to 1 agst Primrose, and 6 to 1 agst Thornhill. There was one false start, and the actual one was very un satisfactory, Cigarette and Energy being left at the post, and Thornhill, Clairvoyance, and Alp, losing so much ground that their chances were quite lost. The race was won by half a length, Sharston beating Thornhill by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 22 secs. The Grand Stand Plate of 100 soya., added to a handicap of 10 sous. each, the second to receive 20 sous. Once round and a distance. (12 subs.) Mr. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged, Bst 21 b (Tasker) 1 Mr. Skerratt's Romance, aged, Bst 1 01 b ••• .:• r _ „ 2 The following also started, but were not placed : at. . John's New Forest Deer, aged, Bst 61b (Wakefield) —Mr. Osbaldeston's Chat, 5 yrs, Bst 21b. (J. Marson )—Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry, 4 yrs, ist 101 b ( Whitehouse) —Captain Peyton's Wiseacre, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Charlton) —Mr. Har greave's Primrose, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b (Dockeray)—Mr. C. Hall's Ada Mary, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Osborne)— Mr. Ewbank's Pyr land, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (G. Sharp)—Lord Clifden's f, by Emilius, out- of Flycatcher, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Rodney) -31r. Pedley's The Probe, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Treen)—Mr. Eawson's Snowdrop, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (Hiett). Betting-2 to 1 agst Probe-4 to 1 agat Ada Mary-6 to 1 agst New Forest Deer-7 to 1 agat Ribaldry—and Bto 1 agst Snowdrop. Won by a head, The Probe third, and Forest Deer fourth. Run in 2 min. 10 secs. The Eaton Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, and 30 added ; three yrs, Est 121 b ; four yrs, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings allowed albs, and maidens 31bs. Grosvenor Course. ( 5 subs.) Mr. B. Green's Cigarette, 3 yrs - Mr. Copeland's Aldgate, 3 yrs ... Mr. J. Osborne's Carthageman, 3 yrs ... 7t04 on Cigarette. Won by a neck. The Ladies' Purse of 501.; for three yrs old, Bst ; four yrs, 9st 61b ; five yrs, lOst ; six yrs and aged, 10st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Heats, once round and a dis. C 3 Subs.) Mr. Wentworth's Licentio, 3 yrs ... (J. Prince) 1 1 Mr. Copeland's Clothworker, 3 yrs 2 2 Mr. J. Day's Colacinth, 4 yrs ... 3 3 LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. DEXBIT. 9to 4 agst Flying Dutchman 16 to 1 agst Elthiron—t 9 to 2 agst Nunnykirk—t 20 to 1 agst The Knout 11 to 2 agat Tadmor 20 to 1 agst Osterleyj 10 to 1 agst Vanguard—t I 20 to 1 agst Chatterer—t 15 to 1 agst Vatican I 40 to 1 agst Montagne °Lis. 6to 1 agst Glacua I 7 to 1 agst Wadrasta filly ...(J. Marson) (Fenn) 1 ••• 8 COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took an airing in an open carriage and four, yesterday afternoon, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, General Wemyss and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, the Equerries . in waiting, attended on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena took their usual pony and walking ex ercise yesterday, and her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa was taken an airing. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies the Baron and Baroness de Brunnow, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Esrl Fortescue, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. George Keppel, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance during dinner in the Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruco and Baroness de Speth, went to Kew yesterday afternoon, and visited their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Mr. John A. Beaumont had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American colonies. Dispatches 'were al s o sen t o ff v last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Falkland Islandf. ROYAL GARDENS, VAuxaALL.—Great preparations are being made at this celebrated place of amusement, and extensive alterations, which will not only improve the appearance, but add to the comfort of the visitors. Extensive vie w s are b e i ng cons tructed, and no expense seems to be spared by its enterprising proprietors to make it a rational as well as gmuswg place of resort. THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN. (From the Freeman's Journal of May 3.) Were the audience at our theatre on last evening to be taken as an evidence of the status and condition of our people—if the glitter of the box dress circle, with its array of beauty, and the clinquant and crimson of garrison cava liers—if the pit, with its critics and its crowded but decorous and polite assemblage, and the galleries, with their throng of happy faces—if all were to be received in the aggregate as a specimen of the social aspect of our metropolis, how proud ought to be our lot, how brilliant ought to be the city palaces of our resident nobility and gentry, how gay the nightly festi vities of our leaders of the ton, how delightful the reunions of our men of genius, how happy the firesides of the denizens of humbler homes ; but, alas ! thus it is not, and in the noble drama presented last night the audience, brilliant as it was, might take to itself the adjuration of Macbeth—" Unreal mockery, hence !" But, after all, the truest wisdom (when things for the present can't be helped) is, perhaps, to grasp the present delight and not allow the mind to wander from the brilliant and gorgeous assemblage met to enjoy the triumphs of immortal genius in the portraiture of imagined horrors and stimulated passion to the stern realities of com mon place and unpoetic misery walking abroad even in our city, and represented in the wan faces and emaciated forms of which the titled and the wealthy few catch shadowy glimpses as they step from the piazzas of the theatre into their chariots, and are whirled off to their luxurious but silent homes. To a stranger visiting Dublin, the aspect of our theatre on last night might well afford cause of pleasur able and delighted surprise. Few evidences were there to be seen of Irish poverty or social disturbance. Not in the palmiest hour of Ireland's short-lived prosperity could her metropolitan theatre have presented a scene more enlivening and brilliant than was displayed in the crowded and gorgeous assemblage of last evening. The boxes were filled with elegantly-dressed ladies, intermingled with whose gay and graceful groups flashed the scarlet and gold of the military. The respected veteran, under whose auspices, and that of his brother officers the performances of the night were presented, was received, on his entrance, with cordial and hearty indications of welcome and respect from every part of the house ; and if any one feature could add to the delusion of the passing happiness, and tend to re call memories of happier days in Ireland, it was that the venerable Lord Plunkett was also present. On his en tering and also on leaving the theatre his Lordship was heartily cheered. Of the performance of Macbeth by Charles Kean, not a few of the critics of our Dublin theatre parterre seem impressed with the opinion that it is his best Shake perian part. His readings of Hamlet have been highly eu logised by the notice writers of the London press. We had the opportunity of seeing Mr. Kean's Hamlet during his pre sent engagement, and fount no difficulty in at once recognis ing the superiority of his interpretation of some passages, as well as the naturalness, truth, and poetic consistency of his conception of this high wrought creation of the great bard. It somehow happened, that previous to last night we had not seen him in Macbeth, and to speak the truth, Macbeth seemed to us one of those characters least suited to the idio syncracy of him whose soul seemed wedded to the gentler heroism of the philosophic Prince of Denmark—the chas tened and modest love, yet proud ambition of the gentleman of nature, Claude Melnotte—the love-struck suavity of My. Oakley, or the fond yet etherealised uxoriousness of Sir WalterAmyot—in short,one would think, and almost say that the character of him of Glamis and Cawdor, and then, by murder, King of Scotland, would be rendered more truly by an actor more given to the ranting mood (with even the faults of rant) than by one whose forte seemed to be the ex pression of the gentler feelings, and the gentler characters of Third (but drama are Kean's best, marque his Richard the (but that is a stereotype by his father). However, many with ourselves were delightedly undeceived in Charles Kean's personation of Macbeth on last night. The peculiar excel lence, of his acting was perceptible in several passages. No thing could be more beautiful than his rendering of the effect of the demon remorse on the mind of the guilty chief, evinced in the exquisite delineations of painful reverie and uncon scious abstraction, and the equally beautiful perception that marked his rendering of the shallow disguises and vague apologies Macbeth puts forward to hide his mental misery and mask his guilty remorse. Kean's rendering of the ghost scene was as superior as it was different from any previous concep tion that we have ever seen by any actor of this thrilling pas sage. Had we space or time we could recal numerous instances in which Mr. Kean's deep study and admirable conception of the author's meaning is apparent in his portraiture of Mac beth's character, but we can barely advert to one magnificent iccident that must have smitten all with the conviction of its truth and the beauty of its dramatic conception—the last combat with Macduff and the dying scene. It smacked not of the " minors," and mayhap was far too quiet for the Adelphi audience, but it was truth itself from the conclusive clenching of the hands of the stricken combatant to the un graceful but moribund attitude in which he falls, and the last all but imperceptible convulsion of the limbs of Macbeth— the felon chief—the foresworn knight and murderer king— dies as ha lived, in truest character. Mrs. Kean's Lady Macbeth was a noble impersonation of Shakspere's truest meaning. If the praise appertaining to versatility of genius applies to her husband, still more truly does it belong to her. Who would recognise in the stern resolve and ultra-mascu line hardiness of moral courage and daring blood-guiltiness of the Lady Macbeth of last night—the drooping spirit of the gentle Viola—the fond aspirations of the love-sick Rosa lind—the arch innocence .of Beatrice, or the high wrought fortitude and enduring love of Eveline Amyot ? We may, perhaps, without affecting to remind any of last night's audience of the widely-appreciated excellence of this match less actress, recal her magnificent rendering of the chamber scene, where the troubled and guilty spirit wakes whilst the body sleeps, and the remorseless and ambitious woman walks forth in troubled slumber, and talks of deeds of blood. Few will forget the thrilling effect of her startled and frightened exit— " To bed—to bed—there's knocking at the gate." Tie audience seemed spell-bound, and forgot to applaud. However, at the conclusion of the play the cheering of the vast audience told how deeply all were impressed with the magnificent acting they had witnessed. The cast of the other characters was very well arranged, and it is only justice to advert to the magnificent (we use the word deliberately) the magnificent manner in which this drama was put on the stage. The scenery was appropriate, the costumes were clas sically correct, and the subsidiary parts were filled with an ability and correctness that reflects the highest credit on the stage management. The after piece of Box and Cox followed and it was a failure. As compared with its presentation at the smaller theatre, it is not to be spoken of. The racy Cock neyism of Bedford was absent, and the best points of this most amusing of nonsensical farces were lost, perhaps through the fastidiousness of the performers. Bland seemed ashamed of toasting his bacon, and Baker took his penny roll from his pocket as if he had stolen it? in short the piece was not played c#n amore, and consequently failed. However, all were delighted with the general entertainments of the evening. SUDDEN DEATH of MR. HORACE TWISS. We regret to state that this gentleman expired yester day between the hours of two and three o'clock under circumstances most painful to those who witnessed his last moments. Mr. Twiss, as a member and proprietor of the Rock Life Assurance Company, in which he took great interest, was, at the annual meeting held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Elackfriars, in the act of addressing the chairman upon the general management of the society, and although he did not appear to be in the least excited, he was seen to falter and gradually sink, and ultimately to fall down in his chair. Several of his friends present removed him from the room, but in the course of their so doing be expired without a struggle. Mr. Farr and other medical gentlemen were seat for, but, on their arrival, it was found that their assistance was of no avail. The Hon. Gentleman, it was stated, bad, for a long time, been impressed with the idea that he should, one day or other, die suddenly, as he laboured under the frightful disease of ossification of the heart, and, strange to say, within two hours of his death, repeated the same fact. Mr. Twiss was, in addition to his justly and well received " Life of the Late Lord Eldon," the author of many valuable contributions to the quarterly and other magazines. His body wilt be removed to his own resi idnecimnucree.s, inquest i t ju b sn e s i n n we g cae c ssH o s n ani sidered by the authorities that an unnecessary. Mr. e amiable, honourable, and re markableH sh Siddons,mr u was ther a wasil g highly y sisteraccomplished u f J ohn her gifted and f was every way qualifiedat] d learned t o man. d p o e person. s honouro n . Philip Kemble and Ir t s u . eduer amily. Mr. Twiss, placed for after receiving an excellent two or three years in an attorney ' s a o l gc ' e, w a a n s d then be came a member of the Inner Te mp le , and in due time was called to the bar. He travelle d the Oxford circuit for some years, and became one of its most distinguished leaders; but during the latter period of his professional career he attached himself exclusively to the Equity Courts. But his chances of success were materially les sened by his social , literary , and political c c e o le m b p ri o ty si the world are slow to believe that any man can be fi fortirosnts rate in more than one walk at a tim e. Mr. Twiss's " Vera do Socilotf " and other light we re sufficiently popular in their day to earn their author a place among the wits. He i s mentioned more than once in Lord Byron's jour nals from 1812 to 1815. But his chosen field of ambi tion was the House of Commons. Sheridan told Wood• fall, when the latter intimated that in his judgment Par. liamentary eloquence was not the youthful aspirant's forte —"It is in me, and by G— it shall come out." Mr. Twiss is reported to have given utterance to a simi lar consciousness of power, and many of his speeches will be admitted on all hands to have gone far towards the fulfilment of his pledge. At the conclusion of his first speech on Catholic Emancipation, the Duke of Norfolk, who had been seated under the gallery, requested to be introduced to him, and thanked him in the warmest and most flattering terms for his advocacy ; and the late Lord Londonderry, an excellent judge, shook him cor dially by the hand, and said, " You may speak as often as you like now, for the House are sure to listen to you." His speech on the Bill for allowing counsel to address the jury for the defence in cases of felony, was another highly successful effort; and a speech in the Court of Chancery is generally understood to have led, by the powers of arrangement and reasoning displayed in it, to, his appointment as Under - Secretary for the Colonies; on the formation of the Duke of Wellington's Adminis tration, in 1828. But Mr. Twiss's Parliamentary career was fatally interrupted by the Reform Bill. Wootton Basset, the borough which he had represented for many years, was placed in Sche dule A ; and although ho subsequently succeeded in getting returned for Bridport during one Parliament, he found it impossible to establish a durable hold on the constituency. Nor was he more fortunate at Not tingham, Bury, and two or three other places at which he subsequently became a candidate. His energies, how ever, were inexhaustible. Aide toi et Dieu eaidera, was his motto. His fortune was limited; he had a family to provide for; and finding his forensic gains inadequate, he devoted his talents to the press. He hit upon the plan now generally adopted, of giving a summary of the speeches in the Houses of Parliament in addition to the reports, and for many years he ably supplied the House of Commons summary for our contem• porary the Times. He was also an occasional contribu tor of leading articles to the same journal. Ho continued to employ himself in this manner until he received (on his uthecnnhaoymmei of Lancaster.n m at o i s o t n, we believe, of the l a te L ord Granvire Somerset,) the appointment i suut undoubtedly oe o u f b ted lit e rary ly effort h sffu, ‘rLti which Vice-Chancellorfeof of Lord r h d e Duchy d oes honour But Eldon." A glom; At ace, owl vTer, the 4904 a,nd cavils of those, who, misled by the varied and some- beneficial, avid applied to the purposes for which it was grants )d, and also th a t we s h a ll b e saved h armless w hat desultory nature of Mr. Twiss's career, had judged him incapable of producing a sterling work. Had life an d health been spared to him, he might have earned from every less. The sums th a t h ave h ereto f ore b een still higher distinctions, literary and professional ; bat we lent for ust I works have generally been repaid with strict punt to ality. Where ver th ere h as b een a are at all events justified in commemorating him as a rea kind-hearted, honourable, and estimable man, of un sonable profi t realised, that profit has been applied doubted ability, who has left a host of friends to lament his loss, and not a single ill-wisher to dispute his claim towards dim urging the liability t o th e na ti ona l Ex to the esteem and admiration of his contemporaries. chequer ; Irv, here, however, not the slightest bene fit has he 3n conferred on the country, we can scarcelly • feel surprised if there should be delays and difficuTti es in the repayment. The present ad vances will xi of only be made for profitable purposes, but they will also be upon good and available security, charged ups t property which may be readily sold, if any default I should take place. Under such circum stances we al 'lan most probably find that the effect has been really t advantageous to the Irish people, and that we shall have t no cause to repent of the confidence we have reposed in their honour and integrity. riiHE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE 11 COMPANY. - (Pro v isionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80 ,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share, Pro mtctuses and Rill information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offices of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect. fully informed that THIS EVENING, Will be produced the admired Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Araina, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Elyiio, Signor Enrico Calsolari. Ts conclude with a DIVER EISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. M. T ag li on l, Md lle. Pet i t S p t o e r p , . Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be mad e a t th e Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual, price 10s. 6d. each. h M an . , C it ha e ;l ail es, e lk s. c 3 ., t w ar il r l a' appear. and Thomassini, M. Paul Ta g li on l, M. t a lT. JAMES'S TREAT RE. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIC:ME. On MONDAY EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with HETJR ET MALHEUR. To conclude with LE PRE AUX CLEE4II. Margy, M. Octave; Comminge, M. Coaderc ; Isabelle, Mdlle. Charton. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in :Teased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis -3100 are determined as follows: Boxes • • • • • • .. Gs. od. Pit• • • • • • •• • • 3s. Od. A m phitheatre .. •2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; 3fr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYILiRKET. Mr. B. wemter, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptoa. THIS EVENINt, ntirelynmsrsewt: Hone,oniedy entitled RUNAWAY jru Pir s ill ßAN be p i r s rf . orme Characters a n e by m Wallack, Vandenhoff, and Backstone; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fitzwilliaaa. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THEE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. THEATRR 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, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Callenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Min Woulgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, Sec. 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 DAT. 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 THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma'he ws. THIS EVENING Will be perfor me d a new comic Drama, called THE HUSBAND OF MY WIFE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, F. Matthews, Selby, and Pantile ; Miss H. Gilbert, and Miss Connor. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To sonclude with THE SEVER CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Boxes, A 3. ; 'Upper Boxes, 4S. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No kali-price to any part of the house. The New 11 ox-ofEce, No. 2, Wellington , street , is open to the - public vcry day, from Ten till Six. A diabolic .lal project appears to be on the eve of being carriec I into operation by the Governments of the Northen Absolutists—a project for the trampling out of Hung Irian liberty by an overwhelming in cursion of t , arbarians from the dominions of the AUTOCRAT.. After conquering the independence of their native: land with a heroism and a military sagacity srtc h as have been the admiration of Europe, these glorious patriots are to be trodden down into their former state of serfdom by being grievously outnumbe red. Such at least is the intention of the Imperial Cabinet at Olmuts, an inten tion eagerli r adopted by the congenial adminis tration of St. Petersburgh. Such at least is the gtnstly revenge reserved to themselves by the Aust Hans, still smarting (as they are sorely) under the remembrance of their recent expulsion from the different cities of Hungary. Their vindic tiveness, e a much as an anxiety for their own preser vation fro m destruction, prompts them to demand in this ignoble manner the military assistance of the CzAR. Fading that the auxiliaries already obtained have been insufficient to preserve their " grand army" from a succession of murderous defeats, see ing that the soldiers originally sent by NICHOLAS for the retentionof Transylvania have been ignominiously thrashed, as General BEM, the Hungarian Commander.. in-Chief hinsself expresses it, being expelled from Her manstadt and driven confusedly beyond the boun daries of Wallachia—young FRANCIS JOSEPH and his statesmen find themselves reduced to the painful and even degrading necessity of begging for more help from the power of the AUTOCRAT. Russia, of course, is only too heartily rejoiced to assume the attitude of a Protector, and in so doing to participate in the castigettion of races so long objects of extraordi nary harassment to herself. No less than 150,000 men are to march across Lithuania, to aid in propping up the crumblizig foundations of the Austrian empire. Of these 100,000 are at once to be directed upon the Hungarian and Polish provinces of Austria —upon Gallicia and upon the country surrounding Buda Pesth. Associated with the remnants of the army successively commanded by WELDER and WINDISCH• GRATZ, these mercenaries are to desolate, with fire and sword, the land which during the last campaign has been conquered, inch by inch, from the Imperialists by its own children —the land which, during the last seven months, has acquired a novel and supplementary glory from the conduct of the courageous patriots who have fought for their rights and freedom, for the rights gained by their ancestors and the freedom cherished for their posterity. Under the benign in fluence of the Provisional Government, inspired by the genius of Louis KOSSUTH, the Hungarians have so done as to have pushed forward from the marshy environs of Debreczin, to have gained one pitched battle after another, to have routed the formidable band of Croatians under Jeuacelicn, to have taken the capital city, lying like a Siamese metropolis on either side of the Danube, to have defeated two of the most redoubtable soldiers of a nation whose army had given to the world such captains as WURMSER and the Archduke CHARLES, as MONTECUCULI and WALLENSTEIN. Scarcely have the Hungarians accomplished all this, scarcely have they succeeded in compelling their as sailants to fly in dismay beyond Pres burg in the direction of Vienna, scarcely have the Liberals of Western Europe heard the glad tidings that Hungary is victorious, than a new and sinister coalition is formed between the northern despots—a coalition which threatens to crush under the weight of two gigantic empires an inter mediate state which, contrasted with either one or the other of them geographically, is of miniature dimensions. There is to be, it seems, an end of fair fighting towards Hungary. Up to the present time, fair fighting has only proved disastrous to the ag gressors. A change in the system of warfare must consequently be effected—the struggle must be rendered altogether unequal. Hungary must be placed at the mercy of Austria, and when, through the help of Russian auxiliaries, the Hungarians are m i u n s t t hbee Titanicsh o , n them. grasp R so ig a h t t their must m be ercy , n strangledo m e again of Might. It is the old tale. Only the ill us t ra ti on ry about to be afforded as to the accuracy of that old tale is more mournful and more atrocious than any yet engraved on the tablets of history by the iron pen of the annalist. PRINCESS'S THEATILE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MID LOTHIAN. Characters by Herr Mengis, Messrs. C. Braharn, Horn castle, and Weiss ; Miss Poole, Miss Lanza, and Mdlie. Nau. After width, Mdlies. W. and A. Neruda and their brother Victor will perform on the Violin, Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED DDT AND THE FAIR PERSIAN. Tinder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. his Royal Highiess Prince Albert, Sec. The new grand Raster Spectacle unprecedentedly successful. THIS , The performance will commence EVENIN G with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be tolloT:ed by an inimitable display of SCENES DT THE CIRCLE, in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will_appear. To conclude with THE LONDON CARRIER. Box-oftice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER.— &N OFFICE, MAT 5. TFIERMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest, 71; Noon, 70, BAROMETER, 29.81. WIND E.N.E.—Morning, fine sunshiny weather ; Afternoon, thunder, with showers. 111411.1 wATEIt AT LONDON Tins DAY —Morning, 32 min. after 12 I Evening. 2 min. after 1 To-Moaaow— ~ ,,r tima, 23 min. after 1 I Evening, 43 rain. after 1 By the perusal of the interesting communication from General BEM published in another column— a communication forwarded to Lord DUDLEY STUART by Mr. COLQUIIOUN, the British Consul at Bucharest —it will be seen how noble were the achievements of the Hungarian patriots when first confronted by the combined forces of Russia and Austria, among the Transylvanian mountains. Let us feel satisfied of this fact that, however gloomy the prospects of their country may now appear, from the approach of the soldiers of NICHOLAS, the co. patriots of KOSSUTH have not lost any of that self reliance which has hitherto conduced to their triumph under the banners of BEM and DEMIIINSKI. On the contrary, let us feel sure of this —that their heroic determination to stand or fall under the constitutional banners, originally raised as far back as the twelfth century, is unshaken—is not only unshaken, is con firmed. Meanwhile, from the report given in this evening's impression of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, it will be seen at a glance that the lovers of that brave but unfortunate country are sanguine as to its future destinies. Let the people of Gallicia confirm those favourable auguries. Let Poland be true to her past glory, and true also to the fame of those daring Generals who, by heading the Hungarian army during the last campaign, have gained for the Polish tactics a brilliant and imperish able reputation. If the aspirants for liberty, who are unhappily situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Northern Absolutism, be only true to themselves they may even now " pluck the flower safety out of the nettle danger," they may even now save themselves from a common subjugation. This we maintain might be accomplished in spite even of th e colossal armies of a Russo-Austrian coali tion. It might be effected by the Hungarians still remaining true to the counsels of KOSSUTH, to the banners of BEM, and to their own glorious re nown—by the Polish population rising in the rear of the advancing troops of the AUTOCRAT-by the Turks abetting the cause of the Moldo-Wallachians and pouring down in a contrary direction the legions of the crescent standard of MOHAMMED ! Let this be done and terms shall not be dictated before Cracow, or Pesth, or Bucharest, even by the united strength of Austria and Russia. Let coalition be opposed by coalition, and then Poland will be disinterred— Constantinople will be secured from the ambition of St. Petersburgh—and Hungary will be saved by her heroic sons, led on by the sword of BEM, rid in spired by the patriotism of KOSSUTH. Loot TO YOUR POCKETS—is the advertised advice of a fashionable costumier in Regent-street, when describing the new patented invention called Nicoll's Pocket Protector, which is particularly addressed to the railway traveller as applied to a Paletot, and the preservation of his railway ticket. Perhaps but few are aware of the inconvenience that may arise from the loss of this little bit of pasteboard; for, upon many railways, the officials are by certain bye-laws empowered to detain or give into custody the unfortunate loser, should he not be prepared at once to pay for another. —Morning Chronicle. VICTIMISING LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Twenty four good pewter pots were taken out of a cesspool at Lewis ham, a few days since, belonging to licensed victuallers in the neighbourhood, fourteen of them being the property of One tradesman within a very glint cliztance of the place from 1 whoco they Imo tAkeia, ..- .. 1 , •-.-,• , , , e 4_7e de :0 --- •.,,,7-i i ' d '-- / . ~ .., k 4 s . A ,1,, '. 4 , ~.-., f_46.... . . z. . ,4 01 , 1 • , ..",. offir ~x. - ... % • ' :4eVal ) '','': •-•• ' "' Er -- " . . 4 '.ox i• `‘' ..,-- . '''''',lt , _h/E - V A , "..;r:c04/' , .• , ' ....• c -ei.o.• ^. - , 01 • q 44 - 0. . - 4 4 16 •wp.. , ~,- . '. • ''' , . THE FREN c _;'H REPUBLIC. We have received th e Paris papers of yesterday. The day was observed , Is a grand fete, it being the anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic by the National Assembly.. The PRESIDENT of the Republic, the Members of the National Assembly, and the Foreign Minist st •s assembled at the Te Deum, which was chaunted c as. the Place de la Concorde. Detachments from the ad, sth, and 6th Legions of the National Guard were on the ground. The weather was beautiful, st id the spectacle very grand. There was no attempt e,t creating disorder. There was to be a grand d is: ?lay of fire -works in the evening. The Gazette de Fran li ! announces the entry of the French troops into Ro) ne . The Patrie says— " A report was current ti 'tis afternoon that the troops of the French expedition in .d an engagement with the Roman troops. This report is destitute of foundation ; our troops entered without c .bstaele. It is supposed that Massini and the chiefs of tit e Government have quitted the city." _ The Moniteur du Soir:. publishes the following offs cial statement : " A report has been c;Lect dated that an altercation has taken place between the Pr . ?sident of the Republic and his cousin. We are author . sed to declare that M. Napo leon Jerome Bonaparte, sill ( :e his return from Spain, has not had an audience of tho President, nor have they met anywhere. Moreover, although the President of the Republic may show him self severe towards all the members of his family wi so do not conform strictly to their duty, he does not for that reason sever the bonds by which they are connecte( 1 with him." The National Assembly r adopted, on Thursday, the Budgets of the Ministers of Justice and of War. The National Assembl3 has refused, by a majority of 67, to vote the salary of General CUANGARNIER, who illegally holds two .:ommands. The editor of the Asse; 2 eblee Nationalde has been fined SOO francs for the public; 41 ion of a libel on M. ARMAND MARRAST. The venerable Durosil. DE L'EtraE, the patriarch of Republicanism in Fraz ice, who from 1789 to 1849 has consistently and ho: aestly upheld the cause of liberty through evil repot t and through good report, who was one of the few who had the wisdom and the courage to resist the elevation of LOUTS PHILIPPE to the throne l n 1830, and who was chosen by acclamation President of the Provisional Govern ment in 1848, died on T 1 'ursday night of cholera, in the 83d year of his age. BUSINESS DONE IN FO] IEIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK- EXCHANGE, MAT 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 8 5 4 1 —East Indian, 31 4 ex. in.-- Great Indian Peninsular, ,—Northern of France, 11 1 A Paris and Rouen, 22%. S: PAIN. Madrid journals of tb e 29th have been received. Permission has beet t given to SALAMANCA and ESCOSURA to return to Spain. The Bolsa was closed on the 29th. • G E in A l Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRA LNK FORT. The German Parliament dreads a coup de main on the part of the King of PRUSSIA, who is concentrat ing troops at Mayence and at Kreuznach. PRUSSIA. The Prussian Monitor of the Ist contains a circu lar addressed by the Prussian Government to its envoys to the different German States, in which it hopes that the other German Governments will agree with it in considering the Constitution propounded by the National Assembly of Frankfort as im practicable ; and that therefore an effort should be made to induce the Assembly to submit to some modification of the Constitution ; and if the Assembly would not consent, that then measures should be adopted such as the gravity of the circumstances required ; that should any dangers be likely to arise from those measures, Prussia would be ready to face them with energy and promptitude, in conjunction with the other German powers ; that it (the Prussian Government) deems it a fixed and unalterable principle, that it is only in the power of the representatives of the German Governments to frame a constitution for all Germany, and it considers that the real sf•curity of those Governments will be found in a body of faithful representatives acting in a Federative Assembly for the good of the whole. This body should consist of a Chamber of State and a popular chamber. This document is signed by Count BRANDENBURG, and bears date April 28. AUSTRIA. ANOTHER DEFEAT of the IMPERIALISTS. Letters from Vienna of the 28th ult. state that on the morning of the 26th, at four o'clock, the Imperial army was attacked near Ach, on the right bank of the Danube, GEORGET with his Magyars havin g crossed the river in the night. The Imperial army was forced to retire, and its head-quarters are now at Presburg. No less than 1,660 wounded were brought to Vienna on the 30th ultimo, and quartered into the hospitals, the former inmates of which were sent off to the villages surrounding Vienna. It was stated that Raab had been evacuated by the Imperialists. The siege of Comorn has been finally raised. Crowds of fugitives, who arrived at Vienna from Presburg, asserted that the positions and entrenchments of the blockading forces were given up. A quantity of battering artillery arrived at Vienna on the 30th ultimo. M. KOSSUTH has forced the peasantry in the vicinity of Comorn to destroy the entrenchments of the Imperialists. The Hungarian Dictator is, to all appearance, now formally installed in Pesth. He has reappointed the old magistrates, reorganized the National Guard, and proclaimed the independence of Hungary. SAXONY. DISSOLUTION OF THE SAXON CHAMBERS. DRESDEN, Armr. 29. The official Gazette of Saxony contains the following notice : " His Majesty the King, by virtue of section 119 of the Constitution, and of section 9 of the Provisional Law of Nov. 15, 1848, hereby dissolves the Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony, now in consultation assembled. The same is made known by these presents. " Given at Dresden, April 28, 1849. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM." Countersigned by all the Ministers. The Ministers have published an address to the Saxon nation, in which they say they recommended his MAJESTY to dissolve the Chamber, because they considered that the proceedings of the Chamber were not calculated to promote the true interest of the country, or to carry out the real intentions of the Saxon nation.—Cologne Gazette, May 2. HANOVER. _ . GOTTINGEN, Aram 29.—0 n receiving the intelli gence of the dissolution of the Chambers of Hanover, the civic guard immediately assembled and decided upon an address to the KING, praying his MAJESTY forthwith to issue writs for the election of a new House of Representatives. The address went on to say that the Civic Guard of Gottingen considers the German constitution obligatory, and will defend it against every opponent. A deputation was at the same time appointed, and set out for Hanover the same day, for the purpose of presenting the address to his MAJESTY. We hear from numerous sources that the King of HANOVER, is seriously indisposed. His MAJESTY is suffering from attacks of spasm in the stomach. ITALY. On the 24th the Constituent Assembly of Rome drew up a protest against the French invasion, and dispatched it to Civita Vecchia to General OUDINOT. The Assembly then summoned the triumvirate to its presence to give an account of the proposed French interference, who having attended, Mentrii stated that they had received no official communication on the matter ; that they had faith in the good intentions of France, but it was nevertheless necessary not to neglect all measures requisite for the country's safety. The Assembly then, at the suggestion of MAZZINI, resolved, in conformity with the new Constitution, that though firmly determined to resist the union of the temporal and ecclesiastical powers in one and the same person, they were ready to assure to the POPE the full and perfect exercise of all his ecclesiastical powers. A large meeting was announced for the 26th, to protest against the invasion, and the domi nancy of the ecclesiastical authority in Rome. The Austrian General NUGENT died at Brescia on the 27th ult. LEV MAIL Intelli gence has been ANT received from . Athens to the 18th, and from Constantinople to the 14th ult. The Ministerial crisis still continued at Athens. Intelli gence had been received at Constantinople that an insurrection, which had b ro k en out on the 12th of March, at Teheran, had been put down by the per sonal energy of the young Shah of PERSIA. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. —Yesterday evening a meeting of the committ ee o f this charity was held in the board room, Portugal-street, Lincoln's -Inn-fields; Charles Heberden, Esq., in the chair. Flom the report, it appeared that the number of patients during the year had amounted to nearly 20,000, making a total since the foundation of the charity of about 130,00.). It appeared that the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle had consented to preside over the tenth annual festival on Saturday next, when a very energetic effort will be made to render the result beneficial to the ge neral funds of the charity, as well as adequate to supply the deficiency of income during the past year. Some routine business having passsd, thauka were voted to the chairman, thOglcctingfieS/AtOde ATOWITIYth 4 5 v 7 ' LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 184 g. Ministers are at length reso l ve d to grapple fairly with Irish di ffi culties. They appear to have taken the state and condition of that unhappy country into their most serious consideration, and measures have been introduced calculated to improve materially the national resources, and to remove some of the chief impediments to the development of its natural capa bilities. It is not by any single enactment, however beneficial, that the social amelioration of Ireland can be effected ; nor can an immediate change be hoped for. There must be a series of judicious measures tending to produce remunerative employ ment for labour in the due cultivation of the soil, the drainage of the bogs, the reclamation of the waste lands, the opening of proper modes of communica tion throughout d oathe working country,s well railways as ordinary of mines, s o as : t o ob tain the mineral wealth that no w li es b ur i ed in the rs; the land; the extension of the fisheries, inland, coast, and deep sea; and in a variety of other channels available for the industrial occupat i on of the people, but which remain uncared.for and wholly neglected. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE4KIE R last night brought forward two of the measures proposed by Government for the permanent improvement of the country. The Right Hon. Bar one t a l so stated that he had intended applying at the same time for a vote but that the st a t e o f t h e arrangements n authorising an advance to the Gre a t W estern (Ire laenway, necessary to delay th e app li cation. He rendered R ed ail it emphatically l declared that the int en ti on was, how ever, y postponed, not given up. Th ere i s, there fore, no reason to fear that the p ro j ec t w hi ch figured so prominently in Lord Joux Rummel; statement to the Irish Members as one of the rerne onoo dial measures which were about to be brought for ward, is t o b e a b a ndoned or relinquished. Two votes were taken, amounting together to 500,0001. sterling, of which 300,000/. is to be added to the fund avail able under the Land Improvement Act, and 200,0001. isito be applied to arterial drainage, in addition to a por tion of the repayments into the treasury for advances previously made, which, under the Act of last session, may be re-issued without further application to Par liament. The entire sum that will be expended in river drainage during the ensuing year will be about 270,0001,, a sum which will be productive of the most beneficial results, not merely in the employment that will be thereby afforded, but in the increased value of land within the districts in which the works may be carried on. These are, indeed, ex cellent measures in their way, and they proceed on the just and sound principle, that every shilling that may be required will be repaid by instalments into the Imperial Treasury. Ireland does not require grants ; we should not dole out pittances sufficient to sustain the lives of the people, but inadequate to produce any permanent ameliora tion in their condition. Such gifts are like the halfpence bestowed on casual mendicants, which do not benefit the recipients, or induce any feeling of gratitude towards the donors. A vicious system is thereby perpetuated, to the injury of all con. cerned. We should rather induce habits of self-reliance and strict punctuality in every dealing. Thousands of small tradesmen, or of industrious workmen have been enabled, by judicious loans, to struggle through seasons of difficulty, and ultimately to repay all their obligations, and to be come perfectly independent in their circumstances. If those persons had in the first instance been treated as paupers, and consigned to the parish work houses, they would have remained perpetual burdens on the rates. By more judicious treatment they, however, became useful members of society, and re paid with thanks the aid they had received in their emergencies. So we should act towards Ireland. Let us deal with her rather a 3 an equal than as an inferior—as a friend involved in temporary diffi culties, whom we may fairly and willingly aid with our credit and resources, but from whom we have a right to expect that our assistance Will be made reAllyl 1,41 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Cotton Market at Liverpool this week there has been rather an improved demand, and fair sales are the re sult. The crop in the United States promises, nevertheless , to be considerable. —The Railway Share Market has been fluctuating, and the tendency has been to decline. In the London produce markets during the present week there has been more firmness. Holders have refrained from pressing their staples, and buyers seeing this evince more disposition to come forward and operate. This was most perceptible yesterday, when Sugar advanced, and Coffee was brisker, other articles manifested a better tone. The account of the Bank of England for the week to the 28th ult. indicates noj augmented demand for accommoda tion in mercantile circles, and the continued reduction in the stock of bullion has thus far had no particular influence. la deed, as we have before stated under this head, it must g ° much further before it will have such an effect, both because the supply al r e a d y i n th e B ank vaults is superabundant, and the arrivals from So u th A mer i ca and other parts serve to to a great exte n t th e vo id occasioned by exports. When w e see the deposit accounts sensibly drawn upon, the note 0 .11 " culation augmented, and advances upon securities more de manded, it will b e ti me enough to infer that the shipment o f bullion is acting on the Money Market. The results of a comparison with the previous week are as follows : Notes Issued ..• £27,602,285 Decrease ... 167,340 ••• 3,127,170 •• 2,683 ▪ 2,782,190 ••• 24,557 •.. 11,778,602 36,6 18 229 1 1,1 ... ▪ 13,957,269 5,028 ... 10,095,826 Rest Increase ... Public Deposits ... Decrease ... Other Deposits ... DeCrease ... ... Seven Day and other Bills Decrease ... ... ... Government Securities ... ... Increase ... ~, ... ... Other Securities--- Increase Notes Decrease . Bullion ... Decrease Active Circulation , . ... 48,490 ... 8,533,925 ... 157,755 ... 14,385,559 ... 124,329 ... 19,061,360 . oecrease ... ... ... 9,585 The rates at whi c h Bills of Exchange were yestesdei afternoon negotiated upon the principal cities of the Conti nent were firm in nearly every instance, and rather higher upon Austria and Italy. Paper dated at ninety days W it° taken at 25, 50 to 55 on Paris, at 11, 39 to 42 on Trieste, e t 13, 11% to 12 on Hamburgh, and at 12, 2 to vit 0 0 Amsterdam. The exports of the precious metals from London dying the week, to Thursday last, were as follows :—Gold coin, to Belgium, 2,500 ounces, and to the Mauritius, 449 ounces' Silver coin, to Belgium, 72,500 ounces; to Rotterdam, 2,0 0 ° ounces; and to Mogador, 5,120 ounces. The steamers to Hambargh, much to the gratification of parties interested, are again taking cargo as well as the mails and passengers, and as this must necessarily be done by per mission of the Danish Government, the hope grows stronger that peace will be promptly concluded. The accounts received this morning from the manufactur ing districts read better in some respects. At Manchester there is more activity within the last day or two, and trona Halifax we are advised as follows : "As has been the case for two or three weeks past, there has been but little activity in this day's market, either in Yarns or Piece Goods. The makers of both, however, are pretty well employed in the execution of former orders, and feel no apprehension about those being followed up by fresh ones to a greater or less extent. Prices, whisk latterly showed signs of weakness, are now more lik e l y to sustain a firm front, par ticularly as Wools seem to be making a pause in their down ward tendency. In combing Wools and middle Wethers are quoted 10/. • Middle Hogs 101. 10s. per pack. In the short Wool market there appea rs a slight falling off in prices of Noils and Broke." The steamer Hermann, from the United States, furnishes accounts of April 20, from New York. The money market was easier, and the exchange on London firmer. In relation to the movements in the Cotton Market during the past two weeks, Stewart's Circular, of New York, says -- " The receipts of cotton at the southern shipping ports continue very large, and maintain a greater compara7 tive excess over those of the last year, than appeared at the date of my last circular, without exhibiting all indications of a sudden abatement, except that in the Atlantic interior depots, the amount there awaiting transhipment is 40,000 bales less than it was at the same date last season. At Apalachicola, however, the receipts are on the increase, the high stage of the Chattahooche enabling the largest class of boats to be again employed. At Mobile, also, the receipts have increased slightly the last two weeks; the prices current of the 3d instant contains the following ?ii explanation :—'As was anticipated in our last, the rise In the rivers has brought down a considerable quantity of Cotton which has been detained for months by the low ovate'', and the receipts of this week amount to 15,516 bales: The receipts of the week ending the 7th inst., only amount to 10,471 bales against 16,046 bales of the preceding week. At New Orleans, the falling off in the receipts as com pared with that of last year, is 32,700 bales. The re ceipts of the week ending the 7th instant, being only 27• 6 7 6 bales against 42,153 bales of the preceding week. Til e season has now so well advanced, that it is not probable , and barely possible that the crop receipts can be kept under 2,600,000 bales, as, although the high stage of the Missis sippi, and its tributaries, has undoubtedly hastened the ship ment of the Cotton deposited on the banks of those rivers, i t must be considered also that the excessive rains have pro bably retarded to as great an extent the hauling of it to these depots from the interior plantations." The number of vessels which had left the United States for California, up to the latest date, was 309, and they con veyed 19,717 passengers. There has been a flatter market for Public Securities, owing to the disposition to sell after a rise, and to the stress which. in such cases, is laid upon circumstan ces w hi c h prev iously were unheeded, or treated as of no importance. We allude now especially to a matter we have not failed to notice under this head, viz., the possible results of Russian interference in Germany. Consol s h ave b een 92% 92 1 / 2, and are now 924 92%. Bank Stock is steady at 194. Exchequer-bills have been 45s to 48s premium. The Foreign Market is much the same. Mexican Bonds are 31% to 32. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 33% to 34. Dutch Two -and-a •Ilalf per Cents. are 50% to 50 1 4. Railway Shares have nearly all given way to-day, owing to increased orders to sell, but some of the Scotch lines, and also the French, are still an exception. BRITISH FUNDS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 194 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 per Cent. Consols Anna 92% % 11 New 3% per Cent. Anns -- 013 / 4 % 5 4 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8. 5 i 8 11-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... 8% India Bonds under 1,0001 7l p Consols for Account ... Exchequer Bills. I Ihd. 21 March. June. 1,0001. 5001 — 47 45 48 P Small — 47 45 48 P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.. Equador Bonds 3% Greek Bonds, 1824 and 1825 — Ditto, Ex Over-due Coupons Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. with Coupons 28 Ditto Account . ...... .... Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,l840 Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3 3 3 /s 34 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates [PIM-NESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOC% RAILWAYS. PAID. Pia SHAM Sherdeen Ditto, Preference 2% 4%..... is Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 Caledonianßristol and Exeter 50 ...... 27%%... to ,;hester and Holyhead... 5O ..... 16 Eastern Counties Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Great Northern Do. 1 ,4 B 6 per Cent. ...... 7% 5 %...... to (heat Western .................. 100 Ditto, Half Shares 5O ...... 13 1 4 . . to 44 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 Hull and Selby . _....• to Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto Fifths ........... .. ..... 10 Do. New Guar an t. 6 per Ct. 10 11 5 / A N... to Lond., Bright., &S outh Coast 50 London & North W estern.....loo 1294 to 128 Da. New Quarters. Do. Fifths London and S. Western...— 5O .. ... 35 ...... to Midland ....... ........... lOO • 67 65 1 / 2 to 65 Ditto. 50/. Share 5!..... Midland, Birm., and Derby 100 ..... 43 Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 12 3 1 /2 to 122%, North British .. .. .. .. 25 Do. Quarters 6% 3 14 to North Staffordshire... .. ...... 17% Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton South Eastern 33%. ... 21% to 21 Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N. D) Gua. 5 perct. 12 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 114% to Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 ...... 4% 1 4. to York and North:Midland .. 50 ...... 31 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... 8% —.. to Northern of France Rouen and Havre 2O - Sambre and Meuse COURSE 01? Amsterdam • • 12 214 Ditto, at sight • • 12 0 Rotterdam .... ••.. • • 12 2 Antwerp • • 25 70 flamburgh • •111.8. 1 - 3 12 Paris, 3 days'sight •• 25 37)4 Ditto, 3 months .• • • 25 6O Marseilles • •••••• .. • • 25 60 Bourdeaux .... ••• • . • 25 60 Frankfort on Maine.... 12134 Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 36% Berlin ••..• • • . .. Vienna, offec. • • 11 42 Trieste, ditt0...... • 11 42 Madrid ...“....• 49 Cadiz ••••••••. • • • .. •• 42% ....• • • Barcelona •• • • ........ Seville.. •.. ..... EXCIIANGE. Gibraltar........ " Leghorn •• . • .... • • • • 32 Genoa .......... .... 26 1111 an ... • • . Venice • • • • .... Naples .. .. ••• • . 40% Palermo, peroz 11634 Memina .......... 120 Lisbon.... • • .. 13 Oporto .... .. • • • . 153 g Rio Janeiro .......... 25% Buenos Ayres .. . • .... New York, 21 days'slght Philadelphia .... •• • ..• mucks OP 317LLIPIP, PISZ Foreign Gold ia bars fa 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars .... • • 0 4 11U Silver la bars .•.• • • 0 4 11A EIRE AT A SAw - Mius.—Between two and three o'clock this morning, a fire was discovered on the premises of Messrs Connor and Co., saw-mills, Broadwall, Surrey, whose premises were destroyed about twenty months since. A female neighbour for hours previous had been annoyed by the smell of burning wood, but no cause was traced till the outbreak of the fire, near the engine-reom. Without the least delay assistance was procured from the West of Eng land and London Establishment stations in the Waterloo-road. On the firemen entering, a great quantity of timber was found on fire. Fortunately a very good supply of water was ob tained, but it was with the greatest difficulty the firemen succeeded in their efforts. The damage done to the property is very considerable, but the firm is insured.—Another fire happened last night at Messrs. Bunting's, linen-drapers, King-street, Covent-garden. The ready assistance however, afforded from the Chandos-street station, prevented much loss of property. The gaa-light had ignited the stock la the