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filE LE GAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,00C1., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share 'Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rre_ry Offices of the Company, 131, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem. NOTICE. A HERMAN MELVILLE'S NEW WORE, Is Now Ready at all the Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXX, ADVERTISEMENTS intended for insertion are requested to be forwarded to the Publishers before Thursday, the 22d ; and BILLS by Saturday, the 24th instant. London: Loneman and Co., 39, Paternoster-row. HER MAJ E STY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed that TO-MORROW EVENING Will be presented Rossini's Opera, LA CENERENTOLA. The principal parts by ]Mlle. Alboni (her first appearance a' this theatre), Mdlle. Pollonia, and Mme. Grimaldi ; Signori Gardonl, F. Lablache, and Ifeletti. To conclude with, first time at this Theatre (tbe Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall) the celebrated Ballet, entitled LE DIABLE A QUATRE. In which will appear Sidile. Carlotta Grist, 1 Mdlle Marie Tagßoni, and Mme. Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, M. Paul Taglion!, M. Charles, M. Louis D'Or; Mdlles. Thevenot, Julien, Lamoureux, and Aussandon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with LA PRIMA DONNA. After which, ACTEON. To conclude with LA DOUBLE ECHELLE. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis ton are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • .. Ss. Od. Pit • . . .. 3s. Od. Amphitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od. ub sc ri ptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARIC ET. Mr. B. Webster, Sete Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. C. Kean ; lago, Mr. J. Wallack ; Desdemoua, Mrs. C. Kean ; Emilia, Miss Laura Ad dison. W To conclude with the new Farce, entitled SEPA.RATE MAIN TENANCE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. En:ler 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, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. To conclude with COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. The principal characters by Mr. Manyard, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. Chiffinb, Mrs. . Matthews, and Miss Turner. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATKE. Tinder the Managemeat at Madame Vestrla. ode Lessee, Mr. Charie, Ma' he THIS EVENING Will be performed A PE€I.7LIAR POSITION. After which, a new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. To ponclude with THE CRITIC ; or, a Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff, Mr. C. Mathews ; Tilburina, Mrs. Yates. Dress bs. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25. ; Uallery, ►s. ..No alf-price to any part of the house. Thy; iiew ISox-ofllce, No. 2, Wellingto — street, is open to the pubic cry may, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and ,anager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the celebrated Opera of THE SIREN. After which, M. KLARE will execute most extraordinary feats of Dexterity an i El,gance on Le Globe Roulant. To conclude with THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug, Mr. C. Braham ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRara Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The greatest triumph eier witnessed within the walls of the Am phitheatre has been achieved by the celebrated American Equestrian Young Ilerrianlez, whose unparalleled feats have nightly called forth exprecsious of wonder amounting to enthusiasm, and gained for him the title of the first rider in the world. THIS. EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball, entitled CORASCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in which Young Hernandez will appear, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. After which the double Tight-ropes. To conclude with a favourite MELODRAMA. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 13. Thartmorawrza, Lowest, 38; Highest, 52; Noon, 45. BAROMETER, 30.22. WIND W.—Morning, thick fog ; Afternoon, hazy. MARCH 19. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 45; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 30.11. WIND E.S.E.—hazy and cold. ti 11l 11 WATER AT LONDON R itiDaE. Tars DAT min.--31OrLnig,14 ifter 9 I Evening, 66 nen. after 9 To-llossow— btornmr., 36 min. mites 10 Eventra. 14 rain. after 11 ~. '.§ « ';.l - `, 1 .- 4-.3? .* - i• 'll ''' ; . . ''''' 3i • R , d k ' A , - ,li '•• -mr,4%,, , ~' A ..ss , 4 ' 1...3 4 4 P" - , > ' i ~.„ik.'".;:1 , ...„1 " "- r ,t, . :mkt k, %el. ...v. r; , ..,.„ . .. . 4 0..., i4: :, 3 ,,,k,..,.. 4- 16 , ~4,,,,..... ftvitik,..: , ,,: - $ . ~ 7, 7 4,1m., ,,, ;t . ,,,. _A ll , ...v ; v• : IP , 0 1 ' ..lk :IA cia m; 74 . - . ..441CriA1,..; ~ . ', . 4:47:3; 'l ' l i li. '"}. '' jr. ' , " .' z 'W " f 4. ,N-.... 411 i. : `q rn= 11 - Int LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1849. As a crowning homage to the military genius of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, the hero of Meanee and Hyder abad, the conqueror of Sinde, and Commander-in- Chief of the European and native forces in British India, the splendid banquet given to him on Saturday evening, at the London Tavern, by the Directors of the East India Company, is worthy of more than a passing consideration. It completes in the most ap propriate and significant manner possible the tributes of respect recently paid to that illustrious warrior. Invested with his present grand responsibilities by the confidence of her MAJESTY, by the advice of the Government, by the recommendation of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, with the applause of Parliament, and with the universal approbation of the country, Sir CHARLES NAPIER bas now not only been formally confirmed in his ap pointment by the consent of the Court of Directors in Leadenhall-street, but has received their cordial felicitations prior to his departure for Hindostan. Never has any General been entrusted with the supreme command of the Indian army under circum stances of such marked and honourable enthusiasm ; not even when the great Lord CLIVE w as hurriedly dispatched to Asia, to save the settlement at Bombay from the rapacity of the Nabob of OUDE, to avenge the atrocities perpetrated on his countrymen by the infamous MEER Cossrm, and to crush beneath the weight of his " iron courage and vehe ment wile' the portentous coalition of the Affghans and Mahrattas. But the very earnestness of the enthusiasm now evinced towards Sir CHARLES NAPIER is attributable to its extraordinary tardi ness. And it i 3 not difficult to recognize through the ardour of the popular admiration the consciousness of a glaring oversight. As, however, the mere recollec tion of any misunderstanding has, by general consent, been buried in the capacious grave which has closed over the heroic men killed in the great battle of Chillianwallah—so we are satisfied that the long want of a proper appreciation of his ser vices has been by this time altogether forgotten by the distinguished soldier who ruled during six years over the immense province of Sinde, in the double capacity of its Conqueror and Governor. All that has recently occurred must be immeasurably more than a compensation for preceding grievances. A great fault has been nobly expiated. England has proved upon a remarkable occasion, that she is not blind to the dictates of that national gratitude which constitutes the best incentive to valour, to glory, and to patriotism. The eulogiums passed upon the newly-appointed Commander-in - Chief of the British Indian army were as little tinged with the characteristic of after dinner compliment, as the convivial assembly was elevated above the level of mere ordinary festivities. And it was in a spirit of genial frankness that those Panegyrics were pronounced successively by the lips of Lieutenant General Sir JAMES LAW LUSRINGTON, the Chairman of the Board of Directors (who, from his official rank, presided on the occasion), by those of his Grace the veteran Commander of the Forces , of Sir GEORGE G REY, of Sir JOHN CAM HOB HOUSE, and of Viscount HARDINQE. When the guests were reminded by the Right llon. the President of the of the t remendous B3ard of C ontrol campaigns Of the Mysore, of the expected advance of the Nepaulese upon Benares, and of the almost insurmountable difficulties which at 13hurIty,ra- obstructed the onward progress of O CR . "hen he called to m ind, moreover, how a ll W1T .,.. .. astltgaol , ,had been parried, and all thos,:_. enemies cinii,l4, bysth" zeal, the e nergy, the pei veranc:, ,r 4 Zatil tils.iii!l, or th,. milirar.s , erval , t' "t . ' 11 ? Corn -3: *s.-- ' - -' ' I . •. pang--It cou.d not but have been felt by his hearers \‘'.., that there is now every reason for hope rather than •-'=-.. . for trepidation. Especially must this have been the r' THE SUN, LONDON, M:ON DA Y EVENING 4 , MARCH 19, 1849. feeling of those who listened to the opinions expressed by the different orators, on Saturday evening, after the emphatic expressions employed by his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON in reference to the position of affairs and to the conduct of Lord GOUGH between the Sutlej and the Jhelum. "It is well known," said the Duke—" it is well known that I do not consider the existing period as one of extra ordinary emergency." After alluding to the almost bloodless triumph of our arms at Moulton,' his Grace resumed—" A battle has since been fought, where it is true, that great losses have been sustained; and, my Lords and Gentlemen, I must say, that if we are to fight great battles, and if great risks are to be incurred, we must expect to incur losses in the attain ment of great actions. If such actions should be fought and such victories gained without loss, it would be considered that little honour would be acquired in gaining such victories." With this lenient and even eulogistic view of the triumphant progress of the British forces under Lord GOUGH in the Punjaub, the Commander of the Forces coupled an expression of satisfaction at the nomination of the Victor of Meanee to be the successor of the brave old warrior of Sobraon. On accepting that appointment few could have said, as Sir CHARLES NAPIER was enabled to say on Saturday, when addressing the distinguished company that had just greeted his name with acclamations—" I go to India at the command of her MAJESTY, by the recommendation, I believe, of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, and I believe I go also with the approbation of my countrymen." Invested with this immense and nobly-deserved popularity, the Commander-in• Chief of the Indian Army will, in a few days, leave England for those remote countries in which he has already acquired an imperishable celebrity, and in which, by the presentiment of the nation, he will, both as a captain and as a statesman, enhance yet more the lustre of his glorious reputa tion. Speaking of the fulfilment of these hopes of a great people, the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Control, towards the conclusion of his eloquent and felicitous remarks, uttered an aspiration such as already existed—though till then unexpressed —in the soul of the nation. " I pray," said Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, " that when he does return, to resign into your hands the command with which you have this day invested him, it may be said to him in the words which one of your Governors-General — Lord W. Biwriscx, then Governor of Madras — addressed to the Duke of WELLINGTON—you leave the command of the army with the regrets of all—of all, both civilians and military—of all, both Europeans and natives. That that may be the result, and that it will be the result of the Gal!ant General's exploits, I entertain the most san guine expectations. This is true fame—this is fame unmixed with any regrets, and that it will be his I believe from the bottom of my heart, and that you who have given the impulse will be the persons best rewarded by it." Our allusions to this interesting and memorable banquet could not terminate with a more pertinent ejaculation; nor could we more expli citly articulate the wishes which will accompany the great Captain from the shores of England to the inland jungles of the Punjaub. May he return to us in health ansl glory to enjoy the realisation of all the presages of his illustrious destiny. Iu considering the naval estimates for the ensuing year which have just been brought before Parliament, it should not be forgotten that the "actual" is much greater than the " apparent" reduction in the number of men. Nominally, 3,000 men, "brought up to the service, and who wished to remain in it," are to be turned adrift, and allowed to suffer the privations in cidental to the want of employment. This, however, is less than one• half of those experienced and well disciplined men who are to be thus discarded and consigned to misery and wretchedness until they can enter into the service of our maritime rivals, who will cordially welcome and wil lingly.receive the invaluable treasures which we, with such reckless prodigality, are now casting aside. It was last year decided by Parliament that " 43,000 men should be employed in the sea service for thir teen lunar months, to the 31st day of March, 1849." We learn, however, on the unquestionable authority of the Secretary to -the Admiralty that there was " an average excess of 3,969 men more borne on the books than voted for the financial year." The numbers actually employed, therefore, were no less than 46,969, and as 40,000 only have been demanded for the ensuing year, and as we cannot suppose that it is the intention of the Board of Admiralty to deceive the Legislature by continuing excesses which their Secretary described as being to him " a source of perpetual anxiety;" that had " continually weighed upon his mind," and were " incessantly disturbing all his calculations," we must assume the actual 'reduc tion to be no less than 6,969 men who are to be thus turned adrift in quest of employment. The total saving to be effected by this wholesale reduction will be " for wages to seamen and marines 69,9601., and for victuals 115,0411." A considerable portion of the latter saving, however, is to be ascribed to the " fall in the price of provisions during the present year." The total saving, therefore, consequent upon the re duction will not exceed 140,0001., or at the outside 150,0001., and for such a sum we are to be deprived of the services of 6,969 tried and faithful men, and our naval establishment is to be brought beneath the level of that at the disposal of the AUTOCRAT of the Russiscs.l This, then, is the real point for the consideration of Parliament, and of the country in general. Is Eng land prepared to relinquish the maritime superiority which she has maintained inviolate for so many ages ? Is the honour of the British flag to be en dangered for a paltry saving—a saying so insignifi cant, when the magnitude of the interests involved is taken into account ? We cannot believe that such is the desire of the nation, or that it would be a wise or prudent economy to do so. We shall not now speak of the distress and misery that must inevitably fall upon those gallant men thus turned adrift, or the claims which they possess upon the national gratitude. They possess no Par liamentary influence, and although some commise ration may be expressed for their unmerited suffer ing, no real sympathy is exhibited. None beneath the rank of post captain have any real claim upon the country. It would be little better than a downright swindle to deprive Captain WILLIAM PEEL, the Commander of 1846, the Lieu tenant of 1844, of his prospects of promo tion, to rob him of his chances of a flag by diminishing the number of Admirals, or making the number of flag officers suitable to the wants and re quirements of the service. That would be something so atrocious that it could not for a moment be con templated by the tender-hearted officials, but the casting adrift of 6,969 seamen, who have no half-pay to look to—no wealthy friends or re latives from whom they could hope for assistance, is merely a painful necessity, a sad alternative but one which cannot be avoided; Mr. COBDEN must be propitiated, and no patronage is forfeited thereby. This is not, we repeat, the economy that is so anxiously desired by the community in general. There is no reduction, or indication of a future re duction, in the " non-effective" branch of the ser vice. The full number of Admirals are still to be retained. A list of 150 Flag officers must be kept up in order that " My Lords" may have a wide field from which to select the thirteen or fourteen whose services may actually be required. Why one third of the number were never wanted when our naval force was at its very height. Mr. WARD tells us that in 1814, when we bad 140,000 men, 99 ships of the line, 131 frigates, 36 4 sloops and sixth-rate, and 50 troop ships, there were employed afloat, Flag officers 42, out of a total of 204 ; Captains 282, out of a total of 798 ; Commanders 240, out of a total of 628 Lieutenants; 1,607 out of a total of 3,286. Com. pare the proportion which then existed between the effective and non-effective branches of the service with what it now is, and say how can the present scale be justified fora moment. Let it not be supposed that we would withhold from the veterans the rewards that have been justly merited for past services. No, far from it ; we would gladly see them enjoy their otium cum dignitate; but new claims should not be suffered to arise. The promotions should be scrupulously watched. No favour or influence, not even of present or quondam Cabinet Mini tors, should be -ufficient to place anew roa n eo 11 , t until ill-• number has been r, duced Within proper limits. 50 Admirals, 250 Post-Captains, and 300 Commanders would be amply sufficient for any emeratney•that cettld- arise. The reduction to , which we have adverted could not, of course, be brought into immediate operation. Vie I would not interfere with any existing interests ; we would no more deprive an Admiral of his pay or pension than we would turn adrift an experienced seaman " brought up to the service, and who wished to remain in it." But only one promotion or new appointment should be made for every three vacancies in any grade or rank, until a fair propor tion was established between the number of officers and men employed, and that promotion should be made according to the merits of the candidates, and the actual services they had rendered, and not on ac count of their aristocratic birth or Parliamentary influence. From every part of the kingdom and from every denomination of Christians which does not repudiate the name of Protestant there has arisen one universal shout of indignation against the continued persecu tion of the Rev. JAMES SHORE by the Bishop of EXETER. The meeting of ministers of the Gospel, held this day week at Exeter Hall, has been followed up by district meetings in every part of the metro polis, and by meetings in all the large towns of the kingdom, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament on the subject; and as it is above all things advisable that in this weighty matter uniformity of action should be secured, we give from the Leeds Mercury of Saturday a copy of the Leeds petition, which we strongly recommend as the " model petition " to the friends of religious liberty : To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the town of feeds, SHOWETH,—That your petitioners have heard with deep indignation of the imprisonment of the Rev. James Shore, for the costs of actions brought against him by the Bi.hop of Exeter, in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for preach ing the Gospel. That your petitioners regard this proceeding as an outrageous ♦iolation of the rights of conscience, con demned by the spirit of Christianity and the principles of religious toleration. That your petitioners pray your Honourable House to pass without delay a Bill that shall have the effect of releasing Mr. Shore, and prevent the rep 'talon of such acts of oppression; and also to abolish the Ecclesiastical Courts, and remove every penalty or restraint for the free exercise of religious opinion. And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c. _ _ The concluding portion of the prayer of this petition is most important ; there can be no safety for the religious liberty of the poor man, there can be no Protection for the humble curate against the lawless tyranny of a persecuting bishop, until the Ecclesias tical Courts shall be abolished, as the costs are so enormous, the proceedings so dilatory, and the power of appeal so extensive, that the man of large income has it in his power to ruin the poor war:, however just may be the cause of the latter, and to obtain a judgment against him as a defaulter, from the inability of the latter, through poverty, to continue the contest in these courts of injustice. It is time that these abominations should cease from out the land. The only excuse attempted to be set up for the Bishop of EXETER has been by his secretary, Mr. RALPH BARNES, and the excuse of Mr. RALPH BARNES is ❑othing more than a repetition of the cuckoo cry, " It is for costs and not fur preaching the Gospel that he is imprisoned "—an excuse as old as the days of the, Inquisition. "The Holy Office does not burn heretics," said the Dominican friars, "it merely hands them over to the secular arm ;"—so, Mr. RALPH BARNES—" Mr. SHORE is imprisoned not for preach ing but for costs," as though those costs had not been inflicted as virtually a punishment for preaching. Indeed Mr. RALPH BARNES is himself compelled to admit that such is the case, for he says—" The suit on which this proceeding has been taken against Mr. SHORE for costs was instituted in the Court of Arches in my name by directions of the Bishop of EXETER, for officiating as a clergyman of the Church of England in the Bishop's diocese without his licence." Now seeing that Mr. SHORE had before the occasion alluded to by Mr. RALPH BARNES publicly declared that he had seceded from the Church of England, and that he officiated on that occasion as a Dissenting minister, seeing that the Bishop of EXETER directed the suit to be instituted against Mr. SHORE, in order to con strain him to remain in the Church of England, whether he would or no, we think even Mr. RALPH BARNES himself will scarcely venture to maintain that Mr. SHORE isnot imprisoned " for preaching the Gos pel." As was well observed by the Rev. J. BURNETT, at the Exeter-hall meeting on Monday, when speaking of the defence set up by the Bishop's secretary, "if this doctrine were to hold good, the Bishop of EXETER might have knocked Mr. SHORE down with a bludgeon, and then, when the Rev. Gentleman was taken to an hospital, he might say ' Oh, he has been confined in that hospital, not because I knocked him down, but because he has a wound in his head.' " The letter of Mr. RALPH BARNES concludes with a paragraph which a Puseyite neophyte might have written at the suggestion of his Jesuit instructor. " I will only add," says Mr. RALPH BARNES, " that since the case was finally decided by the court of appeal, I have never asked of or received from the Bishop of EXETER any directions or instructions in regard to my proceedings on the sentence whatever, and I am alone responsible for the course which I have taken." There can be no possible objection, to Mr. RALPH BARNES taking upon himself the responsibility of all the sins that the Bishop of EXETER has ever committed ; he may, if it so please him, advertise BARNES as the ame damn& of PRILLPOTTS on all pos sible occasions, but he should remember that all the advantage he gains thereby is the perpetual compa nionship of his patron. The responsibility of BARNES does not lessen one whit the responsibility of Paten- POTTS. As good Protestants we eschew the doctrine of works of supererogation, and BARNES'S responsibi lity in this instance is entirely supererogatory. The Bishop of EXETER is responsible for the imprisonment of the Rev. JAMES SHORE, and that for the very reason which Mr. RALPH BARNES has set forth to show that he (Mr. RALPH BARNES) is alone responsible for the course which he has taken. The Bishop of EXETER knew right well that in the absence of any instructions it would be Mr. BARNES'S duty to proceed in the manner he has done, and that it is precisely because he (the Bishop) gave no direc tions that Mr. SHORE is in prison. Had he given directions to stay proceedings Mr. Saone would have been at liberty at this moment, and this both the Bishop and Mr. BARNES knew full well at the time this sentence was penned. The paragraph is worthy the pen of an Escobar or of a Mariana. The movement against the overbearing tyranny of the Prelacy is becoming general, and as though to prove to the world that the Bishop . of EXETER is not to be considered as an exception to his order, it has Pleased another Right Rev. Prelate to thrust himself forward as a candidate for the same unenviable noto riety which Bishop PHILLPOTTS has taken such pains to acquire. The Bishop of LONDON has thought it:right to reprimand the Rev. E. CRAIG for presiding at the meeting of ministers of the, Gospel held at Exeter Hall on this subject on Monday last. The Bishop of LONDON, like the Bishop of EXETER, is a great agitator for Church extension. Fifty new churches for the metropolitan districts alone, to be built and endowed by the State, with fifty new cler gymen, to be appointed by himself, is the modest de mand of the Right Reverend reprimander of the Rev. E. CRAIG. We put it to all those who have not repu diated the name of Protestant, whether the Church which they desire to see extended is the Church which empowers the Bishop of EXETER to imprison Mr. SHORE, the Church which authorises the Bishop of Lossnost to reprimand Mr. CRAIG—if it be not, we say to them, " No longer suffer yourselves to be bam boozled by names ; when the plate comes round for subscriptions for Church extension, under the patron age of the Bishop, button up your breeches pockets ; when a measure for Church extension is proposed in Parliament, agitate and petition against it." ARRIVAL OF THE COURT FROM THE ISLE o W I GHT.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness tt; Prince Consort, accompanied by the youthful R o y a l Family, and attended by Lady Portman , Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maid of Honour in Waiting, Major-General Bowles, Master of the Household, and the Equerries in Waiting, arrived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon from Osborne Palace. The Royal cortege was escorted from the Nine Elms Station by a party of the 11th Hussars. The Court is expected to remain in town until Wed nesday, the 4'h of Apri!, when her iNlajesty end her august family proceed to Windsor Castle to pass the Easter holidays, and return to town for the season at the end of the month: THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and of Sunday. The Moniteur of yesterday has the following offi cial announcement : " We have received intelligence that notice was given at Milan on the 12th at noon, of the intention to bring the armistice to an end, and that hostilities can recom mence on the 21st. King Charles Albert, it Li said, left Turin on the evening of the 13th for Alessandria, and the troops of the garrison were to quit Turin the next day." _ _ DAIX and LHAR were executed by the guillotine on Saturday for the murder of General BREA. They died protesting their innocence. The club of the Rue de Poictiers has at length published its electoral manife.to. It is a tissue of vague generalities, as any manifesto must necessarily be which pretends to express the opinions held in common between M. BERRYER , the pilgrim to Bel grave-square, and adviser of the Duc DE BORDEAUX and Marshal BUGEAUD , .._ the gaoler of the Duchess DE BERRI ; between M. DE MONTALEMBERT the impassioned advocate of the Jesuits, and M. THIERi, their equally energetic denouncer, between M. T)ENJOY, who would fain destroy the University of France and proscribe its members, and M. VICTOR COUSIN, who lauds the same University as the per fection of wisdom. The common purpose these people have in view is to bring back the reign of that cor ruption on which they battened, and the object of the manifesto is to bamboozle the people accordingly, each trusting to his own cunning to cheat his col leagues of the plunder when the day of victory and of spoil-sharing shall arrive. The committee for international disarmament and arbitration met on Saturday to hear the report of M. SARRANS. It was proposed to refer the measure to Government, but on a discussion, in which M. Gus• TAVE DE BEAUMONT, SARRANS , BOUVET, and BU TIGNIER took part, the majority decided that a report should be prepared approving the principle, but re jecting the proposition under present circumstances. In an introductory discussion on the budget on Friday, M. MATHIEU DE LA DROME made a most effective speech, advocating a reduction of the na tional expenditure by upwards of six hundred millions of francs annually. This speech produced a great effect. In the discussion on the budget on Saturday, M. PASSI, the Minister of Finance, made some observations which are worthy of attention. After declaring that the financial situation of the country, in the early part of 1848, immediately after the revolution of February, undoubtedly called for some extraordinary measure like that of im posing the tax of 45c., as otherwise the public services would have been stopped, the Honourable Gentleman proceeded to make some remarks on the present financial position of the country. Confidence, he declared, was gradually gaining ground, and, in consequence, trade was generally reviving. The average diminution in the receipts during the year 1848 had been fourteen millions a month, whilst for the months of January and Feb ruary of 1849, it did not amount to more than four millions a month; in addition, for the first fortnight of March, 1849, the indirect taxes presented an im provement of 1,880,080 f. ; the half year's interest on the Rente, the arrears of pensions, and all the public services, would be met without any recourse to the Bank being necessary ; and he felt convinced, that with tranquillity in the country, not only would all the charges of the State be defrayed during the year, but a diminution in the burdens which now pressed on France would be effected. _ In con;eciUenCeOf — iiiWarticle of the electoral law prohibiting railway directors from sitting in the Na tional Assembly, the Duke DE MOUCUY has addressed a letter to the electors of the Oise, informing them that he resigns his functions as director of the Bor deaux and Northern Railway Companies, in order to be able to stand as candidate at the next election. BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 17. THREE O'CLOCR.—The absence of any confirmation of the news of the resumption of hostilities in Italy gave more firmness to the market to-day; both Rentes and railways improved, with the exception of Versailles (Right and Left Bank) shares, which experienced a heavy decline. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 22i to 20; ditto (90 days), 25 10. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 17. Boulogne and Amiens, VA—Namur:and Liege, B—North ern of France, 10 3 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 1 4—Paris and Rouen, 20 1 , 2 —Rouen and Havre, 11 1 / 2 —Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours and Nantes, 2. HA3IBURGH. The expectations which were entertained that peace won', 1 be established are completely frustrated. There is every reason, on the contrary, to reckon upon an immed late recommencement of the war. Most active prep arations are everywhere being made, and the Schutz en-Gilde are again forming into compa nies and are exercised in the use of the arms which have been obtained in the arsenal of Rendsburg.— German Papers. only deficiency is in regard to officers of sufficient ability to cope successfully with the maritime strength of Russia. It should not be overlooked that Turkey- will find incalculable resources in the present position of affairs in Moldo- Wallachia, for the hatred of the Wallachians for the Russians is reaching i s highest point, and is every day attaining more and more inten sity. As a token of this feeling of animosity, I may mention that, from news received here the other day from Bucharest, it would appear that in one district (that of Mehediatzki) a serious engagement recently took place between the peasantry and the Russia❑ troops, the Greeks taking . part with the peasants, and both sides meeting with' very considerable losses. Beyond this, another circumstance is not undeserving of mention, seeing that although of itself of little im portance, it may afford you a more vivid idea of the state of public feeling in the Danubian provinces : A new-born child, whose swaddling clothes were of the national tri-colour, was recently found lying in the Cathedtal of Bucharesl,' with these words in scribed upon the tricolour:—" My first cry is the cry of my elder brothers, who weep in exile or expire in dungeons, Vengeance against the oppres sors of my country ! Death to the Russians ! Turks Poles, Roumans, we will fight together against our common enemy I We will all perish, or we will all be free I" Every day the number of the Russians in Moldo• Wallachia is increasing. Fresh battalions are con stantly crossing the Pruth from Bessarabia. CO;ISTANTINOPLE, FEE. 15. The Russian and Turkish troops have lately been es near as possible coming to an engagement. The origin of the quarrel was as follows :—A Russian officer in Bucharest sent a challenge to a Turkish officer, the latter accepted the challenge, and the duel, 'which was fought with swords, was conducted according to the laws of honour. The Turk fought worthy of a Janissary, used his Sword with great dexterity, and completely cleft the head of his opponent, and, as some say, even severed it from the body. The Russian Commandant was greatly exasperated at the act, and marched im mediately to arrest the Turkish officer, under the pretext that the duel had not been conducted according to -the laws of honour. FUAD EFFENDI, the Turkish Commissioner, was undecided, and would probably have given in. The Turkish Commandant, however, OMAR PACHA (or the renegade, being a Croat by birth) offered decided resistance, and de clared to the Russian General that he had no right whatever to arrest or inflict punishment upon a Turkish officer, this being decidedly within the pro vince. of the Turkish Commandant himself. The Russian General persisted, and declared that if the duellist were not given up within eighteen hours he would fetch him by force. OMAR PASCRA calmly replied that no consideration whatever would induce him to deliver up the Turkish officer ; that if the Russian Commandant employed force, he should be opposed by force. In the state of affairs a collision seemed inevitable, when the consuls happily inter fered, and effected a settlement of the affair, by in ducing the Russian General to desist from his demand. The Porte was highly satisfied with the conduct of OMAR PACHA, and immediately sent him a present of 700,000 piastres. The truth is that a collision be - tween the Turkish and Russian troops has long been apprehended, and they have therefore been consigned to opposite quarters of the city, and_are kept ~sunder as much as possible. That the result of this duel, although it is quite an isolated fact, will reanimate the latent reminiscences of the former military powers and martial fame of the ancient Osmanli, and rekindle their ardour, is questioned by none who know this people. The fact also that at a late trial of shooting at a mark with cannon ball, which lately took place in Bucharest, the Turkish artillery car ried off the day over the Russian troops, has tended not a little to advance their Courage.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peer; present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. PIERS V. PIERS. The arguments in this appeal from the decision of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, which were commenced on Thursday last, were resumed to day. The case, which involved a most important question relative to the law of marriage, came before their Lordships upon appeal from the judgment of the Lord Chancellor of-Ireland, touching the validity of the marriage solemnized between the late Sir John Bennett Piers and Catherine Denny, in the Isle of Man, on the 27th of May, 1815. The appellants, Louisa Adelaide Piers and Florence Anna Maria Sta pleton de Kervegnen, originally filed a bill in the Court of Chancery, and claimed to be entitled, as younger children of the late Sir John Bennett Piers, Bart., to raise a charge of 4,4001. upon the family estates, : under a power contained in a certain settlement executed by the father of the testator on the 2d and 3d of July, 1794. The question in the present case was the legitimacy of the appellants. In the course of the - proceedings, the appellants established a marriage de facto between Sir John Bennett Piers and Elizabeth King, otherwise Denny, on the 27th of May, 1815. It appeared that Sir John intended two years previously to celebrate a legal marriage, in order that his issue might inherit under the will of the original testator, and with that view he made an application to his brother, the Rev. Octavius Piers, to come to the Isle of Man to celebrate the marriage. The request was prevented by domestic circumstances in the family of that reverend gentleman. The cere mony was, however, performed by one of the curates of St. George's, Douglas, a chapel of ease in the parish of Bradden, in the Isle of Man, where Sir John resided, in the presenee of Captain Edwards, at Sir John's resi dence. All the parties who were present at the cere mony, except Lady Piers, are now dead. Sir John and Lady Piers were recognised and lived together as man and wife for upwards of thirty years. In support of the bill, evidence was given that the clergyman who per formed the ceremony had full knowledge of the laws re gulating marriages in the island, for he had acted for five years as domestic chaplain to the Right Rev. Dr. Cregan, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and was at the same time the licensed curate of St. George's, Douglas. It was also proved that he was cognisant, that, provid ing he celebrated a marriage contrary to law, he was liable to be prosecuted and transported for fourteen years. In addition to this evidence, it was proved that at the time the ceremony was performed no registry was regularly kept in the island, nor was any depository in existence where a license for the celebration could now be found. The clergyman and the witness, Captain Ed wards, had been dead twenty-seven years. Evidence was furthermore adduced to show that in the year 1836, the present appellants had instituted a suit during the lifetime of Sir John. On that occasion, however, the legality of the license was not questioned. In that suit Sir John was examined, and the evidence ho then gave was read in the Court of Chancery in Ireland. Upon the case coming before the Court below the bill was dis missed. The present Lord Bishop of Rochester, who was, in the year 1815, Bishop of Sodor and Man, having succeeded the Right Rey. Dr. Cregan, the former bishop, deposed in the court below that, upon mere recollection, and atter a lapse of thirty years and upwards, he never gave a license, and that he had never known Sir John Bennett Piers except by sight. On cross-examination the Right Rev. Bishop's memory appeared very defective on several matters, and, amongst other events, it was proved that he had forgotten the fact that ho had held a " special court" at his private residence, in the month of October, 1822, more than seven years after the marriage of Sir John Bennett Piers, to permit a near relative, Colonel Murray, to register his marriage, which had taken place some time subsequently. The Right Reverend Prelate also appeared to have forgotten the mode of making the pre liminary forms of applications for licenses and the taking of the usual affidavits in the island, for he conceived that it was the practice to make application to the bishop; whereas the episcopal registrar, who had held that office for a long series of years, proved that the usual affidavits and applications were taken before the registrar. It ap peared, in the progress of the case, that, under the provi sions of the settlement executed on the 2d and 3d of July, 1794, a power was given to the late Sir John Bennett Piers, the eldest son and heir of Sir Pigott W. Piers, of Tristernagh Abbey, in the county of Westmeath, to charge the family estates with a jointure of 6001. per annum in bar of dower or thirds, and further to charge the estates with a sum of 4,000/. in favour of the younger children. On the death of Sir Pigott Piers, in the month of April, 1798, he was succeeded by his son and heir-at-law, Sir John Bennett Piers. Sir Pigott had five younger sons, all of whom, with the exception of the fifth son, Fre derick, died without issue. The present respondent, Sir Henry Samuel Piers, was the son of Frederick, and, consequently, became heir-at-law to the estates of the deceased Baronet. On the 27th May, 1815, Sir John Bennett Piers married, and in 1836 the two appellants, who were then respectively aged 21 and 17, made the two appointments in virtue and under the deed of set tlement already referred to, viz., a jointure of 6001. to his wife, and 4,0001. to b e dividd between the appel lants. By the will of Sir John, dated the 30th clay, 1842, these appointments were ratified. On the 14th July, in that year, the appellant, Florence Anna Maria Stapleton Piers, married Count Louis La Coat de Ker veguen, and en that occasion her portion was, in the usual way, settled upon her. Sir John died in 1845, leaving his widow and two daughters surviving. The jointure to the widow had been conti nued, but the respondent refused to pay the two sums of 2,0001. to the two appellants. When the suit of 1836 was determined, Lord Plunkett, in delivering judgment, said that " the marriage had been so satisfactorily proved that he would refuse to direct an issue to try its validity." The main fact upon which the respondent relied was that the alleged marriage in 1815 had never taken place, and that the parties had not been married until March 19, 1821, when it was celebrated in Dublin, and that the appellants were illegitimate, in asmuch vs they were born prior to the latter date. Ile also contended that the Marriage Act having applicabi lity to the Isle of Man, rendered all marriages in private houses null and void, unless by special licence, under the hand and seal of the Bishop of Sodor and Man. When the suit was before the Court below, the apellants amongst other things, prayed the Court to direct an is sue to try the validity of the marriage, and this prayer the Lord Chanellor said he would grant, provided the appellants we ro enabled to produce the Bishop of Sodor and Man as a witnes?. In Compliance with the directibu then riven by his Lordship an :I ppiicati,'n revs made on the part of the appellants to the Right Rev. Prelate to give evidence, but he declined to go over to Ireland for , that purpose, whereupon the Cows bel ow dismi sse d the bill, but without costs, and against that decree the pre— sent appeal was brought. Mr. Bathell and Mr. Glasse were heard on Thursdiy for the app9llants. Mr. J. Parker, with whom was Mr. Goldsnaid, sirs! also partly heard for the respondent. Mr. PARKER resumed his arguments to-day, and octal - pied their Lordships the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(TL-HS DAY The Master of the R9lis sat in his Court in the Rot's'. yard, Chancery-lane, to-day. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 12th inst. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies charged with examining the budget had nearly completed its task, and would, it was expected, submit its report to the Assembly early in April. The Three per Cents. were done at 22f for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 10i; the Debt without Interest at 3i ; and the Coupons at G. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. In the sitting of the Upper Chamber on the 14th, Count BRANDENBURG, in answer to a question as to the line of policy which the Government intended to pursue in regard to Germany, said, " I think it necessary, in consequence of what has fallen from the previous speaker, to declare that the policy of the Cabinet has been, is, and will henceforth be, based upon the principles laid down in the Prussian circular note of the 23d January." In the sitting of the 15th the address was carried. During the course of the dis cussion Count BRANDENBURG said, in allusion to the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein " I beg to state, in the issued, Ministry , at the requisition of the that at this present time Central Government, for 12,000 Prussian troops to orders name ohfav the e take the field. This will be carri e d i n t o e ff ec t so soon as possible, in order to p reven t an inva sion of the duchies, which are only guarded b w e h e o n l e i by Schleswig-Holstein troops. The Government will, at the same time, exert every effort to conclude an honourable peace, since it is aware that the Baltic trade must suffer severely from the breaking out of hostilities." After a few obser vations from BAUMSTAC& and HANSEMANN, who for a governor of a national bank, appears to be pos sessed of a most pugnacious spirit, Count ARNIM begged to observe that "it was most unjust to accuse the negotiators of having remained idle since the truce of Malmoe. Far from this, much had been done, both at Berlin, Frankfort, and London, by the Pleni potentiaries, and he had reason for hoping that the intervention of England would lead to a temporary arrangement, which would be adopted until the final conclusion of peace. In the Second Chamber the Ministry had a ma jority of 177 to 159 on the question of the conti nuance of the state of siege. AUSTRIA. The 13th of March, the anniversary of the revo lution, passed off quietly in Vie nna . Th e G overnor ‘V EL ue N has slightly relaxed th e r i gour o f t h e state of siege by permitting taverns to remain open until midnight. The news of the defeat of the Imperialists on the 3d of March by the Hungarians is confirmed ; the Austrian lost 7,000 men and sixty pieces of cannon. General OTTENGEE, Colonel JELLACHICH (brother of the Ban) and the Prince of HOLSTEIN were killed, and Field-Marshal .GRAMMONT was made prisoner. The city of Keszkemel, the second in the county of Pesth, surrendered to the Hungarians after the action, and the Magyars, were adva ncing to Bud a , under the walls of which city a decisive action would, it was supposed, take place. GoRGr had advanced upon Raab so as to cut off the retreat of the Aus trians should they be defeated. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. BERLIN, MARCH 14.—HIS MAJESTY'S Government having issued an official notification from the Dani s h Government, stating that after the 27th of this month all the harbours and creeks of the Duchy of Schleswig and Holstein, with the exception of those of the islands of Alsen and Oros, and others under the Danish authority, will be in a state of blockade. The Prussian Gove rnmen t has taken the requisite mea sures for secu r i ng th e interest of the German trade and shippi ng b y g i v i ng timely notice of the same to the parties inter es t e d. —pru,ssian States Anzieger. MUNSTER, MARCH Ig._ Last night at seven o'clock a circular order was received by , the General in command, stating that a com bined carps d'armee of 20,000 men, under the command of General VON AIRSCHFELD, who com manded in the late Polish insurrection, is to be con centrated on the Mecklenburg boundary, and to take up its quarters at the Perbeberg. The corps is to consist of three regiments of infantry , three of cavalry, three Landw e h r battalions, two foot artillery, and one mounted battery. They are to leave for their desti nation between the 21st and 24th. LEIPSIC, MARCH 14.—A division of the Saxon army will probably quit in the course of a few days to reinforce the Imperial troops in the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein. It is to be composed of 6,000 men, consi s ti ng o f seven b atta li o ns of infantry, the whole of the J ager corps, two b at t a lions, and two squadrons of caval r y. In the I s l an d of Alsen a mild kin d of t yp h us has broken ou t among the t ro ops. The Castle of Augustenburg, part of which served for barracks 'lurin g the wint,r has been evacuated and fitted up COr an hospital. Mumua.—Four infantry Regiments, one regiment of light horse, and a battery is to join the central power for Schleswig-Holstein. ~.~ WIESBADEN. MARCII 13.—A battery of artillery, which has been in retidiness to start at a moment's notice for some days, received orders to-day, from the Imperial Minister of War, to quit Wiesbaden, so as to reach Cologne o)i the 20th, and the mouth of the Elbe on the 23d. In the Second Chamber, at Berlin, the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, stated, in relation to the Schelswig question—" We sincerely rejoice tb at by the denunciation of the armistice on the part of the Crown of Denmark peace will not be broken ' • nevertheless if this wish should not be realised, we are ready to support your Majesty's Government by all the means in our power, if there be any 'question which involves the honour of Prussia or- of Germany." HANOVER. MAncir 13.—His MAJESTY'S endeavours to form a new Ministry having entirely failed, and both the Chambers having expressed their confidence in the Ministry, and their desire that they should retain their office, the KING wrote to them, stating that he had received the resolution of the Chambers, and requested them to remain at their pmts. His MAJESTY, in his letter, states that he has sent to the Deputy Vox MUNCH IIAUSEN, of the second Chamber, requesting an opi nion respecting a programme containing the princi ples of a new constitution, but to which no answer whatever had been returned. It will be remembered that the rock upon which the Ministry lately appeared to split was the non-introduction of the fundamental laws, as proposed by the Central Power of Frankfort. In reference to this point, his MAJESTY has written a long letter to the States, countersigned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stating that the obstacle to the introduction of the fundamental law will be removed so soon as they form an in tegral part of the federal Constitution of Germany ; that, however, several modifications will be indispensable to their general adaptation to Hanover. To the Hanoverian Plenipotentiary at Frankfort his MAJESTY has also sent a note, touching the five points under consideration on the iOth of February, and stating that he will request the assent of the States to a law of the following purport :—That the resolu tions of the National Assembly of Frankfort, passed by the Provisional Central Power, shall be in full force until the adoption of a permanent Constitution for Germany shall have been sanctioned by the KING. His MAJESTY has prorogued the Chambers to the 12th of April, which appears to give great satisfaction. —Haniburgh Papers, March 16. DEATH OF THE KING OF HOLLAND. His Majesty WILLIAM 11., King of the Nether lands, expired at Tilburg on Saturday last, after an illness which lasted only a few days. During the night of the 13th-14th his MAJESTY had a severe at tack of inflammation of the lungs, which obliged the physicians to take a quantity of blood from his arm. During the night his MAJESTY had a second attack which rendered a repetition of the bleeding necessary, after which his MAJEST r was rather better. An extraordinary supplement of the Staats Courant published the following bulletin : " Tilburg, March 16, Six o'clock, P.M. " The early part of the morning was ♦ery fatiguing to the august patient, the fever and oppression of the chest was much more severe than before, especially to wards the middle of the day. (Signed) " EVERARD, " VAN BEES, " MALs." The QUEEN quitted the Hague at half-past ten this morning for Tilburg, and Prince HENRY of the Ne therlands set out from thence the night before last. The severity of the symptoms continued to in crease, notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the physicians, and on Saturday his MAJESTY expired. The KING had completed the 57th year of his age in the month of October last. The late KING was educated in England, and bad been in every relation intimately connected with this country. Having been driven from Holland, with his father, on the foundation of the Batavian Re public, he was placed under the charge of the late Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and received his educa tion from that distinguished Prelate. At the age of 19 he was appointed, as Prince of ORANGE, a lieu tenant-colonel of the British army, and served as extra aide-de-camp with the Duke of WELLINGTON in the Peninsula from 1811 to 1814. He was present at the sieges: of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and Nivelle. He commanded the Dutch troops i❑ the campaign of 1815, and the Ist Corps d'Armee at the battle of Waterloo, in which he was severely wounded, after having taken an active part in the preceding engagements. In 1816 his late MAJESTY married the sister of the Emperor NICHOLAS of Russia. His eldest son and successor (now King WILLIAM III.), who is married to a daughter of the King of WURTEMMERG, is at present in London. His late Majesty WILLIAM 11. succeeded to the throne on the abdication of his father in 1840. ITALY. On the 13th FERRARI, the Piedmontese Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressed a note to the Ministers of France and England, declaring the termination of the armistice, announcing the reasons which had led the Court of Turin to adopt this course, and de claring that the kind mediation of France and England will be more efficacious at a later period, when fresh hostilities shall have caused Austria to feel the necessity of treating with Piedmont on the basis of an honourable peace. A letter from Turin which has arrived in Paris states that the Lombard divison has been placed at its own request on the first line of the army, and that it holds the advance posts. The Pattie gives the following letter from Turin, dated the 14th inst. : " The King set out for Alessandria to-day; he yes terday received a visit from Mr. Abercrombie, the English Minister, who endeavoured to stop the King in the course on which he was entering. The King at last started up, in considerable agitation, and said, Sir, to please you, I last year consented to the armistice of Salasco, which was an act of shame for me. I stopped short at the Adige, and I submitted to a mediation which has been changed into an act of treachery. Since the 7th of May our situation has been intolerable ; the sacrifices which we support are infinitely worse than war ; and notwithstanding, I have shut my ears to the sufferings of the Lombards and Venetians. What have you done for me? Nothing; for you have not thought fit to say one word when Austria violated the armistice. By your silence you have given your approbation to that violation of the law of na tions. Now that we are plunged into an abyss, ought we to remain in it? No, sir, no; I prefer to see my crown shaken by cannon-shots, rather than to succumb to hooting and hissing in the street. At.least, if I am to fall, my fall shall be honourable for me and for my people.' Mr. Abercrombie withdrew in much agitation.' M. Bois-le-Comte presented himself three times at the Palace, and each timetime hesitated to eater. At last, in the evening, he proceeded to the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but could only see M. Battaglione, the first Secretary, the Minister being absent. It is too late,' said M. Battaglione, it is now a fait accompli, a re commencement of hostilities has been given notice of. Major Oadorna, brother of the Minister, has set out for. Turin, to denounce the armistice.' M. Bois-le-Comte ap peared mueh moved, and withdrew, exclaiming, What a misfortune On the other hand, Radetzky appears uneasy. A part of the garrison of Milan has quitted the city, but I cannot say whether it has taken the road to Lodi or Novarra. Radetzky has sent his wife and children to Verona. TURKEY. We have great satisfaction in being enabled to lay before our readers an authentic and most interesting dispatch from a correspondent at Constantinople. The subjoined is a hurried translation : CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 25.—The question which is pending amongst us has been brought to no decisive conclusion since my last communication. Neither party evinces any inclination to yield, and war be comes every day more imminent. The Porte, strongly backed by the English and French Ambas sadors, has summoned Russia to evacuate the Danubian Principalities, and although Russia offers no decided refusal, she is evidently solicitous to obtain from the SULTAN his signature to a treaty still more pernicious to the interests of Turkey than that deplorable treaty which can never be forgotten, the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi. As you may readily conjecture, the Sublime Porte has no great inclination to sign his own death warrant. The Divan has, moreover, re jected at once, and indignantly, the ultimatum inso lently tendered by M. TiTorr ; and, to hold itself in readiness for any emergency has pushed for ward the armament with the utmost energy and rapidity. The reserve forces have been all called forth into active service ; and tha whole of the effective army of the Ottoman empire, comprising the contingents from Servia and from Egypt, will very speedily have reached a grand total of 300,000 men. The Turkish marine, meanwhile, consists of 24 vessels of the line, 26 frigates, more than a hun dred corvettes, brigs, bomb-ships and schooners, with 20 steam-boats—all in admirable condition. The BURRELL V. MAI3ERLEY. The further arguments in this part-heard case were resumed to-day. The suit was instituted for the purpose of establishing the will of the late Thomas Ba.kerfield, and to carry the trusts thereof into execution. Thomas Baskerfield, formerly of Redburo, in the county of Hertford, but at the date of his will of the Friary, in the town of Colchester, in the county of Essex, by his will, dated the 20th of December, IAS, gave several legacies, and among others, 1001. stock to each of his twelve first cousins, eleven of whom he named, and the twelfth, Captain Thomas Alston Bran drett, he remarked, beimg then dead. he gave the bequest: intended for him to his children. The testator then gal", all his residuary real and personal estate to his wife for life, including the house he then resided in in Colchester; and then the will proceeds thus:—" And from and after the death of my dear wife, and not before then, I give full power to my executors, their heirs and assigns, to collect all my property together, and sell the house and other estates, and convert into money all my funded property, and then pay the following legacies," and he here enumerated them, " and then the whole of the remainder of my property to be divided, share and share alike, to my aforesaid twelve first cousins and their chile dren." The testator appointed Horatio Cock and James Maberley executors of his will, along with his wife, and died in the year 1816. The original bill was filed on the 20th of February, 1825; to establish the will, and carry out the trusts thereof, and a decree was made ac cordingly; but no construction was put upon the resi duary clause, whereby the property was disposed of atter the death of the wife, the tenant for life. The wife be' ing now dead, and the period for putting a construction upon that clause having therefore arrived, the cause came on again upon further directions; it appeared that the twelfth first cousin, Captain Brandrett, had died, leaving issue in the testator's life, and that. the other eleven were living at his death. It appeared, also, that seven of these eleven died without issue, and four had children, and that several died in the lifetime of the tenant for fife. The property was not sold nor converted; and the questions now were, first, whether there WAS an imperative trust for conversion; second, whether the period of vesting was at the death of the testator or of the tenant for life; and third, whether the children of the first cousins took by substitution for their parents by way of purchase, or whether the term was used as a record of limitation. Mr. KENYON PARKER replied this . ' morning at owns length, and The MASTER of the BOLLS postponed his judgment. VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Honour was occupied during the morning in hear ing bankrupt petitions. EX PARTS WALKER, IN RE SANGAR. Mr. OSBORNE said this was the petition of Mr. Charles F. Walker, who is the treasurer of a certain charitable society, established at Bristol, and it prayed that the petitioner might go in and prove a debt under the fiat. The bankrupt was one of the committee of an asylum at Bristol, called the Poor Orphan Girls' Asylum, and it seemed he took an active part in the management of the charity, and acted as a sort of honorary secretary to the committee. On several occasions it happened that he reported at meetings of the committee that certain cre ditors f the institution required to be paid, and there upon the committee drew cheques in favour of those parties, and the bankrupt took possession of those cheques for the purpose of discharging those debts. In' steal of doing that he appropriated the whole or the greater par tof the moneys to his own use. He also re reived certain subscriptions from the members of the instituti‘ , n, which he did not account for. He (Mr. Osborne) believed that so much as 1,0001. had been ap propriated by the bankrupt to his own use. Under these circumstances, the petitioner prayed to be per mitted to go in and prove in respect of this breach of trust. His HONOUR—What has he done with the money? Mr. OSBORNE said he had appropriated it to his own use. His HONOUR—Is the petitioner the treasurer of the institution? Mr. OSBORNE replied that he was ; and His HONOUR said he: thought the petitioner, in that capacity, might be permitted to prove such a debt as be might be able to establish. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAH.) ROBINSON V. SHEFFIELD. His HONOUR was occupied during the morning in hearing the further arguments of counsel in this cause, which was a motion to appoint a receiver, and had been partly heard on a previous day. Mr. P. Wood was counsel for the plaintiff, and the Solicitor- General represented the defendant. The Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit, there being no cause on his paper ready for hearing. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) THE JENNY LIND STEADIER—IN RE CHEETHADC This bankrupt had carried on business as a steam-boat builder at Frindsbury, near Rochester. Mr. DUNCAN appeared to support a claim for a Mr. Cunningham, for 7001. for damages by way of penalty for non-performance of a contract in completing a steam boat called the Jenny Lind, bankrupt having entered into an agreement to complete or forfeit 101. per day. His HONOUR did not think the form of the deed showed any liquidated damages, and therefore the proof must be rejected. Mr. DUNCAN said, under these circumstances the right would survive, although the certificate should be obtained. He then tendered a proof for 2001. for m onies advanced beyond the value of the work done, but it sr' peered that the bankrupt had expended 4451. more than he had received. The bankrupt then passed his examination. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) The adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey nom" menced this morning, at the Court House, Newington Causeway, before J. W. Freshfield, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates. The Calendar contains the names of 105 prisoners. The CHAIRMA N addressed the grand jury, who retired to fulfil their duties. James Munday, a pauper, belonging to Guildford , was indicted for breaking out of the Guildford nail' and stealing therefrom a q uan tity o f wear i ng apparel' the property of the guardians. The prisoner had been for some time an inmate of the union, and retained a very bad character, having been several times in prisons for various offences. At 0° latter end of February he broke out of the house, taking with him the property mentioned in the indictment. The: jury found the prisoner Guilty; and the Cour t sentenced him to seven years' transportation. MARLBRO*-STREET—(TiiIS DAY)* Richard EuMoan, John Creasy, and Michael Callaghal were cbarged before Mr. Bingham with being drunk ell" riotous, and assaulting the police while in the execution of their duty. Police-constable, C 2, stated that at about half-past two o'clock on Sunday morning he was on duty in Oxford' street, when his attention was called to the prisoners , who were much in liquor, quarrelling with some women. Witness desired them to go away peaceably, when the,' commenced fighting with each other, and made use of the most abominable language. Witness again requeste d them to leave the spot, when he was assailed by Sullivan, who came behind him and knocked him down; the otber two prisoners then fell upon him and struck him several times. Witness called out for assistance, when the pri soners ran away. They were eventually stopped 151 another constable and taken to the station-house.. Police-constable, D 208, said he was on duty 111 ,, Oxford-street on Sunday mornin g , wh en h e h e ard Ins; witness call out for assistance. On his way to the eN, he met the three prisoners, and detained them till hi' brother constable came up, when they conveyed theca to the station-house. The prisoners, who denied the charge of assault, were severally committed for a month to the House of Cor rection, with hard labour. A well-dressed man, who gave the name of John Mug s ; grove, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged wl; having indecently as sau lt e d p o li ce - cons t a bl e A 73, Wlll on duty in Hyde-park on Friday night. The charge (which is not fit to be reported) bays been proved, Mr. BINGHAM committed the prisoner for trial. THE ACADIA STEAMER. The following letter has been received at Lloyd's ut ie morning : AMSTERDAM, MAME( 16.—The Acadia steamer' Jackson, from Liverpool to Bremen, which was on shore on the Outer Grounds near Terschelling, 12th instant► was got off on the following day by the assistance e' pilots, and taken into Tersehelling, having sustained b 0 slight damage, and will promptly be able to put to see again. GENERAL SIR JOSEPH THACHWELL.—We ob. serve, in the columns of a Sunday contemporary, a coin' munication from an angry and not over-wise coal spondent, who impugns the correctne ss o f a statement lately made by us, respecting the distinguished officer,/ above-named, in which we spoke of him as t h e sacs in command." The writer, though introduced to the public as one " whose authority is unimpettebs i b e le h ' only betrays his extr eme h aste and carelessness. -. 7, 43 had taken the troubl e t o consult an East Ind i an (Be gal) Directory, h e wou ld have found the rank O f tr major-generals of the army of the Punjaub thus "" b signatil :—Sir Joseph Thackwell, major. general , 14: 2, 1 ' 1 , January, 1837 ; Sir Walter Gilbert, major general, 2 ',„" June, 1838; W. S. Whist), inajor-general, 23d Nov e— ; ber, 1841. We were, consequently, perfectly Ca 0 in stating th at Si r Joseph Thackwell was " seco nd command" under L or d G oug h.—Ch ron i c l e. GREAT N ORTHERN R AILWAY. —A f ur ther otte r ' . sion or thi s company ' s li ne t h rough L i nco l ns hire, frfromLincoln to Gain s b oroug h, 16 m il es , i s rea dy f o r ope l3 l re . As it will be th e fi rs t ra il wa y is into Gainsborougb, it expected that th e townspeople will have a holiday is honour of the event. Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, now commencing this company's extension line thro n g wn r k, iJ-krceAtgllßE AND YORKSLIIRP. AND EAST LAI: rind Mr. Hacking met nt Olt um day) I.,cruiv ,, , alit} cafe() to . L . amicable arrangement of matters in dispute between 1414 two companies. We therefore hope we shall not be v a repetition of Monday's folly.—Manchester Exa . Rank Nw( 3 tong A India 1 Ditt ank vmsoi Fiche PI2IC srazifi •,„ Di eftledol 441 t A E. a i Dc -.aster/ Grea 6 t Do., Do. b o : Great Ditto Dirt, Lanca t . Do. Do. • Do. Leda l 'ondor Londoi B. Do. 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