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--------- the speeches which he had heard, especially that of the Chairman, which ought to be printed in let ters of gold, not only for its eloquence, but for the honest indignation which it showed to the great and noble slanderer to whom reference had been 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, bear.) 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 luxury and ease inseperable from his station, and whe might have made the attack without due consideration or fore thought, upon information which designing persons had given to him. Mr. EDMOND BEALES proposes 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 bavo 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 wished to relinquish all further claim to the support of the British public, they intimated to the association that they did not consider it consistent with their amicable relations with Russia that any large body of Poles should leave this country, and, in fact, gave a positive denial to the application.—(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, but he deeply regretted to find among the foremost who opposed it the leaders of what was called the liberal party in this country.—(Llear, hear.) Some, however, by the word liberal meant freedom for them selves and slavery for others. He 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 vic;ory 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 ceuntry.—(Hear.) If they wished to work out their own rights and emancipation, they must restorg the nationai;ty of Poland, for there would be no peace in the world st; 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 b country.—(Cheers.) The motion was seconded by Mr. EDWARD JOHN STONE an .1 carried. Mr. T. C. BANFIELD moved a vote of thanks to the No ble Chairman, which was seconded by Colonel SZYRMA, and unanimously carried. Lieutenant CHARLES SzcrLczewsm 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. ZABA. After an acknowledgment from Mr. BIRKBECE, the meeting separated. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. crawl OUR 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 Billow, but allowed his troops to have acted in the same spirit throughout the whole affair as they did at the com mencement, nvery 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 the Royal Guard killed,; and sixteen wounded (after driving the Holstein Infantry before them, and with the aid of two companies of Jagers, taleing some entrenchments on the mainland), instead of having been completely dispersed, aad losing an immense number of prisoners, according to the German pretended reports. On 2 the aide of the, Germans, the loss has been admitted, in an ac count of the correspondent of the Hamburgh Nachrick ten, from - Schleswig, to have been about 700 men. And General Benin in his offi eal bulletin names 1,000 on both sides 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 lite, which their evil deeds will have to answer fur 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 roach them, and offended justice will overtake the in trigues of the Augustenburg princely beggars with vengeance sooner or later. Ia short, people are now anxious to know what reason they have for withholding the.: truth,' and, bad as the affair is, they are 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 doing) that the native Schelsrrig regiments, in the Danish service, have no in clination to fight again it the German Holstein party, and in some instar.ces 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:— Among 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 of 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 arras, yet the flight of the same so hastily, give occasion for the report in question. The truth however is, that the brave 13:h battalion was during this action stationed at the island of Alsen, and took no pert whatever in it; nor has there - been any Danish officer, as yet, officially known to have been taken prisoner on this occasion. Tais fact will tend fully to convince the friends of the great Fatherland, aud others,- how little good faith can bo placed in these Hamburgh-Holstein reports. General Prittwitz has his headquarters at Christianfeld, and is said to have promised his troops, consisting of about 18,000 mon concentrated thereabouts, to give them a turn into Jutland, which is some four mites front 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 tire 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 tho Holstein in surgents were brave men, in havinc , 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 18th of March, 1843—and Hadersleben, and Prittwita, in front of the Prussian army 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 shoot, they may well " read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" this instance of Prussian policy. Insurgents shot down by dozens at Berlin by Prussian 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 tempera, 0 mores ! There are various rumours of negotiation for peace; but no solid foundation can be discovered. It is also said the• blockade is to be removed upon neutral vessels, yet nothing is certain. Denmark played, in the beginning of the contest, too generous a game to wait 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 complaint; 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 skirmishing to-day from the war deportment in the Duchies. The troops are cooling themselves a little. They are considered, however, here to be idling their precious time away, if something is not daily reported in th e fighting line, to feed the greedy anxiety for such information on the Harnburgh Exchange, where num bers are seen smoking cigars all day long, havins , no thing to sell in the shape of goo d s, and paper will 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 NEW EDITION Of " BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BAILONERTLaIf," revised and corrected throughout to the pre sent time, from the personal corruntinications of the nobility, &c. in one vol., with 1,500 engravings of arms, &c., is pub laCed this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had of all boolcseller3. Also just published, the " Supplement to Lurke's History of the Landed Gentry of England, Scot knd, and Ireland," in one vol., with an Index, comprising references to all the individuals; (upwanis of 100,000) men io aed in the work. RELEASE OF LADY HORATIO WESTON. We have been favoured with the following communi cations relating to the imprisonment and release of Lady Horatia Weston:— HER. MAJESTY'S CONSUL-GENERAL IN WALLACHIA. Mr. Colquhoun presents his compliments to Lord Dudley Stuart, and begs to forward a letter which he received yesterday from Transylvania, whither Mr. Colquhoun had occasion to send a confidential porson to reclaim Lady Horatio Weston, who has been shut up in the fortress of Karlsbourg for some months. Lady Horatio reached Bucharest in safety yesterday, having met with every attention from General Bern, who re quested Mr. Colquhoun's messenger to forward the en closed letter for Lord Dudley Stuart, which Mr. Colqu houn has now the honour of doing.—Bucharest, 16th April, 1849. TO LORD DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, M.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 Austrian forces 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 the r generals anei 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 my 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 troop, 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 m..;ment. 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. Our 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 hoetile population, my arrival with an army well disciplined and accustomed to fighting will, I hope, give a mortal blow to the army of Winlisch grata. 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 no•Y 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, BEM. Mulenbach, April 4, 1849. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and tho Princess Alice, took an airing in an open carriage and four, yesterday afternoon, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, General IVenayss and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, the Equerries in waiting, attended on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred awl the Princess Helena took their usual pony and walking ex erciAe yesterday, and her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa was taken an airing. ills Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. Alexandt r Gordon. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal High nest 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 do Spelt, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the E irl Fortescue, the Right lion. 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 Bruce 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 also sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Falkland Islands. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.—FRIDAY. The Wirrel Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 30 added T.Y.C. (6 subs.) Mr. W. Jones's Lady Barbara, 13 yrs... Mr. B. Steward's Wilmot, 2 yrs ...(J. Marion) Mr. Green's Countess of Albemarle, 2 yrs... 0 5t02 on Countess of Albemarle. Won by half a length. The favolrite ran against a post and threw her rider. Run in 1 min. 25 sec. The Cetrian Stakes of 10 sows. each, with 50 added, for three yrs-olds. One mile and three-quarters. (31 subs ) Mr. Mostyn's cby Colwick, out of Concertina (Marlow) 1 Mr. Pedley's Fellow Commoner ... .•• 2 Mr. W. Jones's Magician ... ... 3 Mr. Murland's Batwing ... 0 Lord Clitten'A Flycatcher filly Lord Chesterfield - 's Ferule 2to 1 agst Magician, and 3 to 1 each agat Fellow Com moner and Concertina colt. Won by half a neck; nt4thing near the first two. Run in 3 min. 21 see. The Cheshire Stakes of 25 sovs. 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 rain. 45 sec. The Free Handicap of 10 soya. each, with 50 added. Seven furlongs (25 subs. ) Mr. J. Shepherd's Post-tempore, 3 yrs, bat (Charlton) 1 Mr. Worthington's Sharston, 6 yrs, Gst ... 2 Mr. Drinkald'a Thornhill, 3 yrs, sst 51b ... 8 The following also ran :—Deerstalker, 4 yrs, 7st 51b ; Ribaldry, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Whizgig, 4 yrs, Est 131 b; Cheap side, 5 yrs, Est 1 llb ; Energy, aged, Est 91b : Clairvoyance, 4 yrs, Est 71b; Primrose, 4 yrs, Est 71b; Cigarette, 3 yrs, sst 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 soya. each, the second to receive 20 soya. Once round and a distance. (12 subs.) Mr. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged, Bst 21b Mr. Skerratt's Romance, aged, Bst 101 b The following also started, but were- not placed :—Mr. John's New Forest Deer, aged, Bst 61b (Wakefield )—Mr. Osbaldeston's Chat, 5 yrs, Bst 21b. (J. blarson )—Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry, 4 yrs, ist 101 b (Whitehouse)—Captain Peyton's Wiseacre, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Charlt o n)—M r . Har greave's Primrose , yrs, Est I Ilb (Dockeray)—Mr. C. Hall's Ada Mary, 3 yrs, Est 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 (Rodnev)—Mr. Pedley's The Probe, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Treen)—Mr. Lawson's Snowdrop, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (Hiett). Betting-2 to 1 agst Probe-4 to 1 agat Ada Mary -6 to 1 agst IVew Forest Deer-7 to 1 agst Ribaldry —and Bto I agst Snowdrop. Won by a head, The Probe third, and Forest Deer fourth. Run in 2 min. 10 secs. (Tanker) 1 The Eaton Stakes of 10 BOYS. each, h ft, and 30 added ; three yrs, Est 121 b; four yrs, Bst 10th; fillies and geldings. allowed 41bs, and maidens 31bs. Grosvenor Course. (5 subs.) Mr. B. Green's Cigarette, 3 yrs' ... Mr. Copeland's Aldgate, 3 yrs ... Mr. J. Osborne's Carthagenian, 3 yrs ... ... 7t04 on Cigarette. Won by a neck. The Ladies' Purse of 5U1.; for three yrs old, 8-3 t; four yrs, Ost 61b; five yrs, lOst; six yrs and aged, lOst 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Heats, once round and a dis. (Fenn) I ... 2 —. 3 (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. Dicanv. 9to 4 agst Flying Dutchman 16 to 1 agst Elthiron—t 9 to 2 agst Nunnykirk—t 20 to 1 agit The Knout 11 to 2 agst Tadmor 20 to 1 agst Osterleylo 10 to 1 agst Vanguard—t I 20 to 1 agst Chatterer—t 15 to 1 agst Vatican I 40 to 1 agst Montague OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Glacua 7 to 1 agst Wadrasta filly ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXUALL.—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 views are being constructed, and no expense seems to be sp are d by i t s en t er p r i s ing proprietors to make it a rational as well as amusing place of resort. THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN. (From the Freemen'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 aed 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 ssecimen of the social aspect of our metropolis, how proud ought to be our lot, how brilliant ought to be the city palaces of onr resi lent nobility and gentry, howgay 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 till, 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 aid 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 palmiost 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 ef 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 Shaks perian part. His readings of Hamlet have been highly eu logised by the notice writers of the London press. iVe had the opportunity of seeing Mr. Kean's Hamlet during his pre sent engagement, and found 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 Mr. Oakley, or the fond yet etherealised uxoriousness of Sir WalterAmyot—in short,one would think, and almost say t hat the charactor 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 the drama are Kean's best, snalviee his Richard the Third (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 M .cbeth 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 iscident 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 he lived, in truest character. Mrs. Kean's Ludy Macbeth was a noble impersonation of Shakspere's truest meaning. If the praise appertaining to versatility of genius applies to her husband, still more trulydoes 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 Ainyot? 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 w ilk, forth in troubled slumber, and talks of deeds of blood. Few will forget the thrilling effect et her startled and frightened exit— " To bel—to bed—there's knocking at the gate." The audience seemed sp e ll-bo un d, a nd 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 witnessel 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 corree, and the subsidiary parts were filled with an abili %nd correctness that reflects the highest credit on the stag anagement. 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. 't he racy Cock neyism of Bedford was absent, and the best points of this most amusing of nonsensical farces were lost, perhaps through the fastidionmess 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 con 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, Blackfriars, 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 he expired without a struggle. Mr. Farr and other medical gentlemen were sent 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 will be removsd to his own resi dence, it being considered by the authorities that an inquest is unnecessary. rzhad Nr ir l l kilpea. learned person. Ramble e dm s pa man. His was sao a v and Mrs. sinferarsi father h semri dowdtamiable, mother r3a wah h u ani gs o d n ha o lwysa r i ssa a tc b ece l ro e v , meor a pfy n i wo rha shedre markable qualified to do honour to her gifted family. Mr. Twiss ' after receiving an excellent educetion, was placed for two or three years in an attorney's office, and then be came a member of thej - nner Temple, and in due time was called to the bar. He travelled the Oxford circuit for some years, and became one of its most distinguished leaders; but during the latter period of his pro'ossional career ho attached himself exclusively to the Equity Courts. But his chances of success were materially les sened by his social, literary, and political celebrity; for the world are slow to believe that any man can be first rate in more than one walk at a time. Mr. Twin's " Vers de Sos 4 " and other light compositions were 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 elequence was not the youthful aspirant's forte--"It is in me, and by G- it shall come out." Mr. Twiss It 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, en 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 - Secr etar y 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 he subsequently succeeded in getting returned for Bridport during one Parliament, ho 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. Ilis energies, how ever, were inexhaustible. Aide tui d Dieu ((lidera, was his motto. His fortune was limited; he had a family to provide for; and Ending 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 7 lazes. He was also an occasional contribu tor of leading articles to the same journal. He continued to employ himself in this manner until he received (on the nomination, we believe, of the late Lord Granville Somerset,) the appointment of Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. But the literary effort which does his name most honour i; undoubtedly his " Life of Lord Elden," It silenced, at once, and for eTer, the ‘l9.ubts and cavils of those, who, misled by the varied and some what desultory nature of Mr. Twiss'i career, had .judge aim incapable of producing a sterling work. Had life a.id health been spared to him, he might ha re earne d stil higher distinctions, literary and professional; bu twe are at All events justified in commemorating him. as a kind-bettkqed, honourable, and estimable man, of un doubted ah'lity, who has left a host of friends to lament his loss, and not a single ill -wisher to dispute his claim to the esteem .and admiration of his contemporaries. THE LE GAL TITLE AS SURAN CE COMPANY. (Provisionally Reg.:stered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,001,00C1., in 30,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Depo sit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro Cactuses awl full informat'on may be obtained at the Tempo -lar7 Ofilzes of the Company, 1: a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. I ". lIOWE. Hon. Sec., pro tem. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNT tIND. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect filly informed that THIS EVENING, will be produced the admired Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, 'Mlle. Jenny Lind ; }Amino, Signor Enrico Calzolarl. To conclude with a DIVER fr4SEM EST, in which Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Taglioni, Mille. Petit DStoerp,h3arn.,C3hfaerslcesill,eleMarra, and Thotnassini , )I. Paul Taglioni, M. , wll appear. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual, price 103. 6d. each s'l'. JAMES'S THE A T itE. Season Ig.;!). FREXOTI PLAYS and 01T-2A COMIQUE. On MONDAY EVENING, the Performances will commence at Half-pan Seren o'clock with 11E11It ET :MALHEUR. To conclude with LE PRE Ala CLERGS. Mergy, M. OctaYe; Comrainge, M. Coudere ; Isabelle, 31 , 111 e. Charton. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in :rowed expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of a imis gen are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • Fit • • • • Amphitheatre .. .. 65. 04. • • 33. Od. .. 25. Od. Subscription; for the !mason may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Hr. Andrew', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-oftlce of the Theatre, which is °pan daily from eleven till Ave. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. E. Webster, Sole L THIS EVEN M ana ger, essee and Manager, OW Brompton. ~ Will be performed an entirely new Comedy, entitled RUNAWAY HUSBANDS. Characters by Massa. Howe, Wallack, Yandenhoff, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds all i Mrs. Fltzwilliam. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE BOUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. TLLEA.TRIG ROYAL. Abr.:Lig:lL Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TM IS EVENING, Will be pertbrmed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paal Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which, WHO LIVES AT No. 9? Characters by Messrs. Wright and Worrell, and Miss Chaplin. To conclude with a Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John :limes Chucks. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. nOYAL LYCEUM THEATK.K. Under the Management of Madame Vostria, Solt Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. EVENING Will be perform e d a new THIS ama comic Dr, called THE HUSBAND OF MT WIFE. Ch aracters by Messrs. C. Mat h ews , H ar l ey , F. Matthews, To be followed b y a P iece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha- Selby, and Parselle ; Mi ss 11. Gilbert, and Miss Connor. meters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and rarselle ; Miss IL Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. Ts conclude with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Boxes, 53.; 17pper Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No tolf-prlce to any part of the hone. The New 13 ox-otTce, No. 3, Welllngton•street, hi open to the public ~ v ery dor, from Ten till Six. Will be perform e d a new 0 PRINCESS'S THEATi:K. Mr. J. M. M a dd ox, S o l e Lessee and Manager. Tills EVENING, LOTHIAN. Characters by Herr Mengit, Messrs. C. Braham, Horn castle, and Weiss ; Mi ss Posle, Miss Lanza, and Mdllo. Nau. Opera. entitled THE HEART OF MID After which, Aidll es. W. and A. Nerudit and their brother Victer will perform on the Violin, Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED DIN AND tilE FAIR PERSIAN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. finder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince %lbert, &c. The new grand Easter spectacle unprecedentedly successful. THIS EVENING, Tho performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be tollolTed by en inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in Which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conelude with THE LONDON CARRIER. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TIIE. WEATHEI{.-81311 °irks, MAY 5. TEURMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest, 71; Nom, 70. BAROMETER, 29.88. WIND E.N.E.—Morning, fine sunshiny weather ; Afternoon, thunder, with showers. DDDI wATER AT LONDON titILD , 4. Tars Day —Morning, 7:2 min. after 12 Evertinr. 2 min. after 1 To-Molotov— n,nuar, 23 min. after 1 I Eyeniag, 43 lain. atter I ~,,.. • kA ,_ 4 %. iti t t4 5,,, 4 ~ • i it‘ 1 ' 517 Vf Sii7 4 ,\,..441 ../ ~.,....r P .. #., , * .i. ' : :-. .........., 1.. 4. • el; .• .... l . -, n 'X • 4 ' ‘:-.. %,.:'. ..‘ , • . 41ti• ' ~, ' Illi •-:.!1" ... , • .. • 4 '..,.i ...' ,• u ci•••i t.y\ r •,, ° ' . •1 4 16 , ~,,,. • ' ItQ ',Alf' '- •., ... - F - -• .i. - ' ''''.•_' '. ebtlling '4IA LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1849. Ministers are at length resolved to grapple fairly with Irish difficulties. 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 the country, as well railways as of mine r , so as t o ob tainthat now lies b ur i e d i n th e ordinary t the e mi n e r al d e r s the Health land; the extension of the fisheries, inland, coast, and deep sea; and in a variety of other channels . _ available for the industrial occupation of the people, but which remain uncared.for and wholly neglected. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER last night brought forward two of the measures proposed by Government for the permanent improvement of the country. The Right Hon. Baronet also stated that he had intended applying at the same time for a vote authorising an advance to the Great Western (Ire land) Railway, but that the state of the arrangements rendered it necessary to delay the application. He emphatically declaredt t hatthe u i p n . ten T ti h o e n re w i a s s , ,ho w no how ever, only postponed, g iven there fore, no reason to fear that the project whi c h prominently Memberso r a d s o J n o e o nm f R the USS r E eni LL e ' . S dials fi t g a u t e r m in e d e e a n s t s u o t r o e s w hich were about to be brought for ward, is to be abandoned or relinquished. Two votes were taken, amounting together to 500,000/. sterling, of which 300,0001. is to be added to the fund avail able under the Land Improvement Act, and 200,0001. istto 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 stun that will be expended in river drainage during the ensuing year will be about 270,0001., a sum which will be pioductive 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, in Teed, 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 really beneficial, rind applied to the purports for which it was granted, and also that we shl.ll be saved harmless from every loss. The sums that have heretofore been lent for useful works have generally been repaid with strict punctuality. Wherever there has been a rea sonable profit realised, that profit has been applied towards discharging the liability to the national Ex- chequer ; where, however, not the slightest bene • fit has been conferred on the country, we can scarcely feel surprised if there should be delays and difficulties in the repayment. The present ad vances will not only be made for profitable purposes, but they will also he upon good and available security, charged upon property which may be readily sold, if any default should take place. Under such circum stances we shall most probably find that the effect has been really advantageous to the Irish people, and that we shall have no cause to repnt of the confidence we have reposed in their honour and integrity. A diabolical project appears to be on the eve of b-ing carried into operation by the Governments of the Northern Absolutists—a project for the trampling out of Hungarian liberty by an overwhelming in cursion of barbarians from the dominions of the AUTOCRAT. After conquering the independence of their native land with a heroism and a military sagacity such as have been the admiration of Europe, these glorious patriots are to be trodden down into their former state of serfdom by being grievously outnumbered. Such at least is the intention of the Imperial Cabinet at Olmutz, an inten tion eagerly adopted by the congenial adminis tration of St. Petersburgh. Such at least is the ghastly revenge reserved to themselves by the Austrians, still smarting (as they are sorely) under the remembrance of their recent expulsion 1 from the diff e rent citi es o f H ungary. Their vindic tiveness, as much as an anx i e t y f or t h e i r own preser , vation from destruction, prompts them to demand in this ignoble manner the military assistance of the Cztn. Finding 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 retention of Transylvania have been ignominiously thrashed, as General BEM, the Hungarian Commander in-Chief himself expresses it, being expelled from Her manstadt and driven confusedly beyond the boun daries of Wallachia—young FRANCIS JosErit and his statesmen find themselves reduced to the painful land 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 castigation 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 crumbling 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 tbeir rights and freedom, for the .. rights gained by their ancestors and the freedom Icherished for their posterity. Under the benign in fluc nee 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 JELLACHICH, 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 so at their mercy, no mercy must be shown them. Right must be strangled again in the Titanic grasp of Might. It is the old tale. Only the illustration 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. By the perusal of the interesting communication from General BEM published in another column— s communication forwarded to Lord DUDLEY STUART by Mr. COLQUHOUN, 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 NicuoLss, 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 DEMBINSKI. 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 /13 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 the 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-Waliachians and' pouring down in a contrary direction the legions of the crescent standard of Monaangen ! Let this be dune 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, and in spired by the patriotism of KOSSUTH. LOOK TO YOUR POCKETS—is the advertised advice of a fashionable cos' umier 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 otficills are by certain bye-laws empowered to detain or give into custody the unfortunate loser, should he not be p re p are d a t once to pay f or ano th er . —211; rning 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 ( ne tradesman within a very short distance of the place from whence they were taken,. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The day was ob3erved as 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 Ministers assembled at the Te Deem, which was chaunted on the Place de la Concorde. Detachments from the 21, 31, sth, and 6th Legions of the National Guard were on the ground. The weather was beautiful, and the spectacle very grand. There was no attempt at creating disorder. There was to be a grand display of fire-works in the evening. The Gazette de France announces the entry of the French troops into Rome. The Patric says— "A report was current this afternoon that the troops of the French expedition had an engagement with the Roman troops. This report is destitute of foundation ; our troops entered without obstacle. It is supposed that Mazzini and the chiefs of the Government have quitted the city." The Mennen?. du Soir publishes the following offi cial statement : " A report has been circulated that an altercation has taken place between the President of he TiTublic and his cousin. We are authorised to declare that M. Napo leon Jerome Bonaparte, since his return from Spain, has not had an audience of the President, nor have they met anywhere. Moreover, although the President of the Republic may show himself severe towards all the members of his family who do not conform strictly to their duty, he does not for that reason sever the bonds by which they are connected with him." The National Assembly adopted, on Thursday, the Budgets of the Ministers of Justice and of War. The National Assembly has refused, by a majority of 67, to vote the salary of General CHANGAANIER, who illegally holds two commands. The editor of the Assemblee Nationalee has been fined 500 francs for the publication of a libel on M. ARMAND MAaRAST. The venerable DUPONT DE L ' EURE, the patriarch of Republicanism in France, who from 1789 to 18-19 has consistently and honestly upheld the cans?, of liberty through evil report and through good report, who was one of the few who had the wisdom and the courage to resist the elevation of Louis PnuarrE to the throne in 1830, and who was chosen by acclamation President of the Provisional Govern ment in 1848, died on Thursday night of cholera, in the 831 year of his age. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. MAY 4. Boulogne and Amiens, B%—East Indian, 3 1 A ex. in.— Great Indian Peninsular, % —Northern of France, 11 1 4 Paris and Rouen, 22%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 29th have been received. Permission tas been given to SALAMANCA and ESCOSURA to return to Spain. The 13olsa was clond on the 29th. GERMAN Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament dreads a coup de main on the part of the King of PEJISSIA, who is concentrat ing troops at Nayence 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 measure?, 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 security 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 BRA.NDENBURG, 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, GEORG EY with his Magyars having 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 surroundi ng Vi enna. I t was stated that Raab had been evacuated by the I m p er i a li sts. 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 giren up. A quantity of battering artillery arrived at Vienna on the 30th ultimo. M. Kossunt 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 th© National Guard, and proclaimed the independence of Hungary. SAXON Y. DISSOLUTION OF THE SAXON CHAMBERS. DRESDEN, APRIL 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, 1818, 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 ad cress 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. HAN OVER. GOTTINGEN, APRIL 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 t o Ci v i ta V ecch i a to General OUDINOT. The Assembly then summoned the triumvirate to its presence to give an account of the proposed French interference, who having attended, M&ZZINI stated that they had received no official communication on the matter; that they had faith in the good intentions of France, but it was nereetheless necessary not to neglect all measures requisite for the country's safety. The Assembly then, at the suggestion of AlAaztNi, 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 Poem 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. LEVANT MAIL. Intelligence has been 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 t h e 12th of March, at Teheran, had been put down by the per sonal energy of the young Shah of PERSIA. KING'S COLLEGE HosrlTAr..—Yesterday evening a meeting of the committee of this charity was held in the board room, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields; Charles Heberden, Esq., in the chair. From 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 preAde 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 adeptate to supply the deficiency of income d ur i ng th e past year. Some routine business having pass:sd, thanks were Toted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, eIIITE. In the Caton Market at QU Liverpool R this TO week there THREE bas 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 rehetined from pressing their staples, and buyers seeing this evince more disposition to collie 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 2Sth ult. indicates noi augmented demand for accommoda tion in mercantile circles, and the continued reduction in the stock of bullion has thus far had no particular influence. In deed, as we have before stated under this bead, it must go much further before it will have such an effect, both because the supply already in the Bank vaults is superabundant, and the arrivals from South America and other parts serve to fill to a great extent the void occasioned by exports. When we see the deposit accounts sensibly drawn upon, the note cir culation augmented, and advances upon securities more de manded, it will be time enough to inter that the shipment of 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 ... ... •• • ... 167,310 3,127,170 Increase ... •• '2,683 Public Deposits ... 2,782,190 Decree 24,557 Other Deposits ... •.• ...• 11,778,602 Decrease ... ▪ 36,615 Seven Day awl other Bills . . ... 1,129,332 Decrease ... 2,787 Government Securities .. ... 13,957,269 Increase • •-• 5,028 Other Securities... 10,095,826 Increase 48,490 Notes ... 8,533,925 Decreasels7,7ss Bullion ... ... 14,385,559 Decrease ... ..• ... 124,329 Active Circulation 19,063,360 Decrease 9,585 The rates at which Bills of Exchange were yesterday 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 was taken at '25, 50 to 55 on Paris, at 11, 39 to 42 on Trieste, at 13, 11 3 to 12 on Hamburgb, and at 12, 2 to 214 on Amsterdam. The exports of the precious metals from London during 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 oun ces; to Rotterdam, 2,000 ounces; and to Mogadr, 5,120 ounces. The steamers to Hamburgh, much to the gratification o 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 from Halifax we are advised as follows: "As has been the ease 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, which latterly showed signs of weakness, are now more likely 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 %Venters are quieted 101. • Middle Hogs 101. 10 3 . p er pac k . I n t h e ' s h or t Wool market there appears 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 compara tive excess over those of the last year, than appeared at the date of my last circular, without exhibiting any 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 semen. 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 in 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 water, 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 oil 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 27,676 bales against 42,153 bales of the preceding week. The 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, it 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 circumstances which previously were unheeded, or treated as of no importance. We allude now especially to a matter we bare not failed to notice under this head, viz., the possible results of Russian interference in Germany. Consols have been 92 1 4 92 1 A, and are now 92 9245. Bank Stock is steady at 194. Exchequer-bills have The tu r o e t c i 3 7: l l ls. a oi r : k aa Market is r.ri t h n i ir u el cfehp pert he escna Cents. ns been 45i to 48 3 p rem i um. a t0 re 34 3 . 1 e . l.a a , re l%h s l o x T4 ieba t en o en eo ß3ol A 3ml4 . l Railway Shares have nearly all given way to-day, owing to increased orders to sell, but sosne of the Scotch lines, and also the French, are still an exception. Rest ONE CLosTYCI t'.ll' 1. - ,.,r ~r 1,111511 FUND:, o'cLOCIC. P2ICES Pank Stock 3 ler Cent. Redu . ed A:nti ...... 3 por Cent. Uouziols Annuities 92 vA ...1 .2 92 1 4 New 3 1 / t per Cent. A nna ....... 9134% 5 91% Long, Anna. to ex pin J an. 1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 y eari, Jan. 5, 1860 — 8 13-16 - Tills Bondi, 1,000/. ...... .. --- Ditto under I,OOP/... ..... .-.... 71 Consols for Account 92 % 14 Exchequer Bill& I%d. & 2d. 1,0001. June ...... .......... 500/. June Small. June - 47 45 48p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE. O'CLICIC. 3% 71 9214 48 p 48 p 48p CLOS Ili 0 PRICES. 33,‘ Equador Bonds Greek Bonds .. — Ditto ex Over-due:Coupons ... 6 6 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 32% 31% Ditto, Account, Ditto, Ex Coupons . 29% 29% Ditto, Account . — 29% Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent — 28% Ditto, Account — 29 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. ... . 17% 17% Ditto, Account lB 1 7 % 171 Ditto, 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 50% % 50% Ditto. 4 per Cent. C er tifi cates 7 7 % 77 1 4 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING - RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O PAID. , CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 5O ' lB% l9 Do. Preference Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 ... Boston, Starntd Sc,Birin. 5 Bristol and E xe t er 9O ...... 57%. 5 5 71 4% Ditto, Thirds .... I ;uckinghanothire ...161. 4s Cale:loni‘n Chester and Holyhead... 50 ...... 16 Lantern Counties........ 20 -. ... 8% 7% 7% Do. New, Gua. 6 p er ct. 1 0 ', Great Northern ......... 20 ...... 10% ....... ..... . 10,' s Do., 2 A Deferred ... 12% ...... ... .. 434 Do., %B 6 per Cent... 7%. 5% 5% Great Western ...........,100 ...... r 9 88 1 ,4 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares ...... 50 Ditto, 1 4 Shares ...... 23 ... 16%14 ...... ..... . 16 Ditto, Fifths ....... .. ... 20 Ditto, New 171.....,.E 15 ... 12 11% Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 .. ..- Ditto, Half Sha res ... 25 ...... 49% 49% Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 — Do. Fifths.... ........ ... 10 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent........... 10 Leeds and Bradford London &Blackwall . 12% London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O ..... 38 1 ,E 3 8 14 Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. .. 5 ..... ......... London and N. Western 100 .12 9 1% 128 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 ...... 10%14 l O l4 Ditto Fifths ..... .. •.. 2 -.... 7% 1 4 ... 7 1 4 Load. &S. Western 5O ...... 33 ... Ditto, Thirds .....16/.135.4d.... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Midland ...... ........ -.100 ....• 67 6 5 1 ,4 65 64 1i% Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 ..... 13 1 4 12% % Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Do•Consol.Bristol and Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 ......123% 122% 122% North British ........... 25 ..... •-. Ditto, 13% Ditto, Halves .. - ... 5% Ditto, Quarters North Staffordshire 17% ...... 13 12 % Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 60 ...... —17% ...... Do., Scrip No 4 ...... 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent...... 12 York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... . ......... 2.5 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Da. G. N.E.P reterence 8 York 4nel North Midland 50 .. ... 34 33% ... .... Ditto Preference Do.Esst and W est Hid ing Extension -. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Northern of France l3 ...... 1 % WA Paris and R0uen......... 20 ..... Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & WeAminstor. 20 ...... 19 3 4 14 1 4 4% 33 THE RELIEFS OF TIIE ROYAL ARTILLERY.--The Board of Or:',nanee intend forwarding the reliefs of Royal Artillery to North Britain direct by steam ships from London, instead of sending the men to Hull, and from Vience reshipped for further conveyance. Much trouble and annoyance will be prevented by this new route, and the expense will bo very little more than that incurred under the old El/ em—United frFervice Gazetto, I