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91111:8 LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ..2„. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,00C1., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro ..pctuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo- Offices of the Coppany, CIA, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap 11cation to _ G. F. HONE, Hon. Sec., pro tern. B OARD OF GREEN CLOTH. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 15, 1849. Notice is hereby Riven, that the Carriages procee itig to h , r %1 ajes ty's Drawing-room:on SATURDAY, the 19th or May, are to fall into line and come down the left-hand side of St. James's-street, enter at the Iron-gate nearest the Palace, set down at the Arcade, turn round, and go out by the Iron-gate nearest Marlborough House, to wait in St. James's-square. When called, they are to rasa from the Square through Charles-street, into Regent-street and Jermyn• street, come down St. James's-street as before, take up, and go away through Pall-mall. No Hackney Carriages will be admitted within the Gates. For all Persons having the privilege of the Entree, Tickets will be delivered at the Ikard of Green Cloth, on TIIHRSHAY next, from Eleven till Three o'cl : their Carriages are t pass through Constitution Hill Gate into St. James's Park: those belonging to the Ambassadors and Foreign Minis ters are to set down at the Ambassadors' Entrance in Marlborough-court, at the east end of St. James's Palace, and wait there till called. Those belonging to the Cabinet Ministers and Great Officers of State are to set down in the Middle Court, and wait there. The Carriages of all other Persons having the Entree are likewise to set down in the Middle Court, and wait in Stable-yard, or St. James's-park, till called. They are then to take up in the same order as they had set down, and pass away up St. James's-street. No carriage will be admitted with company a second ti-se with the same ticket ; to prevent which it must be produced at Constitu tion till Gate, and Stable Yard Gate also, where a corner of it will be torn off by the marshalmen in attendance ; and no person can be allowed the privilege of the entrée by any other approach to the palace than as above directed. FORTESCUE, Lord Steward. HEn MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, TO-MORROW EVENING. It is respectfully anneunced that a UR IND EXTRA NIGHT, on the scale of firmer seasons, will be presented TO-MORROW EVENING, May 17, when will be perfumed Rossini's celebrated Opera, LA CENERENTOLA. Angelina (under the name of Cenerentola), bidlb2. Albon! ; Don Ramiro, Signor Calzolari ; Dandini, Signor Bolletti ; and Don Mag nifico, Signor Lablache. To be followed by the principal Tableaux of the admired Ballet of FIORITA. By M. P. Taglioni; the Music by liignor Pupal; the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall. Pincipal parts by Mdlle. C. Rosati, MdLle. Marie Taglloni, and M. Dor. The Selection will comprise the principal Pas of the Ballet. and the admired Tableaus of the Waterfall. To be followed by the Last Act of Bellinrs fa'Yonrite Opera of NORMA. Norma, Mdlle. Parodi ; Pollione, Signor Bordas ; and OroTeso, Signor Lablache. The whole to conclude with the much admired Ballet of ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Pleiad (Om Wog the First Two Tableaux). The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlles. Petit Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Aussundon,' Lamoreux, Mille. Marie Taglioni and M. Paul faglioni ; and comprising the admired Pas de Deux d'Action " La Lutte," Mdlle. Carlotta Grist and M. P. Taglionl, and also the celebrated Scene of the Restoration of the Lost Pleiad to the Regions of Light. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each. . . . Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. S T. JAMES'S TH EA T R E. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with (For the last time) LE3 DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE, To conclude with LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in 3reased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • Pit • • • • Amphitheatre .. Gs. Od. 33. Od. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr: Mitchelrs 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. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. MADAME PERSIAN'. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera have the honour to an nounce to the Nobility and Subscribers, that they have eretered Into an ENGAGEMENT with Madame PERSIAN! for SIX FARE WELL PERFORMANCES prior to her retirement from the Lyric Stage, which arrangement will enable them to give once more, the chefs d'ceuvres of Moz Art and Rossini, with unprecedented ca.st.i. GRAND EXTRA NIGEIT. TO-MORROW EVENING, May 17, will be performed Mozart's Opera, DON GIOVATNI, With the following powerful ensemble, viz. : Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Coitari, and Madame Persian!; Signor' Mario, Signor Tamburini, Signor Tagilatico, Signor Polonini, and Signor Marini (who will appear for the first time in the character of Leporello). The Opera will be supported by a Triple Orchestra and Double Chorus. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. To conclude with the Divertissement from the favourite Opera of MASANIELLO, Supported by 31,111 e. Wuthier, 31dIle. Louise Taglioni, Mons. Alexandre, and Signor Casati. The performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA NE.—GERMAN OPERA. THIS EVENING, Will be performed (for the second time these eight years), Weber's Opera, DER FREISCHUTZ, Agatha, Mdlle. Romani; Arinchen, Mrne. Marlow; Max, Herr Eli; Casper, Herr , tepan ; supported by a Baud and Chorus, each consisting of 60 performers. Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. _ . _ Private Boxes and Places may be obtained - at the Box-office ; and at Messrs. JuWen and Co.'s, 214, Regent , street. W.A rick, .40YAL, tt.AYMAisx.r..T. Mr. B. Webster, Bele Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. EVENT ti Win be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Ophelia, Airs. C. Kean ; Gertrude, Miss Laura Addison. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. • IWYAL, ADP:Lein. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TLIIS EVENING, Will be performed HIS LAST LEGS. After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL', VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. S.asher, Mr. Wright Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. IOYAL ti4CAUM Under the Mans.Kenfent of Madame Vest!' ls. Lessee, Mr. Eflar!e, Ala' he ,k THIS EVENING Will he performed a new comic Drama, called THE HUSBAND OF MY WIFE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, F. Matthews, Selby, and Pa, sells ; Miss H. Gilbert, and Miss Connor. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Mad , nne Vestris. To be followed by BOX AND COX To conclude with TIIE WATER PARTY. Dress:oxen, , Upper Boma., 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No talf-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Weill= to:, street, is open to the public e very day, trom Tun till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATI.LN. Mr. J. M. Maddox. Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the celebrated Opera of THE SYREN. After which, .Mdlles. W. and A. Neruda and their brother Victor will perform on the Violin, Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with the new Domestic Opera, entitled THE BLIND SISTER ; or. the Mountain Farm. ASTLEY'r, ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. 'Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Last Week but One of the grand Easter Spectacle. In active preparation, and will be produced at Whitsuntide a new grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJEuAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. THIS EVENING, The perrormance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fltzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conclude with a favourite Afterpieee. Boa-ottice open from Eleven till Four. -taste %tanager, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER.—ux OFFICE, MAY 16. THEAKONETER, Lowest, 49, them, 64; Noon, 66. BAROMETER, 29.53. WIND S.W.—Morning, heavy showers; Afternoon, cloudy. , VATER of LONDON tittliw.,. Tnil DAT —Morning, 49 min. after 7 I Evenir,.. 27 min. after To-Mosnow—mornme, 7 min. after 9 Evening, 39 min. after 9 .0 1 ;‘. k. 44 4 4 .. '' 'r :: . ' ' ' q- • . `",. - ' l ll \ ',':-.. io' \ . : qi•. # '' - * elitik. •'' , _. ; ~., • , ANik • 7.;;..vx ' 4 ':, , .... , „. -k„ , 4' • ',. '.,(0- , ',l' , ~.:::, ,e icarri. '' , 00 ,-- ,,,-..: vie LT ''''.. ii‘io:Ost.., T • .... - , 0 " . • ~ r •• .1.,, &Inning .7-as LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1849. Nothing can justify a precipitate condemnation of the course pursued by the Government towards the Ca.naias—previous to the examination of those official dispa•ches which will be laid on Friday evening before both Houses of the Imperial Parliament. Whatever may be the nature of the provisions made in that Bill of Indemnity which has originated the insurrection at Montreal, the perfectly constitutional manner in which that measure has been carried through the 'Canadian Legislature leaves us, however, no room to doubt that the recent outbreak is the infamous result of a conspiracy on the part of a lawless and unprin cipled minority. We may each of us entertain a different opinion as to the advisability or non advisability of indemnifying indiscriminately all those who may have happened to suffer pecuniary losses during the last deplorable rebellion. One may, another may not, conceive that some defl• nite distinction ought to have been made between those individuals who were injured in their property through their sympathy for the Government and those who sustained losses from their complicity with the insurgents. Such is strictly a question of morality, of expediency, or of con veruence, upon the merits of which the views of the multitude might remain divided until the day of judgment. But upon this point there neither does, nor can there exist, any hesitation whatever— ::,ely, that the Indemnity Bill (good or bvi, 6.x.yedient or inexpedient, convenient or incon venient as it may be to individuals) has been pa ssed into a law calmly, honestly, dispassionately, lee; ;ally, constitutionally. No one can assert to the contrary. The fact is already notorious in both iemispheres. The Bill itself is exclusively a Cana dian measure. The mother country has not inter fered in the matter to the extent of one tittle. The home Government has dictated no policy, it has not even gone to the length of hinting a suggestion. The T.ndemnity Bill is, we repeat, an exclusively Cana delin measure. It h as emanate d from Canadian intel- j THE SUN, ligence ; it has been sanctioned in principle and ac cepted in form by Canadian statesmen ; it has re ceived the countenance of two successive Administra tions—a Conservative Administration and a Liberal Administration. It has been passed with large ma jorities through the Upper and Lower Chamber of the Imperial Parliament. Those majorities were not only majorities of the whole Houses, but majorities of members of the British blood. Those majorities were not the packed majorities of a Cabinet, they were the free and honourable majorities of Canadian re presentatives. Such was this Bill of Indemnity which on its receiving the Royal assent through the lips of his Excellency the Governor-General was made the pretext for an insurrectionary movement more dastardly and infamous than any recorded in the annals of our colonial possessions. Finding that their prejudices went for nothing against the force of public opinion, finding that they had been outnumbered by the members of their own Legislature—the rebel conspirators rose at a preconcerted signal. Mind—these rebels are the Tory gang! They are that Orange faction whose virulence and insolence is unfortunately not restricted to Ca nada. True to their audacious principles, they rose. Availing themselves of their accidental local superio rity in point of numbers, they domineered over their loyal fellow-citizens. Montreal became a prey to their wanton brutality, and some of its noblest adornments have irreparably fallen under their licentiousness. The Parliament House was burnt by incendiaries ; the public records and state papers were consumed in the conflagration. When a shout was raised that the French representatives were so situated as to be rendered incapable of escaping from the burn ing edifice, there was a yell of diabolical exultation. Before the match was set to the woodwork one ruffian, placing himself in the Speaker's chair, declared (after the fashion of M. Hunan) that the Chamber was dissolved — another attempting a miserable travestie of the me morable act of OLIVER, marched out of the hall with the mace over his shoulder. His Excellency Lord ELGIN was assailed by the rabble of insurgent Con servatives (what a monstrous burlesque on the title . 1 —being struck on the head with a pebble and on the face with a rotten egg. The houses of several of the Ministers were wantonly pillaged and destroyed. The whole city was given up to the horrors of a rebellion that at one time threatened a very serious effusion of blood. Such are some of the most conspicuous among the excesses of the Tory conspirators against the Government. And as to the certainty of the whole outbreak being the result of a conspiracy, there is no lack of the most conclusive testimony. When the mob first congre gated on the Champs de Mars there was a general cry " To the Parliament House I" When those who were already assembled in the neighbourhood of the Parliament House heard the approach of the insur gents from the Champ de Mars there was a cry " They come." So soon as the rioting was tolerably well afoot, clubs assembled for the purpose of erasing the name of Lord ELOIN from their catalogues ; meetings were convened for the purpose of manufac turing petitions to the SOVEREIGN demanding the recal of the Governor-General as one incompetent to conduct the administration of affairs in the colony. Meanwhile, above the level of the rabble, one or two in dividuals were brought out in a rather conspicuous po sition, being thus identified in the glare of day with the excesses and atrocities of the insurrection. Colone GUGY was carried in triumph on the shoulders of the rioters. One PERRY stood out so conspicuously among the incendiaries as to have been subsequently incarcerated under a charge of arson. The Hon. G. MOFFATT, in like manner, occupied so very visible a place in the van of the movement as to have been afterwards arrested on a still more serious charge— that of high treason. As a sort of climax to the im pudent daring displayed throughout the whole trans action—the mace, stolen as we have alreviv shown, from the Parliament House by one of the ruffians of the insurrection, was ultimately found in Shhe posses siou of Sir ALAN AVMs's ! One course, and one course alone, remains open to 1 the Government. The 'nature 'of that' course is per fectly obvious. The robbers; and pillagers, and ha- I 1 cendiaries, who have recently de so l a t e d t h e streets o f Montreal, must be put down with the strong hand of 1 that law whose majesty they h ave v i o l a t e d. Th ey must be compelled to make a bitter expiation. Their most prominent leaders must be subjected to sum mary and condign punishment. And as to the recal of Lord ELGIN, justice requires that the policy of his administration should first of all be proved to have been harsh, peremptory, or in any respect unconsti- - - tutional. hitherto the fault of his government (if such, indeed, can be called a fault) has been its excessive leniency. That leniency has, with the Orange minority of conspirators, produced its own evil fruits. This must henceforth be followed by a rigorous suppression of those rebellious passions which are only fostered into maturity by the gene rosity of a genial Administration. This we maintain to be the only rational course open to the Govern ment, as a beginning. First of all—the infliction of a tremendous penalty on the insurgents. Then—the resumption of a regenerative policy for the Canadas. Before that policy, however, is again taken up, the Cabinet must act upon the following principle— In the presence of Rioter:, Not On Shadow of a Concession. The patronage of an Irish Bishopric is now vested in the Government, in consequence of the death of the Honourable and Right Reverend Dr. KNol, late Lord Bishop of Limerick. A few words, therefore, in reference to the appointment of a successor to that diocese may not be deemed unseasonable. The late Prelate, for no less than fifteen years, drew from a poor and famine-stricken district an income of 4,9731. per annum, for the supposed discharge of his episcopal duties, which, as a Christian minister, and a shepherd of the fold of CHRIST, he was bound to have discharged with a willing faithfulness, duties which in any country, at any time, and under any circumstances, should have been strictly and re. ligiously fulfilled, but which, in a country where the Church, of which the deceased Prelate was an appointed Bishop, was placed in so peculiar a position with regard to the great majority of its inhabitants, and at a period when death in its most appalling forms of pestilence and famine was decimating the people, and threatening to turn that beautiful but unhappy land into a wilderness, became of para mount importance, and should not have been con fided to any hands but those of a person both able and willing to discharge them for the benefit of the people, the advancement of religion, and the glory of Gon. We shall not now enter into the inquiry whether he fulfils the part of the good shepherd who flies to bask in luxurious sloth in the " sunny climes" of Italy, while his flock remains a prey to the wolves on the banks of the Shannon. We should not wil lingly speak of the departed in harsh or unkind lan guage—Dr. KNox has gone to render an account of his stewardship to the infinite justice and infinite mercy of the KING of Kings. But we would strongly impress on those entrusted with the dis pensation of patronage the vital importance of exer cising a sound discretion in the appointment of a successor to the vacant mitre, for by the present selection the permanency of the Church Establishment in Ireland may be materially affected. The see of Limerick is situated in a district inha bited by an impoverished population professing tenets strongly opposed to the Protestant Church, and natu rally desirous to discover any arguments that may be used against the continuance of a system which they are prone to regard as unjust and oppressive—a system which coerces a starving population, immersed in the lowest depths of misery and destitution, to contribute an enormous revenue to the ministers of a different religion, a considerable portion whereof may be squandered in a foreign land by some mitred aigni tary, while the hard-working curate or the conscientious rector is endeavouring faithfully to discharge the important duties of his station and his office, amid the most horrible scenes of disease and death, and devoting the greater part of his paltry stipend, in sufficient for the wants of his own family, to mitigate the distress of his suffering fellow -creatures. Let it not be supposed that the Roman Catholic ppulation of Ireland are indifferent to the distribu tion of revenues to which they so largely, though perhaps reluctantly, contribute. English writers, close observers of the national character, have said that " the Irish are a justice-loving people ;" and this principle would alone be sufficient to banish LONDON. WEDNESDA Y EVENING, MA' Y 1840. apathy or indifference on such a point. But there are many reasons, independent of 1 the innate love of justice, that would induce the Irish Catholic to desire a more equitable distribution of the revenues of the Protestant Church. The resident rector, the laborious curate, are his im mediate neighbours; they have many interests in common. The hateful pestilence, the withering fa mine that so lately prevailed (and which we fear still exists in many localities), scattering death and de struction on every side, brought those parties into closer and more immediate contact. During that trying season the Irish peasant beheld the Protestant clergyman entering into a generous rivalry with his own beloved and revered pastors, in works of huma nity and Christian charity, and he learned to regard with respect and admiration the pious labours of those who, despite the difference of creed, he could not help considering to be true and faithful ministers of the Gospel. Such labourers are indeed " worthy of their hire ;" and it is from amongst such men that we hope to see the new bishop selected. There is no lack of such persons in Ireland. Many have been " weighed in the balance" and not " found wanting." Many more there are worthy of such a dignity —men, remarkable for their sincere but un ostentatious piety, their profound learning, their un bounded and unrestricted benevolence, and for all the fitting qualities of head and heart. We have seen recorded in the pages of a recent number of our re spected and talented contemporary, the Dziklin Uni versity Magazine, the works of persons such as we have been describing—of one, more especially, who, out of bis private fortune advanced large sums of money to arrest the desolating progress of the famine in his neighbourhood, whose active benevolence was up and doing. NVhile others, sunk in listless apathy, indulged in melancholy forebodings, his fore seeing prudence anticipated the dread visita tion. On his own responsibility he pur chased large quantities of food before famine prices had set in, and was thus enabled at a small pecuniary sacrifice to avert an enormous amount of human suffering, to preserve many a grateful heart from a miserable death, or from the scarcely less dreaded alternative of " the workhouse." Nobly were _ his benevolent exertions seconded by his amiable partner, who instructed several hundred females in works of industry, which enabled them to earn as much as was sufficient to support themselves throughout that fearful period by their own labours, and even to render valuable assistance to their families, thus superinducing habits of industry and independence, and saving the community from a heavy burden. While the Christian minister was supplying wholesome food on cheap and easy terms, not merely to his own imme diate parishioners, but to the inhabitants of the surrounding districts of Cavan, Longford and Leitrim, who possessed no claims on him save those which misery and wretchedness confer upon every member of the human family, this exemplary lady was teaching helpless women and innocent children to earn their livelihoods by their own honest industry, and providing a market for their manufactures, which she in the first instance purchased at her own risk, thus giving remunerative employment to every one of her suffering sisters, who were able and willing to work. Acts such as these should not be suffered to pass unnoticed and unrewarded. The case to which we have just referred forms no solitary instance. Similar deeds of active charity might be recorded of the working clergy of Ireland. We have merely selected one from among many of almost equal desert, as an illustration of what a good pastor should be to the flock whose spiritual interests are confided to his care—of those who, having proved themselves good and faithful servants in a limited sphere, should be selected fur higher, and (if possible) more important stations. A wise Government should hail such men as their best supporters, and most powerful and most useful adjuncts, should increase the power and extend the usefulness of such active spirits.' The time—the country above all, the present position of the Church—call for such men. Public feeling will no longer tolerate that the ' high places in the Irish Church, the legitimate rewards of exalted merit, should be filled by , drones or absentees. It is the duty, as well as the interest of a Government, administering the affairs of a nation addicted with a starving peasantry, an embarrassed gentry, and an absentee proprietary, to appoint to places of trust, of honour, and of emolument those disposed to con tribute largely, in proportion to their means, to the alleviation of such an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Men should be selected well ac.. quainted with the moral and the physical wants of the people, alike able and willing to adininister to those necessities—men who will reside among the flocks committed to their charge, who will in spirit and in truth obey the precepts and do the will of Him who enjoined them to feed his sheep and to feed his lambs. When the French army in 1822 was sent to put down constitutional liberty in Spain, there was hardly a private soldier in this country who did not feel regret, that brave men by the chances of war should be subjected to the necessity of mortification so extreme. Bets ran high that they would not submit; and some there were who did not. But in the main, the ancient clap-traps,—honour of the flag, though it was the conqueror's,—instinct of discipline, meaning readiness to do any work because commanded,—acted so strongly in aid of the necessity for obedience to the masters who were upon the Rhine, that the pill was swallowed, and the French army obeyed. The present day seems destined to prove, that there wants no necessity to make the French military the executioners of any extremity of unreasoning violence which may be put into the shape of an order from the adjutant. They would descend on Paris from Montmartre, and cannonade the Rue St. Honore, as readily as attack the capital of any other republic, if only the orderly book directed. A nau seous job has turned the simulated French Republic into a legitimist conspiracy for evading an outburst of public feeling; and the French army that attacks Rome, may equally be counted on for bringing back the Fifth HENRY that is to be, so soon as the heads of departments can agree. There will be no difficulty in such an operation ; the movement upon Rome will furnish the model. The Cossacks will bivouac at Fontainebleau, and send in a transcript of OUDINOT'S assurances that he comes to put down anarchy and encourage the honest party within the walls. Europe and the world are already laughing at the idea of the consummation. If things go badly for the present on the continent, this is the course the remedy must take. A few months' occu pation by the Austrians, with a taste of that stick they carry for securing the happiness of nations, will be the proper punishment of a policy exemplifying all that is great in the wickedness of the design, and all that is little in the discreditableness of the execution. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANWIE.) GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.—IN RE THOMPSON. This bankrupt was described as of Osnaburgh-place, New Road, and Commercial-road, Lewisham, and came up for his certificate. The bankrupt had been engaged in exte ns i ve c ontracts in building churches and Government prisons at Spike Island and Portland. Since the bankruptcy the bank rupt had been allowed 5/. per week, to carry on the works at Spike Island, &c., for the benefit of the cre ditors, and as they are nearly complete, the creditors will shortly be paid in full and there will be a surplus. The bankruptcy arose in consequence of the large out lay on the Government works, only about 43,000/. hav ing been advanced. The certificate was granted without the slightest op position. IN RE DE LEVANTE. IMPORTANT CASE.—SUSPENSION OS C ERTLEICATE FOR TWO YEARS.—This bankrupt was described as of Wood street, shut warehouseman, and now applied for his certificate. Mr. LLOYD opposed on the behalf of the assignees, on the ground of fraudulent trading and making away with property. The bankrupt commenced business in Nov. 1847, and stopped payment in Oct. last. Ile had com menced business without capital. lie obtained goods, and ♦ery shortly afterwards sold at a ruinous loss, and he continued this system up to the time of bis stopping payment. The greater part of the goods had been .iold to a person named Jackson, at a time that the latter was ' uncertificated bankrupt. Mr. LAWRENCE addressed the Court for the bankrupt, who was examined, and whose excuse was, first, that he went into business on the understanding that a gentle man would join him, but that person died. He had ,sold at a loss in order to keep up trade, as a friend had pro • raised to lend him I,OOW. to go on with and make up for the losses. His HONOUR considered that the bankrupt's conduct in his dealings with Jackson had been gross, and almost fraudulent, and had it been shown that there had been any cognizance that Jackson was a bankrupt, he (his Honour) would not only have refused the certificate but have recommended* criminal prosecution—it should be known that such jobbers in the trade were open to pro secution for concealment of fraud. He should suspend the Certificate for twu years, without protection, unless the bankrupt suffered six months' imprisonment. The Seiondaries Court did nut sit. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Two lightermen, named Clewly and Braithwaite, were charged before Mr. Henry with stealing coals from barges lying off the Adelphi. Policeman F5B observed the prisoners last night about twelve crossing from a barge belonging to the hither of Clewley into others, and filling from them a sack which from time to time they emptied into a cart which they had left standing on Clewley's wharf. The con stable gave information to the Thames Police, and an officer of that force (No. 18) went on board a barge belonging to Mr. Clewley, end there found the prisoner with a sack full of coals, which they stated belonged to the owner of the barge ; but a specimen now produced was pronounced, by Mr. Isaac, nephew and manager to Mr. Marchmont, coal merchant, whose barges lay alongside of Clewley's, to be of the same kind as those belonging to his employer, being what was called" liartleys," whilst the coos in the barge belonging to the prisoner's (Clewley) father, were of a superior kind, easily distinguished uy the ap pearance. The officer (la) of the Thames Police stated, that Braithwaite was a deserter from the 11th Regiment of Foot, and that Mr. Clewley, the father of the other prisoner, although he refused to prosecute, had admitted to him this morning that bath prisoners had been for some time in the habit of robbing him of coals to a great extent. _ _ HENRY thought it would be difficult to establish the identity of the coals at th e Old B a i ley, especially as l‘ir.elew toieYrefused to p rosecute. He sentenced tre prisoners two mouths' impri sonment an d h ar d l a b our, for the unlawful possession. closed d fromfirmly rather MONEY and C OIVIAIERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QU ARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Li verpoo l yester d ay were esti taken for export, and 1,000 on speculation. Th e mar ketto 5,000 bales, of which 500 were o :i:bout alteration in prices. Railway mate s h a r c e d l o s were was done. bett er , b u t on ly a limited bu s in es s In Mark Lane this morning, a steady trade is doing in alt descriptions of grain, and at fully Monday's prices. The arrivals include 7,240 quarters of Foreign Wheat, and 3,520 of Oats. The position and prospects of the Mexican Bondholders are brought now so frequently under notice, thanks to the exertions of their committee in London and their agent is the Republic, that there is hardly any security with the approximate position of which parties may be come better acquainted. It is greatly to the credit also of the Mexican Government, that they make exertions to satisfy the just demands upon them, and it is cheer ing to observe that their mesas appear to improve with their will. We have strong hopes that in time the South American States will also be all brought, where still remiss, into a satisfactory compromise. The committee of Spanish Americanßondholders have received, via the United States letters, from Mr. W. P. Robertson, to the 12th of April. From these, it appears that his negotiatkns with the Mexican overnment were contiuued with unabated perseverance, and that he was ably and vigorously supported by her Majesty's representative, Mr. Doyle. Mr. Robertson had succeeded in obtaining a pro mise from the Finance Minister to apply imme diately to Congress for permission to appropriate to the purposes of the foreign debt a sum of 720,000 dolls. to be received from the Government of the United States, for interest on the current instalment of the in demnity money ; and Mr. Robertson would follow up this arrangement by endeavouring to secure further ap propriations from the same fund. He anticipates that, taking into account the sums that may be expected from the Custom -house duties at Vera Cruz and Tampico, in conjunction with the above sum of 720,000 dolls., a further dividend will be available by January next at latest. Mr. Robertson expected that the Government would ere long be prepared to make some proposition for dealing with the arrears of interest. The question relating to the cotton licenses, the tobacco revenue, and the silver duties at the Pacific ports, were also engaging the attention of Mr. Robertson in his negotiations with the Government. We hear it whispered that the further correspondence which the committee are now having translated touches upon some rather delicate points, and that Mr. W. P. Robertson has shown himself a striet investigator, who may accomplish good, nut only with the local govern ment, but with parties indebted to it, and who are re ported to have nut been very strict in their dealings. As this may be made the subject of particular inquiry, we reserve further remarks, and may simply state at present our belief that the bondholders ma y e xpect fuller re mittances hereafter. There are advices of January 16th frosa Port Philip. The number of emigrants arrived during the month was 3,680, and it is stated that the colony could have housed during the same time, without at all feeling it a pres sure on the labour market, five times the number. The existing high rate of wages it said to have proved this. Able-bodied men Kettld not engage under 261., and females in proportion. The Sydney accounts of January sth give full details of the disposal of the bank of Australia properties, arid the arrangements appear to have given satisfaction to the shareholders. The Penyard Park had arrived out safe, allcr a protracted voyage of 157 days. Mercan tile affairs were as dull as ever, and prices much the I same. The iotters by the Ostend mail state that the loss by the destruction of the great sugar refinery at Rotterdam which, even at the date of these accounts, was still burn ing, had been from three to four millions of florins. The Stock Market at Amsterdam, on Monday, was without any particular variation, as regarded Dutch Securities, but the Foreign Bonds were well supported. At Berlin on the 12th inst., Russian Bonds were 105:1, and at Vienna, on the 10th, 89i. The English Stock Market is exceedingly quiet this morning, and steadier than yesterday, alitniugh a little flit in consequence of the " drop" in the French rentes. After a rise ut 3 per cent, within about a week, it was not to be expecte I but that a re•actiun would occur at Paris, especially with the knowledge of some heaviness in the English funds. Consols have been soi to 91 for Transfer, and 91 to if for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been 90 4 1 to I. Bank Stock is marked 19* to 194. Exchequer•bills are 455. to 485.; and Indi• bonds 70s. to 71s. premium. In the Foreign Market there is some buoyancy in Mexican Stock, which has realised 314 to 32A with the coupons. Buenos Ayres have realised 37,i, and Brazilian 78 to I. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 28i. and Spanish Three per Cents. 33 to e. Russian stock is 103 i. French Three per Cents. have been 58, with the exchange at 25 30, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 494 to 50. The report of the South Eastern Railway Commit tee of Investigation has given great satisfaction, and bears out the statement made for some days past that it would be of a favourable character. In the in discriminate haste to sacrifice their property which the unthinking ever manifest, this line has been greatly de pressed, in common with others, and we venture to pre dict that the Midland report will next attest, to some the exaggeration of d ou bt an d anx i ety There is one thin g c l ear l y shown, viz., that although Mr. Macgregor is exonerated from all blame, there has been, according to the re that extent ractice, for no definit e li ne o f has a t prevailed. least ceived railway p action has yet been laid down, a charg ing of some expenditure to capital which, as is contended, and no doubt justly, should have gon e t o revenue. We would merely call to mind, however, that if this is to be quietly passed over in one undertaking, it should not excite quite so much clamour in another. It has evidently been a disputed point hitherto, and as such should be viewed. The Share Market to-day is again buoyant, and Mid land, South-Eastern, North-Western, the Yurk, and most other lines, are higher. 0 N E :1,), I :, G ~.t 4Eh 'hE :JUTISH EUNDS4. o'cLOcir., PRICES: dank Stock 192% 191 194 3 ,or Cent. Reduced Ar.ns ...... 89 .41 4 14 83% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 90% 9074 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus-- • 9 0 14 90% 90N, i.ongAnns. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8% Ditto 30 yea rs , J an. 5, 1860 Bli 8% India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001. .„ ....... 7l p 71 p South Sea Stock ..... Consols for Account r;xchequer Bills 1 1 ,4 d. 8s 2d . 1,0001. June 4B 45 p 45 p Small. June ........ _ 49 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. olfE CLOSIN O'CLOCK. PILIf! ES. Brazilian Bonds 7Bl 73 1 / 2 Ditto, Small ........................ 78 % 3 4 Buenos Ayres B on d s, 6 per Cent. 37% 33% Equador Bonds ......... — Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 32 Ic 4. 31 1 / 2 81 . 1 rift°, Account, Ditto, Ex Coupons .....• Ditto, Account .. Portuguese 5 pe r Cents. ............ 291 / 2 Ditto, 4 per Cent 2 8 14 it ussian Bonds 10 3 3 /4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, 3 per Cent ,„. Dividends on the above payable in London. 1 IFrench, 3 per C ent. Exchange FO4 Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch 2 1 ,4 per Cent., 12 Guild . . ... .. .. 49 3 / 4 PI:ICES OF RAILWAY SILARES. rvin...., ' .t 8 .1. F_5 0 1 2,i N , 1-. :E5 0 4 8 , 94 ( ( ) ) .M . C r r ie S E IN i G .. .. 4 1 4 Bristol and Exeter...... 90 ... - a' A.li D er o d . e p en re . .................. 41/zi ... .. „..4.z2 57 Ditto, Thirds .. ...... 27 1 ,4 ...... —, ... 16 . Caledonian - ........... 50 ...... 213,./ 8 26 14 Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ..• •• ... 11% ChDittetor,anicleference... ... 5 Holyhead,,. 5 1 0 ............ 1:5 , '' 4 7 151,4 13 1 43 Eastern Comaties... ..... 20 •••••• a ' 73f i Ditto, Extension,s per Cent., No. 1....... 61.135. 40-- Ditto ditto, No. 2...64 13e. 4d..- par 1% rx6ter,rgovil, & Dorch. q.jB ...... 7 „ Great Northern ..... ~. 29 ..•••• 11 2, 22 1 875 :4 i r( D ela o rte ., f r ontid ß t;i 6 .. p ..s e id r .. C .ll e r. n .e t .,. . 4 ' 5 0/, .. .... ...... 3 0;'1 4.... ~ treat North of Z:igland.loo •••••• Great Western .....100 Ditto, 1 ,4 Sha res ...... 50 ...... 38 33 % Ditto, 4 Shares 15% Ditto, Fifths ....... ..... 20 ...... 15 ii % 28 1 / 4 104 1/2 17 331,i 10 1 / Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... 103,11,.....,, Lancashire & York:lira 93 Ditto, ditto lii Do. Fifths... lO Po. Thirds ..... ........ 15 ..... .. Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 _ ... 3 1 / 2 .... ...... Leeds and Bradford 5O London, Brighton. enu South CJast 5O .... 34 %% 36% London and N. We tern WO 123 127% 128% 129 Ditt -.), New Quarters.. 7 Loni. &S. WE stern 5O ...... 33% 3l l/4 Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Piet: 7 per Cent, on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 4% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 5 Midland ..... ...... —lOO ...... 67 1 / 2 66% 68% 08 1 4 Do., do., 50/.... Shares 25 ... .. 13 1 Do.Consol. Bristol rnd Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 12314.. North British ........ ... 25 ...... 12 5 4 •• 1 2 5/ Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12 1 Z : % Ditto, Thirds ........ 8 1 4 - .... 3304.. .. North Stallordehire l7 j2 l2' .. ...... ... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Shrewsbury and Biro; South Eastern ,2 Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ..... .. .30 30 -1" Do., Registered No. 4 Do., Scrip No 4 ioutblWales York:- Newcastle, end Berwick.... .. ...... Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Do. G.N.E.Pre;erence 8 ... 4% ...... ..... 4 York and North Midland 50 29% 29 30 29% 30 Ditto, Preference lO 3% 43%4% 4 4 L'io. East and Westßid ing Extension 514 6J,4, 31Ai 5% 12 1 / 1 - ...... 15 3 / 4 11 15 33 1 27 30 10 10 38 14% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 East Indian .... 34 Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... 7 1 A, Northern of France...—. 13 Tours and Nantes ll ..... . ....... ..... MINES Australian JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland 144 7 1 / s 3% 7% 10 1 4 314 LLOYD'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 16.—Wind at noon S.S.W., moderate breeze and dull cloudy weather. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. De• vonshire, Hovey, New York, and sld. for London. OFF DUNMORE EAST, MAY 12.—Phanix Of Greenock) Savannah, for the Clyde. CLYDE, MAY 12.—Arrd., Protege de Marie, Malieo, Nantes. 11th, Sld., Harmonie, New York. 12th, Packet, Trinidad; Tadmor, New York; Eliaa Ann, Quebec; Jane Brown, Quebec. BRISTOL, MAY 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd., Glenelg, Player, Demerara. _ SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 14.—51 d., Fame, New York. COWES, MAY Is.—Wind S.W.—Arrd., Elizabeth Louise, Jachtmann, Africa, for Stettin; Union, Laffuley, Madeira, for Hamburgh. DEAL, MAY 16.—Arrd., Renshaw, Mogadore; Alice Palmer, Jamaica; Juniata, New Orleans; Cumberland, Smith, Cadiz. Sid., Harmony, Sydney, New South Wales, and since put back. HASTINGS, MAY 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd., Guar dian, Thompson, West Coast of Africa. LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. 14th, Ganges, Christie, Savannah; 15th, Princess Victoria, Sierra Leone; Britannia, Johnson, Ceara; St. George, Ferris, New York. Off port, Lady Rowena, Bridget, William Pitt, Henrietta. The May, M'Leod, from Liverpool to Camaroons, was totally lost about the 22d February, near Benin; crew saved. • , . - GRIMSBY, MAY 13.—The Minerva, from Hartlepool to London, has put in here with loss of bowsprit, &c., and very leaky, having been in contact with a light col lier near the Dudgeon this morning. DEAL, MAY 15. Wind S.W.—Arrd. Straat Balie, Mulder, Bltavia; Johanna, ditto for Rotterdam; San derson's, Douglas, Shanghae; David Clarke, Swaine, Calcutta and Antigua; Esther Frances, Pringle, Cey lon; William Dalby, Bombay for Hull; Amy, Mauri tius; Emma, ditto; William Woolley, Headburg, Cape of Good Hope. Arrd. from the river, William Wilson, Gibb, Adelaide, South Australia; Nicolai e Joaan, Ra dulwich, New York. KINGSTOWN, MAY 14.—Ski. Sylph, Quebec. LONDONDERRY, MAY 13.—S1d. Barbara, New York. LIMERICK, MAY 14.—Wind W.—Sld. Williams, St. Thomas's; Leviathan, Quebec. CORK, MAY 1 4.—Wind S.—Sld. Sandwich, Boston; Mary, Quebec. SWANSEA, MAY 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Union, Rapsey, Adelaide, S, A. ; Mary Ridley, Clough, Cuba. MILFORD, MAT 14.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Ida, New port and Grenada. OFF SClLLY.—Elizabeth and Johanna, Ballot, Banjoe wanzie for Zerikzee. DOVER, MAY 15.—Arrd. Nuevo Angela, Villabosa, La Guayra ; Neptune, Stehr, Allazzeta, both for Ham burgh; put in here in consequence of the Danish block ade. OFF PORTSMOUTH, MAY 15.—Bucephalue, Bell, Cal curt a. OFF THE WIGHT, MAY 14.—Rotterdam, Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Alice, Jamaica. 15th, Courser, Panama, for Hull. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. Our market to day was again very scantily supplied with all kinds of Englibh Wheat. Although the attend ance of buyers was small, the demand for that grain was firm, and a good clearance of the stands was Effected, at prices fully equal to those paid on Monday. The im ports of Foreign Wheat this week have been only 7,248 quarters, but a large fleet of corn ships is working up the Channel from the Black Sea. Most descriptions ruled steady, and late rates were well supported in every instance. The supply of Barley was again limited ; most kinds ruled inactive; but we have no change to notice in prices. So little business was transacted in Malt that the currencies were almost nominal. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn, were quite as dear. The Flour trade was tolerably firm. English Scotch .. •• •• _ I -- I 1 3 95. 7,240 ,2 0 3,520 -- Malt, 1,090 qrs. 330ROUGIEIC EL O P The plantation accounts being favourable, the demand or all kinds of Hops is heavy, and prices aro with diffi culty supported. The market is by no means well sap. plied. Sussex pockets, 21 4s to 21 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 31 8s ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 315 s to 6118 s per cwt. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. I Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Flour. 1 410 qrs. I 390 qrs. 4120 qrs. 480sk. Irish. ........ Foreign ...... WHITECRAPEL. Although the demand was in a sluggish state, the late improvement in value was well supported. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s; Lamb,4s 10d t o 6 i; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s to 2d ; and York, 3s 4d to 4a 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. READING, GUILDFORD, AND REI GATE RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway was held this morning, at the offices in Exchange-buildings, for the purpose of approving of a Bill authorising the construc tion of a branch to connect this line with the London and South-Western; Mr. D. Salowons in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the branch had already been made by consent, but, for security's sake, the directors thought it better to have it sanctioned by Act of Parliament. After a short discussion the Bill was approved of, and the meeting terminated with a Tote of thanks to the Chairman. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Rosbini's sparkling Barbiere de Siviglia was performed here last evening, by special desire of her Majesty, who, with Prince Albert, honoured the theatre with her pre sence. The cast was remarkably strong ; indeed, we doubt whether, at any lyrical theatre in the world, the chef d'oeuvre of Rossini could have been cast so strongly. Mademoiselle Alboni was the Rosina, Lablache the Don Bartolo, Gardoni the Count, Beletti the Figaro, and F. Lablache the Don Basilio. Alboni is as far and away the best Rosins on the stage, as is Lablache the best Don Bartolo. Never have we heard the far-famed " Una voce" so exquisitely rendered as it was rendered l as t night by Mademoiselle Alboni. H er rich and mellow tones told most effectively in this delicious aria. The house listened in a silence of delight until the conclusion, and then there was a loud and unanimous call for its repetition, which was gracefully complied with. As the pianoforte lesson she chose "In questa semplice," which was honoured—most deservedly —with a double encore. We never heard her sing this aria, in the rendering of which she is at all times unapproachable, with greater spirit, taste, and effect than she did last evening. The bye play of Lablache, during the singing lesson was full of rich humour; his look of surprise at the singing of his pupil, and his applause at the end, were fall of the true vis comica. Gardoni made an interesting Count, and Belletti an active animated Figaro. They were much applauded in the glorious duet " Nil idea di qual metallo." F. Lablache made up Don Basilio admirably, and seldom indeed has the Barbiere been so perfectly represented as it was last evening. In compliance with the desire of the Queen, the last two scenes of the new ballet of Electra, including the pas de deux between Carlotta Grisi and Marie Taglioni, concluding with the magnificent con stellation of the Pleiades, and the restoration of the lost Pleiad, were given between the acts of the opera. The house was crowded in every part. ESTINO OF PADDLE BOX LIGHTS.—An experi ment took place at Woolwich Dockyard yesterday night, in the presence of Commodore Henry Eden, and several other officers, to ascertain the comparative merits of the red and white lights of the lamps fitted to the Black Eagle steam• vessel, with the red and white lights of lamps constructed on a plan suggested by a Noble Lord an officer in the Life Guards. The new lamps were under the direction of Mr. Reece, chemist, Piccadilly, and are supplied with a camphine liquid which produces a strong and very brilliant light, far superior to those in goner* use, and they require no trimming or attention for lengthened periods. the flame of the new lamps ape pears similar to the steady . and uniform flame emitted from gas-burners, and it retains its brilliancy while any of the liquid remains. The lamps are remarkably clean, scarcely any smoke being generated. EMPERIAL PA LILIAN EN T. (THISAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes after Twelve o'clock. The report upon the Leeds and Thirak Railway was brought np and agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the Grimsby Corporation and Freeman's Arrangement Bill were brought up and agreed to. Mr. MATHESON moved that Mr. Grey be allowed to attend and vote in the Committee on the Tyne River Conservancy and the North Shields Quays and Improvements Bills, notwithstanding the Clerk of the Committee of Selection has not received from him the prescribed form of declaration, with his sienature at tached, not later than the day immediately preceding the first meeting of the Committee, provided he deliver in such declaration forthwith. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to. PETITIONS. Mr. MATHESON presented a petition against the Scotch Registration 13i11 ; also one in favour of the Clergy Relief 8111. Mr. MACKENZIE pesented a petition against the Scotch Lunatic Bill. Mr. HEALD presented several petitions from North umberland and Yorkshire against trading in seduction ; also one in favour of Church reamer. An nem MEMBER presented a petition against the Health of Towns' Bill, and also one praying for the repeal of the game-laws. Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition praying for a revision of taxation and fur the extension of the suffrage. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Falkirk in favour of the Affirmation Bill. CANADA. Mr. HAWES brought up some papers relating to Canada. Mr. ROEBUCK said he rose to make some observa tions with reference to those papers, and also with re ference to the statements which appeared in the public papers of yesterday, and which had naturally created a good deal of excitement. He, in common with others, had been naturally startled by the intelligence which bad been received; but since then he had received some private information from a gentleman who lived in that country, and he stated that the riots at Montreal had arisen in consequence of a Bill having passed both Houses of the Legislature, for the p ur p ose o f compen sating persons w h o had suffered losses by the insurrection in 1837. He (Mr. Roebuck) had ob tained from his Honourable Friend (Mr. Hawes) a statement of the actual mode of procedure in the Canada House of Parliament, and he found that the Bill which had raised all this commotion was brought in by the present Administration of the Canadas, and was carried in accordance with the feelings of the majority of the Legislature. The Act of Union united Upper and Lower Canada, and the consequence was, that there were two distinct states of population, and it appeared that the dispute was not simply a question of party, but a question of race, between the French and the English. ' The letter from the gentleman to whom he al luded stated that, in a time of profound peace, the Governor-General went down to the House to sanction several Bills, and among others the one which had caused so much emotion; and that on his way he was not only insulted, but meetings were got up on the spur of the moment, which were summoned by means of fire bells, and at which inflammatory speeches were made. Ile further stated that the mob hurried to the Parliament House, smashed the windows, seized the mace, and finally drove cut all the Members, and after. wards the House was set on fire, and wholly consumed, es well as its valuable library. The writer further added, that the loss was irreparable, and that the pro ceedings were altogether discreditable to the national honour. It appeared that the magistrates sat up all night to take the depositiona of parties, and early next morning the men who directed the mob were arrested. There were other outrages on Thursday night, but in consequence of the leaders being masked they were not known, and could not be afterwards arrested. He (Mr. Roebuck) found else that Lord Elgin was fully sustained by a majority of the Legislature; in Uppe Canada the majority was 16 to 11, and in Lower Canada 21 to 1, and it was stated that in a lull House the majority would have been no more. He was further informed that the rabble was headed by bankrupt magistrates, who had no stake or interest in the country, and who, although they pretendeu to great loyalty, would be rebels at any moment to serve their own purposes.—(Hear.) Great alarm in this country had been created that the ques tion of annexation was connected with the riots, but that was not the case, and he warned the House not, upon any misunderstanding of that kind, to interfere prematurely with the affairs of Canada. The money which the Legislature was about to appropriate was the money of Canada, and not the money of England, and he found that the Canadian Legislature could not pass a money Bill without the sanction of the Crown. Mr. PUSEY rose to call the Hon. Gentleman to order. It would be utterly impossible for any independent Member to proceed with their business, according to his view, and his not short experience, if motions of that kind should have precedence of the orders of the day. Tho SPEAKER said the question before the House was that the papers relating to Canada should be laid on the table, and therefore the Hon. Member for Sheffield was clearly in order, if he confined his attention and ob servations to that business. Mr. ROEBUCK said his desire was to relieve the public anxiety only—(Hear, hoar)—and he would close his remarks which he wished to make if it was the desire of the House that he should do so, for he did not wish to throw any obstacle in the way of Hon. Members proceeding with their Bills—(Cries of "Go on")—but this was a question on which the House should not only have every information, but should do all in its power to settle the commotion which had unfortunately risen in regard to the subject to which he had called its attention. The Ministry of Canada were principally responsible for the proposal in question; and he could not imagine that the Colonial office was not perfectly cognizant of all the facts of the case. Those facts they must have known long before; and the paper that his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes) had sent round this morning of itself showed that the ground-work of that proposition was thoroughly well known at the Colonial-office, and bad its sanction and approval. He begged pardon of the House for having interrupted its proceedings by calling its attention to the subject on which he had addressed ia—(Cheers.) Mr. HAWES thought it would be extremely incon venient to raise any general discussion on this subject at this moment. The Government had taken the very earliest opportunity of laying the papers relating to Canada on the table of the House ; and it would be ex tremely inconvenient to provoke any general dis cussion until the papers had been circulated among the Members. Mr. GLADSTONE quite concurred in the remarks which had fallen from his lion. Friend (Mr. Hawes) ; but those which had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Member for Sheffield were not such as he (Mr. Glad stone) thought be ought to pass over.—(Bear.) lie did not think it right for the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to warn that House against a premature interference either in the affairs of Canada, or in any other affairs whatever. He(Maßoebuck)hitnself, perhaps unconsciously, had done much to prejudge the question—(heer, hear)--on which he (Mr. Gladstone) thought the House was as yet very imperfectly informed, as he (Mr. Roebuck) had himself admitted. He (Mr. Gladstone) confessed, when the first intelligence on this subject reached this country, his mind was deeply affected, but still that intelligence convinced him that we were not, and could not be, in possession of the merits of the case or of the informa tion necessary either to form a judgment on the Rebel lion Losses Bill, or on the conduct of his Noble Friend Lord Elgin.—(Hear, hear.) For those reasons he had abstained from putting any question or taking any pro ceedings on this case which might have a tendency to agitate this question. The Hon. and Learned Gentle. man warned that House against interasring with the Re bellion Bill ; but on what principle I' If he offered that warning on the condition of imperfect information, he (Mr. Gladstone) heartily concurred with him; but when he heard the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, not content with warning the House against its interference, but laying down a principle as the ground of his warning, which principle would be as good now as when the House was perfectly informed. When he heard that the Legislature of Canada had been voting money for the people of Canada, he (Mr. Gladstone protested against a doctrine which interfered with the supremacy of the British Legislature.—(Loud cheers from the Opposition.) He merely protested against the reason of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, He (Mr. Gladstone) contended that that House had a per fect right to interfere in all Imperial concerns. It was a question of wisdom and prudence whether the House should interfere or not; but the fact of the money of this Bill being provided by Canada would not be conclusive of itself against interference, provided that interference should be called for on other groueds.—(Hear, hear.) He well knew this was a question of race, but the statement of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman bad read did not touch the question at issue. Ile had seen a hundred times over that this was a question of race, but never had he heard it stated before that this was a question of race in the House of Assembly. Everybody knew that the Members in that House of Assembly who were of French origin were its a minority in that House. The question was whether this was a question of race not within the walls, b u t w i t h ou t th e walls of the House of Assembly. Th e C o l on i a l Government had a discretion over matters which were not important; but the super, vision of the Government of this country over all colonial affairs was, or ought to be, strict and unlimited. On both sides (.f the House Hon. Members would doubt less think it their imperative duty to examine with care every step of the proceedings that had taken place in Canada when iu possession of the whole of the facts; but in the meantime he trusted no judgment would be pro nounced on the conduct of the Executive or of her Ma jesty's Government until the House had been afforded an opportunity of carefully examining the whole of the papers. Sir G. GREY considered that they would act wisely if they abstained from passing an)sjudgmeut u p on what had occurred on the imperfect information which they at present possessed. He did not wish to continue the discussion, but he wished to ►tate that he did nut understand the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to d3ny the right of the Government to give or withhold its ap. probation of what was done by the Assembly of Canada. Mr. ROEBUCK—Hear, hear. air G. GREY—The fact that a Governor was sent out, and that his sanction was required to the Bills proposed by the Assembly, implied that this was so. Had the Hon. and Learned Gentleman contended that we did not possess that right he should have denied the accuracy of his Automat. As the ilon. And Learned Gentleman had explained that this was his nicanine, h _ hoped That the discussion woula then end, and not ne renewed until further information was placed before the Louse.—(;Hear.) Mr. GbAieSTONE e xplaired that he understood the . Hoe. and Learned Member not to d eny t h e r i g h t o f Parliament to item fere. fie rather looked to the reas ons the Hon. and Learned Member had adduced in support of his views than to his au tract reasoning. lie had argued that the money belonged to the colony, and that, therefore, they had a right to expend it as they thought proper. Mr. NE W DE GATE expressed a hope that the country would not prejudge the question at issue. Mr. ROEBUCK explained that he read the names of members who had voted on the question from a list which had been sent to him from Canada. Mr. J. E. DENISON thanked the Hon. and Learned Member for affordioss the House any information on the subject. He thought it would be understood from the discussion that the Helve did not wish to prejudge the question, or to act immaturely with respect to it. The papers were then laid open the table. ASCENSION DAY. Mr. ADDERLEY moved that to - morrow, being As cension Day. no Committee do meet tied proceed with business before two o'clock. He said be saw no reason why the seine rule as Existed with respect to Ash Wed to slays should not be applied to Ascension Day. He was utterly at a loss to see why any distinction should be made betwetn the two days. Ile trusted, therefore, no opptailion would be effi red. Mr. CHRISTOPHER seconded the minion. Mr. BRIGHT disapproved of the motion, because he did not see where the adeption of such a course would and.—(Hear.) There seemed an extraordinary halluci nation, as to the periods when that House should not tratenct any business. For instance, last year they had a debate whether they should or should not adjourn on the Derby-day. The Christian Church held several days in the year as important and which should be re ligiously observed. One of those days was the anniver sary of the day on which an unfortunate monarch suf fered, and when members were expected to go to church—but very few w ent. — (Laughter) —h e meant upon that particular day. He saw no reason why they should give up part of to morrow. They had no Act, no custom by which the whole day, or any part of it, should be devoted to other purposes than business. He was a member of an important Committee on the Irish Poor-law. Several persons had come over from Dublin yesterday to be examined upon it to-morrow and Fri day; and if the Committee did not sic until two to-mor rew these gentlemen, who were anxious to get back, might be detained over Sunday. It was doubtful if they could conclude their examination if they sat during the ordinary period to-morrow and Friday. He opposed the motion because he could not see where it would end, if their common sense did not prevent them. Why, if they pro ceeded in this way, they might be asked to adopt a similar course with respect to all the parti cular days named in the Testament. Then, as the people of Engl an d, S cot l and, Wales, and Ireland had each its particular set of saints, they might be asked to adjourn upon those dep. Sir GEORGE GREY said when the Hon. Member spoke to him first about bis motion, it was that the House itself should not sit until after two o'clock, and he said the Government would oppose it. He then altered it to its present form. He said he saw no reason why the same rule should not be applied to Ascension day as Ash- Wednesday ; but that was acceded to by the general consent of the house.—(Bear.) If the House wished to a similar rule, the Government would not object. Mr. SIMEON supported the motion. Mr. BRIGHT thought if the permission was to be left with the Committee, to take any course they chose upon the subject, the difficulty would be got over. Mr. S. CRAW FORD thought the time bad coma when the Eouse should act upon some fixed principle upon the subject. Ile could not see, if this motion was adopted, why it would not be competent for the Roman Catholic Members of the House to insist that their saint days should be observed by the House.—(Hear.) The motion was then agreed to without a division. LAN DLORD AND TENANT -BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill; Mr. BERNAL in Ihe chair. Mr. CHRISTOPHER rose to move the amend ments of which he had given notice, the first of which was to omit in the first clause the words relating to the purchase of food for cattle or sheep. Mr. PUSEY objected to the omission of the words. Sir R. PEEL supported the clause as it stood. Mr. EVELYN DENISON said that the clause ms• terially affected those persons who bad invested capital in what might be called temporary improvements, as, for instance, those who had dressed their lands with arti ficial manure, or any other expensive condiment of natural character, such as guano, a case for which be thought a provision ought to be made. The law as it stood provided to a certain extent, but only to a certain extent, and, believing that the amendment would prO• vide for the def.ciency, he should vote for it. Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that the Bill as it stood would certainly lead to no end or litigation. How were they to arrange according to the custom of the country in Surrey, Sussex, and the neighbouring counties For his own part, /ip conceived th at some b etter arrangement was neeessarylo secure the outgoing tenant upon short holdings. Mr. SIDNEY lIEBBERT said that as the Bill stood it was quite sufficient for the purpose for which it was intended. The land would be greatly amended by it, and it left the t enant, whether on lease or at will, at liberty to do as he pleased, and did not compel the tenant fur life to sacrifice his own interest for the benefit of his successor. Ile might improve the land if he pleased, hut he was not compelled to do so. Mr. NEWDEGATE said, notwithstanding the high respect in which he held the opinion of the Right lion. Baronet the Member for Tamworth (Sir R. Peel), he did conceive that some greater security for the wel• fare of the tenant was required than they had at present possessed or were likely to obtain by this Bill. Atter a f w words in explanation from Mr. CERISTO. PEER and Mr. FUREY, Mr. ROEBUCK said that one object appeared to have been lost sight of in the Bill. Hon. Members had talked of the interest of the tenant, but they had altogether overlooked the interest of another, that was the owner of the land.—(Elear, hear.) A man might by a course of white crops completely take the heart of the ground, but no remedy was left for his landlord. Mr. PUSEY pointed out the clause which he con ceived protected the landlord. Mr. HENLEY thought that this amendment provided the best possible means of getting rid of a great diffi culty. After a few observations from Mr. S. CluvisonD and Sir W. JOLLIFFE, The House divided, when there appeared-- For Mr. Christopher's amendment 27 Against it 102 Majority --75 Mr. CHRISTOPHER moved, as an amendment. at line five, after the word "fences," to insert the words, " or by the erection of substantial farm buildings." Mr. PUSEY said, in the first Bill that was introduced compensation for farm buildings was recognised. He thought it better they should adhere to the report of the Committee. Mr. MILES expressed his approval of the amend ment. Mr. HENLEY thought the true reason for this amendment was to make the law uniform ; and he never knew any reason why a tenant of land should not be put on the same footing as tradesmen with respect to the buildings fer carrying on their trade. Mr. DENISON concurred in the remark which had fullest from the Hon. Member (Mr. Henley). The amendment was negatived without a division. (LEFT SITTING.) THE LATE GENERAL SIR ROBERT WILSON.--, The mortal r ema i ns of this gallant officer were consigned to their last resting-place, yesterday, at noon, in the family vault in the north aisle in Westminster Abbey. The Duke of Wellington, Viscount Hardinge, and above 100 military friends, made applications to be allowed to have their carriages follow in the mournful procession; also a deputation of gentlemen connected with the borough of bouthwark, but these respectful offers were declined. FEMALE CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.— The Stately, Captain Ginder, has arrived in the Warren Bight opposite the east end of the Rcyal Arsenal, Wool wich, to embark female convicts for Van Diemen's Land, and they will proceed to their destination under the charge of Dr. Elliott. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAr.—On M on d ay the Hail s h am an d E ast b ourne extens i ons of this co rn . puny were publicly opened, establishing a di rect corn. munication irom the metropolis to their sea -bathing districts. BIRTHS. f S a t e r is a ho w anm. b 7: r y e v e e a n l et: BFrionnichplteoyn,, tilthers.wLife Fof.OA O n hWttthhhoieeeni I,lilal°223mitt.thhhsa, in : sst e utg. t :: , hatott t e h rP e . laiy of J. N. Warren, Esq . , of On t Kentish-town, of a daughter. T. OTi:leard,n the 13ofh t a dau inst., ghter.at Pe mbroke -squa re, Kensington, Mrs. w On the Wall 12th sq., his , at briMecklenburgh-square, the wife of .H. ,Eo tf Tundg On the I .th inst., at Patke. wells, of a daughter. Brogden, of a daught er . terr ace, Highbury, M rs , J o h n On th 9th wife of Air. Lowentha mst., l, a of a son.t IVio ntpelier.cresee n t, B r i ghton, the , 110 T T. , D. -------...._ On the N 10 th inst., at Rifle: 111 den, L e i ces t ers h ire, Frederick Fowke, , eldest son of Sir Gustavus Fowke, ban., of Lowesby-h all, Leicestershire, to Sarah Mary, youngest daugh- Surrey. ter of the late H enry L. Spencer. Esq., of Banstead-park, Ou the 10th inst., at Liverpool, Mr. Alexander Alexander, of Hatton -garden, to Rose S Cole man, of Liverpool. , youngest daughter of th e late On the 13th inst., at Cowts, General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C. 8 ., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, fourth son of Henry, first Earl of Uxbridge, aged 74. On the 12th inst., at Cheltenham, Mary, the wife of the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord de Saumarez, and daughter of the lata Vice-Admiral Lechmere. On the sth inst., at Montrose, Sarah Southey, aged 67, widow of Captain Thomas Southey, R.N., and sister-in-law of the late Poet Laureate. On the 7th inst., at Stubbington, near Titchfield, Hants, the Rev. David Haynes, aged 53. On the 9th inst., at Chester, the infant daughter of Sir Edward aid Lady Walker. On the 11th inst , at Hastings, the Rev. Septimus Stockale, rector of Wilhy, Northamptonshire, aged 25. On the 12th inst., Sophi x Williamson, the third d aug hter of the R ev . Edward Irish, Dartford, Kent. --; London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No, 112, Strand, in the Precinct et the Savoy, in tan count, of laiddleson, Wednesclay, May 16, 1849.