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Indeed it will become as necessary as a Directory in every lawyer's office."—Messenger. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROBERT 110 UD IN. -- ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Close of this attractive Entertainment. M. ROBERT noupiN will have the honour to repeat his extra ordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, at this Theatre as follows : This Evening (Tuesday) .. March 6. To-morrow (Wednesday) .. PI 7. Thursday Evening .. IV 8 • Being positively the last Entertainment, owing to M. Houdin's depar ture for the provinces. Evening Performance at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at Half-past Two. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets for this extraordinary Entertainment inay be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-Mice of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The pubis is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and ti e whole redecorated. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Drama of TIIE HOUSEKEEPER. After which, THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean ; Donna Violante, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Morton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the Original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esti , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable. THIS EVENI/I(, will be perfOrmed COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. After which, the original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Redford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. To conclude with JOHN JONES. Guy Goodluck, Mr. Lambert ; Eliza Melton, Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestries Sole Lessee. Mr. Chafe.: Mahe Ns. THIS EVENING 11111 be performed SHAVE YOU DIRECTLY. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ICING OF rHE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil slam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with U S ED UP. Dress ..oxes, 53.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. No kalf-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington. street, is open to the public rv€ry day, from Ten till Slx. PRINCESS'S THEAT►.N. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and 'Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Afr Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrart,, men ts have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the cou.ort and,cenvealence of the audience. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Opera, entitled FRANCESCA DORIA. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL; or, harlequin and lh (Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Fiesmore ; Sprite, Mr. De Ban; Columbine, Miss Fawcett._ ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Mr. Batty respectfully announces that he has entered into an en gagement with the celebrated American Equestrian Young Hernan dez, who has just arrived in this country, and whose talent has gained for him the title of the first rider in the world. He will make his second appearance this Evening. THIS EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled CORA SCO ; or, the Warriors Steed. After which the double Tight-ropes. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with the farce of CURIOSITY. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 6. TH?,RMONETER, Lowest, 36, Highest, 53; Noon, 53. BASUMETER, 30.71. The mercury has again attained a very high range, but is now beginning to sink. WIND W.S.W.—very fine. ti 10 Li W ATE H. AT LONDON lilt WOE. Tuts DAY orning, 0 min. after 0 i Eveninr. 6 min. after 12 To-lifonsow—Morning, 34 min. after 12 I Evening, 2 min. after 1 V. 4 ''' ,t.',7:m.t ' , ; -. : \L / °,. • 'k•l - 40 6, _....a.=" i f:%-„..,' , . mi , ' 4- , ..,„. . .I.la, . ( 7 1 :-7 1 `4, . _. ,_, —,.. .w. "lirtillio =zNaltlir. 4 a LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1849. It has long been notorious throughout Europe that the AUTOCRAT is, beyond all things, ambitious of ren dering Constantinople, in its relation to St. Peters burgh, what Rome was in its relation to Paris under NAPOLEON—namely, the second city of his empire. To accomplish this NICHOLAS has hitherto endea voured, by every device of diplomatic chicanery, to compel the policy of the Divan to become subservient to that of his own Government. Against the success, however, of these endeavours there has remained one enormous and almost insurmountable obstacle. Russia isbecoming every day more and more despotic. Turkey, on the contrary, is becoming every day more and more liberal in its code, and more and more constitutional in its administration. At the very time, therefore, when the EMPEROR is striving to bind together more closely his own Cabinet and that of the Sublime Porte, the two Governments have been gradually becoming more estranged by the inherent and growing antagonism of their principles. Finding himself worsted in most of his recent designs towards the subjugation of the Ottoman dominions, NICHOLAS appears to have at length broken asunder the bonds of amity, and to have threatened the SULTAN with all the rigours of his arbitrary authority. Not con tented with violating the neutrality of the Danubian Principalities, not satisfied with fomenting divisions between Bosnia and Bulgaria, with supplying no less than 10,000 arms to the Servians, with desolating the whole of Transylvania, insomuch that hundreds of the inhabitants have fled from their oppressors into the somewhat less devastated fields of the Wel lachians ; not satisfied with pouring his forces beyond the Muscovite frontiers, accompanied by a full pon toon equipage, and preceded by a relentless Commis sary, like DUHAMEL, the Russian EMPEROR has, at length, through his Ambassador at Constantinople, demanded a p - is•age for his fleet through the Bos phorus, across the sea of Marmora, through the chan nel of the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean. To a request thus boldly and peremptorily made by M TiroFF, the Divan has ret urned, without hesitation , a yet bolder and more peremptory refusal. Where upon it was insolently announced to the Ottoman Government by the representative of the AUTOCRAT, that Russia would at once take by force the passage which she had merely demanded by courtesy. Such is the last startling phase in the complex ne gotiations between Russia and Turkey. The apparent friendship which has been heretofore forced upon the latter by the absolute Government of St. Peters burgh has at length been broken in twain by The Divan audacity o f th e Emperor NICHOLAS. Divan has at last shaken off the incubus of the Muscovite yoke; but, unhappily for herself and for Western Europe, the power of NICHOLAS is in a great measure commensurate with his daring and his despotism. Now more than ever, to timorous and despondent minds, the sombre anticipation of M. ADOLPHE TRIERS seems to be on the verge of ~its realization—that anticipation which the historian has borrowed from the famous prophecy of NAPOLEON, and which has haunted the imagination of the pub licist with the phantom of the terrible colossus of Ru. ssia—that colossus which he already sees with his mind's eye standing triumphant over the continent, with one foot at the Sound an d anot h er at the Dardanelles, with serfs groaning under its frown throughout E urope, and the lovers of liberty fly ing in dismay acro ss t h e Atlantic to find shelterin the deserts of America. Those, however, who scan the chart of the world rightly, and who appreciate the vigour of the ag e duly, will regard with no sentiment s o f credence that deplorable Nightmare of a delirious Fancy and a diseased Patriotism. They will l oo k to the alterna tive prefigured by the lips of the Imperial PROME THEUS, when he foretold the mysteries of futurity from his captivity on his insular Caucasus. They w ill see not the Europe of the Cossacks, but the Europe of Republicanism,. They will see, not the victory of the AUTOCRAT, but the triumph of de mocracy. Even now the Government of Von. stantinople, that Government so long regarded as effete, vacillating, and effeminuted, ha, acquired sufficient confidence in the strength of Western Europe to defy the gigantic power of the AUTOCRAT. The secret of this inde- J3endent action on the part of the Divan is not unworthy of consideration—it arises from the engrafting of generous and constitutional laws upon the ancient code formerly carried into execution by the scimitars of the Ja nissaries. Re-assured by the friendly and en couraging communications received from France and from England, the SULTAN has resolved to withstand the daring advances and threats of his arbitrary neighbour. His opposition to NtenoLas has not consequently been restricted to a simple refusal of the demand made by the Russian Ambassador for a passage for a Russian fleet through the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean—it has exterded further. While in one direction the inhabitants of the Danu bian provinces are being conciliated through the in strumentality of the Ottoman Commissary in Walla chia, FUAD EFFENDI—that official having, among other acts of generous munificence, placed the sum of 1,000 ducats (12,000 francs, or 4801.) in the name of the Porte at the disposal of the impoverished families at Bucharest—in another quarter, namely, in the capital and its immediate vicinity, extraordinary pre parations are being made of a strictly defensive or protective character. Reports, for example, have been summarily required from the Seraskier, or Com mander-in-Chief, as to the actual state of the army of reserve, as to the supplies in the arsenals, and as to the general condition of the fortresses, particularly those situated along the Danube. The latter, indeed, is the point most open to the attacks of the AUTOCRAT and is hence the one towards which the Ottoman Government should direct its most scrupulous attention. Now that Russia is, through the medium of the Szeklers, devastating the unfortunate cities of Transylvania, now that she is pressing heavily upon the Wallachians, and striving to excite an insurrectionary movement between Bosnia and Bulgaria, in the hope of affording herself a pre text for intervention, it is peculiarly incumbent upon Turkey to protect at least the frontier line of the Danube. Whatever may be the next occurrence, either in the neighbourhood of the Principalities or of the Bosphorus, it is to the interest of England and of Western Europe to aid the SULTAN in his collision with the AUTOCRAT. The Naval Estimates will shortly be brought under the consideration of the House of Commons. It is to be hoped that henceforth concealment will cease to be the rule, that mystification will no longer be re sorted to ; but that, in accordance with the constitu tional principle enunciated by the late lamented First Lord of the Admiralty, " every possible information may be laid before Parliament." The people will no longer remain blindfolded. Their representatives will no longer vote enormous sums of money on being merely told the amount required. The nature of the expenditure must be clearly ex plained, and it must be shown that the nation receives the full and fair value for its money. We are, it appears from the late Admiralty minute, for the future to have an audit of the dockyard pay ments. It is to be shown that some adequate re turn is given for the large sums drawn from the national exchequer, that the amount is honestly expended. Three thousand five hundred ship wrights and apprentices are to be retained on the dockyard establishments, of whom one-sixth only, or 560, are to be apprentices. Now it may easily be ascertained what quantity of work 2,920 experienced workmen, assisted by 560 appren tices, might reasonably be required to produce within the year. Any practical man, accustomed to con duct the business of a private shipbuilding establish - ment, could speedily afford the desired information. The quantity of work actually performed might then be compared with that which ought to have been rendered ; and if far below the proper quan tity, it would be perfectly manifest that there must be something defective in the arrange ments, some deficiency or negligence somewhere. that should be thoroughly investigated. The very best men can be obtained for the public dockyards ; the situation is regarded as exceedingly desirable by working shipwrights. There can, therefore, be no possible excuse for retaining inefficient or unqualified persons, or for not keeping them fully and fairly oc cupied in works of a beneficial character. A very valuable pamphlet has just appeared on this all-important subject, from a gentleman perfectly qualified to afford the fullest information.* A thorough practical knowledge of detail is ap parent in every page. No publication could possibly be better timed ; it is the very period when the information may be most beneficially applied. It is not desired to reduce the national establishments to a scale beneath that required for the maintenance of the national honour, the national dignity, or the national safety. It would be but an unwise and foolish economy to do so. Every shilling now saved would occasion the expenditure of future pounds, and that at a date, perhaps, not so very remote as some persons might suppose. The navy must especially be kept in a state of efficiency. It has long been regarded as the especial safeguard of the country. We have looked chiefly to it for protection against foreign invasion, and for the means of aggression in case it should be necessary or desirable to create a diver sion. If neglected for even a single year, it would re quire a considerable time and an enormous expenditure to supply the deficiency, and a blow might be struck during the interval of the most fatal character to our national interests. The ships that are wearing away must be replaced, and that gradually. We should not be required to produce a number of line-of-battle ships suddenly, but each year should furnish its quota- The first question, therefore, will be what number of vessels should be maintained ready for active service at a short notice, and what number should be an nually built, or thoroughly repaired, so as to keep up the stock to the required compliment. Mr. TUCKER, the author of the work under notice, discusses this point in a fair spirit. He shows that "it has always been assumed as a fair ratio that the force of the line-of-battle ships is equal to that of all the other classes, frigates, &c., put together." That is, taking one year with an other what is expended on and produced on the farmer, should be also expended on and produced on the latter. What then should be the force of the line-of-battle ships—the class of vessels between whom the struggle must take place if any should ensue ? Mr. TUCKER tells us that at the peace in 1815, when the navies of the continental nations were all but annihilated, it was considered essential to maintain or have in readiness 120 sail of the line and 160 frigates, together with a three years' stock of timber. I n 1821 i nstruct i ons were g i ven to have 100 sail of the line and 150 f our th an d fif t h- rates i n good condition. In 1839, however, after the power of steam became developed, it was considered that 84 line-of-battle ships would be sufficient for the purpose, although it i s still admitted `°that the line-of-battle will never be substantially superseded by steam power." It may how ever, now be fairly concluded that " 84 ships of the line is about the force settled to be necessary" by practical and experienced men, and yet can it be believed that, notwithstanding such admissions, and that a body of shipwrights were employed for many years in our yards nearly equal to the number engaged during the most stirring war time, our force has been suffered so far to decline, that at this moment we have " only fifty-five ships of the line fit w for four years' serve. We may, however, gather some consolation from the fact that we have 150 admirals for those 55 ships of the line, exclusive of the 45 retired rear-admirals, so that we have very nearly three admirals for every ship in which they could be employed." We would gladly enter at greater length into Mr. TUCKER'S very able and interesting pamphlet if space permitted. We can, however, most conscientiously recommend it to all those interested in the condition of our wooden walls, who will find it well worthy of an attentive perusal. The Council of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association have just issued an address (which will be found in extenso in another part of our impression) * Naval Financial Retortn. A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., M.P. By Jedediah Stephens Tucker. THE SUN, to the rate-payers of the United Kingdom, on the t(j. cuun of the national expenditure to the scale of 1835. They have grappled boldly with the flippant assertions of Sir CHARLES WooD, as to the amount of reductions that had taken place within the last twenty years, and his cavalier statement " that he was at a lose to understand on what ground it was now for the first time asserted in those associations throughout the country, and in a public manner, that taxation pressed in so grievous a manner." If the Right Hon. Baronet really entertained that doubt, if he was the only man in the country who was not aware of the grievous pressure of taxation upon the people, he has been enlightened with a vengeance by the Association. They have put forward a comparison between the amount levied from direct and indirect sources in the year 1801, and during the three last years, from which it appears that the " taxes strictly ' so called, and paid by the wealthier classes (including the property and income-tax), have increased since 1801 by the comparatively trifling amount of 79,0001. only, that stamps (including probate and legacy duties, which do not apply to freehold property, and therefore press more upon the middle classes) have increased in the same period 4,689,000/., while the Customs and Excise, which are contributed by the masses, and which press most especially and most heartlessly on the poor, have during the same time been augmented by no less a sum than 17,070,0001." This is, indeed, a strange description of reduction. It does not expose the people to the censure of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer for that" ignorant impatience oftaxation which seems so very unaccountable." It is true that they have been cast out of employment from the undue con traction of the currency, occasioned by the Act of 1844—that brilliant specimen of legislative wisdom and legislative justice, that has so strongly excited the admiration of Sir CHARLES WOOD—that the very life-blood of industry is wanting—but that is all nothing, it can be justified on the very soundest principles of political economy. It is true that no less than 35,575,3141. was obtained from the Customs and Excise, or, in other words, that the entire expenditure of the State, including the civil government, justice, diplo macy, army, navy, ordnance, public works, bounties, and miscellaneous, was defrayed from the produce of taxes extracted from the industrious classes, and a balance of 8,760,606/. carried towards the interest of the National Debt ; property for the preservation whereof the debt was altogether incurred, and for whose benefit the ordinary ex penses of the country are principally undertaken, escaping comparatively free. But that alsz is a matter of little moment, and it is (teste Sir CHARLES WOOD) ridiculous to disturb the attention of Parliament by complaining of so trifling a matter. The people were born to be taxed—they should b e pretty well used to it by that time, and yet they dis turb the official ease with, their unreasonable mur murs. It will, however, be for themselves to say how long they will consent to the continuance of a system so unjust and impolitic. If they set them selves earnestly to work, under the guidance of the various Financial Reform Associations through out the country, they will soon remove Sir CHARLES WOOD from a position for which he is by no means qualified, and replace him with a competent successor, who can understand that " taxa tion presses " very grievously," and who will adopt measures to mitigate the intolerable burden. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The probability of a collision between Russia and the civilized nations of the west of Europe, a collision which cannot but be hastened by the avowed intention of the Russians to attempt to force the Dardanelles, at present engrosses public attention in Paris. In commenting on the unprincipled conduct of Russia in invading the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, the National quotes the following extract from the last volume of M. Taunts' " History of the Empire," which has been only just published:— "It was quite enough in delivering Finland to the Russians to have afforded them the means of a step in advance towards the Sound, as a point from which they will not be less menacing at a future day, when, in point of fact, the Russian Colossus will have one foot at the Dardanelles and another at the Sound, the whole world becomes his slave, and liberty will have fled to America. However chimerical all this may seem now to narrow minds, it will one day be a cruel reality for Europe, un wisely divided like the towns of Greece, in presence of the Kings of Macedonia, and will have probably the same lot." The National does not join M. TRIERS in thus condemning Europe to the ignominious yoke of these new barbarians because, says the National, we have some faith in the power of right, of reason, and of ci vilization. We agree with the National rather than with M. TRIERS, yet still we would urge the neces sity of endeavours being made to put an end to those " unwise divisions" among the European Powers to which M. TRIERS alludes, and of which the common enemy of civilization is ever ready to take advantage. If the time is not yet arrived for an intimate alliance of all the European Powers to drive back the barba rians to their deserts, it more than ever behoves France and England to maintain a strict and close intimacy and alliance, and to join in a common action in support of the Ottoman Porte. Turkey is now the advanced post of civilization, the dyke that pro tects Europe from being again overwhelmed by a flood of northern barbarians and as such she should command the support of every nation which does not desire to become a Russian province, nay, of every in dividual who would object to become a Russian serf. The Presse, in a " communication" announces that the POPE had, by the advice of the Sacred College, applied to France, Austria, Spain, and Naples, for an armed force to enable him to return to his capital. The Sacred College admitted the principle that application ought to be made to all the Catholic Powers, but no application was made to Portugal on account of the distance ; and the King of SARDINIA was passed over because he had only offered to the POPE a pacific mediation, which had become powerless in conse quence of the proceedings at Rome. Whether France interfere or not, Austria is determined to proceed, in concert with Naple%, to restore the POPE, more especially as not only the Catholic Powers of Ba varia arid Belgium, but the Protestant Powers of England, Prussia, and XV irtemberg, offer to pre serve the Papal Government in the interest of the balance of power in Europe, and the maintenance of the general peace. It is calculated that the appear ance on the Roman territory of an army of 10,000 men would be sufficient to bring about the restoration of the POPE without firing a shot. The Grand Duke of TUSCANY has since his arrival at Gaeta applied for Austrian intervention. There has been a legitimatist riot at Nantes amongst some conscripts. The Socialist journals publish an address to the " Democratic Socialist Republican electors," announc ing a fusion of the different shades of socialists with the democratic republicans, for the purposes of the election. The mayors of the 10th and 11th arrondissements, accompanied by several officers of the National Guard, waited on M. DE LAMARTINE on Saturday to present him with the tricolour flag, which was borne by citi zens of the two arrondissements from the Chamber of Deputies to the Hotel de Ville on the 24th Feb., and which was the first that was displayed oh the procla mation of the Republic. The Mayor of the 10th arrondissement, in presenting the flag, said to M. DE LAMARTINE that it could not be better placed than in the residence of one of the citizens who had most honourably defended it. M. DE LAMARTINE ex pressed his gratitude. " This flag," he said, " will be doubly dear to me, because it is the first that covered the cradle of the Republic, and because it was the first also which gave to the Republic the character of nationality, moderation, unanimity, and tradition with our noble historical souvenirs. If ever the Re public should be attacked, either by those who exag gerate it or by its enemies, you will rally here under its colours, and th e y will nd in you the same heroism as they found in me the same voice and the same arm to defend it." A grand Socialist banquet for the inauguration of ernite, admission,intle i ß f. u 2 e sc d . e e M ac a h rt p e e l, rs w o a n s t g h i e ve li n al o le n d s e u la nd F ay rat ; 700 persons, including women, sat down to table ; the galleries contained about 500 strangers. Invitations were addressed to the members of the Mountain, but M. BAC alone attended. The toasts were " The right to live by labour," " Abolition o f th e conscrip tion," " The emancipation of the clergy." A Com missary of Police presented himself at the doors before the commencement of the banquet ; he was at once admitted, and remained during the whole of the proceedings, which were of a very orderly character. Yesterday the National Assembly proceeded to ballot for the Vice-Presidents for the ensuing month. The following (all belonging to the moderate Repub lican party) were elected : General DR LAMORICIERE, MM. GOUDCBAUX, HAYIN, BILLAULT, CORBON, and GREVY. The Ministers proposed General BEDEAU as a candidate, but he was defeated by General Glum After the election the Assembly proceeded to deli- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1849. l'erate on the Bill relative to the establishment of a Iht3 cii,cuawn Wil6 nut ovtr wileo the pozit, BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 5. THREE o'CLocE.—The French Funds continued their advance to-day. The general tranquillity and the ap pearance of an intervention on the part of the united Powers of Europe, in favour of the Pope, add greatly to the confidence of the speculators, who now think that peace will he maintain d. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 224; ditto (90 days), 25 10. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARcif 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon 12%—Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 11%— Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—Paris and Lyons, 5% —Rouen and Havre,l2% —Tours and Nantes, 2 3 / 4 —Dutch Rhenish, Luxembourg, 2. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived. On that day an attempt was to be made in the Chamber of Deputies to upset the Ministry on the project of law relating to public worship and the clergy. This attempt is made by the moderate Progressistas, who have formed a coalition with the Puritanos. PACHECO and CORTINA are the leaders of the Coalition. _ CABRERA has completely recovered from his wound, and has resumed his command in Catalonia. O❑ the 18th the Carlist Chief MARSAL surprised and made prisoners 324 recruits, with a color el and ten officers who were drilling them. This event took place in Granollers, a large village, at four leagues' distance from Barcelona. Another band, composed of " Centralistas," passed the night in Gracia, a beautiful suburb of Barcelona. The cabecilla Don ANTONIO TRISTANY has escaped from the prison at Cordova. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 27.—Five per Cents., 11k, paper ; Three per Cents., 23 9-16 i, for account. Exchange on London, 49 70. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The defeat of the Austrians by BEM is now ac knowledged by the Imperialists. In a late skirmish with the Szeklers the Russians took part with the Aus trians, and two Cossack officers were killed., The Breslau Gazette of the 2d instant says, that though General ENGELHARDT may have beaten the Szeklers near Cronstadt, the victory was not de cisive, for the latter have re-passed the Acitta, and occupied Marienberg, from whence they are ope rating against flelsdorf, which is not far from Cronstad t. On the 27th of February a ministerial decree was published in Vienna, giving notice that nolun garian notes can be received or remain in circulation after the 24th instant, they will be confiscated every where, and delivered to .the Royal provincial banks and the Central State Treasury, where they will be mutilated. A proclamation. issued by Prince WINDISCHGRITZ only last month in Hungary, stated that for the present all notes of one and two florins would be re• ceived in payment by all Hungarian banks, and that a resolution respecting notes of higher value would soon be published. Thus, num bers who confided in the declaration of the Field- Marshal, who is delegated with unlimited power by the EMPEROR, will by this proceeding be reduced to beggary. The immense damage which this will occasion to the commercial world, especially, cannot be conceived, but will be speedily mani . est. The Emperor FERDINAND was, on the 10th inst., elected unanimously in Janobitz, in Styria, Austrian Deputy to the Diet at Frankfort, and the Archduke JOHN his substitute. The Minister of Trade and Commerce, VON BRACE, was also elected yesterday, at Trieste, Austrian Deputy to the Central Power. It is said that an octroyee Constitution will be pro mulgated on the 17th March. A Vienna letter says :—" Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and SINA having definitively refused to undertake to raise a new loan, and a public subscription having few chances of success, there is a talk of a project re commended to the Minister of Finance by M. NEUSTADT, to the effect that 200,000,000 florins of state notes, instead of bank notes, shall be issued of from 1,000 florins to 25 florins in amount, and bear ing interest at 2 per cent. By this issue the floating debt would be extinguished, and the mortgage of it (120,000,000 florins) would become the mortgage of the state notes." KREMSIBR, FEB. 28.—1 n the sitting of the 27th the Constitutional Diet adopted the following articles of the fundamental law :—" The State does not grant privileges to one religion more than to another. Nobody is constrained to observe religious acts and ceremonies, in public or private of any creed which he does not profess." The motion that " there is no religion of the State" was not adopted.— Vienna paper, Feb. 25. PR USSIA. The Cologne Gazette again declares that all the Prussian fortresses are to be put on a war footing. In the First Chamber of Berlin, on the Ist, M. HANSEMANN complained that the Ministry had not announced to it, as well as to the Second Chamber, that Denmark had given notice of its intention to put an end to the armistice of Malmoe. One of the Ministers answered that the reason was that the Chamber had not assem bled. A formal notification respecting the notice of Denmark was subsequently made. A sufficient num ber of elections having been declared regular, the Chamber was formally constituted, and the election of officers was proceeded to. The following communication has been made by the Prussian Minister of Commerce to persons en gaged in the Baltic trade : " On the 26th ult. the Danish Government gave notice to his Majesty the King of the cessation of the armis tice of Malmoe, which expires on the 26th March. To this notice the observation is appended that the Danish Government entertains the hope that this resolution will not occasion a resumption of hostilities, and the negotiations for peace opened at London under the mediation of England, permit it to be hoped that even before the expiration of the armistice, at least the preliminaries of peace will be established. However, as the result is not certain, I hasten to make known the real state of things to the commerce of the Baltic, and to recommend it the prudence which is commanded by circumstances, giving it at the same time the assurance that the Government will take all the measures in its power to prevent any prejudice to commerce." _ _ BERLIN, MARCH 3.—The report that has been so generally circulated in sev era l G erman j ournals, that a person holding a high position has been sent to Oil mutz, is not true. Yesterday a rise took place among the workmen of M. GoLnscuminr's manufactory, and has assumed a very serious character. The police were called out to put it down, but they were grossly insulted by the workmen, and it was found necessary to send for the military, and it was not till these had loaded their arms, and waited the command to fire, that the work men dispersed. FRANKFORT. In the National Assembly of Frankfort on the Ist, M. VISCIIER demanded if the Government had taken measures to tranquilize the National Assembly, and the German people, with respect to collisions which might arise from the entrance of the Russian troops into Transylvania ; and M. Scum.% put questions relative to the augmentation of troops on the eastern frontier. No answers were given to these questions, and no day was fixed for the answers. The Assembly then proceeded with the discussion on the electoral law, and adopted clauses enacting that elections should be publi c , an d that the electors should give their votes by writing and in person. A Later from Frankfort, of the Ist, states that Cabinet Councils had been held that day with respect to the military measures to be taken in consequence of the notice given by Denmark for the cessation of the armistice. It was said that the Ministry, sup ported by the English ambassador, would contend that the continuation of the armistice isindispensabl e for the continuation of the negotiations for peace. TURKEY. RUSSIA AND DETERMINATION OF RUSSIA TO FORCE TIIE BOSPHORUS AND THE DARDANELLES. Accounts were received in Paris yesterday from Constantinople of a most important character. A general European war would appear to be iminent. These accounts state that M. rITO7I', the R uss i an Minister at C ons t an ti n ople, has officially demanded the passage into the Bosphorus, and out of the Darda nelles into the M e diterranean, of a Russia n fl ee t. The Divan h av i ng cons ulted with the other foreign ambassadors, the demand was refused. M. Trrorr then declared that Russia would take by force that passage which she was determined to have. For some months past Russia has exhibited a dis position to treat Turkey as a conquered province, and to seize her territory in spite of the remonstrances of the European Powers. The conduct of Russia in Wallachia and in Moldavia has been such as to arouse the just jealousy of the Divan. We read in a letter from Constantinople of the 16th The entrance of the Russians into Tran sylvania has produced a great sensation here, and added to the ala rms of the D i van. The situation is ex t reme l y critical. It is true that on the one hand the Porte has been somewhat re-assured by the friendly communica tions made to it by Engl.nd and France relative to the evacuation of th e p r i nc ipalities by Russia; it also beheld with Pleasure the representatives of these two Powers join in supporting the reAervation made by Fuad-El fendi on the occasion of the violation of the neutrality of the Ott oman empire by t h e R u ssian authi,rities in causing troops to pass from a Turkish province to an other country. Thus the attempts of Russia to draw the Divan into a more intimate alliance have completely Last Tuestiny the Minister ef F , r'1 , 71 Aff-iirs if accepze I, might corni:rorn!se the good relations of the Divan with the other powers of Europe, alp] that there fore he was authorised to declare that the Porte wished to maintain its relations with Russia without any change. But the Porte every day sees more clearly into the in tentions of Russia. It could not behold with indiffer ence that power give, without any notice, 10,000 mus kets to the Servians, its subjects. The Russian army of occupation is provided with a full pontoon equipage, and it would be sufficient for it to excite some insurrec tionary movement amongst the populations of Bosnia and Bulgaria, in order to find a pretext to intervene and cross the Danube. What is positive is that Turkey considers herself seriously menaced, and that she takes all possible measures of precaution to be able, if neces sary, to repel an attack on the part of Russia. The Council of Ministers frequently meets; the Grand Vizir transacts business several times every week with the Sultan. A report has been demanded from the Se raskier on the state of the army of reserve, the supplies in the arsenals, and the condition of the fortresses, par ticularly those of the Danube. The Porte will not do anything resembling an aggression or a menace, but it desires to be ready for every event. A great number of families have 11 d from Transylvania to Wallachia, to escape from the devastations of the Szeklers and all the horrors of war to whith Transylvania, so flourishing a country a year back, has been a prey for some months back. Fuad-Effendi, the Ottoman commissioner in Wallachia, has subscribed for 1,000 ducats (12,000 fr.) in the name w the Sultan in favour of these families at Bucharest." ITALY. The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 22d, states, that the Constituent Assembly, on being informed of the conduct of Prefect MATER at Ferrara, and BERTI PICHA of Bologna, has declared that they have de served well of their country. While GARRIBALDI has the command of the forces on the Neapolitan side, Minister CAMPELLO, MEZZACAPO, and ZAM BECCARI have taken the command on the side of Ferrara. The Constituent Assembly have decreed that all ecclesiastical property belongs to the State, which is to provide for the expenses of public worship. By another decree, the whole Roman Re public is declared responsible for all damages which may be sustained by Ferrara or any other Roman town in consequence of foreign invasion. Minister Ruscom has addressed a circular to the diplomatic body, protesting against the occupation of Ferrara. The Bank of Rome has been authorised to emit new bank-notes to the amount of 1,800,000 scudi (7,200,000 f.) The Executive Committee of Rome published the following proclamation on receiving the news of the occupation of Ferrara : " Romans!—The territory of the Republic has been violated by the implacable enemies of Italy. The Aus trians have passed the Po and threatened Ferrara. Among the pretexts they adduce for their eccupstion there is the fact of the Republican Government having been proclaimed by us. Austria, hard pressed by inter nal revolution, trembling on account of the victories of the Hungarians, attempts a desperate blow, in the hope that the Italians are still in discord when the common enemy is to be fought. Facts will prove the contrary. Our cause is the cause of Italy, and this invasion will prove how great is the affection of all the people of our Peninsula for our independence. The generous people of, the Romagna and of Bologna, who drove away the Austrians at the time when the sacerdotal caste still weighed upon us, will do it now with greater vigour and energy. The Republican spirit redoubles the strength of body and mind. Supported by the universal consent of the people, the Government of the Republic has taken all those measures which have ever in difficult states saved nations from slavery and dishonour. The Minister of War is hastening to Bologna, and troops of the line, bodies of civic mobilized guard and volunteers are on their way to repel the enemy. Tuscany will unite her forces with ours ; Genoa will not remain an unconcerned spectator Certain information from Piedmont assures us, that the majority of the Assembly of that kingdom are ready to acknowledge our Republic. In these solemn days, the National Assembly will prove itself worthy of the people who named it, and we will make an appeal to all those who feel love for their country throughout Italy. Fortune could not have better favoured us than in offer ing us an opportunity of proving that the Republic can not be a vain name for us. Every conspiracy and every attack from our internal enemies has hitherto been a cause of triumph for us. This last event will complete our victory, and the Republic will arise, more respected and glorious after the expulsion of the hated foreigner." The Constituente Italians of the 22d ult. says, news received from Bologna by private sources state that at Parma and Piacenza they expected every moment an attack of the Piedmontese troops on the frontier of the Duchies. Letters from Massa-Carrara also announce that the Piedmontese had arrived in that town, with the intention of marching immedi ately, by the road of Paullo or Modena, or by Castel- Nuovo de Monti, on Reggio. The Alba contains the following from a corres pondent at Rome, dated Feb. 24 lam not able to give you the result of the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, the Assembly not having finished the de bate as to reprisals on the subjects and property of Austrians, in order to oblige the Austrian Govern. ment to give up the hostages of Ferrara and the money which it has exacted in so infamous a manner. I am able to inform you, however, that to be pre pared for any event, the English consul has dis patched a courier to Admiral Parker to request him to send as soon as possible a reinforcement to Civita Vecchia." The POPE has published a proclamation warning persons not to purchase any church property that may be offered for sale by the Roman Republican Government. Letters from Rome, of the 24th, announce that a Neapolitan array of 12,000 men was approaching the Roman frontier. General Zuccuz commands the ad vanced guard of the Neapolitan army. A letter from Mantua says—" We have passed the last days of the carnival very sadly ; several persons have been arrested, and several more have suffered military execution." Advices from Naples of the 18th ult., state that the Chamber of Peers, in the sitting of the preceding day, voted the supplies for four months by a majority of 49 to 2, thus placing itself in open hostility with the Chamber of Representatives, The Nazione of Turin gives us the sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties of Naples on the 19th, when the cabinet was again attacked on the score of the bill for six months' supplies having been presented by them without a royal decree authorising them to do so. A confer ence with the Chamber of Peers, to be held by seven commissioners on either side, was then moved for and adopted by 90 votes against 6, for the purpose of conciliating the difference that has arisien between the two Chambers on the question of the supplies. The British Consul at Genoa has written to the editor of the Genoa Gazette, to contradict positively the proclamation of the Prefect of Pisa and the Go vernor of Leghorn, and circulated in the Gazette. He says— " Sir George Hamilton has never quitted Florence ; be has not gone himself or sent any one to oppose the entry of the Piedmontese troops. Sir G. Hamilton has not promised to acknowledge either the Provisional Government or the Republic. Sir G. Hamilton, for the national interest, is i❑ communication (though not official) with the Provisional Government, and will so continue as long as order and peace are maintained in the country. SICILY. The Pensiero Italiano of the 28th ultimo gives the following as the composition of the new Sicilian Ministry :—Prince de BUITERA, Foreign Affairs ; Major POULET, War; the Advocate MArtio, Justice; the Marquis DRI.LA CORDA, Interior ; Baron TUR- Esso COLONNA, Public Works and Instruction. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Byron, and Lord Crewe. BONAR V. MACDONALD. The judgment in this case was further postponed in consequence of the absence of Lords Brougham and Campbell, who were engaged is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. DYKES V. STRUTHERS. The further arguments in this part heard appeal were resumed to-day, and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. PRIVY COUNCIL•j(THIS DAY). The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Bishop of London. and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. -- - CRAIG V. PARNALL. The arguments in this case, which came before their Lordships upon appeal from the Arches' Court, were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The arguments have already occupied three days, and appear likely to occupy another day or two. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) _ PADWICH V. PLATE. The arguments in this case, the facts of which are of no interest except to the parties concerned, occupied his Lordship the Master of the Rolls the whole day. VICE-CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENSLAND.) DOBSON V. POWELL. The arguments in this parj)heard case were resumed, and occupied the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) C3NSTABLE V. 7 HREsHIRE. The arguments in this case, which involved a question of conveyencirg, occupied his Honour the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) The Court after disposing of the ease of Culsha v. Cheese, which stood on the paper for judgment on a point of practice, proceed , d to hear the further arguments in the part heard case of BAGSHAW V. THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. The case came before the Court yesterday, upon a demurrer put in by the de!endants to the plaiatifre bill. rrho pisintiff is nno of flu. Afolr,ll , re f'r nf. i 11,1 1 , , Ra:lks ay Comp any, 0: which the defen+tnts were the directors, was empowered to c a r r y a li ne fro m Manning tree to Harwich, and for that purpose to raise a sum of 200,000/. in addition to the capital of the company. That by atiother Act 'passed in the same session of Parliament the company was authorised to purchase another railway called the " Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Rail way," and for that object to make a further addition of 100,000/. to their capital. The bill then stated that at a meeting of shareholders of the company, held on the 21st August, 1847, it hid been resolved unanimously that for the purpose of constructing the branch line from Manningtiee to Harwich, and for purchasing the Hadleigh Railway und, r the two Acts obtai-:ed in the then last session of Parliament, the directors should 13 , empowered to raise the respective sums authorised to be raised by those Acts, and to grant scrip receipts fur such amount as might Crum time to time be paid up in respect of those sums, until each subscriber should have paid up his instalment in full, when he was to be entitled to be come a registered shareholder in a new Eastern Union stock for the amount he should have subscribed, and to a guaranteed dividend thereon of six per cent. per annum in perpetuity, with the option of con verting such guaranteed stock within the period of fiva years into the general stock of the company. The bill, which was filed by the plaintiff as the holder of stock, arising from the conversion under the above resolution of new guaranteed stock into general stock, on behalf of himself and all other shareholders, except the defendants, holding the same description of stock, complained that the defendants were misapplying the fund which had been raised under the powers of the Manningtree and Hadleigh Acts, by expending it for the general objects of the company, without regard to the specific objects for which it was authorised to he raised. The bid prayed an account of the moneys which the defendants had received under the two last-men tinned Acts, and of the applications of such moneys; and if it should appear that such money had been applied to purposes other than those specified in such Acts, then that the defendants might be declared to hare been guilty of a breach of trust, and be decreed personally to replace the sums so misapplied to the credit of the com pany. The bill also sought an injunction to restrain the defendants from any further misapplication of the same funds. To this bill the defendants put in a general demurrer. Mr. WOOD, with whom was Mr. DANIELS, on behalf of the defendants, contended yesterday, that by the effect of the Acts of Parliaments, under the powers 01 which the funds in question had been raised, and the resolution for carrying such powers into effect, the de• tendants were entitled to apply such funds to the general purposes of the company. The bill, moreover, showed that the plaintiff and the stockholders, on whose behalt he sued, were members of a corporation, and that for anything appearing on the face of the bill, the corpora tion, as a body, had confirmed the acts complained of. The SOLICITOR. GENERAL, on behalf of the plaintiff, and against the demurrer, submitted that the powers given by the Acts in question were intended only to be exercised tor the special objects mentioned in those Acts. and that any application of the tumis raised thereunder, otherwise than in furtherance of those objects, was a breach of trust. The further arguments occupied the Court the whole morning, BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN RE HUGHESDON AND MACKAY. These bankrupts, described as of Calcutta, merchants, came up to-day to pass thtir last examination. Mr. CooKE, for one of the assignees, objected to the balance sheet on the ground that the balance-sheet did not set forth the capital or pr , fits, and that on the face of it there was a sum of 40,0001. unaccounted for. Mr. LAWRENCE said that Mr. Banks, the accountant, had adopted the schedule filed by the bankrupt Hughes don in Calcutta, on his passing through the Insolvent Court there, but suppl , m. , ntal accounts had also been filed, and Mr. Whitmore, the officiid assignee, considered they were the best which could be made up, as the books were detained in the Insolvent Court of Calcutta. Mr. CooKE contenued that, whatever the Court of Calcutta might have chosen to have done in passing an insolvent on a schedule with so large a sum unaccounted for, the bankrupts having become subject to the bank rupts' law i❑ England, they were bound to comply with the requirements of that law. _ _ Mr. ROXBURGK (for the assignees in Calcutta) said there was a discrepancy between the schedule in Cul cutta and that now filed, the debts being in the former 120,0001„ and in the latter 97,776/. After a long desultory discussion, his HoNoun held that as the creditors were not satisfied, and a question might arise at the certificate meeting, he considered an adjournment ought to take place for a further investiga tion of the accounts. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Thomas Roberts, aged 25, described as a gardener, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding George Hester, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Th - e prisoner was not defended by counsel. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a maltster and brewer at Fulham, and whose face was partially covered with sticking-plaster, that on the morning of the 20th of February last the prisoner en tered the prosecutor's public-house in a state of intoxi cation, and became very noisy. The prosecutor at tempted to put him out, and succeeded in ejecting him from the house. As the prisoner went out the gate post caught his knee and tripped him down; he then pulled out his knife and began scraping the dirt off his clothes, and whilst he was doing that he struck the pro. secutor, who was standing by, in the faee with the knife, and inflicted a severe wound. A man standing by corroborated the prosecutor's statement. Ttie prisoner, in his defence, admitted that he struck the prosecutor with a knife, but denied that he did it in tentionally, and pleaded that he was in liquor at the time. The COMMON SERGEANT told the jury that people could only judge of a man's intentions by his acts, and was in evidence that the prisoner struck the prosecutor in the face with a knife. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy; and The ConimoN SERGEANT sentenced him to imprison , ment for nine months, with hard labour. Sarah Crosby, a tidy good-looking young Irish girl, aged 18 years, was placed at the bar, charged with felo niously stabbing, cutting, and wounding John Smith, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, a policeman, deposed that about eight o'clock on the evening of the 31st of January, he was, whilst on duty, walking past the Refuge for the Desti tute, and the prisoner was coming out of the door, she having been there seeking a night's lodging. It would appear that the rules of the society are that the reci pients of its bounty can only sleep in the house one night. The prisoner had slept there on a previous occasion, and on being told that she could not stay in the house over night again, she began to create a disturbance, which the prosecutor came up to quell, and during a scuffle which ensued the prisoner pulled out a penknife, which she had concealed in her bosom, and stabbed the prosector with it under the arm, inflicting a punctured wound half an inch deep. The prisoner made a long statement to the jury, in a rich Irish brogue, denying that she had inflicted the wound upon the prosecutor, and complaining that he had used her unnecessarily ill, having, among other ill treatment, kicked her in the breast. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and _ _ The COMMON-SERGEANT, in passing judgment, told her that it was absolutely necessary for the safety of society that the lamentably frequent offence of stabbing with a knife should be put down, and he thought her's was a very proper case of which to make an example. It would only have been common gratitude on her part on coming to this country in a friendless and penniless condition, to have deported her self in a peaceable and becoming manner whilst partici pating in the bounty of the Refuge for the Destitute; but, instead of that, she was found creating a breach of the peace, and on the prosecutor, in the discharge of his duty, attempting to put an end to the disturbance, she had deliberately stabbed him with a knife. The sentence of the Court was that she be transported for seven years. IVEW COURT. Mr. Commissioner Bullock sat in the New Court to day and tried several cases of petty larceny, but none of them possessed any feature of importance. LLOYD'S sHIPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 6.—Wind at noon, W.S.W., mode rate breeze and fine clear dry weather. STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL PORTS THIS MORNING, AT 9 A.M. Colchester S.W., fine. Gosport Gloucester S., fine. Glasgow S.E., fine. Dull Lowestoffe W.N.W., cloudy. Leith Newcastle Portsmouth Southampton N.W., fine. Yarmouth PLYMOUTH, MARCH s. —Wind, N.N.W.-4th, Iris, Cape of Good Hope; Osprey, St. Hel e n a . On' THE START, MARCH 2.—Germania, Kortlang, Havannah. for Bremen. 0111 , DUNGENESS, MARCH 2.—Thomas Miller, Chad wick, Pernambuco, for Amsterdam. HOLYHEAD, MARCH s.—. The John Callam, of Leith, was picked up off Bardsey, abandoned, having been in contact, and with her quarter carried away, and brought into this harbour last night, by part of the crew of the Susan, arrived at Liverpool. 7:l3ltinuNaToN, MARCH 4.—The Sarah, Wright, from Sunderland to Ipswich, foundered on the 3d instant, after being in contact with the Hero, Emmerson, of Har tlepool; crew saved. SHIELDS, MARCH s.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. 2. Wil liam and Joseph, Quebec; Pallas, Quebec. SWANSEA, MARCH 4.—Arrd. Charlotte, Cuba. LleEnrooL, MARCH 5. Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 5. Corinthian, M'Phean, Mauritius, sailed Nov. 3 ; Swan Law, Buenos Ayres ; James Ray, Corrick, Buenos Ayres, both sailed on the 21st of December ; Haviland, Sr. Domingo ; klwanton, Woods, New Or leans; Harmony, Jamieson, New Orleans ; E. and E. Perkins, Gilpatrick. IsT,tv Orleans. Sid. 5. Symmetry, New Orleans; Elizabeth, New York. Off-port, 01 It ney Lass. Put back, Ct urier, for Calcutta, with foremast sprung. The Sloop Gordon, front Liverpool to Bangor, in ballast, struck on a sunken wreck, yester- I day, off East Hayle, and sunk; crew saved. Ann TT .., ~ ~„r ~m 1.:»111, did her cons:deraLle damage. SHIELDS, MARCH brig Weatherby, in pro ceeding to sea, got on the Middle Ground, but %ma towed off atter discharging two keels or coals, and brought back into tilt, harbour to re-load. RATHMULLEN, NlAncri2.-71:he Shamrock, Pootill, from Liverpool to Itio Grande, has put in here, having piro.d two anchors in L , ughswilly whilst riding in a gale, and Was obliged to be run on shore, but did not receive any damage. RAMSGATE, NlAncu s.—The Antigua Planter, which sank in constArieLee of striking the pier 28th ult., has been raised and hauled into dry .7.ock. MARGATE, MARCH 6.-117 green hides, 133 cases of glass, 12 c4sks nails. and one warp, have been landed here from the wreck of the Floridian, from Antwerp to New York. DEAL. MARCH s.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Palmyra, Crowell, Demerara; Sir John Rae Reid, Dyson, S!. Kitts. Arrd. from the River, Blair, Moody, Bombay; Bromleys, Cate, Sierra Leone; Venus, Odgers, Cape, Palmas; St. George, Cernaman, Valparaiso. Arrd. from the River and aid., Marmiou, Sydney, New South Wales; Windsor, Pryce, Madras; Marion, Ryan, Bom bay ; Isabella Watson, Bahia; Shamrock, Tuck, Buenos Ayres; Evergreen, Porto Rico; Conqueror, Stokes, ditto. Sld. Lady Clarke, Sydney, New Suuth Wales; Ravenswood, Antigua; Express, New Orleans; Arling ton, ditto; Belize, Boston. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s. —Wind W.N.W.—SId. Jo• seph Bushby, Hong Kong, &c. PENARTH ROADS, MARCH 3.—Falcon, Buckingham, St. John's New Brunswick. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) Half AX.A.7I2LETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow flay, 21 Els to 3110 s; Clover dfito, 3/ lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 I3s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 11 3 s to 11 lOs per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—MearIow Hay, 2/ 85 to 31 123; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 13s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 118 s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. SEGAL—The market for British Plantation continuo; firm, and the sales were 450 hhds, at an advance of 6d to is since this day week ; 4,270 bags Mauritius sold briskly, at a slight advance on grainy sorts, and 6d to 1 5 or refining description. ; low to fine yellow at 37s to 40s, and grey at 36s 6d to 38s 6d; 480 bags ' Bengal likewise sold with spirit at 6d to Is advance; mid to good white Benares 41s to 424 6d, and 1,390 bag s Penang brought 32s 6d to 36s 6d for mid brown to mid yellow, being an improvement of fully 19 per cwt. Privately, 2,050 boxes yellow Havannab have been sold, viz., 600 of good quality at 24s in bond; 550 low at 405 6d duty paid, 100 mid at 42s 6d, and 800 good mid at 435; also 150 baskets brown to low grey Java at 37s to 39s for IN fining, being again rather dearer for all descriptions. The stuck of British Plantation in rkw port of London on the Ist instant was 19,132 hhds 3,879 tierces against 14,395 hhds 1,826 tierces at this time last year. The stock of Mauritius, Bengal, Havan nah, and other descriptions of foreign are also larger. COFFEE.-320 bags plantation Ceylon sold readily at previous rates, viz., 45. 6d to 504 for ordinary and add ling colory, but 1,180 bags common ordinary native at 33s 6d, at which price a small portion subsequently sold, establishing a decline of 6d per cwt. The stock of Bri tish plantation and foreign are rather lower, but of Ceylon and East Indi, rather larger. RUM.—The stock in the port of London on the 1 0 instant was 28,070 puns 6,880 hhds, against 11,170 pee s 3,101 hhds at this time last year. RICE.-100 bags Bengal realised 10s for mid white; but 1,500 bags goo d pin k y M adras were taken in A t 8a 6 1, being the previous value. SALTPETRE.-620 . bags Bengal sold with spirit, al extreme prices—viz., 26s to 28s for 81 to 2i per Cen t ' refraction. SPICES —l6 cases small to mid brown Penang Nut' megs sold steadily at 2,3 d to 2s 9d, and 6 cases Mac e brought 2s 3d tor mid seconds; being fall prices. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s to 40s 6d per cwt on th e spot, and Town 435. . _ . TEA.—The market is quiet. The deliveries last wee k were to a good extent. FINE ARTS. PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT- GENERAL SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G. C- 13 . , Governor of Afinde. A fine, bold, characteristic likeness of this renowned Captain has here represented him in the costume ha' bitually worn by him when, as Governor of he made his celebrated campaign against the 1 11 ' Tribes. In the back ground are visible the rocky fastness of Trukkee, with its natural barriers of stone , 1,000 feet in height, where he compelled the barbarian; to surrender. The lithographer (Morton), and the draughtsman (Smart) have between them PIT • duced a plate not unworthy of the emiment publish' ing house of the Messrs. Colnaghi • and hav e afforded all the admi rers o f va l our an d genius, of statesmanship, generalship, and administrative Wl' city, an opportunity to obtain the semblance o f one who combines in himself all those great qualities in such a remarkable degree. At a time when the Coo' queror of Sinde is expected to appear again ; 5 1 warrior in th e P un j au b t hi s sketch of his heroic a n d eagle features will not be the less acceptable. -- - THE MODERN CINCINNATUS.—A roughly dra w° but capital political caricature by " T. G.," in the style rendered so popular by the genius of H. 8., hi' s appeared withi n th e l ast f ew days under the alx;_v . ..: title. It represents th e H ero o f Si n d e p l oug hi n g of land after the fashion of the Roman dictator. He waited upon by the Directors (in the character of tho se Monks of th e Sc rew so hunaourously depicted bfe Charles Lever in his story of "Jack Hinton, th t Guardsman)" ; and the penitent officials, crying' T i ps Peccavimus I to whi c h, as every one knows S i r Char might in a differ en t sense respond Peccav i (1 1181. e Sinde), implore him by petition to save the In°ll Empire from p e rdi t i on . Th e pasqu i nade has p ro , t prophetic the Governm en t b o th i n Lead en ball-str ee ,_. and in Downing street h av i ng , as i s genera lly 7; lieved, taken a d van t age o f t h e f amous Nap i er met — 7 " Ready, aye, ready for the field." ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF THE B EL GIANS' DOVER, Mime( s.—Her M a j es ty t h e Q ueen of ai t" he Belgians landed he re thi s d ay f rom Ostend. Cepl;7o Baldock, R.N., h a d th e h onour to b r i ng her Maje Artier shore, and to escort h er t o t h e W ater l oo Crescent. whet " Majesty went to Bi r mi ng h am ' s R oya l S h i p Hotel, ea the Duke and Du c h ess d e N emours were wa i t i ng to company her to Claremont. At halt-past five the fe e " al train started for town. ANTICIPATED REINFORCEMENTS FOR 1ND1 4 ..; Yesterday orders were di s p atc h e d f rom t h e H orse Glie r o g to the various district genera l s to suspen d t h e ree f , orders for the discharge of men from the army. ,Th is o o owing to the indecisive natere of the last Indian news*i most probably more troops w ill go to B enga l f r om t' ,, , 0 country, and thus this servic e w ill a b sor d a port i on di' contemplated reduction of 7,000 rank and file. THE CASTLEREAGH CORRESPONDENCE, VOLS• AND IV.—" The subjects treated of in these volumes °'• the Completion of the Legislative Union,' Concessie l3, to Catholics and Dissenters,' and 'Emmet's Insurrecti a ' o subjects of paramount importance in their day, and CA of them of vital impo r t ance , not merely at, the p resent he ment, but affecting t h e f uture safety and stability Of ele empire. When th e fi rst and second volumes o f work were publi s h e d, we ventured to affirm respect' them that they constituted the most valuable contriv"o-f tion to modern history that we knew of. A perusal.. o the third and f our th volumes confirms the opinion 00 then expressed. The Castlereagh Correspondence ie indispensable book for every student of modern hiet ° 'l l i but its importance at the present juncture of affairs , " 0 ,, scarcely possible to appreciate, should the Whig GeY er y ment, as it is supposed they will do, bring f or ward , Lord John Russell in 1849, th a t p l an o f t h e J o hn 13 j to ic sell, Duke of Bedford, f or th e p a y men t o f t h e Cat l3° , o clergy in Ireland, which was suggested so many 7 e . ago. Should such a pr o p os iti on b e su b m i tte d f or discs 9 0 sion in either House of P ar li amen t, we venture t o preu o i there is no work that will be so frequently referred t ° ,,o the Castlereagh Corresp on d ence . I t abounds ill /33 „; ( 1 important documeints b ear i ng upon th i s matter,,',7,.. illustrating it in what ever li g h t i t may be v i ewe d ' Morning Herald. „ r 0 9 LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-11011813-K.'-,jthe ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday evening a meeting 01 ,; t y, members and general committee of the above se°'" or founded in 1837, for the relief of aged and decayed ID s , e 0 was bers of the trade, their widows and orphans, at the Freemasons' Tavern, for transacting general 13 1, 1 130 ness; the president, Mr. W. French, in the chair. „ 0 report of the past year congr a t u l a t e d t h e su b sc ribers .y ch the steady progress which wa s b e i ng ma d e, an d vr b b i o l it was hoped would induce thos e o f t h e tra d e lc" j e• not yet joined to become subsc r ib ers , an d u l t i ma tely b e er , ' able the committee to rend er ass i stance to all ni,r_se°3,4o‘ who may be necessitated to a ppl y f or relief. Ifited the past year the committee h ave i ncrease d their fu mes capital to 1,9891.85. 10d. The receipts from all soot of were 2571. 17s. 7d. The expenditure left a balan ce / 5 r 691. lls. 11d. The pensioners on the funds (being ss o bo as means will at present a d m i t ) are fi ve i n number, the receive 651. per annum, being within 91. 2s. 4d. 0 ' yearly interest on the capital invested. EXTRAORDINARY INYESTMENT.—The fop- - " speculative lot" was put up to auction at Mr. 3brsre sale on the Ist inst. :—" Th e i mportant an d va luable w e version in and to a moiety of 12,0001. Console, on the decease of a lady, now aged 57, pro vided. 19 shall have no more children ; the youngest child 15 0 01 years of ag e , th e h us b an d i s st i ll l i ving, an d i s now °°. 59 years." The lot sold fer 2,1801 On the ?sth ult., th e wife iRTHZ. of Mr. B. Barnet, of Tichboroe' street, Haymarket, of a daughter. On the 28,1 i uit., at Reigate, Mrs. J. sash, of a so f DIED. On the sth inst, in the 81st year of his age, Mr. 1.1 o , p Ashley, late of Rockingham-row, New Rent-road, seu°- ma: ter. On the 20th ult., at the Royal Naval Hospital, o f Commander Thomas B. Brown, Royal Navy, eldest 5 011 Rear-Admiral Thomas Brown. Lu ke On the 25th uit., at Hythe, near Southampton , Dodds, Esq., aged W. navia On the ult., at Templem o r e B ar racks, Captain. A-- PAdam, 49th Regiment, axed 30. ot London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOu" 121 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, - 01c4 ' t ., oi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c og, " Middlesex, Tuesday, March 6, 1849. • ft thr, No t to t itiv fOUI ill t fail file rely Pre Mel to t on hou hea 'yea Pan hie] tee 'ti tet bet via tea irf da,