The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

.• OLD SAINT PAUL'S" IN SHILLING NUMBERS. With the Magazines, price Ono Shillino . , Part the First of 0 LI) SAINT I'AUL'S. A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE. By HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. With C... 0 Illustrations on Steel, by JOHN FRANKLIN. This Work will be completed in Twelve Shilling Parts, and will be emb-llished with Twenty magnificent Illustrations on Steel, be JOHN FRANKLIN. London : Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar tquai e, and all Booksellers and Newsmen. Now ready, in one volume, price f2s. 6d. (post free Cd. extra), trOhACE WALPOLE'S OWN CATA LOGUE of STRAWBERRY-HILL, copied verba tim In m the original Edition, printed at his private press at Strawberry-hill, describing every object of intereit and attrac tion in this most unrivalled Collection. extendinz over 120 large quarto paws of type and paper, with the Author's own Notes and Anecdote:. London: K. Smith, No. 6, Wellington-street, Strand ; and W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Country Reader," the continuation refer' ed to appeared in Tie Mornitly San, and also in the Second Edition, of Friday. THE NV EATHEIL—Noox, Apitir. N. RO.'AL CALLER'S' OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thormometer...6s.s 1 Highest 66 1 Lowest 44 Barometer 30.—Wind E. . • - HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. , i. - rning 96 minutes after 91 Evening 48 minutes after 2. Opz 'r ~ ;, =~( ~t~7 §Ult inottblZtrition SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. On the question of the Income-tax being last night brought before the House of Commons, Mr. WALLACE brought forward, but did not press his motion, to the effect that money being now plentiful in the market, it would be more expedient to contract a fresh loan than to levy an Income-tax. Now we can discover nothing whatever to applaud this remedy of the Honourable Member for GreenoclT. To go on borrowing money, whenever funds are wanted to support extravagance, is as short-sighted policy in-a nation as it would be in the case of an individual. When a merchant or a country gentleman, living at the rate of ten thousand a year, finds that he has overdrawn his account at his banker's, that his coiKTs are empty, and that his steward has no money in hands to defray outstanding bills, what does lie do ? If he be a prudent, sensible man he at once sets about the retrieving his fortune by curtailing his expenses. He puts down his carriage; disposes of his surplus plate ; discharges such domestics as are kept merely for show ; keeps a more economical table ;.. : ,!tbaudons expensive personal habits ; and in a shorl'Ainiels rewarded by finding his affairs once more in a flourishing condition. Should he, on the contrary, be a foolish, short-sighted man, he has recourse to money-jobbers, to whom he promises cent. per cent. for bad bills ; he rack-rents his tenants ; reduces the wages of his clerks and domestics ; and every day sees him plunge deeper into the gulf of irretrievable ruin. Now a wise Government adopts precisely the same policy as a prudent country gentleman. When it, by a course of unwarrantable extravagance, sees that it has exhausted its ordinary resources in times of profound peace, instead of rack-renting the tenants by fresh taxes, and depending upon loans, it at once sets about curtail ing its expenses, and seeing in what way its affairs can be more economically managed. This was well shown by Mr. HUME last night in his real business-like speech upon the Income-tax. In the present distressed state of the country he contended that the public establish ments ought to be reduced before it was proposed to impose an Income-tax. He objected to a tax upon the QUEEN'S income, or to any diminution of the 60,000/. a-year for her MAIESTY'S maintenance, exclusive of the Civil List ; but he argued that much of the i mmens e sums squandered among the Lords and Ladies of the Bed-chamber, and to keep up the feudal offices of the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain, might be saved to the country. Upon these points we entirely agree with the Hon. Member for Montrose. We further contend, that if Sir R. PEEL was unable to devise any other substitute for making up the deficit in the revenue than an Income-tax, he was bound in justice to the country, whatever might be the incon tiisncy of the measure, to adopt and give a fair trial to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Budget. To saddle the country with an obnoxious tax, with a view to spite the Whigs, ems indeed a policy as miserable as it was unjust. A lamentable instance of clerical oppression has just been expoeed by the correspondent of a Morning Contem perary. It appears that a number of Italians, resident in London, had, towards the close of last year, formed the laufhtble design of establishing a school for educat ing gratuitously the poorer classes of their coun trymen who flock to the metropolis, and by means esfcnall subscriptions had succeeded in providing elemen tary education for about 200 pupils. Those who at tended were youths employed in the various manufac tures for which Italy has long been celebrated, such As barometers, looking-glasses, casts of remark- Ale persons ; and even the poor organ boys, who gain a livelihood in the streets by their harmless occupations, were desirous of obtaining instruction in their own language, and in conformity with the floetrines of the Catholic Church. The institutioro however, has met with the disapprobation of the Boman Catholic clergyman bei.onging to the Sardinian Chapel, who has preached against it fur several Sundays, and ids finally denounced all those who attend the school, and threatened to i efuse them the Sacraments—even that sacrament to which they all look forward for con solation at the hour of death. As we have reason to ,believe that the doctrines taught are agreeable not only to sjeripture, but to the tenets of the Catholic Church, sve OD. only come to the conclusion that there must be :some see; et and, possibly, selfish motives on the part of the prig :t for this wanton exercise of his spiritual autho rity. Is he afraid that the scholars may acquire too much kn3wief'.ge, become as learned as him :self, and begin to discover that a great deal of what he calls religion is little better than supersti tious observances, unwarranted by Scripture or moral obligstions? No class of men are more jealoua of their power than the priesthood. They have clung to domi /non in all uses and all countries, with the most wonder ful tenacity, and v,.l.en they cannot preserve it by the dials of common sense or sound argument, they never scruple, to have recourse to that authority which they assert is granted to them by the Bible. They use spi • ritual weapons, and excommunicate without mercy. In Scot land, the snore bigoted and tyrannical of fie ministers refuse the Sacrament to the dis obedient ; in England they refuse to bury the dead according to the rites of the Church ; and in Ca eholie countries they withhold the last unction. It is e-trtainly a stigma on the nineteenth century, so remark able fin. liberal improvements and great discoveries in arts maul science, that the power of the Church is nearly as great us it was in the dark ages ; and that in place of benefiting mankind by the rcread of - useful instruction, religious as well as sne.ral, a great proportion of the clergy should seem anxious only to act as a drag on the march of in- I tellect. In the instance referred to, there may be some defects in the system of education, or smue doctrines taught in which the Catholic priest Aloes not concur ; but these are not sufficient reasons for cl,..stroying an institution which is conducted openly, and well calculated to confer great blessings on his coun trymen. As the management of the School is entrusted to persons of *Tat respectability, and its success is sferiously endangered. a full statement of facts would be fistful. The public will judge impartially between the managers and the Reverend Doctor. The French Journals received this morning contain no news of importance, with the exception of what fol lows. We have given in our Foreign Summary all the intelligence received fr:un the Levant. The official part of the Moititeue of the 24th of April con tains a report of the Alinister of Public Instruction to the King, followed by an Ordinance dated 21st April, directing the iutroduction of a course of primary instruction in eight towns, which ha not yet complied with the regulations on that subject A letter from Lugano, in the Canton of Picino, of the 19th .of April, has the ;allowing particulars:— %' For these two days we have been under arms, on account of a report NOlieh has been :Tread. that the adherents of the aristocratic party, a id e d by pretended Austrian deserters, and favoured by the Govetwents of Piedmont and Lombardy, were going to -lake anothee attempt to .irect a counter revo lution." Yesterday was the day appointed for this attempt. The mi litia and the carb.neers have bivouacked the whole night, but nobody appeared. It is, however, possible, that the report was nothing but a false alarm ; at all events, we are prepared to snake a vigorous resistance to any attempt. The whole population is very well disposed. The Toulonnais, of the 21st Apri, announced that orders had been given to furnish spare iishtl few ships of the line, lately arrived from Smyrna, w stores for three months. this is not correct. The orders re lited to the vessels at anchor in the Great Road, under the command of Admiral Hugon. The journal adds, that these vessels had orders to take in three months provisions, when a snore secant telegraphic despatch caused both these orders to ~ .belsgsposled. Our ships, therefore, w ill not soon leave theport. ENiS rA '• ,- A.:Cabinet Council was held this afternoon at the ' reign-bffice, Downing -street, which was attended by t liiijsters in town. skikJ, . 1 14. ; `'insolvent Dabtors' Court yesterday Mr. lt ,sfr-aioni;late lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, appeared to be - - he:v(li The debts were 7,5581. and the insolvency was attri k: but sd to the large amount expended in the Theatre. After a •I't. few questions the Court ordered his discharge. SU MARY OF NEWS AND Pitt)litt ptuton. " Who runs may read." 7071,E1GT,7. The Courrier Francais of Sunday notices President Tyler's late message to Congress, which it deems to be of little use towards American credit. It considers a vote of Congress as nothing, but that the Americans must begin by giving evi dence of such good faith as has not of lat e accom p an i e d their transactions, before they can expect foreigners to lend them money. As to that part of the President's message which re lates to measures of defence, the Courrier considers the Presi -1 dent to be expecting a war, and this journal adds—" The United States, in case of war, will stand in need, as in the time of Washington, of the assistance of France. And never theless the President, with a want of foresight bordering on insanity, proposes to further increase the duties on importa tions from France." The French Minister of War had distributed to the members of both Chambers copies of a report made to the King re specting the progress of the forti fi cations of Paris daring the years 1 840 ' and ;841. The report states that the expenses during the year 1840 amounted to 5,000,000 f., and in the year 1841 to 25,000,000 f., leaving a balance of the sums already voted by the Chambers of 37,000,000 f. applicable to the expenses of the current year. The report concludes by slating that - the enciente continuee and the forts have been ex ecuted simultaneously, and that the works will be cone uded within five years, the period originally prescribed. On Saturday there took place, for the first time since 1830, a representation at the Theatre of the Palace of the Tuileries. Five hundred persons were invited. At half-past seven King Louis Philippe entered the royal box, giving his arm to Queen Christina of Spain, followed by the Queen of the French, who was led by the King of the Belgians. In the box were like wise seated the Queen of the Belgians, the Duchesses of Orleans and Nemours, the Princesses Adelaide and Clemen tine, the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, Joinville, Aumale, Alexander of Wirtemberg. and Prince Paul of Wirtemberg. The theatre had been newly and magnificently decorated, and the appearance of the house filled by the court and courtiers presented a very brilliant coup d'ceil. The French Government had received a despatch from Bayonne, announcing that on the 19th the Spanish Senate rejected M. Marliani's proposition relative to th. speech pro nounced by the Marquis de Boissy in the Chamber of Peers of France, by a majority of 76 against 1. Our private letters from Beyrout of the 25th ult. are at vas lance with the intelligence received via Constantinople from Syria. Mustapha Pasha, in his tour through the country, so far from endeavouring to conciliate the people, was, it is said, doing everything in his power to rouse the Moslem against the unhappy Christians, whose condition was truly distressing. It was reported that lie contemplated disarming the mountaineers of Lebanon, and that he was only waiting the landing of 4,000 Albanians to commence operations. The Malta papers of the 15th inst. state that the Polyphemus steam .packet departed on the 11th for Naples, having on board the celebrated Ilindoo, Dwarkanauth Tagore, and his nephew ; Chunder Mohun, who expected to reach London in the month of June. The Locust steam-tender had sailed for Tripoli to convey Colonel Warrington, the English Consul-General in that Regency, to the Syrtis, where he was to meet Ab-del.. Gelil and other Arab chiefs, in order to enter with them into a treaty for the suppression of the slave trade. A letter from Tripoli of the 26th ult. mentioned that another cargo of black slaves had just left for the Levant. PARLIAMENTARY. The Duke of Wellington, having ascertained since Friday that the Spirit Duties (Ireland) Bill will not promote smug gling, and having found out that it would be convenient to omit the drawback clauses of that Bill, moved that it be read a third time. Lords Monteagle, Clanricarde, and Cloncurry, regretted the passing of the Bill, which would do great injury to Ireland for a very trifling revenue. The Bill, however, omitting the drawback clauses, was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships, after receiving a few petitions, adjourned. -- ' In the Comm Otis Mr. Hume took his seat, amidst much cheering. Mr. Pakington presented the Report of the Ipswich Election Committee ; and, on his motion, the writ for that borough was ordered not to issue for three weeks. Mr. Redington, Chairman of the Southampton Election Committee, reported that the Committee had given John Rent, into custody for not answering questions. John Renn was brought to the bar, and, in excuse, said he was afraid his answers might criminate himself. A considerable discussion ensued as to what was to be done to the contumacious Rents, but he was finally sent back to the Committee, with an admo nition that the Committee Ins a legal tribunal, the questions of which he must answer. On the motion that the House resolve itself into a Com mittee on the Income-tax Bill, Mr. Wallace made a speech against the Bill, but withdrew the motion to substitute an issue of Exchequer bills for the day, of which he had given notiee. Mr. Hume also made a speech, pointing out means by which the public money might be saved, and the necessity of an Income-tax probably done away. The Hon. Member admitted that Sir R. Peel had undertaken an arduous task, and compli mented him on the boldness with which he stood up against his awn friends. The House went into a Committee, and agreed to Schedules A and B. On Schedule C, Mr. Ricardo moved an amendment to apportion the tax more fairly on terminable an nuities, OR which the Committee divided, and retained the clause unaltered by 253 to 117, there being a majority of 136 for fleecing the holders of terminable annuities at a somewhat greater rate than the holders of perpetual annuities. On Schedule D being put, relative to trades and professions, Mr. Roebuck, who has an amendment to move to the Schedule, suggested, as it was past twelve o'clock, that the further consideration of the Bill be postponed. Sir Robert Peel acquiesced in this, after some little bickering, with an understanding that he is to proceed with the Bill this day. though it is not an Order day. The House then resumed, and at Half-past Twelve adjourned. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Hera'd thus speaks of the rumoured intentions of some of the Conservative party to move the continuance of the prohibition on foreign cattle :—"Mr. Philip Pusey, the Member for Berkshire, is reported to have announced to the farmers of that county, in public meeting assembled, that Mr. Miles's motion to continue the prohibition on the admission of foreign cattle, will have the support of a large st.etton of the Conservatives. The Cambridgeshire farmers have been fa voured with a similar intimation. If these announcements be truly reported, and any division of the Conservative party en tertain such intention, the members composing it are about to enter on a very useless and foolish course ; useless, because they will be defeated; foolish, because they will place them selves and their clients in hostility to the public interests. Mr. Pusey thinks that the.new Tariff was drawn up • by some one who knew nothing about farming.' Be it so; it was, at all events, drawn up by one who knew something about the de plorable condition of the mass of the British and Irish people, ton horn animal food is now a rarity, and of the middling classes, to whom the present high price of butcher's meat checks consump tion. We opposed any extensive modification of the Corn-law, because free trade in corn would greatly diminish the demand for labour; we support the new Tariff, because it will ultimately reduce the cost of living, while it will provide increased em ployment to the working classes." The Post observes, in a leading article on the subject of Irish emigration :—" Emigration, taken in the abstract, cannot be said to be in itself an evil. Population outstrips the means of sup port, or of profitable employment to the inhabitants, and a swarm is thrown off; does this fact speak to the decay of the country, or to the loss of those that remain? Certainly not; it is a circumstance in their favour. We are not to conclude, therefore, from the mere fact of emigration, anything in trinsically detrimental to the community ; this is an inci dent depending entirely upon circum, tames ; and what we are bound to see with regard to Ireland is, whether there those circumstances do concur which give to the tact that deplorable character, and invest it with those sad accompaniments which would render it a distinct and unequivocal index of national cal-imity and decline. Now, front what we know of the condi• tion of society in Ireland, we would be inclined to say that a large amount of emigration afforded testimony of the absence of any great improvement, rather than positive evidence of actual deterioation," The Tinsel says :—" If we were to take the proceedings of Friday as a specimen of the manner in which the House of Commons is likeli to deal with the question of railway regu lation, we shoulo give up all hope of protection against the dangers of that mode of travelling. The preposterous deci sion of a majority of one, affirming Sir William Joiliffe's .tuendment for the exclusion of a most useful and necessary clause in the Government Bill, might at first sight be taken for a blow against the whole principle of the measure ; but the cheers with which this strange instance of legislative per versity was received by the Opposition supply a clue to the motives of those %tho voted with the sapient Baronet. Beaten as they have been on every question of party interest during the session by overwhelming majorities, and fresh as they were at the moment from an ignominious defeat, the broken forces of Liberalism determined to rally in a House of 207 Members, and had the satisfaction of just outnumbering the Government upon a question of security or hazard to the lives of her Ma jesty's subjects. Their spleen, indeed, invented a new deve lopinunt of the principle of free trade, by declaring against the protection' of life or limb." _ _ . 'ln reference to the present state of Ireland the Chronicle makes the following remarks :—" The Evening Mail, in this a faithful mouthpiece of dm Irish Tory gentry, calls for a spe cial commission, a stringent Arms Bill, and an increased civil and military force, 'to strike terror into the hearts of evil doers.' Alas ! what ha, the Government of Ireland by the Tory party been, from time immemorial, but a Reign of Terror —a wretched exhibition of violence and weakness—a vigour wllich has only provoked resistance and aroused the fero. ious passions it was meant to quell - a s)st ern of revenge and cruelty, which has. raised up imitators wherever its blood-tracks have passed ? Sir Robert Peel, when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland, found Tipperary his chief difficulty. He was by no means averse to the " forcible-feeble" expedient of terror, but it proved ineffectual.. Lord Stanley aniealed to the same vul gar recourse, and tried Coercion Acts and Arms Acts with equal success. Lord De Grey, in a small way, while bandying com pliments with a Tipperary grand jury, has pledged himself to support a vigorous administration of Justice, which renounces all 'false humanity ;' but he too, it seems, has failed to • strike borror into the hearts of evil doers.' It is plain then that terror alone will not do. There must he something more, and that something must proceed from those who, in enforcing the rights of property, are bound not to forget its duties. If Lord De Grey could infuse such a sentiment into the breasts of the Irish gentry, he would de much to place the tenure of life and property on a !ure foundation." MONEY-112.11DE—COMMETWE. _ Twenty-five chndren yesterday were selected out of sixty nine candidates, by the Infant Orphan Asylum ; the number in the Institution at present is 1 87. The New Asylum will be opened by Midsummer, 1943. PUTILIC lIVIPROVEMENTS. The strong plank roads, now in progress of construction in Canada, which will connect the splendid inland seas together, Fronii.e excellent results. The plank road, which is to unite ake Erie with Lake Ontario, from Port Dora on the one lake with Hamilton on the other, will divert the whole route of travel from Michigan to the east, through the province of Canada. NAVAL AND /VqX.ITAFLY. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomson, viliONviirisesucceeded as Commanding Royal Engineer of the Dover district, by Lieut.- Colonel Wells, is about to proceed to Coati, and assume the Command of the Engineer department in the lonian Isles. PINE ARTS. The Standish Museum has been placed by order of the K;ng of the French in the highest story of the Louvre; it fills up five large rooms ; the first contains the paintings of the first masters; the second, the library : the third, modern pictures belonging to various schools ; the fourth, the chef-d(Enrre of the collection ; and the fifth, paintings The King has ordered " Mime Standish" to be placed on the pediment of the gallery. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The first day's sale of the Strawberry-hill effects commenced Zfsterday, co ns isti n g entirely of books. Messrs. Bohn and lhorpe were the principal buyers, and though the attendance of purchasers was small, the day's sale realized about 4001. TRMATRICAL. A new burletta, entitled Jack in the Water, c* the Ladder of Life, from the pen of Mr. Leman Rede, was produced last ni!..Tht at the Olympic. Moliere's fine comedy, the Misanthrope, will be produced at the St. James's Theatre to-morrow evening, for the benefit of Mademoiselle Plessy, who will afterwards perform the cha•• ratter of Elizabeth, in our English farce, A Day after the Wedding. Weber's grand opera of Der Frieschutz will be the first per formlnce by the German company, on Monday next, at Covent Garden Theatre. COTTIZT-FASHIONII2I2I,E. It is expected that the Queen Dowager, by the advice of her physicians, will shortly proceed to the coast of Devon, if a marine villa should be found sufficiently capacious to receive the Royal establishment. The Marchioness of Normanby has left the Clarendon Hotel for Mulzrave Castle. The Mal quis remains in town. The Marchiot ess of Londonderry will give a fete of unusual splendour this evening at Holdernesse House, to celebrate the coming of age of her Ladyship's eldest son, Viscount Seaham. A rehearsal of the fourth Ancient Concert took place yes terday morning, under the direction of the ,Earl of Westmore land. The Duchess of Bedford bad postponed her assemblies until after the Queen's bit thday. The Earl and Countess of Wilton had a select dinner party on Sunday last. Err! Grosvenor arrived last week from Motcombe Park, Shaftesbury. Miss Burdett Ceutts commences her parties about the 20th of May. Viscount and V iscountess Beresford's parties will he resumed about the middle of next month. LAW INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY ) lhe House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers preset' , were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham Lord Campbell, and Lord Lyttelton. CHARTER V. SIR J. TREVELYAN. The SOLICITOR- GEN 1: ILA resumed his arguments to-day, in this part-heard appeal, on behalf of the respondent. The arguments have already taken up three or foar days, and appear likely to occupy the House several days more. ROLLS' COURT.-(TIIIS DAY.) WILLIAMS V. DOUGLAS, Lord LANGD ALE gave judgment this morning in this cause. One of the parties had taken exceptions on the ground that the hill, and also the affidavits, contained scandalous matter. The question involved was one merely of practice, and his Lordship dismissed the motion with costs, on the ground that proper notice had not been givers to the other side. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to hear consent petitions, which engaged the Court throughout the rest of the morning. When the list was disposed of, Lord LANGDALE proceeded to hear the cause of Strickland v. Strickland, the arguments in %%hick', have occupied the Court for the last three days. They were not brought to a conelusicn when his Lordship rose. . THE 'SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE,NING, APRI L 26, 1842. MISCELLANEOUS. The concert at Buckingham Palace was postponed yesterday evening, owing to the illness of several of the Italian Opera singers. From the first day of June, by the new Act of Parliament, the employment of any climbing-boy to sweep a chimney, will visited by a penalty of IW. To-day is the anniversary of the persecution of Marcellions, Bishop of Rome, who is said to have offered incense to the heathen deities. To-morrow will be the anniversary of the birthday of David Hume, the historian, in 1717. BIRKBECK. ON TILE PROPOSITION VOR A MEMORIAL. Carve the marble—mould the brass—bid the painter bring Pencils steeped in rose-hues, fresh from colour's living spring Brightly all her phantasies let Art employ and ply, Till Birkbeck in some mighty form grow grandly on the sky. Soph, or Sage, or Teacher—high was he as any sent— Since first on pillars of blue light was laid the firmament— Of earth's great band of master-minds, who truths divine im. parted, And made the mass of darkened men, clear-eyed, and clearer. hearted. A pure and holy Teacher here—a Chancellor of God— Now treads he in the Heavens, as of old on earth he trod; While pearl-crowns wreathed immortally, sweet-glitter round his head, And breaks he, as he broke below, true Wisdom's golden bread• Men gate he knowledge—structures new—new thoughts and new desires ; And heart and brain, all sterile else, uplighted with new fires Lo I sov'reignly he smiles on us, while grows his forehead bright Who seek with Art's best imagery to honour him aright. Thou sculptor, or thou artist—do'st not know one image bright To which he best may likened be—.and one serenest height? Bethink thee of that teacher, God, who broke the hallowed food, And stood august upon the Mount, and fed the multitude. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS PARIS, APRIL 25. M. III; MANN died of an attack of apoplexy this day. French Three's have fluctuated between 81f. 65c :0 80f. 95c., and closed at 81f. lie. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The improvement in the prices of our Stocks still continues, and Consols are to-day 92i 92k for Money, and 921 921 for the Account ; New Five per Cents. 101 k 101 i ; Three-and-a- Half per Cents. Reduced 100 j; Five per Cents. Reduced 91i 91i ; Bank Stock, 166 167 ; India Stock 246, the Bonds 20 21; and Exchequer Bills 38 40 prem. The feeler put forth last night in the House of Commons for reducing the rate of interest 'now payable on the Stock bearing Three and a Half per Cent., has had no effect, and the general impression is, that if the market rise much higher, it is probable that some such proceeding will shortly be attempted. Foreign securities are firm, and without much alteration in prices • the Dutch Five per Cents. are 1004 1011 ; th e T wo and-a:Half per Cents. 52% 53k; Belgian, 103 k 1041 ] ; Danish, 80k 811 ; and Brazilian, 67 69. Mexican are quoted 35 351. Railroad Shares are quiet with scarcely anything doing, ex cept in Brighton Loan Notes which are i" premium. In the Bonds of the insolvent States, the quotations are— Buenos Ayrean, 261; Portuguese Three per Cents. 22} 22a ; and Spanish Three per Cents. 24&. It is still difficult to find parties willing to borrow money, the superabundance of which continues. Accounts from Trieste state, that some sensation had been produced there by the arrival of a parcel of Indigo from Suez via Cairo and Alexandria. This announcement is of the ut most importance, the route, if it can be continued, is opening a trade for the manufactures of this country with Syria, Upper Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and thus to the upper parts of India. Attempts were made by the Government some time since, to open such a route, but hitherto success has only partially attended these exertions. If it can now be accomplished, and the present arrival, small as it may appear to be, may be considered as the that step towards it, immense advantages must naturally result, and without in terfering to any considerable extent with the trade at present carried on with India, via the Cape of Good Hope. At certain seasons of the year it has been considered prefer able for the overland snail to take the route by the Persian Gu!ph instead of by the Red Sea, and now that steamers have commenced running between the - ..arious ports of India, this may be carried into effect more expeditiously than it could formerly have been done. The chiefs up the whole line of coast have advanced to a much higher degree of civilization than in other parts of the same country, and many of them individually carry on commercial pursuits with Bombay, and the ports of Arabia and Syria, and the interior of Persia. The great difficulty for the present to be overcome in rendering this route safe, is the disinclination evinced by the Pacha of Egypt, lest his trading enter prizes may be interfered with, but this, once done, all the Eastern parts of the Mediterranean will then be easy of access, in consequence of the example set ; and the whole country through which the Euphrates flows, from Aleppo to Bassora, be easily traversed, by our merchant,. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Aram 25.—The market has undergone no alteration since Saturday. The sales to-day consisted of 500 Pernants, of which 400 were for export, at 61d. 7id. ; 40 Maranhao, ; 20 Bahia, 634 d. ; 300 Surat, 3,1 d. to 4d. ; 120 Egyptian, 7d. to Bd. ; and 3,020 American, 41d. to 7d. ; being a total of 3,020 bales. LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET, APRIL 25.—Was firm, but stock was offered more freely towards the close of business. The transactions were—Eastern Counties, 10; Debentures, 11/. I Is. Bd. ; New, 5/. 15s. tild. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 54; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 231 ; New, sk; Grand Junction, 184 k; Great Western, 95 ; Fifths, 10k; London and Birmingham paid up 321. Shares, 60; Manchester and Leeds, 89% ; Halves, 391; Quarters, 61 ; Ulsters, 17%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 25.—Our Market improves in the value of Railway Stock in most lines. Edin burgh and Glasgow, 53% ; Manchester and Leeds Halves, 40 and 39}; London and Birmingham, 190 to 191 ; Bank of Manchester, 4/. 13s, 9d. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 167 i lndia 5t0ck.............. 246 k 3 per Cent Red. 9lk IDitto Bonds ........ 20 prr 3 per Cent Cons 921 'Ditto Old Annuities ... 3k per Cent Red., lO4 j Ditto New Annuities... 90k New 3k per Ce n t New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities in expire \ Ditto Small 4O pm Jan. 1860 l2 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...167 Oct. 1959. ........ 12k India Stock for Acct.... jail. 1860. 12 15-16 Consols for Acct 92k SHARES. Cheltenham and Great Western (72k paid) 19 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .....• 54 London and Brighton ( 50 paid) :;6k itto Loan Notes (7k paid) London and Greenwich Railway 1— pd) 6 Manchester and Leeds (71) paid) Ditto New Shares (30 paid.. . Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...... Paris and Rouen (16 paid) South Eastern and Dover( 50 paid ) ...... York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (15 paid) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. (Continuation of Monday's Races.) 501., for 4 yrs-old 7st 10th, 5 yrs Bst 91b, 6 yes and aged 9st. Last three miles of B.C. Duke of Rutland's Flambeau,6 yis (Robinson) 1 Mr. Thornhill's E. 0., 4 ) ) re Duke of Grafton's Florence, 4 yrs 6 to 5 agst Flambeau, and 3 to 1 agst each of his opponents. Won easy by two lengths. NEWMARKET WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BETTING AFTER THE RACES. 2,000 Guineas Stakes-3 to 1 agat Misdeal, 7to 2 agst Pe tulance c (taken), 4 to I agst Meteor. Chester Cup—S to 1 agst Rory O'More, Bto 1 agst Vulcan, 8 to 1 agst Lanercost, 12 to 1 agst Marshal Soult, 17 to 1 agst Jolly Tar, 7 to I agst the Feathers. Derby-6 to I agst Frederica c, 7to 1 agst Attila (taken), 15 to 1 agst Jack (taken), 16 to 1 agst Auckland, 20 to 1 agat Robert de Gorham, 20 tol agst Canadian, 25 to 1 agst The Lord of Holdernesse, 30 to 1 agst Ballinkeele (taken), 1,00 0 to 10 agst Eleus (taken). Entry for the Queen's Plate (to-morrow)—Bellissima, Lan golee, The Jowess. Barbara, and Florence. 2,000 Guineas Stakes—Robin, Dorothy, Revulsion, Rever sion, Sideboard c, out of Zamy's darn, and Timoleon are scratched. 300 Soya. Stakes—All are struck out except Eringo, John o'Gaunt, and Oakley ; a compromise is not unlikely. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The transactions were limited, but prices were firm. TEA MARKET. The prices remain much the same as for some days past, with few buyers. Company's Cnrigou Is. I O 1. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices steady at 46s 3(1. to 455. 6d. per ewt., but the market was quiet, and the trade anticipated a further reduction. The deliveries were very small, and the stock is yet heavy. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. There was a good supply, with a middling demand for the fine qualities at the present quotations. The middling and ordinary sorts a heavy trade, with prices rather lower. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 51. Bs. ; Meadow Hay, 21. 12s. to 4/. 4s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to IL l6s. LORD JOIIN RUSSELL AND THE CITY OF LONDON. —A number of influential electors have determined to meet on Wednesday next, to take into consideration the necessity of calling a Common Hall, for the purpose of demanding the re signation of Lord John Russell, who is persisting in a factious opposition to the measures of Sir Robert Peel.— Tory Paper. QUEEN'S BENCH.---(THIS DAY. The Coma was occupied the whole morning with cases in the Special Paper, the arguments in which were of a purely technical maw-0. EXCHEQUER.-(TH IS DAY.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DONALDSON. This was an information filed by the late Attorney-General against the defendant, the Chairman of the Commissioners of Sewers. The information stated that a certain messuage or dwelling-house within the parish of Sr. Margaret's,Westminster, forming part of the Royal Palace of Kensington,long before then, and at the time in the occupation of her Majesty the Queen, had been improperly declared liable to a certain rate by the Commissioners of Sewers; and the information went on to al lege an intrusion by the defendant; whereon the Attorney- General prayed for the judgment of the Court. To this in formation the defendant pleaded, by his attorney, that the trespass complained of had been committed under the authority of the Commissioners of Sewers for a tax assessed by the said Commissioners, according to the tenure and effect of the Statute of Sewers now in force. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL appeared in support of the inform ation. He contended that the plea could not be received upon two grounds; first, that a Royal Palace in the occupation of the Sovereign did not come within the statute of the Commis sioners of Sewers ; and, secondly (but this was a point on which he did not lay so much stress), that even assuming that there was a doubt upon the first point, the form of the plea, which was a general one, could not be exended to cases in which the Crown was a party. The first ques tion turned entirely on the Statute of Sewers. That Statute was the 23d Henry VIII., chap. 5, sec. 9. It provided " That the same laws, ordinances, and decrees made by the said Commissioners of Sewers, should bind as well the lands, tene ments, and hereditementsof the King, as of all other parties, for such interest as they might have in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or other casual profits or advantages whatever, wherewith the said law, ordinances, or decrees, shall in any way extend." Now that statute seemed evidently to point to the case of lands leased by the Crown to a tenant. It referred to the profits or advantage which the Sovereign might have in any property, that property being made liable to the rate. But a Royal Palace, in the possession of the Sovereign, could not be considered as a source of profit. The occupation of a Royal Palace by the Sovereign, was to be re garded as a public duty, and any advantage accruing from it, was merged in the public character ' of the Sovereign. The effect of the statute was simply this—that where the land of the Crown was let to tenants, those tenants were liable to be rated by the Com missioners of Sewers, in the same way as they were liable to the poor-rates, while the lands in the occupation of the Crown were exempt from either charge. That was the first time, the Learned Counsel contended, that an attempt was made to rate a Royal Palace which was the residence of the Sovereign. There was another statute bvhich bore upon the question, it was the 3d and 4th Edw. VI., cap. 8, sec. 2. That statute provided that " all sums of money raised under the authority of the Commissioners of Sewers .upon any of the King's lands should be leviable by distress." Bat this statute could only refer to the case of tenants, as it was manifest that a distress on the Palace in the actual occupation of the Sovereign had never been thought of. That was an extremity which the law had never contemplated. Mr. DUNDAS appeared in support of the defendant's plea. The Learned Gentleman, who cited decisions of Lord Tenter den, Chief-Justice Abbott, and other Judges, maintained that the Act of Henry the Eighth, which Has a concession to the public, gave the Commissioners of Sewers the power of rating Royal Palaces. The Attorney-General had no right to put the extreme case of a power on the part of the Commis sioners to levy a distress on the actual residence of the Sovereign. That was not now the question, inasmuch as the premises rated were not actually occupied by her Majesty. The AzTostriev-GENeem. having replied, The Couax intimated that they would consider their judg ment in the case. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Air. Justice COLERIDGE. ) TEETERS V. WARE. This was an action for money to the amount of 701. Gs., being paid, and received by the defendant, who is an attorney. The plaintiff is a cheesemonger, who gave 701. Gs. and two bills of exchange for the purchase of some houses in Windsor terrace, belonging to Mrs. Hobson. Mr. Hobson died and left the houses to three trustees, his widow, Mr. Ware the defen dant, and Mr. Charles Hobson, his son: In the year 1834 Mrs. Hobson was desirous of disposing of the houses, and the plaintiff, taking for granted that she had a power of selling them, entered into an agreement to pay 130/. for them, of which 701. Gs. was given to Mr. Ware, through Mrs. Hobson. It was afterwards discovered that Mrs. Hobson had no power to dispose of the houres, and upon Mr. Peeters snaking application to Mr. Ware far the 70/. 6s. which he paid to him through Mrs. Hobson, he refused, stating that the money was paid to him through Mrs. Hobson in discharge of a debt due to himself. The prosecution was therefore brought to recover the deposit from Mr. Ware. Mi. PLATT addressed the Jury for the defendant, and con tended that the money was paid to Mrs. Hobson, and by her to Mr. Ware, in part satisfaction of the debt owing to him. Mrs. Hobson was arrested for the same debt, and if the debt was owing to her, as must have been sworn to before she could be arrested, how could the defendant be liable ? His lAsanstitr summed up, and told the Jury the question they had to decide upon was, whether the receipt of the money by the defendant was a colourable transaction or not. The Jury brought in a verdict for the defendant. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.) 31‘LOUGHLIN V. PRYOR.. The final hearing of this case, the facts of which have al ready appeared more than once in this paper, being fixed for this day, did not commence until a late hour, in consequence of a great number of small motions of practice which occupied Morn ingLoughlin, i s t h e pu bli s h er o f t h e ‘ the Court during the early part of the day. Advertiserplaintiff, mr. 111 newspaper ; the d e f en d ant a gent l eman of f ortune. The On the road between Epsom and London, the carriage in which the defendant was, was drawn at rather a furious rate by four post horses during the time of the races, in 1840, overturned the chaise of the plaintiff, w ho suffered exceedingly severe injuries from the collision, and was for months under surgical treatment in con sequence. The action was tried in London, in the sittings after Trinity Term, 1841, when, as will be remembered, the jury found for the plair tiff, 60W. damages. A rule nisi was applied for to set. aside the verdict, on the ground that the carriage being a pcst- chaise, drawn by post horses, the hirer was not liable for any damage. but Gist the liability was with the owner. On the other hand it was replied that the defendant having taken upon himself the direction and control cf the vehicle and the postilions, and being thereby the cause of the injury, took the liability upon himself. The case was not commenced this day until two o'clock, and had not concluded when we went to press. NSOLVENT COURT--(THISDAY.) RE HENRY CLARKS, The insolvent, who carried on very extensive business as tea dealer and coffee roaster in London Wall, and subsequently at 13, Mincing-larre, appeared in Court on his final examination. It appeared that he had become a bankrupt in June 1826, arid ohtained his certificate in December, 1827. The amount of debts appearing in his schedule in the present instance was 5,709!., and the credits about 1,700/. Mr. Henry Fisher, of the firm of Fisher and Clai k, brokers, at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, was examined respecting a bill of sale, by which he became possessed of the insolvent's household furniture and other property. He state., that it was executed in lieu of a sum of 400/. advanced to the insolvent, and which being unpaid, the bill of sale was put in force, by which a clear sum of 150!. only was realised. There was a fourth sum of 1.975/. :3s. 7tl. due to the firm, which Mr. Fisher was allowed to rove, when the insolvent was called up and ordered to lie discharged forthwith. IN RE SAYERS. The insolvent's petition to be discharged was opposed in per. son by a creditor named Graham, and supported b) Air. COOK E, The grounds of ppotition was an alleged fraudulent execu. tion of a warrant-of-attorney over certain property by the in solvent, in favour of a near relation, named Gillingham. The latter having been examined at some length by the op posing creditor. The Court ordered the insolvent to be discharged forthwith, NATIONAL CONVENTION. CI:H IS DAY.) The Convention met this morning at the Dr. Johnson Tavern. Fleet-street, at the usual hour, nine o'clock. Mr. DUNCAN took the Chair. A great number of letters were read from the different As,o.. ciat ions in the country. Several Deputations were received from different quarters of London, from public meetings held to support the Carter. Mr. O'CoNNolt moved the follot. ing resolution :—" That the Convention take into consideration the best means for pro tecting labour against those employers who apply it to artificial production ; and for ensuring to the working classes a supply of all the neceesaries o f lif e, i n d epen d en t of f o reign countries or m erc antile speculation." The Hon. Gentleman introluced the resolution in a very l ong speec h. The resolutio n was passed. The Convention then resolved itself into Committee, to take into consideration the best means of forming the procession to accompany the National Petition to the House of Commons and strangers were therefore ordered to withdraw. 0 YD LL SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Loxliox, APRIL26.—Wind this day at noon, Easterly. DEAL,YRI I, Tap LI A A 25. --Wind d A al, Westward. r r d . V Ar e r r d n . o f n r , C om ep t hal he on a river; and sld., Dumfries, China; Hindostan, Mathias; Boadicea. Bombay ; Anna, Bahia. LI vEaroot, APal. 25. —Wind S. S. E. light.— Arid. Charles Humberston, Marshall, Mobile; Clutha, Savannah; Adiron dack, Mallet, New York. Sld. Liberty, New York; Gallovidea, I V la vt i n r , after &c be ; Cainncigalafsoh,oreonPalermo. the South Arrd. s o ta ff e , k 1 ; t s obe i r s t i s er on s: San Nassau. OHM. APRIL 23—And. Astley, Starling, Leghorn. Ar rived off, Hebe, Douglas, St. Domingo. Hum., Aram 24.—Sld. Lord Wcnleck, Quebec; Sarah, Newfoundland. PoIiTSIIOUTH, APRIL S.E.—Sld. Pleiades, Port Wallace. PiN3iount, APRIL 25.—Wind variable.—Arrd. York, London, for Madras, with cooking apparatus for troops out of order. Sld. Susan, Hobart Town. Arrived off, Diana, Krolin, Bahia, for Hamburg ; Birmingham, New Orleans, for Havre; Clorinda, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, APAIL 24.—Wind variable arid light.—Ar rived, Agenoria, Genoa; Breganza (steamer), for Vigo, &c. COWES, APRIL 20.—A rrd. Pastry, Hall, London, Quebec. We understand that the place of gardener in the Royal Forcing Garden at Kew, vacant by the death of the late Mr. Aldridge, is not filled up ; and that it is the intention of the Lord Steward, with whom the appointment lies, to select the very best man he can find, without reference to other con siderations. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) moNn AY " , Arun. 25. TILE PROPERTY TAX BILL. DIVISION on Mr. RICARDO'S AMENDMENT on SU lIEDULE C. MINORITY—AYES, Aldan), William Hawes, B. Armstrong, :Sir A. Hay, Sir A. L. Attwoott, M. Heathcoat, John Baring, IF. T. Heneage, E. Bell, John Hill, Lord Marcos Berkeley, Captain krobhouse, Sir J. C Bernal, It. Howard, C. W. (3. Bernal, Captain 1-inwrk. Lord Blewitt, Reginald Fiume, 4oseph Bois ring, Dr. Hutt, W. Brotherton, J. James, W. Browne, W. Jardine, William 117. Rice, E. B. Roche, E. B. Roebuck, J A. Rundle, John Ruthwrlurd, A. Scholetield, J. Seymour, Lord Shed, R. L. Smith, honjamin Somerville, Sir W. Stanley, W 0 Stanstield, W. It. Stakton, W. H. Strutt, Edwai d Stuart, Lord J. Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Tollemache, F. J. Towneley, John Tufnell, Henry Turner, E. Villiers, Charles P. Vivian, C. C. Vivian Hon. Captain Walker, It. Wallace, It. Ward, H. 0. Watson, W. H. Wawn, John T. Williams, Wm. Wilshere, W. Winnington, Sir 1 Wood, Benjamin Worsley, Lord Wrightson, W Yorke, H. Redhead Cnristie, W. D. Clements, Lord Cube en, Richard Coll.orne, W Ridley Colebrooke, Sir 'l'. E. Collins, W. Craig, W. Gibson Crawford, W. S. ,)ervis, J. Leader, J. T. Listowel, Earl of M'Taggart, John Marjoribanks, S. Martin, John Maule, Hon kex Mitcalfe Henry Dalrymple, Captain Dashwood, G. H. nnistoun, J. Duke, Sir James Duncan, Lord Duncan, George Duncombe, 'l'. S. Dundas, C. W. D. Dundas, F. Ellice, It , . Hon. E. Evans, Vs Forster, Matthew Fox, Charles Richard Gibson, T. M. Gill, Thomas Granger, 'l'. C. Guest, J. Mitchell, T. A. Morris, David Morison, William Mostyn, Hon. E. M, Murphy, F. S. Murray, A. Napier, Sir Charles Norreys, Sir D. O'Brien, C. O'Brien, J. O'Brien, W. Smith O'Connell, 14 J. O'Connell, J. Ogle, S. C. U. Parker, John I'echell, Captain Philips, Mark Hail, Sir B. Barris, John Q Hastiv, A. . . Plumridge, Captain Poneonby, C. E. A. Power, James TELLERS. Ricardo, John Lewis Smith, Vernon A'Court, Captain Ackers, James .JORITY-NOES Egerton, Lord Fran. Eliot, Lora Esteourt, T. G. B. Farnham, E. B. Feilden, W. Fellowes, Edward Ferguson, Sir H. A. Filmer, Sir E. Fitzroy, captain Fitzroy, HO". H. Forbes, William Forester, Hon. G. Fuller, A. E. 253. . Miles, P. W. S. Miles, W. Milnes, R. M. Mordaunt, Sir J. Morgan, Octavius Mundy, E. Miller Murray, C. R. S. Neeld, Jo,eph Neville, Ralph Newry, Viscount Nichol!, J Norreys, Lord O'Brie , A. Stafford Parke, C. W. Paget, Lord W. Pakington, John S. Palmer, R. Palmer, G. Patten, John Wilson Peel, Sir R. Peel, Jonathan Planta, J. I'lumptre, J. P. Polhill, F. Pollington, Viscount Pollock, Sir F Powell, Colonel Praed, W. T. Pringle, A. Posey, Philipßashleigh,William Reade, W. M. Reid, Sir J. It. Repton, George J. Richards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Round, J. Rushbrooke, Colone Ryder, G. D. Sandon, Lord Scarlett, Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Seymour, Sir H. B. Sheppard, Thomas Shirley, Evelyn J. Shirley, E. P. Sibthorp, Colonel Smith, Abel Smollett, A Somerset, Lord G. Somerton, Viscount Sotheron, T. H. Stanley, Lord Stewart, John Stuart, H. Stint, H. C. Sutton, Henry M Talbot, C. It. M. Tenneut, J. E. Thesiger, F. Thompson, Ald. Towline, George Trench, Sir Frederick Trevor, Hon. G. R. Trotter, John Tumor, Christopher Vere, Sir C. B. Verner, W. Vernon, Granville Vivian, John Ennis Walsh, Sir J. Welby, G. Yarle Wilbraham, R. B. Williams, T. P. Wodehouse, Edmond Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, J. Stuart Wyndham, Colonel Wynn, C. W. Yorke, Hon. E. T. Young, John Acton, Colonel Adore, Lord Adderle y , C. B. Ainsworth, Peter 1 t ord. Viscount Antrobus, Edmund Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Archdall, General Arkwright. George Astall, William Bagot, Hon. W. Bailey, J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Baillie, Colonel Baird, Will am Baldwin, C. Barry Balfonr, J. M. Baring, W. B. Barrington, Lord liaskerville, T. B. M. Batesoii, Sir Robert Beckett, William Bell, M. Bcntinck, Lord G Beresford, Captain Beresford, Major Bernard, Viscount Blackburn, John 1. Blake, M. J. Blakemore, R. Bodain, W. H. Boldero, Henry G. Borthwick, Peter t iottield, Beriah Bradshaw, James Bramston, 'l'. W. ' . ..troadley, Henry Broadwood, H. Brooke, Sir A. B. Bruen, Colonel Buck, Lewis W. 4uckley, Edmund Waller, Sir J. B. Y. asunbury, Thomas Burrell, Sir C. M. Burroughes, N. N. Campbell, Sir H. Campbell, A. Gaskell, Gladstone, W. E. Gordon, Hon. W. Gore, W 0. Gore, W.R. O. 9 . 0.-4,..1-1:_13: GoulbUrn, H. Giaham, Sir J. Granby, Marquis Grimston, Lord Grogan, Edward Hale, R B. Hal ford, H. Hamilton, C. J. B. Hamilton. W. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Hann,den, Renn Hanmer, Sir John Harding; Sir H. Hardy, John llawkes, T. Hayes, Sir E. Henea'se, a W. Henley, J. W Heptnir'n, Sir T. B. Herbert, Hon. S. Hodgson, F. Hodgson, R. Hogg, J. W. Holitis, W. A'Court Hope, Charles Hornhy, J ohn Howard, E G. Howard, P. H. Ingestre, Lord Inglis, Sir IL H. Iron, Samuel Cardwell,' Edward Carnegie, Captain hapman, Aaron Chelsea, Viscount Chetwode, Sir John Christmas, William Christopher, R. A. Chute, W. L. Jacks 6, J. D. James, Sir Walter Jerrayn, Earl Johni'ori, W. G. Johnstone, Hope ,lolliffe, Sir W. Jones, T. Kelburne, Lord Kemble, Henry layton, It. R. Clements, H. J. Clex k, Sir G. ive, R. H. Kerrisoii, Sir E. Kirk, Y. _ _ .:oebrane, A. Codrington, C. W. Collett, W. Itickford Colville, C. It. Knat . chbull, Sir E. Knight, Henry Gally Lascelles, W. S. Law, Hon. C. E. Lawson, Andrew Legh, George C. Liddell, H. 'l'. Lincoln, Earl of Connolly, Colonel Corry, H. L. Courtenay, Viscount Cripps, J. Darby, George Dawnay, Hon. W. Denison, E. Beckett Dick.nson. F. IL Dodd, George Douglas, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir C. E. Douglas, J. D. S. Douro, Marquis of Drummond, H. H. Duffield, Thomas Dugdale, W. S. Lockhart, William Lowther, Colonel Lyall, George. Thomas Mackenzie, W. F. Mackinnon, W. A. Maclean, Donsld MacGeachy, F. A. Mainwaring, 1' Marshain, Viscount Martin, C. W. Martyn, C. Cecil Martin, G. H. Master, 'l'. W. C. Duncombe, A. East, James huller Eaton, Richard J. Eger ton, Sir P. G. , M astorman, John Meynell, H. TELLERS. Fremantle. Sir T. Baring, H B. DISTURBANCES IN NORTH WALES. The greatest excitement has prevailed in Hawarden, North Wales, near the seat of Sir Stephen Glyntie, Bart., for the last few days, in consequence of the turn-out of all the hands working in the extensive collieries of Messrs. Rigby and Han cock (a firm paying about 500/. per week in wages), and the attempts of these men to cause other operatives in collieries to turn out and support them in what appears to be most unsea sonable demands. The question in dispute is somewhat of a similar nature to that between Messrs. Peto and Gtissell, of Lor.don, and their men, which occurred a short time age—via , whether the men, should choose a superintesdant over them, or that the proprietors of the mines should retain the undoubted right of appointing their own agents. It appears that the firm of Messrs. Rigby and Hancock is at present carried on by trustees, and that a gentleman of independent property named Staley has been appointed agent to the collieries. This gentle man, having received many complaints that the coals were not properly cleared from small slack, introduced riddles to be used by the colliers with larger apertures than those previously in use. This gave offence to the colliers, and they refused to work; they came out of the pits, and assembled in considerable numbers in the town of Ilawdrden, threatening violence if the agent persevered in introducing the obnoxious riddles. About eighty or ninety of them surrounded the door of Mr. Staley's offices, and on his attempting to take his depar ture, they surrounded him, and stated that they should not go to work again unless he promised to leave the works, never to return. Mr. Staley, after vainly at tempting to pacify them, tried to pass through the mob to mount ki; Lorse, when he w as violently seized and carried to wards the railway formed for conveying coals to the river Dee, at Queen's-ferry. Here he was thrust into the bottom of a railway coal-waggon, and conveyed, very much bruised, along the line of rail towards the river, the ruffians on their way felling him that he had not long to live, as they intended to drown him in the Dee. On arriving at the Queen's-ferry they stated that his life would be spared then, but only on condition of banishment to England. He was then placed in the ferry-boat, the colliers threatening vengeance if ever he dared to return. Mr. Leigh Rigby conveyed Mr. Staley in his carriage to his house at Haw•arden ; but in the morning three hundred colliers surrounded Mr. Rigby's house, demanding that Mr. Staley should be sent out of the country. The colliers subsequently went to the rest of the coal-mines, endeavouring to get the c-1- hers to strike work, and the result has been that they are now demanding higher wages. They now average from IBs. to 255. per week a man. Four of the underground superintendents of the mines have since been compelled to leave the place from threats of violence, and Alessrs. Rigby, who are away from the scene of disturbance, are determined to support Mr. Staley, and to resist the demands of the men. The Magistrates are on the alert to call in the military should any further violence be ',tiered. Several houses have since been broken into, and it is expected that several of the ringleaders will be taken into custody. The police force of the neighbourhood is very weak, and Mr. Staley dare not enter Wales to identify his persecutors, from fear of his life. DISTURBANCE AT DUDLEY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT. Dunexy, Arum 25.—This morning a body, consisting of several thousands of nailers from the surrourding country, came into this town, for the purpose, as they stated, of remonstrating with the nail masters against the recent reduction in their wages, amounting to not less than 20 per cent. The poor creatures appeared in a most wretched and famishing condition, many of them carrying in their countenances undeniable attes tation to their declaration, that they had not eaten a morsel of food for the lass too days. Up to the time of the reduction the moat expert men of the body could with difficulty earn four and sixpence a week each. But the proposed diminution, should it take place an event most probable, from the condition of the ,masters themselves—will lead to suffering hitherto unparalleled in this district. The Magistrates met for the purpose of con sultation, after Which a proposal was made to the hungry mul titude to select twelve of their body to confer with their em ployers oo the subject of complaint. It is much to he lamented that from some cause, not yet made public, this conference did not take place, as the people readily submitted to the proposi tion regarding it, and gaited with exemplary patience the re sult. Meanwhile, a detachment of the 6th Dragoons arrived from Birmingham, and proceeded at once, with drawn swords, to disperse the pe , ,ple—a task they found no difficulty in so complishing. Large numbersof the 'sailers are still in,the neigh bourhood, arid as they suspect that a proposal for the confer ence was only a trick to obtain time to send for the troops, they are highly indignant; and the inhabitants of the town are in a state of great alarm, lest the multitude may return when the mill try are removed, and under the influence of irri tated feelingv, pri.ceed to violence. The Magistrates deserve all credit for their prompt attention to the circumstances, but it is thought by many that matters would have ended better, had az gument and expostulation, with, if possible, a promise of some concession, been employed, before the troops proceeded to the business of dispersion. Though the town was greatly excited, the shops being closed, and business entirely susperded, yet the assembled multitude showed no disposition to riot; and an address suited to the oc casion, expressive of sympathy with the people under their heavy sufferings, delivered by the Vicar, who unfortunately was on horseback amongst the military would have done more to allay irritated feelings, and to produce tranquillity than any coercive means. Trade is in a most lamentable condition in the neighbour hood, and an irruption of the colliers, a far more dangerous body of men than the milers, when stimulated by the pangs of hunger, is anticipated with great alarm. ANOTHER ACCOUNT BIRMINGHAM, SIX O'CLOCK MONDAY EVENING.—About two hours ago a gentleman galloped into this town, and went direct to the barracks. In a few minutes he returned through the leading streets at full speed, at the head of a troop of sol diers, who went at a rapid pace with drawn swords and loaded nieces in the direction of Dudley, in consequence of some seri ous disturbance that had taken plaee in the neighbourhood of Lie-a-Waste"and West Bromwich. At Birmingham at one o'clock immense crowds of persons were assembled, and the Magistrates and police were perambulating the leading streets. At three the whole of the shops in the principal streets were closest, and a large number of men, armed with short sticks, were walking about apparently determined on mischief. None, however, up to that hour had been done. The hailers in Lie s. W as te, or in that direction, had been said to have pulled down two or three nail warehouses, and that it was against the rioters in that neighbourhood the troops had been sent. A nail-maker from West Br, mwich states .that the whole of the men in that quarter of the district turned out from work this morning, and were to have met in thousands on one of the banks. The origin of the strike is as follows :—Last Saturday night week, the nail-masters, owing to the depression et trade, gave notice that they would reduce the wages very considerably on this day—they say 20 per cent. The men, already worn down with previous reductions, and unable to obtain only a miserable subsistence at the present price, resolved on resisting the re duction, and they accordingly sent round the bellman on Satur day night, announcing their determination to resist, and salting on the hands to meet this morning. They did so, but as yet the particulars have not arrived here. The nail-makers in Stourbridge, Regis, Darlison, and several other ilaces, are also out, and the utmost excitement is said to prevail many milts around the district.. Trade in general never was in such a de p!orahle c indition, and it is to be feared that the poverty and wretchedness . of the thousands now out al work, or only par tially employed, in the mining districts, may lead to worse than useless outbreaks amongst these poor people. It is just reported here that the mob have got three iron. masters in their custody in Dudley, or close by. If so, the thing will be serious. ROYAL COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. Whitehall, April 25;1842. I. The Commissioners appointed by the Queen for the pur pose of inquiring, first, whether, on the re building of her Ma jesty's Palace at Westminster wherein her Parliament is wont to assemble, advantage might not be taken cf the opportunity thereby afforded of promoting and encouraging the fine arts in the United Kingdom—and, secondly, in what manner an ob ject of so much importance might be most effectually promoted —have resolved that it would be expedient for furthering of the objects of their inquiry, that means should in the first place he taken to ascertain whether fresco painting might be applied with advantage to the decoration of the Houses of Parliament. 2. Although some years must elapse before the walls of the new buildings can be in a fit state for paintings of any kind, yet, as fresco-paintaing has not hitherto been much practised in this country, and as therefore candidates for employment in that mode of painting, whatever their reputation or general skill may be, will yrobabiy find it necessary to make preparatory essays, her Majesty's Commissioners think it oxpedient that the plan which they have resolved to adopt in order to decide on the qualifications of such candidates should be announced forth with. With this view:— Her Majesty's Commissioners hereby give notice, 3. That three premiums of 3001. each, three premiums of 2JO/. each, and five premiums of 100/. each, will be given to the artists who shall furnish cartoons which shall respectively be deemed worthy of one or other of the said premiums by judges to be appointed to decide on the relative merit of the works. 4. The drawings are to be executed in chalk, or in charcoal or in some similar material, but without colours. 5. The size of the drawings is to be not less than ten nor more than fifteen feet in their longest dimension ; the figures are to be not less than the size of life. 6. Each artist is' at liberty to select his subject from British 11,story, or from the works of Spenser, Sitakspeare, or Milton. 7. The finished drawings are to be sent, in the course of the first week in May, 1843, for exhibition, to a place hereafter to be appointed. _ 8. Each candidate is required to put a motto or mark on the back of his drawing, and to send, together with his drawing, a sealed letter containing his name and address, and having, on the outside of its cover, a motto nr mark similar to that at the back of the drawing. The letters belonging to the drawings to which no premiums shall have been awarded will be re turned unopened. 9. If a drawing for which a premium shall have been awarded, shall have been executed abrcad, or shall have been begun before the publication of this notice, the judges ap pointed to decide on the relative merit of the works may, if they shall think fit, require the artist to execute in this coun try, and under such conditions as they may think necessary, an additional drawing, as a specimen of his ability, and in such case, the premium awarded to such artist will not be paid unless his second drawing shall be approved by the judges. 10. The drawings will be returned to the respective artists. 11, The competition will be confined to British artists. PI The judges, hereafter to be appointed to decide on the relative merit of the w orks, will consist partly of artists. 13. The competition hereby invited is open to all artists, al though it has more immediate reference to fresco painting. 14. The claims of candidates for employment in other me thods of painting, in other departments of the art besides historical painting, and in decoration generally, will be duly considered. lb. Her Majesty's Commissioners will announce at a future period the plan which they may adopt in order to decide on the merit of candidates for employment as oil painters and as sculptors: 16. The range of choice in regard to subjects which has been left, in paragraph 6, to the discretion of the artists, has reference to the present competition only, and is not to be understood as implying the adoption of any particular scheme for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament. 17. The judges to be appointed to decide on the relative merits of the drawings will, it is presumed, be disposed to mark their approbation of works which, with a just conception of the subject, exhibit an attention to those qualities which are more especially the objects of study in a cartoon; namely, precision of drawing, founded on a knowledge of the structure of the human figure; a treatment of drapery uniting the imi tation of nature with a reference to form, action, and compo sition, and a style of composition less dependent on chiaro-scuro than on effective arrangement. By Command of the Commissioners, C. L. EASTLAKE, Secretary. WEST INDIA MAILS. The annexed extracts of letters further expose the shame fully defective management of the mail communisations by the West India Steam Packet Company. Many others of a simi lar kind have been received : " Royal Mail Steamer Dee, at sea, March 16, 1842. " I sailed from Falmouth on the 3d of February in the Royal mail steamer Medway, with 60 other passengers, for various parts of the West Indies and .North America. We arrived at Barbadoes on the 21st, and proceeded, via St. Vincent's, to Grenada. Here, according to the Company's prospectus and agreement with the Admiralty, we ought to have found a steamer ready to convey mails and passengers to the northern islands and Jamaica. Having waited here three clear days without news of any of the Company's vessels, Captain Smith proceeded on his voyage, by advice of the Governor, taking mails anti passengers with him, and after having been forced to make the tour of the West Indies, touching at Trinidad, La Guayra, and Porto Cabello, on the Spanish Main; Curacoa, and Mayaguez, and San Juan's, in Porto Rico, we found ourselves at St. Thomas's on the 30th day, and still not one of the Company's vessels to convey us or the mails on our reute. After a few days her Majesty's fri gate Spartan called accidentally at the island, and Captain Elliot took the Jamaica mails on vi oh him. At last the Royal Mail Steamer Dee made her appearance, and took on board passengers and mails on the twelfth day of their deten tion at, St. Thomas's. This vessel is bound for New York and Halifax, but intends leaving us at Turk's Island (a sand hank so called), to take our chance of some of the mail steamers picking us up. We expect to arrive there to-morrow, but I shall be unable to acquaint you of our ultimate fate, as the English letter. bag will be closed to-night. Thus, on the 43d day from Falmouth, the passengers for Jamaica, awl the mails and passengers for flavannah and North America, find them selves not only no further advanced than Turk's Island, but have the agreeable prospect of a forced stay of indefinite dura tion' on a sand bank produ c i ng no thi ng b ut sa l t, and where the Jamaica passengers who were land e d on t h e 17 t h o f Ja nuary are known to have been en the 22d of February, having expended all their fresh provisions, without being able to get others. " I myself saw mails at the Post-office at St. Thomas's for various islands, weeks and weeks old ; and we have on board Demerara mails for England already thirty days old. The Admiral on the West India station has placed three Govern ment steamers at the disposal of the Company, and yet the duty is not carried out. Every one in the West Indies considers the plan proposed by the Company as impracticable, as it has proved itself to be hitherto." [The writer has enclosed his name.] "Havannah, March 26. "We arrived here yesterday m orn i ng. After knocking about in the Dee 24 hours, in a gale of wind, we made that in fernal sandbank, Turk's Island, and there found no steamer ! The Tay, after waiting 16 days, had sailed the day before for Havannah, taking back with her passengers from Jamaica for London, who had already been twenty-eight days on the island. The Dee was bound for New York, but as there were four Jamaica mails and also Government specie on board, the Admiralty agent resolved to proceed to Jamaica. We arrived at Kingston on the 20th, and left. on the 21st; got here (the Havannah) yesterday (Good Friday), and now there is not a single steamer to go on to the place for which I have, in Lon don, paid my passage—New Orleans. " I annex a list of the places we have touched at in our steam voyage : —left Falmouth February 3d, Barbadoes February' 20th, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, La Guayra, Porto Cabello (continent of South America), Curacoa, Mayaguez, St. Jua n (Porto Rico), San Thomas's, Turk's Island, Kingston, March 20th, Havannah, March 25th. EASTERN NEWS. CONSTA NTINOPLE, APRIL 7.—By an Imperial decree of the 6th inst., Nedj.b Pasha, Governor-General of Syria, was su perseded in his post by Ali Pasha of Bagdad, who was replaced by Nedjib Pasha. Mazloum Bey, former Member of the Grand Council of Jus tice, bad been accredited Capou•Kiaia, or agent of Mehemet Ali at the Porte. On the 2d, Sarni Pasha, the envoy of Mehemet Ali, had an audience of the Sultan, who received him with much kindness and distinction. Letters from Canea, of the 28th ult., announce that Candia continued to enjoy undisturbed tranquillity. According to accounts from Nalunica of the 25th ult., the Albanian troops intended for Syria were on the point of sailing for that destination, Abbas Aga, who was appointed their Commander-in-Chief, was to embark in a few days, at Volo, with the first cols mu, consisting of '2,000 men, and his brother was shortly to follow him with another corps of 1,000. The accounts frcin Smyrna are dated the 9th instant. The French squadron, under Rear -Admiral Lasuse, was to put to sea in a few days, either for the coast of Syria or Greece, - --_-_- - SUSPECTED MURDER. MERTHYR, APRIL 2.4.—The manufacturing town of Merthyr (in the Welch hills) was thrown into much excitement yester day afternoon, in consequence of the discovery of the body of an old woman, of the name of Edwards, hid under a bedstead in her own house, a wretched hovel, in Plymouth-street, near the tramroad. It appears that the deceased, who was 70 or 73 years of age, resided as above, her son and his wife living wiih her, and sleeping on the bed underneath which the body was found. The old woman having been missed by her neighbours for some days past, inquiries were made et her son as to where she was, in answer to which the son stated, that she had gone a few miles into the country. On his leaving the house yesterday morning he told his wife that he was goirg to Dowlais to get his pav, and particularly ordered her not to look under the bed. After he had left, the wife, excited by, curiosity to know what it was her husband was so anxious to conceal from her, went to a neighbour's house, and told two women of it, who agreed that the wife ought to see what it was. The three women then returned to the house, and raising the foot valiance of the bedstead, were horror struck at observing the b o dy o f the poor old wom an un d er the bed, partially wrapped up in a sheet, and quite d ea d. The alarm having bee n gi ven , the superintendent of p o li ce was sent for, and from the inf or mation obtained by him suspicion pointed instantly to the son as the murderer, and the more readily so from the sort being the person who was two years since com mitted for the murder of a poor Irish girl, an unfortunate woman of the town. In that case, the evidence nut being deemed conclusive, Edwards was acquitted on his trial at the assizes. Information was immediately given to the Coroner, Mr. T. Davis, and at five o'clock last evening the Coroner and a respectable Jury assembled ; having viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned until six o'clock, Monday evening, in order to allow time for the post mortem examination of the body. The police are in active pursuit of Edwards, but hare not as yet succeeded in capturing him. Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, Commanding Royal Engineers in the Dover district, having completed his tour of home service, has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to proceed to Corfu, to assume the command of the engineer de partment, in the lonian Islands. He will be succeeded in the command of the Dover district by Lieut.-Colonel Wells.— Dover Telegraph. On the motion of Mr. Wilson Patten a return has been made of the amount of fees and expenses paid by Mr. Blake, the Member for Mayo, on his discharge from the cus tody of the Sergeant -at-Arms. It appears that the Hon. Mem ber had thought fit to visit his native isle, instead of attending to his duty in the Cardigan Election Committee, whereupon a messenger was despatched to Mayo, who brought over the run away Member, and Mr. Blake, on his discharge, had to pay 8/. 16s. Bd. in fees for being taken into custody, and 221. 18s. for messengers' charges, in all 31/. 14s. Bd. DESTRUCTIVE TIRE. One of the most alarming and destructive fires that have occurred in this town for many years broke 006 , yesterday morning i n a store s i tuated at t h e corne r 01 Lombard-street, Occupied by Mr. Reed, and filled with all kinds of marine stores—tar, hemp, oakum, rope, *:' The flames were seen first to burst firth from the about a quarter before two o'clock, and soon after s pread with such irresistible fury as speedily to communicate the adjoining houses, one of which, the Shipwright s Arms public-house, is entirely destroyed, the Custom . house Tavern public-house nearly so, and a stable in Oyster-street completely gutted. The escape of Mr' Bachelor's house, in Lombard-street, whi c h a dj o ined th 3 store on the other side, from total destruction, is almost miraculous; the fire had communicated to it, but throug h the greatest exertions was got under ; it has sustain?" considerable damage, and is partly unroofed. From t he first appearance of the flames great consternation anion the inhabitants prevailed, f u r h a d th ere b een muc h win at the time of this calamity, the w h o l e o f L om b a rd-stree t would have been in jeopardy. So rapidly, after the fir e was discovered, did it extend to the Ship„ rights' Arir' that in ten minutes the roof of that house fell ' l4 and if the policeman, B. Homer, had not alarmed the imates the moment he saw the flames issuing from Lb . store, and exerted himself praiseworthily in assisting in their removal, in all probability Mrs. Lovatt, the land: lady, and her daughter and servant, would have perishen• As soon as possible after the alarm was given, the police with the town 'engines, and the engines of the Royal Al tillery and Royal Marines, were on the spot ; and these were quickly followed by the Lieutenant- Governor, Sir Pakenham,H. and the 32d and 34th r eg iments, a n d Lieutenant Cheere, and the seamen of the St. Vince nt ' and the officers and seamen of the other ships of wnr who landed with buckets and t ac kl e , an d a ll exerte d themselves to the utmost to subdue the flames, wbt were not, however, entirely got under until nine o'clock , owing to the scarcity of water, the only su pply to be h ad being from two or three pumps of the adjoining streets' handed by buckets from street to street by the soldiers The extent of damage is as follows : —The whole of Ai r ' Reed's store and stock is 'entirely consumed, he being only partially insured. The whole of the premises oer pied by Mrs. Lovatt, as also her s t o ck, are entirely" e ‘ stroyed, and Mrs. Lovatt and her daughter had only time to escape in their night clothes. She is insured only for half the, value of her property; and the next hous e s the Custom-house Tavern, kept by M rs . B ea l e , i s mach damaged, and the furnitur e an d stoc k destroyed. SOlll.. stables also in the occupation of Mr. Payne are pulled down, and a house oc cu pi e d by M r. P us h m aihti also the back of the Globe Inn, both c au g ht fi re , b u t vt" J r' fortunately extinguished before much dam age was effected' —Hampshire Telegraph. partly THE BIRKBECK TESTIMONIAL' TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 8114.,-I beg you will allow ma to state, th a t a t the Wept held this day, - Mr. Coates put a paper int o m y h an d, a fter had spoken, informing me that Dr. Birkbeck attended Council of the University College in 1841, and had sent a "" thither for instruction. Having thus sent his contradiction of my statement fc‘ publication, I can only repeat, a s I s t a t e d at t h e m eeting that somewhere about 1830, Dr. Birkbeek was complete!y t satisfied with the management of the College; that he Wee 3 r the Council some years afterwards is now cert ifi e d by ; Coates. Admitting the fact, it su ppli es no reaso n ,w 7, the public should promote the i n t eres t o f t h at Col leg e ' under the pretence of doing hono ur t o D r. Birkbec:A • The recommendation of the Committ ee wou ld h a ve 1 ) 1 more effect had it not been signed by the Secretary of the lege, and the meeting would have had more claims to pour., favour had it not been presided over by one o f th e h ea d s 011 College to be benefited, and had none of the resolutions either moved or seconded by persons having an interest in 1; 0 Institution. My ineffectual opposition to the whole f a , was based, I avow, on the opir . ion that it is much b e tter nse lated to serve the University College than to commemorate v'' Birkbeck's worth, or promote the instruction of the working' classes.—l am your obedient servant, April 25. THOMAS HODGSKII4' SALE AT STRAWBERRY This long announced sale commenced yesterday. A I, s " wooden erection has been raised upon the lawn for the purer, of the sale, there not being a si ng l e apartment i n t h e &veil house of sufficiently ample dim ens i ons . Th e sa l e opene d the library of books, to which six entire days will be dens This is not the most attractiv e p ort i on o f t h e e ff ects , but interest will increase when the different articles of virte , h e paintings, the rare, and beautiful miniatures, the china, manuscripts and prints, are put up to competition. By a t way, in spite of the positive announcement ismhe catalogue t e l. it would be sacrilege to break up and sell in detail this fine 4 ,4 lection of prints, this practic e i s a t l as t to b e resorte d to , " t bs. the prints are to be sold in London as soon as the rest Of 00 . 0 property is disposal of at Stra w b erry -hill . F rom an ear ly 1, 4 0 a great concourse of company th ronge d th e rooms, amon g 0 7 r , were many members of the nobility. At one e'clock. Robins commenced the sale, after a brief 'introd which he said, with r e ga r d t o th e arrangement o f t h e book catalogue, it had been obje c t e d th at i t was i ncongru ous not very classical. His excuse was , th a t h a d catalog isi them exactly in the order i n w hi c h H orace W a l po l e 1 110 4 s them on his shelves, and th a t arrangement h e h a d thougt 4 best not to disturb. Th is l o t s were t h en put up , an d thf3 . ,,, there was no work of any great i m p or t ance ex hibit e d. the petition was very eager. Th e p rocee d s o f t h e d ay ' s sale '• nearly 4001. uctioth THE STORM OT SUNDAY. During the raging of the s t orm on S un d a y, a York s vessel called the loyal Albert, lying o ff B ow - cree k, was st • by the electric fluid, which first took h o ld o f the top e ' shivering it to atoms, and severing the chain running riggitg it then passed down the main mas t, s plit t i ng i t i n two, re scattering the mast hoops in all di rec ti ons , and tor" wrenching the iron bands from the mast box wlll were twisted and broken so as to be rendered. less, it descended to the hold, where it tore swat' `- lining boards, and d es t roye d or d amage d almost everyt h i ng , 0 t : o the cabin, ultimately passing out at the window. There li five persons on boa r d, th e C apta i n ( Wi ll i am No bl e ) an d t d , a , mate being in the cabin th roug h w hi c h t h e lightning Plio but without doing either of them the slightest injury• other three were on deck, one of whom was knocked ( I °_:ii but was not hurt. A grea t quant i ty o f smo k e i nu nediam afterwards was seen is s ui ng f rom t h e vesse l , an d i t was ate 9 thought that she w a s on fi re , b u t on t h e smo k e bl ow i n g aw b ;,k and an examination bein g ma d e , i t was f oun d t h at n o part a d: ignited. The damage done is estimated at between 60! o, . 701. A great many ho us e s i n th e eastern part of the me t h ' polis have been more or l ess damaged. The Coach Horses, kepti by Mr. Smith, in Ratcliffe-highway, " 9 40 tially unroofed. S evera l stac k s o f c hi mneys, at Litne"o,o. and Poplar, were s t ruc k b y t h e li g h tn i ng and throw n ° . 0 1 and in one instan ce a woman was severely scorche d, b u t dangerously. 11 0e ,' SUPPOSED M URDER OF T WO I NFANT CHILD 10 0 AT WOLSTA N TON, STA I , FOR DSHIRY.—SOIIIO eXCiterlaellt_ air been caused in Wolstardon and the neighbourhood by tho le , covery of the remains o f t wo i n f ant c hild ren in a pit of n o . iri a field at the B rat l we ll Farm, in the parish of Wolstan t hy It seems that o n T ues d ay morning several men went t° ; pit, a short distan ce f rom th e turnp i ke-road, with a v i ew Ld fo t , getting water-tresses, when their attention was diree' - e uir .. an unusual substance floating on the top of the wate r i o tbe). the side of the pit, which, on being got out, provdd to dr' leg and thigh of a child. The pit was afterwards e j l e dir and other human rema i ns f oun d , some of them lebe v b ,. ti' the mud. The rema i ns were su b sequently examine" 'tr. medical gentlemen, and proved to be those of tw- oP" dren. One of them, a child from eighteen months years old ; the oth er qu it e art in'ant. F r o m th e ver y j ie bel posed state of th e b o di es ,i t i s not unlikely that they 1 0 , 0 immersed in the water f rom t we l ve to eighteen tro nt b ilel V; probably longer. O n t h e rema i ns of the eldest r o e or° • o• stains of blood were found, and from the general aPP e v eo l a w what remained of the body it is believed to hsve, de de n : e , healthy state up to the time of its death. There is Itt* but '. but there has been some foul play in this transacti e b n :, res t g whom guilt attaches remains at present shrouded in t tbe itk a est mystery. At the Coroner's inquest which was held ee lightr i following nothing was adduced tendin to throw ani o bodi, e the occurrence. The jury returned a ve rdict—" That i l t. ow" were found submersed in the pit, but how, or by . ," 111 they came there no evidence appeared to the jury. te tiO THE NEW NOVEL.—We are requested to stt ilsrd' the new novel entitled " Softness," by the author of be pub; ress, or the Un c l e ," i s now ready, and may be bad o f t IE I I lithers, Mes srs . S aun d ers and Otley, Conduit-str_ w t; woo s ', have also j us t pu bli s h ed, Sir E. Lytton Bulwer's c or , d i ( " Zanoni." Major Michel's " Trevor Hastinges; jot bor e s Field of Tewkesbury." " The Herbert's," by the o ik ? l i t "Elphinstone." The " Hand-Book of Turning. ,_ t rio .„ . , 0 7,, to Waterloo, in company with Sir Walter Scott," O r o d Pt - .. John Scott, E.q. of Gala ; and Mr. Lodge's peerage ° , ?Ole. Z tonetage for 1b42, corrected throughout to the dat e Nobilitf: cation, from the personal communications of t h e,dy, a r e v ) .. Messrs. Saunders and Otley have also, nearly r e ady W ill Novel frost the pen of G. P. R. James, Esq., w " ft published early in May. A. con ee ...,; MR. CHARLES AIANGOLD'S CONCERT. ' 0 , 70 ..5q,..- 3 , ' excellent of its kind, was last night given in the / 1 7 t he Pi a° fi.. Rooms, by Mr. Charles Mangold, a performer ; st t oe. sitio , forte, %%hose playing we then heard for tco l ede d °n o w. numerous and rather superior. audience was f o r th e. i' tis• oeeaSion. The pieces selected by Mr. Mangold_eeiy te! , int tration of his musical ability were of a kind to aev r eow , T„ l 7 , skid and power of any pianoforte player wha te . v i e e ' pes' i r c he of Thalberg's fantasia on the serenade and isiotte e % fl . a etl Ive r do . Beethoven's grand concerto in E flat, op. 7 3, 1e g ra ted se s i t . e .,,,, triumphale of his own composition, and the eettiagrove, Case,. by Ries, which latter he played with Messrs. ' chor d of ° u n lit Maciejowski, Hausmann, and Casolani. I h e „ re fes sor t 1; 9 .. to which this gentleman belongs is that whte!', a Humm e l ( classical. Mr. Mangold was a favourite Pull" riin g seh e° , 4o ° e . He is a very great acquisition to the Engit'h e , t o e w hich we -Or music and musicians. The sestetto by Itie 9 ,; ` its pe rforni e n t : o ;, alluded, is a delightful composition, and ,t - it. Th a for realised every expectation we had forme , „ s), w ere __ rio strumental solos (besides those of M. Man 1 " a tam on the flute by Mr. Clintou• M. tt righ ts the by Mr. Hausmann ; a third, on the harp, Li a fifth, oa _.,e fourth, on the violin, by Mr. Blagrove ;a 5 _-,....3lUd a aT ei concertina, by Mr. G. Case. The seigEreeiewre,r Mr. 11 11 :; 1 „ Caradori Allan, Miss Bassano, the Miss kg Mr. John Parry, Gear, Mr. Otto Feder, Herr Kroft*, and another or. the vi°l°a • WO' last of whom was, of course, encored. FRENCH PLATS.--Aloliere's another verY crovrded fheoatuusree, played again last night, and drew on3unced the bet mari, M. Cartigny's Saganarelle may b°pronounced a spi, , ino in it. Mademoirelle Plessy's pers on ation onelnded the even .ti vaux's Jeu de l' Amour et du Hazard , c „ Ice d the sou t vaudeville comm , E jance, r.o entertainments. A one-act S uvenirs d a ni ere M. Scribe's Premieres Amours, or 0 The Jeu„e Pre i ._, produced before at this attractive theatre. house hersttend'el ol was the agreeable Mlle. Forgeot. The Ecole des o we f AA O. a crowded and fashionable audience. A'mckclhe Earl arid Co tir'_ Marls .. his Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswi I:rend' Ar ibassader Count Zichy, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the . of Clanrkarde , L.l the Count Kielmansegge, the Marqu L is erd Temp! , ,towu, J- i lr s , toss Grosvenor, the Earl and Countess of Johnstone and party, Lord Bruce, .„ le% at , id partY' I hell Sir W Massey btan .. . r , .., 4 , Quentin, Lady Pec , • 'I urkish Atr,bassado • J" i count and Viscountess Canning, the Malmes? ,ury, tit ° Louisa D'Orsay, &c. ------- BIRTHS On the 24th inst., in Brook-street, the lady of Sir George Baker, Bart., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Willow-walk, Kentish-town, the ladi of Henry Rawlins, Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Camden -road-villas, the lady of Thorp s° Willis Stone, Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., at Victoria - row , Lyndhurst-road, Peck' ham, Mrs. Henry Hooper, of twins. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG off No. 112, Strand, at The Sux Office, No. 112. 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