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EHI LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPA,NY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1840.) Capita', 2,000,00 C/., in .80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, Os. 6d. per Share r.r.specinses and 11l information may be obtained at the Tempo rary (Aloes of the Company, 134 k, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap pileat.42 to G. F. 'LOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem. _ THE FRENCH INVASION ON RUSSIA. In 3 vols. post Bvo., EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE, An Historical Romance of the French Invasion of Russia, From the German, By MARY NORMAN, IS PUBLISHED TILLS DAY. Richard Behtley, New Burlington-street. Eit MAJESTY'S THEATRE. MDLLE. LIND. AA_ It is respectfully announced that a Series of SIX CONCERTS Wlll be given at Her Majesty's Theatre, comprising the following Operas : —The Flauto Magico of Mozart; Oberon, Der Freyscbutz, and Euryanthe, of Weber ; La Nectate and Fernand Cortez of Spontlni ; and Fidelio of Beethoven; which will be sung by Mdlle. Lind and the principal Singers of the Establishment, accompanied by a full Orchestra and Chorus. The dates and particulars will be duly announced. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that they will have the option of including any number of these Concerts in their Season's Sub,:cription. The First Concert will take place on Thursday, April 12. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed that On SATURDAY NEXT, The Last Night r efore Easter, Will be produced the admired Opera, I DUO FOSCARI. To conclude with (the S.,ancry by Mr. Charles Marshall) the Cele brated Ballet, entitled LB DTABLE A QUATBE. In which will appear Mlle. Carlotta Grist, I Mdlle Marie Taglioni, and Mine. Petit Stephan, :Mlle. Carolina Rosati, IL Paul Taglioni, M. Charles, M. Louis D'Or ; Mdlles. Thevenct, Julicn, Lamoureux, and Augsandon. PARODI has arrived, and will appear immediately after Ea, ter. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be mails at the Box. othc‘s, Opera Colonnade 10 T. JAMES'S TH EA T RE Season 1849. FREXCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with LE MAITRE DE CHAPELLE ; ou, le Souper Imprevu. ..Habe, M. teauce ; Benetto, M. Chateautort ; Gertrude, Melllo. To conclude with LE DOMINO NOIR. Elfort, M. Chateaufort • Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horace, M. -:e; Gil l'erez, M. Buguet ; Angele, Mdlle. Charton ; Brigitte, Martial ; Ursule, Mdlle. Morel ; Jaciuthe, Madame Mancini ; rf Mdlle. Vigny. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. I'it Amphitheatre - - - ss. Od. 33. Od. 2s. Od. Subcriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's lic,yal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Sir. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. TiIi.ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. 13. Webster, Selo Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE BRI(L Characters by Messrs. 11. "Vandenhoff, Rogers, Howe, Walla& ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss I'. Horton. _ _ To be followed by THE RENT DAY. 31.trtin Heywood, Mr. J WaHack. • - To conclude with the new Farce, entitled SEPARATE MAIN. TENANCE. THEATRE. ROYAL. ADZ:Ugh. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENINt.. Will be performed TILE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Airs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. _ _ After which, WHO Lri.'E; AT No. 9? Characters by Mesam Wright and Worrell, and Miss Chaplin. . . To conclude with COCKNEYS IST CALIFORNIA. The principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Aliss Turner. LOYAL LYCY.UM Under the Management of Madam,: Vestris. Sol. Lessee, Mr. ChatleA Ma hews. TII IS EVENING Will be performed TILE WATER. PARTY. After which, a new Piece entitled BOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and l'arselle ; Miss 11. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To conclude witha new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA. Dress Loxes, .ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. SO Ulf-price to any part of the. house. Tine New Box-office, No. 2, Welllngio^•street, Is open to the tublic every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATIZN;. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will bs performed the celebrated Opera of THE SYREN. After which, M. KLARE will execute most extraordinary feats of Dexl ciity and Elegance on Le Globe Roulant. To conclude with the Opera of LA VIVANDIERE. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his RoyallghueSs Prince Albert, &c. The greatest triumph e rer witnessed within the walls of the Am phitheatre has been achieved by the celebrated American Equestrian Young Hernanlez, whose unparalleled feats have nightly called forth expr.essious of wonder amounting to enthusiasm, and gained for him the title of the first rider in the world. THIS EVENING. The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled CORA SCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed. After which the double Tight-ropes. To be followed by en Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which Young Hernandez will appear, supported by the trst Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. THE 1 , 1 1 318 DRIVER ; on alternate }Evenings, the Faace of MRS Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Man..,;er, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHEM—SuN OFFICE, MARCH 28. -ti'7T - mr+tostETEu, Loweit, 32; Highest, 45; Noon, 41 DAROMETER, 29.31; the mercury has since gone up five points. ; IND variable from E. to S S.E.--Nforning, heavy slee nd rain; Noon, cloudy, with occasional sunshine. . 1, ATLIt AT LONDON ditiD44E. TRII DAY —3l rning, 19 min. after 4 Evenly:, 41 min. after 4 To-Ilfortaow—_Morning, 3 min. after 5 1 Evening, 25 min. after 5 (Shelling Zlut LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1849. Mr. MACAULAY has, according to his own acknow ledgment, permanently sunk the debater in the an nalist. Ile has forsaken the labours of administra tion for the toils of Literature. He has forgotten the statesmanship of the senator in the statesmanship of the historian. Addressing himself to the Lord Pro vost of Glasgow, on Friday last, in the presence of four thousand citizens, the Right Honourable Author made this brief but solemn declaration : "My political life, my Lord, has closed." While the tones of that announcement are yet resounding over the land, echoed by the organs of public opinion from city to city, and from town to town, throughout the United Kingdom—before the BERANGER of Roman Antiquity has closed his portals for ever against the voice of the journalist—before the TRUCYDIDES of England has retired for ever into the seclusion of his library —we would, with all the earnestness of grati tude, bid him farewell as a Politician, and with the fervour of admiration utter our God speed to him as an Historian. During the whole of Mr. 111AcAVLAY'S career as a Member of Parliament he has preserved a consis tency such as must afford him an exquisite gratifica tion in the retrospect, and such as must always entitle him to the respectful recollection of his countrymen. lle has retained the natural serenity of his judgment in the midst of the turmoils of party warfare. With that eclectic appreciation of temperament which con tutes the amulet of the biographer, he has conipre llended and even eulogized the variable sympathies erd 'vacillating allegiance of the astute and accom plished HALIFAX, without possessing himself any of resemblance whatever to that illustrious Trimmer, beyond the moral and intellectual charac .c.ristics of his eloquence and his generosity. Whatever r,rty have been his conduct in other particulars, Mr. ':ACAULAY has at least the merit of remaining tale to that standard under the shadow of which he I .:r3t took part in the political conflicts at Westmin- His ambition, no doubt, was immense, ,for it M as the ambition of performing great services for his country—but his consistency has been as conspicuous as his ambition. To have participated in any manner in the glorious efforts which resulted in the reform of Parliament would have satisfied that ambition. Tohave persevered in:the maintenance of the principles i lrom 'which th e memora bl e A ct o f 1832, had ema -1 -,ted Would have proclaimed that consistency. The Ingrish Historian is fortunate to have shared in the exertions of the one, and to have passed through the ortlal of the other, unsullied by the brand-mark of le ilative tergiv.r , ation, lle has enabled himself to look without a blush over those years w hich are now dim but enno bli ng atmo needing rapidly int o t h e !There of the Past. " My political life, m Lord, has Closed. " How few men can articulate' those wov.ds without experiencing at least some sensation O regret ! How many on pronouncing them would realise the emotions of remorse ! It is seldom granted to a statesman to announce the period of his withdrawal from the arena of the Legislature without some compunctious sentiments adding poig nancy to the sorrowful knowledge of his retirement. It is the happy destiny of Mr. MacauLAY to make that announcem en t, ' not only w i thout t h a t s h ame fur the time which has already elapsed, but also without those melancholy and depressing reflections as to the future. He can gaze back without self , condemnation and onwards without, repining. Vol. in the past he can recognise nothing in public life but what is ho nourable, and in the future he can see lengthening before him the perspective of many imperishable suc cesses. "My political life is closed." Whenever the time arrives in which a senator finds himself compelled to make that declaration—a declaration tantamount, as far as politics are concerned, to the announcement of his demise—there must, under or dinary circumstances, be a profound revulsion in the feelings of the speaker. And none can have the temerity to anticipate death in the scenes rendered venerable by their protracted efforts of oratory, in scenes radiant with the associations of their legislative or administrative abilities—a death like that which struck down QUINCEY ADAMS in the midst of the representatives of Congress, or like that which descended upon the great CRATIIAM when sur rounded by the hereditary legislators of England. But it is a prerogative, the peculiar and almost unpa ralleled prerogative of Mr. MAcAunxv, to speak thus, after the acknowledgment that his political life has closed :—" I will not willingly believe that in ceasing to be a politician, I have given up the power of ren dering service to my country, for I hope may still be in my power to teach lessons of profit to those who remain on the busy stage that I have left, to repre sent the merits, the faults, and the affections of other times, and teach a common lesson of charity to all." Sincere and profound as our regret may have been on hearing the rumour which had been long prevalent confirmed by the lips of the Right Hon. Statesman himself, we must avow at once that in listening to the remarks which followed that declaration we not only have no cause for lamentation, but every reason to rejoice at the occurrence. The people, it is true, have lost a legislator, but they have gained an historian. Inasmuch as Mr. Ma.canLiky never degenerated from a popular representative into a political partizan on entering upon the duties of a Cabinet Minister, we are sanguine that he will not allow any predilec tions or prejudices to distort the serene and symmetri cal opinions of his j udg talent now that he has deliberately taken upon himself the awful responsibilities of an annalist. When he became Secretary-at-War in the Government of MELBOURNE, and Paymaster of the Forces in the Government of RUSSELL, he did not forego the honour of his rank as an independent legislator, pledged to the support of the interests of the population, irrespective of party or of faction. Now that be has undertaken to record the progress of national events under the House of the last of the STUARTS, and subsequently under the House of the first of the BRUNSWICKS, we shall look—and we believe not in vain—for the same impassable isolation from partialities, for the same im perturbable and passionless decorum of opinion, for the same severe and inexorable equili brium of judgment. " I believe I can judge as im partially of my own career," said the orator, " as of the career of another man." Regarding the Right Hon. Gentleman's view upon this point as unexag gerated—he has attained that knowledge which SOCRATES regarded as the acme of human wisdom, he has realised that keenness of intellectual vision which was the aspiration of the classic philosopher, he has obeyed that mandate- 7 e: 4 ,6s 0 - E ,aveay—which was the despair of PLATO. Encouraged by the manly plaudits of his fellow-citizens, and aided by that light from within which is seldom granted to humanity, Mr. MACAULAY may advance courageously upon the steep and difficult pathway upon which he has adven tured. That he has sometimes, as he himself has touchingly confessed, "almost felt himself ready to sink " under the weight of his laborious and onerous pursuits, cannot be surprising to any one who has duly conned those two erudite and ponderous vo lumes which form merely an instalment of his great History. That even his robust and masculine capa cities have at times yieldeEl to the pressure of per petual and discursive research—a research extending through almost every department of literature—can not be matter of astonishment to those who have pro perly estimated the bulk and variety of his authories. Yet the more herculean the strength required in his illustrious enterprise the more glory will result to him when that day has arrived which shall witness its successful completion. In taking our respectful leave of Mr. MACAULAY as a politician we would therefore, for these reasons, again and again, with simplicity and cordiality, bid him God-speed in his extraordinary undertaking as an annalist. There is, at length, some hope for Ireland. Minis ters have, it appears, even at the eleventh hour, decided on abandoning the " laissez fire" policy, and stimulating the national industry. By so doing, they may in some degree infringe upon the strict rules of political economy, and, consequently, incur the cen sure of those whom Mr. RIGIiY WasoN has designated as "one-eyed men"; but they will avert a fearful quantity of misery and suffering from our Irish brethren, and will save the Imperial Exchequer from many urgent demands, which could not possibly be disregarded or refused. It is only to be regretted that the Government remained so long apathetic, that years should have been suffered to elapse before the adoption of adequate remedial measures to enable the nation to sustain the new burden imposed upon it by the enactment of a comprehensive poor-law. It was, undoubtedly, right that the poverty of the country should have a legal claim upon its property—that human beings should not be suffered to perish of starvation in a Christian land. There can, therefore, be no second opinion as to the propriety and justice of the law that was so tardily introduced ; but means should at the same time have been adopted to sustain those who were incapable of meeting the new demands upon their scanty and inadequate re sources. Even. England, with all its capital and commercial activity, and with three centuries' ex perience of the working of the law, has at times found the task almost beyond its gigantic powers. In some few instances, lands were suffered to remain uncultivated, owing to the pressure of the poor-rates. What, then, could have been hoped for in Ireland ? The landed proprietors of the country were already ground down with the embarrassments and incumbrances by which they were affected ; they could scarcely provide for the heavy claims to which they were previously liable. A new demand of even less magnitude than the poor-rates would have been sufficient, even in ordinary seasons, to paralyse their exertions, and prevent them from affording any employment to the wretched inhabi tants. A great and sudden change, however bene ficial it may ultimately prove, must, generally speak ing, be attended by a vast quantity of individual suffering. In Ireland nothing, practically nothing, was done to break the fall, or to sustain the failing strength of the strugglers. The line of policy adopted was, that no aid should be given until the proprietors and occupiers of lands were completely crushed and rendered incapable of affording any assistance ; and then sums were advanced as gifts, without any prospect of a return or of permanently ameliorating the condition of the people, which, if judiciously applied by way of loan s , i n th e fi rst instance, would have averted the crisis, and ena bl e d the people to have maintained their position, and ultimately to have repaid, with thanks and gratitude, the aid afforded in the hour of distress. This wise and statesmanlike conduct was, however, eschewed. Principles, sound enough under ordinary and common circumstances, but deeply injurious in exceptional cases, were clung to with a desperate fidelity. The " wise saws" of poli tical economy were looked upon as sacred as the com mands of the DEITY, whichcould not be violated or in any degree infringed upon. It was not desirable that Government should interfere in matters which pro perly belonged to private enterprise. Private en terprise (!) alas!! where was it in unhappy Ireland? Nothing therefore was done, and the nation was daily sinking into the extremity of distress from the abuse and perversion of principles, sound in them selves, but very unsuited to the state and condition of the country. The account of the interview, however, which took place yesterday between the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Ch ancellor of the Exchequer, and a deputa tion of Irish Members of both Houses of Parliament, will be received with the utmost satisfaction through out the entire country. Various applications had previously been made for assistance to important lines of railway in course of construction. The admirable suggestions of the Honourable Member for Tewkes bury, who followed up with the utmost ability the project originated by the late Mr. DRUMMOND-- whose early and lamented death was indied a na tioe.ul loss—were urged upon the Government with the most determined energy, and unceasing per severance. Nothing, however, was done, no satis• factory answer could be obtained. Sir CHARLES WOOD relied on the exhausted state of the Exchequer as a sufficient answer, while the Premier was still tormented by lingering doubts as to the expediency of any departure from the strict rules of political economy. Those doubts and difficulties have, how ever, been at last disposed of. The illustrious Nobleman, who has so ably filled the Viceroyalty of Ireland, arrived to receive at the hands of his SOVE REIGN, one, and we trust only one of the rewards of his distinguished merit. His Excellency's plain but for cible representations of the state and condition of Ire land could no longer be disregarded. A deputation of Irish Members again waited upon the Premier and the Minister of Finances to apply for national assist ance to the development of Irish industry. They re quired no gift, all they sought was that a Govern ment guarantee might be given for the repayment of a moderate rate of interest to capitalists who might advance money for the construction of rail ways in Ireland, or that a direct outlay of public money should be made when the lines had been partly constructed, and a considerable outlay had already taken place from the private funds of the companies. Their reception was, however, very different from what it had been on any previous occasion. The Earl of CLARENDON was, as we have already stated, in attendance, and, in place of receiv ing a cold negative, with, perhaps, an expression of regret at being compelled to refuse the application, more was conceded than had even been asked for. Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced not only " that it was the intention of Government to lay before Parliament a plan, which was not as yet fully developed, to promote the completion of the main trunk of railway, extending to the Western district; and that the railway known as the Midland Great Western would occupy the first atten tion of the Government, with a view to carry it out ;" but he also added, " that there were two other ob jects which had engrossed the attention of Govern ment, as equal in importance to railways, and which, with a view to the relief of the present distress, they were disposed to prosecute. He alluded to the deepening of rivers and watercourses, com monly known as arterial drainage; and for the second, the extension of the loans for land improvement." It is proposed to apply to Parliament to vote a further sum to meet the nume rous applications which could not be acceded to out of the funds already at the disposal of the Board of Works. This is, indeed, as it should be. The views which we long since inculcated, which we have impressed upon the Government and the Parlia • ment, ever since the mysterious visitation that deprived the Irish people of their chief article of food, have been adopted although tardily. If the national industry be now duly developed ; if the soil be properly drained and cultivated ; if the waste lands be re claimed, the fisheries promoted, and an extensive line of railway communication opened up—lreland will speedily become prosperous and contented, the right arm and unfailing support of England, in place of being the chief difficulty of its Ministers. VICE-CHANCERY .- (THIS DAY.) (Before Vice ChancellorVicasm.) BAGSHAWE V. THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. His HONOUR delivered judgment in this case this morning. The material question was, whether the Eastern Union Railway Company, which, under several Acts of Parliament, had been amalgamated with the Hadleigh Junction Railway Company and the Harwich Railway and Pier Company, were charged, under the terms of the amalgamation, with the construction of a branch line from Mannington to Harwich, which had been contemplated by one of the minor companies pre viou3 to the amalgamation; and also with the completion of a line from Bury St. Edmund's to Norwich. Two several sums of 200,0001. and 100,000/. had been sub scribed in the aggregate by the several companies for the carrying on their respective works. The plain tiff's bi.l set out that the 200,0001. was appro priated to one specific purpose, and the 100,0001. was applicable to another specific purpose, and that the defendants had no right to apply that fund to the construction of the Norwich line, which was a line authorised to be constructed under a separate Act of Parliament. The bill prayed that the defendants might be restrained from constructing the line to Norwich with that fund. His HONOUR would give no opinion whether the general capital should be applied to the construction of the railway to Norwich; but with respect to the 100,0001. raised under the Hadleigh Act, he thought the plaintiff in this case had shown that the directors had misapplied that sum, and were still misapplying it, in appropriating it to the completion of the line to Norwich. Upon the merits, therefore, he thought the demurrer must be over ruled. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) IN RE TOMLINSON. This was a petition presented on the part of a Mrs. Tomlinson, the wife of a wine•merchant in Dublin, from whom she was living separate, prayinc , that she might be permitted to rk tain the custody of her only child, now about two years old, of a weakly constitution, being un able to walk or talk, of which child the husband sought to deprive her. The case was part heard a few days ago, when the circumstances were fully reported in our paper. Tile - arguments of counsel had not concluded when our report left. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) WOOD V. J. o'cownEa. This was an action to recover the sum of 12L ss. for rent, &c., of premises in St. John's Wood-terr ac e. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, but did not appear to support the plea. Evidence was then adduced to show that 101. was a balance du: on the rent, and 21.55. for taxes left unpaid by defendant. A verdict was given for the amount. Mbitton NORTHAMPTON RACES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Althorp Stakes. Officious ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Cadger ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 The Cup. Priestess Pity the Blind LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 28. —Wind at noon N.N.E., light breeze and cloudy. LONGHOPE, MARCH 22.—51 d., Tasso, New York; Jemima, St. John's; Alfred, St. John's; William Daw son, St. John's ; Alexander, Davis's Straits; Horn, Davis's Straits; legalia, Davis's Straits. LIMERICK, MARCH 26.—Wind N.—Sid., Triumph, New York. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd., Queen, Hatton, China, and proceeded for London; Nep tune, Toubuy, Bahia for Harnburgb. Sld., H. M. steamer Stromboli, to relieve the homeward bound. DEAL, MARCH 27.—Wind N. to E.S.E.—Arrd., Juliet, Watson, Shanghai; Panama, Watts, Penang; Borneo, Cunningham, Calcutta; Duchess of Buccletiob, Collier, Calcutta; Louisa Baillie, Roxby, Calcutta; Euphrates, Munro, Moulmein; Constantine, Barrow, Mauritius; Helen Mary, Legg, Mauritus. Arrd. from the River and sld., Larpent Gibson, Port Philip; Vicar of Bray, Duggin, Valparaiso; John Bull, Duffin, Montreal. A large quantity of wreck, consisting of knight heads, covering boards, a mast (sup posed to be the mainmast of a schooner), cases of wine and spirits, glass. and other articles, have been fallen in with to-day in the Prince's Channel, supposed to belong to some vessel recently wrecked in the vicinity of Long Sand. A mutilated figure-head of a vessel painted white, apparently a " Hercules,' was wrecked on shore near No. 2 Battery, on 23d inst. CHATHAM, MARCH 27.—Sid. Token, New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 27.—Wind S.S.E.-2 6, Arrd. Abbots, Reading; Johnstone, Islay. 27, Surat, Graham, Calcutta, left St. Helena 27th January; Ada, Watson, Savannah. 26, Sld. Hope, Jamaica; 27, Orpheus, Bom bay; Fairfax, Africa; George Glen, Para; Richard An derson, Baltimore; Herman, ditto; Elizabeth Bentley, Staten Island; Blanchard, New York; Robert, Boston. Off port-27, Osmanli steam tn., Constantinople. Quebec. portion of foreign . L M A A N R C G A A S T T E E , R— MA S R Id. Marys,27.—A cH smai a l vessel, and sundry packages of goods, have been brought in here, S p ddiStt.Eo. HA R TLEPOOL, S.E.—Sld. 26th, Ann Elizau ,SHIELDS, Jane,MARCH Qa Quebec; Lune, in Zdancri 26.—Wind E.—Sid. lloratio, e Miramichi; Niger, Quebec. Her Majesty's Drawing-room to•morrow will commence at two o'clock. As previously announced, the mourning for the late King of Holland will be dispensed with on the occasion. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby leave town to-day for Paris, having come over to London ex pressly to attend the funeral of the late Counteta of Aittlame, his Lotaship'a mother. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER 70 THREE. There was very little drying in Cotton at Liverpon yesterday, awl price ,, , althoug (puited lower, htiv , rather a declining tendency. Sales 4,000 bates.— Rail way Shares were greatly (I , :presse.:7. and prices in al cases lower. Toe accounts reccivod to-day from the Continent aro rather satisfactory again iu respect to political affairs, although doubt continues to be thrown upon the Danish armistice. One would suppose that the Prussian Consul would scarcely intimate, as he did officially five days since for the information of the shipping interest, that the armistice will be prolonged, if it were not so. Un doubtedly, however, people's hopes and fears are much excited. The Italian accounts are satisfactory, and it is said that France has again proffered its mediatory offices to Charles Albert. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 25th of January state that the colony was in a favourable position, and that there was nothing new from the frontier. The Corn Market is exceedingly heavy again to-day, the arrivals of foreign being very large. By reference to returns of the consumption of many principal articles of food, we find an increase on the whale, and this, in turn, may be expected to act favourably on the revenue. The Dee steamer is still atxiously expected. She is over due, and Fifties having freight on board are in clined to offer higher terms for insurance, although no particular anxiety is felr. The Funds are very steady but quiet. Consols, 914- to for Transfer, and 91k h for Account. Exchequer. bills 363, to 395., and India Bonds 503. Bank Stock for Ac count is at 194. The Foreign Market is likewise extremely passive. Mexican Bonds realise 31 to 31k. Bra zilian are 82. Peruvian are rather lower, being 63 to 67. Dutch Two-and-a-Tlalf per Cents have been at 49i, and since at 48i to 49. The Share Market is extremely heavy again, and prices are generally lower. The Eastern Counties con tinue gradually to sink, but the oth e r lin e s a re equa lly heavy. There seems to be a larger delivery of shares than was expected upon the settlement. oNE 'RI: - Es OF ~K ITISII ?UNDS. O'CLOCK. 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll/i% New 5 per Cent. Annuities 1194 Law Anna. to expire J an. IMO Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 11-16 $ 11-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... Bank Stock for Account, 1984 Consols for Account 7 . .xclie q u e r Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. & 2d. 1,0001. March ... 35 39 p 1,0001. June 36 39 p 5001. Maick 500/. June Small, March Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 B7 p 7 p Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred —3% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 3l 31% 1 4% 303 k Ditto, Account 3 l l /2 30 3 / 4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 65 65 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent. --- Ditto, Account —••- Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account — Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. _ CLOSING fRIC ES 91 1 4 1191,4 50 p 198 1 / 2 91% 39 p 39 p 39 p s9p 36 p 39 p CLOSIN PEJO ES. 82 27 3 4 28 16 1 4 16 3 4 293/4 Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49 1 4 48 3 4 49 49 Ditto, 4 Dar Cent. Certificates 78% 78% AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. vAILWAY SHARES. PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING therdeen ... 50 ...... 16 3 4 17 16%... 16 PAID. Do. Preference Caledonian Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ... Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 12%% Dublin and Belfast June. 35 ...... 55 % eat Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 10s. Eastern Comities— Ditto, Extension,s per Cent., No. 1 6L 13s. 4d.... 1 / 4 p. Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... 19% % ..... East Lancashire Last Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..„.. 42 ........ ... Ditto,_ Half Shares ... 20 .. .. Great Northern Do., :',' , 2 A Deferred Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... 7% . — 4reat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ..„.. Great Western 100 Ditto, % Shares 5O Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ... 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 12%... 12% 1 Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 99 . ... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... -- ... ... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... Do. Fifths... ....... ..... 10 Do. New, Gua. 6 ner ct. 10 Do. (W. Riding Union) 9.. Leeds and Bradford London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... 511 /2 London and N. Western 100..... 132 132% 131%... 131 1 ,e Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 .. 11 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Midland ...... ........ ...100 ...... 76% 76 77 77 Do., do., SO/. Shares,.. 25 ... .. 16 15 3 / 4 Si North British ........ ... 25 ...... ex.div — x.i Ditto, Thirds ........ 8 1 4 .. .. 4f4.... North Staffordshire ...... 17 1 / 2 l4 13% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 23% 3 4 .. 2 0 34 Royston and Hitchin ... 3 2...,,.. 31 /4 T s 3% South Eastern Do., Scrip No 4 ...... 10 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole ...... 6 tiork, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... ... ........ 25 ..... 23 1 4 ... Do. Original New ant Berwick .. 25 ...... 23 1 412%%......... 23% Do. Newcastle E itten. 20 Do. U.N. E.Preference 8 .... 6 th --id North Midland -- 23 , A 111' 17 3 / 4 12)(, ORM 2 IA 1 4 13 15 1 / 2 11 5 G;A 5 3 / 4 11 3 / 4 _4l/2 York and Nort 50 ..... 45 Ditfe, Preference ...... 10 Lo. East and West Rid- 81 ,4% ing Extension . ..... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 East Indian 3ll ......« ••••. ‘ Luxembourg ' *se ••• Ditto ....... lO ...... _ ... ••• 2 Namur and Liege 1 3 . 10 5 ' 3. Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux Paris and Rouen ... 2O ...... 20% Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 ... ...... Rouen and Havre ..... . 20 10% Sambre and Meuse 2O ... , Tours and Nantes 9 ...... ......... ..... 2 4 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & Westminster. 20 44 8% MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE—W EDNESDAY. The total quantity of English Wheat received up to our market since Saturday evening, has been only 420 quar ters, in somewhat improved condition. The show of samples to-day was small in the extreme; yet, owing to the pressure of foreign qualities, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was heavy, at almost nominal currencies. The imports of foreign Wheat since Satur day evening have been 15,430 quarters, chiefly from the continent. Selected samples were mostly held at full prices, but all other kinds ruled heavy, at barely late rates. Upwards of 12,000 quarters of Barley have come in from abroad. This large addition to our supply produced considerable heaviness in the Barley trade, and prices were with difficulty supported. Malt, the supply of which was small, moved off slowly, at unaltered quotations. An immense influx of fureigu Oats has taken place this week, the total quantity being 48,830 quarters; but from Ireland no supply has reached us. Most kinds of Oats were the turn lower. Beans, Peas, and all other articles were neglected. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. I Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I 420 qrs. I 1,140 qrs. 1 530 qrs. Flour. 6lOsk. English •... Scotch ...... Trish. .. ---- )2,850 I 48,830 Foreign ...... J 15,430 Malt. 4,830 2,830 qrs. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Colory samples of Hops are in steady request, at very full pric es . Th e m iddling and inferior kinds more off slowly, at barely late rates. The supply on offer is by no means large. Sussex pockets, 214 s to 31; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 31 83; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 36 to 61 10; per cwt. VIIIITECHAPE;.. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with each kind of meat, the demand for which ruled steady on the fol lowing terms:—Beef from 25 2d to 3 1 4 d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; V ea l , 3s 6d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 26 10d to 4s per Sibs." by the carcase. COURSE OF Amsterdam .......... 12 2 Ditto, at sight .• 12 Boat rdarn .... • • 12 2% Antwerp. ..... 25 70 Hamburgh .. •• • • /CB. 13 12 Aitona......Paris, 3 days'siglat 25 3 1 'Ditto, 3 months 25 50 tifqrseilles 25 50 80 urdeaux......... . 25 55 Frankfort on Maine.... 1214 Petersburgh, Sit. Rble.. 304 Berlin.. ~ „ „ Vienna, effec. tie...... 11 40 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 40 Madrid .... • • ........ 49 Cadiz .. ........ 50 - larcelona •• •• • • --• :•--• Seville •• —•- - . ..ft. ...' ..fAo er ,-. - -. 5; , ' , s • 4 1,11:1, V''. • - 4 ' . Tnt 81], LONDON.;_ WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 28 1849. EXCHANGE. Gibra1tar.............. Leghorn • • •• • • •• • • •• • • 11 Genoa • • • • • • • • .• • • • • •• 28 %than ••••• • •• •• •• •• Venice........ • • • • Naples •• ••••••• • •• •• 40 Palermo, Lisbon .. 53 Oporto .. .. • • .. .. • . .. • 53% Rio Janeiro • .• 25 Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 21 dayesight Philadelphia .... • • PRICES OF BULLION, PER OR Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• .• •• 0 0 0 Silver in bars .. •• . 0 b 0 GENERAL POST -OFFICE, MAncn, 1849.—0 n and after the Ist of April next, the following offices will be opened for the issue and payment of money orders:— Brynmawr, Brecknockshire; Llanrwst, Denbighshire; NOwluwen, Sussex; Wandsworth, Surrey, MONEY ORDERS. TO TILL EDITOR OF THE SUY. went, by order of my employers, On Monday to Cavendish-str2et, to obtAn three c:ion9y crders. I arrived at tWenty• five minutes to four by the office vlock, a,.d Lund congr,ga.ted th, re eigia or 1;1110 perion. After waiting ;.,tnxiou,ly twenty-five minutes, without a chance of being served, the ca rk shut hi, little trap. %nd " that no more orders would be granted that day." I, with several others, went home to my employers, having wasted their time without procuring that for which I was sent. Surely, Sir, the public deserve better treatment from the Post-office authorities. Should you consider this communication worthy of a space in your valuable journal, you will confer a favour upon the public by endeavouring to do away with a system which causes them a great loss of time and sad disappointment. I remain, Sir, you•s, &e., HENRY J. WYATT, 4, Cottage place, Alfred-street, Islington. ASES Y IN WHITE CROSS-STREET PRI6ON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—As your most extensively circulated journal has done much in preventing fraud and promoting hu manity, under the operation of the debtor and creditor laws, you will, I am persuaded, require no apology from me in bringing under the notice of your rosders a case of extreme misery that has just occurred to one of the prisoners in Whitecross-street prison. David Bidinead, the individual iu question, has been long and seriously ill, so that the benevolent governor, by the advice of the experienced surgeon, had caused him to be placed in the sick ward. While there, one of his eight children was then taken seriously ill, and he expected ber death almost daily; another, aged 16, who on Thursday night was apparently in full health, became suddenly indisposed, and expired at six o'clock on Friday morning. The bereaved father is without a shilling to inter his daughter, and were he not sustained by a strong belief in Providence, most likely would have perished under his accumulated misfortunes. I have ascertained that he attends Divine service not only every Sabbath, but daily, and I am assured on the best authority that he is a sincerely pious man. Another case, in which aid is neither expected nor would be received, may be mentioned as showing to what extent of cruelty the present law of imprisonment for debt may be carried. A gentleman, moving in the most respectable circles, and not unknown in public life, volunteered to give a judgment to relieve a friend who had been in security for him, on condition that such friend should be released from an action pending against him, and that notice of such judgment should be given before a war rant was issued upon it. The friend was not released; no notice was given ; but as a highly intellectual daughter of the gentleman who had given the judgment was dying, the creditor, living in the same street, watched his op portunity, sent for bailiffs when the young lady was dead, concealed them in his house, and seized his victim, her father, in the agony of his bereavement, so that if possible money might be extorted, or the father pre vented attending his daughter's remains to the family tomb.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, March 26, 1849. PHILO-HOWARD. CITY OF LONDON AND EAST LONDON DISPENSARY AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. A meeting of this valuabl e c h ar i ty was holden on the 26th inst.; H. F. Richardson, Esq., was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN announced that the institution was progressing favourably, and stated that the 21st of June had been fixed for the foundation festival. He had the pleasure to state that the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Shrewsbury, C. W. Parker, Esq., and a long list of influential personages, had agreed to become stewards, whilst the Elrl of Glengall, the Earl of Stan hope, the Rigbtj Hon. and Rev. Lord Saye and Sele, W. Grenfell, Esq., R. J. Tennent, Esq., M.P., B. C. L. Bevan, Esq., Dr. flawtrey, Eton; J. W. Russell, Esq., and several other influential personages, had consented to become vice-presidents. Numerous donations were announced; amongst them were 50/. from J. W. Russell, Esq.; V. S., 51. ; and 51. annually from the Rev. Dr. Spranger; 31. 3s. annually from J. L. Russell, Esq.; 10/. 10s. from Thomas Farmer, Esq. ; John Pryer, Esq.. 101.10 s.; from R. S. Holford, Eq., V.P., 251. and 51. ss. annually; Charles Dixon, Esq., V.P., 50/4 the Rev. J. 11. Fisk, V.P, 201; J. Lahouchere, Esq., 5/. 55.; R. Palmer, Esq., M.P., 5/.; Dr. llawtrey, V.P., 101., &c. Ike. The Chairman further reported that the premises taken for a dispensary, in Wilson street, Fins bury-square, were in every way adapted to the purpose, and he was of opinion that the doors of the institution would be thrown open in about a fortnight. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, and in an eloquent speech called attention to the fact, that although many other excellent institutions existed for the relief of the suffering poor, this stood alone, as having threefold objects, namely, Ist, to give medical aid and medicine; 2d, to supply nutriment when recommended by the medical officers; and 3d, to afford in extreme cases small pecuniary aid to them on recovery. The speaker con. eluded by congratulating the founders of this institution on their being assisted by three medical men, members of the medical profession, and trusted that their bene volent endeavours would be crowned with complete success. The meeting was then addressed by A. Curling, Esq., the treasurer; W. E. Heath&ld, Esq., A. Manhall, Esq , J. Smith, Esq., and other gentlemen. The medical officers, W. G. Carpenter, Esq., and Henry Shaw, Esq., pledged their zeal in furtherance of the objQct in view. Mr:J. K. Whyte, the secretary, having disposed of certain routine business, the meeting adjourned, thanks having been voted to the Chairman. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Coletti made his first appearance for the season last evening, in the character or Carlo V., in Verdi's opera of Ernani. The music of the part was originally writ ten for a baritone like Coletti (although Gardoni has of late appeared in the part); indeed, we believe that Coletti was the original creator of the part—be this, however, as it may, he has frequently appeared in the part in Italy, and always has produced an immense effect. His version of Carlo V., last night, was magnificent; he looked and acted the Emperor to the life. He was in excellent voice, and his fine, deep, mellow tones, and in]. passioned style of vocalization, made of Carlo V. a great part. Those who have not aeon Coletti in it can have no idea of its capabilities. There were several encores in the mune of the evening, and at the conclusion all the principal artistes were called before the curtain. HER. MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.—Her Majesty's box was yesterday evening occupied by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Adeliza Howard, and Mr. Egerton. In her Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box were Lord and Lady F. Gordon Hally burton and the Misses Erskine. Amongst the company were the Duchess Dowager of Cleveland, the Russian Minister, the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehau sen, the Baron de Nieumann and Lady Augusta do Nieumann, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness Dowager of Sligo and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Muns er, Earl Besborough, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the Viscount Clifden, the Viscount Anson, Lord Sandys, Lady Eddisbury, Lord Foley, and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lady Shelley, Lady Paulett, Sir J. Townley, Sir J. Bailey and Lady Bailey, Sir J. Flower, Sir G. Womb well, Sir T. Lennard and Lady Lennard, Lady Lake, Sir H. Webb, Sir Richard Vivian, Sir J. Pierpoint and Lady Pierpoint, Sir W. Clay, Lady Forbes, Lady Clay, Lady F. Gordon, Sir F. Baring, Major-General Sir A. Woodford, Lady, and the Misses Woodford, Major Buckley, the lion. R. Curzon, Major-Gcneral the Hon. H. Cavendish, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN.--Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, honoured the performance with their presence yesterday evening. In the Royal suite were the Marquis of Ormond, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Thuverie. There were also present—Prince George of Cambridge and Prince Ed ward of Saxe-Weimar, the Sardinian Minister, the Peruvian Minister, the Baron and Lady Augusta de Nieumann, the Brazilian Minister, the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Marquis of Stafford, the Marquis of Win chester, the Murchioness of Westmeath, the Earl of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, Baron Nicolai, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl Grosvenor, the Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, the Countess of Carnwarth, the Viscount Mandeville, the Viscount Ebriogton, the Viscount Sidney, the Viscount and Viscountess Dungarvon, the Viscount Exmouth, Lord Bendlesham, Lord Ward, Lord Milford, Lord Tem pletown, Lord Suffield, Lord A. St. Maur, Lady Camp bell and the Hun. Miss Campbell, Lady Lister Kay, Lady Quentin, Lady M‘Naghten, Lady Batemen and Miss S:anbury, Lady Lush'ngton, Lady Webster and party, Lady Morgan, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgib bon, Hon. J. Fortescue, Hon. Theobald and Mrs Dillon, Hon. J. Vivian, Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, Somerset, Hon. Colonel Liddell, Hon. Richard Howard, Hon. Gerald Dillon, Sir William, Captain, and Lady de Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Ralph, Ladies, and Mr. Lopez, Sir John and the Misses Burgoyne, Sir Olney Wakeman, Bart., Sir William and Lady Middleton, Mrs. Burrows, Mrs. Hale and Miss Hale, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. 011iver Massey, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir Henry and Lady Meux, Miss Burdett Coutts, Miss Mitchell and party, General Campbell, General Forbes, &c. ERRATUM.—In our Third Edition of last evening the division on the Dublin Consolidation Improvement Waterworks and Sewers Bill should have been given as follows: For the second reading... ... Against it Majority against the Bill The Bill was consequently lost. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Ripon, Captain Moresby, has just arrived with the East India and Mediterranean mails. Tjie Ripon brings 118 passengers; specie, value 35,000/.; and a large cargo; also the captain and crew of the British barque Town of Drogheda, which vessel was abandoned on 20th March, 120 miles E. of Gibraltar. Her Majesty's steamer Janus had arrived at Gibraltar. The 'Vin cent, Plumper, and Reynard sailed for England on the the 16th instant. Exchznge at Gibraltar, 49i to 49i. THE MAIL ROBBERIES. —TH E CONVICT POOLE. —We hear that Poole is nothing daunted by his sen tence. He was heard to say, "I played for a high stake, and I have lost, but I am not such a foul as to re gret it. If I had the cane opportunity I should do the same again." He paid great attention to the witnes : e; on the trial, and wrote notes to his solicitor, suggesting quektios, imegsautly. ,A► Tao pf paper, we should ••• 34 ... 126 ••• ---92 say, at le ;st was conFutned in this way. His wife was not r.ffected on hearing the sent,.:.;ce. She was in c ,- Jurt the whole day.—Dcronyhire Chronicle. NAVAL GOOD-!,ERV;CE PENS;ONS.—The two vacant good-se vice pensions !t,ive 'e , pn hy the First L., dof the Admit - ail u:i Cap:aiit E. 4t,i d, U. 8., F.ll S., and Cap ain Srr R., Lou 'navels. U. B , b,th officers of L.ng standing and di , tinguislied servie,s. AN EYRIE.--1,1 the eutumn of 1848, F. Mac kenzie, garacke.per to Applecr.iss, found a deserted eyrie in the Kirnochewe forest, which contained the bones of forty-six grouse, cleanly picked.—lnverness - Coit r ler. A correspondent of the Scotsman says that, in consequence of the want of confidence in the direction dispLiyed at the half-yearly general meeting of the share holders on Tuesday last, the whole of the old directors of the Ayrshiro Railwaphave tendered their resignation. EXTENSIVE FIRE. --About five o'clock this morning a fire took place on the premises of Mr. Taylor, book seller, IV:terloo-place, near the Strand; but a few mi nutes had elapse,: after its discovery by the police before the Chaudos street brigaee engines and lot-email had arrived, speedily followed by others from the City and the \Vest England Company. The engines were vi gorously worked, and by six o'clock all danger had ceased. On examination the fire was found to live oti, ginated from a stove-pipe having ignited th ,, fl, ciring, and must have been trnoulderirg the whole previous night. Mr. Taylor is believed to be insuted iu some London ellices. • D 1 ssrs. Macdougal, of Inverness, the celebrated Highland tartan tnanufgcturers, have now the waking of all the Highland dresses for the Royal Family. PRINCE ALBERT IN GLENESIE.—It will gratify our readers to know that the Right lion. Lord Piunnure, with his wonted generosity, recently offered to his R.,yal Highness Princ,! Albert the privilege of shooting over an extensive part of his Lordship's Highland domains, which offer his Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to accept.—Brechin Advertiser. IMPERIAL P A RLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 27. PETTY SESSIONS BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the Petty Sessions Bill. Tho object of the Bill was to give magistrates the power of holding courts of petty session in cities and boroughs in the same manner as in counties, so that cities and boroughs should possess the same privileges with regard to the constitution of courts of petty session as counties. Another object of the Bill was to enable magistrates to hire premises for the holding of petty sessions, so that they might not be obliged to hold the petty sessions in places of public entertainment, and be exposed to the fumes of gin and tobacco. In the other House the only objection was that this portion of the Bill was not com pulsory; but the Noble Marquis (Salisbury) objected to the Bill that it gave to the magistrates the power of hiring' a place for holding petty ses sions elsewhere than in places of public entertainment. The Bill proposed to give to the Court of Quarter Sessions power of ordering the erection, purchase, or hiring of proper places for the holding of petty ses• sions, the expense of which was to be defrayed out of the county rates. The Marquis of SALISBURY opposed the motion . They would have to provide 750 places for holding petty sessions, and these would cost at least 5001. each, which sum would have to be defrayed out of the county rates. He moved, as an amendment, that the Bill should be read a second time that day six months. The Earl of MALMESBURY also opposed the Bill, on the ground of the increased burdens it would cast on the distressed agricultural districts. It was not amo • went, when the country was occupied with the great question of local taxation, to bring forward such a pro • position as this. They should not agree to give any ad ditional powers to the county magistrates until the whole system was revised. He also thought that personal pro perty should be made to contribute to the burden, as real property was compelled to do. Lord CAMPBELL having replied, Lord STANLEY said that so large a sum as 170,0001. a year on a single county should not be permitted to he levied by the magistrates without the control of the rate payers. Ile hoped, at all events, they would strike out the clause which enabled the justices to provide accom modation for themselves, by erecting buildings which might give rise to great abuses. Lord BEAUMONT did not object to the provisions of the Bill which extended the jurisdiction of the county magistrates to cities and boroughs. After a few words from the Earl of MAL\dESBURY, The amendment was withdrawn, and the Bill was read a second time. The Out-door Paupers Bill was then read a third time. AUSTRALIA. Lord MONTEAGLE then rose to ask whether it was the intention of Government to introduce a Bill during the present session for effecting changes in C , e constitu tion of Australia ; and, if such intention wa, ent.:•rtainA, whether the di , patches or other papers would be laid be fore Parliament, showing whether such chang , s have been made known to the Council, and to her Majesty's subjects in Australia ? Earl GREY said he was anxious to introduce the Bit, and with that view had endeavoured to obtain a relaxa tion of the rules of the other House of Parliament, but had not succeeded. The pipers alluded to had been laid before the other House of Parliament. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mareli•27. TRANSPORTATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) Sir G. GREY thought that the Hon. Gentleman al luded to the memorials, because he (Mr. Adderley) should be aware that it was not the duty of the Govern ment to produce newspaper extracts. He would ask, what was to be done with convicts if they were not trans ported. Ile was ready to admit that Lord Grey had, without waiting fur an answer from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, ordered our convict ships to that colony from Bermuda; but when he found that the co lonists expressed their total dissatisfaction at such a pro ceeding, he did not persist in the continuance of that order. It should be borne in mind by the House what a vast increase there was in the number of convicts for the last two years, and how justly his Noble Friend (Lord Grey) had acted when he said that he felt im pressed with the necessity of sending convicts to the colonies, as it was the wish of the British Legislature that transportation should be continued. He would ask what had Government left them to do when remonstrances of the strongest character were urged by the Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland, and by the resident magistrates, stating that the gaols were filled to excess, and that all the avail able depots, Spike Island and others, which had been used for the purpose of not transporting them, were literally crammed with convicts. What, he would ask, had Government to do but to send those convicts from Ireland, amounting to 2,690 within the last two years, to these colonies. He would next refer the Hon. Gentle man to the remonstrance of the Governor of Bermuda, who stated that many Irish convicts who had been trans- , ported to that colony, under charges arising from want or insurrection, were deserving of a committee being appointed by her Majesty, to send them, as holders of tickets, to Au.tralia, because their subsequent conduct, while under his supervision, warranted him to suggest a mitigation of their sentence, and on that suggestion, in his (Sir G. Grey's) opinion, very judiciously, Lord Grey ordered their removal. Another letter from the Governor of Bermuda, stating that many of the con victs under him had not yet arrived at man's estate, twelve of them being under sixteen years of age, while others had no other charge against them than teat which arose from want or starvation, and that he did not, therefore, allow them to work with the gangs. On this letter Lord Grey, as became him, allowed the Go vernor to make the selection, according to his descrip tion, and he (Sir G. Grey) considered that those men on whom the experiment had been tried would not be by any means obnoxious to the feelings of the colonists, hut would be rather beneficial to them and to themselves.— (Here the Right Hon. Gentleman read a letter from the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, Roman Catholic chaplain at Ber muda, fully coinciding with the opinions of the Gover nor.) He hoped, notwithstanding the exaggerated feel ings against those convicts which had been sent to the Cape of Good Hope, that they would prove as useful and beneficial members of society as those celoniste who found their way there before them, through the s) stem adopted by the Governor of dispersing them, and through their obtaining employment. On beard the vessel carrying convicts from Bermuda to the Cape, of which he bud been speaking, was John Mitchel, who had been convicted in Ireland last year of a political offence. He had been provided with a leave ticket, which he would be able to avail himsellof on his arrival at the Cape, though from the last accounts of his health which had been received, it was scarcely probable that he would survive the voyage. Ile must remind the Hon. Gentleman, when be went back to the early his tory of slavery, that it was only at the period of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, that slavery was abolish( 1 in the colony of the Cape; that that colony shared in the compensation that was then made for loss arising from the abolition, and that a large transporta tion took place to Port Natal. He could only say that he should deeply deplore their taking any retrograde step in civilization, and that it was the earnest desire of his Noble Friend to abandon every practice, as far as possible, which tended to injure the prosperity of our colonies and dependencies. The Government, indeed, were very anxious to diminish the number of convicts in the colonies, and on the other hand he believed that the apprehensions of the colonists had been greatly ex aggerated. It was unfair to assume that the great ma jority of the criminal population of the country were sent to the colonies. From a report which he held in his hand, it appeared that the number of persons, male and female, in Great Britain, sentenced to transportation in the year 1847, was 2,726, the great majority of whom were convicted at Courts of Quarter Session. The num ber actually transported, however, was only between 2,300 and 2,400; because a large number of s ent( nc(s, making up the diff e rence, we r e constantly commuted, owing to the ago or infirmities of some of the convicts. During the same year the imprisonments in Great Britain, under sentences passed c hiefly b y . magistrates, amounted to 15 956. At the expiration of each term of imprisonment the convict was received back into so ciety; and that being so, lie trusted it might not go forth to the country that they got rid of their criminal population by sending them out to the colonies,— (Hear, hear.) They , bore, indeed, nine-tenths o f t h e burden themselves. So long as that system lusted, he apprehended that no material mischief could arise to the colonies; and unless they were prepac k d t o resort to a general system of capital punishment, or of perpetual imprisonment, he did not see how th e power of trans portation was to be limit(d. Mr. HUM said that before the Hon. Mt tuber re plied he wiehed to make a few observations. The ques tion simply was, wheth e r th ey would continue to send out convicts to a colony contrary to the wishes of the population of that colony ? The Right Hon. Baronet's explutition of the ease merely went to the iIICOATO- ; r nience in which the country w:1- placed in respect of j trrinsportati et, without reeeeiee tin,. main point which was r died by this motioti. IL seisi ihat they ought not ; to pu , the system of trare:rer!otien in th e tray that was complaieed of; and !fear,ther-fere, the House should affirin tee resolteetel_ ;sit, eenete et liar evenine would point out, he thoug! r . ;le. cessry of improving the edute.tion and goner, I c , ;ecii - ieu of those classes of the peeple es hieh fur, seee the ru =jority of those con viete H hoped he eioel;; hive the assurance of the Government that thi; s) eteiu OF transportation should not be forced. But in this country there was no public minister whose duty it was to investigate and provide for these social exigencies. What w ere they coming to ? With their gaols everywhere over flowing, their colonies unwilling to receive more con victs, and 7,000,000/. or 8,000,000/. annually spent in in struction—religious instruction, too— which ought to have preventod the occasion which gave rise to so large an amount of transportation, what was to be done? Ile recommended the House to affirm the resolution sub mitted by the Hen. Member, iu the full belief that it would tend to accomplish some of the improvements to which he had a iverted.—(Hear, hear ) Major BLACKALL recommended a system of' con• vict labour to be maintained, strictly under military discipline. If that were established, he believed that instead of being productive of mischief in the colony of the Cape, it would prove a very great benefit to its population. Mr. AGLIONBY said, that in his opinion the Right Hon. Baronet, the Home Secretary, had proved too much; and as yet it was difficult to say whether his proofs and admissions should be taken as binding, either against the Government or the House. The pe tition of the colonists appeared to him a very p ro per one, and he could scarcely believe that a respectable body of colonists could express a wish to have con victs sent out to them.—(Hear, hear.) Some of them, indeed, bent upon the accumulation of money, might perhaps do so, but the general case was extremely ire' probable; and if the Right Honourable Baronet were of that opinion, it was a virtual abandonment of the system of transportation. He firmly believed that it was far better to turn the convicts loose in society in this country rather than in the colonies, because here they had a complete organization of the law and police, which the colonies were comparatively destitute of. A more dangerous system could not be put in practice than that of allowing convicted felons to go loose in a small com munity, on tickets of leave. He might cite, as an illus tration of his view of the matter, a dispatch to Lord Stanley, dated at Auckland, New Zealand, in the year 1843, and signed by George Clark, as chief protector of the aborigines, whom he should not on this occasion have quoted, had he not been confirmed in his statements to a very great extent.—(Hear, hear.) The dispatch stated very forcibly the baneful effects of the practice under which the Parkhurst boys, who came within the scope of the resolution, had been permitted to reside amongst the natives. They taught the simple and credulous It Zealanders, who harboured them and kept them in idle ness, to swear in English, and to write all kinds of ob scene names and phrases on paper, which they sent by them to market as the price they were to demand for their commodities. The system was undoubtedly one calling for serious reform, and he trusted that before long the reform would take place. Mr. F. SCOTT wished to ask whether it was right or fair to force convicts to remain in a colony, against the will of the colonists, after their time of sentence was expired ? It was one thing to send out prisoners as holders of tickets of leave, and another to employ them on public works. Of the latter the colonists did not corn' plain, but if the convicts were continued in the c olon,' after the works were completed, and thus allowed to contaminate the morals of the colonists, that circumstance formed serious grounds of complaint.—(Hear, hear.) Would it not hereafter be better to consider w hether the:colonists were to be liable to the continuance amongst thetn of convicts 'as settlers, after the expiration of their sentences, or whether it would not be fair, after those convicts had been engaged on the public works , and had worked out their time of sentence on those works, to require them to purchase their passage home —unless in cases whore the colonists expressed a desire to receive them ? In Van Diemen's Laud three-fourths of the adult population were convicts, or persons whose sentences had expired. He was of opinion, with o ral right-thinking person, that it was not fair in England le inflict the off-scourings of her own population on the Co' lonists.—(Hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not mean to take AO part in the present debate, were it not that he deemed it necessary to correct a misapprehension of th e Hon. Gentleman the Member for Cockermouth, in reference to an observation made by his Right Hon. Friend the Se' cretary of State for the Home Department. The Hoe' Gentleman semed toe of oinion that his Riht LIN; Friend had stated that in case p s where colonists objectee to receive convicts, no more were to b e sent out to swel colonies. Now that was not w h at hi s Right Hon. Frien d said. What he said was that he objected to giving any expression to an opinion pledging the Government tt ) that course, because he believed if the terms of the we' titan before the House were so framed as to include al colonies, it might lead to the inference that the system of transportation was to be altogether abolished. Fli s Right Honourable Friend objected to any such in; ference. But in particular cases , suc h as t h e case 0' the Cape of Good Hope, where there was 0 remonstrance from the colonists against sending a large number of convicts to their colonies, would not be right to continue sending them. That was the opinion of the Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department, and it was an opinion in which the other members of the Government participated. Ile trusted that the explanation which he had thus dome% it to be his duty to give would prove satisfactory to Mr. Adder ,. ley, whose object was not to place any objectionable de' claration on the books of the House, but rather to secure that which was required by the Cape of Good Hope' that transportation should r.ot be continued to the , colony, contrary to the wishes and remonstrances of the colonists. The general opini on was w i t h respect t persons who committed crim e , th at i t was difficult for such persons to procure employment on leavil prison; and it was, therefor e , th oug h t advisable, 0 the expiration of their tim e , to send them to plac e, s where there would not be th a t diffi cu l ty. He remem b e red a case wherein a man, who had received good and re; ligious instruction in P en t onv ill e , o b ta i ned employment a shoptnan soon after his liber a ti on; b ut some o f 111 old associates found out hi s pl ace , an d gave informed°o affecting his former character, and leading to apprehetr sions respecting his honesty, and the consequence We 7 that he was dismissed ; an d i t was to meet such ea se as that that the Government were anxious to make Pro vision. After a short discussion, in which Mr. DISRAF , — recommended his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion after the satisfactory explanations given by the Govern; ment, and in which M r . H awes, Si r George Grey, 61i Mr. Heyworth took part, e Mr. ADDEULEY said, i n rep l y, t h at having go - ' fl d , h the object which he had in view, and being satisfied wl l the explanations of th e G overnment that it was not . tended to force convicts on colonies against such reran . strances as those from th e co l on i sts of the Cape o f Goo Hope, he had no objection to withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. ( MINIS TES' MONEY lELAND). Mr. PAGAN brought forward the R motion o f which he had given notice respecting the payment of minister s money in Ireland. It was a su bj ect , h e sa id , o f g reat importance to the clergy of the Protestant Church la Ireland, and to the people of that country. The HOO' Member then prucceded to read three letters which 11 1 had received on the subject from parties closely affecte d by the question in Ireland. The first of those letters. was from the incumbent of St. John's, Limerick. ." represented that the people of Ireland were of o pinion , and particularly si nce t h e appo i ntment of a Committeeci that House to inquir e i nto t h e subject, that this tax mus t be ab ilished. Thu letter farther represented that thA clergy were unabl e to get their money, and unwill itj a to press their poor parishioners. That letter was date 31st of January l ast , an d expressed a hope t h a t li d would bring the matter before the House. The sec° ll o letter was dated in March, an d conta i ned an expressicla of regret at the answer of Sir William Somerville, a e . a communication th a t th e wr i ter, the Rev. John Bids' could not get any on e t o act f or h i m in an endeavou r collect the money—not even a common process servo The third letter was f rom a R oman Catholic clergulao of the Franciscan C onven t i n Cl onmel, and it state d that not one of three of the order, after pay ing all necessary expenses, were able to pay for a suit of clothes, a n asked, was it not hard th at t h ey s h ould be called 1)1)°o 8 to pay " ministers' m one y ? " S o t h at t h ey WI t , f testimony, on the one h an d, o f t h e i ncum b en t o f ta rt ° Protestant Chu rc h, and on the oth er o f the WW Catholic clergy, against this imp os t. Wh en he la st brought the que stion b e f ore the House, heY stated that a provision might be made on the subject of m inisters i money out of the e c cl es i as ti ca l f un d s, an d h e now begged to impress the consideration of that opinion on the atter tion of the House. There could be no injury caused to, the Church Establishment by the abolition ofm "eisters money, as the sum w hi c h it a t present yielded—only 15,000/. in the ei g ht t owns in which it was collected could be supplied out of the funds at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He contended that, come 1! as a matter of justice, the Government were bound t o forward and abolish the ta x. H e proposed, as substitute for this tax, that the amount should revenuewas of th e Ecclesiss— as the re c ommends' the House. It iva tt b ii e coani p o a fc i d oam out naseisl se ico o t nf eCommittee This o true that the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commis sion was not so great as they ought to be, but if a sal e of the Bishops' leases was to be in perpetuity, an incoree would arise of 640,0001. He would suggest that th is s um should be made applicabl e to the 15,000/. a f ear w hich the clergy had f rom m i n i sters ' money. lie 'oar prepared a Bill on the subject, and all he asked wa s ,i g t permission to lay th a t Bil l on the table. He coneltl ,„e by moving for a C omm i ttee of the a hole House, to tall into consider a ti on t h e law relating to the rate or tae called "ministers' money," in Ireland, with a _ v i ca r to t" ...1 . repeal of s o muc h thereof as relates to the said rate3 v a tax ; and further, to take into consideration the f act 0 and 4th Will. IV., cap. 114, called the Church Teal:. leaks Act, for the purpose of amending the same , s° oo to provide thereby a substitute out of the revenues °l ,s ro s Ecclesiasti ca l Commissioners, as a provision for the in testant ministers in cei fain corporate towns in Irela n d e r lieu of the ann ua l sums now received by them 11 ",., 7, and by virtue of the A ct 17 t h and 18th Car. 1 1 . , ca p' Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL seconded the motion. er Mr. GROGAN s a id t h at m i n i ster ' money wa s , c „er thinly a statutory enact ment , and Ives about 15,000 e fog year. Because her Majesty's Government had fl . .blia years ago, for the purpose of preserving the 17 s he peace, abolished one portion of t h e i ncome of thol -3 ;t it; Chutcb, a further att ec k was now ma d e u pon ' the motionpropoi eel by the Hon. Member. T b° , ) ;st admitted that there were in equa li t i es i n t h e tax , but for was no reason why such a mot i on as t h at b ro ught ward should be agreed to. Be hoped Hon. Gent t ieti. would pause before they pre their assent to the Pi° t on suc would he we soon c plied 1 that t] amoui Haiti) ever 13 espeei and b: power Cutho the su of " E sued i