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Indeed it will become as necessary as a Directory in every lawyer's office."—Messenger. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RO BERT HOUD IN. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Close of this attrac' We Entertainment. M. ROBERT HOUDIN will have the honour to repeat his extra ordinary SOIREEA FANTASTIQUES, at this Pheatre as follows:-- This Evening (Tuesday) • • 3larch F. To-morrow ( Wednesday) • • „ 7. Thursday Evening .. • • ~ 8. Being positively the last Entertainment, owing to 3S. Houdin's depar ture for the provinces. Evening Performance at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at Half-past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Ilikets for this extraordinary Entertainment MaY be Secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. TBEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Mr. B. Webster, Sale Lessee and Manager. Old Itrompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and tl e Whole redecorated. THIS E VENING, Will be performed the Drama of TIIE HOUSEKEEPER. After which, THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean ; Lonna Violante, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMIN AND BADOCRA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Frlnce. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the Original designs by Digby Wyatt, F.sq , executed by Mr. Sang. A Maw Stage, Curtain. Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs Added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable. TIIIS EVENINt. Will be performed COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. Aftdr which, the original Drama, called HARVEST lIOME. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Miss Turner, &c. To conclude with JOHN JONES. Guy Goodluck, Mr. Lambert ; Eliza Melton, Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma , he ws. THIS EVENING If 11l be performed SHAVE YOU DIRECTLY. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Ilall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil nam, Miss L. Howani, Mrs. Macnatnara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madams Vest:is. Tu conclude with USED UP. Dress ioxes, 53.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-pries to any part cf the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington- street, Is open to the public es, ry day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee awl Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner l•y Air. Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrarizements have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the couuort and convenience of the audience. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Opera, entitled i'RANCESCA DORIA. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and 111 Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Fleamore ; Sprite, Mr. Dc Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Ender the Patronage of her Majesty the. Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &cc. Mr. Batty respectfully announces that he has entered into an en glgyment with the celebrated American Equestrian Young Hernan dez'', wno has just strived in this country, :Ind whose talent has gained for him the title or the first rider in the world. Ile will make ills second appear..nce this Evening. THIS EV r:SING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzhall. entitled CORA SCO ; or, the Warrior s Steed. After which the double Tight-ropes. To be tollowed by an inimitalle display or SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. supported by the first Equestrian taint of the day. To conclude with the farce of CURIOSITY. - box-otlice open from Eleve❑ till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, MARCH 6. THRRMOMXTUR, Lowest, 36, Highest, 53; Noon, 53. BIRtMETEII, 30.71. The mercury has again attained a very high range, bui is now beginning to sink. WIND W.S.W.—very fine. A r - Eat Al' LONDON I:ItLDOE. Tins DAT • ~ 1 111 C, 0 Min. after 0 : Evenin. , , 5 min. after 12 To-Mc:allow—Morning, 34 min. after 12 Evening, 2 min. after 1 'z? 1•, .0% LINO , , 3. • " Er. 7, ew•., • • • ..:#7 4 ' fa - , ttlung It* LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1849. It has long been notorious throughout Europe that the AUTOCRAT is, beyond all things, ambitious of ren • dering Constantinople, in its relation to St. Peters burgh, what Rome was in its relation to Paris under NAPOLEON—namely, the second city of his empire. To accomplish this NicnoLls has hitherto endea voured, by every device of diplomatic chicanery, to compel the policy of the Divan to become subservient to that of his own Government. Against the stkOrk. however, of these endeavours there has remained one enormous and almost insurmountable obstacle. Russia is becoming every day more and more despotic. Turkey, on the contrary, is becoming every day more and more liberal in its code, and more and more constitutional in ips administraticn. At the very time, therefore, when the EMPEROR is striving to bind together more closely his own Cabinet and that of the Sublime Porte, the two Governments have been gradually becoming more estranged by the inherent and growing antagonism of their principles. Finding himself worsted in most of his recent designs towards the subjugation of the Ottoman dominions, NICHOLAS awears to have at length broken asunder the bonds of amity, and to have threatened the SULTAN with all the rigours of his arbitrary authority. Not con tented with violating the neutrality of the Danubian Principalities, not satisfied with fomenting divisions between Bosnia and Bulgaria, with supplying no less than 10,000 arms to the Servians, with desolating the whole of Transylvania, insomuch that hundreds of the inhabitants have fled from their oppressors into the somewhat less devastated fields of the Wal lachians ; not satisfied with pouring his forces beyond the Muscovite frontiers, accompanied by a full pon toon equipage, and preceded by a relentless Commis sary, like DunismEL, the Russian EMPEROR has, at length, through his Ambassador at Constantinople, demanded a p: sage for his fleet through the Bos phorus, across the sea of Marmora, through the chan nel of the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean. To a request thus boldly and peremptorily made by M. TITOFF, the Divan has returned, without hesitation, aT; et bolder and more peremptory refusal. Where 'upon it was insolently announced to the Ottoman Government by the representative of the AUTOCRAT, that Russia would at once take by force the passage which she had merely demanded by courtesy. Such is the last startling phase in the complex nes gotiatirsns between Russia and Turkey. The apparent friendship which has been heretofore forced upon the latter by the absolute Government of St. Peters burgh has at length been broken in twain by the audacity of the Emperor NICHOLAS. The Divan has at last shaken off the incubus of the Muscovite yoke; but, unhappily for herself and for Western Europe, the power of NICHOLAS is in a great measure commensurate with his daring and his despotism. • Now more than ever, to timorous and despondent minds, the sombre anticipation of M. ADOLPHE TIERS seems to be on the verge of Lits realization—that anticipation which the historian has borrowed from the famous prophecy of NAPOLEON, and which has haunted the imagination of the pub licist with the phantom of the terrible colossus of Russia —that colossus which he already sees with his mind's eye standir,g triumphant over the continent, with one foot at t h e Sound and another at the Dardanelles, w i t h serfs groaning under li its frown througho'ut Europ e , and th e lovers of b fi erty In in dismay across the Atlantic to find shelter in the dese% is of America. Those, however, who scan the chart of the world 'rightly, and who appreciate the vigou r of the age duly, will regard with no sentiments of credence that deplorable Nightmare of a delirious Fancy an d a diseased Patriotism. They will look to the alterna tive prefigured by the lips of the Imperial Puomm- T uEus, when he foretold the mysteries of futurity from his captivity on his insular Caucasus. They will seo• not the Europe of the Cossacks, but the Europe of Republicanism. They will see, not victory of the AUTOCRAT, but the triumph of - allit *ocracy. Even now the Government of Con- , stantinople, that Government so long regarded a s effete, vacillating, and effeminated, has acquired sufficient confidence in the strength of Western Europe to defy the gigantic power of the AUTOCRAT. The secret of this inde pendent action on the part of the Divan is not unworthy Lf consideration—it arises from the engrafting of generous and constitutional laws upon the ancient code formerly carried into execution by the scimitars of the Ja nissaries. Re-assured by, the friendly and en couraging communications received from France and from England, the SULTAN has resolved to withstand the daring advances and threats of his arbitrary neighbour. His opposition to NicuoLAs has not consequently been restricted to a simple refusal of the demand made by the Russian Ambassador for a passage for a Russian fleet through the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean—it has exter.ded further. While in one direction the inhabitants of the Danu bian provinces are being conciliated through the in strumentality of the Ottoman Commissary in Walla chia, FUAD EFFENDI—that official having, among other acts of generous munificence, placed the sum of 1,000 ducats (12,000 francs, or 4801.) in the name of the Porte at the disposal of the impoverisned families at Bucharest—in another quarter, namely, in the capital and its immediate vicinity, extraordinary pre- parations are being made of a strictly defensive or protective character. Reports, for example, have been summarily required from the Seraskier, or Com mander-in-Chief, as to the actual state of the army of reserve, as to the supplies in the arsenals, and as to the general condition of the fortresses, particularly those situated along the Danube. The latter, indeed, is the point most open to the attacks of the AUTOCRAT and is hence the one towards which the Ottoman Government should direct its most scrupulous attention. Now that Russia is, through the medium of the Szeklers, devastating the unfortunate cities of Transylvania, now that she is pressing heavily upon the Wallachians, and striving to excite an insurrectionary movement between Bosnia and Bulgaria, in the hope of affording herself a pre text for intervention, it is peculiarly incumbent upon Turkey to protect at least the frontier line of the Danube. Whatever may be the next occurrence, either in the neighbourhood of the Principalities or of the Bosphorus, it is to the interest of England and of Western Europe to aid the SULTAN in his collision with the AUTOCRAT. The Naval Estimates will shortly be brought under the consideration of the House of Commons. It is to be hoped that henceforth concealment will cease to be the rule, that mystification will no longer be re sorted to ; but that, in accordance with the constitu tional principle enunciated by the late lamented First Lord of the Admiralty, " every possible information may be laid before Parliament." The people will no longer remain blindfolded. Their representatives will no longer vote enormous sums of money on being merely told the amount required. The nature of the expenditure must be clearly ex plained, and it must be shown that the nation receives the full and fair value for its money. We are, it appears from the late Admiralty minute, for the future to have an audit of the dockyard pay ments. It is to be shown that some adequate re turn is given for the large sums drawn from the n3tional exchequer, that the amount is honestly expended. Three thousand five hundred ship wrights and apprentices are to be retained on the dockyard establishments, of whom on© sixth only, or 580, are to be apprentices. Now it may easily be ascertained what quantity of work 2,920 experienced workmen, assisted by 580 appren tices, might reasonably be required to produce within the year. Any practical man, accustomed to con duct the business of a private shipbuilding establish ment, could speedily afford the desired information. The quantity of work actually performed might then be compared with that which ought to have been rendered; and if far below the proper quan tity, it would be perfectly manifest that there must be something defective in the arrange ments, some deficiency or negligence somewhere, that should be thoroughly investigated. The very best men can be obtained for the public dockyards ; the situation is regarded as exceedingly desirable by working shipwrights. There can, therefore, be no possible excuse for retaining inefficient or unqualified persons, or for not keeping them fully and fairly oc cupied in works of a beneficial character. A very valuable pamphlet has just appeared on this all-important subject, from a gentleman perfectly qualified to afford the fullest information.* A thorough practical knowledge of detail is ap parent in every page. No publication could possibly be better timed ; it is the very period when the information may be most beneficially applied. It is not desired to reduce the national establishments to a scale beneath that required for the maintenance of the national honour, the national dignity, or the national safety. It would be bat an unwise and foolish economy to do so. Every shilling now saved would occasion the expenditure of future pounds, and that at a date, perhaps, not so very remote as some persons might suppose. The navy must especially be kept in a state of efficiency. It has long been regarded as the especial safeguard of the country. We have looked chiefly to it for protection against foreign invasion, and for the means of aggression in case it should be necessary or desirable to create a diver sion. If neglected for even a single year, it would re quire a considerable time and an enormous expenditure to supply the deficiency, and a blow might be struck during the interval of the most fatal character to our national interests. The ships that are wearing away must be replaced, and that gradually. We should not be required to produce a number of line-of-battle ships suddenly, but each year should furnish its quota. The first question, therefore, will be what number of vessels should be maintained ready for active service at a short notice, and what number should be an nually built, or thoroughly repaired, so as to keep up , he stock to the required compliment. Mr. TUCKER, the author of the work under notice, discusses this point in a fair spirit. He shows that "it has always been assumed as a fair ratio that the force of the line-of-battle ships is equal to that of all the other classes, frigates, &c., put together." That is, taking one year with an other what is expended on and produced on the firmer, should be also expended on and produced on the latter. What then should be the force of the line-of-battle ships—the class of vessels between whom the struggle must take place if any should ensue ? Mr. TUCKER tells us that at the peace in 1815, when the navies of the continental nations were all but annihilated, it was considered essential to maintain or have in readiness 120 sail of the line and 160 frigates, together with a three years' stock of timber. In 1821 instructions were given to have 100 sail of the line and 150 fourth and fifth-rates in good condition. In 1839, however, after the power of steam became developed, it was considered that 84 line-of-battle ships would be sufficient for the purpose, although it is still admitted " that the line-of-battle will never be substantially superseded by steam power." It may how ever, now be fairly concluded that "84 ships of the line is about the force settled to be necessary" by practical and experienced men, and yet can it be believed that, notwithstanding such admissions, and that a body of shipwrights were employed for many years in our yards nearly equal to the number engaged during time,our that t ce h a a t s been sufferedost sustirrifnarg war to decline, " on l y ply five ships moment we have of the line fit for four years' service ! We ma y , however, gather some consolation from the fact that we have 150 admirals for those 55 ships of the line, exclusive of the 45 retired rear-admirals, so that we have very nearly three admirals for every ship in which they could be employed." We would gladly enter at greater length into Mr. TUCKER'S very able and interesting pamphlet if space permitted. We can, however, most conscientiously recommend it to all those interested in the condition of our wooden walls, who will find it well worthy of an attentive perusal. The Council of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association have just issued an address (which will be found inc extenso in another part of our impression) * Naval Financial Reform. A Letter to the night n. Sir F. I'. Baring, Bart., 31,?. By Jedediah Stephens Tacker. THE :SUN, to the rate-payers of the United Kingdom, on the ; rej;cction of Mr. COBDEN'S motion for a reduction of the national expenditure to the scale of 1835. They have grappled boldly with the flippan t assertions of Sir CHARLES WOOD, us to the. amount of reductions that Inld taken pla^e I within the last twenty years, and his cavalier statement " that he was at a loss to understand on what ground it was now for the first time asserted in those associations throughout the country, and in a public manner, that taxation press-ed in so grievous a manner." If the Right Hon. Baronet really entertained that doubt, if he was the only man in the country who was not aware of the grievous pressure of taxation upon the people, he has been enlightened with a vengeance by the Association. They have put forward a comparison between the amount levied from direct and indirect sources in the year 1801, and during the three last years, from which it appears that the " taxes strictly so called, and paid by the wealthier classes (including the property and income-tax), have increased since 1801 by the comparatively trifling amount of 79,0001. only, that stamps (including probate and legacy duties, which do not apply to freehold property, and therefore press more upon the middle classes) have increased in the same period 4,889,0001., while the Customs and Excise, which are contributed by the masses, and which press most especially and most heartlessly on the poor, have during the same time been augmented by no less a sum than 17,070,0001." This is, indeed, a strange description of reduction. It does not expose the people to the censure of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer for that" ignorant impatience of taxation which seems so very unaccountable." It is true that they have been cast out of employment from the undue con traction of the currency, occasioned by the Act of 1844—that brilliant specimen of legislative wisdom and legislative justice, that has so strongly excited the admiration of Sir CHARLES WOOD—that the very life-blood of industry is wanting—but that is all nothing, it can be justified on the very soundest principles of political economy. It is true that no less than 35,575,314/. was obtained from the Customs and Excise, or, in other words, that the entire expenditure of the State, including the civil government, justice, diplo macy, army, navy, ordnance, public works, bounties, and miscellaneous, was defrayed from the produce of taxes extracted from the industrious classes, and a balance of 8,760,6061. carried towards the interest of the National Debt ; property for the preservation whereof the debt was altogether incurred, and for whose benefit the ordinary ex penses of the country are principally undertaken, escaping comparatively free. But that also is a matter of little moment, and it is (teste Sir CHARLES WOOD) ridiculous to disturb the attention of Parliament by complaining of so trifling a matter. The people were born to be taxed—they should b e pretty well used to it by that time, and yet they dis turb the official ease with their unreasonable mur murs. It will, however, be for themselves to say how long they will consent to the continuance of a system so unjust and impolitic. If they set them• selves earnestly to work, under the guidance of the various Financial Reform Associations through out the country, they will soon remove Sir CHARLES WOOD from a position for which he is by no means qualified, and replace him with a competent successor, who can understand that " taxa tion presses " very grievously," and who will adopt measures to mitigate the intolerable burden. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The probability of a collision between Russia and the civilized nations of the west of Europe, a collision which cannot but be hastened by the avowed intention of the Russians to attempt to force the Dardanelles, at present engrosses public attention in Paris. In commenting on the unprincipled conduct of Russia in invading the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, the National quotes the following extract from the last volume of M. TRIERS' " History of the Empire," which has been only just published : "It was quite enough in delivering Finland to the Russians to have afforded them the means of a step in advance towards the Sound, as a point from which they will no: be less menacing at a future day, when, in point of fact, the Russian Colossus will have one toot at tLe Dardanelles and another at the Sound, the whole world becomes his slave, and liberty will have fl,d to America. However chimerical all this may seem now to narrow minds, it will one day be a cruel reality for Europe, un wisely divided like the towns of Greece, in presence of the Kings of Macedonia, and will have probably the same lot." The National does not join M. TRIERS in thus condemning Europe to the ignominious yoke of these new barbarians because, says the National, we have some faith in the power of right, of reason, and of ci vilization. We agree with the National rather than with M. TRIERS, yet still we would urge the neces sity of endeavours being made to put an end to those " unwise divisions " among the European Powers to which M. TRIERS alludes, and of which the common enemy of civilization is ever ready to take advantage. It' the time is not yet arrived for an intimate alliance of all the European Powers to drive back the barba rians to their deserts, it more than ever behoves France and England to maintain a strict and close intimacy and alliance, and to join in a common action in support of the Ottoman Porte. Turkey is now the advanced post of civilization, the dyke that pro tects Europe from being again overwhelmed by a flood of northern barbarians and as such she should command the support of every nation which desire to become a Russian province, nay, of every in dividual who would object to become a Russian serf, The Preme, in a " communication" announces that the POPE had, by the advice of the Sacred College, applied to France, Austria, Spain, and Naples, for an armed force to enable him to return to his capital. The Sacred College admitted the principle that application ought to be made to all the Catholic Powers, but no application was made to Portugal on account of the distance ; and the King of SARDINIA was passed over because he had only offered to the POPE a pacific mediation, which had become powerless in conse quence of the proceedings at Rome. Whether France interfere or not, Austria is determined to proceed, in concert with Naples, to restore the POPE, more especially as not only the Catholic Powers of Ba• varia and Belgium, but the Protestant Powers of England, Prussia, and Wirtemberg, offer to pre • serve the Papal Government in the interest of the balance of power in Europe, and the maintenance of the general peace. It is calculated that the appear ance on the Roman territory of an army of 10,000 men would be sufficient to bring about the restoration of the POPE without firing a shot. The Grand Duke of TUSCANY has since his arrival at Gaeta applied for Austrian intervention. There has been a legitimatist riot at Nantes amongst some conscripts. The Socialist journals publish an address to the " Democratic Socialist Republican electors," announc ing a fusion of the different shades of socialists with the democratic republicans, for the purposes of the election. The mayors of the 10th and 11th arrondissements, accompanied by several officers of the National Guard, waited on M. DE LAMARTINE on Saturday to present him with the tricolour flag, which wai borne by citi zens of the two arrondissements from the Chamber of Deputies to the Hotel de Ville on the 24th Feb., and which was the first that was displayed on the procla mation of the Republic. The Mayor of the 10th arrondissement, in presenting the flag, said to M. DE LAMARTINE that it could not be better placed than in the residence of one of the citizens who had most honourably defended it. M. DB LAMARTINE ex pressed his gratitude. " This flag," he said, " will be doubly dear to me, because it is the first that covered the cradle of the Republic, and because it was the first also which gave to the Republic the character of nationality, m o d era ti on , unan i m i ty, and tradit i on with our noble historical souvenirs. It ever the Re public should b e a tt ac k e d, e i t h er b y those who exag gerate it or by its enemies, you will rally here under its colours, and they will find in you the same heroism as they found in me the same voice and the same arm to defend it." A grand Socialist banquet for the inauguration of the Salle de la Fraternity, in the Rue de Martel, was given on Sunday ; ad - mission, If. 25 c . each person.as 700 persons, including wom en , sa t d own to ta b le ; the galleries contained about 500 strangers. Invitations were addressed to the members of the Mountain, but M. BAC alone attended. The toasts were " The right to live by labour," "Abolition of the conscrip tion," " The emancipation of the clergy." A Com missary of Police presented himself at the doors before the commencement of the banquet ; he was at once admitted, and remained during the whole of the proceedings, which were of a very orderly character. Yesterday the National Assembly proceeded to ballot for the Vice. Presidents for the ensuing month. The following (all belonging to the moderate Repub lican party) were elected : General DE LAMORICIRRE, MM. GOUDCIIAUX 7 HAYIN, BILLAULT, CORDON, and GREVY. The Ministers proposed General I3LDEAU as a candidate, but he was defeated by General GREYY. After the election the Assetubly proceeded to deli- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1849, berate on the Bill relative to the establishment of a definitive place for meetings of the Assembly. The discussion was not over when the post left. BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 5. THREE o'CLocK.—The French Fund:; continued their advance to-d.:.y. The general tranquillity and the op pcarance of an interv , ntion t n Oh. part of the united Powers of Europe, in favour of the P.;pe, add greatly to the c , niidence of the speculators, who now think that peace will he maintain- d. Exchange on London (30 dap), 25 22f; ditto (90 days), 25 10. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Blanca 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of Fran'-A) (Orleans and Vierzon , 12%—Namur and Liege, tßi—Northern of France, II 4 ' Orleans and Bordeaux, 3% Paris and Lyons, 5 1 ouen and Havre,l2%—Tours and Nantes, 2N —Dutch Rhenish, %. Luxembourg, 2. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived. On that day an attempt was to be made in the Chamber of Deputies to upset the Ministry on the project of law relating to public worship and the clergy. This attempt is made by the moderate Progressistas, who have formed a coalition with the Puritans. PACHECO and CORTINA are the leaders of the Coalition. CA BRERA has completely recovered from his wound and has resumed his command in Catalonia. On the 18th the Carlist Chief MARSAI, surprised and made prisoners 324 recruits, with a color el and ten officers who were drilling them. This event took place in Granollers, a large village, at four leagues' distance from Barcelona. Another band, composed of " Centralistas," passed the night in Gracia, a beautiful suburb of Barcelona. The cabecilla Don ANTONIO TRISTANT has escaped from the prison at Cordova. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 27.—Five per Cents., 111, paper ; Three per Cents., 23 9-16 for account. Exchange on London, 49 70. GERMAN Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The defeat of the'Austriens by BEM is now ac knowledged by the Imperialists. In a late skirmish with the Szeklers the Russians took part with the Aus trians, and two Cossack officers were killed.. The Breslau Gazette of the 21 instant says, that though General ENGHLHARDT may have beaten the Szeklers near Cronstadt, the victory was not de cisive, for the latter have re-passed the Acitta, and occupied Marienberg, from whence they are ope rating against rielsdorf, which is not far from Cronstadt. On the 27th of February a ministerial decree was published in Vie n n a , giving notice that no Hun garian notes can be received or remain in circulation after the 24th instant, they will be confiscated every where, and delivered to the Royal provincial banks and the Central State Treasury, where they will be mutilated. A proclamation issued by Prince WINDISCHGRATZ only last month in Hungary, stated that for the present all notes of one and two florins would be re ceived in payment by all Hungarian banks, and that a resolution respecting notes of higher value would soon be published. Thus, num bers who confided in the declaration of the Field- Marshal, who is delegated with unlimited power by the EMPEROR, will by this proceeding be reduced to beggary. The immense damage which this will occasion to the commercial world, especially, cannot be conceived, but will be speedily manifest. The Emperor FERDINAND was, on the 10th inst., elected unanimously in Janobitz, in Styria, Austrian Deputy to the Diet at Frankfort, and the Archduke JOHN his substitute. The Minister of Trade and Commerce, VON BRACE, was also elected yesterday, at Trieste, Austrian Deputy to the Central Power. It is said that an octroyee Constitution will be pro mulgated on the 17th &larch. A Vienna letter says :—" Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and SINA having definitively refused to undertake to raise a new loan, and a public subscription having few chances of success, there is a talk of a project re commended to the Minister of Finance by M. NEUSTADT, to the effect that 200,000,000 florins of state notes, instead of bank notes, shall be issued of from 1,000 florins to 25 florins in amount, and bear ing. interest at 2 per cent. By this issue the floating debt would be extinguished, and the mortgage of it (120,000,000 florins) would become the mortgage of the state notes." KREAISIER, FEB. 28.—1 n the sitting cif the 27th the Constitutional Diet adopted the following articles of the fundamental law :—" The State dues not grant privileges to one religion more than to another. Nobody is constrained to observe religious acts and ceremonies, in public or private of any creed which he does not profess." The motion that " there is no religion of the State" was not adopted.— Vienna paper, Feb. 25. PRUSSIA. The Cologne Gdzette again declares that all the Prussian fortresses are to be put on a war footing. In the First Chamber of Berlin, on the Ist, M. HANSEMANN complained that the Ministry had not announced to it, as well as to the Second Chamber, that Denmark had given notice of its intention to put an end to the armistice of Malmoe. One of the Ministers answered that the reason was that the Chamber had not assem bled, A formal notification respecting the notice of Denmark was subsequently made. A sufficient num ber of elections having been declared regular, the Chamber was formally constituted, and the election of officers was proceeded to. The following communication has been made by the Prussian .Minister of Commerce to persons en gaged in the Baltic trade : " On the 26th ult. the Danish Government gave notice to his Majesty the King of the cessation of the armis tice of Malmoe, which expires on the 26th March. To this notice the observation is appended that the Danish Government entertains the hope that this resolution will not occasion a resumption of hostilities, and the negotiations for pence opened at London under the mediation of England, permit it to be hoped that even before the expiration of the armistice, at least the preliminaries of peace will be established. However, as the result is not certain, I hasten to make known the real state of things to the commerce of the Baltic, and to recommend it the prudence which is commanded by circumstances, giving it at the same time the assurance that the Government will take all the measuri s in its power to prevent any prejudice to commerce." BERLIN, MARCH 3.—The repor t t h at h as b een so . generally circulated several German journals, that a person holding a high position has been sent to Oil mutz, is not true. Yesterday a rise , took place among the workmen of M. GOLDSCIIMIDT S manufactory, and has assumed a very serious character. The police were called out to put it down, but they were grossly insulted by the workmen, and it was found necessary to send for the military, and it was not till these had loaded their arms, and waited the command to fire, that the work men dispersed. FRANKFORT. In the National Assembly of Frankfort on the Ist, M. VISCHEE demanded if the Government had taken measures to tranquiliz? the National Assembly, and the German people, with respect to collisions which might arise from the entrance of the Russian troops into Transylvania; and M. ScnuLa put questions relative to the augmentation of troops on the eastern frontier. No answers were given to these questions, and no day was fixed for the answers. The Assembly then proceeded with the discussion on the electoral law, and adopted clauses enacting that elections should be publi c , an d that the electors should give their votes by writing and in person. A I , tter from Frankfort, of the Ist, states that Cabinet Councils had been held that ( - 1y with respect to the military measures to be taken in consequence of the notice given by Denmark for the cessation of the armistice. It was said that the Ministry, sup. ported by the English ambassador, would con t en d that the continuation of the armistice is indispe n s a bl e for the continu at ion of the negotiations for peace. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. DETERMINATION OF RUSSIA TO FORCE TIIE BOSPHORUS AND THE DARDANELLES. Accounts were received in Paris yesterday from Constantinople of a most important character. A general European war would appear to be iminent. These accounts state that M. TITO/F, the Russian Minister at Constantinople, has officially dem an d e d the passage into the Bosphorus, and out or the Darda nelles into the Mediterranean, of a Russian fleet. The Divan having consulted with the other foreign ambassadors, the demand was refused. M. TrroFr then declared that Russia would take by force that passage which she was determined to have. For some months past Russia has exhibited a dis position to treat Turkey as a conquered province, a n d to seize her territory in spite of the remonstrances of the European Powers. The conduct of Russia in Wallachia and in Moldavia has been such as to arouse the just jealousy of the Divan. We read in a letter from Constantinople of the 16th ult.:—" The entrance of the Russians into Tran sylvania has produced a great sensation here, and added to the alarms of the Divan. The situation is extremely critical. It is true tbat on the one hand the Porte has been somewhat re-assured by the friendly communica tions made to it by Engl=nd and France relative to the evacuation of the principalities by Russia; it also beheld with pleasure the representatives of these two Powers jq.in in supporting the re , ervation made by Fuad-Ef tendi on the occasion of the violation of the neutrality of the Ottoman empire by the Russian authorities in causing troops to pass from a Turkish province to an other country. Thus the attempts of Russia to draw the Divan into a more intimate alliance bare completely failed. La-t 4 Tuesday the Minister of F, reien Affairs, in a corference with M. Titoff, represeii: t • ito that under present, circumstances the propositioiis ty,' Russia, if aecepte i, might compromise the good r,lations of the Divan with the other powers of Europe, and that ther- Core l , e was authorised to declare that the Porte wished to m4iiitain its rdittions with Russia without :any change. But the Pert. every day sees more clearly ii , to the in tentions of Russia. It could not behold with indiffer ence that power give, without any notice, 10,000 mus kets to the Servians, its subjects. The Russian army of occupation is provided with a full pontoon equipage, and it would be sufficient for it to excite some insurrec tionary movement amongst the populations of Bosnia and Bulgaria, in order to find a pretext to intervene and cross the Danube. What is positive is that Turkey consid,rs herself seriously menaced, and that she takes all possible measures of precaution to be able, if neces sary, to repel an attack on the part of Russia. The Council of Ministers frequently meets; the Grand Vizir transacts business several times every week with the Sultan. A report has been demanded from the Se raskier on the state of the army of reserve, the supplies in the arsenals, and the condition of the fortresses, par ticularly those of the Danube,. The Porte wilt not do any thing resembling an aggression or a menace, but it desires to be ready for every event. A great number of families have fl(1 from Transylvania to Wallachia, to scape from the devastations of the Sz klers and all the horrors of war to which Transylvania, so flourishing a country a year back, has been a prey for some months back. Fuld-Effendi, the Ottotaan commissioner in Wallachia, has subscribed for 1,000 ducats (12,000 tr.) in the name o the Sultan in favour of these families at Bucharest." ITA L Y. The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 22d, states, that the Constituent Assembly, on being informed of the conduct of Prefect MATER at Ferrara, and BERTI PICIIA. of Bologna, has declared that they have de served well of their country. While GARRIEALDI has the command of the forces on the Neapolitan side, Minister CAMPELLO, MEZZACAPO, and ZAM BECCARI have taken the command on the side of Ferrara. The Constituent Assembly have decreed that all ecclesiastical property belongs to the State, which is to provide for the expenses of public worship. By another decree, the whole Roman Re public is declared responsible for all damages which may be sutained by Ferrara or any other Roman town in con , equence of foreign invasion. Minister RUSCONI has addressed a circular to the diplomatic bo ly, protesting against the occupation of Ferrara. The Bank of Rome has been authorised to emit new bank-notes to the amount of 1,300,000 scudi (7,200,000 t.) The Executive Committee of Rome published the following proclamation on receiving the news of the occupation of Ferrara : " Romans!—The territory of the Republic has been violated by the implacable enemies of Italy. The Aus trians have passed the Po and threatened Ferrara. Among the pretexts they adduce for their eccupition there is the fact of the Republican Government having been proclaimed by us. Austria, hard pressed by inter nal revolution, trembling on account of the victories of the Hungarians, attempts a desperate blow, in the hope that the Italians are still in discord when the common enemy is to be fought. Facts will prove the contrary. Our cause is the cause of Italy, and this invasion will prove how great is the affection of all the people of our Peninsula for our independence. The generous people of the Romagna and of Bologna, who drove away the Austrians at the time when the sacerdotal caste still weighed upon us, will do it now with greater vigour and energy. The Republican spirit redoubles the strength of body and mind. Supported by the universal consent of the people, the Government of the Republic has taken all those measures which have ever in difficult states saved nations from slavery and dishonour. The Minister of War is hastening to Bologna, and troops of the line, bodies of civic mobilized guard and volunteers are on their way to repel the enemy. Tuscany will unite her forces with ours ; Genoa will not remain an unconcerned spectator. Certain information from Piedmont assures us, that the majority of the Assembly of that kingdom are ready to acknowledge our Republic. In these solemn days, the National Assembly will prove itself worthy of the people who named it, and we will make an appeal to all those who feel love for their country throughout Italy. Fortune could not have better favoured us than in offer. jug us an opportunity of proving that the Republic can not be a vain name for us. Every conspiracy and every attack from our internal enemies has hitherto been a cause of triumph for us. This last event will complete our victory, and the Republic will arise, more respected and glorious after the expulsion of the hated foreigner." The Constituente Italiana of the 22d ult. says, news received from Bologna by private sources state that at Parma and Piacenza they expected every moment an attack of the Piedmontese troops on the frontier of the Duchies. Letters from Massa-Carrara also announce that the Piedmontese had arrived in that town, with the intention of marc hi ng immedi ately, by the road of Paullo or Modena, or by Castel- Nuovo de Monti, on Reggio. The Alba contains the following from a corres pondent at Rome, dated Feb. 24 I am not able to give you the result of the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, the Assembly nut having finished the de bate as to reprisals on the subjects and property of Austrians, in order to oblige the Austrian Govern. tnent to give up the hostages of Ferrara and the money which it has exacted in so infamous a manner. lam able to inform you, however, that to be pre pared for any event, the English consul has dis patched a courier to Admiral Parker to request him to send as soon as possible a reinforcement to Civita Vecchia." The POPE has published a proclamation warning persons not to purchase any church property that may be offered for sale by the Roman Republican Government. Letters from Rome, of the 24th, announce that a Neapolitan array of 12,000 men was approaching t:,e Roman frontier. General Zuccut commands the ad vanced guard of the Neapolitan army. A letter from Mantua says—" We have passed the last days of the carnival very sadly ; several persons have been arrested, and several more have suffered military execution." Advices from Naples of the 18th ult., state that the Chamber of Peers, in the sitting of the preceding day, voted the supplies for four months by a majority of 49 to 2, thus placing itself in open hostility with !he Chamber of Representatives, The Nazione of Turin gives us the sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties of Naples on the 19th, when the cabinet was again attacked on the score of the bill for six months' supplies having been presented by them without a royal decree authorising them to do so. A confer ence with the Chamber of Peers, to be held by seven commissioners on either side, was then moved for and ad,pted by 90 votes against 6, for the purpose of conciliating the difference that has arisien between the two Chambers on the question of the supplies. The British Consul at Genoa has written to the editor of the Genoa Gazette, to contradict positively, the proclamation of the Prefect of Pisa and the Go vernor of Leghorn, and circulated in the Gazette. He says— " Sir George Hamilton has never quitted Florence ; be has not gone himself or sent any one to oppose the entry of the Piedmontese trot ps. Sir G. Hamilton has not promised to acknowledge either the Provisional Government or the 11t-public. Sir G. Hamilton, for the national interest, is in communication (though not official) with the Provisional Government, and will so continue as long as order and peace are maintained in the country. SICILY. The Pensiero Italiano of the 28th ultimo gives the following as the composition of the new Sicilian Ministry :—Prince de BUITERA, Foreign Affairs ; Major POULET, War; the Advocate MARIO, Justice; the Marquis DELLA CORDA, Interior ; Baron TUR RISO COLONNA, Public Works and Instruction. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Byron, and Lord Crewe. SONAR V. MACDONALD. The judgment in this case Has further postponed in consequence of the absence of Lords Brougham and Campbell, who were engaged in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. DIKES V. STRUTHERS. The further arguments in this part•heard appral were resumed to-day, and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY). The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to day in the Council Chamber, Whit,hall, The Lords pt.( sent were Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Bishop of London. and the Judge of the Admiralty Court . CRAIG V. PARNALL. The arguments in this case, which came before their Lordships upon appeal from the Arches' Court, were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The arguments have already occupied three days, and appear lik(ly to occupy another day or two. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) PADWICK V. MATE. The arguments in this cave, the facts of which are of no intere.4 except to the parties concerned, occupied his Lordship the Muster of the Rolls the whole day. VICE-CHAN CERY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) DOBSON V. POWELL. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed, and occupied the whole morning, (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) CONSTABLE V. lIIRESIIIRE. The arguments in this case, which involved a question of conveyancing, occupied his Honour the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) The Court after disposing of the case of Culsha v. Cheese, which stood on the paper for,judgment on a point of practice, proceeded to hear the further arguments In the plrt- heard case of BAGSHAW V. THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. The case came before the Court yesterday, upon a demurrer put in by the defend a nt s t o th e plaintiff's bill. The plaintiff is one of the Members for the borough of Harwieh, find by his bill h. st f Oa' !::a an .Art oss,ed to the 10th and 11th of Victoti; , the Eastern Unioa Railway Comp any, of which the defensfints wer,• the directors, was empowered to carry a line from Msni tree to Harwich, and for that purpose to raise a 5.,.1,11 of 200,000(. in addition to the capital of the eeoii.snv, feat by another Act eassed in the same sessien of l'a,liarrient the campsny was ainhoriscil :o purchase 311 r rail y cane.) the " Eastsrn Union and Hadlei,ghJuncti .n Rail way," and for ihr.t object to make a further addition of 100,000/. to their capital. The bill then stated that at a meeting of shareholders of the company, held on the 21st August, 1847, it had been resolved unanimously that for the purpose of constructing the branch line from Manningtiee to Harwich, and for purchasing the Hadleigh Railway under the two Acts obtained in the then last session of Parliament, the directors should be empowered to raise the respective sums authorised to be raised by those Acts, and to grant scrip receipts for such amount as might from time to time be paid up in respect of those sums, until each subscriber should have paid up his instalment in full, when he was to be entitled to be come a registered shareholder in a new Eavern Union stock for the amount he should have subscribed, and to a guaranteed dividend thereon of six per cent. per annum in perpetuity, with the option of con verting such guaranteed stock within the period of five years into the general stock of the company. The bill, which was fi!ed by the plaintiff as the holder of stock, arising from the conversion under the above resolution of new guaranteed stock into general stock, on behalf of himself and all other shareholders, except the defendants, holding the same description of stock, complained that the defendants were misappl)ing the fund which had been raised under the powers of the Manning,tree and Hadleigh Acts, by expending it fur the general objects of the company, without regard to the specific objects for which it was authorised to be raised. The bid prayed an account of the moneys which the defendants had received under the two last-men tinned Acts, and of the applications of such moneys; and if it should appear that such money had been applied to purposes other than those specified in such Acts, then that the defendants might be declared to have been guilty of a breach of trust, and be decreed personally tip replace the sums so misapplied to the credit of the com pany. The bill also sought an injunction to restrain the defendants from any further misapplication of the same funds. To this bill the defendants put in a general demurrer. Mr. WOOD, with whom was Mr. DANIELS, on behab of the d. f. ndants, contended yesterday, that by the effect of the Acts of Parliaments, under the powers o! which the funds in question bad been raised, and the resolution for carrying such powers into effect, the de rendants were entitled to apply such funds to the general purposes of the company. The bill, moreover, showed that the phiintiff and the stockholders, on whose lathal! he sued, were members of a corporation, and that to! anything appearing on the face of the bill, the corpora tion, as a body, had confirmed the acts complained of. The SOLICITOR. GENERAL, on behalf of the plaintiff. and against the demurrer, submitted that the power, given by the Acts in question were intended only to be exercised ier the special objects mentioned in those Acts. and that any application of the tunas raised therauuder. otherwise than in furtherance of those objects, was a breach of trust. The further arguments occupied the Court the whole morning. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FAKE ) IN RE RUGHESDON AND MACKAY. These bankrupts, described as of Calcutta, merchants, came up to-day to pass their last examination. Mr. COOKE, for one of the assignees, objected to the balance sheet on the ground that the balance-sheet did not set forth the capital or profits, and that on the face of it there was a sum of 40,0001. unaccounted for. Mr. LAWRENCE said that Mr. Banks, the accountant, had adopted the schedule filed by the bankrupt Hughes don in Calcutta, on his passing through the Insolvent Court there, but supplemental accounts had also been filed, and Mr. Whitmore, the official assignee, considered they were the best which could be made up, as the books were detained in the Insolvent Court of Calcutta. Mr. COOKE contended that, whatever the Court of Calcutta might have chosen to have done in passing an insolvent on a schedule with so largo a sum unaccounted for, the bankrupts having become subject to the bank• rupts' law in England, they were bound to comply with the requirements of that law. Mr. - Roxnunou (for the assignees in Calcutta) said there was a discrepancy between the schedule in Cal cutta and that now filed, the debts being in the former 120,0004, and in the latter 97,776/. After a long desultory discussion, his HONOUR held that as the creditors were not satisfied, and a question might arise at the certificate meeting, he considered an adjournment ought to take place for a further investiga tion of the accounts. CRIMINAL COUR_II. 77 (THIS DAY OLD COURi. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Thomas Roberts, aged 25, described as a gardener, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding George Hester, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was not defended by counsel. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a maltster and brewer at Fulham, and whose face was partially covered with sticking-plaster, that on the morning of the 20th of February last the prisoner en. tered the prosecutor's public-house in a state of intoxi. cation, and became very noisy. The prosecutor at tempted to put him out, and succeeded in ejecting him from the house. As the prisoner went out the gate post caught his knee and tripped him down; he then pulled out his knife and began scraping the dirt off his clothes, and whilst he was doing that be struck the pro secutor, who was standing by, in the faee with the knife, and inflicted a severe wound. A man standing by corroborated the prosecutor's statement. The prisoner, in his defence, admitted that he struck the prosecutor with a knife, but denied that he did it in tentionally, and pleaded that he was in liquor at the time. The COMMON SERGEANT told the jury that people c.,uld only judge of a man's intentions by his acts, and fl was in evidence that the prisoner struck the prosecutor in the lace with a knife. The jury fouLd the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy; and The Commost SERGEANT sentenced him to imprison ment for nine mouths with hard labour. Sarah Crosby, a tidy good-looking young Irish girl, aged 18 years, was placed at the bar, charged with felo niously stabbing, cutting, and wounding John Smith, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, a policeman, deposed that about eight o'clock on the evening of the 31st of January, he whilst on duty, walking past the Refuge for the Desti tute, and the prisoner was coming out of the door, she having been there seeking a night's lodging. It would appear that the rules of the society are that the reci• pients of its bounty can only sleep in the house one night. The prisoner had slept there on a previous occasion, and on being told that she could not stay in the house over night again, she began to create a disturbance, which the prosecutor came up to quell, and during a scuffle whith ensued the prisoner pulled out a penknife, which she had concealed in her bosom, and stabbed the prosector with it under the arm, inflicting a punctured wound half an inch deep. The prisoner made;a long statement to the jury, in a rich Irish brogue, denying that she had inflicted the wound upon the prosecutor, and complaining that he had used her unnecessarily ill, having, among other ill treatment, kicked her in the breast. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing judgment, told her that it was absolutely necessary for the safety of society that the lamentably frequent offence of stabbing with a knife should be put down, and he thought her's was a very proper case of which to make an example. It would only have been common gratitude on her part on coming to this country in a friendless and penniless condition, to have deported her self in a peaceable and becoming manner whilst partici pating in the bounty of the Refuge for the Destitute; but, instead of that, she was found creating a breach of the peace, and on the prosecutor, in the discharge of his duty, attempting to put an end to the disturbance, she bad deliberately stabbed him with a knife. The sentence of the Court was that she tie transported for seven years. El 4 COURT. Mr. Commissioner Bullocis;tin — tha New Court to• day and tried several cases of petty larceny, but none o them possessed any feature of importance. LLOYD'S 6HIPPIN DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 6.—Wind at noon, W.S.W., mode rate breeze and fine clear dry weather. STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL PORTS THIS HORNING, ♦T 9 A.H. Colchester S.W., fine. Gosport Gloucester S., fine. Glasgow S.E , fine. Hull Lowesteffe W.N. W., cloudy. Leith Newcastle Portsmouth Southampton.... N.W., floe. Yarmouth PLYMOUTH, MARCH s. —Wind, N.N.W.-4th, Ski., Iris, Cape of Good Hope; 0 spr, y, St. Helena. OFF THE START, MARCH 2.—Germania, Kortlang, Havannah for Brem, D. OFF DUNGENESS, MARCH 2.—Thomas Miller, Chad wick, Pernambuco, for Amsterdam. HOLYHEAD, MARCH s.—• The John Callan), of Leith, was picked up off Bardsey, abandoned, having been in contact, and with her quarter carried away, and brought into this harbour last night, by,yart of the crew of the Susan, arrived at Liverpool. "':'BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 4.—The Sarah, Wri4ht, from Sunderland to Ipswich, foundered on the 3d instant, after being in contact a ith the Hero, Emmerson, of Har tlepool; crew saved. t'HIELDS, MARCH s.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. 2. Wil liam and Joseph, Qu,bec; Pallas. Quebec. SWANSEA, MARCH 4.—Arrd. Charlotte, Cuba. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 5. Wind W.N.W.—Acrd. 5. Corinthian, M•Phean, Mauritius, sailed Nov. 3 ; Susa❑ Law, Buenos Ayres ; James Hay, Corrick, Buenos Ayres, both sailed on the 21st of December ; Alice, Haviland, St. Domingo ; Swanton, Woods, New Or leAus; Harmony, Jamieson, New Orleans ; E. and E. Perkins, Gilpatrick, New Orleans. Slcl. 5. Symmetry, New Orleans; Etistbeth, New York. Off-putt, Ork ney Lass. Put back, Courier, for Calcutta, with foremast sprung. The Sloop Gordon, from Liverpool to Bankor, in ballast, struck on a sunken wreck, yester day, off Ems Ilayle, and sunk; crew saved. The Ann, Hohlsworth, arrived in the river fr..in G It' :;! 281 d sty iliJor Rr, nau. 11, which d'd her eins:d dam - It:go. SmitELDs, .NlAtica brig Wf?ather..by . , pro ceeding to sea; go;, un to Alidtile Ground, Out wr,A.o wed off after disehsi l jrig fw . J Icfsts of coals, ai:idbron,-;Ilt back into the harb, , ur t::) re. load. IZATHmuLLEN, MARCH 2.—The Shainreck, from Liverpool to Rio Cirende, I , as put ,in here,, ti ‘ ving parted two anchors in Loughswilly whilst ,riding:in gale, and was obliged to be run on shore, but did not receive any damage. RANSGATE, MARCH s.—The Antigua Planter, which sank in consequence of striking the pier 28th ult., has been raised and hauled into dry &ck. MARGATE, MARCH 6.-117 green hides, 133 cases of glass, 12 casks nails, and one warp, have been l a nded here from the wreck of the Floridian., from Antwerp to New York. - -- DEAL. MARCH 5.--Wind N.W.—Arrd. Palmyra, Cr,,well, Demerara; Sir John Rae Reid, Dyson, Sr. Kitts. Arra. from the River, 13Isir, Moody, Bombay; liromleys, Cate, Sierra Leone; Venus, Odgers, Cafe l'alm..is; St. George, Cernaman, Valparaiso. Arid. from rlic River and shi., Alarudon, S.:,doey, New S,.uth Wales; Winds, r, Pry ce, Madras; Marion, Ryan, Born ; labella Watson, ilabia; Snainrock, Tuck, Buenos , A; rut; Evergreen, Porto Rico; Conqueror, Stokes, .iitio. Sld. Lady Clarke, Sydney, New South Wales; Ravenswood, Antigua; Express, New Orl,.ans; Arling ton, dirto; Boston. . - PoRTSMOUTII, , AlAncil . s. —Wind W.N.W.—SId. Jo seph Bur,hby, Hong Kong, &c. PENARTII ROADS, Malicia 3.—Falcon, Buckingham, St. John's New Brunswick. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY ) EAT 141.8.2tALETS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 21 83 to 3/10s; Clover ditto, 31 103 to 41 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ ea per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31 133 Clover dote, 8/ 10s to 41 lOs ; tied Straw, 113 s to 11 lOs per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. HITECHAPEL.—iVIea(iow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3l 123 'lover ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 13s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1180 .ier load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for dritish Plantation continues firm, and the sales were 450 hhds, at an advance of 6d to Is since this day week ; 4,270 bags Mauritius sold briskly, at a slight adva, ce on grainy sorts, and 6.1 to Is or rt fining descriptions ; low to fine yellow at 37s to 400, ~nri grey at 36± 6d to 38s 6d; 480 bags Bengal likewise sold with spirit at 6,1 to Is advance; mid to g ood s hite Benares 41s to 42a 6d, and 1,390 hags Penaog brought 32s 61 to 36s 6d for mid brown to mid yellow, being an improvement of fully Is per cwt. Privately, 2.050 boxes yellow Havanoall have been sold, viz., 600 of good quality at 24s in bond; 550 low ut 40s 6d duty paid, 100 mid at 42s 6d, and 80 0 food mid at 435; also 150 baskets brown to low grey Java at 37s to 39s for rt fining, being again rather dearer t.a. all descriptions. The stock of British Plantation in he port of London on the lat instant was 19,132 bhd 6 3,879 tierces against 14,395 hhds 1.826 tierces at thiS time last year. The stock of Mauritius, Bengal, Hartle" nah, are) other descriptions of foreign are also larger. CoFFEE.-320 bags plantation Ceylon sold readily la previous rat,s, viz., 45. 6d to 50s for ordinary and mid' ling colony, but 1,180 bags common ordinary native at 33s 6d, at which price a small portion subsequently s old, •-sta)lishing a decline of 6d per cwt. The stock of Bri tish plantation and foreign are rather lower, but of Ceylon and East Indi rather larger. Rum.—The stock in the port of London on the 19 1 instant was 28,070 puns 6,880 hhds, against 11,170 pups 3,101 hhds at this time last year. RICE.-100 bags Bengal realised 101 for mid white; but 1,500 bags good pinky Madras were taken in el 8s 61, being the previous value. SALTPETRE.-620 bags Bengal sold with spirit, el extreme prices—viz., 26s to 28s for 8+ to 2+ per ma. refraction. bPicEs.-16 cases small to mid brown Penang Nu t ' megs sold steadily at 2s 3d to 2s 9d, and 6 cases Mace brought 21 3cl for mid seconds; being full prices. LoW.—P.Y.C. is 40s to 403 6d per cwt on th e spot, and Town 435. TEA.—The market is quiet. The deliveries last wee /4 were to a good extent. FINE ARTS. PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT-GENERA! SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C- 13 .1 Governor of Z:inde. A tine, bolt, characteristic likeness of this renowne d Captain has here represented him in the costume ha' bitually worn by him when, as Governor of Sind, e , l he made hi s ce l e b rate d campaign against the Hill Tribes. In the back ground are visible the rock! fastness of Trukkee, with its natural barriers of stone, 1,000 feet in height, where he compelled the barbarian ° to surrender. The lithographer (Morton), and the draughtsman (Smart) have between them pro" duced a plate not unworthy of the emiment publish. ing house of the Messrs. Colnaghi • and have afforded all th e a d m i rers of valour and genius, °( statesmanship, generalship, and administrative caps' city, an opportunity to obtain the semblance o f one who combines in himself all those great qualities in such a remarkable degree. At a time when the Con' flueror of Sinde is expected to appear again 11 8 1 warrior in the Punjaub this sketch of his heroic 0 01 ' vagle features will not be the less acceptable. THE MODERN CINCINNATUS.—A roughly drawn but capital political caricature by " T. G.," in the style rendered so popular by the genius of H. 8., bas appeared within the last few days under the abo ve title. It repr esen t s th e H ero of Sinde ploughing hls land after the fashion of the Roman dictator. Ile waited upon by the Directors (in the character of thos e Monks of the Screw so humourously depicted by Charles Lever in his story of "Jack Hinton, th e Guardsman)" ; ; an d t h e penitent officials, crying bu Peccavimus ! to which, as every one knows Sir Charles iniuht in a different sense re-pond Peccavi h ; file Sinde), impl ore hi m by petition to save th e D Empire fr om perdition. The pasquinad e h a s prov ed prophetic, the Governm en t b o th i n L eadenha ll- s treet and in owning street having, as is generally bey lieved, t a k e n a d van t age o f t h e famous Napier motto —"Ready, aye, ready for the field." A RRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANSr e DOVER, :MARCH s.—Her Maj es ty t h e Qu( en 0 1 th e B Mans lauded here thi s d ay f rom Ostend. Ca13"1.,,' Buldock, RN., had the h o n our t o b r i ng her Ma j est y °- shore, and to escort her to the Waterloo Crescent. Her Majesty went to Birmingham's %lel Ship Hotel, Wh ere , he Duke and Duchess de Nemours were waiting to as company her to Clar e m on t. A t h a lf -past five the spell"' train started for town. ANTICIPATED REINFORCEMENTS FOB INDIA" Yesterday orders were dispatched from the Horse Guar d ` to the various di s t r i ct genera l s to suspend the We%s orders for the discharge of men from the army. Thiso owing to the iedecisive nature of the last Indian news. 7, most probably more troop s w ill go to B engal from , country, and thus this service will absord a portion of S" - contemplated reduction of 7,000 rank and file. THE CASTLEREAGH CORRESPONDENC E , VOLS. .T AND IV.—" The subjects treated of in these volumes sr" the Completion of the Legislative Union," Coecessioll to Catholics and Dissenters,' and 'Emmet's Insurrectio lh subjects of paramount importance in their day, and t w° of them of vit a l i mportance, not merely at the presentlo°: went, but affecting the future safety and stability of t empire. When the first and second volumes of 111 ; work were publi s h e d, we ventured to a ffi rm respecdll° them that they constituted the most valuable contribili tion to modern history that we knew of. A perusal s e the third and fourth volumes coefirms the opinion W then expressed. The C ast l ereag h Correspondence is °o indispensable book for every stuient of modern history,' but its importance at th e p resent j uncture of affairs Al, scarcely possible to app rec i ate , s h ou ld t h e Whig Golerhn,, ment, as it is supposed they will do, bring forward Lord John Russell in 1849, that plan of the John 1 1 ;0 sell, Duke of B e df or d, f or t h e payment of the Calh°_,,, clergy in Ireland, which was suggested so many y e , ago. Should suc h a propos i t i on be submitted for diet; sion in either House of Parliament, we venture to preol there is no work that will be so frequently referred 1 01- 4 the Castlereagh Correspondence. It abounds in Lo' N d important documeints bearing upon this matter, 1 , 1 , 11 _„, illustrating it in w h a t ever li g h t it may be v i e w e d. - Morning Herald. LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUS E •KEEPOt e ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday e v ening a meeting 01,1, members and pensr a l co mm itt ee of t h e above 50°10,,,": founded in 1837, f o r th e re li e f o f age d and decayed L iter , b2rs of the trade, their widows and orphans, was at the Freemasons' Tavern, for transacting general ness; the president, Mr. W. F renc h , i n the chair. .11'o report of the past year co ngratu l ate d the subscribers ° b the steady progress which was being made, and Wh le d it was hoped would i n d uce th ose of the trade who i , not yet joined to become subscribers, and ultimately members e able the committee to r en d er ass i stance to all mew/74 who may be necessitat e d to apply for relief. DurZ,4l the past year the committee have increas e d t h e ir fun de d capital to 1,989/. Ss. 10d. Th e rece i pts from all euu rco o f Here 257/. 17s. 7d. The expe n di ture l e f t a balance r 69/. 11::. 11d. The pen s i oners on the funds (being al' f o as means will at present admit) are five in num ber, w h s receive 651. per annum, b eing within 91. 2s. 4d. o f /be yearly interest on the capital invested. EXTRAORDINARY INVESTMENT.—The follewi n ,f " speculative lot" was p u t up to auction a t Mr. Marsb rate on the Ist inst.:—"The important and valuable ree version in and t o a mo i ety of 12,0001. Console, receiva ble on the d ecease of a lady - , now aged 57, pr o vided '" -hall h ave nu more children ; the youngest child is 19 ‘ years of a ge , th e h us b an d i s st i ll living, and is now ag ed 59 ertrY. r ." The lot s(11 f.r 2,180/. BIRTHS. On the '2sth ult., the wife of Mr. B. Barnet, of Tiebbourne. street, Haymarket, of a daughter. On the 28. h utt., at Reigate, Mrs. J. Nash, of a son. DIED. On the sth irvt, in the 51st year of his age, Mr. Will a '? Ashley, late of Rockingham-row, New Kent-road, scho ol mater. On the 20th ult., at the Royal Naval Hospital, Ilaslo r t, Commander Thomas B. Brown, Royal Navy, eldest son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Brown. On the 2rtll ult., at Bythe, near Southampton, Lake Dodds, Esq., aged On the ult., at Templemore Barracks, Captain David SPAdam, 49th RegimeLt, aged 30. - of Loudon: Printed and P u bli s h e d b y MURDO YOTING , , 2 No. 112, Strand, P r i nter , at Th e S un Office, No. h n it Strand, in the P rec i nc t o f t h e S avoy , i n th e eountY Middlesex, Tuesday, March 6, 1849. See eta the le ter , the tom to r tom of 1 enl r lab, diiia tiOn Used Ivho +and evep aril Wa n this. fore thy 11. Tb; Itoy L ed I.oc 4 , 4 r tl kote s orb!