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Just rosily, By the Author of CECIL In 3 vols. post Bvo. " Put gall in thy ink, though thou write with a goosequill." —Shikspoire. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlborough-street. Just ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., E NIN S U - L A R SKETCHES; BY ACTORS ON THE SCENE. Edited by W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " the Life of the Duke of Wellington," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First Appearance of the Danssuses Viennoises. THIS EVENING Will be performed NORMA. Norma, Madame Grisi; Clotilde, Madame Bellini Pollione, Sig. 3loriani ; Oroveso, Sig. Lablache. Between the aets of the Opera, and in the course of the Ballet, the Dansenses will appear in the following pas :—" L' Allemaud, " L'Hougoroise," and the celebrated " Pas des Fleurs." To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully Informed, that there will be an Extra Night (not included in the Subscription), ON THURSDAY NEXT APRIL 10, When win be performed Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grisi • Dr. 3falatesta, Sig. Fornasari ; Ernesto, Sig. Mario ; and Don Pasquale, Sig. Lablaehe. After which, a New Divertissement, in which the celebrated Spa nish Dancer, Dona 3lanuelea Perea, known as La Nena, and the celebrated Bolero Dancer, Don Feiiz Garcia, will appear in various of the National Pas of Spain. To be followed by the Last Act of LUCIA DI LAIIMER3IOOR. In addition to these Series of Attractions, the DAN - if:USES VIENNOISES, having at len4h arrived in this country, will also appear in their most admired PAS D'ENSEMBLE. To conclude with the New Ballet of EOLINE ; on, LA Dryade. Doors open at Seven; to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that on FRIDAY NEXT, APRIL 11, will be presented a GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL, _ comprising the celebrated Work of •FELICIEN DAVID, the SY3IPHONIE ODE ORIENTAL, entitled THE DESERT, with the original 3lelodie, Chorus, and Grand Orchestra ; to be preceded by admired Selections from the most classical composers. The Orchestra and Chorusses will include upwards of 200 Per formers, the whole under the direction of Sig. Costa. The programme will comprise selections frOm the works of Mozart, Weber, Mendlessohn, (Au& David, Berlioz, and Beethoven. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. THEATRE ROYAL, _DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline. Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER r AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by 3ldlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by 3ldlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. A New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by 3ldlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. _ . The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in tie Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, KR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Chfford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland,"Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Hnrnby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Keunedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnldge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; :Welly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, sailed ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Wallack; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney ; Mrs. Haller, Miss CtiOlman. Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE, will appear In their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To be followed by the Comedietta, entitled THE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Coraptou ; Miss E. Homer, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TI3IOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARA. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Another Triumph ! the New Burlesque of " Wkittington and his Cat" will be performed every Evening till further notice. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING _ Will be repeated a New Original Drama, to be called ON DUTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Grove. To be followed by a Burlesque of English History, Ponrtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Miss Grove. To conelude with the New Farce of A MODEL OF A WIFE. In which Messrs. A. Wigan, Frank Matthews, and Meadows, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Fairbrother will perform. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHFATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and :Udine. Dumps, the cele brated French Eques!rians. To conclude with the admired Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDE GROOM. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. N. T. HICKS. THIS EVENING Will he perthrtned THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Count Wintersen, Mr. C. Hicks ; Baron Steinfort, Mr. Fre dericks ; Mrs. Hailer, Mrs. Honner ; Countess Wintersen, Mrs. Furzinan. After which, CATCHING AN HEIRESS. Supported by Messrs. N. T. Hicks ; Fredericks, S. Cowell ; Mrs. N. T. Hicks, and Miss Martin. After which, SAILORS AND SWEETHEARTS ; or, Ben the Boatswain. Ben Bowling, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Edwin Gage, Mrs. Henry Vining ; Rose, Mrs. N. T. Hicks. In the course of the Evening a variety of Singing and Dancing. To conclude with TOM. JERRY, AND LOGIC. Corinthian Tom, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. R. llonner ; Bob Logic, Mr. S. Con•rll ; Corinthian ;Cate, Miss Martin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Peel - mann (Rad Chieftains), Messre. Cony and ELtachArti ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. To conclude with POOR DOG TRAY. The Dog, by Hector. TIIE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 53; Noon, 48. BAROMETER, 30.—WIND, N.E. NoTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 3forning .. 45 minutes after 2 t Evening .. 4 minutes after 2 ------- - _ . ,• : - S. "..i 1 -•• ~ .? --1 1 k.., - ;%,.. .0 ,, _! , 2•L444 • - # ..* x4 # . ~. •,, .- =•( stit,...-7, __ 4 4 ; __,.:,,,ri, l', 1.. ; - •.•• 1,00 1 s•s. -,, ~: . . : -.. , ,-- • il. s .T•••:... , ...,•,7, . 1 10 b, • . ;,,,,,, • • _ , ~• 2. • .014 ,, , „ w m , • , itz aga r 1' ,- - 7 - „,,,, • IN,. • iitornin *ll7-it4 LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1843. The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. 'The Earl of RADNOR entered his protest against the proceeding.; of Saturday. In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, The Duke of WELLINGTON said he could not tell when the subject of Scotch Banking would be brought forward, but that he would take care due notice of the time should he given. Lord BROUGHAM then moved for certain returns connected with railways, and animadverted in strong terms on the mania at present existing for railway speculations. If all the railways proposed were car ried out, 130 millions of capital would be withdrawn from circulation in the course of the next three years, and a dreadful commercial crisis would be the conse- quences. After a few words from the ERA ^f DALaousrE and Lord ASHBURTON the returns were ordered. The Marquis of NORMANBY gave notice of his in tention to bring in a Bill for giving the right of voting at elections to all persons who paid the income-tax. The Duke of BuccLEucu announced that it was the intention of the Government to introduce, in a short time, a measure for improving the sanatory condition of towns, and that there would be no objec tion to extending it to Ireland and Scotland. The Marquis of NORMANDY then rose for the pur pose of bringing before the attention of the House the manner in which various appointments in the Irish constabulary had recently been made, and con cluded by moving for certain returns on the subject. Lord STANLEY replied to the speech of the Noble Marquis. He did not object to grant the returns, but he wished them to go further back, se as to show the appointments which had been made by the Noble Marquis himself. After a short discussion, in which the Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earl of ST. GERMANS took part, the motion as amended was agreed to. The Common Law Process Bill was read a third time and passed, and the Sugar Duties Bill was read a second time, after which their Lordships adjourned. The House of Commons met at Fouro'Clock. The Greenwich Colliery Railway Bill was read a second time, after an ineffectual attempt on the part Of Mr. HODGSON HINDE to throw it out. In answer to a question from Lord PALMERSTON, Sir It. PEEL stated, that no change whatever had been made in the terms of the convention entered into in 1839, between this country and France, for the regulation of the fisheries. Sir J. GRAHAM postponed the Medical Bills to that thy week. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Excise Acts, and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Repeal of the Auction duty. Mr. G. BANKES opposed the repeal of those duties on the ground that their repeal would confer no benefit it. the agricultural interests. The surplus revenue had much better be applied to the reduction of the county rates. A long discussion followed, and upon a division the resolution of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was carried by a majority of 137. The debate in the House of Lords, on Friday evening last, was of a character, an interest, an importance far, indeed, above the average of the discussions in that assembly. It may well suffice for a text to the future historian, who would trace the history of our past financial policy to the results exhibited in our present fiscal condition. It might have sufficed for a salutary discouragement to Sir R. PEEL—had the forms told Standing Orders of Par liamentary business permitted the business of taxa tion to be originated in the Upper instead of the Lower House—when he first contemplated the proposi tion, in 1842, of the property and income-tax. Such a case, in our opinion, has been made out by two of the highest authorities in the Lords against the prin ciple, and to demonstrate the practical injustice of a measure that we have had such frequent occasion to denounce in all its bearings, as to leave it no matter of doubt that, had it been addressed to a House of Commons not controlled by a slavish Ministerial majority, but able and willing to act upon their own conscientious convictions, the effect would have been to rescue the country from the position in which the event of Friday last has left her. The Income-tax Bill has passed a third reading in the Lords; and we are now saddled—Ministers do not attempt to deny, permanently, although ostensibly for a very limited term—with one of the most disgrace ful and oppressive burdens ever placed upon a great and free people, in the thirtieth year of profound peace. We by no means intend to impute to Sir ROBERT PEEL, who has himself worked his way into supreme officill power from the ranks of the people, that he would wittingly afflict them with any visitation either oppressive or disgraceful. It is the instinctive mo rality of Ministers, as well as of most " hlammalia," not to eat one another. Dogs do not prey upon dogs ; and one cannot imagine a man of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S associations and sympathies disposed to devcur the commonalty. But a man may take any line of road that is to be found in the vast country of political experiment, and yet ar rive at the very point which his course has been most carefully shaped to avoid. Giving Sir ROBERT PEEL full credit for good intentions, we fear that they have not brought him into any better or more fortunate position—(we mean always for the nation) — than this. To return, however, to the debate of Friday, we find two speeches reported that are most remark able for their common-place character, and their utter want of force and efficiency ; and two, as much distinguished, on the other hand, by the sound ness of their views, the perspicuity of their state ments, the neatness of their argument, and the sagacity of their deductions. In the former category we must rank the speeche3 of the Earl of RIPON and Lord STANLEY ; in the latter our readers will have already classed those of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and Lord ASHBURTON. The speech of Lord RIPON, on proposing the third reading of the Bill, we cannot help describing as every way beneath the occasion. The Noble Earl did not seem to imagine that any extraordinary painstaking was necessary to vindicate to the Peers the very extra ordinary impost which his colleagues had committed themselves to the course of propounding for a further term of experimenton the public forbearance or apathy. His address was accordingly much below even the ordi nary run of downright official mediocrity and prosing common-place. Lord STANLEY'S auxiliary demon stration, although relieved by a few touches of that constitutional vivacity which not even the heavy artillery of figures can repress, was yet as feeble and unfortunate' as his efforts on such service are ever sure to be. He established the case of hardship with regard to those whose com plaints he seemed to think were without foundation ; and he damaged the defences, such as they were, which his leader, Lord RIPON, had set up for the pro priety of the tax and its continuance. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE completely routed the whole array of argument which had been brought into the field to maintain the principle of that tax. Lord ASHBURTON still more effectually demolished the positions upon which the defence of its practical working had been at• tempted. The result, however, of the evening was, that the Ministerial movement was accomplished. The former of these Peers observed, with great force, that on former occasions this obnoxious scheme had been advocated on grounds far more intelligible than any which Sir R. PEEL had yet attempted to assign. When, at the close of the war of 1815, Lord LIVERPOOL invoked the Parliament to continue the then existing property-tax, he did so on the plea that it was necessary he should have the means of winding up the expenses of that war to meet the burdens of which it had been expressly imposed. But the 'louse of Commons indignantly resisted his appeal, and the tax was at once extinguished. Two other grounds on which the tax had now been defended were, that it was necessary to he raised in order to ply the interest on the public debt, and to enable Government to keep faith with the public creditor; and again, thatit was a means of raising the revenue above all of er means of direct taxation. In exhibiting the fallacy of both these assumptions, Lord LANSDOWNE showed that Sir ROBERT PEEL bad never been in a condition to plead such an exigency as the former inferred; and he dis puted very forcibly the soundness of any theory which turned upon direct taxation in dealingwith income. A more intelligent exposition of sound financial principles than that comprised in Lord LANSDOWNE'S address it has notbeen our fortune to peruse. The mode in which he played off the solemn protest of the Sir ROBERT PEEL of 1840, in his penultimate stage of o pposition against the suggesti on o f an income-tax by the Government of that day, to make good a deficiency of income, against the eq ua ll y solemn appeals of the Sir Ro- BERT PERr, in the zenith of official Pow was capital—it was t urn i ng the e nemy's e gu in na l u B p 4 o s n , Te nie himself after the m os t a p proved tactics of th e r himself. But in the sp eec h o f Lord Asnnu Premier u x: the r extensive practical kn ow l e d ge, the acute observe_ tion, and the experienced judgment of one of the ablest authorities that can be invoked on such a question, we find not only a clear detail of the actual operation of the Income-tax on various classes upon whom it is levied—of its injustice, inequality, and oppression ; but also the causes of the necessity which whether truly or falsely, have been relied upon to justify the resort to it. We are gratified to find, that Lord ASHBURTON has thus strongly and distinctly recorded his objections to the tax in question on grounds both of principle and of expc ' n -- , v. The most important point establi s h e d va— in his argument appears to be, that in all the thirty years of peace, since 1815, little or nothing has been done towards the reduction of the principal of the debt. This omission he flatly charges as a normal error in the financial policy of the present Administra tion, as well as in that of its predecessors. He shows that the vaunted financial operations of Chancellors of the Exchequer have been limited to reducing the mere rate of interest, not the sum,of our enormous debt, which he identifies with the main principle of whatever weakness is occasionally experienced in the working of our Government and the excessive inconveniences and embarrassments to which public and private credit have been occasionally exposed, without any apparent adequate cause for such convulsions. In the event of a war we must have recourse, notwith standing our unexampled condition of public prospe rity, to borrowing, and that borrowing, from the neglect of diminishing the capital of the debt, we could not manage except on terms that would be sig nally disadvantageous. There may be little chance of his Lorship carrying with him a majority of his countrymen in the favour with which he affects to regard the institution and operation of a Sinking Fund ; but we are quite certain that that majority would concur with us in desiring to see the philo sophy of finance, as expounded by Lord LANSDOWNE exemplified in a practical administration of the na tional resources, and a management of the national liabilities on the bases suggested by Lord ASH.. BURTON. The accounts from Switzerland, which are to the 4th instant, are highly important. We stated on Saturday, on the authority of the Journal des Debah, that the vo lunteers and the refugees from Lucerne had attacked that town on the Ist of April, and, after losing from 800 to 1,000 men, had obtained possession of the place. The intelligence respecting the great loss of life unfor tunately turns out to be true, but the assailants failing in their attacks, were put to flight by the Lucerne troops under General SONNENBERG, and completely routed with the loss of their artillery. An official bulletin, published by the Government of Lucerne, dated the Ist instant, announces the defeat of the free corps, who had left more than 600 men on the field of battle before the gates. A letter front Berne, dated April 2, gives the following account of this lamentable affair : " The corps francs have been completely beaten. General Sonnenberg allowed them to advance till they got close to Lucerne, the suburbs of which place had been hastily forti fied. He their attacked them with three companies of the Carabineers of Unterwalden, who at once threw the advanc ing columns into confusion, and, after completely putting them to the rout, it succeeded in capturing the whole of the artillery, and a large number of horses. The inhabitants of the country, who had allowed the corps francs to pass through their districts unmolested, had risen en masse in the rear of the corps francs. The troops from Argau, which bad started from Zofinguen, but had not advanced so far as the others, succeeded in effecting a retreat, carrying two cannon along with them. The number of men killed and wounded is calculated at a thousand, but this is merely a guess, as the official accounts are not yet published." Another letter from Arau, written on the evening of the Ist, furnishes the following particulars : " All is lost ! A part of the expedition has just returned, and we have obtained the following details from an eye witness, who came in with the first column. The expedition set out in the night of Sunday. When at three leagues from Zofinguen they were attacked by a battalion con cealed in the forest. The riflemen soon beat them off. They continued to advance in good order, but under continual as saults, as far as Ettiswyl, where they were joined by a column that came from Berne. At Russwyl the army divided; one column moving on towards the principal bridge over the Emme, and the other went to the right, and passed the Emme at Wortheastein. It appears that there was some neglect in keeping up the communication between 'Use two corps, and that hence arose all their disasters. The left column, which has returned, reached the Emme-bridge about six o clock. It was known that this bridge bad been fortified and under mined, and that every other measure for its defence had been taken. Consequently the column halted as soon as it came within view of the bridge. Without being impeded by the battery, which opened, and kept up an incessant fire, or by the shots of the riflemen placed in ambush behind trees, shrubs, and other shelter, the leader ordered 100 of his rifle men to ford the river, and they did so without any great loss. On reaching the other side of the water the riflemen cleared the bridge, and the Lucerne soldiers were driven in confusion back into the town. The bridge, which had been broken down, was soon restored, and the column which had advanced towards the town took post on the height above it, after having cleared them of the sharp-shooters who had endeavoured to defend them. Here they waited for ac counts of the other column. Night had now come on, and the invading troops began to be discouraged, the whole column, having been marching and fighting for twenty-four hours, without scarcely any respite, was exhausted with fa tigue. While the leaders were doing all in their power to en courage their men, a severe fire of musketry and grape-shot opened upon them. They conceived it probable that it came from the second column, which, in the dark, had mistaken them for the enemy. A part of the first column became panic struck, and several companies began to retreat. Find ing that they were not pursued, order was soon restored; but, learning nothing of the second column, the retreat was continued. At day break they were attacked by a battalion which was planted in their way with six pieces of cannon. The soldiers of Lucerne, however, showed so little courage, that they were soon put to flight. The column was twice again attacked in the same manner, and twice beat the enemy back, without causing him much loss, it is true, since he always contrived to keep himself at a respectful distance. The vanguard of the column has arrived at Zofinguen, but the main body is still engaged. As to the second column, no one knows what has become of it ; but it is presumed that it has retired into the Canton of Berne." The Zurich Gazette of the 2(1 confirms the intel gence:— " The Government received yesterday evening from Lu. cerne the bulletin of the State Gazette, with the following details. On the 31st ult. the conflict was suspended until the following day. Yesterday the fight recommenced on the heights which surround the town. The invaders were re pulsed, and left 600 men on the field of battle. Several offi cers and soldiers were taken prisoners. The contingents of Obwalden and Niedwalden (900 strong) displayed great courage on the bridge of Emme. In the evening troops arrived from Zug, and took part in the conflict, as did also a battalion of infantry and two companies of arequebusiers from Uri. The troops of Lucerne had three killed and several wounded. Some persons who have arrived from Lucerne inform us that the volunteers who had been made prisoners by the troops of Lucerne have been cruelly treated. A great num ber of them were massacned by the soldiers without any at tempt being made by the officers to prevent it. The hos pitals are filled with - wounded. Eight pieces of cannon and several ammunition waggons were taken from the volun teers. Although the free corps had been repulsed on seve ral points, they had succeeded in opening the road to Lu-• cerne on the night of the 31st ult., but after the arrival of the contingents of Uri and Zug, they were attacked and forced to retreat. It is said that the Councillor Bauman has been killed, and Dr. Knobel taken or wounded. Colonel Donatz has arrived here, and assumed the command of the federal army, part of which will march toward Russaud, the frontier of Argand." The route appears to have been complete. The vo lunteers fled in all directions to their respective homes. On the 4th no further movements had taken place. The Extraordinary Diet is convoked with the least possible delay, and was expected to meet on the sth inst. M. KRUDENER, the Russian Envoy in Switzerland, addressed on the 27th ult. a note to the President of the Diet, in similar terms to those of the other foreign States. His Excellency thus concludes : "You will not mistake the nature and spirit of the obser vations which I have the honour to submit to you. They do not attack the independence of Switzerland; they merely touch on certain points, the appreciation of which anarchy and violence alone could contest to the European Powers. My Government has directed me, Monsieur le President, to lay expressly before the eyes of the authorities and parties in Switzerland, the manner in which this affair ought to be looked at, and particularly to point out the deplorable conse quences which must result from it, if better councils, and more in conformity with legal order and justice, and respond. mug better to the sentiments which ought 'to exist between the Confederal States, should not prevail in your country. I fulfil a painful duty, but in the motives which have imposed it on me, there is no other intention on the part of my august Sovereign, the Emperor, than to render Switzerland attentive to the dangers which she is incurring, and, if it be still pos sible, to preserve her from them." The Peninsular and Mediterranean mails have been received, but they bring no news of importance. The dates are Cairo, March 19 ; Gibraltar, 29; and Cadiz, 30 ; Lisbon, April 1. The Viceroy of Eayrr arrived at Cairo on the 12th from his tour in Upper Egypt. IBRAHIM PAcuA has been dan gerously ill, but is now better. The Nile is very low— much lower than last year at this season —and there is ground to apprehend that the navigation may be seriously impeded. Not a single case of plague has occurred at Alexan , dria for several months. Madrid papers of the 29th and 30:1 ult. have been received. The Gazette of the latter date publishes an arrangement with the Bank of San Fernando for the ad vance of 180,000,000 reals to be applied to the wants of the State during April, May, and June, at the rate of sixty millions per month. The security upon which the credit is given for the month of April consists of public effects, producing at the current price from twelve to fifteen millions in cash, and twenty millions in derega- tions upon quicksilver. The Committee on the esti mates had made their report, wh . ch was entirely favour able to the schemes of the Finance Minister. On the 29th the Three per Cents. closed at 33 11-16 for cash, and 341 at 60 days ; the Five pers Cents. at 251 at 60 days ; the Debt without Interest at 8 at 60 days ; and the Coupons at 28i at 60 days. On the 13th a good deal of business was transacted at the Puerta del Sol, the Active selling at 261 at 60 days, and the Three per Cents, at 35. The Paris papers are chiefly accupied with the affairs of Switzerland, which excite much interest. Both Chambers met on Saturday. The Peers were still occu pied in discussing the Colonial Bill relative to the state of slavery, but had come to no vote on the question of emancipation. Is the Chamber of Deputies, an addi tional Tariff Bill was under consideration. The new law for raising the ditty on oleaginous seeds had created great dissastisfaction At a gener a l meet i n at Marseilles. g of the oil InftnUfaCturerS it was unanimously resolved that, in consequence of the ruinous measure lately passed by the Chamber of De puties, respecting the import duty on sesame, it was im possible to carry on their business ; and that, conse quently, their mills should be stopped, their workmen discharged, and that all the manufacturers without ex ception should go immediately up to Paris, and appeal to the Chamber of Peers against the decision of the Deputies. The Bill for arming the fortifications of Paris con tinues to meet with opposition. About seventy officers of the National Guard have petitioned against it, and the list is daily increasing. The Ministry, however, have resolved to check this attempt at insubordina tion. On the report of General JAQUEMINOT, the Commandant of that corps, the officers who signed the protest against the arming of the fortifications are to be brought before a Court of Discipline, and they are, in the meantime, suspended from their functions. The Pat/ ie gives the following account of a duel, which took place in the Bois de Boulogne, on Wednesday, between the Duke dIT— and the Marquis de in consequence o f a di spute which arose between them on the preceding day, at a sporting dinner. A toast having been given in English by the Marquis tie C—, the Duke observed that among Frenchmen French ought to be spoken. To this the Marquis replied—" The English language ought not to be disagreeable to you, and you should comprehend it, for you, who are a PRITcHARD'S man, have voted in fa vour of the English Ministry." This was followed by a violent altercation, which led to the meeting, which was with swords. The sword of the Duke passed near the heart of the Marquis, whose wound, however, though severe, is not considered to be dangerous. The Duke was also slightly wounded on the hip, and is for the moment confined to his bed. The names of the parties, it nJw appears, are the Duke D'lTzEs and the Marquis DE CauvrEßE. The wound of the latter will, it is expected, confine him to his room for some days. The news from Switzerland on Saturday had a favour able effect on the French Funds. THE BOURSE--SATURDAY. APRIL 5. First Hleh.st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. .... 117 70 •• 117 75 .. 117 65 .. 117 65 Fours ............ •• 107 .• 107 ••• 107 .. 107 Three per Cents.... 85 75 .. 85 85 .. 85 75 .. 85 80 Loan ............. 86 30 86 60 .. 86 10 .. 86 55 Bank of France .... •• •... 3230 —3230 "3230 ..3230 Conin Eank. I,ooof Shares —lO9O ..1095 ..1095 Belgian 8ank............645 .. 647 50 .. 645 .. 647 50 lie:gian Fives, 1840 •• •• 1 , 3% .• 103% 103% .. 103% 1842........ 104% .. 105 .. 134% .. 105 Four.and-a-Half ... P:l% .. 1 o 17y .. 101% .. 101% Two-and-a-Half... 12 40 .. 62 40 .. 62 40 .. 02 40 Spanish Active •• .• 4 i 3( .. 46% .. 40% .. 40% Threes •••• 414 .. 41% .. 41% .. 41% Passive ••••••••• .. .. .. .. Neapolitan . 102 .. 102 .. 102 102 Rgalall .•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 104 10 .. 104 10 .. 104 .. 104 RAILWAY SHARES. -• ' St. Germain .. Versiilles, R.B ••••••• • •• •• 640 .. 640 .. 640 .. 640 L.B•• •• .• •• •• •• 397 50 . 397 50 .. 390 .. 390 Rouen••••••••••••••••••••1150 . 1151 2i "1135 ..1135 Rouen to Havre......... , .. 973 .. 975 •• 970 .. 970 Orleans •• •• •• •• .• ••• •• ..1305 ..1305 ..1282 50 .•1282 50 Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• 336 25 .. 336 25 .. 330 .. 330 Avignon to Marseilles— .• —1:25 ..1125 ..1117 50 . 1117 50 Bordeaux to Teste •• •• 220 .. 222 50 .. 220 .. 221 25 Paris to Sceaux • • • • •• 680 .. 680 .. 680 • • 680 RAILWAYS FOR. THE ACCOUNT St. Germain • • •• •• •• ••1202 50 ..1202 50 ..1502 50 ..1202 50 Versailles, R.B. ••• •• ••• •• 647 50 .. G 47 50 .. 635 .. 635 L. 8.. Rouen •••••.•• •• •• •• •••• • •1135 ..1155 ..1137 50 .. 11 •7 50 Roucu to Havre 975 ~ 975 .. 970 .. 970 Orleans . •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 1307 50 ..1307 50 —l2BO —12.5 Strasburg to Bale •••••• •• •• 336 25 .. 337 50 .. 330 .. 330 Avignon to Maneilles•• •• "1125 .. 1125 ..1112 50 ..1112 50 Bordeaux to Teste .•• •• •• •• 232 50 .. 222 50 .. 222 .. 222 HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. HAMBURGH, APRIL 4.—Yesterday afternoon the ice from the Upper Elbe came down in large masses. There is much floating ice in the Middle Elbe, but it drifts down rapidly with the ebb. All the Upper Elbe is free, and in the afternoon the ice which came down from the Upper Elbe yesterday and to-day has almost entirely disappeared, and is supposed to have sunk. There is only a little ice between Ghickstadt and Cuxhaven. With this we hope we have con cluded our accounts of the ice for this winter.—Hamburgh Papers, April 4. The Chamber of Representatives met to-day, and the Minister of the Interior presented some projects of law. A proposal of M. Donny relative to the pilot dues at Ostend was taken into consideration. The Chamber adopted, with only one dissentient voice, the project of law for prolonging for three years the law relative to the exemption from import duties of machinery and machines, the construction of which is not known in Belgium. Yesterday a grandson of the Viceroy of Egypt passed through Belgium on his way from Vienna to Paris. M. Knepp, Counsellor of Legation, coming from Berlin with dispatches from London, had a fall the day before yes terday into the moat of the city outside the Narrow Gate. Ile was conveyed to his hotel, with some severe contusions on his head. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Braux, APRIL 3. Bills. Money. E St. ii c ia h An u I g3e d mo S nu c h iLtn d . OG , n 334 08n, o pe 2 rneseEnNt months 1 . L . 100% 99% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 p er Cent.. IfIL 4. —Prussian State Gazette. April 4. Bills. Money. kustrian 5 per Cents — 114;4 BankAß s l i o a - S T, R i t s a i s r p : . n e e Loan t B r .cC• 4th er t : t t e: r.. e a . s t 1 1 0 6 ,9. 15 4 2 :: 16 1 1 —6 43 99990 5 5 9:51 Ditto Ist series Inscription . d 0., 3d and 34 llope and 1 4 D D N D i i e i t t t \t t t vo o o , 4s i l i pt niC r P :e ici r t a e t: n if C : a Spanish New 5 per Cent . • ...... ••• • • • 22% 22 Ditto 3 per Cent • • ........ •••• • • • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. ••• • • 63% Ditto 3 per Cent.. •• • • ••••• • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. I Apan, 1844.... gg% 85 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p:.:r Cent ...... 88 87% National Bank Shares.. • • • • • • • • • 148 Exchange on London. Hamburgb, April 4 . Ditto Two months ..... Christiana, March 1, 3 31 . Stockholm, Feb. 21, 75 D -Hamburgh Borsenhalle, April 3. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Eatams, APRIL 4. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •• Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. • • 99 Ditto Three per Cent. : • ...... Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto, 1840.. • . • • ..... " • • • • ...... 103% Ditto, ditto, 1844 ............. ......... 1024, Ditto,Ditto o 101% Bank ofßelgium • • • • • • •• • ..... • • ..... • • 653 -Brussels Papers. April 5. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.---VizNN A, Mellen 26. l f 3 the 2 City,....103 .. 5 per Cent. 3letalliques• •••••• • • • • • •• • • 112% 4 per Cent. ditto • • • • • • • • • • • •• 102 3 per Cent. ditto• •••••••-• " " • • • • • ..... 78 Loan, 1834 ..... ••• • • .......... 154% Ditto, 1839 • • • • • • •• • • " ......... ••• • • 13244 Batik Shares • • • • •• • • • • " ' • • ' • ........ 1640 Esterhazy's Loan •-•• • • • • • ••• • • ...... 58% •Illgorneine Zeitung, March 30 13 11 13 9% 6 2534 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. —Shares The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on were 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were on speculation. Prices since ; ; Black burn,D i t Ditto, Thursday had been Tht The slightlySa n i n o f Lastfavour N s oa i ftzuhrbtau. Saturday were 8 . were animated and prices generallyownereloviell ,ppported. N A e b w erd s ee h n a , re s s, % 4; ; BBealfransstleyanJdu9.sjiatily,% Ballymena, 5Zi Darwen, and Bolton,Birkenhead, 51% /s ; . Manchester, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% % ; Blackburn, and Cheshire Junction, 1.2"/ 4 11,% ; Birmingham and Glou iltoShares, at 5 cester, New Shares, 5% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14% % ; Caledonian, 134 13; Cambridge an211.inc0,1,na,,..9%; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 48% Ditto,/0 9,11 dis., ditto, 24 1 A ; Chester and Holyhead, ~. , / 1 / 4 ; Churnet Valley, 8% a,4 ; Direct Northern, •Yis %; Dublin and Galway, 4 3 / 5 ; Dundalk Extension, 1174 ; Dublin and 3', 4 m ; Dundee and Perth, 3%; Belfast, 104 ; D u bli n a nd Cashel, ex new, 16% ; Ditto, and Enniskillen, 4 Edinburgh and Northern, 'A ; and Bedford, 1 ' Ely 2% A Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21s. Glasgowi ex and Greenock, Eastern Counties, 21 ; Edinburgh ,,. and Glasgow, 63 • div., 226 ; tto, ex div., 18% ; Grand Junction Half Shares, 112 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, Doncaster, , ' 45 • Great North Goole and 2% ; of :England, ex div., 6% 4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8 1 ,E 3 ; Leeds l and Thirsk, 5 % % ; Leeds and West Riding, 8/ 8 ; Limerick It . k, and and Waterford, 7 64 ; Liverpool, Orms ir Preston, 54 3 . 56 5. 3d .; London andßirmngham, ex div., 236 ; Ditto, H a lf Shares, 45 ; London and booth-Western, i ex div., 81 ; London and York, 3% 31. Is. ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3% ; Lynn and Dereham, IL Bs. 6d. 1 1 / 2 ; Lynn and Ely, 7 1 4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, ex new, 61 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and Buxton, 4% 4%; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 10 3 / 4 9%; 111anchester and Leeds, ex div., ditto, 66; Ditto Sixteenth Shares, 7 1 ,4 • Midland Stock,. ex div., 153; Ditto, 40/. Shares, ditto, 1 ' 9% %; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 ; Mullinear and Athlone, 214 new, 31 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 3 V 4 ; • 9 / 4 ; Newark and 149 ; Ditto, Half Shares, Sheffield, 7% , %; Newcastle and Carlisle," Quarter Shares, tish, Half Shares, 5% 1/ ; 4 North Wales Mineral, ex new, 16% 1,4 ; Ditto, New Shares, 61 ; North Wales, and Wolverhampton, 1/. 18s. ; Preston and 314 %; North. Western, 51/ ~ a/ premium ; Oxford, Worcester and Rugby, 04 ''' 4%4 ; Oxford, Worcester North Bri- Scottish Central, 6% % • e , -t• Helens and Runcorn Gap, 24%; Ditto, Half Shares, 12 12 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 3ii ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 248. ; interest, 130%; Ditto, Wyre, 36 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester,. ex Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6% ; Shrewsbury, OswestrY, Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 91/s and Chester, 4 1 / 2 %; S hrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4 3 A 4/. 16e. 3d ; South-Eastern, ex dividend, Quarter Shares, ditto, 16 15 %; 434 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 161 discount, 12s ; new, 18% ; Ulster, ex 'dm, 45 3 / 4 ; West Yorkshire, 4 ; Wexford and Carlow, 31!, ; Waterford and Kil keney, 4 ; Whitehaven and Furness Junction 1 1 A %; York and North Midland, New Half Shares, 19 184 ;'Lyons and Avignon,Avinon (English), 3/. 6s. Gd. 4 • Northern of France and St. Quentin, 2/. 25.; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; g), 6% 1 / 4 ; Paris and Lyons;Lafitte's, ex new, 3% ; 9 ; Trent Valley, ex Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21. 12s. ; Great Paris and Lyons, % prem.; Paris and Strasbnrgb, 2/. 16s. 2% ; Paris Nantes (English), R 13 ; Toulose, Bourdeaux, and Cette, 2% %; Verona and ncona, 2/. ls. 6d. 2/. The returns of the Quarter's Revenue as published, in Tours:and general terms are considered as most satisfactory, especially as respects the Customs and Excise; but as to the aug mentation of the Post-office revenues we do not think that the i n crease, so tar as it goes, is worth that high degree ofcommen d a t ion paid to this branch of the revenue by some ofour Contempo raries. It is the farthest from our intention to save word against the new system of postage as brought forward, and so suc cessfully carried out under the auspices of Mr. Rowland Hill. But there have been accessions to the Post office revenue which cannot be expected to continue. We allude to the share immense mass the of lett ers sent for a pplications for s in new railway and other companies which have been started in the last quarter. We have it on undoubted authority that there were 36,000 letters sent through the Post-office, all being applications for shares in a recently formed railway concern. We have accounts to-day from Buenos Ayres to the 25th of January. The Legislature had been opened, and Roses in his address enters most fully into the affairs of the Re public; and a pretty fair picture is drawn of the state of its condition. A political feeling against America appears to be in the ascendant. There has been an increase of :business in the Money Market to-day. There have been private transfers made in Ii these stocks, which have been for some weeks closed, pre- paratory to the payment of the quarterly dividend. Without the interest new flu, ; 7 3=.1/1. r. :12 211 ; the Three per Cents. Reduced at 98%, and at 98% and the New Three-and. a-Quarter per Cents. at 102 1 4 and 102. Consols for the Account at 99% %. The premium upon Exchequer-bills has advanced slightly. Very few bargains have been made in the Foreign Funds. Spanish Passive have been sold at 74 ; the Colombian, ex Venezuelian, at 1574 to 16 ; Mexican at 35%; and the Dutch Four per Cents, at 97% / 3 1. The Railway Share `Market is most active, especially for the Irish and the French lines. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock . . . „ . 212 211 212 3 per Cent. Reduced ... 98%, 98% 3 per Cent. Consuls New 3 1 4 per Cents 1024 102 10.2 1 , Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11%3g 11% Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 11 7 , 16 11 7-16 India Bonds, 1,0004. ...... ..... . Ditto under 1,000/. Consols for Account..... ....... 99% IA 99% Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 114 d. ... 62 60 62 pm. 62 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small' 6O 63 pm. 63 Ditto Advertised — pm. CLOSING PRICES. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15% 16 Dutch Exchange 2 1 / 2 per Cent 63 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... — Ditto, Account 3 551 Ditto Deferred Peruvian Bonds ' 6 per Cents 32% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted — Ditto, Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ............ Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ... Ditto. Account ..... ... ..... Belgian Bonds, 4 1 / 2 per Cent — 100 3 / 4 Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 7 1 / 8% 97 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARESPRICES. PRICES. Aberdeen 4% 5% :..... 5',4 Armagh, Colerai ne , an d CLOSING Portrush 1%...2 % 1A 3% 2% 3% 3% Birmin and Gloucester. 100 137% Ditto New Shares ... 17% — ... .. 3414 Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 9 1 A 1 / 8 A Chester and Holyhead... 5 Cluirnet Valley Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton .. 114...... Coventry and Leicester Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast Juue. 2% 9 l/. . i 3/ 4 Dublin and Galwav 2l, 4%%% 5 1 / 8 5 1 / 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% Eastern Counties 25 ... . 21 Av 2 14 Eastern Union l5 .. ... 22 Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ely and Bedford ...... .. PA 3 l / 2% Great Grimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Western BO ... . Ditto % Shares 5O lO3 102 Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2 1 / 2 ... .. 5 1 i t 1 4 Harwich ... 2% 3 / 4 1 4 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...236 237.. Do. 1 / 1 Sh ares London and Blackwall. 161. 13s 4d B% London and Brighton... 50 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 11 London a , ,d S. Western 41/6s. 100 81 1 / ,; 82 Do. New Do. New London and York ... 21/2...... 3% 3 . Lynn and Ely At anchester and Leeds... 73 152 151 Do. %;Shares Do. Quarters 2 Manchester and Birmin. 40 Midland.. Do. New Midland, Birrn., Derby 100 ll6 115 Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 .......50 1 50 .. Do. New Brandling... 10 N-wpas,le and Berwick Iv, Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 % 4 % 1 4 3 /4 Newark and SLeffield ... 1 1 /,...... 7 1 A 7 ...... - North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip North Kent North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 Preston and Wyre Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Midland 1%••• 51 ,4%.i ••• Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 14. . 4 3 / 4 % South Eastern & Dover 331 2s 4d... 43%1 Do., No. 1 8 Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 South Wales ..... -.... ... 2 2 1 1 4 6%%%... .. ... Trent Valley 2 ...... 18 1 / 2 1 4 19% 19 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 . 3% 41..., York and North Midland 50 lO3 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 Do. Selby Do. Extension PA FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toul ouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, sad Cette ...... ... . ... ..... 2 Dieppe and Paris June. 2 ...... Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Orleans and Bordeaux... '2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's' Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris and Orleans 2O Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ..... 2 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's 2 Ditto, ditto, Lefebvre5... 2 351/ 2 16/ 3214 66 661/2 82% s_ l / 8 2 1 ,4 981/2 237 344 8 1'4 6 . 4 . '3g 62 1 / 2 16t4 7 1 ,4 152 1 / 2 68 2 0 1 ,E 60% 154 4% 4% 4% 43 1 18 9p6 4 19A 105 14 43 2 6 3, 3 50% 31/ s ,6'ill JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 .. ... 45 National of Ireland l 7 l/ — Union of London. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL s.—The sales are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares. 5 1 / 2 % ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 40% ; London and South-Western - New Shares, 14 1 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 67 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7 3 4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 6% 5-16 prem. ; North British, 18 1 4 • Ditto, New Shares, 5%; Preston and Wyre, 35 1 4 ; She ffi eld and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 16 1 4 16; South-Eastern, 43 3 4 ex div. ; Ditto, No. 3,9% ; Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrick; fergus, 4% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 124 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% 3 4 ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ' Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 14 1 4 ; Caledonian, 13 1 / 2 - Churnet Valley, 8 1 4 ; Direct Northern, 6 Ely and Bedloi:d, 32 ; Erewash Valley, 16 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235. ; Goole, Doncaster, She ffi eld, and Manchester Jun c ti on , 2 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8%; Leeds and Thirsk, 5 1 4 ; Leeds an West Riding Junc tion, 8 1 4 %; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 15-16 % ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% • Lynn and Ely, 7 3 % ; Manchester and Buxton, 5 1 / 2 ; Manchester, Shef field, and Midland Junction, 9; Newark and Sheffield, 7 3 / 1 ; North Western, 6 1 / 2 ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 4 1 ,4 prem. ; Scottish Midland, 5 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshii e Junction, 28s. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 4 1 / 2 ; Southport and Euxton, 2% ; Trent Valley, 1814 4 ex new ; Great Northern of France (English), 6 3-16 ; Paris and Lyons (English), 34 ex new ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2 9-16. LLOYD'S SHIPPING, LONDON, APRIL 7.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, APRIL 6.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E., moderate.—Sld. Minstrel, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Choice, Caroline, Chieftain, and Venilia, Quebec ; Ada, Cape de Verdes ; Ocean, Elizabeth, and Pandora, Quebec; Helen Mary, Cal cutta; Timandra, Ditto; Gilmore, Bombay; Montezuma, St. Kitt's; Mary Ann, Algoa Bay; Anne, Grenada; Pro mise, Quebec. ' DARTMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Sld. Calypso, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Gratin, Pe ' land, Paraiba, for Hambnrgh ; Caroline, Deane, Jamaica, on 14th ult., lat. 36, 10n.52, lost starboard quarter boat in a heavy gale at W., and on 21st, lat 46, lon. 32, lost bulwarks, and one man overboard, in a heavy gale from W.S.W. ; Alert and Emelie, Rio Janeiro, for Hamburgh ; Expedition, Ditto, for Bremen ; Peter, U. Tak, for Hamburgh ; City of Derry, Lindington, China; Susan King, M'Lean, St. Lucia, left Feb. 22, lost bowsprit, figurehead, &c., 3d inst., off Portland, by getting in contact with a large steamer. FALMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Wind E., moderate breezes.— Arrd. Linnet packet, Rio, on freight 16,0001. in gold and dia monds ; Express packet, Madeira. Oft; Columbus, Charles ton, for Copenhagen, 29 days. The Gl oucester, Henderson, from Patagonia, for England, sprung a leak and foundered off the coast of Brazil, in January last; crew saved and landed at Rio. OFF TUSRAR, APRIL L—Anne, Laguna. The Mermaid steamer, from Waterford, went ashore on West Hoyle last night, and fills with the tide; crew and passengers saved. HARWICH, APRIL 6.—A loaded brig, name unknown, is ashore on the Gunfleet Sand. YARMOUTH, APRIL 7.—. The Molson, of London, struck on Co: ton Sand this morning, and unshipped her rudder, but re-shipped it, and proceeded without assistance, MILFORD, APRIL s.—The Heart of Oak, Jones, from Car digan to the Bristol Channel, struck on the Crow Rock yes terday morning, but was got off and into the harbour, where she filled ; she has been since floated into Gillyswick Bay, and is expected to be righted next tide. CLYDE, APRIL s.—Sld. European, Montreal. SHIELDS, APRIL 4,—Sid. Sapphire, Undaunted, Princess Victoria, Joseph Anderson, Penelope, and Renewal, Quebec; Urania, Miramichi. SUNDERLAND, APRIL 5.--Std. Mazeppa,"Quebec. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.—lt blew very strong all day yester day, but moderated towards night. The Ann, Crosaman, in coming out of Stonehouse Pool, got ashore on Battery Point, but came off on the flood, and was towed back. `LLANELLY, APRIL 3.—The Arab, Richards, of Penzance, in leaving the harbour yesterday evening, grounded, but came off this morning without damage, and proceeded. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Shannon, Adamson, Quebec; Jane, Chandler, Laguna. Sld. sth, Caledonia steamer, Halifax ; Brenda, Montreal ; Wave, Quebec; Alexander, Senegal; 6th, Corsair, Valparaiso; Gipsey, Rio; Caledonia, - Monte Video; Joseph Christall, Bahia; Andrew Scott, New Orleans; Rob Roy, Mobile; Delia, Walker, Philadelphia; Baron of Brambee, Montreal; Ann, John, and Myreine, Quebec. REPRESENTATIoN OF GREENOCK.—The Scotch Re formers' Gazette of Saturday gays that there are three can didates in the field fur the representation of Greenock; Mr. Bathe. the late Provost, a Liberal ; Mr. Bruce, of Kennett, a Tory, and a free Churchman; and Mr. Alexander Dunlop, also a free Churchman. s . .e) tad th kft " " _ E g AND otoitt opintoit. " Who runs mag read." POREZGN. Accounts from Switzerland announce the defeat of the free corps and refugees at Lucerne, and the complete dispersion o f the assailants, who fled to their homes, leaving more than 600 dead and wounded at the gates of that town. The Piedmontese Gazette contradicts the report that the Sardinian Government intended directing troops towards the Swiss front*. Count de Pontois, the French Ambassador in Switzerland, took leave of the King of the French on Friday night, pre paratory to his return to his post. The Marquis Ferrieres, who is secretary to the Chinese em bassy, was to leave Paris on Monday, for China. He was to go direct to Macao. Baron Deffaudis, the French Minister to the Court of Bra zil, has left Brest, in the Erigone frigate, fon Ulla country. The Journal du Havre states that the works of the Rouen and Havre Railroad are in so forward a state, and are con tinued with such activity, that the road will certainly be open on the Ist of May, 1846. It adds, that the direct trains from Paris to Havre are to perform the journey in six hours and a half. The crime of murder is becoming as frequent in France as in this country. The Court of Cessation rejected on Thurs day the appeals of four individuals capitally convicted by as many different Courts of Assize—namely, of Lachanelle, sentenced to death at Lons le Saul nier for the murder of a young woman ; of Coste, convicted in the Ardeche of a similar crime ; of Ducoudrav, condemned to death in Paris, for attempting to kill his wife; and of a woman named Leclerc, sentenced at Amiens for parricide. The appeal of another parricide, named Lacome, was also under consideration on the same day, but the Court adjourned without pronouncing upon it. The Impartial du Nord, of the 3d inst., states that the in habitants of Leselle, near St. Amend, had risen, and pro ceeded to such acts of violence against the labourers employed on the railroad, which is to pass through their commune, that the Procureur du Roi of Valenciennes had been obliged to repair to the scene of riot with a body of Lancers. vi a:017 AMY) tVOILICItt. A case of breach of promise of marriage was tried at Glou cester, in which the defendant, a farmer, named Stephens, attempted to cast imputations on the character of the plaintiff, a Miss Cooke. The evidence for the defence, how ever, was so grossly improbable, and so very disgusting, that the Lord Chief Baron before whom the case was tried, advised the counsel for the plaintiff not to cross-examine defendant's witness, and expressed his disgust in strong terms at the conduct of defendant and his witnesses. The verdict was for the plaintiff, with 1001. damages. The case of the Queen V. the Poor-law Guardians of Rochdale was tried at Liverpool. The action was to try certain issues raised on a return to a writ of mandamus. The point to be ascertained was—whether or not the Guardians had wilfully disobeyed certain orders of the Poor law Commissioners; and, if they had, whether they were not justified in so doing. The verdict was for the Crown, leave being reserved for the defendants to move the court above. James Ha.slam, William Lee, and John Ad amson, were indicted betbre Mr. Justice Coltman, for conspiring to procure the return of John Slater as town councillor of Bolton, by fraudu ent means. It appeared that the defendants had brought in persons from the country to peisonate voters. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty against all the defendants. A motion, however, was made in arrest of judgment, and the defendants were held to bail to appear at the next assizes. The 138th session of the Central Criminal Court began yesterday. COURT-PASIZZONAULE. The Queen is expected to visit the Great Britain steatnr , r on Tuesday, the 15th instant ; and the Dwarf, iron stean - ,- vessel, fitted with a screw propeller, at present in the basin at Woolwich dockyard, is nam , d for the honour of conveying her Majesty to the place where the Great Britain is moored off Blackwell. The Duke of Devonshire gave a splendid dejettner yesterday, at his villa at Chiswick, to her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz have been. invited by the Noble Duke to meet the Duchess of Baden. The French Ambas sador and Countess de St. Aulaire, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess Dietrichstein, the Russian Minister, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanbv, the Hon. Charles C. and Lady Catherine Caven dish, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, the Countess of Granville, and a brilliant circle have been favoured with cards of invitation. Lord and Lady . Henniker are staying at Ryde, Isle of Wight, for the health of one of their children. Lord Brougham entertained the Marquis of Anglesey, Count D'Orsay, Lord George Paget, Mr. Wombwell, Mr. A. Montgomery, and a select party at dinner on Sunday evening, at the Noble and Learned Lord's residence, in Graf ton-street. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received Earl and Countes Cowper, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Beau vale, and a small circle at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their mansion, on Carlton House-terrace. . • Lady Dover and the Hon. Mis ses Agar Ellis have been passing theholidays at their villa, at Roehampton. Lord Hatherton has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat, Tedderley Park, Penridge, Staffordshire. The Lord Chamberlain, the Countess Delawarr, and Lady Mary West, have arrived in Grosvenor street, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and Lady Caroline Neeld, have arrived at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street, from Warwick Castle, MISCELLANEOUS. --- The facilities afforded by the Irish poor-law for the manu facture of fictitious votes has led to the return this year, in most of the unions, of a majority of Tories. In Dublin the Liberals are in a hopeless minority. In Cork, Limerick, Galway, Clonmel, &c., the same state of things prevails. The property qualification has done the work of the Tories admirably. The Stewards of the London, Cumberland and Westmore land Wrestling Society in London, after having given the highest prizes in England, which were contended for at High bury Barn, on Good Friday, have presented twenty guineas to the charitable institutions of the counties, thereby consti tuting two Life Governors out of their number to the Society, which is instituted for the maintenance and education of poor orphans belonging to natives of the above counties. It is said that a a special meeting of the Dublin Corpo ration will be held on an early day, tbr the purpose of taking into consideration how the body can best do honour to her Majesty on her arrival in D u bli n. Mr. Benton, of the free-list office, Drury-lane Theatre, announces his benefit to take place on Thursday evening next, when it is hoped that his uniform civility and atter tion in the discharge of his official duties will ensure him the compliment of a full house. The entertainments an nounced are Donizetti's pleasing opera of Elisir d'Amore, a dives timment, and Dcr Fre;schutz. The thirty-six danseuses Viennnoises, who arrived on Fri day night, are now safely harboured at their residence in the Quadrant, in the enjoyment of the best health and spirits. These marvellous little dancers, who are to be added to the attractive bill of fare, on Thursday night, at her Majesty's Theatre, make their deb& to-night (Tuesday), on which occasion Grisi and Lablache will appear for the first time this season in the opera of Norma. Mr. Templeton has been giving his vocal entertainments in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, with the most triumphant success. SIR R. PEEL AND MR. FERRAND. The following letter from Mr. W. B. Ferrand, addressed to the Secretary of the Dublin Protestant Operative Associa tion, and read at the last meeting of that body, elicited " tremendous cheering :" " Harden-grange, April 3, 1645. "Sir,—l have been from home for two or three days, and on my return I find your letter informing me that you have forwarded the petition of the Dublin Protestant Operatives, praying for the iimmachment of Sir R. Pvel. to London. " I shall not arrive there until Tuesday next, as I am • de tained here on private business, but I think it would be better to present the' petition after Sir R. Peel has made a state ment of his plan. " I rejoice to say that a strong Protestant feeling is spreading through the country against Sir R. Peel, who, in my opinion, is the greatest traitor who has existed since Judas Iscariot. " I purpose presenting your petition on the second reading of Peel's Popish Bill.—l am, yours very faithfully, " Tf. C. Espy, Esq., &c. " W. B. FERRAND." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon. Miss Hamilton, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Bouverie, rode out on horseback Yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Trincess Royal, were taken an airing in a carriage-and four Yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken an airing is the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz visited the Queen yester day at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and at tended by the Lady in Waiting, took an airing in the after noon, in an open carriage and four, and visited her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, at Kensington ; Colonel Ar buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Earl of Hard • wicke, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—Her Royal Highness was better yesterday. The Queen called at Gloucester House in the afternoon to make inquiry after the health of her illustrious relative. The Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, and the Duke of Cambridge, paid visits to the Royal Duchess in the course of the day. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Miss Eden, visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yes terday, at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has issued cards for a dinner and evening party on Friday, the 18th inst., at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. Her Royal Highness dined with her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House in the evening ! _ _ _ Thebuke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured the performance of the French plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Grand Duchess' Stephanie of Baden. —Her Royal Highness, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar and the Duke of Hamilton, and attended by the Baroness de Strurnfeder and Baron Roth de Schreck enstelit, left town for the residence of the Duke of Devon • shire, at Chiswick, at twelve o'clock yesterday. The Noble Duke accompanied his illustrious visitors through the grounds of the villa. A dejune was afterwards served. The Grand Duchess and suite returned to town at four o'clock, in two carriages and four. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillippstahl visited the Grand Duchess after her return, at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in Portman-square. A deputation from the City of London had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of the Lord Mayon, Mr. Alderman Humphery, Sir James Duke, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Hartison, Mr. Prior, the Town Clerk, the City Remembrancer, and the City Solicitor. The ~ . cclesiastical Commissioner s for E ng l an d h ad a meet ing yesterday at the Office in Whitehall-place. Th ere were present the Bishops of Chester, Lichfield, Ripon, and Worces ter, and the Dean of Westminster. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co loniat-office, for the Governor of liong-Kong. ADEN. 1 t'ilo Ar,..bs have nut yet atutcked Adel,, b accounts continue to be received from the interior that thei are still assembled in large bodies. From their having de ferred their march on Aden so long it may be considered a strong sign that but little unanimity exists either in their councils or operations. It is wonderful that they have con tinued to remain assembled for such a length of time, com posed vs they are of such heterogenecus materials and di vided interests. The garrison at present in Adeu is fully capable of repelling any attack, however well planned or bravely led, which they can direct against Aden. There are now 1,200 European and 1,100 native troops in the place, besides her Majesty's sloop Serpent, the Hon. Compan3's sloop Elphinstone and brig Euphrates, shortly to be rein forced by her I . ll:jesty's frigate Fox, another aioop and schooner, besides a steam- frigate to be permanently placed on the station. I regret to say that the Berenice steamer, which ought to have left Suez on or about the 23d ult., has not reached Aden, nor have accounts of her been received up to this date. Great fears are entertained regarding her safety. We have had very stormy weather at Aden and in the gulf for the last eight days; it is therefore to be apprehended that she may have experienced very heavy weather in the upper part of the Red Sea, got disabled, and been obliged to bear up for some port on the Arabian shore, where she must remein till assistance reaches her - from Aden, as, in the event of an ac. ciuent happening to her machinery, it would be impossible for her to reach Aden under canvass at this season of the year. Should she not arrive before the steam-frigate comes in from Bombay (daily expected), the latter will be dis patched in quest of her. We can hardly believe that any accident has befallen the packet in the Mediterranean, as it would have been remedied in a few days. The arrival or the Precursor, due on the 16th or 17th ult., put us in possession of some direct information as to the time she left Suez for Aden. The Atalanta, which left Bombay on the 2d inst., at half past three A.M., arrived this morning at half-past two, having made the passage in nine days. The French sloop-of-war Zelide, Captain Feir e k, arr i v ed from Bourbon on the Bth i ns t. with dispatches for the French • Government, and five French passengers, to proceed to Suet per Atalanta, which leaves this evening, at five o'clock. All the troops, European and native, continue healthy. Supplies from the interi or are a b un d ant. The inhabitants 'of the towns near Aden are beginning to turn their attention to the cultivation of European vegetables, for which the soil is very favourable: Indeed, growing vegetables for the Aden market they find a lucrative occupation, as they are at all times certain of a good remuneration and ready sale. It is to be regretted that advantage is not taken of this growing spirit of inquiry, which seems to have been suddenly excited in their minds, to introduce an improved system of horticul ture and agriculture. LIST OF SHIPPING IN THE HARBOUR. Ships of War—Her Mejesty's ship Serpent, 16; Hon. Com pany's ship Elphinstone, 18; Euphrates brig, 12; and ship Charger; and the French ship Zellee. Merchant Vessels—The barque Jean, the ship Ulverstone, the barques Scourfield amd Palinurus; and the ships Scotia and John Line. American—The barques Mohawk and Emily Wilder. THE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON'S SOIREE.—The President of the Royal Society had his Courth and last con , versazione on Saturday last, at his Lordship's mansion on the Terrace. Piccadilly. It was far more numerously attended • than is usually the case for the last soirée, there being at least five hundred persons present, including many noblemen anti foreigners of the highest rank, and a large assemblage of gentlemen connected with the literary, scientific, and artistic institutioes of this country. The _Noble president's saloons were crowded to excess by half-past ten. Among the visitors of the Noble President were :—The Count de St. Aulaire, the Duke de Broglie, M. Dedel, Chevalier Bunsen, Baron Arnim, Mr. Everett, the Duke of e , t.Alban's the Mar ouis of Douglas, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Viscount Canterbury, Earl Delawarr, Viscount Strangfnrd, Lord Glenelg, the Earl of liective, the Earl of Listowel, Viscount Alford, M.P., Lord Asburton, Lord Colborne, &c. DREADFUL ACCIDENT, AT GARDNER'S BREWERY.-- Mr. Payne held an inquest on Saturday, at St. Barthlomeer's Ho-pital, on the body of Edward Harrington, aged 20, a workman in the employ Of Messrs Gardner, brewers, iet. John street. From the eridence, it appeared that on Thursday last the deceased was walking across a plank at the top of large vat containing a quantity of - boiling hot liquor, used in the bushiess, when the board slipped, and be fell down into the vat. His fellew-workmen hearing his cries, ran to thee-at, and found him splashing abut in the scalding liquid. 1 10 was iinmediately taken out, and conveyed to th e h os pital, where he died, from th e effects of the scalds, on Friday. Verdict—Accidental Death. INJURIES BY A row.—Mr. and Mrs. Hoyte, the large cowkeepers of Ventonville, who were so dreadfully in jured by a cow on Monday last, are fast recovering. It is untrue that they were both tossed in the air, and that st labourer in their employ stuck the prongs of a pitchfork is its eyes and ears. Mr. Hoyte only was tossed, bat both were trampled and gored by the infuriated beast. Mrs. Hoyt* had three of her ribs broken, and her left arm dislocated, while Mr. lloyte received some severe injuries on his back and neck, but not of so serious a character as was stated. If the cow had not had crooked horns there is no doubt but both would have been killed on the spot, and their bodied dreadfully mangled. GLASGOW CORN - MARKET.--On Friday last the frost gave way, followed by two days of heavy rain, since which the weather has been fine, with occasional showers. A, change of wind has b roug ht i n lib eral supplies of flour an d oats from Ireland; the arrivals of a heat,•barley, and beans, both thence and yid canal, are moderate. Wheat during the week attracted attention, and several cargoes changed hands at rather more money. Flour unaltered. Barley taken off at former rates ; the demand far from brisk. Oats being plentiful, are a heavy sale ; and, to make progress, an abate ment of 6d. to 9d. per boll had to be submitted to. Oatmeal partakes of the dullness and decline. Beans and peas have not been so free of sale, and the turn was rather in favour of buyers. Butter and provisions maintain former quotations, with a fair inquiry and light stocks. At Wednesday's market the attendance was good; but owing to accounts from Mar k ; lane the trade rul e d h eavy b oth for ' wheat and .barltie transactions were much confined, in consequence of holders being unwilling to recede' in price: To our great regret intelligence has just reached, us of the melancholy decease ef.Vice-Adreiral of the White, Sir John Chambers White, K.C.8., Conimander-in-Chief at the Nore, who died at Sheerness yesterday morning, at. eleven o'clock. At the hour mentioned his secretary, we understand, took him some official documents for signature. He complained of a pain near the region of the heart, and immediately expired. Another of our correspondent says, that the Admiral dropped down dead while crossing the hall of his residence. He was in the 76th year of his age. He entered the service on the 7th of June, 1781; was made Lieutenant 22d of Nov em b er , 1790 ; Commander 28th Aug., 1795; Post-Captain 2d August 1799; Rear-Admiral 22d July, 1830; Vice-Admiral 10th January. 1837. He com manded the Sylph sloop from 1795 to 1798, and curing that time distinguished himself on many occasions, capturing several of the enemy's ships of war, with convoys, and aided in the de , truction of the Andromache French frigate, la 1806 he was Captain of the Foudroyant, at the capture of Linois' squadron ; and in 1811 he commanded the Centaur, at the defence of Tarragona. It is a singular circumstance that his predecessor, Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, died ex actly in the same sudden manner, after a dinner party.-- United Service Gazette. SPA -FIELDS BURIAL -GROUND.—The trial of the parties who are indicted for a nuisance at the Spa-fields Burial -ground is appointed to take place at the Middlesex. sessions, Clerkenwell-green, on Tuesday next. The prosecu tion, it is said, will h e at t h e expense of Government. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin have been retained for the pro secution. The most eminent counsel have been retained for the defence, and a lively interest is manifested in the result. 'IMF, GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER.--The Queen is expected to visit the Great Britain steamer on Tuesday, the 15th inst., and , the Dwarf iron steam-vessel, fitted with a screw propeller, at present i n th e b as i n at W oolwich dock yard, is named for the honour of Conveying her Majesty to the place where the Great Britain is moored off Blackwell. It is not yet known where her Majesty will embark, but it is expected at Woolwich or Greenwich, most probably the former owing to the excellent arrangements which can alway , he made. there on the shortest notice, and the advan tages i.os.-esses for the comfort of her Majesty when em barking or landing on the occasion of royal excursions. Tit E AILS. SOUTH AM PTON, APRIL 6.—The Ori-ntal Company's steam-ship Pacha, Captain Burney, ar rived in the dock's this day at noon, from Gibraltar, with the tollowing mails and dates :—Gibraltar the 29th ult., Cadiz the 30th, Lisbon the Ist of April, Oporto 2d, and Vigo 2d. Tha mails will be forwarded to London by the mail train at two o'clock A.M. to-morrow. The Pacha met very bad weather at Vigo. She brings 12 passengers and a small cargo of fruit. The following vessels were at Gibraltar:— Her Majesty's ships Scout, Fantome, and Flamer, American store-ship Lexington and Constant, and steam-ship Bra ganza, and Heckle Danish ship. At Cadiz the Spanish ship Suverano, 74, and a French brig. At Lisbon the Portuguese frigate Braganza. The Royal West India mail -packet the Teyioris hourly expected with the West India mails, &c_ The Oriental Company's steam-ship Duke of Cornwall will bring the homeward East India and China mails. She if; expected on the 10th instant. The Queen steam-packet will take out the Peninsular mails to-morrow. The Royal Tar will also leave the docks to-morrow for Madeira. A GAME OF CHESS BY TELEGRAPH.--A hove! and interesting proof of the fidelity and accuracy with which intelligence may be conveyed by the agency of the electric telegraph is about to be shown. At the suggestion of Mr. Staunton, the gentleman who, it will be remembered, ob tained a signal victory at Paris over the French chess cham pion, a year or two ago, a game at chess will be played this week between two parties'nearly one hundred miles asunder,. at no more ,perceptible expense of time than would be required. if they sat at the same table. On this occasion Mr. Staunton , will take his place at one end of the termini of the South- Western Railway, and Mr. Walker, the well-known writer 00 chess at the other, and they will then play a game together, their only medium of communication being the electric tele graph. Every facility for carrying out this interesting idea has been kindly afforded by the directors of the railway, and it is calculated that the game, which will be begun at eleven in the forenoon, may be finished in about three hour*. INSANITY.—In 72 most recent dissections at Beth lehem Hospital, performed by Mr. Lawrence, the brain war found to have undergone some structural alteration. In 400 dissections made by Mr. Davidson at the County Lancaster Lunatic Asylum,the brain was invariably found disorganized. MM. Foville and Del aye had paid more attention tan er haps any other two morbid anatomists to this subjech p t ; and they state that they have always been able to detect organic) changes in the brain after death, principally in the cortical or gray part, which was frequently found to be of an intensely' colour, res em bli ng erysipelas. If the gray substance in these cases be dexterously pared, and very thin slice.; of it cut off, so as not to lay bare the white part of the, 'brain, a preternatural redness, varying from that of red to lilac coiour, will be seen. In some cases of acute, mania, the brain will be found of a marbled appearance, ;n which patches of still deeper red hue and of preternatural softness are detected. —.Medical Times. SUICIDE OF A MAN AND 'MS WIFE. —On SaturdaV Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mary Crome, aged 40. From the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that, about ten days ago, the husband of the deceased, a respectable tradesman in Cam berwell, committed suicide, in consequence of the violence of her temper and her bad conduct towards him. It was stated at the inquest that the husband frequently bore the marks of tier ill-usage. and, not many days previously, she burnt his face with a red hot poker. After the husband's death, the: widow (now deceased) grieved much for his loss, saying that she should not survive him long; and, on Thursdaylasto , t)e drank a large dose of laudanum at the house of Mrs. Yates, an acquaintance, at 4, Seymour•place, Islington. A surgeon having been called, the deceased resisted, as much as she possibly could, the operation of the stomach-pump, and, instead of swallowing the emetics, poured them down her breast. She was immediately removed to the above hospital, and diet there, from the effects of the poison, two hours after her admission. The Coroner said it was highly probable that remorse of conscience, brought on by the melancholy death of her husband, had deprived her of the proper use or her reason. Verdict—Temeorary Insanity. 1 00 c The I.!, ~e m bc e TUE SUN, LONDON, TLESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8 1845.