The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-10 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUB CRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Friday) Evening contained : The conclusion of the reports before the Railway Committees of the Howie of Commons. The List of Appointments, Bank:uptq, &c., from the London Gazette of that evening. The average price of Sugar for the Week. The Course of Exchar.ge. The Weekly Return of the Circulation, Scc , of the Bank of England. The Monthly Return of the Circulation of the-Banks of Scotland and Ireland. The latest Market Intelligence. tsrliamentary proceedings of tie Evening, being a full report of the Debates in the House of Com mon 3, up to a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Vidiseribers and others interested in Railways-will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAI ',WAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDITION of THE SUN, reported up b the CLOSE of EACH DAY. Sun• office, 112, Strand. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 'full., post Bro., Till: FORTUNES OF OGER DE Or, The Almugavars. A Tale of the Lower Empire Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 1' I. 0 R; MR. D'ISRAELFS SIBYL. The Second Edition of THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN of this date will contain a Review (with copious Extracts) of Mr. D'lsraeli's New Work, published to-day. Office, 4, Brydges-street, Strand. NEW WORK BY M. MICHELET. Just ready, PRIESTS, WOMEN, and FAMILIES. By J. MICHELET, Member of the Institute of France, ; Author of " The History of France," &c. Translated from the French (third edition), with the Author's approbation, by C. Cocks, Bschelier es Lettres, and Professor (brevete) of the Living Languages In the Royal College of France. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. WORCESTER, TENBURY, anti LUDLOW RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally registered.) Capital 300,000/., in 6,000 Shares of bal. each. Deposit, 2/. 15s. per Share. This short bat Important Line is designed to connect the present intended Railway - from Hereford to Newtown and Shrewsbury with the City of Worcester. Leaving the Severn Valley, it will reach with an easy sweep the Valley of the Teme, and passing within a triflinm distance of the town of Tenbury, will join the Hereford and Shrewsbury Railway, about hallway between Tenbury and Ludlow. In length, it will not exceed twenty miles, and follow,• In the greater part of its course, the Valley of the Teme on a water level. It will thus he necessarily inexpensive in construction, and occupy but a short period in Its formation. The country is populous and fertile, and, on the completion of the Railway from Oxford to Worcester, this line will be absolutely necessary to perfect the communication between the Metropolis and .North and Central Wales, and eventually the Centre and North of Ireland. Worcester, from Its situation In the rich Vale of the Severn ; from its Population, Wealth, and Manufactures, must naturally be come the must important centre to which all lines from the Metropolis, having North Wales, part of South Wales, anti Ireland as their objects of communication, eventually converge. There are no difficult earth works on the line. The gradients are most easy. A survey of the whole line has been completed. _ lu the allotment of Shares every preference will be given to parties locally Interested. A prospectus, with full particulars, will be issued in a few days. Application for Shares must be made in the form appended, to Messrs. Carden ant Whitehead, Threadneedle street, London, or William Dutton, Esq., Solicitor, 16, Chancery-lane, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Lud low Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that pet will allot me Shares, of 501. each, in the above proposed Railway, and I undertake,to pay the deposit of 21. 15s. per Share thereon, or any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliatrientary Contract when required. D it:,l this day of 1845. Name Residence Trade or Profession Reference HF.It MAJESTY'S THEATRE. (BY DESIRE.) THIS EVENING Will be performed Rossini's Opera IL BARBIERE DI HIV IGLLi. Rosina, Madame Grist; Bertha, Mdlle. Belthil ; It Conte d'Alntaviva, Si.g Mario; Bartolo, dg. Lablaeho ; Basilio, F. Lablache ; Figaro, Sig. Fornasart. The Dauseuses will appear in the following pas :—" L'Allemand," the " Mazurka," and the Pas des Moirronneurs." To conclude with new Ballet Divertissement, entitled KAYA. ; ou, L'Amour Voyageur. Kaya, Mademoiselle Lucile tirahti ; L'Amour, Fraulein Fanny Pragher ; Hermann, M. 1)1 Mattla ; and Knud, 11. Perrot. 31oz:in's Opera of " Don Giovanni" will be repeated forthwith. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the BB'- office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ;to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mille. LUCILE GRAHN respectfully intbnns the Nobility, Sub scribers to the Opera, her Friends, and the Public that HE it BENEFIT will take place f..N THURSDAY, MAY 15, When will be performed Rossini's Opera, LA GAZZA LADRA. Ninetta, Madame* Grist; Lucia, Madame Beliini ; Pippo, Mdlle. Itrambilla ; °Lanett°, Sig. Mario ; Podesta, Sig. Lablache • Isaae, Dal Fiori ; Fabrizi Vingradito, Sig. A. ; Fernando Yd. label°, Sig. Fornasari. The Danseuses Yiennoises (under the direction of Madame Jo *ephine Weiss) will dance some of their favourite Pas, After whiclt, the Divertissement of UN BAL SOUS LOUIS XIV., Id which 3ldlle. Lucile Gratin and Mdlle. Cerito will appear. With other Entertainments, in which Madame Anaide Castellan end Moriani, will appear. 11.1 the course of the Evening, the celebrated Spanish Dancer, Dona Mauueila Perea, known as La Neva, and the Spanish Bolero Dancer, Don Felix Garcia, will appear iu various of the National Pas cf Spain. The entertainments will likewise comprise the " Pas tie Six" from the Ballet of KAYA. And likewise include a Selection from the Ballet of EOLINE. And a Selection from the Ballet of ONDENE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the 01)4ra-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. • ON WHIT-MONDAY, MAY Will be performed an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Belle ; the Libretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Mr. Balfe will, on this occasion, preside In the Orchestra. Don Sylvio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d' Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nagnez ' Mr. H. Horncastle; Pacheco, Mr. Barker ; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with a New DIVERTISSEMENT. In which Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini will introduce a New Pas de Deux. Dress Circle, is; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s; Gallery, 2s ; Upper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Pox-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold. entitled TIME WORKS WONDERI Goldthninb, Mr. W. Farrell; Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescut ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Ilumby. After which, GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAJ). To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. tlumby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF' MADAME CELESTF • Last Night of the Green Bushes. THIS EVENING _ . Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith : Aluster Grige, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong. Mr. Paul Bedford Geraldine, Mn.s Yates ; Nelly O'Neill , M r s. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which will be repeated, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STU BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster, in which he will give his celebrated personation of the Emperor Napoleon ; Margot (her original uharac ter) Madlllle To conclude will; a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called wr. GEOP.GE AND THE onAno).r. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss lin. Woclgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chap PRINCESS'S TILEATR.e., OXFORD-STREET.. I.E.SSEE, YR. J. M. MADDOX. TILLS EVENING Will he performed the Play of TILE sTRA NGER. The Stranger r. , W a ll ac k; Baron, Mr. Archcr; Count Wintersten, M Courtn,y ; Mrs Haller, MIAs Cushman. To conclude. with THE CASTLE OF A TMO N ; or, The Four 13rotliers. Baron de Beaumanoir, Mr. Walton ; (Oyler, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Mine Renaud, Mr. 11iattacks ; 'von, Mr. Leffler; Iferm;ne, Mille. Helen Condell ; Cli.ra, Miss P.rentnall; Yolande, Miss E. ilonner ; Eglantine, Miss O'Connor ; Gertrude, MN. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Night of Whittingtcn and 11:s Cat. T lIIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Farce, called A GOOD NAME. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, entitled OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, 'Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge , Miss Grove, Miss •iirden, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ent!relv New Entertainments, and re-engagement of the World's Wonder, who, having recovered from his late accident, will perform some New and Astonishing Feats. ON WHIT-MONDAY Will be performed a New Local Drama, entitled THE OLD FLE.ETE PRISON ; or, The Widow and her Suitors. Splendidly appointed and supported by the Entire Company. To be :ollowed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American Inamp, 3o , T 4 conclude with a New Melodrama, entitled THE SECRET FOE ; cr, The 'Mason of Abbeville. _ !lects and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box 0111errom Eleven to I,our. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON!-GRAND OPENING First Exhibition of PRlNCEtheolos FETES. Csal Pictorial Representation suggested by 11. Rn. .AI BERT. Under the Patronage of her must (Ira.clott4 MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, AW. 11. R. H. PRINCE M YA L. SURREY Z r bt:OtI . CAL GARDENS. Pi ii extreme unfavourable state of the weather ren dering it impossible to complete F. V°II)ABLY the unprecedented Pyrotechnic dis play, the OPNIN(1 uN POSTPONED TILL Wit IT-MON DAY, the 12th i ns t. A magnificent modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, th e the Immortal Scott's "Ain Dittos of Scotland and of Scotchin e n R oma ntic Town," introducing the' i L oc h, as it formerly existed, the Calton Hill, New Town, the N or ' n, Nelson's Monume n t, Artlittr'i Seat, Salisbury Craggy , the Castle, Sir Walter Scott's Monu the Royal Institution, ilolyroed Palace, and all the most inter estiug ti.t.tittres Auld Iteekle." The Proprietor had the. honour of submitting the Model to his Royal Highness Prtnee Albert, and he is delighted to say it met with hii 1 110 St decide anti perfect approval, and from the more than al ca re which has been obser v e d in its execution, he p oints it ou t as the happiest production of Mr. Danson's pencil. The drawings were made by Mr. Denson on the spot, and present a bird's-eye view of the principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c. Toe PTIONI F—NA DT, CONCERTS, so decidedly popular at this Zsiablishinent, will this season Le on an unusually effective scale. Mr. 4. - 10 D FREY has been occupicd since the close of last summer, in com, posing am! arranging varied and pie:villa' succession of superior _Novelties, which will lie produced in rotation, Including some Ori ginal Pieces by Foreign Composers, not yet performed lit this country. At Dusk will 'take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of FIREWORKS ever attempted. Tit:: entire of the Gigantic Model will be Illuminated. The different devices in fl'ont of the houses, the fires on the Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Moun tains, the illumination of Nelson's Montlment, and all the rejoicings which took place on her Majesty's Visit will be accurately pour 'bayed. And, as a Finale, a grand Aquatle Royal and Patriotic - .Tableau, Fiity Feet in Height, will be exhibited in the centre of the lake ! The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by emblems and other devices will be iDamonn twiaillCed. The Tableau de si g ned and executed by Mr. . Mr. Southby has been occupied for months in giving effect to this matchless and superb design, which combined with the Feux D'Arti lice., the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur sounding heights, will form the most brilliant Pyrotechnic Display ever witnessed. Admission, 0110 Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Austin will find the conclusion of the trial Smith v. Austin, with the verdict, reported in the Third Edition of The Sun of the same evening. It could not have been reported in the afternoon edition, inasmuch as the trial had not concluded when we went to press. THE IVEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAT 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 48; Noon, 4()• BAROMETER, 29.58.—W1ND, E. Noric.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during tht preceding twenty-four hours. All he other observations aro made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 5 minutes after 4 I Evening •• 22 minutes after 4 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY fiVENING, MAY 10, 1845. w•-• -C ? i o :' , I - 01 %-. : .4•• -, 4 A• ) 1 , - .4 '... t cCi-i ,CAN , ;) - 1 - 1' sfce4 - 43- li , -• ,-, ity ...-. 4.7 !Atii , k ) • , 0 /.. k: u ,„,,,,,":', • : , 10 .14 0 . 4 0 . 05 , .... ,„...ston- •k 1 ( :: ',..- -:' , .' , "'- ,, ,,,;y." A, --s, SECOND EDITION. o _.~~ LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1845. The House of Commons met shortly before Four. Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE took the oaths and his seat For Peebles-shire. _ Mr. CrisnonxE moved, " That in all cases in which the Members of a Committee on a railway Bill, or group of Bill;, should be reduced to four, the proceedings on such Bill or group of Bills shall be suspended until the Committee of Selection shall have discharged one of the said four Ilembars from further attendance on the said Committee." _ - The motion was opposed by Lord G. SOMERSET, Mr. LABoucHERE, and several other Members. Sir G. GREY moved the following amendment : " That upon all questions before Railway Committees, on which there was a difference of opinion, those ques. tions should be decided by the majority of voices ; but where the Members on the Committee were even, that the Chairman should have two voices, or a casting voice.' After a short discussion the motion was withdrawn, and the amendment was agreed to. Sir R. PEEL, moved that the House at its rising do adjourn to Thursday next, which was agreed to. The second reading of the Parochial Settlement Bill was postponed until the 9th of June. Sir J. GRAHAM then moved for leave to bring in a Bill on the subject of Academical Education in Ireland, and in so doing, admitted that religious differences con stituted the great difficulty in the way of establishing a general system in both countries, and that in Ireland this great anomaly existed viz., that for centuries the religion of the great majority of the people had been treated as a hostile religion. The only way in which this difficulty could be met was by adopting the pri , .ciples set forth in the report of the Commission appointed in 1806 to consider this subject, which proposed to institute a national system of educa tion which should be open to all classes of the people, while it kept clear of all differences with respect to the particular religious tenets of any. On that principle be intended to found his measure. The Right Hon. Gen tleman then went at great length into the history of na tional education in Ireland up to the present time. He should have no hesitation in recommending in Ireland the establishment of universities on the same plan as the University of London, where no test was required of either teacher or student He proposed to establish one such University in the south of Ireland—most pro bably at Cork—another in the West, either at Limerick or Galway, and another in the north, either at Lon donderry or Belfast, but most probably at Belfast. About 30,0001. each would be the sum required for building and fitting up those Universities, and about 6,0001. a-year each for the annual endownsent. Each college would have ten or twelve professors, who would be allowed 3001. a year each; and both at Cork and Belfast there would be medical schools, and among these twelve professors would be included the professors in anatomy, surgery, and chemistry. Considering that the endowment was to be made by the Crown, he pro posed that the professors in all the three colleges should be nominated by the Crown, and that the Crown should have not only the power of nomi nating, but the power of removing, lon cause shown. The principals would reside in the college, but not either the professors or the students. The course of instruc tion would be given by lectures and daily examinations. Thee would be in none of these colleges endow • ments for professors of theology by the Crown, but if private individuals chose to endow such professor ships, every facility would be given them for so doing, but the attendance upon such lectures would not be compulsory. The fundamental principle of the measure was the avoidance of all interference, positive or negative, with the re ligious scruples of the people. It was the intention of the Government to continue to the four divinity professors of the academical institution in Be!: fast, the endowment which they had enjoyed for the last twenty years, and if the Bill should pass, he thought the institution would transfer their premises and library to the Government on easy terms, for the purposes of the new Belfast university. The Crown would not feel bound in such a case to re-appoint the existing professors, but to those not re-appointed, it would award ample compensation. He had not finally determined, but he thought it would be better that these colleges should be united into a central uni versity for the granting degrees, rather than that each should possess the power, and the central university should be in Dublin; but he did not at all intend to interfere with Trinity College as it at present existed. After paying a tribute to the high-minded and honour able course which had been pursued by Mr. WYSE, the Member for Waterford, in reference to this question — of academical education in Ireland—the Right Hon. Baronet concluded by moving for leave to bring in the Bill. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. ‘l 7 YSE, Sir R. H. INGLIS, Mr. SHEIL, Sir R. PEEL, Mr. SHAW, and several other Hon. Members, when leave was given to bring in the Bill. The House then went into Committee of Supply, when 50,000/. were voted on account of the public ser vice, and, the other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. The Irish Academies' Bill, introduced by Sir JamEs GRAHAM last evening, appeared to meet with the general approbation of the House, and looking at the difficulty of establishing a system of education for young men of different religious persuasions, which shall not give offence to one party or another, we can see no objection Whatever to the scheme. Schools, and academies, and universities are but iil adapted for teaching theology, and unless a Confession of Faith is laid down which every pupil must subscribe, the great object of such institutions would be defeated, and constant wrangles be carried on about particular dogmas in religion. If such a rule of faith is established, then only one sect can be beeefited, and all the rest must trust, not only to their own means fur education, but also pay for the teaching of the favoured class. This is the case at Oxford and Cambridge ; and for that reason nearly one half of the community are op posed to these venerable institutions. Trinity College, Dublin, is founded on a much more liberal plan ; it partakes more of the progress of the age and less of the wisdom, or, more properly speaking, of the bigotry of our an cestors, and admits Human Catholics to certain honours and preferments, and scholars professing the Catholic faith are eligible for a considerable number of the pro fessorships. It is wise, therefore, to leave that seat of learning as it is, at least fora time, and till the experiment proposed by the Government shall have had a fair trial. Nothing, however, can prevent its success but bigotry. 'rhe system has been long in existence in one of the most religious countries in the civilised werld, and it has been found to work well. In the University of Edinburgh, for instance, no religion whatever is taught. Catholics and Protestants, and Maho ['sedans and Ilindoos may assemble in the same class, enjoy alike the blessings of education, and aspire also to the highest degrees. Such an inter course tends to humanise the mind—it wears off the asperities of different sects encourages good will among pupils who had unfortunately been taught to hate and detest every religion but their own, and it often leads to friendships which last fur life, and contribute largely to mutual happiness. 'I he man who can obstruct, from . selfish motives, such a s w e nhe Christian ie v s e t inaon presentativecfl a a i i t m h s a t b o oo f t v he Oxford a se l l c o a t r h d et l i ar n nns a .di l y v eds i r e r si t nir u toy e u: nw s,ROßE ßTehtodi oc itdh s r i y a N i s G s te e L s m i s t , h e e opposition o f t o g t o h d e l e r a a s lm a os , t , a r r a e nt i i n e B as in education." He, of course, would have relicon taught, b u t on l y t h e reli gion contained in the Thirty-nine Articles, and would thereby exclude from its operation all Catholics, all Jews, and all Dissenters , —the very men who by some strange infatuation have leagued themselves with their bitterest enemy. The measure, we trust, will h ave no such opponent in Ireland, but be welcomed as another proof that the Government and the Imperial Parliament are resolved to persevere in the right course, and pave the way for full justice to that distracted country. When measures of such importance are under discussion, it is to be regretted that Mr. O'CoNnu and his colleague are still determined to absent themselves and take no part whatever in the debates. The fact is thus stated in one of the Dublin papers of Thursday : " We are in a position to state," says the Freeman," that should a call of the House be ordered, it will be disobeyed, and that O'Connell, O'Brien, John O'Connell, Dillon Browne, Grattan, and the other representatives of tl.e people, who labour in the na tional cause, will treat the threat of Mr. Hume and the call of the Speaker with equal indifference. When these men came to the resolve of serving Ireland in Ireland, they counted the cost and accepted all the difficulties of their choice. At pre sent the interests of Ireland demand their presence here, and here they have determined to remain till duty shall call them elsewhere. If duty should call them to Westminster either to resist oppressive, or to improve ameliorating measures, they are as prepared to labour there as they now are to labour here. But they, and not the British Parliament, are the judges of the time and the circumstances under which their presence in the English House of Commons may become a duty ; and should the Parliament attempt to coerce them to attend its sittings at any time, other than they themselves may select, they are resolved to give the Sergeant-at-Arms an opportunity of making an arrest, and afterwards to test by due process the legality of that arrest, arid thus try the right of the British Parliament to enforce the attendance of an Irish representative. This resolution was unanimously come to yesterday by an influential Committee, and we lose not an hour in giving the assembled senators thebenefit to be derived from an early knowledge of the fact." From the concurring testimony of the City or money articles of our own paper and our contemporaries, we are induced to believe that the period of re-action in the Share-market, to which we have so often felt it our duty to advert, is not very far distant. The Times thus pointedly alludes to the matter,in its yesterday's impres sion :—" The Railway Share-market continues heavy, and the increase of sales depresses prices. In fact, all the markets are in a declining condition ; and some few fancy that the period of re-Ection has at length arrived." It must have struek the most casual observer of such operations for some time past, that prices in the Share-market have either maintained a buoyancy difficult to be accounted for on all ordinary principles of scrip speculation, or have even exhibited a tendency to rise in a degree to be looked for, under ordinary circumstances, only in the shares of first-rate and long-established concerns which have attained a species of maturity in the continued confi dence of the public. One can perfectly well understand, when the interest on Government securities is so low as that which they at present pay, that shares in the capital of such magnificent and undoubted Companies, or Asso ciations, as the Bank of England, the East India Com pany, the New River Company, and some others which rarely find their way, at all even, into the market, should be eagerly sought after as the safest and most eligible channels in which individuals can make investments. It is easy to imagine that, with a view to the security of their principal, parties may be disposed to buy into such concerns as these, at as high a premium (should the shares be carrying such, in the market) as to leave them but an inconsiderably higher return of interest than they would receive from investments in the Government stocks. They are justified, however, in thus determining, by the guarantees of long experience, reiterated tests, and not merely the unabated but increasing favour in which these A.sociations stand with the monied public of all the civilised world. But when we find—out of two new railway undertakings—some, not yet in actual working, others but very recently commenced—that 99 are above par, and perhaps 70 or 80 at a premium in the share market, and again that the range of this pre-. mium from 1 per cent. on the shares of some railway companies to 10 per cent. on those of others, is clearly not referable to the varying degree of relative advan tages which they are likely to secure to their respective proprietaries, but by some not apparent and not inhe rent causes ; we are justified in surmising that a spirit of gambling, either fraudulent or capricious, must be the principle which strikes these differences of nominal value, where there are, as yet, no practical results cf fact and of experimental working to decide the real value of such shares. Now, whether the price that is thus set, be created by the caprice or the fraud of gambling speculation, that is to say, whether it be a fancy or a factitious price, it is equally worthless as an index of value. If these premises be admitted, let us apply them to the eighty or ninety millions of capital vock of railway undertakings, which the heat of that excitement we speak of has, for months past, kept fer menting and raising to an artificial temperature. The time is coming at which, if we may be allowed to pursue the figure, a vast proportion of this aerated mass is to be drawn off. What will be the per centage:of immediate less occasioned by that process ? When the moment has come at which the operation of settling and realising shall be extensively resorted to —when it will no longer be a question with speculators how high by a little management they can send up shares on this or that project over a certain day (all dealings in them, in the meanwhile, being in the nature of time bargains only, and for " differences"), but how low beyond their original cost price they can prevent them from tumbling down, when the disorganization of the general share market shah square prices by the value of money mul plied in the inverse ratio of the discredit that will have infailliby overtaken the scrip of two-thirds of such com panies ; when that moment shall have arrived, we must be prepared to hear of frightful deficiencies and defalcations. The balance between the prices at which shares have been nominally bought, and must be actually sold, will represent a sacrifice of capi tal perfectly appalling. And all this will be indepen dent of that loss which is always most severe, on the most sanguine or mercurial speculation. What we have supposed above, applies specially to the railway projects that will probably be at a discount—that is to say, to the great majority of them. But there will be a few a favourite few —of which more shares will have become the subject of cm tracts for delivery at a specified day, than there will be afloat in the market. These can only be evoked by the potent but ruinous spell of pa) ing increased premiums upon them. By analogy we shall have the old story re-enacted of the Dutch Bur gomaster who speculated in the " stock" of the unique black and white Verelst Viceroy tulip, to the extent of a thousand bulbs at a thousand guilders a piece. The frenzy of the tulip mania had just then attained its height, and " the ens famous" Alemaez Viceroy had fetched 4,200 guilders. Our Burgomaster was tempted by what ever amount of premium he liked to set upon his Verelsts, till at last he lad disposed of his thousand bulbs for 2,000 guilders each, covenanting to deliver the said bulbs in two months. A very capital operation he thought he had made. His tulip contract shares changed owners, till they were distributed into nearly a thousand hands. The usual panic came, and with it the re• action. The Burgomaster's day of de livery arrived ; and, lo ! there were but 500 bulbs to be had, or known to be in existence. Could the Burgo master have sun.moned together twice the capital repre sented by the exorbitant price he had obtained for his bulb shares, he could not have extricated himself from the ruin which overwhelmed him, Madrid journals of the 2d inst. have been received. Monday was kept as a close holiday, being the anniver gary of the rising against the French in 1808. Thv Cortes did not meet, and the Bourse aas shut. The first clause of the Bill for farming the fortifica. tions of Paris has been adopted by the Chamber o Deputies. The sum proposed was 14.130,0001. (56,5001.) and on a division there was for the clause, 227, and against it, 144—majority, 83. This is a very large majority, and leaves no doubt that the fortification of the capital is now an fait accompli. The debate on this clause was enlivened in a variety of ways—by some sharp-ahooting between M. ArtAco and General PAIX • HANS, an amusing speech of M. ALLARD (the reporter of the Bill), and a personal quarrel between M. TRIERS and M. DE LAMARTINE. The philosopher, when the affair became serious, had no chance with the General, and was compelled to admit that really of his calculations and conclusions, made at a former sitting, were quite untenable. M. ALLARDE turned into utter ridicule the idea that any new dangt r to the citizens of Paris could be apprehended from arming the forts. " There are other means already existing," said he, " far more serious ones, of bombard. ing Paris. At the very gates of Paris stands the Batte Montmartre. Now, just suppose that some thirty of the five or six hundred pieces of cannon kept at Vincennes (not far off either) be conveyed to that height —suppose that seven or eight thousand men be also stationed there, in order to fire and protect them—just suppose this, and I most positively tell you that Paris will be destroyed in less than twenty-four hours." " Don't make suppositions like these," said General LAIDET. " There are crimes of which we should not allow ourselves even to form an idea." " replied the other, " but let us look to ourselves. Permit me to add that the front of the palace in which you are now sitting presents itself so very well to the aforesaid Batte, that I defy the most in experienced gunner not to send his first ball amongst us." This was followed by shouts of laughter, and the speaker continued :—" Thus when you accuse the forts of threatening the liberties of the country, you must own that the Bette Montmartre is also guilty of the same imputed crime. To these suppcsitions there are but two things wanting—a Government daring enough to realise them, and an army to second it. I am con vinced that neither will ever be found." When the President was about to put the question of the vote, the scene between M. TRIERS and M. DE LAMARTINE oc curred, of which the following is a brief outline:— " lt. Thiers (from his place) said that he wished to explain why he should vote in favour of the Bill now before the House. He should not have made an y remarks, were it not for the s peech which had been delivered the preceding day. If be had done his country any service during the last fifteen years, he felt convinced that it was principally on the day when, on his own responsibility, he had ca!led on the Government to undertake the fortifications of Paris ; there was no act of his life of which he was so proud. . . His conduct on that occasion had certainly drawn on him most shameful calumnies, but he despised them when expressed as they had been the day before.—(Great agitation.) A Volce--Order ! Order " M. Thiers—lf what the Hon. Deputy asserted yesterday was true, the Chamber must have been composed, when the fortifica tions were voted, of dupes and traitors, but there had been neither one nor the other. They who had voted for that work had not done so to please him (M. Thiers), but because they were satis fied, like General Haxo, like General Valaze, and like Napoleon himself, that such an act would be of the greatest benefit to the country. He had frequently heard General Bertrand declare that the Emperor had said to him that the greatest service that could 'be rendered to France was to fortify the capital. M. de Lamartine had spoken of the influence of the fortifications on the balance of power in the State. Some day or other, he (M. Thiers) should perhaps tell how in that balance the equilibrium had come to be broken, but he should choose his own time for doing so, and should himself decide when it might be useful to write that history. " M. De Lamartine thought that the violent language used by M. Thiers, when complaining of having been calumniated by those who considered the fortifications most dangerous to France, justified the doubt and uneasiness which the measure inspired in the country.—(Murmurs.) But the words of the Hon. Deputy were not of the same weight as facts. He should prove from his own dispatches that he had not the slightest idea of war in 1840, and, consequently that the fortifications of Paris were not re quired, but were nothing more or less than an act of Ministerial dictatorship.—(lnterruption.) Ti!. Thiers, in a dispatch, dated March 15th, 1840, declared that the French and English Govern ments agreed at bottom in their views.'—(Movement.) In a dis patch from Lord tiranville, of May 1, 1840, it was said, M. Thiers has communicated to me a dispatch to his consul at Alexandria, di recting him to make the Pacha clearly understand, that France, in order to preserve Syria to him, would not compromise her rela tions with England.'—(Fresh marks of interest.) Besides, M. Thiers had himself declared in the Chamber just before the forma tion of his Ministry, that whatever might be the aspect of affairs in Europe, there was no danger of a cannon being fired.' Where, then, were the signs of war ? Where the necessity of the fortifi cations ? Lord Palmerston, in one of his dispatches to M. Bulwer in Paris, said, I have given M. Guizot to understand'—M. Guizot was then Ambassador at London—' that the French fleet ought not to be placed in such a position with respect to ours as to produce a collision, and he replied that care should be taken to prevent it.'—(Continued movement.) He respected the convic tions of M. Thiers, as that gentleman ought to have respected his, but he must still reproach him with having placed his country on the verge of so great a danger, and thrown round the capital of France so menacing a circuit. M. Thiers, in the course of his remarks, had pronounced a word which might possess a personal character— one that had never been applied to him (M. de Lamartine), and which he should never permit any man to so apply. He must call on the Hon. Deputy to declare precisely what he meant by that ex pression, and when he should hare explained, he (M. de Lamar tine) should know in what manner he ought to reply to him.— (Tumult, agitation.) " The President—Both Hon Deputies had expressed their opi. nions as they had a right to do. Nothing of a personal character could be attributed to their words. Their political views were alone referred to, and nothing more could be said of the matter.—(Cries of ' Hear, hear,' and continued agitation.) " Some other speakers made brief remarks amidst great agitation ; a division took place, and the Chamber ad journed. Immediately a fter the Chamber rose, the President sent for M. Trrmus and M. DE LAMARTINE to his private cabinet. The following account of the in terview is given by the correspondent of a Contem porary : " M. Thiers replied, that he had no wish to meet M. de Lamar ine, but he appointed M. de ReMUSat and M. 4anneron to at.. tend for him; while M. de Lamartine attended in company with Ge. neral Liadet and the Mar wis de la Rochejaquelin. M. Thiers had previously declared to his friends, ' that he would rather stand fifty shots than retract a single word he had made use of.' M. de Lamartine was the first to enter the President's cabinet. He stated distinctly to the President, and the four friends present on behalf of the two parties, that in the words which he had used in . .. . . . the course of his speech on the preceding day, and which had given offence to M. Thiers, it was not to that gentleman he alluded at all, and that he had never suspected the good faith of M. Thiers. After M. de Lamartine had left the cabinet, M. Thiers entered, and on being informed of the explanation given by the former, he said that as his opponent had no intention of alluding to him, he could have no objestion to withdraw the offensive expression of which he had made use ; but he reserved to himself the liberty of withdrawing what he then said till such time as M. de Lamartine's explanation was regularly drawn up upon paper. M. de Remusat was then appointed to draw up a statement of the explanations on both sides." Next day before proceeding to public business the President informed the Chamber that, " in consequence of the language which had taken place the preceding day between M. THEIRS and M. DE LAMARTINE, he had deemed it his duty to call those Honourable Gentleman to his private cabinet; that there, in the presence of mutual friends, explanations had been given by both the Honourable Deputies, which, in the opinion of their friends were perfectly satisfactory. The Chamber (ob served the President) would hear with pleasure of this termination of the difference that had arisen between two of their colleagues of such consideration, and so well deserving of each other's esteem." This announcement was received with cheers. The discussion was then re sumed. The amendment of M. LAROCHEJAQUELIN for depositing the guns in the arsenal of Toulouse fell to the ground, as no one seconded the motion. Another amendment was proposed, but no result had taken place at the time of post. The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers :- The Journal du Havre publishes a very long letter from Lepaire, master of a tradin g vessel, complaining of vexation' whilst at Ichaboe taking in a cargo of guano, on the part of Captain Brooke, of her Majesty's ship Thunderbolt. The writer, however, does not reproach Captain Brooke simply with his con. duct towards French traders, but declares that he has been equally tyrannical and unaccommodating to those of his own country. As regards M. Lepaire, however, the charges are chiefly for want of courtesy, and too unimportant to render it necessary for us to give them in detail. The New Zurich Gazette states from Lucerne, May 3, that Dr. Steiger, one of the leaders of the late movement, has been tried by the Criminal Tribunal, and condemned to be shot. The Gazette du Midi of Marseilles quotes a letter of the 22d ult. from Alexandria, stating that Mehemet Ali was irritated at not having received any intelligence from England as to the postal treaty, and has threatened that, if it be not settled within a month, he will put a stop to the internal navigation by the boats of the English Company. Already, it is added, one of these boats, lately built for running between Alexandria and AW, has been refused admittance into the canal." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 85f. 95c. ; the New Loan at 86f. 35c. ; the Five ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 2 . 15. ; 6 Rouen, ; 3 11avre, 870 f.; Avignon, 1,030 f.; Three per Cents., 42f. ; Sp an i s h Basle, p f e 2 r Cents.sr.; S p anish a i t ,o l s 2 5 1 f f .. Ge. Passives, 71. ( (Caton), e 2 r f e . a so u, c 6 . 5 ; f The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Orleans and Bordeaux , 225 f. premium ; Boulogne, 16Cf. Paris and Lyons (La di;tto (Ganneron), 13f. 75c. ; fi ditto tte), ; 2 T ( J .. o ; Northern Line (Latitte), 33f. 75c. • , ditto (Rosamel), 7f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), lf. 25c. ; ditto (O'Neill) , 15 f. ; ditto (Jaques Lefevre), par ; ydeisttoan(Cd M i o Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (COmpagnie bleridionale), 13f. 75e. ; Bordeaux and Tou louse (Mackenzie), 6E ; ditto and Cett.:; (Espeleta), 17f. 50c ; Creile and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Gan• neron), 15f. , • Eiji on and Dilulhausen, 6f. 25c. LYONS, MAY 5.-Avignon, and Marseilles I,ooof. cash ; Paris and Orleans, 1,207 f., for the 15th inst. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 812 E, cash; Orleans and Bordeaux, 700 f., end of May ; Boulogae, 640 f., for the 15th ; Montereau, 570 f., cash. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, left Buckingham Palace soon after two o'clock this afternoon, for the terminus of the South-Western Railway, to be conveyed by a special train to Gosport, en ionte to Osborne House, Isle of Wight, where the royal party are expected to pass some days• LORD FRANCIS EGERTON. The Manchester Cos'iv, of this day, contains along letter from Lord Francis Egerton, in reply to the remonstrances of many of his constitutents on the subject of his recent vote in favour of the grant to Maynooth. It appears that one of his Lordship's correspondents has thought proper to express his regret at Lord Francis Egerton's vote in the following, certainly not most refined, language :---‘• I regret it also be cause it gives the lie to almost all the other actions of your Lordship's honoured life." Prom the charge of inconsistency thus recklessly brought against him, the Noble Lord vindi cates himself in the following calm and gentlemanly manner : " it is clear from the latter passage that one of the few incideuts of my life worth the notice of the writer or any one else, had altogether escaped it. I changed my name in 1883, and this cir cumstance may possibly account for his evident unconsciousness that In 1825 I moved a resolution for the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland. I nave never, with respect to the jastice and policy of that proposal, altered the opinions which induced me to make, and a majority of a purely Protestant House of Commons to accept it ; but I can also say, what is more to the purpose of this letter, that I have not to my recollection or know. ledge, in any assembly, public or private, given any reason or ground for the supposition that I had done so. It is true that, as far as I am aware, the subject was never brought into discussion at any county meeting, but-that is not my fault. It was a topic per fectly open to any of my opponents, Churchman or Dissenter, to bring forward, even if my su pp o rters chose to avoid it. It was embalmed in Hansard ready for use; I never shrunk from it; if I had seen reason to do so, s h ou ld not have twice solicited and obtained the services o f a Roman Catholic gentleman for my no mination at the husti ngs of N ewto n. If I had exchanged ray opi. nions of 1825 for those which I am now invited to adopt, I could not have even asked for his vote." With regard to the warnings held out to him by his former supporters, he says-_ I am now warned-1 cannot call it threatened—that my votes will lose me support which I value, and confidence I have been proed to enjoy. I make no pretence to indifference on receiving these intimations. I view them with deep regret, because I con sider them as indications that a state of opinion prevails ice a most important and valuable class of my countrymen, which, in propor tion to the good qualities of those who hold it, is dangerons , to the security of the state and t h e i nteg rity of the empire . ' ' Such an opinion so expressed by such a man would, we should hope, cause those opponents of the Maynooth Bill, and who have cot altogether suffered their reason to be swamped by their passions, to pause in their career, and to consider well the consequences of their conduct before they give themselves up to do the work of bigotry and fanaticism. Lord Francis Egerton resigns his seat for South Lancashire. He, however, disclaims the honours of political martyrdom. " In an ordinary, but hicorrect acceptation of the word, I am a martyr; not, however, to Maywooth, but to disease, which in. capacitates me for the public service; and this circumstance will preclude me from becoming one in the real intent of the term." After expressing his respect for the religious conviction s in which the remonstrances on the subject of Ma y nooth hav e had their origin, Lord Francis Egerton conc ludes in the following terms : " As it happens, be the principles what th e y May on which the Government of this empire is henceforth to be conducted, I can have but little share or influence in the matter. I confess that, if that Government is to be administered on the assumption that our Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen are idolators--if that theory is to be worked out to its consequences, I shall be thankful that cir cumstances, however distressing in themselves, operate to release me from the 650th share of responsibility for the welfare of the State, to which, as a Member of Parliament, I now consider mys e lf liable." We treist that all men of all parties wil l po n der well this the deliberate record of the opinions of a Christian gen tleman, a man of honour, a true statesman, and a profound scholar. Where can there be found a man who is all these willing to incur that responsibility from which Lord Francis Egerton shrinks. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet. Sales 4,000 to 5,000 bales, without any alteration in prices. Railway Shares were not brisk :-Aber deen Railway, 4 ; Barnsley Junction, 4% 514 •, Birken head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction. 11 , 4 10 3 / 4 ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 1 5 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 7% 18s. 9d. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 104. ; Cale donian, 10 3 / 4 ; Ditto Extension, 3% ; Cambridge and Lin coln, 7 1 / 2 % ; Chester and Birkenhead, 51 52 ; Ditto, New Shares, 46 • Ditto, Half Shares, 25 1 / 2 3 / 4 ; Chester and Ho lyhead, 15 3 / 4 1 4 ; Chester and Preston Brook, 2 1 / 2 ; Churnet Valley, 6 ; Cork and Bandon, 7 1 % ; Cork and Waterford, 2 1 / 2 ; Dublin and Galway, 4% ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4 %; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 64 1 4 ; Edinburgh and Dumbarton, 28s. 6d. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 1 4 '2 4s. ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 20 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, ; Goole and Doncaster, 1 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7%; Limerick and Water ford, 7 3 / 4 ; Liverrool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 515. 3d. ; London and Windsor, IA %; London and York, 4 1 / 2 ; Direct Northern, 31y 3 ; Leeds and Bradford, 43 ; Leeds and Dews bury, 10 1 / 2 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7V I ; Manchester and Buxton, 5 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 18 ; Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 18 1 4 18 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 3 3 / 4 ; Ditto Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 118; Newcastle and Berwick, 13 3 / 4 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 4 1 / 2 ,• North British, Hal: Shares, 4% ; North Western, 4% ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4 1 % ; Preston and Wyre, 30 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 13 1 / 2 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 375. 395.; Shrews bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1, 14%; Ditto, No. 3,6% ; Scot tish Central, 6%. 3 / 4 ; Trent Valley Continuation, 3 / 1 21s. 6d. ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 3% ; Welsh Midland, 214 Is. 6d. : West Yorkshire, 6% 7 • Worcester and Tring, 4" ; York and Carlisle, 2% 1 4. ; Austrian and Sardinian, 4s. ' • Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2, 3 g 475. ; Northern of France (Rosamel), 435. 9d. 2 1 4 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (English), 10% 3 / 4 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 565. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 10%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 9.-The sales are :-Barnsley Junction, 7 3 / 4 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, , 2% %; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% 11 1 / 2 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8 1 / g ; Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, 5 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%; Caledonian, 11%; Ditto, Extension, 3 1 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7%; Churnet Valley, 6 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% 13-16 prem. ; Direct Northern, 3 1 4 ; Erewash Valley, 19 1 / 2 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 265.; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield and Manchester Junction, 17s. 6d. ; Great North of England. 197 • Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 7%; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 10 1 4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 1 4 %; Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 1 / 2 ; London and Windsor, 12s. 6d. 10s. ; London and York, 4 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1 /. ; Manchester and Buxton, 5% % ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 7%; North Wes tern, 3 1 4 ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 2%; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 3% ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2 ; Scottish Central, 7 ; Sheffield and Manchester. Quarter Shares, 144 ; South-Eastern, 39 1 4 ; Ditto, No. 3,6% 3 / 4 ; Southport and Enxton, ; Trent Valley, 18; Ditto, Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, 2 1 4 ; .West Yorkshire, 7 6 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2% 3 / 4 ; Great Northern of France, English, 5% ; Ditto, Rosamel's, 2% ; Paris and Lyons, Ganneron's, 2 9-16. Among the benefits which a low tariff gives us, and which Could be much further extended, is the early obtainment of products, which our less genial climate does not enable us to obtain until much later in the season. A quantity of new potatoes from Bermuda have been received by the Trent steamer, and a sample, we understand, will be sent by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt to the Free Trade Bazaar. We need hardly remark that at present new Potatoes can only be had of hot-house growth, and conse quently that there would be here no pretext for the cry of injurious competition to home producers. In the weekly statement to the 3d inst. of the affairs of the Bank of England, the notes issued are set down at 29,167,095/. ; decrease 86,8501; the Bullion 15,162,0951. and 641,159/. ; to gether 15,803,254/., or less by 82,6041. Rest 3,188,817/. ; in crease 7,5281. The public deposits have taken an upward movement to the extent of 68,593/. These are the main features. The Gazette of last night contains also the Irish and Scotch returns. The former exhibit an increase of 89,775/. to the Bank of Ireland, and a decrease of 89,321/. to the joint-stock and private of Ireland, consequently the circula tion in Ireland was very steady during the month of April. The Scotch banks increase by 50,370/. There has been a further improvement to-day in the quo tations of the English Securities, Consols having touched 98% and 991 s for Money, and 99% to 1 4 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 100% %; and the Three per Cents. 97% to 97 3 / 4 . Bank Stock is dull at 209. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 545. to 565. The Foreign Bonds have been tolerably firm. Spanish Five per Cents. are 30%, and the Three per Cents. have touched 42 and 42%. Portuguese Converted have been 66 1 4 to 6C 3 / 4 , Mexican 37 to 37%, and Columbian 15%. Dutch Four per Cents. are 97% to 97%. For Railway Shares the inquiry has been rather better, and consequently prices are firmer generally. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 209 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 3 /4 % 3 4 8 per Cent. Consols Anns 98%: %4 99% New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties 100%)0 /4 Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 l l l4 India Bonds 1,0001 — , Ditto under 1,0001 6B Consols for Account 98% 991 99 Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. lihd. 1,0001. 500/. ... ........ -....-.. .. Ditto Small — PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONr O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. IS A I /2 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 37% Ditto for the Account. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llB Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 — Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds B l/s% Ditto 3 per Cent 42 43 Ditto for the Account 41% 42 1 Dutch 2% per Cents ......... ........ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Oxford Junction Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20 Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian .... 5 ...... 10% 11 to 10 3 / 4 % Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 7V4... to Chester and Holyhead enie,hester and Brighton Churnet Valley 2 ... 6AIA %I% t o Cork and Waterford 1%...... 2%M... to Coventry and Leicester Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast Junction 2V , 2 l l l% to Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine 2 f/ 2 2 34 to Dublin and Galway .. ... ...... 2 1 / 2 ...... 3% to 4 Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3 5 1 — to Ditto, ditto, No. 2. Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ...... ..... . to Ditto New % Share's 2IA; 6% ..... to Great South and W. (Irish)... 10 ..... 22% to Ditto Extension Great North of England...... 100 196 Ditto New 2 20% to Great Western Ditto Fifths Hull and Gainsborough Hull and Selby 5O lO6 108... to 106% London and Birmingham ...100 233 to Ditto Thirds Ditto m Shares London and Blackwall 16% B% to London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 6314 to 62 3 4 London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 18 1 4 to London and South Western.. 41% 7B 76% to 77% London and York ... .... ... 2 . % 4 % 14— to Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% 3% to Londonderry and Enniskill e n 2% 4% to 4 Mancliestei and Leeds Ditto Half Shares Ditto Sixteenths ... ... 21 7% to Manchester and Birmingham 40 — to Ditto New Quarters......... 2 Midland Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 ll 5 Newcastle &Darlington ,luoc. 25 ...... Ditto New Brandling Newark and Sheffield North British ... 10 Ditto, New 1 North Kent Richmond and West End Juno. 1 Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 Scottish Central Scottish Midland . ... 1% 3%... .. to Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4% to South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 395... .. to Ditto New, No. 3 2% 6 / 2 3 / 4 ... to Staines and Richmond........ 1 South Wales Trent Valley ... 2 ... 17% to Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction... —IN 2% to West Yorkshire •2%..... 214 to York and North Midland ... 50 ...... Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 Bordeaux and Toulouse ..... • 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2 Dijon and Mulhouse Cireat Northern of France (Laffitte's) Do. Do. (Rosamel's) 2 ..... 24 3 1 4... to ' Jamaica Junction Louvain and Jemeppe ... 2 Namur and Liege... Orleans and Vi erzon Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2 Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2%%%;t0 Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse JOI STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland, 25 t LO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 10.—Wind at noon N.E., moderate breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind N.N.W. to W.—Sld. Mi nerva, Madras; Moffatt, Aden. Off, Mirerva, Church, Lon don, for Madras ; Morley, London, for Aden. DEAL, MAY 9.—Wit.d S.S.W. to S.E., light.—Arrd. Lanchestee, Sydney; Reward, Salmon, Port Phillip; Castor, Collards, Batavia, for Amsterdam ; Diamond, Taylor, Cal cutta; Rajasthan, Stewart, Bombay; Aparne, Wilson, Cape of Good Hope; Vectis, Neilson, ditto • Florentia, Goodwin, Ichaboe, f or L e ith . Sid . Isabella, Algoa Bay ; Deptford, Quebec. POOLE, MAY B.—Sld. Mountaineer, and Brothers, New foundland ; Flom, and Love and Unity, ditto ; Sisters, La. brador. PLYMOUTH, MAY B.—Std. her Majesty's ship Racehorse, Madeira. BRISTOL, MAY 9.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Sld. Bremen, To basco ; Pomona, Trinidad. SWANSEA, MAY 7.-Sid. Eliza, Sharp, Cuba. MILFORD, MAY 7.—Ski. Greenhow, Quebec. PORTIICAWL, MAY B.—The Nautilus, Lewis, from Aber thaw to Alaeravon, was wrecked on the Skerwith Sands this morning, _ _ LLA.ELLY, MAY 7.—The Plicenix, Mansfield from Porth cawl to Waterford, has put in here with mainmast sprung, &c., having been caught in a squall yesterday near Caldy. WEgrronT, MAY 6.—The Anne, Coulthard, hence to Sligo, in leaving the harbour yesterday grounded on a shoal at the entrance, but came off with the tide, has put back, and will be laid on the ground. DOUGLAS, iSLE OF MAN, MAY 7.—The Providence, from Whitehaven, ran ashore near Clay Head, 30th ult., and has become a total wreck—crew saved. LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.—Wind light.—Sld. Citizen, Rio; Jamaica, Jamaica ; Ireland, Havannah ; Caledonia, St. John's, New Brunswick; Harrison Chilton, Miramichi ; Frisk, Montreal; Abbotsford, Quebec. Off, Constitution, Charleston. MAY 7.—Arrd. Fraser, Evans, Walls Island; Mas tery, Buenos Ayres. Sld. Tyne, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Gaspe, Quebec. NzwForrr, MAY 9.—Ski. Delhi, Callao. MARKET NE WS.—( THIS DAY.) coviariT-GAII.DEr.r. There was a fair average supply Veetables on sale Generally speaking the demand was steady, at about last week's quotations. Forced luxuries were held at very high rates. In Fruit comparatively little was doing. Old Pota toes, from 3s to 4s 3d per cwt; Turnips, 2s to 2s 9d; Young Onions, 23 to 3s; Coleworts, or Greens, 2s to 3s; and Leeks, 8d to Is 2,1 per dozen bunches; Spinach, Gd to Is ; Apples, 2s to 3s ; and Old Onions, 2s per half sieve ; Forced Potatoes, 4d to 8d; Pine Apples, 8s to lOs ; and Filberts, is 5d per lb ; Parsnips. 6d to is per dozen ; Rhubarb, 4d to Is 2d ; Asparagus, 3s 6d to 8s; Horse-radish. 3s to ss; Brocoli, is to 2s Gd ; and Celery, is to 2s per bundle; Oranges, 7s to 13s; Lemons, 8s to 12s; and Forced French Beans, 2s per hundred; Cucumbers, Is to Gs each; Turnip Greens, Is Gd to 2s; and Brocoli Sprouts, 3s per bushel; Radishes, 4d per dozen hands; Small Salad, 3d; and Mush rooms, is to is 6d per punnet; Strawberries, 15s per small basket. It/ETGAME 1&/31) AL L. Prime Beef and Mutton, as well as Lamb, were in active request, at very full prices. Other kinds of Meat were a slow inquiry. Beet; from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s 4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork. 3s to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. For the time of year we had a fair supply of Poultry, the demand for which was in a sluggish state. Fowls were selling at from 4s to 7s; Amtrican Fowls, 2s to 3s; Chickens, 3s to 4s 6d; Pigeons, 6d to 9d ; Duckling , , 3s 6d to 5s ; Goslings, 5s to 7s ; and Guinea Fowls, 3s to 4s 6d each. NEWPORT. The demand was not very brisk, yet prices were pretty generally supported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s Sd ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s per Sibs. u;sivGiartronu. We had a steady trade with most kinds of Meat at full prices, but in Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit, comparatively little was doing. BILLXNGSGATE. We had rather a slow inquiry for Fish, but in prices no material variation was noticed.—Turbots, 8s to 16s ; and Cod Fish, 2s to 7s each ; Soles, 8d to 2s 6d per pair ; Salmen, 101 to is 6d ; Eels, 4d to is 2d per lb ; Mackerel, 18s to 30s per 120. 11711ITECHAPEL. The supply of Meat here was not to say large, while the demand was steady at full prices.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 53 to Cs; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s per 81bs. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 7d to lid ; of Household ditto, 5d to 6td per 41bs leaf. HIDE lldrilltHET Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs : Best Steers and Heifers, 5s 6d to 5s 10d ; Middling ditto, 5s to 5s 4d ; Inferior ditto 4s 4d to 4s 10d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin : Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; Long-woolled Sheep, 4s Gd to 5s 3d ; Short ditto 3s to 4s 3d ; Lamb Skins 10d to is 6d; and Shearlings, 4d to 8d each. /1411.RIEETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41 108; use ful do., 41 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland do., 513 s to 5/ 8s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 183 to 21; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2s per load. Trade rather dull, at somewhat de pressed rates. CumBEttLAND. Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ 12s ; _useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 5l 3s to 51103; Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to 5l 16s; Oat Straw, 11 183 to 2/; Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 213 s per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WHlTECkArzt...—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 103 to 41 103 useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, Si 3s to 51 8s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 183 to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. Both Hay and Straw met a slow inquiry, at somewhat easier terms. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Group V. THE MIDLAND COUNTY EXTENSION. The Committee, consisting of the O'Conor Don (Chairman), Mr. J. A. Davies, Sir Denham Norreys, Sir Jahn Rae Reid, and Mr. Hope Johnston, met this day, at twelve o'clock, in room No. 13, and proceedesl to call further evidence on the part of the opponents of the NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN LINE. Mr. Henry Hawell, principal agent of the Canal Company at Nottingham—The wharfs were exceedingly numerous on that por tion of the canal adjacent to the intended station, and he consi dered that the business of the canal could not be efficiently carried out if the ground were absorbed by the construction of railway buildings. There was great inconvenience felt from the circum stance of the waterway under the bridges being so circumactihed that the boats could with difficulty pass, and it was intended to widen both the water-way and the towing-path. The intended mode of crossing the canal by the railway company would be a most serious inconeenieno• to the per•en• ueltsg the canal. Cross-examined by Mr. Woriasrow—The first inconvenience arising from the construction of the railway bridge, would be the narrowing of the canal; the second inconvenience because it would prevent boats from lying there after they bad delivered their cargo. The intended bridge would be superior to the canal bridges already in existence. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : •c: - Week Last '3 • ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. .2 E l C..) May 3 Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • • - • • 181 147 2 Birmingham and Gloucester.... • 4 Chester and Birkenhead 1 Dublin and Drogheda. - 6 Dublin and Kingstown ••••• • • • • ••••• 1,749 1,831 4 Dundee and Arbroath ..... ......... 293 243 3 Durham and Sunderland .•••••• • • • • • • 785 355 3 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••• • • • ..... 2,631 2,471 4 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 5,098 4,2 2 3 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 3 Glasgow and Greenock. •••• • • • • •• • • 878 802 3 Grand Junction • • 3 Gravesend and Rochester.. - 3 Great North of England 2,378 1,551 4 Great 'Western .• • ...... ........ 16,484 14,974 3 Hull and Selby 2 Liverpool and Manchester •••• • • • . 5,036 4,473 3 London and Birmingham .••. • • • • . 18,895 17,991 4 London and Blackwall ••••• • • • • ... • • 1,217 977 3 London and Brighton .•. • . • • ...... 4,322 3,547 6 London and Croydon .•••• • • - • • . 1,221 466 - London and Greenwich . • ..... 855 2 London and South Western ......... 6,500 6,461 4 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 913 752 - Manchester and Birmingham........ - 3,750 3 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • 5,952 4,822 3 Midland Counties . 3 Newcastle and Darlington .......... 1,234 591 3 Newcastle and Carlisle .............. 1,6E4 1,349 4 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 417 319 2 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,477 1,308 5 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • 6,074 5,801 5 Paris and Rouen 3 Preston and Wyre.... • ... • 401 310 3 Sheffield and Manchester ...... 636 621 - South Eastern • . 3,847 3 Taff Vale Ulster . ....... .................... 553 4 Yarmouth and Norwich - 3 York and North Midland . •• • . 2,658 2,116 LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS , (THIS DAY.) (Before the LARD MAYOR, RECORDER, and ALDRRMRN.) These sessions whre held this day. There was a great deficiency of jurymen, both grand and petty. Of the former, four were fined 101. each ; of the latter, several were fined a similar sum, and as there were not a sufficient number to form a second jury, all above the first twelve were discharged from further attendance. JJenri England was indicted for an assault on John Walton. It appeared by the evidence, that the prosecutor went to some pre • mises belonging to him, and let to a person named &infield, who sold his business to the defendant. Prosecutor went to the house to get his rent, and found the place nearly stripped ; he was going to make a distraint, when defendant seized him by the collar, and threatened to throttle him. The goods were got away, and the key was kept for eight weeks afterwards. He had offered to settle on an apology, and the rent due at the time being paid. The RECORDER suggested to Mr. Wilde, defendant's counsel, that the plea of Not Guilty should be withdrawn, and defendant enter into a recognizance to appear for judgment next sessions. He considered, that under the circumstances, it would be much " cheaper" for the defendant. Mr. Wittig said, that after what had fallen from the Court, he had no hesitation in advising that course. Defendant was then found Guilty. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Recorder, and said, that as the Court of Queen's Bench had decided that appeals could not be heard at intermeuiate sessions, it was to be regretted some arrangement could not be made that the jury should not be called on, as they were now liable to be called eight times a year. The RECoRDER said that when the Magistrates of the City of London thought intermediate sessions unnecessary, he should feel happy to relieve them I but he did not see why there should not be intermediate sessions. It was so in other courts, and grave mat ters were tried. He thought, however, that it would be advisable to appoint appeals to be heard on the adjournment day of the Quar ter Sessions, when ,the list of cases for the jury was light, or a special day appointed, which would prevent the unnecessary and prolonged attendance of parish officers. The Grand Jury brought in several bills for assaults and mis demeanours, but the parties put in bail and traversed, and the court broke up. VAUXHALL GARDENS. Great preparations have been made for the re-opening of Vauxhall Gardens on Monday next. The new management proposes to reduce the price of re. freshments to the same scale as that adapted at respectabl e t averns. CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND AND NOR FOLK ISLAND. —The Naiad and Nymph steam.packets of the Wool. with Company brought down the river upwards of 280 convicts yesterday morning from Millbank Penitentiary, to be put on board the David Malcolm hired convict ship, lying off the Royal Arsenal. Burgess, who was sentenced to transportation for his connexion with the bank robbery of about 8,0001., the greater part of which was recovered, when taken in America; Dahlias, for the murder of a woman on Battersea.bridge ; and Tolzer, for a murdar in Rat • clitil.highway, are among the unfortunates, and will have to pass the remainder of their lives on Norfolk Island, one cf the severest penal settlements in New South Wales. The whole of the convicts brought down yesterday have been sentenced to transportation for crimes which call for the adoption of rigorous punishment, and they will all be sent to Norfolk Island; but it is expected a few will yet be received on board for conveyance to Van Diemen's Land. COLONEL SIBTHORP, 'M.P.—The gallant and inde fatigable representative for Lincoln (Colonel Sibthorp) has met with so severe an accident that he will not, in all probability, be able to attend the House of Commons for some time. On Saturday last, as he was entering or leaving his club house, he fell down the steps and fractured two or three of his ribs, and he is, we regret to hear, in rather a dangerous state.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. THE NEW DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. —Yesterday the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., the new Dean of Westmin ster, was installed into his new dignity in Westminster Abbey. Nearly the whole of the prebendaries were preeent. LITERATURE• SYBIL ; or 411 e TWO NATIONS. In By B. D'ISRAELI, M.P. A year has not elapsed since the author of " Coringsbv" announced the adve nt of " a new d better generation"—the dawn of brighter hopes, an feelings. His work was received v ith enthusiasTl toe his glowing thoughts found a rea d y echo in hearts of men, glad to turn from the g loomy preset?, to contemplate a bright futurity. " Coningsby became the idol of the hour. Its prais es were hardly exhausted, when the announcement o f a " new "rk' by Mr. D'lsraeli," aroused the eager expectation of his numerous admirers. It is not often that our hopes are destined to be fulfilled, but have been realised. I.l' h in this instance the most sanguine aoticipations moat Ili as rary reputation, " Sybil will add a brighter hurie to his wreath. Here he comes forward in the N u e , character of the champion of the poor. He hag ° T e l crated his brilliant talents to the sacred e 505- re truth—he has devoted his energies to the regeneine; tion of the people : in such a cause genius sb.ient is Mr. D'lsraeli 'e li_te,; with redoubled lustre—such a cause Is It to expose the state of parties— " ;to inspire great thoughts. " ConingsbY " s s," cae. scribes the condition of the peeple. Conim3sl.l._ was the novel of the season, a mirror ot t tii ° : political characters of the day--" Sybil" i S , t h e history of the age, a picture of the sufferngs° ore country. Perhaps " te'oningsby '' will afford,;, is amusement to the superficial reader, but “ le the not written to amuse—its object is not to Oldda and fancy, bat to touch the heart. He Must be ~ It stern indeed who can peruse this work unenoveffuerieg is no idle tale of fiction ; it is the voice of a su bi,torf Sybil ' ~ i t people calling upon their fellow-men --it is 4 il. the of the sorrows of the poor, drawn witballll the graces of a poet's fancy. Though nervous eloquence of truth, adorned 00, some of the political allusions, we diffe ri ,,, ng i r e the must 7 I w ore; generous spirit which animates the a r , l2 . ° „fidelitl , Scorning the narrow views of this " age ea 1- na tion 05 Mr. D'lsraeli looks upon the youth of th e , t - the re" the champions of the people's rights ar' be f sel' generators of their country. The cold bra fishness has not had time to " Freckle the genial current of their soul." t heir Their hearts are warm with kindly fee f lings gatelYs youthful ardour is not damped by advereg: a; tbel then, they will hear the voice of lamontatiovius, ja will exert all their intelligence, all their g e fee lings the cause of the oppressed. If such be th o _ e # a tune 11 of " Young England," then, indeed, is to" f hope proud title for the party, a source otori hope for their country. Sybil is the history big: tories are written in a style as two nations—the rich and the poor--alw differe" widely . , e At ilte as the nations themselves. In describing lu itee , tbd and follies of the rich, the political int pa eroW empty pageantry, the petty jealous,es, s od the ...a an a views that mark the character of the Prr ii w hich, great, D'lsraeli indulges in that quiet sarcasnot 00 1 he knows so well, barbs the dart of truth. si he tells of the sufferings of the poor, " A change comes o'er the spirit of the He is all feeling, all pathos ;heart be h e te lls 0 1 their sorrows till he melts the ;" be 01 their wrongs till he fires the , indignation ; ..... . 0, ti n forth the tenderest sympathies of our ~t iae L n u i deeote bids us " gently scan our brother ma n 1e follow d' dream." eau, tir all our energies to redeem the people. conversation between a proud IP f the 1 - al4 and a delegate of the peoe, the dative tins of rich and poor inmutual dependencysleatiaesi " ' I am not se clear about that,' said blink t he gr e et ` that is the very point at issue. Ido no tthi rests _ .7 m9jority are the best judges of their own inte r ests. of 0 19° all events, gentlemen, the respective advantareo a re der tocracy and democracy are a moot point. 4 .4 b e vi e a r; mocrats ; lam an aristocrat. My family ' l , WO A nobled for nearly three centuries ; they bore . le SW 66 Lord of peer ve ma ° i llbei name before their elevation. Tee ba • ' t 1 " 0. ato materially assisted in making England what it's' ha a t have shed their blood in many battles ~.• I hav e hall 01" ancestors killed in the command of o ur ideetdsc; not apErot. not underrate such services, even if r u t has ti ciate their conduct as statesmen, though. th . a,.. d. 'l' , been laborious and sometimes clisungula_yui ;04 finest trees in England were planted lef DIY fami l y' ; th'd raised several of your most beautiful char' a d coo . have built bridges, made roads, dug wino of se ,t 1: structed canals, and drained a marsh of $ lei; 00 of •is o( which bears our name to this day, and i t s ,.,. no 1 7• 0 11 talk. d aattnihodonsaaetniadnnvyoeunrrtalwtoena inventions won developed .. a : t. : , : nho :s ttivi la nt i r l . d ep :_ t met ; :, jos ; most flourishing portions of the eoun"„loventions 04.1. y o me u m o u r u pla r i t r a t i ee m n d, dustry. Our wars convert,d 1 tu ' i dustri „r o d : I li ' working classes of Winwhr — i . a . es vv;, bray have been if it had not" been kr' me that you are the deleg t cf he and their wars ?' ii 0 0 .‘ , My Lord,' said the delegate, 'it is w ee j e- " see' t ß hat you come from a great and hong u- ,„e in t tme ut the great question, which your Lordship '''7 ; tsoc e t duced, not us, is not to be decided by aWO Wb a " Your ancestors may have done great thi,a : g i t te d W a s wonder ! They were members of a very limited which had the monopoly of action. And t h h e T e r osy g el $ not they shed their blood in battle; though,._ l- ,lhip's rj , d e r commanded fleets less often than your •I' s- r ib A re - gl, tires ? And these mines and canals that Ye i , plant' 0 wyhosut r i v 001517;04 cavated and constructed, these woods you " v ia v o Pt., these waters you have drained—bad the PeoPres` t ors; in these creations ? What share in these.ge ice O m had that faculty of labour whose sacred cleld v et 0 7, urge, but which for centuries have been WI ! 000 S of contemptuous silence ? No, ray Lord , l',476sistef rf . o f to decide this question by the result. It% ei tere' s las of England have had for three centuries tn .. exerc ise . .. i power ; for the last century and a half thio_ nt they; - teen uncentrolled ; they form at this nionNespfiro. proeperous class that the history of the World s o f e oj coo as rich as the Roman senators, With Sou rces could stn nience and enjoyment which modern seieji or der 10" supply. All this is not denied. Your order s pectl e ro s before Europe the most gorgeous of exis tl ' beeecu a° ..4, though e you have of late years dexter clasa ° roil of the odium of your polity upon that only b e cause. b i • you despise, and who are despicable on n ly it , realicfry. Imitate you, your tenure of power is 0 0 ,!. 0 e athij e of paired. You govern us still with abs lII' and you govern the most miserable people e ° the Peet 1.1 the globe.' " tof S i i'. f 0 4 As might be expected, the condo e „en 4) . b yeehi not the subject of encomium ; be e s p olicy viblc r lot . " Minister, who has changed all et , ro ccoo a t and confidence all the same." were elected to support, but wile egieWieg s ieg i l) The ° be s *l e w ifch of the reception of a deputation 0 1 a1 11 A udi ° those who may be honoured Wie st " il ..--. the " gentleman in Downing-str : ',aid the world " ' And now for these deputatioo:„. in the ,^r obo u e man in Downing street, ' of all thioe' o uch ' the Pi' dislike a deputation. Ido not care bo w I w ork; ~ 0 0 rea l lion I To) in the Cabinet or the House; tha t ' s der l 0. • t chine is advanced. But receiving t l , , 0 prog ~f it tbe s/ a sham marching; an immense dust anu, lo af I "i st O P ' listen to their views! As if I did oh,b And to P o die view s were before they stated the while the/eel/Pi; countenance of respectful c andour ec ticab l ! g oat veloping their exploded or their ire,P r i pera",,, t i ee icet„ Were it not that at a practised also roy C ou , '' , f, see conviction slowly stealing o ver I cs ll3°° beal $ ( believe the fellows would never stoPi lea ve t_ i r eA , receive these deputations. I n'uswoing'stre' :i l l Hoaxem,' and the gentleman in Do gentlee°, i ' f his bell. d the t er 0) " ' Well, Mr. Hoaxera,' resume ~e rtar ir, Downing-street as that faithful flow" i to .dg' rs tato 7 f . f a ; ' there are some deputations, I and Iv 0 .0,0 r. bo a! r.. , very well, particularly if Yeu must receive them, as I am going t h r ough th l e etP liel ,i ' l " ' .1 have no doubt you will gel ! fran k an" 0 co if,' whe n you of t other . 1 that is the right line to take when ', ads of e he 4) T our own mind and to confuse the apiatighter ri , ,0 ., Sybil Gerard, the heroine, is the a. the " leaders of the people" of t hw f io , V at the tiTe o ., ol. e 0 i d 0, 9 Her character is the most beautiful:l; bright di ,k; enthusiasm and pure eirnplicity. 1 the Peq ie l:hi le °)." she had formed of the virtues of ,rienc e, . 00 04 4 pated by the stern lessons of Plcl:' the fig! ROO 3 prejudices she entertained ag'a!e s . ; eoo . e , " e or he f give way to the calmer dictates 01 rY_, 9 0a Pa Ati ty 4 3 that no State is perfect in itself; r.e,':. is th, e u s d t alike their faults and virtues, spa tolled,i'une to I e ' those who are most favoured by liken il ‘ee li 0 4 way to peace and happiness. At a 3 be tte ,4 ; oj lt 3 sent, when the faint indications 0 .0 ten d 1 : , t f 7 1 ma , w itP and feed the flame," and call forth re rss , .....- ; are manifest, a work such as this ol c i n i ir tt irlle s ;hi AP and universal. We subjoin the . n e v iol` • _ e i, Al Mr. D'lsraeli concludes this interest! .!stneee pop di " In an age of political infidelita.'- e_ t rese ed I ti ed , T r _ and petty thoughts, I would hav ill a rigl: be e neg rising race not to despair, but s e eko n... snd iii :be 1 standing of the history of their cou i ,F o Y at ictial `Y, L ee t, a' .t a gies a heroic youth, the elements e i l ii r ti the pre s i fet ei. e, , it is youth that alone can mould t , for t ' - t he (714 1"It is the past alone that can exl 1 ie fel se h tl e l Do t ;I ti , The written history of our ry e ,, t oo, ill ,. to __ ie . $ _ reigns has been a mere phantasina, given 07chsrsltate nsaCt.lootheir Ili and consequence of public tra . wi th . wog a colour in every respect dissimilar mystery f at tor y e form and hue. In this mighty mi_ s a t itle eeea as and things have assumed au aspct 7 it he s L he r i ste eed e their real quality and style. 01/g,ere, en C ll _ t itle . Liberty; an exclusive Priesthood has t . lie ebec h 1 Wel red tfult L . National Church ; Sovereignty hes. w hile, ,se% dot(' t. lll° T ro fes9 tf . g o f 1. 0 4 • something that has had no power has been wielded by those vi'm , Sc furt if In the the servants of the People. Lions two great existences have been _ d t he 4'' . ._ e pfi t e history of England—the Monarch.e;i9bed, lengthto i i e, as the power of the Crown has 0 ; di til till atbeyc ; leges of the People have disappcarie,ts s,hject A4l sceptre has become a pageant, an . 1 n oes tore pe ep L'' nerated again into a serf. land On es P` IP " That we may live to see L o . os per° 0 ov ly 1 0 a free monarchy and a privileged all" I,,, c es ca or .. i o 4 , i 4 is my prayer; that these great conecluo' brought about by the energy and d e - Xe rj o ° l f ° °6 - e . .iil t. : 103 ) i is my persuasion. We live in an age ‘ ,. er e yne; l i, 00, 9 and to be indifferent can be no 101)g Vie elf 0 ALP We must prepare for the coaling h°llooii the future are represented by sufferingoverii youth of a nation are the trustees a p 3 Vol'. ion s ; itf•