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~~v lad. S.S4 f9r d igoucie ' non itlia , 630" d , 19“ 301 V' VS 01 3.5 t .t: • AI 30. " FP' 52' t° 541 t. ). # 00. o to 0 • ISgt .0%0 Ot. Pig' • 35 1 good g ees„ d iel e st 11) e; iay . .„iw ,'" a 11, S. 1 g 6 s filo 3 4 5 6 a s 5 5 s• bee bos to r ost !Jed t° trAi i Pr j r is ,nd is of 15 0 ri° spa is 11 , pre( l o4 ur a r:io, ver li s i , e t test tla Pt' Pe' 4 ." 9 11 /' Ss., 0 ooe' 511Y -- '0 F' ars °l3' ;st 1111 a las; #11) , ;, 5 ' 0 01 1/ 1 ,51b, 'o 6° . a 1 , 0 1 per, .tP" S -4 ;0 5 130 t b o e t il l t 1(1 5 ';47, ble' TV ,nd _ i f , ro69aell' 1 , fi er) .„, 5 d p- n o ,g" SUMMARY OF NE'. S 1 A N D iktbitt eptuton. " Who runs may read." POIMIGA.V. The Prince de Joinville arrived at Brest about (tight in the ti e l. e . ni ng of Monday, and went to the residence of the Mari- LL , l T . Prefect. lie declined all formal reception. th f e , Dillon, the French Consul at Newcastle, has written to o Mmissaire-General of Havre, to say, that " in conse an;lee of the turn-out of the colliers in the north of Eng to LcNorthumberland and Durham), there is every reason tat rheVe that, for the next month or five weeks, all expor ti. ° II of coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, Stockton, Har -0,01, Seaha m , an d Bl yt h, mus t b e o f n ecessity suspended. ki"illon prays hi m t o c o m municate this fact to the mann ircrs of his a rron di ssemen t." sat lieros, th e assassin of Mme. Sdnepart, was execu t e d on of : r daT morning at the Barriere Saint-Jacques, in presence w. ,2 1 immense multitude. Ile die'i very penitent. His last a `, e '“IR to the Abbe M on th s , w h o w a s with him, were—" tThe 41 7 Pour fath of " er. i uastellano Madrid states that Father Fulgencio s t o 3 u lll e to France, on a secret mission, which the Infanta " 18 a Carlota confided to him in her last moments. t i,:rt adrid letter of the 13th informs us that the condemna , 2o M f the Deputies who are in prison in Madrid is fully ex . d. but that the Government intends to mitigate the t t lice• The determination to try these gentlemen by a • ex c. , 1. 7 commission is censured by all persons in the capital h im Pt the friends and adherents of Ministers, and a strong tl l „ l.eBBlo h.prevailed that it was res , dyed beforehand to find guilty, whatever proof they might offer of their in • —e lle , , f rom ..(I,trespondent of the Universal German Gazette writes In G Vienna on the 10th instant :—" Letters from Tarnopol, hit vm • ali cia, state that a child belonging to a Christian family • Itei, — „g,disappeared, the people believed that it had been P tt aX the Jews, and made a sacrifice at their Feast of the liiit7. v er• Violent attacks were made upon the Israelites, : fe ca l" ' 4 'as shortly after made known that the child, having tefr t , ve t correction from its parents,lad run away, and taken , ke e In a neighbouring village, where it was found alive hi - o Yourrier Francais says—" We have been assured that 1 / 44 T ration of the riht of search is arranged with Englnd, !te„9 l t the Ministry of October 29 keeps the news n a ve Nil:Apr(ler to make use of it in case of urgency. Accord treat; 4 18 arrangement, France is to be at liberty to let the Va rr i e H arall into disuetude, by abstaining from renewing the ts of the cruisers." Officio/ Gazette of Warsaw publishes an imperial eti? dated the 12th ult., withdrawing the Polish Five per Stock%f!om circulation, and giving to the holders of that Cent s ue option of having them converted into Four per • N l* , or of taking their nominal value in money. Arrange • el l th ° for this reimbursement or conversion, to be commenced e 4 th bast., were made at the Bank of Poland and the .e ritry. p k i n ,, e ‘ Police, havitig received information that a house- Ja z : , Who was condemned to five years' imprisonment in kldi r Y , 18 40, as an accomplice in the attempts of the 13th Ds.,,,'ltth May 1830 but who had escaped from the central rv,„„ ... n. it Doullens and got over to England, had returned to rice, 'instantly'endeavoured to discover his hiding-place, `eCaptured him in the morning of the 14th inst. at Sevres. IVCISCEL GANEOUS. The Orange organ, the Dublin Evening Mail, says a report . V ails that it is not the intention of the Attorney-General moist on sentence being passed on O'Connell and others, (pp, event of the Court pronouncing judgment, until Mr. ofrunell's threatened writ of error shall have been disposed w ou l,a.Ppeal to the House of Lords ; but adds, that as this e " a violation of all rule and principle—an abandon ilt, in fact, of the whole proceedings—they can scarcely 1 1 , 1 1 ' 1 , 11 ° se such a thing to be in contemplation." There appears, to be some truth in the report, as will be seen from r t o F ( 'eeedings in the Queen's Bench on Saturday. ih or :s the i ntent i on o f t h e L an d C omm i ss i on t o p resen t a b li w. r ei 3 ort this session, and on the return of its members to Th ul, steps will be taken for preparing the documer4. • I to iZe annual dinner of the Royal Agricultural Society of in.g; n. A a took place in the hotel at Salt-hill on Thursday even "mongst those present were his Grace the Duke of ottlit3,:er, the Earl of Charlemont, the High Sheriff, and many thet ull i o 4 to sZial train was left at their disposal to re-convey e r umoured dismissal of Mr. Stipendiary Grey is con re{;;7, the Government, or, rather, Colonel M'Gregor, who ICtp k 4 ,to sanction a system which would degrade the police With Les, deserves credit for the promptitude S and energy rairk'ich the case of the poor printers was taken up and It t aut. r t b says that Mr. G. E. Anson (the private secretary ,t e iat i ee'V a l Highness Prince Albert) will shortly be ap :qa3ric.to the situation of private secretary to the Queen. It tl i p,• ° ‘be generally known that the Baroness Lehzen acted Perim e aParity in the household of the Sovereign up to the A beliefair retirement, now about eighteen months ago. Clit4prevails in the best informed quarters that the b ode eell or e t of the Exchequer, when he brings forward the 40 4 (itMon y da next, will propose a considerable reduc totputiticassuar duties. from Birmingham, Bristol, Hull, Plymouth, I Nt i : tr ,! , and Southampton, had an interview, by appoi f Sir James Graham, at half-past two . o' clock this ' ° l 4 ev ° ' e Purpose of making such representations as they ti-,;uutice him to exempt all parishes having Local cra e i,," `earliament from the operation of the Poor-law 'uncut Act. 'lli t IRISH STATE TRIALS. - - 61 341 , °F QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN, SATURDAY. C ATION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO i jt tv ; PO STPONE THE NEW TRIAL MOTION. 7, ati ",r i tY minutes past three the ATTORNEY -GENERAL aPplied to the Court that the motion for a new q ‘ keet, ' e ll Stood for Monday next, should be postponed, in- Lttliti ,P he had conceived it to be his duty to cause the • I;' , aii i - et wae Peace to be served with a notice, setting forth th 4 e a of th a rges in the affidavits of the traversers, as to the r . th e names of the jurors, in order to ascertain whe hi a IN - OW(1 swear affidavits in reply, and calling upon ofkthq s :'swer by twelve o'clock to-day. To that notice e. tld„d „ ".t - °rltey-(`„eneral) had received no answer ; and e-0, deChice as the filin of affidavits on the part Vitt f ."'n in id to reply until he g ascertained whether the vita o the peace had answered the statements in the affi -41.„)' tot. tute e t us t ., t ite CriAsirroN (who seemed not to understand the "”1. '''' , eneral) said—Have not the affidavits yet been Jtiatice PErtnnr—The' Attorney-General does not allude b ee e ,4,_""-tny's affidavit. 41eCt„ttNEY-GENERAL—Mr.. Alahony's affidavit has . 4,%,,- , llsti _We received a copy of it yesterday morning.. 11 0 Le BunTox—Can the motion come on on Tuesday e ''dine , Clerk of the Crown, read the order of the last di k i l -k o V n e motion for Monday next. Pgee lt t's, Q.C., suggested that the order should be iipay }„.getierall and the notice stand in the list without rit, s lt3 fixed - (.IL-when the Attorney-General had the dik is t 011 1 / 4 u , to give twenty .four hours notice. foe - the new trial motion on as then - "tit 0 at d stands generally on the list—theAttorney g've twenty-four hours' notice. „_ aw., l , q 1,,, -.lob. ,00 , , "s have made their appearance, and the q •klte e has been heard in various parts of the country. 41 a P ITMEN' S s A Correspondent at Sun t,e „ writ 71111". :rik t „P" --- ” During the present week, notwithstanding Il e l i s hay, is "' the pitmen, several hundreds of chaldrons of tl l ,l l ray ueen conveyed down the Durham and Sunderland 11, t ' ( lree s fe h r a 8 v hiPment at Sunderland. A great number of re atk oa n ail e also been conveyed by the Lambton and lei, es, ~, w aYs for shipment in the Wear, so that the coal ite'; an 7 Yet, are not likely to be affected with short sup -lageict,7 , ° ; ! f orescarcity is felt it is to be hoped the (s asi etestrnen will return to their work."—Durhanz A . d. ,$ )1 , 12 11 ( 1,* \ WELCOME Visrroa.--=Yesterday morning es West i.eonsiderable alarm was occasioned in various parts t•'Ded t l s i nster, by the appearance of a cow, which had st Qtl ' s Y - road r°lll _ i t,s owners in the neighbourhood of the Horse er), dri ve ,. fla which, being followed by a crowd of boys, 4,0 4t te : to madness, indiscriminately attacking all . those 4 4 et on :lited to oppose its course. Through gross miscon- N efirl s . tw "l_o part of those persons who had it in charge, for e r .. 4 it s " hours did the wretched animal attempt to out ..s.le p,,„P,ursuers, visiting in turn all the principal streets t 7ae a Ll' i _ e inall to Tothill-street. About twelve o'clock the h e lvard, t u h n nearly exhausted, ran down Parliament-street le e ,e les s ~,e Treasury, at which time there could not have tli a g i - i '„" a n 2 ,000 TILE OJIBIpWAY INDIANS.--In consequence of the persons following it, shouting and hal- British Swimming Society having promised w a &st ilt- Door 17 Manner truly diegraceeul A vo idi n g Whitehall class silver medal to the best swimmer of these celebrated e - 1;: e "r - dsZ a8 ,, a t t t e ur o n f ecl i shortTinto Priy . y-gardens, and finding Indians, d the swimming baths in High Holhorn, kept by Mr. e t th i4ll netilat 1 tie Premier (SF Robert Peel4an_ding H e gman were crowded with private visitors and that gen t', a tte e y took refuge therein, to the no small alarm tleman's friends. ' A . t twelve o'clock the omnibus, with three I. s t , t 14 ndants in the hall. The gates were instantly of the Indians outside, and the squaws, accompanied by Mr. l eilte rea Y those who followed, and one or t w o of the most Anderson, arrived, as also Mr. Harold he . nwor . thys ll the rile 114g, a nt ine, who were provided with ropes, scaled the rail- known swimmer. In the rear of the omnibus,n , l fu co um Ine, e , attempted to Secure the animal. In this they were and on horseback, were " We-nish-ka-weri-bee' (the Flying k i t ee e e t s ' "ul , „ ' for, impatient of confinement, the cow, after a Gull), and " Sah-ma" (Tobacco), with Mr.. Green, their had he r he r - ,,r a a v lts . e, cleared the gate at a bound, and again pur e, Pre e ,- towards Charing-cross. Before, however, she medical adviser, w d ho w l h ia o s , o a a tte t n h d is ed oce t as hr oa, s a in u e g e ge t a h t e e y d have a 0 been in London, an ,l if Zse f a erd many yards, a butcher contrived to cast the the temperature of the water should be raised to 85 . degrees. e,-.Leelty she coil of rope over her horns, and with some Flying Gull and Tobacco were selected as competitors, the e 44 e f ast i s e Was drawn up against the railings, and ultimately the trial of- skill e l'ot, st74's Several other cows were then brought to the rest of the party being seated to witness in. .t, lt leae ou t io Poor animal, who had seriously injured itself in and the squaws being accommodated . an , int!rior , room. While the two Indians were divesting themsen a e a s o o f t. l e e e(lie t; a ri ng to break away from the - railings, was led, their costume, Mr. Kenworthy went through t _ti 0 8 t han t 7( ahnost exhausted, homewards. There were no t a ith, scientific feats, which excited the applause of thirty policemen among those in pursuit, and they and spectators. At a signal the Indians jumped srt44aFratest difficulty in keeping the crowd out of danger. bath, and, on a pistol. being discharged, they struck , out and series tii ap t , " e 'Y no accident of, importance occurred. he into the th e eer '" l n POSTMASTERS.—We perceive that a en h sw al ar a to the u other h en e d izly a in d g. is G ta u i l i l ce wa o s f 120 feet,.in b less than y where p 3 0ti t :0 be given at the Freemasons"ravern on Tuesday, feet. They swam back again to the starting pla . ce, et sat e httr i ::' , t to celebrate the formation of the Job . and Flying Gull was a second time the victor. Their style of t)f e Ri te , ) Coach Proprietors, Horse Dealers, and Livery- swimming is totally . un-European. .They lash the water Lop est i era of England Provident Fund. A large number violently with their arms, like the sails . of a . windmill, y ep and respectablof these severalhave beat downwards with their feet, blowing with force, and g ri . Iltt erhy . e men ' t "it' fr o ,' n uned by the decline of the posting business, forming grotesque antics. They then dived from one end of_ e t tete Nitn li the rapid increase of railways and a variety of the bath to the other with the rapidity of an arrow, and t e ' t efere tea o'er which they had no control; we have, almost as straight a tension of limb. They afterwards entered P t hi . , :niu , eh Plaksure in calling the attention of the public the lists with Mr. Kenworthy, who is accounted one of the eie e , lt. eel),ent society, which is deserving of every eneou- best swimmers in England, and who beat . them . with the I,!trre po „, The chair is to be taken by the Hon. 31r. P. S. greatest ease. The Indians then remade their toilet, and the i l s ii klie aolic i" : The President of the Society is the Duke of whole party were shown round the extensive establishment, 1 , 2 1 es o f t i i and, amongst the Vice-Presidents, we find the at which they expressed great wonder. The medal will be f i Ti. ef ~, e Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl Manvers, the presented to Flying Gull in the course of the week.. Mr. /lA% t rtn, the Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Penis liedgrean then conducted them to take refreshment . in the n ie rrepe n e S. Pierrepont, the Right Hon. H. M. rem with the ;squaws, and after partaking of wine and ...nell arn ~, Lord Worslev, Sir John Tvrell, Bart, Sir Bel- biscuits, they returned in the omnibus to the Egyptian Hall. per othekl.rahain, Bait, H. Handley, hag., M.P., and se- in time to resume the exhibition. rider sue , gentlemen of sporting or . ' agricultural celebrity. ST. Psues —Yesterday being the first Sunday in -oFi, ty 21. di stinguished patronage we should hope that the Easter term, the judges attended divine service at St. Paul's eJect to '''!n, not but succeed in carrying out the benevolent Cathedral. Shortly after 2 o'clock the Lord Chief Justice of A . me _fullest extent. the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common 414 I„nquest was held on Saturday at the Carlisle Pleas, Mr. Baron Gurney, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice „ged 46'4, 4 th - street, Soho, on the body of Gustave Boudry, Erskine, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Cresswell, `ll 4ll exte na ! ive of Switzerland, and who formerly carried assembled at the Judges' Chambers, Sergeants' Inn, where I l se d e , a ;nsfve business as a watchmaker in Frith s ktreet. they were joined by several sergeants-at-law. A little before ar r . as. ,e ed for some time had been under pecuniarY em- 3 o'clock the City Marshal arrived on horseback to announce r . lii c i, out , which appeared to prey upon his mind, and that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor had left the Mansion Atzji.;",",Olibt, induced him to terminate his existence by House for the purpose of meeting their Lordships at St. `etel, te li nunself. About three ears ago the deceased at- Paul's. The judges then entered their carriages andin•o -:,,d f _ r to . . s-ommit suicide by cutting his throat. A wife ceeded to the cathedral, where, having first joined the Lord etu,,n_L. children are left destitute by the event. The jury Blayor and the Bishop of London in the vestry, they subse- A •g n en 4 'verdict of Insanity. quently proceeded into the choir in the following or der :—The lalewl 3 i l , n qUest Mayor, Lord Denman, 13 y ' l Pital, on the Body was held on Saturday at St. Bartholo- City . Mace and Swordbearers, the Lord and the other judges according to precedence. The Sheriffs ee.l ) (t ea l the so , y of William Henry Triptee, aged Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Challis, and a large of a silk-weaver, who was killed by the for London and . . _o l.a p pericihi is hre,aTal.letrd, iodf No a . p 2 p 2 ea , r T t r h ee:- t c 3 o l u r r . t T , a l rn 'em er p w le aa , passing body of Common Councilmen were also in attendance. The , i keee t .,Y o 'A the time not sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The ea ; and that gentleman said he was not thedral was very_ much crowded. , :he ue _, Lne melancholy occurrence until hi s ca b wa„topped. F onsiG N c)imusE.—lt appears by a Parliamentary t v ettij ' e l , dent occurred near Bow Church. The jury r4urned return, just issued, that the quantity of European cheese e vere t ht n of,. Accidental death. Mr. Tiirner promised to do imported into this couutry intli Its thin the family that their circumstances demanded. was 136,998 cwt. ; from the United America, 42,3 eygtaate eanodfed Jan . 5, 1844, 12 the to 41111 .1estY the Emperor of Austria will go in cwt.; from British possessions, 79 cwt. Total, in the year, ho ut B e of this * t • pou r T • month to the L tto land • ' , es Trieste • era e, especially On Friday last, . Lord Morpeth presided at the t. pc , rt 179,389 cwt. 1 1ust r - el Intended changes in the present clivueo — n and meeting of the Wbarfdale Agricultural Society, at Otley, ti cll Of thq , Pait of theiln ' i . wllich, nowever,is only a :1197 feT cattle and i4Oraee, pu:e _ THE SUN, LONDON, CRITICAL STATE OF CUBA. (From the Anti-Slavery Reporter.) The intelligence from Cuba, brought by the last mail, is ore of the deepest interest ; and, while it is calculated, on the one hand, to awaken sympathy for the suffering negroes, is not less calculated, on the other, to inspire animating hopes of some salutary change. It appears that the alarm excited by the two insurrections of the slaves in the neigls bourhood of Matanzas, in November last, - has induced a course of extreme severity, not only towards the parties known to have been im plicated, but towards the negroes in general. The Government and planters have made ex tensive and rigorous inquiries, with a view to ascer tain whether any concert existed among the slaves, and, if so, to what objects it was directed; and it is said that a negress on one of the five sugar estates which followed the movement of the Triumvirato (the sugar estate on which the revolt commenced) has re vealed to her master what in the letters is called " a dreadful plot." In consequence of this there have been arrested a large number of negroes, together with three white. men, the latter of whom were put in prison at Matanzas. More than fifteen hundred slaves were summoned, in order to witness the execution of sixteen of their companions, with the view of inspiring terror ; but it is stated that these men went to their death with such an air of intrepidity and triumph, that the effect pro duced on the spectators was the opposite of that which was intended. From this it has resulted that the Government has refrained from further public execu tions, and has rather given the negroes over in a mass to be punished by their masters at pleasure, and with as little noise as possible. The consequence of such a measure may well he imagined, and yet imagination must fail to realise it. The resentment of the planters, aggravated by their fears, is without bounds, and murderous cruelties are practised without scruple on every hand. Many slaves have already died under the lash, and the whole island is said to be deluged with blood. The investigations of the Government have elicited the fact that four or five large estates between Gullies and Melena had been implicated in the plot said to have been discovered. From the uniform declarations of the negroes, it appears that the opinion has spread among them that they either are free or ought to be so. Some are persuaded that the Queen of Spain has sent out two cartas to the Governor, giving them their freedom ; some have been told that they are free, as having been imported since 1820, and therefore con trary to the treaty with England; and some have arrived at the noble sentiment that they ought to be free, because they are men as well as their masters. No doubt can be entertained that the emancipation of the slaves in the British islands has become the primary source from which these ideas have ema nated ; and the prevalence of them among the slaves in Cuba demonstrates at once the impossibility of pre venting their diffusion, and the impossibility likewise of preventing their influence wherever they are dif fused. They are now permanent elements in the condition of Cuba, of a far more serious kind than have ever yet impregnated the community. Several free negroes are reported to have been implicated in the plot, and its object is said to have been known by all the negroes in the country. The destruction of so many slaves, while it must inflict on the planters a heavy loss of property, must at the same time greatly reduce the amount of labour available for the cultivation of the estates, and on this account it might be supposed that the de mand for fresh ones would be increased. The alarm felt by the planters may, consequently, be measured by the fact that they will not add to the number of their slaves. In the midst of this excite ment the brig Palmyra has arrived from Africa with a cargo of slaves, belonging to the notorious Pedro Blanco, to the number of eleven hundred and four, and not one of them can find a purchaser. Five hun dred of them are in a baracoon near Havannah, where they cannot be sold; and five hundred are distri buted among some of his friends, who are to have their labour for their keep. In one word, consterna tion reigns in Cuba. Already a reduced crop of sugar is anticipated, and the value of real property is reduced almost to zero. The Captain-General does not dare either to disseminate his troops or to allow the organisation of local militias. He has con tented himself with purchasing several hundred iron chains for .the feet, and distributing them among the plantations In their distress, the immediate and most urgent cry of the planters is, " Stop the slave trade ; bring us no more negroes !" But to this the Captain-General will lend no ear. The petitions on this subject, of which our readers have already heard, were got up and presented to him by men of the first rank and in fluence, some of them nobles of Spain ; but he re ceived them with the most repulsive discourtesy. It seems that a political feeling is artfully connected with this subject ; and that the Government chooses to suspect all who object to the slave trade of dis affection to Spain, and a desire after the political in dependence of Cuba. The real reason, however, why even the present calamities cannot inter rupt the slave trade is, that it yields such immense wealth to the functionaries who possess the govern ment, and who are largely bribed by half-a-dozen desperate speculators to connive at its continuance. Another circumstance indicates the infatuation of the Government. Amidst the state of things we have faintly described, the Court abandons itself en tirely to pleasure. Grand balls and splendid amutc ments are the order of the day. The city of Havannah is represented as " mad with rejoicing," in order to celebrate the arrival of the young Queen of Spain at her majority ! And to crown this melancholy business with an element almost too farcical for the connection in which we are obliged to place it, the Government of Spain has sent out a royal order, constituting five per sons into a Committee, to investigate the truth of the allegations made by the English Government as to the continuance of the slave trade, and " if existing (!), to check it by suitable restrictions, not inimical to commerce and agriculture." Of this Committee the Captain-General is President ; and the other parties named are Don Joaquim Gomez, the Marquis de las Delicias (well-known partisans of the slave trade), Don Juan Montalue, the Count de Vervandina, Don Rafael de Quesada, brother to the celebrateil General Quesada, and the Marquis de Donadieu. No doubt the British Consul at Havannah will give a good ac count of these proceedings to his Government. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 19.—The Patriote publishes the follow ing statement :—" A letter from Guatemala informs us that the spiritual head of the colony, Father Walle, had just re signed ; he has embarked with the French Consul, and re turns to Europe." We believe we may affirm that Father Walle returns to Europe on business concerning his order, which will probably oblige him to go to Rome, and that he has not had any occasion to resign his post. The Minister publishes in ten columns a report on the colony of St. Thomas, in Guatemala, describing the climate, the soil, the natural productions, &c. The report is on the whole very satisfactory. NATIONAL ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY OF EXETER HALL AND MARK-LANE.—rThe officers of the above Society have exerted themselves much during the Easter holidays; they having prosecuted no less than twelve cases of wanton cruelty at Stepney and Greenwich fairs, all of whom were Severally fined from five to ten shillings. DAWSON'S PARLIAMENTARY AND NEWSPAPER LIST. —Messrs. Dawson and Son, of Cannon-street, have published a list of all the newspapers in the United Kingdom, distin guishing the party bias ef each by a certain colour. This list contains a great deal of very valuable information relating to newspaper statistics, - and must be necessarily of consider able utility to all who, at any time, have occasion to ad vertise. RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists, named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robert Wild, and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House of Correction on Thursday last, about four months before the expiration of the term of their imprisonment. These parties were tried before Lord Abinger, at the Chester Assizes, 1842, on charges of seditidn, &c., arising out of the part they took at various meetings near Hyde during the great turn-out of factory operatives. ART- Umems.—On Saturday evening a meeting of the Society of British Artists was held at theSociety's-rolime, in Suffolk street, for the purpose of discussing the recent Treasury minute declaring Art-Unions to be illegal. The meeting was attended by several of the first artists in town. After a great deal of conversation, Mr. J. W. Allen, the Vice-President of the British Artists Society, moved a re solution to the effect that a general meeting of the profession be called, for the purpose of inviting the Committee of the Royal Academy, the two Water-colour Associations, and that of the Art-Union to a conference upon the best means to be adopted for the protection of an Union which, in its exist ence of eight years, had conferred acknowledged benefits on the arts and artists of this great country. The resolution was carried unanimously. Ten thousand out-pensioners of Chelsea College, whose ages are not to exceed 58 years, are to be mustered on the 25th of the present month, for the purpose of enrol ment, and being hereafter called out as a local torce in their respective districts, when required for the preservation of the public peace. Agreeably to the provisions of the war want regulating the organisation of this auxiliary force, which was published in our Gazette of the ith of October lest, each man i 3 to receive two shillings per diem, on producing certain prescribed articles of clothing, and to be completed in arms and accoutrements, as far as may be prac ticable by the 25th inst. He is to be called out for exercise eight days within the year, and to receive for each of those days the sum of two shillings; but when called out to assist in preserving the public peace, he is to receive two shillings and sixpence per diem.—United Service Gazette. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. — There is prodigious com petition, we are informed, among our sculptors for shares in the allotment of the additional 10,0001. for statuary to adorn the Royal Exchange Noticing which, we would inquire if the City Wellington Statue, now complete in the studio of the late Sir F. Chantrey, is to be placed, as it ought to be, on its pedestal in this locality, on the 18th ofJune, the anni versary of Waterko ?—Literary Gazette. • What disorder excites the greatest compassion.?— b Th re li e a S b m: all-pox ; for the patient is generally much pitted. INDIAN n N b . e — r m F e toafve just iterevtread in ord L in o a n r d y on b b e y as t t h s e , Birmingham Rail wa y. It is stated by competent judges that they are the finest both in quality and form that have as yet been seen in this country. They have been consigned to her _Majesty's purveyor, Mr. Giblet; of Bond-street. BANK OF ENGLAND CHARTER. The time is drawing near when Sir Robert Peel must break his protracted silence respecting the mea sures to be proposed to Parliament, in connection With the approaching expiration of the Charter of the Bank of England. If the rules which the Prime Minister prescribes for others could for a moment be supposed applicable to himself, we might wonder that the declaration of his intentions on a subject of such magnitude should be so long deferred. He has recently, in une quivocal language, stated to the House of Com mons what he thinks of those who delay the dis cussion of important measures till the concluding months of the session of Parliament.. If the repre sentatives of Ireland pray for a few days longer to confer with their countrymen on a proposition which is to convert their national representation into an engine thr registering the edicts of the Orange landed proprietary, he gives a grumbling acqui escence, but under protest, and with an express stipulation that no one shall hold him respon sible for whatever may be the consequence of such blameable procrastination. But it would seem that in his judgment delay is an evil only when it is to be employed in deliberation ; when his purposes have been made known, he deems it im possible that the nation should require any length of time for the consideration of them. But he in variably reserves the declaration of those purposes to the latest possible moment. It is becoming the practice of the Government to have only one of its measures before the public at a time, withholding, if possible, until that one is out of danger, or re jected, or withdrawn, all knowledge of those which are to follow. The Bank Charter question has not taken the Government by surprise. Since the last renewal, in 1833, it has been known to every one that this year, if not sooner, would be the time to legislate on the subject. Having ample time to prepare, Minis ters accordingly gave early note of preparation. The settlement of the Currency was among the promises in the Queen's Speech ; and, certainly, those promises were neither so many nor so brilliant as to account for any tardiness in determining how they were to be fulfilled. If the Ministers had not made up their mind, during the recess, what measure they should submit to Parliament on this i-übject, they must be incapable of making it up, on reasonable grounds, at all; and if they had, what prevented them from at once introducing their Bill, that its principles and provisions might have been canvassed, by competent persons, during the ten weeks, and upwards that have since elapsed, and the minds of Parliament and the public prepared for an adequate discussion, before the month of June, when, as Sir Robert Peel tells us, it becomes a question wkat portion of the Governmant measures the Go vernment intends to abandon ? - Instead of this, Ministers have maintained that perfect silence which they seem to regard as characteristic of statesmanship ; and we do not believe that there is one, even of their Parliamentary supporters, , who can surmise, on just ground, what their pro position will be. The time, however, is past when , Sir Robert Peel's silence was supposed, even by his own party, to conceal some great mystery of State craft. He profited by this delusion while he could ; but, like most of the prestiges on which he subsisted while out of place, it did not survive a year after his accession to office. Most persons are now convinced that when he says nothing, he has nothing very valuable to say; that, as was formerly observed of another political character, when he shakes his head, there is nothing in it. From the remarkable absence of interest, and even of curiosity, which prevails in almost all quar ters concerning the promised measure—a state of the public mind so unlike that which has so often before been experienced on similar subjects—it may be inferred that, in the opinion of the public, Ministers are not likely to propose any material alteration in what exists ; but will renew the Charter of the Bank of England, on its present footing, without extension, but also without curtailment, of any of its exclusive privileges. This conjecture is doubtless a very probable one. That a Minister will do nothing at all, when not urged to action by some powerful pressure, is generally a safe enough guess. But still this is only a presumption, and sometimes fails. What a Minister will never voluntarily do, is to move in any direction that conflicts with the inte rests on which he relies for support. But where none of these interests are implicated, the habitual disposition of official men to leave things alone alternates, especially since the Reform Bill, with a rather strong occasional inclination to signalise themselves by meddling. One of the principal effects of that memorable measure, and of the general break-up of old ideas and associations which accom panied it, was to diffuse a notion much more wideiy than ever before, that the business of a Government was not to sit still and receive the taxes, but to look out in all directions for all means which could be discovered of conferring benefit on the community. The demand for improvement, and the spirit of it, have been in far more active operation upon the minds of rulers in the last eight or ten years than formerly. But as the circumstances which stimulated the desire for improved legislation could not all at once confer the capacity of it upon men who had been occupied all their lives with any kind of objects and ideas rather than those which Would have qualified them for such a function, they are apt to come to their new task with minds rather ill prepared; and the very men who, when their purpose is to maintain things unaltered, hare at their fingers'-ends all the common places deprecatory of " speculative changes," are often found, when they think the time is come for being reformers, to be ready, dupes of the ~crudest and most superficial theories. We confess that in the case which has led us into this line of remark, our fears are chiefly of this latter kind. The present system if it can be so called, of the currency is, doubtless, far from perfect, as is implied in the fact, that it is a medley of several sys sems, foundecron conflicting principles. But we be lieve that the amount of practical evil fairly attri butable to its defects has been enormously exaggerated by most writers on the subject; while we con fidently affirm, that no theory which has been pro pounded for its improvement is sufficiently matured, or has obtained that general sanction from the opinion of those who are entitled to be considered authorities, which would justify Parliament in making any considerable changes on the faith of such a theory. Yet we feel by no means certain that some attempt of this nature will not, on the present occa sion, be made. If there is at present no strong direc tion of public sentiment in favour of such changes, neither is there any strong disinclination to them ; while, such is the diversity of individual opinion on the subject, and so much that is plausible may be said in favour of almost every view, that scarcely any plan could be proposed of which, if brought forward by Government, it could be affirmed beforehand to be im possible that a considerable section of the mercantile ' public might be induced to give it their support. — Chronicle. MONDAY APRIL 29, Je44 VISIT of PRINCE ALBERT TO THE NE W HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. On Saturday afternoon, his Royal. Highness Prince Albert left Gwydyr House, Vt'hitehall, where the Commissioners of Fine Arts, of which his Royal Highness is chairman, sits, and proceeded to the new Houses of Parliament. The Prince was accompanied by Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, • Mr. Gaily Knight, Mr. Hallain, and Mr. Wyse, members of the Commission. Upon his Royal Highness's arrival, he was. received by Mr. Barry, the architect, and Mr. Gri The visit was understood to be a formal one, sug gested for the purpose of ascertaining the progress made in the erection of the new Houses of Legisla ture ; and by inspection of-the various compartments to form an opinion as to which of them were best suited for the displaying of frescos, statues, sand other works of art. His Royal Highness and the other Commissioners first proceeded to the terrace, and inspected the eleva tion of the river front, and the carvings thereon ; after which they directed their steps to the Victoria Tower, which is now thirty feet high. Subsequently to inspecting this tower, the majestic beauty of which called forth the admiration of the Prince, the party proceeded up a temporary staircase, erected where the grand staircase will be, which her Majesty will ascend on the occasion of the opening of Parliament, to the guard-room, and from thence to the robing room, where Mr. Barry produced his plans, and ex plained the different arrangements of that part of the works. The great point of interest at this portion of the buildings was the Victoria Gallery, through which the Queen will pass in procession from the royal robing-rooms to the House of Lords. This gallery is to be devoted to the reception of statues and busts of all the great literary, naval, and military men of bygone times; and the walls will be covered with fresco paintings. A considerable time was spent in this part of the building, and his Royal Highness paid the most marked attention to the architect's explana tions of his future intentions. The party afterwards directed their attention to the royal porch or entry to the House of Lords, in which a temporary scaffolding had been erected, in order that his Royal Highness and the rest of the Com missioners might inspect the interior of the House of Peers. The stonework and elaborate carving of the interior exhibited elicited most unqualified expressions of praise from the Prince and the other Commissioners. This building nas reached an altitude of sixty feet, and the main windows on both sides are fixed. It was explained to his Royal Highness that the lower part of the walls, to the height of about twenty feet, are to be lined with enriched carved oak wainscoting, the upper part of the walls being coated with a peculiarly beautiful freestone from Caen, in Normandy, having enriched corbels, supporting niches, in which are to be placed marble statues of the Kings and Queens of England. It was stated that the greater part of the works of the new House of Peers were of sufficient height to receive the roof, which, we understand, is composed of wrought and cast iron, and is in a state of great forwardness. It will be covered with cast iron gal vinised plates. The Prince and his party next inspected the lobby, which is even in a more forward state than the House itself, the whole of it being embellished with carvings in stone of the richest description, and it will be finished without plaster or cement of any kind being used. The central hall was the succeeding object of at traction. This hall intervenes between the two Houses of Parliament, and will be made the venti lator for the entire building, by means of a tower, 300 feet in height, which will be above the ascent of smoke, and consequently will furnish fresh and pure air throughout the entire erection. The party proceeded from the central hall to the front building, intended for the Parliamentary li braries and Committee-rooms, the public halls of which were minutely inspected. - In one of the halls a considerable preparation had been made for the re ception of works of art, the walls being lined with stone filled with niches, and ready to receive statues. The Prince and his party did not visit the other parts of the building, including the House of Com mons, clock tower, &c,; but it was explained to his Royal Highness that this portion of the works was also in a state of great forwardness, and most parts were from eighteen to twenty feet high. It was also stated there were 700 men constantly at work. His Royal Highness and the other CommisSioners subsequently visited the model rooms, which are under the direction of Messrs. Thomas and Dighton. After inspecting models of the interior of the House of Lords, they proceeded to Mr. Barry's offices, where the details and drawings were laid before the Prince, and explained by the architect. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the other Commissioners, at a quarter past six o'clock, took their leave, having been on the premises for two hours and a quarter. The Prince, before leaving, expressed his extreme gratification at the great pro gress made in the erection of the Houses of Parlia ment, and said it far exceeded his most sanguine ex pectations. THE THREE-.AND-A-1-IALF PER CENTS.—As far as Great Britain is concerned the result of the con version plan, as proposed by Mr. Goulburn, is this:—The dissents to the reduction of the Re duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and of the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. (representing a capital of 240,000,0001.), are most 'certainly under 100,000/. The assents to the plan, as respects the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818, have not yet been officially stated; but we can state from the most authen tic sources, that a very small amount of this stock, at the termination of the usual hours of daily business, re mained unassented. It is, in fact, considered more than probable that, taking the domestic as well as the foreign holders of the Three•and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, which in the aggregate represents 250,000,0001., the Treasury will not have to pr o vide for money payments to objectors to an amount exceeding one a t nillion:sterling; it may be, th a t not one half of this sum will be ultimately required.—Observer. quarter of FIELD DAY ON WORMWOOD SCRUBS. —Yesterday the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) had a field-day on Worm wood Scrubs. The regiment left their barracks at Knights bridge, shortly after nine o'clock. and proceeded, headed by their splendid band, through Hyde-park, Kensington High. street, Church-lane, into the lixbridge-road, and from thence up Wood-lane to the Scrubs. The extreme fineness of the day induced numbers of persons to follow them to the ground. The regiment, after going through various ma noeuvres and evolutions, left the ground about half-past twelve o'clock. FOLKESTONE ----W e continue to receive numerous visitors from Dover daily by the railway. In fact, the Dover people are our best customers ; and on the part of our townsmen, we, as true friends to Folkestone, bet to thank them for their change. The Boulogne passage continues about th e same as usual' in point of numbers ; and the passengers also continue to " come like shadows, so depart." By the latter visitors the bona fide traders of Folkestone are in no way benefitted if Messrs. Baxen dale, Van ine, and Co.,*are.— Dover Chronicle. A DEAD CHILD DISCOVERED.—OH Monday after noon last an in quest was held at the Police Station-house, Blanket- row, before Mr John Thorney, coroner, on the body of a male infant, name unknown. Police-constable Raspin Cherry (N 0.93) stated that on Sunday morning, about a quarter befor e s i x o ' c l oc k, as he was proceeding past the High Chur c h B ur yi ng - gr ound on his way to the station-house, he observed a small box lying under the wall, which he tookiip and carried to the station; on open ing it, it was found to contain the body of a male child, wrapped up in a piece of new white cotton. Mr. George Ross surgeon, deposed that he had examined the body, which was that of a. full. grown male child, and in his opinion had been born ten or fourteen days. No medi cal gentlemen had been called in at its birth. In conse quence of the decomposed state of the body, he was un able to say whether it had been alive ar not ; but he was satisfied it had never breathed. There were marks on the right side of the face and head, and small particles of sand attached thereto. H e had opened the head, but found no internal marks.. Inspector Tacey stated that no clue had as yet been obtaine d relative t o th e unna t ura l parent. Verdict—" Found dead." DEAL.—The atmosphere was on Tuesday so rarified that Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye. The vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without --- the aid of a glass. Dover Chronicle. MONUMENT TO LORD HOLLAND.—Having heard a desire expressed to know what was being done towards carrying into effect the object of the subscription for erecting a testimonial to the memory of the late Lord Holland, we have made inquiries on the subject, and are happy in being enabled to state the distinguished states man, Lord John Russell, more immediately and so appropriately charged with the execution of the wishes of the subscribers, has allowed of no unnecessary delay. The site for the testimonial to Lord Holland, one of the most enlightened, honest, single-minded of British statesmen, has already been fixed upon in Westminster Abbey. But in order that it may be placed then the removal of three existing monuments will be ncci*sary, and it is indis pensable that the convenience of the persons interested in these monuments should be attended to. The delay hitherto in carrying out the objects of the subscription has been occasioned by these circumstances. As soon as the site can be definitively arranged full notice will be given to artists to send in designs for the Holland Tes timonial, for it was most properly considered that until the locality was clearly defined the nature of the testi monial could not be well determined on.—Observer. CHARTIST CONVENTION IN MANCHESTER.—The Chartists have been holding a Convention in this town during the present week, but their proceedings have not excited the least interest. The Convention consists of (so-called) delegates from various parts of the kingdom, amongst whom, we believe, are. Mr. Feargus O'Connor, the proprietor, and Mr. Joshua Hob Son, the publisher, of the Northern Star. The proceedings commenced on Monday, in Carpenters' Ilnll ; since then the delegates have sat each day in the same place, and weperceive that several of their number are announced to address a public meeting in Stevenson's-square, this evening. Apropos, the placard calling the meeting is headed, " Down with the Tories I" which seems to indicate that the Chartists intend to commence what in their phraseo logy would be called "a new move." The immediate object of the ConventiOn is understood to ba to concoct some plan to resuscitate fallen Chartism, but the discus sions which have hitherto taken place are spoken of as having been unusually languid and inane.— Manchester -Guardian. , LITERATURE. BEARN AND THE PYRENEES, 2 Vols. Bentley. London, 1844. The author of these amusing volumes of tPavels is Miss Costello, to whom the public is already indebted for many graphic sketches of French scenery and manners. Though no very shrewd or profound ob server, and seldom piercing below the surface of things, Miss Costello seldom fails to excite the inte rest of her readers, for her manner of handling her subject is attractive; she is quick to detect light and piquant points of character, and - says whatever she has to say in the easiest and most good-humoured spirit possible. There is little—if anything—in her present volumes that will be new to the reader; the ground she goes over has been trodden at least a. hundred times already, still, we find her a most entertaining companion ; and common-place as it but too often is, never weary of her easy, unassuming gossip. The second volume of the work before us is the most en tertaining, because there the authoress is more minute and spirited in her descriptions, and conducts us to the watering-places among the Pyrenees—a theme not yet quite exhausted. We quote her account of a visit which she paid to Jasmin, a barber-poet, who resides in a small town in Gascony, and, as it seems, has acquired great celebrity for his poetical genius throughout France. In his diverting vanity and ' simplicity Of manner, Jasmin reminds us somewhat of the late James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd : " He caught up two copies of his book, from a pile lying on the table, and making us sit close to him, he pointed out the French translation on one side, which he told us to follow while he read in Gascon. He began in a rich soft voice, and as he advanced, the surprise of Hamlet on hearing the player-king recite the disasters of Hecuba, was but a type of ours, to find ourselves carried away by the spell of his enthusiasm. His eyes swam in tears • he became pale and red; he trembled; he recovered himself; his face was now joyous, now ex tilting, gay, jocose; in fact, he was twenty actors in one; he rang the changes from Rachel to Bout* and he finished by delighting us, besides beguiling us of our tears, and overwhelming us with astonishment. "He would have been a treasure on the stage; for he is still, though his first youth is past, remarkably good• looking and striking; with black, sparkling eyes of in tense expression; a fine ruddy complexion; a counte nance of wondrous mobility; a good figure; and action full of fire and grace; he has handsome hands, which he uses with infinite effect; and, on the whole, he is the best actor of the kind I ever saw. I could now quite understand what a troubadour or jongleur might be, and I look upon Jasmin as a revived specimen of that ex tinct race. Such as he is might have been Gaucelm Faidit, of Avignon, the friend of Coeur de Lion, who lamented the death . of the hero in such moving strains; such might have been Bernard de Ventadour, who sang the praises of Queen Elinore's beauty; such Geoffrey Rudel, of Blaye, on his own Garonne; such the wild Vidal: certain it is, that none of these troubadours of old could more move, by their singing or reciting, than Jasmin, in whom all their long-smothered fire and tra ditional magic seems re-illumined. " We found we had stayed hours instead of minutes with the poet; but he would not hear of any apology— only regretted that his voice was so out of tune, in con sequence of a violent cold, under which he was really labouring, and hoped to see us again. He told us our countrywomen of Pau had laden him with hindness and attention, and spoke with such enthusiasm of the beauty of certain misses,' that I feared his little wife would feel somewhat piqued; but, on the contrary, she stood by, smiling and happy, and enjoying the stories of his triumphs. I remarked that he had restored the poetry of the troubadours; asked him if he knew their songs, and said he was worthy to stand at their head. I am, indeed, a troubadour,' said he with energy; but I am far beyond them all; they were but beginners; they never composed a poem like my Franconnete ! There are no poets in France now—there cannot be; the language does not admit of it; where is the fire, the spirit, the expression, the tenderness, the force of the Gascon? French is but the ladder to reach to the first floor of Gascon—how can you get up to a height except by a ladder!' " ARTHUR O'LEARY. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844. We incline to consider this work if not the best, at least among the best, that its author has yet put forth. The first four or five chapters are somewhat languid—as we mentioned at the time when they first appeared successively in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine but afterwards the work greatly improves in interest; the action becomes more animated; the incidents exhibit more vigour and novelty ; and the characters, which are numerous, are consistently maintained to the close. In truth, Mr. Lever could scarcely pen a dull, insipid narra tive, even if he were to attempt it. Redeeming touches of vivacity, humour, and description would be sure to be peeping out every now and then; and no efforts could repress those buoyant animal spirits in which, as a novelist, he abounds to overflowing. As a painter of battles, sieges, and all the pomp and i pageantry of war, he is on paper what Cooper is on canvas ; and as far surpasses Gleig and the writers of that sleepy, common-place school, as the meridian blaze of the sun surpasses the feeble lustre of a rushlight. In his present work, Mr. Lever gives an account of the wan derings of Arthur O'Leary—a restless, mercurial, high-spirited Irishman—and of the numerous adven tures and vicissitudes that befel him in the course of his travels. This' enables the author to introduce a variety of sketches of out-of-the-way characters, such as those who are constantly on the tramp are apt to come in contact with; and among others, he gives a portrait of a French veteran officer, who was with Napoleon on the fatal day at Leipsic, which is drawn with much force and feeling, though it be little more than an outline. But decidedly the most stirring episode in the volumes, is the one entitled " O'Kelly's Story," which is full of the wildest adventures, bordering, however, it must be confessed, here and there, a little on the improbable. We quote O'Kelly's account of tie capture by the French of a crazy transport-ship, in which he was embarked with his regiment, on their way to America : " We were staggering along under light canvas, when the look-out-a-head announced a light on the weather bow ; it was evidently coming towards us, and scarce half a mile distant ; we had 'no more than time to hang out a lantern in the tops, and put up the helm, when a large ship, whose sides rose several feet above our own, swept by as, and so close that her yard-arms actually touched our rigging as she yawed over in the sea. A muttered thanksgiving for our escape, for such it was, broke from every lip ; and hardly was it uttered, when again a voice cried eut, 'here she comes to leeward,' and sure enough the dark shadow of a large mass moving at a speed far greater than ours passed under our lee, while a harsh summons was shouted out to know who we were, and whither bound. The North umberland,' with troops, was the answer ; and before the words were well out, a banging noise was heard— the ports of the stranger ship were flung open, a bright flash, like a line of flame, ran her entire length, and a raking broadside was poured into us. The old transport reeled over and trembled like a thing of life,—her shat tered sides and torn bulwarks let in the water as she heeled to the shock, and for an instant, as she bent be neath the storm, - I thought she was settling, to go down by the head. I had little time, however, for thought : one wild cheer broke from 'the attacking ship—its answer was the faint, sad cry of the wounded and dying on our deck. The next moment the grapples were thrown-into: us, and the vessel was boarded from stem to stern. The noise of the cannonade, and the voices on deck, brought all our men from below, who came tum bling up the hatches, believing we had struck. " Then began a scene, such as all I have ever wit nessed of carnage and slaughter cannot equal. The Frenchmen, for such they were, rushed down upon us as we stood defenceless and unarmed : a deadly roll of Musketry swept our thick and trembling masses. The cutlass and the boarding-pike made fearful havoc among us, and an unresisted slaughter tore along our deck, till the heaps of dead and dying made the only barrier for the few remaining. "A chance word in French, and a sign of masonry, rescued ple from , the fate of my comrades, and my only injury was a slight sabre. wound in the fore .arm, which I received in warding off a cut intended for my bead The carnage lasted scarce fifteen minutes ; but in that time, of all 'the crew that manned our craft -L-what between those who leaped overboard in wild despair, and those who fell 'beneath fire and steel—scarce twenty remained, appalled and trembling, the only ones rescued from this horrible slaughter. A sudden cry of she's sinking 1' burst from the strange ship, and in a moment the Frenchmen clambered up their bulwarks, the grap ples were cast off, the dark mass darted onwards on, her course, and we drifted away to leeward—a moving sepulchre ! As the clouds flew past, the moon shone out, and threw a pale sickly light on the scene of slaughter, where the dead and dying lay in indiscrimi nate heaps together—so frightful a spectacle never did eye rest upon I" NOUVEAU MELANGE. Bally, London, 1844. This is a useful elementary work, compiled with skill and method, and well adapted for beginners in the French language. The extracts from .the works of the best French writers, which are given at the close of the volume, independently of the purity of their style, possess just the sort of interest that is likely. to attract the attention of the young reader, and the principal idiomatic expressions in vogue among our continental neighbours, have the advantage of an al phabetical arrangement, and are explained in terse and lucid terms. 'The compilter of this servicble school book is a French gentleman, n amed De l ea a Voie. THE PROGRESSES OF HER MAJESTY. Wakeman, London, 1844. We have here, in one neat quarto volume, bound in blue cloth, an account of the various progresses of her Majesty and Prince Albert, last year, in France, Belgium, and 11(Hand. This account is drawn up -in a most circumstantial manner, and is illustrated with a variety of appropriate embellish ments, the best of which are those which pourtray the different incidents that took place during the Royal visit to Louis Philippe at the phateau d'Eu—the acci dent to the French Royal Family at Treport, the fete champetre in the forest of Eu, the preparations for the departure of the Queen, &c. WESTERN, AFRICA. Rouiston and Stoneman. London, 1844. In . this tersely and perspicuously-written little volume, we find a sketch, full of interest; of the his- Jory.and present condition: of the 'Christian missions in Western Africa, where our missionaries, it appears, have long been exerting themselves with uncommon ardour, but hitherto, unfortunately, with a 'succes's by no means commensurate with their zeal, so numerous and powerful are the obstacles which stand in the way of the diffusion of the Gospel in this benighted quar ter of the world. Mr. East, however, ' offers . some suggestions for the diminishing.. of these obstacles, which are well worthy the serious consideration of those who are taking an interest in the spiritual, as well as in the temporal. welfare. of the oppressed and despised African, inasmuch a 3 they evidently proceed from one .who is thoroughly conversant.with the sub ject which he undertakes to discuss.. In addition to his curious and, we , may add, painful, details respect• ing the moral and. religious state of the tens of thou sands of human beings .whO vegetate—for they can scarcely be said to live—in the vast districts of Western and Central Africa, our author. furnishes us with a pidure•of the horrors of slavery and the slave trade, which it is quite sickening to contemplate, so minutely and is such vivid, but, we fear, not exagge rated colours is the dreadful subject pourtrayed. Not, less painful is his account of the general condition of women in Western Africa—especially those of the inferior classes—who are sold by their parenti in marriage to the highest bidder, and treated by their demoralised husbands • with the grossest and most wanton cruelty. Mr. East has judiciously condensed nearly all the striking facts bearing on the subject of the social state in Africa, whiCh have been accumu lated by travellers and missionaries for years past; and the result is a volume abounding in useful—we wish we could add encouraging—information. We subjoin a Passage or two as a specimen of the author's manner : •• " Africa is under the domiriion of the most savage despotism. Eien its free men are, in most cases, little niore than the vassals of their rulers—and, in some, altogether at the disposal of their merciless tyranny. Africa is a land of slaves. Three individuals out of every four are slaves; and, in some places, not more than one in seventy are free. Africa trades, both within its own borders and with foreign nations, in the flesh and blood of its, own• population, and is hourly bleeding under the infliction of this most inhuman traffic. Polygamy is universal in Africa. The great monopolise the female portion of the population—the inferior classes are left without any domestic associate—prostitution is legalised by public authority, to meet the exigency which this un just and wicked monopoly has created—and the blackest crimes, consequent upon such a state of things, are shamelessly committed. The condition of woman in Africa is most abject and degraded. Without a pro perty in herself, at any stage of her existence, she is sold by her parents in marriage to the highest bidder, from henceforth living only for the gratification of her tyran nical and capricious lord, who rules her as his slave, im posing upon her the most menial offices, and, in some in stances, deriving, in licentious indolence, his own sup port from the labour of her hands. In a word, as the social condition of Africa is the lowest and most wretched, so every crime which has polluted other parts of the heathen world, is perpetrated in it. Nor is this picture much relieved by the view which has been taken of African agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. " The supeistitions of Africa not only sanction and tend to perpetuate this state of things, but add a thousand-fold to the depth of her degradation and the amount of her calamity. Here Mohammedanism and Paganism divide the spoil. Islamism exists in its worst of forms. For the sake of gaining an ascendancy, it associates itself with the superstition of Paganism ; and, with the exception of abolishing human sacrifices, so far from reforming any existing evil, it countenances and gives permanency to some of the most horrid features of African society." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Suite, and the Household, attended Divine service yesterday morn ind, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. His Majesty the King of the Belgians held a diplo matic levee at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday, for the reception of the Foreign Ministers. The following members of the Diplomatic Corps attended :—Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, Count de Noailles, Secretary, and Baron de Talleyrand, Attaché to the Embassy ; Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador ; Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister; Baron de Bjornst jerna, Secretary of Legation; Le General Baron Stjer nerona, on a • special mission from the King of Sweden; -and Baron C. de Bjornstjerna, Officer d'Ordonnance de S. M. le Roi de Suede et de NOrwege ; Mr. Moreno, Buenos Ayrean Minister; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister ; Count Pollen, Sar dinian Minister, and Count Revel, Secretary of Lega tion ; Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister; and Mr. Lobo de Moira, Secretary of Legation ; Mr. Alejo Fortique, Venezuelan Minister ; Baron de Brunnow, Russian Minister, and M. de Berg, Secretary of Lega tion ; Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wurtemberg Minister ; Le Comman deur Marquis Lisboa, Brazilian Minister ; Mr. Everett, United States Minister, and Mr. Rives, Secretary of Le gation ; Count Reventlow, Danish Minister, and Baron de Brockdorff, Secretary of Legation ; Baron de Nieu mann, Austrian Minister, and Count Esterhazy Attach to the Legation ; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister ; Mr. M. Mosquera, New Grenada Charge d'Affaires, and M. Raphael tie Ayala, Secretary to the Mission ; Baron de Thile, Prussian Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Stratvnuf, Ne therlands Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. H. F. Tiarks, Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in London for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Their Excellencies appeared in Court dresses, the mem bers of Orders of Knighthood wearing their respective ensigns. His Majesty King Leopold entered the library, where the Diplomatic corps had assembled, accompanied by her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians. His Excellency M. .Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, then pre sented the different members of the corps. —.l lWeir Majesties were attended by Madame d'Hoog vorst, Count Mercy d'Argenteau, and Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke. _ _ _ --.... _ M. Van de Weyer was accompanied by M. Drouet, Secietary of the Belgian Legation. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians on_Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also visited the august circle on Saturday. The Royal Family were taken airings on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, went on Saturday afternoon, to Gwydyr House, where his Royal Highness was received by Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Mr. Gaily Knight, and Mr. Wyse, members of the Commission for pro moting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. The Prince, accompanied by the Commissioners, and Mr. Eastlake, the Secretary to the Commission, proceeded to the new Palace at Westminster, where his Royal Highness was received by Mr. Barry, the architect, who conducted the Prince and the Cnmmissioners to different parts of the building. His Royal Highness and the Commissioners spent two hours in inspecting the various extensive works in pro gress. The Prince, attended by Colonel Bouverie, after wards returned to Buckingham Palace. . _ _ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen arid their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians yesterday. 'The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the French Ambassa dor, and the Countess de St. Aulaire, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. _ Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Montagu Wynyard, who took his text from Ecclesiastes, chap. xi., verses 7 and 8. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Horsley Dakins, and the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp. The Musical Service in D was by Sir G. Smart, the Anthem was, "My God, my God." Sir George Smart presided at the organ. Her Majesty was attended by the Viscountess Bar rington, Hon. Miss Boyle, and the Hon. W. Ashley. Among the Nobility present were the Marquises of Sa lisbury, Normanby, and Northampton; Lords Bandon, Delawarr Wilton, Cawdor, Tyrconnell, Eliot, De Manley, Ingestrie, Northland, and Palmerston; Mar chioness of Westmeath, Ladies Wilton, Chesterfield, Palmerston, and M. Monck. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service in the Chapel Royal St. James's yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated M. the service. The Sermon wa s p reached by the Rev. M. Wynyard. C R l o a y; e a n l c H e i g o n u e s s e s , St. the T J D h a e u m c D c h s u e , s s k . s e o o f f K C e a n m t b o r i n d g S e a v t i u s r i d t e a d y , her a t Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing on wsaattmr d hai ss Saturday in a carriage. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary s E M o x f c a h b el erl u e e y_ r, h o a - n d visited C D oof u l c ot h nh e ee s l Kent yes terday. withter - the G e n c e rhaala Chancellor officia l Douglas transacted residence, i b n u p sires iu s .n o g n - S s t e r t day, a S na Sirtlu interv iew h r Saturday, i a i p y o o , at the office of the Board of Trade. Lady Peel arrived in town on Saturday afternoon, from Drayton Manor, Staffordsh ire. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE, ARRIVALS. Sir John and Lady Gerard, at the Clarendon Hotel, Band-street, from their seat, New Hall, near Warring ton, Lancashire ; J. Crawford, Esq., at ditto; Captain and Lady Jane Walker, in Wilton-crescent ; Lord Fielding and Lady Mary Fielding, at the Earl of Den bigh's, Eatou-square ; Colonel Bathurst, Grenadier Guards, and Mrs. Bathurst, in Gloucester-place, from Marham Hall ; Mr. and Lady Margaret Littleton, at Lord Hatherton's; Grosvenor-place; Sir Horace B. Sey mour, M.l'., from. the New Forest, Hants; Baron Mon corvo, and family, from Brighton; Buchanan, at Christie's Hotel ; .. 7.... Fitzherbert, Esq., from the Conti. nent ; Right Hon. T. L. Corry, M.P., in Grosvenor-square, from Earl of Belmore's, Castlecoole, Fermanagh ; -Lady Catherine Fellowes, Miss Fellowes, and Mrs. Seymour Allen, in Bryanston-square; the Earl and Countess of Morley, at Kent House, Knightsbridge, from Saltram ; Mr. Langford Brooka and Miss Campbell, in Chesham place; Lady Hotham, from Brighton; the Hon. General and Mrs. meoe and gamily, in Biyanston-square, from $ u •m i.,\ -, f -- ,„; -•%.,, - ....rt5.a........4:,......5." ",..,,,,, , Ara... 2 .4: • ' i/ .. . a tr: , : , St. LtortwirP).oa.Vedi hte, itu I. - . ..illsl l -.- , ley and family, in Park-cre seen ' o t , , 1 , 0 Beaumont, from Mivart's Hotel 'efr In\ ' _ tt& - -' IL Yorkshire ; the Dowager DuChess of - . ' . itt!y. Rachel a Bussell,,at Clarendan 'Hi 1;1441 "c{iSt;itikiltal tour ; Lady Louisa Cater and - fen) ; at her house in Bryanston-squ.are; Baron Le Couteui de Mahal, M. de . r Glassenap, Aide-de-Camp to his Imperial Majesty tile Emperor of Ruisia, Prince Zurlo, Prince Sans Severo and,suites, ,at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Continent ; Mr. and the Misses Hallifax, - in Port land-place, from Chadacre Hall, Suffolk ; Andrew Wright, Esq., and family, at the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square, from the Continent ; M. P. Boulton and M. Boulton,Esqrs., and Hutton, Esq., at ditto, from York. DEPARTURES, The Rev. the Archdeacon of Waterford, for Chelteno ham ; Lady Jane Dalrymple, from Christie's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Sir Geerge Warrender'e, Clieden House, Berks ; Captain Lloyd, for Cheltenham ; Mr. Hull, from New Norfolk -street, fur Hampton Court; Guidry, Esq., and Mrs. Gundry, from Christie's Hotel, St. James's-street, for the North; Cap tain Forbes, fur the York Hotel, at Brighton ; Lord and Lady Walsingham, and Sir Robert and Lady Frankland Russell, from Cavendish-square, for Chequers Court, Bucks; J. Strutt, Esq., and Miss Strutt, and Mrs. and Miss Arkwright, from the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square. for the Continent ; Hodson, Esq., from ditto ; the Rev. W. and Mrs. Newbolt, from ditto, for Nottingham. CHANGES. The Marchioness of Douglas and the Countess of Lincoln, on a visit to the Earl of Wemyss, at Gosford House, near Haddington, from Holyrood House ; the Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, at Leamington Spa, from a visiting tour ; Colonel Car. michael .at Leamington Spa, from, a tour ; the Rev, Lord William Somerset, and. Messrs. Fitzroy and Dos cawen Somerset, at Cheltenham, from Painswick House; Lord and Lady Headley, at Brighton, from their seat int Essex; Sir Beresford and Lady M'Mahon and family, at Dublin, from a tour; Mr. Ross, M.P., at Cheltenham, from a tour ; Captain Hagart, 7th Hussars , from, Brighton, for Warwickshire. . EXETER ELECTION. On Saturday the nomination took place. G. - 4nerld Briggs was first in the hall; he took his seat on the right of the Mayor. He was attended by Messrs. Robert R. Moore, A. L. Saul, S. Maunder, and several other friends. On the Tory side of the hall were Sir W. Follett's two brothers, Sir T. 1). Acland, Bart., Sir John Duckworth, S. T. Kekewich, Esq., W. ; H. Furlong, Esq., W. Hooper, Esq., Dr. Barnes, the Rev. Fisher Turner, Air. High Sheriff Cartwright, &c. The High Sheriff read the Queens precept and Bribery Act. Mr. H. HOOPER said--Tour late representative, Sir Wil liam Follett, having been appointed to the office of her Ma jesty's Attorney-General, his seat has become vacant, and we have now assembled for one of the most important duties which, as citizens, we have to perform. I need not detain the meeting longer than to ask for a renewal of confidence, and I have no doubt that we shall be able to send to him on Monday evening to say that he had not been mistaken in the sentiments of the electors. It now becomes my duty, as it is my pleasure, to propose Sir William Follett to fill the vacant seat in Parliament.—(Cheers, groans, and laughter.) Mr. J. HARRIS seconded the motion. Mr. S. MAUNDER said—l have much pleasure in nominat ing Major-General John Briggs as a fit and proper citizen to represent this city in the present Parliament.—(Cheering.) He is a free trader, and I believe free trade to be essential to the prosperity of all classes in this country. He is an un flinching advocate of perfect freedom of conscience. He is in favour of vote by ballot.—(Cheering.) Any one who has taken any part in our elections must know how very much that is required to-protect the industrious man from the op pression of the idle.—(Loud cheers.) Any one who knows the manner in which our elections have been conducted, must know how necessary the ballot is to protect the honest but poor voter from the heartless oppression of the rich and the idle. I am exceedingly pleased that Major-General Briggs has come forward upon this occasion. Mr. BESLEY said I am prepared to pay my tribute to Sir W. Follett for his talent, disposition,.and temper ; but the day has arrived when the mere man is not to be the question in an election, principles will be looked to as well. lam not here as the personal friend of General Briggs, and I do not look on this contest as a personal contest. I look to Sir W. Follett as a supporter of a Government which itself in. sists on supporting monopolies, which I believe to be opposed to the best interests of the most important classes of the community. At the conclusion of Mr. Besley's speech, there was a call for Mr. Moore from the Reformers, but the Sheriff said he did not mean to let any non-elector address the hall. This, how ever, produced such a tremendous burst of indignation, that, although two or three consultations took place between Mr. Furlong, the Mayor, and some persons around them, the Sheriff felt himself obliged, amidst tremendous cries for " Moore, Moore," and " Briggs," to yield. General BRIGGS presented himself amidst long-continued cheers and counter-cheers. In the course of his address he repeated the circumstances under which he had been induced to present himself as a candidate. He respected the talents of Sir W. Follett and his private worth, but he stood an op ponent to his political principles. In conclusion, he stated that in general politics he was a decided Liberal, an advocate for the ballot, and for perfect freedom of conscience. He resumed his seat amidst cheering from the free traders and great up • roar on the part of the Tories. On the show of hands being taken, the Sheriff declared it to be in favour of Sir W. Follett. A poll was demanded by Mr. MAIINDER on behalf of Ge neral Briggs, which will commence this morning, at eight o'clock. The SIIERIFF declared the Hall adjourned. Mr. S. T. KEKEWICH proposed a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff for his able and impartial conduct. General BRIGGS cordially seconded the motion. Sir T. AcLAND spoke with his wonted energy and action, and his first achievement was to knock the hat off Mr. Fur h.ng's head, 'and show how much " Time had thinned his flowing hair." He was understood to express great regret that Sir 'William Follett's brother, being a non-elector, was not allowed to address the Hall, and express the gratitude he felt at the distinguished honour conferred on him so long. He eulogised the lion. and Learned Gentleman as one who had secured the good esteem and affection of both sides of the House, and whose talents made them feel proud of him as a western man. At the conclusion of the proceedings the Reformers ad ourned to the Subscription-rooms. WOODSTOCK ELECTION. Mr. Humfrey has already made a very successful canvass, and although a Conservative in politics, he has obtained the promise of nearly every vote of the Liberal party, who are quite disgusted with the manner in which the Duke of Marl borough treated their late representative, Mr. Thesiger. Mr. Walesby, of the Oxford Circuit, Recorder of Wood stock, arrived at the latter place on Saturday evening, for the purpose of forwarding his friend Mr. Humfrey's election. The Marquis on Saturday canvassed the electors who at tended Oxford market. His Lordship was received very coolly by them, the majority refusing to vote for him, and several others would not promise. The struggle is expected to be a severe one. — The nomination takes place this day, and the polling to morrow (Tuesday.) HUNTINGDON ELECTION. Amu, 21.—Mr. Baring has declared for agricultural pro tection as it is, according to the sliding scale, acknowled.ging himself thereby to be L or d Sandwich's nominee. The Chief Baron of the Exchequer h as t a k en l eave of the borough in a an kind d characteristic address. Mr. Acland is mustering his forces for Monday, and mayhap for Tuesday, if his candidate will go to the poll. A contest the League seem, so far, de termined to have. In any case, the electors feel assured that a free-trade candidate will make his appearance on the day of nomination, and either Colonel Thompson, or his son, it is said,. will come forward. There was a report yesterday that Mr. Thesiger was to be put in no m i na ti on , w h ic h Mr. Baring's Committee lost no time in contradicting. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Among those pre sent at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday night, were— his Serene Highness the Prince Leiningen, attended by Colonel Buckley, who occupied her - Majesty's box. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Count Kielmansegge, and attended by Baron Knesebeck. Lord and Lady Barring ton. Sir Andrew Barnard and the Hon. William Ashley, occupied the Queen Dowager's box. The Dukes of Devon shire, Beaufort, and Leeds, the Duchess of Beaufort, the n Marquises of Ailesbury, Douro, Worcester, Norman by, Huntly, the Marchionesses of Wellesley Baron Nieumaun, Baron and Baroness e Logos, Count de Sefton, Noailles; the Earls of Pembroke, Liverprel, rdaraest, Ken mare, and Belfast; the Countess of Kennia Trimlestone, Tem- Bruce, Wharncliffe, Dinorben, Sa 3 and Westmeath, ba Fitzroy -Somerset, Dinorben,_ twa , pletown, James Stuart, Aylmer, v Alford, Boyer, Smythe, iia a s i Gardner, s o ' a e 1 t a s n h e a l w a g e h La Stewart,dies • , Aylmer, - I f A - n4ruther, Joddrell Fre- I B Cna e a Il l: l i t : el e , g ri h n a e m c G a f , a e l a ir h e : Loftus ..tii v . .nmßuecrrkayet,t,ClaVpitalliiamn Upton,Fre- Frederick Trench, H. Webb, Gardner, Hilson, Flower; Sirs Watkin W. Wynn, Francis Willoughby,sh Flower, Loftus N% ay ;Ot - the Hon. Mrs. 'mantle, James Shuckburgh, ackburgh, gibbon, Mrs. 0 Fitzroy, .Captains Cuddy and Meynell, Messrs. C. Charles Kent, H. s . tanhope,lrs. jo ll h Wombwell, &c. Standish,H. HOSPIIAL FOR CONSUMPTION. —Yesterday morn ing, the Reverend Prelates the Lord Bishops of Chester and Ge"g Baring, and Worcester, preached sermons on behalf of the above insti tution, the former at St. Saviour's Church, Hans-place, Upper Chelsea, and the latter at Eaton Chapel, Eaton-square, Pim pl, to Pim lico. The committee of thi s excellent charity are making strenuous ofthenew hospital, effo h rt o s s toraise theefreundesd n e e t c B es re sa th ry pt f e o n r , tl f i r e en b t u in ildin g o g n beerected the Pulliam road ; the first stone of - which will be laid by his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the early part of next June. The present building is situated at Chelsea, but from its limited size has been found totally inadequate for the re ception of the hundreds of applicants who daily crowd its gates for admission. Since its formation in September, 1842, the number of in-patients ha v e b e en a b ou t 150, add 1,500 out patients have received medical relief. There is no other existing hospital which will receive the numerous class of patients suffering under pulmonary consumption, in conse quence of the lingering and almost certain fatality of the disease ; whilst elaborate statistical tables show that more than 72,000 persons are now constantly suffering from con , sumption. The intended new hospital will be built to ac commodate about 200 patients. Both places of worship in which the Rev. Prelates preached were well attended, and after Divine service, collections were made in aid of the funds. The Great North of England Railway Company have recently made an offer to the Darlington and Newcastle Junction Company (whose lino is about to be opened) to contract for supplying locomotive power and carriages of all descriptions for each train at Is. 3d. a mile. By this esti mate, ten third-class passengers, charged at the exorbi tant rate of lid. a mile, as on the London and Birmingham and other railways, would pay the expenses of a whole train, capable of conveying several hundred passengers: THE MARSIIALSEA PRISON.—Since the above pri son has been sold, a great number of workmen have been employed in repairing the interior, and making it fit for the reception of tenants, it being the intention of the purchaser to divide it into separate tenements, The entrance to the houses will be up Chapel-court, on the north side, and up a court next to Walmesley's, the pawnbroker's, inlligh-street, on the south, A portion of the walls on each aide will be taken down for that purpose. A handsome shop is being b u il t i n High-street,in front of the Governor's house, which will be let with it. The name of the houses will be Mar shaLsea-buildinge. Drury-IP@ T ' an p resen t s thi s evening an unusual degree of attraction, for Mr. Benedict's n ew opera will be per f ormed for the first time, and Mademoi selle Lucile Gratin will appear in the new ballet of the Lady liouletta i or, the Statute Fair, in which she his eAcited so mach attention. amio 1