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- _ ....r0v...........1M1W, ject, the development of the resources with the ' presentations of the imminent danger in which the expenditure of the country; and the coincident ac- wretched offender was, addressed the most urgent cumulation of the national capital with the in- remonstrances to the Divan ; and, in personal con crease of the debt of the nation. To the ferences with the Turkish Minister of Justice (by future historian of the present age, it will present a whatever appellation that officer is designated) pressed prominent epoch in the annals of the public credit or for the release of the unfortunate Armenian. All his faith, which he may conveniently select for the close entreaties and negotiations were finally unavailing. of one eventful period in the financial and domestic The poor man's head was cu off; and, his body bebe ing progress of Great Britain, and , as s u redl y , from which exposed in the market-place,t the head was placed he may date the commencement of another. tween the knees, with the cap or hat upon it, to add The last occasion upon which the Three to the indignity with which it was desired to visit per Cents. were at par was in the year 1749 (just upon him the penalty of the offence. The mob of 95 years since). The amount of the Public Debt Constantinople, always to the last degree superstitious, was then 78,300,0001. The preceding year had wit- fanatical, and brutal, indulged in atrocious gesticula nessed the conclusion of the " Spanish War," as it tions and pleasantries on the subject; and for some was called, which commenced in 1739, and had in- time it was impossible for any Frank—especially if creased the debt to the amount just stated, he was attached to the suite or household of some from a total of 46,955,000 1 . (or to the extent, one or other of the European Ambassadors—to show in about ten years, of 31,339,0001.) The his face in the public streets without being reviled or amount of the Public Debt, at this moment, is hooted at, or even pelted, by a vile rabble of beggars, in round numbers, is 7 52 , 000 , 0001 . , being an increase, disbanded soldiers, &c. Sir STRATFORD , wit h his in the 95 years which have elapsed -since 1749, of accustomed energy and spirit, brought the affair under 674,000,000/. If the fact of a given description of the notice of the SULTAN and his Prime Minister. stock being at itr in the money market raises a He would not be amused with vague and general legitimate inference that there is capital enough afloat promises of "managing these things better" in future. to purchase up the whole of it, then we must assume He did not relax his noble stand against these judicial that there is• capital seeking investment in Govern- and bigoted murders, till now so common in Turkey, ment securities at this time to the whole amount of until he had procured a solemn and formal undertak the Three per Cents., viz., for England, Three per ing from the Porte that they would not be again per- Cent. Consolidated Annuities, Reduced ditto, Debt to mitted. Bank of England, and South Sea Company Old and This document has been given with certain forma- New ditto. Annuities; S. S. Annuities and Bank, issi es , all, too, which are well calculated t o increase its 497,329,000/. ; for Ireland, 2,818,0001. —in say actual authority and its influence among the native 500,147,000/. Now, this is pretty well. It would, in I subjects of the Porte. We subjoin a brief extract practical operation, give such a value to the remain- from the correspondence of a Morning Contemporary ing portion of the debt in the nature of increased on this subject : Interest, as would speedily enable the Government to " CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 20.—Yesterday evening, reduce the dimensions of the Colossus to those of the a note identique was transmitted by the Porte to the minute "General Thoma 3 Thumb," the last favoured English Ambassador, and the Minister s of France and Prussia. ,The contents of this communication, which object of Royal curiosity. The expectations of the has reference to the demands of England, France, and Herald, we presume, greatly exceed our moderate Prussian the relig ion subject are of executions or causes con he - dealing with this bagatelle of 500, 14 7, 000 /. In 1749, 11 , ect , o teed declares i f sfactory.. T i that, desirous of proving that its n says our Contemporary, the Three-and-a-Half per stitutions are not incompatible with the =into- Cents. were at par, the public debt being no more 1 nanwecers oft friendly itself that no relations with acts , t o e the Christian than 78,000,00 0 /. 1 Po pledges !of those objected to, shall aga in take place. This so " This proved that there were rich men enough—and rich enough—in the country to purchase or to possess i l declaration will, no doubt, afford sincere pleasure 8,000,000/. ; at present the debt is, we believe, 1 to every friend of peace, civilisation, and religious liberty . it is a great triumph in the cause of humanity, 750,000,0001., and the Three per Cents. are again at par ; and i s f u —does not this prove something like a tenfold increase moreover,most _ in the wealth of the country ?" po li tical ' consequences to the Porte. The three Powers ' , above-mentioned having intimated that they would That is,—carrying out his own argument to its withdraw their friendship and protection if the Porte legitimate extent, that, with a similar price of rejected their demands, it follows, as a matter of course, Three per Cents. in 1844 as in 1749, there that they are bound to befriend and su pp ort it to the best of their ability, now that it has made this noble must be " rich men enough—and rich enough—in effort to comply with them. The same straightforward this country to purchase or to possess 752,000,0001." policy that required the sacrifice will strictly fulfil the On the same principle it • would follow that if obligations it has imposed. The Porte may now look in 1815, when the National Debtstood at 864,000,000 k, twhiotshecronoifideernc.eatoodtheejyaoizp,t aasndevceorrydtihailhagssinisttahnecepoof —the Threes had risen to par, there would have litical horizon seems to indicate, it had never more need been " rich men enough—and rich enough—in of their friendly intervention than at this moment !" this country to purchase or possess," in the way of in- If anything could add to the gratification we de vestment, even that fearful aggregate of capital stock. rive from the " triumphant conclusion," as the writer But remembering that, on the aggregate of the last four terms it, to which Sir STRATFORD CANNING has years of the war, from 1812 to 1815 inclusive, the brought this delicate but important business, it would amount of money raised on the country had been, in be that we find he was most ably seconded and as taxes, 300,183,3291.; in loans 187,525,8061.; (collec- - sisted in . his measures by the Minister of France at tively, 487,709,135/., or per annum 121,927,2831.); the Porte, the Baron BOURQUENEY. It is an en we really take leave to doubt the correctness of the nobling spectacle to see the representatives of two assumption to which our Contemporary's theory in- mighty Powers, sinking all conflicting pretensions evitably leads. At the same time we quite concur connected with the minor interests and affairs com with him that to consider the total increase of the mitted to their charge, and thus making common wealth, or available capital of the kingdom to be ask- cause in a vigorous and successful appeal on behalf of quately measured by the test of the quantity of stock outraged humanity. uncancelled, concurrently with the Three per But if we turn from the metropolis of "Islam," and Cents. rising to par, would be a very absurd error. its occasional brutal sacrifices of an individual - Chris- For, he adds : tian or so, to the proud capital, or the more ancient "Foreign loans, railroads, docks, shipping, great provincial cities, of the "Most Catholic" of all the mo buildings, and machinery for merchandise and manu- narchies of Christendom, what shall we see there at factures ; all these have been drains of capital assisting to keep down the price of public securities , but nearly this day ? Christian soldiers a nd civilians butchered " in cold blood, or shot by sections under the orders all of them additions to the wealth of the country. We pass, however, to a startling specimen of the and by the hands of compatriots, also calling them `' post hoc—ergo propler hoc"—reasoning of a thick selves Christian menl We shall see the state•tna and thin upholder of the Premier's administration of jority of a young Queen, and the return from exile affairs in the following passage : of her mother, severally signalised by the most san " The Three per Cents. have risen in value 12 per guinary excesses of political vengeance ! Why cent. since Sir Robert Peel's accession to office (the should not England and France accredit a solemn Whigs had indeed reduced them three per cent. by their embassy to the Court of Spain, insisting sternly on wretched misgovernment) ; but is there any good reason the present cessation and future extinction of these why the present price must be the maximum? Why may not the Three per Cents. rise 10 or 12 per cent. more atrocious crimes, in the name of all Europe, and in in price in the years before us?" the eause of European peace ? Are the ruling autho- If the policy of Sir ROBERT has had anything to rities of Spain more cowardly, more bigoted, more do with the vast accumulations of relieved or unem- bloodthirsty—less Christian, in short—than those of ployed capital which are now pouring into the market, Mahommedan Turkey, that it is assumed they would "not only from the treasure of our own capitalists, but turn a deaf ear to all such remonstrances? Or are from foreigners seeking investment here for their the Spanish people so much more debased and bar money,—Mr. MURPHY, of weather-wisdom notoriety, barons than the Turks, that it is supposed they would has grave cause of complaint against all who dispute resist such an intervention of France and England on his private intimacy with the genii of the winds and behalf of human nature ? the waters, who cram him for his almanack. " The wind bloweth where it listeth," however, despite Mr. MURPHY; and the rise of Consols has at least as little to do with the profound management of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Our Contemporary might have found a better reason for the steady, upward tendency of prices of stock for some months past, to which he directs atten tion, in the principle he 'sent touches upon. He GENERAL TOlll THUMB, the American Dwarf, under the 'especial patronage of her Moat Gracious Majesty the Queen, his Royal Higlmess Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Keut, the Queen of the Belgians, &c. &c., exhibiting every Day and Evening, previous to ct,iting Paris, in CATLIN'S spacious INDIAN GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, from Eleven to One, Two to Five, and Half-past Six to Niue o'Clock. This wonderful Man in miniature weighs only FIFTEEN POUNDS, and [smaller than any infant that ever waked alone. JOC-O-SOT, the Sauk Chief, deci dedly the finest Indian that has visited Europe, is also present at each Exhibition, illustrating the Dances, &c„ of his Tribe. Admission One Shilling, without regard to age. The General continues to wait on the Nobility and Gentry at their regdences, on due notice. Third Edition.—Now ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., OR I THE DAYS DA E YS 0}; e it HARL I Es A IL S; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. • THIRD EDITION. Also, Just published, A SECOND EDITION of " CHATSWORTH ; or, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK." Edited by the Author of " " De Were," &c., 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Immediately, in one elegant volume, of about 500 pages, price 159 bound, THE MILITARY ANNUAL; Combining HISTORY, STATISTICS, BIOGRAPHY, an OBITUARY, SOL DIER'S ALMANAC, Sze. Rte. By the Author of " The Artillerist's Manual," Acc. Every effort will be exerted to render this work a truly useful Military compendium, and a welcome adjunct to the library of every officer. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Bmttron tor Easter. ENEFIT OF M. DUPREZ. It is respectfully anr.ounced, that, the Administration of to Acaderaie Royale, Paris, having consented to a prolongation of the tone of M. Duprez, this eminent Artiste will sing Three Nights in the Easter Week. THIS EVENING, APRIL 10, Will be performed the opeca of THE FAVORITE, commencing with the second act. Ferdinand, M. Duprez ; Leonora, Miss Romer After which, MY WIFE'S COME. To conclude with the last act of the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL Arno'd, Duprez ; Gessler, Mr. G. Horncastle; William Tell, Mr. itretton ; Lutern, Mdlle. Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 6r.. lecond Price 3s. ; Pit Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery 25., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MN. BENJAMIN W ERSTE R, LESSER. Return of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. THIS EVENING, AND DURING THE WEEK. Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck , Mrs liumby. After which, a New Comic Drama, en titled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Iticheville, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Frantine, Madame Vestris. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled TH E DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Even.ng with Putt: Pricipal Charters b Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Eland, Mr. Caulfield, n Mrs. Glov ac er, Mis y s P. Horton, and Wee Lee. To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed " Le Petit Mercure." Orchestra Stalls, as. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, 25.; VTper Gallery, Is. Half.price—Boxes, ; Pit Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Gii. Doors opened at Half-past Siix, and the Performances cornmeAce at Seven Mr. W. Farren will appear on Monday, April 1.5, as 34' Pete Teazle, in the SI:bool for Scandal. rickets and Places to be had of Mr L I'. Archer, at the Bei ' oiler, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATR.E, OXEORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. 'MADDOX. Great Attraction for the Holidays. THIS EVENING, APRIL 10, Will be performed the Petite Drama, called THE GREEK SLAVE. Sir Henry Norton, Mr. Fitzjames; Dr. Robertson, Mr. Granby ; Lo-d Betton, Mr. Higgie ; Zalda (the Greek S are), Madame Eugenie Prosper. After which; MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALEIELDS WEAVER. 'ln conclude with a new Fairy Btrrlesque Extravaganza, called FAIR STAR; or THE SUN-GING ,APPLE,..4ND.THE DANCING %:ATERS. The principal - citiracters 'Messy. Wright, Paul Bedford, Oxbarry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue. Belgian Bank ... Belgian Fives THEA fRE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, April 10 an Address by Mrs. Keeley. After which, wi'l be repeated a New Comedietta, in Two Acts entitled /I ASTY CONCLUSIONS. l'rinipal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, c and Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley. fo he follt.wed by a New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST OF HONOUR. Characters by Mess , s. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, J. Collier, Stanton, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the 'I heatre Royal, Attelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Miss Grove. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Burlesque Fairy Extra vaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. ( ha. rat-leis by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Mis Grove, Mts. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother , and Mrs. Keeley, essrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Vrigan, Yarnold, and C haplin.M PRICES OF ADMISSION.—First Price—"oxes, 45.; Upper foxes, Ss. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes , 2s . ; Upper Boxes, Is tice.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony I ier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier" (ho (sing eight pelsor.s), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. Free Ad mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly Tiansferrable Free Tickets (for the first forty nights), Three Guineas. Doors open at Half-past Six. Performances begins at Seven o'Clock • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 10. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE of ARTS (under the management and sole proprietor ihip of Mr. BATTY), with its Treble Rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacles, and unequalled Scenes of the Circle, and Batty's Matchless Stud of beautittil Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c. Mr. Batty begs respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and public that, encouraged, by the flattering success during the past year, and finding the Theatre not suffi ciently commodious for its numerous p"-.trans, he entered into an extensive arrangement with Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi— nent builders of Lambeth, for the re-cons'ructing on a magnificent and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre, which has been rebuilt, dress boxes enlarged, upper boxes widened, arid pit and galleries ex tirisively improved. Fourteen glass lusties are added, aid a Grecian dome ceiling, with entirely new sp'entlid classic decorations, and gorgeous apppaintments, which, with the ti st-rate talent to he offered, he presumes cannot fail of obtaining that support so literally bestowed on his endeavours during the last season. The grand Easter national Spectacle will combine all the splendid historical effects of the Noonan Conquest of England, produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olympique will in. traduce un quailed equestrian tale.st, and the dou ,le company com prise talent of the highest older. The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances Commence at seven . l3ox-othoe will beopened on Saturday, April 0, and continue so daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. .------ - OAT IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEM RE. The most splendid Easter Entertainment ever presented—Everything New—Supt orted by the First Talent in the World. Tflli EVE:4INi*, APRIL Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, which the entire Company will perform. After which (First Time), 111 E SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup ported by all the leading Favourites of the Establishment. To which wi I be added the Wonderful Performance of Herr lIESIGLER on the Corde Eisstique, and the Carlo Family in their Unrivalled Gs mnastiques. To conclude with (never acted), a Drama of peculiar construction, entitled BARAK. JOHNS iN ; or, The Blind Witness. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. from Eleven to Four. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 2d inst. Within the three preceding days, there had been many rumours circulating of a change in the Cabinet; but they are strongly denied by the Ministerial jour nals, which assert that the Cabinet was never more united, or more resolved to go on with the plans it has formed for the " salvation of the country." The Following titles and dignities are to be dis tributed among the Members of the Ministry : GONZALES BRAVO is to be created Marquis de la Lealtad ; CARRASCO, Marquis de Santa Olaya; Pon, rim.° to be Marquis de Casa Portillo. Of the other Ministers, the Home Minister (the Marquis of PENA. FLORIDA) has already a title; and MAZARREDO will be a Marquis, through his father. MAYANS, the Mi nister of Justice, is said to be obstinately opposed to the new titles, and will neither accept one for himself, nor retain office, if his colleagues persist in their views on the subject. General NARVAEZ is to be created a grandee, and Duke of Ardoz, the place where SEOANE'S troops went over to him; and Gene ral RONCALI is to be rewarded for the purchase of Alicant and the surrender of Carthagena, by being created Count of the former place and Duke of the ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Great Novelty and new Engagements. THIS EVENING, APRIL 10, • Will be repeated . L New Drama, called EONTINE; or 'SIXTEEN YEARS AGO i Fitzarlington, Mr. Osbaldiston; Ar. thur, Mr. C. J. Bird (his first appearance); Mat, Mr. Freer ; Paul, Mr. retie, his first appearance) ; Emii.tine, Miss Vincent. With the Grand Fairy Ballet of ONDINE; byl Mr. Frampton and his Pupils. After which, a Melo.Drams, entitled, THE BRIDGE OF KEHL. (iervase, Mr. Freer; Darv.lle, Mr. Nantz; Albeit, Mr. C. J Bird ; Eugene, Mr. Seaman; Von Glotzen, Mr. James; "Valance, Mr. Da'e; Phillips, Mr. Paul ; Madelon, Miss Salter, (her llrst appearance) ; Isabella, Mrs. G. Lee. To conclude with THE ICE WITCH. Harold, (the Sea. King) Mr. Nantz ; Magnus Snoro, Mr. Gardner ; Hecla, Miss. Arden; Miss Stephens (her first appearance) ; Minna, Miss Maker; Frcyer, Miss Hicks, (her first appearance) ; Thuds, Mrs. C. Lee, &c., . says : " After all that England has suffered and toiled to maintain her public faith, there never will be a question of the inviolability of her engagements." With this fact in her favour, and the impressive commentary supplied by the contrary course of cer tain continental Monarchies in Europe, and repu diating States on the other 'side of the Atlantic, no thing is more natural than that capital for safe in vestment should flow hitherward ; and in such plenty as proportionably to raise the price of the securities in which it has been determined to invest it. We will now endeavour to answer the question of our Contemporary, as to why the " Three per Cents. should not rise twelve per cent. more in price in the years before us ?" That is, supposing the country is really to be blessed, according to his prayer, with an indefinite prolongation of the PEEL premiership and policy. It is evident that nothing would have sustained us through the awful crisis of the last war —that no monetary system would have sufficiently represented the wonderfully developed resources of the country, but the now deprecated paper issues of the Bank of England and our other banks of-issue. The conviction, on the one hand, of the immeasurably superior amount of real wealth, and the substance of capital, in the United Kingdom over its funded and unfunded debt—on the other hand, the reliance entertained by one class of the community in Great Britain on the moral pro bity of the other—gave confidence to all in the general solvency of those sources (especially the supe rior ones) from whence the paper representatives of that capital and wealth were diffused. Public credit, however subject to chimerical alarms occa sionally, was never substantially shaken, from 1797 till 1819, when PEEL'S Currency Bill shook it throughout its whole relations. If Sir ROBERT really proposes to close up the joint-stock banks now existing, by giving to the Bank of Eng land the exclusive privilege of being a bank of issue ; if he will mate his enormous blun der of 1819 with a still more rash and stupendous folly in 1844 ; if he have determined on crippling the gigantic energies of our commerce by continuing to contract its limbs and circumscribe their action with the golden fetters of his currency plan ; he will assuredly not remain in power as many months after Easter as our kind-hearted Contemporary speculates upon years. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, THIS EVENING, April 10, the GREAT WIZARD OF THE NOIITII will re.ascend his MYSTIC THRONE, and com mence his NEW SCIENCES of MODERN MIRACLES, which have no parallel in the world. In addition to the Wizard's Per formances, MR. 11 A. LONE RAYMOND, the successful repre sentative of Irish Characters, from the Thcatre Royal, Haymarket will give his original Entertainment, entitled AN HOUR IN IRELAND, assisted by MRS. MAI.ONE RAYMOND, MISS LINLEY, and MR. SMICIL Boxes, 3s. Pit. 13.6 d. Gallery, Ed. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Daors open at Seven, the Performances commenceat half -past. latter. It is reported that M. de BRESSON has strongly recommended the conferring of the above titles, and that Louis PHILIPPE has sent the cordon of the Legion of Honour to NARVAEZ, RONCALI, MAZAR REDO, and GONZALES BRAVO. The political chief, BENAVLDES, has lately been created Commendador of the same Order, and it is reported, that if the Mar quis of PENAFLORIDA leaves the Ministry, he «ill enter it in his stead. CHRISTINA, it is rumoured, is strongly inclined to grant a very comprehensive amnesty, one more exten sive; indeed, than NARVAEZ approves. The QUEEN MOTHER wishes to exclude from it no one but DON CARLOS, while NARVAEZ insists on the exclu sion of ESPARTERO and others. Her MAJESTY seems to entertain some kindly feelings towards the exiled LOVE'S POLYPH')NIC ENTERTAINMENTS, CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. Mr. LOVE has the honour to announce that he will present HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and LP:C(1111ES on LIFE and CHARACTER. every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty, which has been long in preparation, with entirely New and Appr— priate Mutative Costumes and Appointments. Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening. On MONDAY, MIRTH AND MARVELS; w.th A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHINO ; and other Entertainments On WEDN.'; DAY, LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; with MINE HOST'S DILEMMAS; and other Entertainments. On FRIDAY, LOVE IN ALL SHAPES; with LOVE'S LA. b 0 UR'S LOST; and other Entertainments. Particulars in Handbills. Doors open at Half-past Seven; begin at Eight. Admission, Is. 6d.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to v THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely Illustrate, In the most in structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive . and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, Auld THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that It ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian Hall." Piccadilly, daily front Ten till Dusk. REGENT ; for a poetaster of Valencia having pre sented her with a fulsome ode of congratulation, in which he termed ESPARTERO a coward and a traitor, she expressed her great displeasure at the insult offered to his name, and declared the charges to be utterly false and unfounded. The state of affairs in Portugal may be surmised from the following document, which has appeared in the Government journals at LiQbon !-- " To the 23d of April next all the individual guaran tees throughout the kingdom are suspended, and the Government is empowered to make arrests without legal process. During this term no journal, periodical, or writing, put in print or lithographed, can he published, excepting literary and scientific journals, and the Diario of the Government. The Ministers and Secretaries have thus determined, and ordered the execution of this decree. (Signed) " THE QUEEN. " Countersigned by all the Ministers." THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 63 ; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, 30 4.-WEID, NV, NOTC--The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. G:1 WATER. AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 9. minutes after 7 I Evening ... 36 minutes after - - ,The friends of humanity throughout the civilized world, may congratulate themselves on the signal success which appears to have attended the efforts of our Ambassador to the Sublime Porte to put an end to those excesses of fanatical bigotry against professors of the Christian faith, which have so long disgraced, and so recently polluted, Constantinople. Our readers will not have forgotten, among other instances of Mohammedan intolerance, the cold-blooded execution ....?-._ --.. -;•-• - ____• _ . imik. of an Armenian (if we rightly remember) which oc ott, betning :- -- ... 1. nit coned in the capital of Turkey only a few months ago. The unhappy victim had been artfully betrayed into the expression, in some way or other, of a desire to become a Mussulman ; and, under the impression Perha s the most remarkable even t of that portion ---0--- that the whole affair was one merely of banter or jok ofp the p resent ear which has et ela ed - is, that ing, he fatally assumed the turban for a day or two. yesterday p the y yet price of the Three per Cent. If he really meant but a joke in doing this, he began o th er words, that Consols att a i ne d t o par , to find that it was but a sorry one; if he had been in ' 1001. cash wer e p a id for 1001. of this description of si ncere in proposing to change his faith , he speedily stock ! In every point of view this fact.must be re - thought better of it. In two da y s h e resumed his garded as one of th e - very hi hest de" roe of interest Armenian-Christian habiliments , a n d doffed his tur and importance. It marks a point the financial, ban. For this last act of cont umac y he was denounced g ili ; the social, and the politi ca l hi s t ory o f t h e em pire, by some bigot neighbours taken before the Cadi ; from which. we shall he enabled to estimate, with denounced by the Mollah ; and sentenced to be deca more precision and a better-informed judgment than t ated. Sir STBATFoItIx CANNING, the moment that we could otherwise have hoped to bring to the sub. the affair came to his knowledge, accompanied by re f The Miguelites are said to be taking advantage of the confusion into which public affairs have been thrown. Pamphlets have been published and circu lated advocating the restoration of MIGUEL to the Throne of Portugal. It is these writings which have probably caused the above decree, which totally an • nihilates anything like freedom of discussion. The Diario of the 30th ult., gives a statement of the expenditure in the different departments during the preceding month. Among the items of payment the following have some interest here : " Payment of the Duke of Victoria (Lord Wel lington), for the year 1843, 7- contos and 200 milrees." " Ditto of the Count of Cape St. Vincent (Commodore Napier), second half-year of 1843, falling due in January, 1 conto 200 milrees." The official list of pensioners and public officers of 1841 specifies the particulars as to date and amount. The Duke of Wel lington had a pension of 8 contos a year, payable in island money, conferred on him by a decree of the 3d of May, 1811, in sterling 1,6201: per annum, amounting in the aggregate for the last 33 years to the sum of 53,4601. sterling. The pension of the Count Cape St. Vincent was conferred by a decree of the 25th of April, 1835, 2 contos 400 milrees, say 5401. sterling. The pension of Lord Beresford of 16 contos a year (in island money) was conferred by a decree of the 13th February, 1824, in sterling 3,240/. a year. For several years the pension of, and the pay likewise of, his Lord ship, as a general officer, of 666 milrees a month, fell into arrears, payment having been pressed for 40840' SECOND EDITION. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1844. TFiril SUN, LerNDON, WEDNESDAY :EVENING, APRIL I tts44, all his claims up to January, 1841, were settled, when .his Lordship received 96,0001. in bills, which were duly paid. The pay and pension again fell into arrears, which the Government are now paying off by monthly instal ments. The amount of the pension for a period bf 29 years, would be about 64,8001., less of late years by the amount of the decimal tax. Easter Monday being observed as a close holiday at Paris, very few of the journals were published on that day, and these contain no domestic news of much importance. In the Courrier Francais, however, we find intelligence from _Constantinople to the 20th ult., which_ shows that the Government of the Porte had at length listened to the advice—and, we be lieve, also threats—of the English and French Am bassadors. The answer of the Porte was given on the 19th, and the Government promises, in the most positive manner, no longer to inflict the punishment of death on renegades. As to the religious law, no mention is made of it. The Porte also promises to treat Christians kindly. The two Ambassadors, how ever, do not consider these concessions satisfactory, and they demand, in addition, that renegades shall not be got rid of by poison or by any other under hand practices. It was added, that though capital punishment would no longer be inflicted, renegades, however, would be condemned to the galleys for life. Nearly the same account appears in the journal de Frankfort, with the exception that the Porte had not announced its intention of inflicting the punishment of the galleys on renegades. Another journal of Monday states that letters had been received at Constantinople, which give frightful accounts of the excesses committed by the Albanian troops in Thessally, Macedonia, and Bul garia, against the Christians. These atrocities are caused by the fanatical hatred of Mussulmans against the Christian races. Accounts from St. Petersburgh of the 19th March, state that the EMPEROR would proceed to Vienna in the month of May, and that he bad given up all thoughts of repairing to Circassia to superintend the movements of the army. The Cologne Gazette pub lishes a letter from Berlin, of the 30th ult., which contradicts the report that the treaty of extradition, in the case of deserters, had been renewed between Russia and Prussia. The French funds continued firm. THE BOURSE--MONDAY, APRIL 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents.• .• 123 20 .. 123 40 123 20 .. 123 35 FourperCents.. •••• 106 10 10G 10 .. 106 10' 106 10 Three per Cents.— 83 20 .• 83 25 .• 83 15 .. 83 25 Bank of France • • .3100 ..3100 ..3090 ..3095 Laffitte Bank, I,ooof Shiresll7o .. 1170 —1165 ..1165 5,000 f Shiresslso ..5150 ..5150 • •5150 ..... ••• 665 665 • • 665 .. 665 1021 .. 1021 .. 102 .. 1021 • • ••• 105 f .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 :. 1071 .. 1071 1071 1071 ?anisli Active ....... 3it .. 341 34f .. 341 Threes •• •••• • Passive .••.•• • • .... fif •. 61 • • 61 • . 61 New Deferred ...... 151 .. 151 • • 151 • . 151 Portuguese Five per Cents 47 • • 47 • • 47 .. 47 Neapolitan .. • ....... 101 30 .• 101 30 • • 101 30 .• 101 30 Roman • • - 1051 .. 1054 RAILWAY SHARES. 385 .. 385 370 .. 370 266 25 .. 270 •• 242 50 .. 242 50 Rouen • • • • • • •• • - 947 50 .. 947 50 .• 947 50 .. 947 50 Rouen to Havre. Orleans . 920 .. 920 .. 917 50 .. 917 50 Strasburg to Bale• ••• • 276 25 230 • • 276 55 .. 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles...... 758 75 .. 758 75 • • 758 75 .. 758.75 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles,:lt.l l 385 • • 385 • • 360 • • 360 L.B. 265 .. 270 .. 240 240 Rouen ••••• • • • • • 945 .• 950 • 945 .. 945 Rouen to Havre. Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 270 .. 280 .. 270 .. 275 Avlgnonfto Marseilles— .• .. 757 50 .• 755 50 • . 755 .. 755 1840 . 1842 . - ersallles, 11.8.. • • ...... MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. ClTk, QUARTER TO THREE. The transactions in Cotton at LiVerpool yesterday were to a fair extent, the sales being 5,000 bales, in eluding 1,000 on speculation. The market was firm at previous rates.—French Railway Shares continued in excellent request, but there was not much doing in other descriptions. Chester and Holyhead were 71; Dublin and Cashel, 6 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 654 ; Cale donian, 51 • South-Western, Eighths, 41. 16F. 6d. ' • Man chester and Birmingham, 49 4; North Midland, Half, 454; Paris and Lyons, V. is. ,• Paris and Orleans, 36 / 1 ; South-Eastern, 341 ; Paris'and Strasburg, 31. 16s. 3d. ; Strasburg and Bale, 114. There are advises to a late date from Buenos Ayres this morning, but the intelligence is merely of local interest. if our information be correct, there are some grounds for the belief that a modified and beneficial tariff will be passed shortly in favour of British manu factures. We are without any colonial arrivals this morning. The circular of the Messrs. Railton and Son, of Man chester, thus advises the public : " At a stirring time like the present, when persons professing to act as agents or brokers, attach their names to Parliamentary contracts, it is essential for the public to learn from every professional agent or broker, whether such be the case or not. At the present time, also, we would guard the public against the effect of forcing shares to a premium, which, in too many cases, is liable to mislead the unwary ;. whilst the first adventurers not unfrequently secure themselves--even before an Act is obtained—against the discounts that generally follow. An unsuspecting individual may readily be influenced to his own detriment, by a mistaken confidence in the advice he receives. The violence of the spirit now on foot, aided by the instrumentality of jobbers, cannot fail eventually to playe deluded persons in a position they neither contemplated nor expected ; while others (who never at first intended it, being induced to sell through excessive premiums), may turn to account additionally th e discounts that ensue. Thus circumstanced, persons having to do with railway property, either as buyers or sellers, require the utmost circumspection, while this state of things con tinues, to keep their interests in a right line. There has been a good business during the last week, parti cularly in small stock, and prices have been well sup ported ; also for Eastern Counties, Birmingham and Gloucester, and Manchester and Birmingham?' The money market is is all buoyancy, and the invest ments of a portion of the dividends, added to the con tinued Savings Bank purchases, leads to a rise in everything. Consols have touched 1001 er to yesterdayaeren to 1031 and 104 i ; the Re ; the New Ihree-and-a adildua‘erleafcnipeeTe n per Cents. per netsehv Cents, ex divid en d, to par ; and Bank Th e Foreign Bonds are dull. Spanish Actives at 2 . 61 to 26i; the Three per Cents. a t 37 to 37i; Portuguese scarcity Stock, 11) r o fAStock c count, to 2031- to 2041. There is a great . Converted at 46 to 46i; Mexican at 354 to 364; and Brazilian at 804 to 81. Generally, therefore, prices are rather better, although with little doing except in Mexia 'can, which attracts some attention. Dutch Two-and• a- Half per Cents. have risen to 61 and 614, and the Five per Cents. to 1001 to 100-1. Shares generally are a little flat, though not expected to continue so. The French lines are firmer. BRITISH FUNDS THIS Official Lis DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the t.) Bank Stook . 20034 £OO 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities WOO. 3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lO3 3% per Cent.tßeduced Annuities 102% 10351 New 3% per Cent. Annuities 103% 10454 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. Bank Stock for Account 203% 204% 203% Cons ols for Account IOIA 906 India Stock Bills 294% :491 Exchequer , 1 9i 6. I)6d 1,0001. 50 0/ Dltto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 ....... Slexican Bonds, 1 637, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto Debentures Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. — Dltto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 644 Ditto for the Account 4654 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 26}4 Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto Deferred 61 Dutch 254 per Cents Ditto for the Account 6 1 14 Dutch 5 per Cents 100 % 14% Ditto for the Account. New Loan 1837, 5 per Cent 5......• lOOO6 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAI A D. PER SHARE B ir mingham and Gloucester.... 100 Bristol and Gloucester ........... ...• 30 Caledonian 5 2% 6 to 5 % Dublin and Cashel ••• 23 Eastern Counties . ...... . ............ % Ditto New Registered...... 81. tis..Bd. i l l s. 4d.... 1% Ditto Edinbur 66 Edinburgh Perpetuala n d G l Ditto Registered .................. 12% ...... 16% Great Western ............... ... ..... 75 Ditto 14 Shares Ditto litths .... , ............... .... 12 Harrowgate ai.d ..... esboro' ... 3 - Hull and Selby , ...... • ................ 50 Lancaster and Carlisle .........."•" 5 atgPeowr e . f . ............ I 5 London and Brighton . ............. 50 London and Croydon (Tiun . k)... 134 i ..... 161( Norwich and Brandon .. . ........ 2 Newcastle and Darlington ....... 18 Northern and Eastern ............... 45 North Midland ........................ 100 Paris and Orleans .. ................ ... '..0 Paris and Rouen ........................ 20 Rouen and Havre. . ................... . 8 South Eastern and Dever ...... ... 32 Strasburg and Basle ........ . ...... 14 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 9.—We have Blackburn and, ; 4 1 had a very good market to - day , and considerable busi nGersasnhda Junctions beet na ransalcf,teldr;tt; e following quotations : Lancaster and Preston, 38i to j; 4 Manchester and Birmingham, 49 to 49* ; North Union, 107* to* ; Paris and Rouen, 37 ; South Eastern, 34-1 ; South Western, 83 to 831 ; Ditto, One-Eighth Shares, 41 ; Dublin and Cashel, 51 to 6 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3s. to 3 3-16 ; Caledonian, 51 ; Chester and Holyhead, 7/ ; Eastern Counties, 13-i ; Huddersfield Canal, 21 to 204. " DRINE."—Mr. Justice Erskine, at the Salisbury Assizes, when sentencing a gentleman to six months' hard labour, for a _crime committed through strong drink, declared that 99 out of every 100 criminal cases were from the same causes. Judge Coleridge, at the Oxford Assizes, said he never knew a case brought be fore him which was not directly or indirectly connected with intoxicating liquors. Judge Patteson, at the Nor wich Assizez, said to the grand jury , " If it were not for this drinking, you and I should have nothing to do." 4 , -?t 46- 7' • • ;i 4 A O* *V"' - • 2; '..‘"" ' • 4.. • .44,111111611 '; , „ 4 ; - ". SU ':I VARY OF MEWS AND ilAtbitc Optlttott. 1170 runs may read.' runny:lN. We learn from Belgrade that the Emperor of Russia. has conferred upon the Sovereign Prince Alexander the title a Serene, and that the Ottomnn Porte has decided that in future this title shall be given to the Prince in all the diplomatic intercourse with him. The Algerie announces that, in the Bordj of Biskra, there has been found a piece of cannon of the time of Henry IL, bearing the date of 1549, with the cypher and crescent of Diana of Poictiers. The Duke de Montpensier, as captain of artillery, will bring it to France. It is stated in a letter from Milan, March 25, that the Archduchess Maria Louisa of Parma, has, by a decree the 20th, re-established the Order of the Jesuits in her states, and authorised the opening of a Jesuit convent at Parma. It has also been decided that the Jesuits are to be charged with the duty of secondary instruction. During the last month the number of passengers be tween France and England, who embarked from and landed at Boulogne, amounted to 3,329. At Calais the number during the same period was 1,001. The Memorial Bordellis announces that the camp which was proposed to be formed this summer in the Landes, under the command of the Duke de Nemonrs, will not take place, owing to the want of a sufficient sup ply of wholesome' water in that loeality for the troops. The Augsburg Gazette states that letters from Con stantinople, and from the frontiers of Servia, speak of revolting excesses committed by the Albanian troops in Thessaly, Macedonia, and Bulgaria, against the Chris tians. It is said that these atrocities are caused by the fanatical hatred of those soldiers against the Christians. A fetter. from St. Petersburgh, March 19, in the Augsburg Gazette, mentions a rumour that the Emperor and Empress of Russia are to leave for the baths of Bohemia in the mouth of May. The Emperor will also proceed to Vienna. The same letter contradicts the re port that the Emperor is about to repair in person to Circassia. A letter from'Carlsrithe states, that the fortifications of Enstadt are proceeding actively. In three years the town will be transformed into a fortified place, and 3,300 troops are to be kept there in time of peace. LAW AND POLICE. At the Old Bailey a tree bill has been returned against all the parties implicated in the late will forgeries, with the exception of Griffin, who has been admitted a wit ness for the Crown. In the New Court several petty cases were disposed of. A lengthened inquiry took place before Mr. Jardine, at Bow-street, upon a summons which had been granted to Ralph Reeve, a pauper in the Strand Union work house, charging .James Bunyard, the porter of the house, with having violently assaulted him without the least provocation. The charge nut. being borne out by evi dence, the summons was dismissed. John Turner was charged at Marylebone, by a pretty looking young woman, named Charlotte Thompson, with i'oraing himself into her house. The defendant was a discarded lover, and after gaining admittance into the dwelling, he wr'. given into custody. On the_ way to the station-house, he bit the policeman in the hand. He was fined 20s, Mary Walsh was charged, at Union-hall, with stabbing a young man, named John Campbell, in the eye, with a pair of scissors. The complainant is likely to lose the sight of one of his eyes from the serious nature of the wound he received. He was fined :;/., and, in default of payment, sent to gaol. Vralicis Penny was charged, at the same office, with excessive brutality to a donkey, which he had borrowed to let out on hire to holiday folks on Easter Monday. The poor animal, which was at the door of the Court, exhibited marks of the brutal usage it had experienced at the hands of its cruel master, and a sharp pointed stick was produced, covered with blood, the instrument with which it was inflicted. A penalty of 40s. was impost d. William Hatter and John Thompson, two well-dressed young men, the latter wearing a watch and gold chain, and the former a valuable gold pin, who were recognised as notorious thieves, were charged, at Greenwich, with breaking into the dwelling-house of Samuel Brightley, of Cross-field-lane, Lower-road, Deptford. They were committed. A man was brought up, at Hammersmith, in charge, as a confirmed lunatic, whose place of settlement is un known. His delusions were all of a political character, and to every question as to his name, he answered " Henry, Lord Brougham." He was ordered to be taken to the asylum at Hanwell. COUTIT—PASMONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and Miss Percy are expected to arrive at Northumberland House, to-day or to-morrow, from Alnwick Castle, for the season. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Louisa Churchill, left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, on Monday, for Blenheim. His Grace the Duke of Cleveland arrived at the Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury, on Sunday evening. We believe that his Grace intends passing several weeks in this neighbourhood, on a visit to the different gentry. On Monday morning he left the above inn, for Sundorne Castle. Lord and Lady Ponsonbv left Great Stanhope-street, yesterday, to pass the holidays at Richmond. Lady Brougham returned to Grafton-street, yesterday, from a visit to her brother, Mr. Arthur Eden, at Wimble don. Lord Brougham is expected in town, from Paris, on Tuesday or Wednesday next. Visciaint and Viscountess Beresiord are entertaining a large and distinguished party at Bedgebury Park, during the Easter recess. Lord Wharneliffe left town on Monday, for his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. CELLANZOTIS. The active Berlin Police Director Dunker, has just discovered at Berlin a nest of swindlers, who were to have established themselves in that city, and amongst other proceedings they had in view, was the issuing and negotiating of forged bills of exchange, on various prin- cipal continental cities. Sir John Soane's Museum has just opened for the season, which extends from April to June, inclusive. It is open to the public every Thursday and Friday, from ten till four, and at the same hour on Tuesdays for foreigners and strangers in London. Admission to be obtained on prior application to the curator. The chief gem of the museum is the splendid transparent alabaster sarcophagus brought by Belzoni from Egypt, which was purchased by the late Sir John Soane from Mr. Salt for 2,000 guineas. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESD AY The supply of English Wheat on show was rather scanty, but fully adi quate to meet the wants of the dealers. Prime samples were disposed of at Monday's quotations, but the middling and inferior descriptions were extremely heavy. In Foreign Grain, both free and in bond, so little was doing that the rates were al most nominal. Barley moved off steadily, at prices quite equal to those noted in our last report. The Malt trade was very dull, but of all other Grain there was a slow sale. ARRIVALS.' Wheat. barley. Oats. Flour. English. 3,470 qrs. 2,830 qrs. 3,590 qrs. 3,23osacks. Irish.. -- - 5,540 - Foreign - alt, 7,320 Us WIIITECICAPEL. We had but a moderate supply of Meat on offer ; while the general demand was steady on the following terms:—Leer, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s Rd; Lamb, :is 2d to 6s 4d; Veal, 3s 2d, to 4s 451; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d, per Sibs., by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY —— - LONDON, APRIL 10.—Wind this day at noon, light westerly breezes and fine. DEAL, Aran. 9.—Wind, light and variable P.M., S. light.— ' Arrd. Syrian, Law, Buenos Ayres. Sld. Oriental and Earl Durham, Bombay ; Isabella Anna, Sierra Leone; Diana a nd Tintern, Barbaes ; Amelia and Lady Sarah Bayley, Jamaica; Beaufort, Honduras,. Susan and Ruby, Quebec. OFF DovER, APRIL 9.—Robert, Charleston, for Antwerp ; her Majesty's ship Vernon, Lisbon. Sid. Marquis Bute, China. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind variable.—Sld. Emma, Miramichi. FALMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind variable and light.—Sld. "Woodbine, Pictou, Nova Scotia. PENZANCE, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Prince date Cobourg, Car diff, fur Stettin, leaky, which it is supposed has since been stopped. JERSEY, APRIL 7.--Sld. Superb, Friendship, Janvein and Fe Isar, Gnve. GLOUCESTER.—SId. Collina, Quebec. BERMUDA, MARCH 23.—The weather has been very bois terous for the last week, and it is now blowing a heavy gale from the westward. The Haidee, of Yarmouth, N.S., was wrecked at St. Pierre, Martinique, on the 4th inst., during a strong easterly wind—materials saved. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 9.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Mary Ilaitlee, Bartlett, Valparaiso ; George Canning, Har vey, Savanilla ; Fanny, Leber„Maceio ; Safeguard, Smith, Galveston ; Abercrombie, Crusader, New Orleans ; San Fran cisco, ; Bilbao ; England. Mobile Pekin, Charleston. Sld. Lea, New York, Scotland and Calcutta, Quebec. The Cordelia, hence to Calcutta, has put back, with damage, having been in contact with the Aurora, for Africa, which has proceeded. FIRE AND SMORE.—A wet silk handkerchief, tied without folding over the face, is, it is said, security against suffocation from smoke; it permits tree breath• ing, and at the same time excludes the smoke from the lungs. FALMOUTH, APRIL 7.—An inquest was held to day at the Temperance Hotel, in this town, on the re mains of Mrs. Ti-ewarnas ' of Penzance, whose husband is owner and in command of the Magic, at present in the port of Dublin, and for which place the deceased had taken her passage on board the Royal William, Dublin steamer. It appeared in evidence that she had left the hotel in apparent perfect health, but that shortly after she got on board the steamer, then in our inner harbour, she exclaimed to the second mate, who was sitting near her, " Oh, how faint I am!" and fell a corpse. - A me dical examination was made at the request of the jury, the result of which was that her sudden death was the consequence of apoplexy. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday morning the Earl of Aboyne was married to Mary Anginnetta Pegus, a daughter of the Countess of Lindsey, at the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, in the presence of several of the friends of both families. The dresses of the young and beautiful bride and the numerous brides maids were extremely rich. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Frederick Pegus, uncle to the bride. After partaking of luncheon at No. 8, Spring-gardens, the happy couple left town for Orton Hall, near Peter borough. THE WI (-4 . I was only liberated 'from the House of Correcti.eoo yesterday evening, was again brought up this CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) day. charged with an aggravated assault .0P" the , * , person of Rementi Epsural Iyauco ore OLD COURT. Spaniard, who could not, unfortunately, speak Enghs o b i This being the day appointed for the trial of the parties and as no one in Court understood Spanish, this part implicated in the forgeries which have recently attracted- the case could not be sustained against the prisoner. so much attention, the avenues of the Old Bailey were, at Sergeant Cumming said that a witness was ill attee' an early hour, crowded with a mass of persons anxious ance at the station-house when the charge was tak en ' to obtain admittance into the court. This was found, who detailed the circumstances ; but she was not at te however, to be a most difficult task, admission, with the Court this morning. The prisoner, when locked I T exception of barristers and those immediately concerned kept shouting throughout the night, to the great al li r . ; ( 1 in the trial, being refused to all who were not armed ance of the ()Tiler prisoners, who were effectually dere' with Sheriffs' tickets. The court was, of coarse, most of a night's rest, by his vociferous exclamations. rapidly filled in a very short period after the doors were Constable 26 D said that when taken to the statl°; opened. All witnesses were ordered to retire to the house the prisoner said, " Oh, old Jack Rawlinson London Coffee-house till called for. be sitting, and I'll be sure to get off." At ten o'clock, Baron Gurney, Justice Williams, and Mr. LONG, who happened to attend this day in* P ee Justice Mettle, took their seats upon the bench. of his brother magistrate, smiled, and remarked thatsll. The Crown was represented by the Attorney-General, prisoner might find his good fortune desert him. Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Sir John Bayley. Prisoner—l've got a witness outside, yer wersehit Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Parry appeared as counsel for Here you covey (to Franklin, the chief usher), just c. im Barber ; Mr. Grave and Mr. Ballantne for Fletcher ; old Moher Crowly, will ye. Mr. Stone and Mr. s Phirn f ur Sanders i ; J a mes for in Mother Crowley was called. She gave" her avaisb le e Mrs. Dorey ; and Mr. Doane for Griffin; who, however, son the best of characters, but knew nothing of the eta it was known, was to be admitted as evidence for the in question. ee • Crown. The prisoner was sent again to the House of Corr' William Henry Barber, Joshua Fkteher,William San- tion fur seven days. ders, and Georgiana Dorey, were first arraigned and pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment, charging them with the forgery of a will purporting to be that of Eliza Bur chard. There were in this indictment eight counts vary ing the charge. Barber ' Fletcher, and Georgiana Threw, were then arraigned upon two other indictments, to which they also severally pleaded Not Guilty. Barber, .Fletcher, Win. Sanders, Lydia Sanders, and Georgiana Dorey, were then arraigned upon another in dictment, charging them with the forgery of the will of Ann Slack, to which they also severally pleaded Not Guilty. These several indictments involved the cases of for gery of the wills and names of Ann Slack, Eliza Bur chard, Mary Hunt, and John Stuart. It having been arranged that Griffin should be ad mitted as an approver, he was not arraigned. The reading of the indictments 'and the arraignment of the prisoners occupied the Court for nearly an hour. Before proceeding to swear the jury, Mr. WILKINS made an application to the Court on behalf of the pri soner Barber, that the trial for the forgery of the will of John Stuart, of Great Marlow, Bucks, should be post poned, on the ground of the absence of the Rev. Mr. Coxwell, of Great Marlow, an essential witness for Bar ber's defence. Affidavits were pnt in, stating that the Rev. Gentle man's life would be endangered by an immediate attend ance in Court, as he was in a state of extreme prostration from recent and severe illness. Baron GURNEY said the Court could grant no favour —that rested in the discretion of the Attorney-General, as representative of the Crown, the prosecutor. A mat ter of right belonged to the Court, but in the affidavits and letters produced no' ground of right had been es tablished. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would be the last man to deprive a prisoner of any means really requisite for his defence. But he could say unfeignedly that he was at a loss to see of what use the Rev. Gentleman could be to Mr. Barber. The affidavits were not regular. Mr. WILKINS admitted thinv was a slight irregularity, but he had had too much experience of the Attorney- General's courtesy to counsel, and consideratilm fur pri soners, not to believe that his request would be com plied with. lie (Mr. Wilkins) best knew Mr. Barber's defence, and the necessity for Mr. Coxwell's presence, and he begged to assure the Court that that presence was of the highest importance to the interest of his client. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, rather than defer this one case until the next day, would prefer to have them all deferred till the morning. After a lengthened conversation, it was suggested by Baron GURNEY, that the letter said to be from the rector of Great Marbw, and on which the affidavits were founded, should be produced, in order that the Court and the Attorney-General might form their own opinion as to its bona fides, of which strong doubt was evidently entertained. A messenger was accordingly dispatched to the chambers of Mr. Bramall (Barber's solicitor), Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, to procure the same. On the return of the messenger, the letter of the Rev. Mr. Coxwell was handed to the Attorney- General who read it to the Court. It was addressed to Mr, Braman, and after acknowledging the receipt of the subpcena, stated the writer's inability from illness to attend, concluding thus :—" Besides I know nothing of the matter except that the remains of John Stuart were interred in Great Marlow Churchyard by me." After another conversation among the counsel and consultation with the Court, Mr. Baron GURNEY said they were of opinion the in dulgence might be granted, but all the trials must be postponed until to-morrow morning, as the Attorney- General had determined to proceed with that of Stuart first. At that time, however, the Court would require all parties to be fully ready to proceed. The prisoners were then removed back to Newgate, and the Court was rapidly thinned of its much disap. pointed visitors. QUEEN-SQUARE.--(THIS DAY.) tirt A great number of persons were charged at this C o g to-day with the commission of various offences, va r Y i fo from drunkenness and disorderly conduct to the el r aggravated species of assault. In fact, the lower Pe ig , that of 'the inhabitants of this district appear to bef ne terinined to enjoy the Easter holidays and the weather, .but it is really lamentable that their elle amusement should be intemperance and riot. From charges of the above nature, we extract the following' • Two decently-dressed young women, one havieg e i. pretty little child in her arms, and whose face bore e.O deuce of her having been recently engaged in a seri g) be t ha conflict, both her eyes being dreadfully bruised, ou face otherwise injured, were placed at the bar, crlilt, with creating a disturbance last night, an d 6, 4 . ing. In answer to the charge, the del e '"di ants stated that they had been to Greenlet fair, and having, with their husbands, drank re,t,oo freely there and on their return to London , they lise':et all recollection of the even:s of the preceding night'. of having inflicted summary punishment on eac h etbs" They were tined 2s. 6d. each. wit) A Sturdy labouring man was next charged is creati a disturbance in the Feathers, a gin pale cel i o , the Broadway, and in conjunction with other p er who escaped, assaulting the landlord and others Or', on the premises. ▪ ees He was fined 205., or -in default of :payment fow days' imprisonment. Frederic Tom linsnn, a fashionably dressed youngeloefl° was charged in the sheet with assaulting James Grah . a professional singer. It appeared that whilst Mr. Graham was rete h op from the place where he is in the habit of vvarmoisi the defendant struck him, at the sani!eel stating that he had taken indecent h try with his the (defendant's) wife. The defendant] 4 01 drunk at the time, and as he had struck the con3Pi o cle by mistake for another person, and made an nie apology for his misconduct, the complainan t We' sirous of withdrawing the charge. ddr. e ll „r The defendant, who gave a fictitious name an,. 5 ; pm when charged, for the purpose, as is said, of 9.10',00 his real name from getting into the nestspap.eres fined 2s. 6d. for being drunk, which was paid. .10ir Eliza Evans, a young woman, was chargedOd garet Smith with assisting another female, who e? yet been taken into custody, with stealing a b4g her reticule, containing 2/. I is. 6d. The prosecutrix stated that :he met the prison e ! 1: 1)4 1 the other woman in the Strand, about twelve etec‘, last night, and being acquainted with them, she tIIIO them to some coflee and other refreshments. .. fi osi walked together until they arrived at a court r: A. ; out of New Tothill-street, where they knock.— down, pulled the reticule from her, and having fib! the bag containing the money, dire* it into le e k ," and ran off. She, however, caught the prisoner Piot shawl, and retained her hold until a policeman eeLY, The prisoner, who denied the charge, was rero, until Monday, to give the police time to trace tu. person implicated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE UNION HALL.—(THIS DAY.) James Dean was charged with having caused the death of William Grubb on the preceding night. It appeared that on the preceding night Grubb and the prisoner were at a public-house called the Coal Smack, at Rotheihithe, the latter person being at the time very much intoxicated and quarrelsome. Grubb struck at the prisoner, who retaliated by striking him in retui n. The landlord hero interfered, and said there should be no fighting in his house, open which the parties went out and began to fight, and the deceased was knocked down. Shortly afterwards he went into the house and exhibit d his eyes, which were very much swollen, and requested the landlord would lance them to allay the inflammation. The landlord, however, refused to comply with the request, desiring the deceased to go to a sur geon. This advice was taken by the deceased, who ac cordingly proceeded to one, who recommended his imme diate removal to the hospital, where it appeared he expired in less than an hour after his admission. The prisoner in his defence said that he was struck by the deceased, and that they fought outside the public house. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that the prisoner's conduct in fighting with a man so intoxicated as the deceased was at the time reflected great discredit upon him ; that if the case did not amount to the crime of murder, it was at all events a charge of very aggravated manslaughter. The Magistrate then remanded the prisoner until an inquest is held on the body of the deceased. --. , . DUTCH MAIL. ....,- cof THE HA G UE, APRIL 6.—The Journal of Liellou"' 1 tains the following article : 0100 " The whole nation will unite its wishes with 00 0, his Majesty, that the remotest posterity mai,i lir to reap the benefits of the sacrifice which has jw ti made to save the country. " On this occasion we cannot help renasx—Wlfiloi active co-operation of the city of Maestricht, in t o 0 11: gi o cess of the loan. This is the more remarkable , La i,,, l that deplorable separation of 1830, Maestricht - w - 0 . 5 constantly declining. The isolation of this evr 4 the unhappy separation of the two cciuntries, w e of which made so fine a kingdom, has caused it I very severely. Yet it has not been deaf to t-b e made to it to save the country. Almost everyb contributed, even persons who would not have bet j to the income-tax. The conduct of Maestrichtf A r occasion, is worthy of the highest praise, and ° ls ' ''' to be forgotten by the Government." " ZWOLLE, APRIL I.—The completion of tb e i i tary loan is one of the most important and la , e in the history of our times, and may be co a st the foundation of a better state of things for w .• in our country." . .- CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) James Gregy was charged with the following outra• geous conduct : George Waddington, the gaoler of the Court, an ac tive and intelligent officer, deposed that on the previous day he was conveying a prisoner from the Court to the Clerk's office, for the purpose of having the depositions taken down, when the prisoner, who was drunk in the passage, seized him by the collar, and dragged him with so much violence, as to oblige him to release the prisoner. Sergeant N 10 came up, and when the ruffian found that he would be overpowered, he seized Waddington's coat between his teeth, and attempted further violence. He shouted so as to disturb and interrupt the proceedings of the Court, and it required the combined exertions of four constables, all of whom he kicked and cuffed on his way, to take him to the station-house. The prisoner, who had been locked up all night, and expressed contrition for his conduct, was sentenced by Mr. COMBS to pay a fine of 55., or seven day's im prisonment. THE ABDUCTION CASE.--This case, which has excited so much public interest, was remanded until to-day. The solicitor for the prosecution, Mr. Southey, of the Temple, has arrived; and Mrs. Wortham, the mother of the young lady, who was absent on the last occasion, is in attend ance. The prisoner has not been bailed, but still re mains in custody. HUNTINGDON ELECTIO' FROM A. CORRESPONDENT.) n HUNTINGDON, TUESDAY EvENING. — In antlenie a vacancy, by the elevation of Sir Frederick f: e 1 the Bench, the Huntingdon electors are g alre 6 M e's alert for some able and independent individaseit teed him. Apparently, more than tired of th ee o,j submission to Sandwich dictation, they °beg solved to make a vigorous attempt • to assert t tio sf o pendence. Several local names have been 10%6 likely to stand, and a requisition has actualltoli j r, up in favour of a resident gentleman of rotreblse independent spirit. As there is some doubt,:',"isr his consenting, Mr. J. B. Roper, formerly ne c ounty, and Mr. James Rust, both of whom by of esteemed by the townsmen generally, and ecel/ieo) who differ from them in political opinion, hsi v e, - ii, talked of as proper to succeed the Attorney' the representation of the borough. .. . l os, HER MAJESTY'S THEA ,toftli, Her Majesty's theatre re-opened last evenl, post-paschal season. The opera was 1 Pur l ", ' • Grisi as Elvira, Mario as Arturo, Lablache 0 . and Fornasari as Riceiardo. It was the first i too l' of these favourite artistes this season ; they w e most enthusiastically. . Fornasari, notwiths hi.J/ reports which have been in circulation as to tilisr, factory state of his health,looked exceedinglYettols e i delightfully ; we never heard him in betterleor/ blache, too, appears to have completely recoverwl ; severe indisposition under which he wa s h e , during the winter. Never have we heard t ~i t cent duet, " Suona la tromba," more i ld, b y , 0 given. It wars, of course, rapturously . etle ° tir the charming polacca " Son verges vezzosa, 0 . • : 1 exquisitely given by Grisi. Mario sang ife,9 scene in the third act with great taste and b ee , altogether 1 Puritani has never been fogr`ostt'of represented than it was last evening. L'Ljill 0 who has procured an additional conge,apPe*"„ lilt! let as Esmeralda,and was as graceful and sy l r,d The house was crowded. Among the cora," were the Duke and Duchess of CanibridgeCi by by the Count Kielmansegge, and attenar-0 A 1 Knesebeck, The Queen Dowager's box ' s ' e er by the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormon d n a . s . The Duke of Leeds. the Russian, Austrian, ;lir 4 Ambassadors, the Marquis of Huntley, the i t' o e e t of Westmeath, the Earls of Pembroke, Sli t eh g t, • mare, and Belfast; the Countess of Bele' p eslo Calabrella, Count de Noailles, Lords ti b i. , l ett frii ; i' Curzon, and Gardner; Ladies Fitzroy So te ``' c l I A t Brougham, Poll:ngton, Joddrell, Batley, tin A") Francis Lawley, Alexander Duff; Willi $'1,0„ 0 .,p Henry Willoughby; Honourables Col. - I it Cayes r Curzon. Mr. Law, Mr. Upton, and Freder t c o Colonel Wildman, Capt. Mountjoy . Me ts r ,',Or s i . Charles Standish, Charles Culling Smith, ." j Charles Ford, &c. „f . i°, l / .—..,—. ow 00 / ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT SELF-4)01 $ 9 i o f nboll 0 BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.-1423t night, at - je A# o , another attempt at self destruction was 07,A Pi c o f friars-bridge. It tirp.2ars that a middle-ar,4 was standing on the above bridge, said to Vit; oo stis. ing at the time, " Yes, I must, and I wh i m() ); f e? fore the party in question had time to - f of e r , ,j unfortunate man mounted the seat in one li e nrt and instantly plunged head foremost into t _ r ove immediate alarm was raised. and several P: s ed 0 0 41 1 in boats, and after some minutes had el 4 6,4 was found near Southwark floating - P ie Z;01 01 , J moved to the Trooper public-house a t J to fly he in a short time recovered, and was ab n i t 'ileo , he lived in tke neighbourhood of St. ' l OO 6 10 4 afterwards taken to Christchurch Work ~., id jj i appear before the Magistrate this daY! iire ,'SOTOPI METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS."' ',wood ing the new street leading from the O r , tr„ j Leicester-square to St. Martin's-lane, l o st C p to the public as a thoroughfare, but for , I A j only for the present. u ri'lr' l ,l6 Under the belief that Sir Frederic,ot P e cy accept the office of Chief Baron, and t e P p eato# Follett will be the Attorney-General, tb a , els; Queen's Counsel have been mentioueiim• D$ Atift p i p the st of it:olicitor-General—Mr. ge" • 1 1 ' , , i t and Mr. Thesiger. IQ Li . 10: 3 9 1 , e i y LONDON AND BRIGHTON R A IL d$ ; g i, tickets having been issued on Easter w i f the holders to return gratuitously , ti _g al', Still passengers travelled between Brightvoisgeattros The . first down train contained 35 ri n 0,,, t i propelled by four engines. It arrive ~_,, t oo hi minutes after 12 o'clock, instead of he el l ' , te a l o'clock. read..., 0 A A REVERSE OF FORTUNE. -- S e .il v' ec ti o i w ho .0 man Times :—" An unhappy man , . 10( 3, 1 jet means of paying even two sous for he wit s vii ,st i quarter of the opulent city of Rott e '::: f o r 0 0 4/. the act of begging, a few days ag,",srde °o af ,: .0 ) enable him to repose his exhausted tr efo se : i ss' i r srl pallet of straw. He was conducted t. , , a sh y to ipi ties, and with difficulty they extraote(toise t bo'l to the usual inquiries. The officer c wf, er ecl t li. .d interrogate the poor man soon dis _u t i se d av o f the very person who had been ads`„ , . stsP. office as the heir to a large fortune..c,_ of ' The railroad between Brunswy to be ope.ned on the Ist of June negl MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Edward Howard, a hardy looking sailor, with scarcely a vestige of clothing about him, was placed at the bar on the following charge. William Horsford, the constable of the Mendicity Society, stated that between eight and nine o'clock last evening, he saw the prisoner standing in Regent-street, stupefied with drink, and evidently incapable of taking care of himself. He was then, as to clothing, as he now appeared, without hat, coat, shoes, or stockings ; to keep him out of harm's way he was locked up in the station-house. Mr. AiALTBY—How do you account for being found in this miserable plight? Prisoner (with a seaman-like hitch up of his trowsers, and a retrograde scrape of the right foot)—Please your honour, I got amongst the sharks. I have been fifteen years in the Royal Navy, and about a Reek ago I landed, and was paid off three years' money, all in a lump. ..some of the small craft got me in tow, down by Whitechapel, I'm told ; and they took out not only cargo but ballast and al, and turned me adrift as creaky as I am. I'll know better next time. _ _ Mr. MALTBY—How much money have you los' Sailor—About 451. Mr. MALTBY—You are discharged. Sailor—Thankee ; I'll soon be after getting another ship. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Michael Hefferman, Edward Hayes, Jeremiah Leary. and James Ryan, four Irish labourers, were charged with an aggravated assault upon the police, one of whom is at present lying in a dangerous state in the hos pital, from a severe injury received on the head by a cut from a hod. Another constable, who gave evidence, was obliged to be supported into Court - The facfs may be comprised in a few lines. A general "Irish scrimmage" bad occurred yesterday evening in Oxford-mews, Summer's-street, Paddington, and one or two constables, among whom was the unfortunate man Smith, ran in among them, with the intention of sepa rating the combatants. They, however, were deter mined not to be baulked in their-humour, and, forgetting their own animosities in the general weal, at once, to use the graphic language of one of the constables, "pitched into the whole on' us like bricks." The staffs were wrenched from -the hands of the policemen and used with great effect on their heads, until at last they were forced to retreat. Soon after a greater body of men were ordered to the scene of action, and succeeded in capturing the prisoners. The first two, Hefferman and Hayes, were each sent for a month to the House of Correction. Leary, against whom there was no evidence, was discharged ; and Ryan who had been particularly active, was remanded till Friday, in order to ascertain how constable Smith was getting on. Charles Crawley, a most determined ruffian, who $1 • ut hi