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13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. LEVER'S NEW WORK, .. ItLtSTRATE BY - CRUIKSIIA.NK. • " ARTHUR O'LEARY ' • HIS WANDERINGS AND PONDER INGS IN MANY LANDS," Edited by Ma Friend, lIARRY LORREQUER, and Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, in 3 vols., post Bvo. • IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS and Libraries throughout the Kingdom. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. , I m mense Attraction for Easter. It is respectfu lly amouneed, that the Administration of the Academie Royale., Paz is, having consented to a ptolougatien of the conge of M. Duprez, this eminent Artiste will sing Three Nights in the Easter Week: - MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL Arno'd, M. Duprez ; Gessler. Mr. G. Horncastle; William Tell, Mr. Stretron ; Lutern, Malls. Albertan' ; Matilda, bliss Romer; Martha, Miss Betts To conclude with - the revived Melodrama of THE TALE OF MYSTERY. Count Bonamo, Mr. Selby ; Count • Romaldi, Mr Cooper; Michell'. Mr. Harley; Selina, Mrs Stirling. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. dd.; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.. Second Price 35.; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.• Midale Gallery 25., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery la, Second Price lid. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET: Mfr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. Return of Madame Yestris and Mr. C. Mathews. ON EASTER MONDAY,7IdiiII: - 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; Ma ry, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs Humby. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine, Madame Vestris. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Even.ng with Pat: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. ithutd, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with the Extraordinary Performance's of Professor RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed " Le Petit Mercure." The Box-office will be open on Saturday, April 6. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, mss. ; Gallery. es.; Upper Gallery, Is. H a lf-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6il. H Doors opened at aMpast Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box ' office, from Ten till Five. •-• THEAfttE ROYAL, LYCEUM LAM ENGLISH OPERA. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. The Pubic is respectfully informed that this Theatre WILL OPEN on EASTER MONDAY, April 8, with an Address by Mrs. Keeley. Atter which , will be produced a New Comedietta, in Two acts, entitled HASTY CONCLUSIONS. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Mathews, F. Vining. Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley. To he followed by.a New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST OF HONOUR. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, J. Collier, Stanton, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the Iheatre Royal, Adelphi, 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. Cha racters by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. • PRICES OF ADMISSION.—First Price—Poxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 9s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes ou the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. Free Ad mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly Transferrable 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 EASTER MONDAY, APRIL S. Tee RE-OPENINO of, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI THEATRE of A R I'S (under the management and sole proprietor ship Of Mr. BATTY), with its Treble Rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacles, and unequalled Scenes of the Circle, and Batty's Matchless Stud of beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c. Mr. Batty, in announcing the Re-opening of Astley's for the se cond season of his management, 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:irons, he entered into an extensive arrangement with Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi nent builders of Lambeth, for the re-constructing on a magnificent and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre, which has been rebuilt, dress boxes enlarged, upper boxes widened. and pit and galleries extensively improved. - Fourteen glass lustrei are added, and a Grecian dome ceiling, with entirely new sp:endid classic decorations; and gorgeous apppinntments, which, with the ti , st-rate talent to be offered, he presumes cannot fail of obtaining that support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the last season. The grand Easter national Spectacle will combine all the splendid historical effects of the Noncan Conquest of England, produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olympique will in. iroducc un quailed equestrian talent, and the double company com prise talent of the highest older. The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at s, ven. Box.office will beopened on Saturday, April 6, 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. LOVE'S POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, CROWN AND' ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. Mr. LOVE has the honour to announce that he will RESUME HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and LECTURES on LIFE and CHARACTER on EASTER MON. DAY, and will continue the same on the following WEDNESDAY and IRIDAY. 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, April 8, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING; and other Entertainme ts. On WEDNEADAY, April In, LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; with MINE HOST'S DILEMMAS; and other Entertainments On FRIDAY, April 12, LOVE IN ALL SHAPES ; with LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOS T; and other Entertainments. Particulars in Handbills. Doors open at Half-past Seven; begin at Eight. Admission, Is. 6d.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 3. THEnmomETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 64; Noon, 61. BAROMETER, 29.95 —WIND, S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually plated opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS .M.Y. Morning 36 minutes after 1 I Evening 57 minutes after I._ , * v. 16 4 _7e„ ' ' 1.4 . , " 5 ,,, .U - 1. ci t . - ' 4 t p li - 1, - , I t ' t ' '' -;,-__. F -/i-t , ',:e• e :e..,..._' f lion k - '-'" '4', •:-.; , z.. .-$43,10 VW:. - .1 , 4 , _5 1. 4., _,..!111111‘..Q. •';,•• ,',,',.. _„,.. ,X* ~,, . Ili, ' .': , •77 . '*031,4 0 . - - - -7_ , ,-- ~•,,,...._, __,, SECOND EDITION. tenins mt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1844. In the House of Lords last night a number of Bills received the Royal Assent, and, after the pre sentation of petitions, and some other business of no public interest, the House adjourned till Tuesday ; the 16th instant. In the Commons, Sir R. PEEL moved that tht House, at its rising, should adjourn till Monday, the kith. In moving the adjournment, he trusted that he should have been able to state the order in which Bills would be brought forward after Easter, hut, owing to the absence of Sir J. GRAHAM, he was un able to give the explanation. Lord J. RUSSELL took that opportunity of corn. plaining, that only one ship of the line was to be sta tioned in the Mediterranean. They had important interests to watch in that quarter, and it seemed to him very injudicious to collect naval forces in the Channel, while the affairs of Italy, and Morocco, and other States along the Mediterranean, might demand our interference. Sir R. PEEL said the Government thought it right to have a number of vessels in the Channel for exer cise, which should be ready upon any emergency. The interests of the country in the Mediterranean would not be endangered because the fleet was off the mouth of the Thames or in the Channel. Lord PALMERSTON also blamed the Government for leaving so few vessels of war in the Mediterranean. More things might happen there in which British in terests were concerned than in any other quarter of the globe, and he thought it not a wise distribution of the naval forces to have only one ship of the line in that quarter, in place of the usual complement on former occasions. - - Mr. Humn approved of the reduction, as the vessels were generally laid up at Malta, and the discipline of the fleet neglected. Sir R. PEEL, in reply to some remarks of Mr. Wrsz, complaining of the hurried manner in which the Irish Registration Bill was to be carried on, said he had no wish to press the second reading against the wish of Irish Members, and he would postpone the second r ea di ng o f the Bill from Monday (the 15th) till Friday. Sir R. PEEL laid on the table certain documents re lating to the treaties lately entered into between England and China. In layin g before the Clouse the last diplomatic paper from Sir H. POTTINGER he could not refrain from bearing testimony to the ability, zeal, firmness, and discretion with which h e h a d performed so many difficult duties, and which had secured to him not only the confidence of his own Government, but also the confidence of the Chinese authorities. It was impossible to bear higher testimony to the merits of Sir H. POTTINGER than he could, but he was aware that a panegyric was weakened by being di.. luted. Lord PALMERSTON concurred in the sentiments expressed by Sir R. PEEL, and said, that when he recommended that gentleman to the notice of the Government, he did so without any political conside rations, and he was happy to find that the present Government had appointed his successor on the same principles. In answer to a question from Mr. EWART, Sir ROBERT PEEL said he was not prepared to introduce any Bill to reform the criminal law of the country. On the motion of Lord ELIOT, the Irish Franchise Bill was read a first time. Mr. HusiE gave notice that he would move, after Easter, for a more free admission of the people to cathedrals and other public edifices. On the motion of Mr. DUNCOMBE, a copy of the notes taken by the shorthand writers at the trial of the QUEEN v. O'CoNNELL was ordered. A brief discussion took place between Mr. Smcw and Mr. F. FRENCH on the Irish Temporalities Bill, which is too characteristic of the sister country to be abridged. Mr. GLADSTONE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the registration of joint-stock companies, and for conferring on such companies certain privileges of corporate bodies, and also for preventing the estab- THE 11171 4 1, LONDON, NVIIDN'E . SDA.I7_ ITVENINCi, APRTL 3, 1644, lishment of fraudulent companies. The Right Hon. Gentleman stated the proposed changes so briefly that we cannot abridge them. Such a measure was much wanted, and if carried into effect, will give the public some security against fraudulent schemes. Returns were moved for relative to the Menai Bridge, the Harbours of Holyhead and Port Dynllaen, the Grand Jury Cess (Ireland), the University of Dublin, the College of Maynooth, and several other public Institutions; and the House adjourned till the lath instant. Among the notices of motions given in the House of Commons last night, was one by Mr. HUME, who stated that immediately after the present recess he should move that " the House should take into its consideration the exemplary conduct of the people whenever they had been admitted to public edifices, and their general disposition to maintain order and propriety ; also, that the House do approve of the re commendation of the Select Committee, formerly ap pointed, that there should be a more free admission of the people to cathedrals and churches." We cordially concur in the justice and propriety of this motion—more especially in that portion of it which refers to the general orderly demeanour of the people when admitted to visit public buildings. If it were ever otherwise, the fault lay not so much with them as with the official authorities, who for many years made a point of studiously throwing every obstacle in their way, by saddling them with an admission-tax beyond their means, whenever they wished to gratify a natural and laudable feeling of curiosity as regards those magnificent ecclesiastical structures which were erected at the public cost and for the express benefit of the public. For years and years to gether, the clergy, to their shame be it said, most rigorously exacted fees at the door of every cathedral ; and not an individual could enter, unless indeed when Divine service was being performed, but those who were prepared to satisfy the very un-apostolic rapacity of the clerical authorities who had charge of the sacred edifice, Of late, however, a considerable alteration has taken place in this respect ; the clergy have been shamed into something like respect for public opinion; their habits of extortion have greatly softened down ; and the consequence is, a corresponding improvement in the manners of the people, who, as they become more and more habituated to the sight of these majestic monuments of architecture, necessarily learn to appreciate them better, to take an honest national pride in their grandeur and sublimity, and carefully refrain from all acts of wanton spoliation, such as they used not unfrequently to be guilty of, when they were regarded by the ghostly guardians of the dif ent cathedrals in no more respectable light than as tasteless, vulgar intruders. We hope to live to see the day when the principle adopted in Mr. Humes excellent motion shall be carried out to the utmost possible extent, and all our ecclesiastical edifices be thrown open unreservedly to the public, and no one be seen standing at the portals, sueing, as it were, in forma pauperis, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, for an admission fee. There is no thing that so refines - and elevates the mind and manners of a people as; the frequent con templation of magnificent works of art, whether in architecture, sculpture, or painting; and every op portunity should be taken by their mien of giving them free, unrestricted access to productions of this character. Treat the people like Ignoramuses inca pable of appreciating the sublime and beautiful in the creations of art, and you will surely make them what in your arrogant sense of superiority you choose to consider them ; but treat them like rational beings, capable of deriving enjoyment from such in tellectual sources, and you will reap the benefit of your considerate conduct, in the improved tone and temper of the national mind. Without intending any personal offence to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, we must confess our habitual doubt of the soundness or the sincerity of those con stitutional principles, which he is so fond of vouching, as the motives and guarantees of his public acts. There is one principle which is inherently worth many, and, under some circumstances, is more ac ceptable than all others to the public at large. Poli tical consistency is the valuable unit of which e speak. It is to be feared that the Right Hon. Baronet has parted with his life interest in this inestimable property, as the price of a short lease of official power and emolument : not that the sacrifice of political consistency necessarily implies a vicious and inte • rested departure from previously avowed principles, or inevitably amounts to a declaration of insolvency of character. Public men may conscientiously differ tutu cado from the party to which they belong, touch ing some particular crotchet or some announcement of general views which that party may fatally in dulge, or may have rashly promulgated. The result of such a difference may not unreasonably be, to com pel such men to fall out of the ranks in which they had originally enlisted themselves, and to take their stand with some other section, professing opinions not universally concurrent with their own, but much more nearly approximating to them, than either the men from whom they have just separated, or the men whom they have so long opposed, and will still continue to resist. But this is a graduated, as well as a necessary change of original position. But to become—" from a Whig, and something more"—from a Liberal, and something beyond it—a high Tory, a high Church man, a high prerogative man ; this is a metamorpho sis more abrupt and more astounding than any which have occurred since the " mutatasformas" recorded by OVID, in the most classical of " Wonderful Maga zines." We, therefore, are not among the over candid few who give the Right Hon. Home Secretary credit for having abjured his old leaders, and changed his old colours, out of some incomprehensible alarm touching some phantom of encroachment and spolia tions to be visited on the Established Church. Mor tified ambition, personal pique, a prescient percep tion that he was quartered, in 1835, in a trembling [louse, and a lively hope of good things to be found by just crossing over to that on the other side of the way; these motives, or any of them, suggest a much simpler explanation of his organic transmuta tion into a Cabinet Minister, under Sir ROBERT PEEL, than the whole combined powers of even Thes salian magic could supply. With this impression, then, upon our minds touching the quality of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S adopted Toryism, we are prone to look with distrust at the measures he from time to time propounds for " the public" benefit. We have already denounced his morbid appetite for prison-discipline legislation. We have denounced the horrors of his Fentonville model Bastille. We have shown how those atrocious experi ments have resulted, which speculators on the nature of crime and the relations between it and punishment, have presumptuously indulged in, carrying retributive vengeance to a pitch that infringes on the exclusive functions of the DElTY—and strains the decrees of human law beyond the extremest limits of penal satisfaction which it has yet demanded—in sacrificing the niind, in frustrating and extinguishing the moral sentiment of the convicted criminal. We adduced, on the authority of an eminent magistrate, and a most upright man, the two cases of incurable mad ness in the two prisoners lately removed into Beth lem Hospital, after a hideous experiment of a few months' " silent and solitary" confinement in this pet prison of Pentonville—this model farm of stock criminal-reform discipline, which has been laid out at so enormous an expense, for the peculiar gratification, as it should seem, of our Home Secretary. We have also assigned, at some length, our objec tions to one or two Bills, bearing Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S name on their docquet, that were intro duced at an earlier period of the session. In the Right Hon. Gentleman's statement of Friday night, on moving for leave to bring in a " Bill f or the more Easy Recovery of Small Demands in the County Courts of England," there were many passages that fortify our distrust of the expediency and of the con stitutional principles of all his legislative efforts. Sir JAMES relied for his own justification and the House's sanction of this attempt to remodel and de fine the jurisdiction of these very ancient institutions, on the success which had attended the analogous expe riment of subjecting the Courts of Requests to the same sort of treatment, by the Bill of 1839. That Bill raised the jurisdiction of those Courts to demands under 15/. ; and he proposes to give a similar jurisdic tion to his newly modelled County Courts all over the kingdom, on the assumption that the Courts of Requests, established by Local Acts since 1839, with this enlarged scope of action, have given great satis faction. It may be a convenient source of patronage-- (a consideration to w hich Sir' JAMES seems, in all Mese cases, more keenly alive, ' than any Home Secretary within our recollection)—to create another batch of Courts, to be " presided over by judges who are very competent to discharge the duties devolved upon them in that capacity, being all barristers of five years' standing." But we can assure him the Courts of Requests of this new constitution do not receive by any means the degree of public approba tion he affects to claim for them, and that the public are little disposed to tolerate these jobbing ." judge nominations," made by wholesale. Sir JAMES has the grace to admit that some difficulty would attend the simultaneous introduction of so extensive a measure in all the counties of England at once—and (always a subsidiary consideration with her MAJESTY'S Minis- Ministers) great expense, also. Therefore, that the in troduction may be gradual, he proposes to give to her MAJESTY in Council the power to bring the Act into general operation gradually, at the discretion of Ministers. Will Sir JAMES give us leave to ask him what is his precise merit in the public estimation, on which he supposes that the nation would intrust such a " discretion" in his hands, as one of those Ministers ? We trust that this clause will be expunged from the Bill. Then he proposes to pay the judges of these new courts by salaries—the clerks by fees. The distinction is invidious as to the clerks; but as to suitors and par ties the fee system bas been already denounced and abolished wherever Parliament have had an oppor tunity of dealing with it in connexion with all legal salaries. To introduce it in a system of revised county courts machinery is an idea that could have found no habitation in any brain except one so per versely constituted as Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S. Why, it would be the readiest conceivable course to foment vexatious suits, or dishonest defences, and multiply proceedings and expenses to their utmost limits, in order to fill. the pockets of these dragons' teeth clerks, of whom the Home Secretary is about to sow so litigious a crop. We have no objection to the scope of the new jurisdiction "which is to extend to cases of simple contract, of damages for breach of the peace, of unlawful holding of property in , certain cases, or in other words, actions of trover in their simplest form," and amongst matters excluded, are to be all matters affecting title. But we are no admirers of a new-fangled scheme of juries. Now, Sir JAMES would have a Hindoo " Pun chayet :" a constitution of such a tribunal, which we should feel great respect for in Hindostan, but utterly repudiate in England. "If parties required a jury, the judge might grant it, but the jury should not consist of a larger number of five." How soon the Right Hon. Baronet forgets his im portant obligations to a jury, elsewhere, of TWELVE! We are glad to observe that Mr. HAWES directed the attention of the House to the oppressive effect of enormous fees accumulating upon small debts, and to the importance of enacting, that in all cases of debt under a certain amount, the execution should only be against the goods of the party. Sir JAMES had proposed that execution should issue " against body or goods ;"—an accurately adjusted arrangement for reserving the greatest possible power to inflict the utmost amount of misery and dis tress of which the circumstances of any case might admit, at the pleasure of the creditor. On a former occasion we ventured to show how strongly this strange instinct of implacable animosity to the crime of debt was developed in the legislative morality of the Home Secretary. On another principle of the Bill, Mr. F. SHAW forcibly remarked, " that if they compelled the parties to attend and give evidence, much inconvenience and injustice also might arise. He thought it a dangerous principle to adopt, and it would be a dangerous experiment to allow the parties to the suit to be examined in their own behalf." But, perhaps, it did not occur to the really acute mind of that Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman that he himself had so recently sanctioned a similar perilous " experiment" in a Secretary of State for the Home Department, whose tampering negotiation, with a London reporter had proceeded on a view strictly analogous, namely, that of the "parties to a suit being afterwards examined on their own behalf 1" The Bill, we apprehend, must be altered "out of all knowledge" before the House can be induced to pass it. The Madrid journals of the 26th ult. are entirely filled with accounts of the illuminations, the levees, and the other public demonstrations given in the capital since the arrival of Queen CHRISTINA. An amnesty was talked of, and an order, it was said, had been sent to General RONCALI to show more lenity at Carthagena than he had done at Alicant, and not to molest those who wished to leave the place. The ac count of the surrender of the town had not reached Madrid at the departure of the mail. On the morn ing of the 22d the insurgents had opened a fire on the QUEEN'S troops, and discharged upwards of 600 pro jectiles ; but at two o'clock their fire had been silenced, RONCALI having thrown in nearly 3CO bombs by that hour. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were done at 37 for cash, and at 38 for 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60 days. Most of the Paris papers contain articles on the new Customs' Bill introduced into the Chamber of Deputies, and we are glad to find that those of them which venture an opinion on the subject con demn in strong terms the prohibitory system, or in deed any material addition to the present customs' duty. This is a good symptom in favour of free trade. The writers in these journals begin to see that, though high duties serve particular interests, and are imposed for the sake of a few monopolists, the people are great losers. They have to pay higher prices for articles of consumption : the commerce of the country, and consequently the mercantile shipping is diminished in proportion, and France, to a certain extent, becomes isolated from the rest of the world. The Journal des Debats, which usually supports the Government, is decidedly opposed to the measure, and points out by forcible and sound argument the folly of these eternal changes, and the injury done to the best interests of the country by prohibitory duties. After adverting to the preamble of the Bill, the writer thus proceeds : • "The duties on machinery of every kind are increased, but with the substitution of an assessment by weight for that of ad valorem. The duties on the imports of foreign manufac tured articles into Algeria are increased also, thus departing from an established principle, which lays down that, in the infancy of colonisation and civilisation of a country, it should receive at the lowest possible rates all necessary provisions, all useful engines and materials for manufacture. In addition to this, war is declared against two products brought from abroad into our ports in great quantities, and which afford nourishment to very profitable branches of our industry—we mean the lard from the United States, used with great ad vantage by our soap-boilers, and the oleagenous seeds of the Levant, which, within these last few years,has given birth to a very fine manufacture at Marseilles, that of the oil extracted from them, affording great benefit to the soap-works, inas much as the oil of Sesame is an excellent corrector of the olive oils; and also to the agriculturists, as the residuum, or oil cake, which they use in abundance in fattening their cattle and manuring . their lands. The additional profits derived by our agriculturists from this source are estimated at several millions per annum. The public also derives a benefit ; for cold-drawn oil of Sesame is good for domestic purposes. In fine, the French mercantile marine, about the interests of which the Government is considerate, was about to find em ployment in the transport of oleagenous seeds from the East. In 1834, the import of these seeds to Marseilles amounted to 1,306,000 kilos, or cargoes of seven or eight ships. In 1842, the same import increased to 36,700,000 kilos, or cargoes of about two hundred ships. By levying a slightly additional Customs' duty, the whole of this transport trade would be se cured to France. This piece of good fortune ' however, is likely to be lost, by increasing the duty on the Sesame to double what it was in 1842—viz., from 2f. 50c. to sf. 50c. the 100 kilos. The forty magnificent oil-mills established at Mar seilles are thus threatened with annihilation, and the 76,000 remain of n p l r a od n da productive looking n a t to wretchedlytle i k m e i s a f a o r r d t e h gr e i e r e, fe i c f u a n a d t i t t y a ta w , 1 3 11 , uncultivated. And this is called protection ! Such are the consequences of listening to the partisans of prohibition. the Customs, of which we are persuade Turning to the question of augmentation receipts oo n fb o st othere takenrvatthe ionntse r:initiative,—lt isp aar nt i parties, but se own l s submitted ta est proceedibi e fat,oc tmt t ha o ka t te h t e thh s e u e t gte ot s wi t o i i o nn n ag s l industry is progresively n a d r i t n s g w d be i few see the eat advances made in new inventions and in execu days, the exhibition of useful m o p p r e o n v ed in , g a . nd ln a a llwill tion. 'the g Administration itself will proclaim with praise innumerable improvements, and they will meet with hono rary rewards. All the trumpets of Fame will repeat, that the industry of France is marching towards perfection with gigantic strides, and this, we admit, will not be an exag geration. onteur,erey\cynyt mechanicians, ntac s u e hrirmesa a ti ug u ahh nes g m aetmss bg e e elfi n ieloanat t re.rt a i keuteisnlenoEtaosngutizi,si viewdr. noti oeenee o dog rntsai f fsgi fleaysn: r dsse.r o c: o h iohmtbi r i a B,lha b edsee i e t nnbrT i o :t e - rtem e ahnbnaa d esmvce f a t hen t ta dbwn e a But, a ft er a ll , we st ill as k, w h er e is the necessity seene wanting igt nhiThegvT steamers untebhi giving a n Teo vrl ea last c ti pa ce rt a ic w u h la ie r h ,w ‘ i v t e h tahpep e r l a l g e t n placed;ioenn c t e . Tpbehuretesewei perceive that trteh are s a a t c we- iye to think of them if they end in m a ki ng us pay more dearly for our machinery? Who does n o t a raising the price, the manufactories in general, are burdened with heavier charges, and injury is done to the whole indus try of this country? Moreover, another great obstacle to the endeavours of the productive branches to lower their prices is the increasing rise of articles of food. From this rise one of two things onsues--either wages of workmen must be in creased oul_of,the pocket of the coisumer.or the workman, m . j,ist be inadequately- paid—a conalquence to- be deplored. Augmentation in the prices of artiees of necessity is always injurious to an immense body of pegple—to all such persons as have limited incomes—as pubib officers, persons living upon their dividends, and the labouing classes ; while those whom it does not affect are very flw in number. When, therefore, a valuable produce, like that of the Sesame, is brought forward, it should be recdved with welcome, and warmly encouraged. Instead of tlis, however, this blessing is to be treated as if it were a scourge. A pretended equality of favour is talked of, but this pretended equality will end in a general equality of distress,instead of that equality which would insure the general goal." The Presse takes nearly the same view of the ques tion, and thus points out what the commercial navy of France has suffered by prohibition : " This is particularly the case will the teaty of 1822 with the United States, and that of 1824 with England. The offi cial tables show that in 1842, on amovement of 973,000 tons between France and Great Britain,• the latter Power con veyed 791,000 tons. On the total quantity between France and the United States the American flag takes 94 per cent., leaving only 6 per cent. for France. Such are the fruits of treaties. the evil would be less striking if the injury to our mercantile shipping were in some degree made up for by ad vantages in favour of our manufactures. But this is not the case. The last custems' tables prove that England receives from us to the amount of 92 millions of products, and sends to us an amount of 112 millions. As to the United States, the disproportion is still stronger. In 1842 they took only 48 millions' worth from us, and sold 135 millions in our mar kets. If we are not lucky in commercial treaties, it is pru dent to abstain from them." We perceive by the papers that the Duke D ' AUMALE has had some fine country sport in a late razzia made near Constantina. A letter from that place says : "The Duke d'Aumale, on the 13th ult., left Biskara, to make a razzia on some douars, belonging to Ben Said, who was beheaded at Constantine, by order of General Negrier. The booty thus obtained was very considerable. The women were collected, and placed under the protection of the people of Biskara. While the Duke d'Aumale and his division were at Biskara, a considerable body of Arabs made a vigorous attack upon the intermediate camp at Bethona, where a large store of provisions and ammunition for the column in action was collected. These attacks, repeated on the successive days of the 11th and 12th, were not only fruitless to the enemy, but he was obliged to retire with numerous losses. On the side of the French, there were about 12 men killed, and 20 wounded. On being made acquainted with what had passed at Bethona, by an express from the Commandant of the camp, the military authorities sent reinforcements to it under the orders of Colonel Herbillen. This small column, after having insured tranquillity at Bethona, will move to the &otitis, if the Haractus, to keep that tribe in subjection, awl act on the Deft of nit Duke d'Aumale." " Some foreign journals," says La Revue des De u x M on d es , " have much too lightly attended to the report of the King intending to make an excursion to England in the course of next summer. The Monarch's age surely exempts him from a visit wherein he has more than once been represented by the Princes, his sons. Such a journey, being required by no convenance whatever, would remain quite a political one, and whatever may be the feelings of the Ministry regarding the English alliance, we believe them to be much too enlightened to expose the head of our new dynasty to an ovation which Would be more dangerous to it than the clamour of its most implacable enemies:" The funds on Monday remained without any mate rial alteration. THE BOURSE-MONDAY, APRIL 1. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. • French Five pe ?Cents l2l 90 .. 122 10 .. 121 90 .. 122 FourperCents• • • 105 50 .. 105 50 105 50 .. 105 50 Three per Cents B3 10 .. 83 10 • • 83 05 .. 83 10 Bank of France... ... •• .•• 3175 .. 3175 ••3175 .•3175 Lailitte Batik, 5,000 f. Sharessl3s ..5135 •• 5135 • •5135 Belgian Bank. 662 50 .. 662 50 • • 660 .. 660 Belgian Five 5,..•.... 1840.•• •• •• •• 108 .. 108 • • 108 .. 108 1842 ........ 109/ .. 1091 •• 109 k .. 109 k Dutch Two-and-a-Ha1f..... 58k 581 .. 58} • • 58/ Spanish Active Threes ‘• •• •••• • • •• 37; .. 37i • • 37; • • 37f Passive .• • .•• •• •• •• 6/ .. 61 • • 64 .. 61 Old Deferred 7/ .. 71 • • 7/ • • 7/ Portuguese Five per Cents 46 .. 46 •• 46 .. 46 Neapolitan•• •• •• •••• •• •• •• 101 45 .. 101 45 .. 101 25 .• 101 25 Roman • • RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B. L.L'.••. 250 .. 270 •• 260 • • 270 Rouen 920 .. 925 •• 920 .. 925 Itcnten to Havre • 697 50 .. '/00 • • 697 50 .. 697 50 Orleans .• • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • 900 .. 905 • • 900 .. 902 50 Strasburg to Bale-- • • • • 302 50 .. 303 75 • • 301 25 .. 301 25 Avignon to Marseilles 766 25 .. 770 1 ••• 766 25 .. 770 RAILWAY SHARES FOR MARCH ACCOUNT. Versailles, R. 11... •••• •• • • 400 .. 400 .• 400 • • 400 •• •• •• • • • • 260 270 • . 260 .. 270 Rouen •• • • ••• • • •• • • • • • • • • •• 925 .. 930 925 .. 930 Rouen to Havre.. Orleans ..... Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • 305 .. 305 300 .• 300 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET.-(THIS DA Y.) A decently-attired and rather good-looking young woman, named Esther Lillywhite, an inmate of St. Gites's workhouse, was brought up before Mr. Twyford, charged with assaulting the watchman of the workhouse last night. James Payne, the night watchman at the workhouse, stated that last night, at about eleven o'clock, the prisoner came home drunk. He let her in, and she immediately com menced abusing him, and ultimately flew at him and tore his hair, scratched his face, and blackened both his eyes. Look ing upon this as anything but ladylike behaviour, and having re, ten g a a r n d e e t , o h h e i a n l loesdeth in e o o t n h ly e r p w e a r f t e c c h t m f a e n a t t u o r e h i l s e ft a s s o i n s t h a n is c ec,oaunn d after a struggle Miss Lillywhite was secured, and conveyed to the lock-up. The prisoner, in her defence, insinuated that the com plainant had, on one or two occasions, attempted to take liberties with her, a thing she could not admit of from "sick as he." The complainant emphatically denied this, and the infer ence to be drawn from what he said was, that Miss Lillywhite was not so prudish and delicate as she - wished to be thought. Mr. TWYFORD said a clear case of assault had been made out, and he should therefore fine the prisoner in the sum of 205., or in default.ef. payment commit her for a month. She was accordingly committed. Miss Esther, as she was leaving the bar, raised her finger towards the complainant in a very ominous manner, and said, f` I'll give it you when I come out." The witness was then about to withdraw from the witness box, upon which Mr. TAy o niolotpt go out ,with of alarm the : bo ax x pr u e n sse til d s u h p e o i n s his couuttnance, said, ~ N D • safely locked up." The prisoner was then escorted by a policeman to an apart- ment adjoining the Court, provided for the accommodation of similar characterS. QUEEN-SQUARE. — (THIS DAY.) John Such, a middle-aged man, was charged by : Air. Walter, landlord of the." Grapes,' Brompton-road, with en deavouring to pass a gilt pocket. piece for a sovereign. Last night the defendant, who was driving a cab, drew up at the cumplainant'shouse and had a glass of gin for which he paid three-halfpence. He then left the house but immediately returned, and throwing a pocket-piece, hav i i n ng c;as a cu t ks fi etd r o s df t 7 si at t o t the h al f -sovereigns. n c s e o h Br d rC e r f e e l n gr d l L on n w t a h s counter, in on being searched he dropt another / pocket-piece of the size of half a sovereign on the floor. The defendant said he received the two pocket-pieces from a fare by mistake for Is. 6d., and thinking them genuine he asked the complainant for change. The Magistrate thought that as the defendant had not re ceived any money from the complainant the charge could not be maintained. The defendant was further, charged with driving the c ab without a license or badge, and without the consent of the owner, thus rendering himself liable to a penalty under the " Hackney Carriage Act," and for which offence he was fined 305., or in default.of payment, 30 days' imprisonment. UNION BALL.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Lisselton was brought up late on the preceding afternoon, charged with wounding Fanny Weldrake in Gravel-lane, Southwark. The woman was too ill to attend, and it was stated that the prisoner and Weldrake cohabit together, and live in Gravel lane. That on the preceding night cries of " Murder" were heard proceeding from the house, and in a moment after wards a woman was seen to rush out into the street with her face streaming with blOod. She ran into an adjoining public house for protection, followed by the prisoner, who carried her back to the house ; and a policeman by this time being informed of the circumstance, went into the house, and found the place in a state of the greatest possible disorder ; the chairs and mbles were broken to pieces, and on the leg of a broken chair, with which the woman had been assaulted, was found a quantity of clotted blood and hair. The woman was found to be so dreadfully maltreated that she was obliged to be conveyed to the hospital. Mr. Olding, the surgeon, stated that the woman's body is one mass of bruises, evidently inflicted with a blunt instru ment, and that she is in such a condition that renders it im possible she can be brought up to this Court to appear against her assailant for at least a month. The prisoner said that the woman in the hospital was as much to blame as he was, and that he had every reason to be lieve she would not appear against him. The NAGisTnATE said that he should take care that a man who committed such a very brutal assault should not escape the punishment he so richly deserved, and remanded him till she was sufficiently recovered to attend. ILLNESS 01 1- i - bRD ABINGER. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, APRIL Abinger was last night suddenly attacked by paralysis whilst entertaining the magistracy of the county after the business of the day, which he had met and discharged with his usual power and clear ness. This melancholy circumstance has caused the greatest sensation here. The answers this morning were, that his Lordship though sensible was quite unable to articulate. Ex presses were sent to town last night. - - ERRATUM.—In the Parliamentary report which ap peared in The Sun on Tuesday, it was incorrectly stated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to bring forward the budget on the 15th inst. ; no d ay it appears is fixed, but it will be introduced on an early day after Easter, of which due notice will be given. THE TEN Houas' BILL—In accordance with a placard extensively circulated throughout Glasgow and neighbourhood, a public meeting of the inhabitants, favour able to the Ten Hours' Bill of Lord Ashley, was held on Friday night, in the Christian Chartist Church, Blackfriar street. Mr. G. Adams officiated as Chairman. The meeting was composed chiefly of operatives, and was conducted throughout with great p ropriety an d d ec orum. Mr. Matthew Cullen introduced the busi ness i n an address explanatory of the proceedings in Parliament connected with the measure, and concluded by delivering several appeals in favour of abridging the hours of labour, more particularly in connec tion with the factory system. He then proposed a resolution to the effect, that "Long h ours o f l a bour have a direct ten dency to injure health, pr os t ra t e man's physical powers, produce a deterioration of morals, and further lead to habits of intemperance, thereby preventing those subjected to them having the means of mental and moral cultivation."—A vote of thanks was given to Lord Ashley, and it was agreed to memorialise him to bring in a T e n Hours Bill, if Govern ment gave up theirs.—Glasgo w THE DONCASTER Cup.—The cup to be given at the races for the present year, which takes place on the 16th of September, is expected to be the most chaste and beautiful which has been awarded for some time. It will consist of a group of three figures, two of which will be represented on horseback. The subject will be the request of an archer at tired an Hood o adjacent wood, there to partake with King H enr y the Eighth and Queen the assembled outlaws in their rude festival. The Earl of Carlisle continues slowly to improve C ti a re th d erin n e, ob to in enter in health at Castle Howard, where Lord Morpeth hasj oined the family circle from town. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very dull : sales, 2,000 bales, of which 500 were on specula tion. There was no cliwge in prices. The Share market was brisk for French, Dover, and the minor lines. Birmingham and Gloucester. 914 ; Chester an I Holyhead, 71 to a ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65; Grand Junction, 232 ; Great Western, Half, 704 ; Caledonian, ; Dublin and Cashel. 5 3 - - • Birmingham, Quarter, 28k; North British, 31.35.; Paris and Lyons, 21. 15s. to 21.145.; Ditto and Orleans, 364 to -1 , -; South Eastern, 36. The commercial advices received from Merida , _ Cam peachy, notices the fact that the .Government of Yucatan had issued a decree establishing an entrepOt for imported goods at that place. As British trade is increasing in that direction, it may be of use to give the details. The following are the provisions of the decree : " Art. Ist. A mercantile depot is to be established in the port of Campeachy, where all goods may be stored for one year, without being liable to duty, on paying two per cent. for storage, which two per cent. is payable within thirty days after the goods are entered. " 2d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depot before the end of a 3 ear, for exportation, are not subject to either State or municipal duty. " 3d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depOt for the State market, or which have remained a whole year in the depOt, will pay both State and municipal duty. " 4th. Provisions, pitch, and inflammable stuffs, empty vessels of every description, and naval stores, are prohi bited from being stored in the depOt. " sth. The government of the depOt will be adminis tered by officers appointed by the State." The supplies of timber from Campeachy are at pre sent short in the Markets of London and Liverpool, at least as far as respects good-sized logs of mahogany. The timber trade generally is good for select samples. The advices from St. Petersburgh relative to the brach of tallow, and the probable supplies, state that the latter • cannot be estimated with any certainty, but the opinion was that it would fall short of those of last year. The reason for this belief is that in consequence of the abun dance of grain and fodder, the proprietors of stock were not compelled to s!aughter. The business of the London market was another inducement to keep back supplies. The Russian merchants at St. Petersburgh were of opi nion that prices would be kept up. Speculation was on the increase. Difficulties exist as to the legality of mixing chicory in the coffee. About two years since, an order was issued by the Excise department, as we are told, permit ting the addition, but now it is asserted that such a course of proceeding is illegal: The Treasury, it is to be hoped, will consider the subject, so that something definite may be known upon the subject, which is of general importance to the mass of the people, who buy coffee generally in a ground state, not having mills of their own. Consols have reached within a 4 per cent. of par this morning, but they are now a shade lower. Not much 'business has, however, been done. It was generally ex pected early in the day that the Commissioners would have to give par for the amount of stock they have usu ally taken of late, so buoyant did the market look. Those functionaries, however, took 30,0001. Consols at 984. The New Three-and-a:Half per Cents. have been sold at an improvement to 103, and Bank Stock at 2014. In the premium upon Exchequer bills scarcely any alteration has taken place. India Stock for the opening has been quoted at 294. A large amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign Stock market thiS morning. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 274 ; the Three per Cents., 381 4 ; the Passive , ; and the Deferred, 164. The French Five per ents. aro worth 12,1 f. 50c., the ex change being given at 25f. 70c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are up to 604 4 ; the Five per Cents. to 994 ; Mexican to 371 ; Portuguese Converted 461 ; and Colombian, ex Venezuela, to 164. Brazil Stock is now at 20f. The desire to speculate in the Foreign Stocks is evidently on the increase. The Railway Share market is on the rise. The Bir mingham and Gloucester, the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings. the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Lancaster and Carlisle, the South Western, and the Manchester and Birmingham, all improved in value. London and Westminster Bank shares have rallied to 5 prem. ; Na tional Bank of Ireland to 34 disc. ; and Union of Aus tralia to 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols. A nnu i t i es 99M% New 3% per Cent Annuities 102%;,103 Long Annuities, Expire sth J an . 186 0 Ditto 30 Years Expire sth Jan. 15.60 l2 11-16 India Bonds, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 lr7 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account India Stock Exchequer Bills, 1% . d. 1,0001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account SOU Columbian Bonds Mexican Bonds, '837, 5 per Cent ...... ...... Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock 17% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 46% Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 27%14 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Deferred 1 3 % 46% Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account. Vehezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Ditto Deferred ll% 12 French Renter, 5 per Cent Dutch 234 per Cents 60% Ditto for the Account €054% Dutch 5 per Cents. 99 % 34 New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. 9934 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAXS. PAID. PER SHARE Birmingham and Gloucester Bristol and Exeter 7O l2 to Bristol and Glouc. ster 3O Caledonian Dublin and Cashel ... 234 534% ... to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered Si. 6s. Rd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent Ms. 4d.... 1 34 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 65 to Great Western Ditto 34 Shares Grand Junction lOO — to Ditto % Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and Brighton London and Birmingham. Stock .....23.44 London and South Western 41% B3 to Ditto Eighths Manchester and Birmingham ... A 49% to Midland Counties Ditto Fifths North British 234 - Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 2O 36%34 ... to Rouen and Havre. South Eastern and Dover - Strasburg and Basle ...... York and North Midland - Ditto Scarboro' Branch 234 JOINT STOCK HANKS. London and Westminster ..... 20 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2.—We have had a good market to-day for most shares, and a fair amount of business has been done :—Dublin and Drogheda, 71h ; Dublin and Cashel, 6 Eastern Counties, 11i ; Ditt o N ew R egistered, 14 ; Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 13s. 4d. ; Grand Junction Half shares, 116 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 8h ; Manchester and. Birmingham, 48i to 49* ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossen dale, 7h ; Sheffield and Manchester, 70-1 ;Preston and Wyre, 12* ; South-Eastern New, 51 to h ; Union Bank, 8h ; Hud dersfield Canal, 174. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) MANCHESTER BETTING.—TUESDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Thg Uglyßuck—t. 16 to 1 agst Wadastra C. • 6 to 1 agst Ketley CIIESTJ 11 to 1 agst Pharaoh 13 to 1 agst Pagan 14 to 1 agst Cattonite 18 to 1 apt Alice Hawthorn at CUP. i2O to 1 agst Bramble 22 to 1 agst Merry Andrew-4. 25 to 1 agst Vakeel—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir Robert—laid —taken 20 to 1 agst Jamie Forest 20 to 1 agst Hooton 20 to 1 agst Red Deer once 35 to 1 agst Haitoe 40 to 1 agst What—offers to t. 6 to 1 agst Rattan 6i to 1 agst Ugly Buck— take 7 to 1 15 to 1 agst Orlando—taken 18 to 1 agst Running Rein 22 to 1 agst Cockamaroo 25 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire— offered 30 to 1 agst lonian '35 to 1 agst Campanero 40 to 1 agst Bay Momus (the sister to Grey Momus c)—t. 40 to 1 agst Akbar—taken 50 to I..agst Telemachus No offers for the Oaks. NORTHUMBERLAND_ AND DURHAM STEEPLE- CHASE ENTRY.-THURHDAT. Mr. V. Surtee's Ariel—Mr. R. Hoyle's Middleham—Mr. W. Greenwell's Byron—Mr. H. W. Fenwick's Kitten—Capt. De Salis's Tommy--:-Lord Killeen's brother . to Binks the Bag man—Captain Shewell's Rival—Mr. Cookson's Charles O'Malley—Mr. Thompson's Tanner—Mr. T. Butler's Albert —Mr. Headlam's Cremona—Mr. Salkeld's Little Devil— Mr. Lamb's Maria Persiani—Mr. Waring's Creeping Molly —Mr. Yea's Safeguard—Mr. Wood's Moonraker—Mr. Moun sey's Sir—Mr. Dixon's Foxhunter—Mr. D. Cookson's Rufus —Mr. Foster's Nubian,--Mr. Clavering's Man Friday—Mr. W. J. .Johnstone's Donald Citird—and Mr. R. Crawford's Blucher. SOUTHAM STEEPLE CHASES.---TUESDAT. Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each with 100 added. Mr. Jenkins's Lycurgus, list 31b ..................... (Owner) 1 Mr. Green's Vanguard, 12st .................... 2 Mr. Crawford's The Returned, list 51b ................... 3 Mr. Ekin's Blue Pill, lOst 31b ................................ 4 Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, lOst Mr. Inman's Marston, lOst 31b .................. 6 Mr. Conolly's Shamrock, lOst 31b ............... .... 7 Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added. Th r ee miles. Mr. Tilbury's Duprez .............. ; ................ . (Mason) 1 Mr. Birch's Dandy... Shakespeare, No Doubt, and Caroline, also started. The third sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, with 10 added, lOst each, two miles, was won by Mr. Grindle's Ace of Diamonds (Parker), beating Discord, Langollan, and Principe. Killed — Discord, who was running the winner in, fell at the dis tance, and was ridden over by some farmers and much hurt. FINCHLEY STEEPLE CHASE. —.TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each.-11st 71b. Mr. A. Dixon's Ragman . . .................. ............ 1 Mr. B. Land's Faith ...................................... 2 Several old coins have been found near the sea shore, close to a field called Cae'r Henblas, near Bangor, Canarvonshire. They arc inscribed_ftherang hyb; on the reverse, Civitas London; others have Bristol on the reverse. They evidently belong to the reign of Edward 1., and are probably some of the great coinage which he issued in 1279, being therefore 565 years old.—Shrervibury Chronicle. The Bush coach-office, in Bristol, where an exten sive business has been carried on for, we believe, more than a century, has this week closed, in obedience to the giant power of steam, and the absorption of its business in the great vortex of railway monopoly. We hear that it is pro bable the premises will be occupied by the Branch Bank of Englaficl.—Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. BENEVOLENCE.--A few minutes after the electlon of pensioners on Monday for the City of London General Pension Society, the secretary received 5/. in an anonymous letter, desiring that it might be given to the highest unsue ceifful candidate. SUMMARY OF NE 'S AND eptritott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. A meeting, at which about 2,000 persons were present, Wa.s held on Sunday,' in the Great Hall of the Hotel de Ville, at Paris, under the presidency of the Prefect of the Seine, the Count de Rambuteau, 'to witness the distribution of the prizes of the Gratuitous Drawing-schools of the 7th and Bth arrondissemens. The business of the day was opened by an impressive address from the President, on the advantages of the institution ; and he was followed by M. Charles, the director of the scools, who gave an interesting account of the zeal of the pupils, and of the kind encouragement bestowed upLn his labours by their Majesties and the whole of the Royal Family. The Committee charged by the Minister of War to present the rough draft of an ordonnance on the questions which affect the Jewish population in Africa, has reccommended that all bye-la ws an d customs, c h ange d into laws, which have hitherto served as rules of conduct to the Jews of Alge ria, should be abolished and replaced by the 'common law, by which the other inhabitants are governed. The Council of Administration of the Left Bank Versailles Railroad, on Saturday, presented to the Minister of Public Works a tender for continuing that road to Chartres, and has sent to the Chambers of Peers and Deputies a protest against any other railroad between Paris and Chartres being allowed to be formed. The Paris journal, the Commerce, was sold on Monday for 317,000 f. (12,5001.), to MM. Farnissier, C. Didier, and Dela mann, bankers. _ _ The Jfoniteur publishes a return of the price of wheat in the different departments of France, for the purpose of regu lating the duty on the importation and exportation of grain and flour. The returns are divided into classes, according to the departments, and the medium price in all of theth ranges from 16f. 58c. to 22f. 83c. per hectolitre. The price of bread at Paris for the first fortnight of the present month is fixed at 35 centimes the kilogramme. A letter from Stockholm, March 18, in the New Hamburgh Gazette, says :—" It is stated that the Queen Dow ager in tends taking a journey into Italy immediately after the ob sequies of the late King. Her Majesty will pay a visit to her sister, the wife of the ex-King Joseph Buonaparte. The report that the Swedish Diet is to be convoked in the month of June is gaining strength. The reason of this measure is that the King desires to open the Norwegian Diet in person in 1845, •which could not be done if the Swedish Diet was not convoked during the present year." The mart convgyance by sea about to be established be tween Stettin and St. Petersburgh will commence in the spring of next year. The iron steam-boats constructing in England for that purpose are to be each of 700 tons, and above 300-horse power. It is stated in the Augqburph Gazette that the Prussian Government has given the Polish emigrants permission to prolong their stay in the province of Posen, until they have terminated their affairs, those at least relating to their, pro perty. As the Government has not named the period at which the emigrants must be ready to quit the province, hopes are entertained that they will be allowed to remain in definitely, provided they be quiet and avoid all political mat ters. This happy result is in a great degree attributed to the intervention of the Countess Kw iteika, who repaired to Berlin to intercede with the King in favour of her unfortunate countrymen. MAW AND POLICE. At the Liverpool assizes, William Taylor, a respectable looking elderly man, was indicted for uttering, at Oldham, on the 20th of September, a bill of exchange for 2211. 145., drawn on John Brown, and purported to be accepted by him, know ing that the said acceptance was forged. The prisoner, it appeared, carried on business for some years at Saddleworth. He had been unfortunate, and had twice failed, on the second occasion for the sum of 20,000/. ; he was again, however, able to establish himself in busineis. The charge was fully proved, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. The Chester assizes commenced on Monday. The calendar is more than usually light, there being only forty-one cases, and only one in which loss of life has been the consequence of crime. Mr. Justice Maule did not take his seat till a late hour, being seriously indispoied. 'At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a person of respectable appearance, who gave his name and address as Joseph White Simmons, living in the Vauxhall-road, was brought up in the custody of Inspector Otway, A division, before Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., and Mr. T. Dagnall, the sitting magistrates, on a charge of having knowingly uttered a forged bill of exchange for the value of 2001. Two parties proved the forgeries, and he was fully committed to Newgate. At Worship -street two young girls, who gave their names Amelia Walker and Rosa Abel, both of them wretchedly ragged and dirty; were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, upon a charge of stripping a child, named Thomas Hillier Dawson, of his clothes and boots. Mr. Bingham remanded them for a week. Three young men, named William and Robert Hurtaway, brothers, and George Reeves, were brought up for final ex amination upon charges- of uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, recognised Wm. Hurtaway as haying been recently charged with a similar offence. All the Prisoners were now committed for trial. John Smith and Edwai d Carter were placed at the felons' bar, belore Mr. Henry, at Lambeth- street, on the double charge of forgery and felony. The charge of felony was that of stealing a time-piece and other property from a school in which the prisoner Smith had been a teacher in September last, and no moral doubt existed of his (Smith's) guilt. The charge of forgery consisted in the fact of the pnsoner Smith having written a note in the name of his sister, who had been formerly known to that gentleman a s a hi g hly respect able person, to Mr. Barlow, inclosing a note of hand payable at a short date, and requesting cash for it. The bill was a forgery. The prisoner Carter had carried the note. Both prisoners were remanded, but Carter was admitted to bail. Thomas Holmes Gummer ' Wm. Estell, Thomas Pritchard, Wm. Wedge, and Eliza Burling, were finally examined, at the same office, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary and extensive robbery of cigars, from the premises of Mr. Johnson, a cigar manufacturer, in Gloucester-street, Commer cial-road East. Gummer was fully committed for trial, and the others discharged. - COVET—r.asuzoNAnx.z. Lord Brougham, accompanied by Mr. IL Vane, passed through Folkestone on Saturday afternoon, en route to Paris. Lieutenant-General Baron de Stjernerona, one of the most distinguished aides-de-camp of the late King of Sweden, has arrived from Stockholm to present to her Majesty the. Queen, the letters of notification of the demise of King Charles John, and the ascension of King Oscar I. to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. He is accompanied as an aide-de camp by Baron Charles Bjornstjerna, an officer in the Swedish Horse Guards, and the eldest son of General Count Bjornst jerna, the Swedish Minister at this Court. The Countess of Erroll and Lady Agnes Hay returned to Clarges-street, on Monday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Ida Campdcn, at Barham Court, near Maidstone. The Earl and Countess and family are expected to leave town at the close of the month, for Slane Castle, near Peterhead, North Britain, where a grand fete to the tenantry will be given, and other rejoicings, in honour of Lord Kilmarnock coming of age. _ _ _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Montrose arrived at Belvoir Castle, on Friday last, from Selby Hall, Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort left the seat of the Duke of Rutland on Monday last for the hunting lodge of the Earl of Wilton, at Melton Mowbray. . The Marquis of Lansdowne-intends to pass the Easter holi days at Richmond. The Marchioness and Lady Louisa Fitz maurice are gone to Bowood Park for a few days, and then they join the Noble Lord at his villa on the banks of the Thames. The Earl and Countess of Shelburne intend to pass the Easter recess at Richmond. The Earl and Countess of Sefton leave Croxteth Park on the 14th instant for Belgrave-square. The Earl and Countess of Powis and the Ladies Herbert leave Powis Castle about the 15th.instant for town. . The Countess Dowager of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux leave Boyle Farm in the course of next week for town. Viscount Clive has left Berkeley-square. for Powis Castle. The Bishop elect of Newfoundland (the Rev. E. Field) will leave London for his distant diocese early in the next month. The Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner and the Misses Dawson Darner have arrived at Gainsborough House, Cavendish square, for the season, from Milton Abbey. ' Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., has taken a house in Eaton-place for the season. MISCELLANEOUS. Both Houses of Parliament, last night, adjourned for the Easter recess—the Lords till Tuesday, April 16 ; and the Commons till Monday, April 15. On Tuesday the third spring meeting of the Horticultural Society, at the Exhibition-rooms, in Regent-street, was fully and fashionably attended. Mr. R. S. Solly, V.P., F.R.S., took the chair, supported by the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, Right Hon. Sturges Bourne, M.P., Sir Augustus Foster, Sir Richard Joddrell, Captain Davis, R.N., Dr. Hen derson, Professor Lindley. The exhibition stands contained a large variety of plants in full bloom and cultivation. On Monday a large meeting of the Repeal Association took place in Dublin, when some interesting proceedings took place, which we have reported elsewhere. The rent for the week was announced to be above 9001., including GOO/. from New York. In 1698 the first printing press was erected in Manchester; in 1844 there are, it is estimated, upwards of 500. The Belfast banks have reduced the interest on local paper to 4./ per cent., and on English to 3i. The interest on deposits now on hand will be reduced to 2 per cent. on and after the Ist of July. The Provincial Bank of Ireland has reduced the rate of interest on deposits to 14. per cent. A man charged with the murder of Mr. Waller and Miss Vereker, at Finnoe, escaped from Nenagh gaol on Friday morning. Another capital conviction has been had at Nenagh, before 3lr. Justice Ball, in the case of John Hickey, indicted with others for conspiring to murder Michael Hanley (who was actually murdered). The evidence was clear and decisive. The motive for this crime was the desire to obtain ground. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—Last evening the general meeting of the members of this Club, for the trans action of the annual business was held at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street. Shortly before nine o'clock the chair was taken by the Commodore (W. H. Harrison, Esq.), who having opened the proceedings in the usual manner, the former minutes were read by the Secretary, and confirmed. The Sailing Committee were next appointed, after which a dis cussion took place regarding the course to be adopted with reference to defaulting members. From the auditors' report it appeared that the total receipts were, including sub scribers' entrances, 599/. 12s. Bd. Deducting the total ex penditure, with the sums paid for prizes, cups, &c., a balance of 1791. 17s. 5d remained with the treasurer. A list of the yachts entered was then read. It appears that no less than eighty .eight have been named, including those of the Mar quis of Anglesea, the Earl of Fitzharding, Lord Wharnclffe, Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Lord de Ros, Sir William Russell, Sir Bellingham Graham, Hon. H. Upton, Hon. Augustus Berkeley, T. M. Gibson, Esq., M.P., Captain Erle, Captain Armstrong, Delme Ratcliffe, &c., &c. The first match of the season will take place towards the close of May next, under the usual arrangements. Several gentlemen having been balloted for, were admitted members of the club. It ap pears that it is intended to give several valuable prizes for contention next season, together with two of the value of 501. each, two 25/. each, and the challenge cup (to be won two years in succession by the same yacht), value 100 guineas. Under all these circumstances, the lovers of yachting may rely on a most brilliant season. TESTIMONIAL TO ROWLAND HILL.—At the grand Fancy Ball at Liverpool on Monday last, one of the most interesting characters personated was that of Mr. Birch, of Grove -street, as Rowland Hill, in a sort of light Roman dress ; the front of it, from the neck to the waist, being encased in penny and twopenny postage stamps, with, un derneath, embroidered on the belt, the words, "My heart was in it," and the endorsement of this part of the dress being as follows : “ LETTERS FOR 'TUE mnuox.” From Temple-bar to Piccadilly, Id.; From London-bridge to Londonderry, ld. ; From Land's Eild to John-o'-Groats Id.; Done by me . ROWLASD JILL." ...Shrewsbury Chronicle, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.,=( THI§ DA LONDON, Arm 3.—Wind this day at noon, light Southerly airs and line. DEAL, Arum 2.—Wind S.E. to S.S.W., light airs.—Arrd• Wsndlaudt, Hainburgh for Matanzas ; Aiwina, Hatt buigh for Buenos Ayres. Sld. Gleaner, Quebec; Grace Darling► Madeira ; Hollander, Boston. • OFF DUNGENESS, APRIL 2.—Georgiana, St. Helena for Rotterdam. • PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Wind S.E. to W.S.W.—SId. Wel ; lington, New York ; Royalist, Quebec. • FALMOUTH, Anal:l.—Wind variable and light.--Sl 4 - • Alchymist, Quebec. OFF PENZA.NCE, APRIL L—Wilhelmina Lucia, Caret, Pats sarvuang for Amsterdam. JERSEY, MARCH 31.—Sid. Dolphin, and C. R. C., bieft 4 foundland ; Johnny, Labrador. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2.—Wind variable 'and moderate.' Arrd. Hebe, Wright, Savannah; Atlantic, Hallett, Cabota, Hepburn, and Peter Hattrick. Hast, New York: Put bact Sarah Fleming, for Angia Pequina, bore up from lat. 40, veil leaky. Off, Glenbervie, Charleston ; Archduke, Sld. William Prowse, China; Ellen Jenkinson, and Havannah Packet, Africa; Maly Jane, Prince Edivard's Island; Eliza beth, Buctush ; Syria, Quebec ; Promise, Montreal ; Quebec Packet, Newfoundland ; England, New York.' CORK, MARCH 31.—Sld. Dale Park, Port Phillip. HULL, APRIL I.—Sld Humber, Miramichi ; Suffolk, Elizabeth, and Satins, Quebec. April 2.—Ross and Aurora, ditto ; Lord Mulgrave and Endymion, Miramichi. Arrd Plutus, Aymar. New York. SIIIELDS, MARCII 31, AND APRIL I.—Sld. Singapore/ Harvey, Mayflower, Lord Brougham, Mary Hudson, Carna' tion, Christiana, Gazelle, and Canada, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, APRIL I.—Sld. Employ, Bathurst. NEWPORT, MARCH 30.—Sld. Anna, Richmond ; Eldon, Quebec. April I.—Yolusia, St. Thomas ; Inconstant, Phila delphia. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)- CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY• Although the supply of English Wheat was again but moderate, the sale for that article was in a very depressed ' state, and Monday's quotations were barely supported. Both free and bonded 'oreign Wheats were a heavy sale, and had - a downward tendency. The best Malting Barley was held at full prices, but grinding and distilling sorts were extremely_ heavy. In all other grain not the slightest variation Was noticed. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English 1,910 qrs. 250 qrs. 800 qrs. NO sack.. Irish.. — 870 Foreign. 2,160 810 —..- alt, 770 qrs. WHITECKAPEZ. We had only a moderate supply of meat, yet the genera , demand was heavy, on the following terms :—Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 24i Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 43 2d per Sibs. DUELLING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—There appears to be an inclination in Eng' lishmen at the present moment to put a stop to the wicked practice of duelling. This feeling is manifest in all the speeches in the late debate in the House of Commons, and yet lam sorry to find' that no Bill . appears likely to be brought forward that will effec' tually stop this degrading practice—degrading, in the highest degree, to a people strongly attached to their religion and laws. Instead of boasting of the stite,Of society in this enlightened age, we ought. to be shocked at it, if we are told that an officer in her Majesty's.army or navy, or indeed any man in the rank of a gentleman, is' 'obliged to settle a dispute with' his neighbour by taking his life. We are told that gentlemen are obliged to resort to this foolish practice,, though strongly opposed to it, and that there is no other means of settling their disputes in 6 manner that will enable them to keep their places in Let us see what this honour is really worth the.n must be kept by pistol-law. I believe there are . many men in this country—gentlemen by birth and education—that could not hit a man once in a thou sand shots at the gentlemanly distance these gentle' men duellists stand from each other. Some of the professors of the art, I have no doubt, would hit their man three times out of five. To place a man who scarcely ever saw a duelling-pistol before one of these dead shots, as they are called, is the most unfair and unmanly , thing that human invention can devise. If duelling is to be the only gentlemanly way of settling a dispute, let every scion of these gentlemen be taught the use' of the pistol at school, or by his private, tutor. We should then be enabled to recognise something like fairness and fairplay, which, we are told, is the boast of Englishmen. If travelling tin' kers, rogues, and vagabonds, would but resort to this duelling for six months, we should hear no more of it in society, where it ought to be scorned as an unse' tisfactory and unchristian-like mode of settling dis• putes. J. H. Warwick. EXECUTIONS IN SPAIN. A letter from Orihuela of the 16th inst., published in the Ministerial Castellano, gives the followiug additional . executions:— " The day before yesterday seven of those who took • an active part in the rebellion were shot at Alicant. said that up to fifty are to suffer this terrible punishineo4,_ imposed by the Milit ar y Commission, and that mar' than 200 will be sent to the presidios" (put to hard labour). " ()tilers have also been shot in their respective parishes." The above seven, not including the " others" .shot and, not kept account of, amounts already to 50 since the siege of Alicant began, viz. : At Alcoy, February 3, At Alicant, March 8, At Alicant, Monteforte, and Concenteina, March 12, 13, and 16. • At GalHeil, March 12 At Barcelona, March 18, At Orihucla, March 14 _ . 50 Besides two women sentenced on the 18th at Barcelona , to two and six years' hard labour respectively; for being privy to their husband's treasons and not informing against them ! — ln addition to the 65 individuals denounced at. Alicant a few days since by General Roncali, the Madrid Minis* terial journals publish a list of 39 others, all . of. whom are sought for to suffer the penalty of high treason; and similar denunciations of being pasddos por las minas (shot) are levelled at all who may secrete them ! THE DUTC H INCOME•TAx..--We have rece ived Dutch papers of the Ist instant, from which the following is an extract :—" THE HAGUE, MONDAY.—The agreeable re , port that the loan is complete, and that therefore the extra ordinary tax will not be required, is spread here, and is generally believed. But it seems that the official notice eau not be expected before to-morrow." MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, SOUTHAMPTON BUILD' MOS.—Last night Mr. Wilson gave one of his highly popular entertainments on the Songs of Scotland, in the theatre of the Institution, the proceeds of which were generously de' voted by him to its funds, this being the place where . Mr- Wilson first was called on to display his talents as an Masai" tor of national song. The . evening passed off with great enthusiasm, Mr. Wilson being in excellent voice and spirits. At the end of the entertainment, the President rose to thank Mr.. Wilson, in the name of the Society, for his services on the occasion, and presented him with a paper on which Was beautifully written the resolution of the Committee, making him an honorary member of the Institution. Mr. Wilson , in returning thanks for the honour conferred on him, said that six years ago, when he first gave his Lectures there, he little expected that they would have met with such abundant sue.' cess everywhere, and that the circumstance should open up him a new line of life, which he found both pleasant and pro fitable. The profitable part, he said, had roused the envy of several of his professional brethren, and all over the countll he had hosts of imitators, who did not scruple to take his titles and copy his bills almost literally in word and form. He read a bill which had been sent to him from Portsmouth , announcing that some person, styling himself from the Nobi; lity's Concerts in London, would give "A Nicht wi' Burns' there to-morrow evening, and next Monday would give his " popular" entertainment of "The Adventures of Prince Charles," &c., a literal copy of Mr. Wilson's bill. 111, amused the audience by recounting seve ra l o f th e tricks_ Oa his imitators, some of whom had even taken his name. On who had been purloining Mr. Wilson's titles, "A Night vo Burns," and "The Adventures of Prince Charles," i n the North of England, had gone away with ou t " remembering" to pay some of his accounts, when Mr. Wilson was waited upon , on his arrival in the town, and asked if he had any objection to pay them, as the person had been giving the same enter tainments, and Mr. Wilson had, no doubt, something to do in the business. Mr. Wilson finished the evening's entertain' ment by singing Burns's glorious song of "A man's a man for a' that," and was loudly cheered on his retiring. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.--Pester' : day the members held their third spring meeting, at the 0 - • hibition rooms in Regent -street ; Mr. SoLly, Fas,, in the chair. Present the Countess of Buckingham, Countess Ds Salis, Hon. Emily King, Hon. Miss Eden, Lady Mary Stan' ley, Lady Foster, Lady Banbury, Lord Auckland, 1 4,t• Sturges 3ourne , Sir August us F os t er, Si r R . Joddren, Captain Davis, R.N., Professor Lindley, Dr. Henderson' and others.. The Duk e o f D evonsh i re, Preaiden t o f the Society, exhibited some specimens of Dend.w. bium, with clusters of orange-coloured aromatic flowers' cultivated at Chatsworth, but originally brought over from the Indies. Mr. Pole presented a cucum ber of 21i. inches in length. Sir Edward Antrobus some Calceolaria, and Mrs. Lawrence Orchidaceour Among the novelties was a plant called Phycella Cloacrel brought over to this country originally by Humboldt, and " curious plant called Pilate's Nightcap, a large concave' shaped flower, identical with that d escr ib e d by Humboldt' -i his travels as being gathered by children in Peru, and used in summer as decorative caps or head-dresses. A new an cies of garden-wall of slate was exhibited, and gold 'twos"' " were awarded to Mrs. Lawrence and the Duke of Devon' shire's gardener. The t o t a l amount o f rain, as observed , the Society's Gardens at Chiswick from March 19 tO is estimated at 0.19 inches. 0.. A THE LAST OF THE R OYAL G EORGE ' S few days since died, at Morden College, Blackheath; Dr: Webb, one of the la s t, if no t th e only, surviving officer iv held rank on board thi s un f or t una t e s hi p, w i t h t h e exc eption of Admiral Sir Philip Durham. At the time of this unfortw nate calamity the late Mr. Webb, who was a midshipman had a narrow escape from the fate which awaited hundreds o f his less fortunate companions. • He was one of a boat's crew who had permission to go o n shore under the cowman': of a lieutenant. The boat had rowed off some distance! when's brother midshipman requestekthat he might retur! as he had forgotten his dirk. The lieu tenant acceded to V 1 , 1! request, and the midshipman was put on board, but, stoppi ng longer than the irascible lieutenant desired, he gave cone!: for the crew to row away the boat, which had scarcelyg7 out of the reach of the whirlpool caused by the catastrophes before the ill-fated vessel capsized. Mr. Webb, who ne ver ranked higher than a lieutenant, quitted the navy to mon o in mercantile pursuits, and so became qualified to pas s ,_r as latter portion of - his days under this hospitable root: in 7 7 very eccentric in his habits, and although upwards of n,,inf: years of age (twenty of which he had spent in this asYn 4 " ' he retained lus faculties unimpaired until the hot. , The us place to-d In every one o'cl oc i On the n O'Brien, 1 Mr. O'( begi nn i ng reserv e tla the Ass oc sum of 6( New Yorl the Assoc Warded ti The na , Mr. j s , read to th correspon of Charles then read