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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE WILFULNESS OF WOMAN. A NOVEL. _ . By the Authoress of " The History of a Flirt," &c. • " This is a very brilliant novel. The vigour and power displayed in these pages shames the masculine intellect of the best male writer of the day, at the same time the writer's knowledge of the female heart is so great and subtle, that we can imagine that no one but a woman could have written them. The character of the wilful Harriet Trelawney is drawn in a most masterly manner; but it would be needless to pick out particular actors in this most extraor dinary novel. No novelist of the present day has so much mastery over the passions of the reader as the writer of the work before us. Nothing has issued from the press equal to it since the last work by the sanic , hand."—Weekly Chronicle. Henry Coiburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. CARLOTTA ORISI respectfully informs the Nobility. Subscriberi, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT and Last Appear .. ance will take place THIS EVENING, May 2, when will be per formed Mozart's Chef d'oeuvre, • IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grist Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favanti; Zerlina. Madame Persiarii • De n Giovanni, i ig. Fornasari ; Le poiello, Sig. Lablache ; Masetto , Sig. F Lablache ; 11 Cemman &store, S g. Felice; and Dim Ottavio, Sig. Mario. Between the acts of the Opera Mdlle. Carlotta Grlsi and M. Perrot will dance, for the last time, the celebrated Polka. To conilude with Oat time) the new Ballet, by M. Perrot, with new Scenery, Dresses, Decorations, &c., founded on Victor Hugo's ceiebrated work of " Notre Dame deparis," entitled LA ESMERALDA. La Esragralds, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi • Fleur de Lys, Mdlle. Ade laide Frassi ; Phoebus de Chateaupers, 'M. St. Leon ; Pierre Grin goire, M. Perro . Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be rnade at the Box office, Opera-colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANK • FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. COOPER. - THIS EVENING, MAY 2, Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. %V Harrison; Count Orio Soranzo, Air o'rani; Naima, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlie. rt4zzi • Francesca, Miss Homer.. To conclude with the Opera of CLARI. The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. W West; Relamo, Mr. Cooper: Jocoso, Mr. Hudson ; Nim. pedo, Mr. Meadows; Clari, Miss Hainforth ; Fidalma, Mrs. Tay ] cure; Nmetta, Miss Betts. THEATRE ROYAL, • HAYMARKET. Mit. BENJAMIN WFBSTER. LESSER THIS EVENING, MAY Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Francine, Madame r►estris. After which, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Foozle, Mr. W. Krren ; Mrs. euickfidg. t, Mrs Glover ; Mrs Budd, MissJ. Bennett lobe followed by a New, Original, OccasionaLand Local Extra. raganza, foundrd on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrr. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. PKINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STRE.ET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M.'MADDOX. THIS EVENIN.G, MAY Will be produced a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen riquez de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolleio, Mr. Paul Bedford; La Caterina, Madame Anna Thillon •' Diana, Miss Grant. To conclude with a new Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, called FAIR STAR; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING WATERS. The principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Oxberry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue . THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LAFE ENGLISH OPERA_ HOUSE Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Fesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audiences. • THIS EVENING, MAY Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entit'ed THE THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar ' Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mass Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by an Apropos - Bagatelle. called POLKAMANIA Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs Keeley. To conclude with a Grand Burle que Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN IiESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha. vactess by Mies Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs . Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, hlessrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan, Yarnold, And Chaplin . . • 7 • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Tturnphant Success of the Grand National Spectacle. THIS EVENING, MAY 2, Will be repeated the Hiitorical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; or, the Battle of H. stings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Plege on the Tight Rape. New Scenes in the Circle. To conc:ude with 1 , 1 laughable Farce. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE • THIS EVENING, MAY 2, Wi'l he. performed, CiESAR, THE WATCH.DOG OF THE CASTLE! or the sword of my Father. Clebar, (the . Watch -dog) Miss Vincent. . • After which the Popular Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE OLD MAN'S BRIDE; or, the Murder at Norwood Vill t. Sup ported by Messrs. freer, as Grantly; Nanti, as Tony Smooth; Dale, Seaman, C. .1. Birt, Gardner, Paul, Coreno, James, Miss Arden, and Miss Vincent. To be n.lloweci by the celebrated 55 - Polka Dance" every evening. To conclude with the Melo-Drama, of TOM CRINGLE ; or Mat of the Iron Hand. Tom Cringle, Mr. Freer; Mat, Mr. W.nts ; Gypsey Jack, Mr. Corene ; Elizabeth Stanton, Mrs G. Lee; Fanny Foxglove, Miss Arden. .. Private Boxes, £l. Is. and £l. Ifs. 6d. oASIOUE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE. THIS EVENING. MAY 2, Will he produced a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BRA. G A I,D I ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company, a id Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New York. after which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. R bin, tht Sea iegrace, Mrs. R. Homier. To conclude with an entirely New Drama, 'embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, In which the entire. company will perform. To conclude with a Domestic Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME. LAST HEATR} ROYAL, ADELPHI. :EIC OF MALONE RAYMOND'S IRISH ENTERT,AINMENT. • The GREAT WIZARD of the modern Miracles are the Wonder of London; he is n'ghtly on his Mystic Throne crowned with tne, plaud is of admiring thousands, who exclaim; is he mortal?' He will perform his extraordinary HAT DELUSION every Evening. This wonderful t'eat, which has created so great a sensation, is performed with ANY GENTLEMAN'S HAT ! ! ! and Op wn bepeifect7yempty before he pr • duces from It a Fea. ther Bed andthe Gifts of Flora. . • Dress Circle, Zs.; Pit. Is. tid.; Gallery, Ed. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the heatre, and of all the Agents. l,"econd Price at Nine o'clock. • - . Doors open at half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT ,NOTICE. ONE . SHILLING Admission - io THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnifloc..t and extensive Collection of Risto ricsl Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been ;armed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 gifineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interestinz•manner, the mast 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 ;na•ease, by several very fine pictures, Se., his previous almost im re lible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multittule of valuable Relics, and other Curiosities, in this - most instructive and, as hundreds have sald it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated tint it .ou d glit to be seen by every one. The price of admis • Eton is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM, is to be seen only at the " Egyptian Hall." Piccadilly, daily from Teri till Dusk. TIIE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 1. • THERMOMETER, Lowest, 41; Highest, .61; Noon, 61. BAROMETER, 30.45.—W LSD, E.S.E. NoTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the faezing point, and '55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u aially placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. DTGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. THIS DAT. ki° B linE ... 5 minutes after I! Evening... 29 roinute.s after 1. •„ . 1 ~., ~ ' t V ~ ,, , e , . .. 40" . . , • -Jilr! , , 4 1,,, - .y 74 -• .O 411 h -...•;."-. 4- • 1 " ~1 '.' 1 .: uE, Y: , l ', ',., r• 11 co' -' `,:•%, :- .4.2331340'; ' `,..,-. l '- ' --;-:.----; '.' ' A''' . • 7 ' t t " 1 ...- . . ......_ Mont% I *int LONDON, TIIURSDAY, MAY 2, 1844. The Lords did not sit last evening, and the only question of importance that came before the Com mons was the Masters and Servants Bill. The order _of the day was to go into Committee on the Bill, and• Mr. T. DIINCOMBE, who is always at his post, opposed it with his usual spirit. We are happy to state that he was successful, Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the amendment, and announced his inten tion of voting for the Bill going into Committee. The House, however, would not go with the Right Hon. Gentleman. On a division there were for the Bill 54, and against it 97, making a majority against the Bill of 43. It is a singular fact that Sir J.s.mss GRAMM seldom carries any Bill which he supports. The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Seven. - We have lately perused in the columns of a Morn ing Contemporary an at title on " the Currency as now constituted," which so distinctly adopts, whilst it enunciates, certain fallacies connected with the elements of this all-important question, that we can not do better than deal with them at once. The ge neral subject will, in a few days, form the engrossing topic of Parliament's deliberations. It may be ex pedient, therefore, to clear the ground over which the arguments on either side will be pushed, of all encum bering errors of principle ; and of delusive plausibi lities, which have nothing more to recommend them than the authority of some great names, by whose ill considered sanction they were originally ushered into public notice. Against the arrayof great n ames an d clever theories the public has learned to set the prac tical results of a severe experience. All their respe c t for the sagacity and acumen of a RICARDO does not blind them to the stupendous blunders of his antici pated calculation as to the maximum ratio of decline iti 'prices, consequent on the establishment of the gold standard of value by PEEL'S Bi ll. All their reverence for the attainments, genius, and integrity of a GREN VILLE, will not remove his memory beyond the im 7 peachment of extreme rashness in the dogged perti nacity with which he insisted on the nostrum of a gold standard of value as a panacea for all the evils, exaggerated as well as real, of the depreciated value of our paper money at the close of the war. The late Lord KING scarcely. imposed an one man in Britain, beyond'the immediate circle of his own political clique; by the. stand he made for his rents in gold, at a period when the Dover and Harwich mails were con vey ing every golden guinea which could be evoked from private hoards to these ports, there to be smuggled out of this country to the Continent, where its market value was so much enhanced beyond its Mint value and denomination with us. Coneseer himself did.not give that crotchetty and unamiable peer credit for any curmtitutional jealousy on behalf of the legal or golden standard of valt ; but chuckled at the succeil of his noble friend's" very sordid purposes in applying the screw so mercilessly to his tenantry. As for Mr. llrsiussow, his character for political honesty has been efficiently disposed of by the author of " The Minister Mistaken." It .is quite evident that when Mr. HusitissoN wrote his pamphlet (destined to run through so many editions) on the Report of the Bul lion Committee, he absolutely falsified, in adverting to theni, the returns and tables which had been pre pared by the Bank of England, to show at what pe riods, and under what corresponding conditions of in creased or diminished taxation, &c., its issues had been expanded or contracted. But the comparison between his assurances to the House of Commons in 1826, as to the limited amount of even the utmost extent to which the newly modelled tariff of import duties, agreed to between Prussia and three or four of the German States (a confederacy which was the proto type of, and finally replaced by, the Zollverein), would affect British manufactured goods brought into Prussia; and his own subsequent admission that, in•• stead of this utmost limit being from 15 to 20 per cent. it reached, in some cases, between 70 and 80 per cent.—this comparison is fatal either to his minis terial j udgment and ability, or to his political integrity. Either he wilfully deceived the House of Commons on the subject, or he was the credulous dupe of the Baron MALTZAHN'S protestations. In either case we find an additional reason fbr deploring the fatuity which lis tened to his cciunsels, and passed the Act of 1819, known as "PEEL'S Bill." Now the experience of five-and-twenty years has demonstrated, first, that the extent assumed, even by the late Mr. HORNER himself, for the actual depreciation of Bank of Eng land paper, just before the Bullion Committee last re ported, was fallacious, and, practically speaking, by no means approximated to•the rate which theory had ascribed to it ; second, that the foreign exchanges were by no means (in the practical operations of capital on the payment and adjustment of commercial ba lances) so adverse as they were reported to be in the official notations of them. The fact of this discre- pancy, and an ingenious attempt to explain its causes, are well illustrated in an article in the "Edinburgh Review" for 1811, on Currency and Prices, which has been attributed to Mr. HORNER. And yet the continuance of these adverse exchanges was one of the main grounds relied upon by a school of economists who undertook to measure the ratio of depreciation by the variation of the exchanges. In 1819 we possessed an enormous and rapidly im proving foreign commerce ; money was in immense abundance ; all the departments of domestic trade were in full activity ; the wages of labour were ade quate to the subsistence of our labourers. Of the carrying trade for other countries, which the Ameri cans had once so largely engrossed, we had succeeded to an enormous portion. The facility of obtaining advances on capital of all kinds, real or personal, was so great that every branch of legitimate industry and enterprise was quickened, invigorated, expanded. We were. at peace with all the world. The national debt, in the four years since the close of the war, had been already largely reduced. Reductions, also, of oppressive customs duties, and other fiscal ameliora tions had been successively adopted. Taxes were beginning to be removed. The public revenue was increasing. The income' of the " Excise " showed a prodigiously increased capacity of consumption among the . poorer and humbler classes of society. What was wanting to the permanency and consolidation of such a state of things, but to persevere in the slow though certain career of improvements and guarantees on which we had so happily thus far advanced ? Alas! " A 1/. Bank note and ls. in silver were clearly not equal, in the money or the foreign market, to a golden guinea in value." What of it? Did a it. Bank ncte and Is., in silver buy less than 21 shillings' worth of goods, here ? Was there any difficulty in obtaining for them manufactures which would have sold readily for a guinea's worth of gold' abroad ? But, the currency being "depreciated" so long as a given amount of Bank of England paper and silver would not command. an equivalent sum in gold, "it was ne cessary, above all things, to restore the ancient gold standard of value of the country," so as to equalise the one description of money with the other, by making the paper convertible into gold on demand from its issuers. But, in the first place, it was an historical folly to suppose that the " gold standard of value" wAs our " ancient standard." The experi :nent of making Bank of England paper payable in gold upon demand had lasted only one hundred years, when it was put an end to, after some failures and nany intermediate approaches to violent and abrupt termination, by the "BANK RESTRICTION ACT" of 1797. The old money of this country was either symbolic (intrinsically valueless, but current for a given value, by its issue from and receipt into the KING's exchequer, where alone it was convertible into silver by tale or by weight), or coined gold and silver, to which a certain value was given by Royal proclamation at its issue. The fancy of affixing a ?ertain, irrevocable value, to the ounce of gold, of itandard fineness,—leaving free to find their fluctua ting value with all other commodities and mer chandise, all other metals ; and all representatives of capital, not having coined money, such as bills of ex change, Exchequer bills, and promissory notes, cir culating from hand to hand ;—this fancy would have been too wild for the gravity and sound sense of those elder statesmen who laid broad and deep the first foundations of British trade, opulence, and power. But in 1819 the " gold standard of value" was set up is it were, by acclamation. We had now gold cheap by Act of Parliament, though any or every other metal, chattel, merchan dise, money, property of any kind, should happen to be coincidently dear. In all Europe there was pro bably not one-fiftieth part of the amount of our actual currency circulation—silver and paper money, bills, &c., of the kinds we have just referred to, circu lating in gold coin. in the bullion store of the Bank of England there was not then—(if there be even now, it is as much as there is, and that point has never been reached till within these five or six weeks) —so much of gold money as .' one-half of the Bank of England paper at the same time in circulation. Any fluctuation of trade —any shock of our .political relations, any un controllable Caprice of - public opinion, at home or abroad, might, at any moment, alter the relations in which the demands of trade, and invested and fluc tuating capital, stood to each other. In the same pro portion, the value of gold might alter and become dearer in the " market,"—not so at the "Mint." At the Mint, and under the statute, you must pay and receive your gold cheap. The holders of more, in Bank of England notes, than all the gold and silver bullion in the Bank cellars would amount to, might carry to the great hall in Thread needle-street their paper, and insist on being paid in gold, at the standard price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce. In Lombard-street, or on the Royal Exchange, next door, gold might be fetching Si. per ounce, at the same instant. The Bank must manage to get, constantly, gold enough to meet all such de mands, at a ruinous loss of 1/. 2s. lid. per ounce on every 'sum of 31. 17s. lOid. demanded in exchange for its own notes, or it must be bankrupt ! Such is our boasted security against the danger of " paper money depreciation." What is the Bank to do ? The moment gold begins to rise above the Mint price, the Bank contracts its paper issues, that may better meet the demand for gold. Thus it pro ceeds to derange all the operations of commerce, pdtalyse industry, cease its own usual discounts and advances to merchants of the highest station and probity, and produce a panic throughout the kingdom, and involve thousands in help less insolvency. What panic —what ruin— under the old Bank of England paper s m y o st r e e m ever r , eeent rivalled the panics of 1825, and the ones, occasioned by the demand for gold? The local distress resulting from the occa sional failure of some worthless provincial bank, was a drop of water to an ocean in the comparison. Be sides, the facilities and benefits which domestic trade and industry derived from the institution and esta blishment of country banks generally, far outweighed any such partial and Occasional mischief's. Why did not the Legislature stop at making all paper issues I convertible into gold at the- market value —not at a pre-concerted Mind price,. ; which can have`.;; more necessary relation - to what the flactnit tions we speak of may render, from time to time, its absolute iptrinsie value,' than if this value were taken in 1844 from that applied by DARIUS to his lost coinage Of Persian daricks. •By fixing ;the price of gold, more especially, at the lowest rate deducible from the averages of a long series of years, during which our trade and commerce, our wealth and resources, their development and their application were all in mere infancy compared to their present gigantic growth, you have enhanced and enlarged the powers of that possible external pressure, which a rise in bullion will always—and must one day, fatally —bring to bear upon the Bank of England. " The most serious of the imputations against the currency as now constituted," says our Contemporary, "is liability to over-issue, by which is of course meant, issue in such abundance as to depreciate the currency, or, what is the same thing, to raise general' prices." Now the most serious of the imputations in question is not, necessarily, the liability to over-issue. So far from it, the peril is at once greater and more frequent of under-issue. The false position of the Bank of England, its perpetual insecurity, from liabilities to pay in gold, to an extent which it is PHYSICALLY IM POSSIBLE for the Bank to meet, should 20,000,0001., for example, of its own notes be ever presented for conversion in the terms of PEEL'S " folly" of 1829 — and the natural proneness of the Bank to contract its issues, therefore, and ALWAYS at the wrong time— that is to say, when accredited paper of any kind is most needed, and in the largest quantity, to allay commercial panic (the square of whose expansion may justly be said to be in the ratio of its duration) —these are the gravest charges to be urged against our present currency. As to the effect of abundant paper issues in " raising prices," we have so recently shown the advantage to the whole community of prices that will represent the taxation sanctioned by our industrial labour in, or pending, the production of its commodities ; and the impossibility of foreign competitors deriving any advantage over our manu facturers from such prices, seeing that as they would be paid in paper they will obtain gold for it on such terms only, as shall equate their returns (through the higher price of bullion) to those derived by our manu facturers, that we do not feel warranted in pressing the point further at present on our readers. Besides, this is the fifth and the last of the propositions which we have pledged ourselves to demonstrate, seriatim, in a future article. The forty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Church Missionary Society was held on Tuesday at Exeter Hall.' The Earl of CHICHESTER presided, and, toge ther with the Bishops of CHESTER and Rirox, Sir ROBERT INGLIS, and the Rev. J. W. CUNNINGHAM, bore testimony to the great success which had at tended the operations of the Society, which, he re marked had triumphed over all opposition. It is cer tainly a glorious—a magnificent object to attempt to convert the benighted heathens of the old as well as of the new world to Christianity; to pour the steady light of intelligence on darkened Africa; to hu manise the manners of the ferocious New Zea landers ; and raise the debased pagans of the Chinese islands in the scale of civilisation and morality ; this, we say, is a glorious object, and far be it from us to hint aught that might convey the idea that we were desirous to discourage it ; the blessings of Christianity are inestimable, and cannot be too widely diffused ; wherever the spirit of the Gospel pene trates, there peace, decorum, intellect, and all the elements of social order follow in its train ; still, while we cannot but approve the zealous and disin terested labours of the Church Missionary Society, common sense and patriotic feeling would suggest that that Society might be more profitably employed at home, in reclaiming our own benighted country men from ignorance and its inseparable concomi tant, vice, than in instilling Gospel truths into the minds of a set of squalid savages, who, compa ratively speaking, have the faintest possible claims on our consideration. The available funds of the Society at this present moment are, it is understood, upwards of one hundred thousand pounds, the whole of which large sum is to be spent in christianising the barbarians of the South Sea Islands, and the still more demoralised barbarians of Africa and the Chinese settlements. Now, how much more ration- , ally—how much more profitably might not this sum be employed in performing the same kind office for the thousands and thousands of our own countrymen who are sunk chin-deep in ignorance ; who have but an imperfect acquaintance with, and an habitual dis regard of, the great principles of virtue and morality ; and who pass from youth to age without the slightest knowledge of one single Gospel truth ? Who but must remember the humiliating exposure made by Lord ASHLEY last year of the degraded condition in which vast masses of the lowest classes of our fellow countrymen were still suffered to remain ? He proved, by a variety of documents, that admitted of no con tradiction, that their ignorance was scarcely sur passed even by that of an Australian savage ; that they were familiar with crime in its most loathsome and hopeless form ; and were ever ready, as oppor tunity offered, to play the part of the desperado, the insurgent, and the incendiary. No instructors had ever been provided forlhem—no one was found to instil into their minds the wholesome living truths of Christianity—they were considered, so to speak, as the outcasts—the Pariahs of society, on whom advice, remonstrance, and menace would be thrown away, and whom it was not worth any respectable man's while to endeavour to reclaim. Surely these unhappy and neglected beings have stronger claims on the active consideration of the Church Missionary Society than the far-away savages of New Zealand ! Surely it were wiser and better that we first attempted to Christianise our own benighted coun trymen, before we directed our attention to the spiri tual wants of the inhabitants of remote regions By all means send out missionaries to China, Africa. the South Sea Islands, &c., but before you encourage them to go abroad, insist on their exerting their most _ . strenuous efforts in the cause of religion at home, When they have succeeded in humanising and Chris_ tianising the minds of the thousands and tens of thou sands 'of debased creatures who swarm in our manu facturing and agricultural districts—aye, even in Mr. BANKEs's boasted Elysium of Dorsetshire—then, but not till then, let them turn their vigilant attention to the religious and moral wants of the Africans, the Chinese, and the South-Sea Islanders. Charity, says the old adage, begins at home, and we are de cidedly in favour of setting missionaries to work at home, before we send them abroad to plant the Gos pel, and sow the seeds of civilisation in countries akin to us in no one single respect, and separated from us by the breadth of immense oceans. We have intelligence from Madrid to the 23d ult. Reports were prevalent, which were believed by some to be well founded, of a change of Ministry. BRAVO was to resign, and be succeeded by NARVAEZ, as President of the Council. Only two members of the Cabinet were to remain in office. The Corresponsal, however, states that these reports are entirely without foundation. The Three per Cents. were done at 35i for cash, and 36 at sixty days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22i. The following is the official dispatch of the Baron DE MEEK to the Minister of War, announcing tha butcheries of Gerona "Army of Catalonia—General Staff. " Excellent Sir,—l have the satisfaction of informing your Excellency, that the public tranquillity remains unaltered, both in this capital and the other parts of the district in my charge. " The Carlist officers and individuals mentioned in the ac companying list which I have the honour to transmit to you, were shot on the 16th instant, in Gerona, in conformity with my last dispatch, for having entered Spain from France, in order to excite civil war; and I have thought it proper on this occasion to direct the address to the people and the army which is contained in the General Order, a copy of which I also transmit for the due information of your Excellency, and the superior knowledge of her Majesty.—Ged preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) "Barcelona, April 18, 1844." " Army of Catalonia—General Staff. "List of the individuals of the Carlist ranks who were shot at Gerona on the 16th of April, 1844 : f ve t t h l eu c t i e d . nant-colonel,eliciano . ca le p d t i i , li a n ge o d f 4 t o h , e ca nati v v a e l r of Gerona, regiment "Francisco Oliveras, aged 53, native of San Vicente del br o e Camos, captain of the 10th battalion of infantry. "Augustin Dachs, aged 48, native of Palmorolu, brevet colonel, first commander of the 18th battalion of infantry. "Jose Pont y Vinos, aged 32, native of Santa Eugenia de Relat, captain of the lst battalion of infantry. "Fermin Pon, aged 44, native of Gerona, brevet lieutenant, sub-lieutenant of the 12th battalion of Cazadores :of Cata lonia. "Ramon Canudas, aged 27, native of Caserras, second ser geant of the infantry battalion del Rey. "Narciso Canudus, aged 26, native of Pont de Revente, camp follower. " DE MEER." The address alluded to announces to the people of Cata lonia, that the enemies of the public repose, having left the hospitable soil of France, to draw upon the country the hor rors and misfortunes of a new war, had been prevented by Divine Providence from realising their plans, and that the few who succeeded in crossing the frontier were taken, owing to the good spirit of the, people and army, and, having been b to ro s u h g e h d t s t p o a G ni e s r h on b a loo , were c e:s . hot there on the 16th instant, con eluding with th e usual professions of horror at being obliged " RAMON DE MEER, Much excitement prevails at Paris, caused by a general belief that the Government have come to the determination of converting the Five per Cent. Stock. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING-, MAY 2, 1P44. There is, in consequence, it regular scramble to buy into the Three per Cents., and get rid of the other at almost any price. This has caused a great rise in the Threes,which rose at one time on Monday to 84f. 65c., and closed at 84f. 25c. The Fives declined to nearly the same amount, and closed at 121 f. 75c. The amount of the latter does not exceed 7,000,000/. On this subject the Courrier Francais remarks : " Rumours of financial projects of an extraordinary nature, have excited much attention at the Bourse during the past week. The Ministry, by not giving any denial in the official journals, has allowed a re port to gain groundthat the Committee on the Budget has at last come to an arrangement with the Govern ment on the subject of the conversion of the Five per Cents. The details given with confidence on this Bill by men usually well informed, have greatly alarmed the holders of Fives, particularly on the eve of the KING'S Pe, an epoch when the Government would not have failed to remove all doubt, if possible, from the mind of a mass of stockholders of whom the greater number reside in Paris, and form part of the National Guard. The conversion spoken of would simply consist of a reduction of the Five into Four and-a-Half per Cents. But as the Four-and-a-Half's are negotiated at the Bourse at 112, it is evident that not a single holder of Five per Cents. would accept the reimbursement offered by the State at 100. The mere report on this subject has brought down the Fives one per cent., has induced many holders to sell their stock and purchase Threes, which, in conse quence, have risen one per cent. If the Committee on the Budget has really determined on some plan of conversion, the Minister. of Finance ought to make it publicly known." - - Another question has also excited some interest particularly in the Chamber of Deputies, namely, the election of M. C. LAFITTE, the banker, a third time for Louviers. The election had been tw ice annulled by the Chamber owing to a promise he made to his constituents to procure a railroad between that town and the Rouen and Paris Railroad. On Monday a motion was made to affirm the return, and was supported by all the Government influence. M. DE BEAUMONT opposed the return, not from party motives, but for the purity and dignity of the Cham ber, as he firmly believed the charges adduced against M. LAFITTE were clearly proved. The discussion had not closed at the hour of post. The following programme for the KING'S fete appears in the papers : " Distributions of provisions will be made in the twelve arrondissements to the indigent inhabitants, at their own houses. From two o'clock till nightfall there will be the following amusements for the public on the Esplanade of the Invalides, and at the Barriere du TrOne—viz.: Two grand theatres, on which will be represented military spectacles and pantomimes, orchestras for dancing, and a maypole for climbers, with five prizes at the top. In the Garden of the Tuileries, in front of the Pavilion de l'llorloge, there will be a grand concert at a quarter past seven. Grand fireworks will be let off about half-past eight, on the wharf of the Quai d'Orsay and at the Barriere du Trone, In the evening the Champs-Elysées, the Place de la Barriere du Treme, and the Garden of the Tuileries, as well as all the public buildings of Paris, will be illuminated." THE BOURSE—MONDAY, APIIIL 29. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2l 45 .. 121 60 .. 121 40 121 55 Four-and-a-Half Four per Cents. 106 80 .. 106 80 106 80 .• 106 80 Three per Cents B4 45 .. 84 60 .. 84 45 .. 84 45 Bank of France 3095 —3095 . 3095 ..3095 Belgian Bank .......... 695 695 .. 695 • • 695 Belgian Fives;lß3l. 1840 ........ 106 .. 106/ .. 106 106 1842 .... •• 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 108/ Spanish Threes •• . • • 371 • • 37 { • • 371 • • 371 Passive 6/ .. 61 6/ 6f New Deferred...... 15/ .. 151 • • 1 5 1 • . 151 _l'eapolitan ...... ....... .. 102 25 .. 102 25 102 25 .. 102 25 roman . 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 1061 RAILWAY SHARES. Vera'Res,R.B. 387 50 .. 387 50 .• 382 50 .• 382 50 L. 8...... ..... 245 .. 245 .. 245 .. 245 Rouen 950 .. 950 .. 950 .. 950 Rouen to Havre ..... •••• • • • 725 .. 725 . • 720 .• 720 Orleans ........ ....... • • 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 970 .. 970 Strasburg to Bale— •• • . Montpellier to Cette • - • • .. • • 475 • • 473 475 .. 475 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. •-- - Versailles, R.B. • ... 387 . 50 • • 387 50 •• 3S •• 380 L. 8............. 245 .. 245 .. 245 .. 245 Rouen 969 50 . 962 50 .. 962 50 .. 962 50 Roucn to Havre. Orleans ..... ........ 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 962 50 .. 965 Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 281 25 .. 281 25 •• 272 50 .. 275 Avignon to Marseilles-- 70 . 765 •• 765 .. 765 MONE AND COAIMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, The value of Stocks continued nominally the same as yesterday, the market being closed. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales. of Cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday were 3,000 bales, 400 being taken on speculation. Prices were tolerably steady.—Shares had a.good tone, and a fair business was done. Birmingham and Gloucester were 95 ; Dublin and Cashel, 4 ; Great Western, Half, 73 2 4 ; Birming ham, 230 ; South Western, 84 ; Paris and Lyons, 21 1 ; South- Eastern, 36i • Ditto, New, We are dad to observe from the monthly Manches ter report of Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, that there has been a quiet but fair bUsiness done in most descriptions of our staple manufactures, and that although prices have declined a little, the raw material being also lower, the position of the spinner and manufac turer is not perhaps worse than last month. In the Cotton yarn market a considerable business is stated to have been done for India, China, the Mediterranean, and the Levant. Large quantities of the better class have been taken, being relatively cheaper for India and Greek account. The -erman buyers, however, have been withholding their orders, in ex pectation of a further decline. Some good contracts have been entered into for Russi an acco unt. There needs but con fidence, the writers observe, to ensure a large export demand for cotton yarns and manufactures. There is much more activity in the produce markets, and the dealers having kept themselves very b are c f s t oc k un d er an apprehension of change s in the duties, are now coming forward freely to purchas e mo st of the leading staples, and the som i e m w p e o e r k t e s r s past are . The Stock Exchange b ein g clo sed , as usual, on May-day, paying we have nothing to report of the funds. MANotEsreat STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 30.—We have had more business doing to-day, but prices' are without 'much change.— Eastern Counties, 12g ; London and Birmingham, 2291; Manchester and Birmingham, 56i 57 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 9g-;. Sheffield and Manchester, 79 ; South- Eastern, 36i ; Ditto, New , 10 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2g ; Preston and Wyre, 17 Blackburn and Preston, 5i ; Bury 4; and Rot sendale, 5g 6 ; orth British, 21.195. ; Leeds and Brad ford, 18 ; Trent Valley, 10g. LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following distinguished persons have visited this theatre during the week : The Duke of Richmond and the Ladies Lennox, the Duchess of Bedford and family, the Marquis and Mar chioness of . Clanricarde, Earl and Countess of liar ringtoa, Earl Fitzwilliam and family, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Countess Mostara, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Andover, Lord Tenterden, Lord Ranelagh, Lord Sherborne, Lady Bolton, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Sir Charles Des Voeux, General Hodgson, Mrs. Russel Ellice and family, Capt. Polhill, M.P., &c. &c. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION DOUEE.—On Tuesday, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a splendid entertainment to the members of the Corporation and their ladies at the Mansion-house. It was the eighth of a series of dinners given by his Lordship and the Lady Mayoress in the most splendid style to the members of the Court of Common Council A precedent has been established for the invitation of the wives of the members of the Court in this succession of magnificent treats to the fair sex, and it will no doulbt be acted upon uniformly in future Mayoralties, cal culated as it is to give great addition to the pleasure and elegance of the civic hospitalities. The vocal and instrumental music was admirably performed by Miss Galbraith, Miss R. Dixon, Mr. Lover, Mr. Urine, and Mr. Richards, Mr. Jewson, and Mr. Thomas, of the Royal Academy. The dinner, and, wines, and fruits, were of first-rate excellence, and nothing could exceed the gratification felt by the numerous guests. On this day a splendid entertainment will be given by the Lord Mayor to the Archbishops and Bishops after the per formance of Divine service in St. Paul's. The enter tainment will take place in the Egyptian-ball, which has been recently fitted up and embellished. SALE or Sun's OF WAR. —Tuesday afternoon, nine ships and vessels of war, which had been declared unfit for service, and are now lying in her Majesty's dockyards at De vonport, Portsmouth, and Chatham, were offered for sale, by direction of the Lords of the Admiralty , at their office, So merst-House. The Commissioners present were Sir George Seymour, and Captain Symonds. There was a fair attend anca of ship-owners, merchants, and brokers, but the biddings a ff descriptionord e afforded no o great o p e e v r i t d 3 e ,. n c Sir e company that the sale would not, as on f ormer occasions, be Gaeodrgeseirese3t,cra) s o p u e r c i u n l f a o t nn e in ed th th a e t conducted on the principle of Dutch auction, but that an upset price would be taken, the Commissioners being entitled to a reserved bidding. The several lots were then put up. and disposed of as follows :—The Lyra, 10-gan brig, 236 tons burden, was put up at 3501.; the reserved bidding 700/. ; not sold. The Delight, 10 guns, 2 31 tons , p ut up at 350/., and no advance, was not sold; 500/. being the reserved price. The Jaseur, 10 guns, 387 tons, not sold, 600 /. the reserved p rice. The Harriet' lighter, 33 tons, was knock ed down for 130/. The copper was said to be worth the purchase money. The Pylades, 18 guns, 432 tons, created some competition, as she is said to be in good condition ; 550/. was offered, but the Commissioners said the reserved price was 900/. ; not sold, The Algerine, 10 guns, 231 tons, was sold for 5101. The Weasei, 10 guns, 237 tons, said to be a remarkably fine vessel, was sold for 540/. to Mr. Beach of Rotherhithe. The Ter magant, 10 guns, 231 tons, was not sold, 1,000/. being the re served price. The Swan cutter, 144 tons, was the last lot; 1201. was the reserved price ; and as there were no bidders, she was not sold. The lots sold were generally considered good bargains, but it was evident that shipping is not in much request. THE JEWS' HOSPITAL.—The annual dinner of this Charity took place on Tuesday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. About 200 gentlemen were present. The chair was filled by Martin T. Smith, Esq., in the absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, from indis position. Grace was then said by one of the readers in the Synagogue. " The Health of her Majesty the Queen," and the customary toasts on public occasions, were then given successively, and duly honoured, The principal toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Jews' Hospital," was then given. The objects of the Society's bounty were introduced to the company. Those employed in learning handicraft trades, each carried a specimen of his work, which was inspected by his friends and patrons during their progress round the room. The Chairman, in proposing the toast, stated in a few words the design of the Charity, which was instituted for the relief • of the aged poor of the Jewish persuasion, and for the educa tion and emyloyment of the youth of both sexes. The total sum subscribed to the funds, - during the evening, amounttd to upwards of 1,000/. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publtt Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The ball given by the city of Marseilles to the Duke de Montpensier the evening before his departure was got up with great splendour. His Royal Highness entered at nine o'clock, and was received with enthusiastic welcome. He opened the ball with Madame Lafon, the wife of one of the municipal councillors, and afterwards danced with four other ladies. He retired at eleven, and was escorted home by vast bodies of the citizens, uttering loyal shouts. At ten the next morning the Royal Duke left the Hotel d'Orient amidst uni versal expressions of regret and good wishes. A grand pro cession was formed to do him honour, composed of detach ment^f gendarmes and municipal foot guards; about forty carriages, all decorated with the national colours, and pre ceded by a numerous cavalcade formed by the young men of the city. Great preparations had been made at Paris for the King's fete on the Ist of May. It was reckoned that at least 150,000 strangers had arrived to witness the ceremonies of the grand exhibition of works of art. The weather was magnificent. The Courrier Francais states that numerous patrols of Municipal Guards, cavalry and infantry, have perambulated the streets of Paris for some nights past after [tine o'clock in the evening, and adds, " this is the commencement of the mea sures of security to be adopted on the approach of the Ist of May (the King's fete)." Of the four races run in the Champ de Mars, Paris, on Sunday last, three were won by horses the property of Baron ' Anthony de Rothschild. The second horse in the other race belonged also to him. I The last accounts from Algiers announce the submission to the French of several tribes who have hitherto adhered to Abd-el-Kader, and particularly of the chief of the town and district of Laghouat. The town contains 20,000 inhabitants, and is situated at a distance of 120 leagues from Algiers. The veteran politician, Royer Collard, is in a very alarm- ing state. • The French Minister of War has completed, and ordered to be put in force, regulations for preventing duels in the army. Aodes of reconciliation are prescribed not only for both the parties, but also for the seconds and the officers before whom the affair is to be brought. In case all efforts fail and a meet ing takes place, the principals and seconds are to be brought before a court martial. The Seatinelle, of Bayonne, states from Madrid, April 21, that for the last three days none of the subscribers to French opposition journals had - been allowed to receive their usual supply from the Madrid post office. A rather violent shock of an earthquake was felt at Lugo, in Galicia, on the 19th ult., at 45 minutes past 3 o'clock, P.M. It proceeded from north to south, and the oscillation was so strong, that the houses were shaken throughout the town as if by a loud discharge of artillery. The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of the Red Eagle of the first class upon Count Bresson, late French Minister at the Court of Berlin. _ _ Schleiermaclitr, who was Ptivy Councillor and Secre tary to the late Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, died at Darmstadt, on the 20th ult., in his 90th year. It appears by a letter from Hamburgh, that the amount of the losses occasioned by the great fire in that city has only just been correctly ascertained. It is 38,442,000 marks cur rent, or nearly 3,000,0001. A letter from Stockholm, April 16, says—" Yesterday the body of the late King was clothed in the costume of the Order of the Seraphim, and placed on a catafalque erected in the hall of the palace, bearing the name of that Order. The features of the illustrious deceased are not in any respect al tered. The body is to remain there in state for a week." LAW AND POLICE. In the Insolvent Debtors Court James Gomm and Harris Gemm (father and son) appeared for judgment. They were opposed by Messrs. Cooke and Woodruffe for several credi tors ; and supported by Mr. Nichols. The insolvents were builders, and had obtained materials of the opposing credi tors, with which they built houses, mortgaged them, and had disposed of the equity .of redemption to a relation for an alleged debt of 4501., who . had assigned it to a third party. The Court remanded the insolvents for 16 calendar months, from the vesting order, for making away with property. In the Sheriffs' Court an action was brought by 'Mr. Barnes, an engineer, against Mr. Miles, a cabinet-maker, for the se duction of his daughter. There being ,no defence to tfie ac tion, the jury assessed the damages at 100/. Samuel Withers, a young man, residing at 15, Stangate street, 'Westminster, was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, at Guildhall, charged with knowingly uttering a forged 5L note of the Bank of England to G. Weston, a tobacconist, on Holborn-hill. The prisoner was remanded till Friday. At Lambeth-street, Daniel Di-iscol was charged with com mitting a murderous assault upon his wife, who is at present in the London Hospital in a dangerous state. Police-con stable James Mahony stated that while on duty in Rosemary lane, on that morning, he heard loud cries of murder, and upon entering the room from which they were proceeding, he found the prisoner's wife in bed in a very frightful state. She was nearly exhausted at the time, but was enabled to tell him that her husband had inflicted the injuries upon her person with a poker. Mr. Norton told him, t hat the charge as it stood, was one of a serious nature, but if anything hap pened to his wife it would be still more so, and remanded the prisoner to a future day. The Marquis of Lorn, only son of the Duke of Argyll, at tained his majority on Tuesday, when the event was celebrated by great rejoicings on the noble Duke's estates in Argyleshire. The Countess de Salis gave a. grand dinner, on Monday, to Prince Castelcicala t the Marquis of Headfort, the Ladies Olivia and Mary Taylor, H the Bishop of Carlisle and the on. Mrs. Percy, Lord and Lady Sondes and Miss Miller, Sir Philip and Lady Grey Egerton, Viscount Ossulston, Viscount Maidstone, Lord Beaumont, Sir John Harrington, &c. In the evening the whole'suite of rooms, brilliantly lighted and adorned with the choicest exotic flowers, were thrown open, and her Ladyship received upwards of 200 of the Elite of the fashionable world, to hear some excellent professional and amateur music. . The following were among the company present at the Italian Opera on Tuesday :—The Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge; Lord and Lady Barrington and party occupied the Queen Dowager's box ; the Dukes of Devonshire, Montrose, and Leeds; the Duchesses of Beaufort and Montrose; the Marquises of Ailesbury, Lansdowne, Normauby, Douro, Wor cester, and Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Lansdowne and Wellesley ; Baron Nieman, Baron Brunnow, the Turkish Am • bassador, and suite ; Countess de Selig Count de Noailles ; the Earls of Pembroke, Jersey, Liverpool;Chesterfield, Wilton, Shelburne, Falmouth, and Belfast ; the Countesses of Jersey, Wilton, Palmerston, Shelburne ; Lords Templetown, Palmers ton, Ernest Bruce, William Paulet, Trimlestown, Gardnor, Aylmer, Cantilupe, Duncannon, Alfred Paget, William Paget; Ladies Dufferin, Trinaleftown, Augusta Somerset, Ernest Bruce, William Paulet, Aylmer, Clementine N;illiers, Holland, Wombwell, Palmer, Joddrell, Duff, &c. Lieutenant-General le Baron Stierncrona, on a special mis sion from his Majesty the King of Sweden, left town on Tuesday evening, on his return to Sweden. ZWESCELLANEOO9. A meeting of the delegates of all trades was held on Tues day evening, at the Catherine Wheel, Union-street. There were about 230 delegates present, representing nearly all the trades of which the working classes are composed, amounting to about 1,500 men who were determined to oppose the pass ing of the Masters and Servants' Bill. The secretary of th e Tailors' Protection Society," representing about 2,000, re ported the progress of that body in opposing the Bill. The feeling of the meeting was very strong against the measure, and, after several resolutions having been adopted, it was de termined that in case the Bill should pass, a public demon stration should take place on Kennington-common, as soon as possible. The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated on Mon day night, on the subject of savings banks and Government annuities, that he will apply for a " Bill to amend the laws relating to savings banks, and to the purchase of Government annuities through the medium of savings banks." The annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society was held on Tuesday, at Exeter Hall. The Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester presided, and was supported by the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Ripon, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., J. P. Plnmptre, Esq., M.P., Rev. Professor Schelefield, Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Rev. Dr. Marsh, Rev. Hugh Stowell, the Dean of Salisbury, Sir G. Rose, the Hon. Mr. Waldegrave, &c. During the year fifty-four branch associations had been formed, in addition to eighteen juvenile branches. The re ceipts towards the general fund were 97,791!. 2s. 3d. ; the special fund and China fund amounted to 1,556/. 16s. Id. The capital fund was 2,648/. Is. Bd. ; sum for building, & c . 1,181/. lis. The total receipts, including sundry items not classed, for the year, were 104,323!. 16s. 10d. The expendi ture was 93,4721. 7s. COURT CIRCULAR. THE QUEEN DOWAGEE.—The account of her Majesty's health yesterday, we are happy to state, was very favourable. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge sent, yesterday morning, to Marlborough House, to learn the state of her Majesty. The other members of the Royal Family also sent, in the course of the day, to make inquiry after her Majesty's health. The following was the bulletin issued yesterday : " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has passed a good night, and the inflammation of the arm continues to subside. " Marlborough House, " DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " May 1, 1844. " ROBERT KEATE." A number of the Foreign Ministers, and many of the No bility and Gentry, called during the day at I%larlborough House to learn the state of her Majesty. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTEE. — Her RQyal Highness, we regret to state, is suffering from pain in one other arms— the effect of a fall. The Queen sent yesterday to make in quiry after the state of her Illustrious relative. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to his Royal Sister yesterday at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness passed a tolerable night on Tuesday. The Queen and Prince Albert - walked yesterday in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday in the Royal Garden. Colonel Wylde has relieved Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on his Rsyal Highness Prince Albert. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Marq'uis. of Granby, and Captain Francis Seymour. Earl Howe gave a dinner yesterday evening, at his resi dence, Curzon House, to the Noble Directors of the Concert of Ancient Music. His Lordship, accompanied by his dis tinguished guests, afterwards went to the performance of the Conceit in the Hanover-square Rooms. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Granby, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel Wylde; and his Ro y al High ness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured the performance of the Concert with their presence. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise,. and Mr. Carr, Solicitor to the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstoneyesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Dean had also an interview yes. torday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, Royal Engineers, had an in terview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy- Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial, office for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, and the Governors of the other West Indian Colonies. . Yesterday Was the birthday of the Duke of Wel lington. He was born on the Ist of ' May, 1769, and consequently is now in his 76th year. GRAY'S INN, MAY I.—The undernamed gentle men were this day called to the degree of barrister-at law, by. the Honourable. Society of Gray's_ Inn—viz., William St. James Wheelhouse, Esq. ,• Henry Willis, Esq. ; Aldborough H enniker, Es q . ; Edward Bennett, Esq. and Samuel Dare, Esq. MORNING ENTERTAINMENT BY MR. WILSON. Mr. Wilson gave his first Morning Entertainment on the Songs of Scotland, at the Hanover square Rooms, yesterday, at two o'clock. In addition to many old favourites, including "Auld Robin Gray," " John Anderson, my jo," " The .Kirks of Aber feldy," " Wha wadna fecht for Charlie," &c., Mr. Wilson yesterday gave us two new songs, or rather two songs which he had not given in his former en tertainments. The first of these was a humorous ballad, the composition of the late Sir Alexander Boswell, entitled " Jenny's Bawbee:' This admi rable ballad is a complete comedy of manners. Jenny, the heroine, is a damsel possessed of a superfluity of this world's goods, and she is consequently sought by a variety of suitors, among others by a lairs, a lawyer,' and a fop ; • each urges his pretensions, and each is in turn rejected by Jenny, who wisely determines to retain absolute controul over her Bawbee. The acting of Mr. Wilson in this song was replete with the richest humour. He threw himself completely into each of the characters, as their were respectively brought upon the stage, and by his change: of tone and manner, produced an admirably dramatic effect. Jenny's Bawbee, if we mistake not, will henceforth become one of Wilson's most popular songs. The other song, "John o' Badenyon," is the composition of the Rev. John Skinner. The singer is supposed to have tried all the various states of life in his search after happiness—to have been in turn a lover, a poet, a politician, a student, and, like King Solo man, to have found that all these things were vanity. Unlike the Jewish monarch, how ever, he does not come to the conclusion that all is vexation of spirit, for under every disappointment he finds solace and comfort in taking up his pipe and playing John o' Badenyon. The serio-comic ex pression of this ballad was given admirably by Wilson. The singing- was much applauded. We must not omit to mention his dramatic style of giving the admirable humourous ballad, " My jo Janet," and its modern imitation by Burns, " My Spouse Nancy," in each of which he exhibited the richest vein of humour. Beautifully as he gives the pathetic ballads of his native land, we are still of opinion tnat Wilson's forte is the humorous. In the characteristic humourous ballads of Scotland he. is unapproachable. At the conclusion of the entertainment, Wilson announced his intention of giving a morning entertainment at the Hanover square Rooms, every Wednesday. The subject of the next entertainment will be Highland Melody and Song. The entertainment was very well attended. MR. LOVER'S HUSH EVENINGS. . Mr. Lover gave another of his delightful Irish Evenings last night, at the Princess's Concert-room. The subject of last evening's entertainment was " The Irish Brigade," almost the only Irish national subject which can be touched upon without danger, and a glorious subject it is. the manner in which the Brigade was first formed, the intense love of their country which they exhibited during their exile, their brilliant achievements in Spain, in Flan ders, and in Italy, their gallant defence of Cremona, their brilliant charge at Fontenoy—all these are themes of inspirition for the poet-minstrel, and themes to which the gifted poet-minstrel of last night did ample justice. The entertainment was enlivened by racy anecdotes of humorous adventures, which could have happened to none but an Irishman ; of repartees, such as none but an Irishman could have given, as none but an Irishman could have told them. The songs, with which the entertainment was illustrated, were beau tiftil and appropriate, and were exquisitely given by Miss Cuhitt, Miss Rollo Dickson, Master M‘Dermott, and Mr. Lover himself. The song, " Grief is Mine," which is new, is one of the molt beautifully pathetic ballads we have ever heard. It Was exquisitely given by Miss Rollo Dickson, who sang with an expression of simple pathos that went at once to the heart. Many of the audience were affected even to tears. Ihe song was of course rapturously encored. " The Hand and the Glove," also a new song, is a - most gallant, spirited, chivalrous com position, such as minstrels of old might have sung in castle hall, or lady's bower, and was also admirably given by Miss Rollo Dickson. If we mistake not, this song will be among the most popular of the day. In contrast to these, we had "the Birth of St. Patrick," a genuine Irish drollery song, with the most rich and unctuous humour, by Lover him • self, amidst shouts of laughter and applause, and of course loudly encored. This is the very beau ideal of an Irish humorous song, and will be treasured up by all !orers of wit, fun, and frolic, as one of the choicest relics of St. Patrick. For the future, oTery Irishman should, on St. Patrick's night, sing the Birth of St. Patrick as'religiously as he sticks a shamrock in his hat on St. Patrick's morning. The room was crowded by a fashionable audience, and every one seemed highly delighted NN i th the evening's amuse ment. Mr. Lover announced that his Irish Brigade would he on parade on Wednesday ovening neat, and wo doubt not but -that there will bo a numerous assemblage to witness their manoeuvres. MAGAZINES (CONTINUED). UNITE/) SERVICE MAGAZINE._ The private journal of the late Sir Thomas Picton is continued in this Number, and in one of his daily entries we find a brief and curious allusion to a young Spanish girl with whom he seems to have been desperately smitten, while quar tered at her mother's house at Lerida, observing, " she is u perfect Venus de Medici, with the advantages of a pair of most languishing dark eyes and jet black hair, equal in proportion to that of the celebrated Eve' in the Palais Pitti Gallery. Heigh°, I almost regret having seen her, being already — I know not how to describe the sensation." Sir Thomas Picton, from all we have read of his stern, rude character, is about the last person we should ever have suspected of falling a victim to the tender passion. The " War with China," though the subject is somewhat out of date, contains much amusing . information. The " Waterloo Campaign" is evidently the production of a military man, but tells us little or nothing that we did not know before. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. An intelligent article "On Railways" leads off this Number, in which the cheapness and convenience of this mode of travelling—notwithstanding the attacks made on it by interested parties—are dwelt on with much earnestness, and the railway pro prietors defended from the charge of being a set of avaricious, dishonest monopolists, who care nothing for the public interests, and look only to themselves. " Little Travels, and Road•side Sketches" is a diary from the practised pen of Michael Angelo Titmarsh —one of the most successful magazine-contributers we have had since the days of poor Maginn. The writer gives an amusing account of departure by a stage-coach from Richmond, on Ids way to the Continent, in company with one or two noblemen's footmen, of whom he speaks in this archly ironical manner :--" The footmen were like the rest of the fashionable world. I, for my part, felt that I re spected. them. They were in daily communication with a Duke ! They were not the rose, but they had lived bside it. There is an odour in the English aristocracy which intoxicates plebeians. lam sure that any commoner in England, though he would rather die than confess it, would have a respect for these great, big, hulking, Duke's footmen." We have then a description of a night voyage by the steam-boat to Antwerp, and of the various prepara tions made by the passengers for their sleep on the deck of the cabin. There is a world of sly humour in this description. "An Episode of the Times of Phillip the .Fifth of Spain" contains one or two stirring incidents, adroitly strung together, so as to keep the reader's interest alive through the narrative. " The Luck of Barry Lyndon" flags rather this month, chiefly from want of point and vivacity in the dialogue. "Marshal Soult is a memoir, penned in an impartial, and even favourable spirit, towards this meritorious soldier of fortune—the only sur viving relic, we believe, of the military days of the empire. The earlier portion of Soult's career was one of almost uninterrupted success. He was one of the chief props of the Republic—the terror of the Austrians, and the scourge of the Russians when they entered Switxerland under Suwarrow ; he was con sulted by Bonaparte, who placed great confidence in his judgment, though he disliked him personally, on every momentous occasion ; and at Austerlitz he was one of the principal means of achieving that decisive victory. But from the fatal moment when he entered Spain, and measured swords with Wellington, the star of the Marshal's good fortune waned, and finally disappeared. Henceforth, he never ordered an attack, but to be defeated; his best-laid plans were all frus trated by the superior tact of his enemy, and at Toulouse , he sustained the most crushing reverses. The biographer concludes by sa yi ng that Soult always talks of his visit to England as being "one of the brightest events of his whole life." The "Factory Bill" is written in a languid, heavy, indecisive spirit, and we are somewhat at a loss . to know which side the writer espouses of this question. We quote the following amusing anecdote from the article on Railways " We once heard an anecdote of a Quaker of the an cient city of X—. His wealth is incredible, and the liberality which dispenses it not less so. He received one day a letter from America, from a gentleman of whom he had never heard, requesting a loan of 1,0001. The writer stated that be also was a member of the Society of Friends, that he intended with this money to enter into a commercial speculation in which he was confident of success. and. that, knowing Mr. —'s great wealth, he had determined on applying to ;him. Struck with the singularity of this extraordinary request, and no doubt influenced by the ties of sect which prevail so strongly in that .Society , Mr. allowed his liberality so far to prevail over his habits of business as to grant half the request. ' The rest the winds dispersed in empty air.' lie authorised the applicant to draw upon him for 5001. The draft was paid, and nothing more passed for three years. At the end of that time Mr. -- thought he would ask after his money. He wrote to America, reminding the other of the debt, hoped his speculation had been successful, and trusted that be would find it convenient to repay the 5001. The answer was worthy of the first request. The American ac knowledged the loan, and said that his speculation had been perfectly successful, and that by this 500/. he had realised 1,5001. He then begged to remind Mr. that the loan he had applied for was 1,000/., that he bad only received 500 i, and, consequently, had entered into . the speculation to only half the entent n hich he had pro posed ; that Mr. - s conduct had, therefore, injured him to the amoury of 1,500/., that being the profit which Mr. - had prevented him from making ; he must, therefore, consider Mr. - his debtor for that sum, and requested him to remit the balance due as soon as con venient. We heard this anecdote from good authority long before the events occurred which have induced $8 to record it ; and we may add, for the comfort of those who think that such demands ought to be resisted, that - recovered his 500/. after all." HORSHAM ELECTION. HORSHAM, WEDNESDAY, MAY I.—The election of a Member to represent this borough in Parliament, in thi • place of the Hon. Mr. Scarlett, took place to-day, in the n-hall. There being, at present; no returning officer for this borough, the High-Sheriff appointed Mr. France as his deputy, to perform the office. The only candidate in the field was Mr. R. H. Hurst, of Horsham Park, who repry sented the borough on thre e occasions, and who possesses very considerable local influence, inded to such extent, that it was almost hopeless to oppose him. Some mew bt , rs of the .Anti-Corn-law League sounded the feelings of the electors, but tinkling they had DO chance of success, they retired, leaving Mr. Hurst to waik over the course. At twelve o'clock the proceedings were opened in the Town-hall ; and the Bribery Act having been read, and the other necessary formalities being gone through, Mr. FRANCE addressed the electors, and said, thei were assembled to perform a very important duty. that of sending a Member to represent them iu the Commons House of Parliament, and he requested they would giv e every gentleman who might feel inclined to address theta a fair and patient hearing. Mr. W. LINTOT, who was stated to be a member of the Anti-Corn-law League, then stood forward and 01d, he had great pleasure iu proposing to them Robert Henry Hurit, Esq., as a fit and proper person to repro' sent the borough of Horsham in the Commons House of Parliament.—(Cheers.) He should have felt great re' luctance in proposing that gentleman if be had been *- stranger, but as he was well known to them all, he felt. that he had very little more to do. From his childhood he had been an associate with them, and was, in fact, or* of themselves, and as a private gentleman and a ma gistrate he felt satisfied that he merited all their 'goo opinions. He had, besides, represented the borough in two Parliaments, and his political opinions were well known. Mr. Hurst did not go so far with regard to some political questions as himself ; but be felt that it could not be expected a man should be found who would vote accord• ing to the opinions of every one of his constituents, and he, therefore, knew that some concession must be made, and he had no doubt that Mr. Hurst would take the political course which would coincide with the views of the great majority of those whom he represented. At the present moment there was such a great diversity 0 1 opinion upon almost every great political question of the day, that it would be almos; necessary for every mart to have a member in Parliament, if he wished to have his particular views represented ; but es he believed that Mr. llurst would fairly represent the general political opinions of the borough, he felt pleasure in proposing him to fill the office of their representative. He believe° that he enjoyed the confidence of a great majority of the electors, and therefore there was no doubt of his success• and he felt convinced at the same time ha would enter the House of Commons as independent as any man wil o . now sat in it. He was also sure that while h e sa ' there he would give his best attention to the importan6 subject of the heavy taxation upon articles of c onsuq; Lion, and the restrictions upon trade; and that he wow " give those subjects that consideration which their le l : portance demanded from every Member of the Legiele' titre. He concluded by proposing Mr. Hurst in the usual form. Mr. H. MienELL, who was also said to be a member • of the Anti-Corn-law League, seconded the norn inatiool and said that the qualifications of Mr. Hurst be" been so ably described by Mr. Lintot, that very little else was left him to say. Mr. Hurst was known 1 them all as an old inhabitant of the tow n, se' • he would take that opportunity of saying that be • had always expressed himself to be a zealous sti r porter of all measures that tended to relieve the industry of the country from the burden s that were thrown upon it. In his address to the deal° Mr. Hurst had expressed his intention to support all such measures of amelioration as would not effect tb , rights of property, and he (Mr. Michell) entertained the same opinion ; but he also thought that while they re • garded the rights of property, they ought at the stole time not to lose sight of tt.ose of labour.—(Hear, He considered they were also entitled to protection , la i r • that those taxes which pressed so heavily upon the low, orders should be removed, although, of course, b e di: not wish in any way to break faith with the creditor. It had been said that Mr. Hurst did not go r i' et esough, but he would ask them whether, in the Priaespa, state of political opinion, they were likely to get *„,i, e y her who would represent them so well ? had seen a specimen of the Conservative lee ing in the House of Commons on Monday n i g"': when, although it was admitted that there 11,11" a surplus of revenue, nothing was done °A relieve the burdens of the poor. The duty on wool ha d been remitted, which would enable the tailor to buy hie cloth a little cheaper, and he could also get cheaper for his cabbage, and this was all that was done; • —(A laugh.) In conclusion, he begged lease to s econtl the nomination of Mr. Hurst, and he expressed bl* opinion that his conduct in Parliament as their represen tative would be such as to entitle him to their confidence in future. • inegac • a• c i. Mr. FRANCE then inquired whether any other in dual was to be proposed, and there being no answer, be declared Mr. Hurst to be duly elected. Mr. HURST then addressed the electors, and after softie preliminary observations he said, that he had four time: . stood before them as a candidate for their su' d frages, and he had been returned three times, ar e probably would also have been in the fourth, b u t that u". • would not make himself a party to arrangements ,t e „ he felt he could not conscientiously countenalle e ' h (Cheers.) He assured them that on no occasion bad et felt so much excited as the present, and he could •r e n • find words to express his gratitude for the recePtl°- they bad now given him, and also during his canvass.. and he felt pleasure in stating that, all through thiee canvass, he had not heard an unkind word from a silo elector, and the result of the canvass satisfied hint W his return was certain. He would not now enter ill t ?h detail of his opinions upon those political subjects k at present were agitating the public mind. , opinions were well known. He was never so e../3 treme party man ; and, although it was k no • that he agreed in opinion with one politica l Pe %1. yet he never carried his opinions to extremes, and nef re refrained from expressing his dissent from any mealy) • or measures a hich he considered were not likely Dube . beneficial to the country at large. — (Hear , hear.) ,;e very well knew the difficulty of such a position.. It very easy to go into Parliament with a political P il a te . and to say yea or nay, as the leaders of that p arty tej - tated, but he would never do so ; he had always ° l er independently, and he assured them he should e continue to do so. He would not pledge himsel f to coil particular line of conduct upon any particular questLA, but he should endeavour, when the opportunity 0ce111.710, to inform his mind upon any subject that might be rotell/1 discussion. and he would give his conscientious be • founded entirely upon the arguments that mig h t... , adduced either for or against that particular measll'-;0, (Hear, hear.) This was the feeling he had alwaY e . he tertained, and he should continue to act upon it, tg, fe!t convinced that whenever he met his constitueeve. either individually or in a mass, that they would nt ote • have an occasion to reproach him with departing from this course. The treatment he had experienced etbies hands of the electors during his canvass satisfied that he possessed their confidence, and he hoped woo those aho diffi red with hiin on former occasions a le feel, that although they had so differed, the stlubila had left no unfavourable impression on his mind. se er • did not consider it necessary to say more on th e p re of occasion—he should have a constant opportuoltioa seeing them, and he trusted that he should alway s hat them with the co:;fident idea that they wou ld feel 01 - he had acted conscientiously as their representative' ors that he had entitled himself to their continued soPra u et He should he happy at any time to explain his cOn thrY as their MenatJer, and to listen to any suggestions .ore might think proper - to make to him; and he coul d °Pia them that it would ever be his desire to preserve. tile re 1/ stitutions of his country, and to use his best endeelieb to give to the people of this country that Ebert," , they had so long enjoyed, and to which they we well entitled.—(Cheers) lo to Mr. PADWICK then proposed a resolution of thr„ord Mr. France, for the independent and straight i , ° ' itoth part he had taken in the proceedings of the et , t he which, having been responded to by that gentleman' electors separated. i t e nel General. Count Stierncrona and his Ex c ,„ e ',.; tbs t Baron Bjornstjerna were among the numerous passenb—pls.,ll - yesterday on board the General Stec ~n Fife gation Company's mail-packet Venezuela, Captain JO . "'" for Hamburgh. sbtl Mr. P. 11. Howard, M.P. for Carlisle w as ad ,8 out from the division on Tuesday, relative t ther e ,, pfe ministered in the Scottish universities, and..,°,,0 pro' . vented from supporting by his vote Mr. Fox Ml' posed measure, which was lost by a majority of 27 oath in ALARMING FlRE.—Tuesday a fire broke ° L ei. , the upper part of the premises occupied AY 14 Ars; b i/t coffee-house-keeper, situate 1, New Wharf, INlli t .,, ffi eji ent l isill it.was extinguished after the furniture in the ar" -- destroyed and the building much damaged. We //A ve DEATH 01' ANOTHER FLAG OFFICER.---. h e i 31116. received intimation of the death of Rear-Adrairil 0 1 "i utf last William Furlong Wise, C. 8., which took place ontunso. 1116 received at Hoegate House, Plymouth, after a week's WI gay . : , commissions of this Gallant Officer are--Lieutienani's, 85,' 1804; Commander, Nov. 1, 1805; Captain, of t h e ha - Rear-Admiral (at the promotion in honour 0 min ding of the Prince of Wales),23, 1841. Wilen min our the Mediator, in 1807, with a detachment of s eamen a s ifs rives under his orders, he stormed the fort of SIT - e es. 11 - d ; was also captain of the Granicus at the battle of g oar boo. miral Wise was universally respected in the neigu" of Plymouth. He was nominated a C.B. in 1 816 ' on tipusi The sale at the Countess of Mansfield's .the t h e following. w h ole T 1 presenti This day th week,e. valuable and collection add te- 10W ings, by esteemed masters, is to be disposed 01; . ib b o tsot, ny in row, the beautiful water-coloured drawings!th 3 P° rtlu " "5 Smith, &c. The sale on Friday terminates vil __, wh ich 1 the library of books, the greatest curiosity ar"" Cti Cal Lord Nelson's Prayer Book. total des tril ales . The Clonnsel paper mentions the , te c ur. of Kilmanahan corn-mills, the p r operty 0 . Green, by are, on Sunday last. danTedtfsdpsioita, ANT 4T 6